White Sergeant William (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Navy boards are in very good condition. Title in gilt on spine. Art in gilt on front board. Back gutter has slightly cracked, but binding still very well intact. Sunning to spine. Boards are exposed in small areas where cloth has been rubbed through. Contains previous owner's signature in ink on front free end page. A 3 inch by 2 inch newspaper article from 1957 has been pasted down on front free end page entitled, ''Practice firing.'' ''Including six years' service in New Zealand, during the late Maori War.''.

FIRST EDITION, REAR BOARD DETACHED, sm octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt military insignia to front board, blind stamp rule to boards, frontispiece, xx + 382pp + 8pp catalogue to rear, VG- (rear board detached, moderate chipping & bruising to extrems, light tanning to spine, light staining to boards, moderate cracking to spine, heavy tanning to page edges, light soiling to eps, binder's sm label to rear pastedown, heavy cracking to gutters, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages sporadically throughout).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. xx, 380pp. Biography with other events but primarily his six years service with the Royal Artillery in New Zealand, during the late Maori war. Ffep, half title, frontis and title page missing, bookplate of Henry Birkbeck (Major-General Sir William Henry Birkbeck, KCB, CMG) to fep, spine sunned, a little shaken but good readable copy. 600g.