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GRANT Robert M.
U-Boat Intelligence 1914-1918. [First US Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published simultaneously with the UK edition.
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NUREMBERG.
The Trial of German Major War Criminals. Part 8. Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg Germany. Part 8 [only]. 27 February to 11 March 1946. Taken from the Official Transcript. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Roy. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a remarkably clean, crisp copy. Includes death factories, British government report on Stalag Luft III, arguments on defence witnesses for major war criminals, the defence case for Goring.
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NUREMBERG.
The Trial of German Major War Criminals. Part 7. Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg Germany. Part 7 [only]. 14 February to 26 February 1946. Taken from the Official Transcript. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Roy. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a remarkably clean, crisp copy. Includes Keitel's directive, Lidice, camps, plunder of property, looting and destruction of works of art, deportation and expulsion.
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GILLON Captain Stair
The Story of the 29th Division [in WWI]. A Record of Gallant Deeds. Compiled from Narratives supplied by the Three Divisional Commanders and Others. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 2 portraits and 12 maps (many folding) on japon, title lightly spotted, contempoorary signature on front free endpaper; original tan bickram, upper board and backstrip with divisional emblem blocked in red and lettered in black, uncut, one corner bruised, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. 29th Division was the only regular British formation at Gallipoli. Subsequently, however, it served at Somme, Arras, Ypres, Cambrai and the final offensive in Flanders. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.60; Falls, p.110.
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BRERETON Captain F.S.
From the Nile to the Tigris. A Story of Campaigning from Western Egypt to Mesopotamia. Illustrated by Frank Gillett. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PICTORIAL CLOTH
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 5 plates; original pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, white and brown, green edges, one corner bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. One of the scarcest of Brereton's tales of the Great War.
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BRERETON Captain F.S.
With French at the Front. A Story of the Great European War down to the Battle of the Aisne. Illustrated by Arch. Webb. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 6 plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper, contemporary inscription on frontispiece recto; original pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in green and brown, gilt back, dark green edges, dark grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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SPEARS Major-General Sir Edward
Liaison 1914. A Narrative of the Great Retreat. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter very lightly creased at extremities. Much-needed reissue of the scarce original edition of 1930. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.170 (recording the first edition).
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GIBBS Anthony
Gibbs and a Phoney War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed with minor loss at edges. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.472.
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BASTICK Desmond
Spearhead. The Story of the First British Corps. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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GLIDDON, ed. Gerald
Norfolk and Suffolk in the Great War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LUCAS James
Men of Gallipoli. The Dardanelles and Gallipoli Experience August 1914 to January 1916. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LIDDLE Peter H.
The 1916 Battle of the Somme. A Reappraisal. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with photographs, facsimiles and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition.
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GREENWELL Graham H.
An Infant in Arms. War Letters of a Company Officer 1914-1918. With an Introduction and Notes by John Terraine. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with pictorial endpapers; oatmeal holland, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reissue of the original edition of 1935. Includes Somme, Ypres, Italy. Enser, p.195 (recording the first edition).
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GASTON Peter
Thirty-Eighth Parallel. The British in Korea. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes ROH, and awards and decorations. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HOWARTH Stephen
August '39. The Last Four Weeks of Peace in Europe. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FONVIELLE-ALQUIER Francois
The French and the Phoney War 1939-1940. Translation and introduction Edward Ashcroft. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece map and plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The French edition appeard in 1971. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.166.
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LEGG Frank
The Eyes of Damien Parer. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous full-page photographs in the text, blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Fine collection of photographs by the famous WWII Australian cameraman.
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ROY Jules
The Trial of Marshal Petain. Translated from the French by Robert Baldick. With an Introduction by Douglas Johnston. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.470.
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LOPEZ Francisco Perez
A Guerilla Diary of the Spanish Civil War. Edited and with an Introduction by Victor Guerrier. Translated by Joseph D. Harris. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of relatively few detailed accounts from the Spanish viewpoint. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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HAWORTH Christopher
March to Armistice 1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly rubbed dustwrapper. Enser, p.63.
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HICKEY Michael
Gallipoli. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HOME Brigadier General Sir Archibald
The Diary of a World War I Cavalry Officer. Editor: Diana Briscoe. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HARROW SCHOOL.
Harrow Memorials of the Great War [5 volumes of 6]. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP RUN IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
5 vols., [of 6], roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous mounted portraits toned in sepia; ivory boards, oatmeal holland backs, upper boards and backstrips with printed paper labels, gilt tops, uncut, blue silk markers, boards mildly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp run. One of the finest and most comprehensive of the public school WWI rolls of honour. The run comprises Vol. I: 23 August 1914 to 20 March 1915; Vol. II: 31 March 1915 to 11 September 1915; Vol. III: 13 September 1915 to 3 July 1916; 5 July 1916 to 11 April 1917; Vol. V: 11 April 1917 to 10 April 1918. A crisp run tragically wanting the sixth and final volume. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ANON.
WAAC. The Woman's Story of the War. [Seventh Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Seventh Impression; red cloth, upper board and backstrip ruled and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 6pp publishers' catalogue bound in at end. First published in 1930. Apparently not recorded by Enser.
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BISHOP Jim
Fighting Father Duffy. Illustrated by H. Lawrence Hoffman. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; pale olive cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HYDE Andrew P
The First Blitz. The German Bomber Campaign against Britain in the First World War. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE.
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HAMMOND Captain Maxmilian Montagu
Memoir of Captain M.M. Hammond, Rifle Brigade. Sixth Edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
8vo., Sixth Edition, with engraved frontispiece, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, small neat contemporary signature on title; original green coarse-grain cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp copy. With the binder's ticket of Westleys on rear paste-down. Hammond fell at Sebastopol in 1855. This edition is without the extract from Pusey in Chapter XVI, removed at the editor's behest in the third edition of 1857. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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ARMINIUS.
From Sarajevo to the Rhine. Generals of the Great War. Translated from the German by Gerald Griffin. [First English Edition.] CRISP, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and plates; grey cloth, gilt back, uncut, expertly recased, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.287.
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LESLIE H.W.
The Royal Mail War Book. being an Account of the Operations of the Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., 1914-1919. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, blue tweed endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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MEID Lieutenant Colonel Pat
Operations in West Korea. US Marine Operations in Korea. Volume V. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
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HEDIN Sven
With the German Armies in the West. Authorised Translation from the Swedish by H. G. de Walterstorff. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First English Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, title in red and black, 118 plates and 4 maps (2 folding; 2 full-page), title lightly browned; elegantly bound in dark green full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, original backstrip gilt mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as gift or for presentation. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The author, better known as the Swedish explorer of Central Asia, spent two months with the German forces in France and Belgium early in WWI. His account, although criticised strongly for its apparent partiality, is nontheless valuable for its first-hand observations of the German Army at war, from command structures through to weapons and equipment. Many of the photographs are not easily available elsewhere. Enser, p.155.
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INGLEFIELD Captain V E
The History of the Twentieth (Light) Division. With an Introduction by Lieut.-General The Earl of Cavan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 11 plates, 4 maps in the text and 4 large folding maps on japon at rear; original printed boards, fore-edge mildly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. The Division served in the Ypres Salient, across the Somme and at Cambrai. COPIES IN BOARDS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p. 60; Falls, p.114.
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COLEMAN Frederic
With Cavalry in 1915. The British Trooper in the Trench Line through the Second Battle of Ypres. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and folding map, some light age-spotting; red cloth, upper board framed and lettered in blind, gilt back, backstrip moderately sunned (but all lettering wholly legible) else a bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's advertisement at end. Includes many unusual photographs not easily available elsewhere. Enser, pp.77, 403.
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DE LA GRANGE Baroness Ernest
Open House in Flanders 1914-1918. Chateua de la Motte au Bois. Translated from the unpublished French by Melanie Lind. With an Introduction by Field Marshal Allenby. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 16 plates and full-page map; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Baroness de la Grange, affectionately known as 'Mother of the British Army', remained hostess throughout the duration of the war. Numerous British and Commonwealth units were headquartered there, including Allenby and 1 ANZAC. 'The lady's pluck, intelligence and benevolence adds to the quality of the book' (Falls, awarding a star). Falls, p.201.
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ASHMEAD-BARTLETT Ellis
With the Turks in Thrace. In collaboration with Seabury Ashmead-Bartlett. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FRESH COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates, maps in thre text and large folding coloured map at end; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, uncut, backstrip lettering lightly faded (but wholly legible), a remarkably bright, fresh copy. With the separately printed errata slip mounted facing text, and trade ticket of Rees of London on front paste-down. The author was Special Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph newspaper during the Balkan War of 1912. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ALDERSON Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Edwin Alfred Hervey
With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force, 1896. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 8 plates and large folding map at end; navy diced cloth, boards framed in blind, upper board blocked in gilt with 'Types of the Force' repeated from frontispiece, gilt back, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, new hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with neat circular stamp on title only. With 40pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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GRAHAM Stephen
A Private in the Guards. REMARKABLE COPY OF A GREAT WAR CLASSIC
8vo., First Edition; navy cloth, upper board with regimental insignia blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. With 4pp publisher's advertisement at end. A remarkable copy of a Great War classic. Graham was already a well-known writer when he joined the Scots Guards: ''he found much to excite his disgust, first in the methods and language of the instructors at home, and then in the callousness and lack of chivalry which appeared in the field as the War grew old. His description of the Armistice and the march to Germany is a fine piece of writing' (Falls). EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.66; Falls, p.200.
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ASHLEY Maurice
The Battle of Naseby and the Fall of King Charles I. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 6 coloured plates (2 double-page), 63 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in dustwrapper.
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COLLIS Maurice
Foreign Mud. Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates, and 5 full-page maps in the text; original yellow cloth, gilt back, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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CARPENTER VC Captain Alfred F.B.
The Blocking of Zeebrugge. With an Introduction by Admiral Earl Beatty and Appreciations by Marshal Foch and Rear Admiral Sims. Drawings by Charles de Lacy. [Eighth Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Eighth Impression, with frontispiece, photographs, illustrations in the text, full-page map and large folding plan on japon; green cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, a near fine copy. The author commanded HMS VINDICTIVE during the operation for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.404; Mulholland & Jordan C21.
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ROBERTS, ed. C.E. Bechhofer
Trial of William Joyce with some Notes on other Trials for Treason. Edited, with a Foreword, by C.E. Bechhofer Roberts. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates (one double-page); original series binding of black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a bright, clean copy. Published in the series 'Old Bailey Trials'.
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BUDLER Julius
Malaula!, Der Kampfruf meiner Staffel. Vom Dachdeckerlehrling zum Pour le Mérite-Offizier. Eingeleitet von Peter Supf. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., text in German, with plates, wanting front free endpaper; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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BRUCE George
The Warsaw Uprising. 1 August - 2 October 1944. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.468.
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BACON Captain Alban F.L.
The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior. A Territorial Officer's Narrative of Service (and Sport) in Three Continents. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates; free endpapers and half-title lightly browned; original red cloth, sides framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. 'Captain Bacon may be described as a typical Territorial officer, but it must be added that he is a lucky one. He went to India at the beginning of the War, and to Palestine in early 1917 where he took part in the Third Battle of Gaza and the operations leading to the capture of Jerusalem. Then to France in 1918 for the victorious offensive' (Falls). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.258; Falls, p.178.
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BOISSEAU, comp. H. E.
The Prudential Staff and the Great War. Compiled by H.E. Boisseau. [Foreword by Sir Edgar Horne]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, large folding plate with captioned tissue overlay, and plates; red cloth,upper board blocked with company insignia in gilt, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BARTLETT, ed. Norman
With the Australians in Korea. Edited for the Board of Management of the Australian War Memorial by Norman Bartlett. 'BRACES' BRACEGIRDLE'S COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates and maps, and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF COMMANDER WARWICK 'BRACES' BRACEGIRDLE AND CARRIES HIS HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE AND ADDRESS ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. 'Braces' Bracegirdle (1911-1993) led a distinguished career in the RAN. During WWII he served in HMAS PERTH in the Mediterranean (first DSC) and then in HMAS SYDNEY at Leyte Gulf (second DSC). During the Korean War he commanded HMAS BATAAN (third DSC). A NOTABLE KOREAN WAR ASSOCIATION COPY WITH SIGNIFICANT NAVAL PROVENANCE.
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SEAGO Edward
Peace in War. [Second Impression]. IN FULL MOROCCO
4to., Second Impression, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and 28 plates; elegantly bound in dark green full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, gilt back, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Published a year after the first edition.
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DURAND Sir H. Mortimer
The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 10 coloured plates, 86 plates in monochrome and 10 maps and plans in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original blue buckram, upper board blocked and lettered with regimental insignia in gilt and colours, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, expertly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy. 'This handsomely produced regimental history is presented for the most part by means of private diaries and letters of officers and men, and illustrated by water-colour sketches and photographs' (Falls). Includes roll of officers, NCOs and OR, ROH, honours and awards, officers left and joined, order of service at dedication of memorial tablet. SCARCE. Falls, p.106; Sutcliffe, p.80; White, p.21.
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LLOYD Mark
The London Scottish in the Great War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HURD Archibald
The Fleets at War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; original blue diced cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in darker blue, a very good, bright, clean copy. Excellent fleet reference and one of the first such naval books of WWI. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.229.
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