Field Colonel (42 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. Good (in mylar). First Edition. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, labels, markings, and surface-scuffed front free end paper fron the removal of the card pocket; Library stamped top and bottom edges. Cloth, bumped at the head and foot of the spine. Unclipped dust jacket, slight tilt to the spi…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Unclipped: fair. Fourth printing; 737 p., clean and unmarked on strong unaged paper; frontis. engraving of General Jackson, 6 maps in pocket on rear pastedown and various maps within; binding firm; clean unfaded turquoise-blue boards with bright gilt lettering on dark red patches have minimkal we…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. (No Date) 242 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding mildly soiled and rubbed. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed. Illust. w/ a coloured frontispiece and 16 pages of b/w plate…

1st Ed. 320 PP, plus 30 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Fp: Britannia. Cloth cover. Lacks plates facing pages 50 (Anson's Seamen at the capture of Payta) and 51 (Ducking under the equator). Free fly of front endpaper pasted down. Ingleton bookplate on recto of the free fly. Occasional foxing. Very good. Image shows title-page a…

(Subject: Other Topics - Diverse Subjects) With chapters on the British Soldier, Recruitment, Impressment, Deserters, Officers, Drill, Training, Exercises, Uniform and dress, Guns, Gunners and Gunnery, Mining, Spies and Spying. The book also covers pay and conditions, military mutinies and female warriors. (Published: 1939) (Pub…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This fine rebound copy is bound in blue cloth covered boards with red titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. A dust wrapper is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduce…

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 15 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1932 very good hardback, foxing and browning to page edges and endpapers, front free endpaper missing, in a good dust wrapper, spine lightly sunned, corners and edges rubbed, small closed tears. Protected by clear removable…

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covers, black lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼'' 320 pp. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Light foxing to the end papers and edges of the covers, corners soft, spine slightly age darkened, no dust wrapper. This book is not signed by the author. Member o…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pale blue buckram cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, 220 x 150 mm approx. Top edge of book block stained blue.256 pp. Frontis + 15 other illustrations on glossy art paper as called for. With a forward by Field and explanatory notes etc. this is a col…

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No Dust Jacket. 442 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed. Spine a bit sunned. "Infantry and Cavalry School and Staff College Library" label on front paste-down. Hinges starting. Pencil notations to several leaves. Front and rear endpapers age tone…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First British Edition. 1st edition printed in Great Britain;(translated from German by Edward Fitzgerald) book is in very good condition - with green cloth covered boards; top and tail of spine show slight bumping; boards show bumping at front corners; spine shows sun…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers 28pp. A little wear on edges; A very good copy. Asymmetric warfare is the military action against an adversary to which he may have no effective response and which pists strength against weakness, sometimes in a non-traditional and uncoventional manner. Building on an assertion t…

US War Department, 193 pages, ill. An analysis of German (plus the Italian and Japanese) airborne forces and a post-war report on German airborne operations and effectiveness. The appendix contains the text of a report written after the war by (amongst others) Field Marshal Kesselring and Colonel General Student. This appendix i…

Condition: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original light green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xxxviii] 442 printed pages of text with monochrome photographic frontispiece and four fold-out maps. Age darkened spine and closed page edges, shallow rubs to the spine ends…

1p., 4to. Bifolium. Addressed with postmarks, on reverse of second leaf, to 'Mr. Simpson, | Clothiere, | St. Martin's Lane | London.' In fair condition, on aged paper. Docketted with Harcourt's dates. The letter reads: 'Sir, | Captain Sir Murray Maxwell having signified his intention of offering himself as a Candidate for Westmi…

English soldier and military historian (1885-1969). One page, quarto. Folded twice. Good, but with minor discoloration and some ink smudging along one edge (not affecting text). Bearing the Society's stamp. Replying, as Haig's private secretary, to a letter electing Haig a fellow of the Society. 'Sir Douglas Haig has asked me to…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Spine lettering a bit faded. ; Illus. , previous owner of the book, artist John H. Geiszel, name artistically block-lettered in black ink on the front free end-paper. Just below the name is "from Bill A-----" in blue ink. Lieutenant John…

Prepared and researched by Retired Colonel and Historian of the Washington National Guard, Virgil F. Field. 29pp. Contents: Foreword by Adjutant General WNG George M. Haskett, Introductory by Author, Brief History of the WNG, Appendix A Commanders-in-Chief of the Territorial Militia and the Washington National Guard 1843-1957, A…