Nc.5.30
Drums of Asia / a novel by "Charles Trevor".
London : Lovat Dickson ..., 1934.
452 p. ; 20 cm.
Charles Trevor is the pseudonym of Oswald Barrett (see IWM catalogue and inscription in ECL copy) .
Also attributed to E.I.M Barrett (see BL catalogue and BL India Office record IOR/L/PJ/12/469, file 657/33: "Drums of Asia by Captain E I M Barrett alias Charlie Trevor: India Office correspondence with publishers on suggested changes prior to publication").
Presented to Eton College by Eugen Millington-Drake in 1938.
Teal leather half-binding over marbled paper covered boards; gilt lettering on spine; gilt top edge; bound by Best & Co.
Previously 74.93.
At request of Eugen Millington-Drake, signed in ms. by Oswald Barrett and ?Broadbridge [ghostwriter] on t.p. Extensively inscribed in ms. on front endpapers by Barrett and ?Broadbridge, including a list revealing the true identities of fictional characters and places in the novel.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918 India.
Best & Co. binder.
Lovat Dickson Limited publisher.
England London.
B33047