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The Murmansk Venture
BOOKPLATE & OWNERSHIP OF Brig.-Gen. H. S. SEWELL, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule to front board, frontispiece, xii + 322pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, light staining to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, inscription in ink to fep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1928
KEYWORDS: military history illustrated maps Russia Murmansk autobiography memoir raf British air force
The Bloody Eleventh: History of the Devonshire Regiment Volume 1: 1685-1815
Super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering on green title plate to spine, xv + 719pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges & bookseller's label to fep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light sun fading to spine, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment 1988
KEYWORDS: military history illustrated British army Devonshire regiment
Campaigns on the North-West Frontier
Super octavo, maroon heavy card boards, gilt lettering to title plate to spine, gilt motif to spine & front board, xix + 413pp, illus, folding map to rear pocket, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Battery Press 1999
KEYWORDS: military history Pakistan India campaigns north west British empire illustrated
History of the Sudan Campaign
Super octavo, maroon heavy card boards, gilt lettering to title plate to spine, gilt motif to spine & front board, xvi + 277pp & xiv + 327pp, illus, folding map to front pocket & to rear, Near FINE (v sl foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Battery Press 1996
KEYWORDS: military history illustrated Sudan Egypt maps British empire
Historical Records of the Forty-Third Regiment Monmouthshire Light Infantry (With a Roll of the Officers and Their Services From the Period of Embodiment to the Close of 1867)
Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & line to spine, gilt motifs & blind rule to spine & boards, 352pp, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine extrems, heavy bruising & scuffing with some surface loss to board corners, moderate staining to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, inscriptions in ink to front eps, some prelims loose but attached & present, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking to gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: W. Clowes & Sons (Printer) 1868
KEYWORDS: military history 43rd forty third regiment Monmouthshire regiment soldiers officers roll light infantry British empire army
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in The Great War: The First Year 1914-1915
Octavo, green heavy card boards with green buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, cream lettering to front board, frontispiece, viii + 414pp, illus, folding maps, VG- (moderate scuffing to extrems with some surface loss, ligth chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode circa 1915-20
KEYWORDS: ww1 world war one 1 first military history illustrated maps The Great War Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire light infantry British army
The Essex Regiment: 2nd Battalion (56th) (Pompadours)
THIS VOLUME ONLY (VOL 2), octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt coat of arms to front board, frontispiece, xxviii + 232pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG- (light creasing & bruising to extrems, heavy staining to base of spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light discolouration to spine)
PUBLISHER: John H. Burrows & Sons/Essex Territorial Force Assoc. 1937
KEYWORDS: military history illustrated Essex regiment pompadours 2nd second battalion British army The Great War ww1 first 1st world war one
The Great Duke: In Two Volumes
TWO VOLUME SET, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & gilt motifs to front boards, frontispieces, vi-xx + 371-404pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems, moderate bruising & fraying to board corners, moderate discolouration to spine & board edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, presentation plates to front pastedowns of both vols, moderate cracking to gutters throughout, occasional page loose but attached)
PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder & Co 1911
KEYWORDS: Duke of Wellington Arthur Wesley Wellesley biography memoir military history politics
4th Hussar: The Story of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars 1685-1958
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt regimental insignia to front board, frontispeice, xv + 416pp, illus, folding maps, VG (light creasing & chipping to spine extrems, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, light chafing to boards, light wrinkling to material on rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Gale & Polden 1959
KEYWORDS: military history illustrated maps fourth 4th hussar British army Winston Churchill cavalry
The East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt regimental insignia to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xx + 486pp, illus, folding maps, VG (moderate creasing & light chipping to spine extrems, light scuffing & bruising ot board corners, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, frontispiece loose but attached)
PUBLISHER: Harrison & Sons 1928
KEYWORDS: military illustrated history East Yorkshire regiment ww1 first world war one line infantry British army
History of the South Staffordshire Regiment (1705-1923)
Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt regimental insignia to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xx + 483pp, illus, folding maps, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light discolouration to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Whitehead Brothers 1923
KEYWORDS: military history illustrated south Staffordshire regiment line infantry British army
The Black Watch: The Record of an Historic Regiment
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt military motif to front board, printed eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 316pp, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems, light bruising & fraying to board corners, moderate discolouration to spine & board edges, light scuffing & soiling to rear board, moderate tanning to page edges, heavy crack to full length of gutter to pgs 16-17 & pgs 288-289)
PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897
KEYWORDS: Black Watch military history 3rd third battalion Scottish light infantry British army
The History of the 50th or (The Queen's Own) Regiment: From the Earliest Date to the Year 1881
INCLUDES CHAPTER ON NZ WAR, REBACKED, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, silver coloured regimental insignia stamp to front board, printed eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 380pp, illus, VG (heavy chafing to spine with some surface loss, light bruising to board corners, moderate soiling & discolouration to spine & boards, moderate tanning to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, 4cm closed tear to top corner of fep)
PUBLISHER: Chapman and Hall 1895
KEYWORDS: military history illustrated 50th fiftieth queen's own regiment British army New Zealand wars dirty half-hundred infantry
The Story of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment
Imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, green lettering & red rule to spine & front board, green military insignia to spine & front board, viii + 134pp, illus, VG- (heavy bruising & fraying ot spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, heavy discolouration to spine & board edges, moderate staining to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, owner's name in ink to fep, moderate cracking to some gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Government Printer, Lusaka 1954
KEYWORDS: military history Northern Rhodesia regiment British army colonial infantry illustrated
The 85th King's Light Infantry
Imperial octavo, half leather bound green buckram boards, gilt lettering & regimental insignia to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xx + 551pp, illus, VG- (heavy scufing & chipping to spine extrems, moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners, heavy discolouration & chafing to spine, 1cm superficial gouge to top of rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Spottiswoode & Co 1913
KEYWORDS: military history illustrated 85th eighty fifth king's light regiment line infantry British army Bucks Volunteers
The 16th Foot: A History of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, yellow rule & regimental insignia to front board, xi + 240pp, scruffy (heavy scuffing & chipping to spine extrems, heavy bruising to board edges & corners, heavy chafing & staining to boards, owner's name in ink to page edges with moderate foxing & tanning, extra pages glued to rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Constable & Company 1931
KEYWORDS: military history 16th sixteenth foot Bedfordshire Hertfordshire regiment British army line infantry old sixteen 16
A Regiment at War: The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1939-45 (Including the Canadian Scottish Regiment)
Octavo, blue heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 357pp, illus, Near FINE (sl sporadic foxing) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: The Pentland Press 1988
KEYWORDS: military history Royal Scots British army illustrated line infantry anecdotes
Diamonds in the Sky: A Social History of Air Travel
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head Ltd 1979
KEYWORDS: aviation history illustrated society
The Complete History of New Zealand: in less than two hours!
Duodecimo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Hurricane Press Ltd 2011
KEYWORDS: history New Zealand culture society
Daughters of Cain: The Story of Nine Women Executed Since Edith Thompson in 1923
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Pan Books Ltd 1960
KEYWORDS: history murder crime trials