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19978vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With relevant cuttings loosely inserted. The first full life of the guerrilla expert and Chindit Brigadier. Graham & Cole L21.
1994Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title, 4 full-page coloured maps and very numerous photographs in the text, large signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears and chipped at corners. SIGNED BY EASTWOOD ON HALF-TITLE. Splendid pictorial history based on a huge compilation of photographs from public and private sources. As one would expect, about half the book is given over the battalion's role in Operation MARKET. Includes battalion ROH, honours and awards, battalion roll for Arnhem, operational orders for MARKET and much other data. Sutcliffe, p.293
19728vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
19598vo., First Edition, with 3 folding maps, some moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edges dust-soiled; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with one or two creases at edges, one closed tear and minor loss (affecting letting) at head of backstrip. Following his masterpiece 'Defeat into Victory', the present work covers the smaller battles and campaigns of his outstanding career. Includes Mesopotamia, India, North-West Frontier, Middle East and Persia. Increasingly scarce with the dustwrapper in any condition.
1942Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; original wrappers printed in red, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Unusually well-preserved copy. Supersedes the editions (and related supplements) of 1937, 1939 and 1941. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
20028vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16, 3 full-page maps and a full-page table in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in the sixtieth anniversary year of the battle, this is the most comprehensive and detailed single-volume history to date, with a very good selection of photographs (a number of which were censored at the time). Includes details of the war correspondents (six of whom died during the campaign) who did so much to publicise 'the end of the beginning'. A valuable complement to Pitt.
19728vo., Second Edition; red cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. The earliest publicly published attempt to account for Operation JUBILEE, one of the costliest operations of its kind mounted by the Allies in WWII. This much-needed reissue presents the full text but omits the frontispiece, maps and chart present in the original edition of 1956. Enser, p.127; Law, 0490 (recording the first edition).
19798vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, backstrip lightly frayed else a bright, clean copy.
19818vo., First Edition, neat name on front wrapper; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
19668vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wanting lower wrapper else a bright, clean copy.
19628vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red rexine, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy.
19668vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers lightly frayed at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy.
19698vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers lightly frayed at edges else a bright, clean copy.
19748vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, short tears in backstrip (but binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy.
19138vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red cloth, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a near fine copy. This copy was formerly in the Colonial Office Library and bears its blind stamp on upper board.
19328vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red rexine, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy.
19368vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red buckram, gilt back, very good, bright, clean copy.
19248vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red rexine, gilt back, very good, bright, clean copy. With pictorial bookplate on front paste-down.
19788vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1944Oblong 4to., First and Sole Edition, with numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers moderately frayed and age-soiled else a very good, tight, clean copy. Special Series No. 27. Restricted. 15 November 1944. Deceptively detailed wartime guide, including necessities of life, infantry weapons, artillery and armoured material, organisation, tactics, jungle warfare, booby traps and mines. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
19758vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 31 plates on 16 and 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF, MAJOR-GENERAL C PETER CAMPBELL WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published in Cooper's concise Famous Regiments series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.
19758vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, coated endpapers, small neat inscription on half-title; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper sunned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.159.
19118vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 7 plates and 4 maps, endpapers and title lightly spotted; blind-blocked red cloth, gilt back, uncut, corners lightly bruised and deckled edges a little dusty else else a good, clean tight copy. The standard reference. Includes alphabetical and chronological lists of honours, and full index by regiment.
1914Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 folding plates (6 coloured or coloured in outline), 13 plates in monochrome and numerous woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original wrappers, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright clean copy IN THE ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH CASE. With the 24pp (23 printed) catalogue of military books on pink stock. With small trade stamp on front free endpaper and previous owner's initial inked on top edge. The scarce cloth case lettered in black is particularly well-preserved. The Field Service Pocket Book (B11013) was the 'bible' for officers on active service in the Great War. A remarkably concise yet comprehensive reference, it is rarely found in this condition. A RARE SURVIVAL.
19898vo. Second Edition, with coloured title-spread and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; black boards, white back lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Moorehead's classic account was first published in 1856. This edition adds some 190 images illustrating aspects of the campaign together with extra information and captions by Ann Moyal. Enser p.144 (recording the first edition).
