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8vo., First Edition, with 26 plates on 16, neat signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at edges. Detailed account of the Temiar-Senoi people of the Kelantan jungle by the Assistant Protector of Aborigines.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding), some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, top lightly dust-soiled; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss at head of front panel and backstrip. Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander-in-Chief British forces, and now generally recognised as one of the great military memoirs of all time. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE. Graham & Cole, B20; Enser, p.91.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding), some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, top lightly dust-soiled; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander-in-Chief British forces, and now generally recognised as one of the great military memoirs of all time. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole, B20; Enser, p.91.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 40 pages of monochrome plates and 21 maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, green endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, page-edges tanning lightly as usual; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Light wear to boards. Spine a bit faded. Small intendations to front boards. Bookplate. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Hinges weakening ; Decorative dark blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt decoration with crown. Numerous b&w illustrations ; 8vo; 387 pages
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; sand cloth, backstrip lettered in red and black, cream endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustswrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.43; Graham & Cole J13.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 12th Battalion The Nigeria Regiment during the Second Chindit Operation 1944. Enser, p.52; Graham & Cole G33.
8vo., 127th Thousand, with plates; olive cloth, boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in green, uncut, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with loss at extremities and browned at backstrip. Enser, p.91; Graham & Cole N15.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HISTORIAN RICHARD HOLMES WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SCARCE. Includes coverage of Irrawaddy, 19th Indian Division, 11th Sikh Division. Graham & Cole M68.
8vo., First Edition, with 24 pages on half-tone plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, buff endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole L24.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; dark green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE. Enser, p.254.
8vo., First Edition, with 46 plates on 16 and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean in the dustwrapper. One of the best of the recent crop of titles on the 'forgotten war', this study makes use of much new research by the Burma Star association. It is particularly valuable for its account of the Chindits. Already scarce in the original edition.
8vo., Second Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy. Revised and enlarged version of the first UK edition of 1944. SCARCE. Graham & Cole, G29 (recording Harrap's later 1946 edition).
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole N13.
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece, plates and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Taken prisoner at Singapore, the author records his time in Changi and on the Burma-Thai railway.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, Slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased, with minor traces of storage. 158pp. An account of visits to Japan between the country's opening-up in 1853 and the ending of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1922, mostly in the words of the visitors themselves. Illustrated with period photographs and colour illustrations, this gives a rare account of Japan over this period.
8vo., First Edition thus, with photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The success of American codebreakers in reading the messages of the Japanese armed forces and diplomatic service.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver and red, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly rubbed dustwrapper. The success of American codebreakers in reading the messages of the Japanese armed forces and diplomatic service.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and photographs and maps in the text; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
