Search Results: British Empire

Very Good. Very Good.

London: The Stationery Office, 1999 abridged reissue of 1901 material. 114pp. + ads. paperback: near Fine [bit of foxing to top edge; else a nice crisp copy] An interesting edition containing the gist of historic British Government official papers.

London: Imperial War Museum, 1976. 48pp. illus. paperback oblong 8vo: Fine.

London/NY: Longman, 1986 reprint. 418pp. paperback 8vo: Good [minimal amount of underlining or highlighting in text; else a complete & tight copy] A brief, readable history of a vast subject.

Hove, UK: Wayland, 1987 2nd ptg. 128pp. illus. hardback 8vo in pictorial boards: Fine/no dj [small price sticker remnant on pastedown; touch of ffep foxing; else a very nice clean and crisp copy] An attractive illustrated primer on the subject, a title in The Documentary History Series originally published in 1972.

Oxford Univ. Press, 1989 reprint. 430pp. paperback tall 8vo: Very Good [bit of edge foxing; else a nice clean and crisp copy]

New York, NY Penguin Books: Pelican , 1981. Paperback Second Edition [1981], Revised & Enlarged by Geoffrey Warner; Fifth Printing Thus [1986]. Twenty pages show HI-LIGHTING. Else, Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: just a hint of wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the wrapper covers; tiny nick at the bottom of the front panel has been carefully tape-repaired; very faint creases at the lower front corners; the binding is square and secure, if very slightly concave; the text is clean. Clearly this is a flawed copy, but in appearance remains close to 'As New' and would make a handsome reading copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 382pp. The Pelican History of England Series. Second Edition [1981], Revised & Enlarged by Geoffrey Warner; Fifth Printing Thus [1986]. Mass Market Paperback.

New York, NY Harper & Row: Torchbooks, 1965. Paperback First Edition Thus (1965), so stated. First Edition Thus (1965), so stated. Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of significant use: light wear to extremities; mild rubbing and faint soiling to the wrapper covers; the head and heel of the back strip have been carefully tape-reinforced; the spine leans, but remains perfectly secure (the signatures are sewn). Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. Shows moderate wear and couple of minor flaws, but remains a clean, sturdy, presentable copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.35 x 1 inches). 547 pages. Language: English. Weight: 19.2 ounces. Sewn Binding. Trade Paperback.

New York: Harper & Row. 1966. 225pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [ink name; touch of age browning of edges; else nrVG]

London: George Allen & Unwin. 1962 1st ed. 179pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a torn dj with loss @ tail of back cover [short rem. line bottom edge; some foxing on fore edge; endpp. are foxed; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A scholarly study of European colonial attitudes toward Africans, written during the "winds of change" era of decolonization and concentrating on Central Africa and British racism.

New York, NY Hearst International Library, 1913. Hardcover From the Second London Edition. Very Good: shows just a touch of wear to the extremities; mildest rubbing to the cloth over boards; top edge shows foxing and much sparser foxing at the fore-edge. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Analytical Table of Contents, List of Authors Quoted. Heavily Base-of-Page Footnoted, Introduction by Arthur Brisbane. "New Edition". From the Second London Edition, to which is added an Alphabetical Index. Hardback: No DJ 'as issued'.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. good. 4, wraps, illus., some wear to edges of pamphlet. Announcement of the publication of Frontier and Wars, an abridgement in one volume of Winston Churchill's first four books: The Malakand Field Force, The River War, London to Ladysmith, and Ian Hamilton's March. Also contains an order form for this book.

London: Sceptre, 1998 reprint. 231pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned with some edge foxing, British paperback style; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy]

Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1971 1st ed. 154pp. brown cloth 8vo: Good+ in a near Very Good dj [slight mustiness; ink name ffep; top & fore edges show foxing; else G+; dj = light paper is age darkened; else nrVG] An examination of British Tanganyika from 1918 until the early 1950s.

Boston: Little, Brown. 1961 1st Am. ed. 338pp. illus. black cloth sm 4to: Very Good+ in a generally Good dj w/some loss @ spine tail] A nice copy of this military biography of the English Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset (1788-1855), 1st Baron Raglan, whose career ended badly in the Crimea. Lord Birkenhead observed that the author "has given us a work as gripping and terrible as the chapters on Borodino in ‘War and Peace.’" Harold Nicolson called this book "among the best war books that I have read." Hibbert (1924-2008) wrote about war from the vantage of both historian and World War II infantry officer himself. Winner of the Heinemann Award for Literature.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998 book club ed. 722pp. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of edge foxing; long gift presentation inscription on ffep; else a very nice clean and crisp copy]

New York: Garden City Publishing Co. 1939 reissue. 323pp. illus. red cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Good+ dj in poly cover [ink name; bookplate; else nrF] A follow-on to Major Yeats-Brown's (1886-1944) "Lives of a Bengal Lancer."

New York: Atheneum. 1986 1st Am. ed. 247pp.  illus.  hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A popular biography of the British general Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum and of Broome (1850-1916), Conquer of of the Sudan.

Washington, DC: The Infantry Journal, [1944]. First Edition. First? Printing. fair. 17 cm, 212, wraps, maps, covers worn, soiled, and creased, some page discoloration. First edition in the Fighting Forces Series.

New York, NY Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. Paperback First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated. Very Good- in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: moderate spine lean; light wear to extremities; mild rubbing and faint soiling to wrapper covers; a faint crease near the lower front corner and there are several hairline creases at the backstrip; binding secure, but one might wish it were more secure (the binding has not cracked at any spot); the text is clean. Despite its several flaws, remains clean, sturdy, presentable, showing moderate wear. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. xi, 450pp. Index. (The Elizabethan Age, Volume 2). Trade Paperback. The adventurers and merchants (as well as the poets and playwrights) of the Elizabethan age are legendary. This work by the eminent historian A. L. Rowse argues that, under Elizabeth I, England began its expansion and eventual enormous impact upon the world. In this era, England amplifed… Read More