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MUD AND GREEN FIELDS; THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL GEORGE KITCHING by Kitching, Major General George - 1986

MUD AND GREEN FIELDS; THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL GEORGE KITCHING

by Kitching, Major General George

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Langley BC Canada: Battleline Books, 1986. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titling to spine. Dust jacket design based on a 1944 military map complete with a charcoal drawing of Major General George Kitching by Clair Cole. Slight rubbing and short, closed tears to the jacket edges. Minimal bumping to spine ends of the book. Clean, clear text complete with many black and white photographs, some full page. Strategic military maps from 1943-1945 depicted on the front and back paste downs and end papers. 329 pages. Introduction by Colonel Charles P. Stacey. General George Kitching's Memoir begins with his childhood in China and British Columbia, follows his military education, and eight-year posting in Singapore, Malaya, and India with the British army. He was transfered to the Canadian armed forces and sent overseas with the first Canadian Division at the beginning of the Second World War. Kitching served in Sicily and North-East Europe - concluding the war in command of an armoured Division in Normandy. Kitching also speaks to his life after the war in excellent reflection on Canada's past and future military state.. Signed by Author on Title Page. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Clair Cole (charcoal sketch). 9" - 6" Tall. Clear Brodart Covering.

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  • ISBN 10 0920849024
  • ISBN 13 9780920849026
  • Publisher Battleline Books
  • Place of Publication Langley BC Canada
  • Date Published 1986
  • Size 9" - 6" Tall
  • Keywords MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE KITCHING MUD AND GREEN FIELDS MEMOIR ITALIAN THEATRE HOLLAND CANADIAN HISTORY CORPS SECOND WORLD WAR MILITARY
  • Size 9" - 6" Tall

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Froissart's Modern Chronicles 1903-1906.

Froissart's Modern Chronicles 1903-1906.: 1st Edition, limited number 4 of 50, signed by author/illustrator

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The Spirit of Colwyn Bay: v. 1: The 20th Century in Photographs (Landmark Collector's Library)

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Froissart's Modern Chronicles 1903-1906.

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The Spirit of Colwyn Bay: v. 1: The 20th Century in Photographs (Landmark Collector's Library)

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Mud and green fields: The memoirs of Major General George Kitching (Canadians at war series)
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Mud and green fields: The memoirs of Major General George Kitching (Canadians at war series)

by George Kitching

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Mud and Green Fields: The Memoirs of Major General George Kitching [Canadians at War Series]
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Langley BC : Battleline Books , 1986 . First Edition . F/F . 8VO . From the library of General John Cape and warmly INSCRIBED to him ( TO Johnny) by Kitching on the title page. A fine copy.
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Mud and green fields: The memoirs of Major General George Kitching (Canadians at war series)

by George Kitching

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Mud and Green Fields: The Memoirs of Major General George Kitching [Canadians at War Series][SIGNED and inscribed by Jacke Vance, Colonel of the Regiment]

by Kitching, George; Charles P. Stacey [intr.]

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Mud & Green Fields

Mud & Green Fields

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The Mudlark

The Mudlark

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The Edwardian Era (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s copy)
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New York: D. Appleton Century Company, 1933. First American edition. Good-. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine and front cover Scuffing and light wear at edges and particularly on spine Small tear at top edge of spine, and chipping at both ends Binding sound and tight Text has no marks or damage at all The personal bookplate of the famous actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr on the ffep André Maurois (1885 â€" 1967) was a French author of numerous novels, biographies, histories, children's books and science fiction stories Douglas Fairbanks Jr, KBE, DSC (1909 â€" 2000) was an American actor, producer and decorated naval officer of World War II He is best known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939) and The Corsican Brothers (1941) He was the son of actor Douglas Fairbanks and was once married to Joan Crawford viii, 391 pp.
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The Forsyte Saga

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This book is in fairly good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the cover boards, as well as spots on the outside back cover board. There is minimal bumping and fraying on the cover boards. The pages are yellowing and tanning, with some vertical fraying and warping, but the pages are clear of markings. A few of the pages are dog-eared and edges torn. "The Forsyte Saga was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called 'The Man of Propery; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. The word Saga might be objected to on the ground that it connotes the heroic and that there is little of heroism in these pages. But it is used with a suitable irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of… Read More
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Nobody's Fool

by Russo, Richard

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TRINITY: 450 YEARS OF AN OXFORD COLLEGE COMMUNITY

TRINITY: 450 YEARS OF AN OXFORD COLLEGE COMMUNITY

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pp: 500. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Wrap-around pictorial dust jacket, deep blue cloth covered boards with the college insignia stamped in gilt on the top board. Includes pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece, and a foreword by The Honourable Michael J. Beloff, President of Trinity College. The book is a history of the venerable college from its inception. There are black and white photographs throughout. The appendices contain; drawings of the college grounds, list ofTwentieth-century Fellows, list of member of the college in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and index. This is a near fine copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title page.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the bible story of Esau.
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The History of King Richard the First of England
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The 1857 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of King Richard the First of England, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All eighteen B&W engravings (nine plates) are intact.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with obvious water damage that shows through the endpapers. Fraying on top spine and front jacket. Small writing on front endpaper. Pages are age tanned and have small stains.
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The History of King Alfred of England
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by Jacob Abbott

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The 1854 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of King Alfred of England, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All nine B&W engravings are intact.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with wear on heel and top. Small markings on FFEP. A few pages have deckled bottom edges. Pages are age tanned and have small stains.
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Talkeetalkeewallahs and Others
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Talkeetalkeewallahs and Others

by Major H. Hobbs

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Self Published, Calcutta, 1938, First edition, Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket, 194 pages, 5.25" x 9", recent rebinding. Short stories set in prewar Colonial India.
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Swimming with Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale; Sport, Health and Exercise in eighteenth-century England.
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Swimming with Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale; Sport, Health and Exercise in eighteenth-century England.

by ALLEN, Julia

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9780718892760
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Cambridge:: Lutterworth Press, 2012., 2012. 8vo. viii, [4], 297, [1] pp. Figs., index. Pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED by author to Dr. Dennis Gibbs. Near fine. ISBN: 9780718892760 "An exploration of the history of British sport, viewed through the lens of the life and work of Samuel Johnson and his friend and correspondent Hester Thrale. / In "Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale," Julia Allen takes a sideways look at sport, health and exercise in the eighteenth century, and in so doing reveals unfamiliar sides of the eponymous characters she uses as guides and commentators. Samuel Johnson does battle with the rough breakers at Brighton as energetically as he did with any of his verbal opponents; and Hester Thrale – herself 'a good waterspaniel' – provides wry observations, notably on what men decided women might decently be allowed to do in that foreign country that is the past. / Allen starts with the medical theories underpinning notions about exercise, the role of the physician and the… Read More
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