From Midshipman To Field Marshal. (Two volumes) by Wood, Field Marshal Sir Evelyn - 1906

George Allen and Unwin Ltd . Softcover. Good. With an introduction by Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood. Including a folded Map at the back of the book. No date stated, c1915. Publication of 116 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. There is little foxing on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

George Newnes 1917. Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, folding map to prelims, 254pp, illus, VG- (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy fading to spine, minor discolouration & foxing to spine & boards, moderate cracking & fraying to front hinges, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, sm ink stamp to ffep, occasional cracking to gutters)

London: Cassell and Company, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rebound into blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates with tissue guards, and plans. A previous owner has traced a few of the plates onto the tissue guards. There is a bit of foxing to the pages throughout.

Cassell and Company Ltd, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). A benign set. The blue boards of both are plain: un-titled and un-decorated. The boards have wear about the edges and corners and seams from shelving. They are scuffed and marked from handling and storage. They are secure and comfortable. The contents are clean and clear, eager, assiduously engaging. Vol 2: the guttering along the title page is cracked, but the security of the book is unaffected. An assured, very heavy, companionable set. Please note that due to the weight of the books, should they need be posted to the outside of South Africa, extra postal charges may required. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Cassell and Company, 1915. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 8". Not Stated. A comprehensive and colourfully illustrated history of British battles on land and sea, the first edition of this work. A very comprehensive history of British battles on land and sea, from the formation of the British Army and Navy in the Tudor and Stuart eras, through the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo, Culloden, and more. Complete in two volumes. The first edition of this work. Containing forty-eight plates illustrated in colour, and over five hundred in-text illustrations. Collated and complete. Edited by Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, a nineteenth and twentieth century British Army Officer.Containing a prize bookplate from Farnham Grammar School to the front pastedown of Volume II, dated 1921. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, bright, with some minor shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Cloth is split slightly to the front joint and head of the… Read More

Cassell & Co., London,1915. 4to.Two Volumes. pp.xii +clxxxiv +948+ xii.profusely illustrated with 500 illustrations in b/w and 24 in colour. A little bumped at heads and tails of spine,a little foxing on prelims else a very good very bright set in original Very Good decorated dark blue cloth,gilt. A comprehensive work. The set is Very heavy about 6.25k packed so overseas buyers please note.