Chitral. The story of a minor siege
$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
First edition
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 2 , 368; frontispiece and 32 plates, many after photographs, 5 maps 2 folding ; publisher's red cloth gilt; spine a little sunned and headband worn, text clean and sound, very good. The siege of Chitral was an event at the tail end of the Great Game, in which the death of a local ruler triggered a cascade of assassinations and power struggle, concluding with a one-month siege on Chitral
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