A Frontier Romance.

Bookseller Notes

A scarce book, with an attractive dustjacket design.A novel set in Waziristan, where the author perhaps served with the British Indian Army (in which he was a Captain, having earlier served with the South Wales Borderers during the Great War) - certainly, in his prefatory Note, he emphasises his 'endeavour [...] to depict' its setting and action 'with truth and detailed accuracy'. Curtis Morgan was born at Talybont, near Aberystwyth, and attended Queen's College, Oxford between 1911 and 1914; his published output is slim - this perhaps his first book, with another novel ('Not This Man, But Barabbas') following a few years later, followed by a play, 'An Oxford Romance' - he also seems to have forged a brief tennis career, recording a first round defeat in the Wimbledon Championships of 1930. He served in the R.A.F. during the Second World War, and returned to Queen's College to complete an M.A. in 1987.