Scots guards (26 resultados)

Condición: New. SB 61pp. photographs & line drawings 2016 N&MP Reprint of 1941 Original Edition This book is an attempt to put into cold reality Churchill's famous rhetoric about 'fighting in the streets, beaches and landing grounds' to resist a German invasion early in the Second World War.The book, written by a Scots Guards officer, explores terrain, methods of attack and defence; the use of explosives; arms and equipment; training and exercises.…

Condición: Very Good. 3 pages, 1 colour plate, 2 plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 1 page, 1 colour plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 6 pages, 1 portrait. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 3 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 5 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Album-Cover. Gewicht in Gramm: 900.

Condición: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: The Connoisseur; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 7 pages, 1 colour plate, 1 plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 3 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Second Edition. Near FINE paperback, 48pp. 1982 Scots Guards. Second Edition. Touch of rubbing head & tail of spine & hinge. NB. REGRETTABLY NOT AVAILABLE TO SEND TO EU COUNTRIES.

Condición: Good.

soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later edition. Illustrated with photographs in colour and black and white. 17 cm x 25 cm. 290 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, small rubbed area on lower front near spine.

Single Sheet Engraving. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. IRELAND POLITICAL, THE STATE OF IRELAND IN 1881 BOYCOTTING A TRADESMAN AND THE SCOTS GUARDS DEPARTING FROM LONDON, AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ENGRAVING, ENGRAVED IN 1881, , , MOUNTED AND READY TO FRAME, WITH SOME INTERESTING TEXT ON THE STATE OR IRELAND.…

Condición: Fair. First edition. Hardcover book . Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt vignette of three soldiers to front cover. xxvii, 320pp. With photo portrait of the author as frontispiece, tissue-guarded, and 14 other b&w photos and line illustrations in plates, and 3 maps. (Note: three of the four maps listed are present, one is missing. One folding map of the Nupe Country is present but loose). Foreword by Sir George Goldie. Vandeleur lead a military expedition in 1897 that surveyed the Nupe country around the Niger river, and his route is shown on one of the maps. Also some military actions are described. This copy is ex-library, (Alassio English library) and has just a small stamp to title page, some ink class marks to front pastedown and to spine. A scarce book on lesser known episodes of the British empire in Africa, in Fair to Good condition overall. Covers have some light marks and spots, some cloth fading and tears to spine edges, though gilt is bright. Binding sound though with lean to covers and crack to front internal hinge. Some foxing, mostly to margins. Pictures available. …

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged. One can hear the clipped tones of the military man: 'Dear Capt. Barron, | Gen. Gosling spoke & wrote to me about you. | What is your present state, duty, light duty, leave, or what? | Please let me know & tell me when you get orders to join a reserve unit, & which. | Yours very truly | H. C. Lowther | Brig. Genl.' Lowther's entry in Who Was Who reads: 'Entered Scots Guards, 1888; Capt. 1899; Major, 1904; Lieut-Col 1913; Bt-Col 1915; served South Africa, 18991902 (despatches twice, Queen's medal 6 clasps, King's medal 2 clasps, DSO); European War, 191418 (despatches thrice, wounded, Bt-Col, CB); served as Brigade-Major, 1st Division, and in Gen. Staff, War Office; accompanied Diplomatic Mission to Fez, 1905; Military Attaché, Paris, Madrid, and Lisbon, 190509; Secretary to HRH the Governor-General of Canada, 191113; MP (U.) Northern Division of Westmorland, 191518; Penrith and Cockermouth Division of Cumberland, 192122; commanding 1st Scots Guards and then 1st Guards Brigade, Expeditionary Force, 1914; Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, 1915; Brig.-Gen. Gen. Staff Home Forces, 1916; Maj.-Gen. Gen. Staff, 191618; holds Swedish Order of the Svaerd, Commander Legion of Honour, and Spanish Order of Military Merit '. …

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A splendid original antique view. Delicate hand colouring - not contemporary . Excellent condition - mounted and ready to frame. Somewhat unusual, very decorative and highly desireable . Shows a member of the "Scots Guards" in rather fine uniform with a dog.

Audio CD. Condición: Gut. CD - Royal Scots - 4949 H1-XK56-PPUQ Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

First Edition. Foreword by Lieutenant-Colonel M. S. Jameson. Preface by Lieutenant-General Sir Norman Arthur. Pp. 160, frontispiece, 8 coloured plates, text illustrations, bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; blue papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1988. First edition. Sutcliffe 2/p. 21. …

First Edition. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Kent. Pp. xx+284, coloured frontispiece, 28 plates (coloured and black & white), 14 text plus endpaper maps, appendices (including roll of Honour, Honours and awards, nominal roll), index; cr. 4to; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, gilt & silver insignia to upper board; dust wrapper, lightly foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, leaves lightly browned; Leo Cooper, London, 1995. First edition. Sutcliffe 1/p. 10.…

Audio-CD. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Dudelsäcke, Trommeln und militärische Marschmusik mit insgesamt 75 Minuten Spielzeit. Teils mit der üblichen Instrumentierung einer Marschkappelle (sprich: mit Pauken, Trompeten und Trommeln), aber natürlich kommt auch das wohl bekannteste Musikinstrument Schottlands - der Dudelsack - ausgiebig zum Einsatz! Auf den ersten 13 Titeln dieser CD spielen THE SCOTS GUARDS, die eines von den fünf Leibregimente der Königin sind. Die darauf folgenden 13 Titel, der insgesamt 26 Titel starken CD, stammen vom 3. Bataillon des Royal Regiment of Scotland, der sogenannten BLACK WATCH. Die Aufnahme wurde bei der weltbekannten Militärparade TROOPING THE COLOUR aufgenommen.…

Audio-CD. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. (i-xxvii), 329 pp. Green cloth boards, worn but strong; colour faded, cover marked. Gilt title to spine, Gilt illus.on front cover, (3 soldiers, sitting). Edges rough-cut. Some pages uncut. Introduction by Sir George T. Goldie, KCMG, DCL, LL.D. No frontispiece. Preface. Illus. w. 14 b&w plates, (plates opp. p.54, p.116, p.183 are loose). Maps (inc. 2 coloured fold-out maps; one b&w fold-out map). Diagrams. Appendices (I,II,III). List of publisher's titles, (40 pp.). Good, sturdy copy. …

Cloth. Condición: Very good. Limited Edition. Octavo, [two volumes], xxii, [2], 410pp; xi, [3], 394pp. Purple cloth, title in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt, silver emblem stamped to front covers. Solid text blocks, sunning to spines, light wear to tips, shelf wear, faint wear to gutters, a very good set. Lacking dust jackets. Complete with 15 full page illustrations in Volume I, 25 in Volume II, some in color. Complete with 28 maps and plans in Volume I, 16 in Volume II, including large fold-out maps at rear of each volume. Stated copy 21 of 60. (Sutcliffe, 10) Signed on the foreword by Prince Albert as Colonel of the Regiment. Upon the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936, Prince Albert would ascend to the British throne as King George VI. Signed by Prince Albert, the future King George VI, this is the limited edition of The History of the Scots Guards by Major-General Frederick Maurice. (ilustrador). Signed.…

In two volumes. Volume I: Pp. xxiv+410; Volume II: Pp. xiv+394, 40 plates (8 coloured, 1 folding, 1 double page of Company Badges), 44 maps and plans, (7 folding, one with small paper repair to fold on verso), erratum slip, appendices, nominal roll, indices; roy. 8vo; blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, silver & gilt insignia to upper boards, spines lightly darkened, boards lightly worn; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers slightly browned, a little light foxing; Chatto & Windus, London, 1934. First trade edition. White p. 44; Sutcliffe 1/p. 10. *Also issued in a limited edition of 60 copies, each signed by King George V as Colonel in Chief, with 4 extra plates coloured by hand by C. C. P. Lawson.…

Leather Bound. Condición: New. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1917. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Vol:- Volume 5, Pages:- 60, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. Volume 5 60 60.…