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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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A STORY OF JUDGESPORE, 1858.
London: Army and Navy Co-Operative Society, Ltd, 1858. 8vo., pp.52, half navy leather, cloth boards, unlettered spine with title in gilt to front board; toning to free endpapers, light wear to edges of leather, with a couple of small holes to rear inner margin, light partial sunning to cloth over front board, internally fine and fresh, a very good copy.
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HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: THE MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST. [Set of Nine Volumes:]
Volume I. The Early Successes Against Italy (to May 1941). Volume II. The Germans Come to the Help of their Ally (1941). Volume III. British Fortunes Reach Their Lowest Ebb (September 1941 to September 1942). Volume IV. The Destruction of the Axis Forces in Africa. Volume V. The Campaign in Sicily 1943 and The Campaign in Italy, 3rd September 1943 to 31st March 1944. (In Two Volumes). Volume VI. Victory in the Mediterranean. Part I. 1st April to 4th June 1944. Part II. June to October 1944. Part III. November 1944 to May 1945.
Uckfield: The Naval and Military Press. Complete set of six volumes in nine, 8vo., pp.xxv,506;xiv,392;xviii,482;xviii,556;xix,581; 583-921;xi,520;xiv,537;xii,492, paperback, b/w maps and illustrations; slight marking to top edges of Volume VI (three volumes), a fresh and otherwise fine set.
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MERCHANTS AND THE MILITARY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN:
British Army Contracts and Domestic Supply, 1739-1763.
London: Pickering and Chatto. 8vo., pp.x,264, printed hardcover; inkstamped ownership bookplate to title page, else clean and near-fine. No dust-jacket.
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MILITARY ENGINEERING (PART V.): MISCELLANEOUS.
London: H.M.S.O. 8vo., pp.vi,97, 67 plates, publisher’s red cloth, gilt; label to front board, a very good copy. Includes: Camps and Bivouacs, Tuts, Quality of Water, Military Roads, Boring for water etc...
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THE GREAT WAR IN ENGLAND IN 1897.
London: Tower Publishing Company Limited, 1897. Ninth edition, 8vo., pp.330,(vi)adverts, pictorial green cloth blocked in red and black, b/w frontispiece and plates; foxing to endpapers and title, foxing and finger-marking intermittently throughout, paper-cracking to inner hinges (joints remain firm), frontispiece lacks tissue-guard, rubbing and small areas of wear to extremities, pictorial spine partially rubbed/faded, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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CANADA AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
The Disruption of the First British Empire.
New York: The Macmillan Company. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,497, uncut, navy cloth, gilt; dampstaining to lower corner of front board and lower/fore- margins of rear board, else fresh and very good, in price-clipped dust-jacket, now in protective cover, which has slight wear to extremities, 3 x 2cms torn area (with slight loss) to rear cover, else vg.
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ARMY DRILL MADE EASY.
A Handbook on Dismounted Drill for Everyone, with an A.B.C. of The Army.
London: Temple Press Ltd. 12mo., pp.90,(iv)adverts, pictorial paper wrappers, b/w illustrations; spine of wrappers present but largely torn along upper joint, with 3 further tears, remnant of brown paper cover and handwritten ownership bookplate to reverse of front wrapper, else very good.
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CAVALRY TRAINING (HORSED) 1937.
London: H.M.S.O, 1937. 12mo., pp.xii(adverts),217,(xxxviii) b/w diagrams, yellow cloth-covered softback with thick card covers, front cover lettered in black; light marking to cloth, toning to edges of text block, a very good copy.
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SHIPYARD PRACTICE AS APPLIED TO WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 8vo., pp.(iv),328, navy cloth, gilt, b/w plates and diagrams; toning to endpapers, light marking to boards, spine slightly rolled, rubbing to extremities, a good copy, without dust-jacket.
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