1st edition. 12mo. 48pp. Bw frontis + 18 bw photo plates + 3 section bw fold out map. Publisher's green cloth covers, black lettering on spine, black crest + blind banding around edges on front. Yellow eps. Neat ink signature + date " Jan 22nd 1917 " on fep. Covers : spine slight 0.2cm shelf knocks top/bottom spine and corners, 0.2cm light mark front. Contents : slight browning eps else clean, tight & unfoxed. Clean copy. VG. N° de réf. du vendeur 4476
Titre : A Short History Of the London Rifle Brigade
Éditeur : Gale & Polden Ltd Aldershot
Date d'édition : 1916
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Edition : 1st Edition
Description du livre Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Facsimile Edition Undated. First published by Gale & Polden 1916. 48pp illustrated in black and white. N° de réf. du vendeur 19336sB5
Description du livre 1st edn., [x], 48pp, half tone photo frontis, 18pp half tone photo ills. and line drawings, folding map, coloured endpapers, small format about 7.5 x 5 inches, dark green cloth lettered in black at spine, decorated in black upper board, border in blind upper and lower boards, a brief history of the London Rifle Brigade, the activities of the 1st Battalion from August 1914, arriving Flanders as part of the 11th Infantry Brigade November, heavy casualties in the 2nd Battle of Ypres, a further fierce engagement at La Brique, withdrawal to GHQ, in the line at Poperinghe in November, moved South in February and at Gommecourt for offensive 1st July; brief details of 2nd and 3rd Battalions; appendices cover decorations, mid's, officer casualties by rank/name/date, etc., slightly cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned and foxed, light foxing to prelims. and pages adjacent to ills., pencil name front free endpaper, no dustwrapper, very good, N° de réf. du vendeur 38131