Col Wingate (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1899, stated Popular Edition, Very Good Plus/no dj, thick octavo, 416pp., gray cloth hardcover, 22 b&w photo ill's., 2 intact large fold-out maps with tiny tear in one margin, binding tight, text unmarked.

Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. The page measures 37 x 27.5 cm, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cm. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Includes both maps, and all 22 plates. Previous owner name to prelims.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. New Edition, hardcover in red cloth with gilt titling to the spine, ex-library with a stamp indicating acquisition in 1923, along with several other typical internal markings, and a poorly covered call number on the spine. In addition to the library markings, the book has a mild skew to the binding with a few thin cracks in the text block, moderate bumps with the cloth starting to fray at the spine ends and cover corners, slight sunning to the spine, and some foxing with a few small spots of soiling to the edges of the text block. Otherwise, this is an overall solid, Good only copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Popular Edition. xvi+412pp. Includes 21*illustrations and two folding maps. Brown cloth boards, rubbing to edges of spine with a little fraying to head and tail of spine. 1cm cut to upper rear edge of spine. Indentation to mid leading edge of front board. Corners bumped. Foxing to glassine protective cover of frontispiece.

8vo, 416pp, b/w plates & folding maps at rear. A good ex-library hardback copy bound in original maroon cloth with gilt titled spine. Rear board is marked. Boards & spine ends are shelf worn. Library bookplate to front paste down endpaper & stamps intermittantly throughout. Binding given.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in publisher's red cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and with gilt creast to upper cover housed in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has a few small tape repairs on the underside of the dust-wrapper.Not clipped to the inner flap.This copy has no previous ownership inscriptions present but has been SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Major Reginald Wingate on the Front Endpaper and reads. '' To Miss C Mauderson with all good wishes from Sir Reginald Wingate July 1938 '' .The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and the dust-wrapper comes well protected in a cover sleeve.Complete with a Reginald Wingate, 8vo (239 x 153mm.) Portrait frontispiece of Kitchener and with many photographic plates plus plans and maps that number 33 and then there are 2 large folding maps of Egypt and the Sudan at the rear of the book.Please also note that Wingate was was a British General and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan.During his long and distinguished career he was awarded many honours including the GBE and the GVCO. He was a cousin to Orde Wingate to referred to him as 'Cousin Rex'.Reginald Wingate served in India and the Sudan becoming director of military intelligence in Sudan in 1892.Large 8vo [xxxii] 571pp First Edition 1937.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'A Cavalier in China' by Col. A. W. S. Wingate. Grayson and Grayson Ltd 1940 first edition. Slight foxing. Neat inscription. Very good in slightly edge frayed dust jacket with a few tears and minor chipping. Slight spotting to the jacket. Scarce in the dust jacket.

Translated by Lieut.-Col. F. R. Wingate. xix, 636 pp. Illustrated by R. Talbot Kelly; folding map. 8vo, publisher's cloth. Fifth edition. Armorial bookplate; ink names on half-title; light foxing to texts. Inner hinges cracking; spine spotted and sunned; a little shaken but tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 327pp, fep map, photos. His last work, More detailed work, originally a talk to the Royal Geographical Society and the unfinished manuscript edited by his wife following his death, this is primarily his journey from Shanghai to Bhamo, part of which had not been explored by a European before. Book is generally clean and tight, touch of foxing to ae, unclipped wrapper is missings, chipped, creased, grubby. 900g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. R. Talbot Kelly (illustrator). 2nd Edition. 2nd edition, 1896. Thick Octavo. xviii, 636pp plus 32pp publisher's catalogue. With maps and illustrations, complete. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt titles and decoration. T.E.G. Extremities rubbed, spine faded with some nicks and light fraying to head and tail. Front inner-hinge a little tender. Former owner's bookplate to f.e.p. Some spotting to text-block and margins. Maps at rear having spotting and a couple of tears. Overall a 'Good+' copy. Heavy - additional shipping required for overseas orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 416p. Folding maps. Illustr. Small tear at top of gutter. Slightly sunned spine. Very Good copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Col. A. W. S. Wingate (illustrator). First edition. The uncommon first edition of this autobiographical account of a journey through the interior of China, in the very scarce dust wrapper. First edition of A Cavalier in China by A. W. S. Wingate in the original publisher's cloth binding and very scarce unclipped dust wrapper.With a foreword by Sir Francis Younghusband.Wingate's autobiographical account of his journey through the interior of China, compiled and edited by his widow after his death.Illustrated with fifteen monochrome plates from photographs taken by the author. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. There is some wear and slight loss to the extremities of the dust wrapper, including some tears. To the binding, there is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

pp. 327, (i). Frontispiece, 14 plates. No dust wrapper, covers slightly faded and marked, but a good copy.