1. Lund, Paul / Ludlam, Harry.

The Fate of the Lady Emma. A Novel of the Second World War, by the Authors of “PQ17-Convoy to Hell”.

London, New English Library, 1978. 21,5 cm x 14 cm. 157 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only slightly foxed.

2. [Browne, Noel]. Horgan, John.

Noel Browne – Passionate Outsider.

Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 2000. 16 cm x 24 cm. VIII, 344 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

3. Holmes, Richard.

Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750 – 1914.

London, HarperCollins, 2005. 16cm x 24cm. XXXIII, 572 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

4. Cooper, Capt[ain] T.H.

A Practical Guide For The Light Infantry Officer : Comprising Valuable Extracts From All the Most Popular Works on the Subject ; With Further Original Information: And Illustrated by a Set of Plates, on an Entire New and Intelligible Plan ; Which Simplify Every Movement and Manoeuvre of Light Infantry. By Capt. T.H.Cooper (Half-Pay 56th Regiment, Infantry).

Original First Edition. London, Printed for T. Egerton at the Military Library, 1806. Octavo. XXIV, Errata Leaves [1], 98, 6 unnumbered pages (including Explanation of Plates and Index). With 14 (of 16) Fold-out-Plates and one which is missing a small strip (Plate 2). Also including the two additional Music – Plates with Four Pages of: 1.and 2.: Barrack Sounds / 3. Field Sounds [for the Trumpeter] as well as 4. Quick and Slow Marches [Buglers Trumpet Call / Setting the Watch / Shoulder Arms / Order Arms / Cease Firing / Incline to the Right / Form Indian Files / On Discovering the Enemy / The Enemy is Infantry & Cavalry / Call in the Advanced Guard / Call in the Skirmishers / etc. Hardcover / Original 19th century full leather Spine cracked but holding. Interior in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All the plates in very good condition with one missing. This is the very rare original edition and NOT a reproduction.

5. [Zinn, Howard] Hunt, David.

Organizing for Revolution in Vietnam: Study of a Mekong Delta Province. [Working-copy from the library of Howard Zinn with extensive markings in his hand] – [This book is part of the Howard Zinn Collection we have on offer under Inventory number 31136AB]. Radical America Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2.

Massachusetts, Radical America, 1974. 13.3 cm x 22 cm. 192 pages. Original Softcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains blue ink markings and notes up to page 31. Previous owner’s name in black ink on page 1. Black ink on rear cover. Minor foxing and discolouration to edges and cover.

6. Bradford, Ernle.

Thermopylae: The Battle for the West.

New York, Da Capo Press, 1983. 15 cm x 23 cm. 255 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

7. Kipling, Rudyard.

The Irish Guards in the Great War – The First Battalion.

Gloucestershire, Spellmount, 2008. 17 cm x 24.5 cm. 319 pages. Several black and white photographs and maps throughout. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8. Johnson, George William.

Manuscript and heavily annotated working copy of “Fortification Notes – R.M.A. [Royal Military Academy]” – “Course of Fortification”, by an english cadet, visiting the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.

(Woolwich), Text Printed by W.P.Jackson, “Journal” Office, Wellington Street, 1858. Quarto 22.5 cm wide x 27.3 cm high. Pagination: Printed Text-Volume: XLVI, 148 pages / Manuscript – Section: 72, (1) numbered pages with text in ink and drawings throughout (some in colour), followed by 76 empty pages. Original half-leather with gilt lettering and dating on spine and front board. Binding rough and pastedowns detaching. No titlepage due to the printed part being the printed course handed out at the R.M.A. Name of G.W.Johnson signed in pencil on Introduction-page of the Text-Volume and on titlepage of the manusscript-section.

9. Norris-Newman, Charles L.

In Zululand With The British Throughout the War of 1879.

London, W. H. Allen 1880. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 343 pages. Illustrated throughout with portraits. Includes the vintage photograph of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (including tissue-guard), 3 fold-out plans. With the often missing large fold-out Military Map of Zulu Land and Adjacent Parts of Natal and Transvaal. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design on front board. First layer, with frontispiece, slightly detached. Otherwise in very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean, with very minor spotting near front. Ink markings to first page of first chapter. Bookplate / Exlibris of Davenport House (Bridgnorth) to front pastedown with the printed motto “Audentes Fortuna Junat”. Extremely rare, rather scarce and even scarcer with the large folding-map included !

10. [Jane, Fred T.] McMurtrie, Francis E.

Jane’s Fighting Ships 1944 – 45 [1945] (corrected to April, 1946). Founded in 1897 by Fred T.Jane – Forty-Eighth Year of Issue.

London, Sampson Low, Martson & Co., [1946]. Oblong Quarto [near Folio]. Pagination: 70 pages of advertising are preciding the book, Frontispiece, XXX, 636 pages with hundreds of photographs of Fighting ships, Submarines, Destroyers etc. from all nations, and countless pages of Advertising for Industries related to shipbuilding and Maritime Suppliers. With an alphabetical list of Advertisers. Including a “War Loss Section” which details the fate of each vessel (captured, sunk etc.). Hardcover. Spine damaged (split from binding). The binding still firm. Interior excellent. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the very rare 1944/1945/1946 edition.