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Condición: New. SB xiv + 315pp,17 plates, map , 2002 N&MP Reprint of 1901 Original EditionPublished Price £11.95.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 140 pages. "The the Wake of Sindbad;" "Carrara Marble: Touchstone of Eternity;" "Peru's Pilgrimage to the Sky;" "Willa Cather: Voice of the American Frontier;" "The Ivory Coast - African Success Story;" "Unearthing the Oldest Known Maya.".

Condición: New. HB xiv + 315pp,17 plates, map , 2002 N&MP Reprint of 1901 Original Edition Personal account by an officer of the WAFF.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condición: Very Good. 30 Pages. A review of the French expedition to Algiers and the early stages of French colonisation in Africa. The article recounts the military operation and its political motives, then considers the implications for North African societies. It reflects on the broader question of European expansion and the justifications offered for it. The piece provides an early English perspective on a new colonial venture. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Foreign Quarterly Review; Special Interest. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardback. Condición: V.g. Second Edition. 16 illus. plans and a maxii, 316pp. Large folding map [fine and complete].48pp catalogue of Methuens books dated October 1901. Pub. pebble-grain maroon cloth, gilt. Some foxing to the fist few leaves and a trifle rubbed. Fore-edge rough cut.

For biographical details of Dr R. E. S. Tanner, see the end of this description. Brown card folder (by The Parker File Co. Ltd, Rangoon), housing 105 items (confidential correspondence, memoranda, applications, advisory and information documents, reports, telegrams, newspaper cuttings) relating to Tanner's application and training for a Civil Affairs post in Burma, including material from the training course he undertook at the Civil Affairs Staff Centre, Wimbledon. The folder and its contents are in fair condition, lightly-aged and worn. The volume contains two copies of Tanner's typed 'Application for appointment to the Colonial Service', giving biographical and service information, and including among his referees 'For Service in Command (CRETE etc) | EVELYN WAUGH late RM c/o Maj-Gen. R. E. LAYCOCK Combined Operations HQ'. Also Tanner's handwritten 'Application for appointment as Staff Officer (Civil Affairs) | (Under A.C.I. 1426 of 1944). The first item in the volume, carrying the ownership signature of 'R. E. S. Tanner', is 'Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of Burma | London, 17th October, 1947.' Thirteen-page printed document published by the Government of Burma Central Printing Office, Rangoon, 12 November 1947. (No copies of this Burma printing on COPAC, and the only copies of the London HMSO printing at the British Library and Birmingham.) Also: 'Extract from Introduction to Burma during the Japanese occupation'. Authors: 'H. J. H.' and 'F. R.'. Duplicated document by the 'Civil Affairs Staff Centre (Far East Wing.)', dated February 1945 and marked 'Confidential'. Also: 'Vacancies in the Colonial Service open to Officers of the Indian Police, Burma Police Class I, and Burma Frontier Service'. Duplicated document by the 'India and Burma Services Re-employment Branch, | Commonwealth Relations Office, | King Charles Street, S.W.1', dated 1 January 1948. Also: 'Memorandum | Re-employment arrangements available to European officers of the Secretary of State's Service in India and Burma, and of the Burma Frontier Service'. Undated duplicated document by the IBSRB, Whitehall. Among other duplicated documents are fifteen legal 'Precis' from Tanner's course at the Civil Affairs Staff Centre, Southlands House, Wimbledon Common, totalling 120pp, each headed '(Far East Wing) | Legal', dating from between February and April 1945, most signed in type by 'H. P.' Also present are three examples of legal statements (by Ma Nan Yu, Paw Hmon and Maung Tha Byaw). Also 'The High Court of Judicature at Rangoon. General Letter No. 6 of 1946', regarding charging procedure, and document by 'J. W. Leedham [John Walter Leedham (1905-1992)] | District Magistrate, | (Resident, N.S.S.), | Northern Shan States, | Lashio.' Also a group of related typed documents:'Shan States Manual | Civil Procedure' (13pp); 'The Shan State Opium Order | Politicle [sic] Department Notification No. 37, dated the 10th September 1923.' (3pp); 'The Shan States Arms Orders 1924' (2pp); 'The Shan States Excise Order, 1925' (2pp); 'Mongmit State Tenancy Rules' (3pp); 'Motor Vehicle Rules' (2pp); 'The Shan States Gambling Order' (2pp). Also a printed 1945 pamphlet of twenty-four pages, issued by the Colonial Office, London, titled 'His Majesty's Colonial Service Post-War Opportunities'. The last item in the volume is a duplicated typescript of a study by 'A[lan]. A[rthur]. Cameron, Assistant Superintendent, Kodaung Hill Tracts', titled 'A Note on the Palaungs of the Kodaung Hill Tracts, of the Mongmit State'. Closely-typed over 49pp (the first 13pp foolscap 8vo, the last 36pps 8vo), with figures. (The original of this item was published in 1912 in Rangoon by the Office of the Superintendent Government Printing, Burma.) The correspondence in the folder includes: numerous items signed by G. E. Pennell, 'for Resident, Northern Shan States, Lashio'; several items from the Colonial Office, London; a couple of items from the War Office, London (both stamped 'Confidential'); several items signed by J. S. Manikan, Frontier Areas Administration, General Administration Department, Rangoon; letter from S. de Glanville, Office of the Resident, Northern Shan States, Lashio, with signed response from Tanner stating that he cannot sign his annual report as 'My wife's conduct is not liable to criticism or imputation by the Government'; letter from Assistant Resident, Kyaukme. Also long letter from 'Philip', i.e. P. T. Barton, on letterhead of the Government of Burma, Frontier Areas Administration, Rangoon, 26 April 1947, which he begins with the joke that he has 'told the Civil Service Commission that if they really had the future of the Empire at heart then there was no option but to employ you', before turning to the 'draft report of Rees Williams', his own life in Rangoon, his position as 'best man to John Naiff', 'a second visit to the Shwe Dagon during the water festival'. Tanner's entry in the 1965 'Who's Who in East Africa' states that he was 'educated Rugby School 1935-39, Oxford University 1955-59; Dip. Social Anthropology 1956, B.Sc. 1959; Army Service 1940-45; Burma Frontier Service 1945-48; Colonial Administrative Service 1948-60; Extra Mural Dept., University College Nairobi, 1961-65; Chairman, East African Institute of Social Research since 1965'. With the aid of his son, Tanner published the diary of his army service during the 1942 retreat from Burma: R. E. S. Tanner and D. A. Tanner, 'Burma 1942: A Retreat. The Diary of Ralph Tanner 2nd Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry' (2009). The book contains a 'military biography' describing how between 1940 and 1941 Tanner served as batman to Evelyn Waugh ('then a Royal Marine captain acting as the Intelligence officer for the Commando Brigade') in Crete, and returned to England in June 1941, having been mentioned in despatches. In October of that year he 'volunteered to join a small party going to Burma. This party became part of.

The 1923 edition, following the 1904 provisional edition. In addition to the standard regulations this volume outlines a number of policies specific to the African theatre, such as the requirement for British officers to pass examinations in Hausa or Yoruba. We have traced only one institutional copy, at Oxford University. The West African Frontier Force was formed by the Colonial Office in 1900, consisting of five units from Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and Gambia. In the First World War they fought in modern-day Cameroon and East Africa against the German Schutztruppen. In 1939 their command was transferred from the Colonial Office to the War Office, who sent them to serve in Somaliland, Abyssinia, and Burma. The need to be adaptable to conditions outside Africa was foreseen in this volume, as paragraph 83 notes: "Training is not to be confined to the tactics suited to purely local conditions. The various corps of the West African Frontier Force are liable to be called on to serve anywhere. No one system of tactics is, therefore, universally applicable" (p. 18). Octavo. Interleaved with blanks as issued. Original buff paper wrappers lettered and stamped with royal crest in black. Binding worn, spine stabilized, contents bright: a good copy.