SOLITARY STAR A Biography of Sam Houston
G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1974. 0399111603. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper). Pp. 344 (no inscriptions), illus with b&w map. More
Military History
AFGANTSY The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
Profile, 2011. 9781846680540. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xiv + 417, illus with coloured and b&w plates (pages tanned at edges and with tobacco odour; no inscriptions). More
MOSCOW 1941 A City and its People at War
Profile Books, 2006. 186197759X. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xiii + 446, illus with b&w plates and maps (no inscriptions). More
THE ROYAL SCOTS
Leo Cooper, 1976. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (fading to spine otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (residue of price sticker on upper cover - otherwise Fine in protective wrapper). Pp. x + 110 (no inscriptions), illus with b&w plates. More
THE SWORD AND THE PEN
Pen & Sword Books, 1989. 0850521106. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xiii + 160, illus with b&w drawings in text (no inscriptions). More
IN THE SHADOW OF THE CIVIL WAR Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson
University of South Carolina Press, 2007. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (small nick at top edge of lower cover - otherwise Fine in protective wrapper). Pp. xiv + 227, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
GLI ARSENALI OLTREMARINI DELLA SERENISSIMA
Milan: Biblion, 2010. 9788896177099. 1st edn. 4to. Original pictorial boards (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. 325, illus with coloured and b&w photos (no inscriptions). [Italian text]. More
THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED
Burke, 1958. 1st edn. 8vo Original gilt lettered green cloth, top edge black (spine lettering dulled, small mark on upper board, lightly bumped on top edge of upper board - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 320, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions; pages a little musty). More
THE WORK OF THE BELGIAN ARMY
Paris: Librairie Berger-Leverault, 1918. 8vo. Rebound in green cloth with original printed paper wraps bound-in (hand written label and accession number on upper board). Pp. 20 (title page torn; pages tanned; ex school library with bookplate on front paste-down and usual stamps and markings). [English text]. More
CONVERSATIONS WITH MONTY
William Kimber, 1984. 9780718305314. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 160, illus with b&w plates (previous owner's address sticker and bookplate on front endpaper). More
THE BATTLE BOOK OF YPRES
John Murray, 1927. 2nd edn. 8vo. Original gilt decorated blind ruled blue cloth (boards a little marked, some fading at spine), no dustwrapper. Pp. xiii + 273, illus with b&w frontispiece, one coloured plate, one b&w plate and folding map of the Ypres Salient (no inscriptions). More
SURVIVAL ON THE DEATH RAILWAY AND NAGASAKI
Pen & Sword Military, 2018. 9781526740106. 1st edn. 8vo. Original silver gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 147 (no inscriptions). More
SECRET DAYS Code-Breaking In Bletchley Park
Frontline Books, 2011. 9781848326156. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (small tear at top edge of upper cover - otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xix + 202, illus with coloured and b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
WAR GAMES Magazine Vol 1 No 1
Mister Miracle Publications, n.d. c. 1983. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 46, illus with b&w photos and drawings (no inscriptions). More
WAR GAMES Magazine Vol 1 No 2
Falconstar, n.d. c. 1983. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 46, illus with b&w photos and drawings (no inscriptions). More
WAR GAMES Magazine Vol 1 No 3
Falconstar, n.d. c. 1983. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 46, illus with b&w photos and drawings (no inscriptions). More
MEMORIES OF THE BRITISH RAJ A Soldier In India
Johnson, 1986. 0853071322. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (upper cover lightly marked - otherwise VG, price clipped). Pp. 208, illus with b&w plates and map (no inscriptions). More
ALL IN The Education of General David Petraeus
Penguin Press, 2012. 9781594203183. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original quarter bound silver lettered grey cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xxxi + 394, illus with b&w plates and map (ex public library with usual stamps and markings). More
THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE AND NEW POLITICAL CULTURE
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 023024131X. 1st edn. 8vo. Original pictorial boards (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. xvi + 332, illus with b&w map (previous owner's inscription on front endpaper and gift inscription on front prelim possibly from Agustin Guimera). More
STORM WARNING Riding the Crosswinds in the Pakistan-Afghan Borderlands
Radcliffe Press, 2013. 1st edn signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xiv + 298, illus with b&w photos and maps (no other inscriptions). More
MY INESTIMABLE FRIEND An Account of the Life of Rear-Admiral William Brown 1764–1814
Mosman NSW: Leesthorpe Publishing 9780646970554. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. 416, illus with coloured and b&w plates (no inscriptions). More
BEFORE THE IRONCLAD Development of Ship Design Propulsion and Armament in the Royal Navy 1815-60
Conway Maritime Press, 1990. 0851775322. 1st edn. 4to. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 217, illus with b&w photos and diagrams (ex company library with usual stamp and marking on front free endpaper). More
MORGAN'S RAIDERS
Smithmark, 1995. 8vo. Original gilt lettered grey cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 353 (no inscriptions). More
FIREARMS IN COLONIAL AMERICA The Impact on History and Technology 1492-1792
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. 1st edn. 4to. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (VG), dustwrapper (tear at top corner of upper cover, chipped and rubbed at head and tail of spine - in protective cover). Pp. xiv + 450, illus with pictorial endpapers and with b&w photos and drawings (previous owner's..... More
THE GILGIT REBELLION 1947
Ibex, 1998. Signed and inscribed by author's widow on half title with her letter loosely inserted. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (small crease at bottom corner of lower cover - otherwise VG). Pp. xv + 298, illus with b&w plates and map (no other inscriptions). More