London: Fontana/Collins, 1976. First paperback edition. Paperback. 256pp, illustrated with a map and several diagrams. Pages clean and firm, and toned. 'Enthralling...an exceptionally good escape story' (TLS). First published by Harvill in 1963, and later filmed by the BBC as 'Arnhem: the Story of an Escape'. In the white pictorial..... More

London: Wright & Brown, [1934]. First edition. Hardcover. x, [4], 302; illustrated with photographs, including a frontis portrait and a facsimile of Allenby's handwritten Introduction. An adventurer's autobiography, packed with incident. 'Wherever trouble was in the world there was Nogales... The book reads like a tale of the Spanish Main..... More

London: Collins, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 384pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents clean and fresh. In the original black cloth-textured binding, spine titled in green: firm and clean, corners sharp, with a few faint marks. Top edges of boards indented where knocked, and head of spine slightly compressed; 2mm snag to..... More

Praha / Prague: Torst, 2008. First edition. Softcover. 296pp. Glossy production, stark full page and double page photographs and text, an extraordinary and powerful record of the Soviet Invasion of Dubcek's Czechoslovakia in 1968 as experienced and resisted by the people. 32x24.5cms, in the printed covers of heavy flexible card..... More

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1941. First Penguin edition. Paperback. 158pp. Contents in good order, with some tanning to edges. The flimsy wartime cerise 'Travel & Adventure' series front paper cover is faded, stained, creased, and worn at the edges, with a corner missing, and puckered due to not having been laid..... More

Apparently self-published, [c.1995]. Presumed only edition. Paperback. 237pp, plus a frontis portrait and 4 pages of photographs. Verso of the half-title inscribed by the author to his niece, appended 'A.W.O.L.' Author writing from memory of his infantry experiences in WW2. Pages clean, book slightly buckled. Paperback, 20.5x14.5cms: covers creased and..... More

Cairo: for Middle East Publications, by Al-Hilal, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945. Original printings. Large format wartime periodicals for the troops (16.5x11ins / 42x28cms). 20pp each (special issues 32pp), with articles of general and entertainment interest as well as sidelines on the war, all richly illustrated in monochrome, with film..... More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 286, (4) adverts: with the translator's preface, and illustrated with a portrait frontis and many other photographs. Contents clean and unmarked. Firm, in the original binding of pale ochre cloth, a little faded and the spine slightly darkened. More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Riviington, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], 352pp, with the six maps (one folding) and a frontis portrait photograph of General Roberts; [40], 274pp: the biographies preceded by 140 oval woodburytype portrait photographs mounted on 10 page-openings. Contents of both volumes very clean, a few..... More

London: John Murray, 1875. Second edition. Hardcover. xiii, 315, + 4 adverts. Contents clean and firm. Early ownership name to first blank leaf. In the original purple cloth with dark green endpapers. Decorative black ruling frames a gilt medallion on the upper board, lower board decorated in blind, spine faded..... More