Slack Major James (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Slack, Major James. History of the 63rd (West Suffolk) regiment. London: Army and Navy Co-Operative Society, 1884. Hardback, Good. Blue cloth, bumped to corners, with miscellanous small marks. Front cover decorated with gilt fleur-de-lys and red lettering; red lettering also to spine. Binding generally strong, but pp. xv-xvi detached but intact (frayed to edges). Grey endpapers. Title page has a label half-stuck over the publisher details, detailing a change in price. Index (pp. ix-xvi) at the start of the book, followe dby pasted-in errata slip. Edges of page block stained red. 263pp., contents clean and bright. The 63rd Regiment of Foot was a British Army regiment raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms, it amalgamated with the 96th Regiment of Foot to form the Manchester Regiment in 1881. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

A very good first edition in the original cloth binding. 8vo. pp.263/[2pp. - Erratum. 8.5" x 5.75" x 0.75". Dark green cloth. Titles in red to both the spine and front board. Spine with old paper library reference number. front board with gilt fleur-de-lys. Red page edges. Original brown endpapers. Presentation label to front endpaper: "Presented by Lt. Colonel B. L. Anstruther and Officers of the 1st Bn. Manchester Regiment, to The Captain , Officers, and Yeoman of H. M. Royal Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard. Dated 25th October 1885." Clean text througohut. VG.

First edition, 8vo, xvi, 263, [1]pp., author's presentation inscription to title page, tape to inner hinges, cont. half calf, joints cracked, spine worn.