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SEAGO Edward
Peace in War.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and 28 plates, some minor occasional spotting; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Sherston's Progress. Drawings by John Lawrence. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette and illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, terracotta top, terracotta endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's card slip-case.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Old Century and seven more Years. [With a title-vignette by Reynolds Stone]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, endpapers very lightly spotted; original cloth, gilt back, green top, an unusually bright, clean copy. This 'daisy of a book' was Sassoon's personal favourite of all his prose works. It is dedicated to Max Beerbohm who materially assisted Sassoon by punctuating the text at proof stage. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes, A42a.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Selected Poems.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, endpapers very faintly browned; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. With a personal bookplate on front paste-down. Keynes, A24.
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RUST W.
Britons in Spain. The History of the British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, second impression, with 18 plates and 6 maps, fore-edges lightly browned; original cloth, upper hinge weak but quite sound, backstrip lightly faded else a very good copy of a very scarce work. A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION TO ARCHIE BASSETT ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER
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BONNER-SMITH D.
The Second China War 1856-1860.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and 3 full-page maps in the text; original series binding of ivory buckram blocked in gilt, navy blue buckram back lettered in gilt, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, Vol. XCV. With 6pp series catalogue bound in at end. This copy was presented by J E Morpurgo to the library of Christ's Hospital School and bears its bookplate on front paste-down and presentation bookplate with press-mark on front free endpaper. Jack Eric Morpurgo (1918-2000), professor, historian, man of letters and eminent Old Blue, was educated at Christ's Hospital School and the University of North Brunswick, Canada. After service with the Royal Artillery in WWII he worked as an editor at Penguin Books and was several times nominated by Allen Lane as his successor, but the appointment fell foul of the volatile relationship shared by the two men (Morpurgo wrote Lane's biography in 1970). After Penguin he joined the National Book League (now Book Trust) where he rose to Director-General. He was subsequently appointed Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds and was awarded several visiting professorships at universities throughout the world. He is the stepfather of the writer Michael Morpurgo. Scarce.
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JUTA M.[C.]
The Pace of the Ox. The Life of Paul Kruger. South African Edition. THE SOUTH AFRICAN EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, double-page facsimile and 2 large folding maps on japon; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presention. The original South African edition, published by Constable, was published a year before the standard trade edition.
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BELSEY J.
The Forgotten Front. Bristol at War 1914-1918.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates on 8; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Scarce
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OSBORNE S.
Germany and her Jews.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. With relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Includes summary biographies of many notable German Jews. Scarce in this condition.
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GUN BUSTER
Grand Barrage.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at edges with very minor loss at head of backstrip. The author's fourth novel of the war and uncommon in this condition
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[MOBERLY] [Brigadier-General F.J.]
Operations in Persia 1914-1919. Facsimile Edition with Introduction by Dr. G.M. Bayliss. [Official History of WW1]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with 9 plates on 6, 8 folding maps coloured in outline and 6 large folding coloured maps in pocket at end; original series binding of red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Compiled at the request of the Government of India, this is one of the so-called 'mystery' volumes in the British official history of the First World War. Printed in an edition of just five hundred copies by HMSO in 1929, its very existence was classified because of political objections on the part of the Indian Office. This much-needed facsimile reissue gives a detailed account of the British military involvement in Persia between 1914 and 1919 and goes on to reveal the story behind the book's suppression.
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SASSOON] [Siegfried
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy in unclipped, mildly soiled dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Keynes, A33a.
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ROBERTS John Stuart
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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AIRLIE Mabell, Countess of
With the Guards We Shall Go. A Guardsman's Letters in the Crimea 1854-1855. By Mabell, Countess of Airlie.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 18 monochrome plates on 16 some mild spotting (rather heavier on title and last few leaves, neat signature on front free endpaper; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, firm copy. The letters are those of Captain Strange Jocelyn serving with the Scots Fusilier Guards. Includes a bibliography. Turan 485.
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ALY Gotz
Architects of Annihilation. Auschwitz and The Logic Of Destruction. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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BARKER Pat
The Ghost Road. [Tenth Impression]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., Tenth Impression; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top a little dusty else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Final volume of the author's outstanding Regeneration trilogy, following Regeneration (1991) and The Eye in the Door (1993). Published a month after the first edition.
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BARKER Ralph
Children of the Benares. A War Crime and its Victims.
8vo., First Edition, with 22 plates on 8, page-edges very lightly browing; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the torpedoing in December 1940 - one of the earliest and most horrific examples of unrestricted submarine warfare of WWII. Over 80 children en route to safety in Canada were lost. Ensr, p.234.
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BEAMISH D.
Poole and World War II. [With a Foreword by Earl Mountbatten]. SECOND, BEST AND LIMITED EDITION
8vo., Second, Best and Limited Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1980. This is the limited edition produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, with new and altered illustrations and a fresh dustwrapper. Already scarce in its own right.
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BEAVERBROOK Lord
Men and Power 1917-1918.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 32 plates on 24, two small tears on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, an unusually bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Beaverbrook's memoirs are essential in unravelling the personalities in charge in Britain during the last year of conflict.
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BECKETT Ian F. W.
Johnnie Gough, V.C. A Biography of Brigadier-General Sir John Edmond Gough. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and pedigrees in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Mulholland & Jordan, B30.
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BENNETT I.
A Rain of Lead. The Siege and Surrender of the British at Potchefstroom 1880-1881.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of the siege that began the Boer War
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BISHOP D.
Railways and War since 1917.
8vo., First Edition, with 113 coloured illustrations on 80 plates; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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BLAIR D.
The Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel. Tommies, Diggers and Doughboys on the Hindenburg Line, 1918. Foreword by Gary Sheffield.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BLOND Georges
Admiral Togo. Translated [from the French] by Edward Hyams. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and maps in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original decorative cloth blocked and lettered in red and black, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The first full-length biography and still a standard reference.
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BLUNDEN Edmund
Undertones of War.
8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers and edges lightly spotted; original holland cloth, backstrip blocked in black and lettered in gilt, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip and chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Blunden's classic memoir was first published in 1928. A good, sound copy of the first modern edition of one of the two greatest personal memoirs of the Western Front in WWI (the other being Sassoon's 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'). Falls, p.182 'probably the only single book of its kind we have had in English which really reaches the stature of its subject...An almost perfect picture of the small events which make up the siege warfare of France and Flanders'. (Sassoon's memoir was published just too late for inclusion). Enser, p.258; Kirkpatrick, A28a (recording the first edition).
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BOWMAN Gerald
War in the Air. Foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 59 plates on 32; cloth, gilt back, a very bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BRIDGLAND Tony
Sea Killers in Disguise. The Story of the Q-Ships and Decoy Ships in the First World War.
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16 and 5 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BROWN J.D.
Carrier Operations in World War II. Volume One. The Royal Navy. [This volume only. Foreword by Vice Admiral Sir Donald Gibson].
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled at edges. Enser, p.21; Law 0014.
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BROWNE Courtney
Tojo. The Last Banzai.
8vo., First US Edition, with 19 plates (one double-page) on 16; pictorial cloth in red and white, backstrip lettered in black, pictorial endpapers, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the Japanese C-in-C hanged as a war criminal at the end of WWII. Enser, p.133.
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BROWNING Sterry
Coastal Commandos.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Novel of espionage in Jersey under the Occupation. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
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BUTTERY D.
Wellington against Junot. The First Invasion of Portugal 1807-1808.
8vo., First Edition, with 30 illustrations; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The latest account of the opening campaign of the Peninsular War, with detailed reconstructions of Rolica and Vimiero.
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CARROLL Tim
The Great Escapers. The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape.
8vo., First Edition, with 28 plates on 8; red cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CHERRY Niall
Most Unfavourable Ground. The Battle of Loos, 1915. SIGNED COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The 1915 battles of the BEF, and Loos in particular, were fought largely on 'most unfavourable ground' resulting in negligible gain and heavy casualties. A close study of the planning, execution and aftermath based on official and numerous personal stories.
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PARKER R.A.C.
Churchill and Appeasement.
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy unclipped dustwrapper. Parker argues that had Churchill controlled British foreign policy in the thirties he could have prevented the Second World War. Already scarce.
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COLLINGWOOD Donald
The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War. An Operational History of the American-built Destroyer Escorts serving under the White Ensign from 1943-46.
8vo., First Edition, with 29 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. First dedicated history of the seventy-eight vessels of this class (built in the US as Buckley or Evarts classes). The work itself is arranged by Escort Group (with which most of the class served) with some useful photographs both of ships and individuals. Includes a bibliography, and a valuable roll of the class with DE hull no., RN pennant no., origin of name, CO(s) and Escort Group attachments
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COOKSLEY P. G.
Air Warfare. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the series 'Encyclopedia of 20th Century Conflict'.
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CROWDY T.
Donald Dean VC.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Previously unpublished memoirs of a WWI VC winner who fought also in WWII. Dean claimed to be the last Englishmen out of Boulogne in 1940 and his account of Dunkirk brought controversial criticism.
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CRESSWELL Samuel Gurney
War, Ice & Piracy: The Remarkable Career of a Victorian Sailor. The Journals and Letters of Samuel Gurney Cresswell. Edited by Dominick Harrod.
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16 and 3 maps in the text; boards, cloth back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GOWING Timothy
Voice from the Ranks. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign by a Sergeant of the Royal Fusiliers. Edited by Kenneth Fenwick. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations from contemporary engravings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and frayed at extremities. Uncommon, especially in this condition. Turan 210.
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GIBBONS Floyd
The Red Knight of Germany. Baron von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Airman. With Drawings by Clayton Knight. [Facsimile re-issue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and 7 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. High quality facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1930.
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DIMBLEBY Richard
The Frontiers are Green. A Story of the Men who fought their way to Europe, through Deserts, the Mountains and the Valleys of ten Countries. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The famous broadcaster's account of his service as war correspondent. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.273.
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DRUMMOND J.D.
A River runs to War. [The Story of the Clyde in WWII].
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates, inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-marked, and frayed and creased at edges. Variety of extracts emphasising the importance of the Clyde in WWII; includes the sinking of U-33, the explosion of the Maille Breze at Greenock, the sinking of Curacao, TORCH, PQ17, X-craft and Tirpitz, and others. Uncommon, especially in this condition. Enser, p.190; Law, 1801.
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FRANKS (ed.) Norman
The War Diaries of Neville Duke . The Journals of Squadron Leader N F Duke, 1941-44. Edited by Norman Franks. [Second Impression]. SIGNED BY NEVILLE DUKE
8vo., Second Impression, with 84 plates on 16 and a full-page map in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY DUKE ON SMALL BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON TITLE. first published in 1995.
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DUNLOP E. E.
The War Diaries of Weary [Edward] Dunlop. Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945. Foreword by Sir Laurens van der Post. [First UK Edition].
Roy. 8vo., First UK Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous plates, wanting front free endpaper; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Th first British edition of one of the most impressive secret war diaries to emerge from the Far Eastern theatre. An intensely moving testament by a wonderful soldier, surgeon and captive. First published in Australia in the previous year.
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EDWARDS B.
Death in the Doldrums. U-Cruiser Actions off West Africa.
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes a bibliography
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LANG J. von
Eichmann Interrogated. Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Introduction by Avner W. Less.
8vo., First UK Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.73.
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EVANS Martin Marix
Passchendaele and the Battles of Ypres 1914-1918.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Useful pictorial summary of war in the Salient, reinforced by numerous eye-witness acounts and well-chosen 'then and now' photographs
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EVANS Trevor
Strange Fighters, We British!.
8vo., First and Sole Edition; cloth; backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly soiled dustwrapper. Fascinating review of Britain's industrial status (including the loss of production of munitions) early in WWII. The author was Industrial Correspondent of the 'Daily Express' newspaper. Scarce in this condition.
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FAWCETT H.W.
The Fighting at Jutland. The Personal Experiences of Sixty Officers and Men of the British Fleet. Foreword by John Roberts.
Roy. 8vo., with a frontispiece map, and numerous photographs, illustrations and charts in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Splendid re-issue, re-set for legibility but retaining all photographs, illustrations and charts, of the scarce original edition of 1921
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FEIS Herbert
Between War and Peace.
8vo., First Edition; olive cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Enser, p.348.
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