Major Dickson (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dickson, Major Donald L. (illustrator). 138 pages, ninth printing. Name inside, light wear; pages yellowed; a good solid book. The dust jacket is chipped, torn and stained. Illustrator: Dickson, Major Donald L. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military History; Inventory No: 200975.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Mass market paperback . First Pocket Books printing from April 1943 as stated on the copyright page. Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. Pocket Book #225. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Major Donald Dickson (illustrator). Octavo, hardcover, name on inside cover, first endpaper neatly removed else good plus in red boards with black lettering and design. No dj. First edition. Frontis of Marine. 138 pp. sketches of marines throughout. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine to Fine. Major Donald L. Dickson (illustrator). 12th Printing. Very nice copy of author's first book. One of the first great pieces of war reporting to have come from a front line manned by Americans. No flaws but for neatly price clipped jacket which shows $ sign but no price. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. (SL#117).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. THE FINAL SEVEN WEEKS - March 1943 (SL#117).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. (SL#117).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. "Life after Tunisia" (SL#117).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 94 pages, illustrations, Fine hardcover in Dust Jacket.

Hard bound. Condition: used copy. No Jacket. Ill.: Major Donald L. Dickson, U.S.M.C (illustrator). 138 pp. B/w illustrations. Some black (pencil?) lines on the front cover as well as a small damage on the edge.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bumped edges. Slight Scratches on Dust Jacket. Appears unread, may have minor damage from transit/storage. Next day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dickson, Donald ( Major ) (illustrator). Vivid account of a skirmish by American Marines on Guadalcanal Island. Illustrated with Pencil Sketches by Major Donald Dickson. Light grey cloth cover withslightly faded blue lettering to spine. & 1/4" Tall, 130g, 93 Pages. No inscriptions except old penciled price in corner of ffep. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New and unread, however shelf wear to cover/closed edge, including marking; creasing to edges of dust jacket. Shipped from the UK within 2 business days of order being placed.

Hard back binding in publisher's original photographic sky covers, blue cloth spine. Landscape 9'' x 11''. Contains 78 printed pages of text with full-page monochrome photographs throughout. End papers are cracked, light rubbing to the edges of the boards and in Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AEROPLANES.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame. A splendid opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Printed from an original photograph by Bassano. 'May fairly be pronounced one of the most popular General Officers on the list of the British Cavalry." Involved in the Zulu war, the Nile Campaign, among others.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. Title continues ".OF THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ALEXANDER DICKSON, G.C.B., K.C.H., K.T.S., ROYAL ARTILLERY. Presented to the Royal Regiment of Artillery, by his son, THE LATE GENERAL SIR COLLINGWOOD DICKSON, V.C., G.C.B., ROYAL ARTILLERY." Copy number 77 of a limited reprint of 200 numbered copies. The complete 5-volume reprint set. Vol. I: xiv, 140pp, folding map at the rear. Vol. II: pp 141-335 b/w frontis., folding map at the rear. Vol. III: iv, pp 337-559, folding map at the rear. Vol. IV: pp 561 - 828, folding map at the rear + 1 other folding illustration. Vol. IV: pp 829 - 1190; folding plan at the rear. An excellent copy, in near-fine condition. (Due to the size/weight of this 5-volume set, an extra shipping charge will apply.).

All four items with text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The four items pinned together and placed in the stamped envelope of Cameron's letter, addressed to Dickson as 'Clerk of the Peace of the County of Northumberland | Newcastle upon Tyne'. Casting interesting light on the workings of the Ordnance Survey. Letter One: Cameron to Dickson ('for Lieut: Colonel James | Director, absent on duty'), 19 September 1855. 4to, 1 p. Dickson's 'Bill for information &c supplied [.] to the Ordnance Survey Department' has been 'referred to authorities of the War Department', as it is 'considered very high'. If Dickson will not 'make some reduction', the bill will be referred 'to some third party for taxation'. Letter Two: Copy of Dickson to Cameron (erroneously addressed to 'Capt J Camborn'), 25 September 1855. 4to, 2 pp. Stating that he has 'made these charges according to the principle usually adopted by professional men', and that he 'would not object to refer it to any respectable Solicitor [.] You must recollect this that I was referred to by the Officers of Newcastle, only upon very nice points of law & that each of them required more or less consideration & more or less examination into Records & Old Acts of Parliament'. Letter Three: Forman to Dickson, 13 October 19855. 4to, 1 p. Asking for Dickson's bill, returned to him 'by Col. James', to be sent back, 'in order that I may look over it again'. Letter Four: Copy of Dickson to Forman, 15 October 1855. 4to, 1 p. Sending the bill. Seven line postscript beginning: 'You cannot judge of the trouble I had unless you have read my replies & opinions to the Enquiries put to me - the Boundary question between North Durham &c - caused me to peruse long Latin Records [.]'.