Kitchener Amy V.ABAA
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1994100546Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 1994. Hardcover. 72p. profusely illustrated with color photographs of Morales' Los Angeles 'holiday art' very good first edition in pictorial boards. Folk art and artists. Assemblages created in the Los Angeles artist's front yard for Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas etc. University Press of Mississippi hardcover books
1822WRCAM5998Boston 1822. 380pp. Contemporary calf leather label. Front board detached small chip at head of spine boards a bit warped. Occasional foxing and dampstaining ex-lib. with bookplate. A good sound copy. "From the last London edition which is almost entirely re-written." Authorship attributed to William Kitchener. The London edition first appeared in 1817 under the title APICIUS REDIVIVUS OR COOK'S ORACLE. LOWENSTEIN 92. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 9213. hardcover books
1959WRCLIT55994New York: Dutton 1959. xiii410pp. Cloth. Black & white photographs. Footnotes. Index. Light offsetting to endpapers caused by laid or in the case of the rear endsheets pasted in newspaper review clippings fore-corners a bit bumped otherwise a very good copy in somewhat used pictorial dust jacket with tears and internal mends to spine crown and fore-tips. First U.S. edition. Inscribed by the author to Lefty i.e. Wilmarth S. Lewis and Annie Burr on the front free endpaper and with Lewis's small bookplate bearing a small release stamp on the front pastedown. Dutton hardcover books
1870313390Woolwich 1870. 10 ink and watercolor drawings of elevations and plans of fortifications signed in a lettering hand; with 9 lithographs of classical fortifications &c. some signed or initialled by Kitchener with additions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Leather and cloth over boards upper cover stamped in gilt. Upper corners perished. Internally clean and fresh. 10 ink and watercolor drawings of elevations and plans of fortifications signed in a lettering hand; with 9 lithographs of classical fortifications &c. some signed or initialled by Kitchener with additions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Highly competent album of drawings of fortifications mines and elevations by the young Kitchener while a student at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich.<br/><br/>Kitchener 1850-1916 born in Ireland to English parents and raised in Switzerland spent "an undistinguished two years" at the Royal Military Academy. When he progressed to the School of Military Engineering Chatham he began to distinguish himself. He worked with the Palestine Exploration Fund and on the survey of Cyprus and gained a reputation as a man who knew the Near East. "In 1884 he acted as an intelligence officer for the relief expedition sent to the Sudan to rescue Charles George Gordon; he continually pressed Wolseley the commander of the expedition to push forward more rapidly. Despite the expedition's failure to save Gordon Kitchener emerged with credit and some fame." He was named sirdar or commander of the Egyptian army in 1892 and instituted needed reforms. Under his leadership Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated the Mahdist armies in the Sudan in 1898 avenging Gordon's death and reconquering the country. Kitchener's administrative talents came to the fore in the South African War where superior transportation and the policy of destroying farms and interning Boer civilians in concentration camps prevailed against the guerrilla tactics of the Boer forces. In his role as secretary of state for war in 1914 his advocacy of preparations for a long and global conflict defined British policy.<br/><br/>A choice item from early in the career of this larger than life and still controversial figure. unknown books
