Henry Richard Compton: Lieutenant, Coldstream Guards. A few notes relating to his short life and his death collected by a to whom he was devoted
by [BRITISH ARMY]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hatchards, 1925. 51pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's decorated navy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. A rare survival of the sole edition, printed for private circulation, of an anonymous memoir of British Army officer Henry Richard Compton (1899- 1923), Lieutenant of the Coldstream Guards, who died aged 25 due to complications arising from kidney disease. COPAC records copies at three locations (BL, NT, and Oxford); OCLC adds no further. . First edition. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ24688
- Title
- Henry Richard Compton: Lieutenant, Coldstream Guards. A few notes relating to his short life and his death collected by a to whom he was devoted
- Author
- [BRITISH ARMY]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hatchards
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- History
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
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We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Crisp
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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