(J1) REGULATION MILITARY SWORDS J. Wilkinson - Latham, Star, 1970, 32 pages in card covers, 16 photo plates, good plus, £1.75
(J6) THE JOURNAL OF THE ARMS & ARMOUR SOCIETY. SZCZERBOEC-THE POLISH CORONATION SWORD Andrzej Nadolski, 1969, 2 pages + 2 plates and Concerning some features of Scottish Basket Hilts by George A. Gordon, 4 pages + 2 plates, Book Good in card covers. .75P
J10) MODERN BRITISH FENCING :A HISTORY OF THE AMATEUR FENCING ASSOCIATION C .L de Beaumont, Kaye 1966, 192 pages with photo ills., Ex library, but generally good in DW, £3.50
NEW BOOKS ON EDGED WEAPONS
(NJ2) THE PLUG BAYONET – AN IDENTIFICATION GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS R.D.C. Evans, 22cm x 30cm, 263 pages full of excellent photographs covering plug bayonets worldwide, pages of markings etc., £42.50
(NJ5) AMERICAN MILITARY BAYONETS OF THE 20TH CENTURY Gary Cunningham, quarto, 116 pages in card wraps, a guide for collectors including notes on the makers, markings, finishes, variations etc., £16.50
(NJ11) AMERICAN SWORDS FROM THE PHILIP MEDICUS COLLECTION Flayderman & Mowbray, 22cm x 29cm, contains 141 full page plates with descriptions and illustrating a total of 604 swords, £32.50
(NJ12) THE HALBERD AND OTHER EUROPEAN POLEARMS 1300 – 1650 George Snook, 32 pages in paper wraps, 63 photo and line drawn illustrations, £8.50
(NJ17) BRITISH SERVICE SWORD & LANCE PATTERNS Ian Skennerton, 48 pages in card wraps, quarto, line drawings etc., £7.00
(NJ18) MEDIEVAL SWORDSMANSHIP : ILLUSTRATED METHODS AND TECHNIQUES John Clements, quarto, 324 pages with many line drawings, £29.50
(NJ23) BOWIES, BIG KNIVES AND THE BEST OF BATTLE BLADES Bill Bagwell, 22cm x 28cm, 175 pages in soft covers, Bill Bagwell on the history, collecting and the use of big knives, many photographs, £17.50
(NJ24) KNIVES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY – WORLD WAR II Michael W. Silvey, quarto, 249 pages lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, wonderful identification guide, £54.50
(NJ26) LES EPEES PORTEES EN FRANCE, DES ORIGINES A NOS JOURS Jean L'hoste, Quarto, 480 pages full of photographs and drawings, a great identification guide, text in French, £39.50
(NJ28) POCKET KNIVES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY Michael W. Silvey, 19cm x 21cm, 135 pages, many superb photographs, all in colour, makers marks, £24.50
(NJ33) KALASHNIKOV BAYONETS – THE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE TO BAYONETS FOR THE AK AND ITS VARIATIONS Martin D. Ivie, 22cm x 29cm, 220 pages, gloss paper, , all photographs in colour, £39.95
(NJ34) EICKHORN EDGED WEAPONS EXPORT - VOLUME 1 - LATIN AMERICA Quesada & Hickox, quarto, 121 pages, reprint of the catalogue illustrations with new descriptive text, line drawings, £8.95
(NJ35) AMERICAN SWORDS & SWORD MAKERS – VOLUME II Richard H. Bezdek, folio, 9in x 11in, 370 pages with a further alphabetical list of sword makers, U.S. Cavalry sword makers, plus many photographs, £45.50
(NJ37) U.S. NAVAL OFFICERS – THEIR SWORDS AND DIRKS Peter T. Tuite, 29cm x 22cm, 248 pages, full of colour photographs, featuring the collection of the United States Naval Academy Museum, £40.00
(NJ38) CUTTING EDGE – JAPANESE SWORDS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM Victor Harris, 23cm x 28cm, 160 pages with photographs and descriptions of 99 swords and blades, plus many more intext photographs and also a colour photo section, £25.00
(NJ43) SOCKET BAYONETS OF THE GREAT POWERS – A COLLECTORS GUIDE Robert W. Shuey, 21.5cm x 28cm, 96 pages in card covers, A to Z, America to Switzerland, photographs, line drawings and descriptions, £16.95
(NJ44) THE BEST OF U.S. MILITARY KNIVES , BAYONETS & MACHETES H.M. Cole, Edited by Michael Silvey, folio, 334 pages full of the drawn illustrations as in the original 4 volumes of this work, superb reference, £49.50
(NJ47) AMERICAN PRIMITIVE KNIVES 1770-1870 Gordon B.Minnis, 22cm x 29cm, 100 pages inc. num. large photo ills very early knives through to American Bowies, £19.50
(NJ49) LUFTWAFFE GRAVITY KNIFE Mack A. Pattarozzi, 268 pages with many detailed photographs, codes and variations, a history and analysis of the flyer’s & paratrooper’s utility knife, £33.75
(NJ54) WKC SALES CATALOGUE German catalogue of swords and daggers, Solingen circa 1930’s, 22cm x 29cm, 14 pages plus price list, bound in card covers with tie as original, £7.99
(NJ56) PETER FINER CATALOGUE 2006 22cm x 31.5cm, 306 pages hardbound, containing details and superb colour photographs of 50 items, armour, firearms, edged weapons and crossbows, an excellent high quality reference, £37.00
(NJ57) MILITARY KNIVES – A REFERENCE BOOK FROM THE PAGES OF KNIFE WORLD MAGAZINE 22cm x 29cm, 255 pages with many photo illustrations, 67 articles on knives from many eras and countries, £13.50
(NJ60) THE LONDON KNIFE BOOK – AN A TO Z GUIDE OF LONDON CUTLERS 1820 – 1945 Ron Flook, 20cm x 29cm, 230 pages with many exceptional colour photographs, excellent reference guide, Bowie type knives, multi purpose and folding, £45.00
(NJ62) KNIVES OF WAR Hughes, Jenkins & Buerlein, 21cm x 28cm, 119 pages in card covers, detailed line drawings, An international guide to military knives from world war I to the present, £15.25
(NJ63) THE HERITAGE OF ENGLISH KNIVES David Hayden- Wright, 23.5cm x 31.5cm, 329 pages, full of colour photographs on gloss paper depicting bowie, folding and combination knives, plus history, £63.50
(NJ66) DUELLING WITH THE SWORD AND PISTOL Peter Kirchner, 468 pages in card covers, a look at 400 years of one to one combat, £22.50
(NJ67) THE SCOTTISH SWORD 1600 – 1945 AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY Harvey J.S. Withers, 22cm x 29cm, 252 pages in soft covers, with over 1200 full colour photographs and illustrations, £31.50
(NJ70) ANTIQUE SWORD & DAGGERS Mircea Velanu, 22cm x 29cm, 288 pages of superb colour photographs covering all countries, Western, Islamic and far eastern, £56.00
(NJ71) BAYONETS OF JAPAN Raymond C. Labar, 22cm x 29cm, 472 pages, all with colour photographs on gloss paper, bayonets, scabbards, frogs, ‘A comprehensive reference on Japanese Bayonets’, £95.00
(NJ72) GERMAN SWORDS AND SWORD MAKERS – EDGED WEAPON MAKERS FROM THE 14TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY Richard H. Bezdek, 22cm x 29cm, 235 pages in card covers with list of makers, makers marks, photographs and full page detail drawings, £27.50
(NJ75) MODERN KNIVES IN COMBAT Dietmar Pohl, 20.5cm x 27.5cm, 192 pages full of coloured photographs of the knives, and how they are worn, plus the specification, £27.50
(NJ76) THE FAIRBAIRN – SYKES FIGHTING KNIFE Wolfgang Peter-Michel, 158 pages full of colour photographs, with variations listed, £39.50