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8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graphic and often harrowing account of 111 Brigade; the author commanded two platoons of young gurkhas and served at 111 HQ under John Masters. First-hand Chindit memoirs are scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, page-edges browning slightly as often, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.52; Graham & Cole G28.
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Very small dent to first couple of pages. Else an unusually nice copy with binding tight ; A detailed travel description in German. 3/4 leather boards and gilt spine lettering. Decorative boards with pictorial design; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 360 pages
Light soiling, closed tears and edgewear to DJ. ; Travel impressions with b&w photographs from Japan, "French China", Ceylon and India; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 191 pages
8vo., First Edition, with a folding street plan; original wrappers printed in red and blue, a very good, bright, clean copy. The cover design is by Hasbie bin Sulaiman from a traditional Bornean tattoo pattern.
8vo., First Edition, with 72 plates of photographs, facsimiles and maps on 68; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. A detailed and well-documented account which deserves better than its current recognition. The author spent over thirty years in both military and commercial postings.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 33 plates on 20, 5 maps in the text and 2 coloured maps; cloth, a good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter a little browned at backstrip. Standard account of the Legations in Peking under attack from both the Boxers and the Imperial Chinese Army in 1900.
8vo., First Edition; oatmeal cloth, backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges and with one closed tear. An AP correspondent alone in the jungle. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.76.
8vo., Second Impression; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded at head and tail, gilt dulled else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Personal account of action with Wingate's Second Column. Published in the same year as the first edition. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Graham & Cole, G24; Enser p.107.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, oriental name on front wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece plates and endpaper maps; orange cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded at head and tail else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with loss at head and tail of backstrip. Published a year after the US edition. Enser, 92; Graham & Col, G38.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text and patterned endpapers; silver cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated and detailed history of one of the most famous pewter companies in the world.
petit in-4°, XLI-81 pp., cartes, broche, couv.- Texte en arabe et traduction francaise en regard. Nombreuses notes et explications. Route maritime vers l"Extreme-Orient, moeurs et coutumes des Chinois, divisions politiques de l"Inde, moeurs des Hindous, informations diverses sur la Chine et sur l"Inde. Bel exemplaire [P-27] Bel exemplaire
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates; brown cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Author's biography set in Tientsin, China, during the 1920s and 1930s.
8vo., First Edition, with title in green and black, engraved title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, 39 plates on 32 and a folding map, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dust-qrapper.
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and plate; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears on rear panel. Waley's classic text was first published in 1921. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Light wear to boards. Spine a bit faded. Small intendations to front boards. Bookplate. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Hinges weakening ; Decorative dark blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt decoration with crown. Numerous b&w illustrations ; 8vo; 387 pages
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. All early printings are already scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Personal account of the Pacific war from 1943 to 1945 by a British naval officer attached to the US Pacific Fleet. Enser, p.459; Law 0608.
8vo., First Edition, with 3 full-page maps in the text and endpaper maps; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of Lewis's acclaimed account of his lengthy tour through the Indonesian archipelago.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Walker commanded 4/8th Gurkhas in 7th Indian Division throughout the Burma campaign. Graham & Cole, L19; not recorded by Enser
