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1981373789Whittington Lichfield UK: The Stafford Knot 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine set in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 13 issues. Contents; No. 44 April 1981 ; No. 48 April 1983 ; No. 49 October 1983 ; No. 50 April 1984 ; No. 51 October 1984 ; No. 52 April 1985 ; No. 53 October 1985 ; No. 54 April 1986 ; No. 55 October 1986 ; No. 56 April 1987 ; No. 57 October 1987 ; No. 58 April 1988 ; Trooping The Colour: 16th June 1990. Subjects; The Stafford Knot. The Staffordshire Regiment. British Military. Whittington, Lichfield (UK): The Stafford Knot paperback
186432582Columbia: Evans and Cogswell 1864. Stiff wraps. Good. 12mo. 278 pages. Stiff paper boards with title on the front cover. Black cloth spine. Covers are worn and discolored. It appears the covers are facsimiles. Light to moderate foxing to the contents. Pencil inscription on the right front flyleaf reads "Col. Samuel W Milton from the publishers." <br /> <br /> The author wrote this book during his recovery from wounds in battle. He dedicates this work to Jefferson Davis. Jefferson Davis thanks the author and calls him "a master of the art of war" on page 12. Confederate imprint.<br /> <br /> Parrish & Willingham 4953; Confederate Hundred 60; Sabin 44651. The previous owner served as an Assistant Adjutant General under Samuel Cooper from 1863 to the end of the war. From Find A grave dot com taken from the Biography of Eminent Men of the Carolinas: <br /> <br /> Samuel Wickiff how it is spelled in the obit Melton was born in Yorkville S. C. February 7 183 hard to read. Receiving his early education in Yorkville he graduated from the South Carolina college in the class of 1852. He edited the Chester Standard published in Chester in 1852 and 1854. Then he returned to Yorkville and established the Yorkville Examiner on January 1 1855 running it until 1858 when he sold out to Lewis M. Grist. In the meantime in 1857 he was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law with his brother C. D. Melton at Chester continuing until the war broke out. He enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 on the staff of Gen. M L. Bonham as aid-de-camp accompanying him to Virginia remaining with him until after the first battle of Bull Run. Subsequently he went on the staff of Maj. Gen. Gustavius W. Smith commanding the Second corps he having the rank of major. He remained with Gen. Smith until February 1863 and was then assigned to duty in the office of the adjutant and inspector general of the Confederate army at Richmond where he remained until the close of the war. He was in the first battle of Bull Run in the Peninsular campaign in the battles around Richmond at Seven Pines the campaign in 1863 in North Carolina and temporarily on the staff of Gen. Beauregard at the battle of Drury's Bluff. The chief duties however from early in 1862 to the close of the war were in the adjutant general's office in Richmond. Evans and Cogswell unknown
1992152418London: privately printed 1992. Foreword by General Sir Geoffrey Howlett. Pp. xii208 32 plates appendices including Honours and Awards bibliography abbreviations index; med. 8vo; blue papered boards spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown ownership name Kevin Murdoch on upper free endpaper edges of leaves lightly foxed; privately printed London 1992. Limited to 400 copies. Sutcliffe 1/p. 307. With a hand-written letter to owner from 'Len' who was in every action but one mentioned in the book. privately printed unknown
1944054986Corpus Christi TX: Aviation Cadet Regiment U.S. Naval Air Training Center 1944. Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 319pp.photo section&adverts; HB quarter-bound; white burlap&blue w/blue&gilt; rubbed w/lg.stainft.cover-PON&info.ft.cover; wear on edges&corners w/some soil; hinges cracked w/2"teartitle; cleantight pages except for info on pertinent pages by previous owner -Ray Jackson Rogers of Corona NM. Rogers' separation paper tipped in bk.endpaper w/more infobk.pastedwn. signed by Rogers. historical. <br/> <br/> Aviation Cadet Regiment, U.S. Naval Air Training Center hardcover
194429773Corpus Christi TX: Cadet Regiment U.S. Naval Air Training Center. Blue spine olive covers. Slight wear/soiling. Interior and binding excellent. LG . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1944. Cadet Regiment U.S. Naval Air Training Center hardcover
[6], 229 pages. Black and white photographic plates, including frontis portrait of Officer Commanding Lieut.-Col. Earle P. Hall, C.D. Footnotes. An authoritative account of the regiment compiled from a wide variety of sources, including the Department of National Defence, The Department of Veterans Affairs, the Public Archives of Canada, and elsewhere. Prior owner's name and dates upon front free endpaper. Moderate wear to publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Binding intact. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. 24 x 16cm. A sound copy of this informative history. Dornbusch 277, Cooke [3] p252. Book
190530423Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Co 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 406 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Fold-out maps in front and back. Brown cloth hardcover with faded gilt title on spine. Title on spine faded. Right front corner is dented. Maps and the rest of contents are in very good condition. Harrisburg Publishing Co hardcover
1916031383New York: The Seventh Regiment Gazette 1916. Single issue April 1916 of this military magazine "devoted to the interests of the Seventh Regiment and the National Guard" this one honoring Colonel Willard C. Fisk. Softcover 24 pages. Some light finger smudging to covers center pages loosening at staples pages clean with a trace of occasional finger soil no names or other markings. Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Seventh Regiment Gazette Paperback
xxiv, 559, [65] pages. Eight fold-out maps. Black and white photographic plates. "Almost sixty years have passed since the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada was authorized as a regiment in the Canadian Militia. This volume covers the story of the regiment from the time it returned home in 1919 up to the present day." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A superb copy. Edwards & Lort 3060. Hale 2487. Cuddy & Scott page 77, Cooke (2nd Edn) page 185. Book
1920423691London :G. Bell and Sons 1920. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Worn tissue-guards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxiv 408 p. 59 leaves of plates : ill. some col. ports. facsims. ; 33 cm. Subjects: Great Britain Royal Regiment of Artillery History; World War 1914-1918; Personal narratives British; Great Britain. London :G. Bell and Sons hardcover
1933010437Aldershot: Gale & Polden. First edition thus. Hard cover. Published Aldershot: Gale & Polden 1933. 8vo. xv88pp. illus frontis color plates b/w drawings. Blus cloth with gilt cover crest marbled endpaers. Ownership inscription of Frederick G. Walters Royal Fusiliers 1915-1919 who was shot in the leg during service. Some sunning to the spine along with a band of fade on front cover few spots of fox on top edge of page block else near fine clean bright. . Very Good Plus. Hard. 1st. 1933. Gale & Polden unknown
193826467Aldershot: Gale & Polden 1938. reprint. Near Fine. octavo. orig. dec. cloth xv 90pp. col. frontis. col. & b/w pls. appends. index Nice short history of the Regiment Gale & Polden hardcover
1920151344London: R.A. War Commemoration Fund 1920. Pp. xxiv408 title page printed in red & black collotype frontispiece portrait of H.M. King George V with 1 cm. closed tear into margin from centre of fore-edge 12 hand-tipped and 13 coloured plates plus 9 sepia and 16 black & white plates text illustrations decorative bordered endpapers The Victoria Cross section printed in red & black roll of Honour 1914-1919 a poem by Anita Dudley some representative artillerymen biographies and collotype portrait with guard and 6 black & white plates of portraits; roy. 4to; navy cloth lettered and decorated in gilt the boards heavily faded more so on upper board spine browned edges worn fore-corners lightly frayed; t.e.g. others uncut; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown endpapers offset scattered foxing throughout occasionally heavy unidentified former owner's armorial bookplate on upper pastedown; R.A. War Commemoration Fund/G. Bell and Sons Ltd. London 1920. First edition. White p. 29. R.A. War Commemoration Fund unknown
1875151716London: Nichols and Sons 1875. Founded upon an account of the Regiment commenced by the late Sir J. Maxwell Steele-Graves Bart. Pp. x188 title page printed in red & black frontispiece 1 plate appendix index errata slip; demy 8vo; blue cloth over bevelled boards lettered in gilt and ruled in blind gilt insignia to upper board edges lightly worn; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown small split in fore-edge of a couple of leaves scattered foxing; printed for the Compiler by Nichols and Sons London 1875. First edition. White p. 150; Sutcliffe 1/p. 178. From the Military Collection of Anne S. K. Brown with her bookplate on upper pastedown and later from the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine with his Militaria book label also on upper pastedown. Inscribed on a preliminary blank: 'E. C. S. Tompson Oxfordshire Militia with the very kind regards of the writer - Minchinhampton Camp July 1876.'. Nichols and Sons unknown
149707Edinburgh: Association of Lowland Scots 1925. With a foreword by The Right Hon. Lord Salvesen. In two volumes. Pp. xxviii4342xii435-826 frontispiece tissue guard 21 plates plus 13 plates of Officers of the Royal Scots 31 full page text maps including 2 folding plus 11 folding maps several coloured at end of volumes appendices indices; demy 8vo; navy cloth lettered and decorated in gilt & blind; uncut t.e.g.; dust wrappers lightly soiled and browned edges slightly worn and split dust wrapper for Volume II with long split along portion of back flap fold and a chip and closed tear into back panel; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedowns leaves browned endpapers lightly browned and offset; published for the Association of Lowland Scots by Oliver & Boyd Edinburgh 1925. First edition. White p. 50; Sutcliffe 1/p. 21. Association of Lowland Scots unknown
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
244 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. The events surrounding the march of New York's famous Seventh Regiment to the defense of Washington during the critical opening months of the Civil War. Unobtrusive library markings to interior only. Average wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. Book
qms1594U. S. Naval Academy n.d. ca. 1919. 10 1/2 inches x 7 inches. illustrated heavy cardstock folding card with printed tissue wrapper. Small name card & photograph laid-in W. Burgess Broadhurst Midshipman United States Navy. Small signed photograph of Sender glued to interior of card; otherwise Fine in a chipped tissue wrapper in original torn envelope. Small typed card explaining history of piece laid-in. unknown books
1997097519Queens Royal Surrey Regiment Museum 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 108 page illustrated PB. very good tight square copy. A little light foxing to the edges of the covers otherwise fine. Scarce. Pictoral card boards with blue lettering to front. Queens Royal Surrey Regiment Museum paperback
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.
1940350155London and Melbourne: Hutchinson and Co. Publishers Ltd. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy bound in the original clothe with a paper label to the front boards. Wear and tear as with age with some loss to the spine. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Library marks remain. Provenance; City of Leeds Public Libraries with its bookplate. Physical description; 7 pages of colour illustrated maps. Subjects; Leslie C. Hunt. British Military Prisoners. World War II. London and Melbourne: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd. hardcover
pp. x, 219, (4) [Publisher's catalogue] + Folding map. Text illustrated with maps. XLib. Bookplate of R.E. Chislett. 12mo. 190 mo.Original full dark blue cloth binding, lettered in gold. Front board decorated in blind with rifle, sword and bayonet. Extremities only slightly worn. XLib. Hardbound. Very Good. W25 / YORK HS
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
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
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