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
[publisher not stated], [1937]. Original edition. Softcover. Unpaginated 64-page booklet in pictorial card covers, recording the devastation done to the city by the German bombing and incendiary attack on behalf of the Nationalists, with witness reports, and statements by community leaders and government officials. Text in English and Basque. Includes..... 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: G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1937. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], 328pp. Contents bright, clean, and unmarked, with light tanning to endpapers and to the final text page. Newman's lively and informal reminiscences of his experiences more than 30 years earlier, both as a correspondent accompanying the forces which relieved..... 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
London: F.V. White, 1897. Fourteenth Edition. Hardcover. [iv], 330, +[10] adverts; text interspersed with many illustrations. Text bright, with tanning or foxing to the first and last few pages of the book, and to the closed edges. 19x13cms, in the original binding of green pictorial cloth printed in red and..... More
![Invaze 68. [Text in Czech]. Josef Koudelka](/pictures/thumb/20080030.jpg?v=1584735678)
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
![A Soldier with the Arabs. [Signed Copy]. Glubb Pasha](/pictures/thumb/19570010.jpg?v=1581048984)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 460pp, illustrated with photographs and maps. Contents very clean. Signed and dated (11th Oct 1957) by the author to the title page. Map endpapers. Top edge blue. In the original binding of navy cloth, titled in gilt, clean and bright, corners sharp..... More
![English Captain. [Penguin #374]. Tom Wintringham](/pictures/thumb/19419040.jpg?v=1556496824)
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
London: Portell Production, 2006. First English edition. Hardcover. xxi, 169pp, illustrated with photographs. Fresh new unread copy, in the original brown cloth-textured binding, spine titled in gilt, bright and sharp, in pictorial dust jacket. 'This is a story of daring, of ingenuity - and of a searing contempt for the..... 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
Romania: Casa de Editare “Glob”, 1990. Original or early edition. Paperback. Large paperback, quarto size: 100pp with 109 large photographs: text and captions in Romanian and English. A record of events and incidents, exorcising the people’s hatred and resentment of the Ceaucescus after their departure and death in December 1989..... More
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. [viii], 117, [3]: illustrated with photographs. Errata slip tipped in. Contents very clean, pages inconspicuously cockled towards the lower corner. Neat ownership name in ink, and trace of erased pencil price, to front endpaper. Firm and tidy in the original slim binding of..... 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: Chatto & Windus, 1939. First printing of the revised edition. Hardcover. xiv, 455pp, illustrated. Contents very clean and fresh and unmarked. In the original binding of pink cloth, spine titled in gilt: bright and clean, with a small knock to one corner. It appears long to have been conserved..... 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
![The Great Boer War. Complete in two volumes, bound together. [Tauchnitz vols 3464 & 3465]. A....](/pictures/thumb/19002051.jpg?v=1583984885)
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1900. Copyright Edition. Hardcover. 296, 270pp. Title and half-title pages present in both Vols. Pages clean, slightly cockled. Minor foxing to Vol I prelims. In contemporary marbled boards, rebacked with a plum cloth spine with two lettering pieces titled gilt. Firm and clean, some scuffing to boards..... 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: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], 283pp (+ 32 ads); including 4 maps, and with a tinted foldout map of South Africa. Faded 1880 gift inscription to head of title page, and author's rank corrected in pencil, to Colonel. Originally a stapled binding: now sewn..... 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
