Colonel Reay (2 results)

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Great War Policing] FIRST EDITION with associated signature. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 223 [57]. With eight photographic plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Chief Staff Officer, Colonel Sir Edward Ward, SIGNED by Ward in blue ink to lower margin, and dated January 1921. Publisher's aquamarine cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s to spine. Small modern bookseller's label to front pastedown. Light spotting to edges, endpapers and preliminaries. Jacket largely toned to grey, as expected, with rubbing and chipping to edges. Near fine. The story of the Special Constables recruited in 1914 to meet the new demands of total war in London. By the Australian-born journalist and soldier, who served as inspector-general of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary during the Great War. Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce copy of this compelling account of London's Metropolitan Special Constabulary at the time of the Great War. The first edition of this very scarce work.Complete with the equally very scarce unclipped dust wrapper (unpriced).Offering a vivid account of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary upon its recruitments for World War I. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper (unpriced). Externally, very smart indeed, with only minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper is sunned, heaviest to the spine. With a chip to the rear panel and with loss to the spine and folds' heads and tails. Spots visible to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional light scattered spots, largely concentrated to the endpapers. With a minor ink inscription and ink impression to the front pastedown. Near Fine. book.