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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...
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THE POST-OFFICE ANNUAL DIRECTORY FOR 1836-37: CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE MERCHANTS, TRADERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS: AND A SECOND LIST OF THE NAMES OF MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS, IN GLASGOW AND SUBURBS.

By: N/A

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Glasgow, John Graham (For the Letter-Carriers of the Post-Office): 1836

Seller ID: 29484

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good-

xv, 341, 118 pp, 7 1/8" H. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled paper-covered boards, black leather title label on spine with gilt lettering, additional gilt date and decoration, blindstamped design. Small label at top of front pastedown: "J. Carss & Co., Bookbinders, 31, Argyle Street, Glasgow." Title page continues: "Classed and Arranged Under Each Distinct Head of Trade or Profession: With a Street Directory: and An Appendix Containing many Useful Lists. Ninth Publication." The first section (xv pp) consists of a Calendar (July, 1836 to December, 1837); Stamp D...
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PILOT'S AND FLIGHT ENGINEER'S NOTES - LANCASTER I, III & X. MARK I - FOUR MERLIN XX, 22 OR 24 ENGINES. MARK III & X - FOUR MERLIN 28 OR 38 ENGINES.

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire, Air Data Publications:

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 29181

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good+

46 pp, 7 1/2" H. Facsimile reprint of the Air Ministry, May 1944, publication. Blue card covers with black lettering/illustration on front cover. B&w frontispiece (Lancaster), 3 fold-outs (6 figures - Instrument panel / Port side of cockpit / Flight engineer's panel, Lancasters I & III / Flight egineer's panel, Lancaster X / Simplified fuel system diagram - Pulsometer pumps / Simplified fuel system diagram - Immersed pumps). Section headings: Descriptive Introduction; Fuel and Oil Systems; Main Services; Aircraft Controls; Engine Controls; Other Controls; Handling; Operating Data; Emer...
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PILOT'S NOTES FOR MOSQUITO MARKS F II AND NF XII - MERLIN 21 OR 23 ENGINES. (MOSQUITO MARKS F II AND NF XII PILOT'S NOTES).

By: N/A

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire, Air Data Publications:

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 29182

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

36 pp, 7 3/8" H. Facsimile reprint of the Air Ministry, January 1944, publication - including the pen annotations made in 1944 to the original "Notes". Blue card covers with black lettering/illustration on front cover. B&w frontispiece (Mosquito), 3 fold-outs (6 figures - Instrument panel / Cockpit - port side / Cockpit - starboard side / Simplified fuel system diagram - Marks II, XII and XVII only / Emergency exits and equipment / Simplified fuel system diagram - Marks XIII and XIX only). Section headings: Descriptive Introduction; Fuel and Oil Systems; Main Services; Aircraft...
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PILOTS AND FLIGHT ENGINEER'S NOTES - HALIFAX III & VII. FOUR HERCULES VI OR XVI ENGINES. (PILOT'S & FLIGHT ENGINEER'S NOTES HALIFAX III).

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire, Air Data Publications:

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 29183

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good-

46 pp, 7 1/2" H. Facsimile reprint of the Air Ministry, October 1944, publication. Blue card covers with black lettering/illustration on front cover. B&w frontispiece (Halifax III), drawing (Locking of Flying Controls), 4 fold-outs (8 figures - Instrument panel / General view of cabin / Flight engineer's panel /Cockpit - port side / Fuel system diagram / Hydraulic system diagram / Mark VII Simplified Fuel System Diagram / Mark VII Flight Engineer's Panel). Section headings: Descriptive Introduction; Fuel and Oil Systems; Main Services; Aircraft Controls; Engine Controls; Operational Co...
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WAR RECORD: THE McGILL CHAPTER OF DELTA UPSILON, 1939-1945.

By: N/A

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, McGill Chapter of Delta Upsilon: 1946

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28694

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

83 pp, 8 7/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering/crest on front board. B&w photographs. Contents: Dedication; Killed in Action (short biographies with photographs of Carl Raymond Davis; Gerald Wentworth Roy Dillon; Hugh John Findlay; William Scarth Fry; William Austin Gardiner; Ross Eveleigh Johnson; Robert James McCormick; John Williamson Frederick Peacock; John Edmund Powell; Robert Noble Watt, Jr.); Other Service Records; The Honour Roll; Summary of War Service - 1939-1945; Summary of War Service - 1914-1918. Some light browning to endpapers - mainly in gutters and at edges, v...
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Image for THE RECORD MAKERS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 1937 EDITION. THIRTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY SOUVENIR OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. CONTAINING THE YEARLY AND ALL-TIME RECORDS OF THE LEAGUE.

THE RECORD MAKERS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 1937 EDITION. THIRTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY SOUVENIR OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. CONTAINING THE YEARLY AND ALL-TIME RECORDS OF THE LEAGUE.

By: N/A

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: L.S. McKenna: 1937

Seller ID: 28910

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

64 pp, 6" H. B&w centerfold advertisement for Gluek's Beer of Minneapolis. Records for the American Association from 1902 to 1936, including: Yearly Team Leaders in Batting - Scoring - Holding Opponents to Fewest Runs - Hits - Total Bases - Two Base Hits - Three Base Hits - Home Runs - Sacrifice Hits - Stolen Bases - Bases on Balls - Fewest Strikeouts - Most Strikeouts - Double Plays - Fewest Errors - Batting - Runs Scored; Fielding Leaders in Percentage - Chances Accepted; Leaders in Assists, etc., etc. Interior - very small soft bump at top corner of pages, light toning to pages, othe...
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CONSTITUTION OF THE GRAND LODGE, DISTRICT AND LOCAL LODGES, COUNCILS AND CONFERENCES. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Grand Lodge, International Association of MacHinists: 1949

Seller ID: 28927

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

117 pp, 5 3/4" H. Title page continues: "Revised by the Committee on Law as recommended by the Twenty-Second Convention of the Grand Lodge of The International Association of Machinists, held in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 13 to 24, 1948, and thereafter adopted by referendum vote in the month of December, 1948, effective April 1, 1949." Information on apprenticeships, benefits, Grand, District & Local lodges, dues, fines, elections, initiation, membership, pensions, salaries, strikes, etc. Interior - tiny staple dent at top of first oage, small soft crease at bo...
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TITANIC: THE OFFICIAL STORY.

By: N/A

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Kew, Richmond, Public Record Office / National Archives:

Seller ID: 30603

ISBN: 1873162375

Binding: Folder

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial folder (9" H x 14" W), containing 18 facsimile documents (some multi-page, some fold-out) pertaining to the Titanic story - plus 15 page introductory pamphlet. No date - c1990. Contents: Transcripts of Registrar General's copy of the Register for transmission to Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen; Report of Survey of an Emigrant Ship; Certificates of Clearance for an Emigrant Ship; Cross section and deck plans of the 'Titanic'; Extract of the Report of the British Commission of Enquiry into the loss ot the 'Titanic' - describing the decks, accommodation, structure and l...
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Image for ROBIN HOOD: A COLLECTION OF ALL THE ANCIENT POEMS, SONGS, AND BALLADS, NOW EXTANT, RELATIVE TO THAT CELEBRATED ENGLISH OUTLAW; TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED HISTORICAL ANECDOTES OF HIS LIFE.

ROBIN HOOD: A COLLECTION OF ALL THE ANCIENT POEMS, SONGS, AND BALLADS, NOW EXTANT, RELATIVE TO THAT CELEBRATED ENGLISH OUTLAW; TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED HISTORICAL ANECDOTES OF HIS LIFE.

By: (Ritson, Joseph)

Price: $375.00 USD

Publisher: (London), Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown / and T. Boys: 1820

Seller ID: 30473

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good+

x, lxxiv, 240 pp, 16mo (6 1/2" H). Full green textured leather with darker green stamped borders on front/rear boards. Spine has elaborate blind stamped decoration, gilt banding & date, brown leather title label with gilt lettering. All edges red. Plain brown endpapers, b&w vignette on title page, genealogical chart, small b&w tail pieces. Oval purple stamp on verso of title page "Alexander Gardyne 1883". Mr. Rtison's work, originally published in a small two volume edition in 1795, is here reprinted for the first time in one volume, retaining "only a portion of Mr. Ritson's...
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PLAIN SERMONS PREACHED IN A VILLAGE CHURCH. 3 VOLUME SET.

By: A Country Clergyman. (C.G. Perceval.)

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: London / Stony Stratford, Joseph Capes / Gossling and Egley / John Sleath: 1837

Seller ID: 29488

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

3 volume set, 7 1/4" H - medium brown leather with two black leather title labels/gilt lettering on each spine. Gilt banding on spines, gilt decoration to edges of boards, gilt border to front and rear boards. All textblock edges have a dark red speckled finish. Vol. I is the third edition, printed 1837, 336 pp. Vol. II is the second edition, printed 1838, 323 pp + (1) pp advertising for other works by author. Vol. III is the first edition, printed in 1839, 348 pp. Vol. I has a 1895 gift inscription on the front free endpaper and a 1846 gift inscription on a preliminary page. Vol. I...
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THE GAIETY OF GABLES: ONTARIO'S ARCHITECTURAL FOK ART.

By: Adamson, Anthony, text. Photographs by John Willard - Inscribed.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, (Toronto, 1974), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 6510

Unpaginated, small 4to, HC in dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY JOHN WILLARD ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos and drawings. "The story of Ontario's Barge Boards, also called Verge Boards and by the unversed, Gingerbread." A wond erful look at a whimsical architectural decorative form - a type of folk art popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. Page edges browning lightly, a few tiny dints to bottoms of boards. Dust jacket has wrinkling and tiny t e a r s / c h i p s a t top of spine, moderate edgewear/rubbing, light soiling/wrinkling elsewhere. VG...
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NAVAL ELECTRICAL POCKET BOOK. B.R. 157/1933 bound with ADDENDUM NO. 2 TO B.R. 157/1933. B.R. 157 (2)

By: Admiralty, Torpedo and Mining Dept.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, King's Printer, Ottawa, 1943.: 1943

Seller ID: 22906

Binding: Heavy Card

Condition: Good reading copy only.

92 pp + 399 pp, 6 1/2" H - stiff navy blue card covers with cloth spine. Many b&w drawings/diagrams - some fold-out. From title page: "Reproduced as amended in Canada (Jan. 1943) by the King's Printer, Ottawa, with permission of the Controller, H.M. Stationery Office, London, for the exclusive use of His Majesty's Canadian Naval Forces. 1941. Note. - In this Addendum is included Addendum No.1, so that the latter may now be destroyed. Addendum No. 3 amending Addendum No. 2 has been incorporated in this reprint." The section headings include: Measuring and Testing Instruments and the...
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MESSERSCHMITT Me109.

By: Aeronautical Staff of AERO PUBLISHERS INC.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fallbrook, CA, Aero Publishers: 1965

Seller ID: 1600

ISBN: 0816805008

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated [36 pp], 10 3/4" H. Aero series 1. A useful guide for the hobbyist, model builder, collector and historian, giving accurate information about the ME109 with color pictures, close-up photos, color chart and detailed drawings. Price sticker ghost mark on front cover, minor soiling and edgewear to spine.
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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 prin...
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NAVAL & MARITIME HISTORY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. THIRD EDITION, SECOND SUPPLEMENT, 1966-68.

By: Albion, Robert Greenhalgh.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Mystic, Connecticut, Frank C. Munson Memorial Institute of American Maritime History / Marine Historical Asociation: 1968

Seller ID: 19055

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, 10" H. Chapter headings: Reference Works; Merchantmen and Warships; Captains and Crews; Maritime Science, Exploration and Expansion; Commerce and Shipping (including: Fishing and Whaling; Yachting and Small Boat Cruising); Navies; Naval History by Chronological Periods; Special Topics (including: Ports and Port Functions; Passengers and Immigration; Maritime and International Law; Privateering, Piracy and Buccaneering; Marine Distasters; Safety Measures and Salvage); Author Index; Subject Index. Interior - tiny very light stain at top inside of front cover and at top of first page...
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PRAGUE WINTER: A PERSONAL STORY OF REMEMBRANCE AND WAR, 1937-1948.

By: Albright, Madeleine. With Bill Woodward.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2012

Seller ID: 29612

ISBN: 0062030310

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

467 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(T)akes readers from the Bohemian capital's thousand-year-old castle to the bomb shelters of London, from the desolate prison ghetto of Terezin to the highest councils of European and American government. Albright reflects on her discovery of her family's Jewish heritage many decades after the war, on her Czech homeland's tangled history, and on the stark moral choices faced by her parents and their generation. Often relying on eyewitness descrip-tions, she tells the story of how millions of ordinary citizens were ripped from familiar surroundin...
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SIR JOHN REITH.

By: Allighan, Garry. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Lord Gainford.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul: 1938

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 30130

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

287 pp + publisher's advertising, 8 3/4" H. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering & banding on spine. B&w photographs, drawing. Inscribed in green ink on front free endpaper: "To my very good friends / Tom & ? Wheeler / Sharers of many happy hours / Garry Allighan". The second name has been inked over at some later date. "Controlling one of the greatest forces in international affairs, the Director-General of the B.B.C. has attained a position of power second only to that of a Prime Minister. He directs a machine that produces mass-education, mass-entertainment, and mass-infor...
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THE ANGELIC AVENGERS.

By: Andrezel, Pierre. (pseud of Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen).

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: London, Putnam: 1946

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 23566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

303 pp, 8vo (8" H). "Pierre Andrezel, whose name appears on this novel, is described as a young Frenchman, born in Rouen 1915, and educated at Oxford where he wrote stories for English magazines. His original publication of 'The Angelic Avengers' in Copenhagen in 1944 may be explained by the state of France at that time, and the less oppressive conditions of the Danes, whom the British Prime Minister dubbed 'the Gangster's Canary Birds'. The use of this phrase in the book can hardly fail to be an allusion, and may have a certain significance, although it would be an error to regard th...
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MEN AT ARNHEM.

By: Angus, Tom.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1977

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 16843

ISBN: 0850522153

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

208 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w maps, organization chart. "Tom Angus sets out to apportion no blame, nor does he seek to analyse the reasons for the failure of the operation. His aim is simply to describe what it was like to be a 30-year old company commander during those eight days in hell. For obvious reasons, the characters are not all drawn straight from life. The names are changed and he does not specify the units concerned. But the events he describes did happen just where and when and how he describes them; so if this is not a conventional work of military history nor is it by any ...
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Keyword: Second