Nicholson, Lt.-Col. J.B.R. (Editor)MareMagnum
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40 pages. Features: 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers (Watson's Horse); 7th Light Cavalry; 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry; The Royal Deccan Horse (9th Horse); 10th Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force); Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (11th Frontier Force); Same Browne's Cavalry (12th Frontier Force); 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers; Dress Regulations for the Indian Calvalry, Indian Army Regulations, Volume VII, 1913; Duke of Cambridge receiving Native Officers of the 9th Bengal Lancers, Malta, 1878; 2nd Bengal Lancers. Undated but appears to be circa 1985. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of writing on front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Features: Daniel - Potter Feud... a grim Arkansas frontier recollection of bloodletting whose beginning had no neutral witnesses; Beloved Cowboy, Ben Bird; D. Storms' High Mesa - there was a strange alliance between river refugees and a lawyer few people ever really understood (Stormsville); The Ancient Eel Trail; Mule Meat and Shoe Leather - travails on the 19th Kansas Cavalry; Seeking the Lost Adam; A Frontier Doctor - Part I; Deadwood, South Dakota; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The more you make, the less it buys - Prices are rising rapidly - prices of many goods and services over the past 10 years are presented in charts; Yes, it is a coffin - Jean-Marc Beliveau of Sarcofab says his company's caskets will keep their integrity longer; $600 and all the dirt you can eat - motocross racing - many colour photos; four pages of lovely colour nature photos from across Canada; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family; Bernie Welch wants you - to join the Household Cavalry and guard the Queen. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Cover photo of the Prince of Wales presenting colours to Canadians; Conclusion of Chapter CCCIX - Wonders of Wireless in the War; Chapter CCCX - The Empire and the War - Progress of the Overseas Dominions and India, 1914-18; photo of Princess Patricia decorating Canadian colours and inspecting the P.P.C.L.I.; Great centerfold photo of Anzac Day in London, 25 April, 1919 - Australian Cavalry marching down Fleet St.; Photos of Officers of the Canadian 4th Division leaving Liverpool for the west; and more. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Illustration Features: a couple of Spahis (Algerian Cavalry) on patrol; The epic story of Lieven and Lagnicourt - article on how the Australians broke the Prussian Guard; 'Tanks' at work on British and French fronts; Work and play behind the lines in the West; Vandal Passion and British Phlegm under fire; Conquerors of Courcy - Russians in Champagne; Forward with the Tricolour North of Soissons; What Italy's Navy is doing - article be Dr. James Murphy; Ships that keep watch and ward in the Adriatic; Ousting the Hun from the shelter of Oppy Wood; The Serbian as I know him - article by H. Charles Woods; One Trawler that tackled 4 U-boats at once; Courageous women nurses; Fokker and Albatros and some of their fallen flyers; Prussia's ruthless havoc in the Somme Valley; The Seventh (7th) Australian Infantry. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
The Old Times Come Again, by Max Pemberton who explains how Christmas is re-won. Photos of the 'Great Leaders Who Have Saved The World.". The First U.S. President to visit Europe - 3 photos including smiling shot of Woodrow Wilson. Photos of U.S. vessels which protected convoys, including the destroyer Warmington and the destroyer Shaw. The Wonderful Year, article by Sir Sidney Low. Portrait of Marshal Foch. Photo of the formal re-entry of the Belgians into Liege. Photos of British Cavalry entering Spa. My four war Christmases, by Hamilton Fyfe. Photos of mementoes gathered for the Great War Museum. Photo of General Maistre, commander of a French Army Group, distributing decorations in front of Rheims Cathedral. Photos of civilian prisoners trudging back to France from Germany. With the Editor by Air (aboard the Handley Page) to France & Back Again - article and photos. Photos of desecrated statues in Metz. New Names in our Old Navy, by Percival A. Hislam. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
Features: Pirate's Cove, California - Drake's Golden Hinde; Bugler, Sound the Advance! - the Cavalry; Breezy Cox - Champion all-round cowboy; Best of the Pockethunters - Pike Bell; N.C. Wyeth - Painter of men in action!; The Bitter Trip Back - Nathaniel Wyeth and the Green River Rendezvous; Treasure in a Syrup Can - a metal detecting success story; Revenge - Montenegrin style - Taft, Montana; Cache of the Thundering Horses - the Organ Mountains, New Mexico; How a Great Lawman Died - Bill Tilghman, Cromwell, Oklahoma; Lost Gold of the Lavas, Idaho; Old Sharpy of Buzzard Roost Ranch - W.T. (Tom) Sharp of Malahite in the Huerfano Valley, Colorado; Bulldoggers!; Wild Old Days!; Terlingua Flapdoodle. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: British Cavalry in a bombarded village; The King's visit to the Clyde Shipyards and Works; Great 2-page photo of the King's visit to the Clyde - The Investiture in Ibrox Park, Glasgow; The 4th Ghurkas (one page article with 2 photos); Heavy gun position on the French Oise front; Portrait of Sir Auckland-Geddes, K.C.B., Minister of National Service; 2 page photo of supplying ammunition to the Flanders front; On the British front at Flanders. Staples disintegrating. Average wear. Book
1st edition, original cloth, 4to, 34 cm. 563+ xxii pages. Illustrations and photographs throughout. In Polish. SUBJECT (S) : Heer. Geschichte 1918-1928. Wars of 1918-1921 (Poland) . History. Military history. 1918-1945. Polen. Przy wspólpracy: Wojskowego Biura Historycznego. OCLC: 4962575, OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide. Colorful cover with red, white, gold, and silver. Some wear to cover and spine, primarily on edges, tape residue inside cover and on front end page. Good Condition Overall. (AC-20-21)
Octavo. Pp. 366. Hardcover, bound in contemporary green pebbled half cloth and matching marbled boards, spine gilt, inner hinges neatly restored in cloth, old military institutional stamp at bottom of title; bit browned due to paper quality, corner-tips bit bumped. In good condition. ~ First edition. First volume, complete in itself. Otto Digeon von Monteton (1822-1913). Rare original edition.
PARIS/LIMOGES, H. Charles-Lavauzelle - 1895 - In-16 - Cartonnage éditeur (Dos fragile)- 59 gravures en texte - 192 pages PARIS/NANCY (T.II & III) - 1899 - In-16 - Cartonnage éditeur - Nombreuses illustrations en texte, Musique avec partitions - 175 & 138 pages - légères mouillures, Sinon beaux exemplaires - Bel ensemble en cartonnage editeur - envoi rapide et soigné
Paris, Chez Magimel, Libraire pour l'art militaire, an XIII- 1805 - In-12 -Reliure plein veau de l'époque frottée, coins usées - 12 pages - 126 planches, beaucoup dépliantes, (manque n°) 52) quelques planches avec taches marginales (mentionné 126 planches, mais planches bis & ter, soit 128 planches)- Envoi rapide et soigné
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. 'One of the best personal memoirs of tank life in the desert and Italy, one that takes you to the moment' (Smith). Smith, p.23.
8vo., First Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece and 10 sepia-toned plates on 8, small neat date stamp on front free endpaper; teracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in navy blue, a good, clean copy. The first contemporary account of the RAC in the early years of WWII, including Egypt, Dieppe, Crete, Mandlay and Rangoon. 'Despite being written during the war the propaganda tone is kept to a modest level' (Smith). Enser, p. 34; Smith, p. 291; Sutcliffe, p.134; White, p.9.
Book is quite clean with light scuffing to covers, a little edge wear. Spine is solid and square, binding is tight, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Chapters include Logistics, Tactics, Group assault tactics. Lots of B&W step-by-step photos, action shots, 108 pages. We are an actual bookstore of 20+ years. All shipments are packed individually in protective wrapping.
Octavo. Pp. (iii), (156) consisting of 78 double-page tables, (vi). Handsome vignette of a mounted knight to title-page. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter morocco and matching paper-covered boards, vellum French corners, spine gilt, black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, old expert mend to joint, pink ribbon marker; spine-ends bit worn, minor spot or two. In a very good condition. A clean, tight copy, well preserved. ~ First edition. Extremely rare.
Crown quarto. Pp. iv, 206. Hardcover, bound in contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards with the original printed wrapper laid-down, old shelf tickets to spine, old military institutional stamps to title and first few leaves; last endpapers bit foxed. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Rare.
4to. First Edition with 16 coloured plates on 12 60 monochrome plates on 32 and very numerous maps and plans (many full-page) in the text; regimental cloth with badge blocked in gilt on upper board gilt back red endpapers a very good bright clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and 22 maps; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Mallinson gives a concise account of the formation of the regiment from the amalgamation of 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars. Already elusive in this condition. Sutcliffe, p.82
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and 22 maps; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Mallinson gives a concise account of the formation of the regiment from the amalgamation of 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars. Already elusive in this condition. Sutcliffe, p.82
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 numerous illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise 'Famous Regiments' series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe, p.53.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, 15 coloured plates on 12 and very numerous monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text; green regimental cloth with badge blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Crown octavo. Pp. 232. Plus folding chromolithograph map at end. Sketch maps and formations. Original blue stiff wrappers decoratively lettered in gilt, old shelf tickets to cover and spine, remnants of another ticket, old military institutional stamps to title; slight foxing. In a very good internal condition. ~ Fifth edition.
