Military History from Minotavros Books

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Blue cloth, xviii, 251pp. About Fine. Outlines difficulties faced by the British in terms of mortality, disease, sanitation and hygiene when it came to soldiers colonizing regions of Algeria, India, and the West Indies.

Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Rochester Studies in African History and Diaspora. Grey pictorial cloth, xii, 313pp. Illustrated. About fine. This work examines the roles of black security personnel, police, and soldiers in white-ruled Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1923-through1980, their reasons for doing so and its mobilization to counter African nationalism.… Read more about this item

London: Panther, 1959. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4.5" x 7" First paperback edition. 190 pp. Creasing to joints and corners, rubbing to extremities. Interior age toned. Ex libris label to flyleaf. Jo Capka is no ordinary hero. He holds the D.F.M., the Croix de Guerre and the highest decorations of his home country, Czechoslovakia; but his… Read more about this item

[London]: National Army Museum, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo (imperial). Soft cover. 24 pp. Light bumping and creasing to joints, crease to lower corner. Age toning and sticker ghost to rear cover.

Reading, Berkshire: Osprey Publishing, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Warner, Chril. 8vo (royal). Osprey Men-At-Arms Series. 40 pp. Eight colour plates. B&W photos in text. Covers slightly age toned. About fine.

Glasgow: James B. McKay and Douglas N. Anderson, 1977. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 90 pp. Stain to fore edge, else fine.

Reading, Berkshire: Osprey Publishing, 1979. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Embleton, G.A.. 8vo (royal). Osprey Men-At-Arms Series 145. 40 pp. Eight colour plates. B&W photos in text. Covers slightly age toned. About fine.

Quebec: Scott Uniform Co. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8.5" x 11" Soft cover, staple bound. Unpaged, [6] pp. of fabric swatches with two fold-outs. Light rubbing to extremities. Light soiling to rear cover. A few spots of foxing to interior. 0.

Gardeny City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 18mo. Brown paper boards, printed paper spine label, pictorial onlay to front board. 130 pp. Light rubbing and soiling to boards, bumping to spine ends, spine slightly tilted. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar.

Reading, Berkshire: Osprey Publishing, 1983. Soft cover. Near Fine. Embleton, G.A.. 8vo (royal). Osprey Men-At-Arms Series. 40 pp. Eight colour plates. B&W photos in text. Apparently has incorrect covers citing The Wars of the Roses by Terence Wise, but interior contents indicate Armies of Medieval Burgundy. Covers slightly age toned. About fine.

Reading, Berkshire: Osprey Publishing, 1980. Soft cover. Near Fine. McBride, Angus. 8vo (royal). Osprey Men-At-Arms Series. 40 pp. Eight colour plates. B&W photos in text. Covers slightly age toned. About fine.

New York: Published by the Author, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. red cloth. ix, 212 pp. Spine darkened and soiled, chafed to extremities. Damp stained to top edge of text block. Interior age toned.

Toronto: Burns & MacEachern, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription from author to ffep. Orig. green cloth. 63 pp. [6] B&W plates, some double-sided. Spine tilted, lightly bruised at ends. A few spots of light soiling to interior, but predominantly clean. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, chafed… Read more about this item

New York: New Amsterdamn Book Company. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. red cloth, blind stamped armorial devices. xvi, 451 pp. Six folding maps, five plans. Spine tilted and sunned, white cuff to spine foot, rubbing to extremities, small damp stain to upper spine, soiling to cloth. Foxing to endpapers. Age toning to interior. 0. … Read more about this item

London: William Kimber and Co, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. 4.5" x 7" First Kimber Pocket edition, 1956. Paperback. 186 pp., ads. Covers age toned, rubbed to extremities, creased to spine. Interior age toned.

University of Toronto, 2014. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8.5" x 8" Exhibition by the University of Toronto Archives, Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library, 27 January to 2 May 2014. Oblong soft cover. Illustrated in B&W and colour. 82 pp. Fine.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Blue leatherette boards. xvi, 256 pp. B&W photos in text. Spine faded and tilted, white spotting and slight bowing to front board.

Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Regulations and amendments ca. 1953-1962. Orig. blue cloth. Unpaged, various pamphlets bound together. B&W and colour illustrations of uniforms and insignia. Spine cocked, scuffing to rear board and upper spine, light chafing to extremities. Autograph Record of Amendments table with initials of a high-ranking… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: Republica Argentina, 1967. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. 13.25" x 18.25" 1st limited edition, 20000 copies. Unbound, [47] loose leaves, 45 of which are colour lithograph illustrations + [15] ff pamphlet of poetry. Some curling to leaves, bumping to corners. Long tear to foot of front joint of poetry volume. Age toning to limitations leaf.… Read more about this item

London: J. & D. Darling, 1850. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second edition. Full red cloth, recently professionally rebacked with orig. backstrip laid down. viii, 104 pp., 4 pp. ads. Two additional publisher's ads tipped in. With [12] coloured illustrations. Binder's ticket of Josiah Westly, London to rear pastedown. Cloth… Read more about this item