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8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Valuable source on the Fall of Singapore and the capture of over 100,000 Allied servicemen. Masanobu Tsuji, Chief of Operations and Planning Staff, 25 Japanese Army, was largely responsible to Yamashita for the planning and execution of the seventy-day campaign, from Singora to the surrender on Singapore island. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON SLIP MOUNTED ON TITLE. By comparison with its operations in Europe, SOE's activities in the Far East have received far less attention. The author worked with the wartime commander of Force 136 Group B to create an extensive survey of operations before and after Hudson's arrival. Includes a valuable historical note on SOE operations in Malaya and a select bibliography. Enser, p.150.
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Graham & Cole, I56.
2 vols., 8vo., with numerous photographs and maps throughout, and coloured endpaper maps; original two tone red-brown cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers mildly frayed and creased at extremities.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, red endpapers, a near fine copy in in price-clipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 220pp. History, nationhood, culture, disaster, crime, sport, children, entertainment and women in Singapore from newspapers over forty years.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, rose endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper Arguably the fullest and most objective single-volume account to date.
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.
Cronaca, romanzo e diario di un viaggio.
Cronaca, romanzo e diario di un viaggio. I mille volti di un continente immenso, fra culture secolari ed un futuro che è già cominciato.
Nel cuore segreto dell'Oriente. Un libro che sfiora la poesia, raccontando molteplici vite, le case, le strade, i porti, gli indovini ed i sogni di quelle terre.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 272 pages. 8 5/8"w x 11 1/4"h. Full black cloth boards with bumped corner and a little wrinkling. Slight edge wear to dust jacket.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and facsimiles in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Tenth Edition, free endpapers lightly browned; navy ribbed cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
8vo., Third Edition, on laid paper, with decorative titrle; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. WITH AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT DEPICTING THREE MALAY CHILDREN MOUNTED FACING TEXT. Very scarce.
8vo., Second Edition, title very lightly spotted; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frames, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy of the second edition of this classic work, first published in 1900. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; ivory cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
8vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.137; Graham & Cole C29.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and 2 folding maps; original pictorial green boards, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front free endpaper. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and coloured maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
