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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/very good. First impression. Edited by Peter King. Introduction by Elizabeth Longford. 4to (262 x 188mm). Pp 191 with & illustrations throughout and colour frontis. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback, a very good tightly bound copy in a very good pictorial dust wrapper, text clean and unmarked, b&w illustrations, 192pp.

First UK edition. NF/NF. Excellent condition with minimal wear. Dust jacket is in a clear protective sleeve. Price is intact on flap. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1985 191 pp with sepia illustrations throughout. "My name is George Nathaniel Curson, I am a most superior person. My cheek is pink, my hair is sleek, I dine at Blenheim twice a week" this rhyme, coined while he was at Oxford, sums up the man who, in his twenties visited and conversed with kings, emperors and potentates and who, in his later life, became Viceroy of India, Foreign Secretary and very nearly Prime Minister. These are selections, editted by Peter King, from Curson's travel books, "Russia in Central Asia (1889), Tales of Travel (1923) and Leaves from a Viceroy's Notebook (1926.) Text is clean, tight, unmarked, lavishly illustratedly library markings are a "deaccessioned" stamp on front endpapers and a number on spine. DJ is clean and intact with a little sunning to spine. In mylar jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Ex-Library.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0283992948 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Boards are slightly bowed. ; 10.10 X 7.70 X 1 inches; 192 pages .