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WILSON Jean Moorcroft
Isaac Rosenberg. Poet & Painter. A Biography. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous plates; brown cloth, gilt back, red top, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed and profusely illustrated account of the leading war poet.
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THOMAS Helen
As it was. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, neat signature on front free endpaper; terracotta cloth, gilt back, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. With the errata slip facing 'Acknowledgement'. Bright copy of Helen Thomas' elegaic memoir of the Great War.
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BROOKS Richard
Fred T. Jane. An Eccentric Visionary. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first detailed biography of the founder of Jane's Fighting Ships (first published as 'All The World's Fighting Ships' in 1898).
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HAYWARD Victor
HMS Tiger at Bay. A Sailor's Memoir 1914-1918. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes first-hand accounts of Dogger Bank and Jutland. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.40
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CHARRINGTON Major H.V. S.
The 12th Royal Lancers in France. August 17th 1914 - November 11th 1918. [Foreword by Lt.-Gen. Sir Philip Chetwode]. BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; original regimental red cloth, upper board framed in blind enclosing regimental crest in gilt, marbled endpapers, covers lightly faded at edges else a very good, bright copy. Includes appendices on Moy, Operations East of Amiens, awards & decorations, and ROH. VERY SCARCE. Astonishingly, not recorded by Sutcliffe; White p.21
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THOMAS Lowell
With Lawrence in Arabia. Eighteenth Edition [Impression]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., Eighteenth Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp, copy. Thomas's account - arguably the best after Lawrence's own - was first published in the UK in 1925, a year after the US edition. O'Brien E013 (recording the twelfth to twenty-fourth editions).
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DRUM N.
'God's Own'. 1st Salford Pals 1914-1916. An Account of the 15th (Service) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, maps and facsimiles in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The battalion was destroyed attacking Thiepval on 1 July 1916. The remnants returned to England where the battalion was reformed. Includes statistics, rolls and other appendices. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p. 131.
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WARWICK-HALLER Sally
William O'Brien and the Irish Land War. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SCARCE.
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LENTON H. T.
American Fleet and Escort Destroyers. Volume 1 [with] Volume 2. [Complete set.] BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., oblong 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations in the text; black cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a very good, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Macdonald's valuable series 'Navies of the Second World War'.
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BUTLER Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis
The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. NEAR FINE SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces (one in colour), very numerous plates (a number in colour) and many maps (several folding), preliminaries and half-titles lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper boards with regimental crest blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean set. With folding maps in pocket at end of Vol. II and errata slip facing title of Vol. V. The set comprises Vol. I: 'The Royal Americans' (1913); Vol. II: The Green Jacket (1923); Vol. III: The 60th. The K.R.R.C. (1926); Vol. IV: The 60th. The K.R.R.C. (1929); Vol. V: The Great War (1932); Vol. VI: Appendix dealing with Uniform, Armament and Equipment (S.M. Milne and Major-General Astley Terry, 1913). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE. [Two later volumes, complete in themselves, cover the post-WWI, WWII and subsequent periods]. Sutcliffe, p.334; White p.110
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HOLLIS Matthew
Now All Roads Lead to France. The Last Years of Edward Thomas. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey boards, backstrip lettered in black, burgundy endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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REEVE John
The Face of Naval Battle. The Human Experience of modern War at Sea. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WALLACE Major Claude
From Jungle to Jutland. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps, title lightly spotted, lengthy inscription on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, joints very lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. Much of the work is devoted to the author's experiences in pre-WWI Africa, but the section on Jutland (which he was the sole British military officer to witness) is fascinating. UNCOMMON.
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MOLLO Boris
The Sharpshooters. 3rd County of London Yeomanry 1900-1961. Kent and County of London Yeomanry 1961-1970. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sutcliffe, p.197.
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THOMAS Helen
Time and Again. Memoirs and Letters. Edited by Myfanwy Thomas. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; tan cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Bright copy of Helen Thomas' third volume of memoirs recalling her early life and marriage to Edward Thomas. Edited by her daughter.
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BROOKE Rupert
1914 & Other Poems. [Eighth Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE EIGHTH IMPRESSION
8vo., Eighth Impression, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), free endpapers mildly browned; original blue boards, backstrip with paper label printed in red and black, uncut, spare label tipped-in at end, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Printed at the Complete Press, West Norwood, and published only four months after the first edition. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION.
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BRITISH ARMY
An Officer's Manual of the Western Front 1914-1918. Compiled and introduced by Dr. Stephen Bull. FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, numerous plans and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers (rear endpapers in colour); pictorial boards, cloth back, a fine copy. Includes facsimiles of contemporary trade advertisements.
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OWEN Harold
Journey from Obscurity. Wilfred Owen 1893-1918.. Memoirs of the Owen Family. I: Childhood; II: Youth; III: War; IV: Aftermath. [Complete extended set]. PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO JOHN & MYFANWY PIPER
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 4 frontispieces and numerous plates; terracotta/brown cloth, gilt backs, a near fine extended set in unclipped dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped). 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. The extended set comprises Vol. I: Childhood (1963); Vol. II: Youth (1964); Vol. III: War (1965); Vol. IV: Aftermath (1970). THE SECOND VOLUME IS A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN & MYFANY [sic] PIPER WITH OWEN'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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BOUNDY Wyndham S.
Bushell and Harman of Lundy. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with illustrations and full-page map in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graphic accounts of Civil War coinage of the period Charles I 1642-49, together with a unique law case concerning the issue of illegal currency.
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MARSH Edward
Rupert Brooke: A Memoir. [First Separate Edition]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST SEPARATE EDITION
8vo., First Separate Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original black cloth, backstrip with paper label printed in red and black, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Marsh's famous encomium was first included in 'Collected Poems' published in July of the same year. This, the first separate edition, appeared in November. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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KEEGAN John
The First World War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HAMMERTON, ed. John
World War 1914-1918. [With an introduction by H.G. Wells]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and many thousands of photographs (many toned in sepia) and maps in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; original series binding of burgundy cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in blind, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean copy. Very good copy of Hammerton's third and final history of the conflict, following his monumental 'The Great War' produced in collaboration with H.W. Wilson during the fighting years, and his subsequent 'Popular History' in six volumes. It features a specially written introduction by H.G. Wells. This work is not recorded by Enser.
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RUSSELL William Howard
General Todleben's History of the Defence of Sebastapol 1854-5.. A Review. BRIGHT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper verso; original red cloth, boards framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, green endpapers, uncut, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. Appendices include the Battle of Eupatoria, and a statistical account of Russian losses in 1854-55. VERY SCARCE. Turan 497 (recording the US edition of the same year).
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JONES David
In Parenthesis. seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE THIRD IMPRESSION
8vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece, plate and full-page map; sand cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and sand, pale blue top, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backtrip, and a little browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. With a few relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Published a year after the first edition. One of the finest (and scarcest) literary works to emerge from the Great War, Hailed as 'a work of genius' by Eliot (then at Faber) it was awarded the Hawthorden Prize for 1938. RARE IN THIS CONDITION.
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RICHTHOFEN Manfred von
The Red Air Fighter. New Edition with additional Material by Norman Franks and N.H. Hauprich. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Expanded reissue of the original edition of 1918. Enser, p.320; Noffsinger 1207 (both recording the original edition).
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MEIJERING Piet Hein
Signed with their Honour. The Story of Chivalry in Air Warfare 1914-1915. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs (a number full-page) in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ROBERTS Lieutenant E.M.
A Flying Fighter. An American above the Lines in France. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the scarce original edition of 1918. Enser, p.124, 379 (recording the first edition).
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REID P.R.
Winged Diplomat. The Life Story of Air Commodore 'Freddie' West VC. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter creased and frayed with loss at edges. Noffsinger 1195. Mulholland & Jordan, R20.
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FRANKS Norman
German Aces of World War I. The Pictorial Record. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; pictorial boards, marbled endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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RFC NARBOROUGH.
'The Great Government Aerodrome'. RFC Narborough. The Story of a First World War Airfield. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and facsimiles throughout, signatures on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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NOWARRA Heinz J.
Eisernes Kreuz und Balkenkreuz. Markings of German Aircraft in WWI 1914-1918. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and coloured illustrations of aircraft; grey cloth, upper board blocked in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. '…may be considered an important contribution to WWI aviation literature' (Noffsinger). Noffsinger 1096.
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WWII.
Bibliografia della Seconda Guerra Mondiale 1945-1975. NEAR FINE COPY IN LAMINATED BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, text in Italian; laminated boards, a near fine copy.
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BAYLISS Gwyn M.
Bibliographic Guide to the Two World Wars. An Annotated Survey of English-Language Reference Materials. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SCHMITT Bernadotte
Les Duex Guerres Mondiales. Bibliographie Selective. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 932). Standard French-language reference. SCARCE.
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CHUM-KON Professor Kim
The Korean War. The First Comprehensive Account of the Historical Background and Development of the Korean War (1950-53). SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR ROBERT THOMPSON
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; sand cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, textured endpapers, green silk marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY TO SIR ROBERT THOMPSON FROM JONG-ICK CHOI, MINISTER OF THE KOREAN EMBASSY IN LONDON, WITH THE LATTER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The minister's business card is loosely inserted. Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson (1916-1992) was a British military officer and expert on counter-insurgency. 'He was widely regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as the world's leading expert on countering the Mao Tse-tung technique of rural guerrilla insurgency' (Wikipedia).
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ENSER A. G. S.
A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War.. Books in English 1939-1974. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, wanting front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of an invaluable standard reference. A supplementary volume was issued in 1987.
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LUCAS Laddie
Out of the Blue. The Role of Luck in Air Warfare 1917-1966. Illustrated by Michael Trim. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON SLIP MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Enser, p.7.
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CURREY R.N.
Poems from India by Members of the Forces. [First UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers lightly spotted as often; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. First published in India the previous year.
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WINTON John
Convoy. The Defence of Sea Trade 1890-1990. NEAR FINE COPY UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MILNE John
Footprints of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment, August 1914 to November 1918. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal Lord Milne. Published for Past and Present Members of the 4th Leicestershire Regiment. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece in sepia, 12 sepia-toned plates on 7, 2 full-page maps in the text and a folding map on brown stock; original plum regimental diced cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The 1/4th served throughout France and Flanders, from Kemmel Hill to Bellenglise, from Lens to Dickebushe. Includes roll of officers embarking. VERY SCARCE IN DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.67; Sutcliffe, p.119; White, p.195.
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'OLD CONTEMPTIBLES'.
Honours and Awards of the Old Contemptibles. The Officers and Men of the British Army and Navy mentioned in Despatches 1914-1915. [Facsimile Reissue]. SIGNED BY JOHN HAYWARD
8vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY JOHN HAYWARD ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1915.
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WILLIAMSON, ed. Howard
The Clacton Roll of Honour 1914-1919. Edited by Howard Williamson. FINE COPY
Folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in white, a fine copy. SCARCE.
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WASLEY Gerald
Devon in the Great War 1914-1918. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WYRALL Everard
The West Yorkshire Regiment in the War 1914-1918. A History of the 14th, The Prince of Wales' Own (West Yorkshire Regt) and of its Special Reserve, Territorial and Service Battalions, in the Great War of 1914-1918. Vol. II 1917-1918. [THIS VOLUME ONLY]. BRIGHT, CLEAN WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, and maps on japon (many folding and coloured in outline); ivory boards, upper board blocked with regimental crest in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers heavily age-marked and faded else a very good, bright, crisp working copy. Sutcliffe, p.101; White, p.67. SCARCE.
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SHEEN John
The Steel of the DLI. 2nd Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry 1914-1918. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TRETYAKOV Lieut.-General N.A.
My Experiences at Nan Shan and Port Arthur with the Fifth East Siberian Rifles. [First English Edition]. BRIGHT, FIRM COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates and plans, and large folding maps; original cloth, gilt back, covers mildly age-marked else a very good,bright, firm copy. First appearance in English of an important account, originally published in Russian in 1909. VERY SCARCE.
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WILLIAMSON Henry
Love and the Loveless. [With new introduction by Anne Williamson]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Seventh volume of 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'. Published as part of the fourth collected edition and the ONLY COMPLETE SET IN PAPERBACK. The text is a faithful reprint of the first edition though the type is reset with a new 6pp Introduction by Anne Williamson dated 1994; this is mainly biographical and is common to the set. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Matthews A45.1997.
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WILLIAMSON Henry
A Fox under my Cloak. [With new introduction by Anne Williamson]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Fifth volume of 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'. Published as part of the fourth collected edition and the ONLY COMPLETE SET IN PAPERBACK. The text is a faithful reprint of the first edition though the type is reset with a new 6pp Introduction by Anne Williamson dated 1994; this is mainly biographical and is common to the set. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Matthews A42.1996.
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ELKINS Michael
Forged in Fury. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First UK Edition, neat signature on front paste-down; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Originally published in the US, this is a vividly-written account of the resistance of Jews throughout Europe and the activities of a handful of survivors of the camps who, after 1945, determined to avenge some of their dead brethren. Includes the formation of DIN and the plan to poison the water supply to a quarter of a million German homes. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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[Sale Catalogue of] Civil War Papers of King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine and Sir Thomas Fairfax. 21 July 1980. Sale code: nil. CIVIL WAR PAPERS OF CHARLES I
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The sale comprises 58 lots from the collection of Colonel Alan Gandar Dower, among the finest letters and papers from the English Civil War to have been offered for sale at auction.
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