174. CUNNINGHAM, Charles. Sir Charles Banks Cunningham WHEN STEEL MET STEEL. 1960. Macmillan.
Dw very slightly frayed. A Soldier's Story in poems. Illustrated by Fay Watson. £6.00


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When Steel met Steel.
CUNNINGHAM, (Charles [Banks]) & WATSON (Fay) [illus.]
A Soldier's Story. Fourteen line-drawn illustrations in sanguine to the text. Very good in the original cream boards, a little soiled. 34pp. P.R. Macmillan Limited, London - Geneva, n.d. [1960]

Three copies only on COPAC - BL, Oxford & NLS - OCLC has five further copies.

Cunningham joined the Indian Police Service in 1904 and rose to become Inspector-General of Police, Madras Presidency, 1930-38. He was later Chairman of the Madras and S. Mahratta Railway. Died 1967.

Campaigning on the North-West Frontier rendered in verse of considerable "jingo". This copy inscribed, "To Elma Dangerfield with the author's high regards, Charles Cunningham, 18th Sept. 1960." Dangerfield was a journalist, author, and pro-European campaigner, also re-founded the Byron Society in 1975. Publisher's review slip loosely inserted.