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1995Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured photographs throughout; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers very lightly creased else a very good, bright, clean copy. First monograph in Airlife's 'WWII Living History' series. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
19938vo., First Edition, with illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
20024to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. HMS GLORY arrived in the Far East too late to take an active combat role in WWII, but she accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in New Guinea and participated in the operation to repatriate British and Commonwealth POWs after the war. She conducted several active tours of duty during the Korean War in the early 1950s. Detailed account from builders to breakers, drawing on first hand accounts and including many previously unpublished photographs
20108vo., First Edition, with 45 plates on 16 and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed biography of one of Montgomery's protogees from 1940 to post-war service in Korea and with NATO.
19538vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map; maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
19804to., First Edition, with very numerous fine plates, illustrations, makers' marks and tables in the text, and endpaper maps; sky blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE
19658vo., First Edition thus, with maps in the text and 3 folding maps at end; green cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. With a trade ticket on front free endpaper. The UK edition appeared in 1954. VERY SCARCE.
19538vo., with frontispiece map and 17 plates on 14; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Published a year after the first edition.
19458vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, 3 fine mounted coloured plates and 192pp of plates in monochrome, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, fresh copy. Bright, clean copy of a standard reference. Includes China, Indo-china, Korea and Japan.
19738vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; sand cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, textured endpapers, green silk marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR ROBERT THOMPSON FROM JONG-ICK CHOI, MINISTER OF THE KOREAN EMBASSY IN LONDON, WITH THE LATTER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The minister's business card is loosely inserted. Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson (1916-1992) was a British military officer and expert on counter-insurgency. 'He was widely regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as the world's leading expert on countering the Mao Tse-tung technique of rural guerrilla insurgency' (Wikipedia).
19888vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19858vo., First Edition thus, with plates; buff boards, black cloth back, lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19878vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the UK Edition.
19578vo., First Edition thus, with maps and diagrams in the text; green boards, black cloth back lettered in red, uncut, a good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. With a copy of the BOMC flier loosely inserted.
19768vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes ROH, and awards and decorations. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19728vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
19544to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates and maps, and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF COMMANDER WARWICK 'BRACES' BRACEGIRDLE AND CARRIES HIS HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE AND ADDRESS ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. 'Braces' Bracegirdle (1911-1993) led a distinguished career in the RAN. During WWII he served in HMAS PERTH in the Mediterranean (first DSC) and then in HMAS SYDNEY at Leyte Gulf (second DSC). During the Korean War he commanded HMAS BATAAN (third DSC). A NOTABLE KOREAN WAR ASSOCIATION COPY WITH SIGNIFICANT NAVAL PROVENANCE.
19818vo., First Edition thus, with maps in the text and endpaper maps; black boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19618vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in black, backstrip lettered in black, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19608vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19578vo., First Edition thus, with plates; brown cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
19898vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
2001Roy. 8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
20008vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19798vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
