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NOVIKOFF-PRIBOY Alexey
Tsushima. Translated from the Russian by Eden and Cedar Paul. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus; with full-page charts in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, fore-edge faintly spotted else a near fine copy. Vivid account, by a Russian Petty Officer, of the eponymous battle (1905) which sealed the fate of the Russian navy in the Russo-Japanese war. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Albion, p.268*.
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KNOX Captain John
The Siege of Quebec. and the Campaigns in North America 1757-1760. Edited and Introduced by Brian Connell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red buckram, upper board elaborately blocked in gilt, gilt back, dark top, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
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WALKER G. Goold
The Honourable Artillery Company 1537-1926. With a Foreword by the Earl of Denbigh and Desmond. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 5 coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present), 40 plates in monochrome and illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and ruled in gilt, blue leather back with flat bands lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt top, uncut, boards mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, ,clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES WITH TWO EXTRA COLOURED AND TWO EXTRA MONOCHROME PLATES (THIS COPY NO. 185). With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end. The inscription presents this copy from his parents to a Private of the Company who served from 1916 to 1919. White p.198.
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WAR OFFICE
Manual of Military Law. 1929 [with] Amendments Nos. 1 and 2. [Seventh Edition.] UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Seventh Edition; original red cloth, upper board lettered in blind, backstrip lettered in black, all advertisement endpapers present, a remarkably bright, crisp, well-preserved copy. LOOSELY INSERTED ARE SEPARATELY PRINTED AMENDMENTS NOS. 1 AND 2. With 9pp trade advertisements bound in at at front. The compilation of the Manual of Military Law was initiated by Secretary of State for War Stanley in 1879. In order to produce a single comprehensive manual the Rules of Procedure required considerable legal amendment, including the repeal and replacement of the Army Discipline and Regulation Act 1879 by the Army Act 1881. The first edition was approved by both Childers and Hartington and published in 1884; the sixth edition (1914) carried through the Great War. For this seventh edition 'the events of the war and of the period succeeding the war have necessitated very considerable modifications and additions. Several of the introductory chapters have been almost entirely rewritten' (Editor's Note).
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ROGAN Eugene
The Fall of the Ottomans. The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, backstrip lettered in black, black endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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TOLSTOY Leo
War and Peace. Translated and with an introduction by Rosemary Edmonds. Drawings by Felix Topolski. [With complementary booklet 'What is War and Peace?' by John Bayley]. 1750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., (main volume plus booklet), 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in burgundy wassa goatskin, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt top, gilded endpapers, grey silk marker, (booklet wire-stitched as issued), a near fine copy housed in publisher's black cloth solander case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 8). This edition was first published by Penguin in 1957 and subsequently by FS in 1971. This is the first limited edition, with binding design by Jeff Clements.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Heart's Journey. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Keynes, A28b.
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MORRIS A.J.A.
The Scaremongers. The Advocacy of War and Rearmament 1896-1914. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GARDINER Samuel Rawson
History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660. [Complete set]. ABERCONWAY FAMILY COPY WITH ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, and maps in the text; original brown cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt backs, black endpapers, backstrips lightly chafed at heads and tails, hinges of first volume tender (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp set. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM LORD ABERCONWAY TO HIS GRANDDAUGHTER ROSALIND NORMAN WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ABERCONWAY ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE AND SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY LORD ABERCONWAY. The set comprises Vol. I: 1649-1651 (1894); Vol. II: 1651-1654 (1897); Vol. III: 1654-1656 (1901). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Davies 220.
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RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL Lord
The Scourge of the Swastika. A short History of Nazi War Crimes. [Thirteenth Impression]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., Thirteenth Impression, with 28 plates on 16 and an illustration in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with short closed tear at tail of upper joint, and with one small loss at upper edge of rear panel. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Enser, pp. 115, 467 (recording the first edition of 1954).
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BROWN, K.S.
United States Army and Air Force Fighters 1916-1961. Edited by Bruce Robertson. Tone Paintings by W.F. Hepworth. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, faint tape marks on free endpapers else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HAMMERTON, ed. Sir John
The Second Great War. A Standard History. Edited by Sir John Hammerton. Military Editor Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Gwynn. SPLENDID SET IN PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING
8 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, titles in red and black, and many thousands of photographs and maps (many coloured and many double-page) in the text; original red cloth, upper boards framed and lettered in black and blind, gilt backs, a remarkably well-preserved, near fine set THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WITH THOUSANDS OF PHOTOGRAPHS (MANY NOT PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE) FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF OFFICIAL AND COMMERCIAL SOURCES. Crisp set of the largest of the three great published British photographic records of WWII (the others being Hutchinson's 'Pictorial History' and Odhams' 'The War in Pictures'). This massive compilation first appeared as 'The War Illustrated', published in 255 parts beginning with Issue I (16 September 1939) and concluding with Issue 255 (11 April 1947). The series was issued first fortnightly, then monthly (due to the shortage of paper), then again fortnightly in the final year. The partwork was then revised and reset with continuous pagination in eight volumes as here and subsequently reissued by AP. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.
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FINNEMORE John
A Boy Scout with the Russians. Illustrations by William Rainey. BRIGHT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates, wanting rear free endpaper, some light and occasional spotting; original publisher's binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, grey endpapers, boards very lightly age-marked, joints lightly rubbed else a bright, clean copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WARLOW Lt.-Commander Ben
The Royal Navy at Malta 1900-2000. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with very numerous full-page photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Invaluable collection of fine photographs, many not easily obtaoinable elsewhere.
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SILVERSTONE Paul
US Warships of World War I. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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FLEMING Peter
The The Fate of Admiral Kolchak. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates on 14 and 4 maps in the text; ochre cloth, backtrip lettered in navy, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly sunned at backstrip. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.330.
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EVERITT Don
The K Boats. A dramatic First Report of the Navy's most calamitous Submarines. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 25 plates on 12, several maps and charts (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding plan on japon; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, copy in dustwrapper. Still the best account of the Royal Navy's attempt to match the Kaiser's U-boats in WWI. The twin-funnelled 'K-class' boats were the biggest and fastest submarines of WWI but met with a series of tragic mishaps; of the seventeen craft commissioned not one survived disaster. Fisher was moved to exclaim 'I have not yet mastered on what basis our submarines harm the enemy more than themselves!' SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.342
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HARVEY F. W.
Comrades in Captivity. A Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps. BRIGHT, CLEAN, UNIQUELY ANNOTATED AND AUGMENTED COPY
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece and illustrations (9 full-page) in the text, some light and generally inoffensive age-spotting, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper verso; original terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, covers a trifle faded and rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY HAS BEEN USEFULLY AND UNIQUELY AUGMENTED AS FOLLOWS: a) front panel of dustwrapper mounted on front free endpaper; b) photograph of [the author?] mounted on title; c) numerous relevant cuttings mounted throughout text as appropriate; d) copious and valuable annotations throughout, the majority naming individuals with regiment or branch of service; e) leaflet 'Behind the German Lines' [HMSO, 1921] by 'Magdeburg' [Captain C. F. L. Templar, Gloucestershire Regiment] mounted on rear paste-down. A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE COPY OF AN EXTREMELY SCARCE WORK. Enser p.274.
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ROBERTSON Field-Marshal Sir William
From Private to Field-Marshal. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), plates and folding map; original red cloth, gilt back, top and fore-edge lightly age-soiled, small pull at headband else a bright, clean copy. This copy was formerly in the library of John George Scott, Librarian at RE Headquarters Library, and has one or two relevant cuttings (including an appreciation) mounted on front free endpaper and elsewhere.
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ENSER A. G. S.
A Subject Bibliography of the First World War. Books in English 1914-1978. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily sunned at backstrip. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on top and title. Includes invaluable index of invidual titles.
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POOLMAN Kenneth
Zeppelins over England. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities. Enser, p.405; Noffsinger 1164.
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ORWELL George
Homage to Catalonia. Illustrated with archive photography. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., with frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; pictorial cloth, red cloth back lettered in black, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
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DEWAR George A.B.
Sir Douglas Haig's Command. December 19 1915 to November 11 1918. Second Impression. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
2 vols., 8vo., Second Impression, with folding maps on japon, free endpapers mildly browned; red cloth, gilt backs, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean, copy. Published in the same year as the first edition. 'Has a certain importance owing to the fact that the authors were allowed to use the late Lord Haig's private diaries and correspondence' (Falls). Enser, p. 160; Falls, p. 24.
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SMITH Stan
Sea of Memories. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Personal memoir by one of the few remaining survivors of Jutland, where he served aboard HMS SPITFIRE. Also covers the Russian Revolution, Spanish Civil War and WWII.
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ORWELL George
Reportage. [Illustrated with archive photography.] NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
5 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, plates and maps; pictorial boards, backstrips lettered in black, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked slip-case. Classic collection of Orwell's non-fiction work. The set comprises: Down and Out in Paris and London. Introduced by Michael Foot; Homage to Catalonia; My Country Right or Left, and other selected Essays and Journalism; Funny, but not Vulgar, and other selected Essays and Journalism; The Road to Wigan Pier. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BOLTON Angela
The Maturing Sun. An Army Nurse in India, 1942-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SHANKLAND Peter
Dardanelles Patrol. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean clean in mildly-worn dustwrapper. Well-researched account of submarine E-11 and her hazardous patrol through the Dardanelles to the Sea of Marmara in WWI. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.103.
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BITTNER Lieut.-Col. D.
Royal Marines Spies of WWI Era. Part One: Captain B.F. Trench by D.F. Bittner; Part Two: Captain Compton Mackenzie by J.M. Coleby. NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publication No. 15. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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FARRAR-HOCKLEY Anthony
The Edge of the Sword. [With a Foreword by Major-General T. Brodie]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and endpaper maps, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The epic stand of 1 Glosters on Hill 235 at the eastern crossing of the Imjin River.
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FARRAR-HOCKLEY Captain Anthony
The Edge of the Sword. [With a Foreword by Major-General T. Brodie]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and endpaper maps, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. The epic stand of 1 Glosters on Hill 235 at the eastern crossing of the Imjin River. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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CHURCHILL Winston S.
His Memoirs and his Speeches 1918 to 1945. [With booklet 'From Armistice to Victory 1918 to 1945' with an Appraisal by Sir Arthur Bryant.] MEMOIRS AND SPEECHES ON VINYL: NEAR FINE SET OF THE BEST ISSUE WITH BOOKLET
12 LP discs plus one booklet, 4to., with numerous photographs throughout; wire-stitched as issued, pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy, the whole housed in publisher's rounded-front slip-case with embossed label, a near fine set. Churchill Project (Cohen) lists this set as follows: Decca: Winston S. Churchill: His Memoirs and His Speeches [the discs are numbered WSC 1 to WSC 12, with a side number reference that runs from Side No. 1 to Side No. 24; each side also includes what appears to be a master Tape Reference running from ARL 6426 to ARL 6449]. Loosely inserted is an annotated copy of the printed illustrated prospectus for the similar set of eleven discs issued by EMI (ALP1435-1436; ALP1555-1563).
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HART Captain Liddell
The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpapers; green cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Crisp copy of Liddell Hart's valuable memoirs, with full accounts of service in the Great War, his subsequent (and controversial) espousal of armoured warfare long before the emergence of blitzkreig, and his advisory role in WWII. Fascinating material from one of the foremost military thinkers of two world wars.
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WILSON Michael
Baltic Assignment. British Submariners in Russia 1914-1919. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MACDONALD Lyn
1914-1918. Voices and Images of the Great War. With Research by Shirley Seaton. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout, and illustrated endpapers; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-cliipped dustwrapper. Pictorial and narrative companion to the author's well-known series of vernacular histories of the Great War.
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MOORE John
The Life and Letters of Edward Thomas. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 3 plates, some light marginal spotting to half-title, title, dedication and a few leaves; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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PRINCE OF WALES' OWN (WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT).
1st Battalion The Prince of Wales' Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) illustrated.. With a brief Account of the Services of the Regiment. Mian-Mir and Dalhousie, Punjab, India, 1906. [First and Sole? Edition.] SOME DAMAGE NOTWITHSTANDING, A RARE SURVIVAL
Oblong roy. 4to., First Edition, with title in red and black, text and captions in red, blue and black, 34 splendid large plates in photo-collotype and full-page musical score in blue; original red cloth, upper board ruled and blocked with regimental badge in gilt, expertly recased, BUT WITH SOME AGE- OR DAMP-DAMAGE TO 22 OF THE LATER PLATES (mercifully restricted mainly to upper blank margins and only materially affecting around ten plates); nevertheless a valuable record and a very scarce work. An unusually lavish production for a single battalion, this work is distinguished by the quality of the plates, which (damage apart) varies from very good to magnificent. The photographs are superbly executed by F. Bremner, photographer, variously of Lahore, Simla & Quetta, and their rendering as collotypes preserves the quite extraordinary detail of faces, uniforms and equipment. The plates include fine portraits of Major-General Frederick Walter Kitchener (Commanding 3rd (Lahore) Division) and Colonel J.C. Yale (commanding 1st Battalion), together with close-ups of the Colours and mess plate. The main body of plates is devoted, of course, to group studies. These include the officers (individually captioned), the battalion on parade, the Colour and colour sergeants (individually captioned), the NCOs (individually captioned), corporals, companies A-H (each company photographed separately), and a fine series of the battalion's various support units, trades and sports teams. An unusual composition is the plate 'Regimental Types' and depicting eight members of the battalion in a variety of uniforms including officer's full dress and OR's marching order. In addition to the plates, there is a detailed account of the battalion's service from Tournay (1794) to its arrival at Lahore Cantonment in 1906, together with pages devoted to regimental marchess. Not the least importance of this work must be as a superbly detailed record of the appearance of a regular battalion of line infantry of the period - crucially, the last phase of Edwardian opulence and before the irreversible changes brought about by the Great War. EXTREMELY SCARCE. IT IS UNCLEAR HOW MANY OF THESE REMARKABLE PORTFOLIOS WERE PRODUCED; CERTAINLY NOT MANY, AND EVEN FEWER CAN HAVE SURVIVED. Sutcliife p.103; not recorded by White (1965).
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CHARLTON Air Commodore L. E. O.
The Royal Air Force and USAAF from October 1944 to September 1945. Britain at War. A Complete Record in Text and Pictures. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs throughout, neat stamps on endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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JONES H. A.
The War in the Air. Volume 2 [THIS VOLUME ONLY]. Being the Story of the Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force. [The Official History.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with folding maps (a number coloured in outline); blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1928. Enser, p.17 (recording the first edition).
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JONES H. A.
The War in the Air. Volume 2. Being the Story of the Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force. [The Official History.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with folding maps (a number coloured in outline); blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrspper, the latter with closed tear on front panel. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1928. Enser, p.17 (recording the first edition).
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WAR OFFICE. WWII.
Defence against Gas. 1935. NEAR FINE COPY: A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition, with tables in the text and folding chart, neat contemporary name stamp on front paste-down; original terracotta boards framed in blind, backstrip lettered in black, radial corners, upper board lightly age-marked at edges else a near fine copy. Printing code: 57-5354. Issued with foresight. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BISHOP Lt. Col. William A.
Winged Warfare. Edited by Stanley M. Ulanoff. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with 35 plates on 24 and illustrations and badges in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The classic account by the leading Canadian air ace of WWI. Ulanoff's edition was first issued in 1967. Enser, p.122; Noffsinger 129 (recording the original edition of 1918).
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BASSETT Ronald
Battle-Cruisers. A History 1908-48. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8, and 9 detailed drawings of plans and elevations and 7 maps (1 double-page and 6 full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference covering the sixteen RN, RAN and RNZN vessels of this category: HMSs INVINCIBLE, INFLEXIBLE, INDOMITABLE, INDEFATIGABLE, LION, QUEEN MARY, PRINCESS ROYAL, TIGER, RENOWN, REPULSE, FURIOUS, COURAGEOUS, GLORIOUS, HOOD, HMAS AUSTRALIA and HMNZS NEW ZEALAND. Law, 0981.
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WAR OFFICE. WWII.
Manual of Protection against Gas and Air Raids. Protection against Gas in the Field [with] Respirators [with] Passive Air Defence. [Complete set.] A RARE SURVIVAL: COMPLETE SET IN PORTFOLIO
3 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition, with plates and charts (a number folding), some light age soiling; housed in original red board portfolio printed in black, , threaded and tied as issued, a remarkably well-preserved, wholly unrestored set. The set comprises: Pamphlet No. 1: Protection against Gas in the Field; Pamphlet No. 2: Respirators; Pamphlet No. 3: Passive Air Defence. Printing codes: 26/170; 26/2180; 26/2178 respectively. These pamphlets are effectively the service equivalents of the ARP Precautions leaflets issued to the general population. COMPLETE SETS IN THE ORIGINAL PORTFOLIO ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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WAR OFFICE. WWII.
Protection against Gas and Air Raids. Pamphlet No. 3. Passive Air Defence, 1939. Reprinted with Amendments (Nos. 1 and 2), 1941. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with plans and diagrams in the text, some very light age soiling; original wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First issued in 1939. S.O. Code: 53968. These pamphlets are effectively the service equivalents of the ARP Precautions leaflets issued to the general population. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WAR OFFICE. WWII.
Amendments Leaflet No. 2 [to] Air Raid Pamphlet No. 1 Protection against Gas and Air Raids (1939). AMENDMENTS LEAFLET ONLY. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with illustrations in the text, some very light age soiling; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Publication Code: 26/332. These pamphlets are effectively the service equivalents of the ARP Precautions Handbooks issued to the general population. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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PRESCOTT-PICKUP Vernon E.
Falklands Task Force. A Picture Album recording the Argentine Invasion of the Falklands Islands and a mighty maritime Enterprise, 2 April to 2 May 1982 NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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HUTTON John
Kitchener's Men. The King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 1915-1918. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers Service and Territorial battalions.
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BICKERSTETH Lieutenant J. B.
History of the 6th Cavalry Brigade 1914-1919. With Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 5 fine portraits in photogravure and 15 folding maps coloured in outline on japon, endpapers mildly browned; blue pebble-grain cloth, upper board with printed paper label, black buckram back with paper label, upper board lightly age-marked at bottom edge else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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RAVEN, Alan
Man o' War 1-7. [THE SERIES COMPLETE.]. County Class Cruisers [with] V and W Class Destroyers [with] Battleships Rodney and Nelson [with] Hunt Class Escort Destroyers [with] Town Class Cruisers [with] Hood [with] Flower Class Corvettes. COMPLETE SET IN NEAR FINE STATE
7 vols., 4to., First Edition, each volume with large double-page gatefold coloured plates (bearing numerous detailed line diagrams), and very numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, laminated as issued, covers a little browned else a near fine set. The series comprises: 1: County Class Cruisers (Raven & Roberts, 1979); 2: V and W Class Destroyers (Raven and Roberts, 1979); 3: Battleships Rodney and Nelson (Raven and Roberts, 1979); 4: Hunt Class Escort Destroyers (Raven and Roberts, 1981); 5: Town Class Cruisers (Raven and Roberts, 1980); 6: Hood (Northcott, 1981); 7: Flower Class Corvettes (Preston and Raven, 1982). Full set of this outstanding series compiled and illustrated by some the leading warship historians of their generation. Each volume provides a detailed technical and operational history with valuable photographs and excellent illustrations depicting camouflage and colour schemes. Essentially a successor to Bivouac's Ensign series and forerunner of Conway's later 'Anatomy of the Ship' series. No. 5 was first published as Ensign 5 (1975); No. 6 as an Ensign Special (1975); No. 7 as Ensign 3 (1973). ALL VOLUMES ARE INCREASINGLY UNCOMMON, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. COMPLETE SETS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE. Law, 1029, 1070, 1000, 1069, 1030, 0986, 1011 respectively.
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PRESTON, ed. Antony
Warship. Volume 1. [Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with very numerous photographs and drawings throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bound volume collecting Nos. 1-4 of this valuable series.
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