Pp. xii+292, frontispiece, 24 plates, 21 sketch maps (on 15 folding sheets), appendices, index; med. 8vo; full black morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; marbled endpapers (slight surface damage to upper and lower pastedowns caused by label removal); a.e.g.; some foxing throughout, occasionally heavy, occasional pencilled marginalia; William Clowes &..... More
Drawings and Maps by Daryl Lindsay (Official Artist with the A.I.F.). Pp. xii+180(last colophon), 12 plates, lettered tissue guards, 4 full page maps, appendices, including Honours and awards list, roll of Honour; demy 8vo; red cloth, lettered in black, lightly rubbed, edges lightly worn, slightly frayed at head of spine..... More
Pp. 24, 2 folding maps at end; small demy 8vo; textured stiff paper wrappers, with Regimental badge in black at centre of upper wrapper, the wrappers browned at edges and lightly soiled; leaves browned; Neuenkirchen, Sauerlandische Druckerei Wilh. Kroscky, Neheim-Husten, May 1945. First edition. White p. 221; Sutcliffe 2/p. 140..... More
A History of the Fifth Battalion, 1st A.I.F. Revised edition, Compiled by Carl Johnson. Edited by Carl Johnson and Kristine Braddock. Pp. xviii+342, text illustrations (some full page), full page maps, shipping list, nominal roll, nominal roll bibliography, honours and awards, battle honours, abbreviations, photographic bibliography, suggested reading, index to..... More
The Story of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 1929-1978. lang2057 Together with a short Account of their parent regiments The 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales Dragoon Guards and the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. Foreword by General Sir John Anderson. Pp. xxx+210, coloured frontispiece, 4 plates, 6 full page maps, appendices;..... More
The Records of An Old Heavy Cavalry Regiment. Pp. xvi+356, title page printed in red & black, photogravure frontispiece, tissue guard, 27 plates (8 coloured, lettered guards, 19 photogravure plates, with guards, browned and lightly foxed), 2 maps at end, appendices, bibliography, index, errata slip; med. 8vo; yellow cloth, lettered..... More
The Record of a Cavalry Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902. Pp. xiv+366, frontispiece, 58 plates, large folding sketch route map at end, appendix, index; demy 8vo; tri-colour cloth in the Regimental colours, spine lettered, decorated and ruled in gilt, gilt insignia to upper board along with library number in..... More
The History of the 7th Armoured Division 1938 to 1945. With a New Introduction by General Sir John Hackett. With a Foreword by Field Marshal Sir John Harding. Pp. 312, 15 plates, text maps, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; leaves browned; Greenhill..... More
Introduction by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Pp. xvi+222(last blank), 16 plates, appendices (Regimental musical score, chronology); demy 8vo; blue papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards slightly worn; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly browned and soiled; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Leo Cooper Ltd, London, 1975. First edition. Famous..... More
Lancers: containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1715, and of its subsequent services to 1841. Pp. viii(including the lithographed title page, possibly lacking the printed title page?)+72, 1 hand-coloured lithograph; demy 8vo; red cloth, lettered in gilt, ruled and with decorative border in blind, spine worn..... More
Pp. x+372, double pictorial title page, text illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers printed in sepia, appendices, bibliography, index; small impl. 8vo; bottom edges of boards rubbed; dust wrapper, scuffed, edges a trifle split, worn and creased, backstrip sunned; ownership inscription on the upper free endpaper, edges of leaves slightly..... More
Pp. xiv+386, numerous text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, appendices, abbreviations, bibliography, index; impl 8vo; dust wrapper, backstrip and adjacent portion of panels a little sunned; Nelson, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *A history of Australian women's response to war, from 1900 to 1945. More
From Gallipoli to Korea. Pp. [viii]+600(last blank), text illustrations, glossary, further reading list, index; cr. 4to; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed; Viking Press, Melbourne, 1992. First edition. More
A Social History of Britain 1945-51. Pp. viii+224(last blank), 48 plates, notes, index; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, edges a trifle rubbed; outer leaves faintly offset, a few of the plates slightly damp stained, scattered light foxing; British Broadcasting Corporation/Jonathan Cape, London, 1985. First edition. *From the library of..... More
The Battle for Grenada. Pp. xxiv+392(last blank), 12 plates, 24 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, reverse slightly foxed; edges of leaves very slightly foxed; Lee Cooper, London, 1989. First edition. *The truth behind the largest US military operation since Vietnam (wrapper blurb) - the 1983 invasion..... More
Introduction by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Pp. 152(last blank), text illustrations, appendices; demy 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly browned; outer leaves slightly offset, edges lightly browned; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1968. First edition. Famous Regiments series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. From the library of..... More
A Guardsman's Letters in the Crimea, 1854-1855. Pp. 32, coloured frontispiece and 17 black & white plates, bibliography; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt insignia and blind rule border to upper board, a little worn; leaves browned and foxed; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1933. First..... More
The official story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Volumes 1 & II. Volume I by Sir Max Aitken. Preface by the Rt. Hon. A. Bonar Law, and an introduction by the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Borden. Pp. xx+248(last colophon)+[4](advertisements), one folding map plus several text maps (some full page), appendices;..... More
A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. Pp. 766, frontispiece portrait, 5 maps (4 full page), index; boards slightly faded and rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel slightly soiled, backstrip faded; inked gift inscription on upper..... More
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; The 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..... More
Edited by John North. Pp. xiv+210, frontispiece portrait plus 32 plates, numerous full or double page maps, index; demy 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, worn and lightly browned, backstrip sunned, some silverfish damage to panels and folds, edges worn and creased with occasional small chips and..... 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