bernard callinan (27 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. INTERESTING ACCOUNT ORIGINAL DELIVERED AT A MEMORIAL LECTURE. 29PP.,Portrait to cover, vgc card covers 0.0.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. This living narrative, written from a personal experience of the difficulties and privations encountered by the 2/2 and 2/4 Independent Companies, can be read as a splendid adventure story; periods of intense excitement follow in quick succession throughout the constant planning and execution of guerrilla attacks upon the always numerically superior enemy. An extraordinary account of commando-type units and their successful campaign. **The name of the previous owner is inside the frontispiece.**.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. This living narrative, written from personal experience of the difficulties and privations encountered by the 2/2 and 2/4 Independent Companies, can be read as a splendid adventure story: periods of intense excitement follow in quick succession throughout the constant planing and execution of guerrilla attacks upon the always numerically superior enemy. An extraordinary of commando-type units and their successful campaign. **The book has heavy tanning at the edges and on the frontispiece and endpage.**.

8vo (21.5x14cm), stapled wrapper, 29pp. Good condition. General light wear. Owner's address stamped at lower margin of first page. ISBN: 0522842348. Pictures available on request.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Fine First Edition. Softcover. Dedicated and SIGNED by the author on title page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Large tear to DJ spine repaired with tape.

1st edition stiff wrappers Fine small octavo 29pp., frontis., Originally delivered as the Daniel Mannix Memorial Lecture at the University of Melbourne. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy. Scarce.

8vo (21.5x14cm), stapled wrapper, 29pp. Very good condition. General light wear and creasing. Warren Perry's copy, with an inscription to him from the author at title page, and with a copy of a proposed review by Warren Perry, and also a copy of a typed letter from Warren Perry to the author laid in. Pictures available on request.

8vo (21.5x14cm), stapled wrappers, 29pp. Good condition. General light wear, mild creasing, rubbed, marks at lower left front. Presentation copy, signed to 'Gen. J.C. Hughes' by the author at half-title. ISBN: 0522842348. Pictures available on request. This item is light and may attract less postage.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. William Heinemann Ltd London 1953 First Edition VG (dark green cloth w title in gilt on spine, sl worn, head and foot of spine v ls bumped, edges sl darkened, maps on endpapers, bw photos) in VG- DW (worn, chipping and creasing, closed tears repaired internally, plastic protected).

Small softcovers, 21.5x14cm, 29pages, frontis, faint horizontal crease to front cover, previous owners name. Originally delivered as the Daniel Mannix Memorial Lecture at the University of Melbourne.

First Edition. Pp. vi+30(last blank), frontispiece portrait; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle soiled, slightly worn at foot of backstrip; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981. First edition. *Paper originally delivered as the Daniel Mannix Memorial Lecture to the Newman College Students' Club, University of Melbourne, June 1980.

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Nice Copy small octavo xxxiii + 235pp., b/w plates., maps, index, 2/2 & 2/4 Independent Comps. in Portuguese Timor 1941-43. Heavy toning to end papers o/w a nice copy.

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Very Good small octavo xxxiii + 235pp., b/w plates, maps, index, 2/2 & 2/4 Independent Comps. in Portuguese Timor 1941-43. Pages toning o/w a very good copy.

1st edition stiff wrappers Nice Copy small octavo 29pp., frontis., Originally delivered as the Daniel Mannix Memorial Lecture at the University of Melbourne. Scarce.

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Nice Copy small octavo xxxiii + 235pp., b/w plates., maps, index, 2/2 & 2/4 Independent Comps. in Portuguese Timor 1941-43.

1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy 8vo. xxxiii + 235pp., frontis., b/w plates, maps, index, 2/2 & 2/4 Independent Comps. in Portuguese Timor 1941-43. No dust jacket o/w a nice copy of the scarce first edition.

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers As New small octavo xxxiii + 235pp., b/w plates., maps, index, 2/2 & 2/4 Independent Comps. in Portuguese Timor 1941-43.

reprint orig. cloth Very Good octavo xxxiii + 235pp., frontis., b/w pls., maps, index, 2/2 & 2/4 Independent Comps. in Portuguese Timor 1941-43. Cloth a little worn o/w VG.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers pp xxxiii, 235, index, 37 illustrations, 6 text maps, 2 eps maps. Light wear to card edges, page edges lightly browned; a very good copy. Introductory chapter by Nevil Shute. Account of Australian commando-type units and their succesful campaign in Timor. Forced back into the mountains, the men of the 2/2 and 2/4 Independent Companies organised a guerrilla war. They refused to surrender and became the only Allied force between India and New Guinea which defied the enemy.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. xxxiii, 235pp, index, bw ills, maps, endpaper maps. Green cloth in jacket. Jacket rubbed at folds with several very small chips at edges. Offset toning to endpapers, minor foxing to page edges and prelim, brief gift note opposite half-title. Australian WWII unit history. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. xxxiii, 235 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. "A campaign complete in itself in which some three hundred Australians waged a successful war against thousands of Japanese, and held them in Timor when they could have been employed more profitably in the Japanese interests in other parts of the Pacific - they might even have been used for landings on the mainland of Australia." - Foreword. Armorial bookplate upon recto of frontispiece. Bit of red writing on page 2. Average wear. Binding intact. Dust jacket not included. A sound copy. Ensor p.47. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1st ed. thus dust jacket Very Nice Copy small octavo xxxiii + 235pp., b/w plates., maps, index, 2/2 & 2/4 Independent Comps. in Portuguese Timor 1941-43. Presentation copy signed by Bernard (Callinan) on the half-title.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: no dj. Independent Company. Book.

1st ed. thus dust jacket As New small octavo xxxiii + 235pp., b/w plates, maps, index, 2/2 & 2/4 Independent Comps. in Portuguese Timor 1941-43.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice Copy 8vo. xxxiii + 235pp., frontis., b/w plates, maps, index, Dust jacket rather chipped o/w a nice copy of the scarce first edition.

Or.cl. (edges sl.rubbed) 235pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. An Australian military classic.