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RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL Lord
The Scourge of the Swastika. A Short History of Nazi War Crimes. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Third Impression, with 28 plates on 16 and an illustration in the text, top lightly spotted; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition. Enser, pp. 115, 467 (recording the first edition).
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TOLSTOY Count Leo
War and Peace. [Introduction by Vicomte de Vogue. Everyman's Library]. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS; WITH PROMOTIONAL BANDS
3 vols., sm. 8vo., original rose cloth, gilt backs, orange tops, patterned endpapers, a near fine set in pictorial dustwrapper, the first and third volumes complete with photographic wrap-around bands. This edition was published to coincide with the release of King Vidor's feature film (1956) starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrer. The promotional bands feature three stills from the movie. Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' was first issued in Everyman's Library in 1911 in the anonymous translation of 1886; in 1932 the translation was checked throughout, passages which had been omitted were restored and certain defects of style corrected. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Everyman's Library, vols., 525, 526, 527; Hoppe, p.375; Seymour pp.270-1.
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CLAUSEWITZ Carl von
On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Foreword by Joanna Bourke. Introductory Essays by Peter Paret, Michael Howard and Bernard Brodie. With a Commentary by Bernard Brodie. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and plates; black cloth, boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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CHURCHILL Winston S.
Ian Hamilton's March. Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H Frankland, a Prisoner of War at Pretoria. SPLENDID COPY IN SIGNED SOTHERAN BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 9 maps in the text and folding coloured map; attractively bound in navy half morocco BY SOTHERAN, blue cloth sides ruled in gilt, back with raised bands with gilt fillets, second and third compartments with red leather labels framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Churchill's continuation of 'London to Ladysmith', completing the publication in book form of his letters to the 'Morning Post'. Four letters are published here for the first time. Chapter XVI, 'Held by the Enemy', is devoted to extracts from Frankland's diary. 5000 copies were published on 12 October 1900. Woods, A5.
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BARCLAY Brigadier C. N.
The History of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment 1919-1952. Produced under the Direction of the Regimental Council, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 18, 9 maps in the text and 10 large folding maps (a number coloured in outline), signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board blocked with crest in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Records the pre-war and wartime service of all nine battalions. Includes colonels, battalion commanders, honours, awards and ROH. Sutcliffe, p.205; White, p.87.
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FUNDERBURK Thomas R.
The Fighters. The Man and Machines of the First Air War. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and coloured pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition. Noffsinger 510.
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PEMBERTON W. Baring
Battles of the Crimean War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 35 plates on 16 and several illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in Batsford's notable 'British Battles' series. Turan 451.
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SCHUBERT Paul
Death of a Fleet 1917-1919. With a Preface by Vice-Admiral J.E.T. Harper. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece and plates; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE. Enser, p.157.
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STEEL Nigel
Jutland 1916. Death in the Grey Wastes. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed modern account of one of the most decisive naval actions of the Great War.
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FARRAR-HOCKLEY A. H.
The Somme. [Batsford British Battles series.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top (a trifle faded), a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Batsford's much sought-after British Battles series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.332.
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TOLSTOY Leo
War and Peace. Translated and with an Introduction by Rosemary Edmonds. [Second Impression thus.] COMPLETE IN PENGUIN CLASSICS
2 vols., 8vo., Second Impression thus; original printed wrappers, the wrappers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin Classics L62-63. First published in PC in 1957. The text is the Edmonds translation which remains for many scholars the standard English text. The cover roundel is by Elizabeth Friedlander. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.
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HILL Christopher
God's Englishman. Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. Introduced by Tristram Hunt. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 24 pages of coloured and monochrome plates, and endpaper plans; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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BLOND Georges
The Marne. Translated by H. Eaton Hart. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in Paris in 1962. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.202.
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CHALMERS Rear-Admiral W.S.
The Life and Letters of David, Earl Beatty. Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 22 sepia-toned plates and 12 diagrams (6 of Jutland) in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted; navy cloth, upper board clocked in gilt, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Albion, p.275; NMM II/1, 279.
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BLUNDEN Edmund
Undertones of War. Introduction by Jon Stallworthy. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spread and plates (a number double-page); pictorial green and brown cloth, green top, backstrip lettered in silver, black endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. The plates are by Nash, Rothenstein, Orpen, Kennington, Muirhead Bone and other notable official and unofficial artists of the Great War. The printed binding is taken from Nash's 'lithograph 'Void of War'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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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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MAHAN Alfred T.
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST UK EDITION
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 25 plates, and 24 maps and plans (a number folding); original navy ribbed cloth, gilt backs, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Bright copy of the concluding work in Mahan's masterly series 'The Influence of Sea Power upon History'. Published simultaneously with the US edition. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Hattendorf A12b.
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WILSON Derek
The King and the Gentleman. Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell 1599-1649. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MALCOLM Lieutenant-Colonel G. I.
The Argylls in Korea. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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GEORGE David Lloyd
War Memoirs. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
2 vols., 8vo., with portrait frontispiece and plates; red faux-morocco cloth, upper boards lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, gilt backs, red tops, marbled endpapers, upper hinge of first volume starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1934.
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OUGHTON Frederick
Ace with One Eye. The Life and Combats of Major Edward Mannock. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. SCARCE. Noffsinger 1117.
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LANGMAID Captain Kenneth
The Sea Raiders. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with one closed tear. Covers the main German high seas raiders of both world wars. The second half includes everything from GRAF SPEE to TOGO. Enser, p.158, Law 1698.
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LATHAM, ed. Robert
Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War. Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers. Transcribed by William Matthews and by Charles Knighton. Edited by Robert Latham. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 133.
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HAMILTON Ernest W.
The First Seven Divisions. Being a detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres. Fourteenth Edition, revised and enlarged. With six additional Maps and an Index. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Fourteenth Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece and 9 other maps (a number folding), small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, backstrip sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. 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 (both recording the first edition).
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WOLFF Leon
In Flanders Fields. The 1917 Campaign. [Introduction by Major-General J.F.C. Fuller.] IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with 21 plates on 12 and 7 maps in the text; elegantly bound in full dark brown 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. Elegant copy of this classic account of the calamitous campaign that concluded with Passchendaele, where fighting was brought to a halt not by the enemy but by floods and slaughter. 'An outstanding book, the most fascinating I have read on the period reviewed' (Fuller: Introduction). THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS UNCOMMON. Enser, p.130.
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HOEHLING A. A.
Lonely Command. A Documentary. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled and with small loss at head of backstrip. The story of the German High Seas raider SMS EMDEN in the Great War. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.117.
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NUREMBERG TRIALS
The Trial of Major German War Criminals. Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg Germany. Taken from the Official Transcript. [23 Parts plus 4 Supplementary Volumes. Complete Extended Set of the UK Edition.] THE NUREMBERG TRIALS. COMPLETE EXTENDED SET OF THE ORIGINAL PROCEEDINGS
Together 27 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 large folding charts; original printed wrappers, one or two backstrips scuffed at head and tail else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean set. The extended set comprises: Part 1: 20 Nov 1945 to 1 Dec 1945 (1946); Part 2: 3 Dec 1945 to 14 Dec 1945 (1946); Part 3: 17 Dec 1945 to 4 Jan 1946 (1946); Part 4: 7 Jan 1946 to 19 Jan 1946 (1946); Part 5: 21 Jan 1946 to 1 Feb 1946 (1946); Part 6: 2 Feb 1946 to 13 Feb 1946 (1947); Part 7: 14 Feb 1946 to 26 Feb 1946 (1947); Part 8: 27 Feb 1946 to 11 March 1946 (1947); Part 9: 12 March 1946 to 22 March 1946 (1947); Part 10: 23 March 1946 to 3 April 1946 (1947); Part 11: 4 April 1946 to 15 April 1946 (1947); Part 12: 16 April 1946 to 1 May 1946 (1947); Part 13: 2 May 1946 to 13 May 1946 (1947); Part 14: 14 May 1946 to 24 May 1946 (1947); Part 15: 27 May 1946 to 6 June 1946 (1948); Part 16: 7 June 1946 to 19 June 1946 (1948); Part 17: 20 June 1946 to 1 July 1946 (1948); Part 18: 2 July 1946 to 15 July 1946 (1948); Part 19: 16 July 1946 to 27 July 1946 (1949); Part 20: 29 July 1946 to 8 August 1946 (1949); Part 21: 9 August 1946 to 21 August 1946 (1949); Part 22: 22 August 1946 to 31 August 1946; 30 Sept 1946 and 1 October 1946 (1950); Part 23: Index (1951). WITH Opening Speeches of the Chief Prosecutors (1946); Speeches of the Prosecutors against the Indicted Organisations (1946); Speeches of the Chief Prosecutors against the Individual Defendants (1946); Judgement of the International Military Tribunal (with the Dissenting Opinion of the Soviet Member) (1946). Volume 1 includes the folding chart of the organisation of the NSDAP; Volume 3 contains the folding chart of the organisation of the SS. EXTENDED SETS ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE.
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DELAGE Edmond
The Tragedy of the Dardanelles. Translated by Winifred Ray. With an Introduction by General Sir Ian Hamilton. [First English Edition.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with full-page map on japon; original pale blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, fresh, crisp copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. First English edition of Delage's classic account. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.102.
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ARDIZZONE Edward
Diary of a War Artist. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, pale blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. Ardizzone's diary begins with Sicily in 1943 and carries through to the mopping-up in Germany in 1945. The striking wrap-around dustwrapper illustration reproduces 'Naval Control Post on the beaches of Normandy, 1944'. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Sherston's Progress. [First English (Limited) Edition.] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION: 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition thus, Large Paper, on hand-made laid paper, free endpapers mildly browned as often; original blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned (but all gilt bright and clear), a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 127). This splendid edition of the final volume of the 'Sherston' trilogy is considerably scarcer than the signed edition of 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' of which 750 copies were printed. Keynes, A40b.
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WHEATLEY Dennis
The Deception Planners. My Secret War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Fascinating account of Wheatley's work with the War Cabinet in WWII. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.129.
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JAMESON Rear-Admiral William
The Most Formidable Thing. The Story of the Submarine from its earliest Days to the End of World War I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter scuffed at backstrip.
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REMARQUE Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated by Brian Murdoch. Introduction by Geoff Dyer. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and pictorial endpapers; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in brown and white, a near fine copy. The publisher's slip-case is not present with this copy.
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ELLIS et al Major L. F.
Victory in the West. Volume I. The Battle of Normandy [with] Vol. II. The Defeat of Germany. [Official] History of the Second World War. With Captain G.R.G. Allen, Lieut-Colonel A.E. Warhurst, Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb. [Complete set.] NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and charts (a number coloured in outline and folding); original series binding of green cloth, gilt backs, first volume a little loose (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. Published in the official series History of the Second World War. The set comprises Vol. I: The Battle of Normandy 1962); Vol. II: The Defeat of Germany (1968). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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NEAVE Airey
Nuremberg. A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945-6. [Foreword by Rebecca West]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper Following his war service with MI6 and MI9, Neave was appointed to the British War Crimes Executive and served the Allied indictments on twenty-one leading Nazis, among them Doenitz, Goering, Hess, Keitel, Ribbentrop and Streicher. An extraordinary and valuable account of personal experiences. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HAMMERTON, ed. Sir John
I was There. The Human Story of the Great War of 1914-1918. Edited by Sir John Hammerton. NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
4 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, title-vignettes and many thousands of remarkable photographs (many tinted or toned in sepia) and maps in the text; original publisher's binding of navy faux-morocco cloth grained in black, upper boards framed and blocked in blind, gilt backs, blue tops (lightly faded), a near fine copy. Hammerton's extraordinary compilation of eye-witness accounts (all individually sourced and credited) covers virtually every aspect of the conflict; the photographs in particular are breathtaking in their scope and clarity. A SPLENDID SET OF A UNIQUE AND IMPRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.166.
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RAPIER Brian J.
White Rose Base. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Detailed register of WWII airfields in Yorkshire during WWI and WWII. Includes list of squadron markings.
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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. [Second (First Trade) Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second (First Trade) Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. This important work, to which Sassoon was a primary contributor, was first published privately in 1938 (see Keynes B16). 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). THIS EDITION IS NOW UNCOMMON IN ITS OWN RIGHT. Not recorded by Enser.
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BROOKE Rupert
Four Poems. The Fish, 1911. Grantchester, 1912. The Dead, 1914. The Soldier, 1914. Drafts and Fair Copies in the Author's Hand. With a Foreword and Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. [Edited by A.N.L. Munby.] 400 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with four card folders of facsimiles in pocket; dark blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, covers lightly faded else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. An additional 100 de luxe copies were issued with vellum backs. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted.
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HASTINGS Max
Catastrophe. Europe goes to War 1914. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GRAVES Robert
Goodbye To All That. Introduced by Raleigh Trevelyan. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; grey pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in black, gilt back, yellow top, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. The text follows the revised edition of 1957.
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POLIAKOV Leon
Harvest of Hate. Introduced by Lord Russell of Liverpool. Forewords by Francois Mauriac and Reinhold Niebuhr. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map and 16 plates on 8, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled and worn dustwrapper. An early and important record of the Holocaust, with useful and detailed cross-references to the Nuremberg archives. Enser, p.241.
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COUPLAND Sir Reginald
Zulu Battle Piece, Isandhlwana. [With new Introduction by Ian Knight.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with plates, maps in the text and front endpaper map; orange cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Coupland's account of the fateful action was first published in 1948. This much-needed reissue includes the author's original introduction together with a reappraisal by Zulu War historian Ian Knight. SCARCE.
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LLOYD Nick
Passchendaele. A New History. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HOCHSCHILD Adam
Spain in our Hearts. Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WAR OFFICE.
Manual of Field Engineering 1911. General Staff, War Office. Reprinted 1914. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE GREAT WAR ISSUE
Sm. 8vo., with numerous technical illustrations and diagrams; original series binding of red cloth, radial corners, boards framed in blind, gilt back, boards edges frayoing slightly as often, a very good, bright, clean copy. Publication code: 40/WO/1071. With the publisher's catalogues on the usual pink stock at front and rear.
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SUTCLIFF Rosemary
The Flowers of Adonis. [A Novel of Alkibiades and the Peloponnesian War] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; burgundy cloth, gilt back, red top (faintly faded), fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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PURNELL'S HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Purnell's History of the Second World War. [Second Edition. Extended Set.]. [Edited by Barrie Pitt.] PURNELL'S SECOND EDITION: EXTENDED SET COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDERS
128 weekly parts in 8 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Edition, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts (including original wrappers) housed in black rexine binders blolcked in gilt, a bright, clean set. The considerably revised version of the original edition of 1966-1969. 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. The work was intended originally in six volumes (ending with the Japanese surrender), but as the series neared its conclusion it was decided to extend it to eight volumes to include the consequences of the conflict such as the birth of the nuclear era, the foundation of the UN and so on. Technically the set is complete in the original six volumes (complete with detailed index issued at that point); an additional cumulative index was issued for those subscribers who wished to continue collecting the extended set as here. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS FORMAT AND CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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RICHMOND, Sir Herbert
War Pictures by British Artists. War at Sea [with] Blitz [with] RAF [with] Army. [Series I complete]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE FIRST SERIES
4 vols., sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 194 toned full-page illustrations in the text; original plain wrappers, hinges starting as usual (but all bindings wholly sound), one backstrip scuffed else a very good, bright, clean set in pictorial dustwrapper. No.1: War at Sea; No. 2: Blitz; No. 3: R.A.F.; No. 4: Army. Complete set of the first series with fine reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches by virtually all Britain's leading war artists. The contributors naturally featured many of the most eminent artists of the period, including (among many others) Ardizzone, Bawden, Bone, Kennington, Moore, Nash, Piper, Ravilious, Rothenstein, Spencer, Sutherland, Topolski and Worsley. A second series (dealing primarily with the Home Front) was published separately in the following year. UNCOMMON AS A SET, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Eads, A43 (recording H. E. Bates' introduction to 'RAF').
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WEDGWOOD C. V.
The King's Peace 1637-1641 [with] The King's War 1641-1647 [with] The Trial of Charles I. [The English Civil War complete.]. Introduction by Richard Ollard. [Maps drawn by Reginald Piggott. Index compiled by Meg Davies.] NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, coloured and monochrome plates, and maps in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, burgundy tops and endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt. The volumes of Wedgwood's classic trilogy were first published in 1955, 1958 and 1964 respectively. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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