BLUNT Wilfrid ScawenMareMagnum
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19328vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present); original red ribbed cloth, gilt back, red top, backstrip lightly chafed at head and tail, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and neat press marks on front free endpaper. With the errata leaf at end. First published in two volumes in 1919 and 1920.
19608vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece, 5 plates, 2 maps on one large folder, and front and rear endpaper maps coloured in outline; cloth gilt. gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Seventh volume of 'The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell'. Brown 103
20068vo., Second Impression, with 84 plates on 16 and a full-page map in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY DUKE ON SMALL BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON TITLE. first published in 1995.
1987Roy. 8vo., First UK Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous plates, wanting front free endpaper; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Th first British edition of one of the most impressive secret war diaries to emerge from the Far Eastern theatre. An intensely moving testament by a wonderful soldier, surgeon and captive. First published in Australia in the previous year.
19968vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First appearance in one volume of the third and fourth volumes of Lees-Milne's inimitable diaries, first published in 1983 and 1985 respectively. For this edition the author provides a new introduction. This edition is now uncommon in its own right, especially in this condition.
19758vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, neat inscription on front free endpaper, small red stamp on title; original brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19558vo., First Edition, with a facsimile as frontispiece, 2 plates, a double-page plan and a full-page pedigree in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of Henry Sotheran front paste-down.
19718vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at head of backstrip.
19333 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 3 portrait frontispieces, 13 plates, and front and rear endpaper maps in first volume; decorative cloth blocked in blind, gilt backs, covers very slightly dulled, fore-edges dusty, backstrip of first volume heavily browned (but all gilt still legible) else a good, sound, firm working set. One of the outstanding biographies of the twentieth century, the trilogy comprises 'The Man in the Making' (1933), 'The Years of Peril' (1935) and 'The Saviour of the Navy' (1938). NMML Catalogue II, Part 1, 1194-1196; Albion, p.215.
18693 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, titles very lightly foxed; original green cloth, upper boards framed in blind, gilt backs, uncut, very neatly recased, a bright, firm set. With publisher's advertisements at end of each volume. Sold from an institution with its small blind stamp on titles. Complete sets of the first edition are scarce in this condition.
20058vo., First Edition, with 29 plates on 16; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fnear ine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19722 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 29 plates; blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: 1933-1940 (by which time Pownall was CGS to the BEF in France); Vol. II: 1940-1944 (CoS to Mountbatten). In the latter part of his career Pownall was Chief of Staff to Mountbatten (then SACSEA). His remarkably frank diaries caused considerable controversy on publication, not least because of his opinions of Wingate. Unaccountably scarce as a set, especially in this condition. Graham & Cole L20; Enser, p.268.
19908vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; green cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in publisher's green board slip-case.
20032 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt backs, burgundy endpapers, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I:: 1949-1965; Vol. II: 1966-1990
19528vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Extracts relating to the Reform Act of 1832 from the diaries of Sir Denis Le Marchant, Edward John Littleton, Baron Hatherton, and Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough
19938vo., First Edition, with 18 plates and facsimiles on 12; original black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Watkin helped to write the Peterloo Protest and to draw up Manchester's petition in favour of the Great Reform Bill.
19548vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper.
19965 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol. I: September 1939 to September 1940 (1996); Vol. 2: September 1940 to December 1941 (1998); Vol. 3: January 1942 to June 1943 (2001); Vol. 4: July 1943 to June 1944 (2002); Vol. 5: June 1944 to May 1945 (2004). Complete sets of the first edition of this standard reference are very scarce.
19868vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
19608vo. Uncorrected Proof Copy; original printed wrappers printed in black covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good clean copy. Seventh volume of The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Brown 103.
1955Roy. 8vo. First Edition thus with a frontispiece 7 plates and endpaper maps; navy buckram vellum back black label lettered in gilt gilt top uncut silk marker a very good bright clean copy in publisher's card slip-case the latter mildly worn at edges and c EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. Published in 'The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell'.
19488vo., First Edition, with 4 plates of facsimiles; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Miller & Matthews B35.1.
19663 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 portrait frontispieces, very numerous plates, and pedigree on rear endpapers of third volume ; yellow buckram, gilt backs, blue tops, a very good, clean set in dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: 1930-1939; Vol. II: 1939-1945; Vol. III: 1945-1962. The dustwrappers are designed bty Kenneth Farnhill.
19688vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece and plates in monochrome; pale green cloth, gilt back, green top, green endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed and creased at edges. SCARCE.
19368vo., First Edition thus; original terracotta cloth, gilt back, backstrip lettering faded but entirely legible, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with one or two short closed tears. The dustwrapper reproduces the last photograph (not present in the work itself) of Tolstoy and his wife. 'The history of literature hardly contains a stranger and more pathetic story than this record of the intrigues and persecution that drove Russia's greatest writer to his death.' VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
