Item #129426 The Thirty-Ninth. The History of the 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. 39th Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas PATERSON.

The Thirty-Ninth. The History of the 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force

[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1980s (facsimile edition)]/ 1934.

Octavo, 371 pages with 8 illustrations (including a key map) plus 29 plates and 11 folding battlefield maps with captioned paper guards.

Synthetic cloth slightly marked; endpapers and adjacent leaves offset; small patch of discoloration on the front pastedown (where a name-label has been removed); an excellent copy.

One of only 200 copies.

See Dornbusch 334; Fielding and O'Neill, page 228 (giving the author as P.V. Allen, credited in the editor's foreword with laying much of the groundwork for the book); Trigellis-Smith 236 (giving '1980s' as the date of this facsimile edition).

Item #129426

Price (AUD): $250.00