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1939Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx. 55.5 x 76.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.25 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, neat contemporary signature on front wrapper, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Moyse of Sheffield on rear wrapper. The Half Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'motorist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1939 revision; the covers are the green and brown variant with green sheet name. Browne, 12.2.a
19042 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 28 fine plates (all original tissue guards present) and numerous illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper of first volume; original red pictorial cloth, upper boards ruled, blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean set. With the trade ticket of Mawson Swan & Morgan of Newcastle-on-Tyne on front paste-down. Delightfully illustrated companion and guide compiled in Hewlett's best leisurely style. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Muir 14.
1926Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and 167 illustrations by the author in the text; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, back gilt with raised bands, gilt from original upper board and backstrip preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy
19238vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 7 plates and 15 maps and diagrams in the text; broad-weave cloth, buckram back with leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With small neat institutional stamp on front paste-down. This attractively produced work, published for the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company, is perhaps the scarcest of the author's studies of the history and development of the English road. Cahill 80.
19518vo., cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
19474to., SOLE EDITION, with a frontispiece and 9 plates of facsimiles; cloth, covers a little sunned and age-marked, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. This outstanding catalogue (compiled by Whitaker of his own collection) was published by the Brotherton Library as 'Library Publications' No. 2. It was never reprinted and is now increasingly hard to find. Sold from an institution with its small, neat stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title only
19798vo., First Edition, with 37 plates on 16; black cloth gilt, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one or two short closed marginal tears. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED AND DATED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE.
19938vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 24, 8 coloured maps, and 7 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, AND WITH A PRESENTATION A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR ON HIS PERSONAL LETTERHEAD TO DONALD EALES-WHITE. The first of Lyall Grant's masterly analyses of the Burma war and forerunner of 'The Japanese Invasion' (co-written with Tamayama and similarly privately printed some six years later). In this outstanding analysis, using extensive fresh information from both British and Japanese sources, Grant produces the most authoritative history to date. Includes command structures, OOB, statistical appendices and bibliography. An outstanding contribution to the history of WWII. Signed copies are very scarce. Graham & Cole E20.
1934Sm. 8vo., First Edition; cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Collects twenty-eight of Lynd's thought-provoking essays, originally published as 'Y.Y' in the New Statesman. Extremely scarce in anything like this condition.
19488vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 15 monochrome plates on 12 and several illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19804to., First Edition, with a sepia-toned frontispiece and numerous sepia-toned photographs (many full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Wonderful collection of vintage (and more modern) photographs chosen by the founder of the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.
19338vo., First Edition; original boards, darkened at edges as often, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, uncut, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Keynes, A38.
19768vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Objective review of the American War of Independence published to mark the Bicentenary.
18578vo., First Edition, with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps (one folding; one full-page); original green cloth, sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind, backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, primrose endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated July 1857) bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso, title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418.
19958vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper
1950Sm. 8vo., Fourth Edition; original printed wrappers, upper cover ink-stained, upper hinge neatly reinforced else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1946.
19618vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, with title-vignette; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Effectively a sequel to his splendid 'Bugles and a Tiger' (1956). Masters served as a middle-ranking officer in Burma throughout the war. This striking personal record of service with Gurkhas and Chindits (including his participation in Operation BLACKPOOL) therefore stands between the more usually recorded views of generals and private soldiers. Includes illuminating portraits of Slim, Wingate and Stilwell among others. PROOF COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.90; not recorded by Graham & Cole, which lists only the US (Harper) edition as M55.
20054to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Includes Goodwood Priority Telegram pages, Brief History of the Centrefold, and 40th Anniversary of Sir Jackie Stewart's Grand Prix debut.
20108vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; dark blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
1935Folding coloured map on paper measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx. 56.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.25 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The Half Inch series was first issued in 1919 with striking 'motorist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1935 revision; the covers are the green and brown variant with green sheet name. Browne, 12.2.a
19458vo., First UK Edition, with tables and charts in the text; original printed wrappers, covers a little dusty, stitches rusting slightly else a very good, clean copy. First published in the US by the Government Printing Office.
19238vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
1923Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22.0 x 28.5 ins (approx. 56.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.25 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.0 cms), small neat contemporary signature on front wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'hiker' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1923; the covers are the dark red and black variant with location map. Browne, 11.2.a
1933Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22.0 x 28.5 ins (approx. 56.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.25 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.0 cms), small neat contemporary signature on front wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'hiker' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1933 revision (roads and railways) of the 1921 impression; the covers are the dark red and black variant with location map. Browne, 11.2.a
1925Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22.0 x 28.5 ins (approx. 56.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.25 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.0 cms), covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'hiker' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1925 revision; the covers are the dark red and black variant with location map. Browne, 11.2.a
