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20028vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16, 3 full-page maps and a full-page table in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in the sixtieth anniversary year of the battle, this is the most comprehensive and detailed single-volume history to date, with a very good selection of photographs (a number of which were censored at the time). Includes details of the war correspondents (six of whom died during the campaign) who did so much to publicise 'the end of the beginning'. A valuable complement to Pitt.
19728vo., Second Edition; red cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. The earliest publicly published attempt to account for Operation JUBILEE, one of the costliest operations of its kind mounted by the Allies in WWII. This much-needed reissue presents the full text but omits the frontispiece, maps and chart present in the original edition of 1956. Enser, p.127; Law, 0490 (recording the first edition).
19798vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, backstrip lightly frayed else a bright, clean copy.
19818vo., First Edition, neat name on front wrapper; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
19668vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wanting lower wrapper else a bright, clean copy.
19628vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red rexine, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy.
19668vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers lightly frayed at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy.
19698vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, covers lightly frayed at edges else a bright, clean copy.
19748vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, short tears in backstrip (but binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy.
19138vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red cloth, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a near fine copy. This copy was formerly in the Colonial Office Library and bears its blind stamp on upper board.
19328vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red rexine, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy.
19368vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red buckram, gilt back, very good, bright, clean copy.
19248vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red rexine, gilt back, very good, bright, clean copy. With pictorial bookplate on front paste-down.
19788vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1944Oblong 4to., First and Sole Edition, with numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers moderately frayed and age-soiled else a very good, tight, clean copy. Special Series No. 27. Restricted. 15 November 1944. Deceptively detailed wartime guide, including necessities of life, infantry weapons, artillery and armoured material, organisation, tactics, jungle warfare, booby traps and mines. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
19758vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 31 plates on 16 and 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF, MAJOR-GENERAL C PETER CAMPBELL WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published in Cooper's concise Famous Regiments series, edited by Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks.
19758vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, coated endpapers, small neat inscription on half-title; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper sunned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.159.
19118vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 7 plates and 4 maps, endpapers and title lightly spotted; blind-blocked red cloth, gilt back, uncut, corners lightly bruised and deckled edges a little dusty else else a good, clean tight copy. The standard reference. Includes alphabetical and chronological lists of honours, and full index by regiment.
1914Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 folding plates (6 coloured or coloured in outline), 13 plates in monochrome and numerous woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original wrappers, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright clean copy IN THE ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH CASE. With the 24pp (23 printed) catalogue of military books on pink stock. With small trade stamp on front free endpaper and previous owner's initial inked on top edge. The scarce cloth case lettered in black is particularly well-preserved. The Field Service Pocket Book (B11013) was the 'bible' for officers on active service in the Great War. A remarkably concise yet comprehensive reference, it is rarely found in this condition. A RARE SURVIVAL.
19898vo. Second Edition, with coloured title-spread and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; black boards, white back lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Moorehead's classic account was first published in 1856. This edition adds some 190 images illustrating aspects of the campaign together with extra information and captions by Ann Moyal. Enser p.144 (recording the first edition).
19934to. First Edition with 16 coloured plates on 12 60 monochrome plates on 32 and very numerous maps and plans (many full-page) in the text; regimental cloth with badge blocked in gilt on upper board gilt back red endpapers a very good bright clean copy.
1915Oblong quarto, First Edition, with 64 fine large plates, one or two plates with short closed tears neatly repaired; pictorial boards, blue cloth back, covers mildly age-worn and soiled as usual, neatly recased, a very good, bright copy. Well-chosen selection of plates emphasising both the traditional and the innovative elements of each service in the context of the Great War. SCARCE.
1920Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 15 plates and numerous illustrations, maps and plans in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original cloth blocked in blind, Yorkshire rose blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement at rear.Appendices include Territorial Force. West Riding of York County Association (Members and Permanent Officials), Honours and Awards obtained by 49th (West Riding) Division and 62nd (West Riding) Divisions (detailed by unit), Summary of Honours and Awards obtained by West Riding Territorial Troops not serving with the 49th and 62nd Divisions, Return of Casualties to the end of December 1918. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.102; White, p. 221.
19998vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1994. Arguably the best complement to Verney, with useful index of veterans but no units quoted. Smith 276.
19958vo., First Edition, with plates; navy blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. In September 1943, nearly 200 veterans of Montgomery's Eighth Army were arrested for refusing to join units of the US Fifth Army at Salerno.