Behind Lines by Nicholson (12 results)

Condition: Good. Small stamp on title-page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback copy in orange cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 337pp. Not library copy, name/date in ink to top corner of ffep, bookshop sticker to front dustjacket flap, light foxing to top page block. (45/6).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Second edition. "Behind the Lines first published in Great Britain 1939 by Jonathan Cape" and "This edition reproduces the original text complete and unabridged with the addition of a new introduction, chapter notes dramatis personae" stated. Fine hardback in fine unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Few if any signs of previous use.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New edition hardback in the Fourteen-Eighteen Collection series with an introduction and chapter notes by series editor Peter T. Scott, 1989, in an unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotations or inscriptions; light spotting to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available. …

cloth, reprint, 337 pp, dustwrappers Minimal traces of use.

337 S., Opbd. mit Su., Umschlag etwas lichtverfärbt, gering bestossen. 35 Sprache: Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content age-toned, no markings, 320pp. Good unclipped DJ with some edge wear and toning, in removable protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Ed. 320pp, smaller octavo hardcover in dj. three mild soil spots to front board, light lean to book when flat, binding remains solid, interior text clean. DJ covers chipped along edges, some loss at top dj spine and bottom front fore-edge corner, soiling to rear, in mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Impression. 320 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. White endpapers, with previous owner's name on front paste-down endpaper. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn. VG/- -. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 320 pages (complete). A benign copy of this unusual memoir from the Great War: that of the administrative staff. The dustjacket has a clear cellophane protective cover. The dj itself has wear, sunning, scuffing, marks all about. It is secure and comfortable. The boards are passive. They have some shelving wear to the edges and corners. They are otherwise healthy, sound. The contents are gratifyingly assured. The frontispage has a blank label affixed, the pastedown has annotations. The first chapter page has a previous owner signature. Otherwise, the contents are clean, clear, convivial, certain, affable, amenable, agreeable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a special and rare copy having been signed by the author Colonel Nicholson and being the copy he personally presented to the officers of the 2nd Bn. The Suffolk Regiment on 9th February, 1939. Signed by Author(s).

8vo., Second Impression, some occasional marginal annotation in pencil, fore-edges lightly spotted; original blue cloth, cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded, joints very lightly rubbed at head and tail of backstrip else a very good, sound copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned, creased and rubbed at edges. Published in the same year as the first edition. One of the few first-hand accounts of the administration by the British Army of its forces in the field during WWI. The author served successively with the 51st [Territorial] Division and the 17th [New Army] Division before taking up positions at Corps and General Headquarters levels. His insights are shrewd and sympathetic; an important contribution to the literature of the Western Front. Very scarce, especially in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.395.…