REID, Escott. Envoy to Nehru. Delhi, OUP, 1981.
8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. x, 301, plates after photographs; near-fine with contemporary ownership inscription to front fly-leaf.
Scarce first edition, signed by the author on title-page. The Canadian High Commissioner in India from 1952 to 1957. He tells the story of the cordial Canadian-Indian relationship in the mid-1950s, whilst giving a picture of the leading Indian politicians of the time.
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