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The Gulistan of Shaik Saday; a Complete Analysis of the Entire Persian Text.
Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co., 1861. [Persian Literature in translation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; pp.592 [2]. Re-bound in contemporary or slightly later brown half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and textured brown cloth over boards. Marbled endpapers, and vestiges of..... More
The Farewell Years: The Final Historical Records of The Buffs Royal East Kent Regiment (3rd Foot) Formerly Designated The Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment 1948-1967.
Canterbury: The Queen's Own Buffs Office, 1967. [Regimental History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 231. With five maps, 14 double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and the Regimental crest stamped in gilt to upper. With the photographic..... More
The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume IV, The 60th: The K.R.R.C. With Illustrations and Maps.
London: John Murray, 1929. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xl; 398. With four black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and 20 maps. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt regimental badge to upper. Black ink stamp of Regimental Headquarters, The Royal..... More
The Last Million.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1919]. First Edition. Octavo. pp. xxxv, 271. In publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original dust jacket showing an impressionistic scene of soldiers set against a red exploding sky. Portions of jacket lost to corners and spine head/tail;..... More
Short Whist: its rise, Progress, and Laws; with observations to make any one a Whist Player. By Major A. To which are added, Precepts for Tyros. By Mrs. B.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. [Card Games] VINTAGE EDITION, Fourteenth Edition. Small octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.111 [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Publisher's blind-decorated green cloth over card covers, with gilt titles to upper. All edges gilt. Two very small bookseller's tickets to front pastedown. Browning to..... More
Military Studies by Marshal Ney; Written for the use of his officers. Translated from the Marshal's Original Manuscripts, by G.H. Caunter, Esq., with an Introduction and Diagrams, by Major A. James.
London: Bull and Churton, 1833. [French Military Drill and Tactics] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.116. With occasional diagrams by James. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles and a price of 6/6 to upper. Fly-leaf pasted onto front pastedown, with heavy abrasion and remains of a printed..... More
Cricket in the Park. The Life and Times of Lord Sheffield 1832-1909.
London: Methuen, 2009. [Cricket] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xii; 288; [4]. Publisher's black paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of £18.99. With a foreword by Sir John Major. inscribed by the author to the title page: "To Leonard F. Johnson | Best..... More
Undiscovered Ends.
London: Cassell and Company, 1957. [Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. xi; 212. Inscribed by the author in blue ink to flyleaf, illustrative frontispiece painted by Alistair MacLeod, 13 pages of half tone illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 18s..... More
Britain's Air Peril: The Danger of Neglect, Together with Considerations on the Role of the Air Force.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1933. CLEMENT ATLEE'S COPY, First Edition with a letter from the Air League of the British Empire. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x, 132 [2], 28. With Atlee's distinctive Art-Deco monogram bookplate to front pastedown, and a typed letter on headed note paper signed by..... More
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