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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No DJ. Good condition paperback pictorial cover, no DJ. approx 16 pages not numbered, good and clean with clear print. Black and white photographs.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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First edition, first printing. Very good small format paperback with some foxing to covers and rusty staples.

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First edition, fiirst printing. Fine oblong format paperback.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThe long career of a great soldiernnThis is the autobiography of Smith-Dorrien , one of the most notable British military figures of the mid-Victorian and Edwardian ages. The author s first experiences of military life were nearly.

Hardcover. 12mo, v, 110 pages. In Good plus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is tan with brown print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners. Price unclipped: "$1.00". Boards quarter bound with purple cloth to spine and tan paper to boards. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1398399. FP New Rockville Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of letters from a father to his son provides a unique perspective on military life and the values that underpin it. Written by General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, a veteran of the Boer War and World War I, these letters offer practical advice on everything from leadership and strategy to personal conduct and character.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrations and maps complete. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Frontispiece. The boards are a little marked. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last few pages, little within the body of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The long career of a great soldierThis is the autobiography of Smith-Dorrien , one of the most notable British military figures of the mid-Victorian and Edwardian ages. The author's first experiences of military life were nearly his last and in this book we are given a vital and chilling account of what it was to be one of the few surviving officers to flee from the Zulu impis at Isandlwhana. Interesting service in Egypt, the Sudan, and the Boer War follows as Smith-Dorrien's career develops and he becomes a talented and highly regarded staff officer. His works during the opening campaigns of the Great War are now properly regarded as superb generalship which probably saved the army, but it also earned the enmity of French, his superior, who all but ended his career. A brilliant autobiography by a fine soldier who every reader will come to admire as a military man and a person with each turn of the page.

6" x 1¾", no place, no date, together with a small postcard photo, 5½" x 3½", no place no date He was one of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself in the Second Boer War. Smith-Dorrien held senior commands in the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War. He commanded II Corps at the Battle of Mons, the first major action fought by the BEF, and the Battle of Le Cateau, where he fought a vigorous and successful defensive action contrary to the wishes of the Commander-in-Chief Sir John French, with whom he had had a personality clash dating back some years. In the spring of 1915 he commanded the Second Army at the Second Battle of Ypres.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Small 4to. (26 by 21 cms) pp. [iv], 31, [ii]. Bound in blue cloth lettered gilt on spine. Plan of the contents of the 'Valhalla' building which houses figureheads from old wrecked sailing vessels in Tresco Abbey Gardens. Duplicated typescript bound with blank sheets. Contemporary ownership inscription of William Arnold Thorpe, Isles of Scilly, September 1953 on front free-endpaper. Also signed W. A. Thorpe on title-page. Charlotte 'Babs' Dorrien Smith, born in 1886, was one of seven children, 5 girls and 2 boys who grew up at Tresco Abbey in the Isles of Scilly. Their father was Thomas Algernon Smith-Dorrien-Smith who succeeded his uncle Augustus Smith as Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly in 1872. He married Edith Tower in 1875. A year after his marriage the SS Schiller was wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. William I, the German Emperor awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle and his wife a gold bracelet for their work with survivors. The author lists wrecks on the Isles of Scilly dating from 1636 to 1933, including an account of the wreck of the SS Schiller. In her introduction she points out that although there have been stories of deliberate wrecking, none of these have ever been authenticated and she goes on to say 'None would pretend, however, that the salvage from wrecks was anything but welcome and indeed was, and still can be, very profitable.' Type on page 5 faint in places, but still readable, several pencil underlinings in the text, short ink lines in the margin of page 23, rubbed at extremities, nicked at foot of spine, some speckled marks to covers. VG.

Zustand: Good. illustrations in the text [13 including full page] by Louis Wain + full page photograph of Lady Smith-Dorrien + decorated titlepage & vignette facing page 1. 8vo blue cloth spined pictorial boards [Cream covers showing some marks and dustiness/edges rubbed] Titlepage with Lady Smith-Dorrien's photograph and her note with mermorial of the dog on the verso of these 2 leaves tipped in on glazed paper. The rest of the book is on regular wood pulp paper. Almost all of the Louis Wain illustrations are signed and deal only with dogs and cats. The book has an inscription to the free endpaper and aside from about five marginal fingermarks is in clean tight condition with no tears or other problbems. The story is about the terrier whose master goes off to war but the dog realizing that his owner has forgotten his pipe, follows him to France where they are reunited. When the master ill they are repatriated and Star,the dog, becomes famous and meets the King. The story was obviously written well before the war is finished and the last leaf includes "What the Blue Cross does for War Horses" and asking for donations to help build further Horse Hospitals in France to help the horses that are wounded. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Zustand: Fair. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1925. 8vo hardcover. xii+522pp. Illustrations, maps. Fair book. No dust jacket. Front hinge cracked. Light pencil notation throughout. Some page edges torn. (Great Britain, Military History) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. The binding has been repaired in amateur fashion, with black material across the spine, and the original spine cloth laid down on top of this. Spine cloth lifting at upper end of rear joint. Moderate foxing.; This copy has two newspaper review clippings from 1925 pasted to the front endpaper and the half-title page. There are also several other clippings from 1935 pasted to the endpapers. Tipped in to the front free endpaper is a handwritten letter from H. Williams-White to Colonel [Maclarty?]. The letter is on paper with the letterhead "Holyrood House, Bognor" and is dated 15 March 1918. The letter reads "My son has returned the books which I am leaving this morning at your house. He begs me to thank you in the loan of them, and to say he has found them very useful as far as he has been able to read them." xii, 522, [2 (advertisements)] pages + frontispiece + 9 illustratrions on 7 plate leaves + 27 maps (20 in-text, 3 folding, 5 with some colour). Grey cloth boards. Amateur rebinding with original spine cloth laid down. Gilt lettering on spine. Small gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 223 x 149mm. Contents: The Zulu War; Egypt, 1882; India-Nile and Suakin Expeditions, 1884-1887; India; Tirah Campaign, 1897-1898; Egypt: Omdurman, 1898; Fashoda; Malta; South African War: Paardeberg; Bloemfontein, March 1900; Sannah's Post, 31st March 1900; Thabanchu, Thoba; Zand River, May 1900; Doornkop, Six Mile Spruit, Pretoria; Lines of Communication, Onrust and Olifants Nek; Pursuing De Wet; Buller and Komati Poort; Belfast; A Sweep to the Swaziland Border; Pietretief; India, 1901-1907; Aldershot, 1907-1911; India and Salisbury, 1911-1914; The Retreat from Mons; Le Cateau; The Marne, 1914; The Aisne; Flank Move to Bethune; Indian Troops: Neuve Chappelle; Messines: The Second Army; Return to England; Expedition to East Africa; Gibraltar; Index. "General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC (26 May 1858 12 August 1930) was a British Army General. One of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself in the Second Boer War. Smith-Dorrien held senior commands in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) during the First World War. He commanded II Corps at the Battle of Mons, the first major action fought by the BEF, and the Battle of Le Cateau [. . .]" - Wikipedia entry on Horace Smith-Dorrien, accessed November 2024.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 27 x 21 cm. 6 no. volumes all in similar condition published between 1918-1921. Grey paper on board with grey cloth to spine and applied paper titles. Externally: some grubbiness, wear and scattered foxing due to not ideal storage. Foxing and toning to end papers also. Internally entirely clean with A1 binding. Tipped-in photographic plates and short biographies for all 631 Harrovians who fell in the First World War. Included are 6 no. double-sided details of price and availability of individual biographies from each volume printed. In addition a further separate notice of regret at the need for a 6th. volume adds particular poignancy to the last volume.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Two foolscap documents in self-wraps, 8; 25pp. Very good with some foxing and small institutional stamps to fronts. These reports were submitted to the Secretary of the War Office, at that time David Lloyd George, on 3 Aug and 17 Nov 1916, by a Committee chaired by Justice Clement Bailhache. The Committee was appointed to look into Government air policies in the wake of serious losses being sustained by the RFC during WW1. In particular, serious criticisms made by Pemberton Billing of "criminal negligence" and "official folly of those in high places" with claims against the Royal Aircraft Factory and RFC. Gathering information over several weeks looking at a series of specific cases, the Committee laid the blame with the military supply system rather than with air chiefs, calling for a joint Equipment Department, and closer cooperation with the Royal Naval Air Service.

[Das dekorative Blatt an den Rändern leicht fingerfleckig.] Die Wochenzeitschrift "Vanity Fair" legte in den Jahren 1869 bis zu ihrer Einstellung 1914 jeder Ausgabe eine Farblithographie mit dem Porträt der sogenannten "Person der Woche" bei. Neben anderen namhaften Künstlern seien vor allem Sir Leslie Ward (London 1851 - 1922) und Carlo Pellegrini (Capua 1839 - London 1889) genannt, die unter dem Pseudonym "Spy"(Ward) und "Ape"(Pellegrini) Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens karikierten.

(Sydney George Holland, 2nd Viscount, 1855-1931, Barrister and Peer) saying that he "will probably have heard that your candidate 'Hay Currie' for the Library Secyship here was selected. but after thinking it over cabled to say he wouldn't take it - so we are choosing another. I don't think I ever answered yours of 24th May, in which you were good enough to say that the public were so dead against Lord F that I needn't trouble my head about him - all of which is perfectly true. But one can never forget that he has humiliated the Army & lowered us in the eyes of the nation. It is grievous that its sense of justice & comradeship should have been so violated, and its reputation for fairness & loyalty so besmirched. I am hoping to have a game of squash with you.", 2 sides 8vo., Government House, Gibraltar headed paper, 14th July He was one of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself in the Second Boer War. Smith-Dorrien's last position was as Governor of Gibraltar from 9 July 1918 until 26 May 1923, where he introduced an element of democracy and closed some brothels.