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BARCLAY C.N.
The First Commonwealth Division. The Story of British Commonwealth Land Forces in Korea, 1950-53. [First Indian Edition]. THE INDIAN EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with maps in the text and 3 folding maps at end; green cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. With a trade ticket on front free endpaper. The UK edition appeared in 1954. VERY SCARCE.
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GILL Lieut.-Colonel N.J.H.
The Aerial Arm. Its Functions and Development. With an Introduction by Major-General Sir W. Sefton Brancker. SCARCE WWI AVIATION
4to., First Edition, with illustrations and diagrams in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good,bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Noffsinger 529.
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STUMPF Richard
The Private War of Seaman Stumpf. The Unique Diaries of a Young Seaman in the Great War. Translated and with an Introduction by Daniel Horn. [First UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Personal accounts by a young seaman aboard the battleship HELGOLAND. Enser, p.157 (recording the first US edition of 1967).
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HUGHES J.
The Boscobel Tracts, relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after the Battle of Worcester, and his subsequent Adventures. CLEAN COPY IN HALF CALF
8vo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, 2 engraved plans and a lithographed plate, frontispiece, plates and a few leaves moderately spotted; light toned half calf, marbled boards, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, compartments ruled in blind, second compartment with brown leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. With personal armorial bookplate (defaced) on front paste-down. Collects (i) An Account of His Majesty's Escape…dictated to Mr. Pepys [BM Add MS. 31955]; (ii) Boscobel Parts I and II by Blount; (iii) Claustrum Regale Reseratum by Wyndham (1667); (iv) MS account by Whitgreave, Charles's host at Moseley Hall; (v) Captain Ellesdon's Memoir; (vi) Letter from a Prisoner at Chester. A later, inferior, edition appeared in 1857. The lithograph shows the sovereign making his escape attended by the five 'Pendrels' [sic] and Yates. Drawn 'on stone' by Giles, it is printed by Hullmandel who had started to popularise the art in England around 1818. It is thus a relatively early example of this form of illustration. SCARCE. Anderson, p.248; Davies, 841.
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TAYLOR John W.R.
History of Aviation. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Sm. folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and many hundreds of coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
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CLARK Alan
Aces High 1914-1918 [with] Fight for the Sky 1939-1945. COMPLETE SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
2 vols., 8vo., with numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright set in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
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WESTMAN Stephen
Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.156.
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TAYLOR John W.R.
Pictorial History of the RAF. Volume One 1918-1939. Volume Two: 1939-1945. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. Vol.I (fourth impression, 1971); Vol. 2 (first impression, 1969).
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IMRIE Alex
Pictorial History of the German Army Air Service 1914-1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean cpy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.154.
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WEDGWOOD C.V.
The Trial of Charles I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, green top (lightly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the classic account.
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HOLLES Robert O.
Now thrive the Armourers. A Story of Action with the Gloucesters in Korea (November 1950-April 1951). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with frontispiece map and 17 plates on 14; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Published a year after the first edition.
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WHITE Benjamin
The Currency of the Great War. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
4to., First Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; original grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, red sprinkled top, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. VERY SCARCE.
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GIBBON Frederick P.
The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 1914-1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 8 plates of portraits, 110 sepia-toned plates on 48, 2 coloured plates of unit insignia, a map as plate, a full-page map in the text and 4 large folding maps coloured in outline, half-title mildly browned; original brown boards, divisional insignia in white and red mounted on upper board, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip very lightly chafed at head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published in the 'Country Life' series of military histories. The first territorial division to travel overseas, the 42nd served in Egypt and at Gallipoli (May 1915 to January 1916), the Suez Canal and Sinai. Transferred to the Western Front at a time of crisis (March 1917), it fought at Ypres, Nieuport and La Bassee. It was part of the thrust through the Hindenburg Line, crossed the Selle and ended at Foret de Mormal and Hautmont. Includes ROH, honours and awards, OOB, HQ staff and officers commanding. One of the most detailed territorial divisional histories. Falls decries the maps but recognises the unusually high number of excellent photographs. SCARCE. Enser, p.61; Falls, p.110.
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BELLOC Hilaire
A General Sketch of the European War. The First Phase. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition ; original maroon cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Cahill 63C, denoting the floret pattern on half-title and title.
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ROWSON J.W.
Bridport and the Great War. Its Record of Work at Home and in the Field. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and 20 plates toned in sepia; red cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Includes civilians and military units (especially the Dorset regiment). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p51.
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BRITTAIN Vera
Letters from a Lost Generation. The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow. Edited by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8, facsimiles and maps in the text, and facsimiles on endpapers; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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GREGORY Philippa
The Cousins' War sequence complete.. The White Queen [with] The Red Queen [with] The Lady of the Rivers [with] The Kingmaker's Daughter [with] The White Princess [with] The King's Curse THE COUSINS' WAR COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with maps and pedigrees in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper The sequence comprises The White Queen (2009), The Red Queen (2010), The Lady of the Rivers (2011), The Kingmaker's Daughter (2012), The White Princess (2013), The King's Curse (2014).
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HODGSON (ed.) N.
1919 Souvenir of the Welsh Division. Edited by Captain N. Hodgson (Divisional Train). [With a Message from Prime Minister Lloyd George]. A SCARCE SURVIVAL
4to., First and Sole Edition, with a mounted coloured plate, 2 sepia-toned plates, and very numerous illustrations, cartoons and plans (several full-page) in the text; original wrappers printed in red and black, additional colour plate mounted in frame on front wrapper, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, extremities lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The 38th (Welsh) Division served with great distinction on the Western Front throughout WWI. Major engagements included Albert, Pilckem, Langemarck, Bapaume, Havrincourt and Cambrai (where the division captured Villers-Outreaux). The four plates (by Capt. A. St. John MacCall RBA) depict 'Rue Sadi Carnot, Armentieres', 'Albert, August 1918', 'St. Remy, Dieppe' and 'Street in Dieppe'. Essentially a collection of reminiscences, light-hearted anecdotes and articles, cartoons and poems (including a few in Welsh). A rare survival, especially in this condition.
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THOMAS Helen
As It Was [and] World Without End. FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, front free endpaper lightly browned; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The first omnibus edition, collecting 'As It Was' (1926) and 'World Without End' (1931). Helen Thomas tells her moving story of love, courtship and marriage to the poet Edward Thomas, killed at Arras in 1917. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DELEPINE Abbe H.
What a British Soldier wants to say in French. and how to pronounce it. An English-French booklet for the use of The Expeditionary Forces. A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition, wanting most of final leaf of text, text moderately age-soiled throughout; original wrappers printed in red and blue, wire-stitched as issued, covers heavily age-worn (but most lettering just legible), a good, sound copy. A RARE SURVIVAL FROM THE EARLY MONTHS OF THE GREAT WAR.
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SCHILLER [Friedrich von]
Histoire de la Guerre de Trente Ans. Traduite par Madame La Baronne de Carlowitz. Traducteur de la Messiade de Klopstock. Traduction couronnee par l'Academie Francaise. HANDSOME COPY IN GREEN MOROCCO
8vo., text in French; page-edges lightly tanned, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary; handsomely bound in contemporary green half morocco, marbled boards, back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, green silk marker, joints very lightly rubbed else a most attractive copy.
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BRITTAIN Vera
Testament of Friendship. The Story of Winifred Holtby. [Fourth Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Fourth Impression, with coloured portrait frontispiece; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published three months after the first edition. Loving biography of Holtby by her close friend Vera Brittain. A wide-ranging writer and novelist, Holtby is now probably best remembered for 'South Riding'. Includes accounts of Holtby and Brittain revisiting the WWI battlefield areas in which they both served. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CAINE Hall
The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days. Scenes in the Great War. With a Portrait of HRH The Prince of Wales. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece toned in sepia, free endpapers mildly browned, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker green, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of an augmented selection of the author's articles in the Daily Telegraph newspaper recounting the effect of the war on 'ordinary' people. Enser, p.163.
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O'BRIEN Terence
The Moonlight War. The Story of Clandestine Operations in South-East Asia, 1944-5. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO [STANLEY] GORDON COCKS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Cocks served as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner with 75 (New Zealand) Squadron. 'On our specialised operations in Burma we had no call for w.op/gunners like you, but nonetheless you might like to read…' (author's inscription). PRESENTATION COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.209; Graham & Cole H23.
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WHITING Charles
Massacre at Malmedy. The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group, Ardennes, December 1944. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Enser, p.33.
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ELLER Rear Admiral Ernest M.
Naval Weapons of the American Revolution 1775-1783. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with photographs and illustrations; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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NEUMANN George C.
Firearms of the American Revolution 1775-1783. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with photographs and illustrations; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY; 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 8vo., Second Impression; red cloth, upper board and backstrip printed paper labels, uncut, a near fine copy. First published in an edition of 2000 copies in October 1919. This second impression, published four months later, comprised 1000 copies; no further copies were ever issued. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes A20; Reilly, p.286.
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HILL Mavis
Auschwitz in England. A Record of a Libel Action. With a Foreword by Lord Denning. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, title and edges lightly spotted, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased and edges.
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HOEHLING A. A.
The Great War at Sea. A History of Naval Action 1914-1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and very numerous photographs in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, rose top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped and frayed with minor loss at edges. Enser, p.229.
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HOLMES Richard
Tommy. The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918. Introduced by Max Hastings. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASES
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial brown cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-cases.
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LAWRENCE T. E.
Revolt in the Desert. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 15 plates by Kennington, John, Roberts and others, and large folding map (original tissue interleave present), some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original tan buckram, gilt back, brown top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip, chafed at head of backstrip and with one short closed tear. Bright, crisp copy of the original edition. This famous abridgement of 'Seven Pillars' predates the larger work by nine years. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. O'Brien A102.
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SMITH Len
Drawing Fire. The Diary of a Great War Soldier and Artist. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations (a number full-page) throughout; red cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a fine cvopy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HIBBERT Christopher
Wolfe at Quebec. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, neat contemporary inscripotion on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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THOMAS Edward
The Trumpet and other Poems. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original buff boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a good, bright, firm copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. With Illustrations by Barnett Freedman. [First Illustrated Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, monochrome vignettes on title and half-title, 15 coloured plates, numerous monochrome illustrations and decorations in the text and coloured pictorial endpapers, small neat signature on blank preliminary; coloured pictorial cloth, red sprinkled top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. Bright copy of the first illustrated edition, published a year after original publication. 3,500 copies were published on 17 September 1931 of which 780 were for sale in the US. The sheets of 300 copies were destroyed by enemy action in 1941. Keynes, A33d.
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THOMPSON Mark
The White War. Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 30 plates (one double-page) on 16 and endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE.
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THURSTON Temple
Portrait of a Spy. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression; black cloth, gilt back, purple endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published in the same month as the first edition.
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WYLLIE W.L
Sea Fights of the Great War. Naval Incidents during the First Nine Months. [Second Impression]. FIRM, CLEAN COPY
4to., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece, 23 coloured plates, 26 plates in monochrome and 9 plans; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, boards and backstrip moderately sunned (but all lettering entirely legible) else a firm, clean copy. Published a month after the first edition.
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HUNTER Archie
Kitchener's Sword-Arm. The Life and Campaigns of General Sir Archibald Hunter. [First US Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the US edition.
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HILL Christoper
The World Turned Upside Down. Radical Ideas during the English Revolution. Introduced by Bernard Capp. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 24pp of plates; black cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in red and black, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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LAWRENCE T. E.
Revolt in the Desert. [First US Edition]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, 15 plates by Kennington, John, Roberts and others, folding map coloured in outline and pictorial endpapers, title lightly spotted; pale rose cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, brown top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss at edges and with one or two short closed tears. Later impression without Doran colophon on title verso. O'Brien A107.
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LEMSINE Aicha
Beneath a Sky of Porphyry. [First English Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lemsine's award-winning novel of the Algerian War of Independence was first published in Paris in 1978. VERY SCARCE.
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ASPINALL-OGLANDER Cecil
Roger Keyes. Being the Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top (moderately faded as usual), a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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THOMAS Edward
Essays of To-Day and Yesterday. [Introductory Note by F.H. Pritchard]. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, half-title lightly spotted; handsomely bound in full dark red cruched morocco, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collects eight essays with bibliography. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Eckert, pp.252-3.
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TAYLOR James W.
The 1st Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. With a Foreword by Martin Midlebrook. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8 and 17 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.408
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NOAKES F.E
The Distant Drum. The Personal History of a Guardsman in the Great War NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustswrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.56.
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TILL Geoffrey
Air Power and the Royal Navy 1914-1945. A Historical Survey. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SCHULTZE-PFAELZER Gerhard
Hindenburg. Peace. War. Aftermath. Translated by Christopher R. Turner. [First English Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present); green cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, backstrip a little faded at extreme headband, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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DUPUY Trevor Nevitt
1918: The German Offensives. [The Military History of World War I. Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 4to., Second Impression, with plates and maps; beige cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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