The Belgian Rattlesnake by Easterly, William M - 1998: The Lewis Automatic Machine Gun

Hugh Rees, Ltd, London, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Presentation bookplate on front inner cover to Officers Training Corps, Manchester University Contingent, Presented by W J Riley Esq JP (of Brierfield, Lancs) In Memory of His Son Captain H D Riley, 11th Service Battalion, East Lancashire Regt. who was killed in action in France on 1st July, 1916. Red covers with gilt lettering are darkened, more heavily on spine and at edges, remains of pasted label on spine and corners are worn, binding is sound but a little skewed, endpapers are darkened, pages are a little darkened but clean except very occasional brief penciled not in margin. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 65010090149. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1888. This is the original 1888 first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. Very Good condition. Original paper wrappers a little rubbed/chipped. SEE PHOTOS. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean, tight, and unmarked. "Published by Order of the Secretary of War, in Compliance with Law." Softcover. 5.75" wide by 9" tall. Lists all Army officers as of 1888 with their service records briefly detailed, e. g. Lieutenant Philip H. Sheridan; Major General John M. Schofield; etc. Information is arranged by career field -- quartermaster; medical; corps of engineers; signal corps; cavalry; artillery, infantry, general and staff officers, medical, pay and purchasing officers, chaplains, etc. Also lists officers retired from active service and their service records, e. g. General William T. Sherman. Lists brevet commissions and the service for which brevetted. Officers commissioned for distinguished service. Includes… Read More

Antiquarian Bookstore stamp on flyleaf. Corner is torn and missing from the front end page and title page beneath. There is a wide piece of binding tape attached to the inside cover, front and back, which looks like it used to hold something. No dj. HC is soiled and worn alongs edges and corners. Edges are bumples. Paper on binding is split inside back cover. Interesting and rare book begins with a history of sanitation in battle from the 13th century and a letter from the Surgeon General's Office September 7, 1862 to the Secretary of War. Several pages have tears along the top edge and some pages have tiny creased corners. Contains PLATE MAPS.

New in new dust jacket and signed by author. SHINING BOOKS IN SHINING JACKETS AND IN their ORIGINAL BLACK SLIP-CASE. UNTOUCHED, UNREAD, AND PERHAPS ONLY OPENED BY AUTHOR WHEN HE SIGNED IT AS A GIFT. BETWEEN THE TWO VOLUMES IS THE MAP VOLUME, ALSO UNOPENED, UNMARKED, CONTAINING MAPS OF THE BATTLES. Would be expensive to ship outside North America.

Akron, Ohio: Werner Co, 1900. Hardcover. Good -. [6], 181, [1] p., 41 leaves of color plates; 45 cm. Black cloth with gilt cover title: Deutschlands Heer und Flotte. Title page in red and black. Text in parallel columns of German and English; plate captions in both languages. Some plates are labelled "After G. Arnould"; all plates they have been numbered in pencil on the margins by a former owner. A very heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good- Condition: lacking spine; covers detached but present and soiled; title page detached but present with chipping and loss along all edges; the color plates appear to have been removed and then reattached along the gutter with brown tape; finger soiling in margins of plates; occasional small closed tears from edges.

Montreal: Robin Brass Studio [1-896941-60-5] 2010. (Square small 4to hardcover) 300pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Black & white and color photographs, maps, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Locale: Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada; Winnipeg. (Military--Canada, Little Black Devils, Military--Canada, Royal Winnipeg Rifle Regiment).

The Pilgrim Press. London. 1913. Fifth (revised) edition. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.4 inches). xvi/1-294pp. Illustrated with 12 full page mono illustrations by various artists. A few pages at the front of the text affected by light foxing but overall a very good clean copy in a fine early leather binding by Austin & Sons Ltd, with their ticket pasted inside back cover. Full red calf, lavish gilt decoration to spine, leather title label in gilt, both boards with gilt ruling/ board edges and inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers, silk head and tailbands. College emblem to front board, in gilt. Marbled block edges. College prize label inside front cover. A lovely presentation of this interesting book.

First American edition of this book. Published by T. Allen, New York, 1792. Binding is fine. Modern half leather and marbled boards by Starr Bookworks. Interior is very good. Has a few stamps from New York Mercantile Library. Edges show foxing, interior is toned, occasional old creases, no vandalism, writing or other issues. Pages remain supple. Lacking old blanks, otherwise complete as issued. Lee was a British born career military officer who sought to lead the Continental Army in place of Washington. Lee is most famous now for his various hasty and leisurely retreats including being captured in his night gown by the British in 1776. After a prisoner exchange in 1778 Lee resumed command only to be court-martialled a few months later for insubordination. He must have had something going for him because he survived 30 years of military encounters where strategic withdrawal was not always an option. One of those characters that would be hard to imagine if he did not actually exist. See Howes L85. A… Read More

1918. Cloth bound in very good condition.. Collection of five hand books on Machine guns: Hand-Book of the Lewis Machine Gun (Airplane Type) Model 1917-18 Caliber .30, Handbook of the Lewis Machine Gun Caliber .30 Model 1917, Handbook of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun Model 1914, Handbook of the Browning Machine Gun Model 1918 (Air Cooled) & Handbook of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun Model 1917 Caliber .30 Water-Cooled, plus Manual of the Automatic Pistol Caliber .45 Model of 1911, also, Field Service Pocket Book United States Army 1917; All bound together in a custom cloth binding (6.25" x 4.75") with original owner's name at the foot of the spine.

UK: BATH UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Hardcover. GOOD TO VERY GOOD./Very Good. 1996. HARDBACK. A GOOD TO VERY GOOD BOOK IN A CLEAN BRIGHT DUST JACKET. OUTER SIDE EDGE OF BOOK LIGHTLY FOXED, TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS LIKE NEW WITH NICE BRIGHT PAGES. POSTED FROM THE UK IN 1-2 WORKING DAYS.