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Best.-Nr. 1333696035.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1923Best.-Nr. 63838C2c: MacMillan and Co. Very Good. 1923. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo Published by Macmillan and Co. Limited London UK. 1923. Two Volumes. Xvi 344 pgs; vi 310 pgs. Illustrated with maps. Second printing. Bound in by Chas Sawyer of London in 3/4 brown gilt ruled leather with matching marble paper covered boards with titles and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate Annie Cass Pearson 1st Viscount Cowdray present to the front pastedown previous owner's gift inscription present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The standard history of the regiment in the Great War including ROH and awards & decorations. Kipling undertook the history of the regiment in WWI following the death in action of his son John at the Battle of Loos whilst serving with the Second Battalion; a personal tragedy from which the author never fully recovered. After five and a half years of research 'done with agony and bloody sweat' the work was immediately recognised as both a military and a literary masterpiece. EB; The Writings In Prose And Verse Of Rudyard Kipling . MacMillan and Co. hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 333549London: Macmillan 1923. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 2 Volumes. Good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: bookplate of Major R.B.Grosse. Physical description: 2 v. : maps ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: I. The First battalion -- II. The Second battalion and appendices. Subjects: Great Britain Army Irish Guards. Irish Guards. Great Britain Army Irish guards History World War 1914-1918. Great Britain. World War 1914-1918 Regimental histories Great Britain Irish Guards. World War 1914-1918 Regimental histories Great Britain. World War 1914-1918 Regimental histories Ireland. World War 1914-1918 Regimental histories Irish Guards Great Britain. World War 1914-1918. 20th century texts. 20th century texts- Irish Guards World War. Genre: Illustrated. London: Macmillan hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 39989London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1923. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xvi 344; vi 310 2 pp. Publisher's red cloth gilt lettered to the spines and with the regimental crest to the upper board top edges gilt dust jackets. 4 double page and 7 single page maps. Jacket spines browned and with a degree of wear and small losses to the extremities occasional wear and discolouration to the cloth more so to volume I else a decent set with the uncommon jackets. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown
Best.-Nr. 1873376839.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. 320026Staplehurst: Spellmount 1997. 1st edition. Softcover. Near fine cloth copies in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust wrappers now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved set overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 2 v. illustrated; 25cm. Contents:Vol.1. The First Battalion -- v.2. The Second Battalion.Subjects: Great Britain. Army. Irish Guards. World War 1914-1918. Regimental histories Great Britain. Genre: Illustrated. Staplehurst: Spellmount paperback
Best.-Nr. 1862274258.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Best.-Nr. 184677148X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1846771498.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. Q-188511950XSarpedon 1997-11-21. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Sarpedon hardcover
1996Best.-Nr. Q-1885119380Da Capo Press 1996-11-21. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Da Capo Press hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 004614New York: Doubleday Page 1923. Former owner's signature on each front flyleaf. First American Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Doubleday, Page Hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 54828Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1923. First Edition. fair to good. 307 vol. II only maps appendices index discoloration inside boards and flyleaves some foxing to text. Boards and spine somewhat worn and spotted. This volume contains four chapters--1915: Loos and the First Autumn; 1916: Salient and the Somme; 1917: Rancourt to Bourlon Wood; and 1918: Arras to the End. Also contains three appendices: Officers Killed in Action or Died of Wounds; AlphabeticalList of W. O's N.C.O. 's and Men Killed in Action or Died of Wounds or Disease 1914-1918; and Awards medals and decorations. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 29614Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First American Edition. Hardcover. Both volumes lack dust jackets some shelf wear and chipping cracking and darkening of the spine labels contents vg cond. ; Illus. maps; 641 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. DADAX1846771498Brand: LEONAUR 2007-01-22. hardcover. New. 5.75x1.00x8.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: LEONAUR hardcover
Best.-Nr. FWW39Sarpedon 1997. hbk 320pp illustrated in b/w excellent in sleeve protected dj almost as new Sarpedon, 1997 unknown
1923Best.-Nr. 34337Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1923. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Cloth. An attractive set of first American editions in two volumes. Both volumes in Near Fine condition with minor rubbing to edges paper labels on spine lightly chipped. Top edges gilt. Lacking the rare dust-jackets. Richards A341 Livingston 483 Stewart 504; Kipling's history of the Irish Guards in World War I recounting details of various engagements. Meticulously researched from primary sources including several maps ; Vol. 1 & 2; 8vo; viii ix-xviii 334; xiv 307 1 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1996Best.-Nr. 126315New York: Sarpedon 1996. Hardcover. fine. 1st edition. 320pp. Matching octavos. ISBN for vol2.: 1-885119-50-X. Red cloth vol.1 and Green cloth vol.2 with gilt lettering. Illustrated endpapers. Half-title. Illustrated with B/W maps and photographs. Appendices and indices included. No markings of any kind on boards or pages. Tears on top corner and head ragments of original price-sticker still on back of vol1 dust jacket. Sold as a set. fine With the help of his father Rudyard Kipling's only son John enlisted underage with the Irish guards in 1914 and was killed in 1915 at the Loos. Kipling who is thought to have blamed himself heavily for the death of his son took it upon himself to write a regimental history of the Irish Guards in the Great War as a "monument to his son's service". He lends the full powers of his decadent prose in this rich description of the battlefields and the fighting men who lived and died there. 1996 Sarpedon hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 7544London: Macmillan and Co. . Very Good. Second Edition. Hardcover. Boards with minor rubbing to extremities. Endpapers yellowed. Former owner's notes on front free endpaper.; Red boards with gilt vignette and gilt spine lettering. Top edge gilt. Kipling describes the battles that his son was killed in and that changed his life; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 310 pages . 1923. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 42528London: MacMillan 1923. 1st edition. Near Fine. octavo. orig. cloth xvi 344pp. maps plans The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918. Inc. powerful accounts of the Guards on the Somme in 1916 & 1917. Cloth slightly flecked o/w nice clean copy MacMillan hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. 21575Staplehurst: Spellmount 1997. 1st ed. thus. New Book. octavo. dust jackets 320 223pp. maps appends. Honour roll indexes Nicely produced edition of KiplingÕs masterpiece. Fine reference Spellmount unknown
1894Best.-Nr. 193167London: Macmillan and Co. 1894 & 1895. A beautifully presented pair First editions in book form. Kipling's adventurous stories were based on folk tales learned during his childhood in India. The Jungle Book was serialized between 1893 and 1894 and became increasingly popular upon its publication as a book prompting calls for a second instalment. The Second Jungle Book completed the Mowgli saga with five stories that "are essential to its emotional rounding-out" Grolier. 2 works octavo 180 x 199 mm. halftone frontispiece with tissue guard in Jungle Book both works with illustrations by William Henry Drake Paul Frenzeny and John Lockwood Kipling. Later 20th-century blue crushed morocco for the London bookseller Charles J. Sawyer spines lettered in gilt single gilt fillet framing compartments and boards small gilt roundels of elephants in profile to front boards double gilt fillet to turn-ins marbled endpapers gilt edges. Ownership inscription contemporary with binding to half-title of the second volume. Bindings bright and unblemished very mild foxing. A near-fine set. Grolier Children's 100 52; Martindell 54 & 56; Richards A76 & A85. hardcover
2018Best.-Nr. G1786750481I2N00Welbeck Editions 2018. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Welbeck Editions hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 142979ZDoubleday Doran & Co. Inc 1929. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/NONE . 305 clean unmarked tight pages; a little writing on upper corner of front flyleaf; light soiling on outer edges of textblock; cover is sturdy with bright gilt lettering light wear at corners and ends of spine and fading on spine; no dust jacket Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. 63695A-LOBOxford University Press 2007-09-10. hardcover. New. 7x0x5. Brand New Gift condition. Oxford University Press hardcover