PatrickMcGahernBooks, Inc. (A.B.A.C.) since 1969 (Patrick & Liam McGahern) 783 Bank Street Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 3V5 Telephone (613)-230-2277 E Mail: [email protected] Hours: Monday to Saturday from 10:30 until 5:30 Catalogue No. 178 Rare, Scarce and Interesting Books We have over ten thousand books catalogued on the web ____________________________________________ Military History pages 1-25 & Canadiana pages 26-36 Catalogued by Clive Gilbert, Liam McGahern & Patrick McGahern Prices are in Canadian Funds. very good to fine copy, unusual in this binding . 100.00 MILITARY Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian Record Officer at the beginning of World War One, writes an early history 1. ADAMS, Henry of the 1st Canadian Division including the story of the History of the United States during the Adminis- gas attack at the First Battle of Ypres. With a chapter on tration of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. (Nine Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. The preface Books in 4 Volumes).. New York. Albert and Charles is by A . Bonar Law and the introduction by Sir Robert Boni. 1930. 19cm, in 4 volumes, xviii,437 & 474 & 458 & Borden. In very attractive leather binding. 369pp., with 23 colour maps, index, green cloth, gilt titles, a fine set in very good to fine jackets . 100.00 3. ALISON, Archibald “Despite occasional errors, known prejudices and The Military Life of John Duke of Marlborough. subsequent availability of considerable Canadian and Edinburgh & London. William Blackwood and Sons. British materials, the Adams account remains one of the 1848. 8vo. First Edition, xxvi,503,[6]p., with 6 double best ones of the War of 1812". - Smith 16. - A reprint of page engraved maps, complete with half title, in the the original nine-volume set originally published in 1889- original cloth, blind stamped decorations on the borders 1891. Henry Adams (1838-1918), the grandson of John gilt spine titles, new endpapers, white fade speckling on Quincy Adams, gives a classic account of the politics and the spine, expertly restored, very good to fine . 200.00 diplomacy in the early American republic. John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was one of England's greatest generals. He led British 2. AITKIN, Sir Max, (Lord Beaverbrook) and Allied armies to important victories over Louis XIV Canada in Flanders. London. Hodder and Stough- of France, notably at Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), ton. 1916. 19cm, 3rd edition, xx,243,(4)pp., frontis & 46 and Oudenaarde (1708). plate illustrations, maps (1 folding), honours & awards, appendices, bound in full dark blue morocco, blind and 4. ANGOLIA, John R. gilt stamped decorations on the spine and upper cover, On the Field of Honour. A History of the Knight’s gilt spine titles, t.e.g., wanting the front free endpaper, Cross Bearers. Stilwell, Kansas. The Author. 1979. 8vo, 22.7cm, in 2 volumes, 287 & 368pp., extensively Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. Page - 2 - MILITARY order line - 613-230-2277 illustrated, (portraits, plates etc), bibliography, glossary, of the RFC - RNAS who registered with the Committee colour illustrated pressed cloth, a fine set . 200.00 responsible for organizing the Anniversary Reunion A listing of over 500 awards, in the Second World held at Toronto, April 7th and 8th, 1958. Np. Reunion War, for the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Germany’s Commit-tee... 1958. 4to. 28cm, 14p., colour illustrated highest award for valour. Most entries include a portrait printed stiff wraps, very good to fine . 50.00 and commendation. Volume One is prefaced by a history Being a list of names and addresses. of the Iron Cross, 1813-1939. 13. ANONYMOUS. 5. ANONYMOUS. Vanguard. The Fort Garry Horse in the Second Canada’s Navy. A Wings Magazine Commemor- World War. Hoogezand, Holland. (Privately Printed). ative Issue. Calgary. Corbus Publishing. 1985. folio. August, 1945. 8vo. 24cm, 196p., with 2 coloured plates of 33cm,. 194p., richly illustrated in colour, printed wraps, a regimental crests and badges, folding map of the regi- fine copy . 25.00 ment path from June 6, 1944 to May 6, 1945, maps, Published during the Canadian Navy’s 75th Anni- photo-graphs, cartoons, pictorial stiff wraps, gilt titles & versary. decor-ation, plain spine faded else very good, rare 250.00 Cooke p275. - The regiment fought in France from 6. ANONYMOUS. D Day until the German surrender. This history was Canada’s Wings. Volume One: The Blackburn pub-lished shortly after the surrender based on records Shark. Np. Np. [1974] 27.5cm, 97p., illustrations and plus personal diaries; a compendium of facts and plans, internal and external library stamps, bound in impressions with a powerful sense of immediacy. library binding, very good . 45.00 The regiment was formed in Winnipeg in April, 1912. During the Great War of 1914-1918, it fought as a 7. ANONYMOUS. Field of Honour. The Second World War , 1939- unit of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade... as horsed 1945. [Montreal. Bank of Montreal. 1950.] 25.5cm, no cavalry. In the second war... as an armored regiment, pagination, portrait illustrations, very good . 35.00 fighting as a unit of the 2nd Canadian Armoured Contains biographies of staff who served in the Brigade... Its tanks were among the very first to land on war. the beaches of Normandy”. 8. ANON. By an Officer of the Royal Artillery. 14. ANONYMOUS From Sedan to Saarbruck, Via Verdun, Gravelotte, The War Claims Commission World War II. and Metz. London. Tinsley Brothers. 1870. 12mo, 19cm, Ottawa. Queen’s Printer. 1970. 25cm, viii,728p., gilt titles, 275p., ex-libris, red cloth, gilt titles, beveled boards, black fabrikoid, fine copy . 45.00 slightly faded else good to very good . 75.00 15. ANONYMOUS Begins with the aftermath of the battle at Sedan The Western Front 1914. Ottawa. The Historical which resulted in the French defeat and surrender of Section, General Staff Army Headquarters. Np. Nd. Napoleon III with 80,00 men on Sept 2, 1870 and the end 19.5cm, vi,192p., maps, appendix, stiff printed wraps, of the Franco-Prussian War. library stamp on front cover, a very good copy . 25.00 9. ANONYMOUS. [FLAGS]. 16. ANONYMOUS The Manual of Flag Etiquette. Reviewed & Accept- 433. Squadron History. Belleville. The Hangar ed as correct by the Lords’ Commissioners of the Admir- Bookshelf. 1985. Oblong. 21x26cm, 112p., numerous alty. London. Seeley Service & Co., nd. [193?]. 8vo. plates and illustrations, appendices, illustrated endpap- 21.5cm, first edition, 16p., printed light blue cloth over ers,, blue cloth, fine in fine jacket . 45.00 boards, some slight foxing else near fine . 50.00 RCAF Squadron Histories; series 10. ANONYMOUS 17. BAGSHAW, F.P. & R.M. Eassie & W.M. Scanlon. Musketry Regulations. Part 1. 1909.(Reprinted, with Published by permission of Lt.-Col. G.S. Tuxford. Amendments, 1914). General Staff, War Office. London. A Christmas Garland from the Front. Fifth Canad- His Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1914. 13cm, 320p., 34 ian Battalion, First Canadian Division, B.E.F., France and plates (some folding), appendix, index, book ads, maroon Belgium. Christmas, 1915 & New Year, 1916. London. cloth, frayed at edges, else very good . 45.00 Printed and Published by Geo. Pulman and Sons. [1916]. 4to. 116p., numerous plates, illustrations, drawings, 11. ANONYMOUS. cartoons and ads., plus many portrait plates & illustrat- No. 3. Canadian General Hospital (McGill) in ions, karkie green cloth, presentation copy to “Captain France, (1915, 1916, 1917). Views Illustrating Life and Bush, by officers of the 5th Canadian Infantry Battalion. Scenes in the Hosptial, with a short description of its Ori- 2-5-17". With nine of their signatures, very good to fine gin, Organization and Progress. Middlesbrough, copy, rare . 275.00 England, Engraved and Printed by Hood & Co. Sanbride An anthology of art and writing by Canadian soldiers. Works. n.d. [1918]. oblong. 19x 25cm, 12p text & 110 plates from photographs, plus 5p supplement being 1p 18. BASHOW, David L. page text on the death of Dr. John McCrae with 4 plates Starfighter. A Loving Retrospective of the Cf-104 from the ceremonies at his funeral, in printed brown Era in Canadian Fighter Aviation, 1961-1986. Stoney wraps, string ties, with an illustration laid down on the Creek. Fortress Publications Inc. 1990. Folio. 31.5cm, upper cover, one corner chipped, small chip to corner of 223p., heavily illustrated including colour, diagrams, wrap, else fine copy, rare . 200.00 appendices, index, dark blue cloth, illustrated dust Lt. Colonel John McCrae was Officer in charge of jacket, some highlighting else fine . 65.00 Medicine, and second in command of the Unit. His death The CF-104 Starfighter bridged the span of military occurred just as this book was going to press. aviation technology from the early post-war jets to the CF-18 and was Canada’s primary aviation contribution 12. ANONYMOUS to NATO in Western Europe. An impressively RFC - RNAS Anniversary Reunion. Roster of illustrated history. Warbirds. A list of the names of World War 1 members Email: [email protected] Page - 3 - MILITARY Catalogue 178 19. BEAL, Bob & Rod Macleod but good jacket, author’s signed presentation copy to the Prairie Fire. The 1885 North-West Rebellion. Hon. Henry D. Hicks, Premier of Nova Scotia, with the Edmon-ton. Hurtig Publishers. 1984. 8vo, 23cm, 384p., compliments of Will R. Bird . 125.00 numerous illustrations, 5 maps, notes, bibliography, index, red cloth, fine in fine illustrated jacket . 30.00 25. BLACKBURN, George G. The first comprehensive history of the Rebellion of The Guns of Victory A Soldier’s Eye View, Bel- 1885 in the Canadian West. The authors have gium, Holland, and Germany, 1944-45. Toronto. incorporated newly discovered manuscripts and diaries, McClelland and Stewart. 1996. 8vo. 24cm, first edition, Metis’ and settlers’ accounts, and Riel’s own writings.