Search Results: adventures in the rifle brigade by kincaid sir john

Hardback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

Hodder And Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. 237 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth. Insert to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Paperback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Glasgow: R Drew Pub. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0904002837 . Slight damage to front pastedown (a label removed) ow book & jacket In 'read once' condition, slight signs of ownership / shelf wear ow clean, tight & bright, as new. ; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 256 pages. .

Spellmount, 1998. Hardcover. Fine. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 351 pages. Black boards. Part of the The Spellmount Library of Military History. With introduction by Ian Fletcher.

Richard Drew Publishing Ltd. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1981. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. 0904002837 . Facsimile reprint of the 1909 text, dw has rub to corners, with sl tear to one, sl rub spot to head of spine, yellowing with sl fade to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages .

Oxford University Press, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 237 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Light tanning to spine and edges.

London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1919. Repr . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Herbert Strang's Library. Hardback: colour frontispiece, covers are slightly rubbed on the edges, round colour pictorial onlay on front, cloth spine (not original?), tips are slightly worn, small piece missing from lower edge of front flyleaf, inscription on reverse of frontispiece, half title browned, else g. 8vo, 287pp.

Richard Drew Publishing 1981. 1981. Hardcover. 8vo hardcover 302pp. very good / very good d/w. The Rifle Brigade, one of the most distinguished regiments in the British army, was formed in the early years of the nineteenth century, when England was in the midst of its long struggle with Napoleon. Known at first as the Ninety-fifth Rifles, it had the great advantage of being trained, from the beginning, by officers who were not merely enthusiastic, but thoughtful and in advance of their time and the fruits of this training were seen on many a battlefield from Corunna to the crowning glory of Waterloo. In these days, when the magazine rifle has reached so high a degree of precision as to be deadly at a range of more than a mile, it is not easy for us to realize how clumsy were the weapons with which our soldiers won their most famous victories. Until the general adoption of the rifle about sixty years ago, the fire-arm in common use was the Brown Bess, a heavy smooth-bore musket, whose effective range… Read More

London: MacLaren. Good+. N.D.. Hardcover. Octavo, scarlet boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt lettering & blind stamp decoration to front board, teg, frontispiece, vii + 302pp, illus, some splitting to cloth at spine edge & nicks to spine edges; ex libris sticker inside front cover and ownership name on fep (not author) ; occasional foxing to page edges & eps, G+; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Howell Press, 2008-06-05. Paperback. Very Good. 3.5973 in x 21.7834 in x 14.5889 in.

Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 1997-09-01. Hardcover. Good. 1x6x9. Unclipped dust jacket. Sloped spine. Slight wear present. Scruff marks on the front cover, back cover and at the sides of every page. Fold creasing present. Foxing. Small mark on every page. Discolouration present.

Scotland: Richard Drew , 1981. Hard covers in tidy condition with a similar dust jacket. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New.

Glasgow: Richard Drew Publishing Ltd, 1981. Reprint. . Hardcover. Vg/G+. 302pp. Ink name label on fr.fly . Book club sticker on fr. e/p. Crayon'D' on final e/p. Size: Cr.8vo

Paperback / softback. New.

Richard Drew Publishing. 1981 Hardback ISBN 0904002837 Covers are slightly softened at spine ends and leans slightly. Owners name on front end paper. Text is clean and unmarked. Dustwrapper has wear at corners of the flap, a one inch tear and is repaired with sellotape on the inside. Originally published in two separate volumes in 1830 and 1835. They were subsequently published in an abridged form in combined edition in 1909 This edition is a facsimile reprint of the 1909 text. Captain Sir John Kincaid's first hand account of the Spanish Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign is a military classic. 302 pages Wt 0.6 Kg Good ( Good)