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Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 334p. 7 Maps. Red cloth with gilt crest on front. Top edge gilt. Spine has been repaired. Silverfish damage to rear cover & front near spine. Fair Copy
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Octavos, red cloth covers with gilt emblem on top covers and gilt spine titles. volume I: The First Battalion, xv [1] 344 pages. Includes maps, including one folding. Volume II: The Second Battalion and Appendices, vi + 310 + 2 pages of ads; includes 4 maps. Rubbing and some loss of cloth from covers, possibly from insect damage. Text is clean. 092508A
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
Rudyard Kipling. The Irish Guards in the Great War : 2 Volumes. Macmillan and Co, London, 1923.
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The 2 volumes have red cloth covers with gilt lettering slightly sunned to the spines. The first volume covering the First Battalion, this volume also contains 2 newspaper cuttings about the book dated in 1923. (344 pages) The second volume containing the Second Battalion and Appendices ( 310 pages) . Both volumes have a previous owners name written on the fep. Seller Ref: 4975
Seller: G & S Books, Gillingham, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition orig. cloth Near Fine octavo xvi + 344pp., maps, plans, The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918. Inc. powerful accounts of the Guards on the Somme in 1916 & 1917. Cloth slightly flecked o/w nice clean copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$93.41 + shipping
Description: 2 Volumes. Good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: bookplate of Major R.B.Grosse. Physical description: 2 v. : maps ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: I. The First battalion -- II. The Second battalion and appendices. Subjects: Great Britain Army Irish Guards. Irish Guards. Great Britain Army Irish guards History World War, 1914-1918. Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Great Britain Irish Guards. World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Ireland. World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Irish Guards Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918. 20th century texts. 20th century texts- Irish Guards World War. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Editions / First Print. Hardback copies in red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spines, gold gilt design to front boards, no dustjackets. 344pp; 310pp. B/w maps throughout. Not library copies, no inscriptions, previous owners bookplate to each ffep, some rubbing and marks to boards. (58/7)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: 2 Volumes. Good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: bookplate of Major R.B.Grosse. Physical description: 2 v. : maps ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: I. The First battalion -- II. The Second battalion and appendices. Subjects: Great Britain Army Irish Guards. Irish Guards. Great Britain Army Irish guards History World War, 1914-1918. Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Great Britain Irish Guards. World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Ireland. World War, 1914-1918 Regimental histories Irish Guards Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918. 20th century texts. 20th century texts- Irish Guards World War. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KIPLING, RUDYARD. The Irish Guards in the Great War [2 Vols.]. Macmillan & Co, London, 1923.
Price: US$186.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 6" x 9" Bound in red cloth with gilt seal to front, gilt title to spine gilt to top edge of leaves. Slight wear to cloth at edges, corners bumped, a few pages dogged, with a bit gilt on top edge of leaves rubed away.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$191.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards with minor rubbing to extremities. Endpapers yellowed. Former owner's notes on front free endpaper. ; Red boards with gilt vignette and gilt spine lettering. Top edge gilt. Kipling describes the battles that his son was killed in and that changed his life; 8vo; 344, 310 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$261.76 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig. red cloth with a single gilt decoration on the upper boards, xvi, 344; vi, 310, (2)pp.ads. Touch of rubbing, cloth slightly mottled on the inner edge but this is in fact an about fine copy. Stewart 503.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
KIPLING, Rudyard (ed.). The Irish Guards in the Great War. 2 Vols.. Macmillan, London, 1923.
Price: US$266.59 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: pp. 344. Numerous maps. Edited and compiles from their diaries and papers by Rudyard Kipling. Vol. 1: The First Battalion, Vol. 2: The Second Battalion and Appendices. Ink stain on fore-edge of one volume, otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Leather. 8vo Published by Macmillan and Co. , Limited, London, UK. 1923. Two Volumes. Xvi, 344 pgs; vi, 310 pgs. Illustrated with maps. Second printing. Bound in by Chas Sawyer of London in 3/4 brown gilt ruled leather with matching marble paper covered boards with titles and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate (Annie Cass Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray) present to the front pastedown, previous owner's gift inscription present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The standard history of the regiment in the Great War, including ROH, and awards & decorations. Kipling undertook the history of the regiment in WWI following the death in action of his son John at the Battle of Loos whilst serving with the Second Battalion; a personal tragedy from which the author never fully recovered. After five and a half years of research ('done with agony and bloody sweat') the work was immediately recognised as both a military and a literary masterpiece. EB; The Writings In Prose And Verse Of Rudyard Kipling
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xvi, 344; vi, 310, (2) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and with the regimental crest to the upper board, top edges gilt, dust jackets. 4 double page and 7 single page maps. Jacket spines browned and with a degree of wear and small losses to the extremities, occasional wear and discolouration to the cloth, more so to volume I, else a decent set with the uncommon jackets.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Rudyard Kipling. The Irish Guards in the Great War. Macmillan and Co, London, 1923.
Price: US$763.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The two volume first edition of Rudyard Kipling's account of the actions of the Irish Guards in the First World War, in the very scarce original dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the very scarce publisher's original unclipped dust wrappers.Edited and compiled from the diaries and papers of the Guards, Kipling details their importance in the war. The first volume covers the first battalion, and the second volume discusses the second battalion, and includes extensive appendices.With seven maps to volume I, and four to volume II. Collated, complete.Two pages of advertisements to the rear of volume II.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge of volume II strained. Dust wrappers age toned to back strips. Loss of paper to tail of rear wrap of volume I, with small losses to head and tail of back strip. Light edgewear to volume II back strip tail, with more significant edgewear and a closed tear to the head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with instances of light spotting to first and last few leaves, most prominent to volume II. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom