London: P.R. Macmillan Limited, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 238pp, illustrated with a portrait frontis and eight pages of photographs in the text. No inscriptions or marks, contents very clean, half-title tanned, probably due to items having at some time been laid in. Firm, in the original navy cloth-textured binding, spine..... 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
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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
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
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: 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
