Edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. Pp. lii+764(last blank), 8 plates, endpaper facsimiles, notes, index; thick med. 8vo; dust wrapper; occasional pencilled marginal scoring; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2001. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown. 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
Edited & with an introduction by R. P. Lister. Pp. xxviii+78(last blank)+[4](blank, colophon), the title page printed in red/brown & black, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece (from a watercolour portrait of Enid Bagnold by Claud Lovat Fraser), plus 4 monochrome hand-tipped plates, printed endpapers; roy. 8vo; Laura Ashley rust coloured floral patterned..... More
Edited by J. C. Beaglehole. In two volumes. Pp. xxviii+476+xviii+406, with a total of 102 plates (16 coloured, including the frontispieces), a few text figures and maps (1 folding, printed in brown & red), appendices, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt, a couple of fore-corners faintly bruised;..... More
Pp. lvi+342, frontispiece, 5 maps (2 folding), bibliography, index; gilt lettered & decorated blue cloth; price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip a trifle faded; Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, Cambridge, 1967. Second Series, No. CXXXI. *In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship..... More
A diary of captivity, Changi 1942-1945. Pp. 158, frontispiece; dust wrapper; Bodley Head, London, 1980. *The diary, in the form of a letter, of an American lady married to a British Army medical officer, written during her internment in Singapore during WWII. Her husband only read the diary after they..... More
Australian Reminiscences Illustrated with her own Watercolours and Contemporary Drawings and Sketches. Foreword by Ronald Howell. Introduction by Morton Herman. Pp. xxii+222(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full or double page), appendix; narrow cr. 4to; edges of boards a trifle worn; dust wrapper, the backstrip..... More
Compiled and Edited by Michael Brander. Pp. xiv+160, text illustrations, bibliography; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, the backstrip lightly faded and with a tiny closed tear near the editor's name; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Leo Cooper, London, 1989. First edition. *Selection of military diaries by officers and private..... More
In three volumes. Pp. xx+480+viii+464+viii+460, appendix, index; nineteenth century half calf, the spines with gilt lettered contrasting maroon & green title and volume labels, marbled papered boards, lightly rubbed, the edges and spines grazed; matching marbled edges and endpapers; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedowns, occasional faint soiling; Edward..... More
Edited, with an Introduction and annotations by Albert J. Schutz. Pp. xvi+256, frontispiece portrait, 3 full page maps, index; spine extremities slightly bruised; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; The Australian National University, Canberra, 1977. Pacific History Series No. 10. *Letters and diaries of the first Wesleyan..... More
Pp. xxii+390+[4](adverts.), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 8 plates, index; boards lightly worn, the lower fore-edge bumped; free endpapers offset, hinges starting, a little light foxing and occasional marginal pencilling, plate opposite p. 48 reinserted with tape;John Murray, London, 1924. More
The Diary of the Reverend Andrew Clark 1914-1919. Edited with an Introduction by James Munson. Foreword by Asa Briggs. Pp. xxiv+304, 12 plates, index; med. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers slightly offset, a little light foxing; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985..... More
The Clinical War Diary of Major Burnett Clarke AAMC. Compiled in Changi Prisoner-of-War Camp 1944-1945. Pp. xxx+104(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 8 full page illustrations (2 in colour), head & tail pieces and marginal decorations, index; pictorial laminated boards, tail of spine and top fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised;..... More
Letters and Diaries of Major the Hon Edward Charles Cocks 1786-1812. Foreword by David Chandler. Pp. 256(last blank), 8 plates, text illustrations and maps, pictorial endpapers, appendices, sources, references, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Spellmount, Tunbridge Wells, 1986. First U.K. edition. Spellmount Military series. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile..... More
Edited and introduced by Louise Collis. Pp. viii+216, 8 plates, cancel sticker on verso of title page, index; med. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased, the backstrip slightly faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset; Heinemann, London, 1977. First edition. *Pages 43/4..... More
The Journals of Lieutenants Elliott and Pickersgill. Edited and Introduced by Christine Holmes. Pp. xxxii+98(last blank) 24 plates, 3 full page maps; brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, head of spine and edges of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled and scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed..... More
One Woman's War, 1914-18. The Letters of Caroline Ethel Cooper. Edited and with an introduction by Decie Denholm. Pp. [viii]+312, 12 plates, map, biographical notes, chronology, index; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, backstrip a little sunned; title page signed and dated by the editor, Decie Denholm; Collins..... More
The letters and diaries of Captain Adrian Curlewis and his family 1939-1945. Pp. 280, chapter head-pieces, illustrations (including 14 full page), 4 maps (3 full page), index; small cr. 4to; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1982. First edition. *Adrian Curlewis was the son of Australian children's..... More
A Life in Letters. Two volumes. Volume One: 1862-1908. Pp. xxxiv+458, 64 plates, a couple of text figures, pictorial endpapers, appendices, bibliography, index; Volume Two: 1909-1934. Pp. xxxvi+500, 64 plates, pictorial endpapers, addenda/corrigenda to Volume One, bibliography, index; both volumes med. 8vo; green cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt..... More
Being the 1914-1915 diary of the Battle of the Falklands & its aftermath by Surgeon T. B. Dixon R.N.V.R. of H.M.S. Kent. Foreword by Admiral Sir John Bush. Pp. x+96, 8 plates, endpaper map, appendices (including ship diagrams), bibliography, index; dust wrapper, small splits top edge and flap fold of..... More
Translated from the Original, with Introduction and Notes by George Mackaness. Pp. 80, 5 text illustrations (4 full page), full page plan, appendix; small cr. 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed; text block faintly browned; privately printed, Sydney, 1944. Edition limited to 100 copies, numbered and..... More
Translated from the Original, with Introduction and Notes by George Mackaness. Pp. 80(last blank), text illustrations, full page map, appendix; printed textured paper wrappers, stapled, lower wrapper a trifle silverfished; a little light foxing; Review Publications, Dubbo, 1976. Australian Historical Monographs Volume II (New Series). *Originally published privately by George..... More
Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway, 1942-1945. Pp. xxiv+401(including printed recto of lower free endpaper), frontispiece plus 64 plates, appendices, glossary, index; roy. 8vo; spine a trifle canted; dust wrapper; edges of leaves a trifle browned; Nelson, Melbourne, 1986. Reprinted. More
Letters of King Edward VII and King George V to Admiral Sir Henry F. Stephenson. Pp. viii+226(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, 6 plates, index; wide demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards lightly marked and with faded spot on upper board, edges lightly worn; top edge of several..... More