Search Results: Authors starting with I from Island Books

Hayward, Polstead,, [1983]. Sm. folio, First Edition; printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Sorsky 1019.

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley],, [2008]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Folio Society,, 2023. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 6 coloured illustrations; blue cloth, upper board blocked in red, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case with printed lining.

Richard Cohen,, 1999. 8vo.. First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE

D Bradford Barton, [Truro],, [1981]. 5 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition, with drawings and tables throughout; pictorial boards, a near fine set. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Ottley 15800, 17961, 18481, 18128, 18933 respectively.

Tom Donovan,, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and pedigrees in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Mulholland & Jordan, B30.

Tyndale & Panda, [Lowestoft],, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley],, [2021]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monchrome pgotograpohs and illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. The most comprehensive coverage, including builder's plans, of a single British battleship ever attempted.

Frederick Muller,, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, red top, slight lean else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the small trade ticket of Barker & Howard of London on front paste-down. Crisp, clean copy of Cameron's classic account of the efforts to maintain supplies to the beleagured island. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.117; Law, 0336.

William Kimber,, [1953]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; elegantly bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with rasied bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Arguably the most famous strategic deception of WWII, Operation MINCEMEAT remained a closely guarded secret until the publication of Duff Cooper's novel Operation Heartbreak in 1950. The author, a sharp-eyed journalist, was intrigued by the plot and linked it to a footnote in a book by General Westphal, formerly Kesselring's Chief of Staff. The result of his researches is the present work, a piece of investigative journalism so close to the truth that the authorities had little choice but to… Read More

William Blackwood,, 1929. 8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait photograph in photogravure and 4 large folding maps, personal name-stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title lightly spotted; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. Detailed account of the 'Butcher of Amritsar', one of the most controversial of all British military commanders, remembered most often for the notorious Amritsar Massacre of 1919. In his earlier career, however, he was mentioned in despatches for his command of Seistan Force in WWI; shortly after Amritsar he was mentioned again for the relief of Thai by 45th Infantry Brigade during the Third Anglo-Afghan War. We have not seen for sale a copy of the original edition of this work for over twenty years. RARE.

Leo Cooper,, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Arms & Armour,, [1996]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, and illustrations and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, [2011]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, and illustrations and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in metallic blue, pink endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,, 1966. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol. XCVIII, Sessions 1964-65 and 1965-66. VERY SCARCE.

Christopher Johnson,, [1947]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped duStwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Leo Cooper,, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Concentrates on the Kachin Levies. Enser, p. 89; Graham & Cole H11.

Hale,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition, with 20 plates on 16; original green cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded (but all gilt just legible), a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled, frayed at edges and wanting top half of backstrip. With the trade stamp of Oxford Book & Stationery Co., Calcutta, on front free endpaper. With a private corporate circulation list on front free endpaper. One of the most detailed of the relatively few personal accounts of irregular forces in this theatre. Extremely scarce, especially in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.89; Graham & Cole, H10.

Folio Society,, 2018. 8vo., with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured illustrations; grey cloth blocked and lettered in silver and orange, a fine copy in publisher's printed slip-case.

Folio Society,, 2021. 8vo., with coloured frontispiece and 6 full-page coloured illustrations; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and white, a near fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.