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MINISTRY OF INFORMATION; WAR OFFICE; MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY WWII.
'Beating the Invader'. A Message from the Prime Minister [Winston Churchill]. CHURCHILL'S INVASION MESSAGE: 'BEATING THE INVADER'
Single sheet, roy. 8vo., 11 X 8.25 ins (280 x 210 cms), printed both sides, some very light spotting, vertical and horizontal folds as usual, a remarkably well-preserved, near fine copy. Churchill's introduction (written March 10 1941) urges the population to 'STAND FIRM' and 'CARRY ON'. There follow a lengthy series of instructions to be followed in the case of an enemy invasion, culminating: ' Do not tell the enemy anything. Do not give him anything. Do not help him in any way.' VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cohen B76.1; Woods A69.
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FRENCH Field Marshal Sir John
A.L.s from Sir John French to Florence Henniker. A.L.s FROM SIR JOHN FRENCH TO FLORENCE HENNIKER
8vo., 4 leaves with single fold, a near fine copy. Written and signed on Army & Navy Club stationery, the letter is dated 19 February 1904. The writer apologises for a delay in meeting due to an attack 'of my old enemy - malaria' . He is now back to 'War Office business' and eagerly awaits a forthcoming meeting: 'I want another talk with you very much'. Field Marshal Sir John Denron Pinkstone French (1852-1925), 1st Earl of Ypres, distinguished himself in both the Nile Campaigns and the Boer War. In the Great War he commanded the British Army on the Western Front from 1914-1915 until succeeded by Douglas Haig. Florence Henniker (1855-1923), well-known novelist and socialite. Daughter of Richard Monckton Milnes, she married a British army officer (referred to briefly in the letter) but is perhaps best remembered for her long and close relationship with Thomas Hardy with whom she collaborated on two volumes of short stories.
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BROOKE Rupert
The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke. [Sixth Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Sixth Impression, on laid paper, with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and full-page facsimile; original navy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, bevelled edges, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes Poems 1905-1911, Poems 1911-1914 and an Appendix containing a further eleven poems. With an index of first lines. The frontispiece is from a photograph by Sherril Schell; photogravure by Emery Walker. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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OWEN James
Nuremberg. Evil on Trial. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 28 plates on 16; original black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written account of the first war crimes trial, including much transcript material.
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GUILLIATT Richard
The Wolf. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, full-page plan and maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The little-known story of the German surface raider WOLF in WWI.
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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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EDMONDS Brigadier-General Sir James
The Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1929. [History of the Great War]. Facsimile Edition with Introduction by Dr. G.M. Bayliss. [First Public Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with map as frontispiece, maps in the text, and rear endpaper map coloured in outline; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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CALLWELL Major-General Sir C.E.
Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. His Life and Diaries. With a Preface by Marshal Foch. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
2 vols., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces and plates; original green cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, black cloth backs lettered in gilt, gilt tops, a near fine copy. Enser, p.218.
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GRAHAM Stephen
Balkan Monastery. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, title lightly browned; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, fore-edge very lightly spotted, else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Eugene Hastain. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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GEE Sergeant A E
A Record of D245 Battery 1914-1919. Illustrations by Bombardier Norman Tennant. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, large folding map at end and decorative endpapers; blue coarse-grain cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, covers and paste-downs (only) damp-marked else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The WWI service record of 11th (Ilkley) Battery, IV West Riding (Howitzer) Brigade RFA (renamed 245th Brigade RA in May 1916). Includes Nominal Roll, ROH, Awards & Decorations, and list of places visited. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. White, p.221.
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HARRIS Henry
The Irish Regiments in the First World War. With a Foreword by G A Hayes-McCoy. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped but moderately sunned dustwrapper.
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BAKER, ed. Kenneth
The Faber Book of War Poetry. Edited by Kenneth Baker. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STONE Christopher
From Vimy Ridge to the Rhine. The Great War Letters of Christopher Stone. Edited by G D Sheffield and G I S Inglis. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FEILDING Rowland
War Letters to a Wife. France and Flanders, 1915-1919. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, plates and front endpaper map; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a month after the first edition. Enser, p.195 (recording the first impression).
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VAUGHAN Edwin Campion
Some Desperate Glory. The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917. With a Foreword by John Terraine. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Chris Collingwood. SCARCE.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles and Drawings by Lynton Lamb. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt back, green top, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case.
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THOMASON Jnr John W.
Fix Bayonets!. With the US Marine Corps in France, 1917-1918. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of thre original edition of 1925. Enser, p.380 (recording the original edition).
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BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET
Black and White Budget. Vol. II No. 13. January 6 1900. [Transvaal Special.]. TRANSVAAL SPECIAL IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with portraits and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-browned else a very good, clean copy. SCARCE.
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TOMLINSON H.M.
All our Yesterdays. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Tomlinson's classic novel spans the whole of the Great War and is considered by many to be his finest work. Falls, p.299; NCBEL IV, p.749.
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THOMAS Helen
As It Was [and] World Without End. FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy. The first omnibus edition, collecting 'As It Was' (1926) and 'World Without End' (1931). Helen Thomas tells her moving story of love, courtship and marriage to the poet Edward Thomas, killed at Arras in 1917. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Sherston's Progress. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, free endpapers lightly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Keynes, A40a.
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GOODMAN Jean
Edward Seago. The Other Side of the Canvas. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with plates and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one tiny nick at front fold-in. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1978.
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WILLIAMSON Henry
[A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight]. [Complete Set of the First Uniform Edition]. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
15 vols., 8vo., Second Macdonald Edition [First Uniform Edition]; cloth, gilt backs, all near fine copies in dustwrapper. Complete set of the 'Chronicle', comprising 'The Dark Lantern', 'Donkey Boy', 'Young Philip Maddison', 'How Dear is Life', 'A Fox under my Cloak', 'The Golden Virgin', 'Love and the Loveless', 'A Test to Destruction', 'The Innocent Moon', 'It was the Nightingale', 'The Power of the Dead', 'The Phoenix Generation', 'A Solitary War', 'Lucifer at Sunrise' and 'The Gale of the World'. This is the second edition by Macdonald, the first uniform edition and the only hardback issue of the full set other then the original editions of 1951-69. EXTREMELY SCARCE AS A SET, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Matthews A36, p.127.
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SASSOON] [Siegfried
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The Sherston trilogy complete.] COMPLETE SIGNED, LIMITED SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, free endpapers lightly browned as often; original blue buckram, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips lightly sunned (but all gilt wholly bright and legible), a very good, bright, clean set. EDITIONS LIMITED TO 260/750/300 NUMBERED COPIES RESPECTIVELY, ALL SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THESE COPIES NOS. 181, 201, 242 RESPECTIVELY). Sassoon's classic fictional autobiographical trilogy comprises: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes, A30b, A33b, A40b respectively.
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NOVIKOFF-PRIBOY Alexey
Tsushima. Translated from the Russian by Eden and Cedar Paul. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus; with full-page charts in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, fore-edge faintly spotted else a near fine copy. Vivid account, by a Russian Petty Officer, of the eponymous battle (1905) which sealed the fate of the Russian navy in the Russo-Japanese war. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Albion, p.268*.
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KNOX Captain John
The Siege of Quebec. and the Campaigns in North America 1757-1760. Edited and Introduced by Brian Connell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red buckram, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt, gilt back, dark top, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
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WALKER G. Goold
The Honourable Artillery Company 1537-1926. With a Foreword by the Earl of Denbigh and Desmond. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 5 coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present), 40 plates in monochrome and illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and ruled in gilt, blue leather back with flat bands lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt top, uncut, boards mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, ,clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES WITH TWO EXTRA COLOURED AND TWO EXTRA MONOCHROME PLATES (THIS COPY NO. 185). With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end. The inscription presents this copy from his parents to a Private of the Company who served from 1916 to 1919. White p.198.
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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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ROGAN Eugene
The Fall of the Ottomans. The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, backstrip lettered in black, black endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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TOLSTOY Leo
War and Peace. Translated and with an introduction by Rosemary Edmonds. Drawings by Felix Topolski. [With complementary booklet 'What is War and Peace?' by John Bayley]. 1750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., (main volume plus booklet), 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in burgundy wassa goatskin, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt top, gilded endpapers, grey silk marker, (booklet wire-stitched as issued), a near fine copy housed in publisher's black cloth solander case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 8). This edition was first published by Penguin in 1957 and subsequently by FS in 1971. This is the first limited edition, with binding design by Jeff Clements.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Heart's Journey. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Keynes, A28b.
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MORRIS A.J.A.
The Scaremongers. The Advocacy of War and Rearmament 1896-1914. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GARDINER Samuel Rawson
History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660. [Complete set]. ABERCONWAY FAMILY COPY WITH ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, and maps in the text; original brown cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt backs, black endpapers, backstrips lightly chafed at heads and tails, hinges of first volume tender (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp set. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM LORD ABERCONWAY TO HIS GRANDDAUGHTER ROSALIND NORMAN WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ABERCONWAY ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE AND SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY LORD ABERCONWAY. The set comprises Vol. I: 1649-1651 (1894); Vol. II: 1651-1654 (1897); Vol. III: 1654-1656 (1901). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Davies 220.
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RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL Lord
The Scourge of the Swastika. A short History of Nazi War Crimes. [Thirteenth Impression]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., Thirteenth Impression, with 28 plates on 16 and an illustration in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with short closed tear at tail of upper joint, and with one small loss at upper edge of rear panel. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Enser, pp. 115, 467 (recording the first edition of 1954).
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BROWN, K.S.
United States Army and Air Force Fighters 1916-1961. Edited by Bruce Robertson. Tone Paintings by W.F. Hepworth. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, faint tape marks on free endpapers else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HAMMERTON, ed. Sir John
The Second Great War. A Standard History. Edited by Sir John Hammerton. Military Editor Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Gwynn. SPLENDID SET IN PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING
8 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, titles in red and black, and many thousands of photographs and maps (many coloured and many double-page) in the text; original red cloth, upper boards framed and lettered in black and blind, gilt backs, a remarkably well-preserved, near fine set THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WITH THOUSANDS OF PHOTOGRAPHS (MANY NOT PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE) FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF OFFICIAL AND COMMERCIAL SOURCES. Crisp set of the largest of the three great published British photographic records of WWII (the others being Hutchinson's 'Pictorial History' and Odhams' 'The War in Pictures'). This massive compilation first appeared as 'The War Illustrated', published in 255 parts beginning with Issue I (16 September 1939) and concluding with Issue 255 (11 April 1947). The series was issued first fortnightly, then monthly (due to the shortage of paper), then again fortnightly in the final year. The partwork was then revised and reset with continuous pagination in eight volumes as here and subsequently reissued by AP. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.
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FINNEMORE John
A Boy Scout with the Russians. Illustrations by William Rainey. BRIGHT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates, wanting rear free endpaper, some light and occasional spotting; original publisher's binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, grey endpapers, boards very lightly age-marked, joints lightly rubbed else a bright, clean copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WARLOW Lt.-Commander Ben
The Royal Navy at Malta 1900-2000. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with very numerous full-page photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Invaluable collection of fine photographs, many not easily obtaoinable elsewhere.
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SILVERSTONE Paul
US Warships of World War I. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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FLEMING Peter
The The Fate of Admiral Kolchak. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates on 14 and 4 maps in the text; ochre cloth, backtrip lettered in navy, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly sunned at backstrip. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.330.
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EVERITT Don
The K Boats. A dramatic First Report of the Navy's most calamitous Submarines. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 25 plates on 12, several maps and charts (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding plan on japon; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, copy in dustwrapper. Still the best account of the Royal Navy's attempt to match the Kaiser's U-boats in WWI. The twin-funnelled 'K-class' boats were the biggest and fastest submarines of WWI but met with a series of tragic mishaps; of the seventeen craft commissioned not one survived disaster. Fisher was moved to exclaim 'I have not yet mastered on what basis our submarines harm the enemy more than themselves!' SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.342
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HARVEY F. W.
Comrades in Captivity. A Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps. BRIGHT, CLEAN, UNIQUELY ANNOTATED AND AUGMENTED COPY
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece and illustrations (9 full-page) in the text, some light and generally inoffensive age-spotting, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper verso; original terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, covers a trifle faded and rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY HAS BEEN USEFULLY AND UNIQUELY AUGMENTED AS FOLLOWS: a) front panel of dustwrapper mounted on front free endpaper; b) photograph of [the author?] mounted on title; c) numerous relevant cuttings mounted throughout text as appropriate; d) copious and valuable annotations throughout, the majority naming individuals with regiment or branch of service; e) leaflet 'Behind the German Lines' [HMSO, 1921] by 'Magdeburg' [Captain C. F. L. Templar, Gloucestershire Regiment] mounted on rear paste-down. A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE COPY OF AN EXTREMELY SCARCE WORK. Enser p.274.
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ROBERTSON Field-Marshal Sir William
From Private to Field-Marshal. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), plates and folding map; original red cloth, gilt back, top and fore-edge lightly age-soiled, small pull at headband else a bright, clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of John George Scott, Librarian at RE Headquarters Library, and has one or two relevant cuttings (including an appreciation) mounted on front free endpaper and elsewhere.
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ENSER A. G. S.
A Subject Bibliography of the First World War. Books in English 1914-1978. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily sunned at backstrip. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on top and title. Includes invaluable index of invidual titles.
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POOLMAN Kenneth
Zeppelins over England. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities. Enser, p.405; Noffsinger 1164.
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ORWELL George
Homage to Catalonia. Illustrated with archive photography. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., with frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; pictorial cloth, red cloth back lettered in black, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
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DEWAR George A.B.
Sir Douglas Haig's Command. December 19 1915 to November 11 1918. Second Impression. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
2 vols., 8vo., Second Impression, with folding maps on japon, free endpapers mildly browned; red cloth, gilt backs, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean, copy. Published in the same year as the first edition. 'Has a certain importance owing to the fact that the authors were allowed to use the late Lord Haig's private diaries and correspondence' (Falls). Enser, p. 160; Falls, p. 24.
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SMITH Stan
Sea of Memories. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Personal memoir by one of the few remaining survivors of Jutland, where he served aboard HMS SPITFIRE. Also covers the Russian Revolution, Spanish Civil War and WWII.
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ORWELL George
Reportage. [Illustrated with archive photography.] NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
5 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, plates and maps; pictorial boards, backstrips lettered in black, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked slip-case. Classic collection of Orwell's non-fiction work. The set comprises: Down and Out in Paris and London. Introduced by Michael Foot; Homage to Catalonia; My Country Right or Left, and other selected Essays and Journalism; Funny, but not Vulgar, and other selected Essays and Journalism; The Road to Wigan Pier. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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