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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
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, 41 plates on 16 and 3 folding maps, some light soiling throughout; original regimental cloth, battalion badge in gilt on upper board, gilt back, covers moderately age-marked else a good, sound copy. Includes register of officers and personnel. This territorial battalion served in Malta, Alexandria, Mudros, Gallipoli (October 1915-January 1916) and Rouen. It was disbanded in June 1916 and replaced by 3/4th battalion which then took its name. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.62; White, p.201
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
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
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.
Roy. 8vo., Best Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece, 15 fine coloured plates (including one of badge, one of colours and 5 of uniform), 2 plates toned in sepia, and several illustrations and a full-page map in the text; regimental cloth, badge blocked in gilt on upper board, covers lightly marked else a very good, clean copy. The first and second editions appeared in 1926 and 1932 repectively. Sutcliffe, p.61; White, p.58.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and endpaper maps; dark green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Unusual and valuable study of the effects of the Gallipoli disaster upon the Lancashire town of Bury, regimental home of the Lancashire Fusiliers.
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
8vo., First Edition, with folding coloured frontispiece, plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. Enser, p.164.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; 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.412.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; regimental red cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the separately printed errata slip mounted on page ix. The sole dedicated account of the 1st London Regiment, from formation in 1859 to redesignation post-WWII. Sutcliffe, p.451.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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.
8vo.,Third Impression thus, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The revised edition first appeared in 1957. See Higginson A32h (title verso gives publication month as September; Higginson as November). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations from contemporary engravings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and frayed at extremities. Uncommon, especially in this condition. Turan 210.
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. Sutcliffe, p.60.
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
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, maps and facsimiles in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The battalion was destroyed attacking Thiepval on 1 July 1916. The remnants returned to England where the battalion was reformed. Includes statistics, rolls and other appendices. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p. 131.
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
First edition, 8vo, xxiv, 185, [1]pp., six coloured plates, inner hinges a little shaken, orig. publishers brown cloth, decorated in gilt, some light wear.
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
