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ELLER Rear Admiral Ernest M.
Naval Weapons of the American Revolution 1775-1783. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with photographs and illustrations; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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NEUMANN George C.
Firearms of the American Revolution 1775-1783. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with photographs and illustrations; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY; 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 8vo., Second Impression; red cloth, upper board and backstrip printed paper labels, uncut, a near fine copy. First published in an edition of 2000 copies in October 1919. This second impression, published four months later, comprised 1000 copies; no further copies were ever issued. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes A20; Reilly, p.286.
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HILL Mavis
Auschwitz in England. A Record of a Libel Action. With a Foreword by Lord Denning. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, title and edges lightly spotted, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased and edges.
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HOEHLING A. A.
The Great War at Sea. A History of Naval Action 1914-1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and very numerous photographs in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, rose top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped and frayed with minor loss at edges. Enser, p.229.
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HOLMES Richard
Tommy. The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918. Introduced by Max Hastings. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASES
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial brown cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-cases.
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LAWRENCE T. E.
Revolt in the Desert. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 15 plates by Kennington, John, Roberts and others, and large folding map (original tissue interleave present), some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original tan buckram, gilt back, brown top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip, chafed at head of backstrip and with one short closed tear. Bright, crisp copy of the original edition. This famous abridgement of 'Seven Pillars' predates the larger work by nine years. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. O'Brien A102.
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SMITH Len
Drawing Fire. The Diary of a Great War Soldier and Artist. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations (a number full-page) throughout; red cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a fine cvopy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HIBBERT Christopher
Wolfe at Quebec. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, neat contemporary inscripotion on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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THOMAS Edward
The Trumpet and other Poems. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original buff boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a good, bright, firm copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. With Illustrations by Barnett Freedman. [First Illustrated Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, monochrome vignettes on title and half-title, 15 coloured plates, numerous monochrome illustrations and decorations in the text and coloured pictorial endpapers, small neat signature on blank preliminary; coloured pictorial cloth, red sprinkled top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. Bright copy of the first illustrated edition, published a year after original publication. 3,500 copies were published on 17 September 1931 of which 780 were for sale in the US. The sheets of 300 copies were destroyed by enemy action in 1941. Keynes, A33d.
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THOMPSON Mark
The White War. Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 30 plates (one double-page) on 16 and endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE.
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THURSTON Temple
Portrait of a Spy. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression; black cloth, gilt back, purple endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published in the same month as the first edition.
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WYLLIE W.L
Sea Fights of the Great War. Naval Incidents during the First Nine Months. [Second Impression]. FIRM, CLEAN COPY
4to., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece, 23 coloured plates, 26 plates in monochrome and 9 plans; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, boards and backstrip moderately sunned (but all lettering entirely legible) else a firm, clean copy. Published a month after the first edition.
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HUNTER Archie
Kitchener's Sword-Arm. The Life and Campaigns of General Sir Archibald Hunter. [First US Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition.
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HILL Christoper
The World Turned Upside Down. Radical Ideas during the English Revolution. Introduced by Bernard Capp. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 24pp of plates; black cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in red and black, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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LAWRENCE T. E.
Revolt in the Desert. [First US Edition]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, 15 plates by Kennington, John, Roberts and others, folding map coloured in outline and pictorial endpapers, title lightly spotted; pale rose cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, brown top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss at edges and with one or two short closed tears. Later impression without Doran colophon on title verso. O'Brien A107.
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LEMSINE Aicha
Beneath a Sky of Porphyry. [First English Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lemsine's award-winning novel of the Algerian War of Independence was first published in Paris in 1978. VERY SCARCE.
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ASPINALL-OGLANDER Cecil
Roger Keyes. Being the Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top (moderately faded as usual), a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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THOMAS Edward
Essays of To-Day and Yesterday. [Introductory Note by F.H. Pritchard]. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, half-title lightly spotted; handsomely bound in full dark red cruched morocco, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collects eight essays with bibliography. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Eckert, pp.252-3.
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TAYLOR James W.
The 1st Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. With a Foreword by Martin Midlebrook. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8 and 17 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.408
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NOAKES F.E
The Distant Drum. The Personal History of a Guardsman in the Great War NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustswrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.56.
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TILL Geoffrey
Air Power and the Royal Navy 1914-1945. A Historical Survey. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SCHULTZE-PFAELZER Gerhard
Hindenburg. Peace. War. Aftermath. Translated by Christopher R. Turner. [First English Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present); green cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, backstrip a little faded at extreme headband, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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DUPUY Trevor Nevitt
1918: The German Offensives. [The Military History of World War I. Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 4to., Second Impression, with plates and maps; beige cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HART Colonel Charles J.
The History of the 1st Volunteer Battalion The Royal Warwickshire Regiment and its Predecessors: The Birmingham Independent Volunteers, 1782; The Birmingham Loyal Association, 1797; The Loyal Birmingham Volunteers, 1803. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 4 coloured plates, 28 monochrome plates on 22 and folding coloured map; original regimental cloth in blue and red, title and regiment badge blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt back, gilt top, black endpapers, covers mildly age-soiled else very good, bright, crisp copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LONG UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED OCTOBER 1914 ON HALF-TITLE. The author and the recipient served together in the Birmingham National Reserve and Recruiting Office. Includes three coloured plates of uniforms and two of medals. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.54; White, p.218.
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ORADOUR DUR GLANE
Le Massacre d'Oradour sur Glane par les Hordes Hitleriennes. Edite par le Front National. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original wrappers printed in red and blue, wire-stitched as issued, faint tape marks on wrappers else a very good, good, clean copy. Possibly the first commercially published account of the notorious atrocity perpetrated by Das Reich division in its headlong dash to Normandy. A proportion of the cover price was to underwrite the cost of a memorial. IN THIS CONDITION, A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume III. Part I: Text; Part II: Maps. [The Dardanelles to Jutland]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FRESH SET
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with 46 large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, a good, clean set. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume II. [To the Dardanelles]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean set. Sold from an institution with the usual but discreet markings. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume I. To the Battle of the Falklands, December 1914. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with 18 large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, clean set. Sold from an institution with the usual but discreet markings. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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VANDIVER Frank E
Black Jack. The Life and Times of John J. Pershing. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Nice copy of the standard biography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.258.
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POOLMAN Kenneth
Zeppelins over England. With a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1960. Enser, p.405.
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READER W.J.
Architect of Air Power. The Life of the first Viscount Weir of Eastwood 1877-1959. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue tweed cloth, gilt back, rear endpapers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ASHER Michael
Lawrence. The Uncrowned King of Arabia. With Colour Photographs by Mariantonietta Peru. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MacMUNN Lieut.-Gen. Sir George
The Crimea in Perspective. GOOD WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps, title mildly browned, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, backstrip faded else a good, sound copy. Turan 362.
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GODMAN Temple
A Cavalryman in the Crimea. The Letters of Temple Godman, 5th Dragoon Guards. Edited by Philip Warner. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published by John Murray in 1977. Turan 199 (recording the first edition).
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WILSON Jean Moorcroft
Siegfried Sassoon. The Making of a War Poet. A Biography (1886-1918) [with] The Journey from the Trenches. A Biography (1918-1967). NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 118 plates on 48; cloth (black/blue respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Wilson's exhaustive biography is certain to become the definitive account. Includes exceptionally useful photographs and much material from interviews with the last of those who knew Sassoon well. Essential to any Sassoon and Great War collection.
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FOLEY Robert T.
The Somme. An Eyewitness History. Edited and introduced by Robert T. Foley and Helen McCartney. [Map by Neil Gower]. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, numerous photographs and a map in the text, and folding map in pocket at end; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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CAMPBELL John
Jutland. An Analysis of the Fighting. With a Preface by Anthony Preston. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations, diagrams and maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of Campbell's classic study first published in 1986.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Rhymed Ruminations. [First Trade Edition]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, covers lightly age-faded at edges else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately browned at edges and backstrip. Keynes, A44c.
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SPRING Colonel F.G.
The History of The 6th (Service) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1919. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Includes ROH, honours and awards, OOB 11th (Northern) Division and bibliography. SCARCE.
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NICHOLSON W.N.
Behind the Lines. [Second Impression].
8vo., Second Impression, some occasional marginal annotation in pencil, fore-edges lightly spotted; original blue cloth, cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded, joints very lightly rubbed at head and tail of backstrip else a very good, sound copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned, creased and rubbed at edges. Published in the same year as the first edition. One of the few first-hand accounts of the administration by the British Army of its forces in the field during WWI. The author served successively with the 51st [Territorial] Division and the 17th [New Army] Division before taking up positions at Corps and General Headquarters levels. His insights are shrewd and sympathetic; an important contribution to the literature of the Western Front. Very scarce, especially in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.395
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TOLSTOY Countess
The Final Struggle. Being Countess Tolstoy's Diary for 1910. With Extracts from Leo Tolstoy's Diary of the same Period. Preface by S.L. Tolstoy. Translated with an Introduction by Aylmer Maude. [First English Edition]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; original terracotta cloth, gilt back, backstrip lettering faded but entirely legible, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with one or two short closed tears. The dustwrapper reproduces the last photograph (not present in the work itself) of Tolstoy and his wife. 'The history of literature hardly contains a stranger and more pathetic story than this record of the intrigues and persecution that drove Russia's greatest writer to his death.' VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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MOORE Sir John
A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain,. commanded by Lieut.-General Sir John Moore. Authenticated by Official Papers and Original Letters. By James Moore. The Fourth Edition. THE COUNTESS OF KINGSTON'S COPY IN SIGNED JULLION BINDING
8vo., Fourth Edition, with two large folding engraved maps COLOURED BY HAND (one map with short tear in one fold); handsomely bound in contemporary tan full straight-grained morocco BY [Francis] JULLION, sides with multiple frame borders in decorative gilt and blind enclosing blind frame border stopped at corners with floral sprays, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt with stylised sprays, gilt doublures, all edges gilt, rose endpapers, a splendid copy in wholly unrestored period binding with virtually no trace of the usual offsetting and age-staining. A SPLENDID COPY WITH THE ENGRAVED HERALDIC BOOKPLATE OF CAROLINE, COUNTESS OF KINGSTON, AND THE EMBOSSED COLOURED BOOKPLATE OF MAX SALOMON, ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. WITH THE TRADE TICKET OF JULLION OF LONDON ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. The maps are coloured to depict the various armies' battle-positions. Caroline King, nee FitzGerald {1754-1823) was wife to Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston. Francis Jullion was binder to HRH the Duke of Gloucester. Sandler 2400.
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BROOK Peter
Warships for Export. Armstrong Warships 1867-1927. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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GOLLANCZ Victor
The Case of Adolf Eichmann. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers just a little dust-soiled else a near fine copy.
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ALLEG Henri
The Question. Translated from the French by John Calder. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First English Edition, some light offsetting from front fold-in to front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, uncut, fore-edges a little spotted else a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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KNIGHT-PATTERSON W.M.
Germany from Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933. Foreword by Lord Vansittart. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; green coarse-grain cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BURMA-THAI RAILWAY.
Memories of the Burma-Thai Railway. FINE COPY
8vo., with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Includes many personal memoirs with photographs.
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HALPERN Paul
The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean, 1919-1929. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 158.
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