wavell earl (32 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Stapled pamphlet 24. Printed paper covers with a few tiny edge tears. Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1947). 204pp. Original blue paper covers with brown titles to covers, deckle edge. Good+ copy, some fading to covers, small damp stain to base of spine, a couple of nicks to fore edge, internally very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, tenth impression. xiv, 336pp, 25 illustrations and complete with folding, coloured map at rear. Oatmeal cloth-covered boards, green titles on the spine. Cloth a little soiled, rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Text block edges dust darkened and dull. Hint of toning on endpapers and a few minor signs of handling throughout. In its original dust wrapper, worn and torn, chapped and toned around edges, scuffed over spine with some minor loss. Freddie Spencer Chapman was an explorer and adventurous British Army Officer. In this memoir he recounts his experiences during the Second World War, spent mostly behind the lines in Japanese occupied Malaya originally training forces in guerrilla warfare, but latterly, trying to escape from Malaya and living, alone, in the jungle having lost his team and lost contact with British forces.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 165 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Wavell, Archibald Percival Wavell, Earl of (1883-1950). World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. 3 Kg.

2nd Impression. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 153p,[14]p of plates : frontis. ; 23cm. Subject: Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Viscount 1861-1936. Great Britain. Army ; Biography. Marshals Great Britain ; Biography. World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain. 3 Kg.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Second Printing. Small octavo in dust jacket, 232 pp., index,color mpas in a poket at therear Translated into Hebrew by Ya'akov Dori and Amihud Arbel.

stapled paperback, 8vo, 22,(1)pp, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, covers browned and foxed, strating to split at lower spine, Good condition, fragile.

1st Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Previous owner's signature. Physical description: 153 pages,[14]p of plates: frontis. ; 23cm. Subjects: Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Viscount 1861-1936. Great Britain Army; Biography. Marshals Great Britain; Biography.World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain. 3 Kg.

Zustand: Good. 1948. No Edition Remarks. 214 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges. Slight staining overall.

First Corgi Paperback Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 350pp. B/w map to rear. Not library copy, no creasing to spine, no inscriptions, light page tanning. ().

Jonathan Cape, London. 1971. Reprint. Hardback with DW. B/w portrait frontis. Wrapper price clipped and browned. Top page edges red. Gift inscription to front end paper. A nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 3rd edition, 11th printing. Red cloth with gold titles to spine, in dust-jacket. 152 x 223 x 28mm. 252pp. Maps within text, plus fold-out maps inside rear cover; index. Jacket soiled with some edgewear, including loss at spine-ends and tape repairs to underside; book cover largely clean though slightly bumped at corners; two officers' mess stamps and ink inscription to front endpapers; pages slightly age-browned but contents otherwise virtually as new. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 153 pages, 14 pages of plates : frontispiece ; 23 cm. Subjects; Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount (1861-1936). Marshals Great Britain Biography. World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain. Great Britain. Army Biography. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Ex school library - stamps, inscriptions, traces of labels; text generally clean. Red cloth faded & stained on spine, with worn gilt lettering; boards a little marked Used - Acceptable. Ex lib hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Acceptable. Ex lib hardback (no dust jacket).

First edition hard back publisher's original scarlet buckram cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 8½" x 5¾" 96 pp. Monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy paper. Nr. Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with general light soiling to ivory paper covers, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).

First edition hard back original publisher's brick red cloth covers, black stamping. 8vo. 4¾" x 7¼" 220 pp + appendix. Seven halftone illustrations, six maps, produced on war economy paper. To a sergeant of the black watch, small, active, tireless, and courageous, recalling for a young soldier the figure of Alan Breck Stewart, on the black night of a German raid in the trenches at Ypres. In Very Good clean and tidy condition, spine not faded, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Fontana Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 252pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (22/2).

Third Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Spine sun-toned. Light foxing. Previous owner's inscription. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Campaigns and their lessons. Physical description; xvi, 259 pages : maps (part folded) ; 23 cm. Subjects; World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Palestine. Palestine History 1917-1948. 3 Kg.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 13x19cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ is age toned, has some light wear and is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Book text block edges are lightly foxed. Previous owner's signature to front free endaper. Still quite a nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 215 pages. A selection of essays, lectures and articles.

8vo. 174pp. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Previous owner's name. A very good copy.

Zustand: fair to good. 22, wraps, ink notations on front cover, entire document folded in half, covers worn and soiled, small tear in front cover. In this address to the Virgil Society, Field-Marshal Earl Wavell argues that Aeneas was quite an effective if rather pedestrian general.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Fading to spine. Light crease to spine. Lacking the dust-jacket.; vii, [1], 215, [1 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 121mm. "Practically all the articles collecte here were written between the two Great Wars, between 1926 and 1938; a few were written during the late war. Nearly all have been previously published, in newspapers of military journals." - from the Preface, page v. Contents are arranged in five parts: Good Soldiers; Two Unorthodox Soldiers; In Praise of Infantry; Training for War; Organisation of Armies.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good with fair/poor wrapper, which is toned and with several tears to the edges. Minor spotting to the endpapers, clean internally.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo in bright red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 214pp, map. Essays and lectures by Wavell on soldiering, training and military organisation etc mostly written just prior to and during WW2 . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean, bright and tight copy (discreet neat ink name on front blank fly-leaf, top edge of page block faintly dusty) in a tanned and faintly dusty but otherwise FINE complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy ] . __To see more of our Military books type DbbMILITARY in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Wrappers, printed spine label. Upper cover slightly marked. When at Heywood Hill's bookshop John Saumarez Smith came across a copy of the original edition of Notes and Ideas "printed in an unedited form on the vice-regal press [in Delhi] and limited to probably no more than twenty or thirty copies", he was keen to do a reprint. Refused permission by Wavell's family, he tells the story in The Book Collector (Summer 2016), he undertook an informal one, photocopied from the original and in plain wrappers, to be issued in "a handful of facsimile copies" for private circulation. "If you buy an expensive thing you will regret it once; if you buy a cheap thing you will regret it always. (Indian proverb)".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 3rd Edition. Third Edition / Twelfth Print. Hardback copy in red cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket (18s net) in new removable protective clear sleeve (dustjacket states 'Fourteenth Printing'). 259pp. Includes 20 maps (16 b/w within text, 4 coloured fold-out to rear). Not library copy, no inscriptions, some wear to dustjacket edges, with few marks. (23/1).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 6th printing. pp.xvi.360. Maps, four folding [fine]. Owner's mark. DW chipped; see photo, now in archival sleeve.

Reprinted from The Times. Provenance: Charles Noon's copy. Finely bound with original photos and a letter from The Times loosely inserted. Very good copy bound in contemporary 1/2 leather over cloth. Gilt-blocked leather to spine. Marbled endpapers. Spine bands and panel edges slightly rubbed and dulled as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 27 pages, newspaper clippings attached to following pages, 22 cm. Subjects; Generals. History of generals. Imperial general staff. Lectures. 3 Kg.

Small 4to. 2 pp. To Lady Waverley, wife of the British politician John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley: "I did so enjoy that stupendous opera on Wednesday & I send you my most grateful thanks. I hadn't heard Götterdämmerung for ages & had forgotten some of its surpassing greatness - so thank you again & again. - I am off to Kent for 5 weeks on Monday to guard Granddchildren while my girl is in Cyprus [.]". - On headed paper of the "International Sportsmen's Club; strongly stained on right margin.