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When Dragons Flew. An Illustrated History of the 1st Battalion The Border Regiment 1939-1945. SIGNED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS

Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title, 4 full-page coloured maps and very numerous photographs in the text, large signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON HALF-TITLE. Splendid pictorial history based on a huge compilation of photographs from public and private sources. As one would expect, about half the book is given over the battalion's role in Operation MARKET. Includes battalion ROH, honours and awards, battalion roll for Arnhem, operational orders for MARKET and much other data. Sutcliffe, p.293

Walking the Border : A Journey Between Scotland and England

Book and jacket appear in as new unread condition. 246pp. A complete walk along the Border from Gretna to Lamberton, just north of Berwick on Tweed, filled with information on nature, literature, history and the people who lived there.

Vita come plusvalore. Biotecnologie e capitale al tempo del neoliberismo (La)

Libro in brossura come nuovo; Copertina morbida

VERSOS DE UN TIEMPO SOMBRÍO.

Escritor nacido en Jerez en 1933, fue detenido varias veces por sus ideas politicas contrarias al regimen anterior.

Verso Il Duemila

Mm 135x210 Collana della Laterza "Storia e Società". Volume di VI - 303 pp. Copertina in tela e sopraccoperta. Libro in buone condizioni.

Un giorno come tanti L'emergenza in Costa d'Avorio nel diario di un medico... senza frontiere

Türkiye'nin idari taksimati,1920-2013. 15 volumes set.

New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In Turkish. 15 volumes set: (6620 p.). This is an exhaustive study on the administrative division of vilayets (provinces) and kazas (districts of provinces) of the Turkish Republic. Order in alphabetical. a heavy and oversize full set.

True West Magazine, June 1978

Features: Milt Bryan's Adventures on the Santa Fe Trail; Lonely are the Graves - The Bundy Avant Story - Part I - New Mexico in the days when the thin population was intent on bettering itself; Lost Soldiers' Mine - Somewhere in the Coquille Mountains is a very cold trail to a very real gold vein!; Killers' Trail of Thread - the Green DeWitt Colony in the Mexican province of Texas-Coahuila; The "Coffee" Woman - sequel to "Bloodshed in Kansas" in the April issue; Shingle Mill Country - Van Buren County, Arkansas; Infidelity at Old Fort Laramie; Zane Grey's mysterious guide; The Soldier's Farewell - the guerilla war on the Mexican border in 1915; One Man's Rubble is another man's Gold - men with strong backs headed for San Francisco after it burned in 1906; Lost Mines of Mexico. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book

Tried and Valiant. The History of The Border Regiment. (The 34th and 55th Regiments of Foot) 1702-1959. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous plates in monochrome and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board with regimental crest blocked in silver, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY WITH SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY THE CURATOR OF THE REGIMENTAL MUSEUM. Sutcliffe, p.212.

THOMAS BECKET.

pagg. 218, con illustrazioni f/testo.

The Story of The Border Regiment 1939-1945. With a Foreword by Brigadier-General G. Hyde Harrison.

8vo., First Edition, with 8 maps in the text; regimental green cloth, badge blocked in silver on upper board, a very good, clean copy. Covers the wartime operations of 1-9 Bns, 70 Bn, 18 Infantry Holding Bn and the Home Guard. Includes ROH, awards, MIDs and the regimental association. The Borders had a distinguished war; notably the 1st fought at Arnhem and the 4th at Kohima. Sutcliffe, p.212; White, p.88

The Story of the Border Regiment 1939-1945

xv, 184 pages. Maps. Lists of Honours, Awards, and Mentions in Despatches. "A clear, concise and interesting account of (the Regiment's) achievements during the last great war." - Foreword. Armorial bookplate upon verso of half-title. Moderate wear to silver-decorated pale green cloth-covered boards which are sunned at spine. Binding intact. A sound copy. Enser p.80, White p.88. Book

THE STORY OF SCOTCH. With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author.

63p. + Plus portrait frontis and full page photographs. Inked ownership of Edna Manson. 12mo. Original full brown cloth binding. Fifth impression. PETS/1

The Saturday Evening Post, August 19, 1961 *NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT SUICIDE*

Features: Big Push in Soviet Propaganda - a report by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer, authors of The Ugly American; Suicide - why do people kill themselves? do they really want to die? - a new study turns up some surprising answers; "My Island" - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas loves an isolated wilderness of lakes and woods on our northern border; The Clubwoman's Best Friend; The Flattering Camera - inside the Bachrach photographic-portrait studios; What Europe Thinks of us Now; The Base that Never Was - the huge Bong Air Force Base in Wisconsin. Somewhat above-average external wear. Upper corner clipped from front cover. A sound copy. Book

The New Liberty Magazine, July 12, 1947 - Profile of Dr. Harold Taylor

50 pages. Features: Should Husbands and Wives Take Separate Holidays?; New Hope for High Blood Pressure - the Rice Diet; Dr. Harold Taylor - photo-illustrated article on the young President of Sarah Lawrence College; Little Audrey - great photo-illustrated article on actress Audrey Totter; Do You Want to Run a Resort?; Rides That Thrill - and Sometimes Kill - a look at amusement park rides; Movie reviews - including 11 photos; Dinah Shore's favourite laugh; Why a Golf Ball has Dimples. Stories: Forty Words; Animal Crackers for Breakfast. Condensed Book: The Border Lord (part 2 of 2). Ads: Colour Carling's ad insdie front cover urges forest fire prevention; Nice photo ad for movie 'Dear Ruth'; Lysol - for feminine hygeine(?); Colgate dental cream; Vaseline Hair Tonic; Johnson Sea-Horse Outboard Motors; O'Keefe's colour ad on back cover features map of Alberta. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound and pleasing vintage copy. Book

The Garden of Pinks with Decorations

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. Small tears and edge wear on price-clipped dust jacket. Age-toned endpapers. Colored frontispiece painted by Marian Wrench and forty-four full-page decorative drawings in black and white by Florence Mekeel.

THE FOLK-SPEECH OF CUMBERLAND AND SOME DISTRICTS ADJACENT; Being Short Stories and Rhymes In the Dialects of the West Border Counties.

pp. viii, 208. Top margins crudely cut. 12mo. Original full purple cloth binding, slightly worn. Classic collection of west country tales, including: "Joe and the Geologist"; "Bobby Banks's Bodderment"; "The Skulls of Calgarth"; and many others. POETRY BOX 2

THE BRIDE PRICE ( BORDER ROSEMARY )

The Border Wars of the Upper Ohio Valley: 1769-1794, Conflicts and Resolutions

390 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Color photographic plages. Here, two and a half decades of unrelenting warfare between the Indians and the settlers far transcended, for sheer ferocity, bloodiness and body count, anything in the annals of the West by a wide margin." - from back cover. Gift greetings atop title page, otherwise clean with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book

THE BORDER OUTLAWS. An Authentic And Thrilling History Of The Most Noted Bandits. THE YOUNGER BROTHERS, JESSE AND FRANK JAMES,. Bound With: THE BORDER BANDITS. Assassination of Jesse James.

476 p. (Continuous pagination). Illustrated with 12 full page color plates and numerous engravings. Page 21 torn without loss. Age stain. Lacks rear fly leaf. Inner hinges cracked. Early inked ownership of Nelson Myers on first fly leaf. 12mo. 190 mm. Original full blue cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gold. Boards embossed in blind. Extremities worn with loss. Hardbound. Good. Rader 531; Howes B933; Six-Guns 313; Graff 466. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W4

The Border from a Soldier's Point of View. With Drawings by Robert Bertram. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 13 plates and a large folding coloured map in pocket at end (map worn at some folds), armorial endpapers lightly spotted; green cloth gilt, gilt back, backstrip lightly worn else a very good, bright, clean copy. A valuable chronological record of the histories of Northumberland and Cumberland so far as they affect the Border. The work contains an alphabetical list of most of the castles, peles and towers with a short notice of each, together with an account of the principal Border battles and a summary of the Border Laws.

The Beaver, Magazine of the North, March 1950, Outfit 280 - Exploring the Kazan River / 3,000 Miles By Dog Sled

50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Wilderness Treasure - travelling along the historic 'Voyageur's Highway' in the Quetico-Superior border region; Protecting the Canadian side of the Quetico-Superior region; 'Home is Some Taffy Hair' - tale from the HBC post at Lake Harbour; People of the Snows - photo portraits; Exploring the Kazan River in 1926 - Thierry Mallet - photo-illustrated article; 3000 Miles by Dog Sled - tale of missionary journey made by late Canon Turner, which was almost the best ever made with dogs north of the Arctic Circle, written from his diaries and letters by his brother Edward; James Bay Cabin - C.S. Maclean and his guide Arthur Smith; Sealing - New Style - photo-illustrated article; Photos of outside and inside of the HBC's new fur sales building in Montreal; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book

South of the Border (Down Mexico Way): Sheet Music for Piano and Voice

6 pages. Nice cover photo of Guy Lombardo and romantic desert illustration. Store stamp and name upon front cover. Tape repairs. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book

Scottish and Border Battles and Ballads. Musical Arrangements by Jimmie Macgregor. PUBLISHER'S REVIEW COPY

Roy., 8vo., First Edition, with maps and scores in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Publisher's review copy with appropriate slips loosely inserted.