Search Results: British Empire from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

London: MacDonald & Jane's. 1978 1st ed. thus. 192pp. illus. pictorial hardback 4to: Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [top & fore edges are age foxed; a smoker has read this book; else VG; dj = p-c; some edge tears; else G] A large format book featuring many old photographs and paintings, not in color.

Melbourne: Cassell, 1942 1st ed. 163pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Good/no dj [foxing and age browning of endpp. & edges; corners bumped; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Australia as seen at the beginning of the Second World War. Printed on high quality paper with photographic illustrations.

London: Osprey, 1982 1st ed. 120pp. total. illus. paperback sm 4tos: Very Good+ [Vol. 3 has a small stain speck top edge; else VG+] Three colorful early volumes on the 1982 Falklands War in the Osprey Men-At-Arms Series under the editorship of Martin Windrow.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1968 1st Am. ed. 154pp. illus. brown cloth 8vo: Fine in a Good dj [some age browning of endpp; else F; dj = slightly chipped & torn @ spine ends & corners; few other edge nicks & creases; else G] A popular history of the 1881 battle in the Transvaal.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1972 1st ed. 240pp. illus. green cloth sm 4to: Fine in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover. Included in this history are 48 black & white illustrations.

Univ. of Toronto Press, 1983 1st North American ed. 270pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [a light bottom corner bump; else a nice clean and crisp copy]

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. 1988 1st Am. ed. 366pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good+/no dj [some foxing top & fore edges; else a very nice clean, complete & tight copy] The historical account of a "sideshow" of the Crimean War.

Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1971 1st ed. 154pp. brown cloth 8vo: Good+ in a near Very Good dj [slight mustiness; ink name ffep; top & fore edges show foxing; else G+; dj = light paper is age darkened; else nrVG] An examination of British Tanganyika from 1918 until the early 1950s.

New York: Henry Holt. 1932 1st ed. 131pp. blue cloth 12mo: Good/no dj [some age spots on blue cover cloth; else a clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Harper & Row. 1966. 225pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [ink name; touch of age browning of edges; else nrVG]

Oxford Univ. Press, 1989 reprint. 430pp. paperback tall 8vo: Very Good [bit of edge foxing; else a nice clean and crisp copy]

Hove, UK: Wayland, 1987 2nd ptg. 128pp. illus. hardback 8vo in pictorial boards: Fine/no dj [small price sticker remnant on pastedown; touch of ffep foxing; else a very nice clean and crisp copy] An attractive illustrated primer on the subject, a title in The Documentary History Series originally published in 1972.

London: Michael Joseph, 1956 2nd ptg. 335pp. illus. brown cloth 8vo w/gilt titles & decorative device: Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [top corners lightly bumped; some age browning of endpp; else VG; dj = some tears along top extremities; else G] A classic memoir of service in the British Raj in the old prewar Indian Army by the soldier turned novelist Masters (1914-83).

London: Methuen. 1967 1st ed. 351pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [ink name ffep; top edge is age darkened; few turned page corners; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy; dj = darkening to back cover panel; else nrVG] Dame Margery Perham (1895-1982) was a notable British scholar of colonial Africa.

London: Rex Collings, 1979 1st ed. 221pp. hardback 8vo: Good+ in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [bookplate on pastedown; end & edges are age browned; foxing to fore edge; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A scholarly history of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium.

New York: Taplinger, 1975 1st Am. ed. 235pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [some newspaper clipping ghosts on front endpp; else VG+; dj = closed tear back cover; else VG] A popular history of the Victorian Sudan campaigns.

Boston: Little, Brown. 1961 1st Am. ed. 338pp. illus. black cloth sm 4to: Very Good+ in a generally Good dj w/some loss @ spine tail] A nice copy of this military biography of the English Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset (1788-1855), 1st Baron Raglan, whose career ended badly in the Crimea. Lord Birkenhead observed that the author "has given us a work as gripping and terrible as the chapters on Borodino in ‘War and Peace.’" Harold Nicolson called this book "among the best war books that I have read." Hibbert (1924-2008) wrote about war from the vantage of both historian and World War II infantry officer himself. Winner of the Heinemann Award for Literature.

New York: Basic Books, 1979 1st ed. 429pp. hardback 8vo: near Very Good in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [few tiny top & fore edge specks; else a clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Random House, 1960 1st Am. ed. 351pp. beige cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [bookplate; edges are age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A study by the British Labour MP and prolific writer Strachey (1901-63).

Harmondsworth, UK: Viking, 1986 1st ed. 239pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good+ in a Fine dj in poly cover [bookplate; edges are slightly age browned; else a nice clean and crisp copy]