268 résultats
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; 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 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, map and charts; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graham & Cole I38.
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.
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.
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.
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., Second Imprerssion, with plates and maps; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition.
Julliard 1983, In-8 broché, 190 pages. Bon état.
Institut de France 1952, in-4 broché, 6 pages, plaquette.. Plaquette de l'institut de France.
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.
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 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, 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 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 handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered ands ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt laid endpapers uncut a most att
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with mounted coloured portrait frontispiece and 140 plates in monochrome; yellow buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 COPIES. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
8vo., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece and 20 plates in monochrome, neat contemporary signature on front inner wrapper; original yellow wrappers printed in red, a near fine copy. With the trade ticket of University Book Store, Singapore, on front inside wrapper. Published in the series 'Malayan Heritage Books'. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, neat inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 7 Bn The Nigeria Regiment during Second Chindit. Graham & Cole G7; astonishingly, not recorded by Enser.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graphic and often harrowing account of 111 Brigade; the author commanded two platoons of young gurkhas and served at 111 HQ under John Masters. First-hand Chindit memoirs are scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 35 plates on 31 and 2 large folding maps on japon, half-title lightly spotted otherwise some very light and occasional marginal spotting to text; original pictorial blue cloth, upper elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, upper hinge cracked (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its faint tape-marks on covers, bookplate on front paste-down, press-mark on front free endpaper and small blind stamp on title. Well-illustrated account of the revolution at Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang. One of the first Caucasians to live in China for any length of time, Dingle was resident in Hankow at the outbreak and remained throughout the revolt. Includes a valuable set of otherwise unpublished photographs of localities, military detail and leading personalities (many of the images are from the Upward collection). The author was appointed FRGS and later founded the School of Mentalphysics in California. RARE.
