HALL, Wynyard Montague. The Great Drama of Kumasi. London, Putnams, [1939].
8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. xvi, 367, plates after photographs; wrappers a bit marked and darkened in places, but retaining price, previous bookdealer's pencil annotations to endpapers; apart from occasional light spotting to text a good copy.
First edition.Major Hall played a key role in the Ashanti Campaign of 1900, with the column attempting the relief of Kumasi, the ancient capital of the Ahsanti kingdom.
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