Hon J E B Seely (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1932. Cheaper Edition. 305 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. 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 and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condition: Fair. 1931. 1931 Reprint. 305 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed with considerable tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Reprint. Spine, binding and cover all fine; nice gilt title on spine. Contents clean with ex-libris label on inside cover. Frontispiece loose. 306 pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First American edition. Cloth. Illustrated dust wrapper. Illustrations. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Some pages unopened. Ink notation front end paper. From the dust wrapper: "Here is a man who, at sixty, is able to say honestly, 'Life has alwa ys been to me a glorious adventure'. He proves it by telling a straightforward and richly absorbing story of his adventures as a high-spirited schoolboy, a keen young sportsman, an explorer in New Zealand, a solder all through the Boer War and World War and a hard-working and hard-fighting member of the British House of Commons and Secretary of State for War". "Because of his survival, not once but many times, from almost certain death in accidents of sea, land, and air, he has become a legend , in his own lifetime, to the men who have known and loved him as a comrade". Contents include: First Military Training; Across New Zealand on Horseback; Return to England; Marriage and Call to the Bar; The Boer War; To South Africa with the Yoemanr y; Winston Churchill; Arrested for Disobeying Orders; Typhoid Epidemic; Army Reform Movement, 1903; England's Preparedness for the Great War; Recalled to the War Office; Battle of the Somme; Wounded; Second Marriage; Gassed and Ordered Home; Tribute s to the Canadians; etc.

1931-the 'cheap' edition, h/c, gilt on spine, 326pp, cover slight scuffs, general wear for a book of this age, slight browning to top edge, many photos and sketches, very sound copy. Autobiography, Seely commanded the Canadian Cavalry Brigade in WWII and also served in the Boer War, later becoming the Secretary of State for war.

Repr., 8vo., pp (xvi) 326 incll index, b/w fronts. port., b/w plates, scattered foxing, prev. owner's inscr., or. cl. bds., split to top of spine, sunned, no d.j.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Sir William Orpen, R.A. & A.J. Munnings, R.A., Illustrations from Portraits (illustrator). First Edition. Introduction by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Birkenhead, P.C., G.C.S.I. Clean red cloth on boards with gilt title. Small narrow piece on front of cover. Edges: moderate foxing & soiling. Light splitting to front hinge. Eps: mild foxing. Clean contents. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG+. 326p Dj: moderate soiling & rubbed wear, cover is light brown card with elemnts of original front cover and front flap text. Spine: title has been handprinted; head & foot with thin wear and chips. Head & foot of flaps spines with small wear & chips.