Original black stippled cloth blindstamped with T & F crest on boards. General edge wear. Front hinge cracked, and rear hinge apparently glued. Two ribbon bookmarks. Edited by the brother of Major Hodson, who captured the King of Delhi. Wikipedia suggests there were many less favourable incidents around the Major, who was killed at Lucknow in 1858, than this book records. 444 pp. plus catalog. View More...
Original dark green laminated pictorial boards with cream, orange, and green titles. B/W and colour photos, black and white maps, and colour illustrations of the author, his wife and several aircraft. The author hailed from Massey, Ontario, and joined the RCAF in the fall of 1940 as a fighter pilot. Between September of 1941 and April of 1944, he flew on 338 operational sorties before being wounded and sent home as a hero. He was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, and retired from the RCAF as a Group Captain in 1965. 192 pp. including Appendices and Index. View More...
Black photographic cover paperback. Laminated cover. Previous owner's name. Wear to corners. The author sees it as one war with a break between the two parts. The typical Canadian village is Dorchester, New Brunswick. 374 pp. View More...
Original green cloth with pastedown title on boards. A woman's account of living in an active theatre of war in Northern France. Drawings are by her husband, an official French artist. Light foxing. Some wear to head and foot of spine. Previous owner's name erased. 302 pp. View More...
Original purple cloth on boards. A history of the fighting troops and backup units which supported them through Ypres, Somme, and the Final Advance of WWI. Minor fading to spine. No names or marks. 319 pp. with index plus four foldout maps. View More...
First section of the book describes Canadian or New Brunswick units involved. The second section is pictorial, limited to pictures not previously published and/or difficult to find. The third and largest section contains alphabetical biographies 209 pp. plus index. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Both hinges broken and glued. Two gatherings, pp. 65-94, glued back in. The editor has chosen two stories of adventure from earlier times, selected the important parts, and removed the dross. De Joinville was active in the 13th Century, and Froissart in the 14th. The editor is believed to be Dr. M.C. E. Jones, who wrote The Black Prince in 1871 and was himself a renowned English historian. Intended for young readers. 159 pp. View More...
Original yellow cloth decorated in black in checkerboard motif on boards. Author served in 24th Kentucky Infantry during the Civil War, and was a poet of some reknown. Book is lightly soiled and worn outside, and has a thumb-sized hole through one preliminary leaf. Leaf-patterned endpapers. Interior clean and easily-readable. A Checkered Life has 300 pp. Poetic Waifs has 18 pp. View More...
Library rebind in red patterned cloth on boards. Card pocket and library stamps. Minimal underlining. Motives and restraints on aggression, Causes and motives of German aggression, Effort to establish collective security, Undermining of collective security, German success in aggression, Proximate cause of the war, Postcript, Index. 554 pp. with index. View More...
Original purple cloth on boards. Published for the Funds of the Union Jack Club Extension stated on title page. Eleven poems on ships and battles. Foxing to endpapers. 48 pp. Previous owner's name. View More...
Two volumes in one, bound in blue cloth. Well-used and somewhat shaken, but complete and clean. Previous owner's name. Canada and the Sea by Leacock is a history. Canada and the War at Sea concentrates on WWII. Heavy book will need extra postage. 155 and 99 pp. respectively. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Limited edition. First published 1841. No writing. Title page split at gutter 2 inches down from top of Vol. I. This set is one of the sought-after collections of military writing, as are Tom Burke and Jack Hinton, both listed separately. Formerly owned by a medical doctor, our Lever listings bear the same edition numbers, indicating that they were bought at the same time.. Each of the 2 volumes has 494 pp. Heavy books will need extra postage. View More...
Green cloth with paper spine label on boards. Normal hand soil. No writing. Another of Lever's popular military novels - so popular that Dickens released one of his novels early - written in the 1840's. Influenced by Maria Edgeworth, Scott, and Balzac, the medical doctor/journalist gradually developed a more serious style about 1850. 299 and 291 pp. respectively, in the two volumes. Heavy books will need extra postage. View More...
Green cloth on boards, with paper spine labels. Limited edition. One of the sought-after military novels of this author. First written in 1844, it is the story of an Irishman who seeks glory serving under the colours of France. On graduating from a military academy, he enters the ranks of the 8th Hussars. By accident he becomes involved in political intrigue, which with further military action occupies the balance of his active life. He resigns briefly, then returns to the fray long enough to see Napoleon exiled. Offered a general's rank, he refuses to fight for the Bourbons and retires.... View More...
