Major Jeffreys (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book and Dust Jacket are in Fine condition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 152 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.38 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in blue buckram covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This scarce book is a first‑hand, diary‑based regimental history of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards during the opening five months of the First World War—one of the most vivid and authoritative accounts of the BEF's mobile campaign. The narrative reconstructs the first phase of the war, before trench stalemate, when the BEF was still manoeuvring. Mons and the Retreat , The Marne, The Aisne, The "Race to the Sea" , First Ypres, where the battalion suffered catastrophic losses—959 men killed, wounded, or missing by the battle's end The account is built almost entirely from contemporary diaries and letters, giving it an immediacy rare in regimental histories. Major Jeffreys—later General Lord Jeffreys—was one of only three officers who survived with the battalion from August to December 1914. Ref GG 4.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. [London]: Vail & Co., Ltd., 1956. 7" wide by 9.5" tall. Original full-color pictorial wraps, with one small crease to corner of front cover. No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with 8 full-page plates, with 5 in full-color, including a frontispiece of a very comely Queen Elizabeth in uniform (as Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment). This is the catalogue of the exhibition, with brief descriptions of 340 items: portraits, prints and engravings, photographs, uniforms and equipment, swords, rifles, drums, flags, colours, documents, medals, orders and decorations, historic relics, etc. Has a brief history, THE FIRST OR GRENIDIER REGIMENT OF FOOT GUARDS, by Sir Arthur Bryant and Major D. W. Fraser. First Edition? (No Additional Printings). Soft Cover. Very Good condition. First Edition? (No Additional Printings).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1922. printed for private circulation. Small mark to fore edge of pages. Bound in the publishers red and blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Red band faded and marked, some light rubbing, else very good copy. Scarce.