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Macfadyen, Eric Eric Macfadyen, 1879-1966. Barnet [Privately published] 1968
First edition pp.350, 7 plates. With signed portrait photograph (20 x 14 cm) of Macfadyen dated 24.6.1916 loosely inserted. A very good copy bound in quarter morocco as issued. The copy of Kathleen Long, with her signature.

Sir Eric Macfadyen (1879-1966) was a pioneer of the rubber industry in Malaya where he worked from 1902 to 1916. This privately printed memoir is largely on his experiences in the Boer War and the Second World War, but also contains his letters from Malaya between 1902 and 1909.