J M Craster (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in good condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition. If the condition is critical to your decision to purchase, then please contact us and we will let you know our view of its condition. If the book is very heavy, we will may need to contact you before completion of purchase to advise you of extra postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, light bumps to spine ends and bottom corners, light toning to pages, otherwise a VG+ copy in like, price-clipped dustjacket which is slightly loose-fitting at the rear fold.

4pp, 4 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC,

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 186 pp. I can find no flaws in this book, it is in pristine condition. The dust jacket has a clear protective jacket covering and protecting it. All pages and illustrations are present and correct. This is an account of the Grenadier Guards in the Great War. The title 15 rounds a minute refers to the requirement for a trained soldier being able to fire fifteen aimed rounds a minute with the bolt-action Lee Enfield Mk 1, .303 calibre. The magazine only holds 10 rounds, so this was high skill. At Mons, when the German invaders faced regular troops, they thought that the had multiple machine gins, such was the rate of fire, instead of the actual allocation which was 2 per battalion. All my books are scanned so you can see what you are buying, and my pricing is inclusive of UK postage and packing. There is an additional cost for overseas postage.

Hb in Dw 186pp illustrations sketch maps Edited from the diaries of Major "Ma" Jeffreys and others A Vg/Vg copy.

Hb In Dw 186pp 14Illustrations and 8 Maps. The Diaries and Letters Of Major "Ma"Jeffreys and Others , Mons , The Aisne , Ypres. A Vg/Vg Copy.

Printed Green Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. A 7pp reprint from The History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club Vol xxviii, pp 248-253 presented in Printed green wrappers which are a little curled to the corners. Otherwise in good condition.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 25 pages, 8 figures, 1 plate, 1 fold-out plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Antiquities of Wales & its Marches; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. "Edited from the Diaries and Letters of Major 'Ma' Jeffreys and Others"; apparently a reprint of an edition published by Macmillan in 1976; printed in Great Britain; light brown cloth with gilt spine lettering; some crimping and nicks to top edges of dust jacket; fifteen random "dog-eared" pages have been straightened but will show creases; pages otherwise clean and unmarked; dust jacket price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14.5cm, × + 186pp. Signed and dedicated by J M Craster to historian, author and anthologist Ann Powell. To many, the First World War conjures up exclusively a picture of trench warfare, in which the armies of both sides remained locked in the mud and despair of their static positions. The war of movement with which the conflict opened and closed is less well remembered. This book, originally published in 1976, is an attempt to correct that situation, by providing a detailed daily account of the actions of one of the finest of the battalions of the original British Expeditionary Force that crossed over to France in the summer of 1914, the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards - The Models.The story is told in the words of the officers of the Battalion, few of whom survived the war, taken from their diaries and letters, and covers all the major actions of the first five months of the War - Mons and the Retreat, the Marne, the Aisne, culminating in the dark and desperate days of First Ypres. By the end of that battle the Battalion had lost 959 men killed, wounded and missing - practically its entire strength. for the most part the story is told by Major 'Ma' Jeffreys, later General the Lord Jeffreys, whose diaries, supplemented on occasion by the diaries and letters of some of his brother officers and others, provide a very complete, graphic and deeply moving picture of those turbulent days as seen by an ordinary regimental officer of the old school. Condition: The book is in good solid condition, but with some tanning to the pages' top edge. The dustwrapper has a little minor wear but is also very good. Signed by Author(s).

8vo., Second Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1976; now scarce in its own right.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First Edition. Edited from the diaries and letters of Major 'Ma' Jeffreys and others. Pp. x+186, 8 plates, 8 full page text maps, biographical index; demy 8vo; tan papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly browned and foxed, edges worn, with some splits at head and tail of backstrip, front flap marked; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers offset, some light foxing; Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1976. First edition. *With relevant newscutting loosely inserted.

Edited from the diaries and letters of Major 'Ma' Jeffreys and others. Foreword by Evelyn Webb-Carter. Pp. [xiv]+186, 8 plates, 8 full page text maps, biographical index; med. 8vo; black papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, lower edge of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, South Yorkshire 2012. Reprinted.