The Specials: How They Served London. The Story of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary

by Colonel W. T Reay

£165 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: William Heinemann, 1920. Great War Policing FIRST EDITION with associated signature. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.xii; 223 57 . With eight photographic plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Chief Staff Officer, Colonel Sir Edward Ward, SIGNED by Ward in blue ink to lower margin, and dated January 1921. Publisher's aquamarine cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s to spine. Small modern

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