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HAMILTON I.
Listening for the Drums.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 27 plates, 5 facsimiles and 2 maps in the text, and endpaper maps in red and black; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. The author's record of a quarter of a century's service in India, Afghanistan and the Boer war.
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GRAHAM H.
The Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire. Vol. II [only]. Being a Complete History of the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment from 1893 to 1908. BRIGHT, FRESH COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 4 plates (3 portraits) and 3 plates of sketch maps; regimental blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and white and lettered in black, gilt back, black endpapers, a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy. The first volume (1886) concerns the period 1794 to 1886. Two thirds of this volume covers the service in the Boer War of 1st, 2nd and 63rd companies of Imperial Yeomanry. All were sponsored by the Royal Wilts, through the 63rd was raised in South Africa. Scarce in this condition. Sutcliffe, p.240; White p, 174.
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SUMIDA J.T.
The Pollen Papers. The Privately Circulated Printed Works of Arthur Hungerford Pollen 1901-1916.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous diagrams in the text; original series binding of navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Navy Records Society, vol. CXXIV
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GANNES H.
Spain in Revolt. A History of the Civil War in Spain in 1936 and a Study of its social, political, and economic Causes. [Left Book Club edition].
8vo., First Edition, with a map; original printed wrappers, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume I: To the Battle of the Falklands, December 1914. Part I: Text; Part II: Maps.
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with 18 large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, backstrips moderately faded (bit lettering just legible), a good, firm, clean set of the first volume. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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JOHNSON T.M.
German Daggers of World War II. A Photographic Reference. Volume 2: SA; Feldherrnhalle; SS; NSKK; NPEA; RAD; Hitlerjugend.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth, a fine copy. Second of four volumes designed as an authoritative reference on the daggers of Nazi Germany.
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JOHNSON T.M.
German Daggers of World War II. A Photographic Reference. Volume 3: DLV/NSFK; Diplomats; Red Cross; Police and Fire; RLB; TENO; Customs; Reichsbahn; Postal; Hunting and Forestry.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth, a fine copy. Third of four volumes designed as an authoritative reference on the daggers of Nazi Germany.
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JOHNSON T.M.
German Daggers of World War II. A Photographic Reference. Volume 4: Recently Surfaced Rare and Unusual Dress Daggers Hermann Göring Recently Surfaced Rare and Unusual Dress Daggers, Hermann Göring Bejeweled Dress Daggers; Reproductions.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth, a fine copy. Fourth of four volumes designed as an authoritative reference on the daggers of Nazi Germany.
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JOHNSON T.M.
German Daggers of World War II. A Photographic Reference. Volume I: Army; Luftwaffe; Kriegsmarine.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth, a fine copy. First of four volumes designed as an authoritative reference on the daggers of Nazi Germany.
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RODGER N.A.M.
Articles of War. The Statutes which governed our fighting Navies 1661, 1749 and 1886.
8vo., First Edition; with illustrations in the text; original pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. Scarce
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DOONER M.G.
The Last Post. Being a Roll of all Officers (Naval, Military or Colonial) who gave their Lives for their Queen , King and Country in the South African War 1899-1902. [Fascimile Reissue].
8vo., with a frontispiece; cloth gilt, a near fine copy. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1903. Hackett, p.142 (recording the first edition)
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GRELLING] [R.
J'Accuse. By a German. Translated by Alexander Gray. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
8vo., First English Edition, free endpaper mildly browned, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original red cloth, upper board blocked in yellow and lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. The German edition was first published anonymously in Lausanne earlier in the same year. Written by pacifist Richard Grelling, this is a scathing attack upon the political and military leadership of Germany that led to the outbreak of WWI. Grelling takes his title from the infamous Zola letter of the Dreyfus scandal some two decades previously. The 'Germany Awake!' of the first chapter became the totemic 'Deutschland Erwache!' of Hitler's Reich. Scarce in this condition. Enser, p.245.
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LINDSAY J.H.
The London Scottish in the Great War. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, 18 plates and 22 maps (a number folding); original blue cloth, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. The first edition was issued a limited edition of two hundred signed copies in the previous year. Enser p.68; Sutcliffe p.393; White p.203
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LOWELL E.J.
The Hessians and the other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. [Kennikat Reissue].
8vo., with 8 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1884.
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NEUREUTHER Karl
U-Boat Stories. Narratives of German U-Boat Sailors. Edited by Karl Neureuther and Claus Bergen. Translated by Eric Sutton. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured plates and 34 monochrome illustrations in the text; handsomely bouns in blue full morocco, back gilt with raised bands, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collects twenty-five eye-witness narratives; a classic of submarine warfare in the Great War. Very scarce. Enser, p.353.
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PARKMAN Francis
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada. [Introduction by Thomas Seccombe]. FIRST EDITION IN EVERYMAN
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus; original red cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, brown tops, patterned endpapers, a very good, bright, clean set. Complete sets in this condition are very scarce. EL 302; 303; Seymour 759.0; 760.0.
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ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
An Illustrated Record of the British Armoured Fighting Vehicle. Armoured Cars 1900-1963. With a Supplement on Foreign Armoured Cars.
Sm. 4to., with text in red and black, and numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a good, clean copy. Reprint of the revised edition of 1964.
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HEADLAM C.
History of the Guards Division in the Great War. NEAR FINE SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 coloured frontispieces and 19 maps (many folding); original divisional cloth, upper boards framed in black and blocked with Guards' 'All-Seeing Eye' in gilt, white and black, gilt backs, a near fine set. The standard Great War history of 'one of the greatest fighting formations the world has known. Headlam's work is done with care and precision, from this point of view it is one of the best records of its sort that has been published' (Falls). The original edition is very scarce in this condition. Enser, p.58; Falls p.113.
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LAWRENCE] [T. E.
Lawrence of Arabia Memorial. A RARE SURVIVAL
Single folded sheet, printed on three pages; extremities very lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. Leaflet giving the terms of the appeal for funds for the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial. The list of committee members includes Allenby, Herbert Baker, Churchill, Lionel Curtis, Augustus John, Bernard Shaw and Evelyn Wrench. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. O'Brien E068.
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MAGNUS L.
The West Riding Territorials in the Great War. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Haig. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 15 plates, and 19 maps and facsimiles in the text, free endpapers very lightly browned at edges only; original red decorative cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with white rose, gilt back, top very slightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. The standard history of 49th and 62nd Divisions in the Great War. Includes honours & awards, and ROH. Scarce in this condition. Enser, p.74; Sutcliffe, p.102; White, p.221.
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FULLER Thomas
The History of the Holy War. PICKERING AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWERS
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with half-title and title in red and black; original brown ribbed cloth, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, new paper label and laid endpapers to style, a very good, clean copy. CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST MODERN ACCOUNT OF THE CRUSADES IN ENGLISH. Based on the third edition of 1647 and printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, this is a beautiful edition from Pickering at the height of his powers. Morison: Four Centuries of Fine Printing, 297; NCBEL I, p.2233.
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KNIGHT, Laura
War Pictures by British Artists. Women [with] Production [with] Soldiers [with] Air Raids. [Series II complete]. COMPLETE SECOND SERIES IN FULL MOROCCO
4 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition, with 194 toned full-page illustrations in the text; 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, ALL ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a most attractive volume ideal as a gift or for presentation. No.1: Women; No. 2: Production; No. 3: Soldiers; No. 4: Air Raids. Complete set of the second series with fine reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches by virtually all Britain's leading war artists. The contributors naturally featured many of the most eminent artists of the period including (among many others) Ardizzone, Bawden, Bone, Kennington, Moore, Nash, Piper, Ravilious, Rothenstein, Spencer, Sutherland, Topolski and Worsley. The first series (dealing primarily with the fighting forces) was published in the preceding year. UNCOMMON AS A SET AND ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WYLLY Colonel H. C.
The First and Second Battalions The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) in the Great War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 26 plates, 8 folding maps, and 4 folding maps in pocket at end; original cloth with regimental badge on upper cover, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.73; Sutcliffe, p.278; White, p.101.
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US NAVY
Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses during World War II by all Causes. February 1947. [Foreword by Rear Admiral Jerauld Wright, Chairman, Joint Army-Navy Assesssment Committee].
Oblong 8vo., First Paperback Edition, with diagrams in the text; original blue wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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PIMLOTT, ed.] [John
Images of War 1939-1945. The Real Story of World War II. A Marshall Cavendish Collection in Association with the Imperial War Museum. [Second and Larger Edition]. COMPLETE EXTENDED SET IN PUBLISHER'S BRANDED BINDERS
78 weekly parts in 4 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Edition, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts housed in publisher's branded black card binders blocked and lettered in gilt and red, all binders, parts and packs in near fine state. A major partwork from Marshall Cavendish edited by John Pimlott, then Deputy Head of War Studies at RMA Sandhurst. 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 arrangement of the partwork is complex. The content of each number is arranged in four strands: Background, Campaign, Eyewitness and Home Front. In addition each of numbers 1-52 is accompanied by a separate numbered 'pack' containing a large coloured folding campaign map, a reproduction newspaper of the day and one or more items of ephemera such as reproduction documents. Each of numbers 53-78 (26 in all) is accompanied by a separate unnumbered 'pack' containing reproduction newspaper, poster and postcards. Due to the complexity and ephemeral nature of the companion 'packs' they are rarely found entirely complete. IN THE PRESENT SET HOWEVER ALL BUT NO. 6 ARE PRESENT. The work was first published in 1988-89 in 52 parts; this was extended to 78 parts of the second and final edition as here. The work as a whole is a worthy complement to Purnell's 'History'; taken together the two partworks provide an impressive pictorial archive. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS FORMAT AND CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE
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US NAVY
Searchlights and Signal Lights. November, 1918.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous plates, and illustrations and diagrams in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Publication code N.S.E. 312. Confidential.
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BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY
Prisoner of War. The first authentic Account of the Lives of British Prisoners of War in Enemy Hands. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper map; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, backstrip worn (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, clean copy. The front endpaper map provides a valuable key to camps and locations as revealed at the time. A scarce survival. Not recorded by Enser.
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THE GRAPHIC
'The Graphic' Souvenir of the German Navy's Surrender. November 1918. NEAR FINE COPY WTH ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED
4to., First Edition, with title-vignette and very numerous blue-toned photographs in the text; attractively bound in navy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a most attractive copy. 'The German Flag is to be hauled down at 15.57 (3.57 pm) today, Thursday, and is not to be hoisted again without permission' (Beatty to von Reuter). IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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WAR OFFICE
The German Army in Pictures. THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION
Sm. 8vo., with 34 plates on 32; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a remarkably bright, crisp, well-preserved copy. M.I. 14. January 1941. First issued in July 1940. 'The Information given in this document is not to be communicated, either directly or indirectly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Service.' The purpose of this pamphlet is to give all ranks an idea of the appearance of the German soldier and his armament. It is being issued down to Platoon, etc. commanders'. The first edition is extremely scarce. COPAC gives only two entries (BL and NLS) for the 1941 reissue.
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BRITISH ARMY
Manual of Military Law. War Office 1914 [Sixth Edition]. THE GREAT WAR ISSUE
8vo., Sixth Edition, endpapers lightly browned, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; original red cloth, gilt back, very neatly recased with all advertisement endpapers preserved, a very good, clean copy. With 17pp publisher's catalogue on pink stock bound in at front and rear.The compilation of the Manual of Military Law was initiated by Secretary of State for War Stanley in 1879. In order to produce a single comprehensive manual the Rules of Procedure required considerable legal amendment, including the repeal and replacement of the Army Discipline and Regulation Act 1879 by the Army Act 1881. The first edition was approved by both Childers and Hartington and published in 1884. The present edition contains an entirely new chapter on the laws and usages of war, revisions resulting from the Army Reforms of 1908, and (notably) the inclusion for the first time of the Official Secrets Act. It is arguably the most significant single issue, containing as it does the broadest set of amendments stemming from sea changes in service structure and practice. Fortunately it was completed in time for the conflict about to come. COPIES OF THE SIXTH EDITION ARE UNACCOUNTABLY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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HENRY WILLIAMSON SOCIETY.
Reality in War Literature. Henry Williamson Society Journal. Number 34, September 1998. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Includes seven pieces by Henry Williamson, two by his daughter-in-law Anne Williamson and several related articles and notes. SCARCE.
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WHITTON F.E.
The American War of Independence.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 11 maps, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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WESTON P.
Redan Ridge: the Last Stand. The Account of Men formerly of the Herefordshire Regiment and their Part in the Battle of the Somme.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; riginal pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. In September 1916 over 200 men of the Herefordshrie Regiment were transferred to 11 Border Regiment to make up for losses on the Somme. Fify-four died at Redan Ridge. Sutcliffe, p. 214.
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WILLCOX Walter Temple
The Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers in South Africa 1899-1902. A Facsimile Reprint drawn from 'The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers from their Foundation as Wynne's Dragoons (in 1689) to the Present Day. FINE COPY
4to., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 3 maps (2 folding); green cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. The hardback edition is very scarce.
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WAUGH Evelyn
Work Suspended and Other Stories written before the Second World War.
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; cloth, gilt back, blue top, marbled endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Differs from the limited first edition of 1942; this first trade version includes stories not appearing in the original edition together with one tale previously uncollected.
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WARD C.H.D.
History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T.F.) 1914-1918.
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, divisional sign on title, 29 plates on 17, 5 maps in the text and 4 large folding maps on japon, neat signature (member of the Middlesex Regiment) on front free endpaper, some mild spotting (mainly marginal and fore-edges); original divisional pebble-grained cloth, divisional insignia blocked in gilt and blind on upper board, gilt back, patterned endpapers, backstrip frayed at head and tail, covers unevenly sunned (rather more so at backstrip) else a very good, firm copy. Includes OOB, embarkation, postings of battalions, corps and divisional orders, the five battalions in France and roll of officers commanding. The division served at Gallipoli and under Allenby in Egypt, Palestine and Sinai. Five battalions served in France. SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION. Enser, p.61.
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TOMLINSON H.M.
Illusion: 1915.
8vo., First Edition in book form, on laid paper, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright copy in the original wrappers, the latter worn and frayed at edges. Tomlinson's celebrated novella of WWI was first published in 'The New Adelphi' in 1927.
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THOMAS H.
The Spanish Civil War.
8vo., First US Edition, with 27 plates and 34 maps in the text; black cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, clean copy.
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THOMAS-STANFORD Charles
Sussex in the Great Civil War 1642-1660.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original brown buckram, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, clean copy. One of the most elusive Civil War County histories. Extremely scarce
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TILLARD P.
Mauthausen. Preface de Jean-Richard Bloch.
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text, page edges lightly browning; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, sewn as issued, uncut, a very good, clean copy. A rare survival.
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THOMAS Edward
Horae Solitariae. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original ribbed green cloth gilt, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, joints and backstrip very slightly rubbed else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Thomas's second book, containing fifteen extended essays. EXTREMELY SCARCE. An article by Claude Prance in 'The Private Library' (Autumn 1977) states that 300 copies of the first edition were printed. Eckert, p.187.
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THOMAS Edward
The Country. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, original navy cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately framed and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, small bookplate scar on rear paste-down, backstrip just a trifle faded else a near fine copy. Published in Batsford's 'Fellowship Books' series edited by Mary Stratton. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Eckert, p.228.
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THOMAS Edward
Rose Acre Papers. Including Essays from 'Horae Solitariae'. FRESH, CLEAN COPY IN VARIANT BINDING
8vo., First Edition; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip very faintly browned else a remarkably fresh, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Fourteen essays collected from 'Horae Solitariae' (1902) and 'Rose Acre Papers' (1904). Apparently a binding variant, with the cloth lettered in black rather than gilt. See Eckert, p.205.
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THOMAS Edward
Cloud Castle and other Papers. With a Foreword by W.H. Hudson. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, Second Issue; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, backstrip chafed at head else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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THOMAS Edward
The Trumpet and other Poems.
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; original boards printed in red, covers unevenly sunned else a very good, clean copy.
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SURREY RIFLES
21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles). War Record of the 21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles) 1914-1919.
8vo., First Edition; original dark green cloth, upper board blocked with regimental crest in silver and red, boards lightly age-marked, backstrip faded and lightly pulled at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. Extremely scarce. Sutcliffe, p.464; White, p.205.
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ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT
A Short History of the Royal Sussex Regiment. (35th Foot - 107th Foot), 1701-1926. With brief particulars of the Part taken in the Great War by the various Battalions of the Regiment.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 4 coloured plates and 8 plates in monochrome; original cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded else a very good, clean copy. Includes one plate of uniform and one of colours. SCARCE. Sutcliffe p.220; White p.89
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STEDMAN Michael
Manchester Pals. 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd Battalions of The Manchester Regiment. A History of the Two Manchester Brigades. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, maps and facsimiles in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. Published in the 'Pals' series with statistics, rolls and other appendices. Sutcliffe, p. 349.
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SHEPHARD Ben
After Daybreak. The Liberation of Belsen 1945.
8vo., First Edition, with 27 plates on 16; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped.
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SERVICE Robert W.
The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man.
8vo., First UK Edition, wanting front free endpaper, neat contemporary signature on half-title, rear free endpaper lightly browned, fore-edges lightly spotted; original decorative red cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, tight, clean copy. The British edition of this scarce title
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