Selby, John, — THE THIN RED LINE of Balaclava.
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1970, 1st edn., [xiv], 257pp, coloured frontis, maps, coloured and half tone ills. in text, pictorial maps at endpapers, blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, upper edge coloured, wraparound coloured pictorial dustwrapper from the painting by Robert Gibb, an account of the Battle of Balaclava and of its setting in the Crimean War, covering not just the well known charge of the Light Brigade but also the action of the Heavy Brigade and of the 'Thin Red Line' of the Highland Brigade, the 93rd Highlanders, based exclusively on eye-witness reports from British, French and Russian sources, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: price clipped, rubbed at extrems., short repaired nick upper edge, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,
