PETER MORRIS Dealer in Coins & Medals
Medal
Books
| NEW MILITARY / MEDAL BOOKS | |
| (Please add at least £5 postage to each order; or collect for free from us in shop, or at a fair). | |
| (Europe and World at cost, please ask) | |
| Medals Yearbook 2024 : hopefully to be issued by the end of November. With the huge increase in the cost of paper, there will be changes to the standard edition : no sections for Foreign medals, Life-saving, Unofficial medals, Irish, or an Index, just the standard British medals, Long Service and Coronation issues. To be priced at £19.95 as before. We can take advance orders (but pay on delivery) | |
| Medals Yearbook 2024, deluxe hardback edition - this will be the same as previous editions, ie containing all the sections omitted from the standard edition, but also adding Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. To appear, again, by the end of November. Priced at .... | £35 |
| MEDAL Yearbook 2023 - a few copies left . 452 pages, Soft-back ... £19.95...... | £15 |
| Medal Yearbook for 2023, as above, but the hardback edition; 596 pages, £30 ...... | £25 |
| MEDAL Yearbook 2022 - 450 pages Retailed at £19.95 ..... | £10 |
| MEDAL Yearbook 2022, as above, but the Hardback version from last year. Was £30, now... | £20 |
| MEDAL Yearbook 2021 , a few unsold, new copies. s/b, was £20, now just ... | £5 |
| The Great War Medal Collector's Companion, by Howard Williamson, now out-of-print - we have | |
| Vol. 1 2011, 571 pages, hardback, individually numbered. The WW1 medals, MiC, Gallantry. | £75 |
| NEW - Volume two of Gregory James's monumental work on the CLC - just out, in A4 format this time, with 595 pages. Title - A Noble Duty Bravely Done - Chinese Casualties and Internees during the First World War. List and cross-references CLC Numbers to names and further details. A lifetime's work, and indispensable for anyone interested in this area of conflict. | £40 |
| The Chinese Labour Corps, by Gregory James. 2013. 1284 pp in A5 format. Covers the history of this intriguing Corps from their beginnings in the Boer War to their heroic but unsung deeds in WW1. With many b/w illustrations from Punch and London Illustrated news, and lists. We are the sole UK & Europe distributors, published in HK. Plus £10 postage, or collect from us | £30.99 |
| The Whitewash Brigade - The Hong Kong Plague 1894 by Platt/Jones/Platt 1998 276pp | |
| Was £35…But we have the entire remaining stocks, thus from us only ( + £8 p&p) ……… | £15 |
| GERMAN/NAZI. | |
| Combat medals of the Third Reich, by C. Ailsby 1987 256 pages, in English, profusely illustrated | |
| in colour and b/w. A good read, by a knowledgeable author. | £20 |
| German medals 1800 - 1945, by Nimmergut (we use this for reference); 18th edition, 2010, with | |
| 1,160 pages, over 3,100 colour pictures. In German, with prices in Euros. "Deutsche Orden | |
| und Ehrenzeichen", often referred to as "OEK". Softback. (New edition pending) | £25 |
| Ribbon catalogue - the companion volume to the above; "Banderkatalog", 3rd edition, 272 pages. | |
| links in with the Nimmergut medal references, and all ribbons in colour, of course. | £30 |
| German medals - 3rd Reich, DDR and modern West Germany. The third volume in the series - | |
| Deutsche Orden und Ehrenzeichen, by Nimmergut, Feder and von der Heyde. 8th edition | |
| 2011. 472 pages, all medals in colour, with 10 pages of colour ribbons. Invaluable. | £30 |
| WHW Street collection stickers, badges and various, by R. Tieste; 2014 144 pp, all in full colour; includes little Hitler books, knights Cross books, assorted 'gifts'. "Spendenbelege des Winterhilfswerkes - Reichsstrassensammlung 1933 - 1945". In German. | £35 |
| Autographs of the National-Sozial era 1919-1945, volume 1 - A - Z of the major figures in the NS movement, with b/w phots, and examples of their signatures. 2013. 432 pp | £40 |
| Daggers & Bayonets - Dolche & Ehrendolche des 3. Reiches, Bichlmaier/Hartung. 3rd ed. 200 pp | £15 |
| Award Documents of the 3rd Reich, by Hartung 9th edition 1999 196pp (Verleihungsurkunden) | £15 |
| More New books ( and new-ish/unread copies of older tomes). | |
| Elandslaagte - account and medal roll, by Biggins 223pp 2004 | £20 |
| The South Africa 1853 Roll - Recipients between 1834 & 1853 Everson 155pp 1978 | £10 |
| European Orders - by Nimmergut (in German) Battenberg. 2007: hugely illustrated throughout in full colour. Much information 250pp | £20 |
| The Queen's Orders of Chivalry, de la Bere 1961 212 pp | £20 |
| Another, as above, revised edition de la Bere 1964 228 pp | £25 |
| The Honourable Artillery Company 1537 - 1947 by Gould Walker 1954 380pp | £30 |
| European Orders from 1800 (except Germany), Graf Klenau 1978 215 pp, (in German) B/W pix | £15 |
| Recipients of the DCM - 1855 - 1909 Abbott 1987 127pp | £25 |
| Recipients of the DCM - 1914 - 1920 Walker 1981 219pp | £25 |
| Afloat & Ashore - The Royal Navy during the Boer War - 1899/1902, Singlehurst 2006, 184 pp, by Token Publishing; and signed by the author !! | £20 |
| The Distinguished Service Medal 1939-1946, Fevyer 1981 163pp Roll of all recipients. | £25 |
| Royal Service, Volume 2. Risk, Pownall, Stanley & Tamplin. 2001 368pp | £20 |
| Royal Service, Volume 3. Stanley 2001 104pp | £15 |
| Lifeboat Gallantry: RNLI Medals and how they were won 1824 - 1996 Cox, Spink 1998 454pp | £15 |
| The History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1919-1961 by Clabby 1963 244pp | £15 |
| The King's & Queen's Medal for Shooting 1860-1998 Owen 143 pp 1999 | £10 |
| Beyond their Duty - Heroes of the Green Howards 2001 92pp | £12 |
| Gallantry Medals of the World, by JC Clarke 1993 248pp A - Z listing with pictures. | £12 |
| Honours and Awards - The South Staffordshire Regt. 1914-18. Elson 2006 | £20 |
| Honours and Awards - The North Staffordshire Regt. 1914-18. Elson 2006 | £20 |
| Remember Nelson - Medals, Medallions, Insignia. Th Hardy 2005 141pp | £5 |
| Wandsworth & Battersea Battalions in the Great War - McCue 2010 284 pp | £15 |
| Victoria Cross Bibliography, Mulholland & Jordan. 1999 217pp | £5 |
| Gallantry Awards to the Gloucestershire Regt 1914-18, Littlewood 2005 244pp | £15 |
| A Manual for the Wearing of Orders, Decorations and Medals, Hanham 2005 126pp | £10 |
| By Skill & Valour - Honours & Awards to Royal Australian Navy for WW1/2. Atkinson 1986 243 | £8 |
| Allied Special Forces Insignia 1939-1948 by P Taylor 2000 220pp | £12 |
| SECONDHAND MILITARY BOOKS, IN GOOD CONDITION. | |
| British Battles & Medals, Major Gordon 4th ed. 1971 440pp | £25 |
| British Battles & Medals, Major Gordon 3rd ed. 1962 451pp | £20 |
| Spink's Standard Catalogue of British Orders, Decorations & Medals, Joslin 1990 222pp 6th | |
| edited by Litherland and Simpkin 6th edition | £18 |
| Book of Orders & Decorations, Vaclav Mericka 1975 248pp Many illustrations | £20 |
| British Gallantry Awards, Abbott & Tamplin 1981 316pp. The standard work. | £15 |
| The Most Noble Order of the Garter, 650 years Begent & Chesshyre 1999 469pp | £25 |
| The Order of the British Empire, Galloway 1996 188pp | £15 |
| For Gallantry in the Performance of Military Duty, Sainsbury, 1980 64pp. (Army MSMs 1916-28) | £10 |
| Vernon's Collectors' Guide to O,D and M. (With Valuations). 1995 512pp b/w illus. | £30 |
| Orders, Medals & Decorations of Britain & Europe Hieronymussen 1967 256pp 80pp in colour | £20 |
| Ribbons & Medals, by Taprell Dorling 1983, ed. By AA Purves. 344 pp 24 colour plates | £25 |
| Ribbons & Medals, by Taprell Dorling 1974 (new edition) 359 pp 24 colour plates | £20 |
| Badges & Insignia of WW2 - Air Force / Naval / Marine, Rossignoli 1983 363 pp, 2500 colour pix | £20 |