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38889London: P.S. King & Son Ltd. 1938. . First edition limited to 500 copies 8vo. pp.xvi61327 red cloth gilt b/w facsimiles of hand-drawn sketch-maps to rear of volume; foxing to prelims light foxing to edges some marking and light splash-marks to cloth with foxing to spine and rubbing to extremities overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket. London: P.S. King & Son Ltd., 1938. hardcover
Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa - part 2 - tales from the log book of an R.A.F. officer during the campaign in German East Africa - article with interesting photos; Torn by Starving Jackals in Macedonia - Private James McDade of the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers recounts his experience - with photo of McDade; Death-Struggle with An Alligator - what happened to Van Campen Heilner when he was photographing an alligator in a Florida swamp - photo-illustrated article; The Thrills of Parachuting - early and marvelously photo-illustrated article on this topic; Photo of tourist party in Solomon's Quarry, the world's most ancient quarry; My South African Adventures - part 1 of Jack West's incredible recollections, including photo of him aged 17; Ship Built By One Man - Liberian missionary, the Rev. James E. Lewis - photo-illustrated article of him, his wife and "The Coloured Missionary Yacht"; John A. Jordan and his African Leopard-Hunting Adventures; Our Trip to Catch Murderers - the rough and ready methods of achieving justice in Bolivia; An Exciting Night Drive - 35 miles in a South African Cape Cart; Relief Workers' Adventures - part 2 of this superb photo-illustrated article on thrilling experiences among the War Victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia; With a Caravan in Corsica - photo illustrated article which relates the primitive life of the people; A Mountain of Gold - photo-illustrated article about the discovery made by the Fisk Expedition - Captain James L. Fisk and Dr. William Denton Dibb; In the Wilds of Siberia - part 2 - fascinating article with great photos document the explorations of Harry Somerset-Lister; The Adventures of a Newspaper-Man - part 4 - Exploring New York - article with nice photos and fascinating observations of the people; A Butterfly Farm in France - French Entomologist M. Andre's farm near Macon - article with photos; Fascinating photo of flume in British Columbia, by which logs are carried to the sawmills; Photo of amber mine on the coast of Samland in the eastern Prussian peninsula. Somewhat above-average external wear. Openings and loss at each end of backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this marvelous issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Big-Game Hunting for the Cinema - John A. Jordan leads a film expedition into the wilds of British East Africa; The "Gordon" of the Pacific - Thos. J. McMahon visit's Germany's former South Sea possessions - German New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Samoa - and reports on the work of Captain Hunter among the savages of the Solomons - lots of nice photos; Our Chase After A Rogue Elephant - photo-illustrated story from Ceylon; Our Chase After a "Rogue Elephant"; In the Jaws of a Lion - J.S. Cowie was carried about the engine room of his ship in the jaws of a lion!; Kidnapped - a young woman finds herself at the mercy of two desperate men; The Holy City of the Mormons - photo-illustrated article on Salt Lake City; The Strap-Hanger of the Ganges - The crocodile Captain J.G. Bennett thought he had killed comes back to life!; Chased by a Boa Constrictor - a 1902 story from Argentina; My Night With Wolves - hunter is surrounded by wolves in Northern Minnesota; The Lake of Soda - Magadi Lake, in British East Africa; The "Black Hole" of Gottingen - Corporal A. Bramwell of the Royal Welch Fusiliers earned the D.C.M. for his service to fellow POWs suffering from cholera and typhus at the Prisoners' Camp, Gottingen, in WWI; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - Part II - Mary Gaunt set out to explore much of China but, under the influence of bandits, rerouted north to the wilds of Siberia - article with many photos; Humours of the East African Campaign; The Reds of the Maranoa - Two cattle-rustlers in Queensland are killed; A Couple of Pirates - "Dr. Martin" of the U.S. Navy served in Honduras during the Nicaraguan War but encountered difficulties later; My Visit to the Veddas - R.L. Spittel visits primitive natives in the interior of Ceylon - article with photos; Photo of the largest book in the world in Chicago; Photo of monster swordfish caught by Mr. W.C. Boschen off Santa Catalina Island, California; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2], 444-528, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Covers detached as one but present. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1882j4636London: Jas. Gale printer. G : in good condition. Respined and with new endpapers. Leather worn and scuffed towards extremities and spine. Spine darkened. Edge-tears to title page and some pages within have been sympathetically repaired and rebacked onto new sheets. Contents otherwise clean and tight. Aeg. 1882. First Edition. Green and gilt embossed leather cover. 230mm x 160mm 9" x 6". vi 150pp 55pp. Illustrated with colour plate of regimental flags; b/w plates of equipment and field plans additional charts musical notation etc. Included within are details of bivouac and camp layout for the regiment in India; cooking equipment and recipes for the soldiers including Crimean Kebbobs Artillery Pie and China Chilo. Instructions for arranging the accoutrements of the barrack room ordnance details method of laying down kit in the field etc. Gilt embossed leather cover bears the emblem of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 'Quo Fata Vocant' Wither the Fates Call. . Jas. Gale [printer] hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, a coloured plate, 9 plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back gilt with raised bands, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Scarce. Sutcliffe, p.149; White, p.75
Pages 521-548. Features: Great cover photo of Churchill celebrating with the masses in Whitehall; Photo of Churchill celebrating with Royal Family at Buckingham Palace; Five photos of celabratory night lights on London; Photos of vast crowds outside Buckingham Palace; Two pages of photos of the King and Queen with celebrating crowds, visiting bombed sites, at Thanksgiving services and among their subjects in South London; Photos of the Royals taking carriage to St. Paul's; Page of photos of the Royal Family and other distinguished personages at the national thanksgiving in St. Paul's Cathedral; Article "Field-Marshal Montgomery as a Soldier'; Three photos of captive German cruisers at Copenhagen and two photos of the first U-Boat, U-249, arriving at Portland; Six photos of unconditional German surrender signing at Rheims; Eight photos of the last act of German surrender ratified in Berlin; Twelve joyous centrefold photos of celebrations in Holland, Denmark, Belgium, and Norway; Twelve amazing post-war photos include Soviet troops planting their flag atop the Brandenburg Gate, Former French men and women political prisoners in striped garb walking home from Berlin, Field-Marshal Montgomery being saluted by cheering Copenhagen crowds, American soldier standing beside partially completed V-2 rocket underground at Nordhausen, German prisoners (opponents of the Nazi regime) in striped garb walking to freedom, Glum crowd of German civilians in Luneburg listening to reading of terms of surrender, and an amazing photo of an American soldier of the Seventh Army walking uphill toward a burning Berchtesgaden, Hitler's Bavarian home; Photo of captured Field-Marshal Von Rundstedt and his son after their capture by the Seventh Army; Photo of the notorious Seyss-Inquart - Reichskommissar of the Netherlands during the German occupation - who was captured in Hamburg by the Royal Welch Fusiliers; Pages of photos documenting the liberation of the Channel Islands - scenes of surrender and rejoicing; Photos of personalities of the week include Princess Elizabeth talking to R.S.M. J. Baker, Charles Sweeny, A.E. Saunders, Sir Basil Brooke, Jemadar Parkash Singh, V.C., Ingleby Oddie, Count Schwerin Von Krosigk, James Doolittle, and Field-Marshal shaking hands with "Johnny" Johnson; Page of photos of prominent captured Nazis and anti-Nazis including Kurt Von Schuschnigg, M. Leon Blum and his wife, Pastor Niemoller, Field-Marshal Kesselring, and five photos of Goering, without his medals, after his personal surrender to the U.S. Seventh Army; Photo of Hamburg radio station, made famous by Lord Haw-Haw, now operated by the British - showing desk and microphone; Amazing photo of gaping hole in 15' of reinforced concrete atop submarine pen caused by 22,000lb bomb; Page of six photos of vast celebrating crowds in Paris; Page of scenes of celebration in Denmark; Page of photos of distinguished prisoners released by the U.S. Seventh Army includes M. Reynaud, Mme. Weygand, General Gamelin, M. Daladier, and General Weygand, General Bor-Komorowski and his chief of staff, General Pelczynski, The Master of Elphinstone and Lord Lascelles, Colonel De La Rocque of the Croix de Feu, M. Jean Borotra, and M. Michel Clemenceau; nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Coverfold taped. A sound vintage copy. 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
1868152057N: Minden Press 1868. Pp. viii48last blank2Part III sub-title49-58last blank2"Miscellaneous"/blank; small demy 8vo; unlettered blue pebble cloth quite browned and lightly worn; upper hinge broken revealing leaves stabbed and tied printer's label laid on lower pastedown; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown leaves lightly browned; printed at the "Minden Press." by Frederick Watkins Barlow Lieutenant Second Battalion XX Regiment no place Athlone 1868. One of 100 copies. White p. 72; Sutcliffe 1/p. 131 not seen and noting of considerable rarity. lang2057 Still called the East Devonshire Regiment at the time this privately published edition tells the story of the early years of the Lancashire Fusiliers from 1688. With a printed slip laid on lower paste-down: 'This book contains 70209 letters 3700 sheets in the hundred copies and took forty-eight days to print.'. Minden Press unknown
Numerous black and white photographs. "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - From Preface. Contents: Chapter CLI - The Battle of the Somme (I). Includes map entitled "The German Positions and Trenches from Thiepval to Combles." Laid in is table of contents for Vol. IX. Includes index to volume IX plus list of illustrations, places, and maps and plans. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
Pages 161-200. Cover illustration of a rifle grenade. Considerable text is supported by the following photos and illustrations: exploding German howitzer shell, blowing up barbed-wire entanglements, Private Morrow of the 1st Royal Fusiliers - an Irish V.C., great photo of a British heavy gun ready for action, British heavy howitzer on a railway mounting, snipers on the western front, one-page photo of Lieutenant Jean Navarre in flight, German airmen Immelmann and Boelcke, Lieut. McCubbin, Shell-makers at Woolwich lined up for dinner at YMCA, Lloyd George, Sir George Williams, J.J. Virgo, Lord Kinnaird, A.K. Yapp, photos of the YMCA entertaining troops at home and abroad, Lady Askwith, 'cabbage patch' in London, and more. Moderate external wear. Ink stamp atop front cover, otherwise unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
187338556Printed for Private Circulation 1873. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper and another on dedication; original maroon cloth upper board lettered in gilt dark red endpapers some very light age-soiling else a very good bright clean copy. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Gerard F. Leather on front paste-down. Plates show badge; colours; uniforms. EXTREMELY SCARCE. White p.55; apparently not recorded by Sutcliffe. Printed for Private Circulation, hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper and another on dedication; original maroon cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, dark red endpapers, some very light age-soiling else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Gerard F. Leather on front paste-down. Plates show badge; colours; uniforms. EXTREMELY SCARCE. White p.55; apparently not recorded by Sutcliffe.
4 vols., 8vo., with numerous coloured and monochrome plates and maps throughout; original blue cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set. The set comprises Vol. I: 1689-1815; Vol. II: 1816-1914; Vol. III: 1914-1918 France and Flanders; Vol. IV: 1915-1918 Turkey, Bulgaria, Austria. The Regiment's own reissues of the original editions of 1921, 1921, 1928, 1929 respectively. Volume three contains a useful list of all battalions with their movements. Volume four contains an appendix on the Welsh Horse (later 25th Battalion RWF) at Gallipoli. Sutcliffe, p.146; White, p.76. Scarce as a set
1922152374London: Headquarters of the 4th London Regiment 1922. Pp. xii532 frontispiece 9 plates 21 sketch maps by the author several printed in red & black 2 folding appendices index; demy 8vo; maroon cloth lettered and ruled in gilt & blind gilt insignia to upper board lightly split at head of spine fore-corners lightly bruised boards slightly marked; uncut and partly unopened; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown endpapers offset and browned some light foxing mainly to outer leaves and edges; Headquarters of the 4th London Regiment London 1922. First edition. White p. 201; Sutcliffe 1/p. 60. Headquarters of the 4th London Regiment unknown
8vo., Second English Edition (revised), with 12 plates on 8, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly chipped and frayed at edges. The revised edition of Graves' classic war memoir was first published in the US a week earlier; the UK edition was printed in far smaller numbers and is considerably scarcer. The 'revisions' amount in aggregate to a new book. Higginson A32h, recording that 6027 copies were printed.
225, [20] pages. Bibliography. Generously illustrated in colour and black and white. "Primarily a history of the past 30-odd years in the life of an infantry regiment of the British Army as seen through the eyes and told in the words of those who have served in the Regiment." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
1810861T46London: Stirling 1810. Paperback. Good. 6" by 4". None. A very scarce pamphlet of poetry from the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Scarce work. Dated from the British Library. A collection of verses from the Royal Scots Fusiliers. The Royal Scots Fusiliers were a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1678 until 1959. The regiment saw combat at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and took part in the Siege of Bergen op Zoom in March of 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars. Bound in contemporary paper wraps with the original pamphlet bound in. Externally very smart with light shelf wear and minor ageing to the wraps. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean though discoloured from ageing. The odd small closed tear. Good Stirling paperback
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE AND BY HORROCKS FOLLOWING HIS SERIES INTRODUCTION. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.60.
1969mon0000566398The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1969T. paperback. Good. in x in x in. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. The Royal Welch Fusiliers paperback
1938135011Imprimerie Wallon 1938. Spiral Bound. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture souple. Dédicace manuscrite d'un des participants sur la page de titre. 22 pages 24 x 32 cm. Reliure spirale. Un tirage photo 22 x 29 cm. <i>ref. 135011</i> Imprimerie Wallon unknown
83 pages. Includes the following songs: Power and Glory; The Stars and Stripes Forever; Harmonica Wizard; The Royal Welch Fusiliers; Hands Across the Sea; El Capitan; King Cotton; The Liberty Bell; The Charlatan; The Bride-Elect; The Manhattan Beach. Faint name atop front cover otherwise unmarked. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding tender but intact. A worthy vintage copy. Hours of uplifting musical pleasure here! Book
8vo., First Edition, with original photographic print toned in sepia mounted as frontispiece, 16 coloured plates and 10 plates in monochrome, half-title and frontispiece verso lightly spotted, some very minor marginal spotting to a few leaves; black cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and regimental colours, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. The frontispiece is of the regimental mascot Billy the Goat. The coloured plates comprise 1 of colours and 15 of uniforms. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p. 147; White, p. 75.
1938135011Couverture souple. 22 pages 24 x 32 cm. Reliure spirale. Un tirage photo 22 x 29 cm.
5g1703First Edition The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Great Britain 2003. 86 S. mit vielen Abbildungen kartoniert quart. - gutes Exemplar / good condition / Text englisch - unknown
3 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces, title-vignettes and numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, red tops, red endpapers, a near fine set in publishers board slip-case blocked in gilt. Bright set of Sassoon's classic fictional autobiography, first published by FS as single volumes in 1971, 1974 and 1974 respectively. The first two volumes are illustrated by Lamb; the last by Lawrence. This is the 1993 reissue with redesigned slip-case.