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20008vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20158vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
20058vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, rose endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper Arguably the fullest and most objective single-volume account to date.
19958vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, buff endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole L24.
20098vo., First Edition, with plates and facsimiles in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19868vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green faux-morocco cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With 23rd Indian Division. SCARCE. Graham & Cole M36.
19518vo., First Edition, text in French, with 263 photographs on 64 plates, and 109 illustrations in the text, top lightly dust-soiled; original wrappers printed in red and black, uncut, a near fine copy. Etudes d'Art et d'Ethnologie Asiatiques III. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
19518vo., Second Edition, text in French, with 159 photographs on 64 plates, 8 plans in the text and 1 (of 2) folding map, top lightly dust-soiled; original wrappers printed in red and black, uncut, a near fine copy. WANTING MAP I: CARTE HISTORIQUE DE L'INDOCHINE. Etudes d'Art et d'Ethnologie Asiatiques I. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
19588vo., First Edition, with 24 pages on half-tone plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19528vo., Third Impression, with tinted frontispiece and 7 fine tinted plates by Searle; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned on (predominantly white) rear panel and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Published two months after the first edition. The particularly striking dust-wrapper carries a dramatic illustration by Searle not repeated in the book. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.409 (recording the first edition).
1970Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with mounted coloured portrait frontispiece and 140 plates in monochrome; yellow buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 COPIES. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
20084to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, text in red and black, very numerous photographs and facsimiles (a number ful-page) throughout, and printed endpapers; laminated pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in red and black, a fine copy. Collects eye-witness accounts from 67 survivors. SCARCE.
19448vo., Second Impression, with endpaper maps; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.55 (recording the first edition).
19548vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned, tiny signature on front free endpaper; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a good, clean copy. With the trade ticket of University Book Store, Singapore on front paste-down.
19518vo., Tenth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 37 plates on 24, 4 full-page maps in the text and large folding coloured map at end; ivory buckram, backstrip lettered in green, green top (mildly faded), backstrip lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Classic account of operations behind the lines in Malaya. Mountbatten declared that Colonel Chapman and his comrades 'did more than a whole division of the British Army could have achieved'. First published in 1949. Enser, p.253 (recording the first edition).
19618vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
19118vo., Tenth Edition, free endpapers lightly browned; navy ribbed cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
19548vo., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece and 20 plates in monochrome, neat contemporary signature on front inner wrapper; original yellow wrappers printed in red, a near fine copy. With the trade ticket of University Book Store, Singapore, on front inside wrapper. Published in the series 'Malayan Heritage Books'. SCARCE.
19458vo., Third Impression thus, some contemporary annotation; limp cloth wrappers printed in red, covers moderately age-worn and faded else a bright copy.
20058vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
1956Single leaf, 8vo., single fold; covers printed in red and black with two photographs, inside spread with fare table, a near fine copy. The line runs from Padang Besar to Singapore with eighteen intermediate stations. The table lists single fares in each of three classes. A RARE SURVIVAL.
19568vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding), some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, top lightly dust-soiled; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss at head of front panel and backstrip. Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander-in-Chief British forces, and now generally recognised as one of the great military memoirs of all time. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE. Graham & Cole, B20; Enser, p.91.
19698vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece, 48 plates on 22, 4 folding maps in red and black, 15 full-page maps, and front and rear endpaper maps; armorial cloth gilt, gilt back, blue top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. 'I consider Slim was the finest general World War II produced' (Earl Mountbatten). General Evans fought under Slim as a divisional commander in Burma and has also provided (with Anthony Brett-James) the definitive account of Imphal, Slim's greatest victory against the Japanese. Increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.406; Graham & Cole, L5.
20138vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The long-awaited authorised biography, complementing Slim's own masterly 'Defeat into Victory'. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS ALREADY SCARCE.
19568vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding), some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, top lightly dust-soiled; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander-in-Chief British forces, and now generally recognised as one of the great military memoirs of all time. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole, B20; Enser, p.91.