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ARIS George
The Fifth British Division 1939-1945. Being an Account of the Journey and Battles of a Reserve Division in Europe Africa and Asia. Edited by Lieut.-Colonel C.S. Durtnell. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
The Fifth Division Benevolent Fund 1959. 8vo. First and Sole Edition on laid paper with a coloured frontispiece 214 monochrome plates on 80 14 illustrations by Cooper Bell in the text 20 maps 9 folding by Fraser and endpaper maps; cloth gilt back divisional emblem blocked in black and white on upper board a very good clean copy in dustwrapper the latter lightly creased at extremities. Fifth Division almost certainly holds the record as the most travelled British formation of WWII. Starting from its pre-war Northern Command base at Catterick it served in Norway Belgium France Northern Ireland Madagascar India Persia Sicily Italy and Palestine. The division finished the war in Germany where it become a key component of BAOR. The Fifth Division Benevolent Fund, hardcover
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NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS
A Short Narrative of the Fifth Regiment of Foot or Northumberland Fusiliers. With a Chronological Table and Succession List of the Officers from 1 January 1754 to 1 May 1873. BRIGHT FIRM COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
Printed for Private Circulation 1873. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper and another on dedication; original maroon cloth upper board lettered in gilt dark red endpapers some very light age-soiling else a very good bright clean copy. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Gerard F. Leather on front paste-down. Plates show badge; colours; uniforms. EXTREMELY SCARCE. White p.55; apparently not recorded by Sutcliffe. Printed for Private Circulation, hardcover
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MINISTERE DE LA GUERRE (PUBL).
Réglement sur le Service et les Manoeuvres des Pontonniers. Extrait du Réglement sur le Service et les Manoeuvres des Pontonniers. Renfermant les Parties de ce Réglement qui doivent être enseignées à tous les Corps de L'Artillerie. Planches du.
Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1830-31. Bound in 3 fine uniform contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines. Gilt lettering. A large blindstamped panel on all covers. Gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. A paperlabel pasted on lower parts of spines. Stamps on title-pages. 396 pp. 138 pp. and 5 large folded lithographed plates Planches: 6 pp. and 33 large folded lithpographed plates. unknown
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WESTLAKE Ray
English and Welsh Infantry Regiments. An Illustrated Record of Service. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Spellmount Staplehurst 1995. Roy. 4to. First Edition with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; red cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Spellmount, Staplehurst, hardcover
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BUCKMASTER Maurice
Specially Employed. The Story of British Aid to French Patriots of the Resistance. IN FULL MOROCCO
Batchworth Press 1952. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece 17 plates on 14 2 illustrations one full-page and full-page map in the text; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker custom-made slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. One of the earliest separate publications on the activities of Special Operations Executive by the Head of French Section. 'I do not claim that the incidents described in these pages are completely factually accurate' Preface. 'Quite so' responds Foot although he is also the first to recognise the restrictions placed upon the author at the time. Enser p.410; Foot p.455. Batchworth Press, hardcover
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TICKELL Jerrard
Odette. The Story of a British Agent. THE ORIGINAL EDITION WITH PROMOTIONAL BAND
Chapman & Hall 1949. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with portrait frontispiece and 16 plates on 15 mild tape-marks on free endpapers; red cloth gilt back a particularly well-preserved bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter chipped not affecting lettering at head tail and extremities and with BS promotional band intact. An SOE classic. Odette Churchill nee Sansom was one of the most famous SOE agents of WWII. Operating under the code-name 'Lise' she dropped into occupied France where she was eventually captured imprisoned and tortured first at Fresnes and finally at Ravensbruck. One of the few FANY agents to survive the war she was awarded the George Cross for gallantry and subsequently married fellow-SOE agent Captain Peter Churchill 'Raoul'. Foot p.463 describes this account as 'a popular and partly fictionalised life; accurate in parts'. Certainly it is one of the half-dozen or so key works relating to SOE agents in France and the basis of Herbert Wilcox's feature film 1950 starring Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.401; Foot p.463. Chapman & Hall, hardcover
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BOR-KOMOROWSKI Tadeusz
The Secret Army. First English Edition. IN FULL MOROCCO
Gollancz 1950. 8vo. First Edition thus with front and rear endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco sides with gilt frame borders back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Detailed and inspiring history of the Polish Underground by its foremost leader. A cornerstone of the literature of Poland in WWII. VERY SCARCE. Enser p.342. Gollancz, hardcover
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THE DANO-SWEDISH WAR OF 1808-09 -
COLLECTION OF ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM FRANTZ BÜLOW TO THE DANISH KING: Bekiendtgiørelse den 5te Mai 1808; 15de Mai 1808; 19de Mai 1808 3die Junii 1808; 7de Junii 1808; 13de Junii 1808; 19de Junii 1808; 21de Junii 1808; 27de Junii 1808; 28de Junii 1808;. - THE DANO-SWEDISH WAR OF 1808-09
Copenhagen 1808 - 1813. Folio. In contemporary marbled paper covered boards with black leather title label with gilt lettering to front board. Spine cracked and upper and lower part missing paper. White paper label pasted on to upper part of spine. Stamp to pasted down fron end-paper. Light occasional brownspotting and a few marginal repairs. 65 ff. Text in Danish. <br/><br/><em>A rare and fine collection of the official printed announcements from Major general Frantz Christopher von Bülow to King Frederick VI in regard to the Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809.The Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 was a war between Denmark-Norway and Sweden due to Denmark-Norway's alliance with France and Sweden's alliance with the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars. Neither Sweden nor Denmark-Norway had wanted war to begin with but once pushed into it through their respective alliances Sweden made a bid to acquire Norway by way of invasion while Denmark-Norway made ill-fated attempts to reconquer territories lost to Sweden in the 17th century. Peace was finally concluded on grounds of status quo ante bellum with the Treaty of Jönköping on 10 December 1809. </em> hardcover
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BUCKMASTER Maurice
They Fought Alone. The Story of British Agents in France. Popular Book Club Edition. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Popular Book Club 1959. 8vo. First Edition thus page-edges lightly browned as often; burgundy cloth gilt back a remarkably bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter with small hole at centre of backstrip. Complementing 'Specially Employed' 1952 this is the second and final account by the wartime head of SOE's French Section. As in the case of its counterpart content was subject to the rigorous restrictions of the period. This issue was published a year after Odhams' first edition; the inevitable page-tanning aside this is a remarkable copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.410 recording the first edition. Popular Book Club, hardcover
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LAURENS Anne
The Lindemans Affair. First English Edition. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Allan Wingate 1971. 8vo. First Edition thus; blue cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter with one small nick at front panel. First account in English of the supposed betrayal through the Dutch Underground of Operation MARKET GARDEN. Includes aspects of the infamous 'Englischer Spiel' by means of which Hermann Giskes played a deadly and all-too-successful radio hoax with SOE in London Giskes' own account was published as 'London Calling North Pole'. A key study first published in France in 1969. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.212. Allan Wingate, hardcover
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STUBBS Mary Lee
Armor-Cavalry Part I: Regular Army and Army Reservewith Part II: Army National Guard. With lineages adapted by Janice E. McKenney. Army Lineage Series. Complete set. NEAR FINE SET
Office of the Chief of Military History Washington DC 1969-1972. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition with coloured and monochrome plates; navy buckram upper boards blocked in gilt gilt backs a near fine set. Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington DC, hardcover
Référence libraire : 39177
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LANGDON-DAVIES John
Air Raid. The Technique of Silent Approach High Explosive Panic. AIR RAIDS DESCRIBED BEFORE THE BLITZ
Routledge 1938. 8vo. First Edition with 32 plates one double-page; bound in red cloth backstrip lettered in black covers lightly faded top and fore-edges faintly spotted else a bright clean copy. Bright copy of one of the earliest illustrated public reports of the results of full-scale air attack on a populous city in this case Barcelona 1938. Very much the harbinger of things to come. VERY SCARCE. Routledge, hardcover
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MCMILLAN George
The Old Breed. A History of the First Marine Division in World War II. Second Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
Battery Press Nashville TN 2001. Roy. 8vo. Second Edition with title-vignette numerous photographs and illustrations throughout and endpaper maps; green cloth upper board blocked in colours backstrip lettered in yellow a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1949. NOW SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT. Enser p.456 recording the original edition. Battery Press, Nashville TN, hardcover
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KNIGHT CRB Col C R B
Historical Records of The Buffs: East Kent Regiment 3rd Foot formerly designated The Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment 1704-1914. Part One: 1704-1814 with Part Two 1814-1914 and Appendices. BRIGHT CRISP CLEAN SET
Medici Society 1935. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with portrait frontispieces plates maps and plans in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth upper boards with regimental crest blocked in gilt gilt backs blue tops uncut joints very lightly rubbed else a very good bright crisp clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe p.35; White p.53. Medici Society, hardcover
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ROSS-OF-BLADENSBURG Sir John
The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918. Volume I with Volume II with Maps Volume. 'Nulli Secundus'. BRIGHT CRISP CLEAN SET
Oxford University Press 1928. 3 vols. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with portrait frontispiece in photogravure original tissue guard present and 27 maps a number folding in separate volume; navy cloth upper boards framed and blocked in gilt enclosing regimental badge in gilt and colours gilt backs uncut upper joint of map volume split but binding entirely sound a very good bright crisp clean copy. The standard history of the regiment in the Great War. The Coldstreams fielded three battalions all of which went to France and remained there throughout the war. A fourth battalion became the Pioneer Battalion of the Guards Division on its formation in 1915. Falls p.126; Sutcliffe p.6; White p.43. Oxford University Press, hardcover
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY No 2 OFFICER CADET BATTALION
Graduating in Arms. A Souvenir of No. 2 Officer Cadet Battalion. Peterhouse December 1916 - April 1917; Downing College December 1916 - April 1917. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
Privately Printed by Heffer Cambridge 1917. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present plates and illustrations in the tet; sand cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red a remarkably well-preserved bright clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. EXTREMELY SCARCE. [Privately Printed by] Heffer, Cambridge, hardcover
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GOUGH General Sir Hubert
The Fifth Army. EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT CRISP COPY
Hodder & Stoughton 1931. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece and maps a number foldingneat contemporary inscription to veteran on half-title; original blue cloth upper board and backstrip blocked in red and lettered in gilt uncut an exceptionally bright crisp clean copy. Enserp.58. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover
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PARKYN Major HG H G
A Short History of the Rifle Brigade. With an Introduction by Colonel Willoughby Verner. Second and Best Edition. BRIGHT COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
John Bale Sons & Danielsson 1922. 8vo. Second Edition with portrait frontispiece; green cloth upper board blocked in regimental badge in silver backstrip lettered in silver black endpapers a very good bright clean copy. Considerably enlarged version of the original edition of 1917. Sutcliffe p. 447; White p.134. John Bale Sons & Danielsson, hardcover
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WINDEATT Lieut-Colonel JK J K
The Devonshire Regiment. August 1945-May 1958. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Forces Press NAAFI Aldershot 1980. 8vo. First Edition with 4 maps one double-page; green cloth upper board lettered and blocked with regimental badge in gilt gilt back a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. The recipient is Drum-Major Nosworthy. An important post-war history covering as it does both the Malayan Emergency and Mau-Mau in Kenya before service with BAOR. Includes honours & awards casualties and officers. Sutcliffe p.82. Forces Press (NAAFI), Aldershot, hardcover
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CASEY Powell A
Try Us: The Story of the Washington Artillery in World War II. with Louisiana Casualty Lists WWII. NEAR FINE COPY
Claitor's Publishing Baton Rouge LA 1971. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with photographs in the text; red cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt a near fine copy. Claitor's Publishing, Baton Rouge LA, hardcover
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KATHPALIA Lt General P N
Mission with a Difference. The Exploits of 71 Mountain brigade. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Lancer International New Delhi 1986. 8vo. First Edition with maps a number folding in the text; black cloth gilt back rose endpapers a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Lancer International, New Delhi, hardcover
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US 4th INFANTRY DIVISION
STRAC. 4th Infantry Division. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
Army & Navy Publishing Baton Rouge LA 1962. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with very numerous photographs throughout and coloured endpaper maps; green cloth upper board blocked and lettered in silver case a litle shaken else a very good bright clean copy. VERY SCARCE. [Army & Navy Publishing, Baton Rouge LA], hardcover
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US THIRD CORPS
The Defender Volume V. Third Corps Area. Fort Howard MD. Fort Hoyle MD. Fort Myer VA. Prrepared by the Men of the Citizens' Military Training Camps. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
Military Training Camps Association Chicago IL 1927. Roy. 8vo. First Edition text in green and black with numerous photographs toned in sepia throughout; black cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt blue endpapers a very good bright clean copy. VERY SCARCE. Military Training Camps Association, Chicago IL, hardcover
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NEWMAN Bernard
German Secret Service at Work. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
Robert McBride New York NY 1940. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece and plates neat signature and book-label on front free endpaper; blue cloth backstrip lettered in yellow uncut small pull at headband else a very good bright clean copy. VERY SCARCE. Robert McBride, New York NY, hardcover
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HUDSON General Sir Havelock
History of the 19th King George's Own Lancers 1858-1921. Formerly 18th King George's Own Lancers and 19th Lancers Fane's Horse amalgamated in 1921. With certain Appendices to 1936. Indian Army. PRESENTATION COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Gale & Polden Aldershot 1936. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece 2 coloured plates monochrome plates and 6 folding maps; original blue cloth upper board blocked in gilt and colours gilt back marbled endpapers backstrip just slightly dulled and rubbed at head and tail else a remarkably well-preserved bright clean crisp copy. A MS NOTE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN STATES 'ORIGINAL PROOF COPY 1936'. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN SHEET STATING THAT THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED TO RMA SANDHURST ON BEHALF OF THE OFFICERS OF 19TH KGO LANCERS. Includes service in the Mutiny Second Afghan War NWF Tirah and WWI Western Front and Palestine. 'A superb publication beautifully prepared and presented' Perkins. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Perkins p.418. Gale & Polden, Aldershot, hardcover
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US War Department, Military Intelligence Division U S
Special Studies No. 18: German Winter Warfare 15 December 1943. "Restricted
GPO 1943-01-01. Paperback. Good. Text in clean/unmarked condition. Cover has minor wear with bumped/curling corners. Binding is tight. GPO paperback
Référence libraire : C3C190805050
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BURT Kendal
The One that got away. IN FULL MOROCCO
Collins & Michael Joseph 1956. 8vo. First Edition with fine portrait frontispiece 21 plates on 10 and maps and diagrams in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker custom-made slip-case a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The basis of Roy Ward Baker's classic feature film 1957 starring Hardy Kruger as Franz von Werra the only German officer to escape from Allied captivity during WWII. Enser p.148. Collins & Michael Joseph, hardcover
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HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY
Order of Ceremony. Presentation of Standards to the Household Cavalry by Her Majesty the Queen. 6 June 1963. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE SCARCE DE LUXE ISSUE
Gale & Polden Aldershot 1963. 8vo. First Edition thus with title in gilt and colours and 2 fine full-page coloured plates of colours; de luxe binding of full navy roan upper board blocked in gilt gilt doublures blue silk endpapers a near fine copy. The de luxe binding is very scarce. [Gale & Polden, Aldershot], unknown
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ATKINSON C T
The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914-1918. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Medici Society 1931. 8vo. First Edition with numerous plans in the text and 2 large folding maps on japon at rear free endpapers and half-title lightly browned; green cloth upper board blocked in gilt gilt back joints very lightly rubbed a little more so at tail of backstrip else a very good bright clean crisp copy. The standard history of the regiment in the Great War. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe p.154; White p.77. Medici Society, hardcover
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COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL
Coast Artillery Journal. Volume LXXXXI 1948. Complete with Index. NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE LIBRARY COPY WITH INDEX
United States Coast Artillery Association Washington DC 1948. 6 numbers in I vol. roy. 8vo. First Edition titles and text in red and black and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; strongly bound in black boards red cloth back lettered in gilt ALL ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED a very good bright clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of the National War College and carries its stamps on titles together with Library of Congress accession and withdrawal stamps on endpapers. BOUND VOLUMES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. United States Coast Artillery Association, Washington DC, hardcover
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WWII HOME FRONT
26 A A Brigade at War. A RARE SURVIVAL
Privately Printed n.d. c.1945. Oblong 4to. First Edition with illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued a very good bright clean copy. Brief survey of the wartime activities of the oldest Territorial Anti-Aircraft formation. IN THIS CONDITION A RARE SURVIVAL. [Privately Printed], unknown
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PRINCE OF WALES'S OWN (WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT).
A Record of a Great Event. Wednesday 21st June 1944. WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT: A RARE SURVIVAL
Privately Printed York 1944. 8vo. First Edition with photographs in the text; printed wrappers sewed as issued yapped edges a near fine copy. Commemorates the bestowal on the Regiment of the privilege of marching through the streets of the city York with bayonets fixed colours flying and band playing. With the privately printed Regimental Privilege slip loosely inserted. A RARE SURVIVAL. Not recorded by Sutcliffe or White. [Privately Printed, York], unknown
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HARRIS] [Tomas
Garbo. The Spy who saved D-Day. Introduction by Mark Seaman. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Public Record Office Richmond 2000. 8vo. First Edition with photographs and facsimiles in the text; black cloth backstrip lettered in silver a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First publication in typescript facsimile of the hitherto secret files on Jean Pujol 'Garbo' the most successful double agent of WWII. Includes the detailed account and many useful appendices of the Garbo story written by Tomas Harris Garbo's case officer. Arguably the most important intelligence revelation since ULTRA. ALREADy SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Public Record Office, [Richmond], hardcover
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FORTESCUE John
The Royal Army Service Corps. A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army. Volumes I and II. 227/232 COPIES WERE PRINTED
University Press Cambridge 1930-1931. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present plate 2 diagrams in the text and 29 maps the majority folding on japon free endpapers mildly browned fore-edge lightly spotted; original navy buckram upper boards with gilt frame border enclosing Corps crest all in gilt gilt backs boards mildly age-scratched backstrips sunned but all gilt legible else a very good bright clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 227/232 NUMBERED COPIES RESPECTIVELY. With the lists of subscribers. Nice set of a standard reference. White p.138. University Press, Cambridge, hardcover
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DU MOULIN Lt-Col E
Two Years on Trek. Being some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa. With a Preface by Col. J.G. Panton. Edited by H.F. Bidder. NCO/OR Edition. THE NCO/OR EDITION
Murray & Co. 1907. 8vo. First Edition half-title and title very lightly spotted contemporary inscription on half-title; modern grey boards backstrip with printed paper label ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED a very good bright clean copy. Crisp clean copy of the 'NCO/Other Ranks' edition issued without the maps present in the 'Officers' cloth edition. This copy was presented to Malcolm Otter-Barry 1885-1922 'by 'one of the Royal Haddocks'. INEVITABLY THIS VERSION IS BY FAR THE SCARCEST AND IN THIS CONDITION RARE. Hackett p.143; Sutcliffe p.219; White p.89. Murray & Co., hardcover
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CASKIE Donald
The Tartan Pimpernel. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oldbourne Press 1957. 8vo. First Edition with 12 plates; blue cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Classic account of Caskie's French escape line in WWII. Ejected from his position as Minister of the Scottish Kirk in Paris he relocated to Marseilles where he turned the British Seamen's Mission into a vital link in the chain for escaping POWs and soldiers returning from Dunkirk. He was eventually denounced by a British traitor captured and passed through seven prisons including the infamous 'Villa Lynwood' in Nice where was held at the same time as Odette Hallowes. He was sentenced to death by the Gestapo but saved from execution by a German padre. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.396. Oldbourne Press, hardcover
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Somoza Hernandez, Beatriz Cano Gonzalez, Mª Victoria Guerra Lopez, Pedro Enrique
Farmacología en Enfermeríaversión digital: Casos Clínicos
New. unknown
Référence libraire : 9788491102793 ISBN : 8491102795 9788491102793
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REDIPUGLIA WAR CEMETERY
Cimiterio Agli Invitti Militaire Della Di Redipuglia 3A Armata. Ufficio Centrale per la Cura e le Onoranze delle Salme Dei Caduti in Guerra A RARE MOMENTO OF THE ORIGINAL THIRD ARMY CEMETERY
Civicchioni Chiavari n.d. c.1920. Oblong 4to. text in Italian with introduction and 34 full-page plates toned in sepia; printed wrappers sewed as issued original ribbon present yapped edges a remarkably well-preserved bright clean copy. A rare momento of the original Redipuglia War Cemetery housing 30000 graves of soldiers of the Italian Third Army killed between 1915 and 1917. The original cemetery is now replaced by the Redipuglia War Memorial inaugurated in 1938 in the presence of Mussolini. It is the largest war memorial in Italy with over 100000 graves including those of the original interment. A RARE SURVIVAL FROM THE GREAT WAR IN ITALY. [Civicchioni, Chiavari], unknown
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WAR OFFICE
Military Engineering Volume III - Part I. Bridging. 1941. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE WWII ISSUE
HMSO 1941. 8vo. First Edition thus with numerous technical illustrations and diagrams a number folding small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth backstrip lettered in black a near fine copy. Printing code: 25/463. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. HMSO, hardcover
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THE PENINSULA WAR 1807-1814 -
Collection of 15 large lithographed maps relating to the battles during the Peninsula war. The maps are lithographed from the original Drawings in the Qr Mr Genls Office at the Top.l Dept of the War Office by H. James.
London War Office 1860-70. All of the large maps are lithographed one signed "lith. James Ferguson" with positions in colour. The measures given are paper sizes comprising: 1. Movements of the two Armies after the Repulse of Marshal Massena's Attack upon the Position of Busaco. 68 x 82 cm.- 2. Battle of Talevera de la Reyna fought on the 27th & 28th July 1809. 113 x 68 cm. - 3. Battle of Busaco. General Position of the French and allied Armies on the 26th September 1810. 68 x 100 cm. - 4-6. Battle of Fuentes D'Onoro Fought on the 3rd and 5th May 1811. Map 1-3. each 68 x 100 cm. - 7-15. all with the heading title Massena's Retreat No. 1-3 and 5-10 each around 51 x 67 cm. At end one untitled map. Some foldings strenghtened with tape. <br/><br/><em>We have been unable to decide whether these maps are a part of a series or just published separately.The Peninsular War was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and Bourbon Spain for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807 and escalated in 1808 when France turned on Spain previously its ally. The war on the peninsula lasted until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814 and is regarded as one of the first wars of national liberation significant for the emergence of large-scale guerrilla warfare. </em> unknown
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MACKSEY Major Kenneth
A History of the Royal Armoured Corps and its Predecessors 1914 to 1975. Foreword by Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Newtown Publications Beaminster 1983. 8vo. First Edition with plates; green cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. 'An excellent history of the Royal Armoured Corps balancing the extent of early tank history against the wartime and post-war history' Smith. Smith p.296; Sutcliffe p.134. Newtown Publications, Beaminster, hardcover
Référence libraire : 36510
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BUCKMASTER Maurice
They Fought Alone. The Story of British Agents in France. IN FULL MOROCCO
Odhams 1958. 8vo. First Edition; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers red ribbon marker custom-made slip-case a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Complementing 'Specially Employed' 1952 this is an elegant copy of the second and final account by the wartime head of SOE's French Section. As in the case of its counterpart content was subject to the rigorous restrictions of the period. VERY SCARCE. Enser p.410 recording the first edition. Odhams, hardcover
Référence libraire : 41364
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REID P R
The Latter Days at Colditz. IN FULL MOROCCO
Hodder & Stoughton 1953. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece numerous illustrations several full-page a double-page plan in the text and front endpaper map handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'barbed wire' theme gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Equally dramatic sequel to the author's classic The Colditz Story 1952 continuing the story of events at the castle after the author's successful 'home run' in 1942. Reid's two classics of POW life and escape began a virtual sub-industry of astonishingly variable quality including dozens of later books several feature films countless magazine pieces and a long-running TV series. There is however no mistaking the calibre of the original. Now that Colditz is to become in part at least a youth hostel interest in its wartime role will only grow. Enser p. 151. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover
Référence libraire : 41393
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REID Patrick R
The Colditz Story with The Latter Days. COLDITZ COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Hodder & Stoughton 1952-53. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition with frontispieces numerous photographs illustrations and facsimiles several full-page and double-page plan in the text front endpaper map in second volume small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper of first volume; blue cloth gilt backs a very good bright clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. With dustwrapper artwork by John Watton. The first volume culminates with the author's 'home run' in 1942. Reid's two classics of POW ife and escape began a virtual sub-industry of astonishingly variable quality including dozens of later books several feature films countless magazine pieces and a long-running TV series. There is however no mistaking the calibre of the original. Now that Colditz is to become in part at least a youth hostel interest in its wartime role will only grow. SETS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p. 151. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover
Référence libraire : 41427
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RUTTER, ed Owen
The History of the Seventh Service Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment 1914-1919. Edited by Owen Rutter. With an Introduction by General Sir Hubert Gough. Preaface by Brigadier-General W.L. Osborn. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Times Publishing Company 1934. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece 7 plates 22 full-page maps and large folding coloured map at end; original navy cloth gilt back lower joint rubbed backstrip chafed not affecting lettering at headband else a very good bright clean copy. Compiled by a Committee of Officers of the Battalion. VERY SCARCE. Sutcliffe p.220; White p.89. Times Publishing Company, , hardcover
Référence libraire : 41475
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YOUNGHUSBAND Colonel GJ G J
The Story of the Guides. Fifth Impression. DESMOND YOUNG'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE
Macmillan 1909. 8vo. Fifth Impression with portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present and plates free endpapers mildly browned; red cloth upper board blocked in gilt and ruled in blind gilt back uncut a very good bright clean crisp copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF DESMOND YOUNG AND BEARS HIS BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Published a year after the first edition. General Desmond Young 1892-1966 soldier explorer biographer and actor; biographer of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel which book forms the basis of Henry Hathway's feature film 'The Desert Fox' 1951 starring James Mason. Perkins Regiments of Empire p.93; Regiments p.409. Macmillan, hardcover
Référence libraire : 41640
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GYMNASTICS - MINISTERE DE LA GUERRE (PUBL).
Instruction pour l'Enseignement de la Gymnastique dans les Corps de Troupes et les Établissements militaires. Approuvée par M. le Minstre Secretaire d'État de la Guerre le 24 avril 1846. Atlas seul.
Paris Dumaine 1847. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Spine partly gone. Corners on upper wrapper torn. Containing 24 folded lithgographed plates in folio with many figures. Faint scattered brownspots. unknown
Référence libraire : 58566
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DUTCH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Dialogus Ofte t'Samenspreeckinge tusschen Jan Andersorgh ende Govert Eygen-sin
Amsterdam: publisher not named 1630. First edition of this West Frisian rhymed dialogue against the ongoing peace negotiations between the United Provinces and Spain to conclude the Dutch War of Independence 1568-1648. The United Provinces had gained significant ground in the preceding few years with the Dutch West India Company occupying Bahia the capital of Brazil in 1624 and that year taking Pernambuco the centre of Brazilian sugar production. The author of the rhymed dialogue deemed the tide to be in the favour of the United Provinces and opposed any truce while in a strong position. They moreover support the continuation of the war to enhance the Dutch economic interest especially with regard to trade with the West Indies. Despite the weakening of Spain negotiations proceeded slowly and peace was not declared until 1648. Worldcat locates six copies in the Netherlands one in Germany one in the UK British Library and two in the US Michigan Minnesota. Small quarto 189 x 143 mm. Twentieth-century green quarter cloth printed labels to spine and front cover grey card sides. A little rubbed contents a little browned. A very good copy. Brown European Americana 630/54; Knuttel 4020. Not in Landwehr or Sabin. hardcover
Référence libraire : 139110
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GEE Sergeant A E
A Record of D245 Battery 1914-1919. Illustrations by Bombardier Norman Tennant. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Renwick of Otley 1931. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece plates numerous illustrations a number full-page in the text large folding map at end and decorative endpapers; blue coarse-grain cloth upper board blocked in gilt gilt back covers and paste-downs only damp-marked else a bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The WWI service record of 11th Ilkley Battery IV West Riding Howitzer Brigade RFA renamed 245th Brigade RA in May 1916. Includes Nominal Roll ROH Awards & Decorations and list of places visited. VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. White p.221. Renwick of Otley, hardcover
Référence libraire : 41919
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[FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR]
Drop title Profecias sobre la Francia actual y otras naciones de Europa. Continuacion de las publicados por el doctor Refilando en el diario La Conviccion en 13 Mayo y 11 de Setiembre de 1870
Barcelona: Imp. Llorens 1871. First Edition. Original pictorial letterpress broadsheet 31.5x22.5cm.; top third of recto adorned with original woodcut text printed in double columns. Faint fold lines a few tiny chips to extremities light soil else Very Good to Near Fine. Fortune-telling broadsheet regarding the fate of France following the Siege of Paris in September 1870. The author a certain "Doctor Refilando" predicted the event in an article in "La Conviccion" two days prior and the concluding list of predictions made on verso refer to his success as a soothsayer. Additional prophecies reproduced here include that made by a nun in Belley France in 1810; one made by another nun in Paris 1829; a prophecy made in the13th century in verse; and a list of fifteen made by Caesarius of Arles in the sixth century. Apparently unrecorded broadsheet adorned with an original woodcut depicting the Siege of Paris during that Franco-Prussian War. We find none in commerce or the auction records as of February 2020; nor separately catalogued in OCLC COPAC or KVK. Imp. Llorens unknown
Référence libraire : 47695
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