1. Fisk, Robert.

The Great War for Civilisation. The Conquest of the Middle East.

London, Fourth Estate, 2005. 23,8 cm x 16 cm. 1366 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition. Rare! Out of print.

2. Payne, A.A.

A Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations awarded to the Navy. Chiefly described from those in the collection of A.A. Payne, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S. of which there are some 2,500. Illustrated with nearly Sixty Portraits, Orders and Medals.

Place of publication unknown, J.B. Hayward & Son, 1981. 25 cm x 17,5 cm. LXIX, 811 pages. Original Hardcover. In protective mylar. The Mylar slightly torn. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Gilt spine, gilt medallion design stamped on front cover.

3. Todorov, Tzvetan.

Torture and the War on Terror. Translated by Gila Walker. With Photographs by Ryan Lobo.

Uncorrected Page Proof. London / New York / Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2009. 11 x 16cm. 66 pages, with illustrations throughout. Original softcover. Excellent condition. [The French List].

4. Atkinson, Rick.

An Army at Dawn – The War in North Africa, 1942-1943.

London, Little, Brown, 2003. 15.5 cm x 24.5 cm. 681 pages. Several black and white maps and photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print. [Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy].

5. Finlay, T.A.

With the Army of O’Neill. An Irish Historical Romance.

Dublin and Cork, The Educational Company of Ireland Limited, no year. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece, 176 pages. 4 other illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Pictoral to front board also. Fair condition. Some soiling to front board. Wear to spine cloth. Board corners rubbed and bumped. Gutter between endpage and rear pastedown cracked with exposed cloth. Binding shaky. Minor damp staining to top edges. Marking to interior. Some dog-eared pages. Front endpaper carries private signature of ‘James O’Sullivan, Bantry.’

6. Cunliffe, F.H.E.

The History of the Boer War. With Illustrations, Maps, and Plans.

Volume I (of II). London, Methuen and Co., 1901. 19 cm x 25.5 cm. 520 pages with numerous illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine. Design on front board. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cracks to gutters with exposed netting between front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Binding is shaky but book block still solid. Interior is bright and clean and sharp cornered. Preowner’s name on front endpaper.

7. Knight, E.F.

Letters from the Sudan. By the special correspondent of “The Times”. With Illustrations and Plans. Reprinted from “The Times” of April to October, 1896.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1897. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, 325 pages. Twelve illustrations. Three fold-out maps. Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Good condition with signs of external wear. Corners of board bumped and rubbed. Spine carries library marking. Foxing to deckled edges. Front pastedown carries ex-libris ‘Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis’ of Sydney Grammar School (″Discarded”). Book stamp on half-title page. Ex-libris stamp on title page. Beautiful, tiny little bookshop-sign to endpapper: “Tyrrell’s Bookshop – 328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, Australia”.

8. Rae, Colin.

Malaboch – or Notes from my Diary on the Boer Campaign of 1894 against the Chief Malaboch of Blaauwberg, District Zoutpansberg, South African Republic – To which is appended a synopsis of the Johannesburg crisis of 1896.

London / South Africa, Sampson Low, Marston and Company / J.C. Juta & Co, 1898. 15.5 cm x 23.2 cm. XIX, 248 pages. 53 illustrations. Fold-out map showing ‘the scene of war in Zoutpansberg.’ Modern, recent Hardcover [maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Parts of the original binding (spine and illustrated cover) pasted to pastedown and endpaper. Excellent condition besides the paper being a little brittle at the deckled edges and a minor tear to halftitle. Interior bright and unmarked. Binding firm and strong.

9. Steevens, G.W.

From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War. Edited by Vernon Blackburn.

First edition. Edinburgh / London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. 13 x 19.5cm. (8), 180 pages, with a map of the Country round Ladysmith and a large fold-out map at the rear, illustrating the Seat of War in South Africa. Includes a 32 page publisher’s catalogue to rear. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Very good condition. Minor signs of external wear, including bumping to corner and small stain to front board. Front endpaper starting to tear. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.

10. Dugmore, A. Radclyffe,

The Vast Sudan [With Notes on the Distribution, Appearance, Peculiarities and Habits of the Game of the Sudan (Water-buck, Black Rhinoceros, Buffalo, Reedbuck, Hartebeest etc.) / With a List of the More important Animals found in the Sudan – Some of the More Important Birds Found in the Sudan].

London, Arrowsmith, 1924. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, 312 pages. 19 excellent photographic illustrations including frontispiece. One fold-out map showing ‘Anglo-Egyptian Sudan’. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind tooling and design to front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only one of two fold-out-maps present (the small Africa-Map-missing). Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Binding firm and strong.