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1924BIB143631Adelaide: The Hassell Press. 1924. Octavo Size approx 14x22cm. Good Condition -a very solid copy. Spine and outside edges of front board a little sunned. Ex-Institutes Association of South Australia so has a bookplate to front pastedown a small sticker to spine small stamps to a few pages and sticker to rear board. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Very scarce first edition. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 206 pages. The 9th Light Horse Regiment was formed in Adelaide and trained in Melbourne between October 1914 and February 1915. Approximately three-quarters of the regiment hailed from South Australia and the other quarter from Victoria. As part of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade it sailed from Melbourne on 11 February and arrived in Egypt on 14 March 1915. . Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. The Hassell Press hardcover
2009018921Brisbane QLD Australia: A. Green 2009. 206 pages with b/w illustrations. Facsimile of the 1924 edition. . FACSIMILE EDITION Number 43 of 400 . Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A. Green Hardcover
005840London: Blackie & son tan cloth with khaki and brown illustrated cover and spine gilt titled spine light wear or handling soiling original endpapers edges dusted khaki colour viii 292pp plates some minor foxing to closed edges and margins actually very tidy copy. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Arch. Webb. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Blackie & son hardcover
1916EU6071New York: The Macmillan Company 1916. First Edition. HB. Dark blue cloth gilt lettering on front cover and spine 12mo 149 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Clean unmarked book binding tight. Covers show very light edge wear. Book condition VG. First printing November 1916. Rosher 1893-1916 was killed at Dover in February 1916 while test flying a repaired airplane. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1334671737.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1919MX8107Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1919. First Edition. HB. Brown cloth dark brown lettering on front cover and spine 8vo 455 pp. The 112th Infantry Regiment was a Pennsylvania National Guard unit mustered into Federal service during World War I that saw action during the Second Battle of the Marne and at the MeuseÐArgonne offensive. No marks in book binding tight. Covers show light edge wear. Book condition VG. J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover
1996024915Hillsboro TX: Hill College Press 1996. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Royal blue cloth lettered in gold foil. As issued. ix126 pp. illus. Light gray illus. dust jacket very slightly rubbed on rear panel vritually as issued now in archival mylar. Hill College Press Hardcover
19955959Valparaiso IN: Saint George Marketing 1995 . First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 4to 76 pages cloth. O.P. <br/><br/>The first book to cover the involvement of 450 volunteer men from Gary Indiana's Serbian community. President Woodrow Wilson authorized the recruitment of Serbian-Americans to fight in the war. By 1916 They were actively involved in the conflict until December 1918 losing more than half of the volunteers in the process. Extensively illustrated. Saint George Marketing hardcover
191860116Boston: The Page Co. 1918. Tall 8vo. xii 4 319 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 16 photo plates. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art of young girl peeking out through window at passing German soldiers lettering in red & gilt very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art of woman in red white & blue holding shield & sword w/ running German soldier chipping & tears to upper fore-edge some lettering perished minor chipping to spine dustsoiling still NF/G- copy. First edition of this pseudonymous memoir recounting a young woman’s experiences studying with the Berlin Opera from 1916 to early 1918 when she manages to return back home to Boston MA. She recounts recurring and arbitrary restrictions curfews expired documents Americans summarily executed in police stations struggles while studying music fending off suitors until finally securing an admirer’s assistance to obtain a precious Norwegian passport and visas to return to the U.S. Very scarce with original dustjacket. The Page Co., hardcover
185876163Edinburgh and London W. & R. Chambers 1858. 4to. x584pp. Colour frontispiece and 10 colour lithograph plates and maps some double-page. Many wood-engraved text illustrations. Preliminary pages foxed. An account of the Crimean War fought from October 1853 until February 1856. In this war an alliance of France the Ottoman Empire the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia defeated Russia. unknown
1332540880.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1940biblio132London Melbourne: Hutchinson 1940. Fine. <p>Original blue cloth XVII 25015 p ill photos an almost perfect copy</p><p><strong>William Edmund Ironside 1st Baron Ironside</strong> GCB CMGCBE DSO 6 May 1880 - 22 September 1959 was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World WarIn September 1918 he was attached to the Allied expeditionary force fighting the Bolsheviks in northern Russia and in November given command of the force This was his first independent command and he threw himself fully into it; for over a year he travelled continually along the Northern Dvina river to keep control of his scattered international forces at one point narrowly escaping assassination However the Red Army managed eventually to gain a superior position in the Civil War and in late 1919 he was forced to abandon the White Army to their fate In November he handed command over to Henry Rawlinson who would supervise the eventual withdrawal and returned to Britain Ironside was made a Knight Commander of the Bath and promoted to substantive major-general for his efforts; this made him one of the youngest major-generals in the army</p> Hutchinson hardcover
1915GV6866London: Longmans Green and Co 1915. HB. Quarter dark brown cloth and tan paper covered boards gilt lettering on spine and brown lettering with paste-down photo of Botha on front cover 8vo 68 pp. Illustrated with "Five Diagrams and Eighty-two Illustrations mostly by the author." This copy does not contain the photographs of rebels after page 8 that was ordered removed by military censors. Account of the campaign in German Southwest Africa led by General Louis Botha 1862-1919 at the start of World War I. Book shows light foxing minor soiling to edges of text block and covers binding tight. Book condition VG-. Longmans, Green and Co hardcover
195732753London: Robert Hale Limited 1957. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarlet morocco-backed scarlet cloth. A very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. The story of the June 1942 brutal massacre of the Czech village of Lidice by the Nazis following the murder of Reinhard Heydrich the German Deputy Reich protector in Bohemia and Moravia. Robert Hale Limited unknown
1964302-0981London: Jarrolds 1964. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Textured blue boards. The spine is stamped in white. Octavo. 288pps. There is bumping to the tips and light reading wear. Otherwise clean tight square and bright. No previous ownership markings. The colorful price-clipped dustjacket glossy in a mylar sleeve has light rubbing and wear to the tips and the spine-ends. A nice copy of this Reeman title who is perhaps better known for his pseudonym Alexander Kent. "In January 1944 Rudolf Steiger one of Germany's most successful and dedicated U-boat commanders was sent to the small French harbour of St. Pierre on the Bay of Biscay. With the Battle of The Atlantic reaching a peak of unsurpassed ferocity Steiger's task was to lead a newly-formed group of nine U-boats from a base which hitherto had been a quiet backwater in Occupied France." Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Jarrolds hardcover
19161076Geneva/Geneve: 1916 1916. First Edition. Hardcover in original cloth. Fine. 4to. Pp. 69. Lavishly illustrated with lush b&w photo reproductions. Bound in is a diploma for a driver/agent: Diplome Occupation Des Frontieres Suisse Schweizerische Grenzbesetzung 1914 1915 1916 which is signed and stamped in ink; evidently a certificate for use as border patrol service during WWI. Half cloth binding with paper-covered boards which are stamped and feature a mounted color printed emblem. In sum an elaborate memento of Swiss neutrality during WWI emphasizing rightfully so Switzerland's celebrated independence. The photos especially well executed depict border crossings sometimes bucolic sometimes mountainous and the various vehicles used by agents to navigate those difficult roads. A particularly pleasing copy. 1916 hardcover
19000086438Wisconsin: np 1900. Wraps. Very Good. A large unique book ca. 1900 14 x 8.5 inches vertically oriented; softcover about 100 pages of typescript in purple carbon very seldom with ink corrections culled from “The Republic†— probably the Baraboo Republic a newspaper of the period published in Baraboo the county seat of Sauk County Wisconsin this book with material relating to the Iron Brigade the 6th Wisconsin Regiment of volunteers who fought for the Union in the Civil War and also concerning the Sauk County Riflemen. It apparently was compiled by a veteran-turned-historian who concludes this compilation writing “Returned to private life -- became the 'man behind the hoe' instead of 'behind the gun.’†Very rare and a great resource for anyone interested in this period of Wisconsin history. np unknown
194220381Dresden: Dr. Güntz-Druck 1942 . First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. Tall quarto over size. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. More so to dust jacket with chipping at the edges a bit of soiling and and browning. Slight soiling and spotting on the edges of the text block. Approx. 180 unnumbered pages with many b& white photographic illustrations. Includes battles and scences in Yugoslavia Greece and Crete. The VIII Fliegerkorps was lead by General der Flieger Freiherr v. Richthofen and fought on almost all fronts during WWII but primarily in the East. Has a Nazi swastika on the dj and board covers. <br/><br/> Dr. Güntz-Druck hardcover
9999_04636München ca. 1941. 1st Edition . Print. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Single sheet board game. Comprising of folding colour illustrated sheet of ca. 32x44 cm. Game rules are printed at the right hand side. Very small old repairs at outer edges of folds on verso. In about fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Extremely rare fun and educational game for the young children of the Third Reich. The aims and rules of game are self explanatory: "An diesem interessanten Spiel können bis zu fünf Personen teilnehmen. Jeder Spieler erhält eine Figur ein Kriegsschiff oder ein Kampfflugzeug zum Setzen auf den vorgezeichneten Gefechtsweg. Es wird mit einem Würfel gespielt. Wer zuerst sechs würfelt beginnt. Er hat das Spiel zu leiten und die Spielregeln sowie die Erläuterungen vorlesen. Die Reihenfolge der übrigen Spieler richtet sich nach der erzielten höchsten Augenzahl. Bei allen roten Nummern sind die Erläuterungen besonders zu beachten. Wer zuerst am Ziel eintrifft das durch direkten Wurf erreicht werden muss ist der Sieger und erhält den ausgesetzten Preis." Plate only illustrated by Römer without the paper figures. X-4 <br/> <br/> München, ca. 1941. unknown
19974526London & Portland OR: Frank Cass 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo 190 pages cloth <br/><br/>Issued in the Cass Series on the Soviet Study of War. "The Red Army's disastrous experiences in the Russo-Finnish War led to a comprehensive reassessment of Soviet winter fighting tactics. WW a translation of Soviet material obtained from German and Soviet archives shows many of the practical winter combat lessons learned by the Red Army as a direct result of its defeats in that conflict." List price: $195. Illustrated. Frank Cass hardcover
1977011522Wilmington Massachusetts U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin 1977. 1167 pages maps and photos index. This volume of the Official Biography covers the period in the 1920's when Churchill was Chancellor and then continues through the Wilderness Years of the 1930's when he was out of office and warning oif the Nazi menace. Bound uniform with other volumes. This was the first volume to go out of print and is now the most sought and highest priced. Light wear/chipping to dj. Ink note along top edge of the ffep. 1st American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
1971004282Boston MA U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company 1971. This volume of the Official Biography covers the period from the start of WW1 through Churchill's fall from office following the Dardanelles and on through 1916 when he returned from service on the front. 988 pages maps and photos index. DJ spine sunned. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1971003009Boston MA U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company 1971. This volume of the Official Biography covers the period when David Lloyd George was in office the First World War ended and Churchill was again moving up the ladder. 967 pages maps and photos index. Has notations inside front cover and light underlinining on approx 10 pages. DJ has small tear at top of spine. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover
1986004033New York NY U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company 1986. Book has 1417 pages/photos. DJ has tear at bottom that has been repaired. Volume VII in the series on Winston Churchill by Martin Gilbert. Book begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor and ends on V.E. Day. Small tear on back of dj. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1986002573New York NY U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company 1986. Book has 1417 pages/photos. DJ has tear at bottom that has been repaired. Volume VII in the series on Winston Churchill by Martin Gilbert. Book begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor and ends on V.E. Day. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
