Wigmore Lionel Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover, gray cloth lettered in gold, in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 317pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs, color frontispiece and pictorial endpapers. First edition. Brief biographies of the circumstances surronding the winning of the Victoria Cross and George Cross by members of the Austrailian armed forces from 1900 to 1960. Typed letter from old comrade in arms [from Australia] laid-in. Addressed to friend in USA and mentions Lord Montgomery to attend the next re-union of the 9th Division to be held in Sydney, October, 1968. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket in reinforced mylar covers. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Dust jacket is encased in protective casing but has been damged at spine. Interior and binding are excellent. Please see images for more information.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. An Adventure in Asian and Australian Writing:Seventy-Two writers in a Dozen Countries.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. xv, 317pp, coloured frontis and coloured plate of the Victoria Cross and the George Cross, b/w portraits of recipients, maps and sketch maps, appendices, index to Australian V.C. and G.C. winners, pictorial end-papers. Title page foxed. Decorative cloth boards, gilt, in worn dust-jacket which has two tears (one 6 cm, one 2 cm) from the upper edge and the loss of a triangular section from the lower edge of its front panel. The book contains accounts of the military careers of the Australian holders of the Victoria Cross and the George Cross and histories of the two decorations. The connecting narrative is a history of Australian participation in the South African War and the two World Wars, and points to the influence of those wars upon the Australian defence system. Size: Large 8vo.…

Second edition revised and condensed by Jeff Williams and Anthony Staunton. Pp. [xvi] 192(last blank), mostly printed double column, text illustrations (some full page), coloured pictorial endpapers, appendices, index of Victoria Cross winners; tall demy 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, tiny surface chip at head of backstrip; Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1986. Second edition. *Originally published in 1963. Contains biographies of all Australians who have won the Victoria Cross.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition (1963) . Book and unclipped dust jacket are in fine, As New, gift-giving condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. One small closed tear to jacket. Book discusses Australian participation in the South African War, World War I, and World War II. Map and photo illustrations. Large 8vo. 317 pp. Including index. In protective Mylar.…

First Edition. Edited for the Board of Management of the Australian War Memorial. Pp. [xvi]+318(last blank), coloured frontispiece, plus 1 coloured and 37 black & white plates, pictorial endpapers, text maps, appendices, index; super roy. 8vo; dust wrapper, 8 cm. closed tear from bottom edge into front panel (tape repaired on reverse), reverse of wrapper lightly marked; edges of leaves slightly browned; Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1963. First edition.…