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2001ref. 15653Ulric Publishing Church Stretton 2001. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with photographs in the text; original laminated card covers a near fine copy. Published in Ulric's 'Collecting' series. Ulric Publishing, [Church Stretton], unknown
1940ref. 14464Polish Research Centre 1940. 8vo. First Edition; original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good clean copy. Probably an initiative of Raczynski during his term 1940-1967 as Chairman of the PRC. A rare survival especially in this condition. Polish Research Centre, unknown
1994ref. 14682The Border Regiment Regimental Museum in association with Silver Link Publishing Carlisle 1994. Roy. 4to. First Edition with illustrated title 4 full-page coloured maps and very numerous monochrome photographs in the text; cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped unevenly sunned dustwrapper. Splendid pictorial history based on a huge compilation of photographs from public and private records. As one would expect about half the book is given over to the battalion's role in Operation MARKET. Includes battalion ROH honours and awards battalion roll for Arnhem operation orders for MARKET and much other data. VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe p.293. The [Border Regiment] Regimental Museum in association with Silver Link Publishing, [Carlisle, hardcover
1968ref. 13343Hamish Hamilton 1968. 8vo. First Edition with numerous photographs in the text small blind-embossed personal book-stamp on front free endpaper; cloth gilt back a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper the latter mildly age-soiled and with two short tape repairs. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series. Hamish Hamilton, hardcover
1970ref. 13342Leo Cooper 1970. 8vo. First Edition with numerous illustrations in the text small blind-embossed personal book-stamp on front free endpaper; blue cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Cooper's concise Famous Regiments series edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Sutcliffe p.201. Leo Cooper, hardcover
1931ref. 37951New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1931. Two vols. 8vo. xiv 421 1; x 2 451 1 pp. Photo frntsps. in both vols. numerous photos illusts. Uniformly bound in blue cloth gilt lettrng w/ glassine d.j.s preserved in open-backd slipcase rubbng edgewear VG/VG- set. First edition of this excellent biography and account of World War I. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
1924ref. 13603Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. 1924. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece 26 plates on 17 and 62 folding maps 2 large on japon fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; original regimental blue cloth upper board blocked with regimental badge in silver backstrip lettered in silver blue top expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down a very good bright crisp clean copy. Complete with errata leaf. The standard record of the regiment's service in the Great War in which eleven battalions were involved. Includes ROH honours and decorations MIDs units and their COs depots and POW funds 'Well above the average of regimental histories in interest. He has done his best to procure information from officers who served with the regiment to supplement the generally scant and laconic accounts of the war diaries' Falls. Accordingly this history is particularly well supplied with maps albeit some of them sketches in outline. SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.70; Falls p.97; Sutcliffe p.306; White p.105. Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co., hardcover
1962ref. 13703Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1962. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with 48 plates on 28 and a double-page plate; original navy buckram backstrip lettered in silver blue top a very good bright clean copy. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, hardcover
1943ref. 38024Atlanta GA: Albert Love Enterprises 1943. Folio. 120 pp unpaginated. 100s of photos. Colour-illust. softcvrs unit mascot illust. on frnt cvr mnr creasng edgewear VG from former member of the 12th Division Clifton K. Hunter. First edition of this exceedingly scarce first yearbook intended as a record of the 12th Armored Division training at Camp Campbell KY. The 44th Division pictured in this yearbook was shipped to the Pacific Theater and was the first armored unit to enter Manila. The 12th Armored Division fought across Europe at Utweiler then their great defensive battle at Herrlisheim and later after joining Patton’s Army they were one of the first Divisions to reach Dachau and many of the other Concentration camps by swiftly moving across Germany in 1945. Albert Love Enterprises, unknown
1893ref. 40283Chicago: Kurz & Allison 1893. 18 x 25 inches. Matted. 1 vols. Some chipping at margins else fine. 18 x 25 inches. Matted. 1 vols. Kurz & Allison unknown
1869ref. 55186St Louis: Published for the Author at Southwestern Book and Publishing Co 1869. First edition. Illustrated. 100 iv pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. Soiling to boards free endpapers missing. A very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 100 iv pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Published for the Author at Southwestern Book and Publishing Co unknown
1888ref. 40277Chicago: Kurz & Allison Art Publishers 76 & 78 Wabash Ave 1888. 18 x 25 inches. Matted. 1 vols. Some chipping at margins else fine. 18 x 25 inches. Matted. 1 vols. Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers 76 & 78 Wabash Ave unknown
1872ref. 380601872. 104 numbered leaves; written in in on folded sheets with text on right-hand side notes and corrections on left. With numerous corrections and deletions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 6 x 8 inches0. Fine. 104 numbered leaves; written in in on folded sheets with text on right-hand side notes and corrections on left. With numerous corrections and deletions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 6 x 8 inches0. A very early and well-written analysis by an amateur historian shortly afer the cessation of hostilities. The author begins: "It is but a few months since Europe saw the end of a struggle of which history affords so example. There have been fiercer battles fought larger territories involved in the conflict but never was there witnessed a more futile pretext for war blind imprudence in the aggressor or more consummate generalship & complete success on the opposite side ." Possibly by an American given references to Abraham Lincoln the American Revolution "the freest nation in the world" etc. A good candidatate might possibly be Henry Percy Litchfield see OCLC 10644238 of Long Island whose papers are in George Washington U with the Litchfield family papers and whose privately printed book THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF 1870 Gracehill Brooklyn L.I. 1872 was among the earliest studies of the war. unknown
1890ref. 40281Chicago: Kurz & Allison 1890. 1 vols. 18 x 25 inches. Some chipping at margins else fine. Matted. 1 vols. 18 x 25 inches. Kurz & Allison unknown
1963ref. 26031London: Heinemann 1963. First Edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Green morocco spine over marbled boards t.e.g. a fine copy. First Edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on flyleaf "For Dora Struart-French / from / Charles Drage / 17/viii/67". Heinemann unknown
1957ref. 32753London: Robert Hale Limited 1957. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarlet morocco-backed scarlet cloth. A very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. The story of the June 1942 brutal massacre of the Czech village of Lidice by the Nazis following the murder of Reinhard Heydrich the German Deputy Reich protector in Bohemia and Moravia. Robert Hale Limited unknown
1900ref. 20112Washington: Government Printing Office 1900. Folding maps. 8vo. Half burgundy morocco with original maroon spine laid down. Tightly bound else a very good copy. Folding maps. 8vo. Contains among the various reports "Government reports on the Battles and Capitulation of Santiago de Cuba" "Comments of Rear-Admiral Plüddemann on the Main features of the War with Spain" and "Sketches from the Spanish American War."¶ Senate Document 388 with the yellow slip preceeding title regarding the contents. Government Printing Office unknown
1898ref. 40301Philadelphia: J. Hoover & Sons 1898. Image 27 x 17 1/2 inches. Framed and glazed. Image 27 x 17 1/2 inches. Schley was selected "at the opening of the Spanish-American War to command the Flying Squadron at Hampton Roads.when Cevera's ships reached Martinique the Flying Squadron.at 9:35 July3 1898 the Spanish ships emerged from the harbor of Santiago and turned westward Schley's flagship the Brooklyn westernmost of the blockading line." Xanthus Russell Smith 1839-1929 comes from a Family of Philadelphia Artists. He was the som of Russell Smith. J. Hoover & Sons unknown
1863ref. 26180N. P. 1863. 8 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Single text gathering only. Tears along spine and corners tear into text on first leaf without loss some light wear previously folded else very good with a manuscript notation "File 4 d" in upper margin. 8 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Very Rare. Contains the text of three letters by "Bob" addressed to his mother describing the battle of Murfreesboro. The author was a officer of the 15th U. S. Infantry part of the Regular Brigade or "Forlorn Hope" consisting of the 15th 16 18 and 19th Regiments U. S. Infantry and Battery H 5th Artillery. They were for this action attached to General Rousseau and then joined to General Rosecrans for the battle. The text from two newspapers reports of the battle are included in the texts. With notation under title "The following Letters are printed for private use only to accommodate friends of the writer who are absent from the City and desire to hear from him". Not in Broadfoot unknown
1893ref. 40284Chicago: Kurz & Allison 1893. 18 x 25 inches. Matted. 1 vols. Some chipping at margins else fine. 18 x 25 inches. Matted. 1 vols. Kurz & Allison unknown
1856ref. 31865Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell 1856. 4 page "Catalogue of College School Miscellaneous Music and juvenile Books published by Hayes & Zell" dated 1 July 1856. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown blind-stamped cloth spine lettered with central decoration in gilt upper cover with central design in gilt. Some waterstaining of binding and text spotting else very good. 4 page "Catalogue of College School Miscellaneous Music and juvenile Books published by Hayes & Zell" dated 1 July 1856. 1 vols. 8vo. Description of the war from the point of view of a Zouave trumpeter. Mention of Florence Nightingale and her nurses is made and hospitals described as well as information about operations and treatment. Published by Hayes & Zell unknown
1891ref. 40278Chicago: Kurz & Allison Art Publishers 76 & 78 Wabash Ave 1891. 18 x 25 inches. Matted. 1 vols. Some chipping at margins else fine. 18 x 25 inches. Matted. 1 vols. Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers 76 & 78 Wabash Ave unknown
1858ref. 23058Paris: Imprimeris de Cosson et Compagnie 1858. First edition. pp. 174. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound some staining and light soiling corners creased with some short tears else a very good copy. First edition. pp. 174. 1 vols. 8vo. The legal rights for restitution of the French merchants of Sébastopol whose properties were damaged by the warring armies. Includes tables at the back of the losses of some merchants. Sevastopol or Sebastopol had been an attractive city prior to the war by the end of the war 1856 most of the buildings had been damaged or destroyed and most of the inhabitants had left. Great effort was made to bring in trade and encourage people to come to the city. Imprimeris de Cosson et Compagnie unknown
1865ref. 27301865. Autograph Edition one of 75 copies comprising sheets from the 1855 edition with new title-page some with sheets of manuscript bound in. 407pp. With: Autograph Poem Signed titled Sheridan's Harvesting written on four preliminary blank leaves tipped in to the above. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt t.e.g board edges bevelled minor stains slight rubbing. Modern slipcase. Provenance: Maj. Gen. P. H. Sheridan name in gilt on the upper cover; Estelle Doheny her sale lot 1848. Autograph Edition one of 75 copies comprising sheets from the 1855 edition with new title-page some with sheets of manuscript bound in. 407pp. With: Autograph Poem Signed titled Sheridan's Harvesting written on four preliminary blank leaves tipped in to the above. 1 vols. 8vo. Major-General Sheridan's copy with his name stamped in gilt on front cover within a gilt laurel wreath topped by an American Eagle. The autograph poem begins: "When the summer leaves were yellowing / And the Autumn fruits were mellowing / In the golden month of August / Through the mountain gaps we pass'd / Where the vines around us cluster'd / In the Valley we were muster'd / In the Shenandoah Valley / Under Sheridan at last!" Duganne was a Boston author whose verse and prose won great acclaim in his day from contemporary critics such as William H. Burleigh: "Mr. Duganne's lyrical powers are characterized by a nervous energy a generous sympathy with humanity a wonderful command of language and an ardent hatred of wrong and oppression in all their forms." Quoted by Allibone. A wonderful association copy. BAL 4900 unknown
1862ref. 58519New York: Anson D.F. Randolph 1862. Copyright Edition. Folding map frontispiece. 118 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Lightly chipped else Fine. Copyright Edition. Folding map frontispiece. 118 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Anson D.F. Randolph unknown
