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SASSOON Siegfried
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The 'George Sherston' trilogy complete]. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. [Illustrated by Lynton Lamb and John Lawrence]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with three frontispieces and very numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, coloured tops and endpapers (green/brown/terracotta respectively), a near fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. Comprises 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1971), 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1974) and 'Sherston's Progress' (ill. John Lawrence; 1974). First editions of one of the most successful recent publications from the Folio Society. All three volumes have been several times re-issued individually and again as a 'boxed set' in 1993. Crisp set of Sassoon's 'fictitious' autobiography (first published 1928-30-36) in which his story is told by 'George Sherston'. The acclaimed trilogy was later published in a single volume as 'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston' (1937) and subsequently complemented by further volumes of autobiography in his own name.
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CHASSEAUD Peter
Grasping Gallipoli. Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A pioneering and crucial study using primary sources to dispel the oft-repeated excuse for failure due to poor mapping and cartography. 'Without question one of the most important books ever written about Gallipoli' (Richard Holmes).
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CHASSEAUD Peter
Rats Alley. Trench Names of the Wstern Front, 1914-1918. [Foreword by Alan Sillitoe.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A pioneer compilation of over ten thousand trench names complete with map references.
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CHASSEAUD Peter
Artillery's Astrologers. A History of British Survey and Mapping on the Western Front, 1914-1918 NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The definitive operational history of British field survey organisation, units and personnel on the Western Front. SCARCE.
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KAY Antony L.
Junkers Aircraft and Engines 1913-1945. Drawings by Paul Couper. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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ARMOUR IN PROFILE.
Armour in Profile. [Complete set 1-24.]. ARMOUR IN PROFILE COMPLETE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
24 vols., 8vo., First Edition, each volume with monochrome photographs and double-page coloured illustration; original series wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine set. The series comprises: 1: Tank Mark IV; 2: PanzerKampfwagen VI Tiger 1 (H); 3: M4 A3 E8 Sherman; 4: T3 Christie; 5: Cromwell Mk. 4; 6: M24 Chaffee; 7: A7V Sturmpanzerwagen; 8: PanzerKampfwagen IV (F2); 9: T-34/76; 10: Chenillette Lorraine; 11: Light Tank Mk. VII Tetrarch; 12: AMX 13; 13: Renault FT; 14: M 13/40; 15: Infantry Tank Mk.II Matilda; 16: Carden Loyd Mk. VI; 17: M3 Half-Track APC; 18: Hanomag Sd.Kfz 251/1 APC; 19: Tank Mark VIII 'The International'; 20: Panzerjager (P) Elefant; 21: SU85 and SU100 Tank Destroyer; 22: Light Tank Type 95 Kyu-go; 23: Centurion 5; 24: M47 Patton. COMPLETE SETS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS ARE VERY SCARCE.
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AFV
AFV [Volumes 1-17 (of 30)]. AFV: A FINE RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
17 vols., 8vo., First Edition, each volume with monochrome photographs and double-page coloured illustration; original series wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine run. Profile's sequel to its earlier and renowned series 'Armour in Profile'. The run comprises: 1: Churchill, BIT Mk.IV; 2: PanzerKampfwagen III; 3: Tanks Marks I to V; 4: Light Tanks M1-M5; 5: Light Tanks Marks I-VI; 6: Valentine Mark III; 7: Medium Tanks Marks A-D; 8: Crusader-Cruiser Mark VI; 9: Early Armoured Cars; 10: PanzerKampfwagen V Panther; 11: M3 Medium (Lee/Grant); 12: Mediums Marks I-III; 13: Ram and Sexton; 14: Carriers; 15: PanzerKampfwagen I & II; 16: Landing Vehicles Tracked; 17: Russian KV and IS. RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE SCARCE.
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AFV WEAPONS
AFV Weapons [Volumes 18-65 (of 65).]. AFV WEAPONS: A SPLENDID RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
47 vols., 8vo., First Edition, each volume with monochrome photographs and double-page coloured illustration; original series wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine run. Profile's complement to its parallel series 'AFV'. The run comprises: 18: Chieftain and Leopard (Development); 19: Chieftain and Leopard (Description); 20: Churchill and Sherman Specials; 21: Armoured Cars; 22: PanzerKampfwagen 38 (t) and 35 (t); 23: Soviet Mediums T44, T54, T55 & T62; 24: The M48-M60 Series of Main Battle Tanks; 25: Cromwell and Comet; 26: Hellcat, Long Tom and Priest; 27: The Saladin Armoured Car; 28: S-Tank; 29: M4 Medium (Sherman); 30: Armoured Cars - Marmon-Herrington, Alvis-Straussler, Light Reconnaissance; 31: Australian Sentinel and Matildas; 32: The M6 Heavy and M26 Pershing; 33: German Armoured Cars; 34: Scorpion Reconnaissance Tank; 35: British Armoured Recovery Vehicles; 36: Chars Hotchkiss, H35, H39 and Somua S35; 37: Russian BT Series; 38: Conqueror Heavy Gun Tank; 39: Panhard Armoured Cars; 40: US Armoured Cars; 41: M103 Heavy Tank & M41 Light Tank (Walker Bulldog); 42: Modern Swedish Light Armoured Vehicles; 43: PanzerKampfwagen IV; 44: Ferrets and Fox; 45: Vickers Battle Tank; 46: Light Tanks M22 Locust and M24 Chaffee; 47: Russian T34; 48: PzKpfw VI Tiger I and Tiger II (King Tiger); 49: Japanese Medium Tanks; 50: Swiss Battle Tanks; 51: Abbot FV433 Self-Propelled Gun; 52: M47 Patton; 53: The FV 432 Series; 54: Japanese Combat Cars, Light Tanks and Tankettes; 55: German Self-Propelled Weapons; 56: Missile Armed Armoured Vehicles; 57: Schutzenpanzerwagen SdKfz 251 & SdKfz 250; 58: French Infanty Tanks: Part I (Chars 2C, D and B); 59: French Infantry Tanks Part II (R35 and FCM 36); 60: Russian Armoured Cars (to 1945); 61: Elefant and Maus (& E-100); 62: Commando, Twister and High Mobility Vehicles; 63: AMX-30 Battle Tank; 64: Armoured Personnel Carriers; 65: The PT-76 Light Amphibious Tank and Variants. RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE VERY SCARCE.
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TERMOTE Tomas
War beneath the Waves. U-boat Flottilla Flandern 1915-1918. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. The first detailed account of U-Flottilla Flandern, including many wreck descriptions, and service histories of every U-boat in the fleet.
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TERRAINE John
The Western Front 1914-1918. [Third Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece, 19 plates on 8 and 4 maps (one double-page) in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With prize label on front paste-down. Enser, p.396 (recording the first edition).
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WINTER Denis
Haig's Command. A Reassessment. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 24 and 9 maps in the text; original black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Based on previously classified archives, this fascinating if controversial study examines why and how Haig and the government conspired to pervert the history of the Western Front in World War I. Section by section Winter decries the version presented by the Official Histories , comparing it to the uncensored versions of Dominion records. Ten years in the making, this may in the future be judged a tuning point in our understanding of the Western Front.
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PURNELL'S HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Purnell's History of the Second World War. [First Edition.]. [Edited by Barrie Pitt. First Edition] PURNELL'S FIRST EDITION COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDERS
96 weekly parts in 6 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts (including original wrappers) housed in black rexine binders blocked in gilt, first binder chafed at bottom corner else a near fine set. Purnell's mammoth endeavour is arguably the crowning achievement of the 'partwork' fashion of the late 60s. Produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, edited by Barrie Pitt and written by a host of eminent historians, scholars and veterans, the series is equally fortunate in having Liddell-Hart as editor-in-chief. Produced in 'magazine' format, the work as a whole makes full use of its size and space to create a lucid, vivid and valuable account of the conflict. The number, choice and quality of the photographs, illustrations and diagrams are worthy of special mention. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS FORMAT AND CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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NICOL Randall
Till the Trumpet sounds again: The Scots Guards 1914-1919 in their own Words. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a near fine set in dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol 1: Great Shadows August 1914-July 1916; Vol. 2: Vast Tragedy August 1916 - March 1919.
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FOLIO SOCIETY
The Folio Book of War Poetry. Edited by Andrew Motion. Illustrated by Neil Gower and Jonathan Lloyd. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text; printed cloth, backstrip letted in grey, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
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HASTINGS Max
The Korean War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, 5 maps in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARKER Pat
The Regeneration Trilogy. Regeneration [with] The Eye in the Door [with] The Ghost Road. FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Barker's Great War classic comprises Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995). The final volume was awarded the Booker Prize.
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FRENCH Major the Hon. Gerald
Lord Chelmsford and the Zulu War. With a Foreword by General Sir Bindon Blood. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and plans; maroon cloth, gilt back, red top, backstrip lightly chafed at headband else a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. PRESENTATION COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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YEATES V. M
Winged Victory. [Second Impression thus.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression thus; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, upper board lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. One of the finest novels of WWI, Yeates's classic account of war in the air was prompted by Henry Williamson (to whom the work is dedicated) and completed with his continuing support and encouragement. First published in 1934 in two distinct impressions, it rapidly became practically unobtainable and was not reissued until 1961, for which later edition Williamson provided a preface and tribute. This is the second impression thus. Sadly Yeates died of tuberculosis in the year of first publication. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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GARDINER Andrew Edward
To Bait the Dragon. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. The 29th Brigade and the capture of Seoul.
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BOWMAN Gerald
The Man who bought a Navy. The Story of the World's Greatest Salvage Achievement at Scapa Flow. [Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispiece and plates; red tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition. The story of engineer Ernest Cox, who set about salvaging the remnants of the German High Seas Fleet from the bottom at Scapa Flow. Astonishingly, he raised six vessels, including the HINDENBURG, in just fourteen days. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CORNWELL Bernard
The Fort. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map, and title in red and black; purple cloth, gilt back, printed endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ALANBROOKE Field-Marshal
The Turn of the Tide [with] Triumph in the West [with] War Diaries 1939-1945. [First two volumes edited by Arthur Bryant. Third volume edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman]. ORIGINAL AND NEW EDITIONS TOGETHER
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 frontispieces, 16 plates on 8, numerous maps in the text and endpaper facsimiles and maps; cloth, gilt backs, all near fine copies in dustwrapper. Comprises: BRYANT (A). The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1957). BRYANT (A). Triumph in the West 1943-1946. Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1959). Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord. War Diaries 1939-1945. Edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. [2001]. By common consent the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army, Alanbrooke occupied a unique position at the heart of Britain's efforts in WWII. Scarcely a man to pull punches, he provides a blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and won, sparing no-one from politicians to generals of virtually every Allied nation. For over two generations, historians and scholars have known the Alanbrooke war diaries only through Bryant's classic two-volume edition. Quite apart from the inevitable selectiveness (and much of that rigorously censored), we have several times heard the comment 'too much Bryant and not enough Alanbrooke'. Now, almost sixty years on, we have a complete rendering (from the British perspective) of the most important private military account of the Second World War. Here is the opportunity to compare the old and the new; it is a fascinating task, revealing (first) why so much could not be published at the time and (secondly) the scale of the strains, frustrations and emotions borne by Britain's leading soldier of WWII. Enser, pp.199, 474 (first two volumes respectively).
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ROYAL ULSTER RIFLES
The Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea. [Foreword by General Sir James S. Steele.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MICHELIN ILLUSTRATED GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS.
The Americans in the Great War. [Complete set.]. Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields 1914-1918. [An Illustrated History and Guide]. Vol. I: The Second Battle of the Marne; Vol. II: The Battle of St. Mihiel; Vol. III: The Meuse-Argonne Battlefields. NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
3 vols., 8vo., with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; sand cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in brown, a near fine set. With advertisement endpapers at front and rear. The set comprises Vol. 1: The Second Battle of the Marne (Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, Fismes); Vol. 2: The Battle of Saint Mihiel (St. Mihiel, Pont-a-Mousson, Metz); Vol. 3: Meuse-Argonne Battle (Mountfaucon, Romagne, St. Menehould). The clothbound issues are far scarcer than the wrappered versions. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.
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MACDONALD Lyn
Passchendaele [with] Roses of No Man's Land [with] Somme [with] 1914 [with] 1915 [with] To the Last Man. THE GREAT WAR SEQUENCE COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS
6 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with numerous plates and maps; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. The sequence comprises (in order of publication): They called it Passchendaele (1978; second impression 1979); The Roses of No Man's Land (1980; second impression 1983); Somme (1983); 1914 (1987; second impression 1987); 1915: The Death of Innocence (1993; second impression 1993); To the Last Man: Spring 1918 (1998; second impression 1998). Bright set of Lyn Macdonald's unique sequence of vernacular histories of the Great War, based on numerous participant and eye-witness accounts. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE.
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RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL Lord
The Scourge of the Swastika. A Short History of Nazi War Crimes. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with 28 plates on 16 and an illustration in the text, top lightly spotted; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition. Enser, pp. 115, 467 (recording the first edition).
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TOLSTOY Count Leo
War and Peace. [Introduction by Vicomte de Vogue. Everyman's Library]. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS; WITH PROMOTIONAL BANDS
3 vols., sm. 8vo., original rose cloth, gilt backs, orange tops, patterned endpapers, a near fine set in pictorial dustwrapper, the first and third volumes complete with photographic wrap-around bands. This edition was published to coincide with the release of King Vidor's feature film (1956) starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrer. The promotional bands feature three stills from the movie. Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' was first issued in Everyman's Library in 1911 in the anonymous translation of 1886; in 1932 the translation was checked throughout, passages which had been omitted were restored and certain defects of style corrected. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Everyman's Library, vols., 525, 526, 527; Hoppe, p.375; Seymour pp.270-1.
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CLAUSEWITZ Carl von
On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Foreword by Joanna Bourke. Introductory Essays by Peter Paret, Michael Howard and Bernard Brodie. With a Commentary by Bernard Brodie. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and plates; black cloth, boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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CHURCHILL Winston S.
Ian Hamilton's March. Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H Frankland, a Prisoner of War at Pretoria. SPLENDID COPY IN SIGNED SOTHERAN BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 9 maps in the text and folding coloured map; attractively bound in navy half morocco BY SOTHERAN, blue cloth sides ruled in gilt, back with raised bands with gilt fillets, second and third compartments with red leather labels framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Churchill's continuation of 'London to Ladysmith', completing the publication in book form of his letters to the 'Morning Post'. Four letters are published here for the first time. Chapter XVI, 'Held by the Enemy', is devoted to extracts from Frankland's diary. 5000 copies were published on 12 October 1900. Woods, A5.
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BARCLAY Brigadier C. N.
The History of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment 1919-1952. Produced under the Direction of the Regimental Council, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 18, 9 maps in the text and 10 large folding maps (a number coloured in outline), signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board blocked with crest in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Records the pre-war and wartime service of all nine battalions. Includes colonels, battalion commanders, honours, awards and ROH. Sutcliffe, p.205; White, p.87.
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FUNDERBURK Thomas R.
The Fighters. The Man and Machines of the First Air War. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and coloured pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition. Noffsinger 510.
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PEMBERTON W. Baring
Battles of the Crimean War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 35 plates on 16 and several illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in Batsford's notable 'British Battles' series. Turan 451.
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SCHUBERT Paul
Death of a Fleet 1917-1919. With a Preface by Vice-Admiral J.E.T. Harper. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and plates; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE. Enser, p.157.
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STEEL Nigel
Jutland 1916. Death in the Grey Wastes. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed modern account of one of the most decisive naval actions of the Great War.
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FARRAR-HOCKLEY A. H.
The Somme. [Batsford British Battles series.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top (a trifle faded), a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's much sought-after British Battles series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.332.
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TOLSTOY Leo
War and Peace. Translated and with an Introduction by Rosemary Edmonds. [Second Impression thus.] COMPLETE IN PENGUIN CLASSICS
2 vols., 8vo., Second Impression thus; original printed wrappers, the wrappers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin Classics L62-63. First published in PC in 1957. The text is the Edmonds translation which remains for many scholars the standard English text. The cover roundel is by Elizabeth Friedlander. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.
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HILL Christopher
God's Englishman. Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. Introduced by Tristram Hunt. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 24 pages of coloured and monochrome plates, and endpaper plans; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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BLOND Georges
The Marne. Translated by H. Eaton Hart. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in Paris in 1962. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.202.
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CHALMERS Rear-Admiral W.S.
The Life and Letters of David, Earl Beatty. Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 22 sepia-toned plates and 12 diagrams (6 of Jutland) in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted; navy cloth, upper board clocked in gilt, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Albion, p.275; NMM II/1, 279.
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BLUNDEN Edmund
Undertones of War. Introduction by Jon Stallworthy. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spread and plates (a number double-page); pictorial green and brown cloth, green top, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. The plates are by Nash, Rothenstein, Orpen, Kennington, Muirhead Bone and other notable official and unofficial artists of the Great War. The printed binding is taken from Nash's 'lithograph 'Void of War'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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JONES David
In Parenthesis. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Foreword by Harold Bloom. Calligraphy by Ewan Clayton. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 8 hand-lettered inscriptions; decorative green cloth lettered in cream, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Splendid new edition of Jones's masterpiece of the Great War.
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MAHAN Alfred T.
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST UK EDITION
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 25 plates, and 24 maps and plans (a number folding); original navy ribbed cloth, gilt backs, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Bright copy of the concluding work in Mahan's masterly series 'The Influence of Sea Power upon History'. Published simultaneously with the US edition. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Hattendorf A12b.
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WILSON Derek
The King and the Gentleman. Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell 1599-1649. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MALCOLM Lieutenant-Colonel G. I.
The Argylls in Korea. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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GEORGE David Lloyd
War Memoirs. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
2 vols., 8vo., with portrait frontispiece and plates; red faux-morocco cloth, upper boards lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, gilt backs, red tops, marbled endpapers, upper hinge of first volume starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1934.
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OUGHTON Frederick
Ace with One Eye. The Life and Combats of Major Edward Mannock. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. SCARCE. Noffsinger 1117.
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LANGMAID Captain Kenneth
The Sea Raiders. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with one closed tear. Covers the main German high seas raiders of both world wars. The second half includes everything from GRAF SPEE to TOGO. Enser, p.158, Law 1698.
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LATHAM, ed. Robert
Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War. Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers. Transcribed by William Matthews and by Charles Knighton. Edited by Robert Latham. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 133.
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HAMILTON Ernest W.
The First Seven Divisions. Being a detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres. Fourteenth Edition, revised and enlarged. With six additional Maps and an Index. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Fourteenth Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece and 9 other maps (a number folding), small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, backstrip sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. A classic account of the Old Contemptibles, and arguably the introduction of the Western Front to the British public. 'Even today it is not to be despised, for it contains many episodes and recollections not to be found in later histories and is written with force and point' (Falls). This edition includes six additional maps and an index. Enser pp. 58, 129; Falls p.38 (both recording the first edition).
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WOLFF Leon
In Flanders Fields. The 1917 Campaign. [Introduction by Major-General J.F.C. Fuller.] IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with 21 plates on 12 and 7 maps in the text; elegantly bound in full dark brown crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of this classic account of the calamitous campaign that concluded with Passchendaele, where fighting was brought to a halt not by the enemy but by floods and slaughter. 'An outstanding book, the most fascinating I have read on the period reviewed' (Fuller: Introduction). THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS UNCOMMON. Enser, p.130.
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