Captain t a mackenzie (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. First Edition. viii, 309 p. 23 cm. 13 illustrations, including two in colour showing regimental colours. Green cloth hardcover with attractive gold print and gold text block edges. Corners bumped. Spine ends slightly worn. Hinges repaired internally. Ink inscription on front pastedown states "Moray Brown, Ensign 79th Highlanders Retired as Lieutenant 1884". James Moray Brown served in India with the 79th Cameron Highlanders and wrote several books on sporting topics during the late 1880s and 1890s eg. "I Was A Tiger Hunter." He has a brief bio in the alphabetical officers' listings section p. 211. News clippings pasted to front pages describe the Highlanders in Egypt and the regiment's centenary celebration.…

Condición: Fair. London: Hamilton, Adams & Co.; Devonport: A. H. Swiss, 1887. 1st edition. 8vo hardcover. viii+309pp. Illustrations. Poor book. Binding copy. Backstrip partially missing. Front hinge, endpage and pages 199-202 detached. Bookplate on front pastedown. (Great Britain, Regimental Histories) Inquire if you need further information.…

A Near Fine copy of this Regimental history - Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration. No inscriptions . Covers fresh other than a couple of small scrapes to the front (see scans).

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Silent Cities - Photo-illustrated article on Canadian military cemeteries abroad; Our Air Heroes - excerpt from play "Target for Peace" which was broadcast on the CBC; Photo of the 48th Highlanders of Canada pipe band playing in Italy; Top Priority on Homes for Heroes is Legion Demand; How the Town of Renfrew Solved its Housing Problem - article with photo; Education for Citizenship - Lieut. - Col. the Hon. Wilfred Bovey flays those who would throw away Canadian democracy for the way of the Russians; Photo and brief write-up of 93-year-old Sgt. Daniel Byrd Hoskins Power of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston, who explains the secret to his long life; Canada's Veterans in the U.S.A.; The Second V.C. of the R.C.A.F. - The Late Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski; Photo of Bailey Bridge inventor Sir Donald Bailey in Ottawa; Update Colonel Percy J. Philpott, Adviser to the Deputy Minister concerning Veterans of both wars; Review of book "Detour" which describes the life of Prisoners-of-war in Germany; Article on Legion Policies and Activities; Monthly notes on the great humanitarian work of the Dominion Service Bureau of the Canadian Legion; The World in Review - Part 12 - September 11 to October 10, 1946; The Small Holdings Plan; Photo of Victoria Legion's undefeated lacrosse team; Photo of the Jewish legionaires' basketball team of the Fredric Kisch Branch in Montreal; The Canadian Army at War - The Canadians in Britain, 1939-1944, 3rd part; Nice one-page cartoon-illustrated ad for Dawes Black Horse Brewery features hunter being chased by bear; Nostalgic colour ad inside back cover for Blue Top Brewing of Kitchener, Ontario features illustration and floor-plan diagram of an economical home. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Front cover partially faded with mild undulations. Contents moderately toned with age. A sound vintage copy. Tingley; Callan, Les; Coughlin, Bing; Flessel, Creig (ilustrador).…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this collection of records from the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, colourfully illustrated throughout. A fascinating collection of historical records concerning the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, which was raised in 1793 and served in numerous important British conflicts including the Peninsular Campaign, Gibraltar, the Crimean Campaign, the Nile Expedition, and more.Written by Captain T.A. Mackenzie, Lieutenant and Adjutant J.S. Ewart, an Lieutenant C. Findlay.Illustrated with twelve photogravure plates, two of which are in bright colour. Collated and complete.The photogravure plates are by the London Typographic Etching Company, taken from engravings and photographs lent by the Officers' and Sergeants' Messes.The first edition of this work.Containing a gift inscription to the front blank, dated Sept. 10th 1889. In the publisher's original decorative cloth. Externally, very smart, with just a touch of shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. A small mark to the rear board and a small split to the cloth at the extremity on the rear board. Containing a gift inscription to the front blank, dated Sept. 10th 1889.Internally, front hinge is starting, remaining binding is firm. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Not Stated (ilustrador). book.…