Malet Colonel Harold (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. MALET, Colonel Harold. The Historical Memoirs of the XVIIIth Hussars (Princess of Wales's Own). 345pp., plates (some coloured). A good copy in original dark blue gilt lettered cloth. Some slight rubbing, and a bookplate presenting the copy to the Army and Navy Club. 8vo. Simpkin & Co Ltd. 1907. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, NOT ex-library. Blue cloth boards with regimental badge to front. Small lateral crease to spine. Slight surface loss to lower front edge. Spine scuffed and creased to head and to tail. Slight scuffing to edges and corners. Gilt to upper face. Rear inner hinge cracked but binding remains firm. Large gift inscription to second blank (1923). Slight toning to pages and faint foxing on pages close to the glossy plates, but generally bright. All plates present, as called for and include seven coloured plates of uniform. 345pp including tabular appendices to the rear. The period covered ranges from 1759 to 1902. Further information available on request. (Ud3). …

Condition: Good. 1907. No edition remarks. 345 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and badge design to front. Gilt top edge to textblock. Marbled endpapers. Colour and black and white illustration plates throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. …

Publisher's deluxe dark blue morocco ruled and with the regimental insignia in gilt to the upper board, five raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and titles in gilt to the spine. Outer board edges stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of HRH Victoria Mary of Teck (1867-1953), Princess of Wales, taken by royal photographers William and Daniel Downey, and twenty-two further plates throughout the text, seven of which are by Major R.A. Wymer, and in colour. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the gilt fresh, with some rubbing and a small chip at the head of the slightly faded spine. The contents, with a gift inscription to the blank reverse of the front endpaper and some mild spotting to the flyleaves and occasionally to the margins throughout, are otherwise clean throughout. A handsome volume. Issued simultaneously in this deluxe binding of full blue morocco and a regular binding of blue cloth and gilt, the deluxe issue is uncommon. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…