Scotland The Brave: The Story of The Scottish Soldier por Laffin, John - 1963

London: Cassell, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1963. First Edition. 191 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Frontis is detached and taped to pages. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front pastedown. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Tanning to spine and edges.

Severn House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Cassell. Good+. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book and unclipped dust jacket are crisp and clean. Front free endpage is missing. Black marker box at bottom of title page. Slight spine slant. Photo illustrations. 8vo. 191 pp. Including index. In protective Mylar. .

London: White Lion Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0856171069 . Tight square unmarked book in rubbed DJ with light chipping. ; 192 pages .

London: Cassell & Co, 1963 Copy in beige cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket slightly scuffed. Light crack in front hinge. Sporadic light foxing to folio edges. Slight foxing to early and late folios. Clean text with b/w plates.

Cassell. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Cassell. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. Mild spotting to text block edge, previous owner's person lib stamp to corner of ffep, dw has fade to spine, wear to spine ends and corners, price-clipped.; 220x140mm; 191 pages .

This is a near-perfect copy of Scotland the Brave: The Story of the Scottish Soldier, by the Australian military historian John Laffin (1922-2000). It was originally published in 1963, then White Lion re-published it in 1974. This is a copy of the White Lion edition.
It is an account of the involvement of Scottish regiments in conflicts through the years. Includes 12 regiments plus an account of the character, the humor, the politics, the V.C. winners and general life in these regiments. 191 pages including index and many illustrations.
This copy has an unclipped dust jacket with almost no shelfwear. Excellent condition.

London: White Lion, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0.

Scotland the Brave: The Story of the Scottish Soldier, John Laffin. Published by Cassell, London, 1963. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xix, 191; coloured frontispiece, 2 coloured plates, 24pp. of black and white photographs, index. Brown cloth boards with green spine titles. Bookplate to free endpaper which is also wavy, otherwise contents are free of markings, folds, or tears. Unclipped jacket has light shelf wear.