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Manual of Arms: adapted to the Springfield Rifle Caliber .45 and to the Magazine Rifle Caliber .30
New York NY: D. Appleton and Company 1898. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. G/N used pb tannish colored paper wraps 59 pages plus ads to rear. Interior clean no marks except an oval stamp reddish in color that states " Litchfield & Co. Contractors San Francisco. Military and Naval Furnishings" on the title page. Slight shelf wear to wraps no chips or tears. Some shelf soiling to wraps. This is not a reprint but an original 1898 publication. <br/> <br/> D. Appleton and Company paperback
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ANON
The Hun Hunters. Cautionary Tales from the Trenches. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Grant Richards 1916. Oblong 4to. First Edition with cartoons throughout some light age-soiling as usual; original pictorial boards ivory cloth backstrip lettered in black very neatly recased with original front cover moderately age-marked laid down a good bright firm copy. Featuring 'Sergeant Tombs whose Passion for Experiment led him to Destruction'. A wonderful example of sardonic 'Tommy' humour from the trenches somewhere between Belloc's 'Cautionary Tales' and Graham's 'Ruthless Rhymes'. SCARCE. Grant Richards, hardcover
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United States War Dept, States War Dept
Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific O
University of Michigan Library 2006-09-13. paperback. Used: Good. 6.14x1.10x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. University of Michigan Library paperback
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POGUE Forrest C
George C. Marshall. Education of a General 1880-1939. With the editorial Assistance of Gordon Harrison. Foreword by General Omar N. Bradley.
Viking Press New York NY 1963. 8vo. First Edition with a portrait frontispiece; red cloth gilt blue cloth back lettered in gilt and silver red top lightly faded a very good clean copy in the dustwrapper the latter worn and frayed at edges. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Viking Press, New York NY, hardcover
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COOKRIDGE EH E H
Inside SOE. The Story of Special Operations in Western Europe 1940-45. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Arthur Barker 1966. 8vo. First Edition with numerous plates and 4 maps one double-page in the text; red cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Cookridge and Foot were the two pioneer historians of SOE in Europe and both their accounts have stood the test of time. Whilst the latter's SOE in France 1966 had official blessing Cookridge's work is perhaps the more accessible. If nothing else they launched a minor industry of scholarship and given that they were writing before the release of the 'Ultra' papers and the SOE files in general performed a very creditable role. Enser p.410. Arthur Barker, hardcover
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(CIVIL WAR)
Reminiscences of the Civil War Heretofore Unpublished Together with Portraits of Authors. Issued by the Woman's Auxiliary to Grant County Veterans Association.
Bloomington WI: Bloomington Record 1902. First edition. Octavo. 54 pp. of text including six full page photographic portraits and 12 pp. of ads for local Wisconsin businesses. Publisher's crepe wrappers with blue cover lettering front cover with an image of the American flag rear cover with an ad. A very good copy.Various tales by Wisconsin Union soldiers and widows relating to the Civil War. Portraits of Mrs. Anne Nye Dennis Mrs. Isabella Leindecker William Leindecker in his Union uniform Martha M. Jones Charles H. Baxter and R. B. Showalter. Bloomington Record unknown
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WRIGHT-NOOTH George
Prisoner of the Turnip Heads. Horror Hunger and Humour in Hong Kong 1941-1945. SIGNED B Y THE AUTHOR
Leo Cooper Barnsley 1994. 8vo. First Edition with numerous plates; black cloth a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Astonishingly detailed and extremely harrowing account of life and death in Stanley camp. The author who during four years' captivity managed miraculously to preserve scraps of a diary on which this work is based survived the war to become Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Hong Kong Police. A mostvaluable memoir and already uncommon in this condition. Leo Cooper, [Barnsley, hardcover
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Unknown
.300 Vickers MacHine Gun
Aldershot: Gale & Polden 1941. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Gale & Polden paperback
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BRIERLEY GJ G J
The Territorials in Northern Ireland 1947-1992. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Privately Printed for Northern Ireland Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association 1993. Sm. folio First Edition with numerous photographs throughout; green cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. From modest beginnings in 1937 the Northern Ireland Territorials were reformed in 1947 from the many volunteers who had served in either the TA or the Supplementary reserve. The new and thriving force of volunteers were raised into an Anti-Aircraft Brigade and Infantry Brigade group totalling more than 6000 personnel by 1950. EXTREMELY SCARCE. [Privately Printed for Northern Ireland Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association, hardcover
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HORROCKS Lieutenant-General Brian
A Full Life. IN FULL MOROCCO
Collins 1960. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece 23 plates on 14 and 10 maps in the text; 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 gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker custom-made slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. First edition of the acclaimed autobiography by one of the most outstanding corps commanders of WWII. His renowned 30 Corps was regarded as one of the finest fighting formations throughout North-West Europe including a central role in Operation GARDEN. Enser p.266. Collins, hardcover
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GLOVER Michael
That Astonishing Infantry. Three Hundred Years of the History of The Royal Welch Fusiliers 23rd Regiment of Foot 1689-1989. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Leo Cooper 1989. 8vo. First Edition with a coloured portrait frontispiece coloured plates and numerous photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sutcliffe p.147 Leo Cooper, hardcover
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ROGERS Anthony
Churchill's Folly. Leros and the Aegean. The Last Great British Defeat of the Second World War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Cassell 2003. 8vo. First Edition with numerous photographs; blue cloth gilt back blue endpapers a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. ALREADY SCARCE. Cassell, hardcover
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[SPANISH CIVIL WAR] CREIXAMS [Pere]; CA Jordana C A
Infants
Barcelona: Edicions del Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya ca 1936. First Limited Edition. One of 150 copies in the "regular" issue from a total edition of 175. Folio 40cm. Illustrated card portfolio containing 12 loose lithographic plates and a single sheet of letterpress as issued. Portfolio has shelf-wear and soil sticker to front wrapper with 2" tear to lower edge 0.5" nick to rear flap fold and creases and tiny tears to extremities; contents clean and fresh; Good. <br /> <br /> Suite of twelve lithographs by the Catalan painter Pere Créixams 1893-1965 all depicting Catalonian children against the backdrop of various scenes from the Civil War. Each image is accompanied by a brief patriotic slogan in Catalan with English translation printed beneath. The one-page text introduction is signed "C.A. Jordana." A rather uncommon collection of Spanish Civil War propaganda images exceptionally well-preserved. 017499. Edicions del Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya unknown
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DOHERTY Richard
Only the Enemy in Front. Every other Beggar behind. The Recce Corps at War 1940-1946. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
BCA 1994. 8vo. with 22 plates on 12 and 15 maps in the text; green cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first dedicated history of the Corps. Published in the same year as the first edition. BCA, hardcover
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MARTINEAU GD G D
A History of the Royal Sussex Regiment. A History of the Old Belfast Regiment and the Regiment of Sussex 1701-1953. Maps by Captain P.D. O'Driscoll.
Moore & Tilyer Chichester 1955. 8vo. First Edition with maps in the text fore-edge lightly spotted endpapers browned; original regimental blue buckram upper board with badge blocked in gilt backstrip with red leather label faded lettered in gilt red top covers lightly faded and age-soiled else a good firm copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Sutcliffe p.218; White p.89. Moore & Tilyer, Chichester, hardcover
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GIJBELS Peter
Leading the Way to Arnhem. An Illustrated History of the 21st Independent Parachute Company 1942-1946. Based on the Fred Weatherley Files Official Records and Personal Accounts of Members of the Company. FINE COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS
Sigmond Publishing Renkum 2008. Sm. folio First Edition with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; cloth backstrip lettered in silver a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS ON TITLE. The first detailed and dedicated account of 21st IPC the pathfinder unit of 1 British Airborne. Its role was to arrive at the drop zones in advance of the main body of troops to set up electronic and visual markers pin-pointing the dropping area for the oncoming aircraft. Being first on the ground the pathfinders were to use their initiative and make their own decisions: in short to be independent. A valuable addition to the literature of MARKET GARDEN. EXTREMELY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN SIGNED FORM [Sigmond Publishing, Renkum, hardcover
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BARGER Charles J
The SS Family. Procedures for conducting Family Celebrations. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Ulric Publishing Church Stretton 2010. Roy. 8vo. original printed wrappers a fine copy. The first publication of its type to advance the the new religious ideals of the SS. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. Ulric Publishing, [Church Stretton], unknown
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THOMPSON Sir Robert
Famous Regiments. The Royal Flying Corps Per Ardua ad Astra. Introductions by Lt. General Sir Brian Horrocks. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Hamish Hamilton 1968. 8vo. First Edition with numerous photographs in the text small blind-embossed personal book-stamp on front free endpaper; cloth gilt back a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper the latter mildly age-soiled and with two short tape repairs. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. Hamish Hamilton, hardcover
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GOLDSMITH RFK R F K
Famous Regiments. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. The 32nd and 46th Regiments of Foot. Introduction by Lt.-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Leo Cooper 1970. 8vo. First Edition with numerous illustrations in the text small blind-embossed personal book-stamp on front free endpaper; blue cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise Famous Regiments series edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe p.201. Leo Cooper, hardcover
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ATKINSON Captain C T
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914-1918. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. 1924. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece 26 plates on 17 and 62 folding maps 2 large on japon fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; original regimental blue cloth upper board blocked with regimental badge in silver backstrip lettered in silver blue top expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down a very good bright crisp clean copy. Complete with errata leaf. The standard record of the regiment's service in the Great War in which eleven battalions were involved. Includes ROH honours and decorations MIDs units and their COs depots and POW funds 'Well above the average of regimental histories in interest. He has done his best to procure information from officers who served with the regiment to supplement the generally scant and laconic accounts of the war diaries' Falls. Accordingly this history is particularly well supplied with maps albeit some of them sketches in outline. SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.70; Falls p.97; Sutcliffe p.306; White p.105. Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co., hardcover
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SCOTT JD J D
Vickers. A History. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1962. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with 48 plates on 28 and a double-page plate; original navy buckram backstrip lettered in silver blue top a very good bright clean copy. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, hardcover
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GUERRA, Francisco
Iconografia medica Mexicana. Catalogo grafico descriptivo de los impresos medicos Mexicanos de 1552 A 1883 ordenados cronologicamente.
D. F. Mexico:: Imprenta Del Diario Espanol 1955. 1955. 293 x 227 mm. Tall 8vo. xvi ccclxxiii pp. Illus. Loose as issued in original printed wrappers. Unopened. Fine. FIRST EDITION. Dr. Guerra b. 1916 medical historian has compiled an impressive catalogue of medical works with Mexican imprints in chronological order and profusely illustrated with facsimiles of title pages plates charts and illustrations. There is also an extensive bibliographical section. Imprenta Del Diario Espanol, 1955. unknown
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[World War I, Aviation Medicine]
U.S. War Department Air Service Division of Military Aeronautics. Air service medical.
Washington D.C.:: Government Printing Office 1919. 1919. 267 x 190 mm. Tall 8vo. 446 pp. Color frontis. extensively illustrated with photographs of aviation equipment in use physical examinations of flight candidates and test equipment constructed to test the physiological effects of flight conditions tables 1 folding index. Gilt-stamped navy cloth; rubbed inner hinge cracked. Very good. Government Printing Office, 1919. hardcover
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[World War I, Aviation Medicine]
U.S. War Department Air Service Division of Military Aeronautics. Air service medical.
Washington D.C.:: Government Printing Office 1919. 1919. 267 x 190 mm. Tall 8vo. 446 pp. Color frontis. extensively illustrated tables 1 folding index. Gilt-stamped navy cloth; rubbed. Very good. This extensively illustrated manual for the medical personnel of the United States Air Service contains numerous figures and plates including photographs of aviation equipment in use physical examinations of flight candidates and test equipment constructed to test the physiological effects of flight conditions. Government Printing Office, 1919. hardcover
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GUERRA, Francisco (b 1916).
Historiografia de la medicina colonial hispanoamericana. Prologo de Fidel Carrancedo.
Mexico:: Abastecedora de Impresos 1953. 1953. 8vo. iv vi 322 2 pp. Modern green cloth preserving original wrapper spine and top cover. Bookplate of H. P. Kraus. Very good. LIMITED EDITION of 500 numbered copies. Garrison and Morton 6603. Abastecedora de Impresos, 1953. hardcover
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RACZYNSKI] [Count
Polish Phrase Book. Compiled by The Polish Research Centre for the Polish Relief Fund. July 1940. Introductory verse by I.B. A RARE SURVIVAL
Polish Research Centre 1940. 8vo. First Edition; original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good clean copy. Probably an initiative of Raczynski during his term 1940-1967 as Chairman of the PRC. A rare survival especially in this condition. Polish Research Centre, unknown
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EASTWOOD Stuart
When Dragons Flew. An Illustrated History of the 1st Battalion The Border Regiment 1939-1945. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
The Border Regiment Regimental Museum in association with Silver Link Publishing Carlisle 1994. Roy. 4to. First Edition with illustrated title 4 full-page coloured maps and very numerous monochrome photographs in the text; cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped unevenly sunned dustwrapper. Splendid pictorial history based on a huge compilation of photographs from public and private records. As one would expect about half the book is given over to the battalion's role in Operation MARKET. Includes battalion ROH honours and awards battalion roll for Arnhem operation orders for MARKET and much other data. VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe p.293. The [Border Regiment] Regimental Museum in association with Silver Link Publishing, [Carlisle, hardcover
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LUNT James
Famous Regiments. 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Leo Cooper 1973. 8vo. First Edition with numerous illustrations in the text; red cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe p.53. Leo Cooper, hardcover
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ESSAME Major-General Hubert
The 43rd Wessex Division at War 1939-1945. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
William Clowes 1952. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece 35 plates on 22 and 21 maps on 13 folders; blue cloth upper board lettered with divisional emblem in gilt gilt back a bright clean copy. The famous West Country Division captured Mount Picon the key to Normandy forced the crossing of the Seine were the first British troops to fight in Germany and turned the tide in the Reichswald enabling the Allies to close with the Rhine. As part of Horrocks' 30 Corps the division also took part in the headlong rush to Nijmegen in Operation GARDEN. Enser p.77 William Clowes, hardcover
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WALKER, ed G Goold
The Honourable Artillery Company 1537-1926. With a Foreword by the Earl of Denbigh and Desmond. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
John Lane Bodley Head 1926. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with coloured frontispiece 3 coloured plates 40 plates in monochrome and 35 illustrations and facsimiles in the text; small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original blue cloth badge in gilt on upper board gilt back red top a very good bright clean copy. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted. White p.198. John Lane, Bodley Head, hardcover
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MCKENZIE Stuart C
Collecting Third Reich Recordings. NEAR FINE COPY
Ulric Publishing Church Stretton 2001. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with photographs in the text; original laminated card covers a near fine copy. Published in Ulric's 'Collecting' series. Ulric Publishing, [Church Stretton], unknown
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BARTHORP Michael
Famous Regiments. The Northamptonshire Regiment. The 48th/58th Regiment of Foot. Introduction by Lt.-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Leo Cooper 1974. 8vo. First Edition with 25 plates on 12; blue cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe p.293 Leo Cooper, hardcover
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GRANT Ian Lyall
Burma: The Turning Point. The Seven Battles on the Tiddim Road which Turned the Tide of the Burma War. Foreword by Field Marshal Lord Bramall. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A.L.s
Zampi Press Chichester 1993. 8vo. First Edition with 48 plates on 24 8 coloured maps and 7 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE AND WITH A PRESENTATION A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR ON HIS PERSONAL LETTERHEAD TO DONALD EALES-WHITE. The first of Lyall Grant's masterly analyses of the Burma war and forerunner of 'The Japanese Invasion' co-written with Tamayama and similarly privately printed some six years later. In this outstanding analysis using extensive fresh information from both British and Japanese sources Grant produces the most authoritative history to date. Includes command structures OOB statistical appendices and bibliography. An outstanding contribution to the history of WWII. Signed copies are very scarce. Graham & Cole E20. Zampi Press, Chichester, hardcover
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VERITY Hugh
We Landed by Moonlight. Secret RAF Landings in France 1940-1944. THIRD REVISED EDITION
Crecy Manchester 1998. 8vo. Third Edition with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers a near fine copy. The standard reference on the RAF squadrons that delivered and collected SOE and other agents. Bases included Tangmere and Tempsford; aircraft included Ansons Hudsons and the immortal Lysander. Includes detailed summary of operations and much other statistical data. Verity's classic account was first published in 1978. A revised edition appeared in 1995 and this is further augmented particularly in the detailed table of missions here. SCARCE. Enser p.206 recording the first edition. Crecy, [Manchester], unknown
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OATTS LB L B
Proud Heritage. The Story of the Highland Light Infantry. Volume One. The 71st HLI 1777-1881. Foreword by Major-General Alexander Telfer Smollett of Bonhill. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Nelson 1952. 8vo. First Edition with a portrait frontispiece 4 coloured plates a full-page illustration and 5 maps 2 double-page in the text and a large folding coloured chart some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original regimental green cloth crest blocked in gilt on upper cover gilt back green top a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly browned and with minor loss not affecting lettering at head and tail of backstrip. Lovely copy of the first of four volumes of the author's standard history . Scarce in this condition. Sutcliffe p. 373; White p.117. Nelson, hardcover
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KERSTEN Felix
The Kersten Memoirs 1940-1945. With an Introduction by H. .Trevor-Roper. Translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon and James Oliver. First English Edition. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
Hutchinson 1956. 8vo. First English Edition some very light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original blue cloth backstrip lettered in yellow yellow top a very good bright clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper the latter lightly browned on predominantly white rear panel. With the erratum slip facing Contents. Felix Kersten was personal physician to Himmler and close to many of the Nazi leadership and these journals of meetings and conversations the majority written on the spot make fascinating reading. Towards the end of the war he was responsible for saving many thousands of Dutchmen Germans Norwegians Danes and Jews from his employer's clutches. Very scarce in this condition especially in the dustwrapper. Enser p.266. Hutchinson, hardcover
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BARRETT CRB C R B
History of the XIII Hussars. BRIGHT CLEAN CRISP COPY
William Blackwood 1911. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispieces original tissue guards present titles in red and black 6 coloured plates of uniform 78 plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations and 10 maps in the text some very light and inoffensive spotting; original regimental navy cloth upper boards with regimental badge blocked in gilt white and black gilt backs gilt tops uncut boards of second volume faded at lower edge else a very good bright clean crisp copy. VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe p.80; White p.21. William Blackwood, hardcover
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LIDDELL Colonel RS R S
The Memoirs of the Tenth Royal Hussars Prince of Wales's Own Historical and Social. With Illustrations by Oscar Norie. BRIGHT CRISP COPY
Longmans Green & Co. 1891. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure original tissue guard present title in red and black 12 fine chromolithographed pates showing uniforms all original tissue guards present 2 portraits in photogravure original tissue guards present and several monochrome illustrations in the text; original black diced cloth upper board with elaborate gilt frame border enclosing crest and motto blocked in gilt back gilt extra gilt top bevelled boards uncut marbled endpapers heightened with gilt neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down corners bruised else a very good bright clean copy. With an armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Decent copy of one of the best illustrated and most lavishly bound cavalry histories of the period; Norie's plates are particularly fine. Includes detailed account of the regiment's service in the Peninsular and at Waterloo. A remainder issue was published without plates. SCARCE. Sutcliffe p 68; White p.20. Longmans Green & Co., hardcover
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POWNALL General Henry
Chief of Staff. The Diaries of Sir Henry Pownall. 1933-1944. Edited by B. Bond. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
Leo Cooper 1972-74. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition with 29 plates; blue cloth gilt backs a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: 1933-1940 by which time Pownall was CGS to the BEF in France; Vol. II: 1940-1944 CoS to Mountbatten. In the latter part of his career Pownall was Chief of Staff to Mountbatten then SACSEA. His remarkably frank diaries caused considerable controversy on publication not least because of his opinions of Wingate. Unaccountably scarce as a set especially in this condition. Graham & Cole L20; Enser p.268. Leo Cooper, hardcover
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STAFFORD David
Ten Days to D-Day. Countdown to the Liberation of Europe. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO J H OWEN
Little Brown 2003. 8vo. First Edition with 33 plates on 16 and a double-page map in the text; black cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE EMINENT HISTORIAN J H HUGH OWEN WITH THE FORMER'S LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. With a copy T.L.s from Owen and another piece loosely inserted. Little Brown, hardcover
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TRUESDALE David
Brotherhood of the Cauldron. Irishmen in the 1st Airborne Division from North Africa to Arnhem. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Redcoat Publishing Newtownards 2002. 8vo. First Edition with very numerous photographs and maps a number full-page in the text; brown cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The culmination of over ten years' research this fine study tells the story of around 300 men who served in or with 1 Airborne during WWII. Useful detail on the formation of the division North Africa. Italy and Sicily but naturally the bulk of the work is devoted to Arnhem. 'The Cauldron' is dealt with on a day-by-day basis with helpful maps and many excellent contemporary and modern photographs. An essential addition to all British airborne and Arnhem collections. Redcoat Publishing, [Newtownards], hardcover
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PIGGOTT Juliet
Famous Regiments. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. Introduction by Lt. General Sir Brian Horrocks. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Leo Cooper 1975. 8vo. First Edition with numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the scarcest titles in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks Leo Cooper, hardcover
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GLUBB John Bagot
A Soldier with the Arabs. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Hodder & Stoughton 1957. 8vo. First Edition with a portrait frontispiece 25 plates on 22 2 full-page facsimiles a full-page pedigree 26 maps 2 full-page and endpaper maps some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers small neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; original navy blue cloth gilt gilt back blue top a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly frayed and browned at extremities. Bright copy of the personal story of Glubb Pasha. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover
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FITZGERALD Michael
Storm-Troopers of Satan. An Occult History of the Second World War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Hale 1990. 8vo. First Edition; black cloth backstrip lettered in silver red endpapers a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Hale, hardcover
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BAZNA Elyesa
I Was Cicero. In collaboration with Hans Nogly. Translated by Eric Mosbacher.
Andre Deutsch 1962. 8vo. First English Edition with 10 plates on 8 some very faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original black cloth gilt back a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper the latter very lightly age-browned and rubbed at extremities. First published in Germany in the previous year this is the now well-known story of one of WWII's most unlikely and successful spies. A valet at the British Embassy in Ankara Bazna passed much secret information to the Germans and lived to tell the tale. Scarce in this condition. Enser p.108. Andre Deutsch, hardcover
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RAWICZ Slavomir
The Long Walk. Second Impression. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Constable 1956. 8vo. Second Impression with 2 full-page maps in the text page-edges browning; blue cloth a bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the same month as the first edition. The harrowing account of a young Polish officer's captivity under the Russians and his eventual break for freedom from Siberia across the Gobi to Tibet. Constable, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 17643
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GILES John
Flanders Then and Now. The Ypres Salient and Passchendaele. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
After the Battle 2001. 8vo. with photographic title very numerous photographs and maps in the text and photographic endpapers; black cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1970 as 'The Ypres Salient' with a revised edition in 1979. Enser p.403 recording the first edition. After the Battle, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 17883
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RICHMOND, Sir Herbert
War Pictures by British Artists. War at Sea with Blitz with R.A.F with Army. Series I complete. COMPLETE FIRST SERIES IN FULL MOROCCO
Oxford University Press 1942. 4 works in 1 vol. sm. 8vo. First Edition with 194 toned full-page illustrations in the text three volumes with neat signatures on front free endpapers; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top ALL ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED hand-made endpapers ribbon marker custom-made slip-case a most attractive volume ideal as a gift or for presentation. No.1: War at Sea; No. 2: Blitz; No. 3: R.A.F.; No. 4: Army. Complete set of the first series with fine reproductions of paintings drawings and sketches by virtually all Britain's leading war artists. The contributors naturally featured many of the most eminent artists of the period including among many others Ardizzone Bawden Bone Kennington Moore Nash Piper Ravilious Rothenstein Spencer Sutherland Topolski and Worsley. A second series dealing primarily with the Home Front was published separately in the following year. UNCOMMON AS A SET AND ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Eads A43 recording H. E. Bates' introduction to 'RAF'. Oxford University Press, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 17871
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PIGGOTT Major-General Francis
Broken Thread. An Autobiography. With Preface by Field-Marshal the Lord Milne of Salonika and Rubislaw and Foreword by Lord Hankey.
Gale & Polden Aldershot 1950. 8vo. First Edition with a portrait frontispiece 90 plates on 32 and 3 full-page illustrations and 4 maps one full-page in the text some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth gilt gilt back small stain at lower margin of upper board else a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter moderately age-soiled and frayed with minor loss at upper edge of front panel. Piggott was a mainstay of Britain's relations with Japan for over a quarter of a century; his classic and detailed autobiography covers the progress of Anglo-Japanese diplomacy from the 1880s to WWII. The many fascinating photographs are largely from the author's private collection and therefore otherwise unpublished; they include valuable early studies of Japanese diplomatic and military groups and personalities later pre-eminent in WWII. SCARCE Gale & Polden, Aldershot, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 17962
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PLATT JRI J R I
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Prince of Wales's Own 1907-1967. WITH THE REGIMENT'S PRESENTATION SLIP
Garnstone Press 1972. 8vo. First Edition with a coloured frontispiece 53 monochromes plates on 32 and 7 maps 2 double-page in the text; regimental green cloth crest blocked in gilt on upper board gilt back yellow endpapers a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the regiment's presentation slip loosely inserted. The frontispiece shows the battle honours in colour. The Royal Wiltshire is Britain's oldest yeomanry regiment. Scarce in this condition. Sutcliffe p.240. Garnstone Press, hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 17993
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