18798vo., First Edition, with 2 mounted frontispieces in photogravure and 9 chromolithographed coloured plates (8 of uniform, 1 of colours); original green regimental cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, red edges, green endpapers, covers lightly rubbed and age-marked, hinges reinforced with green tape (binding wholly sound), a very good, bright copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM CAPT. MITCHELL-INNES OF THE REGIMENT WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.337; White, p.111.
1903Best.-Nr. KM110Berlin, Mittler und Sohn 1903. OLn. mit goldpr. Titel u. Deckelvignette. VI, 320 S. 8°. Einband stellenweise berieben und an den Ecken bestoßen. Überklebter Name auf Vorblatt. Gut erhaltenes Exemplar.
1898Best.-Nr. 20738Frankfurt a.O., Selbstverlag, 1898. Gr.-8vo. Mit 1 Portrait v. Prinz Carl von Preußen. 4 Bl., 303 S. Fragmentar. OHldr. m. Deckel- u. Rückengoldprägung. Rotschnitt.
19208vo., First Edition, with a portrait and 10 plates on 7, fore-edge browning slightly; original regimental grey cloth, upper board blocked with crest in black, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, covers mildly age-stained else a very good, clean copy. The astonishing, if gruelling, account of the 25th (Navvies) Battalion of The Middlesex Regiment in WWI, and THE ONLY BRITISH UNIT HISTORY IN THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION. 'Ward's story really belongs in the main to the 'after-the-war' period in Russia. He gives an interesting account of Admiral Koltchak, whom he admired, and shows how insuperable were the difficulties which that unfortunate patriot had to face. It is now beginning to be recognised that Koltchak was, with the possible exception of Wrangel, far and away the ablest of the White [Russian] commanders. For the rest, his [Ward's] story is one of gallantry and endurance in frightful conditions displayed by troops for the most part of a low physical category' (Falls). 'In 1915 [Ward] raised the 25th Navvies Battalion, which was then ordered to the Far East and ultimately to Siberia to support Admiral Koltchak.' (Sutcliffe). Very scarce. Enser, p.68; Falls, p.236; Sutcliffe, p.328; not recorded by White.
1962Best.-Nr. 001273Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd 1962. Appears unread fresh and crisp. Near Fine condition in bright shiny Near Fine Dust Jacket. Clean square tight unmarked copy. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with full-color frontispiece and 54 maps. Index. No date on title page but circa 1962. The history of the first 200 years of this Regiment 1758 to 1958. Covers Wellington's Peninsula campaign the Crimean War the campaigns in Persia and New Zealand the Boer War WWI WWII etc. Published for the Durham Light Infantry by Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped 50s. 8vo. xx 574pp. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd Hardcover
19818vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Wardrops's diary was first published privately by RAC in 1968 to mark the disbandment of 5RTR. This first trade edition contains extra photographs, introduction and a valuable editorial narrative. Smith, p.90.
8vo, 174 pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth with vG dj. w [EN-1] Stories from famous battles of those regiments who fought in them, including the SAS , the Punjabis, the South Wales Borderers, the 2nd Devons, the Royal sappers and miners etc.
1934Pages 213 - 307. Features: The Romance of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks; Benjamin Franklin and the Beace Treaty of 1783; Friendship Church; President William A. Jones; Restoration of the Capital at Corydon; Up from Dixie; A Glasburn Family Tradition Authenticated; The Fourteenth Indiana Regiment in the Valley of Virginia; and more. Prior owner's ink stamp atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1995Single sheet measuring 8.0 x 6.5 ins (approx. 20.0 x 17.0 cms), on stationery of 53 (W) Divisional Dinner Club printed in red and black, and dated 20 November 1995; near fine state. THE LETTER IS WRITTEN, DATED AND SIGNED ENTIRELY IN SIR TASKER'S HAND, AND IS SOLD WITH A BRIEF RESUME OF HIS POST-WAR CAREER AND A POOR QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. Sir Tasker Watkins was gazetted for the Victoria Cross on 2 November 1944. The citation reads: 'On 16 August 1944 at Barfour, Normandy, Lieutenant Watkins' company came under murderous machine-gun fire while advancing through corn fields set with booby traps. The only officer left, Lieutenant Watkins led a bayonet charge with his 30 remaining men against 50 enemy infantry, practically wiping them out. Finally, at dusk, separated from the rest of the battalion, he ordered his men to scatter and after he had personally charged and silenced an enemy machine-gun post, he brought them back to safety. His superb leadership not only saved his men, but decisively influenced the course of the battle'. Sir Tasker Watkins (1918-2007) was commissioned into the Welch Regiment in 1941 and was the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross in WWII. He retired from the Army as a major in 1946 and entered the law. He was called to the bar in 1948 at the beginning of a distinguished legal career that culminated in his serving as Deputy Chief Justice of England from 1988-1993. He was knighted in 1971 and appointed a CBE in 1990. Watkins was President of the 53 (W) Divisional Dinner Club.
Second edition, large 8vo, xxvii, [1], 336, [2]pp., frontis., 36 plates, new buckram with partial orig. cloth laid-down.
19144to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 17 coloured plates (original tissue guards present), 28 plates and plans in monochrome, 4pp of music; original half morocco gilt, upper board with crest and mottoc blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, slightly pulled at head and tail of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. Sutcliffe, p.85; White, p.64.
1892pp. x, 219, (4) [Publisher's catalogue] + Folding map. Text illustrated with maps. XLib. Bookplate of R.E. Chislett. 12mo. 190 mo.Original full dark blue cloth binding, lettered in gold. Front board decorated in blind with rifle, sword and bayonet. Extremities only slightly worn. XLib. Hardbound. Very Good. W25 / YORK HS
1913Best.-Nr. 1081ALüneburg, Hermann Rathmacher 1913. Illustr. OBrosch. (F. Köhnke). 47 S. Mit zahlreichen, meist photograph. Abbildungen. 8°. DUmschlag bestoßen und mit Knickspuren. Am Kopf mit Wasserrand. Stellenweise fleckig. Insgesamt gut erhalten.
1934Best.-Nr. 93220ABZeulenroda, Sporn, 1934. Mit 142 Abb. auf Taf., 1 Federzeichnung u. 32 Skizzen in 1 Skizzenheft. 12, 288 S. Blauer OLwd. m. goldgeprägt. Rt. u. Deckelillustr. - Aus Deutschlands grosser Zeit, Heldentaten dt. Regimenter, Bd. 43. - StaV., S. X m. kl. hs. Notiz, gutes Ex.
1910Best.-Nr. 5224EBBerlin, Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1910. 8°. 22,5 cm. X, 456 Seiten, 2 Faltkarten. Original-Halbleinenband.
Best.-Nr. 43309Roorkee India: Printed at the Thomason Civil Engineering College Press 1881. First and only edition 8vo 2 87 1 xxivpp. 2 plates original publishers green cloth rubbed and a little worn title in gilt on upper cover. Not in White. Roorkee [India]: Printed at the Thomason Civil Engineering College Press, 1881 hardcover
20058vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; riginal pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. In September 1916 over 200 men of the Herefordshrie Regiment were transferred to 11 Border Regiment to make up for losses on the Somme. Fify-four died at Redan Ridge. Sutcliffe, p. 214.
1807Best.-Nr. 1812290002Boston: Beecher & Armstrong 1807. Hardcover. Acceptable. Boston Massacre Early American Printing Contemporary boards conserved and rebacked on modern spine. Ink and perforated stamps on title page. 120 p. First published in 1770 under the title: The trial of William Wemms James Hartegan etc. Taken in short hand by John Hodgson. Future President John Adams successfully represented the accused British soldiers in the tumultuous trial. "The trial of the British soldiers of the 29th Regiment of Foot : for the murder of Crispus Attucks Samuel Gray Samuel Maverick James Caldwell and Patrick Carr on Monday evening March 5 1770 before the Honorable Benjamin Lynde John Cushing Peter Oliver and Edmund Trowbridge esquires justices of the Superior court of judicature Court of assize and general gaol delivery held at Boston by adjournment November 27 1770." From the library of Richard Manning Hodges 1827-1896 noted American surgeon Harvard College 1847 Harvard Medical School 1850. Boston: Beecher & Armstrong hardcover
1915Przemysl and the Battles of the Mountains and Rivers. Przemyssl and the Advance of the Great German Phalanx. Photos and illustrations: last moments of the H.M.S. Majestic; A Trench in Flanders; Where the ground bristled with bayonets; the Fongorijski Regiment; Russian troops in full dress; and more. Covers secured by tape. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
1915Front cover portrait of The King of Italy - Victor Emmanuel III. Italy and the War. Centerfold features illustrations of Italians in action. The Battles of Hooge, Rouges Bancs, and Festubert. Photos and Illustrations: life in the trench; full-page portrait of General Count Luigi Cadorna, Italian Commander-in-chief; Italy's famous soldier-mountaineers - the Alpini; photos from Italy; the 81st Italian Regiment; and more. Covers secured by tape. Faint ink stamp to front cover. Book
1914Pages 113-140. Contains the conclusion of Chapter VIII and the first part of Chapter IV entitled "The German Host Falls on Belgium. Over fifty war illustrations/photos including: Hard-fought British retreat in Belgium; British Marines protect Ostend; Heroic defenders of Belgium; Germans in Liege; Belgium's King Albert on horseback; Antwerp defenses; Belgian lancers; German spy caught in Montreal; Zepellin bombardment of Antwerp in defiance of the Hague Convention; Centerfold illustrations of the British navy and its leaders; German cavalry raiders in canvas boats; French Cavalry moving to Namur; Indian troops for Europe; Sikh regiment; American volunteers for the French army on their way to enlist; and more. Sound unmarked copy with somewhat above-average wear. Book
1915Cover portrait of M. Millerand, the French Minister of War. The French advance toward Lense and the battle of "the Labyrinth". Remarkable camera-picture of a brilliant charge by a regiment of French Zouaves. Full page portrait of General Sir Bruce M. Hamilton, K.C.B., commanding the Sixth Army. Many scenes of destruction in France. Average wear. Covers and centerfold seperated from contents but present. Binding otherwise intact. Unmarked. Sound copy. Please note: this copy does not include the photogravure plate of Lt. Warneford. In its place we include the plate of Rear Admiral The Hon. Horace L.A. Hood, who was lost with his flagship, the Invincible, in the battle of Jutland. This plate originally was issued with part 101 of this series). Book
19808vo., 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. 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.
19808vo., 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.
1893Sm. 8vo., neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original decorative cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy
