Ward John Colonel (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 1992. 214 pages. Illustrated. Very Good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blue lettering to front. Boards are generally in good order, just a little grubby. Corners are bumped, edges are worn. Spine is age darkened with bumping to ends. 8 plates, present as called for. The first bundle is loosened, the strings no longer hold it. Occasional foxing. Previous owner's mark to ffep. Pagination: xii, 278 pp. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 681g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 034651:13g) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 681 G. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 278; port. frontis., illusts. from photos.; browning to endpapers, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, in the original d.-w., which is slightly frayed with minor loss to lower margin of rear. An account, by its leader, of the 25th (Navvies) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment in the Russian Intervention, at the end of the First World War. Ward's Battalion went to the assistance of Admiral Koltchak's White Russians in 1918-19, the only British unit to do so.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 278 pages including index. Blue green cloth covered boards. This book is all complete no rips. Book has been damp and boards are a bit twisted, hence only FAIR condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author to an un-named recipient at the head of the front pastedown: "With the author's compliments, John Ward 1925". 8vo. xvi, 278pp. Blue cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board, and with the black-stamped coat of arms of the Middlesex Regiment. With a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author, and ten captioned photographs over seven plates. A trace of wear to the backstrip ends. Some toning to the free endpapers, and a small dealer sticker to the base of the front pastedown. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. An account of the actions of the Middlesex Battalion in Siberia in support of the White forces of Admiral Kolchak during the Russian Civil War (Colonel Ward was effectively the senior British officer in the region). Fairly uncommon, and nicely enhanced by the author's signature. Inscribed by Author(s).