Col C P Stacey (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Yes, with plastic cover. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are well read with finger soiling and food stains in places. Cover boards are in fair shape and are well worn at the edges and corners. The dust jacket is in fair shape with wear at the edges, corners and spine as well as heavy sun-fading to the spine. Top edges of pages are dusty. Former library book with usual library stamps, labels and markings. (Please note any image provided in our listings are stock photos supplied by AbeBooks and do not match the cover of the actual item.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1966, Second Printing, Volume III Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket: Good/Fair Red cloth boards and text block are clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Gilt lettering on spine and emblem are bright. Dust jacket has good colour and is glossy. Dust jacket has chips, creases, sunning and shelf wear (see pictures). Volume III of the official history of the Canadian Army in WWII. Wrapped in mylar. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1957, 3rd printing, Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket: Good/Fair Red cloth boards, text block and edges are clean, unmarked and tight. Gilt lettering on spine and emblem are bright. Owner's stamp on paste down and FFEP. Dust Jacket has good colour and is unclipped. Dust jacket has chips, creases, yellowing on spine and shelf wear (see pictures). Volume 1 of the official history of the Canadian Army in WWII. Wrapped in mylar. Maps drawn by Cpt. C.C.J. Bond (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1960. Queens Printer Pub. Pages all clean and bright no marks. Red cloth hardcover is clean with rub at spine ends and corners. There is no dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. 3 vols: No. 1: 172; No. 2: 160; No. 3: 159 p. 23 cm. Colour plates, b&w illustrations, some maps. Red cloth. Scratch on spine. Dampstains to rear board, rear endpapers, and last section, with some pages wrinkled. Dents in rear board. No. 1 covers Canada's five years in Britain, the Blitz, sappers at work, the Canadians and the British people. No. 2's topics include Canada's arrival in the Mediterranean, operation "Husky", warfare in the Sicilian hills, the assault on Italy, approach to the Winter Line, the Moro, Ortona. No. 3 covers preparations for the Normandy invasion, fighting on the beaches, the Battle of Caen, the victory at Falaise, the advance to Dieppe. Foreword to vols. 1 and 2 by Lt.-Gen. J. C. Murchie and foreword to vol. 3 by Lt.-Gen. C. Foulkes.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Bon. 837 p. Ill. Cartes dépliantes. Code 2135.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Set of three hardcover, all with dustjackets. Pages clean, no notes or highlights. Overall, minor shelf wear. Binding sound. - Volume 1, Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific has minor creasing to top and bottom of spine. Minor creasing to fore edge corners as well. A couple small tears to top of spine. Light creasing along top edge of front cover. - Volume 2, The Canadians in Italy 1943-1945 has minor creasing top of spine. Light creasing and minor wear to fore edge corners. - Volume 3, The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe, 1944-1945 has light creasing top of spine. Light creasing to fore edge corners.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. An important World War II study and the most important single volume on the role of the Canadian Army. Rubbing and chips to dust jacket. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Second Printing Corrected.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60069715: 1955. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 629 pages. Dessin en couleur en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et cartes dépliables en couleur, hors texte. Annotations en page de garde. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60075218: 1963. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 293 pages. Reproduction en noir et blanc en frontispice. Annotations en page de garde. Jaquette passée. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. pp. xiii, 629; xv, 807; xiii, 770. Thick Royal 8vo's. Uniformly bound in bright red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spines, and armorial device embossed to the centre of the front boards; map endpapers. Replete with many black-and-white, and colour maps (including many fold-out), photographs, illustrations, portraits, et al. Excepting some light bumping to the spine ends the extremities remain remarkably well-preserved with no additional detectable flaws, contents remain equally and uniformly without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and tight, sound bindings; about fine with each housed in light shelfworn dustjackets (now in protective mylar covers). Overall, very good+ to near fine. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Breakout at Falaise - "One of the most dramatic and controversial land battles ever fought ended in Normandy in August, 1944 - Canadian soldiers were in its vanguard - they fought with valor and won a great victory - yet they made tragic blunders and so did the bombing planes that helped support them"; Parkinson's Second Law; What I Learned from the Magic World of Books; What Your Voice Reveals About You; A Visit with Gratien Gelinas; What its Like in the vast and vibrant Cariboo; Could Britain Survice an H-bomb Attack?; The Maritimes Should Secede From Canada; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this issue and its important WWII content. Grant, Lt. D.I. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Printing. pp. xv, 807. Extensive index and footnotes. Numerous fold-out colour maps and black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. Second printing of the 1956 first edition. "Describes in detail Canada's part in the Italian campaign - the operations which began with the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and, developing into an arduous advance up the Italian peninsula, ended with the German capitulation in May 1945. Directed primarily to the general reader, and particularly to the Canadian reader who wishes to know what the Canadian Army accomplished and why its operations took the course they did." - Foreword. Gilt emblem and lettering upon publisher's red cloth. Prior owner's name and date discretely upon first blank leaf. Dust jacket not included. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important and highly informative history. Enser p.96, Cooke [3rd Edn] p. 259.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Canadians in Italy 1943-1945 - Volume II (2): Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War , Canadian Army - Italy, Canadian Army - World War 1939-1945. Illustrated by Bond, Captain C.C.J. (illustrator).…