Welsh Col James (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Stark, Leroy; Bristow; Lowery, Louis R.; Tyler, Charles B.; Savatt, Russel W. Jr.; Dickson, Donald L. (cover); Welsh (illustrator). First Edition. 88 pages. Features: Two-page Liggett & Myers cigarette ad features great photo of Army-Navy football crowd; Objective - Enemy Beach; Cartoon feature of "Clyde Keen - Space Marine"; Embassy Marines - Part 2; Photos of a double-date in Paris; The Last Banana War - Part 1 - Marines pioneered air-ground tactics during the second Nigaraguan Campaign; The Noise Happy Ghost (storey); Post of the Corps - Concord - the west's largest tidewater ammunition facility; Operation Whipsaw - three-day maneuvers at Camp Lejeune; Photo of Miss California, Suzanne Reamo, with Marines from Moffett Field; Photo of Iwakuni beauty contest winners, including Sherry Ward; El Toro Fish-Off; Transfers; Nice one-page photo of Angie Dickinson leaning on chair; List of retirees with photo of H.B. Wells and John Goffe; Corps Album - great archival photos; Nice Camel back cover color-photo ad features Graeme Howard Jr. of Yale Law, 1960, smoking in law library; and more. Unmarked. Above-average wear to back cover. A worthy vintage copy of this great issue.

Hardcover. Condition: Good + overall. Second edition. The author served in the Madras Army, one of the armies maintained in India by the East India Company. Welsh joined in 1791, and became General Officer Commanding of the Northern Division, Waltair, Madras from 1837-1847. The East India Company initially traded in goods such as cotton, silk, tea, and opium; it eventually ruled large areas of India, exercising military power and assuming an administrative role. Both volumes Inscribed by the author at the half titles "To Patrick Stewart, Esq, with the author's kind regards. July 1836". Volume I: xii, 354pp xii -xiv, all edges marbled, 42 plates. (aquatints and maps, some folding, Inside the front cover is the bookplate of John Sheepshanks. Vol II: vii, 347pp, all edges marbled, 91 plates. Bound in full leather but the Front and back boards are detached, and the spines mostly perished. This copy needs re-backing, Internally mostly bright and clean with only to Fort Cornwallis plate having noticable browning. ( varient paper?). Signed.