Rainier Peter Major (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Light general cover wear. Owner name. Newspaper clipped photo of Reinier pasted opposite title page -- leaves discolored offset on title page. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 295 pages.

First Printing. HrdCvr, no dj, VG with slightly bumped edges and corners, an engineer's adventures with the British Eighth Army, map of the North African battleground on endpapers, 8vo, 302 p.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 302 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (maps) throughout. Dust jacket has some age wear, but still intact (see image). Cover boards bound in gray cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges and pages have some tanning from age, edges have a touch of foxing. In great shape for its age. Written and published before WW-II was over, eyewitness accounts. Perfect for the WW-II enthusiast. Record # 31907.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hardcover without dust jacket, undated Second Printing (probably 1944/45), 302 pages including several maps, plus larger map over both endpapers; light to moderate shelf wear to cover edges, corners and spine ends, but gently used, tight in binding, ugly bookplate obscuring part of the front endpaper map and some unknown damage obscuring a portion of the back endpaper map (between the two, tha map is readable), text pages clean and unmarked except for scattered light foxing due to cheap wartime paper. See also our listings for James Sidney Lucas's War in the Desert: The Eighth Army at El Alamein, and for Paul Addison's Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939-1945, and for the big picture, Monty, 3-Volume Set: The Making of a General 1887-1942; Master of the Battlefield, Monty's War Years 1942-1944; The Field-Marshal 1944-1976 [Bernard Law Montgomery of Alamein].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG hardcover book with gilt titles on spine - see actual image. Minor edge wear. " A Random House Wartime Book". 302 pps. Pages beginning to yellow. North African Battleground maps on endpapers. Military.

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), black spine label, gilt letters, 302 pp. Illus. with maps. Near-Fine, with bookplate. From Author's Note: This book was begun after the Alamein battle and written spasmodically as opportunity offered, throughout the pursuit of the enemy into Tunisia. Military History, World War II, Military History, Second World War.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing. Ex library with stamps but no card holder. General all over wear and light staining to boards. Solid good inside with light handling and a few dog ear creases. See pictures for further details, description.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is slight foxing around the block of the book. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Very good. D/j is torn, repaired. 302pp. 'An Engineer's Adventures with the British Eighth Army.' End paper maps. (loc 1059).

Hardcover without Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition. A very good copy, without dust jacket.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good small octavo 238pp., maps, Story of the water pipelines in North Africa & of Wavell's Campaigns through to El Alamein. Small stamps & corner clipped from end paper.

1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy small octavo vi + 238pp., maps, Story of the water pipelines in North Africa & of Wavell's Campaigns through to El Alamein. No dust jacket & neat ownership signature o/w nice copy in green boards.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good small octavo 238pp., maps, Story of the water pipelines in North Africa & of Wavell's Campaigns through to El Alamein.

1st edition orig. cloth Near Fine octavo 238pp., maps, Story of the water pipelines in North Africa & of Wavell's Campaigns through to El Alamein.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Scarce in DJ.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy small octavo vi + 238pp., maps, The Author laid water pipelines in North Africa following Wavell's Campaigns through to El Alamein . Nice pictorial dustjacket.