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
MOSCOW 1941 A City and its People at War.
Profile Books, 2006. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xiii + 446, illus with b&w plates and maps (no inscriptions). More
LLOYD GEORGE'S AMBULANCE WAGON Being the Memoirs of William J. Braithwaite 1911-1912.
Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1970. Reprint. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. 350, illus with b& portrait photo frontispiece and b&w plates (no inscriptions). 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
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 BERLIN MISSION The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2019. 9781541742161. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original black/red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. x + 329, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
THE STORY OF THE NORTHERN RHODESIA REGIMENT
Bromley: Galago Press, 1990. 9780946995837. 2nd edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine, not price clipped). Pp. viii + 164, illus with b&w photos and maps (no inscriptions). 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
THE 11th HUSSARS (Prince Albert's Own)
Leo Cooper, 1969. 0850520150. 1st edn signed by author and editor on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered grey cloth (top edge spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (spine tanned and chipped at head - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xiv + 325, illus with b&w photos in text..... More
GREECE THE DECADE OF WAR Occupation Resistance and Civil War.
I.B.Tauris, 2016. 9781780768540. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered dark blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. x + 320, illus with b&w plates and maps (no inscriptions). 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
SOME RECOLLECTIONS.
John Murray, 1918. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt and black lettered blue cloth (rubbed at edges, spine faded and boards marked - in protective cover), no dustwrapper. Pp. xi + 328, illus with coloured and b&w plates (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). 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
NAVAL ADMINISTRATIONS 1827 to 1892 the Experience of 65 Years.
Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1897. 1st edn signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper. 8vo. Original gilt decorated red cloth, top edge gilt (worn at head and tail of spine and boards a little marked - in protective cover). Pp. xxiii + 339, illus with b&w plates..... More
WELLINGTON'S MEN REMEMBERED A Register of Memorials to Soldiers Who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo Volume 1 A to L [&] Volume 2 M to Z.
Praetorian Press (Pen & Sword), 2012 [&] 2015. 1st edn. 2 vols. 4to. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xiv + 610 [&] xiv + 661, illus with coloured and b&w plates + CD with each vol (no inscriptions). More
THE PRIME MINISTER'S PAPERS WELLINGTON Political Correspondence I 1833 November 1834.
Her Majesty's Stationary Office HMSO, 1975. 0114400512. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt decorated red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG, price clipped). Pp. v + 776, illus with b&w frontispiece (no inscriptions). More
THE LONG TRAIL Soldiers Songs and Slang 1914-18.
Sphere Books, 1969. 8vo. Rebound in gilt lettered tan calf leather binding with marbled endpapers (VG). Pp. 189 (no inscriptions). More
THE FLOATING BULWARK The Story of the Fighting Ship 1514 - 1942.
Cassell, 1963. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper). Pp. 274 (no inscriptions), illus with b&w plates. More
STRAY NOTES ON MILITARY TRAINING AND KHAKI WARFARE
London: Women's Printing Society, 1909. 1st edn. 8vo (8¾ x 5¾ ins). Original gilt lettered red cloth (spine lettering faded - otherwise VG). Pp. 194, illus with b&w plates with tissue-guards (endpapers toned; no inscriptions). More
LINCOLN And the Tools of War
University of Illinois Press, 1989. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. xv + 368, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
SAMUEL PEPYS The Saviour of the Navy.
Collins [&] Reprint Society, 1953. Book club edn. 8vo. Rebound in gilt decorated blue leather binding with marbled endpapers (VG). Pp. viii + 309 (previous owner's bookplate on rear paste-down; no inscriptions). More
THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS (1678-1918).
Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1925. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (poor - lower board damp stained and pitted, torn at head and tail of spine, faded at spine - in protective glassine cover). Pp. xvi + 502, illus with b&w frontispiece, b&w plates and maps (front and..... More
NELSON'S HISTORY OF THE WAR Volume XIV From the Fall of Kut to the Second Battle of Verdun
Thomas Nelson, c. 1917. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (small tear at centre of spine), no dustwrapper. Pp. 327, illus with b&w maps (no inscriptions). More
NELSON'S HISTORY OF THE WAR Volume XVII From the Opening of the Rumanian Campaign to the Change of Government in Britain
Thomas Nelson, c. 1917. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (faded at spine and edges of boards), no dustwrapper. Pp. 215, illus with b&w maps (no inscriptions). More
NELSON'S HISTORY OF THE WAR Volume XX The Summer Campaigns of 1917
Thomas Nelson, c. 1918. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (spine a little faded and edges scuffed), no dustwrapper. Pp. 299, illus with b&w maps (no inscriptions). More