19.751 Ergebnisse
19648vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16 and 8 maps (one double-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's sought-after 'British Battles' series, this comprehensive and lucid overview is the first coverage of the subject by an authority who has since made it a special area of study. Enser, p.119; Law 0513.
19958vo., First Edition thus, with coloured endpaper maps; blind-blocked boards, cloth back gilt, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19908vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, double-page map and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reginald Teague-Jones took the name 'Ronald Sinclair' to avoid retribution from the Soviets following the massacre of the Baku Commissars. He lived under this alias for seventy years, his true identity being revealed only after his death in 1988 at the age of 99.This dramatic account is based on his secret diary. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1971Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19888vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition. Compilation of seventy harrowing accounts.
19768vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey top, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19868vo., with numerous plates and maps; oatmeal cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver and black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19518vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.390.
19958vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19788vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition.
19318vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy; original wrappers, upper cover with paper label printed in black, a near fine copy housed in custom-made board solander case with printed paper labels. With the following additional items: (1) typescript resume on author's printed stationery of the British Military Mission in Siberia 1918-1920 (with MS corrections); (2) draft T.L. on the author's printed stationery. A request by the author for information regarding Lieut.-Col. L.C. Morley, Royal Hampshire Regiment, senior officer i/c British Military Mission at Irkutsk in 1919; (3) T.L.s. from Captain H. Flint, Royal Hampshire Regiment, responding in some detail to the author's request; (4) publisher's printed order form for the published work. Apart from the author's book we have been unable to trace any published dedicated account of BRITMIS, which accordingly remains a well-nigh forgotten component of the immediate aftermath of WWI. A UNIQUE COLLECTION NOW SAFELY PRESERVED FOR THE FUTURE.
19688vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, copy.
19728vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
19728vo., First Edition thus, with numerous plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Originally published in shorter form in Mainz 1971. Gehlen commanded all intelligence operations in Russia and the Balkans before delivering himself and his service to the Americans at the end of WWII. From this sprang the Gehlen Organisation whose knowledge of Russian affairs and influence on Western policy became a byword. In 1956 the Organisation was transferred to the German Federal Government and until his retirement in 1968 Gehlen remained in supreme command of the German secret service. Enser, p.398
19558vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With front panel of dustwrapper loosely inserted. UNCOMMON. Enser, p.354.
19568vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
19702 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispieces, plates and maps (a number folding); original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 138, 139. 48. Bridges & Hair, p.290.
19938vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of British POWs abandoned in Soviet hands.
19958vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Two Soviet art historians detail the vast quantity of looted art recovered from the Nazis, hidden in Russia, and missing to this day.
19988vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.234.
19778vo., First Edition thus, with plates; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
1996Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
19778vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, several charts and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Considerably updated version of the author's earlier account ('The Russian Convoys', 1964) with full use of subsequent revelations (primarily 'Ultra'). More of a reference work, if less dramatic, than the former version. Enser, p.60; Law, 0512.
19598vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a near fine copy.
19668vo., First Edition, with plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at backstrip and fold-ins, and dust-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. The first complete account of one of the most famous spy stories of WWII: the German journalist who ran a Red Army spy ring in the Far East until his eventual capture and execution by the Japanese. Not recorded by Enser.