Ballard Brig General (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards with toning. Back hinge is split. Content has toning. Good DJ has chips/tears and toning.

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, light spotting, sun fading. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Editiion. Copy in blue cloth on boards with black title on spine. Very small white fleck mark on edge of upper spine. Corners lightly bumped. Very slight foxing to front and rear end papers. Previous ownrs inscription on FFE. A few light internal cracks. Clean text. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. An ex-library copy with the usual amount of stamps. No dust jacket. A little shelf wear and darkening to the covers and spine. The contents show a typical amount of tanning and some dust to the edges, but also remain tidily aligned and well-bound with good clean page centres. …

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good small octavo 319pp., map, Ownership signature & one annotation o/w VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ballard, Brig. - General C. R. Kitchener. First edition. London: Faber & Faber, 1930. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Grey cloth, faded and spotted to spine, bumped to corners, with various small marks to surface. Binding strong. Frontispiece b/w photograph. 380pp., maps. Dust-staining to top edge of page block, and a few marks to other edges. Contents clean and bright. Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (24 June 1850 5 June 1916) was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, and his central role in the early part of the First World War. Kitchener was credited in 1898 for having won the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, for which he was made Baron Kitchener of Khartoum. As Chief of Staff (19001902) in the Second Boer Warhe played a key role in Roberts' conquest of the Boer Republics, then succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief by which time Boer forces had taken to guerrilla fighting and British forces imprisoned Boer civilians in concentration camps. His term as Commander-in-Chief (19021909) of the Army in India saw him quarrel with another eminent proconsul, the Viceroy Lord Curzon, who eventually resigned. Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British Agent and Consul-General). In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Kitchener became Secretary of State for War, a Cabinet Minister. One of the few to foresee a long war, lasting for at least three years, and also having the authority to act effectively on that perception, he organised the largest volunteer army that Britain had seen, and oversaw a significant expansion of materiel production to fight on the Western Front.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 319 pp., crown blue cloth, v slight marked, text clean throughout, concise biography of famous British military man, from Egypt, South Africa, India, war office, the Sudan and Omdurman to WWI when his ship was sunk by a mine, and lost. No publicatiom date given but interwar years. Size: Crown. 17 Maps or Plans (illustrator). Military Biography. …