Boraston Colonel (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. xxii, 371pp, maps. Light wear reprint in unclipped wrapper. 1.3kg.

Reprint of 1919 original, 8vo. xxii + 371pp. 25 specially prepared sketch maps. Original boards with d/w, price-clipped, chipped, rubbed and bumped, faded red spine with white text. Editor was Private Secretary to Earl Haig. ISBN 0 460 04371 4 US$15.

Facsimile edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered maroon cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xv + 359, illus with coloured plate, and b&w photos and maps (no inscriptions).

hardback, large 8vo, xvi,374pp, illustrated, fold map at rear creased and edges frayed, label mark on rear endpaper, marker-pen line on bottom edges, front inner hinge partly cracked, rebound in brown cloth, gilt tiltes, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. Useful account of the 8th Division in WWI. 1st Edition 1926. 360pp., photographs, folding maps, orders of battle, compisition of headquarters, coloured plate of shoulder patches, awards, including 11 VC's, index. Usual rubbing at head and tail of spine and some foxing, overall good condition. Note from GSO1 Lieut-Col A,Bourne DSO (who took over on 5th June 1918) confirming his start date in a pencil note in margin.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Two volumes with maps. Book has sunfading to spine and some edges, small bumps to corners. otherwise a clean and presentable copy, with a solid binding and clean pages (map at back in great shape). Second volume of maps also has a sunfaded spine with edges, small area of pen marks to mouth flap. except for a few light spots to foxing to maps the maps are in fabulous shape. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xviii, 378pp, photos, maps. Some sunning to boards, internally clean and tight. This copy has a macabre providence as it is from the library of Roscoe Brunner-bookplate to fep, who allegedly killed his wife and then commited suicide although alternative suggestions are that he was silenced as part of the birth of Imperial Chemical Industries? Book then held by Winnington Hall Club-ICI staff club. 1.5kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. xviii, 378pp, photos, maps + case of 10 maps. December 1915 - April 1919. Made set so boards slightly different shades but clean and tight. May incur additional postage due to weight. 2.5kg.

Buckram. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. This is a 1999 reprint of a 1926 original. 8vo. 360 pages including detailed appendices and index. Very well illustrated throughout with a good number of excellent maps and black and white photographic plates. In original attractive dark burgundy buckram gilt hard cover binding with bottom corners of boards very, very slightly bumped otherwise Near Fine. In Near Fine cream dust wrapper. A very substantial book. WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE OUTSIDE UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardback without dustjacket; boards loose, but not detached; ownership bookplate to endpaper, foxing to yellowed pages, otherwise good in chipped and faded, decorated cloth boards. First edition. ; Fold-out maps; +xvpp. ; 360 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Ref. HH1R) Red cloth binding with gilt spine titles and vignette to front. Faded and discoloured with some other small marks and light stains. Spine-darkened. Top and fore page edges darkened. Yellowed endpapers with owner's signature to top of ffeps. Page edges lightly yellowed, occasionally greyed throughout. A few odd smudges to prelims page edges but generally contents are good and unmarked with all maps etc complete and attached. Well-bound volumes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Text volume and accompanying folder of 10 maps, complete. Text volume rebound in matching purple buckram by Holliday of Oxford similar to the map folder. Gilt lettering, no dustwrapper. Volume 1 with 8 photographic portraits, facsimile signatures and 25 maps including one folding map bound in at rear. Volume 2 consists of 10 folding maps housed in an original clothbound linen case showing a little wear.Gilt motif to front cover.Octavo, 378 pages,2500g. Very heavy indeed, probably best ordered within the U.K.? Worth enquiring first?

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition 1919. Pp xviii 378, with 8 portraits and 25 sketch maps. With the accompanying map case containing 10 folding maps. Red buckram gilt. Text vol is in Fine condition and still has the original pale brown printed dust wrapper. There are a couple of tiny nicks and chips but the wrapper is in excellent condition. Wrapper is priced on the spine at 42/- (£2 2s, or 2 guineas), which was a lot in 1919. Contents are very clean. Light fading to spine of map case. Pre-1920 dust jackets are very rare. Nice set.