Non Combatant (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second edition, viii, [2], 125, [3], 24pp. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt., a nice copy,

ASHBY, Thomas A Valley Campaigns Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant while 1914. ASHBY, Thomas A. The Valley Campaigns Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant while between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the War of the States. (illustrator). First Edition. Handsomely bound in woven green cloth and stamped brightly on the spine in gold.Name in ink on the front endpaper and at the top of the title page. Very clean and tight throughout. "A personal, eyewitness account of Valley operations and their impact upon the countryside and its people" Nevins I, p.22.

First edition. viii, [2], 125, [3], 24pp. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed and a trifle marked. Residue of excised bookplate to FEP, later inked ownership inscription pasted to recto of FFEP, lightly spotted. Presentation copy, inscribed to verso of FFEP: ' With the Authors / Compliments'. The first edition of British colonial civil servant Henry Jeffreys Bushby's (1820-1903) epistolary account of his experiences during the Crimean War, including lively and personal recollections of the siege of Sevastopol and the Battles of Balaclava and Inkerman from the oft-neglected perspective of a non-combatant. Two further editions appeared in the same year as the first. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . 1855, clean bright copy, cleaned & refurbished by a bookbinder, original boards, no markings, binding tight, a lovely copy of this scarce item, Professional booksellers since 1981.