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Harris, John. DUNKIRK: 'THE STORMS OF WAR'.
David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1980.
160 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0715378570 B&w photographs. "Packed with authentic atmosphere, the retreat and the desperate lifting of the weary soldiers is seen in its tragic entirety, often through first-hand reco llections of the men who were there. The story of Dunkirk is a dramatic epic of courage and confusion, resulting in a successful and often heroic evacuation....(Harris) describes in vivid detail how the evacuation developed, on a day-by-day b a s i s , and destroys more than one of the myths that have come to be associated with Dunkirk. However, the spirit, humour and drama that epitomised what came to be known as the 'spirit of Dunkirk' was, and is, undeniable. Illustrated with man y co nt em po ra r y photographs, this book provides a complete historical account of the lifting of the British expeditionary force in the first week of June 1940...." Tiny light stain in margin of pages 110/111, light edge wear, light wrinkling a t top /bo tto m o f s pi ne, faint finger marks on front endpapers. Dust jacket has very light edge wear, moderate wrinkling along top edge, very light rubbing, tiny tear at bottom of spine, small tear - taped on inside, old price sticker on front fl ap. Ver y Go od/V ery Goo d
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Harris, John. Wraparound jacket illustration by David Pether. HARKAWAY'S SIXTH COLUMN. A NOVEL OF THE SOMALILAND CAMPAIGNS.
Hutchinson, London, 1983, first edition.
285 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0091509602 Map. "After Italy's entry into the Second World War in the summer of 1940, it is all too easy for her forces to invade and occupy the East African colony of British Somaliland. W hile this invasion is in progress, a small party of British soldiers are on their way by lorry to destroy a supply dump in a cave by an old fort called Shimber Addi in the Bur Yi range of hills. Strafed by Italian planes, the young Lieutenant W a t s o n in command is killed - leaving behind a group of four non-commissioned soldiers and one civilian driver. Cut off behind the lines, radio dead, the men decide to utilize the arms dump and fight a rearguard guerilla action. Led by the m y st er io us a nd courageous Harkaway, they achieve a reconciliation between two warring native tribes, to create an extraordinary unit that will come to be known as the Sixth Column. Their mobility, planning and ferocity will play havoc with the e nem y.. .." V ery slight cigarette odor, small bump at top corner of rear board, very small remainder mark (dot) on top of textblock - migrates slightly into top of pages. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at top of rear flap-fold, minor edge b row ning . V ery Good /Ver y Good
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Gooders, John. Illustrated by Alan Harris. KINGFISHER FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF BRITAIN & EUROPE.
Kingfisher, London, 1990, 4th printing.
480 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H), hard cover (glazed pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. ISBN 1856970558 Profusely illustrated with color drawings, maps. "....the definitive guide to British and European birds. It covers 427 species, ranging from the most common residents to the scarcest of passage migrants. A full page is devoted to each bird, and includes all the ingredients necessary for quick and accurate recognition. Superbly detailed and accurate colour illustrations; Complete checkli s t s f o r identification; Concise descriptions of the birds' main features; Distribution maps and monthly abundance charts." One tiny corner crease, two tiny dints on bottom edge of each board, light wrinkling at bottom of spine, minor rubbing. VG +
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Harris, John Norman. Illustrated by William Wheeler. KNIGHTS OF THE AIR: CANADIAN ACES OF WORLD WAR I. GREAT STORIES OF CANADA SERIES NO. 18.
Macmillan, Toronto, 1960, reprint.
160 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers, B&w and black, white & green illustrations. "High above the mud and slaughter of the trenches, the little wood-and-fabric airplanes looped, rolled, banked, in mortal duel. So me of the soldiers who stared at them in the skies of France and Flanders in 1915 were Canadians. They had not dreamt that they would ever leave the ground. Yet within three years Canadians had proved themselves masters of this new form of fig h t i n g and a dozen Canadians ranked among the top aces of the world. This book is about those Canadian masters of the aerial dogfight. Barker of Manitoba is here - incredibly daring hero of the French and Italian fronts who, with both legs and o ne a rm s hattered by enemy bullets, shot down four attackers and drove off the rest before he crashed behind his own lines: crowning exploit of a flying career in which he had destroyed 50 enemy aircraft. Collishaw of Vancouver is here, with his sc ore of 60 . Only half-a-dozen aces of all nations surpassed him - and only Bishop among the Canadians with his tally of 72. For Billy Bishop was most famous of all. In his first six weeks of flying he scored 17 victories and won the DSO and the MC. Fo ur w eeks later he added the VC. Many other aces are here - McKeever, MacLaren, Claxton, McCall, Quigley, Carter, Burden, Milne, Bell-Irving. Flying without parachutes in machines which burnt like torches when they caught fire, thes e air men t ook f right ful risks. Below them, men lived in muddy trenches under shell-fire; they depended on the work of the airmen above and the airmen did not let them down. This is their story." Written for the younger reader. Previous owner 's nam e on f ront f ree en d paper, light browning to edges of text block and top/bottom edges of boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, slight browning on spine. Dust jacket has been price-clipped has very small chips and tears - mainly at top/ bottom of spin e, ligh t edge wear/wrinkling, several small tears with creases, light fading to spine color, slight browning. Very Good-/Good-
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Harris, John. Wraparound jacket illustration by Terry Hadler. NORTH STRIKE. A NOVEL OF THE NARVIK CAMPAIGN.
Hutchinson, London, 1981, first edition.
272 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0091444306 Map endpapers. "Transformed almost overnight from third mate on a tanker into a Royal Naval Reserve lieutenant, Murdoch Murray Magnusson found that with 1939 drawing to a close ne ither he nor the war itself seemed to be getting anywhere. But then a summons to London from Admiral Sir James Cockayne radically changed all that. The admiral wanted to know about Magnusson's knowledge of certain Scandinavian languages and a b o u t his apprenticeship in sail. The Navy needed information about German raiders and blockade runners operating in northern waters, and one of the places to get it was the neutral port of Narvik. Magnusson was to go there in a windjammer: t he b ar qu e ' Oulu' which, furthermore, was to sail under false colours. On arrival, he was startled to find that 'Oulu' was not the only windjammer in the northern fjord. Soon he and the crew of the old sailing ship were to play a key role in t he his tor ic re sc ue of British prisoners from the notorious prison-ship 'Altmark', and then to plunge into the maelstrom of the German invasion of Norway...." Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, and minor browning at top edge. Very Good+/Very Go od
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MacTavish, D.K., Q.C., et al., eds. (Alcide Cote, Lord Campion, Walter E. Harris, J.G. Gardiner, John J. Connolly, Francis Boyd, Charles R. McElman, J.W. Pickersgill, Paul Martin, Lester B. Pearson, Robert H. Winters, Helen Grodeland.) THE CANADIAN LIBERAL. A SURVEY OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS. VOLUME 7 - Nos. 3 & 4. WINTER 1954-1955. SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE. FEATURING PROVINCIAL CONVENTIONS.
National Liberal Federation of Canada, Ottawa, 1955.
Paging runs 189 - 293, 8 1/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs. Through a printing error, pages 237-244 have been inserted twice. Contents: Confederation: A Monument of Co-Operation; Canada's Parliament of Business; Saskatchewan 's New Liberal Leader; Saskatchwan's Liberal Convention; He Didn't Say No!; The Grand Old Liberal - Gladstone Before Home Rule; The Canadian Tax Law - Some First Impressions; National Agricultural Questions; The Canadian Senate - Custodian of O u r B a sic Freedoms; British Politics in the New Year; New Brunswick Liberal Leader; New Brunswick Liberal Convention; Political Profile: Hon. Henry D. Hicks; The Peoples of Canada; Instruments of U.S.-Canadian Co-Operation; The Challenge of Co- Ex is te n ce ; Labour and the Liberal Government; New Records in Housing; The Successful Evolution of New Enterprises; Alberta Liberals Building Up Alternative to Social Credit; 8th Installment of Legislative Action; Book Reviews; Letters to the Ed ito r. In te rio r - subscription card has two corner creases and large tear - archivally taped, very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small tear at top/bottom of spine - archivally ta ped, li ght edg e we ar /wrinkling, minor rubbing, very light browning, two tiny corner creases, tiny tear at top/bottom of front cover - archivally taped. Very Good-
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Harris, John. THE INDIAN MUTINY. THE BRITISH AT WAR SERIES.
Hart-Davis MacGibbon, London, (1973), Ist edition.
208 pp, large 8vo (9 15/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 024610600X Map endpapers, illustrated in b&w and color with photographs, maps, portraits, reproductions. "...vividly recaptures the whole atmosphere of the time - the smell of battle , the cruel heat, the forced marches, the sieges, the appalling massacres. It was a war filled with treachery and incompetence, fought without mercy on either side - but also a war of incredible acts of heroism. It threw up remarkable perso n a l i t i es: Nicholson, who recaptured Delhi; Henry Lawrence, the defender of Lucknow; 'Holy' Havelock, the bible-thumping general who fought his way through to the relief of Lucknow only to find himself trapped there; and the dour uncompromising C ol in C am pb e ll who was sent to India after forty-years service to bring it back to sanity. (This book) with its exciting text and numerous illustrations...vividly evokes the huge and bloody struggle that stretched through the jungles and h ill s a nd acr oss th e parched plains of India." Cigarette odor, very light browning in margins of pages, boards slightly warped, browning to edges of textblock, slight bump at bottom of spine, small shallow bump on rear board. Dust jacket has l ight edg e w ear/ wrin klin g - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, browning at edges, minor rubbing, tiny dint on front hinge, two small shallow bumps on rear panel. Very Good-/Very Good-
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Bischoff, David. Cover art by John Harris. THE STAR HOUNDS TRILOGY. (STARHOUNDS.) BOOK ONE. THE INFINITE BATTLE. BOOK TWO. GALACTIC WARRIORS. BOOK THREE. THE MACROCOSMIC CONFLICT. 3 VOLUME SET.
Ace, New York, (1985, 1985, 1986), Ist printings.
171 pp, 188 pp, 202 pp, PBs - 3 volumes. "Laura Shemzak, irrevert, rebellious, beautiful. A woman with an impossible mission: to rescue her beloved brother, the most brilliant physicist of the Empire, from the awesome aliens, the Jaxdron. To suc ceed, Laura must gain control of the top-secret Mark XT 'blip-ship'. And to do that, she is forced into any uneasy alliance with the notorious space pirate, the bitter, cynical Captain Tars Northern. And that's when Laura's adventure real l y b e g i n s ..." Interiors - pages browning lightly, a few tiny corner creases, otherwise clean and tigth with no previous ownership marks. Exteriors - light edgewear/rubbing/scuffing, a few tiny corner creases, small faint stamp on fore edge o f t ex tb lo ck o f Book 2, one crease to spine of Book 2, crease across spine of Book 3. A good reading set.
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Harris, John. Wraparound jacket art by Terry Hadler. THE THIRTY DAYS' WAR.
Century, London, 1986, first edition.
267 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0712694536 "The RAF aerodrome at Kubaiyah dominated the desert plain. To the right was the steep ridge of Kubish, edged like a set of teeth and narrow as a saw blade. It wasn't the easiest place on earth to defend. Unless you happened to have the eccentric optimism and almost absurd courage of Flying Officer Anthony Augustus Boumphrey (pronounced 'Bumfree'). He had to make do with about forty planes - all training machines, most of them biplanes - not much of a match against sophisticated Messerschmitts and the surrounding enemy's eighteen-pounder guns. But Boumphrey and his 'Belles', as his men were known, were not prepared to suffer the indignity of being taken prisoner. A nd if the battle was one they might not win, there certainly would be no surrender." Very slight cigarette odor, minor soiling on fore-edge of textblock, small bump at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, one s o f t w rinkle on rear panel, one very small closed tear with creases, light rubbing. Very Good/Very Good
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