[Signed] [First Edition] The Dust of Combat: A Life of...

8vo. Pp. 308. Frontis. subject portrait. Illustrated with 7 additional halftone plates, index. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, coat of arms in gilt on the cover. Inscribed in ink on the title page "With all good wishes to Ray, RBM." Binding tight, boards square, leaves crisp and bright. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket with price $5.95 intact on the front flap: edges chipped, light abrasions. Kingsley 1819 - 1875 was a parish priest, Chaplain to the Queen, tutor to the Prince of Wales, professor of History at Cambridge, novelist, Christian Socialist, pamphleteer, etc. Today he's perhaps best known for Westward Ho! and the perennial seller, Water Babies. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

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