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FEVYER W. H.
The 1914 Star to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
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DALLAS Gloden
The Unknown Army. [Mutinies in the British Army in World War I.] NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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COOK Frank
Casualty Roll for the Crimea. Compiled by Frank and Andrea Cook. Edited and aranged by John B. Hayward. With a Foreword by Vivian Stuart. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with title-vignette, plates and large folding map; black buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, grey endpapers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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FARRINGTON Anthony
The Second Afghan War 1878-1880. Casualty Roll. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. folio, First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES (this copy out-of-series).
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LAW Francis
A Man at Arms. Memoirs of Two World Wars. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HESS Dean E.
Battle Hymn. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; brown cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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HOLDEN Paul
Brave Lads of Sunny Worthing. A Seaside Town during the Great War. NEAR FINE COPY
Folio, First Edition, with photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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DOONER Mildred G.
The Last Post. Being a Roll of all Officers (Naval, Military or Colonial) who gave their Lives for Queen, King and Country in the South African War, 1899-1902. With a frontispiece by W.L. Wyllie. [Facsimile resisue.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with frontispiece, top faintly spotted; maroon cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1903. Hackett, p.142 (recording the first edition).
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MIDDLEBROOK Martin
The First Day on the Somme. [Second Edition.] SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH LECTURE TICKET
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. A National Army Museum Celebrity Lecture ticket is loosely inserted. Much-needed reissue of the original editon of 1971. Enser, p.332 (recording the first edition).
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BANKS Lynne Reid
One More River. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps in blue; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed and browned at upper edge, and with one small loss at upper edge of rear panel. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Includes glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish words.
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MILLAR Ronald
Kut. The Death of an Army. [Second Edition.] FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with map as frontispiece, and plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reissue of the original edition of 1969. Enser, p.189 (recording the first edition).
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ROGERSON Sidney
Twelve Days on the Somme. A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916. Foreword by Commander Jeremy Rogerson. Introduction by Malcolm Brown. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY INUNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with frontispiece and full-page illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1916. Frontspiece of 'Camp 34, Trones Wood' by Stanley Cursiter. A presentation copy from Rogerson's nephew. Enser, p.332 (recording the first edition).
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GRAVES Robert
Lawrence and the Arabs. Illustrations edited by Eric Kennington. Maps by Henry Perry. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 26 plates on 23 and 4 maps in red and black, neat contemporary signature on half-title; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Higginson A26a; O'Brien E030.
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LELAND Brevet Lt.-Col. F.W.
With the MT in Mesopotamia [Mechanised Transport]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous plates and large folding map; blue cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Includes H&A, and detailed listing of MT units. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.222.
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HAMILTON Ernest W.
The First Seven Divisions. Being a detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres. Eleventh Edition, revised and enlarged. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., Eleventh Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece and 9 other maps (a number folding); handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A classic account of the Old Contemptibles, and arguably the introduction of the Western Front to the British public. 'Even today it is not to be despised, for it contains many episodes and recollections not to be found in later histories and is written with force and point' (Falls). This edition includes six additional maps and an index. Enser pp. 58, 129; Falls p.38.
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PICCIOTTO Cyril M.
The Treaty of Peace with Germany: Clauses affecting Mercantile Law. (Recovery of Debts, Contracts, Property, Rights and Interests, etc). With an Introduction, Commentary and Index. FOREIGN OFFICE COPY WITH BOOKPLATE
8vo., First Edition; original brown boards, brown cloth back lettered in black, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF HER MAJESTY'S FOREIGN OFFICE AND CARRIES ITS ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN, WITHDRAWAL RUBRIC ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER AND SMALL NEAT STAMPS ON COVERS. VERY SCARCE.
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LANGDON-DAVIES John
Air Raid. The Technique of Silent Approach High Explosive Panic. AIR RAIDS DESCRIBED BEFORE THE BLITZ
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates (one double-page); newly bound in red cloth, gilt back, hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of one of the earliest illustrated public reports of the results of full-scale air attack on a populous city (in this case Barcelona, 1938). Very much the harbinger of things to come. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HUGUET General
Britain and the War. A French Indictment. Translated by Captain H. Cotton Minchin. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 10 folding maps on japon coloured in outline; red cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.49.
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WENZEL Marian
Auntie Mabel's War. An Account of her Part in the Hostilities of 1914-1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Richly illustrated story of a British nurse serving in Northern France and in the Balkans.
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SASSOON] [Siegfried
Sassoon's Long Journey. An Illustrated Selection from Siegfried Sassoon's 'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston'. Edited by Paul Fussell. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DE MENDELSSOHN Peter
The Nuremberg Documents. Some Aspects of German War Policy 1939-1945. BRIGHT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip mildly faded else a very good, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Enser, p.175.
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LAQUEUR Walter
The Terrible Secret. An Investigation into the Suppression of Information about Hitler's 'Final Solution'. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.144
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ROSS-OF-BLADENSBURG Sir John
The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918. Volume I [with] Volume II [with] Maps Volume. 'Nulli Secundus'. BRIGHT, CRISP, CLEAN SET
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and 27 maps (a number folding) in separate volume; navy cloth, upper boards framed and blocked in gilt enclosing regimental badge in gilt and colours, gilt backs, uncut, upper joint of map volume split (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. The standard history of the regiment in the Great War. The Coldstreams fielded three battalions , all of which went to France and remained there throughout the war. A fourth battalion became the Pioneer Battalion of the Guards Division on its formation in 1915. Falls p.126; Sutcliffe, p.6; White p.43.
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DUNN] [Captain J.C.
The War the Infantry knew 1914-1919. A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium with The Second Battalion, His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: founded on Personal Records, by One of their Medical Officers. [With an Introduction by Keith Simpson.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; original pictorial wrappers, crease in rear wrapper else a very goos, clean copy. This important work, to which Sassoon was a primary contributor, was first published privately in 1938 (see Keynes B16). A public edition was issued in 1987, which was followed, in turn, by this paperback version. Sassoon's main contribution A Subaltern's Service in Camp and Action (12 March to 1 April 1917) stands as Chapter XII where it is here retitled A Chapter in a Subaltern's Life (March 12th to April 16th 1917). The account was written early in 1926 and except for his diaries of 1918, was the first prose Sassoon wrote about the war. It was afterwards expanded in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) as pp. 190-237 (see Keynes A33). Not recorded by Enser.
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COLLIER Richard
The Warcos. The War Correspondents of World War Two. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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COLLIER Basil
Brasshat. A Biography of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY No. 2 OFFICER CADET BATTALION.
Graduating in Arms. A Souvenir of No. 2 Officer Cadet Battalion. Peterhouse December 1916 - April 1917; Downing College December 1916 - April 1917. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates and illustrations in the tet; sand cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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KENNAN George F.
Russia leaves the War. Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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DANBY Paul
The British Army Book. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8voo., with coloured double-page frontispiece, coloured plate and numerous plates in monochrome, title mildly spotted, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; pictorial olive cloth, upper board framed and blocked in cream and black, gilt back, green top, green endpapers, uncut, case a little shaken else a good, sound copy.
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BRITISH ARMY.
The Indian Empire. A Short Review and some Hints for the Use of Soldiers proceeding to India. SCARCE INDIAN 'HINTS' IN THE GREAT WAR
Sm. 8vo., strongly bound in modern green boards, upper board with printed paper label, radial corners, grey endpapers, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS PRESERVED, some light age-soiling else a very good, bright, clean copy. With advertisement endpapers on pink stock at front and rear. Not to be confused with the similar title 'Our Indian Empire' which is considerably more common. VERY SCARCE.
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TERRAINE John
Mons. The Retreat to Victory. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with plates and maps; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Fortunino Matania. Published in Batsford's much-collected series 'British Battles'.
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BALCON, ed. Jill
The Pity of War. Poems of the First World War. Selected with an Introduction by Jill Balcon. Preface by Edward Carpenter. Calligraphy by Rosemary Grossman. Illustrations by Barrington Barber. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, text in red and black, with illustrations in the text; green cloth, backstriplettered in orange, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ROSS Captain Robert B.
The Fifty-First in France. Illustrated by Jessie K. Ross. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, free endpapers browned; blue buckram, upper board with mounted titled illustration, backstrip lettered in black, an unusually bright, crisp copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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GOUGH General Sir Hubert
The Fifth Army. EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and maps (a number folding),neat contemporary inscription to veteran on half-title; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in red and lettered in gilt, uncut, an exceptionally bright, crisp, clean copy. Enser,p.58.
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ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT.
[Menu of] Golden Jubilee Dinner 1914-1964.. The Birmingham City Battalions. 14th, 15th and 16th Battalions The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. THE WARWICKSHIRES: A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., single-fold menu, printed and illustrated in blue, with Musical Programme leaf loosely inserted, a very good, bright, clean copy. The front cover features Bairnsfather's 'Better Ole'; the rear cover lists Great War battle honours of the Birmingham battalions. Music was provided by the Band of 7th Bn The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers. The Birmingham City battalions fought with 5th Division variously in France, Flanders and Italy from 1915 to the Armistice. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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BECKE, comp. Major A.F.
Order of Battle of Divisions Part 2B. The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th-69th) with the Home-Service Divisions (71st-73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the UK Government official History of the Great War. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1937.
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CHRISTIE N. M.
Officers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who died Overseas 1914-1919. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece and photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unc;lipped dustwrapper.
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GREEN Lieutenant-Colonel Howard
The British Army in the First World War. The Regulars, the Territorials and Kitchener's Army, with some of the Campaigns into which they fitted. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly faded dustwrapper.
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DIGGLE G.E.
Blighty. [A Portrait of Civilian Life in Britain during the First World War, 1914-1918.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. SCARCE.
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REYNOLDS Leonard C.
Home Waters MTBs and MGBs at War 1939-1945. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Julian Oswald. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, very numerous photographs and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. This third volume of the author's MTB trilogy completes the standard reference on these craft. This volume is arranged chronologically and includes decorations, awards, war losses, and short MTB and MBG flotillas in home waters. Many of the photographs are rare and previously unpublished. SCARCE.
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KLEIN Abbe Felix
Diary of a French Army Chaplain. [Third English Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Third Edition thus, with portrait frontspiece (original tissue guard present); newly bound in grey boards, backstrip with printed paper label, hand-made endpapers, original cloth from upper board and backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published two months after the first edition. SCARCE. Enser, p.96
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LANGDON-DAVIES John
Behind the Spanish Barricades. Abridged Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. This abridged version was published five months after the first edition. SCARCE.
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LINKLATER, Magnus
The Fourth Reich. Klaus Barbie and the Neo-Fascist Connection. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition,with plates; handsomely bound in dark red full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM LINKLATER WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE.
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FOCH Marshal
The Principles of War. Translated by Hilaire Belloc. Third [Engish] Impression. FOCH IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., Third Impression thus, with 14 plans in the text and 11 folding maps in pocket at end; handsomely bound in dark red full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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SMALL Robert O.
One Goal. The History of Training War Production Workers in and through the Vocational Schools of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1940-1945. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, charts and tables; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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SCHEER Admiral Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard
Memoires de l'Amiral Scheer. Preface de Andre Cogniet. [First Edition.] STONGLY BOUND COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with plates, numerous charts and diagrams in the text and 13 folding maps at end, fore-edges lightly tanned; strongly bound in black half cloth, marbled boards, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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BARCLAY Brigadier C.N.
Armistice 1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth,upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at fold-ins.
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RAVENSCROFT P. D.
Unversed in Arms. A Subaltern on the Western Front. The First World War Diary of P.D. Ravenscroft MC. Edited by Antony Bird. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LEGG Frank
War Correspondent. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper sunned at backstrip. Emser, p.465.
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BURKE Peter
The Siege of O'Okiep. (Guerilla Campaign in the Anglo-Boer War). NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece map, and numerous photographs and maps in the text; red cloth, upper board lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.
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