Search Results: Militaria from CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second impression of the first edition. Gilt titles and Africa decoration to front and spine on red cloth hardcovers. Some light rubbing/wear to lower corners. Slight soiling to covers, and small remainder of old label to lower spine. Top edge gilt. Ex libris ("Ship's Library. U.S.S. Pennsylvania.") with Ship's Library bookplate neatly inside front cover, and numerous US Naval blindstamps neatly appied throughout. The USS Pennsylvania saw extensive service in the Pacific, including at Pearl Harbour and Midway, before being decommissioned after World War II. A few light pencil or ink lines to bottom edge of text block. Front hinge cracked at endpaper but holding firmly; rear hinge starting. Two small related newspaper clippings near front, with some light tanning to adjacent leaves. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat -- a bright copy. An… Read More

Victoria, BC: D. W. Falconer, 1985. Book. Very Good. Wraps (soft-cover). Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover. SIGNED and inscribed by author on title-page. Moderate handling wear to covers; creasing to spine. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. 514p..

Stratford, Ontario, Canada: Perth Regiment Veterans' Association, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Wraps (soft-cover). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Some fading toward edges & spine; minor handling to covers. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked; internally fine. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. 133p. Original signed fund-raising letter included. .

London: Constable & Company, 1923. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original publisher's olive buckram cloth hard covers, with gilt titles to spine. Mild soiling and small superficial stains to covers; light bumping to top front corner. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. xxxvi,284pp..

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1920. Book. Good. Cloth (hardcover). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Some light rubbing and bumping to covers. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Illustrated, plates. Index. xxiv,240p..

London, ON, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt and silver-leaf lettering and coat-of-arms to blue hardcovers. Slight staining to the fore-edge of first several leaves. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated. Folding map, abbreviations booklet, and acknowledgment slip in rear pocket. viii,195p..

London, ON, 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt and silver-leaf lettering and coat-of-arms to blue hardcovers. One of the numbered Special Copies (this being no. 86) with presentation plate to front endpaper. Slight foxing to edges and endpapers. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated. Folding map, abbreviations booklet, and acknowledgment slip in rear pocket. viii,195p..

Belleville, Ontario: Hangar Books, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Inscribed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by author on front endpaper. A clean, tight and unmarked book in like dust jacket. Very neat. Illustrated..

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in price-clipped dust jacket. Mild sunning to spine; old owner's book-plate inside front cover. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. .

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1944. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The first American edition. Hardcover, in unclipped dust jacket. Green top-edge; other untrimmed. A clean, tight and unmarked book in lightly edge-worn jacket unfaded illustrated dust jacket. Very neat, and bright -- a sound and handsome copy. viii,430+2[bio.]pp..

Ottawa: Minister of National Defence, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Three-volume set, all gilt red cloth hardcovers in good to very good condition. Old owners' names to endpapers/edges. Otherwise all clean, tight and unmarked volumes. Very neat -- a sound and still quite handsome set. Endpaper maps. Illustrated, frontispiece. Folding maps, all fine. Published 1955-60, all first editions/printings. .

Ottawa: Minister of National Defence, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Three-volume set, all gilt red cloth hardcovers in original unclipped dust jackets. A matched December 1966 set, incorporating the last corrections to this important record. Apart from slight to edges, and old owner's blindstamps to preliminaries, these are all clean, tight and unmarked volumes. Dust jackets are mild edge-worn but otherwise clean and bright (now protected in removable archival sleeves). Very neat -- a sound and handsome set. Endpaper maps. Illustrated, frontispiece. Illustrations and folding maps -- all fine..

Toronto: Lorimer, 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated..

London: Griffith and Farran, 1863. Book. Fair. Decorative Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original gilt and stamped decorative blue cloth hardcovers. Expertly rebacked with original spine laid down; new corners, and new marbled endpapers. Wear and rubbing to cloth hardcovers. Spine titles still just legible, but front brighter. Title-page lost. Toning to edges. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Frontispiece. Two-page advert's for Kingston books, as well as 32-page publisher's catalogue (dated 1863) at rear. 2[ads.]+xii,282+2[ads.]+32[ads.]p..

Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Amer, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Neat, small owner's name label to front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Bibliography, index. xii,128p..

London, Ontario Canada: Royal Canadian Regiment, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Volume I is the 1981 reprint from the 1936 original edition, and Volume II is the 1967 first edition. Gilt lettering and coat-of-arms to blue cloth hardcovers, in original dust jackets. Volume I dust jacket shows some toning, and Volume II's is chipped and torn but assembles nearly complete (both are in new archival mylar sleeves). Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome set. Illustrated, all plates and folding-maps, etc. as called for. Endpaper maps, appendices, index. Volume I is 8vo. and Volume II is 4to. size..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket. A clean, tight and unmarked book in similar dust jacket. Very neat. Index. 216p..

USA: Trafford Publishing, 2002. Book. As New. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy, as new!.