Russell William Howard Edited Introduced (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spine has some heavy chipping, and light fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Thus. 268 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ black cloth spine. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed. Light natural toning to front endpapers. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. Scattered foxing. Illust. w/ 9 b/w plates. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 268 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ black cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed w/ wear to extremities. Spine a bit sunned. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. ***Dustwrapper design by Francis Minns. ***Edited by and with a five-page introduction by Nicolas Bentley. ***Sixteen black and white illustrations plus four text maps. ***Near fine in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Top edge of text-block stained grey (as called for). Head and tail of spine very slightly bumped. No inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. Spine tight. In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 50s net. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper rubbed and creased. Very small closed tear to top of rear panel of dustwrapper. No fading to the red titles to spine and front panel of dustwrapper. Front and rear panels and spine of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***287 pages including index to rear. 242 x 156 mm. ***'William Howard Russell's despatches covering the Crimean War are one of the classics of war reporting as well as being a mine of source material for historians. More than this; they are in a great tradition of journalism, for it was through their publication in The Times that the British public was eventually made aware of the mismanagement of the army and the terrible conditions to which the troops were subjected during the Crimean winter. ***In editing Russell's Journal, Mr Bentley has omitted certain material which does not bear directly on the conduct of the war and, where necessary, has inserted brief linking passages. The result is a day-to-day, eyewitness account of the campaign from the first sailing of the expedition to the final surrender of Sebastopol and the armistice. Russell witnessed the battles of Alma, Inkerman, Balaklava and the Tchernaya; he saw the charge of the Light Brigade and the carnage at the Malakoff and the Redan. His descriptions are graphic, and despite the intervening years the idiom still seems extraordinarily modern.' ***(Quote from inside of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition, of interest to military historians researching The Crimean War. Uncommon to find in such nice, bright collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.