Barlow Lieut (2 results)

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper worn at the edges with tape reinforcements to the edges verso, a sfuff to the upper panel. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Prize (shooting) inscription to the first blank. The contents very gently age-toned; Hardback. Dust wrapper over green boards with black titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 8½" x 5½" (0.7 kg); pp 122; Index; Preface by Commander Sir Lionel Fletcher; 3rd edition, 6th printing, first published 1932. Includes: Black & white photographs (plates); Black & white drawings; Tables; Frontispiece; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #196459 ||.

Pp. viii+48(last blank)+[2](Part III sub-title)+49-58(last blank)+[2]("Miscellaneous"/blank); small demy 8vo; unlettered blue pebble cloth, quite browned and lightly worn; upper hinge broken, revealing leaves stabbed and tied, printer's label laid on lower pastedown; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, leaves lightly browned; printed at the "Minden Press." by Frederick Watkins Barlow, Lieutenant, Second Battalion XX Regiment, no place [Athlone?], 1868. One of 100 copies. White p. 72; Sutcliffe 1/p. 131 (not seen, and noting of considerable rarity). *lang2057 Still called the East Devonshire Regiment at the time, this privately published edition tells the story of the early years of the Lancashire Fusiliers from 1688. With a printed slip laid on lower paste-down: 'This book contains 70,209 letters, 3,700 sheets in the hundred copies, and took forty-eight days to print.'.