sir reginald custance (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, tanning and creasing.

Zustand: Good. Protective plastic cover over the jacket which has light marks & wear with a section missing on the front bottom corner. Light wear to the board edges. Book plate on the fpd. Content is in good, clean condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. A study of war and it's purposes and methodology through history particularly in the light of the conflict of war for power and war for security. Includes 4*maps and plans. ix+214pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cloth is heavily spotted. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Fore and lower page edges roughly trimmed. Some yellowing of pages.

Zustand: Good. 1919. Text unmarked fold-outs present. Tape band around cloth at lower edge. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Zustand: Good. 1924 Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo., dark blue clothbound hardback, gilt. 113pp., Indexed. Illustrated with 12 folding maps and charts. Some foxing to endpapers and edges. Previous owner's small signature to top of front pastedown. Light edgewear to covers with gilt titles to spine rather dulled and a few small white flecks to boards. Overall a Good Copy. (Shelf 7/200) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Edition unknown, probably the first American edition (printed in the U.K., with the titlepage a cancel) Octavo. Folding maps and charts. Full blue calf gilt. Owners ship name of Captain M. M. Maloney, U.S.M.C. stamped in gilt on front board. Embossed stamp of the Department of the Navy. Rubbing at the extremities, very good. Important study by a British Admiral based on his pre-WWI experience, but which was a major influence on British planning for the War.

See the entries for Custance and Holmes in the Oxford DNB. According to the latter: 'On his retirement in November 1910, Holmes published What is and What Might Be (1911), a condemnation of the existing education system, which stressed competition rather than co-operation, emphasized visible results, and demanded the mechanical obedience of the child. The book attracted wide public attention. [.] Shortly before his retirement, he became involved in the furore over the so-called 'HolmesMorant circular', a highly confidential memorandum which he had issued in January 1910 to inspectors'. The two letters are in fair condition, lightly aged and ruckled; Holmes's letter with light water tide mark around edges. Both with postage folds. ONE: Custance to Sandeman. ALS. 8 August 1911. 3pp, 16mo. Bifolium. Thirty-four lines. Addressed to 'My dear Sandeman' and signed 'Reginald Custance'. The information about 'Homer Lee's book [Lee (1851-1923) was an American engraver and inventor] is interesting, not to say amusing'. Reference to 'Gen. Chaffee's introduction' and Lee's apparent service in the American army and 'Chinese service'. 'A great number of people on this side were taken in by him. Personally I always thought he presented a very exaggerated view.' Turning to 'the Holmes pamphlet', which was given to Custance by 'an American Admiral', he discusses the 'very much amplified edition' titled 'What is and what might be', and how to acquire it. Ends: 'A friend of mie tells me that the ideal school is a [real?] one.' TWO: Holmes to Sandeman. ALS. 19 August [1911]. 2pp, 16mo. Addressed to 'Lt. Col. J. G. Sandeman M. V. O.' and signed 'E. G. A. Holmes'. 'My pamphlet on Sompting School [the school Holmes had set up in East Sussex] is not on sale; but I have written to the Printers and asked them to send you 4 copies.' He cannot spare more than four, as 'the stock is running very low, and half of it belongs to a friend of mine who paid back the whole cost to the printers'. With two cuttings: Custance's Who's Who entry, and a brief advertisement for Holmes's book.