Melville, Lieut. Tom (Scotty)MareMagnum
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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
8vo., First Edition, with 37 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Astonishingly, the first biography of 'Boy' Browning. Mead throws fresh light on the failure at Arnhem, and details Browning's close post-war relationship with the Royal family. In the light of Buckingham's recent critical assessment Browning comes off here very lightly.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Astonishingly, the first biography of 'Boy' Browning. Mead throws fresh light on the failure at Arnhem, and details Browning's close post-war relationship with the Royal family. In the light of Buckingham's recent critical assessment Browning comes off here very lightly.
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
140p. Text bordered with sketches. Illustrated with photographs. Slight foxing. Decorated title page. Tipped in presentation from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Scranton Electric City Post No. 1601 Scranton, Pa. to Mrs. W. P. Hayes from the Legion Commander Edwin Harris. 12mo. Original full limp brown printed wraps. First published 1919. Nice copy. WWI 12
140p. Text bordered with sketches. Illustrated with photographs. Slight foxing. Decorated title page. Tipped in presentation from American Legion York Post No. 127 to Mrs. M. O. Lewis from the Post Commander Louis S. Weaver. 12mo. Original full limp brown printed wraps. First published 1919. Nice copy. WWI 12 x2c
8vo., First Edition; purple cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased at upper edge of rear panel. One of the few eye-witness accounts from a medical viewpoint. Mawson served with 11 Bn Parachute Regiment. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text, small neat service signature on front free endpaper and half-title, faint label scar on front paste-down; original regimental black cloth, upper board blocked in yellow enclosing regimental badge in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Includes list of colonels, war service (to the Great War), and summary record of battalions in WWI. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.114; White, p. 69.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 5 plates (original captioned tissue guard present where called for), 4 folding maps on japon, 8 full-page maps and 5 smaller maps in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original regimental green cloth, regimental crest blocked in silver on upper board, backstrip lettered in silver, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the errata slip mounted at Introduction. Covers 1 Bn (France, Flanders), 2 Bn (Home service, France, Flanders), and 3 Bn (Home service) during WWI. Includes roll of officers, awards & decorations, commissions from ranks. The separate map case is not present with this copy. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.460; White, p.201.
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.
First edition, 4to, xii, 224pp., frontis., 42 plates, some light spotting throughout, orig. publishers white buckram-backed red boards.
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.
4to., First Edition, with plates, and map in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written diaries covering sojourns in Spangenberg, Thorn, Elbersdorf, Eichstatt and Steinburg. Enser, p.186.
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
122 pages. Features: Regimental Notes; The 1960 Rifle Team; An Unforgettable Soldier; Honours and Awards; First Battalion Report; Home Station Report - Second Battalion, Mess Activities, The Depot, Regimental Band, Regimental Museum, PPCLI Cadet Corps; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); PPCLI Regiment; The Rifle Brigade; Letter From England; Two Years with the Rifle Brigade; Canadians in Indo-China; Congo Papers; The 8th of May 1915; Kapyong; Customs of the Service. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Brilliant gilt lettering and emblem upon forest green cloth covered flexible boards. Excellent copy. Book
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, and photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, covers lightly creased else a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and illustrations, maps and pedigrees in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
70 pages. Attractive silver and maroon regimental decoration upon front cover. Printed upon glossy stock. Many black and white photos of members and war scenes. Includes: Photos and biographical information of Commanding Officers; Roll of Honor; Paintings; Honors and Awards; The R.A.P. (Regimental Aid Post], with photos of Captain G.M. Jamieson being decorated by Montgomery; The Story of the Regiment (considerable text supplemented with photos); Two-page map of Northern Europe and the English Channel showing movements of the Regiment. Moderate wear. First page partially free of binding. Minor bits of peeling from front cover. Faint evidence of label removal inside front cover which bears armorial bookplate. 3" x 1" blacked out portion atop page two, contents unaffected. A well-preserved copy of this handsome and proud history. Dornbusch 157, Cooke (2) p.178. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series, edited by Horrocks. Sutcliffe, p.207.
Lille, Danel, 1905. In-4 relié demi chagrin rouge , dos à nerfs, fleurons sur les entre-nerfs, 620 pp.- XII gravures, dont une en couleurs.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text, page edges browning slightly; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. One of the few accounts from a private infantryman: the author served with 1 Border. He was captured at the Hartenstein and held in Stalag IVB Muhlberg until repatriation. Includes 1 Border War Diary, roll call, ROH and list of POWs.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 5 double-page maps on japon, free endpapers browned from fold-ins; original maroon cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back (lettering faded but entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. Written on active service with the Dorsetshire Regiment, these are the author's personal reminiscences of service in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Palestine. Scarce in this condition. Not recorded by Enser.
Tallandier, 1914, publication de la " Société Dunkerquoise ". In - 8° broché, 424 pages. Dos insolé.
First edition, 8vo, xxi, [1], 127, [1]pp., lacks front endpaper, orig. red cloth lettered in gilt, a little faded and stained, 'B.G.H.' in ink on upper cover. Rare, no copy listed on JISC.
Pages 194-284 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Romance of the French Foreign Legion; Adrift in a Mine-Field - two men drift through a mine-field in a crippled seaplane, fending off mines with their bare hands!; That Night - a rice-planter's cyclone ordeal on Bordelieu Island off the Florida coast; An Englishwoman in South America - Mrs. Mayer-Nixson describes the ways of Chilean (Chilian) policemen, the curious manners and customs of the people, and the odd habits of Chilean servants; The End of the Rainbow - an adventure of Etienne, a half-breed trapper in Northern Canada who had not heard of WWI; Rua the Prophet - the curious history of a Maori fanatic, Rua Kenana, who established a native "New Jerusalem" in the heart of the wild and inaccessible Urewera Mountains of New Zealand - article with great photos; Canada's Last Frontier - part II of a photo-illustrated narrative of a trip to Canada's Eskimo country - including a photo of Fort McMurray which was but a tiny clearing in the woods, plus a photo of an early oil well, and the Pelican gas 'gusher' which had been buring for 18 years!; Our Zambezi Lion-Hunt - adventure involving a black-faced lion; The Tale of the "Tara" - the adventures of the crew of the auxilliary cruiser "Tara," torpedoed off the North African coast - photo-illustrated article; Exploring the Black Canyon - A.L. Fellows and W.W. Torrence help tap a river by a tunnel which irrigates a previously barren valley in Colorado. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
