268 résultats
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates, and 2 illustrations and 5 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and full-page map in the text; blue boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; ivory tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a near fine copy. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 8.
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8, and a fill-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The author's account of his capture at the fall of Hong Hong, his escape to mainland China and his eventual pick-up by 204 Military Mission, an Anglo-Australian guerrilla unit based on Chungking and training Chinese Nationalists.
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Monograph Series, No. 24.
8vo., Third Impression thus, some contemporary annotation; limp cloth wrappers printed in red, covers moderately age-worn and faded else a bright copy.
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; tan cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition. Enser, p.213.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cassell's 'History of Warfare' series under the general editorship of John Keegan.
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
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, text in red and black, very numerous photographs and facsimiles (a number ful-page) throughout, and printed endpapers; laminated pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in red and black, a fine copy. Collects eye-witness accounts from 67 survivors. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 20 plates on 16; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, blue top (lightly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy. The standard history of the Chinese Customs Service and a biography of Sir Robert Hart who directed its activities for nearly half a century. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; ; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately rubbed and worn dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.218.
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.
8vo., Second Edition; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, ribbon marker, original gilt from backstrip preserved and mounted on new leaf, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sold from an institution with its small neat blind stamp on title. With the trade stamp of Thacker of Bombay on half-title verso. First published in two volumes in 1882. This is the first single-volume edition.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous trade advertisements throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Includes YCAC Rugby Reunion in London and Twickenham, with separate slip naming personnel in cover photograph.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
