Item #129409 The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF. 45th Battalion, Major Joseph Edward LEE.
The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF
The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF
The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF
The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF

The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF

Sydney, Mortons Ltd. [for the 45th Battalion Association, 1927].

Octavo, 132 pages with a pictorial title page plus 5 plates and 4 maps; the colophon is printed on the recto of the rear flyleaf.

Dark blue pebble-grain cloth lettered in light blue on the spine and front cover; cloth sunned about the spine and slightly rubbed; institutional stamps erased from the front flyleaf and title leaf, resulting in minor surface loss (and there is a tiny area expertly filled in at the bottom corner of the title leaf); edges and early leaves a little foxed, with scattered light foxing elsewhere; small ownership label on the front pastedown; overall, a very good copy.

A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front flyleaf: 'With the compliments of the 45th Bn History Committee, Sydney Herring, Chairman, 26/8/29'. Brigadier General Sydney Charles Edgar Herring (1881-1951) was the battalion's Commanding Officer, and contributed the second of the two forewords. The book is undated, but the two-page foreword by General Birdwood is dated Chitral, June 1924. However, a review of the book appears in the 'Current Literature' section of the 'Sydney Morning Herald' on 30 April 1927, making that the more likely year of publication.

Dornbusch 321A; Fielding and O'Neill, page 229; Trigellis-Smith 244.

Item #129409

Price (AUD): $750.00