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$150.00
3L4/34

Sir Bob Charles: The Biography, Limited Commemorative Edition - 2020


SAUNDERS, GEOFF & PLAYER, GARY (foreword)

SIGNED, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#113/1963) (SIGNED BY BOB CHARLES). Quarto illus heavy board, white lettering on spine, frontispiece, xvii + 311pp + [4], illus/photos, VG+ (slight bruising to spine + extrems, slight bruising and chaffing to boards, slight tanning to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Hope Publishing LTD 2020

KEYWORDS: golf New Zealand NZ biography Sir Bob Charles sport history limited numbered signed

$70.00
3L3/12

Safer Than a Known Way: One Man's Epic Struggle Against Japanese and Jungle


MACHORTON, IAN

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, green cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates; 224; VG+ (light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, esp to lwr spine extrem; light soiling to pg edges, light tanning to prelims & terminals); in d/w G (moderate soiling & rubbing, heavy bruising to edges & extrems with heavy chipping, lg segement torn out to front cover & lwr spine; some foxing).

PUBLISHER: Odhams Press 1958

KEYWORDS: ww2 Second World War Two 2 USA soldier life lives memoir biography autobiography war wartime first edition

$40.00
3L3/14

White Coolie


HASTAIN, RONALD

Octavo, blue cl boards, spine & front board lettered in black; frontis.; x + 303; VG (light soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges, prev ownership inscription in pen to ffep); in d/w VG- (light soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with heavy chipping & tearing, price clipped).

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1947

KEYWORDS: Ronald Hastain ww2 Second World War 2 two life lives soldier officer biography memoir autobiography war wartime

$45.00
3L3/18

Patriots and Scoundrels: Behind Enemy Lines in Wartime Greece, 1943-44


PONDER, JOHN

Super octavo, blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos; xviii + 172; VG+ (light soiling to boards, moderate burising to edges & extrems; light soiling & foxing to pg edges); in d/w VG (light soiling, foxing & rubbing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Hyland House 1997

KEYWORDS: John Ponder ww2 World War Two Second Greece life lives biography memoir Greek war wartime

$45.00
3L3/21

Sweet is War


MUNTHE, MALCOLM

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates; x + 100; VG (light soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, prev bookseller's label pasted to ffep, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, some archival repairs, light tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1954

KEYWORDS: Malcolm Munthe life lives memoir biography autobiography war wartime soldier ww2 Second World War 2 Two

$75.00
3L3/23

Pontano: Poet and Prime Minister


KIDWELL, CAROL

Super octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., illus.; photos; xii + 426; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems with curling).

PUBLISHER: Duckworth 1991

KEYWORDS: Carol Kidwell Pontano Italy Italian politics life lives biography poetry

$55.00
3L3/27

The Life of David Hume


MOSSNER, ERNEST CAMPBELL

FIRST EDITION. Super octavo, cream buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis.; xx + 683; VG (light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems w some chipping; light soiling & foxing to pg edges, bookplate to fr pastedown); in d/w VG- (light to moderate soiling & rubbing, heavy bruising to edges & extrems w heavy chipping & tearing, esp to lwr spine & top edge to fr cover)

PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1954

KEYWORDS: David Hume 18th eighteenth century philosophy British Scottish Scotland first edition life lives biography

$40.00
3L3/49

Our Italian Front


ALLEN, WARNER; HARDIE, MARTIN (illus.)

First edition. Octavo, blue buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; panel, decorations & centrepiece in blind to front board; frontis., plates, folding map; x + 203 pp.; VG (moderate soiling to boards, moderate bruising & scuffing to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges & eps, light cracking to central & rear gutters, prev owner inscr in pencil to ffep).

PUBLISHER: A. & C. Black 1920

KEYWORDS: ww1 First World War One 1 life lives memoir biography autobiography wartime British Italian Italy military history

$245.00
3L2/26

Chats on the Cricket Field


BETTESWORTH, W A

FIRST EDITION. Signed & inscribed by author. Sm octavo, green buckram boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus.; xvi + 468 + xxi pp.; VG (moderate soiling & scuffing to boards, moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping; light soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps; gift inscr to ht recto; some annotations to rear).

PUBLISHER: Merritt & Hatcher (1910)

KEYWORDS: sports sport games cricket sportsmen sportsman profiles lives biography

$70.00
3L2/28

Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops, Hermann Balck


BALCK, HERMANN; ZABECKI, DAVID T & BIEDKARKEN, DIETER J (transl.)

Super octavo, illus. card boards; photos; xx + 541 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: University Press of Kentucky 2015

KEYWORDS: ww2 Second World War Two 2 II life lives biography auotbiography memoir

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