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PRESTON, ed. Antony
Warship. Volume II. [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. 5-8 of this valuable series.
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ROBERTS, ed. John
Warship. Volume III. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with very numerous photographs and drawings throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bound volume collecting Nos. 9-12 of this valuable series.
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LAMBERT, ed. Andrew
Warship. Volume IX. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and drawings throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip. Bound volume collecting Nos. 33-36 of this valuable series.
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FRACCAROLI Aldo
Italian Warships of World War I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, laminated dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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BURT R. A.
Warships Illustrated No. 12. British Cruisers in World War One. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers laminated at edges, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BURT R. A.
Warships Illustrated No. 7. British Destroyers in World War One. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers laminated at edges, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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HYTHE, ed. Viscount
The Naval Annual 1913. [Facsimile reissue.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with photographs, illustrations, line drawings and tables throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded at head and tail, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1913.
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SHORES, Christopher
A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940-1945. [Complete set to date.] NEAR FINE SET TO DATE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4 vols., 8vo., with numerous photographs and maps in the text; cloth, a near fine set to date in unclipped dustwrapper. Almost certain to become a definitive history, the series comprises Vol. One: North Africa, June 1940 - January 1942 (2012); Vol. Two: North African Desert, February 1942 - March 1943 (2014); Vol. Three: Tunisia and the End in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 (2016); Volume Four: Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome, May 1943 - June 1944 (2018). A fifth and final volume is forthcoming.
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FALK Stanley L.
The March of Death. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with 8 plates and full-page map in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Meticulous and harrowing account of the 'Death March' following the Japanese capture of Bataan in 1942. First published in the US in 1962. Enser, p.55.
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JONES David
In Parenthesis. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Foreword by Harold Bloom. Calligraphy by Ewan Clayton. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 8 hand-lettered inscriptions; decorative green cloth lettered in cream, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Splendid new edition of Jones's masterpiece of the Great War.
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GLOVER Michael
Wellington's Peninsular Victories. Busaco. Salamanca. Vitoria. Nivelle. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, some mild offsetting from rear fold-in to free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's notable 'British Battles' series. Sandler 1464.
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WEST Nigel
MI6. British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909-45. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and charts in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, pp.48, 129, 206.
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ANDREWS Allen
Exemplary Justice. [The Great Escape]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page map in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the investigation of the fifty POWs murdered on Hitler's orders following The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. Based on top secret documents released exclusively for this publication. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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LAWRENCE T. E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. Foreword by Wilfred Thesiger. Introduction by Michael Asher. [Maps drawn by Reginald Piggott.] NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with fine portrait frontispiece, numerous plates, 3 full-page maps in the text, and endpaper maps on yellow stock; yellow pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and black, yellow top, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case
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LYNCH Edward P. F.
Somme Mud. The War Experiences of an Infantryman in France 1916-1919. Edited by Will Davies. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SHIPSTER John
Mist on the Rice-Fields. A Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign and the Korean War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GOLDENSOHN Leon
The Nuremberg Interviews. Edited and introduced by Robert Gellately. [Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published one month after the first edition. Penetrating interviews conducted by the American psychologist with some two dozen senior Nazis indicted at Nurermberg.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles and Drawings by Lynton Lamb [and John Lawrence]. NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
3 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces, title-vignettes and numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, red tops, red endpapers, a near fine set in publishers board slip-case blocked in gilt. Bright set of Sassoon's classic fictional autobiography, first published by FS as single volumes in 1971, 1974 and 1974 respectively. The first two volumes are illustrated by Lamb; the last by Lawrence. This is the 1993 reissue with redesigned slip-case.
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ADMIRALTY.
Particulars of War Vessels and Aircraft (British Commonwealth of Nations). NEAR FINE COPY IN MODERN BOARDS
Folio, First Edition; newly bound in modern navy boards, upper board blocked with RN Crown in gilt above printed paper label, primrose endpapers, a near fine copy. 'Ships building or projected are omitted during Hostilities, 1939'. Comprehensive table arranged by warship type. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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EVANS Richard
From the Frontline. The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; ivory cloth, gilt back, ivory endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first dedicated biography of the great WWI war correspondent.
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FARMBOROUGH Florence
Nurse at the Russian Front. A Diary 1914-1918. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece and plates in monochrome; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.316.
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LAWRENCE T. E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. [First Trade Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF FIRST TRADE EDITION
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 47 plates by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts and others, 6 illustrations in the text and 4 folding maps, endpapers faintly spotted; original decorative brown buckram gilt, gilt back, uncut, brown top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy. The first publicly available edition of this literary classic, following private publication in 1926 and the limited edition of 1935. Winston Churchill believed that it 'ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language'. The work also formed the basis of David Lean's multiple Oscar-winning feature film 'Lawrence of Arabia' starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. Enser, p.191; O'Brien A042.
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WRIGHT Matthew J
The Battlecruiser New Zealand. A Gift to Empire. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The most detailed account to date of this famous vessel, a 'gift to Empire', which saw action in all three major WWI battles of the North Sea - Heligoland, Dogger Bank and Jutland.
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HALL Colonel Sir John
The Coldstream Guards 1885-1914 [with] The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918. 'Nulli Secundus'.. FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO THE ARMISTICE: NEAR FINE EXTENDED SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Together 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 7 maps in the text (a number folding and coloured in outline) 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, a near fine extended set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Hall. The Coldstream Guards 1885-1914 (1 vol., 1929); Ross-of-Bladensburg. The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918 (3 vols., 1928). The standard history of the regiment from the conclusion of the Egyptian Campaign to the end of the Great War. First and Second Battalions served in the Boer War. In the Great War the regiment fielded three battalions , all of which went to France and remained there throughout the conflict. A fourth battalion became the Pioneer Battalion of the Guards Division on its formation in 1915. EXTREMELY SCARCE AS AN EXTENDED SET IN THIS CONDITION. Falls p.126; Sutcliffe, p.6; White p.43.
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HOME FRONT. WWII.
War Emergency. Information and Instructions. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FRESH, CLEAN COPY
8vo., 8 leaves; First Edition; concertina fold; a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. 'Read this leaflet carefully and make sure that you and all other responsible persons in your house understand its contents.' Printing code: 51-4383-2. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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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]. With an Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. [Illustrated by Lynton Lamb and John Lawrence]. NEAR FINE SET OF THE SHERSTON TRILOGY
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with three frontispieces and very numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, coloured tops and endpapers (green/brown/terracotta respectively), a near fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. Comprises 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1971), 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' (ill. Lynton Lamb; 1974) and 'Sherston's Progress' (ill. John Lawrence; 1974). First editions of one of the most successful recent publications from the Folio Society. All three volumes have been several times re-issued individually and again as a 'boxed set' in 1993. Crisp set of Sassoon's 'fictitious' autobiography (first published 1928-30-36) in which his story is told by 'George Sherston'. The acclaimed trilogy was later published in a single volume as 'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston' (1937) and subsequently complemented by further volumes of autobiography in his own name.
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CHASSEAUD Peter
Grasping Gallipoli. Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A pioneering and crucial study using primary sources to dispel the oft-repeated excuse for failure due to poor mapping and cartography. 'Without question one of the most important books ever written about Gallipoli' (Richard Holmes).
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CHASSEAUD Peter
Rats Alley. Trench Names of the Wstern Front, 1914-1918. [Foreword by Alan Sillitoe.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A pioneer compilation of over ten thousand trench names complete with map references.
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CHASSEAUD Peter
Artillery's Astrologers. A History of British Survey and Mapping on the Western Front, 1914-1918 NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The definitive operational history of British field survey organisation, units and personnel on the Western Front. SCARCE.
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KAY Antony L.
Junkers Aircraft and Engines 1913-1945. Drawings by Paul Couper. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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ARMOUR IN PROFILE.
Armour in Profile. [Complete set 1-24.]. ARMOUR IN PROFILE COMPLETE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
24 vols., 8vo., First Edition, each volume with monochrome photographs and double-page coloured illustration; original series wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine set. The series comprises: 1: Tank Mark IV; 2: PanzerKampfwagen VI Tiger 1 (H); 3: M4 A3 E8 Sherman; 4: T3 Christie; 5: Cromwell Mk. 4; 6: M24 Chaffee; 7: A7V Sturmpanzerwagen; 8: PanzerKampfwagen IV (F2); 9: T-34/76; 10: Chenillette Lorraine; 11: Light Tank Mk. VII Tetrarch; 12: AMX 13; 13: Renault FT; 14: M 13/40; 15: Infantry Tank Mk.II Matilda; 16: Carden Loyd Mk. VI; 17: M3 Half-Track APC; 18: Hanomag Sd.Kfz 251/1 APC; 19: Tank Mark VIII 'The International'; 20: Panzerjager (P) Elefant; 21: SU85 and SU100 Tank Destroyer; 22: Light Tank Type 95 Kyu-go; 23: Centurion 5; 24: M47 Patton. COMPLETE SETS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS ARE VERY SCARCE.
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AFV
AFV [Volumes 1-17 (of 30)]. AFV: A FINE RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
17 vols., 8vo., First Edition, each volume with monochrome photographs and double-page coloured illustration; original series wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine run. Profile's sequel to its earlier and renowned series 'Armour in Profile'. The run comprises: 1: Churchill, BIT Mk.IV; 2: PanzerKampfwagen III; 3: Tanks Marks I to V; 4: Light Tanks M1-M5; 5: Light Tanks Marks I-VI; 6: Valentine Mark III; 7: Medium Tanks Marks A-D; 8: Crusader-Cruiser Mark VI; 9: Early Armoured Cars; 10: PanzerKampfwagen V Panther; 11: M3 Medium (Lee/Grant); 12: Mediums Marks I-III; 13: Ram and Sexton; 14: Carriers; 15: PanzerKampfwagen I & II; 16: Landing Vehicles Tracked; 17: Russian KV and IS. RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE SCARCE.
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AFV WEAPONS
AFV Weapons [Volumes 18-65 (of 65).]. AFV WEAPONS: A SPLENDID RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
47 vols., 8vo., First Edition, each volume with monochrome photographs and double-page coloured illustration; original series wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine run. Profile's complement to its parallel series 'AFV'. The run comprises: 18: Chieftain and Leopard (Development); 19: Chieftain and Leopard (Description); 20: Churchill and Sherman Specials; 21: Armoured Cars; 22: PanzerKampfwagen 38 (t) and 35 (t); 23: Soviet Mediums T44, T54, T55 & T62; 24: The M48-M60 Series of Main Battle Tanks; 25: Cromwell and Comet; 26: Hellcat, Long Tom and Priest; 27: The Saladin Armoured Car; 28: S-Tank; 29: M4 Medium (Sherman); 30: Armoured Cars - Marmon-Herrington, Alvis-Straussler, Light Reconnaissance; 31: Australian Sentinel and Matildas; 32: The M6 Heavy and M26 Pershing; 33: German Armoured Cars; 34: Scorpion Reconnaissance Tank; 35: British Armoured Recovery Vehicles; 36: Chars Hotchkiss, H35, H39 and Somua S35; 37: Russian BT Series; 38: Conqueror Heavy Gun Tank; 39: Panhard Armoured Cars; 40: US Armoured Cars; 41: M103 Heavy Tank & M41 Light Tank (Walker Bulldog); 42: Modern Swedish Light Armoured Vehicles; 43: PanzerKampfwagen IV; 44: Ferrets and Fox; 45: Vickers Battle Tank; 46: Light Tanks M22 Locust and M24 Chaffee; 47: Russian T34; 48: PzKpfw VI Tiger I and Tiger II (King Tiger); 49: Japanese Medium Tanks; 50: Swiss Battle Tanks; 51: Abbot FV433 Self-Propelled Gun; 52: M47 Patton; 53: The FV 432 Series; 54: Japanese Combat Cars, Light Tanks and Tankettes; 55: German Self-Propelled Weapons; 56: Missile Armed Armoured Vehicles; 57: Schutzenpanzerwagen SdKfz 251 & SdKfz 250; 58: French Infanty Tanks: Part I (Chars 2C, D and B); 59: French Infantry Tanks Part II (R35 and FCM 36); 60: Russian Armoured Cars (to 1945); 61: Elefant and Maus (& E-100); 62: Commando, Twister and High Mobility Vehicles; 63: AMX-30 Battle Tank; 64: Armoured Personnel Carriers; 65: The PT-76 Light Amphibious Tank and Variants. RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE VERY SCARCE.
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TERMOTE Tomas
War beneath the Waves. U-boat Flottilla Flandern 1915-1918. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. The first detailed account of U-Flottilla Flandern, including many wreck descriptions, and service histories of every U-boat in the fleet.
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TERRAINE John
The Western Front 1914-1918. [Third Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece, 19 plates on 8 and 4 maps (one double-page) in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With prize label on front paste-down. Enser, p.396 (recording the first edition).
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WINTER Denis
Haig's Command. A Reassessment. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 24 and 9 maps in the text; original black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Based on previously classified archives, this fascinating if controversial study examines why and how Haig and the government conspired to pervert the history of the Western Front in World War I. Section by section Winter decries the version presented by the Official Histories , comparing it to the uncensored versions of Dominion records. Ten years in the making, this may in the future be judged a tuning point in our understanding of the Western Front.
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PURNELL'S HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Purnell's History of the Second World War. [First Edition.]. [Edited by Barrie Pitt. First Edition] PURNELL'S FIRST EDITION COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDERS
96 weekly parts in 6 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts (including original wrappers) housed in black rexine binders blocked in gilt, first binder chafed at bottom corner else a near fine set. Purnell's mammoth endeavour is arguably the crowning achievement of the 'partwork' fashion of the late 60s. Produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, edited by Barrie Pitt and written by a host of eminent historians, scholars and veterans, the series is equally fortunate in having Liddell-Hart as editor-in-chief. Produced in 'magazine' format, the work as a whole makes full use of its size and space to create a lucid, vivid and valuable account of the conflict. The number, choice and quality of the photographs, illustrations and diagrams are worthy of special mention. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS FORMAT AND CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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NICOL Randall
Till the Trumpet sounds again: The Scots Guards 1914-1919 in their own Words. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a near fine set in dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol 1: Great Shadows August 1914-July 1916; Vol. 2: Vast Tragedy August 1916 - March 1919.
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FOLIO SOCIETY
The Folio Book of War Poetry. Edited by Andrew Motion. Illustrated by Neil Gower and Jonathan Lloyd. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text; printed cloth, backstrip letted in grey, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
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HASTINGS Max
The Korean War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, 5 maps in the text and endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BARKER Pat
The Regeneration Trilogy. Regeneration [with] The Eye in the Door [with] The Ghost Road. FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Barker's Great War classic comprises Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995). The final volume was awarded the Booker Prize.
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FRENCH Major the Hon. Gerald
Lord Chelmsford and the Zulu War. With a Foreword by General Sir Bindon Blood. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and plans; maroon cloth, gilt back, red top, backstrip lightly chafed at headband else a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. PRESENTATION COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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YEATES V. M
Winged Victory. [Second Impression thus.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression thus; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, upper board lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. One of the finest novels of WWI, Yeates's classic account of war in the air was prompted by Henry Williamson (to whom the work is dedicated) and completed with his continuing support and encouragement. First published in 1934 in two distinct impressions, it rapidly became practically unobtainable and was not reissued until 1961, for which later edition Williamson provided a preface and tribute. This is the second impression thus. Sadly Yeates died of tuberculosis in the year of first publication. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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GARDINER Andrew Edward
To Bait the Dragon. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. The 29th Brigade and the capture of Seoul.
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BOWMAN Gerald
The Man who bought a Navy. The Story of the World's Greatest Salvage Achievement at Scapa Flow. [Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispiece and plates; red tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition. The story of engineer Ernest Cox, who set about salvaging the remnants of the German High Seas Fleet from the bottom at Scapa Flow. Astonishingly, he raised six vessels, including the HINDENBURG, in just fourteen days. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CORNWELL Bernard
The Fort. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map, and title in red and black; purple cloth, gilt back, printed endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ALANBROOKE Field-Marshal
The Turn of the Tide [with] Triumph in the West [with] War Diaries 1939-1945. [First two volumes edited by Arthur Bryant. Third volume edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman]. ORIGINAL AND NEW EDITIONS TOGETHER
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 frontispieces, 16 plates on 8, numerous maps in the text and endpaper facsimiles and maps; cloth, gilt backs, all near fine copies in dustwrapper. Comprises: BRYANT (A). The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1957). BRYANT (A). Triumph in the West 1943-1946. Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1959). Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord. War Diaries 1939-1945. Edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. [2001]. By common consent the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army, Alanbrooke occupied a unique position at the heart of Britain's efforts in WWII. Scarcely a man to pull punches, he provides a blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and won, sparing no-one from politicians to generals of virtually every Allied nation. For over two generations, historians and scholars have known the Alanbrooke war diaries only through Bryant's classic two-volume edition. Quite apart from the inevitable selectiveness (and much of that rigorously censored), we have several times heard the comment 'too much Bryant and not enough Alanbrooke'. Now, almost sixty years on, we have a complete rendering (from the British perspective) of the most important private military account of the Second World War. Here is the opportunity to compare the old and the new; it is a fascinating task, revealing (first) why so much could not be published at the time and (secondly) the scale of the strains, frustrations and emotions borne by Britain's leading soldier of WWII. Enser, pp.199, 474 (first two volumes respectively).
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ROYAL ULSTER RIFLES
The Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea. [Foreword by General Sir James S. Steele.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MICHELIN ILLUSTRATED GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS.
The Americans in the Great War. [Complete set.]. Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields 1914-1918. [An Illustrated History and Guide]. Vol. I: The Second Battle of the Marne; Vol. II: The Battle of St. Mihiel; Vol. III: The Meuse-Argonne Battlefields. NEAR FINE SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
3 vols., 8vo., with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; sand cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in brown, a near fine set. With advertisement endpapers at front and rear. The set comprises Vol. 1: The Second Battle of the Marne (Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, Fismes); Vol. 2: The Battle of Saint Mihiel (St. Mihiel, Pont-a-Mousson, Metz); Vol. 3: Meuse-Argonne Battle (Mountfaucon, Romagne, St. Menehould). The clothbound issues are far scarcer than the wrappered versions. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.
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MACDONALD Lyn
Passchendaele [with] Roses of No Man's Land [with] Somme [with] 1914 [with] 1915 [with] To the Last Man. THE GREAT WAR SEQUENCE COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS
6 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with numerous plates and maps; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. The sequence comprises (in order of publication): They called it Passchendaele (1978; second impression 1979); The Roses of No Man's Land (1980; second impression 1983); Somme (1983); 1914 (1987; second impression 1987); 1915: The Death of Innocence (1993; second impression 1993); To the Last Man: Spring 1918 (1998; second impression 1998). Bright set of Lyn Macdonald's unique sequence of vernacular histories of the Great War, based on numerous participant and eye-witness accounts. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE.
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