Swinton Colonel E D (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Fair copy in pictorial green cloth. Cloth wear at the spine tip, and a glue-mend to paper tears at the rear gutter. Tanning/soiling at the outer edges and endpapers, no prior owner's marks within. A sound reading copy of the first edition, and not ex-library. No dust jacket. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. tear in spine, slight discoloration to cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 26 page pamphlet. Stapled binding. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.

Softcover. White stapled paper wraps with bw illustration of a tank; 26 pp. An essay by Swinton, of the Royal Engineers, originally published in "The World's Work." Tanks first were used by the British in WWI, and herein is an account of their debut in September 1916, as well as subsequent reaction worldwide. H.G. Wells had predicted their invention 13 years prior. VG interior; front cover has ex-lib. stamp and light age wear.

Thin Card Covers. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Second Impression. 19 cm, [iv,] 217 pp, thin card covers - light corner crease and nick to head of spine. VG minus.

Hard Cover. First Edition. (London: Edward Arnold 1916). First UK Edition. This is the Cloth-bound edition. Publisher's brown boards with black lettering to the front board and spine. A VG sound copy. No D/W. N.B: author was a Major-General (the highest rank possible) in the British Army and is now best remembered for initiating the use of tanks in armoured warfare with the prototype "Little Willie" unveiled on September 6th 1915 and the second prototype "Big Willie" actually used on the fields in the first Battle Of The Somme. Note: this book should not be confused with the separately-published paper edition of this title. Inexplicably uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request.