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Melbourne: Greenhouse Publications, 1988. x, 155pp, 17 bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Near new. Biography of Sir William Robertson who enlisted in the British Army in 1877, rising to Field-Marshal in 1920. Along the way he served in India and the South African War.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Delhi, India: Facsimile Publisher, 2017. VG. Facsimile edition, first edition thus. Paperback. (iv),xix,396pp. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece, sixteen photographs and a map of India. The autobiography of Field-Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson (1860-1933), who was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) - the professional head of the British Army from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War. He is the only soldier in the history of the British Army to have risen from the rank of private to its highest rank of field-marshal. . Facsimile Edition, First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1921. 1st Edition. Brown Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. Illustrated. xviipp; 396pp. A first edition copy . Bound in brown cloth boards with gilt embossed lettering to the spine. Illustrated with 17 full page plates as called for, including a frontispiece plate with tissue guard and a fold out map. The head and tail of the spine are bumped with a 0.5 cm split to the cloth at the head and the tail of the spine with a couple of other niks to the head of the spine. Three board corners are lightly bumped and turned in and there is a contemporary bookplate of George Sinclair Stevenson to the front end paper. Some foxing to the fore edges, half title page and one to the title page. Two page corners are turned, leaving a neat crease. Clean and tight. A very good copy.

Houghton Mifflin, 1921., 1921. NAP. 396p. Photos. 1 Map. Career 1877-1920. Chitral Relief Force, Staff officer in the Boer War, Chief of Foreign Intelligence Section in the War Office, Commandant Staff College, Chief of General Staff of BEF, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1916 to 1918. Commander of the British Army of the Rhine 1919. Original cloth. Heavy. Cover soiled, darkened. Very Good copy. Hardcover. Very Good. Book.

Houghton Mifflin, 1921., 1921. NAP. 396p. Photos. 1 Map. Career 1877-1920. Chitral Relief Force, Staff officer in the Boer War, Chief of Foreign Intelligence Section in the War Office, Commandant Staff College, Chief of General Staff of BEF, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1916 to 1918. Commander of the British Army of the Rhine 1919. Original cloth. Heavy. Cover sunned. darkened. Bookplate. Owner's name. Front hinge cracked/repaired. Good copy. Hardcover. Good. Book.

London: Constable & Co, 1921. xix, 396pp, index, 17 bw ills, map. Or maroon cloth. Some toning to endpapers and edges. Nice clean copy of thebiography of Sir William Robertson who enlisted in the British Army in 1877, rising to Field-Marshal in 1920. Along the way he served in India and the South African War.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Constable,, 1921. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), plates and folding map; original red cloth, gilt back, top and fore-edge lightly age-soiled, small pull at headband else a bright, clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of John George Scott, Librarian at RE Headquarters Library, and has one or two relevant cuttings (including an appreciation) mounted on front free endpaper and elsewhere.