col bond (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, purple cloth lettered gilt, fading to the spine & lightly rubbed to the extremities, black mark to the foot of the spine. Crack to the upper hinge but the text block stitching remains sound. Minor faint spotting, free of markings. Thirteen illustrations and 14 maps. A continuity third volume in the General History of the KO Yorkshire Light Infantry.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Bond, Captain C.C.J. (illustrator). Second Printing. pp. xv, 807. Extensive index and footnotes. Numerous fold-out colour maps and black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. Second printing of the 1956 first edition. "Describes in detail Canada's part in the Italian campaign - the operations which began with the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and, developing into an arduous advance up the Italian peninsula, ended with the German capitulation in May 1945. Directed primarily to the general reader, and particularly to the Canadian reader who wishes to know what the Canadian Army accomplished and why its operations took the course they did." - Foreword. Gilt emblem and lettering upon publisher's red cloth. Prior owner's name and date discretely upon first blank leaf. Dust jacket not included. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important and highly informative history. Enser p.96, Cooke [3rd Edn] p. 259.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Canadians in Italy 1943-1945 - Volume II (2): Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War , Canadian Army - Italy, Canadian Army - World War 1939-1945.

Full Vellum. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Three volumes uniformly bound in full vellum with gilt lettering to spines and front boards, with the the regimental crest with motto in gilt on the front of each volume. Top edge gilt. Volume one: 1755-1914, Author Col. H C Wylly. Copy number 4 of the subscribers editiion. viii,374 page. Illustrated with 6 plates, and 12 maps, of which: 9 folding maps bound in with the text, and 3 maps loose in a pocket at the back of the book. Volume two: 1755-1914, Author Col. H C Wylly. viii,374-711 pages. Illustrated with plates, and 3 folding maps. Volume three : Author Lt.-Col. Reginald C. Bond, Foreword dated 1929.xviii,[4]blank, 715-1063 pages. Illustrated with 14 plates, and 14 maps, 13 of which are folding maps. 6 X 9 inches. All three volumes are very good sound and solid copies, no ownership marking, and all plates amd maps present as called for. With some marking as is commonly found on vellum, mainly on the spine of volume two.

Vellum. Zustand: Good. Captain R. C. Bond; et al (illustrator). First edition. Volume I & II of Colonel Wylly's history of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from 1755 to 1914, with lovely folding maps and plates. Bound in paper vellum with the gilt crest of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry to the front board. Copy Number 60 of this work, originally belonging to the subscriber Captain H. B. Hibbert, who was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1913. Portrait frontispiece of Sir John Moore to Volume I. Portrait frontispiece of Lieutenant-General Archibald Browne Dyce to Volume I. 6 plates and 12 folding maps to Volume I. 17 plates and 3 folding maps to Volume II. Collated complete. A couple of the plates are in colour, and the folding maps depict the countries and battles mentioned in the text. Pocket to the rear of Volume I, containing 3 plans of the Battle of Thonhausen near Minden. Harold Carmichael Wylly (1858 1932) was a British Army colonel and military historian. Here he provides a history of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and their battles from 1755 to 1914. He also features the records of uniforms, colours and medals of the K.O.Y.L.I and the particular histories of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Battalions. Bound in paper vellum. Externally very smart except for some staining. In Volume 1 there is some historic silverfish damage to the front and rear paste downs, to the front and rear free end papers, and to the rear pocket containing 3 plans of the Battle of Thonhausen near Minden. Volume 2 has only minor silverfish damage to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with just some spots to the first and last pages. All folding maps in excellent condition. Good. book.