Quarto. [6], viii, 430pp. With a half-title, a photographic frontispiece, and numerous photographic illustrations in the text. Later gilt-tooled half-calf, red cloth boards. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, leaves browned, small worm-tracks running throughout - touching text in places without loss of sense, occasional ink and blind stamps of the Elphinstone College Library, Bombay.

The sole edition of an authoritative history of the postal services of India during the First world War by Sir Hubert Arthur Sams, sometime oOfficiating Director General of Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department.