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BUTLER] [Samuel
Hudibras. [In Three Parts, complete]. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended, with Several Additions and Annotations. [With 'The Author's Life']. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE 'LIFE'
3 parts in 1 vol., 8vo., some moderate age-staining throughout, neat eighteenth-century inscriptions (some dated) on endpapers, front free endpaper expertly mounted, small contemporary signature on title of first part; contemporary panelled calf elaborately tooled in blind, back with four raised bands, uncut, first compartment replaced in calf to style, joints rubbed, lower outer corner frayed, a good, sound copy in a sympathetically restored contemporary binding. Contains the First Part [with 'The Author's Life'], Printed by E.P. for Geo. Sawbridge in Little-Britain, 1704; the Second Part [with 'An Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to Sidrophel', first added in 1678], Printed for R. Chiswel, G. Sawbridge, R. Wellington, and G. Wells, 1704; the Third and Last Part, Printed for Thomas Horne, at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange, MDCCIV.Early collected edition of all three parts. In keeping with the so-called 'collected editions' of this period, each part retains its individual title and pagination; the first dition with continuous pagination did not appear until 1710. The Author's Life', ascribed by Oldys to Sir James Astrey, APPEARS HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME (the writer professes to supplement and correct the notice given in Wood's 'Athenae Oxonienses'.)CBEL, II: 260; Greco's Catalogue of the Severance Collection (Chapel Hill), 18.
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BIRMINGHAM
Four Tracts relative to the Battle of Birmingham. Anno Domini 1643. [Facsimile re-issue]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. First published in London in 1643, these tracts were reprinted at Birmingham in 1815 and again at the Birmingham School of Printing in 1931. VERY SCARCE.
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BRACKENBURY H.
The Ashanti War. A Narrative prepared from the Official Documents by Permission of Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley. With Maps and Plans by Harry Cooper. THE BRACKENBURY FAMILY COPY
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with a folding facsimile on blue stock and a double-page map as frontispieces, a folding map and a double-page map, and two large folding maps (one coloured in outline) in pocket at rear of second volume, some very mild occasional foxing, fore-edges dusty; original decorative cloth blocked in blind, gilt backs, uncut, covers moderately soiled (boards to volume two stained with black ink), volume one neatly rebacked with original backstrip (faded) laid down else a good, firm, sound copy of a work scarce in any condition. This volume bears the neat contemporary signature of 'Frank Cooper' and the following holograph inscription: 'Maps drawn by my brother Harry, who was with Colonel Colley as Adjutant of Transport. Col. Colley, afterwards Sir G[eorge]. Pomeroy Colley, was killed in the fatal action of Majuba Hill in Natal fighting against the Boers'. Henry Brackenbury was Assistant Military Secretary to Wolseley; Cooper (as stated correctly above) was sometime Adjutant of Transport during the campaign. The official records were placed by Wolseley at Brackenbury's disposal 'without reservation' and augmented by the latter's private journal which he kept whilst serving at headquarters. The account of Captain Glover's expedition is taken entirely from letters between Wolseley and himself. The missions of Captains Butler and Dalrymple are described from their own letters. Frank Cooper's signature is dated 1874; the Battle of Majuba Hill took place on 27th February 1881 during the First South African War (this action was, incidentally, the last occasion on which British regimental colours were carried into battle). It would seem, therefore, that this was originally Frank Cooper's copy (until at least 1881) which then passed into the Brackenbury family. It was then in the library of Major-General Charles Booth Brackenbury (1831-1890) and bears his signature on the half-title of the second volume. The author's elder brother, he spent his career in the Royal Artillery culminating in his appointment as Director of Artillery Studies at Woolwich, from which position no-one did more to spread sound ideas throughout the service on tactical changes demanded by the advancement in weapons technology. On Charles's death this copy passed to his youngest son, Hereward Irenius Brackenbury and bears his engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down of first volume. Hereward Brackenbury was a talented engineer and director of the prominent defence contractor Hawthorn Leslie & Co. The Brackenbury family was well represented in nearly all the British wars of the nineteenth century. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT AND DESIRABLE FAMILY COPY SHOWING MULTIPLE ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE AUTHOR OF A CLASSIC VICTORIAN CAMPAIGN MEMOIR.
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WAR OFFICE
For your Guidance. What to do on leaving the Service, and how to do it. For Issue to Men called up under the N[ational] S[ervice] Acts during 1947 and 1948.
Sm. 8vo., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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ALDRICH Mildred
A Hilltop on the Marne. Being Letters written June 3 - September 8, 1914. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First US Edition, with a frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 4 plates and endpaper maps, neat contemporary signature in pencil on frontispiece recto; original green cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Scarce in this condition. Enser, p.202 (recording the first UK edition of the same year).
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HUMBLE, ed.] [Richard
'The Warsaw Ghetto no longer exists'. [Orbis World War II Special]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Includes an impressive collection of photographs, many not easily available elsewhere.
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ADAMS James Truslow
America Faces the War. No. 2. An American looks at the British Empire.
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Second in a series of booklets by distinguished Americans on problems raised by the war. A rare survival.
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BARKER Ralph
A Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I. [First Paperback Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with very numerous plates; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Barker's acclaimed study was first published as 'The Royal Flying Corps in France' (2 vols, 1995). This is the work's first appearance in paperback.
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BURNE A.H.
Strategy as exemplified in the Second World War. A Strategical Examination of the Land Operations. The Lees Knowles Lectures for 1946. J H OWEN'S COPY
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of the eminent naval historian J.H. Owen with his initials on front free endpaper. Loosely inserted is an offprint of the author's 'Japanese and American Strategy in the Pacific' (RUSI Journal 1948). Enser, p.413 (recording only the US edition of the following year).
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MANNING] [Frederic
The Middle Parts of Fortune. Somme & Ancre 1916. [As Private 19022.] THE GREATEST NOVEL OF THE GREAT WAR: 520 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on hand-made paper; original brown buckram, gilt tops, uncut, marbled endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in archival film wrappers [wrappers not shown in image]. EDITION LIMITED TO 520 COPIES. Bright, crisp copy of Frederic Manning's masterpiece, published anonymously (as was the expurgated version 'Her Privates We' a year later). The frankness and detail of the story was praised by many of those who shared Manning's front line experiences (including Lawrence and Sassoon) and the work as a whole found favour with men of letters, among them Hemingway and Bennett. Today the work is recognised as the finest novel to emerge from the Great War, and one of the very finest in the literature of warfare. 'No praise could be too sheer for this book' (T.E. Lawrence).
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LONGLEY] [Edna
'A Language not to be Betrayed'. The Poetry of Edward Thomas [in] 'Poetry Wales'. Volume 12. No. 1. Summer 1976. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, title lightly spotted; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Longley's extended essay appears at pp.8-28. SCARCE.
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WALKER] [F.W.
The History of the Old 2/4th (City of London) Battalion The London Regiment of Fusiliers.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, 41 plates on 16 and 3 folding maps, some light soiling throughout; original regimental cloth, battalion badge in gilt on upper board, gilt back, covers moderately age-marked else a good, sound copy. Includes register of officers and personnel. This territorial battalion served in Malta, Alexandria, Mudros, Gallipoli (October 1915-January 1916) and Rouen. It was disbanded in June 1916 and replaced by 3/4th battalion which then took its name. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.62; White, p.201
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ATKINSON Captain C. T.
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914-1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 26 plates on 17 and 62 folding maps (2 large) on japon, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; original regimental blue cloth, upper board blocked with regimental badge in silver, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. Complete with errata leaf. The standard record of the regiment's service in the Great War in which eleven battalions were involved. Includes ROH, honours and decorations, MIDs, units and their COs, depots and POW funds 'Well above the average of regimental histories in interest. He has done his best to procure information from officers who served with the regiment to supplement the generally scant and laconic accounts of the war diaries' (Falls). Accordingly this history is particularly well supplied with maps (albeit some of them sketches in outline). SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.70; Falls p.97; Sutcliffe p.306; White p.105.
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CHALMERS 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.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 22 sepia-toned plates and 12 diagrams (6 of Jutland) in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, back a little dulled else a very good, clean copy. Good copy of the standard life. Albion, p.275; NMM II/1, 279.
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BLAND (trans.) J.O.P.
Germany's Violations of the Laws of War 1914-1915. Compiled under the Auspices of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Translated and with an Introduction.
8vo., First and Sole English Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text, neat signature on title, free endpapers mildly browned; original cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. A standard reference, scarce in this condition. Enser, p.389.
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BONE Muirhead
The Western Front. Drawings by Muirhead Bone. [Volume II]. Part IX. September, 1917. ['Soldier's Travel']. CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 20 fine full-page tinted plates and an illustration in the text; original pictorial wrappers, front wrapper (only) stained, uncut edges a lightly frayed as often else a remarkably crisp, clean copy. Sir Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) created much of his finest work as Official Artist on the Western Front in WWI. The culmination of this period is his striking series of drawings (over 200 in all) published as 'The Western Front' (1916-17). Issued in ten monthly parts, each number contained 20 plates captioned on the facing page with text by C.E. Montague and prefaced by a short introduction by GHQ (it is believed that the introduction to the first part was penned personally by Douglas Haig). The original parts were later combined and sold as two bound volumes (volume one comprising parts 1-5 and volume two parts 6-10). The parts were sometimes loosely themed, e.g. 'Trench Scenery', 'The Battle of Arras', but whatever the subject the best of his work is quite outstanding. '[Bone] brings the contrasts and the anonynimity of that First World War to life in chalk and pencil. Bone was particularly good at observing vast industrial activity and in showing myriad figures from above, a sort of Piranesi in reverse' 'Houfe' (1978). Copies of the original issues are uncommon, especially in this condition. Enser, p.26.
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TAHAN Ilana
Memorial Volumes to Jewish Communities destroyed in the Holocaust. A Bibliography of British Library Holdings. Introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, and monochrome photographs and a map in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
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BEATTIE E.W.
Passport to War. [First UK Edition].
8vo., First UK Edition; original brown cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. Nice copy (albeit to wartime production standards) of the first UK edition. Detailed account of the leading American war correspondent's service from 1937 to 1941. Published simultaneously with the US edition (titled 'Freely to Pass'). The UK edition is scarce in this condition. Enser, p.327
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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. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 9 maps in the text and large folding coloured map (original tissue guard present), free endpaper versos lightly browned, half-title faintly spotted; original red cloth gilt, gilt back, backstrip slightly faded (but all gilt legible) with faded 'pulls' at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright and internally remarkably clean and crisp copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end as called for, and neat personal bookplate 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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CHURCHILL Winston S.
The World Crisis 1916-1918. [Parts I and II, complete]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPIES
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 2 folding facsimiles, 16 maps and charts (11 folding and a number coloured in outline), 2 folding tables and 18 maps and charts in the text, free endpapers moderately browned as usual, some light and scattered spotting; original navy blue cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy. Complete with the errata slips at p.52 (part I) and at half-title (part II). This is volume three, parts of I and II of Churchill's masterly history of the Great War. As an account of the years 1916-1918 the two parts are complete in themselves. Very scarce in anything like this condition. Woods, A(31)a.
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COLLIS R.
Straight On.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 4 plates of drawings by E. Ainsworth, 7 plates on 4, 2 full-page plans in the text and endpapers maps; original red cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a good, clean copy. Vividly-written account of one family's seemingly endless travels, from Holland through Germany, Czechoslovakia and back to Holland. Includes first-hand account of Arnhem and Belsen. Extremely scarce. Enser, p.112.
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COMFORT Alex
The Signal to Engage. Poems. SHELAGH STORM MASSADA'S COPY
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of the American poet Shelagh Storm Massada and bears her signature on front free endpaper.
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COMPTON-HALL Richard
Submarine Boats. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Excellent early history with fascinating and well-captioned photographs.
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COOPER C.S.
The Outdoor Monuments of London. Statues, Memorial Buildings, Tablets and War Memorials.
Roy. 8vo., on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 31 plates; original buckram gilt, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate, neat stamp on obverse of frontispiece and title, and neat stamp on margins only of some plates.
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FARRELLY M.J.
The Settlement after the War in South Africa.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly faded and chafed at head and tail else a very good, clean copy. Hackett, p.144.
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FORSTMEIER Kapitan zur See Dr. Friedrich
Warship Profile 25: SMS Emden. Small Protected Cruiser 1906-1914. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers laminated at edges, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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FITZSIMONS B.
The Big Guns. Artillery 1914-1918. [Purnell's History of the World Wars. Special].
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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GIBBON Frederick P.
The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 1914-1918. HANDSOME COPY IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 8 plates of portraits, 110 sepia-toned plates on 48, 2 coloured plates of unit insignia, a map as plate, a full-page map in the text and 4 large folding maps coloured in outline, half-title lightly browned; handsomely bound in twentieth century red full morocco, gilt back, divisional insignia in white and red from original cloth binding preserved and mounted on blank preliminary, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold with a small quantity of relevant cuttings and a printed flier on behalf of the Old Members' Association.Published in the 'Country Life' series of military histories. The first territorial division to travel overseas, the 42nd served in Egypt and at Gallipoli (May 1915 to January 1916), the Suez Canal and Sinai. Transferred to the Western Front at a time of crisis (March 1917), it fought at Ypres, Nieuport and La Bassee. It was part of the thrust through the Hindenburg Line, crossed the Selle and ended at Foret de Mormal and Hautmont. Includes ROH, honours and awards, OOB, HQ staff and officers commanding. One of the most detailed territorial divisional histories. Falls decries the maps but recognises the unusually number of excellent photographs. A very attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SCARCE. Enser, p.61; Falls, p.110..
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HANCOCK K.R.
New Zealand at War. An unofficial Account of the Dominion's War Effort overseas and at Home, embracing the Services in all Theatres and the industrial and general domestic Background during the Period of Hostilities, 1939-45.
4to., First Edition, with 48 plates on 12; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip mildly sunned, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, clean copy. Enser, p.287.
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HAUPT-HEYDEMARCK [G.]
Double-Decker C.666. Translated by Claud W. Sykes. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First English Edition, with a frontispiece, 27 plates and a folding map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some mild spotting (mainly marginal but rather heavier on title) throughout; cloth, gilt back, a very good, tight copy. With 3pp publisher's advertisements at end. Very scarce.Classic account of German pilot's flying experiences in WWI.Scarce.
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HEATH A.R. Ltd
[Sale Catalogue]. English Civil War and Commonwealth 1640-1660. [Catalogue No.2]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., with full-page illustrations in the text; original illustrated wrappers, a very good copy. An important catalogue listing 383 items.
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JELLICOE John Rushworth
Autograph Letter signed. A.L.s FROM EARL JELLICOE
4pp notelet (two pages blank), measuring 7.0 x 4.5 ins (approx. 18.0 x 11.5 cms), on blind-embossed Admiralty stationery, dated 14 January 1909, last (blank) page lightly dusty else a near fine copy. THE ENTIRE LETTER IS WRITTEN, DATED AND SIGNED IN JELLICOE'S HAND. Jellicoe writes to one 'Mr. Trill', evidently an old shipmate from HMS Ramillies. 'I was very glad to hear from you that you are well and strong. Long may you remain so. I wish we could have the Ramillies commission over again. I am very glad that your boy is coming to Portsmouth. I hope it will be managed all right. I am glad to say that Lady Jellicoe and I are both very well. I hope some day at Portsmouth we may come across you, but I am much tied to the office here. I would sooner be fitting out nets at sea'. John Rushworth Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935) commanded the Grand Fleet at Jutland. He was appointed to HMS Ramillies, new flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, which he commanded from 1893-7 (probably the period referred to in the letter). He later served as First Sea Lord and was raised to the peerage in 1925 as 1st Earl Jellicoe. AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL BY JELLICOE IS EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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JELLICOE Admiral of the Fleet Viscount
The Grand Fleet 1914-16. Its Creation, Development and Work. IN FULL MOROCCO WITH BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC PROVENANCE
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, coloured plate, 9 monochrome plates on 7, 9 large folding charts coloured in outline and 4 folding diagrams in pocket at end, some light spotting to fore-edges, a few charts lightly spotted at folds; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, 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, gilt from original backstrip and gilt device from upper board mounted on new and separate leaves at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF CAPTAIN JOHN WILLIAM JOSSELYN RN AND BEARS HIS NEAT HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE (DATED 1919) ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. During WWII, Captain J.W. Josselyn commanded INTREPID (1939-1942), CARADOC (1942-1943), and HAWKINS (from 1943). It was whilst in command of INTREPID that he took part (together with INGLEFIELD and IVANHOE) in the sinking of U-45 by depth charge off the south-west coast of Ireland in October 1939. He retired from the service in 1949. Albion, p.271; Enser, p.309
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KENDALL Sherayl
New Zealand Military Nursing. A History of the Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps, Boer War to the Present Day. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations, diagrams and charts; original boards as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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KIPLING Rudyard
France at War. IN FULL MOROCCO
12mo., First UK Edition, on laid paper; handsomely bound in full red morocco, gilt back, an attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collects six articles originally published in two newspapers, the Daily Telegraph (London) and the Sun (New York). They were subsequently published as individual pamphlets in the US; this is their first appearance in book form. Livingston, 397.
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KINGSFORD Charles Lethbridge
The Story of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 17 monochrome plates, 9 illustrations and 12 maps and plans (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding map on japon, endpapers faintly spotted; original red cloth, gilt backs, backstrip moderately sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Published in the 'Country Life Series of Military Histories'. Includes coloured plate of uniform, monochrome plates of colours (1-4 Bns), medals, bibliography, ROH (first two years of WWI), and list of officers serving in August 1916. Sutcliffe, p.327; White, p.109.
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ANON
Lewes Remembers the Second World War (1939-1945). FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and full-page photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The words of the people of Lewes recorded and edited by members of the U3A oral history group.
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MOLESWORTH George
The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1919-1945. Compiled by George Molesworth. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 5 portrait plates and 30 large folding maps, free endpapers very lightly spotted, ; original regimental green buckram, badge blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, upper board lightly dust-soiled at outer edge else a near fine copy. The regiment's service in two world wars. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.94; White, p.66.
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LOCK H.O.
With the British Army in the Holy Land.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 5 double-page maps on japon, free endpapers browned from fold-ins; original maroon cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back (lettering faded but entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. Written on active service with the Dorsetshire Regiment, these are the author's personal reminiscences of service in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Palestine. Scarce in this condition. Not recorded by Enser.
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MACMUNN G.
Military Operations Egypt & Palestine from the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917. [Vol. I only]. A CAMBERLEY COPY FROM THE BRACKENBURY BEQUEST
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 6 large folding panoramas in sepia-toned collotype, 16 full-page maps in red and black and 2 full-page diagrams in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps, most original tissue guards present; original red cloth, gilt back, case a little shaken (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY FORMED PART OF THE BRACKENBURY BEQUEST TO THE STAFF COLLEGE, CAMBERLEY. It bears the fine engraved armorial Brackenbury bookplate on front paste-down, the Camberley stamp (cancelled) together with several date stamps on half-title, and 'not to be retained' label on front board. Published in the official series 'History of the Great War', based on official documents by direction of the historical section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. This first (of two) volumes covers the commands of Maxwell and Murray, and deals with the defence of Suez, the advance across Sinai into Southern Palestine and First and Second Gaza. It also includes the campaign against the Senussi, minor operations in the Sudan and against the Sultan of Darfur, and the outbreak of the Arab Revolt (aided by Lawrence). Co-compiler Cyril Falls is the author of the standard WWI bibliography 'War Books' (1930). The separate portfolio of maps is not present with this copy. Scarce in this original edition. Enser, p.250; Falls, p.53.
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MASON D.J.
With The Cumberland Artillery in The Great War. Papers of Lt-Col. D. J. Mason of Workington. Edited by Thomas Thompson.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; original printed wrappers, comb-bound, a fine copy. A fascinating account of Cumberland’s Territorial Gunners in the Great War based on the papers of their CO and edited by the last CO of both Cumberland’s TA Gunners and the 4th (TA) Battalion of The Border Regiment. Mobilised at the outbreak of war, the Cumberland Artillery served overseas from 1915 at Gallipoli, in the Middle East and on the Western Front with 42 Division.
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MOTTRAM Ralph Hale
The English Miss.
8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, green top, backstrip a little sunned (but all gilt entirely legible), fore-edge mildly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Fabes, p.52.
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NOYES Alfred
The Wine-Press. A Tale of War.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, free endpapers lightly browned; original green buckram, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, backstrip sunned (but all lettering wholly legible), fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end, and personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Noyes' prescient poem appeared on the eve of the Great War.
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PAYNE A. A.
A Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations awarded to the Army and Navy. Chiefly described from those in the Collection of A.A. Payne of which there are some 2,500.
4to., with a portrait frontispiece and numerous plates; laminated cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. High quality and much-needed facsimile re-issue. The original edition of 1911 was published by subscription only; fewer than 100 copies are thought to have been printed.
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LOYD Anthony
My War Gone By, I Miss It So. PROOF COPY
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The author's first book, a vivid and haunting account of the war in Bosnia from 1993 to 1996 as reporter for the Daily Telegraph and The Times as special correspondent.
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RIDDELL Brig.-Gen. E.
The Cambridgeshires 1914 to 1918. With an Introduction by Major G.B. Bowes. SOUND WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 13 plates on 7 and 3 folding maps, endpapers heavily damp-marked; regimental cloth blocked in black with gilt crest, gilt back, covers heavily damp-marked but still a good, sound working copy of a scarce unit history. Sold from an institution with neat stamp on title and traces of label on front paste-down. The introduction includes a short account of the Cambridgeshire RVC 1860-1914 and there is a brief note on the VTC. An exemplary record of the TA in action during WWI. Sutcliffe, p.89; White, p.180.
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ROSIGNOLI Guido
Badges and Insignia of World War II. Air Force. Naval. Marine. [First Combined Edition].
8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous coloured illustrations throughout; pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white, a backstrip very faintly sunned else a very good, clean copy. Collects the author's earlier 'Air Force Badges and Insignia of WWII' and 'Naval and Marine Badges and Insignia of WWII'.
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RUGE Vice-Admiral Friedrich
Warship Profile 27: SM Torpedo Boat B110. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. A scarce title in this valuable and much sought-after series.
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FRASER-TYTLER N.
With Lancashire Lads and Field Guns in France 1915-1918.
8vo., First Edition, with folding maps; original red cloth, backstrip sunned, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Includes actions at Frise, the Somme, Arras, Messines and Passchendaele. The original edition of this classic account is very scarce. Scarce. Enser, p.80.
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FURNEAUX J.
An Abridged History of the Principal Treaties of Peace, commencing after the Peace of Westphalia, with Reference to the Neutral Flag protecting the Property of an Enemy.
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red buckram, back gilt with raised bands, a very good, clean copy of an extremely scarce work. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on title.
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