Williams Colonel (47 results)

Condition: very_good. Used - Very Good: Item may have minor cosmetic defects.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 40 pages, photos, As New softcover reference title for USMC uniforms and insignia of WWI.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 40 pages, illustrations, Like new in soft covers. A couple pages are printed offcenter.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 40 pages, illustrations, Near fine in soft covers.

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

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 64 clean, unmarked unpaginated pages; stapled wraps; no date given (circa 1975). B/w (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Elephant Bill by Col. J H William, published in 1950. Illustrated w/B&W photographs. Very good overall condition in cloth boards, DJ shows much wear and tear, chips, creasing, discoloration and losses. Interior is crisp and clean of markings. Please see images. Thank you for browsing Sunnyback Books--price includes free media shipping w/in USA. A book comes along like this once in a lifetime. You read it as a small child, or even as a adult, and never forget the images it conjures up, of a wonderful Englishman who lives in the mysterious forests of faraway Burma and of the kind native people who teach him about their lovely country. But most of all, you never forget the elephants! For this is a story about those magnificent creatures. Though he was officially known as Lt. Colonel J.H. Williams, the author was known to the world at large as Elephant Bill . That is because he spent 25 years living with the elephants in the mountains and forests of Burma. There he trained them to haul teak logs out of the isolated jungles. Yet this is also a story of great courage because when the Second World War struck, it also came to Burma. The Japanese Imperial Army planned to confiscate the Burmese elephants, drafting them to make the bridges and railways they needed to invade India. When he learned of these plans to put his beloved animals to a war-like purpose, Elephant Bill knew what had to be done. The mighty kings of the jungle had to be evacuated to safety.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. An original 198 edition in blue cloth with gilt cover and spine titles in good used shape. With 8 color plates and thirty eight in b/w photo plates and illustrations. Kind of neat.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition. Covers, page block and page edges are tanned. Cover edges, corners and spine ends are rubbed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover, Publisher: Hants, Longmore, (by the Institution), (1965). FIRST EDITION, (Very Good). NO JACKET. Original Blue Cloth, Gilt Titles To Front & Spine, 9.1/2" X 6", 196pp. Foreword by His Royal Highness The Duke Of Norfolk, Illustrations by Michael Williams. The Corners Are A Little Bumbed, And The Cloth Rubbed at the edges, Else The Content Is Clean & Tight. (There is a 'Corrigenda' tipped in at the Contents Page.). FOREWORD : This is the story of the 'Citizen Soldiers' of those corps which now form the Royal Corps of Transport. It will be of particular interest to those who have in any way contributed to the progress and development of the Territorial Army and the Army Volunteer Reserve, and to those who fought with the Royal Engineers and the Royal Army Service Corps. As Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Corps of Transport I commend this story to all those who are and have been associated with the transportation services in the Army. Michael Williams, Dip. A. D. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Collectable refined first edition. Gift inscription from the previous owner on the front free end page. Heavy book extra postage may be required. Frontispiece. The boards are a touch edge worn and minor marks. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the first and last few pages. There are a few minor marks within the body of the book. All pages are accessible. The binding is excellent. R*2026/04/26 GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Battery Press, TN. 15th Army Group was the overall command element of Allied forces in the Italian Campaign. In December 1944 Lt General Mark Clark took command and led the campaign until the war's end. A reprint of the 1945 history. Fine copy of the hard cover book. No dust jacket issued, still in shrinkwrap. 288 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Printing. CO2 - A 3rd printing hardcover book SIGNED by Jeffrey N. Williams and inscribed to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x11.75", 176 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Jeffrey Nels Williams is a retired United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four space flights and formerly held the American record for most days spent in space, which was surpassed in April 2017 by his colleague Peggy Whitson. He still holds the record of the longest time in space for an American man. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With owner's name inside cover. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0117710164.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 302 pages, color plates, photos, index, Very good hardcover First edition. Contains sections on the following: History of the Uniform, Service, Corps and Rank, Ensigns, Flags, Pennants, United STates Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Lighthouse Service, Public Health Service, Medal, Badges, Insignia, Ribbons, Honors and distinctions. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Thus. First thus - First published in Great Britain in 1967 Wrapper is rubbed and marked. Boards marked. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. . Clean throughout. Good. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated. Circa 1943. 8vo. Pictorial paper cover. 80 pp. plus advert pages. B/w illustrations and photos. Essays on popular and music-hall songs of the late 19th and early 20th Century. Clean and bright. Just light edge-wear to covers. VG.

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt. Faint browning to title page; text clean; binding tight; speckled loss of colour on boards; minor shelf-wear at head & foot of spine Used - Good. Good hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st Limited, Numbered, First, SIGNED Collector's edition.This is number 124. B/W Illus (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

8vo. ii, 200 pp. 5 plates (1 steel engraving, 4 tinted wood engravings). Contemporary morocco. Tear in either end of spine, cover rubbed, bookplate of Wellington College library on front endpaper, text VG. A single volume from a series, this covers the war with Germany, 1870-1871.

Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to good. A scarce book written by the son of one of the St. Ives men who was a prisoner of War in France. The book is personal memories from his childhood to the end of the Great War and includes references to the early rail system in Cornwall and also of the author's time in London when he was heavily involved in the development of the docks before the return to his home town of St.Ives. Red cloth covers, with scratch, gilt title . Frontispiece is a photograph of author.The fep is torn with loss and evidence of library label removed, no other library stamps or labels. Size - 218mm. x 145mm. Pp.112.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First, no dust jacket. Dark blue boards, with gilt title. Internally two prev. owners book plates and 3 other previous owners names inside front cover. Front cover starting to separate. No marks or notes. GOOD.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red & black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Item rated "Very Good" due slight bumping and color loss at spine ends and red pencil underlining on approx. 12-20 pages. The underlining is extremely neat. Not erased because obvious attention to names "Dugdale and Farmer". No other writing or marking. Book is divided into nine chapters and Appendices noted A through E. Three folding maps at rear intact. B&W Photos (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 302 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Previous owner's name in pencil on front blank endpaper; owner's address label on front paste-down. Illust. w/ 8 illustrations in color and 117 in b/w. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Undated, 6 parts bound in to 3by Blackie & Son. Boards worn, cloth peeling from the leather, chipped endpapers, cracked hinges and foxing for all three, volume three has a loose endpaper, map of Sebastopol also loose. Vol 1. 1792-1812; Vol 2. The French War of 1812, to it's Close; Vol 3. 1857-1859. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Profusely illustrated with photos and illustrations. Mild rubbing and edge wear to binding. Gilt titling to front board and spine. Spine lightly sunned with the gilt age toned. A very nice edition of WW I Era military history.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 302 pages; Some light spotting to covers, book otherwise well taken care of.

Condition: Very good. 4to format 10 x 7.75 inches, viii,192pp, frontis, full page and text drawings and a map, original publisher's textured cloth covered boards, title gilt on spine, very good.