RHOER Edward Van DerMareMagnum
268 résultats
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 72 plates of photographs, facsimiles and maps on 68; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. A detailed and well-documented account which deserves better than its current recognition. The author spent over thirty years in both military and commercial postings.
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 and endpaper maps, edges lightly browned, small inscription on front paste-down; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip sunned else a good, sound copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.140.
Institut de France 1952, in-4 broché, 6 pages, plaquette.. Plaquette de l'institut de France.
Julliard 1983, In-8 broché, 190 pages. Bon état.
8vo., Second Imprerssion, with plates and maps; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition.
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 thus, with photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; tan cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition. Enser, p.213.
Hardback in-8, 324 pages, avec 17 illustrations dans le texte, reliure demi-cuir, plats marbres, dos a nerfs, titre et fleurons dores. Bel exemplaire (dos frotté). [NV-34] Singapour, Batavia, Weltevreden, Buitenzorg, Maos, Bandjarnagara, Wonossobo, le Boeroeboedoer, Djodjakarta, Soerabaja, etc.
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, with plates, map and charts; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole I38.
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8, and a fill-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The author's account of his capture at the fall of Hong Hong, his escape to mainland China and his eventual pick-up by 204 Military Mission, an Anglo-Australian guerrilla unit based on Chungking and training Chinese Nationalists.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Walker commanded 4/8th Gurkhas in 7th Indian Division throughout the Burma campaign. Graham & Cole, L19; not recorded by Enser
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and chipped at upper edge of front panel and head of backstrip. WITH A LONG (4pp) T.L.s FROM GENERAL WALKER LOOSELY INSERTED, AND SEVERAL ITEMS OF PRINTED EPHEMERA RELATING IN PART TO HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIVIL ASSISTANCE ORGANISATION. Walker commanded 4/8th Gurkhas in 7th Indian Division throughout the Burma campaign. Graham & Cole, L19; not recorded by Enser
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. All early printings are already scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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, and photographs and maps in the text; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back,, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reminiscences by the former Far East correspondent of The Observer newspaper.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 144 pages. 10"w x 9 5/8"h. Mark on back cover. Text in Chinese and English.
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.
71 pages, illustrated, index. eng
