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INDIA, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN – SECOND MOHMAND CAMPAIGNBiblio.com

Historically Important Album with Ninety-Eight Original Photos Taken by a British Soldier During his Service on the North-West Frontier in the Second Mohmand Campaign and Showing Armed Pashtuns in Peshawar During the British Blockade the First Light Tank Crossing the Nahakki Pass Mohmand Delegates at a Historic Jirga a Malik Reading the Final Treaty Terms a British Officer Posing with a Mohmand Malik After the Signing of the Agreement British captain posing with Mehtar of Chitral Sir Shuja Ul-Mulk 2nd Light Tank Company encamped on Khojak etc.; also with the Views of Kabul Bala Hissar the British Military Attache’s House Minister’s Central Official Residence and “New Kabul” Paghman Valley and Kabul River; as well as Major Sites in Kashmir Calcutta New Delhi Delhi. Ca. 1932-1936.

ref. PE82Oblong Folio album ca. 246x33 cm 9 ¾ x 13 in. 14 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With 98 original gelatin silver photographs including one loose from ca. 88x135 cm 3 ½ x 5 ¼ in to ca. 46x7 cm 1 ¾ x 2 ¾ in and one four-part panorama ca. 79x378 cm 3 x 15 in; with an excerpt from the Imperial Gazetteer of India North-West Frontier Province or a closely related provincial civil-military handbook ca. 1930s. Ca. 206x166 cm 8 x 6 ½ in. 57-63 pp. in all 8 pp. Most photos with period white individual or group ink captions in English on the mounts. Period purple full-cloth album with gilt floral ornaments; fastened with a string. Binding worn with tears of the spine partially faded some tissue guards with tears and detached one photo from the panorama detached spine of the booklet rebacked with a non-archival paper partially obscuring text on p. 57 but otherwise a very good album with strong interesting photos. Historically significant collection of gelatin silver photos apparently compiled by a British military officer attached to the Royal Tank Corps or a specialized frontier brigade in the North-West Frontier area of British India now Pakistan during the Second Mohmand Campaign of 1935. The Mohmand Campaign was a British military operation fought from July to October 1935 against the Mohmand tribes north of the Khyber Pass in the North-West Frontier Province of British India. It combined British and Indian Army advances with Royal Air Force bombing to secure the frontier and suppress tribal resistance to the construction of the Mohmand–Gandab road. The campaign saw the first use of light tanks in frontier warfare and ended with the defeat of Mohmand forces restoring British control over the border region. As follows from the photos the compiler arrived in India via Singapore in 1932 traveling through key imperial hubs such as Calcutta and New Delhi en route to his frontier posting. By 1933 he was serving on the frontier spending summer leave in Kashmir and Srinagar before deployment to the remote outpost of Chitral. In March 1935 he traveled to Kabul Afghanistan likely on an official diplomatic or intelligence mission before seeing active frontline service later that year during the Second Mohmand Campaign. By 1936 he was stationed with the 2nd Light Tank Company at the Khojak Pass near Quetta where the unit tested its tracked vehicles while maintaining frontier surveillance. The album contains ninety-eight original gelatin silver photographs including about fifty excellent images taken in present-day Pakistan in 1935–1936. A well-executed series from the Second Mohmand Campaign feature more than six photographs of Peshawar the campaign's principal staging ground where British forces assembled before advancing into the Mohmand hills. The images capture the tree-lined Mall Road cantonment the bustling local bazaar and striking portraits of locals and armed Pashtuns during the British blockade. Several photographs follow the campaign into the mountains documenting the Wucha Jawar Camp of the British Indian Army the construction of the strategic military road through the Gandab Valley and the first-ever light tank to traverse the Nahakki Pass. Especially interesting are about five photographs illustrating the formal negotiations that brought the campaign to an end. The historic images show dozens of Mohmand delegates gathered for the Jirga the traditional Pashtun grand assembly with a Malik reading out the final treaty terms a portrait of a local clan chieftain and a British field officer and a Mohmand Malik smiling for the camera apparently after the conclusion of the peace talks. Other important photos from Pakistan mostly depict British captain posing with Mehtar of Chitral Sir Shuja Ul-Mulk 2nd Light Tank Company encamped on Khojak interior of the Guide’s Church in Mardan Jamrud & Shagai Forts in Khyber Agency and topographical views of the area. The Afghan series features about ten excellent photos of Kabul apparently taken during the compiler's military service or leisure time before the Second Mohmand Campaign. The images mostly show local landmarks ruins of Bala Hissar the British Military Attache’s House Minister’s Central Official Residence and topographical views of Amannulah Khan’s unfinished New Kabul project Paghman Valley and Kabul River. There’s also one important photo showing a narrow mountain pass where the catastrophic retreat of Major General Elphinstone’s British-Indian garrison occurred during the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1842. The incident resulted in the deaths capture or disappearance of ca. 16500 soldiers and civilians. The rest of the identified photographs mostly show Kashmir general views of Srinagar and Ali Kadal bridge the River Jhelum the mountain resort of Gulmarg the Sind Valley and the Mughal gardens of Nishat and Shalimar Bagh Calcutta Victoria Memorial Fort William Belvedere New Delhi Memorial to Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade India Gate and Delhi the Viceroy’s House; Parliament House. There’s also an excerpt from the Imperial Gazetteer of India North-West Frontier Province or a closely related provincial civil-military handbook likely dating to the 1930s. The booklet features a brief history of Peshawar and Khyber Railway. Overall historically significant album offering a rare window into the Second Mohmand Campaign of 1935. hardcover

Globus Rare Books & Archives · Estados UnidosUS$ 950,00≈ € 847,08

RKO RADIO PICTURES 1931-32 CAMPAIGN BOOKBiblio.com

Original RKO Radio Pictures 1931-32 Campaign Book

1931ref. 16792JLos Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures 1931. First Edition. Original RKO Radio Pictures 1931-32 Campaign Book measures 11" x 14" 28 x 36 cm; 54 pages. There are smudges and stains on to the front cover and on the completely blank back cover and there are small tears and chipping around the edges of both covers. The interior pages are in fine condition This RKO Radio Pictures campaign book sent to theater owners to encourage them to show RKO movies. The book includes 54 pages with one and two-page spreads on RKO's upcoming movies and their best stars. Some of the movies and stars promoted include "Glamour" "Miracle City" "Exposed" "Frontier" "The Dove" Dolores Del Rio "The Slander Girl" Rex Beach Irene Dunne Lily Damita Wheeler & Woolsey and much more! Note that many of the pages have signed artwork by many different quite talented artists including Armand Seguso Fredric C. Madan Frank Bensing Patterson Rico and most of these artists have several different pieces in the book. Note that because RKO at this time did not have the biggest name stars they relied on movies with very lurid and sensational material and they created images for this campaign book that are both extremely colorful and often downright sexy! This is really one of the absolute nicest studio campaign books in terms of artwork that was created during the Golde Age of Hollywood. Note that even though this campaign book was sent to many theater owners it appears that very few examples have survived. We have seen film campaign books and related material for many years and I know for certain that this campaign book is extremely rare! Note that studios almost always spent far more money preparing campaign books than they did preparing movie posters often hiring very talented and well-known illustration artists because campaign books directly benefited the studio in getting theaters to book the movies. Also note that as was often the case with these campaign books some of the movies advertised were either never made had their titles changed before they were released or were made with different casts than those announced in the campaign book. RKO Radio Pictures unknown

James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. · Estados UnidosUS$ 950,00≈ € 847,08

(DOUGLAS, Stephen A and LINCOLN, Abraham -- Campaign Newspapers)Biblio.com

Campaign Plain Dealer and Popular Sovereignty Advocate Pictorial Plain Dealer for the Presidential Campaign of 1860 / The Railsplitter for the Presidential Campaign of 1860

1960ref. 52271Lincoln IL / Chicago IL: Lincoln College / Abraham Lincoln Book Shop 1960. Paperback. DOUGLAS: Edited by J.W. Gray and C.F. Brown. Folio. 20 individual issues each 4pp 13¼" X 18½" plus 4pp introductory leaflet housed in burgundy cloth-over-boards portfolio with gilt lettering. Fine/near fine. Portfolio lacks leather snap closure. LINCOLN: Edited by J.H. Jordan and J.B. McKeehan. Folio. 13 individual issues each 4pp 13" X 18" plus 4pp introductory leaflet housed in tan cloth-over-boards portfolio with gilt lettering and leather clasp. Fine/near fine. Faint touch of wear to portfolio only. DOUGLAS: First and only edition of this facsimile set limited to 500 sets most in presentation envelope and only a small number in this deluxe hardbound portfolio format. Outstanding facsimile reproductions of the full run of this newspaper all with large and ornate pictorial masthead "which was issued" as introductory leaflet notes in subtitle "to further the candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency of the United States." Begins with number 1 dated June 30 1860 through number 20 dated November 17 1860. Original issues of this campaign newspaper are rare and this centennial facsimile set is itself quite scarce. LINCOLN: Facsimile reproductions of the complete file of "The Railsplitter" beginning with August 1 1860 through October 27 1860 each with large ornate pictorial masthead. Edition limited to 150 sets -- this copy with a signature of Newman tipped beneath the limitation statement of introductory leaflet in which Newman also provides the 2-page history. Original issues of "The Railsplitter" are quite scarce and a full run virtually unattainable -- and this deluxe clothbound facsimile edition has itself become very uncommon. A clean handsome copy. This pair of facsimile sets both produced in 1960 and matching in size and format were clearly intended to be complementary -- but a set of each in the deluxe editions are rarely found together. Lincoln College / Abraham Lincoln Book Shop paperback

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA · Estados UnidosUS$ 1.000,00≈ € 891,66

TIRAH CAMPAIGNBiblio.com

Tirah and Surrounding Country.

1897ref. 170872Dehra Dún India: Surveyor General of India 1897. One of the greatest difficulties felt at the outset of the Tirah Campaign was the lack of topographical information Rare map issued on the eve of the Tirah Campaign; 750 copies were printed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Branch Survey of India in August 1897 two months before the outbreak of hostilities. Printed on linen and clearly intended for use in the field attrition rates would have been high: we have traced no copies among institutional libraries. In October 1897 one of the largest operations on the North-West Frontier involving 35000 troops under Lieutenant-General Sir William Lockhart was launched against the Afridi and Orakzai in the Tirah. "The two tribes had attacked several forts but also captured posts in the Khyber Pass which bordered the north of their territory. As Lockhart's main force crossed the Samana Mountains it found its route blocked by 12000 tribesmen occupying a steep ridge at Dargai" National Army Museum. Lockhart's troops suffered heavy casualties in the open ground in front of the Afridi positions but in a famous action the heights were stormed by the 1st Gordon Highlanders and 1st/2nd Gurkhas to the sound of Piper George Findlater's bagpipes. Lockhart's force then fought its way into Tirah and from its fortified camp at Maidan columns fanned out to pacify the surrounding valleys and regain control of the Khyber Pass. The expedition lasted until January 1898. As Captain H. L. Nevill points out in Campaigns on the North-West Frontier 1911 "one of the greatest difficulties felt at the outset of the Tirah Campaign was the lack of topographical information Many of the parts about to be invaded had never been visited by Europeans". An 1897 map entitled Rough Map of Tirah and Surrounding Country scale 1 inch = 2 miles measuring 930 x 60 mm issued at Simla by the Intelligence Branch is known only by the copy at the British Library. Photozincographed map printed on linen unfolded 740 x 1020 mm; folded 260 x 200 mm; scale 1 inch = 2 miles. Housed in a custom green cloth flap case gilt-lettered spine. Creased where folded peripheral toning some soiling on verso yet this remains in very good condition. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Reino Unido£ 750,00≈ € 892,56

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