HART Captain Basil H. LiddellMareMagnum
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19592 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous portraits, plates and maps (a number folding); black cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A splendid copy of the standard reference. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.123; White, p.26.
19968vo., First Edition, with 44 plates on 16 and 2 pages of maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first detailed account of this little-known SAS operation carried out during and after D-Day. Only now, with the release of hitherto classified documents and thanks to a remarkable amount of painstaking research and detective work by the author, can anything like the full story be told. Very scarce, especially in this condition
20078vo., with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
1951Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 16 plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the series 'Windows on the World'. Uncommon in the dustwrapper.
19938vo., Third Impression, with numerous plates, and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition. A wide-ranging compilation of eye-witness accounts from both sides.
1994Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-compiled and illustrated series of vernacular accounts by participants.
19608vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates on 14 and 10 maps in the text; handsomely bound in full burgundy 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. First edition of the acclaimed autobiography by one of the most outstanding corps commanders of WWII. His renowned 30 Corps was regarded as one of the finest fighting formations throughout North-West Europe (including a central role in Operation GARDEN). Enser, p.266.
20038vo., First Edition, with 33 plates on 16 and a double-page map in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE EMINENT HISTORIAN J H [HUGH] OWEN WITH THE FORMER'S LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. With a copy T.L.s from Owen and another piece loosely inserted.
1994Together 5 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 31 figures, and 30 folding maps and plans in separate wallets; navy cloth gilt, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs [text volumes], original printed wrappers [map, diagram and errata wallets], a fine copy in the publisher's pictorial slip-case as issued. Admiralty Battle Summaries were written relatively soon after the events they describe (the last of the present collection was produced in 1952) and are based on official documentary material which did not become available to the public at large until 1968. They were written by authors who understood thoroughly their topics, as follows: Operation 'Neptune': Commander L.J. Pitrcairn-Jones; The Campaign in North-West Europe: Commander J.H. Lloyd-Owen; Operation 'Dragoon': Commander W.E.H. Westall. In due course, the volumes became basic reference sources for the authors of the Cabinet Office series of OFFICIAL HISTORIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
19628vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and charts (a number coloured in outline and folding), small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, fore-edge browned, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily browned at edges and backstrip. Published in the official series History of the Second World War. Enser, p.290.
19818vo., First Edition, with plates, and maps in the text; grey boards, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.80
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.
20038vo., with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy
19468vo., First Edition, with several plates and endpaper maps; decorative black cloth gilt, gilt back, covers slightly age-marked at edges else a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-sloiled and frayed at edges. A standard secondary source. Covers the naval component of OVERLORD, the clearing of the Channel ports and Walcheren. Enser, p.290; Law, 0589
1952Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, monochrome illustrations in the text and a very large folding coloured map on japon, small signature on front free endpaper; original pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, a very good, clean copy. Lord Methuen's painstaking and well-illustrated inventory is now increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.37.
19952 vols., roy. 8vo., with many thousands of photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole set housed in publisher's black cloth slip-case. The definitive pictorial retrospective, based on the 'before and after' photographic technique for which this publisher is renowned. A superb set. Not recorded by Enser.
19274to., First Edition, with sepia-toned title-vignette, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, a near fine copy. Combining history and travel, Medici's profusely illustrated 'Picture Guides' series is notable for its generous use of period photography. Each volume is filled with evocative images complementing a deceptively detailed text.
1980Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with many hundreds of photographs and facsimiles throughout, and pictorial endpapers; blue faux-morocco, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. The definitive pictorial retrospective, based on the 'then and now' photographic matches for which this publisher is renowned.
20058vo., with numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
19948vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, backstrip very lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
19948vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Declared unfit for active service, he reported the Battle of Normandy, the Liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, Kamikaze attacks on the British Pacific Fleet and Hiroshima.
19928vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author served in the Western Desert and at El Alamein, then D-Day, Brussels and the advance to the Rhine.
20058vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20048vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.136.
1983Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and folding map; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
