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HARDY C.
Manchester at War [1939-1945]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1986, this is a good collection of contemporary photographs covering most aspects.
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HILL Maureen
Britain at War. Unseen Archives. Photographs from the Daily Mail. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and many hundreds of photographs in the text; laminated pictorial boards, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A wonderful assembly of photographs by Daily Mail photographers covering virtually every aspect of Britain in WWII.
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MOYNIHAN (ed.) Michael
A Place called Armageddon. Letters from the Great War. Edited with an Introduction by Michael Moynihan. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; purple boards, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RAPPAPORT Helen
No Place for Ladies. The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, and endpaper maps; plum cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A lovely copy of a scarce and important account.
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TAYLOR Eric
Showbiz goes to War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE
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TURNER William
The Accrington Pals. The 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment. A Pictorial History researched, written and compiled by William Tuner. [Second, revised edition].
Oblong 4to., Second Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. A history of the battalion raised from Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley & Chorley. Sutcliffe, p. 186.
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FREYBERG Paul
Bernard Freyberg VC. Soldier of Two Nations. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps throughout; burgundy cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Long-awaited and much overdue biography by his son of the British Army's most decorated soldier. Scarce.
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LAFFIN J.
British VCs of World War 2. A Study in Heroism. [Foreword by Sir Roden Cutler. Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous portraits; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1997. Includes full citation for each of the 106 VCs won during WWII. Mulholland & Jordan L3 (recording the first edition).
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LEGRAND (ed.) Jacques
Chronicle of the Second World War. Co-ordinated by Jacques Legrand. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Extensive chronological pictorial history of all aspects.
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PRESSLER Mirjam
Treasures from the Attic. The Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank's Family. Mirjam Pressler with Gerti Elias. Translated from the German by Damion Searls. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ROWAN (ed.)] [E. E.J.
The 54th Infantry Brigade 1914-1918. Some Records of Battle and Laughter in France. Edited by E.R. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 21 plates of portraits; original red cloth, covers moderately faded else a very good, firm copy. 54th Brigade (12 Middx, 2 Beds, 7 Beds, 11 RF, 56 Northants) formed part of 18th Division. This scarce history details the raising of the Brigade and its wartime service, including Trones Wood, and Thiepval. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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BROOKE Rupert
1914 & Other Poems. [Fourth Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Fourth Impression; original blue boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. An unusually well-preserved copy of the fragile wartime edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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COLE Christopher
McCudden VC. With a Foreword by Air Vice Marshal 'Johnnie' Johnson.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, small tippex stain on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, case a little shaken else a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed and frayed at edges. Detailed biography of the one of the most successful Allied fighter pilots of WWI, with in-depth accounts of air combat from 1914 to 1918, and details of McCudden's victories, aircraft and aircraft markings. Uncommon. Enser, p.123; Mulholland & Jordan C95.
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ANGLO-ZULU WAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Journal of the Anglo Zulu War Historical Society. Eleventh Edition. June 2002.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE
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GREAVES (ed.)] [A.
The Journal of the Anglo Zulu War Historical Society. Thirteenth Edition. June 2003.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE
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CROOKENDEN A.
The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Second World War. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations in the text, and 30 folding maps; original red cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy. Not recorded by Enser; Sutcliffe p.140; White p.74.
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RANKIN Nicholas
Churchill's Wizards. The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with plates; grey boards, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition.
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MOORHOUSE Geoffrey
Hell's Foundations. A Town, Its Myths and Gallipoli. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and endpaper maps; dark green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Unusual and valuable study of the effects of the Gallipoli disaster upon the Lancashire town of Bury, regimental home of the Lancashire Fusiliers.
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BACON Admiral Sir Reginald
The Dover Patrol 1915-1917. REMARKABLY BRIGHT SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
2 vols., 8vo., with 2 portrait frontispieces, titles in red and black, 78 plates, 16 illustrations and plans in the text and 2 large folding maps coloured in outline, endpapers and edges lightly browned; original blue cloth, gilt backs, a remarkably bright, clean copy. The standard history of the legendary naval force, charged with safeguarding the Channel throughout WWI. Written by the commander who led it during most of the critical period of the war, but who was superseded for political reasons before the great operations he had planned (the mine-barrage and the attack on Zeebrugge) could come to fruition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Taffrail ' The Endless Story', pp. 241 et seq. Enser, p.109
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WYLLIE, W.L.
More Sea Fights of the Great War including the Battle of Jutland. Illustrated by W.L. Wyllie.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 23 fine coloured plates and 26 plates in monochrome all by Wyllie, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some very faint and occasional spotting; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in darker blue, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.187.
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SCOTT J.L.
The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings. [With four Prayers]. A Reprint of the Edition of 1648, and a Facsimile of the original Frontispiece, with an Introduction. FRESH LIGHT ON SOURCES
8vo., with a folding facsimile on japon and a facsimile title-page; faux-vellum, stained edges, covers a little age-marked, endpapers mildly browned else a very good, clean copy. Last edition recorded by Almack. The three-quarter folding plate, with Explanation at foot, was reproduced specially for this edition. Scott's text is taken from Stewart's 1879 issue [Almack, 72]. AN EDITION DOUBLY REMARKABLE FOR ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE AUTHORIAL DEBATE, FOR IN ADDITION TO SCOTT'S NOTABLE PREFACE IT CONTAINS THE SLIP ANNOUNCING MARSH'S DISCOVERY (22 MARCH) OF THE HOLOGRAPH SECOND PRAYER. [In the preface itself], written in answer to Richard Garnett, Scott accepts all Wordsworth's conclusions in favour of the King. He publishes, from the Nicholas Papers in the BL, correspondence relating to the French edition of de Marsyr [Almack, 56]; and notes by the King in a copy of Bacon's Advancement of Learning, 1640, also in the BL...' (Madan). SUCH IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS ESSAY THAT ALMACK REPRINTS IT IN FULL IN HIS BIBLIOGRAPHY (pp.123-142) - IT IS THE SOLE ITEM OF SCHOLARSHIP TO BE THUS INCLUDED. The arguments of Scott and Phillimore were criticised in the Athaneum, nos. 2744 and 2746, May-June 1880. Almack, 76; Madan, 79.
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BELL] [D.H.
A Soldier's Diary of the Great War. With an Introduction by Henry Williamson.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, some very light occasional spotting; original red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. A minor classic of WWI literature. 'The author of this diary [Captain D H Bell] was a serving territorial when war broke out and was in France with his Battalion by November. He got a commission in 1915, was twice wounded, transferred in 1916 to the Royal Flying Corps, 'crashed' in France and finished he service as a Flight Commander training observers at home. His diary is one of the most vivid that has appeared, and shows its writer to be a gallant and likeable character. Mr. Henry Williamson contributes an introduction, so different in spirit to the journal that an introduction from him seems hardly worth while from the anonymous author's point of view' (Falls). Williamson also prepared the text for publication dated 28 December 1929. Williamson's introduction was reprinted in 'Threnos for T E Lawrence', published by the HW Society in 1994. Falls, p.176; Matthews, B1929.
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BLUNDEN Edmund
Near and Far. New Poems. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, free endpapers browned; original green buckram, backstrip with paper label printed in green, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Kirkpatrick A31a.
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BYWATER Hector C.
Their Secret Purposes. Dramas and Mysteries of the Naval War. With a Chart of the post-Jutland Battle Fleets.
8vo., First Edition, with a large folding chart at rear, small contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-soiled else a good, clean copy. Uncommon. Enser, p.228.
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JAMES D.N.
Westland Aircraft since 1915. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy without dustwrapper.
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MCGUIRE F.M.
The Royal Australian Navy. Its Origin, Development and Organisation. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and pictorial endpapers; handsomely bound in navy blue full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, pictorial endpapers mounted on new leaves at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy of a scarce work, still the best account to the end of WWII. Law, 1468.
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CAIN (ed.) C.W.
Flypast 2. A Selection of International Aircraft from Profile. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured drawings and monochrome photographs throughout the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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CAIN (ed.) C.W.
Flypast 3. A Selection of International Aircraft from Profile. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured drawings and monochrome photographs throughout the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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CAIN (ed.) C.W.
Flypast 6. A Selection of International Aircraft from Profile. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured drawings and monochrome photographs throughout the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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DOYLE Arthur Conan
The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914-[1918]. COMPLETE SET IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
6 vols., 8vo., with 19 folding maps (a number coloured), 40 maps and plans (a number in the text) and 7 full-page charts in the text, some occasional light browning; original blue cloth, gilt backs, covers lightly age-worn and scuffed else a very good, bright, clean set. With all half-titles and publisher's advertisements as called for. Vol. I: 1914 (1916); Vol. II: 1915 (1917); Vol. III: 1916 (1918); Vol. IV: 1917 (1919); Vol. V: January - July 1918 (1919); Vol. VI: July - November 1918 [1920]. Doyle's famous history of the Great War in France and Flanders was the first full chronological account, and written shortly after the events described. Enser, p.54; Robbins, 14461 (recording the 1928 edition).
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SMURTHWAITE David
The Pacific War Atlas 1941-1945. Published in association with the National Army Museum.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and coloured maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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WAITE F.
The New Zealanders at Gallipoli.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps (many full-page) in the text and a large folding trench map, coloured in outline, at end, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, some mild and generallt inoffensive spotting, some occasional annotation and underlining; original patterned cloth, sides and backstrip lettered in black, covers mildly age-soiled, corners bruised and a little frayed else a good, sound, clean copy. Published as Vol. I in the series 'Official History of New Zealand's Effort in the Great War'. 'Gives a clear picture of the conditions of the campaign...It contains more photographs than we have ever before seen assembled in a single volume' (Falls). EXTREMELY SCARCE. Falls p.130.
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WAUGH Evelyn
To the War with Waugh. With an Introductory Memoir by Christopher Hollis and Illustrations b y Peter MacKarell. [Edited by J. St. John]. 600 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., Signed Limited Edition, with a mounted portrait frontispiece, title in green and black, numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and patterned endpapers; patterned cloth, printed paper label mounted on upper board, a very good, bright, clean copy in original glassine dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
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SHEPPARD E.W.
Britain at War. The Army. From January 1941 to March 1942. A Complete Record in Text and Pictures. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and many hundreds of photographs (a number full-page) in the text, front free endpaper (only) lightly dust-soiled; original decorative red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.7.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1915-1918 [with] 1920-1922 [with] 1923-1925]. Edited and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis. [Complete set.] THE DIARIES COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 3 portrait frontispieces; cloth (green, brown, blue respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in lightly sunned dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped). The set comprises: Diaries 1915-1918 (1983); Diaries 1920-1922 (1981); Diaries 1923-1925 (1985). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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OMAN Charles
A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages. Vol. I: 378-1278; Vol. II: 1278-1485. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., with plates, and illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in the dustwrapper.
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WIXEY K.E.
Parnall Aircraft since 1914. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. SCARCE
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COTTERELL (ed.) Laurence
A Pilgrim's Song. Selected Poems to Mark the Poet's 100th Birthday. Foreword by John Stallworthy. Compiled by Laurence Cotterell. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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OWEN Harold
Journey from Obscurity. Wilfred Owen 1893-1918. Memoirs of the Owen Family. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Editions, on laid paper, with 3 frontispieces and 31 plates on 22; red cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. The standard biography of the WWI poet and literary disciple of Sassoon. He was killed in action at the Sambre Canal only seven days before the Armistice. Vol. I: Childhood (1963); Vol. II: Youth (1964); Vol. III: War (1965)
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GLOVER Michael
That Astonishing Infantry. Three Hundred Years of the History of The Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Regiment of Foot) 1689-1989. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece, coloured plates, and numerous photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sutcliffe, p.147
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NICOLSON Juliet
The Great Silence 1918-1920. Living in the Shadow of the Great War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HAYTHORNTHWAITE Philip J.
Brassey's Almanac. The Peninsular War. [The Complete Companion to the Iberian Campaigns 1807-14]. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 37 plates on 16; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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POLAND E.N.
The Torpedomen. HMS Vernon's Story 1872-1986. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED. The first dedicated history of the Royal Navy's torpedo, mine and diving school, compiled by a well-known torpedo and anti-submarine specialist at the request of the late Stephen Roskill. After ten years' research, and assisted by a committee of dedicated torpedomen, he produced a detailed and absorbing account of their alma mater. Includes roll of names on the 'Wheel' (torpedo long courses), list of captains and extensive bibliography. SCARCE
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LEWIS C.[A.]
Farewell to Wings. Illustrated by Leonard Bridgman. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 5 plates and numerous llustrations in the text; red cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter just a little browned at backstrip and rear panel. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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RALEIGH Sir Walter
The War in the Air. Being the Story of the Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force. Vol. I [this volume only]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with full-page maps in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original black buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.19.
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SIEPMANN Harry
Echo of the Guns. Recollections of an Artillery Officer 1914-18.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author served in the Royal Field Artillery in Egypt, France and Italy, and gives a vivid account of an artillery officer's life at the front and behind the lines in a mode of warfare never to be repeated.
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HAMMERTON, ed. Sir John Alexander
A Popular History of the Great War. COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 6 frontispieces, around 800 photographs and over 100 maps and diagrams in the text; original pictorial red cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in black, backs blocked and lettered in gilt and black, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean set. The set comprises: Vol. I: The First Phase 1914; Vol. II: Extension of the Struggle 1915; Vol. III: The Allies at Bay 1916; Vol. IV: A Year of Attrition 1917; Vol. V: The Year of Victory 1918; Vol. VI: The Armistice and After. Very good set of Hammerton's second history of the conflict, following his monumental 'The Great War' produced in collaboration with H.W. Wilson during the fighting years. The current work embodies the gist of post-war revelations and official documents, and each volume contains a useful 'diary of events'. In addition, biographical particulars are given of those in the various countries that figured prominently in the struggle. COMPLETE SETS ARE UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.166.
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PRESTON A.
The First Submarines [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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STEINBECK John
Once there was a War. Preface by Janine Di Giovanni. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece and 12 plates; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in black and white, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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LEE A.G.
No Parachute. A Fighter Pilot in World War I. Letters written in 1917 by Lieutenant A S G Lee, Sherwood Foresters, attached Royal Flying Corps. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition., with a portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. SCARCE. Enser, p.123.
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