Aids to Scouting for N.C.O.s & Men (Gayle & Polden's Military Series) by Baden-Powell, Maj.-Gen. Robert S.S - 1906

Privately Printed, 1943 Tan decorated w/blue/yellow Ribbon of Honor. Inscribed, "To Miss Alice Wainwright with my compliments, Richard Derby March 8, 1943." Wake Island, The Fox Holes of Bataan, The Supreme Test of Valor, Subic Bay Saga, To Philip Billings, Brooksville Maine. very scarce. OCLC list 4 copies 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Hugh Rees, Ltd, London, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Presentation bookplate on front inner cover to Officers Training Corps, Manchester University Contingent, Presented by W J Riley Esq JP (of Brierfield, Lancs) In Memory of His Son Captain H D Riley, 11th Service Battalion, East Lancashire Regt. who was killed in action in France on 1st July, 1916. Red covers with gilt lettering are darkened, more heavily on spine and at edges, remains of pasted label on spine and corners are worn, binding is sound but a little skewed, endpapers are darkened, pages are a little darkened but clean except very occasional brief penciled not in margin. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 65010090149. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

New in new dust jacket and signed by author. SHINING BOOKS IN SHINING JACKETS AND IN their ORIGINAL BLACK SLIP-CASE. UNTOUCHED, UNREAD, AND PERHAPS ONLY OPENED BY AUTHOR WHEN HE SIGNED IT AS A GIFT. BETWEEN THE TWO VOLUMES IS THE MAP VOLUME, ALSO UNOPENED, UNMARKED, CONTAINING MAPS OF THE BATTLES. Would be expensive to ship outside North America.

Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian War Memorial, 1940. General wear and small marks to boards. Foxing to endpapers and minor title page. 1010 pages with 212 b/w illustrations, maps and graphs. . Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Champlin Printing Co., Columbus, Ohio, 1898. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. 401 pp + 58 pp Roster of Ohio Troops. Text: yellowed typical of age and materials used. Light foxing with no markings or prior owner attribution. Illustrated throughout with b/w drawings and photos. "The first notice of the organization of the First Ohio Cavalry, is found in a report of the Adjutant General of Ohio for 1861. In his report for that year, the Adjutant General states that, 'on July 21, 1861, after earnest solicitation, authority was received from Washington for raising eight companies, or a regiment of cavalry, directly for the service of the Federal Government. It was determined that this regiment should be one of maximum size, to consist of twelve companies. This was raised without difficulty, and rendezvoused at Camp Chase, in July, August and September'." This book provides in-depth details of how the First Ohio Cavalry was formed and served the North in the great Civil War. No… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton. London.,1953. REPRINT. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.-- To my very dear friends Charlie and Jane, with fondest love from Freddie.-- A very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. The book is protected in a red cloth chemise housed in a red morocco spined slip case, made by James Macdonald Co. New York. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Lettered in gilt.:

London: Printed for the Author, 1797. Engraved frontispiece and six folding plates. 8vo, pp.xvi:230:(1, errata), contemporary full calf with lettering piece; lower joint cracked, upper cover detached. Frontispiece trimmed by binder just into image on fore-edge. With the contemporary armorial bookplate of the Hon. Edward Monkton of Somerford Hall, Staffordshire on front pastedown and his signature on the title-page. In need of rebacking and priced to allow for such.

Edinburgh and London. 1856. First edition. Octavo. xxvii, 234pp. Tinted litho. frontis., 3 further tinted litho. plates, folding plan of the Passage of the Ingour, large folding map. Title page woodcut vignette, 3 further woodcut illustrations. Recent quarter calf, spine in six with raised bands, leather label, gilt lettering and motifs, marbled boards. Renewed endpapers. Light foxing to plates. Large map folds carefully reinforced with paper tape. Neat marginal pencil note to xxv. A crisp handsome copy with all maps and plates as listed.
Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888) Author, Adventurer, Spy, Diplomatic Negotiator, Lawyer, Religious Mystic.
As correspondent for The Times at Trebizond Oliphant met the Turkish commander Omar Pasha, joined his force and was present at the battle of the Ingour. A first hand valuable account of Ottoman military operations from both a political and military point of view.

The Life of A Regiment
The History of the Gordon Highlanders
By Lt Colonel C Greenhill Gardyne
Volume 1 1794 – 1810
Hardback with paper cover
Printed by The Medici Society Ltd
Reprinted in Royal in 1929
Cover a little tatty at edges Volume in good condition with some foxing to page edges not inside some rubbing to top boards
Volume II 1810 - 1898
Hardback with no cover
Printed by The Medici Society Ltd
Reprinted in Royal in 1929
Volume in good condition some rubbing to top boards
Volume III 1898 – 1914
During and after the Boer War
Hardback with cover
Printed by Leo Cooper London 1972
Second impression 1972
Volume and cover in excellent condition some small marks on cover
Volume IV 1914 – 1919
Gordon Highlanders in the First World War
Cyril Falls
Hardback with No cover
Aberdeen University
Press
First Published in 1958
Volume in excellent condition some slight fading to spine
Volume V 1919 -1945
Hardback with Cover
The Gordon Highlanders
Wilfrid Miles
Frederick Warne Reprint 1980
Volume and… Read More

Malta: Publishers Enterprise Group Ltd, 1994. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Complete in 2 volumes: Vol. I: xxiii, 502pp; Vol. II: xvii, 369pp. Numerous b/w and col. maps and illustrations, mainly concentrated in Vol. II. An excellent near-mint copy of a scarce work. (Due to the size/weight of this 2-volume set, an extra shipping charge will apply.) .