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FAIRLEY J.
Remember Arnhem. The Story of the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron at Arnhem. [With a Foreword by Major-General R.E. Urquhart].
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 16 and 11 maps in the text; original red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The most detailed dedicated tribute to Gough's Squadron. The work is dedicated to Gough and all proceeds donated to the Airborne Forces Security Fund. Includes awards & decorations, extensive bibliography and list of sources. Extremely scarce, especially with the author's signature. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.13.
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BIDWELL Shelford
Famous Regiments. The Women's Royal Army Corps. [Introduction by General Sir Ronald Adam]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 23 plates; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on front free endpaper only.
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ANON
Official Souvenir Coronation Tattoo Aldershot June 10-12th and 15-19th, 1937. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition , with numerous coloured and sepia-toned photographs and illustrations throughout; original blue wrappers, colour illustrations mounted on front wrapper, wire-stitched as issued, decorative wove ribbon, yapped edges, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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BASTIN J.
The History of the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars 1945-1980.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; blue cloth gilt, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The standard post-war history. Sutcliffe, p.90.
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BOOTH P.
Famous Regiments. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. (The 43rd/52nd Regiment of Foot). [Introduction by Lt. General Sir Brian Horrocks].
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean in lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise Famous Regiments series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe, p.312.
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FRASER George McDonald
Quartered Safe Out Here. A Recollection of the War in Burma. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the best close-quarters accounts of the war in Burma, by the author of the Flashman novels. Fraser served with 9 Bn The Border Regiment in 17th Indian Division. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole M28.
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HEWITT Anthony
Bridge with Three Men. Across China to the Western Heaven in 1942. With a Foreword Sir John Mills. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.76.
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CLARK Alan
The Donkeys. [Second Impression]. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, 12 plates and 5 maps in the text; handsomely bound in red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, red top, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Published a month after the first edition. Classic study of the notorious gulf between High Command and the Front Line on the Western Front in 1915, particularly the disastrous generalship of Second Ypres, Neuve Chapelle and Loos. Compiled with free access to the private files of Liddell Hart, it takes its title from the well-known quotation: Ludendorff: 'The English fight like lions.' Hoffman: 'But don't we know that they are lions led by donkeys'. This work is the inspiration for Joan Littlewood's acclaimed stage musical 'Oh, What a Lovely War!'. Enser, p.23.
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HAMILTON Stuart
Armoured Odyssey. 8th Royal Tank Regiment in the Western Desert 1941-1942, Palestine, Syria, Egypt 1943-1944, Italy 1944-1945. Introduction by Major-General H.M. Liardet. NEAR FINE COPY INUNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 43 plates on 16 and 10 maps (several full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Smith, p.95; Sutcliffe, p.128.
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KENRICK Colonel N.C.E.
The Story of the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's). The 62nd Foot and 88th Foot (1756-1959), the Militia and the Territorials, the Service Battalions and all those Others who have served or been affiliated with the Moonrakers. Foreword by The Duke of Edinburgh. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 6 plates in monochrome, 14 maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps; original red buckram, upper board with crest blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. The best history of a proud regiment poorly served in this respect; the best section is that covering service in WWII. Although White gives 3 coloured plates of uniform, one of these is more accurately termed a battle scene. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.340; White, p.112.
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MAY Ralph
Glory is No Compensation. The Border Regiment at Gallipoli, 1915. With Stuart Eastwood and Clive Elderton. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Excellent account, incorporating much first-hand vernacular material, of the 1st and 6th (Service) Bns. Covers service from 1907-1914 in Gibraltar, India and Burma, followed by their fateful involvement in the Gallipoli campaign. Includes meticulous list of over 3,000 officers and OR's, together with casualty and biographical information, awards and ROH. Sutcliffe, p.214.
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SMITHERS A.J.
Honourable Conquests. An Account of the Enduring Work of the Royal Engineers throughout the Empire. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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MASEFIELD John
Land Workers. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; wrappers printed in green and black, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Handley-Taylor, p.63; Wight 107.
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PARKER John
Black Watch. The Inside Story of the Oldest Highland Regiment in the British Army. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ROLO Charles J.
Wingate's Raiders. An Account of the Incredible Adventure that raised the Curtain on the Battle for Burma. New Edition Revised and Enlarged. Forewords by Viscount Wavell and Brigadier Horace S. Sewell. [Second UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy. Revised and enlarged version of the first UK edition of 1944. SCARCE. Graham & Cole, G29 (recording Harrap's later 1946 edition).
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ROONEY David
Mad Mike. A Life of Michael Calvert. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With relevant cuttings loosely inserted. The first full life of the guerrilla expert and Chindit Brigadier. Graham & Cole L21.
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EASTWOOD, Stuart
When Dragons Flew. An Illustrated History of the 1st Battalion The Border Regiment 1939-1945. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title, 4 full-page coloured maps and very numerous photographs in the text, large signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears and chipped at corners. SIGNED BY EASTWOOD ON HALF-TITLE. Splendid pictorial history based on a huge compilation of photographs from public and private sources. As one would expect, about half the book is given over the battalion's role in Operation MARKET. Includes battalion ROH, honours and awards, battalion roll for Arnhem, operational orders for MARKET and much other data. Sutcliffe, p.293
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MASTERS John
The Ravi Lancers.
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
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SLIM Field-Marshal William
Unofficial History.
8vo., First Edition, with 3 folding maps, some moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edges dust-soiled; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with one or two creases at edges, one closed tear and minor loss (affecting letting) at head of backstrip. Following his masterpiece 'Defeat into Victory', the present work covers the smaller battles and campaigns of his outstanding career. Includes Mesopotamia, India, North-West Frontier, Middle East and Persia. Increasingly scarce with the dustwrapper in any condition.
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WAR OFFICE
Small Arms Training. Volume I. Pamphlet No. 6. Anti-Aircraft 1942. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; original wrappers printed in red, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Unusually well-preserved copy. Supersedes the editions (and related supplements) of 1937, 1939 and 1941. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BUNGAY S.
Alamein. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16, 3 full-page maps and a full-page table in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in the sixtieth anniversary year of the battle, this is the most comprehensive and detailed single-volume history to date, with a very good selection of photographs (a number of which were censored at the time). Includes details of the war correspondents (six of whom died during the campaign) who did so much to publicise 'the end of the beginning'. A valuable complement to Pitt.
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THOMPSON R.W.
Dieppe at Dawn. The Story of the Dieppe Raid. [Second Edition]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; red cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. The earliest publicly published attempt to account for Operation JUBILEE, one of the costliest operations of its kind mounted by the Allies in WWII. This much-needed reissue presents the full text but omits the frontispiece, maps and chart present in the original edition of 1956. Enser, p.127; Law, 0490 (recording the first edition).
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BRITISH ARMY
The Army List. 1979. Part I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, backstrip lightly frayed else a bright, clean copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Army List. 1981. Part I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, neat name on front wrapper; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Army List. March 1966. Corrected generally to 15 February 1966. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wanting lower wrapper else a bright, clean copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Army List. September 1962. Corrected generally to 15 August 1962. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red rexine, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Army List. September 1966. Corrected generally to 15 August 1966. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers lightly frayed at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Army List. Spring 1969. Part I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers lightly frayed at edges else a bright, clean copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Army List. Spring 1974. Part I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, short tears in backstrip (but binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Monthly Army List for April 1913. Corrected to 31 March 1913. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red cloth, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a near fine copy. This copy was formerly in the Colonial Office Library and bears its blind stamp on upper board.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Monthly Army List for April 1932. Corrected to 30 March 1932. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red rexine, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Monthly Army List for December 1936. Corrected to 28 November 1936. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red buckram, gilt back, very good, bright, clean copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Monthly Army List for November 1924. Corrected to 30 October 1924. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red rexine, gilt back, very good, bright, clean copy. With pictorial bookplate on front paste-down.
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BARZILAY D.
The British Army in Ulster. Vol. 3. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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US ARMY
Soldier's Guide to the Japanese Army. SCARCE WARTIME MANUAL
Oblong 4to., First and Sole Edition, with numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers moderately frayed and age-soiled else a very good, tight, clean copy. Special Series No. 27. Restricted. 15 November 1944. Deceptively detailed wartime guide, including necessities of life, infantry weapons, artillery and armoured material, organisation, tactics, jungle warfare, booby traps and mines. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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BOYD Derek
Famous Regiments. Royal Engineers. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 31 plates on 16 and 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF, MAJOR-GENERAL C PETER CAMPBELL WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published in Cooper's concise Famous Regiments series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.
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FARRAR-HOCKLEY Anthony
Goughie. The Life of General Sir Hubert Gough. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, coated endpapers, small neat inscription on half-title; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper sunned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.159.
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NORMAN C.B.
Battle Honours of the British Army from Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 7 plates and 4 maps, endpapers and title lightly spotted; blind-blocked red cloth, gilt back, uncut, corners lightly bruised and deckled edges a little dusty else else a good, clean tight copy. The standard reference. Includes alphabetical and chronological lists of honours, and full index by regiment.
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BRITISH ARMY
Field Service Pocket Book. 1914. General Staff, War Office. STANDARD WWI ISSUE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH CASE
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 folding plates (6 coloured or coloured in outline), 13 plates in monochrome and numerous woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original wrappers, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright clean copy IN THE ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH CASE. With the 24pp (23 printed) catalogue of military books on pink stock. With small trade stamp on front free endpaper and previous owner's initial inked on top edge. The scarce cloth case lettered in black is particularly well-preserved. The Field Service Pocket Book (B11013) was the 'bible' for officers on active service in the Great War. A remarkably concise yet comprehensive reference, it is rarely found in this condition. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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MOOREHEAD Alan
Gallipoli. [Second, Extra-Illustrated Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. Second Edition, with coloured title-spread and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; black boards, white back lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Moorehead's classic account was first published in 1856. This edition adds some 190 images illustrating aspects of the campaign together with extra information and captions by Ann Moyal. Enser p.144 (recording the first edition).
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MANN M.
The Regimental History of 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards. [Foreword by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, Colonel-in-Chief].
4to. First Edition with 16 coloured plates on 12 60 monochrome plates on 32 and very numerous maps and plans (many full-page) in the text; regimental cloth with badge blocked in gilt on upper board gilt back red endpapers a very good bright clean copy.
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ROYAL NAVY. BRITISH ARMY
Our Army and Navy. Sixty-Four Large Plates illustrating the British Forces by Land and Sea with explanatory Letterpress.
Oblong quarto, First Edition, with 64 fine large plates, one or two plates with short closed tears neatly repaired; pictorial boards, blue cloth back, covers mildly age-worn and soiled as usual, neatly recased, a very good, bright copy. Well-chosen selection of plates emphasising both the traditional and the innovative elements of each service in the context of the Great War. SCARCE.
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MAGNUS Laurie
The West Riding Territorials in the Great War. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Haig. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 15 plates and numerous illustrations, maps and plans in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original cloth blocked in blind, Yorkshire rose blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at rear.Appendices include Territorial Force. West Riding of York County Association (Members and Permanent Officials), Honours and Awards obtained by 49th (West Riding) Division and 62nd (West Riding) Divisions (detailed by unit), Summary of Honours and Awards obtained by West Riding Territorial Troops not serving with the 49th and 62nd Divisions, Return of Casualties to the end of December 1918. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.102; White, p. 221.
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DELAFORCE Patrick
Churchill's Desert Rats. From Normandy to Berlin with the 7th Armoured Division. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1994. Arguably the best complement to Verney, with useful index of veterans but no units quoted. Smith 276.
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DAVID Saul
Mutiny at Salerno. An Injustice Exposed. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. In September 1943, nearly 200 veterans of Montgomery's Eighth Army were arrested for refusing to join units of the US Fifth Army at Salerno.
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BEALE Peter
Tank Tracks. 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment at War 1940-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 9 RTR was heavily involved from its landing shortly after D-Day to the end in Germany. Includes EPSOM, the Canadians at Falaise, 49 Div at Seine and Le Havre, the Arnhem salient, the Ardennes and the Reichswald Forest. Includes ROH, awards. Smith, p.96; Sutcliffe, p.128.
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WESTMAN Stephen
Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.156.
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IMRIE Alex
Pictorial History of the German Army Air Service 1914-1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean cpy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.154.
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GIBBON Frederick P.
The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 1914-1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 8 plates of portraits, 110 sepia-toned plates on 48, 2 coloured plates of unit insignia, a map as plate, a full-page map in the text and 4 large folding maps coloured in outline, half-title mildly browned; original brown boards, divisional insignia in white and red mounted on upper board, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip very lightly chafed at head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published in the 'Country Life' series of military histories. The first territorial division to travel overseas, the 42nd served in Egypt and at Gallipoli (May 1915 to January 1916), the Suez Canal and Sinai. Transferred to the Western Front at a time of crisis (March 1917), it fought at Ypres, Nieuport and La Bassee. It was part of the thrust through the Hindenburg Line, crossed the Selle and ended at Foret de Mormal and Hautmont. Includes ROH, honours and awards, OOB, HQ staff and officers commanding. One of the most detailed territorial divisional histories. Falls decries the maps but recognises the unusually high number of excellent photographs. SCARCE. Enser, p.61; Falls, p.110.
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SHEARS Philip J.
The Story of The Border Regiment 1939-1945. With a Foreword by Brigadier-General G. Hyde Harrison.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 maps in the text; regimental green cloth, badge blocked in silver on upper board, a very good, clean copy. Covers the wartime operations of 1-9 Bns, 70 Bn, 18 Infantry Holding Bn and the Home Guard. Includes ROH, awards, MIDs and the regimental association. The Borders had a distinguished war; notably the 1st fought at Arnhem and the 4th at Kohima. Sutcliffe, p.212; White, p.88
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