MERCER, GENERAL CAVALIE

FIRST EDITIONS, TWO VOLUME SET, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt militaria motif to front bords, vol 1- xii + 369pp + 2pp, vol 2- viii + 347pp + 16pp, tatty (VOL 1- 17cm loss to spine with ugly tape repairs, rear board & pg 289 onwards almost completely detached, owner's name in ink to fep & full title page, VOL 2- 10cm tear to spine, GENERAL- age appropriate soiling to spines, moderate tanning to page edges, light foxing to prelims, heavy cracks to gutters)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1870

KEYWORDS: first edition military war Waterloo history journal General Cavalie Mercer diary

THOMAS, LESLIE

FIRST EDITION, 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Eyre Methuen 1975

KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature war soldier military

KENNEDY, HUGH

Super octavo, illus light glossy card covers, black lettering to spine, xix + 229pp, VG+ (light sun fading to spine, light creasing to cover edges, light soiling to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2002

KEYWORDS: military history Islamic state antiquity Caliphs Muslim

HART, PETER

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 274pp, Near FINE (sl creasing to bottom corners of back pgs) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish history IRA politics military sociology

MOHR, ULRICH & SELLWOOD, A.V.

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy): 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Werner Laurie 1955

KEYWORDS: Literature military historical fiction

GORDON, BRIG.-GEN. J. M.

Octavo 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1921

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir J M Gordon military history illustrated

ASHER, MICHAEL

Octavo softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2008

KEYWORDS: history sas special forces military

CHALMERS, W.S. REAR ADMIRAL

First edition. Imperial octavo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1951

KEYWORDS: Biography military Admiral David Beatty letters correspondence Battle of Jutland

OSINGA, FRANS P. B.

Super octavo, glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & front cover, xiii + 313pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2007

KEYWORDS: military war strategy ooda John Boyd warfare

KLAY, PHIL

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus heavy card boards, white lettering to spine, printed eps, 291pp, VG (light scuffing to spine extrems & board corners/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Canongate 2014

KEYWORDS: military Iraq war biographies memoirs soldiers psychology first edition

DIAMOND, JARED

FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, super octavo, black heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 480pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing to covers, bookseller's price label to rear cover, light waterr stain to base of internal side)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1997

KEYWORDS: evolution anthropology history antiquity illustrated warfare weaponry politics military ecology germs steel metallurgy production first edition

KNIGHT, Col. C. R. B. & KING FREDERIK IX OF DENMARK (Fore) & SCARLETT, Maj.-Gen. P. G. (Intro)

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt dragon motif to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xxiv + 512pp, illus, folding maps throughout, VG (light scuffing & surface loss to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners & edges, light chafing to front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & heavy chipping to spine extrems with some loss & neat tape repairs, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate foxing to covers)

PUBLISHER: The Medici Society 1951

KEYWORDS: military history illustrated the buffs politics regiments

GIBBON, EDWARD & MILMAN, Rev. H. H. (Notes)

4 VOLUME SET, super octavo, half bound marbled heavy boards, gilt lettering to title plates to spines, frontispiece to vol 1, folding maps to vols 1, 2 & 3, viii-xxvii + 464-529pp, VG- (spine missing but partially present to vol 1, heavy chipping & cracking to spines- with some heavy loss to vol 2, age appropriate scuffing & chafing to boards & board edges with some surface loss, heavy tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to hinges & gutters with slightly shaky boards, owner's name lightly in pencil to full title page of vol 1, moderate but sporadic tanning & foxing to pages throughout all vols, light creasing to folding maps but otherwise in very good condition)

PUBLISHER: Harper & Brothers 1843-1844

KEYWORDS: ancient history politics military antiquity Rome Italy Europe Edward Gibbon classical

MURRAY, HUGH

FOLDING MAP & 7 TITLE PLATES, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind stamp decoration to spine, gilt motif to front board, blind stamp decoration to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, 748pp, illus, VG (light bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light scuffing to spine & boards, moderate tanning to page egdes, light foxing to prelims & terminals, 9cm closed tear to folding map)

PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson 1850

KEYWORDS: history politics British India colonisation colonies military empire

HAYDEN, Lieu.-COLONEL F. A. (Comp. & Ed)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt military motif to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiv + 275pp, 7 folding maps + 5 plates with tissue guards, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, light bruising to board corners, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, sm inscription in ink to rear pastedown, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: A. C. Lomax's Successors 1908

KEYWORDS: first edition history military Hindoostan Duke of Wellington war

EVERARD, Maj. H.

Imperial octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt military motifs to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + 598pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems, moderatebruising to board corners, light scuffing to board edges, 8cm crack to buckram of spine, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, owner's name in ink to fep, heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Littlebury & Company 1891

KEYWORDS: military history Farrington regiment 29th xxix Worcestershire

DANIELL, DAVID SCOTT & ROUPELL, G. R. P. (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, TIDY ex-library, tan buckram boards, gilt lettering to title plate on spine, illus eps, 283pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light creasing/bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate foxing to spine, light discolouration to boards, light tanning/foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1957

KEYWORDS: military history east Surrey regiment 20th twentieth century

DAVIS, Lieu.-Col. T. B. & FLOWER, JOHN (Illus/Maps)

Octavo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt military motifs to front board, illus eps, frotnispiece, xvii + 370pp, folding maps throughout, VG+ (light creasing & bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate sun fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Ditchling Press 1980

KEYWORDS: military history yeomans yeomanry illustrated second world war ww2

THOMAS, HOWEL

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt military motif to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, 288pp, illus, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, light chafing & staining to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1916

KEYWORDS: first edition military history royal Welsh fusiliers 23rd twenty-third regiment

MALTHUS, CECIL

Octavo, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 147pp, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to covers, prev owners inscription in ink to verso of cover)

PUBLISHER: Reed Books 2002

KEYWORDS: ww1 first 1st world war military history New Zealand Somme autobiography memoir ANZAC Cecil Malthus