division historian (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: New. In.

Card Covers. Zustand: Very Good -. No Jacket. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Card covers. Interesting original history of the 1st Cavalry Division in WWII in the Pacific theatre. 1st Edition second printing December 1947. 245pp., numerous photographs, coloure maps to endpapers, unit citations etc. Some very modest wear to spine, overall very good copy. Ships from England.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fair to good condition. Covers are faded and soiled with front cover lettering dull and rubbed. Back hinge repaired. Cover corners are bumped and worn. Bottom edge of back cover is bumped. Two maps in rear band. Larger map has a three inch tear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fair to good condition. Covers are faded and soiled with front cover lettering dull and rubbed. Back hinge repaired. Cover corners are bumped and worn. Bottom edge of back cover is bumped. Two maps in rear band. Larger map has a three inch tear.

All texts clear and complete. Autograph item with some creasing, otherwise in good condition on lightly-aged paper. Ten items signed 'Compton Mackenzie', and two ''. Eight of the items each one page of landscape 8vo; one 8vo, 1 p; another 12mo, 1 p; the autograph note 4to, 1 p; and the card 16mo, 1 p. The first item (4to, 1 p, in autograph) is dated 22 September 1948. Having met Brett-James he thanks him for sending the proofs of his war memoir 'Report My Signals' (London: Hennel Locke Ltd, 1948): 'I was much impressed by it, and supported it strongly for a Book Society Recommendation. But please keep this to yourself, because other members of the committee still have to give their opinion.' Other topics include Mackenzie's military history 'Eastern Epic' (1951), which he admits is 'going to be rather choppy', Brett-James's '5 Div. History', 'Piggy Heath' and Brett-James looking through (in 1955) 'the first seven chapters' of one of Mackenzie's books. Three letters from 1952 concern Brett-James's attempt to join the publishers Chatto & Windus. In the first (27 March) Mackenzie writes: 'I have written to Chattos about you, but I don't expect there'll be any chance of a vacancy there because Piers Raymond and Peter Cochrane are now Directors and both young men. Their reader is Cecil Day Lewis. I sympathise with your wish to be with them because they are really delightful people to be with, but I don't think you must have much hope.' In the same letter he refers to the loss of 'reading sight of my left eye'. The letter from Mackenzie's second wife (landscape 12mo, 1 p), signed 'Chrissie MacSween', has a square of paper torn from the bottom right-hand corner. Despite this, the text is legible. Apologising for 'this seeming familiarity' she is returning Brett-James's railway ticket, 'which Kenny [i.e. Mackenzie] found on the floor after you'd gone'. She speculates that he may be receive 'the full refund on it'. Also fourteen newspaper cuttings by and about Mackenzie, from between 1938 and 1962, all in good condition on lightly-aged paper. Including two of Mackenzie's 'Sidelight' columns from the Spectator, both 1953, and a 1938 article by him from the Listener entitled 'I Became an Author'. Also an appreciation by Joyce Weiner in John o'London's Weekly, 1953, 'Seventy Happy Years', and 'An Appreciation [of Mackenzie's 'On Moral Courage'] by Sir Charles Petrie', Illustrated London News, 1962. From the papers of Anthony Brett-James.

A feature of Brett-James's well-received war memoir 'Report My Signals' (1948) was the fifteen reproductions of his pencil drawings of Indian men who served under him. None of the portraits present here feature in that book or have been reproduced elsewhere, but those published in the book give an excellent idea of Brett-James's skill at conveying character in well-executed pencil sketches. The nineteen drawings in this collection are all in good condition, on aged paper, with occasional light creasing. Eleven are in 8vo, and eight in 12mo. Eighteen of the nineteen are signed by Brett-James with his monogram initials. Four of the 8vo portraits have a few features picked out in colour. Having commanded the Madrassi Signals of 123 Brigade in a drive through central Burma to Rangoon, Brett-James sought - as described in RMS, pp.310-328 - to 'recover from a sickness' by travelling in April and May of 1945 'up to the hills', setting out 'out with a Dutch companion, sirdars and porters to trek through the state of Sikkhim, to see the snows of Everest and Kanchenjunga, and to glory in rhododendron trees and sublime scenery' (RMS, p.309). Five of the nineteen pencil drawings in this collection are portrait heads of Tibetans encountered on that journey, executed in Dentam, Kewzing, Namchi, Phalut and Tanglu. All five are dated by Brett-James, with the names of the sitters given as: 'Lob Song. Tibetan Sirdar' [i.e. the 'well-known sirdar named Lobsang, who accompanied the 1938 Everest Expedition as far as Camp Six', depicted here by Brett-James 'wearing the Himalayan Club bronze medal', RMS, p.315], 'Gyalgen. Sherpa Sirdar' [RMS, pp.314-323], 'Subha Rai. Nepali Sirdar' [RMS, pp.314, 320, 322-327], 'Song Yol. Lepcha Chowkidar' and 'Netuk. Lepcha'. A further twelve portrait heads (four in 8vo and eight in 12mo) date from a visit by Brett-James to Darjeeling in August 1943. Two of the twelve (both 8vo) are captioned: 'Sherpa Ponywallah' and 'Tibetan Wanderer'. The last two portraits in the collection (both 8vo) were executed in Naga in December 1944: 'Zakkah Hai. A Naga hillman' (with red shawl and orange necklace) and 'Naga Roadmender'. See sample image.