The Desert War Trilogy. A three-volume boxed set comprising: 'Mediterranean Front', 'The End of Africa' and 'A Year of Battle'
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (first thus). The seven-page introduction is by Max Hastings. [3 items]. More
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (first thus). The seven-page introduction is by Max Hastings. [3 items]. More
Beverly Hills, M.D. Herron, 1988. The verso of the front free endpaper is signed by Harry Mowbray ('6.6.40 - | "B" Coy 11 Platoon'), listed in the nominal roll (NX30651 Harry Mowbray). His small ownership label is affixed to the half-title. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2024. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2024. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2021/ 2020. More
Adelaide, The South Australian Trained Nurses' Centenary Committee, [1945, revised third edition]/ 1939 (revised second editon)/ 1938. With the 146-page World War 2 supplement bringing the history up to September 1945. More
London, The Folio Society, 2009 (first thus). Translated from the Greek, and with an introduction, by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Annotated by Fermor and Xan Fielding. More
Sydney, British Orphans Adoption Society, 1944. Inscribed, dated (1944) and signed in ink by the author on the verso of the front cover. Evelyn Douglas Darby (1910-1985), teacher and politician; 'medically unfit for war service, in 1939 Darby founded the British Orphans Adoption Society which sponsored the formation, in 1940..... More
The photograph is inscribed and signed 'To John, with Gratitude from Anthony, 1963'; the mat is signed in ink 'Vivienne, London' (the usual credit of photographer Florence Vivienne Mellish). Documentation accompanying the photograph indicates that it was presented to Sir John Montague-Stow (1911-1997), Governor-General of Barbados (and previously that country's..... More
Brisbane, The Edmonds Publishing Co., [1944]. With sections on 'Your Military Rights', 'Your Civil Rights', and 'Your "New Order"'. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. 'This second volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial warfare in the Solomon Islands theatre during the critical month of October 1942 ... October 1942 saw an explosion of air activity in the Solomons. During the first three weeks of the month busy Tokyo Express..... More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. More
Kent Town, The Author, in conjunction with Avonmore Books, 2017. Milingimbi island 'had fighter aircraft to defend it and Army troops on the ground. The island became a refuelling base for RAAF bombers as they refuelled and attacked the Japanese who had become entrenched in the islands north of Australia'..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2001 (first thus). The author's personal account of the kidnapping of General Kreipe on Nazi-occupied Crete. With an introduction by M.R.D. Foot, prologue and epilogue by Iain Moncreiffe, and afterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Loosely inserted is a newspaper clipping containing an tribute to Fermor by..... More
Perth, Paterson Brokensha Pty. Ltd., 1960. This book 'is the personal record of a distinguished civil engineer and soldier. Here are fascinating facts about the settlement, development, and defence of a continent. Descendant of two renowned pioneering families of Western Australia, brother of a noted general and Federal judge, husband..... More
[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. Dornbusch 414; Trigellis-Smith 372. More
Cudlee Creek, Gould Books, 1979 (facsimile reprint)/ 1947. More
London, Cassell, 1960, 1962 and 1965 (all first editions). The title page of the first volume is signed by the author (as Anthony Eden). The third volume has the small ex libris label of the Dutch historian Professor F.F.X. Cerutti (1915-1970) on the front pastedown. [3 items]. More
London, The Arcadia Press, 1972 (first thus)/ 1948 and 1946. Number 235 of only 265 copies signed on the title page by the author (as 'Montgomery of Alamein'), and bound by Zaehnsdorf. The title page is dated 1971, but 'This Book was published on the 30th Anniversary of The Battle..... More
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1984. More
Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. The author was chaplain to a succession of eight commando squadrons during the Second World War. There is a lengthy gift inscription on the front free endpaper from 'Des C. Smith, Chaplain, 43 Batt. RSAR, 1967 - ?, 10/9/72'. Text on both flaps of the dustwrapper..... More
London, Heinemann, 1967 to 1988 (all first editions, with the exception of Volume 3, a second impression in the same year as the first edition). Specific details of the individual volumes are as follows. Volume 1: Youth, 1874-1900 (1965). Volume 2: Young Statesman, 1901-1914 (1967). Volume 3: The Challenge of..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (first thus). The six-page introduction by the author is new to this edition. More
Melbourne, Printed and published by Lawrence Kay for Pictorial Newspapers, Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., [1941]. The very rare first annual. 'Many who have followed their adventures and misadventures in The News and in Digger journals in the Middle East have urged that Bluey and Curley richly deserve a taste..... More
Melbourne, Printed and published by Lawrence Kay for Pictorial Newspapers, Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., [1942]. The rare second annual. 'Here they are again, the two irrepressibles - as large as life and as vital as the pen that gave them birth. They have travelled far since, egged on by..... More