Higginson, G - Seventy-One Years of a Guardsman's Life

Smith, Elder, London, 1916. 403 pages, index, illustrations. Commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, much of this autobiography is given over to a detailed account of Higginson and his regiment in the Crimea where they fought at Alma, Inkerman and endured the Siege of Sebastopol.  Includes a superb panoramic double-page photograph of the Grenadier Guards camp at Scutari annotated with much detail and in which Captain Higgison is identified. Sl handling wear to red cloth boards, gilt armorial device on front board, no dj, former owner's name on ffep, browning outer page edges. G.