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MILITARY HONOUR AND THE CONDUCT OF WAR From Ancient Greece to Iraq.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2006. 8vo., pp.218, hardcover; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, else fresh and near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE LOYAL CLANS.
Cambridge: At the Universtiy Press, 1932. 8vo.,pp. viii,590, orange cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; small inscription to front free endpaper blocked out in white tip-ex, with a a similar tip-ex mark to rear paste down endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and light toning to margins, light sunning and spotting to spine, rubbing to extremities with light wear to corners and to rear upper edge, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
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BUDDHA'S WARRIORS. The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet.
New York: Penguin Group, 2004. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,433, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; pen mark to bottom edge, otherwise near-fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light sunning to spine and margins.
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OPERATION VICTORY.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,488, red cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece portrait, 53 b/w maps plus endpaper maps; sunning to upper edges of boards, light partial sunning/mottling to boards, overall a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has chipping with small areas of loss to extremities, as well as creasing and closed tears - good(+), and now in a protective cover.
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1807: FROM EYLAU TO FRIEDLAND.
The Polish Campaign.
Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2007. 4to., pp.144, pictorial hardcover, colour maps and illustrations; near-fine.
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BLOODY CLASH AT SADZOT.
Hitler’s Final Strike for Antwerp.
Saint Louis: Zeus Publishers, 1981. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxvi,309, quarter black leatherette, gilt, yellow cloth boards, b/w illustrations; light bumping to upper margin and corner of front board, a very good clean copy, in photocopied dust-jacket.
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SWORDS OF THE SAMURAI.
The Splendours of Japanese Sword Furniture.
Prague: printed by Knihtisk, 1967. Small 4to., pp.61(text),60, glossy pictorial hardcover, 60 b/w and colour plates; slight wear to edges, a very good copy.
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HISTORY OF THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
Aldershot: Gale and Polden Ltd, 1952. Second impression, 8vo., pp.xv,615, blue cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; owner’s typed labels to front paste-down endpaper, rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy, in a rather attractive homemade dust-jacket.
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THE BATTLE OF THE GOLDEN SPURS (Courtral, 11 July 1302).
A Contribution to the History of Flanders’ War of Liberation, 1297-1305.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2002. Revised version in English translation, 8vo., pp.xxvi,267, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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FULFILMENT OF A MISSION.
The Spears Mission to Syria and Lebanon 1941-1944.
London: Leo Cooper, 1977. 8vo., pp.xi,311, blue hardcover, gilt, 14 b/w illustrations; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, else clean and very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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The Distinguished Service Order 1886-1923.
Part I. 1886 to the 31st December 1915; Part II. From the 1st January 1916 to the 12th June 1923. (Originally published in 1924 as Volumes Two and Three of the V.C. and D.S.O.)
London: J.B. Hayward & Son, The Medal Specialists, 1978. 4to., pp.vi,444,373, blue cloth, gilt, 1026 portrait illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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OPERATIONS IN PERSIA, 1914-1919.
Facsimile edition.
London: H.M.S.O, 1914. 8vo., pp.xxii,490, red cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations and folding maps, including 6 maps to pocket at rear of volume; a very good copy, in good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities.
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BRITISH BARRACKS 1600-1914.
Their Architecture and Role in Society.
English Heritage/The Stationery Office, 1998. 4to., pp.xviii,222, black cloth, gilt, owner’s handwritten catalogue no.s to upper margin of front free endpaper, slight bruising to lower corners of boards, else fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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CORRESPONDENCE OF LIEUT.-GENERAL THE HON. SIR GEORGE CATHCART, K.C.B., RELATIVE TO THE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN KAFFRARIA,
Until the Termination of the Kafir War, and to his Measures for the Future Maintenance of Peace on that Frontier, and the Protection and Welfare of the People of South Africa.
London: John Murray, 1857. Second edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,401, uncut, textured brown cloth, gilt, 2 folding colour maps, further b/w maps; a few leaves roughly cut, with closed tear to p.143/4, occasional fingermarking/surface soil, marking to cloth, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to corners, a near-very good copy.
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THE HISTORY OF THE BALTIC CAMPAIGN OF 1854.
From Documents and Other Materials Furnished by Vice-Admiral Sir C. Napier, K.C.B.
London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty, 1857. 8vo., pp.xlvi,622,(i) uncut,, textured pictorial navy cloth, gilt; small ownership inscription to upper margin of front free endpaper, slight foxing to prelims, foxing to edges, light mustiness, a very good, bright copy.
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FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FRONT, XMAS 1917.
London, et al: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1917. 4to., pp.128, pictorial wrappers (paperback), b/w illustrations throughout, b/w frontispiece; rubbing and light wear to extremities of wrappers, with two small closed tears to edges of front wrapper, overall a very good copy.
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PORTUGAL’S WAR IN GUINE-BISSAU.
Pasadena: Munger Africana Library, California Institute of Technology. 4to., pp.(iii),202, black cloth, gilt; light foxing to margins of endpapers, a little rubbing to extremities, else very good. (No dust-jacket.)
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THE STORY OF THE ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT (FORMERLY THE SIXTH FOOT).
London: published at the Offices of ‘Country Life’ Ltd./New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 8vo., pp.x,235, pictorial full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, 12 b/w plates and 26 b/w illustrations, 4 folding maps to rear of volume; light toning to endpapers, foxing and toning to spine, with some further foxing and light toning to boards, overall a very good copy.
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NAVAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN. [Set of Seven Volumes: Six Volumes + Index Volume].
From the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV. New Edition, with Additions and Notes Bringing the Work Down to 1827.
Uckfield: Naval and Military Press. Facsimile reprint of the 1902 edition, seven volumes, 8vo., paperback; fine.
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THE STAR AND CRESCENT.
Being the Story of the 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922.
Naval and Military Press in association with The Imperial War Museum. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.xii,358, paperback, b/w illustrations; light vertical crease to front wrapper and peeling to laminate coating of wrappers at fore-margins, else very good, and internally fine.
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