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CROSS AND COCKADE
Vol. 2. No. 3. The Society of World War I Aero Historians [later The First World War Aviation Historical Society.] NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and diagrams in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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FIRTH C.H.
Cromwell's Army. A History of the English Soldier during the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. [Facsimile reissue. With a new Introduction by John Adair.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. High-quality facsimile reissue, with fresh introduction, of the third edition of 1921. ALREADY SCARCE.
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REDIPUGLIA WAR CEMETERY.
Cimiterio Agli Invitti Militaire Della Di Redipuglia 3A Armata. Ufficio Centrale per la Cura e le Onoranze delle Salme Dei Caduti in Guerra A RARE MOMENTO OF THE ORIGINAL THIRD ARMY CEMETERY
Oblong 4to., text in Italian, with introduction and 34 full-page plates toned in sepia; printed wrappers, sewed as issued, original ribbon present, yapped edges, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. A rare momento of the original Redipuglia War Cemetery housing 30,000 graves of soldiers of the Italian Third Army killed between 1915 and 1917. The original cemetery is now replaced by the Redipuglia War Memorial, inaugurated in 1938 in the presence of Mussolini. It is the largest war memorial in Italy with over 100,000 graves (including those of the original interment). A RARE SURVIVAL FROM THE GREAT WAR IN ITALY.
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RUDZINSKI Andrzej
30 Lat. Ludowego Wojska Polskiego w Tworczosci Plastycznej. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER WITH MULTILINGUAL SUPPLEMENT
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, text in Polish, with coloured frontispiece and numerous full-page coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Extensive catalogue depicting 30 years of the Polish armed forces in fine art. Loosely inserted is a copy of the separately printed multilingual Supplement printed in Russian, French, English and German. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE SUPPLEMENT.
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ADMIRALTY.
Steam Manual for His Majesty's Fleet. containing Regulations and Instructions relating to the Machinery of His Majesty's Ships. (Corrected to 31st May 1906). REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED COPY FROM HMS JASON
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous blank interleaves numbered in pagination; blue cloth boards, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, backstrip sunned (but all gilt bright and legible), else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Printing code: CN 3050/05. THIS COPY WAS RECEIVED ABOARD HMS JASON ON 28 JANUARY 1907 WITH CONFIRMATORY STAMP ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Loosely inserted are three subsequent and relevant Circular Letters, the first also with HMS JASON stamp: a) New Procedure concerning Surveys, and Closing of Watertight Doors; b) Examination of Boilers, Closing Watertight Doors etc; c) Use of Lime in Boilers of HM Ships. HMS JASON (1892-1917) was an ALARM-class Torpedo Gunboat. Shortly after receipt of this copy she was converted to minesweeper and served with the Nore Destroyer Flotilla in WWI until April 1917 when she struck a mine off the Hebridean island of Coll and sank with the loss of thirty lives. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ALDINGTON Richard
Death of a Hero. A Novel. [First UK Edition.] IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; handsomely bound in full dark green 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. 'One of the bitterest war novels that has been written, yet strangely enough the actual scene of war is less horrible in its pages than comfortable England of the days before' (Falls). One of the essential novels of the Great War, albeit presented here with the expurgated text. Falls, 261; Kershaw, 52.
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WWI.
Uniforms of the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army. A Book of Colour Plates depicting the Uniforms of all Branches of the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army, circa 1914. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with 16 coloured plates; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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CARVER Michael
Harding of Petherton. SIGNED BY TWO FIELD MARSHALS
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 8; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with two short closed tears. SIGNED BY HARDING AND PETHERTON ON HALF-TITLE. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper.
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WAR OFFICE.
Military Engineering, Volume III - Part I. Bridging. 1941. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE WWII ISSUE
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous technical illustrations and diagrams (a number folding), small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. Printing code: 25/463. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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GRAVES Robert
Goodbye to all that. New Edition, Revised, with a Prologue and Epilogue. [Third Impression thus.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo.,Third Impression thus, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The revised edition first appeared in 1957. See Higginson A32h (title verso gives publication month as September; Higginson as November). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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ARRAS.
Arras avant et apres le Bombardement. REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED, BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Landscape 8vo., First Edition, text leaves in English and French, with 35 plates captioned in French and English on stiff card, some very light marking to one or two blank margins; limp red boards lettered in gilt and black, original ribbon replaced to style, radial corners, covers mildly age-soiled else a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean copy. Valuable contemporary depiction of Arras before and after the Great War, in which around three-quarters of the city was destroyed. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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HURT Greg
Prussian Infantry. Seven Years War. Officers [with] NCOs [with] Drummers [with] The Private Infantryman. ILLUSTRATIONS ONLY
4 parts, roy. 8vo., with numerous illustrations throughout, NO TEXT; printed wrappers, a wire-stitched as issued, all near fine copies. SCARCE.
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RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.
Reports from British Officers attached to the Japanese and Russian Forces in the Field. Vol. III [THIS VOLUME ONLY].. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF TEXT ONLY
8vo., First Edition, with maps on japon in the text BUT WANTING ALL PRINTS AND MAPS FROM POCKET AT END, title browned; original green cloth, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, advertismnent endpapers on red stock, backstrip scuffed else a brght, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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BRITISH RED CROSS WWI.
Enquiry List No. 14, 1917. Wounded and Missing. August 1st 1917.. Containing all Enquiries up to and including July 20 1917. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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BEESLY Patrick
Room 40. British Naval Intelligence 1914-1918. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 23 plates on 16 and 5 maps (one double-page) in the text, page edges tanned as usual; original black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned at backstrip. The story of Reginald Hall's famous Room 40, the Admiralty's codebreaking organisation during the Great War. Like its WWII successor at Bletchley, it was successful in breaking and manipulating German naval and diplomatic codes, and its achievements had a profound effect on the outcome of the conflict. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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BROOKE Rupert
The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. [First Complete Edition.] FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition thus, with 2 plates; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backstrip with leather label lettered in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The portaits are by Jacques and Gwen Raverat respectively. Collects the poems from the first edition (1911) and the second edition, edited by Marsh (1914) as they appeared in the first collected edition of 1918. To this total of 82 poems are now added a further 38 making the fullest and final collection. AN ELEGANT COPY OF THE BEST EDITION.
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NEVIN Thomas
Ernst Junger and Germany. Into the Abyss 1914-1945. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; original brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed study of the author of 'Storm of Steel' and his context. The first US edition was published a year earlier. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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FISHMAN Jack
Long Knives and Short Memories. The Spandau Prison Story. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, top lightly dust-soiled; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SWETTENHAM John
Allied Intervention in Russia 1918-1919 and the Part played by Canada. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Frame G2177; not recorded by Enser.
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CHURCHILL Winston S.
The World Crisis 1911-1918. [First Two-Volume Edition]. FIRST TWO-VOLUME EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and 6 facsimiles (2 double-page and 4 full-page), 39 maps, charts and diagrams (19 double-page and 20 full-page) and 12 smaller maps, charts and diagrams all in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands, second, third and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, an elegant set ideal as a gift or for presentation. First two-volume edition, containing the unabridged text of the original four volumes augmented with revisions from the 1931 re-issue. For this edition, Churchill prepared a new Foreword to Vol. I and an updated Appendix I in Vol. II. In order to achieve the compression, the publishers provided slightly fewer and smaller maps. See Woods, p.46; ICS A31f.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The 'George Sherston' trilogy complete]. THE 'SHERSTON' TRILOGY IN FULL MOROCCO
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; handsomely bound in uniform burgundy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, a most attractive set ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant set of first editions of Sassoon's 'fictitious' autobiography in which his story is told by 'George Sherston'.
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OWEN Wilfred
Selected Poems. Introduced by Owen Sheers. With original Engravings by Neil Bousfield. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 SIGNED COPIES
8vo., First Edition thus, with 9 original engravings and 8 letterpress vignettes in the text; patterned boards, brown morocco back lettered in gilt, brown top, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case with mounted illustration lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST (THIS COPY NO. 573).
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ROSKILL Stephen
Hankey. Man of Secrets. [Complete set]. SIGNED PRESENTATION SET IN FULL MOROCCO
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; handsomely bound in full crushed morocco (blue/red/green respectively), sides with gilt frame borders, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, an elegant set ideal as gift or for presentation. A PRESENTATION SET FROM THE AUTHOR TO SIR ARCHIBALD JAMES, WITH THE FORMER'S WARM SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE OF FIRST VOLUME. James has subsequently annotated the title with two or three notes. A UNIQUE SET OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY WITH OUTSTANDING PROVENANCE.
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LLOYD Alan
The War in the Trenches. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.349.
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BRITTAIN Vera
Testament of Friendship. The Story of Winifred Holtby. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece; handsomely bound in full dark green 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, custom-made slip-case, a most attactive copy ideal as a gifrt or for presentation. An elegant copy of the loving biography of Holtby by her close friend Vera Brittain. A wide-ranging writer and novelist, Holtby is now probably best remembered for 'South Riding'. Includes accounts of Holtby and Brittain revisiting the WWI battlefield areas in which they both served. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MINISTRY OF INFORMATION; WAR OFFICE; MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY WWII.
'Beating the Invader'. A Message from the Prime Minister [Winston Churchill]. CHURCHILL'S INVASION MESSAGE: 'BEATING THE INVADER'
Single sheet, roy. 8vo., 11 X 8.25 ins (280 x 210 cms), printed both sides, some very light spotting, vertical and horizontal folds as usual, a remarkably well-preserved, near fine copy. Churchill's introduction (written March 10 1941) urges the population to 'STAND FIRM' and 'CARRY ON'. There follow a lengthy series of instructions to be followed in the case of an enemy invasion, culminating: ' Do not tell the enemy anything. Do not give him anything. Do not help him in any way.' VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cohen B76.1; Woods A69.
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FRENCH Field Marshal Sir John
A.L.s from Sir John French to Florence Henniker. A.L.s FROM SIR JOHN FRENCH TO FLORENCE HENNIKER
8vo., 4 leaves with single fold, a near fine copy. Written and signed on Army & Navy Club stationery, the letter is dated 19 February 1904. The writer apologises for a delay in meeting due to an attack 'of my old enemy - malaria' . He is now back to 'War Office business' and eagerly awaits a forthcoming meeting: 'I want another talk with you very much'. Field Marshal Sir John Denron Pinkstone French (1852-1925), 1st Earl of Ypres, distinguished himself in both the Nile Campaigns and the Boer War. In the Great War he commanded the British Army on the Western Front from 1914-1915 until succeeded by Douglas Haig. Florence Henniker (1855-1923), well-known novelist and socialite. Daughter of Richard Monckton Milnes, she married a British army officer (referred to briefly in the letter) but is perhaps best remembered for her long and close relationship with Thomas Hardy with whom she collaborated on two volumes of short stories.
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BROOKE Rupert
The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke. [Sixth Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Sixth Impression, on laid paper, with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and full-page facsimile; original navy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, bevelled edges, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes Poems 1905-1911, Poems 1911-1914 and an Appendix containing a further eleven poems. With an index of first lines. The frontispiece is from a photograph by Sherril Schell; photogravure by Emery Walker. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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OWEN James
Nuremberg. Evil on Trial. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 28 plates on 16; original black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written account of the first war crimes trial, including much transcript material.
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GUILLIATT Richard
The Wolf. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, full-page plan and maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The little-known story of the German surface raider WOLF in WWI.
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MAUDE, ed. Alan H.
The 47th (London) Division 1914-1919. By Some who served with it in the Great War. With a Foreword by the Viscount Esher. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 73 plates on 49, 11 illustrations (6 full-page) in the text, folding map coloured in outline, and 10 large folding maps on japon bound in at end, fore-edge lightly spotted; original red cloth, upper board with double frame border enclosing divisional emblem all in gilt, gilt back, neatly rebacked with old backstrip (faded) laid down, laid endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. One of the most detailed WWI British divisional histories, well illustrated with both photographs and maps. 'Those who served for any length of time in France will recall that the 47th Division always ranked very high among British troops' (Falls). The 47th was the first Territorial division to be engaged as a formation on the Western Front; it served at Festubert, Loos, the Somme, Messines, Cambrai and in the fiercest actions of 1918. Enser, p.61; Falls, p.118.
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CLARK Alan
The Donkeys. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 12 plates and 5 maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red and white, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. Classic study of the notorious gulf between High Command and the Front Line on the Western Front in 1915, particularly the disastrous generalship of Second Ypres, Neuve Chapelle and Loos. Compiled with free access to the private files of Liddell Hart, it takes its title from the well-known quotation: Ludendorff: 'The English fight like lions.' Hoffman: 'But don't we know that they are lions led by donkeys'. This work is the inspiration for Joan Littlewood's acclaimed stage musical 'Oh, What a Lovely War!'. VERY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.23.
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EDMONDS Brigadier-General Sir James
The Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1929. [History of the Great War]. Facsimile Edition with Introduction by Dr. G.M. Bayliss. [First Public Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with map as frontispiece, maps in the text, and rear endpaper map coloured in outline; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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CALLWELL Major-General Sir C.E.
Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. His Life and Diaries. With a Preface by Marshal Foch. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
2 vols., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces and plates; original green cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, black cloth backs lettered in gilt, gilt tops, a near fine copy. Enser, p.218.
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GRAHAM Stephen
Balkan Monastery. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, title lightly browned; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, fore-edge very lightly spotted, else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Eugene Hastain. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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GEE Sergeant A E
A Record of D245 Battery 1914-1919. Illustrations by Bombardier Norman Tennant. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, large folding map at end and decorative endpapers; blue coarse-grain cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, covers and paste-downs (only) damp-marked else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The WWI service record of 11th (Ilkley) Battery, IV West Riding (Howitzer) Brigade RFA (renamed 245th Brigade RA in May 1916). Includes Nominal Roll, ROH, Awards & Decorations, and list of places visited. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. White, p.221.
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HARRIS Henry
The Irish Regiments in the First World War. With a Foreword by G A Hayes-McCoy. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped but moderately sunned dustwrapper.
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BAKER, ed. Kenneth
The Faber Book of War Poetry. Edited by Kenneth Baker. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STONE Christopher
From Vimy Ridge to the Rhine. The Great War Letters of Christopher Stone. Edited by G D Sheffield and G I S Inglis. 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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FEILDING Rowland
War Letters to a Wife. France and Flanders, 1915-1919. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, plates and front endpaper map; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a month after the first edition. Enser, p.195 (recording the first impression).
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VAUGHAN Edwin Campion
Some Desperate Glory. The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917. With a Foreword by John Terraine. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Chris Collingwood. SCARCE.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles and Drawings by Lynton Lamb. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt back, green top, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case.
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THOMASON Jnr John W.
Fix Bayonets!. With the US Marine Corps in France, 1917-1918. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of thre original edition of 1925. Enser, p.380 (recording the original edition).
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BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET
Black and White Budget. Vol. II No. 13. January 6 1900. [Transvaal Special.]. TRANSVAAL SPECIAL IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with portraits and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-browned else a very good, clean copy. SCARCE.
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TOMLINSON H.M.
All our Yesterdays. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. 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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THOMAS Helen
As It Was [and] World Without End. FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy. The first omnibus edition, collecting 'As It Was' (1926) and 'World Without End' (1931). Helen Thomas tells her moving story of love, courtship and marriage to the poet Edward Thomas, killed at Arras in 1917. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Sherston's Progress. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, free endpapers lightly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Keynes, A40a.
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GOODMAN Jean
Edward Seago. The Other Side of the Canvas. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with plates and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one tiny nick at front fold-in. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1978.
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WILLIAMSON Henry
[A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight]. [Complete Set of the First Uniform Edition]. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
15 vols., 8vo., Second Macdonald Edition [First Uniform Edition]; cloth, gilt backs, all near fine copies in dustwrapper. Complete set of the 'Chronicle', comprising 'The Dark Lantern', 'Donkey Boy', 'Young Philip Maddison', 'How Dear is Life', 'A Fox under my Cloak', 'The Golden Virgin', 'Love and the Loveless', 'A Test to Destruction', 'The Innocent Moon', 'It was the Nightingale', 'The Power of the Dead', 'The Phoenix Generation', 'A Solitary War', 'Lucifer at Sunrise' and 'The Gale of the World'. This is the second edition by Macdonald, the first uniform edition and the only hardback issue of the full set other then the original editions of 1951-69. EXTREMELY SCARCE AS A SET, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Matthews A36, p.127.
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SASSOON] [Siegfried
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man [with] Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [with] Sherston's Progress. [The Sherston trilogy complete.] COMPLETE SIGNED, LIMITED SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, free endpapers lightly browned as often; original blue buckram, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips lightly sunned (but all gilt wholly bright and legible), a very good, bright, clean set. EDITIONS LIMITED TO 260/750/300 NUMBERED COPIES RESPECTIVELY, ALL SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THESE COPIES NOS. 181, 201, 242 RESPECTIVELY). Sassoon's classic fictional autobiographical trilogy comprises: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes, A30b, A33b, A40b respectively.
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