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US NAVY
Searchlights and Signal Lights. November, 1918.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous plates, and illustrations and diagrams in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Publication code N.S.E. 312. Confidential.
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BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY
Prisoner of War. The first authentic Account of the Lives of British Prisoners of War in Enemy Hands. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper map; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, backstrip worn (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, clean copy. The front endpaper map provides a valuable key to camps and locations as revealed at the time. A scarce survival. Not recorded by Enser.
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THE GRAPHIC
'The Graphic' Souvenir of the German Navy's Surrender. November 1918. NEAR FINE COPY WTH ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED
4to., First Edition, with title-vignette and very numerous blue-toned photographs in the text; attractively bound in navy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a most attractive copy. 'The German Flag is to be hauled down at 15.57 (3.57 pm) today, Thursday, and is not to be hoisted again without permission' (Beatty to von Reuter). IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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WAR OFFICE
The German Army in Pictures. THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION
Sm. 8vo., with 34 plates on 32; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a remarkably bright, crisp, well-preserved copy. M.I. 14. January 1941. First issued in July 1940. '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.' The purpose of this pamphlet is to give all ranks an idea of the appearance of the German soldier and his armament. It is being issued down to Platoon, etc. commanders'. The first edition is extremely scarce. COPAC gives only two entries (BL and NLS) for the 1941 reissue.
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BRITISH ARMY
Manual of Military Law. War Office 1914 [Sixth Edition]. THE GREAT WAR ISSUE
8vo., Sixth Edition, endpapers lightly browned, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; original red cloth, gilt back, very neatly recased with all advertisement endpapers preserved, a very good, clean copy. With 17pp publisher's catalogue on pink stock bound in at front and rear.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 present edition contains an entirely new chapter on the laws and usages of war, revisions resulting from the Army Reforms of 1908, and (notably) the inclusion for the first time of the Official Secrets Act. It is arguably the most significant single issue, containing as it does the broadest set of amendments stemming from sea changes in service structure and practice. Fortunately it was completed in time for the conflict about to come. COPIES OF THE SIXTH EDITION ARE UNACCOUNTABLY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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HENRY WILLIAMSON SOCIETY.
Reality in War Literature. Henry Williamson Society Journal. Number 34, September 1998. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Includes seven pieces by Henry Williamson, two by his daughter-in-law Anne Williamson and several related articles and notes. SCARCE.
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WHITTON F.E.
The American War of Independence.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 11 maps, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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WESTON P.
Redan Ridge: the Last Stand. The Account of Men formerly of the Herefordshire Regiment and their Part in the Battle of the Somme.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; riginal pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. In September 1916 over 200 men of the Herefordshrie Regiment were transferred to 11 Border Regiment to make up for losses on the Somme. Fify-four died at Redan Ridge. Sutcliffe, p. 214.
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WILLCOX Walter Temple
The Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers in South Africa 1899-1902. A Facsimile Reprint drawn from 'The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers from their Foundation as Wynne's Dragoons (in 1689) to the Present Day. FINE COPY
4to., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 3 maps (2 folding); green cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. The hardback edition is very scarce.
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WAUGH Evelyn
Work Suspended and Other Stories written before the Second World War.
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; cloth, gilt back, blue top, marbled endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Differs from the limited first edition of 1942; this first trade version includes stories not appearing in the original edition together with one tale previously uncollected.
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WARD C.H.D.
History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T.F.) 1914-1918.
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, divisional sign on title, 29 plates on 17, 5 maps in the text and 4 large folding maps on japon, neat signature (member of the Middlesex Regiment) on front free endpaper, some mild spotting (mainly marginal and fore-edges); original divisional pebble-grained cloth, divisional insignia blocked in gilt and blind on upper board, gilt back, patterned endpapers, backstrip frayed at head and tail, covers unevenly sunned (rather more so at backstrip) else a very good, firm copy. Includes OOB, embarkation, postings of battalions, corps and divisional orders, the five battalions in France and roll of officers commanding. The division served at Gallipoli and under Allenby in Egypt, Palestine and Sinai. Five battalions served in France. SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION. Enser, p.61.
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TOMLINSON H.M.
Illusion: 1915.
8vo., First Edition in book form, on laid paper, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright copy in the original wrappers, the latter worn and frayed at edges. Tomlinson's celebrated novella of WWI was first published in 'The New Adelphi' in 1927.
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THOMAS H.
The Spanish Civil War.
8vo., First US Edition, with 27 plates and 34 maps in the text; black cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, clean copy.
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THOMAS-STANFORD Charles
Sussex in the Great Civil War 1642-1660.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original brown buckram, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, clean copy. One of the most elusive Civil War County histories. Extremely scarce
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TILLARD P.
Mauthausen. Preface de Jean-Richard Bloch.
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text, page edges lightly browning; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, sewn as issued, uncut, a very good, clean copy. A rare survival.
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THOMAS Edward
Horae Solitariae. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original ribbed green cloth gilt, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, joints and backstrip very slightly rubbed else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Thomas's second book, containing fifteen extended essays. EXTREMELY SCARCE. An article by Claude Prance in 'The Private Library' (Autumn 1977) states that 300 copies of the first edition were printed. Eckert, p.187.
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THOMAS Edward
The Country. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, original navy cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately framed and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, small bookplate scar on rear paste-down, backstrip just a trifle faded else a near fine copy. Published in Batsford's 'Fellowship Books' series edited by Mary Stratton. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Eckert, p.228.
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THOMAS Edward
Rose Acre Papers. Including Essays from 'Horae Solitariae'. FRESH, CLEAN COPY IN VARIANT BINDING
8vo., First Edition; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip very faintly browned else a remarkably fresh, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Fourteen essays collected from 'Horae Solitariae' (1902) and 'Rose Acre Papers' (1904). Apparently a binding variant, with the cloth lettered in black rather than gilt. See Eckert, p.205.
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THOMAS Edward
Cloud Castle and other Papers. With a Foreword by W.H. Hudson. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, Second Issue; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, backstrip chafed at head else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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THOMAS Edward
The Trumpet and other Poems.
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; original boards printed in red, covers unevenly sunned else a very good, clean copy.
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SURREY RIFLES
21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles). War Record of the 21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles) 1914-1919.
8vo., First Edition; original dark green cloth, upper board blocked with regimental crest in silver and red, boards lightly age-marked, backstrip faded and lightly pulled at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. Extremely scarce. Sutcliffe, p.464; White, p.205.
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ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT
A Short History of the Royal Sussex Regiment. (35th Foot - 107th Foot), 1701-1926. With brief particulars of the Part taken in the Great War by the various Battalions of the Regiment.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 4 coloured plates and 8 plates in monochrome; original cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded else a very good, clean copy. Includes one plate of uniform and one of colours. SCARCE. Sutcliffe p.220; White p.89
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STEDMAN Michael
Manchester Pals. 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd Battalions of The Manchester Regiment. A History of the Two Manchester Brigades. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, maps and facsimiles in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. Published in the 'Pals' series with statistics, rolls and other appendices. Sutcliffe, p. 349.
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SHEPHARD Ben
After Daybreak. The Liberation of Belsen 1945.
8vo., First Edition, with 27 plates on 16; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped.
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SERVICE Robert W.
The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man.
8vo., First UK Edition, wanting front free endpaper, neat contemporary signature on half-title, rear free endpaper lightly browned, fore-edges lightly spotted; original decorative red cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, tight, clean copy. The British edition of this scarce title
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SEAGO Edward
Peace in War.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and 28 plates, some minor occasional spotting; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Sherston's Progress. Drawings by John Lawrence. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette and illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, terracotta top, terracotta endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's card slip-case.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Old Century and seven more Years. [With a title-vignette by Reynolds Stone]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, endpapers very lightly spotted; original cloth, gilt back, green top, an unusually bright, clean copy. This 'daisy of a book' was Sassoon's personal favourite of all his prose works. It is dedicated to Max Beerbohm who materially assisted Sassoon by punctuating the text at proof stage. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes, A42a.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Selected Poems.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, endpapers very faintly browned; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. With a personal bookplate on front paste-down. Keynes, A24.
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RUST W.
Britons in Spain. The History of the British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, second impression, with 18 plates and 6 maps, fore-edges lightly browned; original cloth, upper hinge weak but quite sound, backstrip lightly faded else a very good copy of a very scarce work. A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION TO ARCHIE BASSETT ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER
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BONNER-SMITH D.
The Second China War 1856-1860.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and 3 full-page maps in the text; original series binding of ivory buckram blocked in gilt, navy blue buckram back lettered in gilt, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, Vol. XCV. With 6pp series catalogue bound in at end. This copy was presented by J E Morpurgo to the library of Christ's Hospital School and bears its bookplate on front paste-down and presentation bookplate with press-mark on front free endpaper. Jack Eric Morpurgo (1918-2000), professor, historian, man of letters and eminent Old Blue, was educated at Christ's Hospital School and the University of North Brunswick, Canada. After service with the Royal Artillery in WWII he worked as an editor at Penguin Books and was several times nominated by Allen Lane as his successor, but the appointment fell foul of the volatile relationship shared by the two men (Morpurgo wrote Lane's biography in 1970). After Penguin he joined the National Book League (now Book Trust) where he rose to Director-General. He was subsequently appointed Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds and was awarded several visiting professorships at universities throughout the world. He is the stepfather of the writer Michael Morpurgo. Scarce.
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JUTA M.[C.]
The Pace of the Ox. The Life of Paul Kruger. South African Edition. THE SOUTH AFRICAN EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, double-page facsimile and 2 large folding maps on japon; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presention. The original South African edition, published by Constable, was published a year before the standard trade edition.
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BELSEY J.
The Forgotten Front. Bristol at War 1914-1918.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates on 8; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Scarce
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OSBORNE S.
Germany and her Jews.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. With relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Includes summary biographies of many notable German Jews. Scarce in this condition.
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GUN BUSTER
Grand Barrage.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at edges with very minor loss at head of backstrip. The author's fourth novel of the war and uncommon in this condition
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[MOBERLY] [Brigadier-General F.J.]
Operations in Persia 1914-1919. Facsimile Edition with Introduction by Dr. G.M. Bayliss. [Official History of WW1]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with 9 plates on 6, 8 folding maps coloured in outline and 6 large folding coloured maps in pocket at end; original series binding of red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Compiled at the request of the Government of India, this is one of the so-called 'mystery' volumes in the British official history of the First World War. Printed in an edition of just five hundred copies by HMSO in 1929, its very existence was classified because of political objections on the part of the Indian Office. This much-needed facsimile reissue gives a detailed account of the British military involvement in Persia between 1914 and 1919 and goes on to reveal the story behind the book's suppression.
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SASSOON] [Siegfried
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy in unclipped, mildly soiled dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Keynes, A33a.
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ROBERTS John Stuart
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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AIRLIE Mabell, Countess of
With the Guards We Shall Go. A Guardsman's Letters in the Crimea 1854-1855. By Mabell, Countess of Airlie.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 18 monochrome plates on 16 some mild spotting (rather heavier on title and last few leaves, neat signature on front free endpaper; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, firm copy. The letters are those of Captain Strange Jocelyn serving with the Scots Fusilier Guards. Includes a bibliography. Turan 485.
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ALY Gotz
Architects of Annihilation. Auschwitz and The Logic Of Destruction. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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BARKER Pat
The Ghost Road. [Tenth Impression]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., Tenth Impression; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top a little dusty else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Final volume of the author's outstanding Regeneration trilogy, following Regeneration (1991) and The Eye in the Door (1993). Published a month after the first edition.
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BARKER Ralph
Children of the Benares. A War Crime and its Victims.
8vo., First Edition, with 22 plates on 8, page-edges very lightly browing; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the torpedoing in December 1940 - one of the earliest and most horrific examples of unrestricted submarine warfare of WWII. Over 80 children en route to safety in Canada were lost. Ensr, p.234.
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BEAMISH D.
Poole and World War II. [With a Foreword by Earl Mountbatten]. SECOND, BEST AND LIMITED EDITION
8vo., Second, Best and Limited Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1980. This is the limited edition produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, with new and altered illustrations and a fresh dustwrapper. Already scarce in its own right.
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BEAVERBROOK Lord
Men and Power 1917-1918.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 32 plates on 24, two small tears on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, an unusually bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Beaverbrook's memoirs are essential in unravelling the personalities in charge in Britain during the last year of conflict.
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BECKETT Ian F. W.
Johnnie Gough, V.C. A Biography of Brigadier-General Sir John Edmond Gough. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and pedigrees in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Mulholland & Jordan, B30.
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BENNETT I.
A Rain of Lead. The Siege and Surrender of the British at Potchefstroom 1880-1881.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of the siege that began the Boer War
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BISHOP D.
Railways and War since 1917.
8vo., First Edition, with 113 coloured illustrations on 80 plates; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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BLAIR D.
The Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel. Tommies, Diggers and Doughboys on the Hindenburg Line, 1918. Foreword by Gary Sheffield.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BLOND Georges
Admiral Togo. Translated [from the French] by Edward Hyams. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and maps in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original decorative cloth blocked and lettered in red and black, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The first full-length biography and still a standard reference.
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BLUNDEN Edmund
Undertones of War.
8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers and edges lightly spotted; original holland cloth, backstrip blocked in black and lettered in gilt, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip and chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Blunden's classic memoir was first published in 1928. A good, sound copy of the first modern edition of one of the two greatest personal memoirs of the Western Front in WWI (the other being Sassoon's 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'). Falls, p.182 'probably the only single book of its kind we have had in English which really reaches the stature of its subject...An almost perfect picture of the small events which make up the siege warfare of France and Flanders'. (Sassoon's memoir was published just too late for inclusion). Enser, p.258; Kirkpatrick, A28a (recording the first edition).
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