Captain Eric Wheeler Bush (4 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. . . . .

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. VG/Good. First edition, first printing in d/w price clipped. SIGNED BY EDITOR, CAPTAIN ERIC BUSH, without dedication or inscription on title-page. An anthology of great competence and outstanding interest, in which riches known and unknown are marshalled as never before. From Cromwell to Churchill, through the battles of Marlborough, Wolfe, Abercromby and Wellington through the Afghan and Crimean Wars, the Indian Mutiny, the China, Zulu and Boer Wars, and the two World Wars, the feats of the British Army, its leaders and its men, are celebrated in hundreds of passages of verse and prose. With 'British Regiments Mentioned', Bibliography, Index of Authors. Minor spotting to fore-edge and bottom-edge; d/w is edge worn with chipping; d/w has long tears along folds and spotting to rear panel; d/w has small losses to head and tail of spine, and corners of the d/w; d/w has two telephone numbers written on front panel; else a very good copy, in a good only d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY CAPTAIN ERIC BUSH. D/w now protected in a detachable. non-adhesive, clear sheaf. Signed by Author.…

8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO A MEMBER OF THE SHIP'S COMPANY OF HMS EURYALUS, WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Bush's autobiography, of which about one third covers his service in WWII. He was with minesweepers at Dunkirk, took command of the new cruiser EURYALUS in the Mediterranean, assisted in staff work for D-Day, and recommissioned HMS MALAYA for bombardment duties. With 6pp publisher's catalogue at end. Law 0669. …