The story of C. E. W. Bean. Pp. 400, coloured frontispiece portrait, 32 black & white plates, 8 text maps, index; med 8vo; beige boards, spine lettered and ruled in maroon; dust wrapper, slightly soiled on reverse; John Ferguson, Sydney, 1983. First edition. *Biography of Australia's official First World War..... More
Pp. xxvi+436+[2](publisher's advertisement, last blank), 32 coloured and black & white plates, bibliography, notes, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip creased; edges of leaves a trifle browned; Harper Collins Publishers, Sydney, 2014. First edition. More
Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty. Edited by B. McL. Ranft. In two volumes, totalling more than 1100 pages, frontispieces, abbreviations, text maps, documents and sources, indices, publications of the Naval Records society; each demy 8vo; navy boards, lettered and decorated in..... More
Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby. With an Introduction by C. S. Forester. Pp. xxviii+488, frontispiece portrait plus 19 plates, 2 full page maps, 11 diagrams, full page facsimile, appendices, index; demy 8vo; navy cloth, lettered in gilt, fore-corners..... More
Australians in the Great War. Pp. xxviii+628, text illustrations including maps (some full page), patterned endpapers, appendices, notes to chapters, bibliography, index; super roy 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2013. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
Pp. 240, text illustrations, appendices, index; med. 8vo; black papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, 1984. Second edition. More
Pp. xii+456, frontispiece, 1 map, notes, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; red boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, flaps lightly foxed, small puncture in backstrip fold/front panel; highlight2 book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, highlight0 endpapers lightly foxed, leaves quite browned; The Bodley Head/Army Records..... More
British Capital Ship Design 1870-1881. Pp. 224, illustrated double title-page, text illustrations, bibliography, index; demy 4to; pictorial laminated boards; dust wrapper; Caxton Editions, London, 2003. *First published by Chatham Publishing, London, 2001. More
Confidential information for General Headquarters... Being despatches reprinted from the secret "Arab Bulletin". Introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920. Pp. 52 (last colophon); cr. 4to; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. green niger morocco, spine lettered in gilt, with raised bands and small cockerel..... More
Pp. 48(last blank); cr. 8vo; printed paper wrappers, with flaps, over stiff card, stitched, the wrappers lightly browned and soiled; uncut and partly unopened; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper card, the outer leaves lightly offset; Faber & Faber, London, 1930. First edition. Criterion Miscellany No. 10..... More
from the formation of the Corps to the present time, with some account of its internal organization. By the late Captain E. Buckle. Edited by J. W. Kaye. Pp. xvi+592, text illustrations and tables, [original?] dark brown coated endpapers, index; demy 8vo; rebound in qr. red leather which has been..... More
A Biography of General Sir Phillip Bennett AC, KBE, DSO. Pp. vi+410(last blank), text illustrations and maps, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Big Sky Publishing, Sydney, 2011. First edition. More
The Gordon Bennett Case. Pp. xviii+134, 16 plates, text maps, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip sunned; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1992. First edition. More
The Americanization of the War in Vietnam. Pp. xvi+204(last blank), notes, bibliography , appendices, index; med. 8vo; qr. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, maize papered boards; dust wrapper, worn, edges browned and chipped with a few small closed tears and creased; ownership stamp on the upper free endpaper, top..... More
Authorized translation by Karl von Donat. In two volumes. Volume I: Pp. xvi+306, text figures, 5 folding appendices, top fore-corner of several leaves slightly creased; Volume II: Pp. xii+462+[4](publisher's advertisements), text figures, 1 full page and 1 folding map, printed in red & black, index; each demy 8vo; red cloth..... More
On Trial in Vietnam. Pp. xiv(including upper free endpaper)+174(last blank), frontispiece, 2pp. text illustrations; dust wrapper; Presidio, Novato, 1984. *Documents several cases in which the author, as chief defense counsel for II Field Force in Vietnam (1968-69), represented soldiers in trouble for a range of offenses including murder and "fragging"..... More
The military career of Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Horton Berryman. Pp. xx+396(last blank), text illustrations including maps (some full page), glossary, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges slightly worn; Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2011. First edition. The Australian Army History series. More
Roosevelt, Truman and the destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945. Pp. xviii+382(last blank), 16 plates, general sources, notes, index; dust wrapper; an entertaining inscription on the upper free endpaper; Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007. Fourth impression. *Relevant news clippings loosely inserted. More
Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 affair. Pp. xviii+494, 24 plates, coloured endpaper map, appendix, historical notes, general sources, notes, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, back panel lightly creased, edges slightly worn; free endpapers slightly offset, edges of leaves foxed; Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1986. First edition. *From the..... More
Pp. 286(last blank), notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, browned and lightly soiled, verso foxed; endpapers offset, some foxing, mainly to edges of leaves; Leicester University Press/Fontana Paperbacks, Leicester, 1982. First edition. Fontana History of European War and Society series. *From the library..... More
The 1981 Joanne Goodman Lectures. Pp. xiv+114(last 5 blank/colophon); demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered in gilt, slightly browned; University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1982. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown. More
Pp. [viii]+310(last blank), 16 coloured and B&W plates, selected bibliography, illustrated endpapers; dust wrapper; fore-edge a trifle soiled; Random House, Sydney, 2004. First edition. *Australian artists at war. More
Pp. xviii+250, each chapter with notes and bibliography, glossary and index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown; Frank Cass, London, 2003. First edition. More
The complete Civil War writings of Ambrose Bierce. Edited by Russell Duncan & David J. Klooster. Pp. 352, frontispiece portrait, plus 2 text illustrations, 3 full page maps, glossary of military terms; med. 8vo; brown cloth, lettered in silver, the boards slightly sprung; The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2002..... More
With an introduction by Admiral Sir David Beatty. Pp. 156(last blank)+[4](publisher's advertisements), frontispiece, 3 plates and 2 folding plans; post 8vo; blue cloth, lettered and ruled in red & blind, the cloth quite browned and faded, edges lightly worn, fore-corners slightly bruised; uncut; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's..... More