MAYER, ed. S.L.MareMagnum
268 résultats
Sm. Folio, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The pitiful and horrifying story of the last Emperor of China.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly sunned else a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE. Graham & Cole E23.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, map and charts; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole I38.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, oriental name on front wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
Oblong 4to., Second and Best Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (many full-page) in the text, and coloured endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The best account, including a valuable chronology of RN ships in or around Hong Kong from 1834-1997. This augmented edition includes the RN withdrawal
8vo., First Edition, with full-page map; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First detailed account of Imperial Japan's military intelligence service during WWII.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The long-awaited authorised biography, complementing Slim's own masterly 'Defeat into Victory'. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS ALREADY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with 16pp of plates; cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. 2 Bn Gordons was posted to Singapore in 1937 and fought through to the Surrender. This is the first published account of the horrors endured by the survivors at the hands of the Japanese: an inspiring story of courage and survival against overwhelming odds
229 pages. Broché -Tome XV, 1934. Deuxième partie - Etat neuf
8vo. First Edition handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered ands ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt laid endpapers uncut a most att
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), covers mildly age-soiled else a good, bright working copy.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip creased else a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with a frontispiece and plates; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The paperback edition was produced for members of the Japan Society and was not intended for resale.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 144 pages. 10"w x 9 5/8"h. Mark on back cover. Text in Chinese and English.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped 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.
8vo., First Edition, with 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [STANLEY] GORDON COCKS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Cocks served as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner with 75 (New Zealand) Squadron. 'On our specialised operations in Burma we had no call for w.op/gunners like you, but nonetheless you might like to read…' (author's inscription). PRESENTATION COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.209; Graham & Cole H23.
8vo., First Edition, with 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a few relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Enser, p.209; Graham & Cole H23.
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back,, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reminiscences by the former Far East correspondent of The Observer newspaper.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, text lightly toned; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Published in Allen's series 'Worth-While War-Time Books'. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
