Capt E Vredenburg (5 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Janet Murray, C.E.B. bernard, N. Drummond and Others (illustrator). First Edition. Stories by Hilda Hart, Norman Gale, Gurney slade and others. Illus by Janet Murray, C.E.B. bernard, N. Drummond and others. Red cloth spine with bright black titling over iIllustrated boards. Corners rubbed. Small light stain on back. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Colour frontis plate. Illustrated title page. Illustrations on every page. A few spots and marks but generally clean and tight. 42 pages. Size: Sm 4to.

Hard. Condition: Fair. Hardy, Florence; Bernard, C.E.B.; Andrews, E.J. And Others (illustrator). Pages bright. Spotting and dampstaining throughout. Large tear to pg 15. Gutters exposed part way through block. Front board partially detached. Binding slightly shaken. Previous owner inscription to front pastedown. Light foxing and spotting to pastedowns. Heavy shelf wear to boards. Size: 4to.

Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to red cloth spine, frontispiece, 144pp, illus, VG- (moderate fading & soiling to spine, moderate insect damage to spine & rear gutter- inactive, light to moderate scuffing & bruising to board corners, minro chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prize presentation plate to ffep, minor soiling & foxing to prelims, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout- some plates may be detached).

Hardcover. Condition: Otherwise very good condition. First printing. Documenting WWI efforts to provide canteen foods for the soldiers away from home in all theaters of war. Small 4to, 96pp, tan hard paper boards, brown cloth spine, printed text on front in blue and black with yellow sun illustration. With b&w photo illustrations. Cover dusty, marked, internally clean.

First edition. One of presumably a small number of copies specially bound for presentation. With a typed letter signed by A.W. Prince Controller of the Expeditionary Force Canteens to General Henry Horne, dated 14th May 1919. "Sir, I beg to transmit herewith a specially bound copy of a brochure descriptive of the Organisation in the various theatres of War, which I trust that you will do me the honour of accepting. I venture to think that the account of the work which has been carried on during the last four years may prove of interest to you" 8vo., in deluxe red morocco, lettered in gilt on spine with gilt border and lettering on upper board. A little restoration to foot of spine and a little scraping to lower board, otherwise a very good copy. The fore-runner to the NAAFI, the EFC was formed to provide a solution to the problem of supplying and feeding British forces on a scale never before experienced caused by the outbreak of the First World War. "The Expeditionary Force Canteens has provided some measure of comfort and respite to the Officers and other ranks of the Armies in France, Italy, Gallipoli, Salonica, Mesopotamia, Egypt and east of the Suez Canal". The recipient of this specially bound copy, General Henry Sinclair Horne, 1st Baron Horne, was a military officer in the British Army, most notable for his generalship during the First World War. He was the only British artillery officer to command an army in the war.