McNair, Sherry (Signed)MareMagnum
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Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. 331 pages. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. Author presents WWII stories of Hong Kong, Sicily, Italy and Northwest Europe related by her father, two uncles, and cousins. "The resulting manuscript tells a story which began on the plains of the Canadian West and went out to the battlefields of WWII." - from dust jacket. Spine leaning. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
61 pages. Index. Recounts and honours the WWII history of this Canadian regiment. Former library copy with usual markings. Tightly rebound in brown buckram. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. A sound copy. Cooke [3e] p.267, Dornbusch 478, Book
206 pages. Includes list of references. Several tables and illustrations. Topics include: Infantry Corps History; RHC Historical Background; History of Customs, Traditions, Ranks and Dress; The History of RHC Customs and Traditions; Parades and Guards; Flag Etiquette; Colours, Battle Honours and Military Music; Saluting and Funerals; Miscellaneous Historical Customs; Scottish Music, Dancing, Dress and Weapons; General Military Knowledge and Customs; Mess Etiquette; Conduct of a Mess Dinner. Undated but would seem to be circa 1967 according to a reference to the new Canadian Forces uniform. Clean, unmarked, tight and square with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Six audio cassette tapes. Circa 1994. We have not listened to these tapes but they appear to be a compilation of oral memories of World War 2 from members of the South Saskatchewan Regiment. Speakers include: Lt.-Col. Cec Merritt, VC; Maj. "Lefty" White, C.S.M; Ed Dunkerly; Murray Osten, M.C.; Pte. Paul Delorme; Pte. A. "Schelley" Schellenberg; C.S.M. Elmer "Gunga" Dean, M.M.; Pte. Fred James; Cpl. Art Charnell; Herman Keys; Maj. Peter Watkinson (adjutant); and Les Moore. Each tape is rated at 90 minutes but we do not know how many minutes of conversation are actually recorded. Each tape comes with a labelled insert. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Book
Pages 65-134. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: History of the sixteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers (continued); A Naval officer's trip to Jerusalem; The old church on the hill; New Boston- An historical and business sketch; Springtim; Clisbe; Polly Tucker (continued); The Spring; Educational department; New Hampshire Necrology. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
Numerous black and white photographs. "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - From Preface. Contents: Chapter CLI - The Battle of the Somme (I). Includes map entitled "The German Positions and Trenches from Thiepval to Combles." Laid in is table of contents for Vol. IX. Includes index to volume IX plus list of illustrations, places, and maps and plans. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
xi, [1], 166, [1] pages. Black and white photographic plates. Maps. "This book stands in the main a personal account of the actions of the 1st Brigade, Canadian Infantry." - Preface. Heavily-worn with usual library markings. A worthy reference copy. Bibliographic references: Cooke (2nd Edn) pg 120, Enser pg 87, Dornbusch 308. Book
Signed by author upon title page. 215 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. "In this book I have told some of the stories of life in Northern Ontario, of its people, and their struggles to change a wilderness into a happy land." - page 3. Gift greetings atop title page, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative local history. [Bishop p.1095] Book
309 pages. Index of names. Facsimile reprint of the 1908 first edition. "...Compiled from the records of the grants of land made in Upper Canada to officers, non-commissioned officers and men who had served in 'the first flank Companies, the Provincial Artillery, the Incorporated Regiment, the Corps of Artillery Drivers, the Provincial Dragoons, the Marine and General Staff of the Army,' and in Lower Canada, to 'the officers and men of the Embodied Militia, discharaged troops and others." - from Introduction. Bright red cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Appears unread. Binding tight. Clean, bright and unmarked with virtually no wear. A superb copy of this highly-informative reference. Book
102 pages. Features: Regimental Notes; Andrew Hamilton Gualt - A Memoir; Colonel of the Regiment; Obituary - Miss Jennie MacGregor Morris; Presentation of New Colours 1 PPCLI; Laying up of Old Colours 1 PPCLI; Honours and Awards; First Battalion Report; Second Battalion Report; The Depot; Regimental Museum; PPCLI Band; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); PPCLI Cadet Corps; PPCLI Association; The Rifle Brigade; United Nations Military Observer Group in Palestine; United Nations Military Observer Group in Pakistan; The Crossing of the Moro and the Capture of the V. Roatti; Customs of Service; Confidential Comments; Location Lists; Captured Operation Order. Light to moderate wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Brilliant gilt lettering and emblem upon flexible forest green cloth covered boards. Very nice copy. Book
62 pages. Presents thirty-one ballads penned by a Canadian prisoner of war in Germany's Oflag VII/B during WWII "...in the belief that they may be of some interest to the folks in Canada, and that our friends at home may get some inkling of the things we do and the things we think about behind the old barbed wire." - page 3. Ominous cover art depicts large Nazi boot treading on silhouette of POW behind barbed wire. Reproduction of the author's POW photo on page 6. Photo of the Pipe Band of Oflag VII/B on page 30 includes Brigadier W. Southam (Canada). Sketch of Oflag VII-B on page 62. Dedicated to the men of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, and the South Saskatchewan Regiment. Laid-in is an undated WWII news clipping entitled Poem Found on Body of Unknown Soldier. Prior owner's name stroked out atop first leaf. Average wear. Binding sound. A sombre WWII memento. Book
Features: Cover portrait of Colonel Freyberg, V.C., D.S.O., the Hero of Beaumont-Hamel, Royal West Surrey Regiment and Royal Navy Division. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Great British Battles of the Somme - V. - Check near Bapaume and Victory on the Ancre". Includes complete chapter CLV - "The Effect of the Somme Offensive on the German 'Will to Victory'". Many excellent photos, including one of captured German flame-throwers 'which the enemy, in defiance of civilised useage, introduced into warfare.' Graphic centerfold of a shell-shattered avenue of elms along the borders of the Yser Canal between Boesinghe and Lizerne. Also includes first portion of Chapter CLVI - Belgium Under Two Flags - The Homeland Under the German Heel and the Renaissance of the Army on the Yser. Many excellent black and white photos. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound reference copy. Book
Features: Cover portrait of Captain W. Leefe Robinson, V.C. - Worcester Regiment and R.F.C. who destroyed a German Military Airship at Cuffley, September, 1916. This issue contains the concluding portion of "Belgium Under Two Flags". Many excellent black and white photos. Sensational 4-photo centerfold displays the remains of the Zeppelin brought down on the essex coast, 24 September, 1916. Latter portion contains the first portion of chapter CLVII - The Airship Raids of 1916 and how British Airmen Mastered the Super-Zeppelin. Again, numerous interesting photos included. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound reference copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Dr. George D. Scott of Kingston is proud of his don who dropped out of grade 10 to enlist in the U.S. Army - photos and article; Hockey's Biggest Reshuffle - looking ahead to the doubling of NHL teams in the 1967-68 season - article by Andy O'Brien; Gail Ross and her Horse Hobby - article with photos; Roloff Beny - a rather enviable reputation has been forced upon me; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Arrow shirts; Aylmer Tomato Product colour centerfold; How to Spend $12 million - that's how much Mickey Rooney spend during his rise, fall and long haul back (Part 3 of 3); Great vintage colour photo full-page ad for the Honda S90; Dr. Hamendra Banerjee is trying to discover if twins Jennifer and Gillian Pollock are the reincarnation of twins Joanna and Jacqueline who were killed in an auto accident 17 months before they were born; The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) at Sanctuary Wood; Laid in is a large colour BP chart which indicates which of their gasolines should be used for which car; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
xv, 184 pages. Maps. Lists of Honours, Awards, and Mentions in Despatches. "A clear, concise and interesting account of (the Regiment's) achievements during the last great war." - Foreword. Armorial bookplate upon verso of half-title. Moderate wear to silver-decorated pale green cloth-covered boards which are sunned at spine. Binding intact. A sound copy. Enser p.80, White p.88. Book
Pages 65-134. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: History of the sixteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers (part 2); The town of Canaan - feature article with many interesting photos; To a Chickadee; After Many Years; Two Quatrains; Representative Agriculturists - Alfred J. Gould of Newport, Philip C. Clough of Canterbury; The Winter tenants of an old well; On the stair; Polly Tucker (continued); Point of View; Educational department; New Hampshire Necrology. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos include: The Late Duke of Teck, The "A.M.R." Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, Several Photos with Lord Methuen's Force, General Gatacre's Base Camp at Queenstown, The Company of the Bloomsbury Rifles, Farewell Dinner for the C.I.V., Passing of John Ruskin, The Cheshire Regiment. Illustrations include: General Lord Methuen Directing the Battle of Magersfontein, A Boer Trench at Magersfontein, Spearman's Farm, Christening "Joe Chamberlain" (a 4.7" gun), the British Retirement on Molteno, General White congratulates the Natal Volunteers, Night-Signalling from an armoured train outside Ladysmith, The Siege of Ladysmith, Melton Prior's Sketch of the Bombardment of Ladysmith(Centerfold). Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos and illustrations include: Bivouac of the 3rd King's Rifles, De Beers Diamond Mines at Kimberley during the seige, Lord Roberts's reception at the Modder River Camp (laid in), the remains of the suffolk regiment after Moedder Farm, Chieveley Camp (laid in), Major-General T. Kelly-Kenny, Photos with General French's Command near Colesberg, Canadian Mounted Police Leaving Halifax for South Africa, The Attack on Spion Kop (Centerfold), Photos with the South African Railway Pioneer Regiment, Photo of H.M.S. Viper running at record speed of 35.5 knots. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
Pages 113-140. Contains the conclusion of Chapter VIII and the first part of Chapter IV entitled "The German Host Falls on Belgium. Over fifty war illustrations/photos including: Hard-fought British retreat in Belgium; British Marines protect Ostend; Heroic defenders of Belgium; Germans in Liege; Belgium's King Albert on horseback; Antwerp defenses; Belgian lancers; German spy caught in Montreal; Zepellin bombardment of Antwerp in defiance of the Hague Convention; Centerfold illustrations of the British navy and its leaders; German cavalry raiders in canvas boats; French Cavalry moving to Namur; Indian troops for Europe; Sikh regiment; American volunteers for the French army on their way to enlist; and more. Sound unmarked copy with somewhat above-average wear. Book
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispieces, plates, maps and plans in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper boards with regimental crest blocked in gilt, gilt backs, blue tops, uncut, joints very lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.35; White, p.53.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 full-page coloured maps and monochrome photographs in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO FELLOW OFFICER DONALD EALES-WHITE WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published from a typescript compiled for the Northamptonshire Regimental Association in 1999. Includes citations, burials in Imphal, and list of contributors. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.294.
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text, fore-edge lightly spotted, endpapers browned; original regimental blue buckram, upper board with badge blocked in gilt, backstrip with red leather label (faded) lettered in gilt, red top, covers lightly faded and age-soiled else a good, firm copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.218; White, p.89.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, Large Paper, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 32 plates and numerous photographs in the text; ivory half buckram, red cloth boards, upper board ruled and blocked in gilt with regimental crest, gilt back, uncut, marbled endpapers, backstrip very lightly browned (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [MAJOR-]GENERAL SIR GEORGE JEFFREYS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. Major-General Sir George Jeffreys (1878-1960) was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in 1897. He served at the Nile, in the Second Boer War and extensively throughout WWI. Mentioned in despatches several times, he commanded 2Bn in 1915, subsequently 58th Brigade, 57th Brigade, and finally 1st (Guards) Brigade in 1916. In 1917 he was appointed GOC 19th Division. Post-war he served as GOC Light Division British Army of the Rhine and as GOCiC of Southern Command in India before his retirement in 1938. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Jeffreys in 1952. His association with the present work stems from his position as Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Hampshire, Chairman of the Hampshire Territorial Army Association and a decade or so as MP for Petersfield. A NOTABLE ASSOCIATION COPY. LARGE PAPER COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.225; White, p.189.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 26 plates on 17 and 62 folding maps (2 large) on japon, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; original regimental blue cloth, upper board blocked with regimental badge in silver, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. Complete with errata leaf. The standard record of the regiment's service in the Great War in which eleven battalions were involved. Includes ROH, honours and decorations, MIDs, units and their COs, depots and POW funds 'Well above the average of regimental histories in interest. He has done his best to procure information from officers who served with the regiment to supplement the generally scant and laconic accounts of the war diaries' (Falls). Accordingly this history is particularly well supplied with maps (albeit some of them sketches in outline). SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.70; Falls p.97; Sutcliffe p.306; White p.105.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations in the text, and 30 folding maps; original red cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy. Not recorded by Enser; Sutcliffe p.140; White p.74.
