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SMITH Peter C.
British Battle Cruisers. [Paperback Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Well-illustrated if brief account of development and service history in two world wars. Law, 0990 (recording the cloth bound edition)
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MASTERS John
Now God be Thanked [with] Heart of War [with] By the Green of the Spring. THE GREAT WAR TRILOGY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (black/blue/blue respectively), all very good, bright, clean copies in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers very lightly chafed at extremities. The trilogy comprises Now, God be Thanked (1979), Heart of War (1980) and By the Green of the Spring (1981). Dustwrapper artwork by Tony Hutchins (first volume) and Chris Yates (second and third volumes).
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MASTERS John
The Ravi Lancers.
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
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SPANIER Ginette
Long Road to Freedom. The Story of her Life under the German Occupation. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition,, faint tape marks on free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Ginette Spanier, Director of the great fashion house of Balmain, recounts the mounting horrors of living as a Jew in occupied Paris. Sequel to her acclaimed memoir 'It Isn't All Mink'. Enser, p.90.
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WEISSBERG Alex
Advocate for the Dead. The Story of Joel Brand. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Brand led the underground movement in Budapest which smuggled Jews out of Europe. Enser, p.242
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AMBLER J.
Bagged in World War 2. Two Tales of Royal Marines Prisoners of War. The Jim Fallace Story by John Ambler and the Diary of Benjamin Knapton.
8vo., with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publication 24
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WAR OFFICE
Small Arms Training. Volume I. Pamphlet No. 6. Anti-Aircraft 1942. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; original wrappers printed in red, wire-stitched as issued, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Unusually well-preserved copy. Supersedes the editions (and related supplements) of 1937, 1939 and 1941. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LAWRENCE T. E.
Revolt in the Desert. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
Roy. 8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 15 plates by Kennington, John, Roberts and others, and a large folding map coloured in outline; original tan buckram, gilt back, brown top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published in the same month as the first edition.
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BOURDELLE Pierre
War. [Special Artist's Edition limited to 250 copies. Foreword by Stephen Galatti. Commentary by Pierre Claudel]. THE ARTIST'S PRESENTATION COPY TO BERNARD DE PERTHUIS
Elephant portfolio of preliminaries and 53 original tinted lithographs, together 57 leaves, title/limitation leaf SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST, the whole contained in broad-weave rose cloth portfolio, upper board lettered in gilt, paper flaps worn at folds, a near fine set in very good, clean portfolio. LIMITED TO 250 SETS SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST (THIS SET NO. 137). The set comprises Title/Limitation (1 leaf), Foreword (1 leaf) , Commentary (2 leaves), Listing (1 leaf), original lithographs (52 leaves). IN ADDITION TO THE FORMAL LIMITATION AND SIGNATURE, THIS SET IS A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST TO BERNARD DE PERTHUIS [COMTE BERNARD DE PERTHUIS DE LAILLEVAULT] WITH THE FORMER'S ADDITIONAL WARM SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON 'FOREWORD' LEAF. Son of Antoine Bourdelle, Pierre Bourdelle created this series of lithographs based on his experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver with the American Field Service in WWII, during which he served in the North African and Italian theatres. Comte Bernard de Perthuis de Laillevault, head of the house of Perthuis, served with the RAF during WWII before establishing a successful career as a painter of murals and other artwork. IMAGE SHOWS SAMPLE PRINT
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WILLIAMSON Henry
In the Woods. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly dust-soiled and browned at backstrip. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES. The work actually appeared in January 1961. Gretton, 47; Matthews A49.
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ELLIS et al Major L. F.
Victory in the West. [Official History of the Second World War]. Volume I. The Battle of Normandy. THIS VOLUME ONLY. With Captain G.R.G. Allen, Lieutenant-Colonel A.E. Warhurst, Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and charts (a number coloured in outline and folding), small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, fore-edge browned, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily browned at edges and backstrip. Published in the official series History of the Second World War. Enser, p.290.
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ALDINGTON Richard
Lawrence of Arabia. A Biographical Enquiry. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 11 plates on 9, and 3 full-page maps and a fill-page pedigree in the text; original black buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. Arguably the most important of the early biographies, and the first really to begin to penetrate the myth. With extensive list of sources. O'Brien E192.
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BROOKE Rupert
The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke. [Fifteenth Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Fifteenth Impression, on laid paper, with a fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and a full-page facsimile, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, bevelled edges, uncut, a remarkably well-preserved copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes Poems 1905-1911, Poems 1911-1914 and an Appendix containing a further eleven poems. With an index of first lines. The frontispiece is from a photograph by Sherril Schell; photogravure by Emery Walker.
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FARRAR-HOCKLEY Anthony
Goughie. The Life of General Sir Hubert Gough. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, coated endpapers, small neat inscription on half-title; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper sunned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.159.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Siegfried Sassoon Letters to Max Beerbohm with a few Answers. Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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BRITISH ARMY
Field Service Pocket Book. 1914. General Staff, War Office. STANDARD WWI ISSUE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH CASE
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 folding plates (6 coloured or coloured in outline), 13 plates in monochrome and numerous woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original wrappers, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright clean copy IN THE ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH CASE. With the 24pp (23 printed) catalogue of military books on pink stock. With small trade stamp on front free endpaper and previous owner's initial inked on top edge. The scarce cloth case lettered in black is particularly well-preserved. The Field Service Pocket Book (B11013) was the 'bible' for officers on active service in the Great War. A remarkably concise yet comprehensive reference, it is rarely found in this condition. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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KESSEL Sim
Hanged at Auschwitz. Translated by Melville and Delight Wallace. [First English Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in France in 1970. SCARCE. Enser p.113.
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SCHLIEMANN Heinrich
Troy and its Remains. A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain. Introduced by Caroline Moorehead. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo. First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 24pp of plates and illustrations in the text; orange cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a fine copy in publisher's slip-case.
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MOOREHEAD Alan
Gallipoli. [Second, Extra-Illustrated Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. Second Edition, with coloured title-spread and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; black boards, white back lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Moorehead's classic account was first published in 1856. This edition adds some 190 images illustrating aspects of the campaign together with extra information and captions by Ann Moyal. Enser p.144 (recording the first edition).
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KEYNES Geoffrey
A Bibliography of Siegfried Sassoon. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo. First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and 15 full-page illustrations in the text; original burgundy buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. Soho Bibliographies X. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Old Century and seven more Years. Illustrated by R. Stone. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, some very light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original grey tweed cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at backstrip. 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, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUST-WRAPPER. Keynes, A42a. 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, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Keynes A4
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WOLFF Leon
In Flanders Fields. The 1917 Campaign. Preface by Lyn Macdonald. Introduction by Major-General J.F.C. Fuller. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; beige pictorial cloth, boards and backstrip with wrap-around illustrations blocked in silver and black, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CHAMBERS J.
Palmerston. The People's Darling. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates; red cloth backstrip lettered in silver buff endpapers a fine copy in dustwrapper.
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BROOKE Rupert
Selected Poems. Introduced by Jon Stallworthy. Illustrated by Ed Kluz. EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES
8vo., First Edition thus, with 9 lithographs and 6 illustrations in the text; patterned boards, blue morocco back ruled and lettered in gilt, blue top, a fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES.
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MAGNUS Philip
Kitchener. Portrait of an Imperialist. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates; red cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in dustwrapper the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
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WEBB B.
Edmund Blunden. A Biography. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo. First Edition with plates; black cloth gilt back a near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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LE CARRE John
The Looking-Glass War [with] A Small Town in Germany. [WHS Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition thus; blue cloth backstrip lettered in white a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first omnibus edition of these two early Le Carre novels was published jointly by Heinemann Secker & Warburg and Octopus. This is the first - and scarcest - edition published exclusively for W H Smith. SCARCE.
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COOPER C.S.
The Outdoor Monuments of London. Statues, Memorial Buildings, Tablets and War Memorials. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo. on laid paper with a frontispiece and 31 plates; original green buckram upper board lettered in black gilt back a near fine copy. Nice copy of a standard reference
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GLUBB John Bagot
War in the Desert. An RAF Frontier Campaign. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates and maps neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. SCARCE.
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EVERETT Peter
Matisse's War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition; black cloth gilt back navy endpapers a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KIMBALL Warren
Forged in War. Churchill, Roosevelt and the Second World War. [First UK Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition thus with plates; black cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WILLIAMSON Henry
The Patriot's Progress. Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock. Illustrated by W. Kermode. [First Trade Edition.] BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted; original burgundy buckram, gilt back, red top, uncut, boards and backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), else a very good, bright, clean copy. In this the first trade issue three of Kermode's illustrations are different from those in the limited edition; the present arrangement was maintained in all subsequent UK editions. Gretton 13; Matthews A13; 1930b.
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CROSS Robin
The Bombers. The Illustrated Story of Offensive Strategy nd Tactics in the Twentieth Century. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to. with numerous coloured and monochrome plates and illustrations throughout; red cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TURNER John Frayn
British Aircraft of World War II. Introduced by Douglas Bader. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser. p.196
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BEEVOR Antony
The Battle for Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. [Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. Best Edition with numerous plates and maps; brown cloth gilt back brown endpapers a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Considerably updated version of the original edition of 1982. Includes much fresh material from Russian German and other national archives. ALREADY SCARCE.
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BRITTAIN Vera
Testament of Experience. An Autobiographical Story of the Years 1925-1950. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped and dust-soiled at backstrip. Bright copy of the author's sequel to her classic 'Testament of Youth' (1933). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. THE SHERSTON TRILOGY COMPLETE
8vo., First Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwapper, the latter worn and frayed at bakstrip and with minor losses at corners. First one-volume edition of the 'Sherston' autobiographical trilogy, collecting 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man', 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' and 'Sherston's Progress'. Keynes, A41a.
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MILLIGAN Spike
Milligan's War. The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan. Original Editior Jack Hobbs. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Omnibus edition collecting abridgements of the original six volumes of Goon Milligan's WWII autobiography. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS ALREADY UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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ROYAL NAVY. BRITISH ARMY
Our Army and Navy. Sixty-Four Large Plates illustrating the British Forces by Land and Sea with explanatory Letterpress.
Oblong quarto, First Edition, with 64 fine large plates, one or two plates with short closed tears neatly repaired; pictorial boards, blue cloth back, covers mildly age-worn and soiled as usual, neatly recased, a very good, bright copy. Well-chosen selection of plates emphasising both the traditional and the innovative elements of each service in the context of the Great War. SCARCE.
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HENRY WILLIAMSON SOCIETY.
Henry Williamson Society Journal.. A run as follows: vols. 31-49 (wanting vol. 37); Index to issues 1-31; Supplement to the Index No. 1; Henry Williamson Society Newletter NL16; NL18. A FINE RUN
Together 22 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, all in near fine condition. Includes two sought-after issues: Centenary Journal (vol. 31) and 'Reality in War Literature' (vol. 34).
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BARKER Pat
The Regeneration Trilogy. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, black endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. First omnibus edition of Barker's acclaimed WWI sequence. The trilogy comprises 'Regeneration' (1991), 'The Eye in the Door' (1993) and 'The Ghost Road' (1995). The first volume is based on the real-life encounter at Craiglockhart of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. A lovely copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WAKEFIELD Alan
Under the Devil's Eye. The British Military Experience in Macedonia 1915-1918. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised and updated version of a work first published in 2004
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WAKEFIELD Alan
Under the Devil's Eye. The British Military Experience in Macedonia 1915-1918. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised and updated version of a work first published in 2004.
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WOODHAM-SMITH Cecil
The Reason Why. Introduced by Allan Mallinson. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 16 pages ob coloured plates; pictorial buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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HICKEY Des
Seven Days to Disaster. The Sinking of the Lusitania.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BROOKE Rupert
Selected Poems. BRIGHT COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present with some light offsetting to title), neat inscription on front free endpaper, half-title browned; original brown buckram, gilt back, backstrip very faintly rubbed, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With 4pp publisher's advertisement at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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COUSINS Geoffrey
The Story of Scapa Flow. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map and 16 plates on 8; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Astonishingly, this is the sole history to date of the main base of the Royal Navy's Atlantic fleet of both world wars. Good coverage of the scuttling and salvage of the German High Seas Fleet after WWI, and of the Royal Oak disaster in the early days of WWII. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.322; Law 1398.
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FRANKAU Gilbert
The Judgement of Valhalla. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, sma;; neat contemporary signature on half-title; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in yellow, uncut, boards very lightly age-soiled, small chafe to upper edge of rear board, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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MAGNUS Laurie
The West Riding Territorials in the Great War. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Haig. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 15 plates and numerous illustrations, maps and plans in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original cloth blocked in blind, Yorkshire rose blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at rear.Appendices include Territorial Force. West Riding of York County Association (Members and Permanent Officials), Honours and Awards obtained by 49th (West Riding) Division and 62nd (West Riding) Divisions (detailed by unit), Summary of Honours and Awards obtained by West Riding Territorial Troops not serving with the 49th and 62nd Divisions, Return of Casualties to the end of December 1918. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.102; White, p. 221.
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DEXTER David
The New Guinea Offensives. Australia in the War of 1939-1045. Vol. VI. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Sold from an institution wits neat stamp on title. A volume in the Official History of Australia in WWII.
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