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Seymour Vandeleur, the Story of a British Officer. Being a Memoir of Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Vandeleur, D.S.O....
London: The National Review, 1905. First? Edition. First? Printing. 288, illus. (some color), fold-out maps, some foxing. More
British Empire
Changes & Chances of a Soldier's Life
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1925. 328, illus., index, weakness to fr bd, ink name ins front flyleaf, flyleaves discolored, bds scratched, cloth on fr board wrinkled. More
Mother India
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927. 440, illus., app, index, ink inscrip ins fr flylf, sm stains on a few pgs & on flylves, DJ worn & stained: tears, sm pcs missing. More
The Measure of the Years
London: Cassell, 1970. First Edition. 300, index, name stamped inside front flyleaf, DJ soiled and worn along edges. More
The Gathering of the Clans: How the British Dominions and Dependencies Have Helped in the War
London: T. F. Unwin, [1916]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 49, wraps, illus., library stamps on front cover, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
The Nation and the Empire: Being a Collection of Speeches and Addresses
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. 24 cm, 515, ink notations inside board and on flyleaf, bookplate, endpapers discolored, boards stained. More
The Indian Army
Poole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom: New Orchard Editions, 1986. Reprint edition, presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 10 inches. 191, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Glossary. Index of Indian Regimental Names. Bibliography. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Boris Mollo was the Deputy Director and Keeper of Records at the National Army Museum, London. This book is primarily about the uniforms of the Indian Army. A Military Department was created within the Government of the East India Company at Kolkata in the year 1776. Its main function was to sift and record orders relating to the Army that were issued by various Departments of the East India Company for the territories under its control. With the Charter Act of 1833, the Secretariat of the Government of the East India Company was reorganized into four Departments, including a Military Department. The army in the Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras functioned as respective Presidency Armies until 1 April 1895 when they were unified into a single Indian Army. More
The Impact of the War on America: six Lectures by members of the faculty of Cornell University
Ithaca, NY: Cornell Nniversity Press, 1942. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. viii, 159 p. 23 cm. Notes. More
Sir Charles Wood's Indian Policy, 1853-66
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1966. 284, frontis illus., bibliography, index, some pages slightly darkened, DJ somewhat soiled and small tears along edges. More
The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First Printing. 655, illus., maps, endpaper maps, sources, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled: small tears, small chips missing. More
The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1965]. First Printing. 24 cm, 655, illus., maps, edges soiled, DJ endpaper has a stain. More
The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First Printing. 655, illus., maps, endpaper maps, sources, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled. More
Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru
New York: The John Day Company, [c1941]. Sixth Printing. 23 cm, 445, illus., glossary, index, ink notation and pencil erasure on front endpaper, rear board weakened, sticker residue rear endppr. More
The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (The Old 43rd and 52nd Regiments)
London: Country Life, 1915. 224, illus. (2 in color), maps, apps, index, bds weak, some foxing, bds scuffed, some wear to top & bottom of spine. More
Verdict on India
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1944]. 21 cm, 304, footnotes, index, fr DJ flap price clipped, label fr endpaper, pencil erasure on half-title, DJ quite worn, torn, and soiled. More
I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1961. Reprint. Second printing [stated], 1962. Trade paperback. xii, 291 p. 21 cm. Maps. Index. More
Gordon: Martyr and Misfit
London: The Reprint Society, 1967. Reprint Edition. 286, illus., maps, text has darkened, DJ soiled, DJ spine discolored, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
The Boer War
New York: Random House, 1979. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First printing. Hardcover. xxix, [3], 718, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. With nine maps and 32 black and white illustrations. Chronology. Sources. Bibliography. Notes. Index. There is some soiling on fore-edge. DJ has some wear, edge tears and sticker residue and other soiling. The author uses firsthand accounts to reconstruct Britain's last great imperial war which proved to be one of the costliest, deadliest, and most humiliating wars in British history. Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born 14 August 1933), known simply as Thomas Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of African history, Victorian and post-Victorian British history, and trees. After graduating from Belvedere College and Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1955, Thomas Pakenham traveled to Ethiopia, a trip which is described in his first book The Mountains of Rasselas. On returning to Britain, he worked on the editorial staff of the Times Educational Supplement and later for The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer. He divides his time between London and County Westmeath, Ireland, where he is the chairman of the Irish Tree Society and honorary custodian of Tullynally Castle. He has seven siblings, among them the award-winning historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, (who is the widow of playwright Harold Pinter); Lady Rachel Billington, also a writer (and the widow of the director Kevin Billington); and Lady Judith Kazantzis, a poet. More
Scheme for the Conquest of Canada in 1746
Worcester, MA: The Hamilton Press, 1905. 26, footnotes, 26-pg pamphlet in wraps rebound in hardcover with many blank pages at the end, original covers worn and soiled. More
Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire, Third Edition, Part I
London: Edmund Lloyd, 1811. Third Edition. Hardcover. 531 pages. Errata, pencil checks in margins of a few pgs, foxing to text, extensive ink notes ins 2nd fr flylf, ink initials title page. More
British Public Opinion and the Wars of German Unification, 1864-1871
College Park, MD: Int'l Research Inst/Pol Sci, c1981. 24 cm, 539, maps, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ slightly soiled, rear DJ edges worn and small tears, bottom edge slightly soiled. More
Colonial Students in Britain: A Report
London: Political and Economic Planning, 1955. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. ix, 257 pages, 23 cm. Footnotes. Index. Dust jacket somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears, chips, and large tear at back. Some endpaper discoloration. Slightly cocked. More
Soldiers from Judaea: Palestinian Jewish Units in the Middle East, 1941-1943
London: Victor Gallancz Ltd., 1944. 79, illus., glossary, pages have darkened, DJ soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. More
The History of the Honourable Artillery Company
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1878. 491 & 563, 2 vols., illus., color frontis illus., maps, appendices, glossary, errata, index, bds weak, rear bd v.2 repaired w/ tape. More