Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. Pp. 576, frontispiece portrait, 4 text maps (3 full page), plus endpaper maps, index; fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges..... More
Pp. x+370, index; med. 8vo; upper board slightly marked; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; upper free endpaper slightly soiled; David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973. Fourth edition, revised and expanded. *Originally published privately in 1951. More
Pp. 400; dust wrapper, lightly foxed on reverse, lower edge of front panel slightly worn; outer leaves lightly foxed, lower edges lightly shelf-soiled; Bodley Head, London, 1954. First edition. O'Brien (Lawrence bibliography) F0014a. *The empty view of the title is 'the desert of the Arab nomad; the desert of revolt.'..... More
as Military Commander. Pp. viii+344, 16 plates, text maps, bibliography, index; top edges purple; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly worn and browned, backstrip a trifle sunned; Batsford, London, 1971. First edition. More
The Life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis. Pp. [ii]+xvi+346, 16 plates, text maps (2 full page), references, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; two-tone cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind; top edges red; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, edges slightly rubbed, backstrip faded; Atheneum, New York, 1973. First..... More
Classic, Rare and Unseen Photographs from the Daily Mail. Pp. 224, profusely illustrated (many full page); square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper; Trans Atlantic Press, London, 2010. First edition. More
Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First-Century Warfare. Foreword by Tom Clancy. Pp. xvi+254, 16 plates, appendices, notes, index; stiff paper wrappers; Thomas Dunne, New York, 2000. *First published by St Martin's Press, New York, 1999. More
The experience of a single German town 1930-1935. Pp. xiv+346(last blank), text map, appendices including graphs, notes, index; two-tone cloth, upper fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; top edges black; fore-corners of boards bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, soiled, lower edge of back panel ink marked, edges worn with occasional tiny closed..... More
Volume 2: The Mandated Territory of New Guinea, Papua, the British Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Micronesia. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [viii] +274, printed double column, folding map at end; tall post 4to; tape backed printed card, slightly soiled; publisher's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; [Pacific Books, Broadbeach Waters..... More
Volume 4: Supplement to Volumes 1, 2 and 3. With an Introduction by General Douglas MacArthur, United States Army. Part I: The Netherlands and British East Indies and the Philippine Islands. Part II: The Mandated Territory of New Guinea, Papua, the British Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Micronesia. Part..... More
Compiled from records of Intelligence Section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France, 1919. Pp. [ii]+iv+3-746; thick demy 8vo; dust wrapper, lightly foxed on reverse; some light foxing, mainly to outer leaves and edges; London Stamp Exchange Ltd., London, 1989. *From the library of Sydney..... More
an extract from "The Unseen Assassins". Foreword by Melbert B. Cary, jr. Pp. xiv+32+2(blank, colophon), title page vignette printed in blue & black; cloth backed gilt lettered brown papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; uncut; Press of the Woolly Whale, New York, 1932 [Foreword dated 1933]. *Issued in commemoration of..... More
An episode in the history of the British Empire; being a descriptive account of the scenes and events of that great drama and sketches of the principal actors in it. In four volumes; pp. viii+288; viii+288; viii+272; viii+272, 43 plates, index; roy. 8vo; half black calf, red leather gilt titling..... More
[Text in French]. Pp. [ii](tipped-in Editor's note)+162(last blank), 4 maps; plain paper wrappers, spine titled by hand, edges a trifle rubbed; glassine wrapper, front panel titled by hand, edges browned, chipped and split; uncut; outer leaves and edges browned; Augustin Challamel, Paris, 1920. First edition. *Posthumously published. An account of..... More
Untitled original etching by David Armfield, after an earlier Ambrose Dyson drawing of an army cook. 17.5 cm. x 13.5 cm.; numbered 2/6, and signed in pencil lquote Amb. Dyson p. D Armfield 1980' beneath the image; glazed and framed. *Dyson's drawing of an army cook was reproduced on the..... More
A fourth volume of war cartoons by Armstrong of "The Argus" [cover title]. Pp. 48, illustrated in colour and black & white; demy 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, lightly soiled, backstrip slightly split, with small chip at top edge of upper wrapper, lower wrapper browned and lightly creased near backstrip..... More
A third volume of war cartoons by Armstrong of "The Argus" Sept. 1940 to Sept. 1941 [cover title]. Pp. 48, illustrated in colour and black & white; demy 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, lightly soiled, upper wrapper slightly chipped at lower edge, top fore-corner slightly creased; leaves browned; The Argus..... More
War cartoons by Armstrong "The Argus" August 1 to December 2 1939 [cover title]. Pp. 48, illustrated in black & white; med. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, backstrip split and chipped, with some loss, edges of wrappers lightly worn and split, lower wrapper creased and soiled; top fore-corners of leaves..... More
A sixth volume of war cartoons by Armstrong of "The Argus" Oct. '43 to Nov. '44 [cover title]. Pp. 48, illustrated in colour and black & white; demy 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, backstrip split, wrappers foxed (more so on upper wrapper), edges lightly split, some fore-corners of wrappers (and..... More
Pp. xvi+288, frontispiece, text illustrations (many full page) and map, explanatory notes, glossary, index of persons mentioned; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Sun Books, Sydney, 1982. Second edition, reprinted. More
Pp. xiv+380, frontispiece portrait, plus 11 plates, glossary of Arabic & Persian terms; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Dar Al-Andalus, Gibraltar, 1985. Fourth, revised edition, third impression. [See O'Brien F0046 for U.S. edition]. *The esteemed Islamic scholar's autobiography, originally published in 1954. More
The Japanese Outbreak at Cowra. Translated from the Japanese and edited by Ray Cowan. Pp. [xii]+126(last blank), 4 plates; dust wrapper, slightly rubbed, edges a trifle worn; endpapers faintly offset, with small tape mark to upper free endpaper, a little pale foxing; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1970. First Australian edition..... More
A historical record of national effort during the great war. Australia's Roll of Honour, history heroes and helpers. With over 1,000 Double-Tone Illustrations from Original Photographs, Drawings, Maps, Portraits, etc.... Foreword by George Foster Pearce. Introductory narrative by E. Ashmead-Bartlett. Pp. 252(Part 1. Exploits of the ANZAACS)+[4](inserted between pp. 8..... More
The experiences of an Englishman with the United States Army. Pp. x+292(last blank)+[16](publisher's advertisements), frontispiece, tissue guard, 4 maps; cr. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt & blind, the boards lightly soiled, spine darkened, small bruise at centre of fore-edge of lower board; uncut; some foxing, mainly to..... More
Notes and sketches descriptive of the country contained in a personal narrative during the campaign of 1839 and 1840, up to the surrender of Dost Mahomed Khan. Pp. 428, frontispiece map, title page vignette, appendix; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, a trifle worn; The Naval & Military Press in association with..... More