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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
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
Contents: Two photo views of Metz, the capital of Lorraine; Photo in a French trench; Donington Hall and Nelson's Last Prayer; Photo of the last victim of the intrepid Garros - photo shows a downed Taube; Photo of General Galopin reviewing the Garrison of Paris; Photo of men of the Royal Naval Division training in the Crystal Palace; The Great Landing Battles of the Dardanelles; Our Allies at Alexandria set out to meet the Turk - five photos; Turkey's Death Struggle with Forces of Progress - five photos; Planting the Union Jack in German Africa - 4 photos; Charge of the Uhlans - Martyrdom of Rheims - two photos; Britain's Pioneer Regiment in the Line of Fire - four photos; Work for Blinded Soldiers - War's Saddest Victims - five photos; Four photos of war prisoners at work for their captors; Photo of dozens of British bluejackets hauling a heavy gun ashore; Photos of women filling in the gaps while men fill the trenches; The war in the Air - article by C.G. Grey; Britain's Roll of Honoured dead - twenty-one photos; Chronology of events May 1st to May 7th; Photo portrait of Lt.-Gen. Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, C.B. inside back cover. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Missing page 297 and 298. Center page loose but present. An informative issue. Book
Features: How Givenchy defied the Hun - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Pushing Back the Austrians across the Piave; The Black Man's Part in the War - why the German must be kept out of Africa - article by Sir Harry H. Johnston; French troops ready for a raid on the Huns; Where 'Old Glory' is winning new glory in France; Camera Glimpses of war areas west and east; Where the Hun was held and then driven back - Bethune; Interesting items from the Imperial War Museum; Soldiers seek health and relaxation by the sea; Broken wings made whole - warplane repair; Wartime work in French woods and villages; Watering the Regiment - mules haul pakhals full of water; The Empire's Roll of Honour; Homesteads that will rise in France Renewed. Staples disintegrated. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reading copy. Magazine
Features: My Life in the French Foreign Legion, by Trevor S.H. Jones, late 1st Regiment Legion Etrangere Infanterie; The Snow Surveyors - men who keep track of the snowfall in the wild mountain ranges of Canada and the United States; My Pistol - a bride not experienced with firearms receives an automatic as a wedding present; A Sailor Adrift - a sailor ends up working at a Rocky Mountain lumber-camp where he has memorable experiences; Through the "Big Bend" of the Rio Grande by Canoe; The Ordeal of Juan Rosas - an Ecuadoran enters the wilds to cut balsa wood; Hair of the Dog - a story of African superstitions; The Will to Live - An Australian example of human endurance along the coast south of Cairns; A Fool Afoot in France - reprint of a 1929 story of an English Walker in France; One Day's Work - New Zealand Volcano; Military Mystery at Benghazi; and more. Two-inch opening at base of front cover fold. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise Famous Regiments series edited by Lt.-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe, p.300
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.
Photographie encadrée 170 x 105 - 11 Personnages en costume de zouave avec leurs instruments de musique ention Jouve à Tlemcen
108 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration of the Royal 22nd Regiment in Quebec City; Nice colour ad for International Trucks shows them at work in a growing baby-boomer subdivision; Colour-photo ad for GE kitchen mixers in '3 Festive Colours'; Duplessis is Not Unbeatable; Colour photo ad for Hoover Vacuums features lady in heels, dress and apron happily cleaning her home; One-page colour ad for Dodge features Dodge Mayfair Hardtop with push-button transmission; Who Really Owns Canada? - great article by Peter C. Newman explains how outsiders own most of our oil, mining, pulp and other biggest industries; How Man Will Conquer Mars - the detailed story, complete with timetable, of how the first Mars journey may be carried out - with nine illustrations, eight in colour, by Chesley Bonestell (not in Schuetz); I Married a Count - Catherine Cziraky explains how she married Hungarian Count Laszlo Cziraky; You Don't Have to Panic Over Rabies; The B.C. Coast - with large colour night photo of the intersection of Georgia and Granville in Vancouver; One-page photo of logger (faller) beside gigantic cedars he has taken down on the west coast of Vancouver Island; The Most Baffling Show on Television - Holiday Ranch is Canada's most popular show; You Really Run by Electricity - the electrical system of the human body is so ingenious that it makes man's inventions seem like clumsy toys; The Secret of Stolen Love Letters; I Cry at the Movies; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for the Remington 60 de luxe Auto-Home electric shaver shows it at work at home and in a car; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Tappan electric and gas ranges; Fancy half-page ad for Allied Van Lines in bright orange; One-page colour ad for Chevrolet features six of their station wagons for 1956; Classy colour-photo one-page ad for Leonard appliances features glamorous photo of Anne Leonard; Heinz baby food colour-photo ad features mother breastfeeding; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Maxwell House coffee features smiling lady and card game; Classy one-page colour ad for the (yellow) 1956 Chrysler Windsor Newport; Trans-Canada Air Lines ad; Colour Molson's Export ad features smiling newspaper man at quitting time; Half-page Olsonite ad features open toilet seat which eerily resembles a crocodile waiting to snap someone's backside!; One-page colour ad for Ford 225 HP V-8 cars (battling a big truck on the highway); 3/4-page photo ad for Electrohome Fans, of Kitchener, Ontario; Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank colour-photo ad features funky family checking into Motel; Classic colour O'Keefe's Ale ad features lumberman with peavey jumping over floating logs outside mill; Colour ad features five of the 1956 car models made by Packard - Clipper - Studebaker; R.O.T.P. (Regular Officer Training Plan) ad features smiling young man; Labatt's ad features photo of Arthur G. Turner of Toronto delivering ice(?); Nice colour GWG ad inside back cover features lineman climbing utility pole; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad shows four scenes; and more. Unmarked with average wear and external soiling. A sound vintage copy of this stellar issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text, folding maps (several coloured in outline) and endpaper maps; white cloth, upper board blocked in black, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The official history of the Island Dominion's contribution to WWII. Two RA regiments were formed: 166 Field Regiment and 59 Heavy Regiment; almost 3500 men joined the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy; some 700 airmen served as air or ground crew. Includes ROH and awards.
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
Complete set of eight colour plates dated 1951 by artist. Printing date not stated. Each illustration depicts a regimental member in ceremonial dress. Regiments illustrated include: The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, The Seaforth Highlanders, The Toronto Scottish Regiment, The Canadian Scottish Regiment, The 48th Highlanders, The Black Watch - Royal Highland Regiment of Canada; The Calgary Highlanders, and The Essex Scottish. Colour portion of plates measures 8.5" x 6.5". Mat backing for each plate measures 13" x 10". All illustrations stored in sturdy original manilla folder. All plates in pristine condition. Moderate wear to storage folder. An excellent set. Book
Paris, Calman Levy éditeur 1880. In-12 broché de 270 pages + table. Petites rousseurs éparses.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper and another on dedication; original maroon cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, dark red endpapers, some very light age-soiling else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Gerard F. Leather on front paste-down. Plates show badge; colours; uniforms. EXTREMELY SCARCE. White p.55; apparently not recorded by Sutcliffe.
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs and maps in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1971 in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series edited by Sir Brian Horrocks. This expanded edition includes the regiment's service in Northern Ireland (1969-83) and the Falklands campaign (1982).
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 45 plates (12 in colour) and 13 illustrations in the text; original cloth gilt, gilt back, covers lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Covers several eighteenth century campaigns, then the Peninsula, Walcheren and Waterloo, and later nineteenth century campaigns including Java, Nepal, the Mahratta Wars, the Crimea, New Zealand and so on. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. Sutcliffe, p.98; White, p.67.
An account of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch) in Mesopotamia - the two years spent by the Battalion in Iraq. When published both the regiment and author were kept anonymous. Gilt title on front cover. 165 pages, many photographs. Includes Summary of Officer Casualties, List of Officers who Served, Nominal roll of W.Os, N.C.Os., and men killed in action and list of same reported 'Missing' or 'Wounded' Covers worn at extremities, page edges greyed with dust marks. Inscription on recto of frontispiece photograph.
8vo., First Edition, with 2 folding maps, free endpapers lightly browned; red cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a good, bright, clean copy. Includes North Africa, Italy, Sicily, Arnhem. Enser, p.19.
8vo., Second Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1948. The author was one of the earliest volunteers.
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Includes North Africa, Italy, Sicily, Arnhem. First published as 'First Airborne' by Secker & Warburg in 1948. Enser, p.19 (recording the original edition).
