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SANDERS H.A.
The Minor Prophets in the Freer Collection and the Berlin Fragment of Genesis.
4to., First Edition thus, with 7 plates of facsimiles; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series, Vol. XXI.
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ALTNER H.
Berlin Dance of Death.
8vo., First Edition with photographs and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. A teenager's story of the last few weeks leading to the fall of Berlin
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BEEVOR Antony
Berlin. The Downfall 1945. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with 49 plates on 24 and 16 full-page maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Detailed and harrowing account by an eminent military historian. The author, with material from former Soviet files, as well as from German, American, British, French and Swedish archives, has reconstructed the experiences of the millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. Includes well-chosen selection of photographs (many not previously published) and bibliography. Signed copies are scarce.
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CHARLES Max
Berlin Blockade. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes an extensive bibliography.
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CLAY L.D.
Decision in Germany.
8vo., First UK Edition, on laid paper, with 28 plates on 16, and front and rear endpaper maps in blue; original cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper. General Clay's careful yet gripping account of Germany's first four years after WWII. As Allied C-in-C, the author organised the Allied Control Council and outwitted Zhukov with the Berlin Airlift. He also discusses Nuremberg, the Black Market and the all-threatening Iron Curtain. Utterly absorbing. The UK edition, published in the same year as the US edition, is scarce, especially in this condition.
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GAVIN General James M.
On to Berlin. Battles of an Airborne Commander 1943-1946. [Third Impression].
8vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 16 and 22 maps in the text; grey boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt and blue, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition. Gavin commanded 82nd Airborne through Sicily, Salerno, Normandy and perhaps most famously, at Nijmegen as part of MARKET GARDEN. Enser, p.3
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HENDERSON Sir Nevile
Failure of a Mission. Berlin 1937-1939. [First US Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece; maroon cloth, gilt back, green top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account by the British ambassador to Berlin of the diplomatic attempts to prevent the outbreak of WWII. Published simultaneously with the UK edition. Enser, p.202 (recording the UK edition by Hodder & Stoughton).
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LE TISSIER Tony
Berlin Then and Now. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, maps and plans in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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MIDDLEBROOK Martin
The Berlin Raids. RAF Bomber Command Winter 1943-44. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps, diagram in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Between August 1943 and March 1944 the RAF dropped over 30,000 tons of bombs on Berlin. More than 10,000 aircraft sorties resulted in the loss of 600 bombers and their crews. As always with this author, a detailed and well-researched account with much new information from participating crews and ground staff, and from German civilians who lived through it
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O'DONNELL James P.
The Berlin Bunker. [Second Impression].
8vo., Second Impression, with 26 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition. Compelling and dramatic account of the last days of Hitler and the Reich Chancellery Group. First published in the US as 'The Bunker' (Houghton Mifflin) in the previous year. Enser, p.24.
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GETHYN-JONES Eric
A Territorial Army Chaplain in Peace and War. A Country Cleric in Khaki 1938-1961.
8vo., First Edition, with 52 plates on 16, paper browning slightly; dark green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily sunned at backstrip. A well-illustrated personal account. The author served with The Glosters in France during 1940 and again in 1944, ending the war as Senior Chaplain. In 1947 he was appointed SC to 43rd Wessex Division, and Honorary Chaplain to HM the Queen in 1959.
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MILLER, F.
So Kaempfte und Siegte die Jugend der Welt. XI Olympiade Berlin 1936. 2 Auflage.
8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text, free endpapers lightly dust-soiled, text lightly browning at outer edge as often; original decorative cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, very neatly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. Includes the well-known full-page portrait of Jesse Owens at the start of the 200m sprint.
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VASSILTCHIKOV Marie
The Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 of Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov. Edited and with a Foreword by George Vassiltchikov and with an Introduction by Christine Bilelenberg. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; black cloth patterned in red, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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PERRY Peter J.
An Extraordinary Commission. The Story of a Journey through Europe's Disaster. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, facsimiles in the text, pictorial front endpapers and rear endpaper map; ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Fascinating record of the author's war experience, beginning with escape from Hitler's Germany, enlistment in the Pioneer Corps, commission in the Royal Fusiliers, and posting to Charlottenburg (his birthplace) as Food and Transport Officer during the immediate post-war period. Extremely scarce.
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TAYLOR Brian
Barbarossa to Berlin. A Chronology of the Campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941 to 1945. [Complete set, comprising 'The Long Drive East' and 'The Defeat of Germany']. FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., First Editions, with 32 plates on 16, and 52 double- and full-page maps in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Vol. I: The Long Drive East, 22 June 1941 to 18 November 1942; Vol. II: The Defeat of Germany, 19 November 1942 to 15 May 1945. The war on the Eastern European Front was the largest conflict the world has ever seen. Taylor provides a detailed narrative chronology, detailing the development of the numerous campaigns on an almost day-by-day basis. A valuable addition to the literature of 'Barbarossa', with bibliography, and indexes of places and people.
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ETHELL Jeffrey L.
Target Berlin. Mission 250: 6 March 1944.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, page-edges browning; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.24
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O'DONNELL James P.
The Berlin Bunker. [First UK Edition].
8vo., First Edition thus, with 26 plates on 16, neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Compelling and dramatic account of the last days of Hitler and the Reich Chancellery Group. First published in the US as 'The Bunker' (Houghton Mifflin) in the previous year. Enser, p.24.
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BAEDEKER Karl
Berlin and its Environs. Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker. With 30 Maps and Plans. Sixth Edition. LAST EDITION IN ENGLISH
Sm. 8vo., Sixth Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, double-page coloured map, 9 folding coloured maps, 13 folding plans and numerous plans in the text, series catalogue on front endpapers and rear endpaper map, a few maps poorly folded and thus slightly chafed at fore-edge; original grained red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, marbled edges, silk marker, backstrip faded (but lettering wholly legible), covers a little bowed else a bright, clean copy. The folding maps and plans are on japon. SCARCE WITH ALL MAPS.
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NORDEN Peter
Madam Kitty. A True Story. Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. [First English Edition].
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The story of Kitty Schmidt, Berlin's most famous madam, and the ensuing use of Salon Kitty by the SS throughout WWII. Enser, p.188.
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RYAN Cornelius
The Last Battle. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text, and coloured endpaper maps, wanting front free endpaper; green tweed cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears. Ryan's vividly written account of the final three weeks of Berlin in WWII. Enser, p.62.
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HARRINGTON Daniel
Pioneers of the Airlift. With an Essay by Daniel Harrington. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
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ISHERWOOD Christopher
Goodbye to Berlin. With Drawings by George Grosz selected by Frank Whitford. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo. First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and 11 full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth, backstrip blocked in black, brown top, brown endpapers, backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ETHELL Jeffrey
Target Berlin. Mission 250. 6 March 1944. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. with plates and maps; blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser p.24
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READ Anthony
The Fall of Berlin. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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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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HELLER Deane
The Berlin Wall. [Introduction by Konrad Adenauer]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in dustwrapper. One of the first detailed accounts in English. Dustwrapper artwork by Arnold Schwartzman.
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BATHURST M.E.
Legal Aspects of the Berlin Problem. Reprinted from the British Year Book of International Law 1962. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER VERSO. VERY SCARCE.
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LE TISSIER Tony
Slaughter at Halbe. The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army, April 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and plans; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ROGERS Duncan
On the Bloody Road to Berlin. Frontline Accounts from North-West Europe and the Eastern Front, 1944-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BEEVOR Antony
Berlin. The Downfall 1945.. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 32pp of plates and 16 maps in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and white, a near fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.
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COOPER Alan W.
Bombers over Berlin. The RAF Offensive November 1943-March 1944. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Not recorded by Enser.
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TUSA Ann
The Berlin Blockade. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MORRIS Eric
Blockade. Berlin and the Cold War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MANDELL Richard D.
The Nazi Olympics. [First UK Edition]. FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at edges and mildly sunned at backstrip. Published a year after the US edition.
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MILLER John
The Subtle Art of Survival. Recollections of a Member of the Resistance Movement. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Miller was a member of the resistance movement in Berlin, subsequently spending three years in concentration camps. VERY SCARCE.
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CROSS Robin
Fallen Eagle. The Last Days of the Third Reich. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ALLIED MILITARY MISSIONS IN BERLIN.
The Allied Military Missions in Berlin 1945-1948. 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Folio, First Edition, text in English, French and Russian, with numerous full-page portraits throughout; publisher's full green roan, boards framed in blind, upper board lettered in blind, back with five raised bands, covers very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO.150). With the separately printed publication and errata slips loosely inserted. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF COLONEL ALEXANDER PHELPS HODGES, WHO SERVED AS CHIEF OF ALLIED LIAISON AND PROTOCOL FROM FEBRUARY 1947. Hodges's portrait appears at p.41. He was formerly leader of the British Military Mission to Siberia, 1918-1922, his personal account of which was published as 'BRITMIS' in 1931.
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GALANTE Pierre
Last Witnesses in the Bunker. Translated from the French by Jan Dalley. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and diagrams; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HART-DAVIS Duff
Hitler's Games. The 1936 Olympics. 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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STEVENS Steve
Beaufighter over the Balkans. From the Balkans Air Force to the Berlin Airlift. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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FREDBORG Arvid
Behind the Steel Wall. [Berlin 1941-43.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly chipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.61.
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GALANTE Pierre
Last Witnesses in the Bunker. Translated from the French by Jan Dalley. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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BEEVOR Antony
Berlin. The Downfall 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 49 plates on 24 and 16 full-page maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed and harrowing account by an eminent military historian. The author, with material from former Soviet files, as well as from German, American, British, French and Swedish archives, has reconstructed the experiences of the millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. Includes well-chosen selection of photographs (many not previously published) and bibliography. The first edition is already uncommon in this condition.
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SEARBY Air Commodore John
The Bomber Battle for Berlin. [GP Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with plates; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MILLER Roger G
To Save a City. The Berlin Airlift 1948-1949. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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CHRESTEIL G. A.
Types and Uniformes de l'Armee Rouge vus a Berlin en 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, 20pp booklet, wire-stitched as issued, together with 18 loose coloured plates of uniforms and 11 loose coloured plates of insignia, booklet and plates contained in original pictorial wrappers, yapped eges, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FUNDER Anna
Stasiland. Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall. With new Introduction and Photographs by the Author. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 24 pages of coloured illustrations and 2 maps; grey boards blocked in colours, yellow cloth back lettered in black, black endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case.
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AFTER THE BATTLE
Berlin Intelligence Map 1:12500. [Facsimile reissue.] FINE COPY
Published to coincide with the suspension of Allied occupation rights in October 1990. This map was produced originally in 1944 by the War Office and lists the location and use of all important buildings in Berlin during the occupation of the city. Every building associated with the Reich Government, NSDAP, police, fire service, Reichsbahn, U-Bahn, hospitals, telephone exchanges, embassies, prisons, etc., is numbered and referenced to an index printed on the reverse of the map.
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ERICKSON John
The Road to Stalingrad [with] The Road to Berlin. [Stalin's War with Germany; complete set. Mixed Impressions.] NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impessions, with numerous plates and maps; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. 1: The Road to Stalingrad (second impression, 1977); Vol. 2: The Road to Berlin (first impression, 1983). The most complete account of this mammoth campaign to date. COMPLETE SETS OF THE UK EDITIONS ARE EXTEMELY SCARCE. Enser 199, 24 respectively.
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RUMBOLD Sir Horace
The War Crisis in Berlin. July-August 1914. To which is added Sir Horace Rumbold's Despatch (sent from Berlin, April 26 1933) attempting an Appreciation of Hitler's Gospel and Philosophy and of what they boded for Europe. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and illustration in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, gilt top, lower board mildly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. This copy was presented to Violette, Lady Leconfield. PRESENTATION COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.152.
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