Major General Sir C E Callwell (36 results)

Condition: Good. 1927. First Edition. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Green and black cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering has become dull. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Board corners are bumped.…

Condition: Good. 1920. No Edition Remarks. 339 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Rough-cut pages. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and staining to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft splitting and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No D/J. Second Impression. Volume 2 only. Some spotting to page edges. Stain/Marks to boards and spine. No D/J.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No D/J. Previous owners inscription to ffep and front paste down. fading to spine. Minor marks to boards. Corners a little bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1919, Hardcover. Poor. No Dust Jacket. Ex-Library with standard markings. Spine is frayed. Contents complete. 361p.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition first edition vintage book, near-antique. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Includes a dust jacket with a little wear and tearing. The contents have foxed edges and are otherwise generally fine for their age. …

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1919 Hardcover, first edition. Ex-Library. Text is clean. Binding is strong. Inside hinge paper is partly cracked. 8 maps. Dark blue linen cover with stamped borders, lightly rubbed corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two volumes. Corners are bumped a bit with modest wear, some very light spots of silverfishing along edges, faint crease to spine, some foxing to outside edges of textblock. otherwise a nice copy, clean and attractive, with good color, bright gilt, solid binding, clean pages. Near very good.…

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth with gilt armorial. Vol I has inscription on FFE and notes writte on front pastedown. Crack in front hinge and frontis loose and laid in. Some foxing through prelims, but text clean. Volume II has notes on FFEs, some foxing through early pages, and occasional pencil underlining through text. Scarce in two volume set.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 2 volumes of the life and diaries ovf Field Marshall Wilson from the African Wars to the Great war both volumes in fine cond.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket Issued. Complete in two volumes, includes 8 plates. I-xiii+364pp, II-vii+390pp. Half bound black and green cloth boards with bumped corners and spotting and faded to spine. Ex-garrison library (Blackdown) with stamps on many pages, light foxing to title page. Rubbing to boards with scuffing to corners. Additional postage required due to weight. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. SOME FADING TO THE RED CLOTHBOARDS.

DECORATED HARD COVER. Condition: Very Good. SECOND IMPRESSION. 2 VOLUMES, SECOND IMPRESSION, SAME MONTH AND YEAR AS 1ST. BOTH VOLS HAVE 1/4 BLACK CLOTH THAT COVERS SPINE AND SOME OF THE BOARDS, THE REST BEING GREEN CLOTH WITH ARMORIAL GOLD GILT EMBLEMS. THE TITLES AND LETTERING ARE GOLD GILT ON SPINE. VOL 1 HAS SOME STAINING TO THE BOARDS, A SMALL CHUCK ON THE TOP OF THE BACK BOARD. SLIGHT BUMPING AND WEAR TO CORNERS AND SOME FRAYING TO BOTTOM OF SPINE.INSIDES RATE VERY GOOD, WITH NO MARKINGS OF ANY KIND. CONTAINS 8 PLATES INCL FRONTIS. TIGHT BINDING, CLEAN PAGES. 364 PAGES. VOL . 2 IS IN SUPERB COND. WITH ONLY A TINY STAIN ON THE FRONT BOARD AND MINOR WEAR TO CORNERS. INSIDES IN EXCELLENT COND AND ALSO CONTAINS 8 PLATES. 389 pages. INTODUCTION BY THE NOTED FRENCH MARECHAL FOCH. THIS IS A REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN UNDERATED AND VERY COMPETENT BRITISH GENERAL IN W.W. 1. MUCH OF THE INFO COMES FROM HIS OWN WELL WRITTEN DIARIES UP TO HIS TRAGIC ASSASINATION. BEGINS IN HIS YOUTH AND GOES THROUGH HIS UNIQUE EXPERIENCES AND BRILLIANT LEADERSHIP DURING THE BOER WAR. RELATES HIS MISSION TO RUSSIA AND HIS EXPERIENCES AND EXPLOITS IN W.W. 1. THE SUPREME WAR COUNCIL. HIS LIFE AFTER THE WAR , INCLUDING HIS DAYS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND FINALLY HIS DEATH. 2 VOLUMES ON A MOST INTERESTING BRITISH GENERAL. BECAUSE OF THE WEIGHT, SHIPPING WILL BE A LITTLE MORE DEPENDING ON LOCATION AND PREFERED METHOD OF SHIPPING. THANKS .…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Books measure 24x17cm, (VOL1, 363pp) (VOL2, 389PP) . Bound in original publishers cloth, with giltitle lettering. Binding in near fine condition. Internally, pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, 1920. Some dustiness and light foxing to uncut page edges. Some light foxing in places throughout. Publishers red cloth heavily marked and rubbed, spine darkened. Still holding together well. Externally poor copy. Frontispiece. (illustrator). …

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. EXPERIENCES OF A DUG-OUT 1914-1918 Major General Sir C. E. Callwell K.C.B. Constable & Co, London 1920 First edition 340pp Hardback Charles Callwell (1859 - 1928) was a military officer and writer. He was the director of military operations at the War Office. His memoirs from this period include: his work with Lord Kitchener, the Dardanelles, his experiences in the War Office. This copy is in original red linen covered boards with blind stamping front and rear and sun dulled gilt titling to the spine. There are some fox spots to the uncut page edges but this does not encroach upon the page. Ref D5.…

1st Edition. Hb original maroon cloth gilt titles to spine 339pp frontispiece . Service in The Near East , Gallipoli and The Mission to Russia . A lightly worn copy in Vg condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good slipcase. First Edition. Near fine in original dark green cloth-covered boards and housed in the original slipcase, which is sunned and has a spearation along one joint. Bound up from the original English sheets with the Scribner imprint.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition hardback, large 8vo, 2 vols, xiv,364;viii,390pp, illustrated, flyleaf in v.1 cropped, page edges browning, text clean and sound, green and black cloth gilt, corners rubbed, minor stain on v.2 front board, Good condition / no dustwrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. No dust jacket, the cover is marked and faded a little; pages well bound and clean inside.

Condition: Very good. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition (no dust jacket). Top, bottom of spine rubbed, corners bumped especially in volume one). Former owner's bookplate on front inner cover of volume one. Internally clean and tight. Two volumes with gilt spine lettering and gilt decoration on the front covers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A nice two volume set in green cloth with spinal gilt titles. THe whole as a pair show modest shelf and edge/corner wear, but are tightly bound and clean throughout.

Spines a bit faded and a bit cocked. Very good. Two volumes. With eight plates. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cassell. London, 1927. Hard cover, Embossed gilt titles, Green boards. Book condition : Very good, clean text, B/W photographs. Heavy books may incur extra postage. Mild browning page edges, pages.Books will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #A017524. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Some fraying to cloth at head and tail of spine. 4mm loss of cloth at tail of spine. Fading to spine. Previous owner's signature "G A Pallin / Major F. A."; 1924 second US edition (the first edition was 1919). xiii, [3], 361, [1 (blank)] pages. 8 maps on 7 leaves within the pagination. (Map VIII is a small inset map on the same page as Map VII; Map I also has 2 small inset unnumbered maps.) Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 220 x 142mm. Military history, World War One. Contents: The Initiation of the Campaign; The Naval Attempt to Force the Dardanelles; The Organisation of the Military Expedition; The Military Problem Presented by the Dardanelles; The Landing; The Consolidation at Helles and Anzac; The General Strategical Situation Produced by the Landings; The First Three Months at Helles; The First Three Months at Anzac; Possibilities of Success; The Great Effort of Early August; The Close of the August Offensive; The Three Autumn Months; The Evauation of Anzac and Suvla; The Evacuation of Helles; Some Outstanding Lessons of the Campaign; Appendices. Series title: "Campaigns and Their Lessons".…

3rd imp. orig. dec. cloth Very Good octavo xiii + 364, vii + 390pp., frontis. (2), b/w pls., index, The Life & Diaries of one of the most innovative Commanders of WWI. Inc his service in Egypt & the Boer War. Cloth rather spotted o/w a nice tight, clean set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 2nd Impression. Each volume with 8 plates, preface by Marshal Foch, supreme commander of the Alllied Armies in France from 1918 to war's end, previous owners bookplate on front pastedown endpaper of each volume, dustjackets have large chips from top and bottom of spines but are now protected and present well, overall a very good set. ; 240 x 165mm; xiv, 364 - viii, 390 pages.…