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FAMOUS REGIMENTS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, Their Origins and Services. With a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Military Establishment in England and Brief Memoirs of Eminent British Generals.
London.James Hogg and Sons. (1864). [1-5] 6-320pp. folding hand-coloured frontispiece. Plus 4 black & white portraits. Original green boards, gilt. a.e.g. Octavo. First Edition. Some browning to endpapers. Very minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Front hinge cracked. Else a very good, bright copy.
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FIGHTING NORSEMEN. Published by the authority of the Royal Norwegian Government Information Office.
London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, No date [1944]. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a like, Unprice-clipped dust-wrapper.
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FOOTPRINTS OF THE 1/4 LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT AUGUST 1914 - NOVEMBER 1918 with a foreword by Field-Marshal Lord Milne. Illustrated from actual photographs.
Leicester.Edgar Backus for Past and Present Members of the Leicestershire Regiment. 1935. xii, 1-158pp. 13 sepia photographs including frontispiece, plus 2 maps within text and fold out map to rear. Maroon boards gilt, unprice-clipped dust wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Previous owner's note to front free endpaper. Edges a trifle browned. Dust wrapper has some minor spotting and a hint of chipping to corners and head of spine; else, an excellent copy.
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GALLIPOLI DIARY.
London. George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1918. [1-4], 328 pages. Black & white facsimiles of photographs throughout. Red cloth hardback. Octavo. First edition. Hand-written notes to rear endpaper; some minor spotting throughout; else a very good copy.
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HERE WE ARE TOGETHER. The Notebook of an American Soldier in Britain.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1946. Hardcover. Pictorial unprice-clipped dust-wrapper by Giles. Octavo. First edition. Very slight wear to wrapper at head of spine; few very faint spots; else an excellent copy.
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Heroes of the War. DAILY MAIL WAR ALBUM Price Sixpence per set of Five. Portraits of the Generals, Admirals, Officers and Men in the Allied Armies who perform brilliant and courageous feats in the fight for Europe's freedom. Set No 1. H. M. The King. Rt. Hon. Winston Spencer Churchill, Field-Marshall The Earl Kitchener, Admerial Sir John R. Jellicoe, Field-Marshall Sir John French….
London: Daily Mail, No date [circa 1915]. Original printed envelope containing five reproductions of photographs, each: 22 x 15 cm. Envelope has a tear through the front panel; some spotting on blank versos of photographs; else a very good set.
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HIS MAJESTY'S MERCHANT NAVY. Second Edition.
London.Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. No Date. [iv], xix, [xx], 1-556pp. Colour frontispiece, 10 colour plates, and numerous black & white illustrations and folding plates throughout. Original cloth tile. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Oblong 12mo. Second edition. Spine a little rubbed; some spotting to fore-edges; wrapper is price-clipped, a little rubbed and chipped at edges with loss of approx 4.5 x 7 cms to lower edge of front panel and small loss to corners at head of spine; else a very good copy.
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HISTORY OF THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT (Late the 63rd and 96th Foot) with illustrations by Gerald C. Hudson.
London: Forster Groom & Co. Ltd, 1923. Volume I, xiv, 293pp. Colour frontispiece, 6 colour plates and 10 black & white plates. 25 x 19cms. Volume II, xiv, 359pp. Black & white frontispiece, 4 coloured plates and 32 black & white illustrations, portraits and sketches on 19 pages; plus 6 folding maps in a pocket at the rear. Original cloth. Large octavo. First edition. Spines a little faded and a trifle worn at head and heel; pocket expertly repaired and endpapers replaced; one map with a small area of staining on the blank reverse side. Else a very good set of this scarce history.
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HITLER ATTACKS NORWAY. Foreword by Admiral Sir Edward Evans.
Published by The Royal Norwegian Government Information Office and Distributed for them by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1943. Softback. 100 pages. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. Octavo. First edition. Couple of light marks on title; else near fine.
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JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1942. Forty-sixth year of issue. Editor: Francis E. McMurtrie.
London.Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. 1942. 582pp. Illustrated throughout. Original blue cloth, gilt. Oblong quarto. A very handsome copy
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NAVAL SKETCH-BOOK; or, the Service Afloat and Ashore; with Characteristic Reminiscences, Fragments and Opinions. By an Officer of Rank. Second edition. In two Volumes.
London.Henry Colburn. 1826. Volume I: xxiv, 284pp. Volume II:iv, 304pp. Comparatively recent half calf, gilt over marbled boards with red labels. Octavo. Fore-edges uncut. Half-title to volume one has been mounted on a stub; lacks half-title to volume two - though the paging would indicate that one is not required. Volume one has the bookplate of Admiral Lionel Arthur Doveton Sturdee; and both volumes have the mounted signatures, dated Bristol Sept/89, of Admiral of F. C. D. Sturdee to one of the front endpapers. An excellent set.
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RECALLING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN A Photographic Essay Based Upon the Records of the Kent Messenger and Other Contemporary Sources of World War II.
Maidstone: Kent Messenger, 1965. 71pp. Illustrated with black & white photographs throughout. Original yellow boards. Pictorial unprice-clipped dust wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Some bumping to top of front board. Dust wrapper has the faintest chipping to corners and a small loss of paper to head of spine. Else a fine copy of a very scarce book.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF MARSHAL MACDONALD Duke of Tarentum. Edited by Camille Roussett… Translated by Stephen Louis Simeon. New and revised edition.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1893. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. vi, [2], 488, [2] pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and plate at end. Original red cloth gilt. Octavo. Endpaper lightly browned, and some spotting here & there; front endpaper creased and with a short tear and ownership inscription; else a good plus copy.
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SEYMOUR VANDELEUR Lieutenant-Colonel, Scots Guards & Irish Guards. A Plain Narrative of the part played by British officers in the acquisition of colonies and dependencies in Africa representing a dominion of greater extent than India added to the British Empire in less than twenty years. By Colonel F. I. Maxse C.B., D.S.O., Coldstream Guards. With water-colour illustrations by Nico Jungmann.
London: William Heinemann, 1906. 288 pages. 14 illustrations and 9 maps. Original blue cloth gilt. 248 x 185 mm. Some spotting throughout; else a very good copy.
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SOUVENIR OF THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF BRITISH BATTLE PHOTOGRAPHS IN COLOUR.
London: Ministry of Information, No date. (Circa 1918?). 16pp. of photographs mainly of the war in France. Original pictorial wrappers. Oblong: 7.5 x 10 inches. Lower blank wrapper a little soiled and stained; slight chipping of edges; else a very good copy of a scarce catalogue. Though the two photographers are acknowledged, there is no mention of where the exhibition took place. Paradoxically, the photographs are not printed in colour but black & white.
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STRAIGHT ON. With four drawings by E. Ainsworth, eight photographs and three maps.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1947. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Unprice-clipped wrapper a little worn at extremities, with a couple of short tears; else a very nice copy, without inscriptions.
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THE ARMY LIST, for December, 1830.
London.T. Egerton. 1830. 84pp. Original printed wrappers. Covers worn and splitting at spine with some loss of paper; some corners turned; else a good copy.
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THE ARMY LIST, For January 1851.
London: Parker, Furnival, and Parker, 1851. Softcover. 120 pages. Original wrappers. Stitching broken; contents loose; needs re-sewing; spine worn with some loss of paper; some corners turned; good plus.
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THE BATTLES OF THE BRITISH ARMY, in Portugal, Spain and France. From the Year 1808 to 1814. Under the Command of England's Great Captain Arthur Duke of Wellington.
London: Edwd. Orme, 1815. 13 circular, hand-coloured aquatint views, each 65mm diameter, with letterpress to the versos, contained within a circular bronze medallion case, with a portrait of, 'Englands Great Captain Arthur Duke of Wellington' to one face, and a depiction of 'Victory' penning the 'record of British Valour,' and the title, 'Picture Medal,' to the other; both with printed paper title labels to the inner faces; the medal contained within the original leather, gilt, felt-lined,circular box. Both brass catches present, but lacking one of the eyes; discs no longer joined as issued; case a little rubbed; else a very good example of this extremely detailed and finely hand-coloured record of Wellington's martial achievements. Abbey, Life, 466.
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THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN in France and Flanders.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Folding map at start. Original cloth, gilt. First edition. Short tear in blank fold of map; couple of marks on covers; else very good.
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