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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF WALES (24th/41st FOOT). UPDATED REPRINT.

By: N/A

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Regimental Committee, 1986, updated reprint.:

Seller ID: 15816

91 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), soft cover (stapled in wraps). Contents: Badges, Distinctions and Battle Honours; Victoria Cross Roll; List of Colonels; Notable Sporting Achievements; Table of Chief Events; The Origins of the Regiment; Battle Honours of the Regiment; The War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-1713; The Seven Years War, 1756-1763; The American War of Independence, 1775-1782; The Napoleonic Wars - Service at Sea, 1797; Egypt, 1801; The Cape of Good Hope, 1806; The Peninsular War, 1808 - 1814; Service in the East, 1805-1825; The American War, 1812-1814; The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 - The Fir...
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SUBMARINES.

By: N/A

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Jade, n.p., (1983).:

Seller ID: 4969

96 pp, 4to, HC in dust jacket. B&w and color photos, maps, drawings. "Assisted by photographs, maps and charts, the development is traced not only of submarines but also of their weapons, revolutionary new power plants and their strategic role in war and peace." Dust jacket has light edgewear, light creasing at top/bottomof spine, tape repair to inside of top of spine. VG+/VG-
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QUEEN'S 1919. 1919 YEAR BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE GRADUATING CLASS IN ARTS AND SCIENCE, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONT.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Kingston, Ont., Graduating Class, Arts and Science, Queen's University: 1919

Seller ID: 28477

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

155 pp, oblong (99 3/8" H x 11 5/8" D), dark brown pebbled cloth with blind stamped borders and gold lettering/crest on front board, floral patterned endpapers. Many b&w photographs of University buildings, professors, sports teams, etc. Head shots and short biographies of students. Information on students who served/died in the First World War. Honour rolls. Light browning and a few very tiny stains on endpapers, small area of printing ink offset in top margin of pages 22 & 23, light edge wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light browning to edges of text block, light wear at corners...
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FIGHTER PILOT.

By: 'McScotch'. (Lt. William MacLanachan.)

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: London, George Routledge: 1936

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28615

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

248 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs (some aerial), fold-out map at rear (collated). "This book consists of the reminiscences of an ordinary fighter pilot of the R.F.C. who had the privilege of serving with one of the leading Fighter Squadrons and who had the honour of being the friend of the supreme fighter of all the Air Forces, that indomitable and lovable patriot, 'Mick' Mannock, V.C., D.S.O., M.C." Faint erased pencil marks at top corner of free front endpaper. book is very slightly cocked, browning to edges of text block, a few faint soiling marks on top of text block ad at top of fore-e...
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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE: WITH A MEMOIR. RIVIERE & SON BINDING.

By: (Brooke, Rupert.) Memoir by E. Marsh.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson: 1926

Edition: Fifteenth Impression.

Seller ID: 30487

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good-

clix (Memoir), 160 pp, 7 1/8" H. Riviere & Son binding (stamped on verso of free front endpaper) - blue leather spine/corners, marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.Two tissue-covered b&w portraits. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) is best known for his war sonnets, particularly "The Soldier". Previous owner's small bookplate on front free endpaper; small chip at bottom edge of half-title page; small light foxing mark on page lxxix, tiny foxing mark on one other page and a small light line mark on another; brown...
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Image for FLASH GORDON. BOOK ONE: MASSACRE IN THE 22nd CENTURY. BOOK TWO: WAR OF THE CITADELS. BOOK THREE: CRISIS ON CITADEL II. BOOK FOUR: FORCES FROM THE FEDERATION. BOOK SIX: CITADELS ON EARTH. 5 BOOK PARTIAL SET.

FLASH GORDON. BOOK ONE: MASSACRE IN THE 22nd CENTURY. BOOK TWO: WAR OF THE CITADELS. BOOK THREE: CRISIS ON CITADEL II. BOOK FOUR: FORCES FROM THE FEDERATION. BOOK SIX: CITADELS ON EARTH. 5 BOOK PARTIAL SET.

By: (Hagberg, David.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Tempo / Grosset & Dunlap:

Seller ID: 29967

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good

Books 1,2,3,4 & 6 of this Flash Gordon series. 6 3/4" H. **Lacks Book 5: Citadels Under Attack.** Book One: Massacre in the 22nd Century - 202 pp, 1980, ISBN 0448129639 - "Sent on a mission to investigate the mysterious reappearance of the Interstellar Exploration ship GOODHOPE, Colonel Flash Gordon and his companions, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov discover much more than they had bargained for. Stranded in deep space, the trio find themselves drawn against their will into a war of the worlds which has lasted thousands of years - and which threatens the very existence of the planet Earth."...
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THE SOUTH WALES BORDERERS (THE 24tH REGIMENT OF FOOT). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

By: Adams, Jack. Introduction by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London, (1968), first edition.:

Seller ID: 15672

157 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations, march. "A Regiment forms a corporate body which takes on a life of its own, often rising above the weaknesses and inadequacies of its human fabric to perform seemingly superhuman deeds such as the 'Immortal Stand' of the 24th Foot at Rorke's Drift during the Zulu War...Since their birth as Dering's Regiment in March 1689, the 24th (which in 1881 became the South Wales Borderers) have participated in nearly all the large and small wars of the past 279 years from Cartagena in South America to Narvik in Arctic Norway. From S...
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OAKVILLE: A SMALL TOWN, 1900-1930.

By: Ahern, Frances Robin. Edited by Dr. Mary P. Bentley.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Oakville Historical Society / Boston Mills Press: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13233

ISBN: 0919822460

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

213 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w photographs, map. Local history of Oakville, Ontario. Contents: "Beautiful Oakville"; Industries, 1900-1930; The Firefighters; Oakville in Motion; Dundas Street (Trafalgar Road)(Station Road); Educating the Young; Lakeshore Road and Colborne Street (South Side); Lakeshore Road and Colborne Street (North Side); "The Main Street"; Navy Street; Recreation, 1900-1930; An Era of Gracious Living; Appendix - Origin of Street Names; Surveys; Schools; Churches; Banks; The Post Office; The Library; Customs Collection. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownershi...
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OAKVILLE: A SMALL TOWN, 1900-1930.

By: Ahern, Frances Robin. Edited by Dr. Mary P. Bentley.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Oakville Historical Society / Boston Mills Press: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 30664

ISBN: 0919822460

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

213 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). Signed on title page: "Frances Robin Ahern". B&w photographs, map. Local history of Oakville, Ontario. Contents: "Beautiful Oakville"; Industries, 1900-1930; The Firefighters; Oakville in Motion; Dundas Street (Trafalgar Road)(Station Road); Educating the Young; Lakeshore Road and Colborne Street (South Side); Lakeshore Road and Colborne Street (North Side); "The Main Street"; Navy Street; Recreation, 1900-1930; An Era of Gracious Living; Appendix - Origin of Street Names; Surveys; Schools; Churches; Banks; The Post Office; The Library; Customs Collection. Interio...
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Image for DRAY PRESCOT: THE WITCH WAR CYCLE. 5 VOLUME SET. WEREWOLVES OF KREGEN (DRAY PRESCOT: 33) / WITCHES OF KREGEN (DRAY PRESCOT: 34) / STORM OVER VALLIA (DRAY PRESCOT: 35) / OMENS OF KREGEN (DRAY PRESCOT: 36) / WARLORD OF ANTARES (DRAY PRESCOT: 37).

DRAY PRESCOT: THE WITCH WAR CYCLE. 5 VOLUME SET. WEREWOLVES OF KREGEN (DRAY PRESCOT: 33) / WITCHES OF KREGEN (DRAY PRESCOT: 34) / STORM OVER VALLIA (DRAY PRESCOT: 35) / OMENS OF KREGEN (DRAY PRESCOT: 36) / WARLORD OF ANTARES (DRAY PRESCOT: 37).

By: Akers, Alan Burt (pseudonym of Kenneth Bulmer). (Dray Prescot.)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Daw:

Seller ID: 29419

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good -

5 volume set - 7" H. 1. Dray Prescot: 33 - Werewolves of Kregen, 220 pp - ISBN 0879979917 - 1985, second printing. 2. Dray Prescot: 34 - Witches of Kregen, 223 pp - ISBN 0886770327 - 1985, first printing. 3. Dray Prescot: 35 - Storm Over Vallia, 254 pp - ISBN 086770696 - 1985, second printing. 4. Dray Prescot: 36 - Omens of Kregen, 222 pp - ISBN 0886770904 - 1985, second printing. 5. Dray Prescot: 37 - Warlord of Antares, 255 pp (includes Updated Glossary of the Saga of Dray Prescot by Wm. Douglas Withers, Dept. of Mathematics, U.S. Naval Academy) - ISBN 0886772699 -1988, second printing...
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YESTERDAY'S TOWN: WELLINGTON. A DIARY OF A WEST COUNTRY TOWN IN THE 19th CENTURY.

By: Allen, Gillian.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Buckingham, Barracuda: 1987

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 27184

ISBN: 0860232921

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

124 pp, small 4to (10 7/16" H). Number 368 of a limited edition. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. "(I)t is the detail of the 19th century record which attracts us most; the people who lived in specific houses like the Millers, Langleys and Merediths; the controversy about the three posts outside the White Hart Inn; the shops that changed from bank to fishmonger, from watchmaker to cobbler, from Bell Inn to basketmaker; the man who dug a canal in his garden to employ poor people; the ten-year-old who died when her pinny caught fire; the horse that took nine men to t...
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THE BANTAMS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF WORLD WAR I.

By: Allinson, Sidney.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Howard Baker, London, (1981), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 10508

287 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos. "At the outset of the 1914-18 War, no recruiting officer would look at any young man who was in less than the prime and peak of physical condition...Any volunteer who was less than the regulation five feet three inches in height got very short shrift...But the war was not very old before the official reaction to undersized volunteers had to change dramatically. Britain's Regular Army, the Expeditionary Force, was virtually wiped out in the first months of fighting...This book relates the history of the Bantam Battalions from beginning to b...
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THE BANTAMS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF WORLD WAR I.

By: Allinson, Sidney.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Mosaic, (Oakville, 1982).:

Seller ID: 14538

287 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover. B&w photos. "At the outset of the 1914-18 War, no recruiting officer would look at any young man who was in less than the prime and peak of physical condition...Any volunteer who was less than the regulation five feet three inches in height got very short shrift...But the war was not very old before the official reaction to undersized volunteers had to change dramatically. Britain's Regular Army, the Expeditionary Force, was virtually wiped out in the first months of fighting...This book relates the history of the Bantam Battalions from beginning to bloody e...
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PICTORIAL BRIGHTON 1859-1984.

By: Andrews, Margaret, et al.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Brighton, Ontario, 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28860

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

127 pp, 12 1/4" H. Pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated in b&w and colour with photographs, drawings, advertisements. A local history of Brighton, Ontario. Contents: Mayor's Message; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Historical Sketch; Travel Through the Years; Architectural Heritage; Church Life; Education; Historical Events; Agriculture; Sports and Recreation; Serving Brighton; Industries; Presqu'ile. Gift inscription in ink on free front endpaper, top corner of free front endpaper is clipped - also has a very small tear and erasure mark, bump at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has m...
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CANMORE: THE STORY OF AN ERA.

By: Appleby, Edna (Hill).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Canmore, Alberta, Self-published: 1975

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 28369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

163 pp, 11 1/4" H. Signed by author on front free endpaper. B&w photographs, reproductions, fold-out school group (1926) photograph facing title page. Records the history of town of Canmore and the surrounding area. "Once located within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain Park, you observe Canmore changing from a CPR town into the only thriving coal mining town of the entire Bow Valley. Pictures and records of the once existing towns of Bankhead, Anthracite, Georgetown and Kananaskis are spotlighted as they enhanced the development of Canmore itself into the town it now is. The history of Ex...
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CLASSIC RAF BATTLES FROM WORLD WAR ONE TO THE PRESENT.

By: Armitage, Michael, editor-in-chief. (Peter Kilduff, Peter Cooksley, Michael Burns, John Ray, Ray Sturtivant, John Maynard, Tony Mason, Michael Gething, Ron Dick, Ken Delve, Mike Spick, et al.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Arms and Armour: 1995

Seller ID: 9850

ISBN: 185409291X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

171 pp, oblong large 8vo (8 7/8" H x 11 1/4" D). B&w maps. "Forty superb full-colour paintings, accompanied by detailed background narratives, show the RAF in action, from the dogfights of the First World War to missions in the Gulf War. (Represents) work of some of the very finest aviation artists working today. Sir Michael Armitage has assembled a first-class team of RAF veterans, historians and aviation experts with the brief to write the background history of the action depicted in each painting - arranged chronologically within the decades of RAF service." Dust jacket has a tiny closed ...
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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.

By: Armitage, Michael.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Brockhampton: 1996

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 23783

ISBN: 1860198511

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

288 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps. "Created in 1918 from the former Royal Flying Corps, the RAF forged its own traditions as it developed the tactics and weap- onry of aerial warfare. It ended the First World War with a strength of 300,000 personnel and 23,000 aircraft, but there was the immediate threat of stringent post-war defence budgets and an Army and Navy that demanded that air power be under their control. The Chief of Air Staff, Trenchard, needed a successful example of the potential of air power in order to guarantee future funding, and...
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ARMY FLYER.

By: Arnold, H.H., Lieutenant General and Eaker, Ira C., Brigadier General.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1942

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28969

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

299 pp, 8 3/8" H. B&w frontispiece. Contents: Foreword; Orientation (Outline of an Army Air Career / A Model Military Air Career - From Cadet, to General, to Retirement / The Keystone of a Military Career - Reputation and the Efficiency Report); Career Details (The Early Years / The Middle Years / The Waning Years / Specialities for the Junior Airman); Air Warfare (The Flyer in Combat / Winning Air Tactics and Strategy). Very light wrinkling to fore-edge of frontispiece, light browning to edges of text block, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, 4-5" light rub mark down spine.
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WHEN THIS BLOODY WAR IS OVER: SOLDIERS' SONGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

By: Arthur, Max. Introduction by Lyn Macdonald.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Piatkus, (London, 2001), reprint.:

Seller ID: 12907

130 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations (contemporary cartoons, drawings, reproductions). "The poignant songs of the First World War still posses a haunting power; and here are the authentic lyrics of the songs - by turns funny, cynical, bawdy, angry, wistful - that the soldiers sang on the march, in the trenches, and in their rare moments of rest. The romantic yearnings of the early stages of the war - epitomised by such songs as 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary', and 'Keep the Home Fires Burning' - later give way to the bitter humour of 'Hanging on the Old Barbed Wir...
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THE MONS STAR: THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, 5th AUG.-22nd NOV. 1914.

By: Ascoli, David.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Harrap: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17051

ISBN: 0245537856

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

250 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "The first campaign medal of the Great War - the 1914 Star - was struck in 1917. In October 1919, by command of the King, a bar bearing the dates '5th Aug.-22nd Nov. 1914' was awarded to all holders of the medal who had been under fire - i.e., 'within range of enemy mobile artillery' - in France and Flanders between the qualifying dates. Fewer than 230,000 bars were awarded. The recipients - and only they - were and are the Old Contemptibles. Their very special medal has come to be known, by hallowed tradition, as the 'Mons Sta...
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Keyword: First World War