Auction Catalogue

15 December 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 843

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15 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£85

Roberts of Kandahar, Field Marshal Earl, Forty-One Years in India, from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief, Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1911, xxii, 601pp, with maps and plates, half title page signed, ‘Captain F. Nolan Baker from the Author, November 1911, original red cloth; Caines, Captain W. E., Earl Roberts as a Soldier in Peace and War, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1901, 331pp, red cloth; Riach, M., From Lieutenant to Field-Marshal, A Life of Lord Roberts, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd., London, vii, 184pp, plus plates, original coloured cloth cover; Creagh, General Sir O’Moore, The Autobiography of General Sir O’Moore Creagh, V.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., Hutchinson & Co., London, c.1925, ix, 304pp, plus plates, blue cloth; Innes, General J. J. McLeod, The Life and Times of General Sir James Browne, R.E., K.C.B., K.C.S.I. (Buster Browne), John Murray, London, 1905, xxii, 371pp, plus plates, red cloth; Anon, Wonderful Stories Winning the V.C. in the Great War, Hutchinson & Co., London, vii, 280pp, plus plates (from ‘Deeds that thrill the Empire’), inside page inscribed, ‘Wm. M. Lummis, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Batt. Suffolk Regiment, The Wood, Bus-le-Artois, Somme, France 2 January 1917’, original coloured cloth, good condition (6) £50-70