Gordon Highlanders by Christopher Sinclair Stevenson (36 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Dust Jacket. 133 pp. Tightly bound. Two corners lightly bumped. Text is free of markings. Owner's 1/4" x 1/2" name tag at top right corner front end paper. Light foxing to page edges. Good dust jacket. Jacket not price clipped. The primarily white dust jacket shows light soiling from age and use. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. DJ with some edge wear, tears and age tone.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dust Jacket is in near-fine condition, without tears or chips. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; Scotland; ISBN: 0850520215. ISBN/EAN: 9780850520217. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 24475.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second printing. 6 x 8 in. Paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; no wear, very clean. Binding tght and text unmarked. Mil. Stax.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Book and price-clipped dust jacket are in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Some age-toning to the jacket's edges. Historic illustrations and photos throughout spanning over two centuries of rich Scottish military regimental history. 8vo. 133 pp. Including index. In protective Mylar.…

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). First. Illustrated with black and white plates throughout. xiii + 177 pages. 8vo, green boards with spine lettered in gilt, d.w. London: Leo Cooper, 1974. First edition. Strip of tanning on front and back endpapers; creasing on front endpaper, otherwise near fine in very good + dust wrapper.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. (Great Britain, Army, Gordon Highlanders).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leo Cooper Ltd 1969 reprint. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good clean copy with just a tiny hint of foxing to the closed page edges.

Condition: Good. 1968. First Edition. 133 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Green boards clean and bright. Protected illustrated dustjacket in very good condition with mild age toning. B & W illustrations. Book is firm in binding, free of any markings, not ex-library. ; Famous Regiments; B&W Illustrations; 133 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A very good to near fine hardcover copy in a good to very good dustcover. Some light shelf wear and a price clipping to the dustcover. Some very slight toning to the upper page ends, otherwise fine. Please see photos.

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Leo Cooper (London) 1968, first printing, 133 pp, photos, illus, good, DJ (rubbing, closed tear to upper extremity, missing tiny pieces to same, rubbing).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: slightly edge-worn and a little darkened, even so still showing well. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.…

First Edition. The 6th volume of the history of this famous Scottish regiment. A little foxing to edges of text block otherwise VG in Good+ jacket which is worn to the edges.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good reading condition used 1969 Reprinted Edition Hardback with intact Dust Jacket. Published by Leo Cooper Ltd, London. Author: Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson. Edited by Lt-General Sir Brian Horrocks. ISBN: 0850520215. Approx dims: 220mm h x 145mm w x 12mm d. Intact sunned condition dust jacket with slight fraying to bottom left corner back cover, slight creasing to edges, slight rubbing and some signs of handling. Intact sunned and slightly creased spine. DJ over very good condition green cloth boards. 133 clean, slightly off white pages of English text with some b&w illustrations. Previous owner has made black ink lines to 5 or 6 pages to highlight some paragraphs of interest, no other inscriptions. Slight sunning to page ends. Image shown is actual book for sale. Synopsis: The Gordon Highlanders were raised as the 100th Regiment of Foot by the Duke of Gordon in 1794, expressly to fight in the war against Republican France, and they have been fighting ever since.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. With 20 photographic illustrations. 2 maps, appendices, index. Includes service in Malaya, Cyprus, Kenya, Borneo etc. ; 240 x 160mm; xiii, 177 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 133, [4] pages. Illustrations. Music. Chronology. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Some pages creased at bottom. Includes a 'Special Introduction" by Lt.-General Brian Horrocks. This is one of the Famous Regiments series edited by Horrocks. Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson became an editor at Hamish Hamilton in 1961. Thirteen years later in 1974 he became managing director. In 1989 he resigned and set up. Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd which was subsumed into the Random House Group in February 1997 with the purchase of the Reed Consumer Trade Division. Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC (7 September 1895 - 4 January 1985) was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the World War II. He served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War, was taken prisoner twice, and competed in the 1924 Paris Olympics. The Gordon Highlanders was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed for 113 years, from 1881 until 1994, when it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Highlanders to form the Highlanders. The regiment was formed on 1 July 1881 instigated under the Childers Reforms. The new two-battalion regiment was formed out of the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot-which became the 1st Battalion of the new regiment-and the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, which became the 2nd Battalion. The 1st battalion fought at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir in September 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War, and then took part in the Nile Expedition in an attempt to relieve Major-General Charles Gordon during the Mahdist War. The 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders was a Regular Army battalion that served originally with the 2nd Infantry Brigade, part of the 1st Infantry Division, and was sent to France in September 1939, shortly after the declaration of war, as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF): it remained there until May 1940.…

First Edition. The 6th volume of the history of this famous Scottish regiment. VG in Good+ jacket which is worn to the edges.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN.

First Edition. The 6th volume of the history of this famous Scottish regiment. VG in VG- price-clipped jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 133pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, in the white illustrative dust wrapper. A little edge worn with a few light markings. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.

First Edition. Famous Regiments series. 2nd impression. Dustjacket age toned and marked otherwise VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. binding tight, no markings, small stain on front DJ. S3 2. Photos,Drawings (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published by Leo Cooper Ltd in 1974, here is the first hardback printing of Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson's The Life of a Regiment: The History of the Gordon Highlanders. 177 pages, photos/illustrations throughout, green cloth binding, gilt spine lettering, silver regiment badge to the front cover, the book is in very good condition with some browning throughout. The dust jacket is good with some general rubbing to the edges, some creasing to the rear and a single closed tear approximately 15 mm in length to the top edge.…

First Edition. Famous Regiments series. Softcovers. Owner's inscription to front endpaper and his stamp to rear inside cover. Covers age toned otherwise VG.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. VG- DW. 1st Edition. AN EX LIBRARY BOOK with typical library marks. Else Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.