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Hardcover in-4, 71 pp., nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, cartonnage illustre sous jaquette illustree. Tableaux modernes : importantes peintures de Braque, Derain, Gris, Modigliani, Picasso, Tanguy; Sculptures de Calder, etc. Tres bel exemplaire. [PLC-16] Tres bel exemplaire.
8vo., First Edition, with 69 plates on 24 and front and rear endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The story of the Allied POWs who, having built the Burma-Thailand railway, were en route to forced labour in Japan when their prison ships were attacked by American submarines. Enser, p.209.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates (2 in red and black), and full-page illustration and double-page map in the text; handsomely bound in dark green full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cordier 3487.
Paris, Maison Quantin, " Le Monde Pittoresque et Monumental ", 1887. In-4 demi-chagrin marron à coins, couvertures conservées (coins usagés, fente sur le bas du dos), tête dorée, 610 pp.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a copy of the publisher's single-leaf prospectus loosely inserted. Lovely copy of a standard reference.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps (a number folding), free endpapers very lightly spotted; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 106.
4to., First Editioon, with numerous cartoons and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; original beige cloth, upper board blocked in blue, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy. A lovely copy of one of the very few books attempting to see a lighter side of the Burma campaign. VERY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.106; Graham & Cole G5
8vo., Third Impression, with tinted frontispiece and 7 fine tinted plates by Searle; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned on (predominantly white) rear panel and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Published two months after the first edition. The particularly striking dust-wrapper carries a dramatic illustration by Searle not repeated in the book. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.409 (recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately rubbed and chipped at fold-ins and edges. Enser, p.88; Graham & Cole G7. SCARCE.
8vo., 16pp., First Edition; original wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, very light rust marks else a very good, clean copy. II Geo 6; ordered to be Printed, 23 October 1947. The Bill was presented to the House of Commons by the Prime Minister (Clement Attlee), supported by Sir Stafford Cripps, Mr. V.A. Alexander, Mr. Secretary Henderson and Lieut.-Colonel Rees-Williams. A LANDMARK DOCUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF BURMA, now MYANMAR. SCARCE
8vo., First Edition thus, with map as frontispiece, plates and maps; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Enser, p.404.
8vo., First Edition thus, with map as frontispiece, plates and maps, small neat signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.404.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue boards, white cloth back lettered in red and blue, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper. Enser, p.312.
192 pages, illustrated, select bibliography, chronological lists, index, crease to front cover. eng
8vo., Second Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1960. Enser, p.214.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, neat inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 7 Bn The Nigeria Regiment during Second Chindit. Graham & Cole G7; astonishingly, not recorded by Enser.
8vo., First Edition, with plate and maps; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Enser, p.42; Graham & Cole C6.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map, plates and full-page maps in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.42; Graham & Cole F8.
8vo., Fourth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 37 plates on 24, 4 full-page maps and endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Classic account of operations behind the lines in Malaya. Mountbatten declared that Colonel Chapman and his comrades 'did more than a whole division of the British Army could have achieved'. Published three months after the first edition. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Enser, p.253.
8vo., Tenth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 37 plates on 24, 4 full-page maps in the text and large folding coloured map at end; ivory buckram, backstrip lettered in green, green top (mildly faded), backstrip lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Classic account of operations behind the lines in Malaya. Mountbatten declared that Colonel Chapman and his comrades 'did more than a whole division of the British Army could have achieved'. First published in 1949. Enser, p.253 (recording the first edition).
François Maspero, "Petite collection Maspero", 1972, 191 pp., poche, dos frotté, état très correct.
8vo., First Edition, with 89 plates on 32; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss at lower corner of front panel. The best modern account, written in close collaboration with Brigadier Mike Calvert. The frontispiece depicts a section of David Rowland's painting of Calvert's charge on Pagoda Hill, Burma. Graham & Cole, G15.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, fore-edges lightly spotted; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with double frame border stopped at corners with gilt rosettes, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with gilt lozenge, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Includes recollections of the Pahang Disturbances of December 1890 - September 1891, and the expeditions into the 'Benighted Lands' of 1894 and 1895. VERY SCARCE