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8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 26 monochrome photographs and 14 maps, endpapers mildly browned; original grey regimental cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper board, backstrip lettered in green, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Includes a history of the Civil Service Rifle Volunteers; then 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions Civil Service Rifles during WWI. In 1921 the 1/15th was reconstituted as 15th Battalion London Regiment (POW Own Civil Service Rifles); in 1923 15th Battalion was amalgamated with 16th Battalion. Scarce in this condition. Sutcliffe, p. 454; White, p.204.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND HORROCKS ON TITLE. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.359.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND HORROCKS ON TITLE. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.341.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE AND BY HORROCKS FOLLOWING HIS SERIES INTRODUCTION. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.30.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND HORROCKS ON TITLE. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.196.
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 8; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE AND BY HORROCKS ON HALF-TITLE VERSO. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.287.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece in sepia, 12 sepia-toned plates on 7, 2 full-page maps in the text and a folding map on brown stock; original plum regimental diced cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The 1/4th served throughout France and Flanders, from Kemmel Hill to Bellenglise, from Lens to Dickebushe. Includes roll of officers embarking. SCARCE. Enser, p.67; Sutcliffe, p.119; White, p.195.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND HORROCKS ON TITLE. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.300.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND HORROCKS ON TITLE. Published in Cooper's concise Famous Regiments series edited by Lt.-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.237.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; yellow cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND HORROCKS ON TITLE. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.226.
First edition, 8vo, 59, [1]pp., photograph frontispiece of Colonel C. B. Challoner, orig. red pebbled cloth, bevelled boards, gilt, some light wear.
First edition, 4to, xix, 464pp., 10 coloured plates, 38 monochrome plates, orig. black half-morocco, spine gilt some minor rubbing otherwise a nice copy, all edges gilt.
171 pages. Features include: The PPCLI Comedy Company; Regimental Depot; First Battalion; Second Battalion; Regimental Band; Mobile Command Headquarters; CFB Rivers; Max Flex (Canadian Airborne Regiment); The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); 2551 Airborne Cadet Corps; 2554 PPCLI Cadet Corps; Quevrain to Mons; Back to the Battlefields; Ottawa Ceremonies; 3 Bn The Royal Green Jackets; PPCLI Association; etc. Prior owner's neat ink stamp upon each half of front endpaper else unmarked. Moderate wear. Flexible forest green cloth boards with gilt lettering and emblem. Nice copy. Book
141 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white illustrations. Average wear. Binding sound. Some library markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: Parodies of the Past - Vancouver is awash with fake heritage homes; New Buildings - Old Values - Vancouver's Recent Landmarks; Opportunity Lost - Vancouver's Canron Steel Plant falls to the wreckers; The economics of conserving built heritage; In Memoriam - Gabrielle Leger; Help for Heritage Tourism; Peterborough Armoury 'structurally unsafe' for Regiment; The Macdonell-Williamson House in Pointe-Fortune, on the Ontario-Quebec border; Heritage buildings on the block in Saint John, NB - Centracare Complex and Centenary Queen Square United Church; Brampton's sense of its own history questioned. (Please note: front cover incorrectly states this is the Spring 1998 issue) Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
Features: Canadians in France; A Royal visit to the west of England; The King inspects Japanese Sailors at a British Port; Liberty Loan Day parade in New York; With the Gaza Wing of Sir Edmund Allenby's Army; Some of the Captors of Beersheba; Romance of the Regiment - The 61st; A smashed German Windmill Blockhouse; The Bal Masque of War; A Zeppelin Raider is brought down at St. Clement; The heroic storming of Passchendaele; With the victorious French 6th Army on the Aisne front; a Portuguese Training Camp in England; Photo of Lieut. Syed Abdul Alajeed. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: One page photo of two Canadian-built submarines at dockside; Anzac gunners at work; The Black Watch on the march; The 27th Bengal Infantry Regiment; Washing day aboard a French prison ship; Her Majesty the Queen inspects East-End street rolls of honour; With the British troops at Salonika; Two-page photo of a massive British gun at the moment of firing; Italy's Victorious Advance; Crippled Austrians practising walking with artificial limbs; Air-torpedo in a gun; Short range pieces effective for trench bombards; Sir Charles Wakefield entertains wounded soldiers - and General Mackintosh - at The Karsino, Hampton Court. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Features: 2 page photo of British ships helping in the defence of the line of the Piave; Photo portrait of Lieut.-General Sir William Raine Marshall, K.C.B.; 2-page photo of reserves on the move in the Cambrai Battle; Cambrai photos; The 1st Foot Regiment - one page article with photo; Clear two-page photo of Germans surrendered from their trenches; 4 tank photos at Cambrai. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
Features: On the British front in Flanders; The Italian advance on the Julian front; On the Belgian front along the Yser; German Prisoners' Parcels - at an internment camp; 2-page photo of some of Russia's 37,000 prisoners in Galicia; The Guards Regiment (one page story with 2 photos); German prisoners at work in England (4 photos); The August 'Gotha' day-time raid on the Kent coast; Centerfold photo of the Italian pontoon bridge across the Isonzo on the Julian front; 2-page photo of wounded British prisoners returning to London from Switzerland; The training of British naval cadets (4 photos); A funeral with naval honours in Tokyo (Tokio); Indian soldiers where the Prussian Guard was beaten; 2 photos of the Messenger-pigeon service; Great 2-page photo of a captured German Gun-Emplacement at Lens. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
760 pages. Index. References. Black and white photographic plates. Fold-out maps. This volume covers the period from the end of WWI until 1967. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
124 pages. Features: The All Canadian Route of '98; Regimental Depot; Regimental Band; First Battalion Report; Second Battalion Report; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); 2551 PPCLI Cadet Corps; The Royal Green Jackets (The Rifle Brigade); CJATC Report; Mount Hamilton Gault; The Hamilton Gault Trophy; The End of an Era; Lt Col FD Farquar (In Memorium); and more. Gilt lettering and emblem upon forest green flexible cloth boards. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Book
139 pages. Features include: War in Italy, The Naviglio Canal; Regimental Depot; First Battalion; Second Battalion; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); 2551 PPCLI Cadet Corps; The Royal Green Jackets (The Rifle Brigade); Canadian Forces Base Rivers; Brig WG Colquhoun (In Memorium); The US Army Command and General Staff College; The Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct (Cpl Batiuk); PPCLI Association; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Forest Green flexible green cloth boards decorated with gilt lettering and emblem. Nice copy. Book
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispieces, title-vignettes, 6 fine coloured plates (mainly of uniform), 23 plates in monochrome, a folding panorama, 9 folding maps and 7 full-page maps (coloured or coloured in outline), and 32 illustrations (many full-page) and numerous tables and pedigrees in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original regimental cloth, badge blocked in silver on upper boards, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set. One of the great regimental histories. The set comprises Vol. I: 1794-1816; Vol. II: 1816-1898. Including the 75th Regiment 1787-1881. The first editions of these two volumes were published in 1901 and 1903 respectively. The first two volumes constitute a set in themselves. A third volume by Gardyne followed in 1939, and fourth, fifth and sixth volumes by Falls (1958), Miles (1961) and A.D. Gardyne (1972). White, p.120.
2 vols., sm. folio, with many thousands of photographs and maps throughout, and photographic endpapers; original laminated pictorial boards, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's board slip-case. A predictably impressive compilation from the ATB team headed by Karel Margry, based on more than twenty years' research into the battlefields. Covers in great detail both the air (Market) and the ground (Garden) elements of the greatest airborne operation in history. A bright set of a cornerstone of any Arnhem collection.
8vo., First Edition, with 16 full-page maps in the text; regimental grey cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed, creased and frayed at edges. The author served with this famous Canadian regiment throughout WWII. In 1940 it served briefly in France, returned to the UK for further training, landed in Sicily in July 1943, fought on the Italian mainland until early 1945 and then took part in the final battles for Germany. The well-written narrative is based mainly on movements and engagements. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Perkins, p.150