Sir Alfred E Turner (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. 1st Edition. Autobiography of a career soldier of the latter nineteenth century who became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artiller. Includes b/w portrait frontispiece and a facsimile letter. 350, 30pp. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. 2.5cm cut to lower spine cloth Uneven fade to lower board.…

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book, first edition, 350 pages, no dustjacket. The Life of Major-General Sir Alfred E Turner Colonel Commandant , Royal Artillery. including details of his career in Ireland, The National League, The Soudan and the death of Gordon, Khartum, and the Home office. A Very Good copy with some small marks to front cover and spine slightly dulled and sunned. Pictures available.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. red cloth cover with gilt lettering on front and spine. portrait frontis with tissue guard, Includes a facsimile letter, There is brown spotting on page edges and end pages, otherwise a clean copy except for price notations on inside cover. 350 pages including index. There is 30 pages of a selection of books published by Methuen and Co. Ltd. dated July 1912 at back.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. much on the Sudan Campaign and Ireland; Binding: Orig. red cloth; Condition notes: Some light foxing to prelims. Inscribed and signed by the author to Mrs Miriam Block, Good; Illustrations: Frontis.; Pages: xii + 350 + Ads.; Edition/printing: 1st. signed and inscribed by author or artist.…

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, aging, damage to second leaf without affecting the text and signs of having been tipped onto another surface. Text: "I am dsired by his Excellency Lord Spencer to aknowledge the receipt of your letter, and of the copy of the Hand book on Irish Lace [see note below: Irish lace : a history of the industry] for which I am to express His Excellency's thanks to you. | Their Excellencies take a deep interest in the wefare of the work in which you are supplying so much skill and energy to promote the manufacture and improvement of Irish Lace, and you have their best wishes for the success of your exertions [.]". Note: A. At this time, Turner was aide de camp and military private secretary to Earl Spencer, the Viceroy of Ireland; B. Biddle , C. H. - Mansion house exhibition , 1883. Irish lace : a history of the industry with illustrations and a map . (Signed at the end by Ben Lindsey and C. H. Biddle) London, (1883).…