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William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1906. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1906. Second Edition. 511 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Rough-cut pages. Black and white photographic plates. 2 maps in folder to rear board. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages, plates and map panels. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Visible creasing to map fold lines. Light cracking and staining to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible rubbing, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning and minor ink staining with soft splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo, xiv + 511 pages. Red pebbled cloth covers with gilt titles -- some dulling to covers. Two folding maps in text and two folded maps in rear pocket. Includes black and white photo reproductions. Slight foxing on endpapers. 061508A

William Blackwood. Edinburgh and London. 1906. Second edition (same year as the first). 8vo. xiv, 511pp. Frontis., 23 plates, 4 maps and plans, two folding in rear pocket. Original cloth, gilt. Faded and rubbed to spine. Hinges tender. Toned, with some spotting. Endpapers browned. Neat inscription to ffep.
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett (1881 - 1931) War correspondent. "I joined the Third Army at the commencement of August 1904, just before the first assault, remained attached to General Nogis headquarters until January 17, 1905, and entered the fortress with the victorious Japanese - one of my chief objects to place on record the obsolete method of fighting which characterised the siege - how men meet in masses to settle the disputes of their governments with bayonet, clubbed rifle and hand-grenade".
August 4, 1904 - January 2, 1905, the siege of Port Arthur on the Liaodong Peninsular of Manchuria was the longest battle of the Russo-Japanese War.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1906. 24 plates, 2 folding maps and 2 maps in pocket at rear. Collated. Foxing. Spine bumped.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1906. 1st edition. Near Fine. octavo. orig. cloth xiv + 511pp., frontis., b/w pls., maps, appendix, index, Maps in rear pocket. Darkened at spine & some minor annotations to prelims. o/w nice clean, tight copy