Dick Horton (30 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First paperback edition, first printing of this novel about the guerrilla warfare between the Australians and the Japanese in World War II. Light reading crease to the spine. Faint crease to the rear cover. Slight edgewear. Age toning to the pages. In Very Good Condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Campaign book No 15 in a series. Normal wear, no tears.

Hb In Dw 164pp Illustrations Plates Maps Etc Australian Guerrilla Operations Against The Japanese In WW2 A FINE/FINE Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards are undamaged with only light wear along the edges and at corners, spine is solid with slight bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout, both hinges strong. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. Dust Jacket: intact with only light scuffing on surface and wear along edges, no significant tears or tape repairs. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing less than 500g, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) will be less than what is shown here. Please email me if you would like a quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

Condition: Good. ex library hardback with illustrated boards, usual stamps/markings. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 50D.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Australian Edition. 164 pages, 16 pages of b/w photos, six maps, appendices, index. The upper corners from about p115 to p148 are creased. Page edges lightly foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The clandestine operations launched from Australia on the Japanese occupied islands to its north during World War II. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good. First Edition. 161 pages. Dustjacket has light creasing to edges, not price-clipped. Hardback binding has light wear to spine-ends, two creases to two of boards' corners. Pages very clean and in nice condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 222 pp, index, b/w photos, maps. Light edgewear. Leaves a little yellowed. Spine straight and uncreased.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, octavo, xii/164pp, b&w plates, maps. A little wear on edges, light sunning on dw spine else very good. Includes the activities of the 2/2nd and 2/4th Australian Independent Companies in Timor and Z Special Unit of the Services Reconnaissance Department in Borneo. Includes details of the HMAS Krait and the raid on Singapore Harbour and operations Agas, Semut, Rimau and Jaywick. Also covers the role played by the Dutch NEFIS which also operated under the umbrella of the Services Reconnaissance Department.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Presumed first editon. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Near fine, perhaps near fine plus wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use: primarily to lower edge of front cover and fore-edge corners and rubbing/wear to covers.

Condition: very good. MacMillan (South Melbourne, Aus) 1983, first printing, 164 pp, photos, maps, very good with spot to contents page, very good, DJ,

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 164 pages, includes index. Black/white photos. A clean, tight, straight book, appears unused. Dust jacket undamaged, protected in a clear mylar sleeve. Scans available.

HARDCOVER. Macmillan, 1983. First Australian edition, A near fine copy. Bookseller stickers to the front pastedown and a related newspaper article attached to the front free endpaper. The d/w is also near fine with only very light bumping to the top edge.

HARDCOVER. 1983, First Australian edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine d/w. Scans available if required.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xii + 164pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., index, Australian Guerrilla Operations against the Japanese. Account of the actions of the 2/2nd & 2/4th Independent Companies. Nice copy in slightly chipped dust jacket.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xii + 164pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., index, Australian Guerrilla Operations against the Japanese. Account of the actions of the 2/2nd & 2/4th Independent Companies.

1st edition dust jacket Very Good octavo xii + 164pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., index, Australian Guerrilla Operations against the Japanese. Account of the actions of the 2/2nd & 2/4th Ind Comp.

8vo., First Edition, with plates and front endpaper map; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.

1st edition dust jacket As New octavo xii + 164pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., index, Australian Guerrilla Operations against the Japanese. Account of the actions of the 2/2nd & 2/4th Independent Companies. Fine copy.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xii + 164pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., index, Australian Guerrilla Operations against the Japanese. Account of the actions of the 2/2nd & 2/4th Independent Companies.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xiv + 256pp., b/w plates, maps, plans, index, 'The Coast Watchers saved Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal saved the Pacific'.

1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo xii + 164pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., index, Australian Guerrilla Operations against the Japanese. Account of the actions of the 2/2nd & 2/4th Independent Companies.

First Edition. Australian Guerrilla Operations against the Japanese in World War II. Pp. xii+164, 16 plates, text maps and an occasional text illustrations, appendices, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; sticker mark on upper free endpaper; Macmillan, Melbourne, 1983. First Australian edition. *First published by Leo Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg, London, 1983. An account of the activities of the z specials and the Australian Independent Companies against the Japanese in the islands north of Australia during WWII.

Illustrated Wrappers. Condition: Good. Dick Calkins (illustrator). First Edition. Undated. Illustrated. 32 pages. With great fortune, Chester Horton began his golfing career in 1893 carrying the clubs of the famed Charles Blair Macdonald around the Chicago Golf Club links, the first 18-hole course in America. Horton went on to be a professional player and later, a noted instructor. He was known as a man of science in golf for his many inventions facilitating golf instruction. He eventually had a golf school in Chicago and in Seattle Washington, and manufactured his own line of golf clubs. This copy has been well-studied by the owner, apparently a private pupil of Horton's. LAID IN IS A LETTER DATED 1930 SIGNED BY CHESTER HORTON. In the note Horton apologizes for delay in sending the book, but that he has marked the copy's salient points specifically for the pupil. Lessons One, Two and Six have been heavily annotated in pen by the author, Chester Horton, as being the areas of the student's game that need attention. Unique copy. Covers crease but complete and have been laminated, slight indentations and stains upper inside cover from paperclips once attaching the autographed letter to the book. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SIGNED LETTER LAID IN.

8vo, pp. 164. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Near fine copy in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with just the lightest of edgewear. 16pp. b&w photographs, 4 printed maps. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO LEO McKERN: 'To Leo -- with very best wishes -- Dick Horton! 7/11/83'. 2pp. ALS FROM HORTON TO McKERN LAID IN. The story of Australia's wartime operations against the Japanese, told from the perspective given Horton by his membership of Australian Special Forces. As young men Horton and McKern were friends in their native Australia, before pursuing their different careers overseas. Horton sent this volume to McKern when they were renewing their acquaintance in England -- the letter tipped in to the book brings McKern up to speed with developments in Horton's family and professional life.