Colonel Collett (14 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine photogravure-type portrait from the "Stirling Sentinel". Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this distingushed personage. ca 1896/7. Among other things Colonel Nightingale was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Stirling.

stiff wraps. Facsimile Edition. Facs. edition, octavo, stiff wraps, b&w illus, pp xv, 219, i. Near fine condition. Facsimile edition of the unit history of the Western Australian battalion. Appendices include nominal rolls, roll of honour. (Note: although the title states Volume I, this is the only volume, complete in itself: planned subsequent books were never published.).

hardbound. Condition: Very Good. b&w photo illustrations/maps (illustrator). Facsimile Edition, limited to 200 copies (No. 20) of the 1922 first ed.; unit history (vol 1) of The 28th Australian Infantry Batallion in the First World War - Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, and Sinai Peninsula 1914-1919, by Colonel H.B. Collett (First C.O.) with foreword by The Archbishop of Perth; b&w photo illustrations, 4 fold-out maps; green cloth boards with gilt titling and unit colour patch (laminated white and blue lozenge with '28' in gilt) set in centre of front board, gilt titling to spine; stamped 20/200 to front endpaper, and with separate edition slip laid in; publisher's label to front pastedown; mild rubbing to gilt titling (foot of spine), o.w. Very Good clean copy no dustwrapper. 219pp. 8vo. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1983 (facsimile edition)]/ 1922. Octavo, xvi, 221 pages with 53 illustrations (from photographs) and 7 maps plus a large folding frontispiece and 3 folding maps; the errata slip tipped in on page 175 in the original edition is here printed at the foot of page 174. Synthetic cloth with the battalion colours mounted on the front cover; slight blemish near the foot of the front joint; an excellent copy. Number 176 of only 200 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 227 (giving 1983 as the date of this facsimile edition).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Limited Facsimile Edition. xv, 219pp, appendices, folding maps, bw ills. Or green cloth, no jacket as issued. Some of gilt titling worn off, some foxing to edges and endpapers, moderate foxing to maps and adjacent pages. Publishers label on front free endpapers with associated offset toning. #116 of an edition of 200 copies. This volume was the only one produced-plans for further volumes were never fulfilled. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Brisbane, A. Green, 2010 (facsimile edition)]/ 1922. Octavo, [ii] (limitation leaf), xvi, 221 pages with 53 illustrations (from photographs) and 7 maps and plans plus a large folding frontispiece and 3 folding maps. Quarter cloth and papered boards (with the battalion colour patch printed on the front cover); small ownership label on the front pastedown; a fine copy. Number 12 of 400 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 227.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, profusely illustrated throughout, with 3 folding maps and a folding frontispiece; original cloth. A very good copy. We will advise postage costs and delivery times, which will vary from those quoted by Abe.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Volume 1 details Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemos Island and Sinai peninsula. Minor wear to edges of dust jack, spine is tanned. Wear marks to edges of cover, some loss (color only). Inscription inside front cover. Includes frontis piece and fold out maps. Internally an exceptionally clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Perth, Trustees of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1922. Octavo, xvi, 221 pages with 53 illustrations (from photographs) and 7 maps and plans plus a large folding frontispiece and 3 folding maps and an errata slip (tipped in on page 175). Olive cloth (with the battalion colour patch - white over blue - printed on the front panel) slightly marked and flecked; spine a little sunned, with slight wear to the ends; flyleaves offset; tear along one fold in the frontispiece neatly sealed (albeit with clear tape on the verso); small light blemish to the bottom margin of one panel of the frontispiece and the first four leaves (a drop of water was the culprit); trifling signs of age and use; overall, an excellent copy. Colonel Herbert Collett was the first Commanding Officer of the 28th Battalion. The last leaf (verso blank) is a 'Compiler's Note' which goes a long way to explaining why no other volume was published. It states in part that 'For the second volume a good deal of material is already in hand, but success cannot be ensured unless ex-members will co-operate with the 28th Battalion Association Committee and the Compiler'. Dornbusch 383; Fielding and O'Neill, page 228; Trigellis-Smith 227.

Boards. 1st edition. 8vo, original green cloth boards (stamped in gilt and with the colours of the 28th), folding b&w photographic frontis plate, b&w plates, folding maps, b&w text illus, pp xv, 221. Spotting to boards, particularly to spine. Offsetting to endpapers. Small closed tear to the edge of the largest folding map (the the Australian Sector at the Gallipoli Peninsula). Very good condition. The history of the Western Australian battalion. Includes nominal rolls, roll of honour. The scarce first edition. (Note: although the title states Volume I, this is the only volume, complete in itself: planned subsequent books were never published.).

HARDCOVER. The Trustees of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1922. First edition. A very good copy on the spine and top board and the battalions colour patch on the top board. The boards are unmarked apart from light shelf rubbing. The edges and endpapers are age tanned and there is light spotting on the edges. Apart from a previous owners details on the front free endpaper the contents are fine and undamaged. A superior copy. Scans available if required.

Boards. 1st edition. 8vo, original decorated cloth boards, b&w plates, folding maps, pp xv, 221. Some restoration to boards (old cloth over new to spine). Inscription and ink stamp of the 16th Battalion, stamp of bookseller. Occasional tick mark in margin, traces of tape marks, small closed tear to large folding map, professional repair to large folding map. Good copy of the very scarce first edition. History of the Western Australian battalion, from its formation through its service in the Middle East. (Complete in one volume.) Includes nominal rolls, roll of honour.

Boards. 1st edition. 1st ed., pp.xv, 221, orig cl. bds., cocked, fading to upper front bd, cnrs bumped, stamped in gilt and with the colours of the 28th, folding b&w photographic frontis plate, b&w plates, folding maps, small closed tear to the edge of the largest folding map (the Australian Sector at the Gallipoli Peninsula) and pp.61 & 63, offsetting to endpapers, gd condition. The history of the Western Australian battalion. Includes nominal rolls, roll of honour. The scarce first edition. (Note: although the title states Volume I, this is the only volume, complete in itself: planned subsequent books were never published.).

Perth: The Trustees of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1922. (Facs. Edition Swanbourne: John Burridge, 1983). 8vo. Orig. green cloth with gilt and illust. (xvi, 222pp.). With fold. frontisp., illusts. and 3 fold. maps. Limited edition of 200 copies, this being No. 114. Fine. NOTE: Despite being planned as the first in a set, Volume 1 was the only one produced.