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Air Ministry. WINGS OF THE PHOENIX. |
£12.00 |
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The official story of the Air War in Burma. 143pp. 5 maps and 22 photographs. Very good in chipped dustwrapper with some loss to the spine panel. 1949 First edition, HMSO. |
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Anon. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BURMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. |
£40.00 |
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134pp. There is no title page but no indication of anything having been removed. Stiff card boards with cloth backstrip. Very good. No date (1950s) Rangoon. |
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Anon. BURMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL REPORTS FOR 1955-1956. |
£25.00 |
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83pp. List of current members and former officers back to 1877. Stiff card boards with cloth backstrip. Very good. No date (1950s) Rangoon. |
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Arnold, Sue. A BURMESE LEGACY. |
£10.00 |
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Rediscovering my Family. 210pp. By journalist with two British and two Burmese grandparents. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Aung Thaw. HISTORICAL SITES IN BURMA. |
£14.00 |
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157pp. Index. Map. Many illustrations in colour and b/w. Card covers. Very good in chipped dw. 1978 Second edition, Government of Burma. |
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Aung Thaw. HISTORICAL SITES IN BURMA. |
£12.00 |
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157pp. Index. Map. Many illustrations in colour and b/w. Card covers. Very good in chipped dw. Section cut from blank front endpaper. 1978 Second edition, Government of Burma. |
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Baird-Murray, Maureen. A WORLD OVERTURNED. |
£10.00 |
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A Burmese Childhood 1933-47. 180pp. 21 b/w photographs. Autobiography of daughter of Irish administrator, Assistant Superintendent at Lashio, and his Burmese wife. Fine. 1998 Paperback reprint, Constable. |
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Baker, Richard. BURMA POST. |
£15.00 |
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A personal story of airmails and other activities in the Burma campaign, 1944-45. 150pp. Map. Card covers. In charge of the Army Post Office in Burma. Fine. 1989 Churchman, Worthing. |
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Blackburn, Terence R. AN ILL-CONDITIONED CAD: MR MOYLAN OF 'THE TIMES'. |
£25.00 |
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Actors on the Burmese Stage. A Trilogy of the Anglo-Burmese Wars. Volume Three. 75pp. Map. 21 b/w illustrations. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi. |
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Blackburn, Terence R. A SADISTIC SCHOLAR: CAPTAIN LATTER'S WAR. |
£15.00 |
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Actors on the Burmese Stage. A Trilogy of the Anglo-Burmese Wars. Volume Two. 109pp. Map. 16 illustrations in colour and b/w. Very good in very good dustwrapper but 2 pages of plates have stuck together. 2002 First edition, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi. |
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Bradley, Neville. THE OLD BURMA ROAD. |
£10.00 |
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A Journey on Foot and Muleback. 138pp. 17 plates. The trade route from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo in 1930. Boards rubbed. Owner's name. 1945 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Braund, H.E.W. CALLING TO MIND. |
£22.00 |
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An account of the first hundred years of Steel Brothers and Company Limited. 151pp. Index. Trading with Burma from 1870 in teak, rice and oil. Fine in very good dw with faded spine panel. The company's presentation label 1975 First edition, Pergamon Press. |
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Braund, Harold. DISTINCTLY I REMEMBER. |
£15.00 |
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A Personal Story of Burma. 296pp. Index. In Burma 1934-45 with Steel Brothers and the Chin Levies. Foreword by Bernard Fergusson. Fine in chipped dustwrapper. 1972 First edition, Wren, Australia. |
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Brett-James, Anthony. BALL OF FIRE. |
£85.00 |
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The Fifth Indian Division in the Second World War. 481pp. Index. 66 b/w illustrations and 12 maps. Service in the Western Desert and Burma. Very good indeed in complete dustwrapper with slight rubbing to head and tail of spine panel 1951 First edition, Gale and Polden, Aldershot. |
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Bryant, Raymond L. THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF FORESTRY IN BURMA 1824-1994. |
£16.00 |
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257pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Hurst & Company. |
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Burchett, W.G. WINGATE'S PHANTOM ARMY. |
£14.00 |
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240pp. Folding map. Photographs. War correspondent's account. Very good. Corners and edges a little rubbed. 1944 Second impression, Thacker & Co., Bombay. |
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Butwell, Richard. U NU OF BURMA. |
£14.00 |
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301pp. Index. 10 photographs in b/w. Hardback. Very good. 1963 First edition, Stanford University Press. |
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Callahan, Raymond. BURMA 1942-1945. |
£16.00 |
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242pp. Index. A study of strategy and politics. Fine in very good dw. 1978 First edition, Davis-Poynter. |
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Callahan, Raymond. BURMA 1942-1945. |
£21.00 |
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242pp. Index. A study of strategy and politics. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, Davis-Poynter. |
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Campbell, Arthur. THE SIEGE. |
£10.00 |
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A Story from Kohima. 211pp. Endpaper maps. 6 b/w illustrations and 4 maps in the text. Fine in fine dw. 1956 Reprint, Allen and Unwin. |
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Chase, Dormer Augustus. ANGLO-BURMESE HANDBOOK |
£43.00 |
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or Guide to a Practical Knowledge of the Burmese Language 209pp. Revised by F.D.Phinney. By Lietenant in the Bengal Native Infantry. Poor. Boards stained and binding cracked but holding. 1890 Second edition revised, American Baptist Mission Press, Rangoon. |
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Clements, Alan and Kean, Leslie. BURMA'S REVOLUTION OF THE SPIRIT. |
£21.00 |
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The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity. 112pp. 4to. Photographs mostly in colour. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First, Aperture Books, New York. |
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Collis, Maurice. THE GRAND PEREGRINATION. |
£16.00 |
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Being the Life and Adventures of Fernao Mendes Pinto. 313pp. Index. 13 illustrations. 16th century Portuguese adventurer travels from India through Burma and Siam to Japan. Very good indeed. Slight spotting to endpapers. 1949 Reprint, Faber & Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. SHE WAS A QUEEN. |
£21.00 |
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301pp. Folding map. 17 plates. 13th Century Burmese history reconstructed from 19th century chronicle. Very good. Light boards a little darkened. 1937 First edition, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. TRIALS IN BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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239pp. Index. First published in 1938. Powerful account of his experiences as Deputy Magistrate of Rangoon trying politically sensitive cases in 1930. The tensions between justice and empire. Ex-public library copy in the original binding. Two pages are misbound but all are present. Very good. 1953 New edition, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. THE LAND OF THE GREAT IMAGE. |
£12.00 |
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Being Experieces of Friar Manrique in Arakan. 259pp. Index. Folding map. From Goa into Bengal and Burma in the 17th century. Very good. 1943 Second impression, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. THE LAND OF THE GREAT IMAGE. |
£13.00 |
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Being Experieces of Friar Manrique in Arakan. 259pp. Index. Folding map. From Goa into Bengal and Burma in the 17th century. Very good in very good dw. Owner's name. 1943 Second impression, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. THE DESCENT OF THE GOD. |
£5.00 |
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147pp. Set on the island of Manaung on the coast of Burma where the author was magistrate. In original lilac cloth with silver lettering. A sound copy but someone has stuck a picture of flowers to the front board. 1948 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. TRIALS IN BURMA. |
£24.00 |
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294pp. His experiences as Deputy Magistrate of Rangoon. Very good internally but boards rubbed and top of spine starting to fray. Owner's name. Slight slant to spine. 1938 First edition, Faber. |
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Collis, Maurice. LAST AND FIRST IN BURMA. |
£25.00 |
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(1941-48). 303pp. Index. 16 b/w illustrations. Folding map. An account of the end of British rule. Boards a little rubbed but a sound copy. Owner's name. 1956 First edition, Faber. |
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Cooper, Ashley. THE KHYBER CONNECTION. |
£10.00 |
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The Furrow and the Raj. 238pp. Index. Card covers. 48 b/w photographs. Explores the multitude of links between people in rural Suffolk and the experience of India and Burma. Reminiscences and memorials illuminated by the author's travels. An unusual and interesting perspective. Very good. 1985 First Bulmer. |
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Cox, E.H.M. FARRER'S LAST JOURNEY. |
£95.00 |
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Upper Burma, 1919-20. 244pp. Index. 28 plates of b/w photographs. Endpaper maps. Account of the plant-hunting expedition on which Farrer died. Very good in chipped dw. 1926 First edition, Dulau & Co. |
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Crosthwaite, Sir Charles. THE PACIFICATION OF BURMA. |
£145.00 |
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355pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs and 5 maps. The author was Chief Commisioner of Burma 1887-1890 reponsible for the civil administration subsequent to annexation. All plates fine. Binding sound but boards rubbed and just starting to fray. Some spotting throughout. 1912 First edition, Edwin Arnold. |
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Crow, Carl. THE LONG ROAD BACK TO CHINA. |
£12.00 |
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The Burma Road Wartime Diaries. 246pp. Card covers. American journalist travels in 1939 from Rangoon, expecting Japanese attack, to Chongqing, already at war. Fine. 2009 Earnshaw Books, Hong Kong. |
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Donnison, F.S.V. BURMA |
£16.00 |
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263pp. Index. 27 b/w photographs. Folding map. In the 'Nations of the Modern World' series. ICS author served in Burma from 1922-46. Fine in very good dw. 1970 First edition, Benn. |
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Doulton, Lieut.General A.J.F. THE FIGHTING COCK. |
£65.00 |
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Being the History of the 23rd Indian Division 1942-1947. 318pp. Index. 14 b/w photographs and 20 maps. Service in Burma and Java. Very good indeed in complete dustwrapper with badly faded spine panel. Yellow cloth very clean and bright. Slight spotting to fore-edge. 1951 First edition, Gale & Polden, Aldershot. |
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Eldridge, Fred. WRATH IN BURMA. |
£21.00 |
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The Uncensored Story of General Stillwell. 320pp. 21 b/w photographs. Endpaper maps. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1946 First edition, Doubleday, New York. |
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Falla, Jonathan. TRUE LOVE AND BARTHOLOMEW. |
£16.00 |
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Rebels on the Burmese Border. 400pp. Index. 20 photographs. Living with the Karen people. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Fay, Peter Ward. THE FORGOTTEN ARMY. |
£10.00 |
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India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945. 573pp. Index. Full account of Bose and the INA. Seen from the individual perspectives of participants. Card covers. Fine. 1995, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor |
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Fay, Peter Ward. THE FORGOTTEN ARMY. |
£18.00 |
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India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945. 573pp. Index. Full account of Bose and the INA. Seen from the individual perspectives of participants. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First edition, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. |
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Fellowes-Gordon, Ian. THE BATTLE FOR NAW SENG'S KINGDOM. |
£16.00 |
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General Stilwell's North Burma Campaign and its Aftermath. 176pp. The story of the Kachin Levies. Very good in very good dw. 1971 First edition, Leo Cooper |
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Fergusson, Bernard. WAVELL PORTRAIT OF A SOLDIER. |
£10.00 |
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96pp. Very good. 1961 First edition, Collins. |
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Fergusson, Bernard. THE WILD GREEN EARTH. |
£10.00 |
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288pp. Index. 5 maps. With the second Chindit expedition of 1944. Very good. Owner's name. 1946 First edition, Collins. |
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Fink, Christina. LIVING SILENCE. |
£10.00 |
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Burma under Military Rule. 286pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2001 Zed Books. |
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Fischer, Edward. MISSION IN BURMA. |
£16.00 |
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The Columban Fathers' Forty-three Years in Kachin Country. 164pp. 33 b/w photographs. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1980 First edition, The Seabury Press, New York. |
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Foucar, E.C.V. MANDALAY THE GOLDEN. |
£12.00 |
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240pp. Index. The story of the city from its foundation to the end of the Second Word War. Very good. 1963 First edition, Dobson. |
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Fraser, George Macdonald. QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE. |
£25.00 |
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A Recollection of the War in Burma. 225pp + glossary. Very good indeed in near-fine dustwrapper. Owners name on endpaper. A few marks from sellotape once protecting the wrapper. 1992 Second printing, Harvill. |
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Fraser, George Macdonald. QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE. |
£35.00 |
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A Recollection of the War in Burma. 225pp + glossary. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1992 First edition. Harvill. |
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Ghosh, Parimal. BRAVE MEN OF THE HILLS. |
£14.00 |
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Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932. 197pp. Index. Map. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, University of Hawaii Press. |
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Ghosh, Parimal. BRAVE MEN OF THE HILLS. |
£14.00 |
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Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932. 197pp. Index. Map. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Hurst and Company |
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Ghosh, Parimal. BRAVE MEN OF THE HILLS. |
£14.00 |
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Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932. 197pp. Index. Map. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Hurst & Co. |
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Ghosh, Parimal. BRAVE MEN OF THE HILLS. |
£14.00 |
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Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932. 197pp. Index. Map. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, Hurst. |
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Goode, Fred C. NO SURRENDER IN BURMA |
£12.00 |
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Operations behind Japanese Lines, Captivity and Torture. 246pp. Index. 19 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2014 First edition, Pen & Sword. |
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Graham, Gordon and Cole, Frank. THE BURMA CAMPAIGN MEMORIAL LIBRARY. |
£15.00 |
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Descriptive Catalogue and Bibliography. 150pp. Card covers. Index of titles relating to the war in Burma. Organised in 24 sections on different aspect of events such as 'The War in the Air' etc.. Fine. 1999 First edition, School of African and Oriental Studies. |
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Green Hearts Environment Network. THE SKETCH OF A RIVER: THE AYEYARWADY. |
£25.00 |
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190pp. 4to landscape. Short text and captions in Burmese and English to over 250 colour photographs of the Irrawaddy from the Himalayas to the ocean. A collection of photographs by Burmese photographers exhibited in 2010 Very good indeed in like dustwrapper. No date (after 2010), Green Hearts, Burma. |
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Greenwood, Nicholas. GUIDE TO BURMA. |
£5.00 |
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224pp. Paperback. Colour photographs. Fine. 1993 First edition, Brandt. |
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Greenwood, Nicholas. BURMA THEN AND NOW. |
£14.00 |
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289pp. Index. Presentation copy signed by the author. Fine in fine dw. 1995 Second edition, Bradt. |
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Griswold, A.B., Kim, C.H. and Pott., C.H. BURMA KOREA TIBET. |
£21.00 |
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Art of the World. 277pp. Index. 71 illustrations in colour tipped-in, 5 maps and many further illustrations in b/w. Very good in very good original slipcase. Inscription. 1964 First edition, Methuen. |
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Hall, Gordon Langley. GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. |
£14.00 |
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The story of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first American woman missionary in Burma, 255pp. Mission to convert the Burmese in 1812. Fine in torn dw. Owner's name. 1961 First edition, Macrae Smith, Philadelphia. |
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Hall, Gordon Langley. GOLDEN BOATS FROM BURMA. |
£16.00 |
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The story of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first American woman missionary in Burma, 255pp. Mission to convert the Burmese in 1812. Fine in very good dw. 1961 First edition, Macrae Smith, Philadelphia. |
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Hall, H.Fielding. THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE. |
£21.00 |
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314pp. Aspects of Burmese culture and society. Very good. 1908 Reprint Macmillan. |
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Hall, H.Fielding. THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE. |
£21.00 |
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314pp. Aspects of Burmese culture and society. Very good. 1904, Reprint Macmillan. |
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Hall, H.Fielding. THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE. |
£21.00 |
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314pp. Aspects of Burmese culture and society. Very good. 1915 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Hall, H.Fielding. THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE. |
£15.00 |
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314pp. Aspects of Burmese culture and society. Very good internally. Spine and corners rubbed. 1917 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Halton, Elaine. LORD OF THE CELESTIAL ELEPHANT. |
£20.00 |
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144pp. Card covers. The life of the last Crown Prince of Burma exiled and detained by the British for 67 years. Fine. 1999 for the author. |
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Harvey, G.E. HISTORY OF BURMA |
£58.00 |
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from the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824, the Beginning of the English Conquest. 415pp. Index. 7 illustrations and 5 coloured maps. Facsimile reprint of 1925 original. Fine. 1967 Reprint, Octagon Books, New York. |
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Harvey, G.E. HISTORY OF BURMA |
£85.00 |
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from the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824, the Beginning of the English Conquest. 415pp. Index. 7 illustrations and 5 coloured maps. Very good indeed. A lovely copy. 1925 First edition, Longmans, Green & Co. |
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Hemingway, Kenneth. WINGS OVER BURMA. |
£15.00 |
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192pp. 37 b/w photographs. Descriptions of air combat during the retreat from Burma. Very good. Some fading to boards. Inscription dated 1944 on front endpaper. 1944 First edition, Quality Press. |
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Hickey, Colonel Michael THE UNFORGETTABLE ARMY. |
£10.00 |
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Slim's XIVth Army in Burma. 318pp. Index. 48 b/w photographs and 9 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1992 Reprint, BCA. |
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Humphreys, Roy. TO STOP A RISING SUN. |
£12.00 |
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Reminiscences of Wartime India and Burma. 214pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. A collection of soldier's accounts. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Allan Sutton. |
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Irwin, Hugo. GARLANDS GALORE. |
£10.00 |
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Recollections of an oil merchant in the East. 192pp. Card covers. B/w photographs. A lively oil business career in India from 1930 and WW2 flying in Burma. Fine. 1983 Totnes, Devon for the author. |
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Karaka, D.F. WITH THE 14th ARMY. |
£10.00 |
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116pp. The personal diary of Indian war correspondent in Burma who had been President of the Oxford Union. Very good. Paper darkening. 1945 Dorothy Crisp. |
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Khaing, Mi Mi. BURMESE FAMILY. |
£12.00 |
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138pp. Drawings. Memories of family life in Mulmein described in loving detail. Written during wartime exile in India. A little rubbed and soiled and slack but a sound copy. 1946 First edition, Longmans, India. |
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Khaing, Mi Mi. BURMESE FAMILY. |
£12.00 |
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138pp. Drawings. Memories of family life in Mulmein described in loving detail. Written during wartime exile in India. A little rubbed and soiled and slack but a sound copy. 1946 First edition, Longmans, India. |
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Khin Ye. THE DOBAMA MOVEMENT IN BURMA (1930-1938). |
£17.00 |
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140pp. Card covers. Study of nationalist movement. Fine. 1988 Cornell University, New York. |
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Kingdon-Ward, F. RETURN TO THE IRRAWADDY. |
£68.00 |
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224pp. Index. 46 illustrations and a folding map. Plant-hunting in the mountains of North Burma. Very good indeed in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 1956 First edition, Andrew Melrose. |
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Leach, E.R. POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN HIGHLAND BURMA. |
£22.00 |
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A Study of Kachin Social Structure. 324pp. Index. Very good in edge-rubbed dw. 1970 Reprint, The Athlone Press. |
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Leach, E.R. POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN HIGHLAND BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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Leach, E.R. POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN HIGHLAND BURMA. |
£18.00 |
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A Study of Kachin Social Structure. 324pp. Index. From the library of the Commonwealth Relations Office. Very good. Some spotting to fore-edge. 1954 First edition. G.Bell & Sons. |
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Leasor, James. THE MARINE FROM MANDALAY. |
£16.00 |
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178pp. Map. Royal Marine William Doyle walks out of Burma in 1942 to rejoin his ship. Signed by Doyle and Leasor on the title page. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Leasor, James. THE MARINE FROM MANDALAY. |
£12.00 |
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178pp. Map. Royal Marine William Doyle walks out of Burma in 1942 to rejoin his ship. Very good in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Levy, Adrian and Scott-Clark, Cathy. THE STONE OF HEAVEN. |
£5.00 |
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The Secret History of Imperial Green Jade. 429pp. Index. Photographs in colour and b/w. History and travels in Burma. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2001 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Lunt, James. A HELL OF A LICKING. |
£16.00 |
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The Retreat from Burma 1941-2.25 318pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs and 8 maps. Fine in very good dw. Inscription. 1986 First edition, Collins. |
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Lunt, James. A HELL OF A LICKING. |
£16.00 |
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The Retreat from Burma 1941-2. 318pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs and 8 maps. Two rubber stamp marks on endpapers. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Collins. |
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Lunt, James. A HELL OF A LICKING. |
£18.00 |
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The Retreat from Burma 1941-2. 318pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs and 8 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First edition, Collins. |
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Lunt, James. IMPERIAL SUNSET. |
£24.00 |
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Frontier Soldiering in the 20th Century 422pp. Index. 39 b/w photograph and 5 maps. Short unit histories of locally recruited regiments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. 24pp on the Burma Rifles. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Lines in the margin beside four paragraphs 1981 First edition, Macdonald. |
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Ma Mya Sein. THE ADMINISTRATION OF BURMA. |
£34.00 |
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xix +186pp. Index. 9 b/w illustrations. Folding maps. New edition of 1938 publication with new introduction by Josef Silverstein. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1973 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore |
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Mackay, R.R. THE LAST OF THE DOZEN. |
£10.00 |
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185pp. With the Royal Engineers in Burma and later career as a vet. Fine in fine dw. 1996 First edition, Pentland Press. |
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Mackenzie, Col.K.P. OPERATION RANGOON JAIL. |
£26.00 |
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201pp. Senior Medical Officer cares for fellow prisoners. Very good in complete dustwrapper. 1954 First edition, Christopher Johnson. |
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Maclean, Rory. UNDER THE DRAGON. |
£5.00 |
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Travels in a Betrayed Land. 225pp. A return to modern Burma. Fine in fine dw. 1998 Reprint, Harper Collins. |
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Mains, Lt.Col. Tony. THE RETREAT FROM BURMA. |
£15.00 |
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An Intelligence Officer's Personal Story. 151pp. Index. 4 b/w photographs and 3 maps. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 1973 First edition, Foulsham. |
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Malcolm, Ian. INDIAN PICTURES AND PROBLEMS. |
£22.00 |
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295pp. 50 b/w illustrations. In the original decorated boards. 115pp on Burma. The chapters of this travelogue appeared in various magazines and papers. Very good. Edges roughly cut. Some light spotting. 1907 First edition, Grant Richards. |
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Manin, Ethel. LAND OF THE CRESTED LION. |
£10.00 |
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A Journey through Modern Burma. 256pp. 23 photographs. Bookclub edition. Very good in very good dw. No date (1950s). |
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Map. INDIA (SOUTH SHEET); BURMA AND STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. |
£28.00 |
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Mounted on cloth in cloth covers with tie fastening. 65 x 55cms. Plans of Bombay and Madras in lower margin. Colour printed showing Headquarters or Chief towns of districts. Very good. No date (1930s?) George Philip and Son Ltd. |
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Marshall, Andrew. THE TROUSER PEOPLE. |
£10.00 |
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A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire. 308pp. Index. 30 b/w photographs. Travels observing the atrocities of the regime against the hill tribes and an account of the life and work of Sir George Scott. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First US edition, Counterpoint, Washington. |
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Marshall, Andrew. THE TROUSER PEOPLE. |
£12.00 |
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A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire. 308pp. Index. 30 b/w photographs. Travels observing the atrocities of the regime against the hill tribes and an account of the life and work of Sir George Scott. Signed by the author on the title page. Very good in near-fine dw. 2002 First edition, Viking. |
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Martin, Bernard. THE PAGODA PLOT. |
£5.00 |
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208pp. 4 b/w illustartions by Drake Brookshaw. Adventures of a youth in Burma where his father is a District Officer. Front endpaper removed. Otherwise very good. 1948 Reprint, Thomas Nelson. |
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Mason, A.E.W. NO OTHER TIGER. |
£5.00 |
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312pp. Novel set in Burma. Very good. 1927 Reprint, Hodder& Stiughton. |
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Maung, Maung. BURMA AND GENERAL NE WIN. |
£24.00 |
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332pp. Index. 6 b/w photographs. Very good in rubbed dustwrapper. Bookplate. 1969 First edition, Rangoon. |
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Maung, U Maung. BURMESE NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS 1940-1948. |
£25.00 |
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395pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, University of Hawaii Press. |
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Maxwell, Robert (edits). JIMMIE STEWART - FRONTIERSMAN |
£12.00 |
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The Edited Memoirs of Major General Sir J.M. Stewart, KCB CMG. 113pp. Index. 15 maps. 19 b/w photographs. Military service from 1883 on the Frontier and then with the Gurkhas in Burma and Tibet. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, Pentland Press. |
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McCrae, Alister et al. TALES OF BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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168pp. Card covers. Reminiscences of nine old Burma hands. Notes on the contributors. Very good indeed. 1981 First Paisley. |
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McCrae, Alister et al. TALES OF BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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168pp. Card covers. Reminiscences of nine old Burma hands. Notes on the contributors. Very good. Inscription 1981 First edition, Paisley. |
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McGuire, R.E. BURMA: REGISTER OF EUROPEAN DEATHS AND BURIALS. |
£45.00 |
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In 2 vols. The second volume is a supplement. Card covers. Fully indexed. Fine. 1983 and 1987, BACSA. |
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Mills, C.P. A STRANGE WAR. |
£15.00 |
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Burma, India and Afghanistan 1914-1919. 133pp. 95 photographs. The story of the 2/5 Somerset Light Infantry on Imperial garrison duties. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Alan Sutton. |
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Mirante, Edith T. BURMESE LOOKING GLASS. |
£21.00 |
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A Civil Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution. 333pp. Map. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First, Grove Press, New York. |
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Moore, Elizabeth et al (edit) SHWEDAGON. |
£24.00 |
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Golden Pagoda of Myanmar. 191pp. 4to landscape. Index. 235 illustations 175 in colour. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Thames and Hudson. |
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Mosley, Leonard. GIDEON GOES TO WAR. |
£5.00 |
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The Story of Wingate. 256pp. Index. Very good in worn dw. 1955 First edition, Arthur Barker. |
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Nunneley, John and Tamayama, Kazuo. TALES BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS. |
£16.00 |
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The Burma Campaign 1942-1945. 254pp. The first book showing the Burma campaign through the eyes of Japanese participants. Fine in fine dw 2000 First edition, Cassell. |
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O'Brien, Harriet. FORGOTTEN LAND. |
£12.00 |
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A Rediscovery of Burma. 249pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Michael Joseph. |
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O'Brien, Terence. THE MOONLIGHT WAR. |
£14.00 |
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The Story of Clandestine Operations in South-East Asia 1944-45. 363pp. Index. 2 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1987 First edition, Collins. |
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O'Brien, Terence. OUT OF THE BLUE. |
£15.00 |
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Pilot with the Chindits. 272pp. Map. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1984 First edition, Collins. |
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O'Connor, V.C.Scott. THE SILKEN EAST. |
£76.00 |
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A Record of Life and Travel in Burma. 384pp. Index. Folding map. With 200 photographs and 8 coloured plates. Very good. Tiny split to top of spine cloth but a clean bright copy. No date. New edition, preface dated 1928. |
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O'Connor, V.C.Scott. THE SILKEN EAST. |
£76.00 |
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A Record of Life and Travel in Burma. 384pp. Index. Folding map. With 200 photographs and 8 coloured plates. Boards a little rubbed but very good internally. Slight nick to head of spine cloth. No date. New edition, preface dated 1928. |
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Ogburn, Charlton. THE MARAUDERS. |
£12.00 |
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319pp. Index. Endpaper and 4 other maps. 22 b/w photographs. A participant's story of Merrill's Marauders, 'American Chindits' fighting to keep the road to China open. Very good indeed in like dw. Owner's name.. 1960 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Ottowell, Stuart. CHEE-SAAT. |
£10.00 |
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Memoirs of an Officer of the 6th/7th Rajput Regiment. 156pp. Index. 24 B/w photographs and 4 maps. Wartime service on the North-West Frontier and in Burma. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2008 First edition, Manohar, New Delhi. |
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Perrett, Bryan. TANK TRACKS TO RANGOON. |
£18.00 |
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The Story of British Armour in Burma. 255pp. Index. 12 b/w photographs. Very good in very good dustwrapper with faded spine panel. An excellent copy. 1978 First edition, Hale. |
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Phillips, C.E.Lucas. THE RAIDERS OF ARAKAN. |
£12.00 |
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198pp. Index. 6 maps. Exploits of irregular troops in V Force behind Japanese lines. Fine an excellent copy but no wrapper. 1971 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Phillips, C.E.Lucas. SPRINGBOARD TO VICTORY. |
£12.00 |
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242pp. Index. 19 maps and diagrams and 13 plates of b/w photographs. Full account of the battle of Kohima. Very good in rubbed dw. 1966 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Read, Katherine L and Balou, Robert. BAMBOO HOSPITAL. |
£12.00 |
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The Story of a Missionary Family in Burma. 216pp. American Baptist missionaries in the Shan States before the war. Very good. A bright copy with a very little light spotting 1961 First edition, Peter Davies.216pp. |
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Roberts, Brigadier M.R. GOLDEN ARROW. |
£125.00 |
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The Story of the 7th Indian Division in the Second World War 1939-1945. 304pp. Index. 42 b/w photographs and 7 maps. Service in the Burma campaigns. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper lacking a tiny piece from head of the spine panel. A lovely copy. 1952 First edition, Gale & Polden, Aldershot. |
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Rodriguez, Helen. HELEN OF BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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The Autobiography of a Wartime Nurse. 185pp. 8 b/w photographs. Very good in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Collins. |
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Rodriguez, Helen. HELEN OF BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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The Autobiography of a Wartime Nurse. 185pp. 8 b/w photographs. Very good in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Collins. |
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Rose, Saul. SOCIALISM IN SOUTHERN ASIA. |
£5.00 |
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278pp. Index. 'A study of the political parties which pursue democratic socialist aims as distinguished from the Communist groups on the one hand and the primarily Nationalist on the other.' Covers India, Burma (49pp), Pakistan, Nepal, Ceylon, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaya and Singapore Very good in very good dw. 1959 First, Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. |
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Roy, Kaushik. INDIA AND WORLD WAR II. |
£35.00 |
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401pp. Index Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2016 Oxford University Press, New Delhi. |
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Sanda, Sao. THE MOON PRINCESS. |
£15.00 |
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Memories of the Shan States. 309pp. Card covers. Index. Photographs in b/w. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine. 2008 River Books, Bangkok. |
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Sangermano, Father (translated by Tandy, William). A DESCRIPTION OF THE BURMESE EMPIRE. |
£16.00 |
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A Hundred Years Ago. 311pp. Index. Folding map in colour. Originally published in Rome in 1833. Very good. Owner's name. Boards a little rubbed. 1966 Fifth edition, Susil Gupta. |
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Sangermano, Father. A DESCRIPTION OF THE BURMESE EMPIRE. |
£14.00 |
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A Hundred Years Ago. 311pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of 1893 edition. Introduction and Notes by John Jardine. Originally published in Rome in 1833. In scuffed dw. Front hinge weak. 1984 reprint, B.R.Publishing Corp., Delhi. |
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Schlaefli, Robin. EMERGENCY SAHIB. |
£18.00 |
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Of Queen's, Sikhs and The Dagger Division. 159pp. Autobiograhy stressing the part played in the war effort by Sikhs in India and Burma. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1992 First edition, R.J.Leach. |
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Schofield, Victoria. WAVELL: SOLDIER AND STATESMAN. |
£12.00 |
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512pp. Index. 37 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, John Murray. |
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Seagrave, Gordon S. BURMA SURGEON. |
£10.00 |
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159pp. Map. 20 photographs. American surgeon in wartime Burma. Very good. 1944 Reprint Gollancz. |
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Seagrave, Gordon S. BURMA SURGEON. |
£10.00 |
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159pp. Map. 20 photographs. American surgeon in wartime Burma. Very good. Wartime paper browning. Owner's name. 1944 First edition, Gollancz. |
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Seagrave, Gordon S. BURMA SURGEON. |
£12.00 |
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295pp. Map. 22 photographs. American surgeon in wartime Burma. Very good. 1943 First edition, Norton, New York. |
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Seaman, Harry. THE BATTLE AT SANGSHACK. |
£14.00 |
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Prelude to Kohima. 148pp. Index. Participant's account of controversial action in the Assam hills. Fine hardback in in fine dustwrapper.. 1989 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Seaman, Harry. THE BATTLE AT SANGSHACK. |
£14.00 |
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Prelude to Kohima. 148pp. Index. Participant's account of controversial action in the Assam hills. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Sein Win. THE SPLIT STORY. |
£12.00 |
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94pp. Small size. Card covers. Account of the split in the AFPFL party in 1959. Very good. 1989 Aung Sitthi, Rangoon. |
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Singh, Balwant. BURMA'S DEMOCRATIC DECADE 1952-1962. |
£12.00 |
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Prelude to Dictatorship. 181pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2001 Arizona State University. |
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Slater, Robert. GUNS THROUGH ARCADY. |
£24.00 |
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Burma and the Burma Road. 241pp. In the original red cloth. Signed inscription by the author on front endpaper. Very good. 1943 Second edition, Diocesan Press, Madras. |
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Slim, Field Marshall Sir William. DEFEAT INTO VICTORY. |
£16.00 |
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576pp. With 21 folding maps. Commander's account of the Allied advance into Burma. A little faded and rubbed but very good interally. 1956 Second edition, Cassell. |
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Sloan, W.H. A PRACTICAL METHOD WITH THE BURMESE LANGUAGE. |
£43.00 |
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209pp. Cloth bubbled, stained and rubbed. Binding slack but holding. 1887 Second edition revised, American Baptist Mission Press, Rangoon. |
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Smith, E.D. BATTLE FOR BURMA. |
£10.00 |
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190pp. Index. 23 b/w photographs. 12 maps. Very good in very good dw. 1979 First edition, Batsford. |
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Spurr, Russell. LET THE TIGER TURN TAIL. |
£5.00 |
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Spurr's War. 203pp. Many b/w photographs. He joined the Indian Army and the Royal Indian Navy and served as a war correspondent and photographer. Fine in very good dw. 1992 First edition, Mainstream. |
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Stadtner, Donald M. (edits). THE ART OF BURMA. |
£65.00 |
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New Studies. 128pp. Index. 4to. 10 essays illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Marg Publications, Mumbai. |
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Stanford, J.K. MIXED BAGMEN, |
£16.00 |
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157pp. 14 b/w plates of drawings by 'Snaffles'. 12 accounts of game shooting exploits, several of them in Burma. Very good internally but boards faded and marked. Without inscriptions or labels. 1947 First edition, Herbert Jenkins. |
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Stevens, William Oliver. DRUMMER BOY OF BURMA. |
£9.00 |
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242pp. Drawings in b/w. A late-imperial 'juvenile'. American boy involved in late 19th century Burma wars and the capture of Mandalay. Very good indeed in like dw. 1946 First edition, Collins. |
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Stevenson, Robert C (revises). JUDSON'S BURMESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. |
£35.00 |
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1123pp.. Boards grubby but binding sound and contents very good. 1959 Baptist Board of Publications, Rangoon. |
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Swaan, Wim, LOST CITIES OF ASIA. |
£16.00 |
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Ceylon, Pagan, Angkor. 176pp Index. 4to. 105 plates of which 51 are in colour. The classical cultures of Ceylon, Burma and Cambodia. Very good in very good dw. 1966 First, Elek. |
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Sykes, Christopher. ORDE WINGATE. |
£12.00 |
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575pp. Index. 12 maps. Photographs.in b/w. 12 maps. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1959 First edition, Collins. |
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Sykes, Christopher. ORDE WINGATE. |
£5.00 |
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575pp. Index. 12 maps. Photographs.in b/w and 12 maps. Very good. Bookplate. 1959 First Collins. |
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Symes, Michael. ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE KINGDOM OF AVA |
£65.00 |
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sent by the Goveror-General of India in the Year 1795. 503pp. Many folding maps and drawings. High quality facsimile reprint of 1800 original. Near-fine. 1969 Gregg International |
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Symes, Michael. ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE KINGDOM OF AVA |
£60.00 |
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sent by the Goveror-General of India in the Year 1795. 503pp. Many folding maps and drawings. High quality acsimile reprint of 1800 original. Near-fine. Slight spotting to boards and edges. 1969 Gregg International |
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Thant Myint-U. THE MAKING OF MODERN BURMA. |
£12.00 |
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284pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 2005 Cambridge University Press. |
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Thant Myunt-U. WHERE CHINA MEETS INDIA. |
£12.00 |
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Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia. 358pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2011 First edition, Faber and Faber. |
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Thompson, Edward. BURMESE SILVER. |
£6.00 |
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338pp. Novel set in the Chindwin Valley. Very good internally but spine faded and rubbed and front endpaper removed. Boards a little faded. 1937 Second impression, Faber & Faber. |
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Thompson, Julian. WAR IN BURMA 1942-1945. |
£22.00 |
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The Imperial War Museum Book of the 456pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs and 5 maps. Fine in very good dw. 2002 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Thompson, Julian. WAR IN BURMA 1942-1945. |
£18.00 |
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The Imperial War Museum Book of 456pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs and 5 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2002 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Thwe, Pascal Khoo. FROM THE LAND OF GREEN GHOSTS. |
£10.00 |
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A Burmese Odyssey. 304pp. Index. Tribesman from the Shan States becomes a guerilla fighter and studies English at Cambridge University. Very good in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Harper Collins. |
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Tinker, Hugh. THE UNION OF BURMA. |
£24.00 |
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A Study of the First Years of Independence. 424pp. Index. Folding map. Fine in near-fine dw. A lovely copy. 1967 Reprint, Oxford University Press. |
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Tinker, Hugh. THE MEN WHO OVERTURNED EMPIRES. |
£10.00 |
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Fighters, Dreames and Schemers. 272pp. Index. Includes chapters on Jinnah, Nehru and Aung San. Fine in fine dw. 1987 First Macmillan. |
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Towill, Bill. A CHINDIT'S CHRONICLE. |
£10.00 |
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143pp. Card covers. Fine. 1990 Author's Choice Press, USA. |
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Trager, Frank N. BURMA: |
£20.00 |
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Japanese Military Administration, Selected Documents 1941-1945. 279pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. 1971 First edition, University of Pennsylvania Press. |
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Trager, Helen G. BURMA THROUGH ALIEN EYES. |
£22.00 |
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Missionary Views of the Burmese in the Nineteenth Century. 239pp. Index. 2 b/w illustrations. Endpaper maps. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1966 First edition, Asia Publishing House. |
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Tucker, Shelby. AMONG INSURGENTS. |
£12.00 |
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Walking through Burma. 386pp. Index. 4 maps and 20 photographs in colour and b/w. The author and Swedish companion walked from China through the Kachin Hills of Northern Burma into India (without visas). Much on the struggles of the Kachins in the Burmese Civil War. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First edition, The Radcliffe Press. |
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Tulloch, Major-General Derek. WINGATE IN PEACE AND WAR. |
£14.00 |
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An Account of the Chindit Commander. 300pp. Index. Fine in very good dw. Owner's name. 1972 First macdonald. |
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Tydd, Bill. PEACOCK DREAMS. |
£10.00 |
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193pp. Card covers. The author served in the police in Burma from 1929 until the Japanese invasion. Fine. 1986 First edition, BACSA (7). |
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Tyson, Geoffrey. FORGOTTEN FRONTIER. |
£35.00 |
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Being an account of the part played by the tea-planters of North-East India in the civil evacuation of Burma. 146pp. Roll of personnel and folding map. Owner's name from 1946. Very good in dustwrapper with one corner lost. 1945 First edition, Targett, Calcutta. |
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U Ba U. MY BURMA. |
£12.00 |
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206pp. Autobiography of nationalist lawyer politician who became the second President of independent Burma. Ex-public library copy, not badly marked. Very good. 1959 First edition, Taplinger, New York. |
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Walker, Andrew. THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN BOAT. |
£16.00 |
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Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma. 232pp. Index. 9 maps and 13 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 1999 University of Hawaii Press. |
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Wheeler, Tony. CHASING RICKSHAWS. |
£19.00 |
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192pp. Index. 4to landscape. About 200 superb colour photographs by Richard I'Anson. Rickshaws their drivers, design and maintenace across South and East Asia. Sections on Agra, Calcutta, Dhaka and Rangoon. Fine in very good dw. A lovely book. 1998 First edition, Lonely Planet Publications, Australia. |
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Wheeler, Tony. CHASING RICKSHAWS. |
£22.00 |
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192pp. Index. 4to landscape. About 200 superb colour photographs by Richard I'Anson. Rickshaws their drivers, design and maintenace across South and East Asia. Sections on Agra, Calcutta, Dhaka and Rangoon. Signed by the photographer. Fine in fine dw. A lovely book. 1998 First edition, Lonely Planet Publications, Australia. |
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White, A.J.S. THE BURMA OF 'AJ'. |
£10.00 |
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244pp. Card covers. Memoirs of ICS officer 1922-37. Fine 1991 First edition, BACSA (17). |
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Winston, W.R. FOUR YEARS IN UPPER BURMA. |
£85.00 |
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266pp. 29 b/w illustrations and folding map in colour. An account of Burmese life and culture and the establishment of a mission in Upper Burma from 1887. Very good indeed but front endpaper removed. 1892 First edition, C.H.Kelly. |
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Wintle, Justin. PERFECT HOSTAGE. |
£12.00 |
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A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Consciece. 464pp. Index. Photographs in b/w. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. 2007 First US edition, Skyhorse Publishing, New York. |
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Yoe, Shway (Sir J.George Scott). THE BURMAN. |
£40.00 |
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His Life and Notions. 609pp. In the original red cloth. First published in 1882. Very good. Inscription. 1927 Reprint, Macmillan. |
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Ziegler, Philip. THE DIARIES OF LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN 1920-1922. |
£10.00 |
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Tours with the Prince of Wales. 315pp. Index. 4 maps. 44 b/w photographs. Includes the 1921-22 tour to India and Burma. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1987 First edition, Collins. |
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