Subaltern First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This is a UK first edition hardcover of the Leo Cooper (Pen & Sword Limited) reprint of the 1969 first edition. The jacket is Very Fine and unclipped (£19.95). The book is Very Fine with straight spine, sharp corners and firm spine ends. The copyright page confirms the first Leo Cooper (Pen & Sword Limited) printing.

First edition,Original publisher's worn blue clothbound hardback, gilt titles to front. No dust jacket. 126pp. (2), Showing overall wear.rubbing half of spine missing, bookplate, ink writing and offsetting to endpapers, few small marks, some uniform browning to text margins due to quality of paper, otherwise internally clean, and tight with no further ink marks or writing. RARE as original first edition. 15705.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. The writer George Robert Gleig Scottish soldier and priest wrote a series of articles for Blackwood's Magazine on his Peninsular War experiences. They were collected into a book published anonymously for the first time by William Blackwood Edinburgh and T. Cadell London in 1825 as "The Subaltern". It 's he narrative of a junior officer in the final stages of the peninsular campaign, 1813-14, from the siege of San Sebastian, and over the French border and eventually to the siege of Bayonne. Half - leather binding with corners . The spine was decorated with a military motif (helmet at the end of a sword and above two crossed axes) nets and a title piece engraved with fine gold. This spine show signs of wear. The dishes are marbled. Interior is in good condition, 373 pages.

. . . 1 Vol. . 373 pp. Octavo. Media Piel con Puntas. . Lomera algo desgastada con alguna pequeña pérdida de piel. Interior en perfecto estado. Primera edición. .