Colonel Chesney (34 results)

Condition: New. SB xvi+251 pp + Map 2017 N&MP Reprint of 1907 Original EditionPublished Price £12.50 These lectures are rated as an outstanding contribution to the literature on Waterloo. The author of this book set out to present and analyse all available facts, and to achieve this he made a deliberate policy of consulting Eng…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fourth Revised Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm, square and tight with no snags or splits, just a trifle rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: in decent shape, just slightly rubbed and moderately edge-worn. Contents sound and clean;…

Condition: Fair. 1941. Reprinted. 252 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Laminated red cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Water staining to some p…

Condition: Good. 1907. 4th Edition. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pull-out black and white map to page 39. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing a…

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 22 x 15 cms. Category: British Association for the Advancement of Science; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years takin…

Condition: buono. Dal Medioevo a fine Ottocento Illuminismo, Rivoluzione francese e Napoleone Historical and Political studies From Middle Ages to the end of the 19th Century Enlightenment, French Revolution and Napoleon Napoleonic Library tela edit. con titoli oro al dorso e sovrac. ill. - volume in lingua inglese - una cartina…

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. New York:The Studio Publications, Inc. (1943). 1st American edition. 252pp. Illustrated. Hardcover.  Green boards lightly soiled with wear to spine ends, and title in yellow to spine strip dulled. Page edges soiled. Internally end-pages age-toned but clean, free of prev…

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. American edition. Octavo, green cloth covers with yellow spine titles, 253 pages. Includes black and white illustrations, appendix, and index. Book is in near fine condition. Dust jacket ia chipped at edges, spine a bit sunned, rear panel is scuffed, with some soil. 0…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition Revised. Hardback, half leather. Unusual work written "to accompany an application for the Professorship of Military History at the Staff College" Second revised edition 1868. 28pp., bound with "The Tactical use of Fortresses" Also 1868.19pp., Binding has wear to corners and som…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Partial maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages; Bound in original green cloth with borders in blind to boards and titles in gilt to spine. Light general mottling to cloth boards; boards rubbed at corners and spine ends with mild rub through at tips and modest fray at spine ends. Both folding…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. CLOTH: 360PP + 16PP OF PUBLISHER ADVS. TWO LARGE FOLD-OUT MAPS, ONE OF WHICH HAS A TEAR BACKED WITH ARCHIVAL TAPE AND THE OTHER, A SMALLER BACKED TEAR. SLIGHT FADING TO THE COVERS; SPINE LETTERING SLIGHTLY DARKENED; PREVIOUS OWNERS' SMALL NAME STAMP AND SIGNATURE. OVERALL, VERY GOOD.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 8vo. xxiv, 360p., several pages of ads at back. 2 large folding maps. Original green cloth with gilt lettered spine. Cloth a bit rubbed and scuffed with a few light soil/discoloured spots. Front joint with a small chip in cloth near top at title. Private library bookplate…

1st separate edition (Bleiler, p. 42). 64 pp. 12mo. 17 cm x 11.5 cm. The 'Battle of Dorking' was, apparently, written to document the need "for a complete reorganization of the British military system." The story's effect, after its initial (& anonymous) magazine publication in 1871, can be gauged by the fact that it drew a publ…