Wheeler Private (7 results)

Condition: Fair. 1952. Second impression. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Some additional heavy marks and staining.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. paperback, 288 pages, a fine clean copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 270.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American edition. 342pp. Edited and with a foreword by Captain B.H. Liddell Hart. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, boards mottled, spine sunned and cocked, a good only copy lacking the dust jacket. An eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st American Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket, first American printing, "Wheeler's record covers the years 1809 to 1828 and includes the ill-fated Walcheren Expedition, the Peninsular Campaign and the Battle of Waterloo (which he calls simply 'the three day's fight)." Illustrated with a double-page end-paper map, book is in excellent condition with one minor flaw: a tiny bump to the bottom front corner, the jacket has mild wear at the corner-tips and the spine is lightly sunned, it is very pleasing to the eye overall, the original price (3.75) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, nice gift/collector's copy.

Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Fascinating eye-witness account including The Peninsular War and Waterloo. Red cloth cover with dull gilt lettering to spine. Endpapers Illustrated with Private Wheeler's letters. 287 Pages, 490g, 8 3/4" Tall. Spine colour slightly faded. Previous owner's name on half title page dated 1952. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Leather Spine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 287 pp. Leather spine over patterned cloth boards, leather title labels and with gilt decorated raised bands and compartments. Frontis. Minor wear to extremities. Gift inscription to half title. Bright and clean internally. The letters of Private William Wheeler of the 51st (now 1st Battalion, Kings own Yorkshire Light Infantry), one of the few eye-witness accounts recorded of the war against Napoleon written at the time it was seen rather than long after. Covering the Walcheren expedition, the main part of the Peninsular War and the impressions of the Waterloo campaign, and briefly of the Greek War of Independence. Observant and at times humorous, the account gives the reader a vivid picture of Napoleonic era warfare, and of the countries in which Wellington's army fought. 8vo.