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ETT Imprint Sydney 2017.. 2017. Softcover. 8vo. softcover. 209pp. b/w illus. Near Fine. .

Madison, NJ: Golden Hind Press, 1956. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Octavo. [10], 21, [3] pp., frontis, illus. Limited edition, one of 300 copies. As issued, sewn into stiff, printed wrappers. Light shelfwear to edges of the wrappers; one leaf with faint spotting otherwise contents clean. Full page frontispiece and three in-text wood engravings illustrate Naaiijkens's tale.

Sydney: ETT Imprint, 2017. 1st ed. thus. As New. octavo. card covers 209pp., b/w plates, Written from the diary of J. B. Moody, Private VX13091. Well-produced modern reprint

Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Good in Poor dust jacket. (1955). Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription dated 1955. Heavy bruising and creasing to lower corners of boards. Incomplete dust-jacket, lacking rear panel. Rear flap of dust-jacket present. Front flap is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Fifth printing, April 1951 (the first printing was in 1945). x, 232, [1], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 16 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Mauve boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 182 x 118mm. "This is the story of Horrie, who was found as a queer little homeless pup in the Western Desert and became a true Digger. It has been put into its present form by Ion Idriess, who had it from the diary of Horrie's master, Pte J. B. Moody, Machine Gun Battalion, and from others of his friends." - from dust-jacket blurb. Selected contents: Introducing the Desert, the Pup, and the Rebels; The Wog-Dog Enlists; The Wog-Dog embarks for the… Read More

Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Good+ in Poor dust jacket. (1955). Hardcover. No signatures. Some foxing and dust stains to top page edges. A large tear right across front panel of dust-jacket. Some other chips and tears up to 1" to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Sixth printing, 1955 (the first printing was in 1945). x, 232, [1] pages + frontispiece + 16 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Brown boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 122mm. "This is the story of Horrie, who was found as a queer little homeless pup in the Western Desert and became a true Digger. It has been put into its present form by Ion Idriess, who had it from the diary of Horrie's master, Pte J. B. Moody, Machine Gun Battalion, and from others of his friends." - from dust-jacket blurb. Selected contents: Introducing the Desert, the Pup, and the Rebels; The Wog-Dog Enlists; The Wog-Dog embarks for the Front; The… Read More

Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1951. 233 pp, b&w photographic plates, gift inscription on fep, else very good copy in like, illustrated d/j.. First published 1945.

Kyiv: Prosavita , 2001 A Beautiful Book Is Excellent Condition. Red Cloth Covered Boards With Blind Stamping Of Shevtenko Centre Front , Design And Title Also Blind Stamped.. No Slip Case. Illustration Throughout By Opanas Slastion, Eps Highly Decorated With Illustrations. Cream Pages With Illustrations Thoughout In B/W Written In Ukrainian And English. This Book Is An Edition Of The Historical Poem By The- Genius Son Of The Ukraine Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861 ) 'The Haydamaks' Which Tells About Events Of Koliivshchyna - A Great Rebellion Of 1768 In The Right-Bank. The Book Is Illustrated By The Known Ukrainian Artist Opanas Slastion (1855-1933).No Reading Or Shelf Wear. In Beautiful Condition!

1945. Very good. Envelope only, no letter. The envelope was addressed to Private First Class Walter Mikucki at the Osaka Yodogawa Bunsho POW Camp in Japan. It has a typed "Prisoner of War Postage Free" free frank in the upper right corner and has received a Chicago "War Savings machine postmark dated Jan 13, 1944. The envelope was opened by a U.S. censor and resealed using censor tape annotated, "Examined by 6587." The address was subsequently obliterated with a red cross and black bands using grease pencil or crayon. It has a circular handstamp in the lower right corner dated Nov 20 1945 with text that appears to read "[LIBER]ATED HQ. USMC., WASH., D.C." There is a USMC "pointing finger" return-to-sender hand stamp that point to the return address. Pfc. Mikucki was a member of the 4th Marine Regiment when, as war clouds rumbled in the Pacific, it was sent from China to Corregidor to defend Manila Bay in the Philippines. Shortly after its arrival, Japan launched its infamous sneak attack on… Read More

London Chapman & Hall, 1837 HBNO DJ Issued, Marblelized boards with tooled red LEATHER corners & Spine, NF+/NF-, AS-IS,NODJ, Gold gilt decorations & lettering spine, 1837 on half title & title page, 1st edition, Early printing, with S. Veller on page 342, line 5, page 260 line 29 reads holding, has his friends page 400 line 21, has notation on bottom pg.9, Cover some rub, wear Scuff primarily Extremities edges, Interior nice, tight clean with light FoX, chips to edges of some pages,609 pages, Top edges pages Gold Gilt, SIGNED by EUGENE FIELD. Hard Cover.