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
To mother from Gallipoli and beyond. Diaries and letters of Sapper Hubert Anthony. Edited by Doug and Margot Anthony. Foreword by General Peter Cosgrove. Pp. xiv+264, frontispiece, text illustrations, family tree, glossary, pictorial endpapers; demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt, boards very slightly marked; dust wrapper; Allen &..... 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
Views of Life and Nature from a Maine Coastal Farm. Pp. 190(last blank), pictorial double title page, text illustrations; small med. 8vo; light brown cloth, lettered in gilt, top fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper; outer leaves and edges foxed; Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1981. First edition..... More
The frontline diary of C. E. W. Bean. Selected and annotated by Kevin Fewster. Pp. 217(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and maps, coloured pictorial endpapers, notes, biographical notes, select bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; black cloth, spine lettered and blocked in gilt; dust wrapper; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983..... More
The Diaries of Maud Berkeley. Adapted by Flora Fraser. Introduction by Elizabeth Longford. Pp. 192, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, full page coloured map; square 4to; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board faintly scratched; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, backstrip slightly faded; Secker &..... More
Edited by Michael Roe. Pp. lvi+342, frontispiece, 5 maps (2 folding), bibliography, index; demy 8vo; 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..... More
Volume I: 1820-1832. Edited by Peter Chapman. Pp. xxviii+692, 16 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and text illustrations, endpaper maps, appendices, bibliography, index; thick med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985. First edition. *The first publication in full of the diaries and letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes..... 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
The private journal of James Burney, Second Lieutenant of the Adventure on Cook's Second Voyage 1771-1773. Edited and with an Introduction by Beverley Hooper. Pp. xii+112, 8 plates (including 2 charts), pictorial endpapers, 5 maps (1 double page), appendix, bibliography, index; narrow roy. 8vo; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in..... More
Edited by Robert E. Gallagher. Pp. lxxxii+230, frontispiece portrait, plus 19 plates (mostly charts or maps, 10 folding), bibliography, appendices, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges lightly rubbed and split, back panel slightly creased, backstrip lightly faded; edges of leaves lightly..... 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
Their Secret Wartime Correspondence. Edited by Francis L. Loewenheim, Harold D. Langley, Manfred Jonas. Pp. xvi+808(last blank), 16 plates, 4 double page maps, chronology, bibliography, index; tall demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the head of spine and fore-corners of lower board slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly..... 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
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