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HART Colonel Charles J.
The History of the 1st Volunteer Battalion The Royal Warwickshire Regiment and its Predecessors: The Birmingham Independent Volunteers, 1782; The Birmingham Loyal Association, 1797; The Loyal Birmingham Volunteers, 1803. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 4 coloured plates, 28 monochrome plates on 22 and folding coloured map; original regimental cloth in blue and red, title and regiment badge blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt back, gilt top, black endpapers, covers mildly age-soiled else very good, bright, crisp copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LONG UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED OCTOBER 1914 ON HALF-TITLE. The author and the recipient served together in the Birmingham National Reserve and Recruiting Office. Includes three coloured plates of uniforms and two of medals. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.54; White, p.218.
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ORADOUR DUR GLANE
Le Massacre d'Oradour sur Glane par les Hordes Hitleriennes. Edite par le Front National. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original wrappers printed in red and blue, wire-stitched as issued, faint tape marks on wrappers else a very good, good, clean copy. Possibly the first commercially published account of the notorious atrocity perpetrated by Das Reich division in its headlong dash to Normandy. A proportion of the cover price was to underwrite the cost of a memorial. IN THIS CONDITION, A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume III. Part I: Text; Part II: Maps. [The Dardanelles to Jutland]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FRESH SET
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with 46 large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, a good, clean set. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume II. [To the Dardanelles]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean set. Sold from an institution with the usual but discreet markings. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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CORBETT J.S.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence: Naval Operations. Volume I. To the Battle of the Falklands, December 1914. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
1 vol. in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, plans, and diagrams (a number coloured in outline), with 18 large folding coloured maps in separate map case; orginal blue cloth, gilt backs, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, clean set. Sold from an institution with the usual but discreet markings. Enser, pp.228, 308.
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VANDIVER Frank E
Black Jack. The Life and Times of John J. Pershing. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Nice copy of the standard biography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.258.
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POOLMAN Kenneth
Zeppelins over England. With a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1960. Enser, p.405.
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READER W.J.
Architect of Air Power. The Life of the first Viscount Weir of Eastwood 1877-1959. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue tweed cloth, gilt back, rear endpapers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ASHER Michael
Lawrence. The Uncrowned King of Arabia. With Colour Photographs by Mariantonietta Peru. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MacMUNN Lieut.-Gen. Sir George
The Crimea in Perspective. GOOD WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps, title mildly browned, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, backstrip faded else a good, sound copy. Turan 362.
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GODMAN Temple
A Cavalryman in the Crimea. The Letters of Temple Godman, 5th Dragoon Guards. Edited by Philip Warner. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published by John Murray in 1977. Turan 199 (recording the first edition).
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WILSON Jean Moorcroft
Siegfried Sassoon. The Making of a War Poet. A Biography (1886-1918) [with] The Journey from the Trenches. A Biography (1918-1967). NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 118 plates on 48; cloth (black/blue respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Wilson's exhaustive biography is certain to become the definitive account. Includes exceptionally useful photographs and much material from interviews with the last of those who knew Sassoon well. Essential to any Sassoon and Great War collection.
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FOLEY Robert T.
The Somme. An Eyewitness History. Edited and introduced by Robert T. Foley and Helen McCartney. [Map by Neil Gower]. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, numerous photographs and a map in the text, and folding map in pocket at end; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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CAMPBELL John
Jutland. An Analysis of the Fighting. With a Preface by Anthony Preston. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations, diagrams and maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of Campbell's classic study first published in 1986.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Rhymed Ruminations. [First Trade Edition]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, covers lightly age-faded at edges else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately browned at edges and backstrip. Keynes, A44c.
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SPRING Colonel F.G.
The History of The 6th (Service) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1919. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Includes ROH, honours and awards, OOB 11th (Northern) Division and bibliography. SCARCE.
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NICHOLSON W.N.
Behind the Lines. [Second Impression].
8vo., Second Impression, some occasional marginal annotation in pencil, fore-edges lightly spotted; original blue cloth, cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded, joints very lightly rubbed at head and tail of backstrip else a very good, sound copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned, creased and rubbed at edges. Published in the same year as the first edition. One of the few first-hand accounts of the administration by the British Army of its forces in the field during WWI. The author served successively with the 51st [Territorial] Division and the 17th [New Army] Division before taking up positions at Corps and General Headquarters levels. His insights are shrewd and sympathetic; an important contribution to the literature of the Western Front. Very scarce, especially in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.395
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TOLSTOY Countess
The Final Struggle. Being Countess Tolstoy's Diary for 1910. With Extracts from Leo Tolstoy's Diary of the same Period. Preface by S.L. Tolstoy. Translated with an Introduction by Aylmer Maude. [First English Edition]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; original terracotta cloth, gilt back, backstrip lettering faded but entirely legible, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with one or two short closed tears. The dustwrapper reproduces the last photograph (not present in the work itself) of Tolstoy and his wife. 'The history of literature hardly contains a stranger and more pathetic story than this record of the intrigues and persecution that drove Russia's greatest writer to his death.' VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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MOORE Sir John
A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain,. commanded by Lieut.-General Sir John Moore. Authenticated by Official Papers and Original Letters. By James Moore. The Fourth Edition. THE COUNTESS OF KINGSTON'S COPY IN SIGNED JULLION BINDING
8vo., Fourth Edition, with two large folding engraved maps COLOURED BY HAND (one map with short tear in one fold); handsomely bound in contemporary tan full straight-grained morocco BY [Francis] JULLION, sides with multiple frame borders in decorative gilt and blind enclosing blind frame border stopped at corners with floral sprays, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt with stylised sprays, gilt doublures, all edges gilt, rose endpapers, a splendid copy in wholly unrestored period binding with virtually no trace of the usual offsetting and age-staining. A SPLENDID COPY WITH THE ENGRAVED HERALDIC BOOKPLATE OF CAROLINE, COUNTESS OF KINGSTON, AND THE EMBOSSED COLOURED BOOKPLATE OF MAX SALOMON, ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. WITH THE TRADE TICKET OF JULLION OF LONDON ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. The maps are coloured to depict the various armies' battle-positions. Caroline King, nee FitzGerald {1754-1823) was wife to Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston. Francis Jullion was binder to HRH the Duke of Gloucester. Sandler 2400.
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BROOK Peter
Warships for Export. Armstrong Warships 1867-1927. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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GOLLANCZ Victor
The Case of Adolf Eichmann. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers just a little dust-soiled else a near fine copy.
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ALLEG Henri
The Question. Translated from the French by John Calder. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First English Edition, some light offsetting from front fold-in to front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, uncut, fore-edges a little spotted else a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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KNIGHT-PATTERSON W.M.
Germany from Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933. Foreword by Lord Vansittart. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition; green coarse-grain cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BURMA-THAI RAILWAY.
Memories of the Burma-Thai Railway. FINE COPY
8vo., with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Includes many personal memoirs with photographs.
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HALPERN Paul
The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean, 1919-1929. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 158.
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TRACY, ed. Nicholas
Sea Power and the Control of Trade. Belligerent Rights from the Russian War to the Beira Patrol, 1854-1970. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 149. ALREADY SCARCE.
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GRAINGER, ed. John D
The Maritime Blockade of Germany in the Great War. The Northern Patrol 1914-1918. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 145. ALREADY SCARCE.
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PEPYS Samuel
His Majesty Preserved. An Account of King Charles II's Escape after the Battle of Worcester dictated to Samuel Pepys by the King himself. Reprinted from the First Edition with an Introduction by William Reese-Mogg. NEAR FINE COPY
vo. First Edition thus; original red boards gilt back covers just a little dust-soiled else a near fine copy
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SPEARS Brigadier-General E.L.
Liaison, 1914. A Narrative of the Great Retreat. With Maps and Sketches by Lt.-Col. Sir Morgan Crofton. [Preface by Winston S. Churchill]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, 32 plates, 9 folding maps coloured in outline, and 5 large folding maps at end, free endpapers mildly browned; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published earlier in the same year. Bright copy of the standard English account of the Retreat from Mons, and a work of fundamental importance in the study of the Opening of the Great War. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.170, 396; Woods B13.
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BECKE Major A F
The Royal Regimnent of Artillery at Le Cateau, 26 August 1914. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 9 folding maps on japon in pocket at end (the maps lightly browned at edges), free endpapers mildly browned; original boards printed in red and blue, red cloth back, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the errata slip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.79.
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NAUDAUD Marcel
The Flying Poilu. [A Story of Aerial Warfare. First English Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 9 plates, some light and inoffensive spotting; original terracotta cloth, upper board with illustration (repeated from text) mounted in blind frame, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. First-hand memoir by an observer-bombadier in the French Aviation Corps of WWI. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Noffsinger 1074; not recorded by Enser.
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MAURICE Major-General Sir F.
The 16th Foot. A History of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. With a Foreword by the Earl of Cavan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text, small neat service signature on front free endpaper and half-title, faint label scar on front paste-down; original regimental black cloth, upper board blocked in yellow enclosing regimental badge in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Includes list of colonels, war service (to the Great War), and summary record of battalions in WWI. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.114; White, p. 69.
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THOMAS Edward
Selected Poems. Introduced by Andrew Motion. Lithographs by David Gentleman. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 SIGNED COPIES
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured portrait frontispiece, 8 coloured lithographs (a number double-page) and 9 smaller line illustrations in the text; patterned green paste-paper boards, green leather back lettered and ruled in gilt, green top, green endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case illustrated and lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. A copy of the publisher's illustrated prospectus booklet is loosely inserted.
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GORHAM Deborah
Vera Brittain. A Feminist Life. FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL UK EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Impressive copy of the original UK edition. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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TUCHMAN Barbara
The Zimmermann Telegram. Introduced by Margaret MacMillan. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 16pp of plates; pictorial boards, grey cloth back lettered in gilt and brown, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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MICHELIN ILLUSTRATED GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS.
The Marne Battle-Fields (1914). Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields 1914-1918. [An Illustrated History and Guide]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and letterd in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. With advertisement endpapers at front and rear, and 'Complimentary Copy' stamp on front free endpaper. The clothbound issue is far scarcer than the wrappered version. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BISHOP VC Colonel W.A.
The Flying Squad. FIRM WORKING COPY
8vo., free endpapers lightly spotted, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, boards and backstrip framed and lettered in black, top and fore-edge moderately age-soiled, boards faded (but all lettering wholly legible), a good working copy. First published in 1930. Uncommon novel of WWI aviation by 'Billy' Bishop VC and Rothesay Stuart-Wortley. Mulholland and Jordan, p.171.
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GIBBONS Floyd
The Red Knight of Germany. Baron von Richthofen. Germany's Great War Airman. [Ninth Edition]. FIRM, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., Ninth Edition, with portrait frontispiece, free endpapers lightly spotted; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, fore-edge a little dust-soiled else a firm, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. First published in 1930. Enser, p.301.
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GOUDGE Elizabeth
The White Witch. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly rubbed at extremities. With dustwrapper artwork by C.H. Richard. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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BLAND Richard
An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies, Williamsburg, 1766. By Richard Bland of Virginia. Edited by Earl Gregg Swem. Williamsburg, 1766. [Facsimile reissue]. 190 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., small neat signature on front free endpaper, fore-edges very lightly browned; original brown cloth, upper board with printed paper label, uncut, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 190 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 172). William Park Club Publications No. 1.
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SEAGO Edward
High Endeavour. [Preface by The Rt. Hon. Harold Balfour]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and 19 plates, small personal stamp on front free endpaper, tape marks on paste-downs; blue cloth, gilt back, top lightly dust-soiled else a bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
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SEAGO Edward
Peace in War. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and 28 plates, tiny signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip.
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BROWN Malcolm
Scapa Flow. The Reminiscences of Men and Women who served in Scapa Flow in two World Wars. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, blue top, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. The coverage is fairly equally divided between the two wars. Enser, p.393; Law, 1396.
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SEDDON Richard
A Hand Uplifted. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 22 plates on 12; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at joints. An accredited war artist, Seddon returned from Dunkirk with a sea-stained portfolio of sketches from which he finished many of the works now in the Imperial War Museum. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.38.
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HAIG [Field-Marshal] Douglas
The Preparatory Prologue 1861-1914. Diaries and Letters. Edited by Douglas Scott. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DIXON T.B.
The Enemy Fought Splendidly. Being the 1914-1915 Diary of the Battle of the Falklands and its Aftermath by Surgeon T.B. Dixon of HMS KENT. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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TOMLINSON H.M.
All our Yesterdays. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in red full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Tomlinson's classic novel spans the whole of the Great War and is considered by many to be his finest work. Falls, p.299; NCBEL IV, p.749.
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GILBERT Martin
Somme. The Heroism and Horror of War FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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UNDERHILL Charles
Captain Fantom. Being an Account of sundry Adventures in the Life of Carlo Fantom Soldier of Fortune, Hard-Man and Ravisher. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Chris Collingwood. Lovely copy, albeit clipped, of Reginald Hill's swashbuckling tale written under his pseudonym Charles Underhill.
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MARDER Arthur J.
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919. Volume III. Jutland and After (May 1916 - December 1916). THIS VOLUME ONLY. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 15 plates on 8, 5 diagrams in the text and 16 folding coloured charts in pocket at end; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Enser, p.310 (recording the work was a whole).
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