BOXER, ed. C.R.MareMagnum
268 résultats
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.
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., 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 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.
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., Second Impression; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded at head and tail, gilt dulled else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Personal account of action with Wingate's Second Column. Published in the same year as the first edition. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Graham & Cole, G24; Enser p.107.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, pp.41, 152; Graham & Cole N3.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Light soiling, closed tears and edgewear to DJ. ; Travel impressions with b&w photographs from Japan, "French China", Ceylon and India; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 191 pages
8vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 16 and 14 maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned (as usual) at backstrip. The definitive study by an acknowledged authority, this detailed account covers the vital role of 7th Armoured Brigade in the retreat to India and the subsequent struggle against convention until Admin Box and Japan's first clear defeat at British hands. Also includes much on the bunker-busting methods of the Arakan, the elan of the old Indian cavalry regiments and the savage fighting along the Irrawaddy Bend. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION; the dustwrapper is almost invariably sunned. Enser, p.43; Graham & Cole, K56.
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.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Concentrates on the Kachin Levies. Enser, p. 89; Graham & Cole H11.
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.
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., Second Edition; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, ribbon marker, original gilt from backstrip preserved and mounted on new leaf, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sold from an institution with its small neat blind stamp on title. With the trade stamp of Thacker of Bombay on half-title verso. First published in two volumes in 1882. This is the first single-volume edition.
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.
2 vols. in 1, 8vo., Facsimile Reissue, with 2 frontispieces; tan half calf, red cloth boards, back with four raised bands, second and fourth compartments with red leather labels lettered in gilt, a fine copy. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. High quality facsimile reissue of Bentley's original two-volume edition of 1885.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps in the text, and endpaper maps; white fleck boards, black cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with folding plate, full-page maps in the text and facsimile endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. THE FIRST EDITION IS SCARCE IN DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.236.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, photographs in the text and maps; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip letter in gilt, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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 18 plates; brown cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Author's biography set in Tientsin, China, during the 1920s and 1930s.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, full-page map in the text and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
