Field Marshal Earl Wavell (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stapled pamphlet 24. Printed paper covers with a few tiny edge tears. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth, lettered in dark blue. Cover cloth lightened toward edges and along spine panel, text block edges typically foxed/tanned by age. Firm binding. 1st ed. 344 pp. Color illus. dust jacket G-VG, tanned along spine panel and flap folds, modest soiling to rear panel, loss to 3/4" deep at head of spine panel, a few closed tears, now in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Eric Fraser (illustrator). Book.…

stapled paperback, 8vo, 22,(1)pp, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, covers browned and foxed, strating to split at lower spine, Good condition, fragile.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd edition, 11th printing. Red cloth with gold titles to spine, in dust-jacket. 152 x 223 x 28mm. 252pp. Maps within text, plus fold-out maps inside rear cover; index. Jacket soiled with some edgewear, including loss at spine-ends and tape repairs to underside; book cover largely clean though slightly bumped at corners; two officers' mess stamps and ink inscription to front endpapers; pages slightly age-browned but contents otherwise virtually as new. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back publisher's original scarlet buckram cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 8½" x 5¾" 96 pp. Monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy paper. Nr. Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with general light soiling to ivory paper covers, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back original publisher's brick red cloth covers, black stamping. 8vo. 4¾" x 7¼" 220 pp + appendix. Seven halftone illustrations, six maps, produced on war economy paper. To a sergeant of the black watch, small, active, tireless, and courageous, recalling for a young soldier the figure of Alan Breck Stewart, on the black night of a German raid in the trenches at Ypres. In Very Good clean and tidy condition, spine not faded, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Fontana Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 252pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (22/2).

8vo. 174pp. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Previous owner's name. A very good copy.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 13x19cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ is age toned, has some light wear and is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Book text block edges are lightly foxed. Previous owner's signature to front free endaper. Still quite a nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 215 pages. A selection of essays, lectures and articles.…

Condition: fair to good. 22, wraps, ink notations on front cover, entire document folded in half, covers worn and soiled, small tear in front cover. In this address to the Virgil Society, Field-Marshal Earl Wavell argues that Aeneas was quite an effective if rather pedestrian general.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Fading to spine. Light crease to spine. Lacking the dust-jacket.; vii, [1], 215, [1 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 121mm. "Practically all the articles collecte here were written between the two Great Wars, between 1926 and 1938; a few were written during the late war. Nearly all have been previously published, in newspapers of military journals." - from the Preface, page v. Contents are arranged in five parts: Good Soldiers; Two Unorthodox Soldiers; In Praise of Infantry; Training for War; Organisation of Armies.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Good Soldier, Field Marshal Earl WavellPublished by Macmillan & co Ltd., London, 1948, first edition215 pages, hardbackThis book, by one of the UKs greatest soldiers and generals, comprises of a variety of essays and articles on military matters. The book deals with the qualities necessary to make a good soldier.Part 2 is devoted to biographical details of unorthodox soliders, eg. TE LawrencePart 3 concerns the infantry Part 4 concerns trainingConcluding essay written in 1930 anticipates many of the problems of WW2.The books will appeal to anyone interested in the military and the general reader in view of the distinguished career of the author.The book is in good condition for its age a.…

3rd ed. orig. cloth Very Good octavo xvi + 252pp., fldg. maps & plans, appends., bibliog., index, Campaigns & their Lessons series. Covers Defence of the Suez Canal, Crossing the Sinai, Third Battle of Gaza, Taking of Jerusalem, the Final Offensive & the Pursuit to Damascus & Aleppo. Cloth a little worn o/w VG.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Soldiers and Soldiering or Epithets of War - First editionIncludes essays previously published in The Good Soldier and Speaking GenerallyPlease note the dust cover is faded and shelf worn with many minor tears along edgesalso is clipped inside front cover There is light foxing on frontispiece and back inside board.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Third Edition / Twelfth Print. Hardback copy in red cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket (18s net) in new removable protective clear sleeve (dustjacket states 'Fourteenth Printing'). 259pp. Includes 20 maps (16 b/w within text, 4 coloured fold-out to rear). Not library copy, no inscriptions, some wear to dustjacket edges, with few marks. (23/1). …

3rd edition dust jacket Fine octavo xvi + 252pp., fldg. maps & plans, appends., bibliog., index, Campaigns & their Lessons series. Covers Defence of the Suez Canal, Crossing the Sinai, Third Battle of Gaza, Taking of Jerusalem, the Final Offensive & the Pursuit to Damascus & Aleppo. One Army stamp o/w nice copy.…

3rd edition dust jacket Very Nice Copy octavo xvi + 252pp., fldg. maps & plans, appends., bibliog., index, Campaigns & their Lessons series. Covers Defence of the Suez Canal, Crossing the Sinai, Third Battle of Gaza, Taking of Jerusalem, the Final Offensive & the Pursuit to Damascus & Aleppo. One Army stamp o/w nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 1953. First edition, first printing. Near fine book in a like jacket. Little sunned to jacket. A few foxing spots to top edges. Very slight rubbing and fading to spine ends. Name to front end paper. Else, tight unmarked to text pages. A Beautiful first edition book. 174 pp. …

Small 4to. 2 pp. To Lady Waverley, wife of the British politician John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley: "I did so enjoy that stupendous opera on Wednesday & I send you my most grateful thanks. I hadn't heard Götterdämmerung for ages & had forgotten some of its surpassing greatness - so thank you again & again. - I am off to Kent for 5 weeks on Monday to guard Granddchildren while my girl is in Cyprus [.]". - On headed paper of the "International Sportsmen's Club; strongly stained on right margin.…

Single sheet, a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Wavell' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the soldier's keen and continuing interest in the sport. It is noteworthy that Wavell was particularly proud of his membership of the MCC at Lords. The letter declines Moore's invitation to attend the annual dinner, but carries Wavell's best wishes for the Club for the coming year during which he hopes to see tham in action. Field-Marshal Earl Wavell (1883-1950) was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished soldiers. Following considerable success against the Italians in North Africa, his career reached its peak with his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific, ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) Command in 1942 and subsequently as an outstanding Viceroy and Governor General of India from 1943-1947. He was recognised also as a scholar, compiling the well-known anthology of poetry 'Other Mens's Flowers' (1944). The bulk of Wavell's papers are now housed in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, London. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY WAVELL ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.…

Single sheet, a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Wavell' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the soldier's keen and continuing interest in the sport. It is noteworthy that Wavell was particularly proud of his membership of the MCC at Lords. The letter confirms that Wavell will propose the toast at the Buccaneers' annual dinner (held at Lords). Field-Marshal Earl Wavell (1883-1950) was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished British soldiers. Following considerable success against the Italians in North Africa, his career reached its peak with his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific, ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) Command in 1942 and subsequently as an outstanding Viceroy and Governor General of India from 1943-1947. He was recognised also as a scholar, compiling the well-known anthology of poetry 'Other Mens's Flowers' (1944). The bulk of Wavell's papers are now housed in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, London. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays as an away team relying on the hospitality of the home clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY WAVELL ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.…