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Features: If Ho Chih Minh's Army Moves South in Force...; William F. Buckley seeks the Mayor's job in New York; The Wonder is There have been So Few Riots - American Racism; The Way it Was in the London Blitz - Londoners look back with nostalgia; Saga of Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (Garbot); TV Shows for the new season - Eagle in a Cage with Trevor Howard, The Steve Lawrence Show, I Spy with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, Henry Moore - Man of Form, Trials of O'Brien - Peter Falk, and Jimmy Durante meets the Lively Arts; Feliciano Bejar's Special Niche in Mexico. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
x, 148 pages. Index. Black and white photos. Errata page. "My aim in attempting to write this is to humbly present to the Indian public, a life of a true soldier who has come out with original ideas and shone high above the others on all controversial and national view-points. Here I have touched Cariappa's career in the Army and his subsequent activities as a public man who is still active with his 'self-appointed good-will missions' to Pakistan." - Preface. Armorial bookplate upon front free endpaper. Faint erasure inside front board. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
pp. xv, 807. Extensive index and footnotes. Numerous fold-out colour maps and black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. Second printing of the 1956 first edition. "Describes in detail Canada's part in the Italian campaign - the operations which began with the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and, developing into an arduous advance up the Italian peninsula, ended with the German capitulation in May 1945. Directed primarily to the general reader, and particularly to the Canadian reader who wishes to know what the Canadian Army accomplished and why its operations took the course they did." - Foreword. Gilt emblem and lettering upon publisher's red cloth. Prior owner's name and date discretely upon first blank leaf. Dust jacket not included. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important and highly informative history. Enser p.96, Cooke [3rd Edn] p. 259. Book
48 pages. Features: Nice colour photo ad for Oldsmobile cars inside front cover; Fargo truck ad; Canada's Fighting Forces - Part 2 - The New Army - particle with photos; Interesting comments on the war from London by Beverley Baxter; Road's End (fiction); The Pertinacious Pole - a short story about hockey involving a Polish fellow; White Gold - The grand business success skiiing has brought to the Laurentians - article with photos; The Stowaway (fiction); Moving Quebec to Idaho - article and photos of movie "Northwest Passage"; Frank Cyril James - new Principal at McGill University - photo and article; Wings of Hazard (fiction) part 2 of 5); Dodge car ad; Plymouth car ad; Ontario Premier M.F. Hepburn is pictured in a war solidarity ad sponsored by the Automotive Industries of Canada; Red Horner, Syl Apps and Gordie Drillon are featured in an Alka-Seltzer ad; Dodge Truck ad; Army Grub, New Style - interesting article and photos on cooking for the Canadian Army; colour ad inside back cover by the Department of Fisheries encourages Canadians to eat fish. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Please note: page 6/7 missing - It appears to have been an ad. A worthy vintage copy. Book
385-480, [102] ads, pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic illustrations. Features: Barracks Group and Hospital of the U.S. Army School of Military Aeronautics at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio - Joseph N. Bradford, Architect; The Debt of Landscape Art to a Museum of Trees; Modern Industrial Plants, Part I; Housing for Women War Workers; Henry Hering's Sculpture for the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; Portfolio of Current Architecture; The Work of Olmsted Brothers - Part I; The Character of Renaissance Architecture; The Expressiveness of Light; The Architect's Library - war books of the French Cathedrals - Part IV; Notes and Comments. Average external wear. Library stamp atop front cover, otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
346 pages including glossary, notes, index and black and white photographic plates. The story of a group of Canadian Army officers who volunteered to serve in the British Army in Europe between D-Day, 1944, and V-E Day, 1945, in a scheme called CANLOAN. Author was one of the participants and has based this work upon research supplemented by the recollections of survivors. A vivid account both of the experiences of the CANLOAN officers and of the scheme itself, from the initial concept to its realization. Presents slit-trench views of the battles in Normandy, Arnhem, Italy, the Rhineland and beyond the Rhine. Covers the role of the platoon commander in battle, the experiences of prisoners of war, the wounded, and the 50 Ordnance Corps volunteers who with 623 junior infantry officers made up CANLOAN. This copy appears to have come from a low circulation library, perhaps in a senior's home. Stickers have been removed from dust jacket and their former presence is nearly invisible. Otherwise, dust jacket remains very attractive and shows only light wear. Prior owner's address label and three small library stamps upon decorated front endpaper. No other markings to book which is clean and bears light wear. Blue boards decorated with gilt. A lovely copy. Book
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wilderness, only to become leader of a tribe of Indians which he then led in battle against the cream of the Brazilian army; Our Seaplane Fishing Trip - Summary of a novel seaplane trip recently carried out by a party of Pacific Coast anglers with the assistance of Ellard A. Bacon, manager of the Pacific Marine Airways, a passenger seaplane line operating between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island - article with excellent photos; Crops of Gold - An amusing story from the vicinity of Ten Mile House, British Columbia; The Mystery of the Pool; - Sequel to a story published here about three years ago about a South African prospector's account of a monstrous snake which is supposed to live in a pool in the Orange River; Three Incidents - J.R. Henderson led an uneventful life, aside from a three-month span; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part II - C.W. Domville-Fife and a couple of Indians ventured far into the interior of Amazonia, meeting with many strange and exciting adventures - with photos; "Number Twenty-Three" - A bobcat adventure of Harry E. Webb, a federal hunter employed by the U.S. Government Bureau of Biological Survey to trap and destroy predatory animals that infest the state of Nevada - with photos; The Ivory Raiders - Part IV - Continued adventures from Turkanaland, Africa, where unscrupulous Swahili elephant poachers and bloodthirsty Turkana warriors make things interesting for the white officers responsible for maintaining order - with photos; The Knock-Out - Judkins and Bunney, the bullies of the battalion, were manipulated into boxing each other; A South African Bushranger - A policeman named Mahon turns highwayman in Filabusi, Rhodesia; A Sailor Out Back - The amusing first day experiences of a sailor who tries farming in Willanga Township, Australia; When the Fire Came - A bush fire swept the Matawai district of New Zealand last year - with two photos; From the Great Craters to the Congo Game-Lands - Part II - Elephant hunting in the teeming game country of the Congo - with great photos; Diamond Cut Diamond - R. Granville Barrow and friends need to outwit rapacious South American officials to successfully salvage the passenger steamer Whitney in the Orinoco River; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Covers detached as one but present, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
52 pages. Profusely illustrated with wonderful photos. "Compresses into a brief pictorial review, the story of the Allies in Norway during the five momentous months after May 8 1945. With the American and British forces who took part in these events, there will remain many memories which we shall treasure - the warmth of the welcome extended to us, and the hospitality of Norwegian famillies." - Andrew Thorne, General, Head of the SHAEF Mission to Norway. A fascinating photographic history of how the Allies controlled, disarmed and evacuated the large German garrison from Norway at the end of WWII. Prior owner's name stamped atop half-title page, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Cover: Major-General Patton, Commanding the American Third Army in Northern France. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "English Social History" by G.M. Trevelyan; The Great World War: Offensive Campaigns in France (inc map); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: A Secret Weapon in the Insect War. Pictorial Journals include: "The Army of France is in Being Again, Fighting on Its Own Soil for the Liberation of Its Country"; A Massed Daylight Attack by R.A.F. Heavy Bombers on German Positions Near Falaise: Aircraft Flying In and Bombs Bursting on the Target Area; Shattered Falaise: The Birthplace of William the Conqueror To-Day; With the British and Canadian Forces in Normandy: Action Photographs as Our Men Sweep Forward; The Citadel - Last Enemy-Held Strong-Point in St. Malo - Captured; Sidelights on the Fighting in Northern France: The Capture of Orleans and Dreux and Other Points in the General Advance; Destruction of the Retreating Enemy Army - As Seen From the Air; The Allied Invasion of Southern France; The Scene of Successful Allied Landings in Southern France: A Pictorial Map From Coasts to Mountains (Illus. by G.H. Davis); First Allied Landings in Southern France: Mr. Churchill in Italy; The Allied Entry into Florence; Sidelights on the War: News From Various Battlefronts; and One of the Greatest Donations of Eighteenth Century French Painting Ever Received by a Museum - The Kress Collection. Binding Sound. Contents clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
Cover: The King's Visit to the Western Front: His Majesty Enjoying a Joke with General Dwight Eisenhower on the Steps of the U.S. First Army H.Q., With Them Are Lt. General Omar Bradley and Lt. General Courtney Hodges. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "Verdict on India" by Beverley Nichols; The Great World War: U.S. Landing in the Philippines (inc. maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: A Bomb-Sensitive Plant. Pictorial Journals include: Pictures Taken During His Majesty's Five-Day Visit to the Front; Just Retribution - The German Civilians' Turn to Be Refugees; U.S. Troops Mop Up the Last Remaining Enemy Strong Points in Aachen; The Way of Desolation: Once a Busy Street in Aachen; On the Western Front: Scenes From the Battlefields of Holland; Building Up the Dutch Salient: Allied Armour Pouring into Holland for the Great Offensive (illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); A Huge Factory-Made Invasion Port: "Mulberry" The Pre-Fabricated Harbour of the Normandy Bridgehead; British Troops Landing in Greece: Scenes in Liberated Athens; The Surrender of Polish Patriots in Warsaw: Capitulation Scenes; The "Leigh" Light: A German Explosive Speed-Boat; Paris Cycle-Taxis; Fort Driant; Winning a Jumping-Off Area for the Philippines: Peleiu, in the Palaus; An Isle of Vital Weather Forecasts: The Lonely Jan Mayen Island; Links With Turner: Relics of the Great Painter for the Nation; and The Start of Civil Aviation - London to Paris 25 Years Ago. Page 479/480 missing. Page 501/502 loose but present. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
xl, 413 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Documents the vital but unrecognized contribution of this important segment of Canada's army. From North Africa to Normandy, from Germany to Korea, Asia, and the Middle East, and from home training camps to the bush strips of the Arctic, the story of the Corps with its unfailing service and bustling supply lines is told in lucid prose." - dust jacket. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Former library copy with usual markings. Dust jacket in clear protection which has been affixed to map endpapers. A sound reference copy. Dornbusch 178, Cooke [3e] p.153, Spadoni & Donnelly 1599. Book
xiii, [1], 129 pages. Footnotes. Glossary. Index. Maps. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos in text. Colour frontispiece illustration depicts logging equipment on shore of Loch Ness. "Covers the experiences of the thirty companies of the CFC from their mobilization across Canada to their operations throughout the Scottish Highlands and ultimate return to Canada." - back cover. Former library copy with usual markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative Canadian military history. Cooke [3e] p.278. Book
With Engraved titlepage. Contemporary Vellum with 5 ties on either side of spine. Ink numbering in margins to Liber Primus only (every 5 lines) likely written in 1673. Former owner's name in ink on inner cover (1920) with additional owner's inscription facing titlepage (1673) and again neatly written surrounding globe on titlepage (same owner from 1673). Inked lettering to spine likely from 17th century. Attractive copy. ; Schweiger II, 955 / Graesse VI, 404. Includes Life of Silius Italicus by Hermann Buschius. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 264 pages
(Al fin :) Madrid, 13 de Diciembre de 1717, 30 x 21 cm., 6 folios. (Orden para reclutamiento y alistamiento de tropas, refrendado por el secretario Miguel Fernández Durán).
3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispieces, plates and maps in the text; pictorial cloth (green/grey/brown respectively), upper boards and backstrips blocked in gilt and colours, green endpapers, all near fine copies in publisher's board slip-cases. The set comprises: The Eagle of the Ninth (sixth impression 2011); The Silver Branch (second impression 2009); The Lantern Bearers (first impression 2011). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece and very numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. First published in 1984, this remains the definitive study of the development of the many trade, skill-at-arms, appointment and instructors' badges for use in the British Army. It includes photographs, around 250 in total, of virtually all the known examples, many of them rare and otherwise undocumented. The present edition includes much supplementary information. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
Slight dust-soiling to textblock. DJ is somewhat worn with small tears to corners and spine ends. Dustjacket spine is sunned. ; Author's inscription to ffep: "Presented by the author" ; 560 pages; Unified by an interest in the factors behind the conversion of the Roman Republic into a monarchy, this collection of essays by noted ancient historian P. A. Brunt includes revised or rewritten studies of the Italian allies, the Equites, the courts, the army, and amicitia, and new discussions of libertas, clientship, and factions.
Very Good Russian Original color lithograph print. Split on folding places. Should be repaired. Folio. (51 x 32,5 cm). In Russian. From a book published by R. Golicke in St. Petersburg. Print signed by artist. [LITOGRAPH PRINT PAINTING of COSACKS] Dozv[onit'sia] Tsenzur. 28 Yuliia 1890, S[ankt] P[etersburg]. 1890, 162 written at the right bottom corner of original print. This is 162nd lithographic plate of the book. It shows soldier holding rifle with bayonet in his hand, and another soldiers who are attacking all together. Shipov was a Russian painter, a master of military portrait. Born in the province of Kostroma, Russia. Since 1875 was an auditor of Petersburg Academy of Arts. In 1880 he entered the military service. Studied painting without leaving military service. In 1883 he graduated from the training in the Corps of Pages. Since 1904 - the Commander of the East Siberian strelets regiment. In 1909 he was transferred to Suites, since 1915 - Lieutenant-General. In 1904-1915 received numerous awards for his military honor and courage, among them Golden Arms. He painted portraits of soldiers, watching them in battles and having rest. He did pencil sketches and watercolor portraits. One of the main representatives of the Russian military portrait of the edge of the century.
Very light bump to base of spine else Fine. ; British Archaeological Reports BAR International Series 841; 581 pages; This is the second part of a comprehensive study of the auxiliary infantry units of the Imperial Roman Army and is confined to those units grouped in cohortes. Using every source available, whether a document, stamped tile or inscription, Spaul which lists the names and personnel of units in order of rank. The catalogue is followed by a broad discussion of cohortes and their deployment around the Roman Empire.
First Edition, small 4to, [ii],3-22p., without final advert leaf, terminal leaf has a paper flaw which affects two words but without loss of sense, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, red morocco title label. Wing, S2189.
406 pages plus a 32 page catalogue of books from the publisher. Military biography. Chapter headings include: Learning Arabic; Cairo; Old Egyptian Army Worthless; Formation of the New Army; The Duke of Hamilton and Turner; Conscription done unjustly; Lying evidence to Escape Military Service; The Mahmal or Holy Carpet; Sir Samuel Baker's Letter; The Second Battle of El Teb; The Battle of Tamai; More about Tamai; The Road to Berber; A Journey to Senheit; The Mission at Keren; To Aden; The Albacore's Search-Light; Gregorie's Little Ways; The Calvary Enter Pped; The Effendi Miz Salute; The Stars Fall Down; Kosheh; No Advance on Dongola; Wady Halfa the Frontier. Includes black and white photographic frontis of author in military dress. Above average wear and soiling. Both hinges cracked. Prior owner's rubber stamp applied multiple times through book. Cigarette ordour. Occasional child's pencil markings. Despite the above, binding remains relatively tight. Decent reading copy. Book
6 numbers in I vol., roy. 8vo., First Edition, titles and text in red and black, and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; strongly bound in black boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt, ALL ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a very good, bright, clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of the National War College and carries its stamps on titles, together with Library of Congress accession and withdrawal stamps on endpapers. BOUND VOLUMES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with 12 maps (one folding); laminated pictorial boards, a very good, clean copy. Niepold was 1st General Staff Officer of 12. Panzerdivision; this scarce and valuable account is based on primary sources including unit war diaries. Includes a bibliography. Enser, p.70.
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Minor shelfwear. ; Deals with the development of the Macedonian State and the struggle for survival as well as the Reign of Philip the Second. Includes 10 maps, 3 plates. ; Volume 2 Only; 780 pages
Minor shelfwear to wraps. ; De rebus bellicis is a 4th or 5th century anonymous work about war machines used by the Roman army of the time. It was written after the death of Constantine I (337; explicitly states that Constantine was dead when the work was written) , and before the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476). ; BAR International Series 63; 352 pages
