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8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip creased else a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in red, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with over 70 plates and 4 folding maps (2 large and coloured); handsomely bound in red full morocco, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral spray, original pictorial wrappers preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With a contemporary picture postcard and embroidered Christmas card (1945) loosely inserted. One of the best - and scarcest - pre-WWII guides to Hong Kong. Profusely illustrated and with very numerous trade advertisements throughout, it includes detailed coloured maps of Hong Kong Island and the New Territories, and plans of the Central District of Victoria and the Canton-Kowloon railway. A splendid copy of a work rarely found complete. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
192 pages, illustrated, select bibliography, chronological lists, index, crease to front cover. eng
8vo., Second Edition, with plates and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Harrowing accounts of atrocities in Japanese captivity from different theatres of the Pacific. First published in 1994.
8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the best close-quarters accounts of the war in Burma, by the author of the Flashman novels. Fraser served with 9 Bn The Border Regiment in 17th Indian Division. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole M28.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
petit in-4°, XLI-81 pp., cartes, broche, couv.- Texte en arabe et traduction francaise en regard. Nombreuses notes et explications. Route maritime vers l"Extreme-Orient, moeurs et coutumes des Chinois, divisions politiques de l"Inde, moeurs des Hindous, informations diverses sur la Chine et sur l"Inde. Bel exemplaire [P-27] Bel exemplaire
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. The author was United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932 to 1941.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE. Graham & Cole E23.
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; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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 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 4 plates; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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.
No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with small nick to lower rear edge and creasing to edges. 131pp. Singapore's 'absurd little river' has seen the comings and goings of ancient princes, and through her channels, Raffles rowed up to usher in a new Singapore. These comings and goings on the river over time are well described by the author and very well illustrated. Included is a post card of the river and a map with legend of sites, also by the book's author.
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; grey tweed cloth, gilt back, grey top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.404.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole N13.
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8 and 4 full-page maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Standard reference. Graham & Cole E1 (recording the book club edition of the same year); Enser p.87.
8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece, 48 plates on 22, 4 folding maps in red and black, 15 full-page maps, and front and rear endpaper maps; armorial cloth gilt, gilt back, blue top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. 'I consider Slim was the finest general World War II produced' (Earl Mountbatten). General Evans fought under Slim as a divisional commander in Burma and has also provided (with Anthony Brett-James) the definitive account of Imphal, Slim's greatest victory against the Japanese. Increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.406; Graham & Cole, L5.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 16 and 6 full-page maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes a useful bibliography. Graham & Cole, L11.
