PIPELINE TO BATTLE by Peter W. Rainier - 1943

Penguin Books, 1944. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Creases on cover. Pages yellowng.

Penguin, 1944. Fine. Rainier, Peter W. Pipeline to Battle: An Engineer's Adventures with the British Eighth Army. New York: Penguin, 1944. 305pp. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with subtly rolled spine, lightly rubbed edges and fine creases in front cover. Former owner's stamp on half-title. Creased rear corner, and price neatly blacked out with marker on rear.

New York: Penguin S 237, 1944. Soft cover. Vg to About Fine. some pressure creases but still bright and square

New York: Random House, 1944. Hardcover without dust jacket, undated Second Printing (probably 1944/45), 302 pages including several maps, plus larger map over both endpapers; light to moderate shelf wear to cover edges, corners and spine ends, but gently used, tight in binding, ugly bookplate obscuring part of the front endpaper map and some unknown damage obscuring a portion of the back endpaper map (between the two, tha map is readable), text pages clean and unmarked except for scattered light foxing due to cheap wartime paper. See also our listings for James Sidney Lucas's War in the Desert: The Eighth Army at El Alamein, and for Paul Addison's Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939-1945, and for the big picture, Monty, 3-Volume Set: The Making of a General 1887-1942; Master of the Battlefield, Monty's War Years 1942-1944; The Field-Marshal 1944-1976 [Bernard Law Montgomery of Alamein].. Hard Cover. Good.

William Heinemann Ltd, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is slight foxing around the block of the book. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Washington and New York: Infantry Journal and Penguin Books, 1944. Second Printing. Mass market paperback. Good. viii, [2], 305, [5] pages. Frontis map. Maps. Some page discoloration, especially at edges. Some page edge tears. Cover scuffed with wear, soiling and creases. This is a Fighting Forces Penguin Special. It is Complete and Unabridged. Peter William Rainier, born 1890 near Barberton, Swaziland (South Africa), died July 6th, 1945 in Red lake, Ontario, Canada. He was a Big Game Hunter, Civil Engineer, Mining Engineer (gold, diamonds, emeralds & coal), a "scout" in the South African Forces campaign against German Southwest Africa during WW I, a Major in the British Royal Engineers during WWII, and an author of several books. His family name, which came from the French "de Regnier," was changed many generations ago to the more English-sounding "Rainier." He came from a long line of British naval admirals and sea captains and he was the great, great… Read More

New York: Penguin Books, 1944. First Penguin Special printing. Paperback. Very mild rubbing to covers. Previous owners half title page. Else fine. No creases to spine, unread.. Pocketbook with red spine. 305 pages: b/w illustrations; 17 cm. Series: A fighting forces Penguin special;; S237; Infantry journal World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, English. Campaigns -- Africa, North. Military campaigns.

New York: Random House, 1944. Second Printing. fair to good, fair to poor. 302, maps, endpaper maps, text has darkened, DJ quite worn and brittle, front DJ separated from DJ spine. Peter William Rainier, born 1890 near Barberton, Swaziland (South Africa), died July 6th, 1945 in Red lake, Ontario, Canada. He was a Big Game Hunter, Civil Engineer, Mining Engineer (gold, diamonds, emeralds & coal), a "scout" in the South African Forces campaign against German Southwest Africa during WW I, a Major in the British Royal Engineers during WWII, and an author of several books. His family name, which came from the French "de Regnier," was changed many generations ago to the more English-sounding "Rainier." He came from a long line of British naval admirals and sea captains and he was the great, great grand-nephew of Peter Rainier, the British naval admiral for whom Mount Rainier, Washington, was named. Some discoloration inside boards and flyleaves, DJ soiled and worn,… Read More

New York: Random House, 1943. First Printing. Hardcover. fair, ex-lib.. 302, maps, xerox of endpaper maps pasted ins boards & flyleaves, library bookplate, board & spine edges worn, library call number on spine small tears inside hinges, binding somewhat shaken. Peter William Rainier, born 1890 near Barberton, Swaziland (South Africa), died July 6th, 1945 in Red lake, Ontario, Canada. He was a Big Game Hunter, Civil Engineer, Mining Engineer (gold, diamonds, emeralds & coal), a "scout" in the South African Forces campaign against German Southwest Africa during WW I, a Major in the British Royal Engineers during WWII, and an author of several books. His family name, which came from the French "de Regnier," was changed many generations ago to the more English-sounding "Rainier." He came from a long line of British naval admirals and sea captains and he was the great, great grand-nephew of Peter Rainier, the British naval admiral for whom Mount Rainier,… Read More

Random House, 1943-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1st 1944 HB Heinemann; no dust jacket ; clean throughout with no stamps or marks; 'Arthurstone' in pencil for Arthurstone House from which the book originates