Commando Extraordinary
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1954. 2nd impr., prev. owner's inscr., light foxing to eps., or. bds., spine sunned and chipped at head.
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1954. 2nd impr., prev. owner's inscr., light foxing to eps., or. bds., spine sunned and chipped at head.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1962. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp 148. Previous owner's signature, previous owner's bookplate, near-fine condition in edgeworn but good d.j. In 1955 the journalist author moved to Cyprus and took over The Cyprus Times, at a moment when a civil.....
Durham: The Pentland Press, 1991. 1st ed., octavo, pp.(x), 139, (4 maps), b&w plates, orig bds, d.j. Near fine condn. A personal account of the author's experiences and duties carried out by an officer in the Old Indian Army. He saw service in India and in what is now Pakistan.....
London: Wm Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1932. 2nd impression, pp (x), 315, some very light foxing to endpapers and prelims, red cloth, corners bumped, spine sunned, no .dj.
London: New Burlington Books, 1993. Cloth boards, dustjacket, colour illus, pp 80. Fine in very good d.j.
Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1951. pp xvi, 204, Index, b/w plates, maps, ep maps, gilt dec royal blue cloth, 1cm white rubbed mark to front board, otherwise v.g. A record of the War as seen by The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, three battalions of which served.
Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. 8vo, pp xv, 300, b/w plates, maps, appendices, bibliography, index, , orig. cl. bds., near fine in like d.j. Account of the close range gun battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran off the Western Australian coast, November 1941.
Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. 8vo, pp xv, 300, b/w plates, maps, appendices, bibliography, index, slight yellowing to page edges, presentation copy signed by author, v.g. in d.j Account of the close range gun battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran off the Western Australian coast, November 1941...
Brightlingsea: Mitre Publications, 1979. Octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt titles, frontis portrait, pp 95. Limited edition of 650 copies. Previous owner's signature top edge of front endpaper, otherwise fine condition, Sergeant Major Henry Franks took part in the charge of the 'Heavy Brigade' in the Crimean War. This charge.....
Sydney: Ure Smith, 1943. Illus Donald Friend. 8vo, original cloth boards, b&w illus, pp 56. Boards marked to top edge, backstrip damaged and almost detached from spine, internally good, an acceptable copy. The artist enlisted as a gunner in the AIF: the diary describes his experiences. Later, towards the very.....
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1987. 8vo, cloth boards, d.j., b&w plates, maps, bibliography, index, pp. xii, 211. Previous owner's name stamp on endpapers and halftitle. Printer's error to contents page - text of first page shows through. O/w clean, tight, very good condn. Detailed account of the strategy, policies and.....
Boston: Boston Publishing Company, 1984. 4to, pictorial boards, b&w illus, colour illus, pp 192. Very good condn.
Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1979. 8vo, cloth boards, d.j., maps, bibliography, index, pp. (xi) 227. Dustjacket edgeworn and yellowed around edjes, boards good, text clean, binding firm, good condn. A comprehensive account of the conflict surrounding the nationalisation of the Suez Canal.
London: Harrap, 1943. 1st Aust. ed., pp. 236, b/w plates, or. cl., sl wear to extremities.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. 8vo, pp. 256, b/w frontis port., map, small newspaper clipping taped to title page (author obituary), light foxing scattered throughout, offsetting rear endpapers, original cloth bds., edges rubbed, cnrs a little bumped, in d.j.head and tail spine chipped with minor loss, cnrs worn, few marks.....
Cambridge Mass: Harvard Uni Press, 1980. pp. xviii, 315, Index, frontis. map, or. bds. in d.j., v.g.
Lon: Gollancz, 1940. Reprint (1st cheap ed.), pp. 519, Index, light foxing to eps., pages sl. yellowed at edges, or. bds., v.g. in sunned d.j. The fall of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1943. Australian edition, pp 270, lacks front free endpaper, books exchange stamps to inside fron warp, rubbed. Autobiography of an R.A.F Officer.
London: Edward Stanford, 1880. Octavo, original cloth boards, pp 141. Spine faded and fraying with date (1880) written on spine. Corners bumped. Few marks. Previous owner's bookplate. Annotations in text, and illustration tipped in last page. Good condition.
Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Octavo, pp. xiv, 506, b&w plates, stiff wraps, very good. Account of German and Austrian Jewish children in Australia after fleeing Nazi Germany.
Lond: Bloomsbury, 1993. pp. 192, Index, col. & b/w photos by Simon WALKER, prev. owner's stamp to front pastedown, very large inscription covering verso of f.f.ep. and title page, or. bds. in d.j., v.g.
Washington: Brassey's Inc, 1995. 8vo, pp.xviii, 279, Index, b/w plates, maps, original cloth backed bds., very good, in like d.j. Gilmore's WWII experiences, including service as an American Field ambulance driver in the British Army in North Africa, and as an officer in the Indian Army.
Johannesburg: The Star, 1822. 2nd ed., oblong octavo, unpag.(pp.viii, 56), profusely illustrated with b&w plates, folding map and folding panoramic photograph, title page lightly marked, tape repairs along lower edge of cover and first 18 pages not affecting text, small mark to lower cnrs of latter pages, small piece (0.7cm.....
Sydney: Horwitz, 1964. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 226. Near-fine in good, rubbed d.j. Novel based on the experiences of Australian soldiers in New Guinea, WWII.
Gloucestershire: Budding Books, 1997. Reprint, 8vo, pp. xiv, 230, Index, b/w photos, maps, pictorial endpapers, original pictorial bds., nr fine, in like d.j. The 46 recipents of the Victoria Cross during the opening four months of WWI.