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Purnell's History of the World Wars. Special. Weapons of the 1973 Israeli Arab War. Edited by S. L. Meyer and Bernard Fitzsimons. NEAR FINE COPY

HISTORY OF THE WORLD WARS · 0 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

BPC Publishing [and] Phoebus, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The Purnell 'Specials' were issued as companion volumes in parallel with the main issues of the Histories of the First and ...

Purnell's History of the World Wars. Special. The First War Planes. Edited by Andrew Kershaw. NEAR FINE COPY

HISTORY OF THE WORLD WARS · 0 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

BPC Publishing [and] Phoebus, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The Purnell 'Specials' were issued as companion volumes in parallel with the main issues of the Histories of the First and ...

Purnell's History of the World Wars. Special. Heraldry of War. Medals, Badges and Uniforms. Edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. NEAR FINE COPY

HISTORY OF THE WORLD WARS · 0 · Island Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

BPC Publishing [and] Phoebus, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The Purnell 'Specials' were issued as companion volumes in parallel with the main issues of the Histories of the First and ...

A Bridge too Far. IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO

RYAN Cornelius · 0 · Island Books

£645.00 (€773.13 | $852.14 | ¥136,032)

Hamish Hamilton, [1974]. 8vo., First Edition, with 71 plates on 32, 10 maps (6 double-page) in the text, and endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and rule...

The Tanks at Flers. An Account of the First Use of Tanks at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, the Somme, 15 Sept. 1916. FINE SET

PIDGEON Trevor · 0 · Island Books

£168.00 (€201.37 | $221.95 | ¥35,432)

[Fairmile Books, Cobham], [1995]. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, maps, diagrams and illustrations throughout, with 12 large-scale maps (coloured in outline) in second volume; original laminated boards, a fine set. Immensely detailed and surely de...

Stalingrad. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

BEEVOR Antony · 0 · Island Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

Viking, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Critically acclaimed study, with much vernacular material, of one of the most strategic...

Stalingrad. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

BEEVOR Antony · 0 · Island Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

Viking, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Critically acclaimed study, with much vernacular material, of one of the most strategically important battles in histo...

Stahlschutzhelme. The German Steel Combat Helmet 1915-1918. NEAR FINE COPY

LOCK Oliver · 2018 · Island Books

£96.00 (€115.07 | $126.83 | ¥20,247)

Military Mode, [Hitchin]. 2018. 8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.

Mein Kampf. Zwei Bande in einem Band. Erster Band: Eine Abrechnung. Zweiter Band: Die Nationalsozialistische Bewegung. 133-134 Auflage. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF EARLY GERMAN IMPRESSION

HITLER Adolf · 1935 · Island Books

£600.00 (€719.19 | $792.69 | ¥126,542)

Franz Eher, Munchen, 1935. 8vo., text in German, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, upper board framed in blind enclosing eagle and swastika motif in gilt, gilt back, blue top, ba...

AfrikaKorps 1941-1942. Tropical Artefacts of the German Forces in World War II. Volume 2. FINE COPY

BUNCH David · 2025 · Island Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

Military Mode, [Hitchin]. 2025. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.

The Great Escape. With Drawings by Ley Kenyon. IN FULL MOROCCO

BRICKHILL Paul · 0 · Island Books

£625.00 (€749.15 | $825.72 | ¥131,814)

Faber, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8, 6 illustrations and plans (5 full-page) and full-page map in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and l...

153rd Leicestershire Yeomanry Field Regiment R.A., T.A. 1939-1945. NEAR FINE COPY

BRASSEY] [Lt.Col. B.T. · 1947 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

W. Pickering, Hinckley, 1947. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps in the text, wanting front free endpaper; beige boards, upper board blocked with crest in gilt, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. SCARCE. White p.167.

Larkhill's Wartime Locators. The History of Twelve Artillery Survey Regiments (RA and IA) in the Second World War. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

MANGILLI-CLIMPSON Massimo · 0 · Island Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley], [2007]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, and very numerous maps and charts in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.

This Hallowed Ground. The Story of the Union Side of the American Civil War. [First Book Society Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

CATTON Bruce · 1957 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.16 | $34.35 | ¥5,483)

Gollancz [and] The Book Society, 1957. 8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

David Stirling. The Authorised Biography of the Founder of the SAS. [With a Foreword by General Sir Peter de la Billiere.] THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

HOE Alan · 0 · Island Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

Little Brown & Co., [1992]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE.

Feldzug 1918. The Uniforms, Headdress and Equipment of the German Soldier in 1918. Volume 5. FINE COPY

BALDWIN Michael · 2018 · Island Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.26 | ¥18,559)

Military Mode, [Hitchin]. 2018. 8vo., with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, a fine copy.

Defeat into Victory. IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO WITH SLIP-CASE

SLIM Field-Marshal William · 0 · Island Books

£680.00 (€815.08 | $898.38 | ¥143,414)

Cassell, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding); handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other ...

Inside the Third Reich. Memoirs by Albert Speer. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Introduction by Eugene Davidson. [First UK Edition.] SPEER IN FULL MOROCCO

SPEER Albert · 0 · Island Books

£625.00 (€749.15 | $825.72 | ¥131,814)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1970]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 68 plates on 48; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in g...

The Naked Island. With Drawings made in Changi Prison Camp by Ronald Searle. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

BRADDON Russell · 0 · Island Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

Werner Laurie, [1952]. 8vo., Second Impression, with tinted frontispiece and 7 fine tinted plates by Searle; blue cloth, gilt back, small fade mark at head of backstrip, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned on (predominantly whit...

Thanksgiving Service on Conclusion of the Campaign in North West Europe. 6th June 1944 to 5th May 1945. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY: A RARE SURVIVAL

BRITISH SECOND ARMY. · 0 · Island Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

[Privately Printed], [1945]. Sm. 4to., with coloured formation signs of twenty-six Second Army units on front wrapper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled, staples very lightly rusting else a remarkably crisp, bright, clean copy. ...