Search Results: Military History from Bird's Books

London The Saint Catherine Press, 1912. Soft cover. Good/Good. London The Saint Catherine Press, 1912. Good/Good. Original decorative wrapper with some wear to edges. 8'' tall, illustrated with 14 plates of portraits, famous battles etc and also the arms of each regiment. Each day has a thoughtful quotation or proverb. A lovely looking little book. Ex reference library with a stamp and previous owners name on front endpapers & a stamp on reverse of title page together with library number & price.

London: Arlington Books, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo, Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards with red titles on spine. Jacket slightly sunned on spine, otherwise in very good condition. Lovely and clean inside, slight age toning on endpapers. 149pp. ‘..a moving and deeply disturbing book, but one that is full of truth and refreshing good humour..’ An account of the author’s time serving in WW1, starting when he was only 16 years of age.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, New York, Toronto, 1914. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hodder & Stoughton, London, New York, Toronto, 1914. 1st Edition . Good. 7'' tall, library rebound in blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. 212pp with frontispiece, fold out map & plates illustrating the ships. This gives an account of the ships & relative strengths of the British & German naval fleets around the time of world war 1. Ex reference library with some of the usual markings.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, original red cloth badly discoloured, spine sunned. 206pp + 2pp of publisher’s adverts, illustrated with four maps, one folding. From the On Active Service series. A personal account of events in 1918 written by a regimental officer on his probationary period during the First World War. The author was witness to the final disintegration of the German war machine as the Allied forces finally pushed into Germany itself. As an officer of the 173rd brigade, 58th Division, he was at the forefront of the advance at many points, seeing the horrors of the war for the first time. Unlike many wartime memoirs of the First World War, Ashmead-Barlett recounts his experiences in Germany, offering some idea of what the war must have been like for the civilian population. His writing is fresh and immediate: not desensitised by years of fighting, he is very frank about the brutalities and horrors of the last months of the War. Generally… Read More

Metro-Provincial publications Ltd, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Metro-Provincial publications Ltd, 1949. 1st Edition . Good. Approx 8 3/4'' decorated board with crest on front cover. Xvi + 152pp. Boards show some edge ware. Brief resume of each regiment headed by the regimental crest in colour. Many contemporary adverts. Ex reference library with bookplate to front pastedown & a couple of stamps within. Inner book clean in very nice condition.

Richard Bentley, London, 1860. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Richard Bentley, London, 1860. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. 10'' tall, library rebound in green cloth with gilt titles on spine & library name on front. Xvi + 437pp with frontispiece & 24 other plates. (3 coloured, 19 maps colour tinted). Ex reference library with bookplate to front pastedown, 2 stamps to front & rear endpapers, library number & stamp to reverse of title page. Minor foxing on plates. This copy is made more interesting by the contemporary dedication to the museum library by Major General Day Hort Macdowall of Garthland dated May 1860. ****** Heavy and may require extra overseas postage*****

London: Thomas and William Boone, 1832. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. To Which is Prefixed A Reply to Various Opponents; Together With Observations Illustrating Sir J. Moore’s Campaigns. 8vo, full calf, raised bands and gilt titles and decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. A uniformly bound set of mixed editions, mainly first. 1832-1840 with vol.s I & II second edition (1832), vol.s III (1831), IV (1834), V (1836) & VI (1840) first editions. Vol. I, lxxix + 618pp illustrated with 8 plates; vol. II, xi + 530pp with 8 plates; vol. III, xiii + 640pp with 12 plates; vol. IV, xvi + 589pp with 9 plates; vol. V, lxxxvi + 622pp with 8 plates; vol. VI, cv + 710pp with 10 plates, corner of a couple of pages missing with no loss of text (looks like an error during binding). A little damp staining to the base of a couple of volumes. With occasional pencil notes inside and a little age toning, generally to the plates. Occasional chipping, small tear to a couple of plates. An extensive… Read More

Robert Anderson, Glasgow, 1884. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Robert Anderson, Glasgow, 1884. 1st Edition . Good. Approx 9'' tall brown binding with gilt titles & emblem on the front & spine. Some wear to edges of spine & corners. Slight mark/damage to front cover (see pictures). Xv + 641pp. Ex reference library with number to spine & inside. Bookplate on front pastedown, stamps on endpapers, one stamp on first page & one with numbers on reverse of title page. No other obvious library markings: inner book is clean & in very good condition. ***** Heavy and may require extra overseas postage*****

J. B. Hayward & Son, London, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. J. B. Hayward & Son, London, 1979. 1st Edition . Good. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine, spine sun faded. Corners slightly bumped. Ex reference library with stamp to front endpapers & upper edge, library number to reverse of title page. Also mark where a bookplate has been removed. Tear to base of last two pages (see pic). Generally the inner book is in very good condition. A comprehensive listing of honour & awards for the three services covering the period of the First World War. ***** Heavy and may require extra overseas postage*****

London: James Nisbet & Company, 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and vignette of the Royal Artillery symbols on front board. 303pp with portrait frontispiece. Gift dedication handwritten on front endpaper, dated 1865, and previous owner’s name on title page. Some foxing, particularly to front, but generally very clean. Corners a little bumped. An account of the life of an Irish army officer, who served in the Crimea, from the cradle to his early grave.

Harleyford Publications , 1966. Hardcover. Very good +/Fair. Folio, pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 210pp illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings / diagrams. Dustjacket chipped and with tears to edges. Inner book in excellent clean condition. ***Over 1kg & may require additional overseas postage***

London: Chatto & Windus, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Good + . 8vo, 319pp. Green pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. A little shelf wear to the jacket. Illustrated with photographs. Signed by Mackenzie on title page and with gift dedication from Mackenzie dated 1969 on front free end paper. This is the eighth volume of MacKenzie’s autobiography which includes the Second World War when he commanded the home guard on Barra, ship wrecks, whisky galore and meetings with Eric Linklater, P G Wodehouse and Churchill. Also writing some of his best loved works such as Whisky Galore and the Monarch of the Glen. First edition. I have other volumes of Mackenzie’s autobiography available, in matching bindings and generally in very good plus condition and signed.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. 8vo, 325pp. Pink pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. A little sunned to the jacket spine. Illustrated with photographs, near fine inside. Signed by Mackenzie on title page and with gift dedication from Mackenzie dated January 1970 on front free end paper. This is the nineth volume of MacKenzie’s autobiography which includes time in Bombay, a tour of battlegrounds from Tunis and Hong Kong where the Indian army fought, Nepal and the Seychelles. First edition. I have other volumes of Mackenzie’s autobiography available, in matching bindings and generally in very good plus condition and signed.

8vo, contemporary vellum binding with lapped edges and titles on spine. [84], 970, [102] pp. including index. Printer's device on title page. This is the first edition of the classic Latin text of Casaubon relating to the Greek and Roman military, together Aeneas's tactical memoir. Originally published in 1609 in Greek and Latin. Ex reference library, which probably explains its survival, with 19th century library labels on spine, pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown and numbers hand-written in pencil on reverse of title page. Hand-written presentation note in ink on front free endpaper dated 1871. Some loss of paper at front pastedown, no rear free endpaper. Some foxing /marking and signs of age in text , generally the inner book is clean and in remarkably good condition for its age.

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1936. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, cloth covered boards with blue titles on front and spine. Some discolouration to covers, contemporary previous owner's name on front endpaper. Undated, but preface dates this edition to late 1930's. Clean inside with a little age toning to endpapers. 496pp with 12pp publisher's catalogue. A truthful, accurate and tragic record of the futility of War.

The Halberd Press, Glasgow, 1960. Soft cover. Good. The Halberd Press, Glasgow, 1960. Good. Approx 9'' tall, original decorative blue card binding with coloured emblem on the front cover. 1959/ 60 edition. Light wear to extremities. Illustrated throughout the text. 92pp. This gives a brief history of the regiment & of the military traditions of the university of Glasgow. There are also many pages of adverts by Scottish businesses of the time. Ex reference library with bookplate & number to front. 2 stamps at front & 2 further stamps within. Generally the inner book is clean & in very good condition.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. Very Good. First editions. Complete in 12 volumes. 'Illustrated by a Series of Historical and Explanatory Notes, which will be found to contain an Account of all the Naval Actions and other Important Events, from the Commencement of the Late Reign, in 1760, to the Present Period. With Copious Addenda'. 8vo, library rebound in half leather with blue cloth boards. Titles in gilt on spine & library name on cover.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head., 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. , 1916. Very Good. 8vo, green cloth boards with embossed titles on front and spine. Xxxi + 288pp, illustrated with two portraits and occasional cartoons in the text, reproduced from his letters. Harold Chapman was born in Brooklyn, U.S.A. and was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He moved with his mother to England as a young child and went on to become an actor and playwrite before enlisting early in the war. These letters cover his time in training camp and in France and were written to his mother, wife and young son. They include daily observations as well as some humour. Some of Chapamns plays were published posthumously to general acclaim. Contemporary owner's name in pencil on front endpaper.