SMITHERS A.J.MareMagnum
31.003 risultati
19918vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19428vo., First Edition; wrappers printed in green and black, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Handley-Taylor, p.63; Wight 107.
20058vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19458vo., Second Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy. Revised and enlarged version of the first UK edition of 1944. SCARCE. Graham & Cole, G29 (recording Harrap's later 1946 edition).
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.
