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NOTES ON MILITARY SURVEYING AND RECONNAISSANCE.
London: Trubner & Co, 1862. 8vo., pp. 146, red hardcover, gilt lettering to front board, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations, tables and figures; light foxing to endpapers, toning to edges, bookplate sticker and pencil and ink library catalogue numbers to front paste-down, rubbed to boards, particularly to extremities, marks and staining to boards, lightly sunned to spine, overall a good+ copy.
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THE BOER WAR DIRECTION, EXPERIENCE AND IMAGE.
London: Portland, 2000. 8vo., pp.xxi,310, black hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; a very good indeed copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE DOWNFALL OF THE DERVISHES.
Being a Sketch of the Final Sudan Campaign of 1898.
London: Methuen & Co, 1898. 8vo., pp.xii,255,40 (publisher’s advertisements), uncut, pictorial red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece portrait of Lord Kitchener, map of the Nile and two further plates with Plans; ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper, toning to endpapers, some foxing throughout, light sunning to spine and rubbing to extremities, a good+ copy.
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THE KING’S LIEUTENANT: Henry of Grosmont, Forst Duke of Lancaster 1310-1361.
New York, Barnes & Noble, 1969. 8vo., pp. 312, red cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; small ownership inscription to front free endpaper, toning to margins, spots of rubbing to front board, else a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE WAR AS I KNEW IT.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition, 8vo., pp.xix,425, uncut, red cloth, top edges yellow, b/w frontispiece, b/w maps; ownership autograph, dated 1953, to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to edges, remains of dust-jacket pasted down to rear blanks, a tiny crease to cloth over spine, with just slight dulling to spine, a very good copy.
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THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN WARFARE. Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World.
Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.viii,203, paperback; a very good, fresh copy, with light creasing/rubbing to edges of wrappers.
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HISTORY OF THE ART OF WAR [Set of Four Volumes:] Volume I. Warfare in Antiquity; Volume II. Medieval Warfare; Volume III. The Barbarian Invasions; Volume IV. The Dawn of Modern Warfare.
Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Four volumes, 8vo., pp.604;711;paperback reprint; a fresh and near-fine set.
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BENEFITS OF WAR.
London: John Gifford Limited, 1943. Pocket 8vo., pp.xviii,189, blue cloth, gilt, decorative endpapers; ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper, light roll to spine, a very good, clean copy.
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THE ORIGINS OF MILITARY THOUGHT. From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz.
Oxford University Press, 1991. 8vo., pp.xii,281, paperback; a very good copy indeed.
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PANZER LEADER.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1952. First edition in a third impression jacket, 8vo., pp.528, black cloth, gilt, top edges tinted, b/w frontispiece portrait, numerous b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, in a lightly rubbed and worn third impression dust-jacket, with 3cm closed tear to head of fold over lower joint.
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THE GERMAN ARMY IN THE WEST. Sometime Chief of Staff to Rommel in North Africa, Kesselring in Italy, and Rundstedt in France.
London: Cassell and Company, 1951. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.ix,222, black cloth, gilt, b/w maps and plates; slight toning and foxing to edges, a very good+ copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped at headband and at rear lower corner, with 4cm closed tear to front lower margin, and light surface soil and foxing to rear panel. Now in a protective cover.
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PRELUDE TO WATERLOO: QUATRE BRAS. The French Perspective.
Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2014. 8vo., pp.223, black hardcover, gilt, 8 colour plates, 18 b/w plates, 6 b/w maps; slight bruising to tail of spine, a near fine copy, in a near fine, unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket, which is now in a protective cover.
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WHEN JIM CROW MET JOHN BULL. Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988. 8vo., pp.(vi),265, blue hardcover, gilt; toning to margins, a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SEARCHING FOR YANKEE DOODLE. Washington’s Soldiers in the American Revolution.
Staunton, Virginia: American History Press, 2016. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,300,(i), blue hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE LAST PLANTAGENET CONSORTS.
Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440-1627.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 8vo., pp.xii,267, pictorial hardcover; a fine copy.
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LOCAL MAPS AND PLANS FROM MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, of which this is number 433, 4to., pp.xv,376, black cloth-covered boards, gilt, colour plates to rear, b/w tables, maps and figures; light soiling to edges of text-block, slight knock to upper fore-edge of front board, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and sunned to spine and extremities, with scuffing and creasing to head and foot of spine and to corners, a few small closed tears along margins, otherwise very good and now in a protective cover. Extremely heavy - will require an extra postage charge.
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NICOPOLIS 1396: THE LAST CRUSADE. Osprey Military Campaign 64.
Oxford: Osprey Military, 1999. Small 4to., pp.96, paperback, colour and b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to front wrapper verso, a very good, fresh copy.
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THE GREAT WESTERN SCHISM, 1378-1417. Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity
Cambridge University Press, 2022. 8vo., pp.xiii,406, black hardcover, copper lettering; a fine copy in a vg+ dust-jacket.
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RELIGION AND THE CONDUCT OF WAR, c.300-c.1215.
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.viii,216,(i), blue hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, a very good copy indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE HYSTORYE OF OLYUER OF CASTYLLE.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1988. 8vo., pp. xxxvi,258, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front paste-down, otherwise internally clean, a near fine copy.
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