NISH I.MareMagnum
NEWMAN Robert P.MareMagnum
Owen Lattimore and the 'Loss' of China.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip creased else a very good, clean copy.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB18,20 €
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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.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip creased else a very good, clean copy.
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.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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
229 pages. Broché -Tome XV, 1934. Deuxième partie - Etat neuf
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
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 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.
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 photographs and illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, oriental name on front wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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 photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE. Graham & Cole E23.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly sunned else a near fine copy.
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.
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 4 plates; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 9 full-page maps in the text and a folding map; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. A clear and well-illustrated account written for entrants to Staff College. Includes brief bibliography, useful biographical details of commanders and extensive chronology. Graham & Cole B16.
8vo., First Edition, with title vignette, 12 plates on 8, and numerous decorations and 2 full-page maps in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, boards with very light fade marks else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip, and at lower left-hand corner of front panel. With dustwrapper artwork by Michael Harvey. Effectively a sequel to his splendid 'Bugles and a Tiger' (1956). Masters served as a middle-ranking officer in Burma throughout the war. This striking personal record of service with Gurkhas and Chindits (including his participation in Operation BLACKPOOL) therefore stands between the more usual views of generals and private soldiers, and includes illuminating portraits of Slim, Wingate and Stilwell among others. UNCOMMON. Enser, p.90; not recorded by Graham & Cole, which lists only the US (Harper) edition as M55.
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, with title-vignette; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Effectively a sequel to his splendid 'Bugles and a Tiger' (1956). Masters served as a middle-ranking officer in Burma throughout the war. This striking personal record of service with Gurkhas and Chindits (including his participation in Operation BLACKPOOL) therefore stands between the more usually recorded views of generals and private soldiers. Includes illuminating portraits of Slim, Wingate and Stilwell among others. PROOF COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.90; not recorded by Graham & Cole, which lists only the US (Harper) edition as M55.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with 263 photographs on 64 plates, and 109 illustrations in the text, top lightly dust-soiled; original wrappers printed in red and black, uncut, a near fine copy. Etudes d'Art et d'Ethnologie Asiatiques III. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
Single leaf, 8vo., single fold; covers printed in red and black with two photographs, inside spread with fare table, a near fine copy. The line runs from Padang Besar to Singapore with eighteen intermediate stations. The table lists single fares in each of three classes. A RARE SURVIVAL.
