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World War I; Mesopotamian Campaign. Summary of Papers dealing with Military Policy in Mesopotamia during the Period between the Battle of Ctesiphon (22nd November 1915) and the end of July 1916, 1st edition, Simla: Government Central Press, 1916, 97 pp. 3 folding tables to rear, original printed blue boards, cloth backstrip, front board slightly spotted and cockled, upper outer corner bumped, small portion of loss to paper at lower outer corner, 3 foolscap carbon typescript leaves laid in (transcribing a telegram from General Officer Commanding, Force D, to Chief of General Staff, dated 13 March 1916, blind stamp of India Office, secured with drawing pin), folio (33.1 x 20.6 cm), together with: An Account of the Operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia December, 19178, to December, 1918, with ... an introductory note by Major-General Sir H. D. Fanshawe, 1st edition, St Martin's Press, [1919], 74 pp., mounted halftone portrait frontispiece, 7 folding battle plans, folding map, extra-illustrated with 2 gelatin silver print photographs (military group portraits), without the endpocket containing 20 photographs noted in some institutional copies, bookplate and ink-stamps of Frank Palmer-Stone, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original blue quarter morocco, 4to (25.5 x 19.2 cm), and 'Evidence before Mesopotamia Committee' [cover-title], approx 40 pp., excised from a single publication and containing legal depositions from Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Lake, later cloth, folio (31.6 x 20.6 cm) (Qty: 3) First item: very rare official report, marked 'secret' on the front cover; the imprint slug on the final leaf suggests that 100 copies only were printed, of which this is number 17; no copies traced in libraries world-wide or in auction records. OCLC traces seven copies world-wide for the second item, of which the author is identified in the introduction as Lieutenant-General W. E. Wilson Johnston.