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MAUDE, ed. Alan H.
The 47th (London) Division 1914-1919. By Some who served with it in the Great War. With a Foreword by the Viscount Esher. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 73 plates on 49, 11 illustrations (6 full-page) in the text, folding map coloured in outline, and 10 large folding maps on japon bound in at end, fore-edge lightly spotted; original red cloth, upper board with double frame border enclosing divisional emblem all in gilt, gilt back, neatly rebacked with old backstrip (faded) laid down, laid endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. One of the most detailed WWI British divisional histories, well illustrated with both photographs and maps. 'Those who served for any length of time in France will recall that the 47th Division always ranked very high among British troops' (Falls). The 47th was the first Territorial division to be engaged as a formation on the Western Front; it served at Festubert, Loos, the Somme, Messines, Cambrai and in the fiercest actions of 1918. Enser, p.61; Falls, p.118.
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CLARK Alan
The Donkeys. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 12 plates and 5 maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red and white, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. 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!'. VERY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.23.
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YOUNG Desmond
Rommel. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates on 7 and 2 full-page maps in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, front panel and backstrip of dustwrapper mounted on new and separate leaves at front, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With striking dustwrapper portrait by C.H. Birtwhistle. The first dedicated biography, it was a huge success and has been many times reprinted and reissued. Enser, p. 374.
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BRITISH SECOND ARMY.
Thanksgiving Service on Conclusion of the Campaign in North West Europe. 6th June 1944 to 5th May 1945. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY: A RARE SURVIVAL
Sm. 4to., with coloured formation signs of twenty-six Second Army units on front wrapper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled, staples very lightly rusting else a remarkably crisp, bright, clean copy. This humble Order of Service is surely the single document which, for every individual soldier in Dempsey's Second Army, symbolised the end of the gruelling twelve months which lasted from from the beaches of Normandy to the heath at Luneberg and brought the end of war in Europe. The front wrapper carries a striking coloured montage of badges of the major formations involved, comprising Second Army, 1 Corps, 8 Corps, 12 Corps, 30 Corps, Airborne Corps, Guards Armoured Division, 7 Armoured Division, 11 Armoured Division, 3 Infantry Division, 5 Infantry Division, 15 (Scottish) Infantry Division, 43 (Wessex) Infantry Division, 49 (West Riding) Infantry Division, 50 (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, 51 (Highland) Infantry Division, 52 (Lowland) Infantry Division, 53 (Welsh) Infantry Division, 59 (Staffordshire) Infantry Division, 6 Guards Tank Brigade, 4 Armoured Brigade, 8 Armoured Brigade, 27 Armoured Brigade, 33 Armoured Brigade, 34 Armoured Brigade, 115 Independent Infantry Brigade. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cole reproduces the wrapper in his standard reference 'Heraldry in War' (plate facing p.120).
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BRITISH ARMY
The Monthly Army List. September 1928. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, lower wrapper repaired with tape else a bright, clean copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Monthly Army List. September 1928. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, lower wrapper repaired with tape else a bright, clean copy.
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BRITISH ARMY
The Monthly Army List. September 1928. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, lower wrapper repaired with tape else a bright, clean copy.
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8TH ARMY
Eighth Army. Service of Thanksgiving.. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY WITH FORMATIONS ANNOTATED
8vo., First Edition; original coloured pictorial wrappers, single fold, covers lightly creased by cross-folding else a very good, bright, clean copy. Considerably scarcer than its Second Army counterpart, this short and simple Order of Service carries on is front cover a host of coloured formation badges representing some of the most famous British and Allied units of WWII. They include Eighth Army, 78 Division, 2 Polish Corps, 10 Corps, 5 Corps, Canadian Corps, 30 Corps, 13 Corps, Airborne, 1 Division, 8 Armoured Division, 8 Indian Division, 1 Armoured Division, 10 Indian Division, 1 South African Division, 10 Armoured Division, 4 Indian Division, 7 Armoured Division, 5 Division, 5 Indian Division, 2 South African Division, 6 Armoured Division, Jugoslavs, 2 Greek Independent Brigade, Frimili Group, Cremona Group, Folgore Group, Jewish Brigade Group, Free French Brigade, 6 South African Armoured Division, 5 Polish Kresowa Division, 2 New Zealand Division, 56 Division, 44 Division, 46 Division, 5 Canadian Armoured Division, 50 Division, 1 Canadian Division, 1 Australian Division, 51 Division, 4 Division, 3 Carpathian Division. This striking montage serves to emphasise the wide variety of nationalities, types and backgrounds of the units under (primarily) Montgomery's command. A previous owner (possibly the original recipient) has inked in neatly the names of most of the units. Cole reproduces the front wrapper in his standard reference 'Heraldry in War' (plate facing p.120). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WAVELL Field-Marshal EARL
T.L.s witten on the stationery of Wavell's residence at 23 Kingston House South, London SW7, and dated 23 December 1949.. T.L.s. FROM FIELD MARSHAL EARL WAVELL
Single sheet, a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Wavell' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the soldier's keen and continuing interest in the sport. It is noteworthy that Wavell was particularly proud of his membership of the MCC at Lords. The letter declines Moore's invitation to attend the annual dinner, but carries Wavell's best wishes for the Club for the coming year during which he hopes to see tham in action. Field-Marshal Earl Wavell (1883-1950) was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished soldiers. Following considerable success against the Italians in North Africa, his career reached its peak with his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific, ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) Command in 1942 and subsequently as an outstanding Viceroy and Governor General of India from 1943-1947. He was recognised also as a scholar, compiling the well-known anthology of poetry 'Other Mens's Flowers' (1944). The bulk of Wavell's papers are now housed in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, London. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY WAVELL ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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BARLOW, L.
The Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force 1794-1914. Illustrations by R. J. Marrion. [Foreword by Major-General Cyril Lloyd]. [Complete set]. NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
15 vols., sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; original coloured pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine set. The set comprises: 1: The Sussex Yeomanry Cavalry; 2: North Somerset Yeomanry; 3: The Yorkshire Hussars; 4: Westmorland and Cumberland Cavalry; 5: 3rd County of London (Sharpshooters); 6: The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry; 7: The Yorkshire Dragoons; 8: Lovat Scouts & Scottish Horse; 9: Warwickshire Yeomanry; 10: The Yeomanry Force at the Coronation; 11: Worcestershire Yeomanry; 12: The Yeomanry Cavalry of Norfolk; 13: The East Kent Mounted Rifles; 14: Yeomanry Drum Banners and Mounted Bands; 15: Staffordshire Yeomanry. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HAY Ian
The Second World War, 1939-1945. A Popular Military History by various Authors. Arms and the Men [with] The Campaign in Italy [with] Norway. The Commandos. Dieppe [with] Greece and Crete [with] NW Europe [with] Five Ventures. THE SHORT OFFICIAL HISTORY COMPLETE
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates and maps in the text, three volumes with endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt backs, third volume with laminated covers, a very good, bright, clean set. The set comprises: Ian Hay: Arms and the Men (1950); Eric Linklater: The Campaign in Italy ((1951); Christopher Buckley: Norway. The Commandos. Dieppe. (1951); Christopher Buckley: Greece and Crete 1941 (1952); John North: North-West Europe 1944-45. The Achievement of 21st Army Group (1953); Christopher Buckley: Five Ventures. Iraq. Syria. Persia. Madagascar. Dodecanese (1954). The 'Short Official History' was promulgated by H.M. Government to furnish the general reader with a short military history of the Second World War pending the publication of the numerous Official Histories then commissioning or in progress. The authors were selected by reputation and for their previous association with official sources (most notably in the well-known HMSO wartime pamphlets) and were granted unusual access to official documents and sources of information. As a result, and despite their 'temporary' status, the volumes are not only vividly written but remarkably detailed and well-illustrated. . The series was originally intended to comprise eight volumes but two of those projected, 'The Campaigns in Africa' and 'The Far East 1941-1945' were never published, possibly because by then the first cluster of Official Histories was nearing publication stage. COMPLETE SETS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE. Enser pp.202, 228, 298, 191, 76 and 273 respectively.
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HAY Ian
The Second World War, 1939-1945. A Popular Military History by various Authors. Arms and the Men [with] The Campaign in Italy [with] Norway. The Commandos. Dieppe [with] Greece and Crete [with] NW Europe [with] Five Ventures. THE SHORT OFFICIAL HISTORY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates and maps in the text, three volumes with endpaper maps, one volume with signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Ian Hay: Arms and the Men (1950); Eric Linklater: The Campaign in Italy ((1951); Christopher Buckley: Norway. The Commandos. Dieppe. (1951); Christopher Buckley: Greece and Crete 1941 (1952); John North: North-West Europe 1944-45. The Achievement of 21st Army Group (1953); Christopher Buckley: Five Ventures. Iraq. Syria. Persia. Madagascar. Dodecanese (1954). The 'Short Official History' was promulgated by H.M. Government to furnish the general reader with a short military history of the Second World War pending the publication of the numerous Official Histories then commissioning or in progress. The authors were selected by reputation and for their previous association with official sources (most notably in the well-known HMSO wartime pamphlets) and were granted unusual access to official documents and sources of information. As a result, and despite their 'temporary' status, the volumes are not only vividly written but remarkably detailed and well-illustrated. . The series was originally intended to comprise eight volumes but two of those projected, 'The Campaigns in Africa' and 'The Far East 1941-1945' were never published, possibly because by then the first cluster of Official Histories was nearing publication stage. ALL VOLUMES ARE ELUSIVE IN THIS CONDITION; COMPLETE SETS (ESPECIALLY IN DUSTWRAPPERS) ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE. Enser pp.202, 228, 298, 191, 76 and 273 respectively.
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LEWIN Ronald
Slim the Standardbearer. A Biography of Field-Marshal The Viscount Slim. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 16 and 6 full-page maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes a useful bibliography. Graham & Cole, L11.
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LOCAL DEFENCE VOLUNTEERS. WWII.
Local Defence Volunteers. Instruction No. 9 - 1940. Grenades. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., 8pp., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Printing code: GS Publications 26/338. 'Not to be Published. The information given in this document is not to be communicated, either directly or indirectly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Service.' SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WAR OFFICE
Manual of Military Law. 1929 [with] Amendments Nos. 1 and 2. [Seventh Edition.] UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Seventh Edition; original red cloth, upper board lettered in blind, backstrip lettered in black, all advertisement endpapers present, a remarkably bright, crisp, well-preserved copy. LOOSELY INSERTED ARE SEPARATELY PRINTED AMENDMENTS NOS. 1 AND 2. With 9pp trade advertisements bound in at at front. The compilation of the Manual of Military Law was initiated by Secretary of State for War Stanley in 1879. In order to produce a single comprehensive manual the Rules of Procedure required considerable legal amendment, including the repeal and replacement of the Army Discipline and Regulation Act 1879 by the Army Act 1881. The first edition was approved by both Childers and Hartington and published in 1884; the sixth edition (1914) carried through the Great War. For this seventh edition 'the events of the war and of the period succeeding the war have necessitated very considerable modifications and additions. Several of the introductory chapters have been almost entirely rewritten' (Editor's Note).
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HORROCKS Lieutenant-General Brian
A Full Life. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates and 14 and 10 maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed and creased at edges and chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. First edition of the acclaimed autobiography of one of the most outstanding corps commanders of WWII. His renowned 30 Corps was widely regarded as one of the finest fighting formations throughout North-West Europe (including a central role in Operation GARDEN). SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE. Enser, p.266.
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SACKVILLE-WEST Vita
The Women's Land Army. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 62 pages of plates, neat WLA veteran's signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in red, backstrip lettered in red, an unusually bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly dust-soiled dustwrapper. The standard contemporary account published for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme, A41a; Gretton, 39.
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TSUJI Masanobu
Japan's Greatest Victory. Britain's Worst Defeat. Edited by H.V. Howe. Translated by Margaret E Lake. [First English Edition]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Valuable source on the Fall of Singapore and the capture of over 100,000 Allied servicemen. Masanobu Tsuji, Chief of Operations and Planning Staff, 25 Japanese Army, was largely responsible to Yamashita for the planning and execution of the seventy-day campaign, from Singora to the surrender on Singapore island. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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TYRER Nicola
They Fought in the Fields. The Women's Land Army: the Story of a forgotten Victory. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette thus, with plates and patterned endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With small personal book-label on front free endpaper.
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BOLTON Angela
The Maturing Sun. An Army Nurse in India, 1942-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DUNNING James
The Fighting Fourth. No. 4 Commando at War 1940-1945. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The Anglo-French 4 Commando was one of the longest serving units of British special forces. This excellent history covers, among other actions, Lofoten, Dieppe, D-Day and Flushing
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PRINCE OF WALES' OWN (WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT).
1st Battalion The Prince of Wales' Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) illustrated.. With a brief Account of the Services of the Regiment. Mian-Mir and Dalhousie, Punjab, India, 1906. [First and Sole? Edition.] SOME DAMAGE NOTWITHSTANDING, A RARE SURVIVAL
Oblong roy. 4to., First Edition, with title in red and black, text and captions in red, blue and black, 34 splendid large plates in photo-collotype and full-page musical score in blue; original red cloth, upper board ruled and blocked with regimental badge in gilt, expertly recased, BUT WITH SOME AGE- OR DAMP-DAMAGE TO 22 OF THE LATER PLATES (mercifully restricted mainly to upper blank margins and only materially affecting around ten plates); nevertheless a valuable record and a very scarce work. An unusually lavish production for a single battalion, this work is distinguished by the quality of the plates, which (damage apart) varies from very good to magnificent. The photographs are superbly executed by F. Bremner, photographer, variously of Lahore, Simla & Quetta, and their rendering as collotypes preserves the quite extraordinary detail of faces, uniforms and equipment. The plates include fine portraits of Major-General Frederick Walter Kitchener (Commanding 3rd (Lahore) Division) and Colonel J.C. Yale (commanding 1st Battalion), together with close-ups of the Colours and mess plate. The main body of plates is devoted, of course, to group studies. These include the officers (individually captioned), the battalion on parade, the Colour and colour sergeants (individually captioned), the NCOs (individually captioned), corporals, companies A-H (each company photographed separately), and a fine series of the battalion's various support units, trades and sports teams. An unusual composition is the plate 'Regimental Types' and depicting eight members of the battalion in a variety of uniforms including officer's full dress and OR's marching order. In addition to the plates, there is a detailed account of the battalion's service from Tournay (1794) to its arrival at Lahore Cantonment in 1906, together with pages devoted to regimental marchess. Not the least importance of this work must be as a superbly detailed record of the appearance of a regular battalion of line infantry of the period - crucially, the last phase of Edwardian opulence and before the irreversible changes brought about by the Great War. EXTREMELY SCARCE. IT IS UNCLEAR HOW MANY OF THESE REMARKABLE PORTFOLIOS WERE PRODUCED; CERTAINLY NOT MANY, AND EVEN FEWER CAN HAVE SURVIVED. Sutcliife p.103; not recorded by White (1965).
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SAKAIDA] [Henry
Japanese Army Air Force on the Attack. Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 20. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With striking cover artwork by Iain Wyllie.
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SAKAIDA Henry
Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-45. Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 13. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With striking cover artwork by Iain Wyllie.
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MAYERI Ray Darryl
Popski's Private Army. Based on the Life of Vladimir Peniakoff. [Registered with Writers Guide of America West.] UNPUBLISHED FILM SCRIPT WITH A.L.s.
Roy. 8vo., reproduced from typescript; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. WITH A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR DETAILING THE BACKGROUND TO THE WORK.
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BRITISH ARMY.
Dress Regulations for the Army 1900. A Reprint of the official War Office Publication 'Dress Regulations for the Officers of the Army (including the Militia)' originally issued in 1900. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly rubbed dustwrapper.
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FERGUSSON Bernard
The Trumpet in the Hall 1930-1958. [Third Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with 3 maps in the text, signature on front free endpaper; green tweed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition. Fergusson's vividly-written autobiography covers his time as ADC to Wavell, his service in Palestine, Turkey and Syria, followed by Tobruk and (arguably his finest hour) the dramatic ordeal of Wingate's campaigns in Burma. This volume concludes with his departure from the service in 1958 prior to his appointment as Governor-General of New Zealand. dustwrapper artwork by Kenneth Farnhill. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole, L7 (recording the first edition); not recorded by Enser.
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FERGUSSON Bernard
Return to Burma. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. After retirement, Fergusson fulfils a long-time ambition by revisiting Burma and the scenes of Beyond the Chindwin and The Wild Green Earth. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p. 89; not recorded by Graham & Cole.
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OWEN David Lloyd
The Desert My Dwelling Place. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Gerald Templer. [Special Forces Library]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with 18 plates on 8; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. In the war in North Africa, LRDG (Long Range Desert Group), forerunner of the SAS, won a reputation out of all proportion to its size and short existence. Lloyd Owen's classic account of Y2 Patrol was first published by Cassell in 1957 and now appears for the first time in the Special Forces Library. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.251 (recording the first edition).
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FARMBOROUGH Florence
Nurse at the Russian Front. A Diary 1914-1918. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece and plates in monochrome; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.316.
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YOUNG Desmond
Rommel. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. [First Book Club Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST CLUB EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates, 2 full-page maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at extremities and browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. First Book Club Edition of the first dedicated biography. Enser, p. 374 (recording the first edition of 1950).
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RYAN Cornelius
A Bridge too Far. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 71 plates on 32, 10 maps (6 double-page) in the text, and endpaper maps, small inscription on front free endpaper verso; red cloth, Pegasus blocked in blue on upper board, gilt back, case a little shaken else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with short closed tear at headband. The best modern account of the epic action, and the basis of Richard Attenborough's immensely successful film (1977) starring Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Olivier, James Caan and a host of others. Enser, pp.13, 87.
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FULLICK Roy
Shan Hackett. The Pursuit of Exactitude. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 33 plates on 16; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Long overdue biography of one of the most distinguished British soldiers of WWII. He was involved in the formation of LRDG, SAS and Popski's Army before commanding 4th Parachute Brigade at Arnhem. His was a memorable career in which he combined action with military history. A fitting tribute to a great soldier.
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YOUNG Desmond
Rommel. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates on 7, 2 full-page maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps, rear endpaper maps lightly spotted; brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at edges and browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. With striking dustwrapper portrait by C.H. Birtwhistle. The first dedicated biography. It was a huge success and has been many times reprinted and reissued. THE FIRST EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p. 374.
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ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES IN PROFILE
Armoured Fighting Vehicles in Profile. Volume 4. American AFVs of World War II. Edited by Duncan Crow. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and fine coloured illustrations throughout; green tweed cloth, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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YOUNG Desmond
Rommel. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates on 7, 2 full-page maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps, contemporary inscription on front paste-down; brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a bright, clean, crisp copy. The first dedicated biography. It was a huge success and has been many times reprinted and reissued. THE FIRST EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p. 374.
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GREEN Alan
A Fragment of a Life. A Biography of a Member of 1st Airborne Division, based on the Papers and Writing of the Reverend Canon Alan Green. Edited by Peter Green. FINE COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original card wrappers, a fine copy. Alan Green served with 1 Border from 1942-1946, taking part in Operation Market as part of 1 Airlanding Brigade. In 1991 he wrote the story of 1 Border at Arnhem.
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BRYANT Arthur
The Turn of the Tide [with] Triumph in the West. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces, 9 maps in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps in the second volume, tops lightly dust-soiled; cloth (black/red respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. Comprises: The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1957); Triumph in the West 1943-1946. Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1959). By common consent the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army, Alanbrooke occupied a unique position at the heart of Britain's efforts in WWII. Scarcely a man to pull punches, he provides a blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and won, sparing no-one from politicians to generals of virtually every Allied nation. Enser, pp.199, 474 respectively.
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ALANBROOKE Field-Marshal
The Turn of the Tide [with] Triumph in the West [with] War Diaries 1939-1945. [First two volumes edited by Arthur Bryant. Third volume edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman]. ORIGINAL AND NEW EDITIONS TOGETHER
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 frontispieces, 16 plates on 8, numerous maps in the text and endpaper facsimiles and maps; cloth, gilt backs, all near fine copies in dustwrapper. Comprises: BRYANT (A). The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1957). BRYANT (A). Triumph in the West 1943-1946. Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1959). Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord. War Diaries 1939-1945. Edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. [2001]. By common consent the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army, Alanbrooke occupied a unique position at the heart of Britain's efforts in WWII. Scarcely a man to pull punches, he provides a blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and won, sparing no-one from politicians to generals of virtually every Allied nation. For over two generations, historians and scholars have known the Alanbrooke war diaries only through Bryant's classic two-volume edition. Quite apart from the inevitable selectiveness (and much of that rigorously censored), we have several times heard the comment 'too much Bryant and not enough Alanbrooke'. Now, almost sixty years on, we have a complete rendering (from the British perspective) of the most important private military account of the Second World War. Here is the opportunity to compare the old and the new; it is a fascinating task, revealing (first) why so much could not be published at the time and (secondly) the scale of the strains, frustrations and emotions borne by Britain's leading soldier of WWII. Enser, pp.199, 474 (first two volumes respectively).
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BRIGADE OF GUARDS
Standing Orders of the Brigade of Guards (published under Para. 1651, King's Regulations 1935). Issued by the Authority of Major-General B.N. Sergison Brooke. Commanding the Brigade of Guards. (For Private Circulation). UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., with full-page plan in the text and folding map in red and black; original boards, upper board lettered and blocked with brigade emblem, gilt back, boards very lightly sunned else a bright, clean copy. The last major issue before the outbreak of WWII. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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ULRIC OF ENGLAND
German Military Timepieces of World War II: Vol. 3: Army and Waffen-SS. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE STANDARD REFERENCE
Roy. 8vo., with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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BARCLAY Brigadier C. N.
The History of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment 1919-1952. Produced under the Direction of the Regimental Council, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 18, 9 maps in the text and 10 large folding maps (a number coloured in outline), signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board blocked with crest in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Records the pre-war and wartime service of all nine battalions. Includes colonels, battalion commanders, honours, awards and ROH. Sutcliffe, p.205; White, p.87.
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BOLITHO Hector
The Galloping Third. The Story of The 3rd The King's Own Hussars. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 8 plates, 9 maps in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, boards lightly faded at backstrip as usual, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Sutcliffe, p.43; White, p.16.
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KEMP Anthony
The Unknown Battle. Metz, 1944. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, and illustrations and maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. It took Patton's Third Army, primarily the Fifth Division, over three months to subdue the German garrison in Autumn 1944.
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SCARFE Norman
Assault Division. A History of the 3rd Division from the Invasion of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany. New Foreword by Michael Howard. Foreword to the First Edition by Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with 35 plates on 24 and 7 maps (one double-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine coy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed updated and extended reissue of the scarce original edition of 1947. The British 3rd Division landed near Caen, linked up with the 6th Airborne and fought right through to the Surrender. Not recorded by Enser.
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IND Allison
Bataan. The Judgement Seat. The Saga of the Philippine Command of the US Army Air Force, May 1941 to May 1942. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with endpaper maps; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.55 (recording the first edition).
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YOUNG Desmond
Rommel. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates on 7, 2 full-page maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps, contemporary signature on frontispiece verso; brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a small number of relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Published in the same month as the first edition. The first dedicated biography; it was a huge success and has been many times reprinted and reissued. Enser, p. 374.
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WAR OFFICE.
Manual of Field Engineering 1911. General Staff, War Office. Reprinted 1914. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE GREAT WAR ISSUE
Sm. 8vo., with numerous technical illustrations and diagrams; original series binding of red cloth, radial corners, boards framed in blind, gilt back, boards edges frayoing slightly as often, a very good, bright, clean copy. Publication code: 40/WO/1071. With the publisher's catalogues on the usual pink stock at front and rear.
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NEAVE Airey
The Flames of Calais. A Soldier's Battle 1940. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper lightly chafed at extremities. Detailed and moving account of the fateful (and costly) battle which made possible the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk. Neave served in the action before achieving a 'home run' from Colditz. Enser, p.92.
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ROSS] [James Alexander
Memoirs of an Army Surgeon. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with front endpaper map; red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a bright, clean copy. SCARCE. Enser, p.260.
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