Story of the North West frontier province
Peshawar, Pakistan: Manager, Government Printing and Stationery Office. North West Frontier Province, 1930. 5" x 7.5" pp. [12], 90; inc. 10 b/w plates and 1 pull-out "handprint" map. Green cloth boards with silver stamping on spine and cover; a few small wrinkles and mild foxing on cover, more significant foxing on back cover. Binding showing in gutter; sound. Occasional toning on corner of plates, tissue guards present.
Inscribed on the front pastedown with "Gilsinn, Kabul '44". An additional sticker on both the front pastedown and free end paper denotes the owner as David L. Gilsinn of Alexandria, Virginia.
Gilsinn was the American attache to Afghanistan during a period of strengthening relations ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the second world war.
Gilsinn went on to teach at the Foreign Service School at Georgetown University in 1948. Followed by a variety of diplomatic postings in India, Pakistan, Brazil, Uruguay, and Nicaragua. Finally, Gilsinn became an instructor in business and economics at Marian College in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1960. Item #2086
Price: $150.00