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THE COMPANY COMMANDER'S TRAINING & ADMINISTRATIVE POCKET BOOK. 2nd Edition.
Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd, 1940. Original semi-stiff printed covers. Small crease in top outer corner of upper cover; name of Captain R. J. James on endpaper. A very good copy.
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THE DUTCH NAVY AT WAR. Illustrated by Lieut. J. H. Hoowij, R.N.N.R.
London.George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1945. viii, 131[132]pp. Folding map at end; one other map and three illustrations. Original blue cloth with white lettering. Original dust-wrapper. First edition. Pieces missing from wrapper at head and heel of spine and small pieces at corners - all repaired with 'clear' tape; presentation inscription on front free endpaper; else a very good copy in a good wrapper of this elusive book.
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THE ENGLISH NAVAL FORCES 1199-1272. With a foreward by Professor Geoffrey Callender.
London: A. Brown & Sons, Limited, No date. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Octavo. Spine a little cocked; else very good.
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THE GESTAPO AT WORK IN NORWAY. Foreword by the Lord Chancellor Viscount Simon, P.C. Extracts from judicially-attested Witness Reports of Terror and Torture in German prisons in Norway.
Published by The Royal Norwegian Government Information Office and Distributed for them by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, No date [1943]. Softback. 37 pages. Original pictorial wrappers. Octavo. First edition. Staples a little rusty; else near fine.
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THE HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE FIFTH (ROYAL IRISH) LANCER from their foundation as Wynne's Dragoons (in 1689) to the present day.
London.Arthur Doubleday and Company Limited. 1908. [ix], xx, [xxiv], [1], 2-287pp + lxvi pp appendices to rear. Colour frontispiece, and 19 other plates - some coloured; 10 maps and plans. Original decorative buckram gilt. Quarto. First edition. Covers just a little damp marked; some spotting here and there throughout; else a very good, tight copy.
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THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR The First Battalion. Editied and compiled from their diaries and papers with a foreword by George Webb Editor of The Kipling Journal. Together with, The Second battalion.
Staplehurst. Spellmount, 1997. Two hardback volumes in unclipped pictorial dust-wrappers. First editions thus. Fine copies in like dust-wrappers.
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THE LIFE AND NAVAL MEMOIRS OF LORD NELSON; compiled from original document and other authentic sources. Embelished by numerous engravings.
London.Adam and Gee. Printers. No imprint or date. c.1848. [v], viii, 1-464pp. 7 full-page wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, and numerous small wood-engravings throughout the text. Recently rebound, almost certainly from original weekly or monthly parts, in quarter cloth over marbled boards. Octavo. Paper browned; water-staining to outer margins up to page 128; bookplate to front paste-down endpaper; else a very good copy. Scrace.
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THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF CAPTAIN PHILIP BEAVER, late of His Majesty’s ship Nisus.
London: John Murray, 1829. Xv, [1 blank], 340pp. Fairly recent cloth-backed blue boards with a paper label to the spine. Octavo. First edition. Two bookplates; ex-libris stamps on half-title; some occasional light spotting and marking; binding rather workmanlike; else a very good copy.
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THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812 or the History of the United States Navy during the last war with Great Britain; to which is appended an account of The Battle of New Orleans. Eighth Edition.
New York. London.G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1900. [ii], xxxviii, [1], 2-549pp + [2]pp catalogue at rear. Numerous drawings and diagrams throughout. Sometime rebound in full blue cloth gilt. Octavo. Eighth edition. Fore-edges a trifle browned; loss to top blank corner of page 543/544 and some chipping to fore-edges of pages 547-549; bookplate to front paste-down endpaper; else a very good copy.
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The Nelson Memorial NELSON AND HIS COMPANIONS IN ARMS. With numerous illustrations.
London.George Allen. 1896. [vi], xvi, [1], 2-351pp. 38 illustrations including frontispiece. Original cloth with embossed gilt vignette to upper board. Octavo. First edition. Head and Heel of spine a little rubbed and bumped; inoffensive scratch to top corner of rear board; hinges cracked; newspaper clipping to front paste-down endpaper, concerning the famous statue of Nelson; bookplate to front free endpaper; old tape marks to the plates at pages 82/83 and 126/127; else a very good copy.
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THE QUEEN'S OWN ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT 1920-1950.
London.Michael Joseph. 1954. 510pp. Coloured illustration of H.R.H The Duchess of Kent on frontispiece. Maps of the Middle East and Italy on front endpapers, with several fold out maps within the text. Black and white photographs are placed throughout the text. Original blue board, gilt with Royal West Kent Regiment emblem. Octavo. First edition. A very god Military copy.
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THE RAF IN CAMERA. Archive Photographs from the Public Record office and the Ministry of Defence. 1903-1939. 1939-1945. 1945-1995.
Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1997. Three volumes. Hardcovers. Dust-wrappers. Small address label in the first volume, else a fine set. All three first reprints. These books are heavy and will incur extra postage. Please contact us directly at info@davidmilesbooks.com for a quote.
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THE RECORDS AND BADGES OF EVERY REGIMENT AND CORPS IN THE BRITISH ARMY, 1900. With twenty-four coloured plates and two hundred and forty illustrations in the text. Second edition. Thoroughly revised and brought carefully up to date with the addition of a complete list (not to be found in any other work, Official or otherwise) of every commanding officer during the Reign of Her Majesty The Queen.
London.Greenhill Books. 1986. Facsimile of 1900 edition. [v], xvi, [4], 5-943pp. 24 colour plates with numerous black & white illustrations throughout. Original boards, silver gilt. Original clear plastic wrapper. Octavo. Fore-edges lightly marked; plastic wrapper a little dulled; else a very good copy.
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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE REVUE. Vol. 6 No's 1 – 11. August – August 1951.
London: Air Ministry for H.M. Stationery Office, 1951. Hardcover. All bound with their original wrappers. Publisher's blue binding with coat of arms on upper cover. Quarto. Endpapers lightly spotted; few small marks on covers; spine a little cocked; else very good.
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THE SUBALTERN Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine. Library Edition revised and corrected, with a new preface.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1872. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Octavo/ Inner joints cracked; head & heel of spine a little worn; little foxed at start and end; else a good sound copy, inscribed in ink on the title-page: 'With the Publishers [sic] Compliments.
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THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT IN THE WAR 1914-1918. A History of the 14th, The prince of Wales' Own (West Yorkshire Regt.) and of its special reserve, Territorial and Service Battns. In the Great War of 1914-1918.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, No date [1924. 1927]. Two volumes. Hardcovers. No wrappers. The deluxe issue in full art vellum, gilt. Octavo. Complete with all plates and maps etc. First editions. Bindings marked and worn, with some damping to the rear board of volume II; else very good clean copies, that look unread.
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THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY.
London.Michael Joseph Ltd. 1944. 111pp. Black and white frontispiece and 64 further reproductions of photographs. Original green cloth binding, with red lettering and 'Women's Land Army' emblem in gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Small loss to head of wrapper, just affecting the S and A of Sackville, and smaller loss to heel of wrapper; else a very good copy.
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TORPEDO DRILL BOOK. 1912, (corrected to April 1912) Copies sold to Officers and Men of H.M. Fleet.
London.His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1912. iv, 527pp. Illustrated with diagrams in the text. Original blue board binding, gilt. Lacks front free endpaper. Small tear in backboard. Title a little grubby and book-block generally a little strained. A good copy of a scarce book.
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VICE-ADMAL LESTOCK’S RECAPITULATION, as spoke by him at the Bar of the Honble House of Commons, on Tuesday the 9th April 1745.
London: John Millan, 1745. Containing, his remarks on the Evidence that have been examined, relating to the late Miscarriage of his Majesty’s Fleet off Toulon, against the combined Fleets of France and Spain. Wherein he points out the true Cause of this Miscarriage; supporting the Whole by quoting Admiral Mathew’s Account, which was publish’d by Authority, &c. 27, [1 ad’s]pp. Recent paper-covered boards. 4to. Bookplate. A very good copy.
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WITH THE GUNS.
London. Eveleigh Nash Company Limited, 1916. [i-vi], vii, 222 pages plus two pages ad's. Black & white maps on endpapers. Khaki cloth hardback. Octavo. Second impression. Foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages; ownership inscription to front endpaper; else a very good copy.
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