PETER MORRIS Dealer in Coins & Medals
Medal
Books
| NEW MILITARY / MEDAL BOOKS | |
| (Please add at least £8 postage to each order) | |
| (Europe and World at cost, please ask) | |
| BRITISH | |
| Medals Yearbook 2025 - same smaller format as last year, with basic listing for Orders, Decorations and Medals, plus Coronations, Jubilees, Long Service. 360 pages, softback. | £20 |
| Deluxe 2025 edition; same as above, but includes Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa, as well as sections on Life-Saving, Unofficial and Miscellaneous. Hardback 696 pp. | £35 |
| Medals Yearbook for 2024, similar format to 2025, but a few copies left. | £15 |
| Medals Yearbook for 2023, larger previous-size edition, with more sections. 452 pp | £12 |
| Medals Yearbook, deluxe editions for 2023 and 2022, Hardback. 595 pages. New … each | £20 |
| NEW - Volume 2 of Gregory James's monumental work on the CLC : just out, in A4 format 595 pp | |
| Title - A Noble Duty Bravely Done - Chinese Casualties and Internees during WW1. | |
| Lists and cross-references CLC numbers to names and further details. Invaluable. | £40 |
| The Chinese Labour Corps, by Gregory James. 2013. 1284 pp in A5 format. Covers the history of this intriguing Corps from their bginnings 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 £8 postage, or collect from us | £30 |
| 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……… | £15 |
| Inter-Allied Victory medals of WW1, 2nd edition, by Laslo. 1992 130 pp Long O/P | £45 |
| Orders & Medals of Japan and Associated States, 3rd ed. Peterson. OMSA 2000 176 pp | £40 |
| 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 Kaffrarian Rifles - 1876-1986 by Coleman 1988. 328pp Maps, names, exploits, etc | £25 |
| Victoria Cross Bibliography, Mulholland & Jordan. 1999 217pp | £5 |
| Gallantry Awards to the Gloucestershire Regt 1914-18, Littlewood 2005 244pp | £15 |
| By Skill & Valour - Honours & Awards to Royal Australian Navy for WW1/2. Atkinson 1986 243 | £8 |
| British & Foreign Orders, War medals & Decorations. AA Payne, 1981 Hayward reprint 1981 811 pp | £30 |
| 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 King's & Queen's Medal for Shooting 1860-1998 Owen 143 pp 1999 | £10 |
| GERMAN/NAZI. | |
| German medals 1800 - 1945 (Deutsche Orden und Ehrenzeichen) by Nimmergut & Autengruber, 24th edition, now hardback. 2023 1207 pages. We use this for German medals. | £45 |
| Another, as above, but 23rd edition. Only 1156 pages, but with over 3100 colour pictures. Prices in Euros, as above. Often referred to as OEK, or Ni. | £30 |
| Companion volume for above - colour ribbons "Banderkatalog" 3rd edition 272 pp. Links in with Ni references and show all ribbons in full colour. | £30 |
| German medals - 3rd Reich, DDR and modern West Germany. The 3rd and completing volume in this series. 8th edition 2011, by Nimmergut, Feder and von der Heyde. 472 pages, all medals in colour, with 10 further pages of colour ribbons. Invaluable. | £30 |
| NEW - 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 |
| Award Documents of the 3rd Reich, by Hartung 9th edition 1999 196pp (Verleihungsurkunden) | £15 |
| Combat medals of the Third Reich, by C. Ailsby 1987, 256 pp, in English. Many colour & b/w illus | £18 |
| More New books ( and new-ish/unread copies of older tomes). | |
| Beyond their Duty - Heroes of the Green Howards 2001 92pp | £12 |
| Allied Combat Medals of WW2 Vol 1 by C Ailsby 248pp 1989. Many colour and b/w pix. | £12 |
| Gallantry Medals of the World, by JC Clarke 1993 248pp A - Z listing with pictures. | £12 |
| The Battle Honours of the British & Indian Armies 1662 - 1982 by HCB Cook, limited edition | |
| this no. 312 of 750. 1987 552 pages, signed by the author. Casebound | £35 |
| 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 |
| A Manual for the Wearing of Orders, Decorations and Medals, Hanham 2005 126pp | £10 |
| The Medals and Jewels of British Freemasonry. T. Harris 2007 137pp Colour illus. | £25 |
| Allied Special Forces Insignia 1939-1948 by P Taylor 2000 220pp | £12 |
| SECONDHAND MILITARY BOOKS, IN GOOD CONDITION. | |
| The Military General Service medal 1793 - 1814 - the roll of all 26,240 officers and men who served in the Peninsula war and who survived to be awarded it. By Colonel K Foster, 1947. 650 pp | £75 |
| Cape of Good Hope GSM - the Medal Roll, by Forsyth. 79 pp | £40 |
| Artists Rifles - Regimental Roll of Honour & War Record 1914-1919 596 pages. 1922 | £50 |
| Honour the Light Brigade, Lummis & Wynn, 1973 320 pp | £20 |
| 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 |
| Orders and Decorations, Vaclav Mericka, 1967 316pp; mostly full colour illustrations - a truly sumptuous tome, the text only takes up 108pp, the rest is illustrations. | £50 |
| Book of Orders & Decorations, Mericka 1975 248pp Many illustrations; a cheaper version of above. | £20 |
| British Gallantry Awards, Abbott & Tamplin 1981 316pp. The standard work. | £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 |
| The Great War, by Winston Churchill, 26 fortnightly parts, issued in 1933 Total 1668 pages over the 26 parts. Fully illustrated with maps and b/w photos. | £45 |
| Orders, Medals & Decorations of Britain & Europe Hieronymussen 1967 256pp 80pp in colour | £20 |
| Werlich - Orders & Decorations of all Nations - Ancient & Modern, Civil & Military 2nd edition | |
| 1974 476 pages, in valuable and sought-after. | £50 |
| European Orders from 1800 (except Germany), Graf Klenau 1978 215 pp, (in German) B/W pix | £15 |
| Spink's Standard Catalogue of O,D and M. By Joslin, 1983 5th edition 191 pp | £15 |
| Recipients of the DCM - 1855 - 1909 Abbott 1987 127pp | £25 |
| Recipients of the DCM - 1914 - 1920 Walker 1981 219pp | £25 |
| North-West Frontier 1908 - The Zakka Khel & Mohmand Campaigns, Duckers 2006 99pp | £10 |
| The Military Badges & Insignia of Southern Africa, CR Owen 1990 Almost 4,000 items | |
| illustrated and described. Only 26 copies printed. This is copy no. 4 Case-bound. Invaluable. | £35 |
| Afloat & Ashore - The Royal Navy during the Boer War - 1899/1902, Singlehurst 2006, 184 pp, by Token Publishing; and signed byt he author !! | £20 |
| The Most Noble Order of the Garter, 650 years Begent & Chesshyre 1999 469pp | £25 |
| The Order of the British Empire, Galloway 1996 188pp | £15 |
| 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 |
| The Queen's Orders of Chivalry, de la Bere 1964 228 pp | £20 |
| The Honourable Artillery Company 1537 - 1947 by Gould Walker 1954 380pp | £30 |
| A History of the Early Orders of Knighthood and Chivalry, DG Neville 1978 With 59 plates | £6 |