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eBay
18005
[Anon.]
The Near East
From Within
London:
Cassell and Company, 1915
6¼" x 9½".
[ix] + 256pp, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, occasional
foxing otherwise Very Good.
£60.00
eBay
17725
[French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs] [Translated
and with an Introduction by J. O. P. Bland]
Germany's
Violations of the Laws of War 1914-15
compiled under the auspices of the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
London:
William Heinemann, 1915
5½" x 8¾".
343pp, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed and dull,
end-papers foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
17752
A Diplomatist
(G. M. Young) [Edited by Lord Courtney of
Penwith]
Nationalism
and War in the Near East
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, Humphrey Milford, 1915
[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]
6¾" x 10".
[xxiii, 428pp, 6pp appendix. Blue cloth
gilt, ex-Library, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, corners bumped, backstrip split at
front gutter, numerous Library markings,
otherwise Good.
£65.00
eBay
17672
Ahmad, Feroz
The Young
Turks : The Committee of Union & Progress in
Turkish Politics 1908 - 1914
Oxford: Oxford
University Press/Clarendon Press, 1969
5½" x 8¾".
[xiii] + 205pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
15870
Aksakal,
Mustafa
The Ottoman
Road to War in 1914
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010 [3rd imp.;
first published 2008]
6” x 9¼”. [xv]
+ 216pp, maps. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As
New. Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the
First World War in late October 1914,
months after the war's devastations had
become clear? Were its leaders
'simple-minded,' 'below-average'
individuals, as the doyen of Turkish
diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others
have claimed, did the Ottomans enter the war
because War Minister Enver Pasha, dictating
Ottoman decisions, was in thrall to the
Germans and to his own expansionist dreams?
Based on previously untapped Ottoman and
European sources, Mustafa Aksakal's dramatic
study challenges this consensus. It
demonstrates that responsibility went far
beyond Enver, that the road to war was
paved by the demands of a politically
interested public, and that the Ottoman
leadership sought the German alliance as
the only way out of a web of international
threats and domestic insecurities, opting
for an escape whose catastrophic
consequences for the empire and seismic
impact on the Middle East are felt even
today.
£75.00
13600
Ambler, Eric
The Ability to
Kill
London: The
Bodley Head Ltd, 1963
5” x 8”.
222pp. Red cloth gilt in a scuffed and
rubbed d/j, page edges yellowed otherwise
Very Good
£65.00
eBay
17641
Anderson,
Dorothy
The Balkan
Volunteers
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Limited, 1968
5½" x 8½".
228pp, frontis, illustrations, maps. Pale
green cloth gilt in a rubbed, faded d/j,
otherwise Very Good
£20.00
eBay
18044
Anderson, M.
S.
The Eastern
Question 1774 - 1923
London:
Macmillan, 1966
5½" x 8¾".
436pp, maps. Tan cloth in d/j, near Fine
£12.95
eBay
17131
Andrew,
Christopher
Secret
Service: The Making of the British
Intelligence Community
London: BCA/Heinemann,
1985
6" x 9½".
[xviii] + 616pp, illustrations. Blue cloth
blocked in silver in a rubbed,
price-clipped, d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£50.00
eBay
17718
Andrew,
Christopher
Theophile
Delcasse and the Making of the Entente
Cordiale : A Reappraisal of French Foreign
Policy, 1898 - 1905
London:
Macmillan, 1968
5½" x 8¾".
330pp. Dark blue cloth, ex-Rutgers
University Library with library bookplate on
front pastedown, pocket on rear pastedown
and shelf number on spine, otherwise Good
£25.00
eBay
17682
Anon. [Ernest
Charles Buley]
The Real
Kaiser
London: Andrew
Melrose, Ltd, 1914
4¾” x 7½”.
[viii] + 179pp. Black cloth blocked in red
in the remnants of d/j (front panel, front
flap fold and part of spine, all tatty at
edges and with tears), edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good. The author, Ernest
Charles Buley (1869-1933) was an Australian
writer who asked to have this work
published anonymously, so as to not upset
his German relatives.
£250.00
eBay
16482
Anon. and Sir
John Malcolm
Memorandum on
the Subject of Social and Official
Intercourse Between European Officers and
Indian Gentlemen (with appendix containing
Sir John Malcolm's Instructions of 1821 on
the same subject)
Ranchi:
printed at the Government Press, Bihar and
Orissa, 1913
6” x 9½”.
18pp. Original printed thick card covers
with black cloth spine. The covers are
stained, grubby and heavily rubbed. There
are no internal markings and the text is
clean throughout; however, the printing is
crude by modern standards, the paper is
quite thin and has tanned noticeably with
age.
£95.00
eBay
17862
Ashley Leggatt
Stalking
Reminiscences 1914-1918
London: John
Murray, 1919 Printed For Private
Circulation
5½” x 8”.
86pp, portrait frontispiece, illustrations.
Original brown cloth blocked in gilt on the
spine, no d/j, covers rubbed, front free
end-paper missing, inscribed "Gertrude With
the devotion of own author Uncle 2 June
1919", Very Good.
£50.00
11235
Ashton, T. S.
An Economic
History of England : The 18th Century
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1961 [new impression with
minor corrections; first published 1955]
5½" x 8¾".
257pp. Blue cloth gilt in chipped, torn d/j,
edges lightly foxed else Very Good/G
£40.00
11233
Ashworth,
William
A Short
History of The International Economy Since
1850
London:
Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1962 [2nd ed.]
5½" x 8¾".
296pp. Green cloth gilt in chipped, grubby
d/j, stain on edge of text block, else G+/G+
£50.00
eBay
17751
Asquith, H. H.
The Genesis of
the War
London:
Cassell and Company Limited, September 1923
6¼" x 9½".
[xi] + 304pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, head
and tail of spine bumped and frayed,
ex-Library, otherwise Good.
£250.00
14807
Avrich, Paul
Sacco and
Vanzetti : The Anarchist Background
Princeton, New
Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991
6" x 9¼". [x]
+ 265pp, illustrations. Softback, As New
£50.00
10557
Bagehot,
Walter [edited and with an introduction by
Ruth Dudley Edwards]
The Best of
Bagehot
London: Hamish
Hamilton, 1993
6¼" x 9½".
277pp. Black cloth in chipped, grubby d/j
with remnants of label, Very Good
£30.00
eBay
17845
Bailey, The
Right Hon. W. F.
The Slavs of
the War Zone
London:
Chapman & Hall Ltd, April 1917 New and
Cheaper Edition [first published May 1916]
4¾" x 7½".
[xii] + 266pp, frontis, illustrations. Red
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, corners bumped,
end-papers browned otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
16857
Bainville,
Jacques [Translated by Bernard Miall]
Italy and the
War
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1916
5” x 7¾”.
267pp, This volume is ex-Library, rebound,
reading copy only.
£30.00
eBay
18136
Baker, Harold
[M.A.] With an Introduction by the Right.
Hon. R. B. Haldane, K.C., M.P.
The
Territorial Force : A Manual of Its Law
Organization and Administration
London: John
Murray, 1909 First Edition
5” x 7¾”. [xi]
+ 298pp, Publisher’s Advertisement. Brown
cloth blocked in black and gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, spine darkened,
head and tail of spine bumped and frayed,
hinges slack, previous owner's name
inscribed on front free end-paper otherwise
Very Good. Rare.
£295.00
eBay
18031
Baring,
Maurice
Letters from
the Near East : 1909 and 1912
London: Smith,
Elder & Co., 1913
4¾” x 7¾".
187pp, publisher's catalogue. Red cloth
gilt, no d/j, spine faded, edges foxed,
otherwise Very Good
£90.00
eBay
17581
Bavin, W. D.
[Prepared for the Swindon Town Council]
Swindon's War
Record
Swindon: John
Drew (Printers) Ltd., 51 Bridge Street, 1922
First Edition
7¼” x 10”.
352pp, profusely illustrated. Original green
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, the internal
condition of the scarce 1922 First Edition
is reasonably clean, with some damage to
the top corners of a few pages; however, the
spine gutters are badly damaged (although
there has been an attempt to re-glue them)
and the covers are stained.
£60.00
10388
Beasant, John
Stalin's
Silver
London:
Bloomsbury, 1995
6" x 9½".
216pp, ills. Black cloth in slightly frayed
d/j with two thin remnants of clear tape,
top corner of ffep creased else Very Good+
£75.00
eBay
17942
Bell, Julian
[Ed.]
We Did Not
Fight : 1914 - 18 Experiences of War
Resisters
London:
Cobden-Sanderson, 1935
4¾" x 7½".
392pp. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers rubbed, extensive foxing, otherwise
Very Good. The aim of the book is "to give a
wide and varied set of experiences and
reflections" by those who objected to
serving in the military in the First World
War. Contributors include David Garnett,
Stephen Hobhouse, James Maxton, Harry
Pollitt, Bertrand Russell and many others.
Foreword by Canon H. R. L. Sheppard.
£40.00
eBay
17547
Benes, Dr
Eduard [Translated from the Czech by Paul
Selver]
My War Memoirs
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1928 First Edition
6” x 9¾”.
512pp, portrait frontispiece. Original green
cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Library with usual
markings otherwise Good.
£20.00
eBay
17788
Benson, E. F.
The Outbreak
of War, 1914
London: Peter
Davies Limited, November 1933 First Edition
5¼" x 7¾".
169pp, frontis, illustrations. Original
cloth gilt, no d/j, spine darkened, covers
rubbed and discoloured otherwise Very Good
£125.00
15130
Birse, A. H.
Memoirs of an
Interpreter
London:
Michael Joseph, 1967
5¼” x 8½”.
254pp, frontis, illustrations. Ex-library
with d/j laminated onto boards, usual labels
and stamps, a reading copy
£125.00
eBay
18129
Blackburn,
Helen
Women's
Suffrage : A Record of the Women's Suffrage
Movement in the British Isles : With
Biographical Sketches of Miss Becker
London:
Williams and Norgate, 14 Henrietta St.,
Covent Garden, London and 7 Broad St.,
Oxford, 1902
£395.00
eBay
17984
Blunt, Wilfrid
Scawen
The Land War
in Ireland : Being a Personal Narrative of
Events in Continuation of "A Secret History
of the English Occupation of Egypt"
London:
Stephen Swift and Co., Ltd, 1912
5¾” x 9”. [ix]
+ 510 pages + Publisher’s notice. Original
blue cloth gilt, no d/j, spine damage, rear
cover damp-stained, newspaper clippings
tipped in, otherwise Good.
£90.00
eBay
18037
Bobroff,
Ronald Park
Roads to Glory
: Late Imperial Russia and the Turkish
Straits
London: I. B.
Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2006
5½” x 8¾”.
[xii] + 251pp. Black cloth blocked in silver
in d/j, bookplate on front pastedown
otherwise Very Good. Until now, it has been
accepted that the Turkish Straits - the
Russian fleet's gateway to the Mediterranean
- were a key factor in shaping Russian
policy in the years leading to World War I.
Control of the Straits had always been
accepted as the major priority of Imperial
Russia's foreign policy. In this powerfully
argued revisionist history, Ronald Bobroff
exposes the true Russian concern before the
outbreak of war: the containment of German
aggression. Based on extensive new research,
Bobroff provides fascinating new insights
into Russia's state development before the
revolution, examining the policies and
personal correspondence of its policy
makers. And through his detailed examination
of the rivalries and alliances of the Triple
Entente, he sheds new light on European
diplomacy at the beginning of the twentieth
century.
£75.00
13893
Bowden, Mark
Pitt Rivers :
The Life and Archaeological Work of
Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox
Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1991
7" x 10". [xv]
+ 181pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in
d/j, Fine. Mark Bowden has written an
entertaining and thoroughly researched
biography of General Augustus Henry Lane
Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), which describes
his stormy relationships with his wife,
children, colleagues, tenants and
dependants, his military career, his
activities in public education, and his
contributions to anthropology and
archaeology. In particular he assesses his
impact as excavator, field archaeologist,
theoretician and first Inspector of Ancient
Monuments on the development of British
archaeology. This is the most complete
biography of a controversial man whose
methods and ideals have been much quoted but
frequently misunderstood and
misrepresented. A flamboyant polymath, Pitt
Rivers was influential in four fields during
his lifetime: military training,
anthropology, archaeology and public
education. Yet very little is known about
his career, character or motivation. 1.
Introduction, 2. Progress in modern
musketry, 3 Married life, 4. Ethnology and
anthropology, 5. Early archaeological
fieldwork, 6. The Inspector of Ancient
Monuments, 7. Excavations in Cranborne
Chase, 8. Public education, 9. The father
of scientific archaeology.
£125.00
11234
Bowden, Peter
J.
The Wool Trade
in Tudor and Stuart England
London: Frank
Cass & Co. Ltd, 1971 [first published 1962]
5½" x 8¾".
242pp. Red cloth gilt in chipped d/j, edges
dusty, else Very Good/Very Good
£195.00
12383
Brassai
[Translated From the French by Richard
Miller]
The Secret
Paris of the '30s
London: Thames
& Hudson Ltd, 2001 [first published 1976]
8¼” x 10½”.
Unpaginated, profusely illustrated. Large
format softback, covers rubbed otherwise
Near Fine
£36.00
eBay
17728
Brassey, T. A.
[Ed.]
The Naval
Annual, 1896
London and
Portsmouth: J. Griffin and Co., 1896
6” x 9¾”. [x]
+ 445pp, frontis, illus, diag, plate
section, text illus. Blind-stamped blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with some
damp-staining along bottom edges of boards,
spine darkened, shelf number on spine,
Reference Library bookplate on front
pastedown, label removed from front free
end-paper leaving small hole, rear inner
hinge cracked, otherwise Very Good. Speed in
Warships, Sea Training, German Navy, Types
of Warships, Naval strength, German
dockyards & personnel, new foreign
construction.
£495.00
14917
Bretholz, Leo
and Olesker, Michael
Leap into
Darkness : Seven Years on the Run in Wartime
Europe
London:
Constable, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
[xvi] + 273pp, illustrations. Blue cloth in
d/j, As New
£80.00
eBay
17967
Brophy, John
The Five Years
: A Conspectus of the Great War Designed
Primarily for Study by the Successors of
Those Who Took Part in it and Secondarily to
Refresh the Memory of the Participants
Themselves
London: Arthur
Barker Ltd, 1936
6¼" x 9½".
320pp, maps. Red cloth, no d/j, covers
rubbed, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good
£55.00
15195
Brustein,
William
The Logic of
Evil : The Social Origins of the Nazi Party
1925-1933
New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1996
6¼" x 9½".
[xiv] + 235pp. Black boards in d/j, As New
£75.00
11404
Bryant, Arthur
The Years of
Endurance 1793-1802
London:
Collins, 1944 [3rd impression]
5½" x 8¾".
370pp, maps as end-papers. Purple cloth
gilt, no d/j, printed on cheap war-time
paper, else Very Good.
£60.00
11405
Bryant, Arthur
The Age of
Elegance 1812-1822
London:
Collins, 1955 [4th impression]
5½" x 8¾".
450pp, maps as end-papers. Purple cloth
gilt, no d/j, near Fine.
£80.00
11406
Bryant, Arthur
Years of
Victory 1802-1812
London:
Collins, 1958 [5th impression]
5½" x 8¾".
499pp, maps as end-papers. Purple cloth
gilt, no d/j, near Fine.
£75.00
eBay
17932
Buchanan,
Meriel
Petrograd (The
City of Trouble) 1914-1918
London: W.
Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, January 1919 Second
Impression [first published December 1918]
5" x 7¾".
262pp, publisher's catalogue. Blind-stamped
red cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine
stained, faded and frayed along front gutter
with small splits, previous owner's name
inscribed, otherwise Very Good. Scarce.
£150.00
eBay
18089
Buchanan,
Meriel [Mrs Knowling]
The
Dissolution of an Empire
London: John
Murray, 1932
5½" x 8¾".
[xv] + 312pp, frontis, illustrations. Ochre
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
bowed, end-papers discoloured, edges foxed,
otherwise Very Good. Scarce.
£95.00
13840
Burleigh,
Michael
Death and
Deliverance : Euthanasia in Germany, 1900 -
1945
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995
6" x 9".
[xvii] + 381pp, illustrations. Softback, As
New. Between 1939 and 1945, the Nazis
systematically murdered as many as 200,000
mentally or physically disabled people as a
prelude to their genocidal programme used
against the Jews and others. This book
researches how euthanasia evolved in
Germany, and examines the role of those
involved in the programme - bureaucrats,
doctors, nurses, health officials, lawyers,
clerics and patients.
£125.00
14973
Burton, Brian
Flow Gently
Past
Corowa, N.S.W.:
Corowa Shire Council, 1973
5½” x 8¾”.
[xi] + 228pp, illustrations. Green cloth
gilt in a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j
otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
15631
Buttery, John
A.
Why Kruger
Made War, Or, Behind the Boer Scenes
London:
William Heinemann Ltd
5” x 7½”.
[viii] + 298pp + Publisher’s catalogue. This
volume is ex-Library. Original brown cloth
blocked in black. The covers are worn and
soiled. There is marked colour variation to
the boards and a few old stains. The spine
gutters are frayed and split but have been
partially re-glued. The spine ends and
corners are bumped and frayed, with further
splits to the cloth.
£75.00
eBay
17961
Buxton, Noel &
Leese, C. Leonard
Balkan
Problems and European Peace
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1919
4¾" x 7¾".
135pp. Teal cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
ex-Reference Library, otherwise Very Good.
Contents include: The Balkans Before the
War; The Balkan Nations During the War; The
Balkans and the Future.
£25.00
eBay
15940
Buxton, Sydney
A Handbook to
Political Questions of the Day and the
Arguments on Either Side
London: John
Murray, 1892 8th Ed.
5½” x 9”.
[xxii] +436 pages + 32-page Publisher’s
catalogue. Original red cloth gilt. The
covers are rubbed, particularly on the rear
spine gutter (where there is a small frayed
patch) and on the edges, but remain quite
bright, despite a few small marks. There is
a previous owner's name inscribed in pencil
on the front end-paper (dated "Apl/92").
There are no other internal markings and the
text is clean throughout; however, the
paper has tanned with age. The edge of the
text block is untrimmed.
£95.00
eBay
17852
Cairncross,
Sir Alec
The Price of
War : British Policy on German Reparations
1941-1949
Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1986
6" x 9¼". [x]
+ 249pp. Black cloth in a scuffed and rubbed
d/j, otherwise Very Good
£85.00
14886
Cannistraro,
Philip V. and Sullivan, Brian R.
Il Duce's
Other Woman : the untold story of Marherita
Sarfatti, Benito Mussolino's Jewish
mistress, and how she helped him come to
power
New York:
William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993
6¼" x 9½".
685pp, illustrations, map. Light grey boards
in d/j, As New
£40.00
10093
Carlyle,
Thomas
Musaeus, Tieck,
Richter
London:
Chapman and Hall, 1866
5¼" x 7½".
359pp. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering, spine
faded and bumped, tear at top right of
spine, contents Very Good
£40.00
11086
Carter, Howard
The Tomb of
Tutankhamen
London: Book
Club Associates, 1972 [by arrangement with
Barrie & Jenkins Ltd]
8" x 10".
238pp, 17 colour plates, 65 b&w
illustrations. Red cloth gilt in scuffed
d/j, small indentation on rear cover, top
corners bumped (affecting page edges as well
as covers), else G/G
£60.00
eBay
17468
Chambers,
Frank P.
The War Behind
the War 1914-1918 : A History of the
Political and Civilian Fronts
London: Faber
and Faber Limited, 1939
5½" x 8¾".
[xv] + 620pp, maps. Black cloth gilt, no
d/j, re-backed ex-Library with one missing
map; reading copy.
£60.00
eBay
17620
Chirol, Sir
Valentine
Fifty Years in
a Changing World
New York:
Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1928
5¾" x 8¾".
351pp. Light blue cloth blocked in gilt on
the spine, no d/j, spine dull, head and tail
of spine chipped with some loss of
backstrip, ex-Library, otherwise Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
17985
Churchill,
Winston
The World
Crisis 1911-1918 : Abridged and Revised
Edition with an additional chapter on The
Battle of the Marne
London:
Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1942 [one volume,
revised and abridged: first published
February 1931; transferred to Macmillan,
1941; reprinted 1942]
5¾” x 9¼”.
831pp, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, edges dusty otherwise Very Good
£40.00
eBay
17986
Churchill,
Winston
The Aftermath
: being a sequel to The World Crisis
London:
Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1944 [first published
by Thornton Butterworth, 1929]
5¾" x 9".
474pp, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped
otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
18006
Cohen, Israel
[Late Chairman of the Ruhleben Literary and
Debating Society]
The Ruhleben
Prison Camp : A Record of Nineteen Months'
Internment
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1917
5½” x 9”.
[xiii] + 251pp, frontispiece, illustrations,
plan of Camp on front end-papers,
Publisher’s Catalogue. Blind-stamped blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, spine dull and slightly
faded, head and tail of spine bumped, two
stamps of "Newcastle Chronicle Library" on
front end-papers, previous owner's name
inscribed in pencil on Half-Title page,
page 201/202 and facing plate torn in
margin, edges dusty, otherwise Very Good.
Cohen, of London, was one of the fifteen
men released from Ruhleben who arrived in
neutral Holland on 7 June 1916.
£36.00
eBay
17823
Colonel The
Lord Sydenham of Combe; Admiral Sir Reginald
Bacon; General Sir Frederick Maurice;
General Sir W. D. Bird; Sir Charles Oman
The World
Crisis by Winston Churchill : A Criticism
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Limited, n.d. [Second
Edition, c.1928]
6" x 9¼".
192pp, maps, charts. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, bookplate on front pastedown, spine
rubbed and darkened, small blemish on
backstrip, otherwise Very Good
£50.00
eBay
18113
Consett,
Rear-Admiral M. W. W. P. (C. M. G., Naval
Attaché in Scandinavia 1912–1919, Naval
Adviser to the Supreme Council
1920)[Assisted by Captain O. H. Daniel, R.
N.]
The Triumph of
Unarmed Forces (1914-1918) An Account of the
Transactions by which Germany during the
Great War was able to obtain Supplies prior
to her Collapse under the Pressure of
Economic Forces
London:
Williams and Norgate, August 1923 (Second
Impression; first published May 1923)
5½" x 8¾".
[xxiv] + 344pp, frontis, maps. Blue cloth,
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, page edges
and end-papers heavily foxed, otherwise Good
£175.00
eBay
17822
Conwell-Evans,
T. P. [With Introductory Notes by The Rt.
Hon. Lord Noel-Buxton and G. P. Gooch,
D.Litt, F.B.A.]
Foreign Policy
from a Back Bench, 1904 - 1918 : A Study
Based on the Papers of Lord Noel-Buxton
London: Oxford
University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1932
5½" x 8¾".
[xv] + 185pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very
Good
£125.00
11232
Court, W. H.
B.
A Concise
Economic History of Britain From 1750 to
Recent Times
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1962 [first
published 1954]
5" x 8".
368pp. Laminated red cloth gilt, no d/j,
edges foxed else Very Good
£35.00
eBay
16416
Courtney, Kate
Extracts from
a Diary During the War : To My Nephews and
Nieces
Printed for
Private Circulation, December, 1927 [A note
on the final page states: London: Printed by
The Victor Press, Chelsea, 1928]
5½” x 8¾”.
179pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine ends
and corners bumped and slightly frayed,
end-papers and edges foxed (heavily in
places), otherwise just about Very Good.
£80.00
14017
Cramb, J.
Germany and
England
London: John
Murray, 1914 [reprinted September 1914]
5" x 7½". [x]
+ 137pp. Blind-stamped red cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers marked and rubbed, edges &
end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Very
Good. These lectures were delivered in
February and March 1913.
£60.00
15112
Crampton, R.
J.
A Concise
History of Bulgaria
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1997
5¼" x 8½".
[xv] + 259pp, maps, illustrations. Softback,
As New
£40.00
14464
Dash, Mike
Batavia's
Graveyard : The True Story of the Mad
Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002
5¾" x 8¾".
398pp, maps. Brown boards gilt in d/j, As
New. It is the autumn of 1628, and the East
Indiaman Batavia, the largest and newest
ship in the Dutch East India Company's
fleet, is loaded with a king's ransom in
gold, silver and gems for her maiden voyage
to Java. She sets sail with great fanfare,
but is never destined to reach Java, for the
Company has also sent a new employee,
Jeronimus Cornelisz - a disgraced bankrupt
with disarming charisma and dangerously
heretical ideas. With the help of the
Batavia's skipper and a group of disgruntled
sailors, Jeronimus plots a mutiny that
seems certain to be successful - but for one
unplanned event. In the dark morning hours
of 4 June 1629, the Batavia smashes through
a coral reef and runs aground off the west
coast of Australia in an unexplored chain of
islands. The merchant in command of the ship
takes the only boat and sets a course for
Java, some 1800 miles away, to summon help,
leaving over 200 survivors trapped on the
desert island without water, food or
shelter, unarmed and unaware of Cornelisz's
treachery, and soon they find themselves at
the mercy of the mutineers. The book
recounts what happened next - how Cornelisz
seizes control of the island and begins to
kill the survivors, one by one.
£65.00
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18162
Dedijer,
Vladimir
The Road to
Sarajevo
London:
MacGibbon and Kee, 1967 [1st ed]
5¾" x 9".
550pp, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt, no
d/j, otherwise Very Good
£40.00
14266
Deighton, Anne
The Impossible
Peace : Britain, the Division of Germany,
and the Origins of the Cold War
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1993
5½” x 8½”.
[xii] + 283pp, map. Softback, As New. The
Impossible Peace offers a new interpretation
of the British Government's policy towards
Germany in the years immediately following
the Second World War, and reassesses the
part played by Britain in the collapse of
the Grand Alliance and the development of
what came to be known as the Cold War.should
be read by all who have an interest in the
conduct of Britain's foreign affairs . she
has buttressed her case with impressive
archival research and interviews with
surviving participants . all will be in debt
to Anne Deighton's work.thorough and
perceptive study . trenchant, insightful
account.The developments she describes will
be of lasting historical significance, not
only for the forty years of Cold War, which
now seems to have come to its conclusion,
but for our understanding of Britain's
relationship with her European neighbours
and with the United States.
£40.00
14023
Dennis, Peter
and Preston, Adrian [Eds]
Soldiers as
Statesmen
London: Croom
Helm, 1976
5¼" x 8¾".
184pp. Red cloth gilt in chipped and rubbed
d/j, otherwise Very Good. This book examines
the careers of five distinguished twentieth
century soldiers and assesses their
contribution as statesmen. Hindenburg, Byng,
Franco, Eisenhower and De Gaulle all came
into political life in different
circumstances but none did so in the name of
the profession or to establish a praetorian
state. Each was a professional soldier who
found himself drawn into the political
arena. Each of these essays illuminates one
aspect of the range of political,
sociological and historical issues which
now surround the interrelationship of civil
and military.
£35.00
eBay
17940
Dillon, Dr. E.
J.
From the
Triple to the Quadruple Alliance : Why Italy
Went to War
London:
Published for "The Daily Telegraph" by
Hodder and Stoughton, 1915
5½" x 8¾".
[xii] + 242pp, frontis. Red cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed and slightly faded, page
edges yellowed, otherwise Very Good
£20.00
eBay
18142
Durham, Mary
Edith
Twenty Years
of Balkan Tangle
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1920
5½" x 8¾".
295pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed,
spine faded, edges lightly foxed, offsetting
to end-papers, otherwise
£25.00
11631
Eber, Dorothy
Harley
When the
Whalers Were Up North : Intuit Memories From
the Eastern Arctic
Boston: David
R. Godine, 1989
8½" x 8¾".
187pp, ills. Blue cloth in d/j, corners
rubbed, otherwise Near Fine.
£250.00
14335
Ellis, Ralph
Thoth :
Architect of the Universe
Dorset: Edfu
Books, 1998 [Revised 2nd ed.; first
published 1997]
6¼" x 9½".
[xii] + 287pp, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt in d/j, As New. Signed by the author on
the front free end-paper.
£95.00
14355
Evans,
Lorraine
Kingdom of the
Ark : The Startling Story of How the Ancient
British Race is Descended from the Pharaohs
London: Simon
& Schuster, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
[xvi] + 336pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt
in a rubbed d/j, top corners bumped,
otherwise Very Good
£85.00
13570
Fairbairn,
Brett
Democracy in
the Undemocratic State : The German
Reichstag Elections of 1898 and 1903
Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1997
6" x 9". [xv]
+ 408pp. Softback, As New
£125.00
eBay
14186
Feinstein,
Charles H.; Temin, Peter and Toniolo, Gianni
The European
Economy Between the Wars
Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997
5½" x 8¾".
[xi] + 233pp, map, tables. Black cloth gilt,
no d/j [as issued], As New
£50.00
eBay
15197
Fielding-Hall,
H.
For England
London:
Constable and Company Limited, 1916
5¾” x 9”.
144pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, bookplate on front pastedown
otherwise Very Good. Uncommon.
£40.00
eBay
18102
Fischer, H. C.
and Dubois, Dr E. X.
Sexual Life
During the World War
London:
Francis Aldor, 1937
5½" x 8¾".
485pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed and stained, edges foxed, otherwise
Very Good. Scarce.
£125.00
11713
Foss, Michael
The Search for
Cleopatra
London:
Michael O'Mara Books Limited, 1997
6" x 9½".
192pp, colour plates. Blue cloth gilt in
d/j, As New.
£95.00
14822
Fox, Edward
Palestine
Twilight : The Murder of Dr Albert Glock and
the Archaeology of the Holy Land
London:
HarperCollins, 2001
6¼" x 9½".
277pp, portrait frontis. Black cloth in d/j,
NEW
£40.00
eBay
18156
Fox, Frank
The Balkan
Peninsula
London: A. &
C. Black, 1915
5½" x 8¾".
[xii] + 213pp, illustrations. Brown cloth
gilt, no d/j, edges foxed, otherwise Very
Good
£65.00
11563
Freeman,
Charles
The Greek
Achievement : The Foundation of the Western
World
London: Allen
Lane, The Penguin Press, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
494pp, illustrations in colour and black &
white. Teal cloth gilt in d/j, some scuffing
and a few marks on edge of text block,
otherwise Very Good/Very Good
£495.00
eBay
16581
Fussell, Paul
The Great War
and Modern Memory
New York and
London: Oxford University Press, 1975
6" x 9¼".
[xiii] + 363pp, illustrations. Brown cloth
gilt in a scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise
Very Good. An exploration of the first great
hell of the modern world i.e. trench
warfare. The author writes of the blood and
muck of the trenches, and of the literary
means by which that experience has been
assimilated, remembered, and mythologized by
writers such as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert
Graves, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, David
Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, etc. From the
Preface: "This book is about the British
experience on the Western Front from 1914 to
1918 and some of the literary means by
which it has been remembered,
conventionalized, and mythologized. It is
also about the literary dimensions of the
trench experience itself. Indeed, if the
book had a subtitle, it would be something
like "An Inquiry into the Curious
Literariness of Real Life".
£75.00
15106
Gardner,
Laurence
Genesis of the
Grail Kings : The Pendragon Legacy of Adam
and Eve
London: Bantam
Press, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
[xx] + 316pp, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in d/j, As New
£65.00
eBay
14598
Gazur, Edward
P. [with a preface by Gordon Brook-
Shepherd]
Secret
Assignment : The FBI's KGB General
London: St
Ermin's Press, 2001
6¼" x 9½".
[xviii] + 606pp, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in d/j, NEW
£75.00
10998
Gellately,
Robert
Backing Hitler
: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001
6¼" x 9½".
359pp, ills. Black cloth gilt in d/j, bottom
corners bumped, else near Fine
£125.00
14894
Getty, J. Arch
and Naumov, Oleg V. [Translations by
Benjamin Sher]
The Road to
Terror : Stalin and the Self-Destruction of
the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 1999
6½” x 9½”.
[xxvii] + 635pp, illustrations. Black boards
quarter-bound in black cloth, in a rubbed
and creased d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£50.00
14211
Geyer,
Dietrich
Russian
Imperialism : The Interaction of Domestic
and Foreign Policy, 1860 - 1914
Leamington
Spa: Berg Publishers Ltd, 1987
5½" x 8¾".
385pp. Black cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j,
otherwise Near Fine
£20.00
10733
Gibbs, Philip
The Pageant of
the Years : An Autobiography
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1946 [2nd imp.]
5½" x 8½".
530pp, frontis, ills. Blue cloth, no d/j,
produced to War Economy Standard, end-papers
browned, half-inch tear in rear cover, else
G+
£95.00
12482
Gooch, G. P.
Before the War
: Studies in Diplomacy [Volume I only]
London:
Longmans, Green & Co., Vol. I: April, 1936
[2nd imp.; first published January, 1936]
5¾" x 8¾".
[ix] + 438pp. Green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, backstrip split along rear
gutter and re-glued, front inner hinge
cracked otherwise Good
£50.00
11835
Goodwin, Jason
Lords of the
Horizons : A History of the Ottoman Empire
New York:
Henry Holt and Company, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
352pp,map, diags. Blue boards in a rubbed
d/j with one minute tear, otherwise
Fine/Very Good
£30.00
eBay
17587
Gordon,
Elizabeth Anna
Messiah, The
Ancestral Hope of the Ages, "The Desire of
All Nations," As proved from The Records on
the sun-dried bricks of Babylonia, the
papyri and pyramids of Egypt, the Frescoes
of the Roman Catacombs, and on the Chinese
incised Memorial Stone at Cho'ang
Tokyo:
Keiseisha, 1909
8¼” x 11¼”.
212pp, profusely illustrated. Original blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, previous
owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very Good.
£65.00
eBay
17976
Gordon,
Hampden and Dennys, Joyce [Illustrator]
"Rhymes by Hampden Gordon, Pictures by Joyce
Dennys"
Our Girls in
Wartime
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, n.d. [c.1917]
7¼” x 9½”.
Unpaginated, with 25 single-page verses with
full-page 3-colour illustrations facing.
Original pictorial card covers with brown
cloth backstrip, no d/j, covers bowed,
marked and rubbed and scuffed, corners
creased, small tear on bottom edge of front
free end-paper, otherwise Very Good. A
collection of humorous verses and
illustrations reflecting on women's roles on
the Home Front during the First World War
£75.00
eBay
18117
Gottlieb, W.
W.
Studies in
Secret Diplomacy During the First World War
London: George
Allen & Unwin, 1957
5½" x 8¾".
430pp. Red cloth blocked in silver on the
spine in a scuffed and chipped d/j,
otherwise Very Good. From these studies of
the secret diplomacy surrounding the entry
of Turkey and Italy into the First World
War, emerges a picture of the complex
machinery behind the obvious wheels of
international politics. The activities of
statesmen and diplomats are related to the
ramifications of bitg business, banks,oil
and armament companies. The story of each
move and counter-move, told mostly in the
actors' own words and with many quotations
from actual memoranda and dispatches, is
based on sources which are quite new. They
include the Russian collections of
confidential correspondence and the latest
Documenti Diplomatici Italiani. This
material has been integrated with that
taken from all the available collections of
British, French, German, Austro-Hungarian
and American diplomatic documents,
contemporary periodic, diaries,
recollections and private letters of those
involved.
£50.00
15230
Graeme, Bruce
A Century of
Buckingham Palace 1837-1937 : An
Unconventional and Anecdotal Study of the
Palace, Past and Present
London:
Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1937
5½” x 8¾”.
180pp + Publisher’s catalogue,
illustrations. Original blue cloth blocked
in black. The covers are rubbed and slightly
soiled and marked, with some variation in
colour. The spine ends and corners are
bumped. There is a gift inscription on the
front end-paper, dated June 1942. The paper
has tanned with age and there is occasional
foxing, particularly affecting the
end-papers and preliminaries. The text is
clean throughout.
£30.00
15081
Grant, A. J.
and Temperley, Harold
Europe in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1789 -
1932)
London:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1935 [new impression]
5¾" x 8¾".
[xxiii] + 652pp, maps. Brown cloth gilt, no
d/j, head of spine frayed, covers rubbed,
edges dusty otherwise Very Good
£60.00
14301
Grant, Michael
The Emperor
Constantine
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993
6¼" x 9½".
[xii] + 267pp, maps, illustrations. Brown
cloth gilt in d/j, Fine
£60.00
12436
Greenleaf, W.
H.
The British
Political Tradition : Volume 1 : The Rise of
Collectivism; Volume 2 : The Ideological
Heritage; Volume 3 : A Much Governed Nation,
Part 1
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1983
6¼” x 9½”.
[xiv] + 336pp; [xii] + 579pp; [xvi] + 527pp.
Grey cloth gilt in scuffed and rubbed d/js,
top edge dusty, otherwise Very Good. Lacks
the final volume ["The World Outside"].
Please note, as this is a heavy set postage
will be commensurate.
£20.00
11060
Grew, Joseph
C.
Ten Years in
Japan : A Contemporary Record drawn from the
Diaries and Private and Official Papers of
Joseph Grew, United States Ambassador to
Japan 1932-42
London:
Hammond, Hammond & Company Limited, 1945
[2nd imp.]
5½" x 8¾".
480pp, portrait frontis, ills. Original
cloth in a torn and tatty, price-clipped
d/j, previous owner's name inscribed, else
Very Good/Fair.
£20.00
eBay
18036
Griffiths, G.
[International Commission for the History of
Representative and Parliamentary
Institutions]
Representative
Government in Western Europe in the
Sixteenth Century : Commentary and Documents
for the Study of Comparative Constitutional
History
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1968 First Edition
6” x 9½”.
[xviii] + 621pp. Original blue cloth gilt in
a torn, scuffed and rubbed d/j with some
loss, otherwise Very Good.
£30.00
eBay
17831
Haldane,
Viscount
Before the War
London:
Cassell, 1920
5½" x 8".
208pp. Original green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed and slightly stained otherwise
Very Good
£70.00
eBay
16961
Hankey, Lord
The Supreme
Command 1914 - 1918 [2 vols]
London: George
Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1961
6" x 9½".
906pp, illustrations. Blue cloth in scuffed
and rubbed d/j, ex-Library.
£95.00
eBay
17063
Hayne, M. B.
The French
Foreign Office and the Origins of the First
World War 1898-1914
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1993
5½" x 8¾".
[viii] + 328pp. Black cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed and scuffed, ex-Library,
otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
14463
Hayter,
Alethea
The Wreck of
the Abergavenny : One of Britain's Greatest
Maritime Disasters and its Links to Literary
Genius
London:
Macmillan, 2002
5½" x 8¾".
[xv] + 223pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt
in d/j, As New
£40.00
10840
Heffer, Simon
Power and
Place : The Political Consequences of King
Edward VII
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998
6¼" x 9½". [x]
+ 342pp, illustrations. Blue cloth blocked
in silver in d/j. This book had been in Fine
condition until a browser put it carelessly
back on the shelf and damaged the
dust-jacket which now has a crease and a
small tear on the back flap which I have
repaired with archival tape.
£150.00
14850
Herodotus
[Translated by Robin Waterfield, with an
Introduction and Notes by Carolyn Dewald]
The Histories
Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998
5½" x 9". [li]
+ 772pp, maps. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As
New. From the dust-jacket: "Herodotus is not
only known as the "father of history", as
Cicero called him, but also the father of
ethnography. As well as charting the
historical background to the Persian Wars,
his curiosity prompts frequent digression on
the cultures of the peoples he introduces.
While much of the information he gives has
proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also
includes tales of one-eyed men and
gold-digging ants."
£50.00
10138
Herzog,
Maurice
Annapurna
[Conquest of the first 8000-metre peak]
London: The
Reprint Society, 1954
5" x 7¼".
288pp, 16 b/w ills, 1 colour ill, maps.
Green cloth, no d/j, near Fine
£150.00
eBay
17097
Hewitson, Mark
National
Identity and Political Thought in Germany :
Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Third
Republic 1890-1914
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2000
5¾" x 8¾".
[xi] + 288pp. Black cloth gilt, no d/j,
ex-Library.
£125.00
16272
Hoare, Philip
Wilde's Last
Stand : Decadence, Conspiracy & the First
World War
London:
Duckworth, 1997
6" x 9". [vi]
+ 250pp, illustrations. Softback, As New
£195.00
eBay
18014
Hoare, The Rt.
Hon. Sir Samuel [LL.D., M.P.]
The Fourth
Seal : The End of a Russian Chapter
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, December 1930 [first
published November 1930]
5¾” x 9”.
(xiii) + 377pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Original orange cloth blocked in black on
the front cover and in gilt on the spine.
The covers are rubbed and dull, with two
obvious areas of patchy colour loss around
the bottom corners (front and back) probably
caused by damp-staining. There is also a
small stain on the front cover. The spine is
a little dull, with a shallow crease down
the centre. The spine ends and corners are
bumped and frayed with minor splitting of
the cloth. There is also some bowing of the
covers.
£50.00
15042
Holland, Tom
Persian Fire :
The First World Empire and the Battle for
the West
London:
Little, Brown & Co., 2005 [Fifth impression]
6” x 9½”.
[xxx] + 418pp, maps, illustrations. Red
cloth gilt in d/j, As New. In 480 BC,
Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion
of mainland Greece. Its success should have
been a formality. For seventy years, victory
- rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed
the birthright of the Persian Empire. In
the space of a single generation, they had
swept across the Near East, shattering
ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities,
putting together an empire which stretched
from India to the shores of the Aegean. As a
result of those conquests, Xerxes ruled as
the most powerful man on the planet. Yet
somehow, astonishingly, against the largest
expeditionary force ever assembled, the
Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out.
The Persians were turned back. Greece
remained free. Had the Greeks been defeated
at Salamis, not only would the West have
lost its first struggle for independence
and survival, but it is unlikely that there
would ever have been such and entity as the
West at all.
£65.00
10184
Holloway,
David
Stalin and the
Bomb : The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy,
1939 - 1956
New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1994
5¾" x 9".
464pp, ills. Softback in excellent condition
£85.00
eBay
18062
House, Colonel
[Arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour,
Professor of History at Yale University]
The Intimate
Papers of Colonel House : Volume I Behind
the Political Curtain 1912-1915
London: Ernest
Benn Limited, March 1926
6¼” x 9¾”.
[xxiii] + 474pp. Green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, spine slightly faded, head
and tail of spine bumped, edges foxed
otherwise Very Good
£395.00
eBay
18063
House, Colonel
[Arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour,
Professor of History at Yale University]
The Intimate
Papers of Colonel House : Volume II From
Neutrality to War 1915-1917
London: Ernest
Benn Limited, March 1926
6¼” x 9¾”.
[viii] + 502pp. Green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, spine slightly faded, head
and tail of spine bumped, edges foxed
otherwise Very Good
£175.00
11255
Hoving, Thomas
Tutankhamun :
The Untold Story
London: Hamish
Hamilton Ltd, 1979
6¼" x 9½".
384pp, colour and b&w plates, map as
end-papers. Blue cloth gilt in chipped d/j,
otherwise Very Good.
£295.00
eBay
17124
Idle, E.
Doreen
War Over West
Ham : A Study of Community Adjustment : A
Report Prepared for the Fabian Society and
the Ethical Union
London: Faber
and Faber, 1943
4¾” x 7½”.
136pp. Original black cloth gilt. The covers
are rubbed, bumped and bowed. The front and
rear covers are scuffed and dull. The spine
is also rubbed, particularly at either end,
but remains reasonably bright. Probably as
an economy measure, the covers have been
constructed with quite thin card under the
cloth and this has a greater propensity to
suffer from bumping: the spine ends and
corners are bumped and there are a number of
indentations along the edges of the boards.
Also, the covers have bowed outwards
(particularly the front cover). As far as I
am aware, this slim volume has never been
re-printed and the First Edition is rare.
Apart from some passages being marked by a
former owner, the other defects (bumping and
bowing to the thin covers, fairly cheap
paper which has tanned noticeably) are the
result of War-time necessity.
£175.00
eBay
17122
Idriess, Ion
L.
Lasseter's
Last Ride : An Epic of Central Australian
Gold Discovery
Sydney: Angus
& Robertson, 1933 [13th ed.; first published
1931]
4¾" x 7½".
[xiii] + 251pp, frontis, illustrations,
publisher's catalogue, maps as end-papers.
Original cloth in a torn, scuffed and
chipped d/j, covers marked and rubbed, gift
inscription on front end-paper otherwise
Very Good
£75.00
14827
Jerrold,
Douglas
England : Past
Present and Future
London: J. M.
Dent & Sons Ltd, 1950
5½" x 8¾".
341pp. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, gift inscription on front end-paper
otherwise Very Good
£150.00
14000
Johnson,
Jeffrey Allan
The Kaiser's
Chemists : Science and Modernization in
Imperial Germany
Chapel Hill &
London: University of North Carolina Press,
1990
6¼" x 9½". [x]
+ 279pp, illustrations Blue cloth in d/j,
Fine. In the early twentieth century, an
elite group of modern-minded scientists in
Germany, led by the eminent organic chemist
Emil Fischer, set out to create new centers
and open new sources of funding for chemical
research. Their efforts led to the
establishment in 1911 of the chemical
institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for
the Advancement of the Sciences, whose
original staff included several future
Nobel laureates. Although these institutes
were designed to promote "free research"
that would uphold German leadership in
international science, they also came to
promote the integration of science in the
German war effort after 1914. According to
Jeffrey Johnson, the development of the
Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes exemplifies the
origins and dilemmas of one of the most
significant innovations in modern science:
the creation of institutions for basic
research, both theoretical and practical.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society was a quasi-
official institution under the "protection"
of Kaiser Wilhelm II, but it received most
of its funding from German industry rather
than the Imperial Treasury. After 1914,
however, the Kaiser’s chemists and their
institutes provided key support to the
German war effort. Within a few months of
the outbreak of World War I, the institutes
had been integrated into war mobilization
activities. They conducted research both in
weapons, such as poison gas, and in
strategic resources, especially synthetics
to replace naturally produced goods cut off
by Britain’s blockade of German ports. By
examining the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the
framework of both scientific and social
change, Johnson is able to answer questions
that seem puzzling if not viewed from this
dual perspective, such as why German
chemists pushed for institutional change at
this particular time. Johnson argues that
the new institutes arose from a
characteristically modern tension between
internationally set scientific goals and the
competing national priorities of a country
headed for war. Johnson’s sources include
the papers of Emil Fischer; the archives of
several major German corporations, including
Bayer, Hoechst, and Krupp; government
records; and the archives of the Max Planck
Society, which grew out of the Kaiser
Wilhelm Society after World War II.
£45.00
11230
Jones, G. P.
and Pool, A. G.
A Hundred
Years of Economic Development in Great
Britain
London: Gerald
Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1963 [first published
1940]
5½" x 8¾".
420pp. Black cloth, no d/j, spine dull and
damp-stained with loss of colour, edges
dusty, otherwise Good.
£25.00
eBay
17865
Jones, Henry
Arthur
My Dear Wells
: A Manual for the Haters of England : Being
a Series of Letters upon Bolshevism,
Collectivism, Internationalism, and the
Distribution of Wealth Addressed to Mr. H.
G. Wells
London:
Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd, 148, Strand,
1921 First Edition
4½” x 7¼”.
[xvii] + 310pp. This volume is ex-Library
and has been rebound in textured red buckram
with a leather spine blocked in gilt and a
shelf number on the spine. The covers are
rubbed, particularly around the edges, where
there is some fraying, and also quite
heavily scuffed. The leather spine has faded
and is also quite scuffed, with the leather
looking dry. The spine ends and corners are
bumped and frayed. There is a forward spine
lean.
£25.00
11231
Jones, Peter
d'A.
An Economic
History of the United States Since 1783
London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964 [first
published 1956]
5½" x 8¾".
280pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, edges lightly foxed, else Very Good
£35.00
15392
Kennedy, Paul
and Hitchcock, William I.
From War to
Peace : Altered Strategic Landscapes in the
Twentieth Century
New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2000
5¾" x 8½".
[ix] + 325pp. Blue cloth in d/j, As New
£30.00
eBay
18070
Knight, E. F.
The Awakening
of Turkey : A History of the Turkish
Revolution
London: John
Milne, 1909
5½" x 8¾".
[xi] + 356pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt,
no d/j, ex-Library, reading copy
£25.00
14596
Koch, H. W.
In the Name of
the Volk : Political Justice in Hitler's
Germany
New York: St
Martin's Press, 1989
5½” x 8¾”.
[xv] + 325pp. Black cloth gilt in a rubbed
d/j, page edges yellowed otherwise Near Fine
£20.00
15469
Lacey, Michael
J. [Ed.]
The Truman
Presidency
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1991 [first
published in Hardback 1989] Published in
conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars
6" x 9". [ix]
+ 458pp. Softback, As New
£15.00
14911
Lajtha, Edgar
The March of
Japan
London: Robert
Hale & Company, 1936
5¾" x 8¾".
288pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates. Black
cloth in remnants of d/j, edges heavily
foxed, previous owner's name inscribed,
otherwise Good
£4.00
14950
Lamb, Richard
Mussolini as
Diplomat : Il Duce's Italy on the World
Stage
New York:
Fromm International, 1999
6¼" x 9¼".
356pp, illustrations. Black boards in d/j,
Fine. Reveals how Italy was pushed into
Hitler's arms by Anthony Eden's serious
blunder. Was Mussolini's alliance with
Hitler really foreordained? Could Italy
have been kept out of World War II? Did the
policy of England's Anthony Eden really push
Mussolini into Hitler's arms instead of
luring him back to his former policy of
friendship with Great Britain? These are
some of the intriguing questions that
Richard Lamb asks in the course of examining
Mussolini's foreign policy toward Germany
on the one hand and Britain and France on
the other. Surprisingly, Mussolini began
with a deep distrust of Hitler and feelings
of friendship toward England as well as
France, countries he felt might stand up to
Hitler's aggressive intent. He also despised
Hitler's anti-Semitism. But some disastrous
miscalculations, especially by Anthony
Eden, who later headed Britain's Foreign
Office, set the course for the eventual
conflagration. These are the shocking
conclusions that Lamb-in a revisionist
assessment of Mussolini's diplomatic
blunders in his relations with the other
powers in Europe-reached after studying
documents that have been inaccessible for
more than half a century.
£4.00
eBay
17391
Langdon, John
W.
July 1914 :
The Long Debate, 1918-1990
Providence and
Oxford: Berg Publishers Inc., 1991 [The
Legacy of the Great War Series]
5¼” x 8¾”.
[xi] + 196pp. Original pictorial boards, no
d/j, ex-Library with pocket on rear
pastedown, abraded patches on covers from
removal of labels, otherwise Very Good.
£12.00
eBay
16890
Langelaan-Stoop, C.
The White Army
: An Impulse of Many Women for An Action
Against War
Amsterdam: J.
H. de Bussy, 1915
6¼” x 8½”.
27pp. Pamphlet, Imperial War Museum makrings
otherwise Very Good.
£12.00
eBay
17688
Lawrence, T.
E. [Edited by A. W. Lawrence]
Oriental
Assembly
London:
Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1944 [4th
impression; first published 1939]
5½" x 8¾".
[xii] + 225pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt
in protected d/j, Very Good+/Very Good. From
the Foreword: "This volume comprises
practically all the author's miscellaneous
writings, with the exception of "Crusader
Castles". There remains nothing else which I
intend to place before the general public."
The first part of this book contains all
the hitherto uncollected writings by
Lawrence about the East. First a Diary
(Published as "The Diary of T. E. Lawrence
MCMXI" published in a 203 copy edition by
the Corvinus Press in 1937) kept during a
journey which Lawrence made on foot through
Norther Syria in the summer of 1911,
chiefly for the purpose of studying and
photographing Crusaders' castles and of
collecting antiquities for the Museum at
Oxford. The Diary is illustrated by 19
photographs and sketches taken by Lawrence
during his journey. From the Editor's Note:
"The Diary occupies a block of centre pages
in a small canvas-bound notebook, the rest
of which contains personal memoranda
(expense accounts and addresses), data on
the ancient East, translations of Arabic
fables, etc. Each day's happenings were
described that evening and on the following
morning. With the exception of an alteration
in the initial date, the few corrections
seem to have been inserted on reading
through the day's entry immediately after
its completion; there is no sign of any
general revision. The wording changes
character according to the writer's state
of health, the punctuation varies
correspondingly." In addition the book
contains the suppressed Introductory Chapter
to "Seven Pillars of Wisdom; a series of
character sketches of the Arabs whose
portraits Eric Kennington drew for "Seven
Pillars of Wisdom" ("On Eric Kennington's
Arab Portraits" from the Leicester
Galleries Catalogue); an essay "The Changing
East" which appeared anonymously in the
"Round Table" (Sep. 1920); an essay "The
Evolution of a Revolt" which appeared in
the "Army Quarterly" (Oct. 1920) and later
formed the basis for Chapter 33 of "Seven
Pillars of Wisdom". The second part of the
book contains over 100 remarkable and mostly
unpublished photographs taken by Lawrence
during the Arab Revolt. Many of the events
and places, later to be described in "Seven
Pillars of Wisdom", were recorded by him at
the time with his camera.
£16.00
14333
Levene, Mark
War, Jews, and
the New Europe : The Diplomacy of Lucien
Wolf 1914-1919
Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1992
5½" x 8¾".
[xvii] + 346pp, maps. Red cloth gilt in d/j,
As New. The First World War was a major
watershed in modern Jewish history. Out of
it came the Balfour Declaration, a first
critical step in the creation of the State
of Israel, but also a radical redrafting of
the political map of eastern and central
Europe, with dramatic and potentially tragic
consequences for its dispersed but
substantial Jewish minority. In this lucid
work, which was awarded the 1991 Fraenkel
Prize for Contemporary History, Mark Levene
approaches these developments through the
diplomatic endeavours of Lucien Wolf, a
British Jew who was both one of the chief
exponents of the Balfour Declaration and as
co-architect of the Minorities Treaty that
provided an internationally endorsed
framework for Jewish existence in Europe
after World War I. Through an analysis of
Wolf's diplomacy, Levene examines how Jewish
interests throughout Europe were affected by
the Great War and how they were perceived by
the warring powers. Levene shows how British
support for Zionism was bound up with
misconceptions about the Jewish role in
Europe, notably that the revolutionary
movement in Russia was Jewish-inspired and
Jewish-led. Equally, however, he shows how
the diplomatic activities of Wolf and his
Jewish contemporaries heralded the entry of
'world Jewry' as a perceived force in modern
politics, and how Wolf himself was
preoccupied with Eastern Europe and its Jews
at a precarious time. He also analyses how
the war affected Jewish political
self-perceptions, reviewing the context
between assimilationists and Zionists in the
broader framework of war, peace, and
international diplomacy. His consideration
of their conflicting claims says much that
is of relevance to the contemporary
discussion of Zionism as well as to the
problems of ethnic and religious minorities
in nation-states.
£12.00
12491
Lewis, David
Levering
The Race to
Fashoda : European Colonialism and African
Resistance in the Scramble for Africa
London:
Bloomsbury Publishing Limited, 1988
6¼" x 9½".
[xiii] + 304pp, illustrations, map as
end-papers. Red cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j,
page edges browned, otherwise Very
£12.00
15713
Lin Yutang
Between Tears
and Laughter
Toronto:
Longmans, Green and Co., First Canadian
Printing September, 1943
5½” x 8¼”.
216pp. Original black cloth gilt in a torn,
scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise Very
Good.
£6.00
11199
Link, Arthur
S.
Woodrow Wilson
and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917
New York:
Harper & Row (Harper Torchbooks), 1963
[first published 1954]
5¼" x 8".
331pp, ills. Paperback, covers marked and
rubbed, some pencil underlining and
annotations, else G
£4.00
10141
Linklater,
Eric
A Year of
Space : A Chapter in Autobiography
London: The
Reprint Society, 1954
5" x 7¼".
319pp. Green cloth, no d/j, Very Good
£8.00
eBay
18020
Ludwig, Emil
[Translated from the German by C. A.
Macartney]
Jul-14
London & New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929
5½" x 8¾".
226pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed,
corners frayed (exposing card), edges dusty
otherwise Good Plus
£6.00
eBay
18078
Luke, Sir
Harry Charles
The Making of
Modern Turkey : From Byzantium To Angora
London:
Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1936
5½” x 8½”.
[viii] + 246pp, frontispiece, publisher’s
advertisements. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed,
£5.00
12281
Lynch, Don
[Paintings by Ken Marschall; Introduction by
Robert D. Ballard]
Titanic : An
Illustrated History
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1998 [first published 1992]
11¾" x 11¼".
228pp, profusely illustrated. Blue cloth
gilt in d/j, page 5 scratched otherwise Near
Fine. Please note, as this is a heavy book
postage will be commensurate.
£9.00
eBay
17855
Mackinnon,
Daniel Henry
Military
Service and Adventures in the Far East,
Volume I : Including Sketches of the
Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and
the Sikhs in 1845-6 .
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2012 (Collection
- Naval and Military History)
¼½¾” x ¼½¾”.
Paperback. Condition: New. Language:
English. Brand new Book. This two-volume
work, published in 1847 by cavalry officer
Daniel Henry Mackinnon (1813-84) describes
his military service in India, in the
campaigns against the Afghans in 1839 and
the Sikhs in 1845-6. In the first edition,
reissued here, the author is referred to
only as 'a cavalry officer', but in the
second edition of 1849, Mackinnon, a career
soldier and writer, abandons his anonymity.
Volume 1 begins with a lively account of the
Andaman Islands, before 'arrival in India'
at Calcutta and a long march past the
foothills of the Himalayas to the
North-West Frontier province. Mackinnon
fought at the decisive battle of Ghuzni in
the First Anglo-Afghan War, and provides an
eye-witness account of the storming of the
city, though his description of the
political and diplomatic conflicts which
preceded the outbreak of the wars is
somewhat simplistic, and inevitably
Anglophile.
£35.00
10290
Maclean,
Norman
Young Men and
Fire
London:
Penguin, 1994
5" x 7¾".
301pp. Paperback, excellent, little sign of
wear.
£12.00
eBay
17410
Mahoney, Henry
C. (Narrated by) [Chronicled by Frederick A.
Talbot]
Interned in
Germany
London:
Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, n.d.
[c.1918]
4¾” x 7½”.
[ix] + 278pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Grey cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
rubbed, slight spine lean otherwise Very
Good.
£10.00
eBay
17512
Markham,
Violet R.
A Woman's
Watch on the Rhine
London: Hodder
& Stoughton Limited, n.d. [1921]
5½” x 8¾”.
[viii] + 301pp. Original pale grey cloth, no
d/j, covers faded and rubbed, spine
darkened, spine ends and corners bumped and
frayed, ex-Library, Good
£10.00
eBay
17755
Marston, F. S.
The Peace
Conference of 1919 : Organization and
Procedure
London: Oxford
University Press, 1944 (Issued under the
auspices of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs)
5½” x 8¾”.
[xii] + 276pp. Original Green cloth gilt, no
d/j, corners bumped, slight spine lean,
previous owner's name inscribed in ink on
front free end-paper ("M. A. Anderson Oxford
1945"), stamped "Sold by Surrey County
Library" on rear pastedown but no other
Library markings, otherwise Very Good.
£12.00
15118
Mather, John
S. [Ed.] (Research by Donald Seaman)
The Great Spy
Scandal
London: Daily
Express Publications, December 1955
5½" x 8¾".
192pp, illustrations. Red cloth, no d/j,
covers rubbed, otherwise Very Good
£15.00
12143
Matthews,
Christopher
Kennedy and
Nixon : The Rivalry That Shaped Post-War
America
New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1996
6¼" x 9½".
377pp, illustrations. Buff boards with blue
cloth backstrip in a rubbed and scuffed d/j,
otherwise Very Good
£15.00
eBay
16834
Maurice, Major
General Sir F. [K.C.M.G., C.B. Hon. LL.D.,
Cambridge]
Governments
and War : A Study of the Conduct of War
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1926 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
171pp. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j,
ex-University Library
£15.00
eBay
18090
Mavrogordato,
John
Modern Greece
: A Chronicle and a Survey 1800-1931
London:
Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1931
5" x 8". [xi]
+ 251pp, frontis, maps as end-papers. Red
cloth gilt, no d/j, head and tail of spine
bumped otherwise Very Good
£16.00
eBay
17904
Mawson,
Charles Harold
I am Kept :
Extracts from Diary and Letters of a young
soldier of Christ in Bank, Billet and
Battle-field
Newcastle-on-Tyne : Northern Counties Bible
and Tract Depot, [1918?]
3½” x 6¼”.
54pp, portrait frontispiece. Original
printed paper wrappers in worn condition,
spine covered in clear tape, otherwise Good.
"This booklet contains brief extracts from
the diary and letters of Trooper Charles
Harold Mawson (Household Battalion) of
Whitley Bay, Northumberland, who passed
into the presence of the Lord, at
Poelcappelle, N.E. Ypres, October 12th 1917
aged 19 years and 8 months."
£18.00
15433
May, Henry
John and Hamilton, Iain
The Foster
Gang
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1966
5½" x 8¾".
[ix] + 310pp, illustrations, map. Black
cloth gilt in a scuffed and chipped d/j,
edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good
£4.00
eBay
17937
Mayence,
Fernand [Professor at the University of
Louvain] Translated by E. Louisa Thompson
[Cambridge Teacher's Diploma, Hon. I]
The Legend of
the “Francs-Tireurs” of Louvain : A Reply to
the Report of Dr. Meurer, Professor at the
University of Würzburg
Printed by Fr.
Ceuterick, Rue Vital Decoster, 60 — Louvain
— Belgium, 1928
5” x 7½”.
62pp. Original printed paper wrappers, paper
tanned severely with age otherwise Very Good
£8.00
eBay
18045
McLaren,
Barbara [with an Introduction by the Right
Hon. H. H. Asquith, M.P.]
Women of the
War
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1917
5½" x 8¾".
148pp, coloured frontis, b&w plates.
Original brown paper covered boards with
linen backstrip, chipped paper label on
spine and front boards, end-papers quite
discoloured, edges foxed, previous owner's
name inscribed, otherwise Good
£7.00
11983
Mee, Charles
L. Jr.
The End of
Order : Versailles 1919
London: Secker
& Warburg, 1981
6¼" x 9½".
[xviii] + 301pp. Terracotta boards quarter
bound in grey cloth, in a scuffed and
slightly creased d/j, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good/Very Good
£8.00
11229
Micunovic,
Veljko
Moscow Diary
London: Chatto
& Windus Ltd, 1980
6¼" x 9½".
[xxvi, 474pp. Red cloth gilt in laminated
d/j, ex-library with a few stamps on prelims
and classification labels on spine, edges
dusty, otherwise Good
£5.00
eBay
10179
Miller,
Geoffrey
Straits :
British Policy Towards the Ottoman Empire
and the Origins of the Dardanelles Campaign
Hull: The
University of Hull Press, 1997
5¾" x 8¼".
604pp, ills. New softback. Can be inscribed
by the author if desired.
£5.00
15134
Moldea, Dan
The Killing of
Robert F. Kennedy : An Investigation of
Motive, Means, and Opportunity
New York: W.
W. Norton, 1995
6" x 9½".
342pp, illustrations. Red boards
quarter-bound in black cloth, in d/j, Fine
£12.00
eBay
17761
Montgelas, Max
and Schucking, Walther [Eds]
Outbreak of
the World War : German Documents collected
by Karl Kautsky [Translated from the German
under the supervision of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, Division
of International Law]
New York:
Oxford University Press, 1924
6½" x 9¾".
[vi] + 688pp. Maroon cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed with some colour
loss, small tear near head of spine
otherwise Very Good
£8.00
eBay
17539
Morel Des
Boullets, Comptesse Clare (Mme Morel Bey)
From an
Eastern Embassy : Memories of London,
Berlin, and the East
London:
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1920
5½” x 8¾”.
301pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Grey
cloth blocked in green, no d/j, head and
tail of spine bumped, front free end-paper
removed otherwise Very Good. An account of
the life of a Turkish diplomat and his wife
in London, Germany, Roumania and
Constantinople. An intimate account of
diplomatic and social at the end of the
19th and early 20th centuries in a Turkish
embassy in Europe and diplomatic life in
Constantinople. Comptesse Clare Morel Des
Boullets was the wife of a Morel Bey a
Turkish diplomat.
£12.00
eBay
17586
Morel, E. D.
Truth and the
War
London:
National Labour Press Ltd, 1916 [First
Edition]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxvi] + 324pp, portrait frontis. Original
blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped,
otherwise Very Good
£16.00
eBay
18048
Morgan, Roger
The United
States and West Germany, 1945-1973 : A Study
in Alliance Politics
London:
Published for The Royal Institute of
International Affairs and The Harvard Center
for International Affairs by Oxford
University Press, 1974
5¼” x 8¾”.
[xii] + 282pp. Original red cloth blocked in
gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed but
still in reasonably good condition. The
spine has faded significantly with marked
loss of original colour and a tiny stain
just under the title. The spine ends and
corners are slightly bumped. There is a
previous owner's name ("Michael Hurst")
inscribed in ballpoint pen on the front
pastedown dated "April 1996". This is
Michael Hurst (the Oxford Historian,
subsequently Dr Michael Hurst F.R.Hist.S.,
F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A.). The text is generally
clean throughout with the exception,
however, of pages 247 to 252 ("Conclusion")
where a number of passages have been marked
or underlined in red ballpoint pen.
£45.00
10911
Mowat, R. B.
A New History
of Great Britain : Section 2 : From the
Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Anne
London: Oxford
University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1926
5" x 7¼".
Paginated from p.195 to p. 436, b&w plates.
Decorative green cloth, no d/j, covers bowed
else G+
£14.00
10912
Mowat, R. B.
A New History
of Great Britain : Section 3 : From the
Accession of William and Mary to the Treaty
of Vienna
London: Oxford
University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1923
5" x 7¼".
Paginated from p.403 to p.1073, b&w plates.
Decorative blue cloth, no d/j, spine dull
and frayed, reading copy.
£9.00
11544
Murgatroyd,
Sarah
The Dig Tree :
The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-Fated
Burke and Wills Expedition
London:
Bloomsbury, 2002
6¼" x 9½".
372pp, illustrations, colour plates. Black
cloth gilt in d/j, as new.
£8.00
15646
Musson, A. E.
The
Typographical Association : Origins and
History up to 1949
London New
York Toronto: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford
University Press, 1954 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[ix] + 487pp. Green cloth in a scuffed and
chipped d/j, otherwise Very Good.
£7.00
14617
Norwich, John
Julius
A Short
History of Byzantium
London: Viking
(an imprint of Penguin Books), 1997 [1st
thus, being a condensed version of "The
Early Centuries" (1988), "The Apogee" (1991)
and "The Decline and Fall" (1995)]
6¼” x 9½”.
[xli] + 431pp, maps, illustrations. Black
cloth gilt in d/j, As New
£9.00
eBay
17481
Nystrom, Anton
[Translated by H. G. de Walterstorff] With
an Introduction by Edmund Gosse, C.B., LL.D.
Before, During
and After 1914
London:
William Heinemann, 1915
5¾” x 9”.
[xvi] + 368pp. Original green blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed and dull, spine
ends and corners bumped, end-papers very
browned, otherwise Very Good.
£9.00
eBay
17604
Oakley,
William H.
Guildford in
the Great War : The Record of a Surrey Town
Guildford:
Billing & Sons, Limited, 1934
5½” x 8¾”.
[xi] + 12-232pp, illustrations. Green cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, area of
damp-staining and colour loss to top edge of
front and rear boards with some consequent
staining to front pastedown, slight spine
lean, Half-Title page browned and
discoloured, otherwise Very Good. Rare.
£16.00
12080
O'Farrell,
Gerald
The
Tutankhamun Deception : The True Story of
the Mummy's Curse
London:
Sidgwick and Jackson, 2001
6¼" x 9½".
[xvii] + 234pp, maps, illustrations. Black
cloth gilt in a scuffed d/j, otherwise Near
Fine
£15.00
14112
Orlow,
Dietrich
The History of
the Nazi Party, 1919-1933, Volume 1
Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1971
5½" x 8¾".
[xi] + 338pp. Black cloth gilt in a scuffed
and chipped d/j, ex-library with stamps on
end-papers, edges dusty, otherwise Good
£16.00
12280
Parkinson,
Richard
Cracking Codes
: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
London:
British Museum Press, 1999
8½" x 10¾".
208pp, illustrations. Large format softback,
As New
£16.00
11077
Parkinson,
Richard
Cracking Codes
: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
London:
British Museum Press/University of
California Press, 1999
8½" x 10¾".
208pp, ills. Large format Softback, as new.
£6.00
10482
Parsons, F. G.
The Earlier
Inhabitants of London
London: Cecil
Palmer, 1927 [1st]
5½" x 8¾".
240pp, diags. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, no
d/j, top of spine frayed, covers marked and
rubbed, spotting to edges, G
£4.00
eBay
17838
Peel, Mrs C.
S. [O.B.E.]
How We Lived
Then 1914-1918 : A Sketch of Social and
Domestic Life in England During the War
London: John
Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1929
5¼” x 8½”.
[xvi] + 235pp, frontispiece, illustrations,
Publisher’s Advertisement. Red cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers rubbed, spine slightly faded,
previous owner's name inscribed on front
pastedown (dated 1929), one plate detached
and chipped around the edges but re-inserted
and strengthened with white tape, edges
dusty, otherwise Very Good. Uncommon.
£3.00
14035
Petrov, Vadim;
Lysenko, Igor and Egorov, Georgy
The Escape of
Alexei, son of Tsar Nicholas II : What
Happened the Night the Romanov Family Was
Executed
New York:
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998
7¼" x 10¾".
240pp, profusely illustrated. Black boards
in d/j, as new.
£9.00
14259
Phillips,
Jonathan
The Fourth
Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
London:
Jonathan Cape, 2004
6¼” x 9½”.
[xxvi] + 374pp, maps, illustrations. Black
cloth gilt in d/j, As New
£35.00
eBay
16624
Pollard, A. F.
A Short
History of the Great War
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1920 First Edition
5” x 7¾”.
[viii] + 411pp, 19 maps. Blind-stamped red
cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded and snagged,
previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise
Very Good.
£12.00
eBay
17708
Power, Frank
[pseudonym of Arthur Vectis Freeman]
The Kitchener
Mystery
London: The
Rotary Press Limited, n.d. [c.1925]
5¼" x 8½".
98pp, map. Original soft cover with colour
portrait of Kitchener now soiled,
discoloured, and with tears along the
spine, binding staples rusty, text clean,
overall Good. Scarce.
£60.00
eBay
17457
Pratt, Edwin
A.
The Rise of
Rail-Power in War and Conquest 1833-1914
London: P. S.
King & Son Ltd, 1915
5½" x 8¾".
405pp. Dark green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, end-papers browned
otherwise Very Good; formerly owned by
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Augustus
Cortez-Leigh, Royal Engineers (T.D.,
M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E.,
F.R.G.S.), and then subsequently the Oxford
Historian Dr Michael Hurst (F.R.Hist.S.,
F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A.)
£12.00
eBay
17810
Pratt, Edwin
A.
The Rise of
Rail-Power in War and Conquest 1833-1914
London: P. S.
King & Son Ltd, 1915
5½" x 8¾".
405pp. Dark green cloth gilt, no d/j,
ex-Library with usual markings, covers
rubbed, end-papers discoloured, otherwise
Very Good
£75.00
14014
Pratt, Edwin
A.
The Rise of
Rail-Power in War and Conquest 1833-1914
London: P. S.
King & Son Ltd, 1915
5½" x 8¾".
405pp. Dark green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, end-papers discoloured, otherwise
Very Good
£8.00
eBay
18066
Price, G. Ward
In Morocco
With The Legion
London:
Jarrolds, 1937 [Beacon Library]
5¼” x 8¾”.
288pp, end-paper maps. Original red cloth
blocked in white on the spine in a torn,
scuffed and chipped d/j otherwise Very Good
£9.00
eBay
18077
Price, W. H.
Crawfurd
Light on the
Balkan Darkness
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd,
1915
5" x 7¼".
123pp, folding map. Red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed and with a
faint white mark on front boards, edges
lightly foxed otherwise Very Good
£12.00
eBay
17472
Prior, Robin
Churchill's
'World Crisis' as History
London and
Canberra: Croom Helm, 1983
5¼” x 8¾”.
[xvi] + 339pp. Black cloth gilt in a
price-clipped d/j, jacket slightly scuffed,
slight edge foxing otherwise Very Good. The
author analyzes THE WORLD CRISIS sometimes
critically. Set in typewriter font, this was
a low budget production with a small print
run and is now a modern rarity.
£12.00
15159
Reade, Winwood
The Martyrdom
of Man
London: Watts
& Co., 1924 [first published 1872]
4" x 6½".
[lii] + 455pp, publisher's catalogue. Red
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, gift
inscription on front end-paper, offsetting
to end-papers, some creasing to pages
otherwise Very Good
£18.00
14879
Reay, Barry
Watching
Hannah : Sexuality, Horror and Bodily
De-formation in Victorian England
London:
Reaktion Books, 2002
6¼” x 9½”.
200pp, illustrations. Black cloth blocked in
silver, in d/j, As New. From the "Picturing
History" series which presents a new kind of
historical writing in which images form an
integral part: in this case the photos and
texts of Victorian working women by Arthur
Munby (1828-1910). His fascination with this
type of female led him into a long marriage
with Hannah Cullwick, a maidservant.
£15.00
eBay
17633
Roch, Walter
Mr Lloyd
George and the War
London: Chatto
& Windus, 1920
7¼" x 10¼".
222pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded,
spine dull, edges & end-papers foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£60.00
15172
Roth, Joseph
What I Saw :
Reports from Berlin 1920-33
London: Granta
Books, 2003
5½" x 8¾".
227pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Brown cloth gilt in d/j, Near Fine
£175.00
eBay
16915
Rothwell, V.
H.
British War
Aims and Peace Diplomacy
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1971
5½" x 8¾".
315pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, ex-lib with
remains of label on fep and four library
stamps, else G+. Scarce.
£20.00
eBay
17305
Sadler,
Gilbert T. [born 1871]
Our Enemy the
State : A Plea for an Unarmed Commonwealth
of Friends, Trained to Live by Reason, Love
and Freedom
London: C. W.
Daniel, Ltd, Graham House, Tudor Street, E.
C., 1922
5” x 7¾”.
129pp. Original brown paper-covered boards
blocked in dark blue, with blue cloth
backstrip blocked in gilt. The covers are
rubbed, scuffed and stained (the most
noticeable staining being on the rear
cover), with variation in colour and a
prominent diagonal crease across the front
bottom corner. There is also some bowing
out of the covers. The blue cloth backstrip
is rubbed and has darkened a little with
age. The spine ends and corners are bumped
and slightly frayed. There are some
indentations along the edges of the boards.
The end-papers are browned and discoloured.
The front inner hinge is cracked at the
Contents page. The text is generally clean
throughout on slightly tanned paper, though
there is a prominent stain affecting pages
8-9 and some light scattered foxing. A few
corners are creased, particularly at page
15. The edge of the text block is
dust-stained and foxed, with the foxing
occasionally extending into the margins. The
edge of the text block is not trimmed and
is very ragged as a result.
£25.00
eBay
17310
Salmone, H.
Anthony
The Fall and
Resurrection of Turkey
London:
Methuen & Co., 1896
5” x 7¾”.
271pp, portrait frontis of Abdul Hamid and
one other plate (of Murad Bey), publisher’s
catalogue. Decorative green cloth blocked in
silver, no d/j, covers rubbed, end-papers
browned, previous owner's names inscribed,
old pre-decimal price written in ink on
front free end-paper, otherwise Very Good. A
history of Turkey in the latter half of the
19th century with chapters on the
Russo-Turkish War, Abdul Hamid, The Army,
The Navy, The Muhammadan Religion, The
Reform Movement, General Corruption, etc. A
book of quite exceptional rarity.
£15.00
eBay
17898
Salomon, Ernst
Von [ Preface by Goronwy Rees; Translated by
Constantine Fitzgibbon]
The Answers of
Ernst Von Salomon, to 131 questions to the
131 Questions in the Allied Military
Government ‘Fragebogen’
London: Putnam
Great Russell Street, 1954
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiii] + 546pp. Original red blocked in gilt
(which has faded noticeably) on the spine.
The covers are rubbed and have faded in
patches resulting in obvious variation in
colour; there are also a few old marks and
small stains. The spine has faded and is
very dull. The spine ends and corners are
bumped and there are some indentations along
the edges of the boards. There is the
bookplate of the Historian Alistair Horne on
the front pastedown, together with some
pencilled notes on the rear end-paper and
pencilled marks in the margin to a few
pages. The text is generally clean
throughout on tanned paper with scattered
(and occasionally heavy) foxing. A few pages
are also slightly stained. The edge of the
text block is grubby, dust-stained and
lightly foxed.
£25.00
15633
Saunders,
Frances Stonor
Who Paid the
Piper : The CIA and the Cultural Cold War
London: Granta
Books, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
[xi] + 509pp, illustrations. Black cloth in
a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£20.00
13852
Schmidt,
Gustav
The Politics
and Economics of Appeasement : British
Foreign Policy in the 1930s
Leamington
Spa: Berg Publishers Limited, 1986
5½” x 8¾”.
435pp. Blue cloth blocked in silver, in a
rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£15.00
12270
Schneer,
Jonathan
London 1900 :
The Imperial Metropolis
New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 1999
6" x 9½". [ix]
+ 336pp, illustrations. Tan boards in d/j,
As New
£20.00
eBay
17366
Schreiner,
George Abel
The Iron
Ration : Three Years in Warring Central
Europe
New York and
London: Harper & Brothers Publishers,
February 1918
5¼” x 8”.
[xvi] + 386pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Red cloth gilt, no d/j, end-papers
discoloured, toning and foxing to pages
adjacent to photographic plates, edges
lightly foxed, slight spine lean otherwise
Very Good.
£15.00
eBay
16437
Scott, James
Brown [Ed.]
Official
Statements of War Aims and Peace Proposals,
December 1916 to November 1918
Washington,
DC: Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, Pamphlet no. 31, 1921
6" x 9¼".
[xiii] + 515pp. Original paper-covered
boards with cloth backstrip, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, corners exposed, head and
tail of spine frayed and chipped,
ex-library with a few stamps and markings, a
bookplate on the front pastedown and
remnants of a lending schedule on the front
end-papers, otherwise Very Good.
£35.00
eBay
18027
Scott, William
Herbert [With a Foreword By A. J. Grant,
Professor of History in the University of
Leeds and a Roll of Honour compiled by C. E.
Mulholland]
Leeds in the
Great War 1914-1918 : A Book of Remembrance
Leeds:
Published by The Libraries and Arts
Committee, 1923
5½” x 8½”.
[xiv] + 324pp + unpaginated (206pp) Roll of
Honour, frontis, 73 photographs/portraits
etc. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked
and rubbed with old staining, spine ends
and corners bumped, front inner hinge
cracked at Title Page, frontispiece
partially detached and chipped at edge, top
corner of four pages of unpaginated Roll of
Honour missing, edges dusty, otherwise Very
Good.
£40.00
eBay
14872
Seldes,
Gilbert Vivian
The United
States and the War
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1917
4¾" x 7¼".
148pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, spine dull and soiled, ex-Library
with bookplate on front pastedown, lending
schedule on rear pastedown and a few
stamps, shelf number blocked in gilt on
backstrip, otherwise Good Plus.
£20.00
eBay
18082
Seton-Watson,
R. W.
Sarajevo : A
Study in the Origins of the Great War
London:
Hutchinson & Co., Ltd, n.d. [c.1926]
6" x 9½".
303pp, publisher's catalogue. Magenta cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and
stained, foxing, tanned pages, otherwise
Very Good.
£20.00
eBay
18052
Seton-Watson,
R. W. (Robert William), 1879-1951
German, Slav
and Magyar : A Study in the Origins of the
Great War
London:
Williams and Norgate, 1916
4¾" x 7¾".
198pp. Brown cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
edges & end-papers foxed, otherwise Very
Good
£20.00
14345
Skilling, H.
Gordon
T. G. Masaryk
: Against the Current, 1882 - 1914
University
Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1994
5½" x 8¾".
[xv] + 248pp. Black cloth in d/j, As New
£15.00
11857
Smith, H.
Greenhough
Stranger Than
Fiction or Thrills of History
London: George
Newnes Limited, n.d.
5" x 6½".
174pp, frontis. Papered boards, no d/j,
covers rubbed, head and tail of spine
bumped, frontispiece partly detached,
previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise
Very Good
£15.00
eBay
17660
Smith, W.
Sidney
Outlines of
the Women's Franchise Movement in New
Zealand
Christchurch,
Dunedin, Wellington, N.Z., Melbourne and
London: Whitcombe and Tombs, Limited, 1905
4¾” x 7¼”.
103pp, illustrations. Original green cloth
gilt and flecked cloth, no d/j, end-papers
and Title-Page tanned, otherwise Very Good.
Author's presentation copy.
£20.00
15389
Sole, Robert;
Valbelle, Dominique; Davies, W. V.
[Introduction by Neil Mac Gregor]
The Rosetta
Stone: The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs
London: The
Folio Society Limited, 2006
6¾” x 9½”.
[xiii] + 274pp, maps, illustrations.
Decorative cloth in slipcase, Fine. Actually
a two part book : the first part by Sole and
Valbelle on the Stone itself, and the
second on the nature of Hieroglyphics, by
Davies. The story of the Stone is much more
complicated than is popularly thought; it
was not just a question of finding and
translating. In addition to the
Hieroglyphics, the middle language was also
a dead, Demotic Egyptian.
£25.00
14420
Somerset, Anne
Unnatural
Murder : Poison at the Court of James I
London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997
6¼" x 9½".
[xii] + 434pp, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£25.00
12079
Spender, J. A.
A Short
History of Our Times
London:
Cassell and Company Limited, 1934
5½" x 8¾".
[viii] + 318pp, map. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed, head of spine snagged,
edges & end-papers lightly foxed, bookplate
on front pastedown otherwise Good
£30.00
13455
Spender, J. A.
A Short
History of Our Times
London:
Cassell and Company Limited, 1934
5½" x 8¾".
[viii] + 318pp, map. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed, head and tail of spine
bumped, gift inscription on front end-paper
otherwise Very Good
£15.00
11733
Stafford,
David
Spies Beneath
Berlin
London: John
Murray, 2002
5½" x 8¾".
211pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in d/j,
small indentation on front of d/j and front
cover, top corner bumped, otherwise Very
Good/Very Good.
£15.00
eBay
18088
Stead, Alfred
[Compiled and Edited by]
Servia by the
Servians
London:
William Heinemann, 1909
5¾" x 9".
377pp, folding map. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
ex-Library, a number of pages badly opened,
otherwise Very Good
£15.00
eBay
17065
Stevenson,
David
Armaments and
the Coming of War : Europe, 1904-1914
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1996
6" x 9½". [xi]
+ 463pp. Black cloth gilt in d/j,
ex-Library.
£25.00
eBay
17975
Stieve,
Friedrich [Translated by E. W. Dickes]
Isvolsky and
The World War, based on the documents
recently published by the German Foreign
Office
London: George
Allen & Unwin, 1926
5¾" x 8¾".
254pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, edges foxed otherwise Very Good
£15.00
eBay
18112
Stuart, Sir
Campbell
Secrets of
Crewe House : The Story of a Famous Campaign
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1920
5" x 7½".
[xiii] + 240pp, illustrations. Red cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, spine faded,
scattered foxing otherwise Very Good.
£20.00
eBay
17185
Stuermer, Dr.
H. [Late Correspondent of the Kölnische
Zeitung in Constantinople (1915-16)]
Translated from the German by E. Allen and
the Author
Two War Years
in Constantinople : Sketches of German and
Young Turkish Ethics and Politics
New York:
George H. Doran Company, 1917
5” x 7½”.
[xiv] + 17-292pp. Red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, ex-Library, usual markings
otherwise Very Good
£20.00
10799
Sugimoto, Etsu
Inagaki
A Daughter of
the Samurai
London: The
Paternoster Library [Hurst & Blackett], 1937
[first published 1933]
5¼" x 8¾".
288pp. Green cloth, no d/j, covers marked
and rubbed, edges and end-papers foxed, G.
£20.00
14284
Swanson, James
L. and Weinberg, Daniel R.
Lincoln's
Assassins : Their Trial and Execution : An
Illustrated History
Santa Fe, NM:
Arena Editions, 2001
9¾" x 12".
151pp, profusely illustrated. Red boards in
d/j, As New
£15.00
eBay
17841
Swope, Herbert
Bayard [With a Foreword by James W. Gerard]
Inside the
German Empire in the Third Year of the War
London:
Constable and Company Limited, 1917
5¼” x 8¼”.
[xx] + 289pp, publisher’s advertisements.
Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, head of spine snagged,
pages foxed and browned, stain on top
corner of text block, shaken, otherwise
Good.
£15.00
15047
Tacitus,
Cornelius [Translated and with an
Introduction by Michael Grant]
Tacitus : The
Annals of Imperial Rome
London: Book
Club Associates by arrangement with Penguin
Books Ltd, 1993 [3rd impression of this
edition]
5½” x 8½”.
455pp. Blue cloth gilt quarter-bound in blue
leather, no d/j [as issued], Fine
£15.00
10860
Taylor, James
[ed.]
The Victorian
Empire : A Brilliant Epoch in Our National
History [5 volumes]
London:
William Mackenzie, n.d. [c.1887]
7½" x 10".
Three sections [404pp + 392pp + 404pp] bound
as five volumes. Section I The Victorian
Empire; Section II The United Kingdom
Section; III India and the Colonies.
Decorative blue cloth gilt, no, all edges
gilt, head and tail of spines and corners
bumped, prelims. and some engravings foxed,
one segment of Vol. I loose, else a
particularly handsome set. From the
Prospectus: "To furnish an adequate account
of the development and progress of the
British Empire ... is the object of the
present work ... The work will be
illustrated with a series of Portraits of
our distinguished countrymen, beautifully
engraved on steel, and with views of
important historical scenes and events,
maps, plans, &c. It will be completed in
Five Divisions, handsomely bound in cloth,
bevel boards and gilt edges, price Eight
Shillings and Sixpence each." As this is a
heavy set, postage will be charged at actual
cost.
£25.00
eBay
18144
Tcharykow, N.
V.
Glimpses of
High Politics : Through War & Peace
1855-1929
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931
5½" x 8¾".
330pp, b&w plates. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, ex-Reference Library
otherwise Very Good
£15.00
14302
Temple, Robert
The Crystal
Sun : Rediscovering a Lost Technology of the
Ancient World
London:
Century, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
[xiii] + 558pp, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt in d/j, As New
£15.00
10654
Tertz, Abram
[Andrey Sinyavsky]
A Voice from
the Chorus
London:
Collins & Harvill Press, 1976
5¼" x 8½".
328pp. Green cloth in chipped, torn d/j,
some shelfwear and markings to page edges,
else Very Good/G
£15.00
13161
Thomson,
George Malcolm
The Twelve
Days 24 July to 4 August 1914
London: Secker
& Warburg, 1975 [first published by
Hutchinson, 1964]
5½" x 8¾".
228pp. Blue cloth gilt in a scuffed and
chipped d/j, otherwise Very Good
£15.00
11879
Trevelyan,
George Macaulay
England Under
Queen Anne (Volume 2) : Ramillies and the
Union With Scotland
London:
Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1945 [first
published 1932]
5½" x 8¾".
468pp, maps. Green cloth in a scuffed and
chipped d/j with some stains, previous
owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very Good
£10.00
14494
Trevor-Roper,
Hugh [Edited by Richard Davenport-Hines]
Letters from
Oxford : Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard
Berenson
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006
6¼” x 9½”.
[xlii] + 326pp, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in d/j, As New. When they met in 1947
Trevor-Roper, a young historian at Christ
Church, Oxford, was 33. Berenson, the
world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but
still intensely curious about the world.
Trevor Roper promised to write to him and
his letters continued until Berenson's death
in in 1959. Elegantly constructed,
beautifully and precisely written, they are
shot through with high-octane malice, sharp
judgements and blistering comments, and many
wonderfully funny episodes. Trevor-Roper was
an intellectual heavyweight, but subjects
range widely: several brilliant set-pieces
on Oxford college elections, books,
journalism, publishing, politics (postwar
Europe, ex-Nazis and collaborators, the
Cold War, Suez, etc), history and
history-writing, personal life (including
marriage to Earl Haig's daughter Alexandra
after her messy divorce), travel, gossip,
and so on. He has a memorable journey on a
pilgrims' bus in Persia, goes behind the
Iron Curtain to meet Communist dignitaries
and speeds in his glamorous grey Bentley to
visit duchesses in the Scottish borders.
Figures in the letters include Evelyn Waugh,
Isaiah Berlin, A.L. Rowse, Anthony Eden,
Gerald Brenan, A. J. P. Taylor, Arnold
Toynbee, Dimitri Shostakovitch, C. S. Lewis
and Harold Macmillan.
£20.00
11550
Trotter,
William
The Government
of Great Britain
London: J. M.
Dent & Co., 1905
4" x 6".
184pp, frontis. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
end-papers discoloured, lower quarter of
rear end-paper missing, otherwise Very Good.
£15.00
14540
Tuchman,
Barbara W.
A Distant
Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century
London:
Macmillan, 1979
6¼" x 9½".
[xx] + 677pp, maps, illustrations. Brown
cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near
Fine
£15.00
eBay
17922
Vaka, Demetra
Constantine :
King & Traitor
New York: John
Lane Company; London: John Lane, The Bodley
Head, 1918
5½" x 8¾".
300pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates.
Blind-stamped green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, ex-Library
otherwise Very Good
£20.00
12680
Various
SUEZ CANAL.
RETURNS OF SHIPPING AND TONNAGE: 1886, 1887,
& 1888. [In continuation of "Commercial No.
7 : 1888."] Presented to both Houses of
Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. June
1889. COMMERCIAL. No. 13 (1889)
London:
London: Printed For Her Majesty's Stationery
Office by Harrison and Sons, St. Martin's
Lane,
8¼” x 13”.
7pp. Original sewn paper wrappers, now
somewhat dog-eared and chipped at the edge
and with a few old Library stamps. The
paper-covered spine is almost completely
missing. There are no internal markings and
the text is clean though the paper has
darkened with age and is chipped and torn at
the edges.
£20.00
12681
Various
SUEZ CANAL.
RETURNS OF SHIPPING AND TONNAGE: 1894, 1895,
& 1896. [In continuation of "Commercial No.
4 : 1896."] Presented to both Houses of
Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. June
1897. COMMERCIAL. No. 4 (1897)
London:
London: Printed For Her Majesty's Stationery
Office by Harrison and Sons, St. Martin's
Lane,
8¼” x 13”.
9pp. Original sewn paper wrappers, now
somewhat dog-eared and chipped at the edge
and with a few old Library stamps. The
paper-covered spine is almost completely
missing. There are no internal markings and
the text is clean though the paper has
darkened with age and is chipped and torn at
the edges.
£25.00
12407
Various
[Edited by D. Mackenzie]
The Tribute
for the "V.C.s" : Tendered by Artists and
Advertisers of the Empire on the Anniversary
of His Majesty's Recovery
London &
Glasgow: John Horn Ltd, 1930
8½” x 11”.
208pp (including advertisements), profusely
illustrated in colour and b&w. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded,
end-papers foxed otherwise Very Good. An
interesting compilation, redolent of its
time. From the Foreword: "The primary object
of this book is to tender His Majesty a
Tribute of respectful homage on the first
anniversary of his recovery ... The second
object is to provide a fund for the benefit
of necessitous V.C.'s and their dependants
..."
£25.00
eBay
17763
Various
[Edited by George F. Stone and Charles
Wells]
Bristol and
the Great War 1914-1919
Bristol: J. W.
Arrowsmith Ltd, Quay Street, 1920 First
Edition
6¼” x 10¼”.
[xv] + 399pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed but still bright, with
shallow crease on front boards, spine ends
and corners bumped, bookplate on front
pastedown, end-papers and edges foxed
(fairly widespread to preliminaries but then
confined to margins), otherwise Very Good.
A bright copy.
£20.00
13773
Vernon, James
[Ed.]
Re-reading the
Constitution : new narratives in the
political history of England's long
nineteenth century
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996
6" x 9¼". [xv]
+ 262pp. Laminated hard cover, no d/j, As
New. Authors include: Antony Taylor, Patrick
Joyce, Jonathan Fulcher, Ian Burney, Anna
Clark, James Epstein
£25.00
eBay
17713
von Wegerer,
Alfred
A Refutation
of the Versailles War Guilt Thesis
New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1930
5½" x 8½".
[xxix] + 386pp, illustrations. Orange cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, ex-Library with
minimal marks, otherwise Very Good.
£20.00
10587
Wallace, Sir
Donald
The Web of
Empire : A Diary of the Imperial Tour of
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke & Duchess of
Cornwall & York in 1901
London:
Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1902
6¾" x 10".
463pp, appendices, folding map, 78 plates.
Decorative blue cloth, gilt, small split in
front inner hinge, end-papers discoloured,
all edges gilt, small split in front gutter
at head of spine, presentation copy, G+
£20.00
11690
Watt, Richard
M.
The Kings
Depart : The Tragedy of Germany : Versailles
and the German Revolution
London:
Pelican Books, 1973
4¼" x 7¼".
664pp. Paperback; blemish at base of spine
where sticker has been removed, some
yellowing to page edges, otherwise Very
Good.
£20.00
eBay
17380
Wells, Roger
Insurrection -
The British Experience 1795-1803
Gloucester:
Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1983 First
Edition
6¾” x 10”.
£20.00
15065
Wheatcroft,
Andrew
The Ottomans
London:
Viking, 1993
6" x 9½".
[xxx] + 322pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt
in a price-clipped d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£8.00
eBay
18051
Wilson, H. W.
The War Guilt
London:
Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, n.d. [No
publication date but the foreword is dated
1928]
6" x 9¼".
[xxiii] + 366pp, portrait frontis, b&w
plates. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, patch of
discolouration at head of spine, edges
lightly foxed, previous owner's name
inscribed otherwise Very Good
£40.00
16135
Wilson, Harold
New Deal for
Coal
London:
Contact Publications Limited, 1945
5” x 7½”.
[xii] + 264pp. Original black cloth. The
covers are very rubbed. The spine has faded
badly with almost total loss of original
colour. The spine ends and corners are
bumped. There are some indentations along
the edges of the boards.
£195.00
eBay
17609
Wintle, W. J.
Armenia and
its Sorrows : With an Additional Chapter,
bringing the record down to September 1896
London: Andrew
Melrose 16 Pilgrim Street, E.C.,1896 Second
Edition
4¾” x 7¼”.
120pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Original
decorative cloth. The covers are rubbed,
heavily in places, with some loss of colour.
The spine is very dull, with almost all the
lettering rubbed off. The spine ends and
corners are bumped. There are previous
owners' name inscribed on the front free
end-paper and a small tear on the top edge
of this end-paper, together with an old
price written in ink ("1/-"). The folding
map is torn for two inches along one fold.
There are no other internal markings and
the text is clean throughout. The paper has
tanned with age. The edge of the text block
is lightly foxed.
£40.00
12293
Woodward, E.
L. and Butler, Rohan [Eds]
Documents on
British Foreign Policy, 1919 - 1939, Third
Series, volume I, 1938
London: His
Majesty's Stationery Office, 1949
6½" x 9¾".
[lv] + 655pp. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, page
edges browned, head and tail of spine
frayed, spine dull and with some faint
splash marks, otherwise Very Good
£60.00
eBay
17314
Yerta,
Gabrielle and Marguerite [with a Preface by
Mrs Humphry Ward]
Six Women and
the Invasion
London:
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1918 Second
Edition [first published 1917]
4¾" x 7½".
377pp. Blind-stamped red cloth, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, head of spine
frayed and snagged, corners frayed,
£50.00
eBay
17795
Zeman, Z. A.
B. [Ed.]
Germany and
the Revolution in Russia 1915-1918 :
Documents from the Archives of the German
Foreign Ministry
London: Oxford
University Press, 1958
5½" x 8¾".
[xxiii] + 157pp. Original red cloth, no d/j,
edges dusty, otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
16771
Everitt,
Nicholas
British Secret
Service During the Great War
London:
Hutchinson, n.d. [1920]
5½" x 9".
320pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, head of
spine snagged, covers rubbed, end-papers
browned, previous owner's name stamped
otherwise Very Good.
£115.00
eBay
16887
Le Queux,
William
Spies of the
Kaiser : Plotting the Downfall of England
London: Hurst
& Blackett, Ltd, 1909 [1st Ed.]
5” x 7¾”. [xv]
+ 347pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed, top corner of rear
boards missing, front free end-paper
missing, edges and end-papers foxed,
otherwise Very Good. Rare.
£275.00
eBay
17316
Le Queux,
William [Introduction by Nicholas Hiley]
Spies of the
Kaiser : Plotting the Downfall of England
London: Frank
Cass, 1996
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxxvi] + 219pp. Blue cloth blocked in
silver, no d/j, covers rubbed otherwise Near
Fine. With a long and important Introduction
by Nicholas Hiley. "Extraordinary!" I
declared. "But while you've wrested from
Germany the secrets of some of our most
important defences, you have, my dear Ray,
temporarily lost the woman you love!" "My
first duty, Jack, is to my King and my
country," he declared, sitting on the edge
of the table in the spies' photographic
studio.' In these stirring terms John James
Jacox and Ray Raymond, the heroes of William
Le Queux's 1909 novel "Spies of the Kaiser",
dedicate themselves to defeating the army
of German agents at work in Britain. Le
Queux was the first and most prolific of all
British spy writers, but Spies of the Kaiser
was not just another tale of scheming
foreigners and plucky British heroes, for
this paranoid tale of German secret agents
plotting the invasion of Britain played a
major part in the formation of MI5
Britain's counter-espionage organisation. In
his introduction, intelligence historian
Nicholas Hiley explains how Le Queux's
powerful blend of fact and fiction inspired
a whole generation of British secret service
officers, and led MI5 in a nationwide hunt
for a non-existent enemy.
£40.00
eBay
17369
Baden-Powell,
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert [K.C.B.]
My Adventures
as a Spy
London: C.
Arthur Pearson, 1915 Second Impression
[first published in February 1915]
4¾” x 7½”.
131pp, "Illustrated by the Author's Own
Sketches". Blue cloth with paper spine
label, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, spine
damaged, tanned pages, Fair.
£250.00
eBay
17456
Woodhall,
Edwin T.
Spies of the
Great War : Revelations of the Secret
Service
London:
Mellifont Press Limited, n.d. [Second
Impression]
4½” x 7”.
254pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, ex-Library, pages
browned otherwise Very Good. Interesting
first-hand account of Allied intelligence
operations during the first world war,
written by member of the Special Branch
C.I.D. who worked as a Counter-Espionage
agent for British Intelligence during the
war.
£50.00
eBay
17675
Woodhall,
Edwin T.
Spies of the
Great War : Revelations of the Secret
Service
London:
Mellifont Press Limited, n.d.
4½” x 7”.
254pp.Original blue paper-covered boards
blocked in yellow, no d/j, covers rubbed
heavily, pages browned otherwise Very Good.
Interesting first-hand account of Allied
intelligence operations during the first
world war, written by member of the Special
Branch C.I.D. who worked as a
Counter-Espionage agent for British
Intelligence during the war.
£65.00
eBay
17692
Reilly, Sidney
The Adventures
of Sidney Reilly : Britain's Master Spy : A
Narrative Written by Himself, Edited and
Completed by His Wife
London: Elkin
Mathews & Marrot, 1931
5½” x 8¾”.
[xv] + 288pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Original maroon cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine ends
and corners bumped and frayed, folding
illustration carelessly folded and chipped
along the edge, edge of text block grubby,
otherwise Very Good.
£85.00
eBay
17764
Mackenzie,
Compton
Greek Memories
London: Chatto
& Windus, 1939 [revised edition]
5½" x 8½".
455pp, portrait frontis. Original red cloth
blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j, covers
rubbed and faded, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£90.00
eBay
17876
Halsalle,
Henry de
Who Goes
There? Being an Account of the Secret
Service Adventures of "Ex-Intelligence"
during the Great War of 1914-1918
London:
Hutchinson & Co., Ltd, n.d. [Second Edition]
5½" x 8¾".
254pp. Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
end-papers and edges foxed, severe spine
lean otherwise Very Good
£40.00
eBay
17907
Bailey, F. M.
Lt.-Col.
Mission to
Tashkent
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1946 First Edition
5½" x 8".
312pp, frontis, illustrations, map. Red
cloth gilt in a scuffed and chipped d/j,
gift inscription on front end-paper
otherwise Very Good. "This book is produced
in complete conformity with the authorized
economy standards"
£75.00
eBay
17988
Colvin, Ian
The Unknown
Courier with a Note on the Situation
Confronting the Axis in the Mediterranean in
the Spring of 1943 By Field-Marshal
Kesselring
London:
Willaim Kimber, 1953
5½” x 8¾”.
208pp, portrait frontispiece, maps,
illustrations. Original cloth in a torn,
scuffed and chipped d/j otherwise Very Good.
£65.00
eBay
11965
Horne,
Alistair
To Lose a
Battle : France 1940
London:
Macmillan, 1969
5½" x 8¾".
556pp, illustrations, maps. Grey cloth gilt
in a scuffed, chipped and rubbed d/j, spine
creased, head and tail of spine bumped,
covers rubbed, edges dusty, otherwise G+/G
£80.00
eBay
13486
Fuller,
Major-General J. F. C.
War and
Western Civilization 1832-1932 : A Study of
War As a Political Instrument and the
Expression of Mass Democracy
London:
Duckworth, 1932
5½” x 8¾”.
287pp. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, edges very lightly foxed otherwise
Very Good. A bright copy.
£80.00
eBay
14118
Young, Robert
J.
France and the
Origins of the Second World War
London:
Macmillan, 1996
5½" x 8¾".
191pp. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As New
£35.00
eBay
14325
Lane, Ann &
Temperley, Howard [Eds]
The Rise and
Fall of the Grand Alliance, 1941-1945
London:
Macmillan, 1995
5½" x 8¾".
[xvi] + 264pp. Black cloth gilt in d/j, As
New
£70.00
eBay
14384
Read, Anthony
The Devil's
Disciples : The Lives and Times of Hitler's
Inner Circle
London:
Jonathan Cape, 2003
6¼" x 9½".
[viii] + 984pp, illustrations. Black cloth
in d/j, As New. The Nazi regime was
essentially a religious cult, relying on the
hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf
Hitler, and it was fated to die with him.
But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants
competed ferociously for power and position
as his chosen successor. This deadly contest
accounted for many of the regime's worst
excesses, in which millions of people died,
and which brought Western civilization to
its knees. The Devil's Disciples is the
first major book for a general readership to
examine those lieutenants, not only as
individuals but also as a group. It focuses
on the three Nazi paladins closest to Hitler
- Goring, Goebbels and Himmler - with their
nearest rivals - Bormann, Speer and
Ribbentrop in close attendance. Others who
were removed in various ways - like Gregor
Strasser, Ernst R-hm, Heydrich and Hess -
play supporting roles. Perceptive and
illuminating, The Devil's Disciples is above
all a powerful chronological narrative,
showing how the personalities of Hitler's
inner circle developed and how their
jealousies and constant intrigues affected
the regime, the war, and Hitler himself.
£20.00
eBay
14471
Reynolds,
David
The Creation
of the Anglo-American Alliance 1937 - 1941 :
a study in competitive co-operation
London: Europa
Publications Ltd, 1981
6¼" x 9½".
[xiii] + 397pp. Red boards no d/j, As New
£75.00
eBay
14881
O'Connor, V.
C. Scott ['Odysseus']
The Scene of
War : Greece, Italy, Interludes, The British
in France, France at War, France in the
Mediterranean, Egypt, Mesopotamia
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1917
5" x 7½".
[xiii] + 424pp, Publisher’s catalogue. Red
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine faded
and very dull, covers rubbed, head and tail
of spine bumped, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good
£125.00
eBay
15031
Gallaway, Jack
The Odd Couple
: Blamey and MacArthur at War
St Lucia:
University of Queensland Press, 2000
5¾" x 9".
[xiv] + 271pp, illustrations. Softback,
covers rubbed, otherwise Very Good
£50.00
eBay
15294
Martin, M.
Jean [A French Sergeant-Major]
Captivity and
Escape
London: John
Murray, 1917
5” x 7½”.
[xiii] + 180pp, portrait frontis, sketches.
Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, some
minor marks on rear boards, end-papers
browned otherwise Very Good.
£65.00
eBay
15320
An M. P.
[pseud.: Captain the Hon. Aubrey Herbert]
Mons, Anzac
and Kut
London: Edward
Arnold, 1919 [1st Ed.]
5¾" x 9".
251pp, map. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, untrimmed, edges heavily
foxed otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
15492
Ashton, Harold
First From The
Front
London: C.
Arthur Pearson Ltd, n.d.
4¾" x 7½".
167pp, portrait frontis. Original cloth, no
d/j, front free end-paper excised, front
inner hinge cracked, pages browned and
brittle, covers marked and rubbed,
otherwise Good
£40.00
eBay
15534
Wright,
Captain Peter E.
At the Supreme
War Council
London:
Eveleigh Nash Company Limited, 1921
4¾” x 7½”.
191pp, folding map. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed and dull, ex-library though
with minimal markings.
£20.00
eBay
15591
Woods, H.
Charles
The Cradle of
the War : The Near East and Pan-Germanism
Boston:
Little, Brown & Co., 1918
5½" x 8¼".
[xxi] + 360pp, frontis, illustrations, maps.
Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed,
corners bumped otherwise Very Good
£95.00
eBay
15624
Fletcher, C.
R. L.
The Great War
1914-1918 : A Brief Sketch
London: John
Murray, 1920
5" x 7½".
[xiii] + 199pp, maps. Teal cloth, no d/j,
head and tail of spine bumped, tanning to
pages otherwise Good. The author was
formerly a fellow of All Souls' and
Magdalen Colleges, Oxford and acknowledges
assistance from J. Fortescue and C. T.
Atkinson, both well known World War I
writers.
£30.00
eBay
15634
Gibbs, Philip
and Grant, Bernard
Adventures of
War with Cross & Crescent
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1912
5" x 7¾".
241pp, frontis, b&w plates, publisher's
catalogue. Red cloth, no d/j, edges lightly
foxed, end-papers browned, otherwise Very
Good
£90.00
eBay
15643
Amery, L. S.
The Problem of
the Army
London: Edward
Arnold, 1903 First Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
[viii] + 319pp. This volume is ex-Library
and has been rebound by the Library in black
cloth, gilt-blocked on the spine and with
some additional Library markings at the
tail of the spine. The rebound covers are
rubbed and the spine ends and corners are
slightly bumped. The front free end-paper
has been renewed and the rear free end-paper
is partially glued to the rear pastedown,
which has a number of Library markings.
There is a previous owner's name inscribed
on the front end-paper (together with a note
that he purchased the book in 1928). This
end-paper torn along the top inner edge
downwards for an inch and is also heavily
foxed and is stained around the edges, as it
the Title Page.
£70.00
eBay
15684
Dugdale,
Captain Geoffrey [Introduction by General
Sir Hubert Gough]
Langemarck and
"Cambrai" : A War Narrative 1914 - 1918
Shrewsbury:
Wilding & Son Limited, December 1932
5¾" x 8¾".
132pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates. Black
cloth, no d/j, spine dull, covers marked and
rubbed, white lettering on backstrip rubbed
away, previous owner's name inscribed,
untrimmed page edges, otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
15723
Ryan, Charles
S., M.B., C.M. Edin., in association with
his friend John Sandes, B. A. Oxon.
Under the Red
Crescent : Adventures of an English Surgeon
with the Turkish Army at Plevna and
Erzeroum, 1877-1878
London: John
Murray, 1897 First Edition
5¼” x 8¼”.
[xix] + 435pp, portrait frontis, maps. Green
cloth gilt, no d/j covers worn and soiled,
bookplate removed from front pastedown,
otherwise Very Good.
£295.00
eBay
15744
Corday, Michel
The Paris
Front : An Unpublished Diary 1914-1918
New York: E.
P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1934 [third
impression]
5¾" x 8¾".
394pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, spine and
top of covers very faded, otherwise Very
Good
£50.00
eBay
15756
Harris, John
Covenant with
Death
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, February 1961 [2nd
imp. issued in same month as 1st Edition]
5” x 8”.
448pp. Green cloth blocked in black in a
scuffed and chipped d/j, previous owner's
name inscribed otherwise Very Good. "1916 is
a date which darkens the pages of British
history. On war memorials in villages and
cities alike, it marks the date of death for
a generation. This book tells the story of a
voluntary city battalion from its inception
to its destruction on July 1st, 1916, the
first day of the Battle of the Somme. Seen
through the eyes of a ranker serving in the
battalion the narrative moves with majestic
sweep from the days of high patriotic
fervour in England to the final holocaust in
France".
£30.00
eBay
15769
Hamilton,
General Sir Ian
Gallipoli
Diary 1915 (shortened)
London: Edward
Arnold & Co., 1930
5" x 7½".
[xii] + 420pp, illustrations, maps. Original
cloth, no d/j,
£50.00
eBay
15778
Mark VII
[pseud. Max Plowman]
A Subaltern on
the Somme in 1916
London: J. M.
Dent & Sons Ltd, January 1928 Third
Impression [First Edition September 1927;
Reprinted November 1927; January 1928]
5" x 7½". [ix]
+ 241pp. Black cloth blocked in red, no d/j,
covers rubbed, head of spine frayed, gift
inscription on front end-paper otherwise
Very Good. A classic Western Front memoir
by Plowman, who served with 10th (S) Bn.
West Yorks and went on to found the Peace
Movement.
£50.00
eBay
15787
Orex [Bidder,
Major Harold Francis, 1875-]
Three Chevrons
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919 [On Active
Service Series]
5” x 7½”. [ix]
+ 241pp, Publisher’s advertisements. Brown
cloth blocked in blue and red on the spine,
no d/j, ex-Library with remnants of small
label on spine, bookplate on front
pastedown, severe tanning to pages otherwise
Very Good. Rare in this Edition. Letters of
a regular officer, 2nd Sussex, Western
Front 1914-16 & 1917 as Bde. MG Officer,
commander of an MG Coy., an infantry bn. &
on the staff. The 'chevrons' of the title
refer to the service chevrons worn on the
right sleeve for each year of overseas
service, blue for 1914-15 & red for each
subsequent year.
£75.00
eBay
15791
Mottram, R. H.
Ten Years Ago
: Armistice & Other Memories, forming a
pendant to "The Spanish Farm Trilogy"
London: Chatto
& Windus, 1928 [1st]
5" x 7¾". [ix]
+ 180pp. Green cloth gilt in the rare
pictorial dust wrapper designed by B. F.
Shaw, covers rubbed and soiled, backstrip
creased, edges lightly foxed, spine
slightly canted otherwise Good Plus
£60.00
eBay
15808
Young, Robert
J. [Ed.]
Under Siege :
Portraits of Civilian Life in France during
World War I
New York:
Berghahn Books, 2000
5¼" x 8½".
[xxix] + 185pp, maps. Softback, As New
£20.00
eBay
15809
Ziemann,
Benjamin
War
Experiences in Rural Germany 1914-1923
Oxford and New
York: Berg Publishers, 2007 [First published
in 1997 in German by Klartext Verlag, Essen]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiii] + 302pp. Original printed boards, no
d/j [as issued], As New. World War I was a
uniquely devastating total war that
surpassed all previous conflicts for its
destruction. But what was the reality like
on the ground, for both the soldiers on the
front-lines and the women on the homefront?
Drawing on intimate firsthand accounts in
diaries and letters, War Experiences in
Rural Germany examines this question in
detail and challenges some strongly held
assumptions about the Great War. The author
makes the controversial case for the
blurring of front and homefront. He shows
that through the constant exchange of
letters and frequent furloughs, rural
soldiers maintained a high degree of
contact with their home lives. In addition,
the author provides a more nuanced
interpretation of the alleged brutalizing
effect of the war experience, suggesting
that it was by far not as complete as has
been previously understood. This
pathbreaking book paints a vivid picture of
the dynamics of total war on rural
communities, from the calling up of troops
to the reintegration of veterans into
society.
£40.00
eBay
15846
Edmonds,
Brigadier-General Sir James E. (Maps and
sketches compiled by Major A. F. Becke)
Military
Operations : France and Belgium 1918 :
March-April: Continuation of the German
Offensives
London:
Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1937
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxviii] + 550pp, maps. Original red cloth
gilt, no d/j. The covers are rubbed and
there is a rectangular area of severe fading
(with colour loss) on the rear cover. The
spine is also badly faded and is also
mottled. The spine ends and corners are
bumped. This volume is ex-Library with a
bookplate on the front end-paper and a
number of stamps throughout the volume
(including on the reverse of all the maps).
Despite this, the text is clean throughout.
The paper has tanned with age and the edge
of the text block is lightly foxed.
£75.00
eBay
15850
Stuermer, Dr.
H.
Two War Years
in Constantinople : Sketches of German and
Young Turkish Ethics and Politics
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1917
5" x 7½".
308pp. Grey cloth, no d/j, end-papers
browned, edges & end-papers foxed, previous
owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very Good
£200.00
eBay
15867
Mousley,
Captain E. O.
The Secrets of
a Kuttite : an authentic story of Kut,
adventures in captivity and Stamboul
intrigue
London: John
Lane The Bodley Head, 1922 [2nd ed.; first
published 1921]
5¼" x 7¾".
[xvi] + 392pp, frontis, illustrations,
folding map. Green cloth, no d/j, spine
dull, covers marked and rubbed, edges &
end-papers lightly foxed, previous owner's
name inscribed otherwise Very Good
£125.00
eBay
15869
Burleigh,
Bennet
Sirdar and
Khalifa or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
1898
London: George
Bell & Sons, 1899 [4th ed.; first published
1898]
5¾” x 9”.
[xiv] + 305pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Blind-stamped red cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded, repaired
split in rear gutter, bookplate removed
from front pastedown, otherwise Very Good
£125.00
eBay
15895
Agate, Captain
James E.
L. of C.
(Lines of Communication) : Being the Letters
of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service
Corps
London:
Constable and Company Ltd, 1917 First
Edition
5¾" x 9".
[xii] + 288pp. Green cloth, no d/j, covers
worn and soiled, shaken, end-papers foxed,
some damage to front free end-paper,
previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise
Good.
£40.00
eBay
15938
Herbert,
Aubrey [with an introduction by Desmond
MacCarthy]
Mons, Anzac
and Kut
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, n.d.
5½" x 8¾".
270pp. Red cloth, no d/j, covers marked,
scuffed and rubbed, edges & end-papers
lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
15966
Teichman,
Captain O.
The Diary of a
Yeomanry M. O. : Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine
and Italy
London: T.
Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1921
5½" x 9".
284pp, frontis, illustrations, maps. Red
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and very
rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed,
shaken; a complete copy in a worn binding.
The author, a Territorial medical officer in
the RAMC, was attached to the Worcestershire
Yeomanry (Queen's Own Worcestershire
Hussars) in 1914. The regiment was part of
the 1st South Midland Brigade, 1st Mounted
Division, but within a month of the
outbreak of war a 2nd Mounted Division was
formed and the 1st S Midland Brigade joined
it. In April 1915 the division went to
Egypt and in May the brigades were numbered
as Mounted Brigades with 1st S Midland
becoming 1st Mounted Brigade. In August
1915 the division was ordered to proceed,
dismounted, to Gallipoli and Teichman went
with his regiment and into action. The
division suffered heavy losses at Scimitar
Hill (21 Aug) and this attack is described
in some detail. A week later, on Chocolate
Hill, Suvla, he was wounded by shrapnel and
evacuated home. In one entry he describes
how a large packet of maps (in very short
supply) delivered to brigade HQ turned out
to be maps of Cromer, Sheringham and King's
Lynn districts where they had been stationed
in 1914. He rejoined his regiment at Mudros
in early November from where they returned
to Egypt to the Canal zone, but at christmas
Teichman went down with enteric fever and
was again evacuated to the UK. By May he was
back at duty (his brigade had been
renumbered 5th) and during operations in
the Sinai Desert was again wounded, at the
battle of Qatia (5 Aug 1916) which kept him
out of action till the end of October. The
diarist takes us through the rest of the
Sinai campaign and, in March 1917, into
Palestine, first with Murray (battles of
Gaza) and then, from June 1917, with
Allenby, fighting as part of the Australian
Mounted Division. At Huj, on 8 November, he
rode close behind his regiment as it took
part in a charge against some 2,000 Turkish
infantry who were protecting guns manned by
Austrians and Germans; the infantry
retreated and the guns were taken. The
marvellous descriptions of living and
fighting in the desert include an incident
involving a ten foot black mamba and
attempts to kill it using chloroform (corps
HQ had asked for dead but undamaged snakes
for antidotes to snakebites). He left the
Middle East in June 1918 for leave in the UK
after which he was posted to Italy where he
joined 22nd Brigade (7th Division) in
October for the last month of the war.
Teichman ended the war with a DSO, MC, Croix
de Guerre, Croci di Guerra and three
mentions in despatches.
£150.00
eBay
15972
Butler,
Patrick Richard [Major and Bt.-Lieut.-Col.
Patrick Richard Butler, DSO, The Royal
Irish]
A Galloper at
Ypres : And Some Subsequent Adventures
London: T.
Fisher Unwin, 1920
5¾” x 9”.
276pp, colour frontispiece by Lady Butler,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
slight spine lean otherwise Very Good.
£135.00
eBay
16010
Doulgas-Pennant, Violet
Under the
Search-Light : A Record of a Great Scandal
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1922
5½” x 8¾”.
[xix] + 463pp, frontispiece and three other
illustrations. Blue cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, front cover bowed, edges foxed,
otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
16023
Gurner, Ronald
Pass Guard at
Ypres
London: J. M.
Dent & Sons Ltd, 1930
5" x 7½".
[vii] + 241pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed otherwise Very Good. Gurner
served on the Western Front with the Rifle
Brigade and Cyclist Corps, gaining the MC
but being badly wounded. He never really
recovered and committed suicide after a
successful career at Marlborough, Whitgift,
etc.
£100.00
eBay
16036
Fetterless,
Arthur
GOG : The
Story of an Officer and a Gentleman
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916
[2nd Imp.]
5” x 7½”.
[viii] + 12-341pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
slight spine lean, end-papers and edges
foxed otherwise Very Good. Scarce.
£75.00
eBay
16044
Moody, Colonel
R. S. H. [Colonel R. S. H. Moody, CB, psc,
Late the Buffs]
Historical
Records of The Buffs East Kent Regiment [3rd
Foot] Formerly Designated The Holland
Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's
Regiment 1914-1919
London: The
Medici Society Limited, 1922
5½” x 9”. [xx]
+ 554pp, colour frontis, one other plate in
colour, maps, illustrations (including
folding maps and maps as end-papers). Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, previous
owner's name inscribed, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good. During the Great War
eight battalions of the regiment went on
active service and another seven (including
1st Garrison Battalion) served at home. No
less than 32,000 men passed through the
ranks of the regiment of whom some 6,000
died; forty-eight battle honours were
awarded and one VC. Appendices contain
separate rolls of honour of officers and
other ranks with names grouped
alphabetically by ranks; all ranks list of
honours and awards and foreign awards, and
separate lists of Mention in Despatches.
The 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions served
on the Western Front, the 2nd Battalion in
Macedonia with 28th Division following ten
months in France and Belgium, the 1/4th in
India and Aden, 1/5th in India and
Mesopotamia and finally the 10th Battalion
(formed in Egypt in Feb 1917 from two
converted Kent yeomanry regiments) fought in
Palestine and on the Western Front with 74th
(Yeomanry) Division. Apart from one chapter
describing the raising of wartime battalions
and the initial disposition of the two TF
battalions, and one on their affiliated
regiment, the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada,
the chapters of this history each cover
well-defined periods of the war in the
various theatres in which the parts played
by all battalions involved are recorded. The
groundwork or skeleton is based on
battalion, brigade or divisional war
diaries, fleshed out by personal narratives
and diaries provided by men who had fought
and survived. Where possible, the names of
the officers who became casualties in any
action are given in the text after the
record of the battle, but only the number in
the case of other ranks. Again, wherever
possible the recipients of honours (all
ranks) have been named in the account as
news of their decorations reached their
battalion.
£75.00
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16067
Lyon, James
Serbia and the
Balkan Front, 1914 : The Outbreak of the
Great War
London:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2015
6” x 9½”.
[xvi] + 306pp, illustrations. Pictorial
laminated boards, As New. Serbia and the
Balkan Front, 1914 is the first history of
the Great War to address in-depth the
crucial events of 1914 as they played out on
the Balkan Front. James Lyon demonstrates
how blame for the war's outbreak can be
placed squarely on Austria-Hungary's
expansionist plans and internal political
tensions, Serbian nationalism, South Slav
aspirations, the unresolved Eastern
Question, and a political assassination
sponsored by renegade elements within
Serbia's security services. In doing so, he
portrays the background and events of the
Sarajevo Assassination and the subsequent
military campaigns and diplomacy on the
Balkan Front during 1914. The book details
the first battle of the First World War, the
first Allied victory and the massive
military humiliations Austria-Hungary
suffered at the hands of tiny Serbia, while
discussing the oversized strategic role
Serbia played for the Allies during 1914.
Lyon challenges existing historiography
that contends the Habsburg Army was
ill-prepared for war and shows that the Dual
Monarchy was in fact superior in manpower
and technology to the Serbian Army, thus
laying blame on Austria-Hungary's military
leadership rather than on its state of
readiness. Based on archival sources from
Belgrade, Sarajevo and Vienna and using
never-before-seen material to discuss secret
negotiations between Turkey and Belgrade to
carve up Albania, Serbia's desertion
epidemic, its near-surrender to
Austria-Hungary in November 1914, and how
Serbia became the first belligerent to
openly proclaim its war aims, Serbia and the
Balkan Front, 1914 enriches our
understanding of the outbreak of the war and
Serbia's role in modern Europe. It is of
great importance to students and scholars of
the history of the First World War as well
as military, diplomatic and modern European
history.
£60.00
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16078
Harington,
General Sir Charles
Plumer of
Messines
London: John
Murray, 1938 [first published 1935]
5½" x 8¾".
[xviii] + 351pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers marked and rubbed, edges lightly
foxed, previous owner's name inscribed
otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
16108
Various
Authors [with an Introduction by J. R.
Ackerley]
Escapers All :
Being the Personal Narratives of Fifteen
Escapers From War-Time Prison Camps
1914-1918
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1932 [2nd impression]
5" x 7½".
302pp, illustrations, maps. Green cloth, no
d/j, covers rubbed and soiled, backstrip
faded, discoloured and split along rear
gutter, edges dusty, occasional foxing,
previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise
Good
£40.00
eBay
16145
Pryse, Gerald
Spencer
Four Days : An
Account of a Journey in France made between
August 28th and 31st, 1914
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1932
5" x 7½". [vi]
+ 305pp, publisher's advertisements, map.
Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
rubbed, spine faded, front free end-paper
glued to pastedown, title page and edges
foxed, otherwise Good. An unusual and
uncommon account of the opening phase of the
Great War.
£75.00
eBay
16149
Dixon, Alec
Tinned Soldier
: A Personal Record, 1919 to 1926
London: The
Right Book Club, 1941 [also published by
Jonathan Cape, 1941]
5¼” x 7¾”.
314pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, front spine gutter split at head,
end-papers browned, otherwise Very Good.
Classic account of the Tank Corps
£45.00
eBay
16177
Repington,
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles a Court Repington
(Morris, A. J. A. [Ed.])
The Letters of
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles a Court
Repington, Military Correspondent of The
Times 1903-1918
Stroud: Sutton
Publishing for the Army Records Society,
1999
5½" x 8¾".
[xvi] + 364pp, portrait frontis. Red cloth
gilt in d/j with faded spine otherwise Near
Fine
£35.00
eBay
16185
Heltzendorff,
Count Ernst von [compiled by William Le
Queux]
More Secrets
of Potsdam : Startling Exposures of the
Inner Life of the Courts of the Kaiser and
Crown-Prince : Revealed for the first time
by Count Ernst von Heltzendorff, Commander
of the Black Eagle, late Personal Adjutant
to the German Crown-Prince
London: London
Mail, 1917
4¼” x 6½”.
155pp, publisher’s advertisements. Original
salmon cloth, no d/j, covers marked, rubbed
and very faded, inner hinges cracked,
tanning to pages, previous owner's name
inscribed, otherwise Good.
£35.00
eBay
16202
Manwaring, G.
B. [Pseudonym of Brown, Geoffrey Manwaring]
If We Return :
Letters of a Soldier of Kitchener's Army
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1918 First Edition
5” x 7¾”.
[vii] + 165pp, publisher’s advertisements.
Blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed and darkened around edges,
spine dull, corners bumped, previous
owner's name inscribed, annotation on rear
pastedown otherwise Very Good. Uncommon.
£160.00
eBay
16211
Young, Francis
Brett
Marching on
Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa)
London:
William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, November
1919 [New and Revised Edition with colour
plates; first published September 1917]
6” x 9”. [xi]
+ 265pp, colour frontispiece, colour plates
by John E. Sutcliffe, photographs, folding
map. Red cloth gilt in a torn, scuffed and
chipped d/j, covers faded irregularly, head
and tail of spine bumped, a few pencilled
annotations on end-papers, otherwise Very
Good.
£45.00
eBay
16226
Loghe, Sydney
de
The Straits
Impregnable
London: John
Murray, 1917
5" x 7½".
[viii] + 293pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, spine dull and stained
otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
16242
Hope, Thomas
Suthren
The Winding
Road Unfolds
London:
Putnam, 1937 First Edition
4¾” x 7¼”.
349pp. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j, inner
hinges cracked, covers marked and rubbed,
Good.
£125.00
eBay
16260
Dennis,
Rifleman Gerald V. (C/12747) 21st (Service)
Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (The
Yeoman Rifles)
A Kitchener
Man's Bit : An Account of the Great War
1914-1918
Andover,
Hants: Armchair Auctions, 2005 [first
published 1994 by The King's Royal Rifle
Corps Association]
6” x 8¼”.
280pp. Thin printed card covers with black
backstrip, no d/j, Near Fine.
£80.00
eBay
16281
An M. P.
[pseud.: Captain the Hon. Aubrey Herbert]
Mons, Anzac
and Kut
London: Edward
Arnold, 1919 [1st Ed.]
5¾" x 9".
251pp, map. ex-Library Blue cloth, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, untrimmed, edges
heavily foxed otherwise Very Good.
£70.00
eBay
16310
Leigh, James
[Pseudonym of James Cumberbirch]
Nomads in
Flanders : The Romance of an M. T. Column
London: The
Houghton Publishing Co., 1931
5” x 7½”.
200pp. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers worn and soiled, Ex-Library with
sticker removed from front cover, head and
tail of spine and corners frayed, inner
hinges cracked, spine lean, numerous Library
markings (including Lending Schedule on
front pastedown). Rare, but in fair
condition only. The Author recalls service
with a Mechanized Transport unit: "Hitherto
most books on the war have dealt almost
exclusively with the life in the trenches; &
that is well. But the most mongrel dog has
his day; and the men of the Mechanical
Transport who did their bit not unworthily
in that strange, crowded world behind the
Line are also deserving of remembrance in
their degree. After reading some of the
literature of the war with its oppression of
sex & cesspools, this book may seem a
deliberate avoidance of reality. But memory
is a stubborn thing: those men whom I learnt
to know better than I shall ever know men
again, had a standard of morality & decency
not always attained by their peace-time
traducers... The adventures in this book
have developed from small grains of fact."
- from the Author's Introduction.
£95.00
eBay
16311
Strong,
Rowland
The Diary of
an English Resident in France During
Twenty-two Weeks of War Time
London:
Eveleigh Nash, 1915
5” x 7½”.
357pp, publisher’s advertisements. Red cloth
blocked in black on the cover and gilt on
the spine, no d/j, slight spine lean,
covers rubbed, edges & end-papers foxed
(Half Title and Title Pages heavily foxed),
otherwise Very Good
£40.00
eBay
16314
Crowe,
Brigadier-General, J. H. V.
General Smuts'
Campaign in East Africa
London: John
Murray, July 1918 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxiii] + 280pp, portrait frontis, four
maps. Red cloth blocked in black on the
front and gilt on the spine, blind ruled, no
d/j, spine faded, head and tail of spine
frayed, otherwise Very Good. The career of
Jan Smuts is one of the most remarkable
military and political stories of the 20th
century. A gifted guerilla commander against
the British in the Boer War; by 1914 Smuts
was happy to stand with the British as head
of a large army fighting to conquer German
East Africa (today's Tanzania). Sadly the
campaign was not one of his finest hours.
Both the text of this book, and Smuts' own
somewhat defensive introduction, gives a
good idea of why the resourceful German
commander, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, was able
to run rings round the superior allied
forces trying to trap him. Lettow and his
staff, and their small army of trained
native Africans, the 'Askaris', knew the lie
of the land and were able to live off it.
The allied frustration, as they repeatedly
tracked and attacked him, only to find
Lettow melting away to fight another day, is
palpable. Evcentually, the allies, at
enormous cost, succeeded in conquering the
territory and forcing Lettow into
neighbouring areas, but the 1918 Armistice
found him still at liberty and with his
force intact. By then Smuts had long
departed. It is pleasant to record that
Smuts ended his career as a valued member
of Churchill's War Cabinet and South African
Prime Minister, and that in the hungry
months for Germany that followed the Second
World War he was able to supply his old
opponent, Lettow, with food parcels.
£75.00
eBay
16318
Floyd, Thomas
Hope
At Ypres with
Best-Dunkley
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920 [On Active
Service Series]
5” x 7½”.
[xiii] + 234pp, folding map missing,
Publisher’s Advertisements. Blind-stamped
tan cloth blocked in black, no d/j, a few
pages carelessly opened otherwise Very
Good. The battalion which Best-Dunkley
commanded has, since his death, achieved
great things and acquired great fame under
the still more brilliant leadership of his
successor, Colonel Brighten; but we must
never forget that it was Best-Dunkley who
led it on the glorious day of Ypres and
that it was the tradition which he inspired
which has been one of the strongest elements
of esprit de corps in the 2/5th Lancashire
Fusiliers. All who served under
Best-Dunkley remember the fact with a
certain amount of pride, however
unfavourably his personality may have
impressed itself upon them at the time—for
"All times are good when old!". Rare.
£225.00
eBay
16339
Trooper
[Pseudonym of H. L. Hall] (With a Foreword
by General Sir Hubert Gough)
The Four
Horsemen Ride
London: Peter
Davies, October 1935 [1st Ed.]
5” x 7½”.
211pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Red
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
rubbed with patch of discolouration on front
boards, slight spine lean, edges lightly
foxed otherwise Very Good. Rare. Experiences
of a 1914 cavalry volunteer: home service
until posted to an infantry Battalion in the
Salient late 1916, to Italy late 1917 &
back to France 1918.
£70.00
eBay
16345
Ward, Fred W.
The 23rd
(Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First
Sportsman's) : A Record of its Service in
the Great War, 1914-1919
London:
Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd, 1920
5½” x 8¾”.
[vii] + 167pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Original red cloth blocked in
black with grey Regimental motif on front
boards, no d/j, head and tail of spine
bumped, covers very faded, edges lightly
foxed otherwise Very Good. 2nd Div., Western
Front 1915-18. Detailed Roll of Hon.,
awards, nominal roll. The unit was more
popularly known as "First Sportsman's"
because of the large number of prominent
sportsmen in all ranks. It included several
first class cricketers, the lightweight
boxing champion of England, an ex-mayor of
Exeter, to 2nd Division. The battalion saw
action at Vimy Ridge, the Somme and the
battle for Delville Wood.
£95.00
eBay
16350
Anderson, A.
T.
War Services
of the 62nd West Riding Divisional Artillery
Cambridge: W.
Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1920 First Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
[xii] + 142pp. Original grey cloth gilt. The
covers are dull, marked and rubbed with some
old staining and variation in colour (and,
on the top edge of the rear boards, a small
patch of colour loss, with small patch on
the front spine gutter). The spine is very
dull, so that it is hard to read the title.
There are some indentations along the edges
of the boards. The spine ends and corners
are bumped. There is a previous owner's name
inscribed in black ballpoint on the front
free end-paper, together with the number
"92" in green ink. There are no other
internal markings and the text is clean
throughout. The edge of the text block is
lightly foxed, and the foxing occasionally
extends into some pages.
£70.00
eBay
16358
Ward, Major C.
H. Dudley (D.S.O., M.C., Late Welsh Guards)
Regimental
Records of The Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd
Foot) : Volume IV : 1915-1918 Turkey
Bulgaria Austria
Wrexham:
published by The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1995
facsimile reprint of the 1929 Edition
including the maps from the original, but
not the illustrations
7¼” x 10”.
[xvi] + 406pp + 17pp index, frontispiece,
maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, Near Fine.
£40.00
eBay
16365
Heald, Ivan
[Preface by Sidney Dark]
Ivan Heald :
Hero and Humorist
London: C.
Arthur Pearson, Ltd, 1917 Third Impression
4¾” x 7¼”.
191pp, portrait frontis (pencil sketch).
Dark green cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
front cover bowed slightly, head and tail of
spine bumped, offsetting to end-papers,
edges dusty otherwise Very Good. The story
of Heald who was assistant editor of the
English Manchester Sunday Chronicle; served
in the Royal Naval in France; and was killed
with his pilot on December 4, 1916 while
flying over the German lines aged 33. His
newspaper reporting revealed his bravery,
devotion to duty and humor even in his own
misfortunes. Chapter headings include:
London Adventures and Reflections;
Experiences Afield; Sports and Pastimes;
Music and Drama; Letters enroute for
Gallipoli and from the East; Letters from
France, etc.
£120.00
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16432
Strachey
Post D : Some
Experiences of an Air Raid Warden
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1941 First Edition
¼½¾” x ¼½¾”.
Original blue cloth blocked in black in a
torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise
Very Good. This volume is ex-Library: there
is a bookplate on the front pastedown ("The
John Crow Collection Library of the
University of Kent at Canterbury") which is
hidden by the dust-jacket flap and a
"Withdrawn" stamp on the front free
end-paper, plus a stamped number on the
reverse of the Title-Page, but no other
Library markings and the text is clean
throughout. The War-time paper has tanned
with age and The edge of the text block is
dust-stained.
£95.00
eBay
16435
Taylor, Lieut.
George W. [Arranged by his sister, Mrs Roger
Cookson from notes and letters]
The Boy With
the Guns
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919 [The On Active
Service Series]
5” x 7½”.
[xliv] + 197pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Blind-stamped blue cloth
blocked in black in a torn, scuffed and
chipped d/j missing half the spine panel,
covers rubbed, spine faded, pages browned
otherwise Very Good. Rare. Letters from
Gallipoli, Serbia & France, arranged by his
sister with a memoir by his grandfather.
After Eton & Cambridge joined Royal Field
Artillery in August 1914 & was killed in
November 1917 with A/150 Army Brigade R.F.A.
He was recommended for the M.C. but never
received it & his grandfather lobbied in
vain for the award after his death. George
William Taylor was born in 1892, educated
at Eton (“as far as his education was
concerned his time at Eton was largely
wasted. His talent was mathematical, his
taste was for natural science, but he was
forced through the usual dry classical
study, which tended to dwarf rather than to
develop his faculties… but he always
acquitted himself with credit… He owed
much, no doubt, to Eton in veneering and
polish…”) and Trinity College, Cambridge. He
was keen on rowing, beagling, fishing and,
amongst other sports, otter-hunting. On one
occasion he was “badly bitten in the wrist
(and an otter’s bite is no joke)” – this
particular otter had served out its own
form of justice but was inevitably killed.
Taylor was reading for the Bar when war came
and on 15th August 1914 he was commissioned
in the Royal Field Artillery. He served at
Gallipoli with the 67th Brigade R.F.A. then
with the 10th (Irish) Division in Salonika
for several months until invalided sick.
Recuperating in London, he was called to
the Bar by the Inner Temple in July 1916. In
April 1917 he was posted to France but was
wounded on 5th June during artillery
preparations for the Battle of Messines,
returning again to England for hospital
treatment. He sailed for France for the last
time on 17th August 1917 and died of wounds
(gas poisoning incurred on the night of
1st/2nd November) on 9th November whilst
serving with “A” Battery, 150th Army
Brigade R.F.A. He was twenty-five years old
and is buried in Dozinghem Military
Cemetery. Contains an account he wrote of
his experiences in Serbia, his letters from
France, extracts from letters from his
Commanding Officer describing the manner of
his passing and (in the
introduction-cum-memoir by his grandfather)
other extracts relating his good conduct at
Messines etc. for which he had been
recommended for the Military Cross (which he
never received and for which his
grandfather lobbied in vain after his
death). An extract from his grandfather’s
Introduction is quoted in the introduction
to this bibliography.
£250.00
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16436
Orpen, Sir
William
An Onlooker in
France 1917-1919
London:
Williams and Norgate, 1921
7¼” x 10¼”.
123pp, illustrations. Original green cloth
gilt. The covers are rubbed and
damp-stained: there is prominent loss of
colour from the top corner of the front
cover and down the leading edge and also on
the rear cover though not quite to the same
extent. There are also some old ink stains
on the rear cover. The spine has darkened
slightly with age and there are a few
scratches. The spine ends and corners are
bumped and the top front corner is frayed.
£40.00
eBay
16441
Murray, Flora
[CB.E., M.D., D.P.H.]
Women as Army
Surgeons : Being the History of the Women's
Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell
Street September 1914-October 1919
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, n.d. [c.1920]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xvi] + 264pp, folding frontispiece [showing
the Staff of the Military Hospital, Endell
August 1916], illustrations. Blue cloth
blocked in black and gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, otherwise Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
16451
De Groot,
Gerard J.
Douglas Haig
1861-1928
London: Unwin
Hyman Limited, 1988
6” x 9½”.
[xxii] + 441pp, maps, illustrations. Green
cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j,
small stain on edge of text block otherwise
Very Good.
£20.00
eBay
16453
Roll of Honour
Committee
Glasgow
Academy Roll of Honour : Former Members of
the School Who Served in the Great War
1914-1918
Glasgow:
Jackson, Wylie & Co., Publishers to the
University
6” x 10”.
163pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, previous owner's name
inscribed, tanned pages otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
16464
Wyrall,
Everard
The History of
the Fiftieth Division 1914-1919
London: Percy
Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd, 1939
5½” x 8¾” [xi]
+ 376pp, 13 illustrations, 9 maps. Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
16467
Lyon, Thomas
M. ["Private Leo"]
More
Adventures in Kilt and Khaki : Sketches of
the Glasgow Highlanders and Others in France
Kilmarnock:
The Standard Press, 1917
4¾” x 7¼”.
(ix) + 214pp. Original paper covered boards
with brown cloth backstrip and corners, no
d/j, covers worn and soiled with some paper
covering missing from front boards, spine
gutters frayed, spine ends and corners
bumped and frayed, end-papers discoloured,
presentation inscription on front free
end-paper signed Nan Lyon 1917, internally
clean, just about Very Good. Second volume
of Author's experiences with the 9th
(Glasgow Highlanders) Bn. HLI, containining
episodes & observations during service in
France between June 1915 and Sept. 1916.
£80.00
eBay
16469
Stanley,
Monica M.
My Diary in
Serbia : April 1, 1915 - Nov. 1, 1915
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
Limited, 1916
4¾" x 7¼".
128pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue
cloth, no d/j, end-papers browned,
ex-College Library, otherwise Very Good
£125.00
eBay
16494
Macgill,
Patrick
The Amateur
Army
London:
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1918 4th Edition
5” x 7½”.
122pp, publisher’s advertisements. Green
cloth blocked in red, no d/j, head of spine
snagged, damage to top edge, tanned pages,
otherwise Very Good.
£30.00
eBay
16496
Souttar, H. S.
A Surgeon in
Belgium
London: Edward
Arnold, 1915 Second Impression
5" x 7½". [xi]
+ 216pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed with colour loss to front
edge, previous owner's name inscribed
otherwise Very Good.
£70.00
eBay
16499
Headlam,
Cuthbert [Late Lieut.-Colonel, General
Staff, B.E.F]
History of the
Guards Division in the Great War 1915-1918
[2 vols.]
London: John
Murray, 1924
6” x 9¼”.
[xvii] + 322pp, [xi] +358pp, coloured
frontispieces, maps. Decorative red cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
spines faded, head of spines snagged and
frayed, edges & end-papers lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good
£125.00
eBay
16513
Sondhaus,
Lawrence
World War One
: The Global Revolution
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2011
6¾” x 10”.
[xv] + 544pp, maps, illustrations. Original
laminated printed boards, no d/j, Near Fine.
£55.00
eBay
16521
Garnett, Mrs
Kenneth Gordon
Garnett, M.C., R.F.A. : 30 July 1892 - 22
August 1917
Rochester: The
Stanhope Press Ltd, 1937
5" x 7½".
71pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue
cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed and slightly
discoloured, otherwise Very Good.
Presentation copy from Kenneth's sisters.
£150.00
eBay
16523
Scott, Ralph
[Preface by Major-General Sir Frederick
Maurice] (Scott is pseudonym for George
Scott Atkinson)
A Soldier's
Diary
London: W.
Collins & Co. Ltd, 1930
5½” x 8”.
194pp. Original cloth, no d/j, Very Good.
There is a previous owner's name ("Aubrey St
H. Aubrey") inscribed in ink on the front
free end-paper, 21st December 1931. The
end-papers are very browned and discoloured.
£50.00
eBay
16547
Hope, Thomas
Suthren
The Winding
Road Unfolds
London: Tandem
Books Limited, 33 Beauchamp Place, SW3, 1965
4¼” x 7”.
223pp. Paperback, severely tanned pages
otherwise Very Good
£36.00
eBay
16550
Parritt,
Brigadier B. A. H. [Director, Intelligence
Corps]
The
Intelligencers : The Story of British
Military Intelligence up to 1914
Ashford, Kent:
Intelligence Corps Association, 1983 [2nd
Ed.; first published 1971]
6¼” x 9¾”.
[xvi] + 238pp, illustrations. Green
leatherette gilt in a torn, scuffed and
chipped d/j, ex-Library with marks on
pastedown from removal of old tape,
remnants of label and other markings on
Half-Title page, slight spine lean, contents
clean and Good overall.
£125.00
eBay
16552
Desson,
Georges [Authorized Translation by Lee Holt]
A Hostage in
Germany
London:
Constable & Company Ltd, 1917 First Edition
5” x 8”.
[viii] + 145pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, covers rubbed, spine very faded,
end-papers and edges foxed, old Prize Label
on front pastedown dated 1918, inner hinges
tender, otherwise Very Good.
£70.00
eBay
16565
Sinclair, May
A Journal of
Impressions in Belgium
London:
Hutchinson & Co., 1915
5” x 7¾”. [xi]
+ 332pp + iv Postscript + Publisher’s
catalogue. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, old "Day's Library" sticker on front
cover, spine ends and corners bumped,
end-papers browned, top corner of pages
277-300 creased otherwise Very Good. Rare in
this Edition.
£95.00
eBay
16566
Lindsay,
Lt.-Col. J. H. (Edited by) Foreword by
Field-Marshal Earl Haig
The London
Scottish in the Great War
London:
Regimental Headquarters, March 1926 [Second
Edition; first published October 1925]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xvi] + 425pp, eighteen full-page b&w
illustrations, plus fold-out of the War
Memorial located following the index,
twenty-two folding maps printed on light,
transparent stock. Blue cloth gilt with
Regimental badge to front boards, no d/j,
head and tail of spine bumped and frayed,
white mark in centre of spine, rear cover
stained, previous owner's name inscribed,
edges foxed otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
16571
Cassells,
Scout Joe
With the Black
Watch : The Story of the Marne
London: Andrew
Melrose Ltd, n.d. [c.1917]
4¾” x 7½”.
[vii] + 248pp. Blue cloth blocked in yellow,
no d/j, covers rubbed, slight spine lean
otherwise Very Good. The Author was a
first-class reservist mobilized in 1914
with the 1st Bn. Black Watch (Royal
Highlanders). Active service from Mons to
the Marne as a battalion runner & scout
until wounded in Jan. 1915, followed by a
short description of hospital life until
discharged on 5th August 1915, “No longer
physically fit for war service.”
£70.00
eBay
16585
Nobbs, Captain
Gilbert
Englishman,
Kamerad! : Right of the British Line
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1918
4¾" x 7¾".
[xii] + 210pp, portrait frontis. Original
cloth, no d/j, covers worn and soiled with
some fraying to corners and head of spine,
spine slightly canted, edges browned,
otherwise Good. Scarce.
£45.00
eBay
16588
Buckley,
Francis
Q. 6. A and
Other Places : Recollections of 1916, 1917,
1918
London:
Spottiswode, Ballatyne & Co. Ltd, 1920
5” x 7½”. [x]
+ 239pp, with drawings by the Author of
battle settings on 4 plates, and with other
maps in the text. Red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded,
particularly the spine, end-papers browned,
otherwise Very Good. Author's presentation
copy.
£295.00
eBay
16589
Price, G. Ward
The Story of
the Salonica Army
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1918
5" x 7½".
[xiii] + 298pp, frontis, illustrations, map.
Red cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
spine faded, edges foxed, otherwise Good
Plus
£195.00
eBay
16591
Floyd, Thomas
Hope
At Ypres with
Best-Dunkley
New York: John
Lane Company, 1920 [On Active Service
Series]
5” x 7½”.
[xiii] + 234pp, folding map. Publisher’s
Advertisements. Blind-stamped tan cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, a few pages
carelessly opened otherwise Very Good. The
battalion which Best-Dunkley commanded has,
since his death, achieved great things and
acquired great fame under the still more
brilliant leadership of his successor,
Colonel Brighten; but we must never forget
that it was Best-Dunkley who led it on the
glorious day of Ypres and that it was the
tradition which he inspired which has been
one of the strongest elements of esprit de
corps in the 2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers. All
who served under Best-Dunkley remember the
fact with a certain amount of pride, however
unfavourably his personality may have
impressed itself upon them at the time—for
"All times are good when old!". Rare.
£175.00
eBay
16604
Macnaughtan,
S. [Edited by her Niece, Mrs Lionel Salmon
(Betty Keays-Young)]
My War
Experiences in Two Continents
London: John
Murray, 1919
5½" x 8¾".
[xii] + 286pp, portrait frontis. Green cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed,
edges dusty, otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
16620
Prior, Robin
and Wilson, Trevor
Command on the
Western Front : The Military Career of Sir
Henry Rawlinson 1914-1918
Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, 1992
6” x 9½”.
[viii] + 421pp, sketch maps. Black cloth
gilt in d/j, As New.
£40.00
eBay
16635
Crookenden,
Arthur [Colonel of the Regiment]
The History of
the Cheshire Regiment in the Great War [The
22nd (Cheshire) Regiment]
Printed by W.
H. Evans, Sons & Co., Chester, n.d. [1939]
Second Edition
7¼” x 10”.
[xiii] + 358pp., 4to, illustrations, maps
(many folding). Original red cloth gilt, no
d/j, spine slightly faded, corners bumped,
otherwise Very Good. Very clean internally.
Excellent history, mainly Western Front,
also Palestine, Mespot. &c. Roll of Hon.,
awards.
£90.00
eBay
16638
Price, W. H.
Crawfurd
Serbia's Part
in the War : Volume I : The Rampart Against
Pan-Germanism
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
Ltd, 1918
5½" x 8¾".
250pp, portrait frontispiece, 4 maps [one
folding]. Green cloth, no d/j, frontispiece
missing, edges foxed, otherwise Good. Volume
II, despite being referred to in an
advertisement in the rear of this volume,
never appeared.
£150.00
eBay
16640
Wyrall,
Everard [with a Foreword by Field Marshal
Sir G. F. Milne]
The
Gloucestershire Regiment in The War 1914 -
1918 : The Records of the 1st (28th) 2nd
(61st) 3rd (Special Reserve) and 4th, 5th
and 6th (First-Line T. A.) Battalions
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1931 [1st Ed.]
5½” x 9”. [ix]
+ 357pp, portrait frontis, twenty maps. Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, rear
boards damp-stained, front cover bowed,
otherwise Very Good. As the subtitle states
these are the records of the 1st (28th
Foot), 2nd (61st Foot)), 3rd (Special
Reserve) and 4th, 5th and 6th (First-Line
T.A.) Battalions, in other words this is
the history of the battalions of the
regiment which existed prior to the outbreak
of war. The one appendix lists the
twenty-four battalions that existed during
the war, indicating the theatre of war in
which they served and in which division.
Eight of these battalions did not serve
overseas, and of the rest only one (7th
Service Battalion) did not serve on the
Western Front, it went with 13th Division to
Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Persia. Total
losses amounted to 8,100, 72 battle honours
were awarded and in the appendix is shown
which honours were awarded to which
battalion, information rarely seen in any
other Great War regimental history; and four
VCs were won but only one of them by one of
the battalions covered in this book (Pte G.
Miles, 1/5th Battalion). In August 1914 the
1st Battalion was stationed in Bordon, part
of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division,
and was among the first British troops to
disembark in Le Havre, on 13th August. The
first quarter of this book is concerned with
the doings of the 1st Battalion which saw
action in the early battles of the war -
Mons and the retreat, the Marne, the Aisne,
First Ypres and Givenchy. The 2nd Battalion
was in China when war broke out and came
home to join the newly formed 81st Brigade,
27th Division which arrived in France in
December 1914 and in November 1915 was
transferred to Salonika, where it remained
for the rest of the war. Three chapters of
the book deal with the operations in that
theatre of war. The three Territorial
battalions were in the South Midland
Division, later the 48th which crossed to
France at the end of March 1915 and fought
on the Western front till November 1917,
when it was sent to Italy where it remained
till the armistice. The final chapter gives
the account of operations in that theatre.
The author, a well known military
historian, was probably the most prolific
among the writers of regimental and
divisional histories, some thirteen in all,
and this account reflects the skill of the
writer in producing a very readable
narrative, which draws on the Battalion
Diary, on individual accounts of actions,
some quite lengthy, and makes use of
footnotes to give casualty details in
addition to those contained in the text,
various comments, and items of information
from other sources to confirm or add to the
main text. The maps are good. There is no
Roll of Honour nor list of honours and
awards.
£75.00
eBay
16643
Grey, Major W.
E.
The 2nd City
of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in the
Great War (1914-1919)
London:
Published from The Headquarters of the
Regiment, 1929
7¼” x 10”.
[xxxiv] + 464pp, maps, illustrations. Blue
cloth boards with gilt cover vignette,
backed with red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine
faded, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good.
Malta - Ypres - Gallipoli - Southern Egypt -
Somme - Arras - Cambrai - Amiens. In his
preface the author, who took three years
over this history, makes the point that
material that should have been preserved in
the regimental archives had disappeared, and
that personal diaries, letters and
memoranda had been very hard to come by,
making his task not an easy one. One result
is that there is no list of honours and
awards but rather a summary, nor could he
get reliable casualty figures for some of
the battles. Nevertheless, despite the
handicaps, he acknowledges plenty of help
and advice and he has produced a very
commendable piece of work which certainly
ranks with other histories and is a good
deal better than some. It was his intention
to present a connected or continuous story
so he has not adopted the pattern of
separate parts for each battalion. He
follows the chronology of the war with each
battalion being brought into the story at
the appropriate time. Each chapter covers a
specific period/battle and a specific
battalion, as is made clear in the list of
contents. The 1/2nd was with the 1st London
Brigade, 1st London Division when war broke
out, and a month later the brigade was sent
to Malta to replace the regular battalions.
In February 1915 they in turn were replaced
by their second line battalions (2/2nd had
been formed in September 1914) and left for
France where the 1/2nd was posted to 17th
Brigade 6th Division at Armentieres and for
the rest of the war it remained on the
Western Front. In October 1915 the brigade
was transferred to the 24th Division and in
February 1916 it was moved again - to the
re-formed 56th (previously1st London)
Division, part of 169th Brigade, and there
it stayed to the end. After Malta the 2/2nd
was sent to Gallipoli where it arrived on 13
October and was attached to the 2nd Naval
Brigade. In January 1916 it went to France
where it was disbanded and the 3/2nd (formed
in December 1914), which was in the UK at
the time with 173rd Brigade, 58th Division,
was renamed 2/2nd. The division landed in
France in January 1917 and the battalion
fought its first major action at Bullecourt
in May; it, too, remained with the brigade
throughout the fighting to the end of the
war. Finally there was a fourth line
battalion, 4/2nd, which was formed in May
1915 but did not serve overseas; its
function was to supply drafts for the two
overseas battalions. The Roll of Honour
lists 1,345 dead and the summary of awards
shows 65 British decorations to officers and
246 to other ranks, excluding MiD.
£90.00
eBay
16648
Assher, Ben
[Pseud.] [Pseud. of Borradaile (Major Colin,
MC, RGA)]
A Nomad Under
Arms : The Chronicle of an Artilleryman from
1914 to the Armistice
London: H. F.
& G. Witherby, 1931
5½” x 8¾”.
368pp, frontispiece, illustrations, maps.
Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j but front
panel of the original dust-jacket glued to
the front end-paper, covers rubbed and
faded, spine faded and snagged, otherwise
Very Good A young regular, the author was
posted, in November 1914, to a 4.7" howitzer
battery near Kemmel Hill; remained with
them in this area until posted as a Captain
to a New Army 60-pdr. battery on the Somme
front in Jan. 1916. Wounded by a shell in
Feb. 1917 he was then at home until July,
returning to the front in time for
Passchendaele & commanded a battery through
most of 1918.
£150.00
eBay
16654
Macfall, Major
Haldane
Beware the
German’s Peace !
London:
Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1918
4¾” x 7¾”. (x)
+ 171pp. Original red cloth blocked in
black. The covers are rubbed and a little
scuffed, with a few old marks but otherwise
in quite reasonable condition for the
book's age. The spine has faded severely,
however, with almost total loss of original
colour. The spine ends and corners are
bumped. There are no internal markings and
the text is clean throughout. However, in
common with many books produced in the final
year of the First World War, the paper has
tanned noticeably with age, particularly in
the margins. A few pages have small tears at
the edge and there is some separation
between the inner gatherings. The
end-papers are browned and discoloured.
£40.00
eBay
16665
'Vedette'
[Pseudonym of George Valentine Williams,
M.C.]
The Adventures
of an Ensign
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1917
5” x 7½”.
348pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, spine dull and slightly faded,
end-papers discoloured, Times Book Club
label on rear pastedown, otherwise Very
Good. Rare. A respected foreign
correspondent before the war, the Author was
appointed the first accredited correspondent
at GHQ in 1915. In December he was
commissioned into the Irish Guards & served
with the 1st Bn. in France July-Sept. 1916,
when he was wounded. He wrote this
pseudonymous account of his service while
recovering in hospital.
eBay
16670
Wadham,
Lieut-Colonel W. F. A. and Crossley, Captain
J.
The Fourth
Battalion The King's Own (Royal Lancaster
Regiment) and the Great War
No publication
details (Crowther & Goodman, Printers,
London) : Foreword to Part I dated February
1920; Foreword to Part II dated December
1935
5¼” x 8½”.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers faded, head
and tail of spine bumped, some underlining
of text, Very Good. Service on the Western
Front from May 1915 until the end of the
War, including the epic defence of Givenchy
in April 1918. 3 V.C.s were won by the
battalion.
£80.00
eBay
16671
Davis,
Reginald [Edited by Sir Ernest
Hodder-Williams]
One Young Man
: The simple and true story of a clerk who
enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western
Front for nearly two years, was severely
wounded at the Battle of the Somme and is
now on his way back to his desk
Printed for
private circulation, 1936 [first published
by Hodder & Stoughton, 1917]
4¾” x 7¼”.
[xi] + 125pp. Red cloth, no d/j, covers
rubbed, otherwise Very Good. Inscribed on
the front pastedown by the Reginald Davis.
£395.00
eBay
16680
Lloyd, R. A.
[Introduction by Major the Hon. J. J. Astor,
MP]
A Trooper in
the 'Tins' : Autobiography of a
Lifeguardsman
London: Hurst
& Blackett, Ltd, n.d. [c.1938] 2nd
Impression
5¼” x 8½”.
320pp, frontispiece, publishers' catalogue.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, head
of spine crushed, frontispiece detached,
otherwise Very Good.
£70.00
eBay
16695
Osburn, Arthur
Unwilling
Passenger
London: Faber
and Faber Limited, 1936 [2nd ed.; first
published 1932]
5¼" x 8¼".
415pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, spine faded, edges dusty otherwise
Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
16704
Colwill,
Reginald A.
Through Hell
to Victory : From Passchendaele to Mons with
the 2nd Devons in 1918
Torquay:
Reginald A. Colwill, June 1927 Second
Impression, published a few weeks after the
First Edition, which appeared on May 27th,
1927
5" x 7½".
272pp. Green cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed,
spine faded, end-papers discoloured,
previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise
Very Good. This book deals exclusively with
the 2nd Devons (23rd Brigade, 8th Division)
during the last year of the war. It
describes what the battalion did in the
early days of 1918, touches briefly on
their movements in January, deals fully with
the March retreat in the face of the German
offensive, follows them in the fighting to
save Amiens and goes on to describe at
length the battalion's heroic stand at the
Bois des Buttes, under the shadow of the
Chemin des Dames, on the 27th May and
following days. For this action the
battalion was awarded the Croix de Guerre
with Palm. This account comes not from
official records but from the information of
those who took part, and it took the author
more than a year to assemble all the
details. The casualties in the action at
the Bois des Buttes, as given in the
regimental history, amounted to twenty three
officers and 528 men killed or missing.
£80.00
eBay
16732
Foot, Stephen
(D.S.O., M.C., late Bt. Major, R.E.)
Three Lives —
And Now
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1937 [New and Revised
Edition; first published as "Three Lives" in
1934]
5¼” x 8”.
(vii) + 294pp. Original black cloth gilt.
The front and rear covers are rubbed and
slightly marked and there is a small gouge
on the front cover. The spine has faded
severely with total loss of original colour,
though the gilt blocking remains fairly
bright. The spine ends and corners are
bumped and slightly frayed. There is a
forward spine lean. There is a gift
inscription in ink on the front end-paper
dated "20.6.39" and another previous
owner's name inscribed in ballpoint on the
front pastedown. The end-papers are browned
and discoloured. The text is clean
throughout on slightly tanned paper;
however, the edge of the text block is very
heavily foxed, with the foxing extending
into the margins.
£40.00
eBay
16740
Muddock, J. E.
Preston (Dick Donovan)
All Clear : A
Brief Record of the Work of the London
Special Constabulary 1914-1919
London:
Everett & Co., Ltd, 1920
5” x 7½”.
122pp, portrait frontispiece, two small
folding maps. Original ochre cloth blocked
in black, no d/j, covers rubbed and slightly
marked, head and tail of spine bumped,
offsetting to end-papers otherwise Very
Good.
£75.00
eBay
16741
Stanhope,
Lieutenant Colonel Earl [DSO, MC] (Edited
by Brian Bond)
The War
Memoirs of Earl Stanhope : General Staff
Officer in France 1914-1918
Brighton,
Sussex: Tom Donovan Editions Ltd, 2006
6” x 9½”.
[xvii] + 205pp, portrait frontis, maps.
Review copy in card covers in a scuffed and
rubbed d/j.
£75.00
eBay
16747
Gee, Sergeant
A. E. [M.M.] and Corporal A.E. Shaw
[Illustrations by Bombardier Norman Tennant
D.C.M.]
A Record of
D245 Battery 1914-1919
London:
Renwick of Otley, 1931
5½” x 8¾”.
(viii) + 182pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, map torn,
otherwise Good. A clean copy. 11th West
Riding Howitzer Battery, from Ilkley.
Western Front from April 1915 and for most
of the year the battery position was between
Boesinghe & Brielen near the Yser canal;
Somme 1916 (around Authuille Wood),
Passchendaele 1917 &c. Nominal roll,
casualties & awards rolls.
£90.00
eBay
16759
Young, Francis
Brett
Marching on
Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa)
London and
Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, May
1938 [first published September 1917]
5½” x 8”.
(viii) + 263pp, colour frontispiece and two
colour plates. Green cloth blocked in black
(map of Africa to front cover), in a torn,
scuffed and chipped d/j with some loss and
significant taped repairs on the reverse,
previous owner's name inscribed and small
hole in front free end-paper after a prior
owner's name erased, end-papers foxed,
otherwise Very Good.
£60.00
eBay
16773
Adam, Adela
Marion [Compiled by]
Arthur Innes
Adam 1894-1916: A Record Founded on His
Letters
Cambridge:
Bowes & Bowes, 1920
5” x 7¾”.
[viii] + 253pp, 6 plates. Green cloth gilt,
no d/j, small mark on front boards, head and
tail of spine bumped, "Withdrawn" stamp on
front free end-paper (Britannia Royal Naval
College Dartmouth), untrimmed, otherwise
Very Good. Educated Winchester & Balliol,
Captain 1/1st Cambridgeshires (TF): letters
from France June 1915-Sept. 1916 when he was
lost in action during a raid on German
trenches near the Ancre. Arthur Innes Adam,
son of Adela Marion Adam, M.A., of
Cambridge, and the late James Adam, Litt.D.,
was born in 1894, educated at Winchester and
Balliol College, Oxford, commissioned
(after some delay due to his poor eyesight)
in the Cambridgeshire Regiment (T.F.) in
1914, became a Captain in the 1/1st
Battalion and was killed in action aged
twenty-two on 16th September 1916 when he
was reported lost (apparently wounded and
captured) during a raid on German trenches
near the Ancre. Subsequently his remains
were located and he is buried in
Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery
Extension. ? Contains interesting and quite
detailed letters from France June
1915-September 1916, together with reports
of his wounding and capture. He was
apparently “peculiarly devoid of nerves” and
seems to have taken a practical and at times
light-hearted approach to the proceedings.
Soon after arriving he wrote “I have a
great scheme to annoy the Deutsches in
contemplation, i.e., to tie a large alarm
clock to the wire in front of their
trenches sometime by night, set it to 6 a.m.
or some such time. That might persuade them
to put their heads over the top…” Later he
wrote of want of munitions: “I think the
most urgent need in this land is bombs;
hosts of them, of all shapes and sizes, and
among them rifle grenades which will carry
500 yards like the German, instead of only
250…” Some months later, after his Company
had suffered fourteen casualties during a
tour in the trenches, his enthusiasm was
somewhat diluted: “I felt a quite new hatred
of war and all its ways, and also an even
stronger desire than aforetime to get out
of company commanding.”
£175.00
eBay
16777
Ashmead-Bartlett, Major Seabury H.
From the Somme
to the Rhine
London: John
Lane The Bodley Head, 1921
5" x 7½".
206pp, maps. Red cloth, no d/j, spine faded,
covers rubbed and soiled with numerous
stains and loss of colour, edges &
end-papers lightly foxed, previous owner's
name inscribed. An internally clean copy of
a scarce title in a soiled and unattractive
binding.
£90.00
eBay
16779
Kincaid-Smith,
Lieut.-Col. M.
The 25th
Division in France and Flanders
London:
Harrison and Sons, n.d. [1918]
4¾” x 7¼”.
429pp, portrait frontis (following title
page). Original white stiff card covers
blocked in black and red, no d/j, covers
rubbed and soiled, otherwise Very Good
£70.00
eBay
16787
Binding,
Rudolf [Translated from the German by Ian F.
D. Morrow]
A Fatalist at
War
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, March 1929 [3rd Imp.;
first published January 1929]
5½" x 8¾".
246pp. Yellow cloth in a scuffed and chipped
d/j, edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very
Good. Scarce in this edition. German
novelist and infantry officer, with a
Jungdeutschland division in 1914 and later
divisional staff. Considered by Falls as
being "among the most vivid of German
documents relating to the War."
£150.00
eBay
16792
Barber, Major
Charles H.
Besieged in
Kut and After
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1918
Second Edition
5" x 7½".
[viii] + 344pp, frontis, illustrations,
front end-paper map and maps within text.
Decorative red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed and faded, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
16803
Roberts, Enos
Herbert Glynne
The Story of
the "9th King's" in France
Liverpool: The
Northern Publishing Co. Ltd., 17 Goree
Piazzas, and 11, Brunswick Street, 1922
First Edition
5½” x 8½”.
133pp. Original green cloth gilt. The front
cover has, at some stage, been splashed with
what appears to be white paint, leaving a
large number of small stains. The rear
cover is generally unaffected but is also
slightly marked and with some variation in
colour. The spine is dull and slightly
stained. The spine ends and corners are
heavily bumped. There is a gift inscription
in ink on the front end-paper, dated August
1st, 1924. There are no other internal
markings and the text is clean throughout on
tanned paper. The end-papers are lightly
foxed, and there is some light scattered
foxing in addition. The edge of the text
block is dust-stained and foxed.
£45.00
eBay
16808
Wylly, Colonel
H. C. [Compiled by]
The 1st and
2nd Battalions The Sherwood Foresters
(Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) in
the Great War
Aldershot:
Gale & Polden for the Regimental Committee,
n.d. [1925]
7¼” x 10”.
[xiv] + 224pp, portrait frontis., 25 photos,
12 folding maps & plans (4 in end-pocket
missing). Original purple and green cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
inner hinges cracked, corners bumped.
£75.00
eBay
16815
Mark VII
[pseud. Max Plowman]
A Subaltern on
the Somme in 1916
London:
Imperial War Museum, 1996 Limited Edition
5" x 7½". [ix]
+ 241pp. Black cloth blocked in red in a
scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Very
Good.
£50.00
eBay
16818
Gosse, Philip
Memoirs of a
Camp-Follower
London:
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1950
Pocket Edition
4½” x 7”.
247pp. Original decorative covers, no d/j,
edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.
£36.00
eBay
16830
Lambert,
Arthur
Over the Top :
A "P. B. I." in the H. A. C.
London: John
Long Limited, 1930 Third Impression [the
printing date is on the final page]
4¾” x 7¾”.
[xiv] + 17-224pp. Red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed, slight spine
lean, edges & end-papers foxed, otherwise
Very Good. The Reminiscences of a soldier
of the 2nd Battalion Honourable Artillery
Company (infantry. H. A. C.) , 22nd Brigade,
7th Division, who was in the Salient
September/October 1917 and in November went
to Italy, where he remained to the end of
the war.
£85.00
eBay
16831
McCustra,
Trooper L.
Gallipoli Days
and Nights
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1916
4¾" x 7¼".
150pp [note: pagination starts at page 9].
Original pictorial crad covers, spine
crudely covered in tape, otherwise Good
£125.00
eBay
16843
Woods, William
Seaver
Colossal
Blunders of the War
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, n.d. [1931]
5¼” x 8”.
[viii] + 274pp. Black cloth boards with red
cloth backstrip, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, indentation on rear top edge,
otherwise Very Good; internally clean. A
survey of various military events including
(i) America's Costly Lessons of the War;
(ii) German Blunders that Lost the War;
(iii) British & French Blunders that
Prolonged the War; (iv) Blunders that Drove
Russia Bolshevik. Rare.
£40.00
eBay
16846
Atteridge, A.
Hilliard
History of the
17th (Northern) Division
Glasgow:
Robert Maclehose and Co., 1929
5½” x 9”. [xv]
+ 482pp, 35 maps (including one folding).
Red cloth gilt with Divisional flash on
front boards, no d/j, spine faded, spine
ends and corners bumped, edges foxed,
previous owner's name inscribed on
Half-Title which has had the top and bottom
third removed, note on front free end-paper,
otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
16848
Du Moulin, The
Late Lt.-Colonel [With a Preface by Col. J.
G. Panton, C.M.G., Commanding 2nd Battalion
Royal Sussex Regiment, 1903-1907] Edited By
H. F. Bidder, Captain, 3rd Battalion Royal
Sussex Regiment
Two Years on
Trek : Being Some Account of the Royal
Sussex Regiment in South Africa
London: Murray
and Co., The Middlesex Printing Works, 180,
Brompton Road, S.W., 1907 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[vi] +323 + [xi] pages, maps. Original blue
cloth gilt. The covers are faded and worn.
The front cover is very badly faded with
significant loss of original colour and
marked variation in colour of what remains.
The fading is not as severe on the rear
cover, but there is also noticeable
variation in colour here as well. The spine
has faded completely, with total loss of
original colour. The spine ends are chipped
and torn with some minor loss of cloth.
there is also a small hole on the front
spine gutter, towards the head. The corners
are bumped and frayed with further minor
splitting to the cloth. Finally, the covers
have bowed outwards at the top. There is a
gift inscription dated 1907 on the heavily
tanned Half-Title page. Otherwise, the text
is clean throughout on slightly tanned paper
(more noticeably browned in the margins).
The inner hinges are partially cracked and
there is some separation between the inner
gatherings, the worst being at pages 96-97
where there is a very sizeable split. Many
of the corners are turned inwards due to
the external bumping. There is also a
pronounced musty smell. Finally, the large
folding map at the end, while intact, has a
tear on the bottom margin (not affecting
the map itself).
£80.00
eBay
16850
Inglefield,
Captain V. E. [With an Introduction by
Lieut.-General the Earl of Cavan, K.P.,
G.C.M., K.C.B., M.V.O.]
The History of
the Twentieth (Light) Division
London: Nisbet
& Co. Ltd, 1921
5½” x 8¾”.
[xii] + 319pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations, folding map. Blind-stamped
blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and
faded, spine very faded and with small
puncture in centre, spine ends and corners
bumped, previous owner's name inscribed on
Title Page, edges foxed otherwise Very
Good. The last of Kitchener's Second New
Army divisions the 20th was, apart from the
36th Ulster and 38th Welsh, also the last
division to have a title. It was formed in
September 1914 and , as its title suggests,
it was composed of battalions of Rifle and
Light Infantry regiments, its brigades were
numbered 59th, 60th and 61st. In January
1915 one of the battalions, 11th DLI, became
the divisional pioneer battalion and its
place in 61st Brigade was taken by 12th
King's (Liverpool), an army troops battalion
attached to the division. The first GOC was
Sir E.O.F Hamilton, a sixty year old who
had retired in April 1914 and whose last
appointment had been commanding troops in
Jersey and Guernsey. He was replaced within
a month and does not rate a mention in the
book, his successor was a New Zealand
officer R. H. Davies; in all the division
was to have six GOCs. The division moved to
France in July 1915 and in the two weeks
prior to embarkation all three brigade
commanders were replaced, probably on
grounds of age - the youngest was 58. Its
first major action was a subsidiary attack
in support of the Loos offensive, an action
that brought the first of its six VCs to
Lieut G.A. Maling RAMC of 61st Field
Ambulance. During the first half of 1916 the
division was in the Ypres salient where it
played a supporting role during the German
attack on the Canadians at Mount Sorrel; at
the end of July it moved down to the Somme
where it remained till March 1917, taking
part in several of the battles, particularly
Guillemont where the divisional memorial can
be seen. It then moved back north for the
Third Ypres offensive in which it suffered
4,600 casualties, distinguishing itself in
the capture of Langemark where another
divisional memorial located. It was at
Cambrai and during the German offensive of
1918 it fought a rearguard action,
continuously in action for twelve days. That
it was a good division is testified by the
fact that the Earl of Cavan specifically
asked for it as GOC the newly formed XIV
Corps, and after the Somme he made a point
of asking the Army commander and C in C for
not to transfer the division 'if they can
help it.' In his introduction to this
history he says: 'The 20th Division never
failed me, and never failed its neighbours
during the time I had the honour to of
commanding the XIVth Corps.' The total
casualty list numbered 35,470.This history
is a straightforward account, devoid of
heroics or emotive descriptions. Operations
are adequately described, including minor
and individual actions, and changes in
senior commanders and staff are noted. There
are useful maps to support the narrative, a
good index but no appendices giving such
relevant reference material as honours and
awards, casualty summaries and staff lists.
A New Army division, formed in September
1914, it went to France in July 1915 and
fought on the Western Front throughout the
war, suffering 35,470 casualties and winning
six VCs. Distinguished action at Guillemont
1916, Langemark 1917 and Cambrai 1918.
Command and Staff lists.
£40.00
eBay
16854
Crookenden,
Arthur [Colonel of the Regiment]
The History of
the Cheshire Regiment in the Great War [The
22nd (Cheshire) Regiment]
Printed by W.
H. Evans, Sons & Co., Chester, n.d. [1938]
First Edition
7¼” x 10”.
[xiii] + 358pp., 4to, illustrations, maps
(many folding). Re-backed red cloth gilt, no
d/j, spine faded, corners bumped, otherwise
Very Good. Very clean internally. Excellent
history, mainly Western Front, also
Palestine, Mespot. &c. Roll of Hon.,
awards.
£125.00
eBay
16855
Crookenden,
Arthur [Colonel of the Regiment]
The History of
the Cheshire Regiment in the Second World
War
Printed by W.
H. Evans, Sons & Co., Chester, 1949
7¼” x 10”.
[ix] + 371pp., 4to, illustrations, maps
(many folding). Original red cloth gilt, no
d/j, spine faded, corners bumped, otherwise
Very Good. Very clean internally.
£145.00
eBay
16858
Ryan, Charles
S., M.B., C.M. Edin., in association with
his friend John Sandes, B. A. Oxon.
Under the Red
Crescent : Adventures of an English Surgeon
with the Turkish Army at Plevna and
Erzeroum, 1877-1878
New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897
5¼” x 8¼”.
[xix] + 435pp, portrait frontis, maps. Green
cloth gilt, no d/j covers worn and soiled,
Title-Page foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£175.00
eBay
16869
Various
[Edited by C. B. Purdom]
Everyman at
War : Sixty Personal Narratives of the War
London and
Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1930 First
Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
[xi] + 425pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed and dull, spine ends and corners
bumped and slightly frayed, bookplate on
front pastedown and other previous owner's
name inscribed on verso of front free
end-paper, edges lightly foxed otherwise
Very Good. An excellent selection of
first-hand accounts, being the best of some
300 pieces submitted to a competition run by
"Everyman" magazine, mainly Western Front,
also Gallipoli, Macedonia &c., and very
largely otherwise unpublished.
£95.00
eBay
16875
Kannengiesser
Pasha, Hans
The Campaign
in Gallipoli
London:
Hutchinson, n.d. [Not dated but this is the
First Edition, circa 1927 (the Introduction
by Marshal Liman von Sanders Pasha is dated
27 January 1927). The First Edition of this
book has a typographical error in which page
155 is mistakenly numbered "551". This was
corrected in the subsequent editions.
6" x 9".
280pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates, 3 maps.
Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
ex-Imperial War Museum, The edges are foxed.
otherwise Very Good.
£65.00
eBay
16882
Gough, General
Sir Hubert
The Fifth Army
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1931 [1st]
6½" x 9½".
355pp, frontis, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, head and tail of spine nicked and
frayed, covers marked and rubbed, otherwise
Very Good
£60.00
eBay
16883
Macready,
General the Right Hon. Sir Nevil [Bart.,
G.C.M.G., K.C.B.]
Annals of an
Active Life [Two Volumes]
London:
Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [1924]
6” x 9½”.
694pp (paginated over two volumes),
frontispiece, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers scuffed and rubbed,
spines faded, \r\notherwise Very Good. Very
clean internally. Bookplate of George Owen
Sandys, Graythwaite Hall.
£275.00
eBay
16893
Juvenis
[pseud.: Lt O. G. E. McWilliams]
Suvla Bay and
After
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, n.d. [1916]
4¾" x 7½".
[xi] + 169pp. Originally issued in paper
wraps, this copy has been subsequently bound
in red cloth with a paper spine label; Very
Good.
£195.00
eBay
16894
Buchan, John
Episodes of
the Great War
London: Thomas
Nelson and Sons Limited, November 1936 [2nd
imp.; first published October 1936]
5½" x 8".
[xiii] + 402pp, frontis, maps as end-papers,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt in a torn,
scuffed and chipped d/j with some minor
loss, covers rubbed and faded, otherwise
Very Good
£60.00
eBay
16896
Bridges,
Lieutenant-General Sir Tom [K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., LL.D.] With a Foreword by
the Rt Hon Winston S. Churchill, P.C., C.H.,
M.P.
Alarms and
Excursions : Reminiscences of a Soldier
London:
Longmans Green & Co., 1938 [1st]
5½" x 8¾".
361pp, frontis. Red cloth, no d/j,
ex-library though a few inoffensive stamps
only, otherwise Very Good. Bridges was a
Major in 1914 when he famously averted the
surrender of the 2nd Dublins and 1st
Warwicks at St Quentin; subsequently,
Military Mission to the Belgian Field Army,
1914-15; then GOC 19th (Western) Division
1915-17. From the Thomas Hope Floyd Bequest.
£80.00
eBay
16900
Greenwell,
Graham H.
An Infant in
Arms : War Letters of a Company Officer
1914-1918
London: Lovat
Dickson & Thompson Ltd., 1935
5½" x 8¾".
305pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers worn and rubbed, front inner
hinge exposed at title page, shaken,
backstrip soiled, edges dusty, little
better than a good reading copy. A classic
memoir of service with 1/4th Bn. Ox. &
Bucks. Light Infantry in France and Italy. A
classic Great War memoir of a public school
boy who joined up in 1914 and served
throughout the war with the Ox and Bucks
L.I., emerging in 1918 as a Captain and
company commander on the Italian front.
Based on letters to the author's mother,
this book describes the Somme and
Passchendaele, but Greenwell looks back on
the war as the happiest years of his life.
£30.00
eBay
16903
Various
The Gas Attack
: France, Christmas 1918 : The
Twenty-Seventh American Division, The New
York Division
Christmas
Edition, written and illustrated on the
Western Front, and published, December 1918,
at Paris, France, by the 27th American
Division.
8¼” x 10¼”.
32pp. Original printed paper wrappers in
quite worn condition. There is a pronounced
crease along the top corner, with a tear in
the cover at the end of the crease (on the
leading edge) and a small slit in the
wrapper just above this. The printed front
cover is quite dull, with further shallow
creasing and a few marks. There is red
staining on the rear cover, near the tail
and a stained and abraded patch near the
head; beneath this is a small hole in the
cover. The rear cover is also dull, creased
and marked. The staples have rusted and the
corners are creased. This original Edition
was formerly in the Imperial War Museum:
there is an Imperial War Museum stamp in the
margin of page1, defaced with a "Withdrawn
from Stock" stamp, and a number in
ballpoint near the top corner of this page,
again defaced with a "Withdrawn from Stock"
stamp. The fore-edge of the first twelve
pages is damaged with some loss. The loss is
greatest on page 1, then gradually becomes
less, up to page 13, where there is no loss
but a tear in the paper on this and a few
other pages. There is also clear evidence of
internal staining, affecting the area along
the inner margins, from the head down to
the tail of the spine. The text is generally
clean throughout, although not of the
highest quality (for obvious reasons). Also,
page 1 is quite grubby, particularly in the
margins.
£95.00
eBay
16905
Williamson,
Henry
The Wet
Flanders Plain
London: Faber
and Faber Limited, 1929 [First Printing of
the Revised Edition; initially published by
the Beaumont Press in a Limited Edition of
400 in 1929]
5” x 7½”.
148pp. Black cloth gilt, in a torn, scuffed
and chipped d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
page edges browned, head and tail of spine
frayed otherwise Very Good
£80.00
eBay
16913
Williams, H.
R.
The Gallant
Company : An Australian Soldier's Story of
1915-18
Sydney: Angus
& Robertson Limited, 1933
4¾” x 7". [ix]
+ 275pp. Rebound ex-Library, no d/j, usual
markings to end-papers, text clean otherwise
Good.
£90.00
eBay
16916
Allen, Hervey
Toward the
Flame : A War Diary
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1934
4½” x 7”.
288pp. Rebound ex-Library, no d/j, usual
markings to end-papers, text clean otherwise
Good.
£75.00
eBay
16924
Nogales,
Rafael de
Four Years
Beneath the Crescent
New York:
Charles Scribners' Sons, 1926
5¾" x 8¾".
[xviii] + 416pp, b&w plates, maps as
end-papers. Pictorial cream cloth, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed with areas of
darkening of the cream cloth, corners
bumped, most of the pages facing each of the
double-sided b&w plates have patches of
discolouration due to the leaching of
chemicals in the photographs, otherwise the
text is clean; overall, G+ to Very Good. A
digital photograph is available on request.
£95.00
eBay
16927
Riou, Gaston
[Translated from the French by Eden and
Cedar Paul]
The Diary of a
French Private : War - Imprisonment
1914-1915
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1916
5¼" x 8".
315pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, corners bumped, edges foxed,
otherwise Very Good. Riou fought with the
French army against Germany around
Lorraine, he was wounded at the Battle of
Dieuze and captured, he spent the next 11
months as a Bavarian prisoner.
£80.00
eBay
16936
Ward, Major
Dudley C. H. D.S.O., M.C.
The Welsh
Regiment of Foot Guards 1915-1918
London: John
Murray, 1936
5½” x 8¾”.
(ix) + 147pp, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers worn and frayed, particularly along
the edges, spine gutters frayed, spine ends
and corners bumped and frayed, previous
owner's name inscribed (Sgt Rich, Welsh
Guards), tanning to pages, otherwise Good.
£50.00
eBay
16943
Colwill,
Reginald A.
Through Hell
to Victory : From Passchendaele to Mons with
the 2nd Devons in 1918
Torquay:
Reginald A. Colwill, June 1927 Second
Impression, published a few weeks after the
First Edition, which appeared on May 27th,
1927
5" x 7½".
272pp. Green cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed,
spine faded, end-papers discoloured,
previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise
Very Good. This book deals exclusively with
the 2nd Devons (23rd Brigade, 8th Division)
during the last year of the war. It
describes what the battalion did in the
early days of 1918, touches briefly on
their movements in January, deals fully with
the March retreat in the face of the German
offensive, follows them in the fighting to
save Amiens and goes on to describe at
length the battalion's heroic stand at the
Bois des Buttes, under the shadow of the
Chemin des Dames, on the 27th May and
following days. For this action the
battalion was awarded the Croix de Guerre
with Palm. This account comes not from
official records but from the information of
those who took part, and it took the author
more than a year to assemble all the
details. The casualties in the action at
the Bois des Buttes, as given in the
regimental history, amounted to twenty three
officers and 528 men killed or missing.
£60.00
eBay
16944
Dane, Edmund
British
Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914 - 1918 :
From the Outbreak of War with Turkey to the
Armistice : Volume II. The Tide of Victory
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1919 [2nd Ed.]
5½" x 8¾".
[xv] + 237pp, [xv] + 240pp, 30 maps. Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, edges & end-papers
lightly foxed, covers rubbed otherwise Very
Good\r\nVol. I almost entirely devoted to
the Gallipoli campaign (with useful sketch
maps), Vol. II covers Mesopotamia, Salonika,
Egypt & Palestine campaigns. The best
edition, much enlarged from the original
single volume published in 1917.
£70.00
eBay
16945
Dane, Edmund
British
Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific,
1914-1918
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1919
5½" x 8¾".
215pp, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, head
and tail of spine nicked, small tear in
spine, front cover has one thin stain from
top right to bottom, front inner hinge
frayed and exposed, else Very Good. Scarce.
Cyril Falls: "Little has been written about
the majority of the campaigns here
described, and although Mr Dane had
comparatively little material to work upon,
his account is not without value. He writes
of South-West Africa, East Africa,
Togoland, the Cameroons, and the Pacific,
including the siege of Kiao-Chau."
£80.00
eBay
16968
Lyon, Thomas
M. ["Private Leo"]
In Kilt and
Khaki : Glimpses of the Glasgow Highlanders
in Training and on Foreign Service
Kilmarnock:
The Standard Press, 1916 Second Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
(xi) + 195pp, portrait frontis. Original
paper covered boards with brown cloth
backstrip and corners, no d/j, covers worn
and soiled with some paper covering missing
from front boards, end-papers discoloured,
damage to page 27, reading copy.
£45.00
eBay
16970
Wyrall,
Everard
History of the
Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
1914-1919
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927 First Edition
7¼” x 10”.
[xvi] + 419pp, portrait frontispiece, maps,
illustrations. Green cloth gilt with black
cloth spine, no d/j, covers rubbed with
stain on front boards, both spine gutters
are split for their entire length, exposing
the mull, large previous owner's bookplate
on front pastedown, inner hinges cracked,
end-papers discoloured, edges dusty and
lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.
£70.00
eBay
16972
Judd, Alan
The Quest for
C : Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of
the Secret Service
London:
HarperCollins, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
501pp, ills. Black cloth gilt in d/j, pages
slightly yellowed, otherwise Very Good.
£20.00
eBay
16988
Carstairs,
Carroll [With a Foreword by Osbert Sitwell]
A Generation
Missing
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, December 1930 [New
Impression; first published March 1930]
4¾” x 7½”.
[xiii] + 223pp. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, lightly foxed otherwise Very
Good.
£70.00
eBay
16993
Bill, Major C.
A.
The 15th
Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (2nd
Birmingham Battalion) in the Great War
Birmingham:
Cornish Bros, 1932
4¾” x 7½”.
[xii] + 151pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, the
boards have warped, previous owner's name
inscribed, edges lightly foxed otherwise
Very Good
£90.00
eBay
17000
Turberville,
Captain A. S. [M.C.]
A Short
History of the 20th Battalion King's Royal
Rifle Corps (B.E.L. Pioneers) 1915-1919
Hull: Goddard,
Walker & Brown Ltd, 1923
5¼” x 8½”.
[viii] + 143pp. Original green cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine
dull, spine ends and corners bumped and
frayed, edges heavily foxed, page
[vii/viii] detached and torn at edge,
otherwise Very Good. Rare. An almost unique
history of a Pioneer unit on the Western
Front.
£125.00
eBay
17003
Kingsmill,
Hugh [pseud.: Hugh Kingsmill Lunn]
Behind Both
Lines : Personal Reminiscence of the
European War
London: Morley
& Mitchell Kennerley Jr., 1930
5" x 7½".
255pp, b&w plates. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers mottled and rubbed with some colour
loss, ex-Library with stamps in blind and
lending schedule on rear end-paper,
otherwise Good Plus. Rare.
£175.00
eBay
17020
Behrend,
Arthur [late Captain and Adjutant, 90th
Brigade, R.G.A.]
Nine Days :
Adventures of a Heavy Artillery Brigade of
the Third Army during the German Offensive
of March 21-29, 1918
Privately
Printed by the Author, 1921 [Printers: W.
Heffer and Sons Ltd, Cambridge]
5” x 7½”.
[xvi] + 115pp, frontis, illustrations,
folding map. Decorative blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed, previous owner's name
inscribed, one map chipped along the edge
otherwise Very Good. Rare. Appealing &
detailed account of the activities of 90th
Bde. RGA during this hectic period. Roll of
Officers & WOs
£195.00
eBay
17025
Pryse, Gerald
Spencer
Four Days : An
Account of a Journey in France made between
August 28th and 31st, 1914
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1932
5" x 7½". [vi]
+ 305pp, publisher's advertisements, map.
Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
rubbed with some variation in colour, edges
heavily foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£60.00
eBay
17026
Forder, A.
In Brigands'
Hands and Turkish Prisons 1914 - 1918
London:
Marshall Brothers, Limited, n.d. [c.1920]
5½" x 8¾".
314pp, frontis, b&w plates. Blind-stamped
green cloth, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed and
snagged, split in rear gutter, otherwise
Good. Missionary in Damascus arrested by the
Turks & imprisoned for four years as a
suspected spy; or, as he would have it, a
political prisoner.
£90.00
eBay
17035
Brittain,
Harry E.
To Verdun From
The Somme : An Anglo American Glimpse of the
Great Advance
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917
5” x 7¾”.
[xviii] + 142pp, frontispiece. Original
blind-stamped green cloth, no d/j, covers
rubbed and dull, previous owner's name
inscribed, untrimmed, edges foxed otherwise
Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17036
Orex [Bidder,
Major Harold Francis, D.S.O. (1875- )]
Three Chevrons
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919 [On Active
Service Series]
5” x 7¾”. [ix]
+ 241pp, Publisher’s advertisements. Brown
cloth blocked in blue and red on the front
cover and spine, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped,
severe tanning to pages, some pages badly
opened, leaving a ragged edge, otherwise
Very Good. Rare in this Edition. Letters of
a regular officer, 2nd Sussex, Western Front
1914-16 & 1917 as Bde. MG Officer, commander
of an MG Coy., an infantry bn. & on the
staff. The 'chevrons' of the title refer to
the service chevrons worn on the right
sleeve for each year of overseas service,
blue for 1914-15 & red for each subsequent
year.
£145.00
eBay
17041
Johnston, Lt
Alec [With a Preface by Sir Owen Seaman,
including an Appreciation by Captain Ingram,
R.A.M.C., D.S.O., M.C.]
At the Front
London:
Constable & Company Ltd, 1917
5” x 7¾”.
[xiii] + 130pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, ex-Library, otherwise Very
Good.
£75.00
eBay
17045
Baker, Peter
Shaw
Animal War
Heroes
London: A. &
C. Black Ltd 4, 5 & 6 Soho Square, W.1,
October 1933 Second Edition [first
published March 1933]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxi] + 130pp + Publisher’s advertisement.
Original brown cloth blocked in black in a
torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, edges foxed,
otherwise Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
17046
Bowes, Joseph
The Aussie
Crusaders
London:
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
(The Boy’s New Library), 1920 [2nd imp.]
4¾” x 7½”. [x]
+ 270pp, colour frontis. Blind-stamped red
cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded,
edges lightly foxed, old Prize Label on
front pastedown otherwise Very Good
£70.00
eBay
17048
Mokveld, L.
(War-Correspondent of "De Tijd") [Translated
by Carel Thieme, London Correspondent of "De
Nieuive Courant"]
The German
Fury in Belgium : Experiences of a
Netherland Journalist During Four Months
With the German Army in Belgium
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1917
5” x 7½”.
247pp. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, tanning to pages
otherwise Good.
£70.00
eBay
17050
Levett,
Richard
Letters of an
English Boy : Being The Letters of Richard
Byrd Levett, King's Royal Rifle Corps who
Died For England, at the age of Nineteen, in
the Great War : March 10, 1917
Eton College:
Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Company
Limited, 1917
4¾” x 7½”.
194pp, photo frontis of Milford Hall, 7
other plates including one of Levett in
uniform; Levett armorial coat of arms FEP.
Olive cloth gilt, corners decorated with
enamelled bands in the colours of Eton
College and the K.R.R.C. Levett was born 30
May 1897. He was the only son of Capt.
William Swynnerton Byrd Levett and Maud
Sophia Levett, of Milford Hall, Stafford and
was educated at Eton, Oxford and Sandhurst
and was, when his age permitted,
Commissioned, 2nd Lieutenant. 1st Bn, Kings
Royal Rifle Corps on July 1916. (Part of
90th Brigade, 2nd Division and with them,
saw much fighting. Battle of Delville Wood,
15 Jul-3 Sep 1916 -Battle of the Ancre,
13-18 Nov 1916, including the capture of
Beaumont Hamel. Actions of Miraumont 17-18
Feb 1917 - Capture of the Thilloys, 25
Feb-2 Mar 1917 - German retreat to the
Hindenburg Line. Mar-5 Apr 1917.)
£195.00
eBay
17051
Atkinson, C.
T. (Late Captain, Oxford University O. T.
C.) [Compiler]
The Devonshire
Regiment 1914-1918
Exeter: Eland
Brothers & London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton
Kent & Co., 1926 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxv] + 742pp, folding frontispiece, 2
plates, 56 maps & plans (some folding). Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed with some variation in colour,
ex-RUSI Library with shelf number in white
ink on spine and small square patch from
removal of label, RUSI pocket and lending
schedule on front end-papers, and also Mons
Officer Cadet School, internally clean and
bright.
£195.00
eBay
17056
Warr, Charles
L.
The Unseen
Host : Stories of the Great War
Edinburgh:
Robert Grant & Son, 1928 [first published
Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1916 (and
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent &
Co., Ltd)]
4¾” x 7½”.
[xix] + 187pp, Publisher’s advertisement.
Original green cloth gilt, no d/j, spine
faded, head and tail of spine bumped,
end-papers lightly foxed otherwise Very
Good; quite a bright copy. Warr went to
France in February 1915 as Presbyterian
chaplain with the 9th Argyll & Sutherland
Highlanders. These 11 trench yarns are
dedicated to two officers of the regiment,
including the Colonel, who were killed
alongside the author May 10th, 1915, at
Hooge near Ypres. Each story has a strong
religious theme, most dealing in a Celtic
manner with the weird or the mystical and
the possibility of life continuing after
death.
£40.00
eBay
17062
Callwell,
Major-General Sir Charles E.
Experiences of
a Dug-Out, 1914-1918
London:
Constable & Company Limited, 1920
5¾" x 9".
[xvii] + 339pp, frontis. Red cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head & tail
of spines frayed, edges and end-papers
foxed, previous owner's name inscribed,
otherwise Good
£95.00
eBay
17070
Shakespear,
Lieut.-Colonel John [C.M.G., C.I.E., D.S.O.]
Historical
Records of the 18th (Service) Battalion
Northumberland Fusiliers [1st Tyneside
Pioneers]
Printed for
Private Distribution by the Council of the
Newcastle and Gateshead Incorporated Chamber
of Commerce, The Guidhall,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1920
6” x 9½”. [xv]
+ 211pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
re-backed, covers rubbed and dull, small
snag on front leading edge, scattered
foxing, edges lightly foxed, end-papers
renewed, otherwise Very Good. This copy
presented to Corporal H. E. Pearson.
£90.00
eBay
17082
Anon.
From Dug-Out &
Billet : An Officer's Letters to his Mother
London: Hurst
& Blackett, Ltd, 1916
5” x 7¾”.
192pp, Publisher’s catalogue. Original blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and dull,
spine faded and very dull, spine ends and
corners bumped and frayed, edges dusty,
untrimmed and foxed otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17084
Ewing, Major
[M.C.] Brevet-Major, Late 6th K.O.S.B.
(Introduction By Field-Marshal Lord Plumer
G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.)
The History of
the 9th (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919
London: John
Murray, 1921 First Edition
6” x 9”.
[xviii] + 435pp + 11 folding maps at end. 24
illustrations including 20 tissue-guarded
colour illustrations. Blue cloth gilt with
gilt thistle on front boards, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, two maps carelessly
folded and creased and torn at edge as a
result, otherwise Very Good.
£195.00
eBay
17095
Churchill, The
Rt Hon. Winston S.
The World
Crisis, 1911-1914; The World Crisis, 1915;
The World Crisis, 1916 - 1918 Part I; The
World Crisis, 1916 - 1918 Part II
London:
Thornton Butterworth Limited, The World
Crisis, 1911-1914 : May 1927 [3rd edition,
3rd impression; first published April
1923]; The World Crisis, 1915 : May 1927
[2nd edition, 2nd impression; first
published October 1923]; The World Crisis,
1916 - 1918 Part I : April 1927 [4th
Impression, issued one month after the
First Edition]; The World Crisis, 1916 -
1918 Part II : April 1927 [4th Impression,
issued one month after the First Edition]
6” x 9¼”. The
World Crisis, 1911-1914 : 536 pages; The
World Crisis, 1915 : 563 pages; The World
Crisis, 1916 - 1918 Part I : 292 pages; The
World Crisis, 1916 - 1918 Part II : [ix] +
293-589 pages [the pagination continues on
from Part I, and starts, with this Volume at
page 293, ending at page 589]. Original
blue cloth gilt. The covers are scuffed and
rubbed, with some old staining,; there is
also significant variation in colour
throughout. The spines are generally quite
bright though there are splash marks on the
first volume and a strain at the head of the
second volume. The spine ends and corners
on each are heavily bumped and slightly
frayed and there are a number of
indentations along the edges of the boards.
There is a previous owner's name inscribed
in pencil on the front free end-paper of the
first volume only; there are no markings in
the other three volumes. The end-papers of
all volumes are very browned and
discoloured. The text is clean throughout
on slightly tanned paper. There is,
however, some occasionally heavy foxing,
mainly affecting the first and last few
pages (with the first volume being the
worst affected).
£275.00
eBay
17096
Mousley,
Captain E. O.
The Secrets of
a Kuttite : an authentic story of Kut,
adventures in captivity and Stamboul
intrigue
London: John
Lane The Bodley Head, 1922 [2nd ed.; first
published 1921]
5¼" x 7¾".
[xvi] + 392pp, frontis, illustrations,
folding map. Green cloth, no d/j, spine
dull, covers marked and rubbed, edges &
end-papers lightly foxed, previous owner's
name inscribed otherwise Very Good
£100.00
eBay
17102
Dawson,
Coningsby
Khaki Courage
: Letters in War-Time by Coningsby Dawson,
Novelist and Soldier. With an Introduction
by his Father, W. J. Dawson
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917
5" x 7¾".
185pp, portrait frontis. Green cloth gilt,
no d/j, spine faded, covers marked and
rubbed, offsetting to end-papers, previous
owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.
Uplifting, patriotic & irrepressably
optimistic propagandist work (although
"quite disillusioned about the splendour
of\r\nwar” having seen the Somme in 1916);
Dawson served with the artillery in 1st &
4th Canadian Divisions & was wounded. He
survived to make his living as a successful
writer.
£60.00
eBay
17107
Roujon, Jaques
[translated by Fred Rothwell]
Battles &
Bivouacs : A French Soldier's Note-Book
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1916
5" x 8".
256pp. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, front cover bowed out slightly,
spine faded and dull, some loss of colour on
edge of front boards otherwise Very Good.
Uncommon.
£75.00
eBay
17121
E. Blake Knox
Buller's
Campaign : With the Natal Field Force of
1900
London: R.
Brimley Johnson, 8 York Buildings, Adelphi,
1902 First Edition
5¾” x 9”. [xx]
+ 336pp, portrait frontispiece, maps,
illustrations (folding map at end). Original
red cloth gilt. The covers are rubbed, with
some old marks, a small snag on the front
cover, and a noticeable line of fading
across the top section. The spine has faded
to a marked extent with significant loss of
original colour. The front spine gutter is
heavily rubbed; however, the rear spine
gutter has a one-inch split near the tail,
and another split from the head downwards
(for almost an inch). The spine ends and
corners are bumped and frayed, with further
splits in the cloth, with the head of the
spine being the worst affected with a number
of obvious tears. There is also a small
discoloured patch on the spine from the
removal of a label. There is an abraded
patch on the front pastedown from the
removal of a label or bookplate and a
similar, though smaller, patch on the front
free end-paper. Combined with the
discoloured patch on the spine, this would
give every indication of being a Library
book; however, there are no Library
markings visible anywhere. The text is clean
throughout on tanned paper with some foxing
spots, while the illustrations have
acquired a distinct yellowish tinge. The
edge of the text block is dust-stained and
lightly foxed and is also untrimmed,
resulting in a ragged edge. The inner
hinges are a little tender. There is a
small tear in the leading edge of the
frontispiece.
£90.00
eBay
17125
Macgill,
Patrick
The Amateur
Army
London:
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1915
5” x 7½”.
122pp, portrait frontis, publisher’s
advertisements. Tan cloth blocked in red, no
d/j, slightly shaken, spine creased and dull
and frayed at head, otherwise Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17127
Various
Military
Operations : France and Belgium, 1918 : The
German March Offensive and its Preliminaries
: Appendices
London:
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1935 First
Edition
5¼” x 8¾”.
[viii] + 148pp, Publisher’s Advertisements.
Red cloth gilt, no d/j, "Union Club"
bookplate on front pastedown, Leicester
University Library markings and lending
schedule on front end-papers, small label
removed from spine, otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
17130
Findlay,
Colonel J. M. (D.S.O.)
With the 8th
Scottish Rifles 1914-1919
London &
Glasgow: Blackie and Son Limited, 1926
5½” x 8½”.
[xv] + 240pp, maps, illustrations. Green
cloth blocked in black and gilt, no d/j,
edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
17133
Dunsterville,
Major-General L. C.
The Adventures
of Dunsterforce
London: Edward
Arnold, 1920 [2nd impression]
5½" x 9".
[xi] + 323pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations, map as front end-papers, map
within text and a folding map. Red cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine dull and
snagged, head and tail of spine and corners
bumped,
£95.00
eBay
17134
Magnus, Laurie
The West
Riding Territorials in the Great War
London: Kegan
Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. Ltd, 1920
6¼” x 9½”.
[xv] + 324pp portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations, publisher’s advertisements.
Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine
faded, otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17136
Grey, Major W.
E.
The 2nd City
of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in the
Great War (1914-1919)
London:
Published from The Headquarters of the
Regiment, 1929
7¼” x 10”.
[xxxiv] + 464pp, maps, illustrations. Blue
cloth boards with gilt cover vignette,
backed with red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine
faded, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good.
Malta - Ypres - Gallipoli - Southern Egypt -
Somme - Arras - Cambrai - Amiens. In his
preface the author, who took three years
over this history, makes the point that
material that should have been preserved in
the regimental archives had disappeared, and
that personal diaries, letters and
memoranda had been very hard to come by,
making his task not an easy one. One result
is that there is no list of honours and
awards but rather a summary, nor could he
get reliable casualty figures for some of
the battles. Nevertheless, despite the
handicaps, he acknowledges plenty of help
and advice and he has produced a very
commendable piece of work which certainly
ranks with other histories and is a good
deal better than some. It was his intention
to present a connected or continuous story
so he has not adopted the pattern of
separate parts for each battalion. He
follows the chronology of the war with each
battalion being brought into the story at
the appropriate time. Each chapter covers a
specific period/battle and a specific
battalion, as is made clear in the list of
contents. The 1/2nd was with the 1st London
Brigade, 1st London Division when war broke
out, and a month later the brigade was sent
to Malta to replace the regular battalions.
In February 1915 they in turn were replaced
by their second line battalions (2/2nd had
been formed in September 1914) and left for
France where the 1/2nd was posted to 17th
Brigade 6th Division at Armentieres and for
the rest of the war it remained on the
Western Front. In October 1915 the brigade
was transferred to the 24th Division and in
February 1916 it was moved again - to the
re-formed 56th (previously1st London)
Division, part of 169th Brigade, and there
it stayed to the end. After Malta the 2/2nd
was sent to Gallipoli where it arrived on 13
October and was attached to the 2nd Naval
Brigade. In January 1916 it went to France
where it was disbanded and the 3/2nd (formed
in December 1914), which was in the UK at
the time with 173rd Brigade, 58th Division,
was renamed 2/2nd. The division landed in
France in January 1917 and the battalion
fought its first major action at Bullecourt
in May; it, too, remained with the brigade
throughout the fighting to the end of the
war. Finally there was a fourth line
battalion, 4/2nd, which was formed in May
1915 but did not serve overseas; its
function was to supply drafts for the two
overseas battalions. The Roll of Honour
lists 1,345 dead and the summary of awards
shows 65 British decorations to officers and
246 to other ranks, excluding MiD.
£125.00
eBay
17145
Davis,
Reginald [Edited by Sir Ernest
Hodder-Williams]
One Young Man
: The simple and true story of a clerk who
enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western
Front for nearly two years, was severely
wounded at the Battle of the Somme and is
now on his way back to his desk
New York:
George H. Doran Company, 1917
5” x 8¼”.
156pp. Paperback, spine damaged otherwise
Very Good
£95.00
eBay
17148
Johnston,
Captain M. A. B. and Yearsley, Captain K. D.
Four-Fifty
(450) Miles to Freedom
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1919
First Edition
5" x 7½". (xi)
+ 295pp, illustrations, folding map.
Pictorial blue cloth, no d/j, spine very
dull, covers marked and rubbed, rear spine
gutter split at head, gift inscription on
front end-paper otherwise Good.
£50.00
eBay
17149
Messenger,
Charles
Terriers in
the Trenches : The Post Office Rifles at War
1914-1918
Chippenham:
Picton Publishing, 1982
5¾” x 8½”.
[xii] + 170pp, frontispiece map,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a scuffed,
rubbed price-clipped d/j, otherwise Near
Fine.
£90.00
eBay
17151
Zuber, Terence
German War
Planning, 1891-1914 : Sources and
Interpretations (Warfare in History)
Woodbridge,
Suffolk: The Boydell Press (Boydell & Brewer
Ltd), 2004
6” x 9½”.
[vii] + 312pp, maps. Blue cloth gilt in d/j,
As New.
£75.00
eBay
17153
Dearden,
Harold
Medicine &
Duty : A War Diary
London:
William Heinemann Limited, 1928
4¾" x 7½".
[xi] + 234pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, spine faded, spine
slightly cocked, edges & end-papers lightly
foxed otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17154
Novick, Peter
The Resistance
versus Vichy : The Purge of Collaborators in
Liberated France
London: Chatto
& Windus, 1968
5½” x 9”. [xv]
+ 245pp. Original red cloth gilt in a
scuffed and rubbed d/j, previous owner's
name label otherwise Very Good.
£30.00
eBay
17157
Frew, David
A Young
Borderer : A Memoir of Alexander Dobree
Young-Herries (Captain, The King's Own
Scottish Borderers)
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, 1928
5½" x 8¾". [x]
+ 236pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with
some loss of colour to edge of boards, edges
grubby, edge of last few pages chipped
otherwise Very Good. Alick Herries attended
Eton and Cambridge and then fought at the
Aisne, La Bassee and the Ypres Salient,
then the Somme in 1916, Arras, and the Somme
again in 1918 where he was killed. Rare
personal memoir. An intensely personal
memoir of the life of a man, commissioned by
his father & written by his parish minister.
£90.00
eBay
17164
Luard, K. E.
(R.R.C.) [With a Preface By Field-Marshal
Viscount Allenby]
Unknown
Warriors : Extracts from the Letters of K.
E. Luard, R.R.C. : Nursing Sister in France
1914-1918
London: Chatto
& Windus, 1930 First Edition
5” x 7½”.
[xii] + 306pp, frontispiece, map. Brown
cloth gilt, no d/j, edges foxed otherwise
Very Good. Rare. Chapter Headings : I.
Winter Up The Line. Letters from Lillers,
October 17th 1915 to April 25th 1916; II.
Attacks On Vimy Ridge. Letters from Barlin,
May 11th to July 3rd 1916; III. Vimy
Ridge-continued July 11th to October 12th
1916; IV. Battle Of Arras. Letters from
Warlencourt, March 3rd to June 3rd 1917; V.
Third Battle Of Ypres. Letters from
Brandhoek July 23rd to September 4th 1917;
VI. The German Advance. Letters from
Marchelepot, Abbeville and Nampres, February
6th to April 6th 1918; VII.The Allied
Advance. Letters from Pernois, May 13th to
August 10th 1918.
£125.00
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17170
Bell, Julian
[Ed.]
We Did Not
Fight : 1914 - 18 Experiences of War
Resisters
London:
Cobden-Sanderson, 1935
4¾” x 7½".
392pp. Rebound ex-Library, reading copy.
£95.00
eBay
17174
Wyrall,
Everard [with a Foreword by Field Marshal
Sir G. F. Milne, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., D.S.O.]
The
Gloucestershire Regiment in the War
1914-1918 : The Records of the 1st (28th)
2nd (61st) 3rd (Special Reserve) and 4th,
5th and 6th (First-Line T. A.) Battalions
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1931 [1st Ed.]
5½” x 9”. [ix]
+ 357pp, portrait frontis, twenty maps. Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed,
end-papers foxed, Bookseller's label and
markings on front pastedown otherwise Very
Good. As the subtitle states these are the
records of the 1st (28th Foot), 2nd (61st
Foot)), 3rd (Special Reserve) and 4th, 5th
and 6th (First-Line T.A.) Battalions, in
other words this is the history of the
battalions of the regiment which existed
prior to the outbreak of war. The one
appendix lists the twenty-four battalions
that existed during the war, indicating the
theatre of war in which they served and in
which division. Eight of these battalions
did not serve overseas, and of the rest only
one (7th Service Battalion) did not serve on
the Western Front, it went with 13th
Division to Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and
Persia. Total losses amounted to 8,100, 72
battle honours were awarded and in the
appendix is shown which honours were
awarded to which battalion, information
rarely seen in any other Great War
regimental history; and four VCs were won
but only one of them by one of the
battalions covered in this book (Pte G.
Miles, 1/5th Battalion). In August 1914 the
1st Battalion was stationed in Bordon, part
of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division,
and was among the first British troops to
disembark in Le Havre, on 13th August. The
first quarter of this book is concerned with
the doings of the 1st Battalion which saw
action in the early battles of the war -
Mons and the retreat, the Marne, the Aisne,
First Ypres and Givenchy. The 2nd Battalion
was in China when war broke out and came
home to join the newly formed 81st Brigade,
27th Division which arrived in France in
December 1914 and in November 1915 was
transferred to Salonika, where it remained
for the rest of the war. Three chapters of
the book deal with the operations in that
theatre of war. The three Territorial
battalions were in the South Midland
Division, later the 48th which crossed to
France at the end of March 1915 and fought
on the Western front till November 1917,
when it was sent to Italy where it remained
till the armistice. The final chapter gives
the account of operations in that theatre.
The author, a well known military
historian, was probably the most prolific
among the writers of regimental and
divisional histories, some thirteen in all,
and this account reflects the skill of the
writer in producing a very readable
narrative, which draws on the Battalion
Diary, on individual accounts of actions,
some quite lengthy, and makes use of
footnotes to give casualty details in
addition to those contained in the text,
various comments, and items of information
from other sources to confirm or add to the
main text. The maps are good. There is no
Roll of Honour nor list of honours and
awards.
£125.00
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17178
Aspinall-Oglander, Cecil
Military
Operations : Gallipoli Volume II (Text only)
: May 1915 to the Evacuation
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1932
5½” x 8¾”.
[xv] + 517 pp, illustrations. Original red
cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Library, missing
Title-Page, reading copy.
£60.00
eBay
17183
Paish, Frank
Walter [M.C., Second Brigade, Royal
Artillery (August 1916-March 1919)] With an
Introduction by Anthony Paish; Edited by Sir
Alan Peacock D.S.C.
War as a
Temporary Occupation : First World War
Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant
Edinburgh :
Sir Alan Peacock, 1998 [Published for
Private Distribution by the Editor]
5¾” x 8¾”.
81pp, sketch map. Paperback, barcode label
partially removed from rear cover, corners
creased otherwise Very Good.
£45.00
eBay
17186
Gibbon, Monk
Inglorious
Soldier : an Autobiography
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1968 First Edition
5¾” x 9¼”.
[xiv] + 335pp, portrait frontispiece.
Original tan cloth gilt, no d/j, spine ends
and corners bumped, edges foxed, missing
four illustrations, otherwise Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
17190
Wylly, Colonel
H. C. [C.B.]
History of the
Queen's Royal Regiment Vol. VII 1905-1923
Aldershot:
Printed and Published for the Regimental
Committee by Gale & Polden Limited, n.d.
[c1924]
7¼” x 10”.
[xvi] + 308pp, ten maps (two in pocket at
end; one missing), illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers worn and faded with
large areas of colour loss to boards, spine
severely faded with almost total loss of
colour and one-inch split in rear spine
gutter, spine ends and corners bumped and
frayed with further splits in cloth, inner
hinges cracked, stamp on front free
end-paper of The Queens Royal Surrey
Regiment Museum, internally clean and
bright. Two regular & five service bns.
served on the Western Front encompassing all
main battles & operations. Territorials
served in India & Afghanistan, Gallipoli,
Palestine & Mespot.
£95.00
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17195
L. F. R.
[Robinson, Lt Lionel F., R.N.]
Naval Guns in
Flanders 1914-1915
London:
Constable, 1920
6” x 9”.
[viii] + 184pp, illustrations, maps.
Professionally rebound in green cloth with
gilt spine label, no d/j, untrimmed, with
ragged edge, otherwise Very Good; internally
very clean on slightly tanned paper. In
October 1914 the author, a naval Gunnery
Officer, was ordered to Belgium to command a
unit of 6-inch naval guns on railway
mountings, HM Armoured Train 'Jellicoe.'
This unusual unit moved around Flanders
giving invaluable artillery support during
the First Battle of Ypres, winter operations
before La Bassée, then at Neuve Chapelle &
on the Yser front in the spring of 1915. A
fine personal account containing much
interesting detail, some scarce photos. &
useful maps. Roll of personnel of HMAT
'Jellicoe.'
£125.00
eBay
17201
Jerrold,
Douglas [with an introduction by the Right
Hon. Winston S. Churchill]
The Royal
Naval Division
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, c.1927 [2nd ed.]
5" x 7½".
[xix] + 360pp. Original cloth, no d/j, spine
quite dull, covers and backstrip marked and
rubbed, end-papers foxed, internally sound,
Good.
£90.00
eBay
17206
Bagnold, Enid
A Diary
Without Dates
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1933 ["The Windmill
Library"]
4½” x 7”.
127pp. Original brown cloth gilt in a
scuffed and rubbed d/j, previous owner's
name inscribed, otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17207
Tunstall,
Graydon
Planning for
War Against Russia and Serbia :
Austro-Hungarian and German Military
Strategies, 1871 - 1914
Boulder,
Colorado: Social Science Monographs [War and
Society in East Central Europe, Volume
XXXI], distributed by Columbia University
Press, New York, 1993
5¾" x 8¾".
373pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j [as issued],
Fine
£95.00
eBay
17209
Anon. [The
Author, who desired to remain unknown, is
referred to as "E. R." on the Author's
Foreword : E. W. J. Rowan]
The 54th
Infantry Brigade 1914-1918 : Some Records of
Battle and Laughter in France
London and
Portsmouth: Gale and Polden Ltd, 1919
[Printed for private circulation only]
4¾” x 7¼”.
[xi] + 207pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine
faded, some patchy discolouration,
frontispiece detached otherwise Very Good.
Scarce. The subtitle sets the tone of this
history of one of the most remarkable
brigades that fought on the Western Front.
The 18th (Eastern) Division became an elite
formation, one of Kitchener's Second New
Army divisions, which had the advantage of
being commanded by Ivor Maxse, foremost
among commanders for his training and
leadership qualities. He commanded it for
two and a quarter years and his successor,
R.P Lee, another good commander, lead it for
the rest of the war. Only two GOCs in four
years of war.The 54th Brigade was to win
eight VCs, the highest number for a
non-regular army brigade, eight out of the
eleven awarded to the division. The history
is made up of the stories and recollections
of all ranks, and the style is very
informal. The compiler or editor has chosen
to remain anonymous, but the result is
something like a regimental history, with a
good sprinkling of personalities identified
in the narrative. Much is made of the Spirit
of the Brigade, a morale booster
undoubtedly helped by the fact the
battalions stayed together from the time
they arrived in France in July 1915 till the
reorganization of the BEF in February 1918
when brigades were reduced to three
battalions. The 54th Brigade certainly saw a
great deal of action and there are plenty
of lively descriptions. The Brigade
commander tells of his visit to an
emplacement known as Panama House during a
lively 'strafe'. The company sergeant-major
emerged, grabbed the brigadier and threw him
inside saying: "We don't want no dead
Brigadiers round our pillbox." The brigade
commanders and staff and the unit commanders
are listed in the appendix and the eight VC
citations are given.
£75.00
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17210
[By the author
of "The Real Kaiser"]
The
Dardanelles : Their Story and Their
Significance in the Great War
London: Andrew
Melrose, Ltd, 1915 [2nd Impression, issued
22 June; First Edition issued 10 June.]
5" x 7¾".
168pp, illustrations, map. Blue cloth, no
d/j, corners rubbed, otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
17213
Perris, George
Herbert
The Campaign
of 1914 in France and Belgium
London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1915
6” x 9”.
[xxvii] + 447pp, maps, plans, illustrations.
Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers faded and
stained, prize inscription, foxing towards
end, otherwise Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17218
Wurtzburg,
Capt. C. E.
The History of
the 2/6th (Rifle) Battalion "The King's"
(Liverpool Regiment) 1914-1919
Aldershot:
Printed for the Regimental Committee by Gale
& Polden Limited, 1920
7” x 10”. [xv]
+ 368pp 32 plates (including frontispiece),
16 maps (some coloured; some folding),
including four folding maps contained in
pocket at end. Dark green bevelled cloth
boards gilt with Liverpool Rifles crest in
gilt to front boards, no d/j, covers rubbed
heavily especially around the edges,
puncture in spine near tail, inner hinges
cracked, previous owner's name inscribed,
scattered foxing, tanned pages, just about
Very Good. The 2/6th "The King’s"
(Liverpool Regiment) took part in all the
fighting of the 57th (West Lancashire)
Division from February 1917, up to the
Armistice. The battalion showed its
offensive spirit in the third battle of
Ypres, the breaking of the Drocourt-Queant
switch of the Hindenburg Line, the battle
of Cambrai, and the capture of Lille; and
its steadiness in defence during the long
periods of trench warfare, and especially in
the terrible gas bombardments of
Armentieres.
£70.00
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17224
Caine, Hall
Our Girls :
Their Work for the War [with 15
illustrations from Photographs by the
Ministry of Munitions]
London:
Hutchinson & Co., 1916
4¼" x 7".
127pp, b&w plates. Red cloth, no d/j, spine
faded, covers and corners rubbed, otherwise
Very Good. Scarce.
£90.00
eBay
17228
Kilgour,
William and O'Raw, Joseph [Compiled by]
Lanarkshire
Men at the Battle of Loos 1915
Glasgow :
Printed by DP21, 136 Elliot Street
8¼” x 11½”.
128pp, illustrations. Original printed card
covers (large format Paperback/ Softback).
The covers are rubbed and the top corners
slightly creased, otherwise in excellent
condition. There is a shallow vertical
crease down the centre of the plain black
spine.
£75.00
eBay
17230
Cunniffe, R.
Lord
Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
Lord
Strathcona's Horse (Royal (Canadians)
Regimental Society, 1995
6” x 9¼”.[xvi]
+ 192pp, illustrations. Original green
boards (leatherette?) blocked in gilt in a
scuffed and rubbed d/j, corners bumped,
otherwise Very Good.
£60.00
eBay
17237
North, John
Gallipoli :
The Fading Vision
London: Faber
& Faber, 1966 [Reprint of the 1936 edition
to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
landings]
5¼" x 8".
390pp, maps. Black cloth in chipped,
price-clipped d/j, otherwise near Fine/Very
Good
£30.00
eBay
17238
Freeman, Lewis
R.
Many Fronts
London: John
Murray, 1918
4¾” x 7½”.
315pp. Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
head and tail of spine bumped and frayed,
corners bumped, spine dull, edge of text
block and a few pages stained, tanned
pages, otherwise Very Good.
£30.00
eBay
17241
Gilbert, Major
Vivian
The Romance of
the Last Crusade : With Allenby to Jerusalem
New York: D.
Appleton and Company, 1925 [Dated 1925 on
the Title-Page but 1923 on the Copyright
page]
5" x 7½".
235pp, portrait frontis. Blue cloth gilt in
a torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, covers
rubbed, spine dull, previous owner's name
inscribed otherwise Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17246
Clark, Alan
The Donkeys
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, September 1961 [Third
impression; first published July 1961]
5½” x 8½”.
216pp, illustrations. Black cloth blocked in
white and red in a torn, scuffed and chipped
price-clipped d/j, previous owner's name
inscribed (from Royal Australian Regiment),
edges dusty, slight spine lean otherwise
about Very Good.
£35.00
eBay
17249
Dinning,
Hector
By-Ways on
Service : Notes from an Australian Journal
London:
Constable and Company Ltd, 1918
5” x 7½”. [x]
+ 281pp. Purple cloth blocked in black, no
d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded and soiled,
head and tail of spine frayed, otherwise
Very Good. Reminiscences of World War I
Australian soldier, includes: Up the Canal,
Abbassieh, On leave in Cairo, Glimpses of
ANZAC, Gallipoli, Back to Egypt, France,
Picardy and the Somme. Dinning was a Captain
in the Light Horse.
£150.00
eBay
17250
Sommers, Cecil
[with illustrations by the Author] [Pseud.
of Captain N. C. S. Downs 4th Gordon
Highlanders (T.F.)]
Temporary
Heroes
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917 First Edition
5” x 7¾”.
244pp, illustrations. Blind-stamped green
cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed, corners
bumped, spine dull, tanned pages, otherwise
Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
17259
O’Raw, Joseph
In Memory of
the Fallen, 1914-1918 : Holytown and New
Stevenston
Printed for
the Author by New Print Workshop, Coatbridge
[According to newspaper clippings loosely
inserted, the booklet was originally
published in 1998 but was to be updated as
new information became available; there is
no date on this copy.]
8” x 11¾”.
67pp, illustrations. Original printed card
covers which are lightly rubbed and slightly
discoloured around the edges but otherwise
in good condition. There is a gift
inscription on the inside front cover from
the Author, Joseph O’Raw. The text is clean
throughout. There are two newspaper
clippings loosely inserted, referring to
the publication, both dated November 1998.
£75.00
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17261
Stevens, F. T.
The Great War
for Universal Peace
London:
William Nicholson & Sons Limited, 26,
Paternoster Square, E. C.
4¾” x 7½”.
400pp. Original cloth in worn condition, no
d/j, significantly tanned pages, inner
hinges cracked otherwise Good.
£95.00
eBay
17265
Felstead, S.
Theodore
Under The
German Heel : Revelations of Life in Belgium
Under the German Occupation 1914-1918
London: George
Newnes Limited, n.d. [1940]
5¼" x 8¼".
[ix] + 228pp. Grey cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, covers rubbed, end-papers
discoloured, otherwise Very Good.
£36.00
eBay
17267
Neville, J. E.
H.
History of the
43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and
Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry in the Great
War, 1914-1919. Volume I: The 43rd Light
Infantry in Mesopotamia and North Russia
Aldershot:
Gale & Polden Ltd, 1938 First Edition
7¼” x 10”.
[xxiv] + 461pp, portrait frontispiece, maps,
illustrations. Original green cloth gilt, no
d/j, spine faded, inner hinges starting,
otherwise Very Good.
£195.00
eBay
17271
Palmer, Alan
The Gardeners
of Salonika : The Macedonian Campaign of
1915 - 1918
London: Andre
Deutsch, 1965 [1st]
6" x 9½".
286pp, illustrations, maps. Brown cloth gilt
in a chipped, torn d/j, armorial bookplate,
edges dusty, otherwise Very Good.
£60.00
eBay
17273
Crutchley,
Charles
Shilling A Day
Soldier
Bognor Regis:
New Horizon, 1980
5” x 8¼”.
[viii] + 128pp, 7 photos., map. Original
blue boards blocked in silver, no d/j, head
and tail of spine bumped, otherwise Near
Fine. Crutchley's scarce First World War
memoirs: served with 1/4th Northants as a
machine gunner and landed with the Battalion
at Suvla Bay on 15th August 1915. Includes a
short but interesting account of this
period until invalided with dysentery:
returned to England and transferred to MGC
in January 1916. Served with 135th Coy. MGC
in Mesopotamia & Palestine 1917-18,
including various battles and operations
which are interestingly described.
£75.00
eBay
17275
Dawnay,
Major-General G. P. and Cuthbert Headlam,
Lieut.-Colonel T. A. [Eds]
The Army
Quarterly October 1922 [Volume V, No. 1]
London:
William Clowes & Sons, Ltd, 1923
5½" x 8¾".
[xxiv] + 224pp, maps, advertisements. Red
card covers, spine creased and chipped
otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
17281
Anon (From a
Private's Diary)
9th Royal
Scots (T.F.) B Company on Active Service :
From a Private's Diary February-May 1915
Edinburgh:
Printed by Turnbull & Spears, 1916 [2nd
Edition]
4¼” x 6½”.
94pp. Green cloth blocked in gilt on front
boards but no spine markings, no d/j,
end-papers browned, slight spine lean,
otherwise Very Good. The Author's
experiences during the second Battle of
Ypres [Sanctuary Wood and Dickiebusch].
Active service in the Ypres Salient,
billeted at Voormezeele & Vlamertinghe, in
action at Sanctuary Wood, in support of the
Canadians at St. Julien during '2nd Ypres,'
then Sanctuary Wood.
£50.00
eBay
17286
Whitton,
Lieut.-Col. F. E.
History of the
40th Division
Aldershot:
Gale & Polden Ltd, 1926
5¼” x 8½”.
(ix) + 315pp, 1 plate and 5 maps. Blue cloth
gilt with Divisional crest, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, previous owner's name
inscribed otherwise Very Good
£95.00
eBay
17288
Bordeaux,
Captain Henri [Translated by Paul V. Cohn]
The
Deliverance of the Captives : Douaumont-Vaux
October 21-November 3, 1916 with Two Maps
London: Thomas
Nelson and Sons Ltd, n.d. [c.1917]
4¾” x 7½”.
[xvi] + 17-301pp, maps. Red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine dull,
edges & end-papers foxed, previous owner's
name stamped otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
17289
Taylor, James
Wood Colin [Edited by John Wood]
A Life Well
Lived : A Memoir of James Wood Colin Taylor
: Lieutenant 3rd Battalion Sherwood
Foresters, Born May 22 1887, Fell in Action
at Hooge, Flanders, August 9th 1915
London: S. W.
Partridge & Co. Ltd, n.d. [Sixth Edition]
4¾” x 7½”.
158pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Dark
green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, spine ends and corners bumped,
otherwise Very Good.
£60.00
eBay
17292
Coop, The Rev.
J. O.
The Story of
the 55th (West Lancashire) Division
1916-1919
Liverpool:
'Daily Post' Printers, 1919
4¾” x 7½”.
184pp, maps, illustrations. Printed card
with green cloth backstrip, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, corners frayed, spine
creased, edges foxed, otherwise Good.
£40.00
eBay
17294
Davis, A. H.
[Ex- Sapper No. 3595 4/1 Field Coy,
Northumbrian R. E. Ex-Lance Corporal No.
457965 419 Field Coy, (West Lancs.)
R.E.Ex-Staff Sergeant 2nd Corps, H.Q.]
Extracts from
the Diaries of a Tommy (1916-19) : Being the
actual day to day diary kept by a soldier
during the war under very difficult
circumstances
London: Cecil
Palmer, 1932
4¾” x 7½”.
292pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, spine faded, frayed patch
on rear spine gutter, slight spine lean,
edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.
Exceptionally rare diary of an ordinary
soldier covering Passchendaele in 1917, the
final German push in 1918 and the Allied
response."... on April 10th, 1916 at the age
of thirty five ... I gave up my temporary
appointment in Lloyds Bank, locked up my
office in Newcastle, and left wife and two
children at home, to enlist ... I wished to
see for myself what war was like." The
author was a sapper with the 1st Fd. Coy.
Northumbrian RE, then an NCO with 419 Fd.
Coy. (West Lancs.) RE & a Staff Sgt. at 2nd
Corps HQ. Very scarce candid account of
enlistment & life at Base Camps in England
& France, active service 1917-18 & the Army
of Occupation in Cologne. Some unusual
experiences that don’t often find their way
into the memoirs include (apparently
celibate) education visits to the ‘Red
Lamp.’ Some copies show the Publisher as
Cecil Palmer on the spine but have a pasted
sheet to the Title-Page giving G. T. Foulis
& Co. Ltd (Milford Lane, London, W.C.2) as
the Publisher
£150.00
eBay
17301
Whitmore,
Lt.-Col. F. H. D. C.
The 10th
(P.W.O.) Royal Hussars and The Essex
Yeomanry, During the European War, 1914-1918
Colchester:
Benham and Company Limited, 1920
7½" x 10¼".
[viii] + 326pp, illustrations, maps. Grey
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, backstrip
a little discoloured, otherwise Very Good
£90.00
eBay
17302
Dalbiac,
Colonel P. H. [C.B., T.D.] Forewords by
Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby, G.C.B.,
C.G.M.G. and General Sir E. S. Bulfin,
K.C.B., C.V.O.
History of the
60th Division (2/2nd London Division)
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1927
6¼” x 10”.
255pp, colour frontispiece and two plates,
maps. Original black cloth gilt with
Divisional motif on front cover, no d/j,
covers rubbed, head of spine snagged with
small splits in cloth, corners frayed,
end-papers foxed and discoloured, previous
owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.
At the end of August 1914 the Territorial
Force (TF) was authorized to raise reserve
or 2nd-line units and from these came the
2nd-line Divisions, fourteen of them, one
for each 1st-line or original pre-war TF
divisions. The 60th came into existence in
September as the 2/2nd London Division,
receiving its number in August 1915 when
all the 2nd-line divisions were numbered. It
embarked for France in June 1916 and went
into the line in the Vimy sector where it
endured four months of crater and trench
fighting. The division was withdrawn from
the BEF in November and sent to Macedonia ,
assembling at Salonika on Christmas Day
1916. For the next five months it was
engaged in fighting the Bulgars,
participating in the British attacks near
Lake Doiran in April and May. Their stay in
Macedonia lasted only six months, for in
June 1917 the division was moved again - to
Palestine where it saw out the war. The
division made a good name for itself in
this campaign, at Third Gaza, Beersheba,
Jerusalem, Jericho and especially in
carrying out two raids across the Jordan,
which are described in detail.Two appendices
list command and staff, one when the
division left for France and the other when
it arrived in Palestine. Three VCs were
awarded (one of which does not get a
mention), all in Palestine, but there is no
list of honours and awards nor roll of
honour. The author, an ASC officer,
commanded the division Train till returning
home in June 1917 before the division
arrived in Palestine. The maps could be
better, in fact one of them depicting the
battle for Jerusalem (p 152) shows a 71st
Division as part of the force; the 71st
Division was a home service only division,
and in the text on p133 reference is made to
the 179th Division which should be 179th
Brigade.
£70.00
eBay
17306
Woods,
Frederick George
Chalky : The
Nearly Soldier
There is no
place or date of publication
5½” x 8½”.
76pp. Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, gift
inscription on front end-paper otherwise
Near Fine.
£95.00
eBay
17307
Murphy,
Lieut.-Colonel C. C. R. [Late The Suffolk
Regiment]
The History of
the Suffolk Regiment 1914-1927
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, n.d. [c.1928]
6” x 9¼”.
431pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, two
maps (one as rear end-papers). Original
printed paper-covered boards no d/j, covers
rubbed and scuffed, front inner hinge
cracked otherwise Very Good. On 1 January
1914, when this volume begins, the Suffolk
Regiment consisted of the 1st and 2nd
Battalions, the 3rd (Special Reserve)
Battalion, and the 4th, 5th and 6th
(Cyclist) Battalions of the Territorial
Force. After the outbreak of war sixteen
more battalions were raised and added, and
in 1917 the Suffolk Yeomanry converted into
the 15th Battalion, making a grand total of
twenty-three. Battalions of the Regiment
served in France and Flanders, Gallipoli,
Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine, and at
home.This book tells their stories, based on
war diaries, private diaries, letters and
interviews. In all 6,650 died, two VCs were
won and 73 Battle Honours awarded. The
doings of the ten battalions which proceeded
overseas are all woven together into the
general story contained in these pages,
those of the remaining thirteen battalions
form the subject matter of separate
chapters. Given the scope of this volume and
space considerations there is no Roll of
Honour and the list of Honours and Awards is
a very limited one showing only some of the
more important honours gained. Inevitably
some battalions get fuller treatment than
others but, as Cyril Falls comments, the
main events are clearly described. More maps
would have been welcome. As has already
been implied the narrative appears in
chronological order beginning in 1914 with
the 1st Battalion moving from Egypt to
Khartoum and the 2nd Battalion in the
Curragh with 14th Brigade, 5th Division, one
of the original BEF divisions. This
battalion landed in France on 14th August
and was in action at Mons and Le Cateau
where it suffered heavy casualties amounting
to 720 killed, wounded and missing with the
CO among the dead. There is a chapter
devoted to this battle with a special
introduction by General Smith Dorrien
commanding the British troops. The 1st
Battalion arrived home in October 1914 and
was allotted to the newly formed regular
28th Division which landed in France in
January 1915, nine months later it left
France for Macedonia where it stayed to the
end of the war. As the story unfolds so the
various battalions on active service are
brought into the picture and the part they
played in the battles is described. One
chapter is given to the 3rd (Special
Reserve) Battalion at home and another to
all the other battalions that did not go on
active service.
£75.00
eBay
17309
Leland, Brevet
Lt.-Col. F. W. (C.B.E., D.S.O., R.A.S.C.)
With the M. T.
in Mesopotamia
London:
Forster Groom & Co. Ltd, 1920
5½” x 9”.
[xiv] + 253pp, frontis, illustrations,
folding map. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, spine
ends and corners bumped and frayed otherwise
Very Good. A bright copy. During the Great
War one of the biggest problems attached to
fighting in the harsh terrain of Mesopotamia
was transport and communication. This book
gives a good idea of the difficulties
involved. It is an account of the ‘sinews of
war’ so vital to maintaining a viable
military machine. The author was an officer
in Mechanical Transport in 1916-1918.
£125.00
eBay
17317
Murray, Joseph
Call to Arms :
From Gallipoli to the Western Front
London:
William Kimber & Co. Limited, 1980
6” x 9½”.
191pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in a
scuffed d/j, top edge of the text-block is
dusty otherwise Very Good
£25.00
eBay
17321
Montgomery of
Alamein, Field Marshal The Viscount
Normandy to
the Baltic [“Published for private
circulation in the British Army of the
Rhine.”]
Printed in
Germany by Printing and Stationery Service
British Army of the Rhine, 1946
5½” x 8¾”.
(xvii) + 279pp, maps. Original red cloth
gilt with 21 Army Group insignia. The covers
are dull, rubbed and faded, with the fading
mainly confined to the periphery. The spine
has faded significantly with total loss of
original colour and is also very dull. The
front and rear spine gutters have minor
splits at the ends with the exception of
the front spine gutter tail where there is a
twi-0inch split which has been re-glued. The
spine ends and corners are bumped and frayed
with further splits to the cloth. The
covers have also bowed slightly. There is a
previous owner's inscription on the front
free end-paper: “W. D. H. McCardie, Lt.
Col.\r\n (stamped: Comdg 17th Bn The
Parachute Reg) 20 June 1946 Presented
personally at Haifa, Palestine, by Field
Marshal Lord Montgomery”. Facing this has
been added in pencil: “Lt Col W. Derek H.
McCardie P.o.W. after Arnhem Sent to
Palestine with Paras after WW2”. The text is
clean throughout on tanned paper (the
tanning is more noticeable in the margins).
A few of the many maps have been carelessly
re-folded and diagram B has become
completely detached. There is some play in
the inner hinges and the staples used in the
binding have rusted
£195.00
eBay
17326
Still, John
A Prisoner in
Turkey
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920 ("On Active
Service Series")
5" x 7¾".
250pp, frontis, publisher's advertisements.
Blind-stamped blue cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, covers rubbed, head and tail of
spine and corners bumped, edges lightly
foxed and dusty, inner hinges tender
otherwise Very Good. One of the rarest
titles in the "On Active Service Series".
£195.00
eBay
17329
Green, W. L.
The
Territorial in the Next War
London:
Geoffrey Bles, 1939 [Part of 'The Next War'
series edited by Captain Basil Liddell Hart]
5¼” x 8”. [x]
+ 182pp. Original red cloth blocked in black
in a scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise Very
Good.
£30.00
eBay
17333
Behrend,
Arthur
As From Kemmel
Hill : An Adjutant in France and Flanders
1917 & 1918
London: Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1963
5½" x 8¾".
176pp, illustrations, maps. Original red
cloth gilt in a badly torn and discoloured
d/j, otherwise Very Good.
£25.00
eBay
17336
Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis
Some of My
Experiences in the Great War
London: George
Newnes, Limited, 1918
4¾” x 7½”.
187pp. Tan cloth, no d/j, front free
end-paper excised, covers marked and rubbed,
otherwise Good Plus. First World War memoirs
of veteran war correspondent who visited
Serbia & Flanders in 1914-15, was at
Gallipoli & afterwards in France, on the
Verdun front, in 1916, &c.
£45.00
eBay
17339
Baerlein,
Henry
The March of
the Seventy-Thousand
London:
Leonard Parsons, 1926
5¾" x 9".
287pp, frontis, illustrations, folding map.
Blind-stamped green cloth gilt, no d/j,
edges dusty otherwise Very Good. Rare.
£125.00
eBay
17344
Mackenzie,
Compton
Gallipoli
Memories
London:
Cassell and Company, 1929
4¾" x 7¾". [x]
+ 406pp. Black cloth gilt in a torn, scuffed
and chipped d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
head and tail of spine bumped, otherwise
Very Good.
eBay
17346
Thomson, C. B.
[Lord Thomson of Cardington]
Smaranda : A
Compilation in Three Parts
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1926
5½” x 8¼”.
288pp. Green cloth gilt in a torn, scuffed
and chipped d/j, spine faded, untrimmed,
bookplate on front pastedown, front free
end-paper removed, offsetting to end-papers
otherwise Very Good. 'Smaranda' itself is
unlike any other Great War memoir by a
British general. Falls rated it highly:
"There have been plenty of soldiers who
were good writers and even some who were
good novelists, but it is rare to encounter
a soldier who is master of such delicate,
almost feminine prose as this." Quite apart
from the love story, Thomson's diplomatic
and military escapades in Roumania give a
convincing insight into the power-politics
at play, 1915 - 1917, as the Allies and the
Central Powers, mired in the Western Front,
wrestled in the Balkans to out-flank each
other diplomatically and then militarily.
£250.00
eBay
17349
Wyrall,
Everard
The History of
the Fiftieth Division 1914-1919
London: Percy
Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd, 1939
5½” x 8¾” [xi]
+ 376pp, 13 illustrations, 9 maps. Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
17352
Atkinson, C.
T. (Late Captain, Oxford University O. T.
C.)
The Queen's
Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914-1919
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd,
London, 1924 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxviii] + 629pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Original blue cloth blocked
in silver, no d/j, head of spine slightly
snagged and tail slightly frayed, edges
lightly foxed, pages 470-474 detached
otherwise Very Good. "Well above the average
of regimental histories in interest. He has
dome 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).
£95.00
eBay
17354
Gullett, H. S.
(Henry Somer)
The Official
History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
: volume VII: The Australian Imperial Force
in Sinai and Palestine 1914-1918
Sydney: Angus
and Robertson, 1923
5½" x 8¾".
[xl] + 844pp, illustrations, maps. Brown
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, tanning to pages otherwise Good.
£95.00
eBay
17358
E. R. B.
[Boyd, Edwin R.] (Scottish Rifles)
A Yarn of War
: Palestine and France 1917-1918
Glasgow:
Maclehose, Jackson and Co., 1919 First
Edition [Printed for Private Circulation]
5¼” x 7¾”.
[xvi] + 251pp, 33 plates, 5 sketch maps.
blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, no d/j,
spine slightly stained, heavy bump on top
edge of front boards, spine ends and
corners heavily bumped, edge of the text
block untrimmed otherwise Very Good.
Inscribed by the Author (with initials) "To
Will H. Lyford, with love from E. R. B.,
30th Dec. 1919". Atmospheric personal
account of service with 8th Cameronians
(Scottish Rifles) in 52nd (Lowland) Division
including Battles of Gaza 1917 and campaign
in the hills to capture of Jerusalem etc.
Then to France in April 1918 and into the
line on the Vimy Ridge, then in July the
Battalion transferred ro the 34th Division
and the Author was wounded by shrapnel
during series of advances near Beugneux
(near Soissons). Numerous photos and good
coloured sketch maps of Gaza, advance to
Jaffa, Vimy District etc. A well written
personal account of service with 8th
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in the 52nd
(Lowland) Division. With good accounts of
the Battles of Gaza 1917, and campaign in
the hills to capture of Jerusalem. Boyd
transferred to France in April 1918 and went
into the line on the Vimy Ridge, then in
July the bn. transferred to the 34th Div.,
Boyd was wounded by shrapnel during series
of advances near Beugneux (near Soissons).
£165.00
eBay
17362
Inglefield,
Captain V. E. [With an Introduction by
Lieut.-General the Earl of Cavan, K.P.,
G.C.M., K.C.B., M.V.O.]
The History of
the Twentieth (Light) Division
London: Nisbet
& Co. Ltd, 1921
5½” x 8¾”.
[xii] + 319pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations, folding map. Blind-stamped
blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and
faded, spine faded, spine ends and corners
bumped, previous owner's name inscribed,
frontispiece missing, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17363
Lloyd, R. A.
[Introduction by Major the Hon. J. J. Astor,
MP]
A Trooper in
the 'Tins' : Autobiography of a
Lifeguardsman
London: Hurst
& Blackett, Ltd, n.d. [c.1938]
5½” x 8¾”.
320pp, frontispiece, publishers' catalogue.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed,
spine ends and corners bumped, gift
inscription on front end-paper otherwise
Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17372
Becke, Major
A. F. [R.F.A. (Retired). Hon. M.A. (Oxon.)]
Compiler
History of the
Great War : Based on Official Documents By
Direction of The Historical Section of The
Committee of Imperial Defence : Order of
Battle of Divisions : Part 3 B. : New Army
Divisions (30-41); & 63rd (R.N.) Division
London: His
Majesty's Stationery Office, 1945
7” x 10¼”. [x]
+ 155pp. This volume is ex-Library and has
been rebound by the Library in grey cloth
blocked in gilt on the spine. There is a
large area of old blue staining on the front
cover, and the covers have significant
furrows/undulations possibly through contact
with damp or water? The spine ends and
corners are bumped.
£295.00
eBay
17379
Platoon
Commander
With My
Regiment : From The Aisne to La Bassee
London:
William Heinemann, 1915
4¾" x 7¾".
[viii] + 231pp. Blue cloth blocked in black
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, backstrip
soiled and dull, head and tail of spine
bumped, edges dusty, previous owner's name
inscribed otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17380
Ponsonby,
Lieut.-Colonel The Right Hon. Sir Frederick
(Late Grenadier Guards) With an Introduction
by Lieut.-General The Earl of Cavan; Maps by
Mr Emery Walker
The Grenadier
Guards in the Great War of 1914 - 1918 :
Three Volumes
London:
Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1920 First
Editions
5¾” x 9”.
Volume I: [xviii] + 378pp, Publisher’s
Advertisement; Volume II: [vii] + 383pp;
Volume III: [ix] + 352pp. Portrait
frontispiece in photogravure in each volume
(all original tissue guards present), 14
plates and 25 maps (9 folding). Original gey
paper-covered boards with brown cloth spines
(with leather labels ruled and lettered in
gilt), no d/js, covers rubbed (particularly
the leather spine labels), small
indentations in the top edge of volumes I
and III, gift inscription on front
end-paper of each volume dated Xmas 1920,
tissue guards have tanned page opposite,
edges dusty otherwise Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
17382
Wyrall,
Everard
The History of
the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince
Albert's) 1914-1919
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927 First Edition
7¼” x 10”.
[xvi] + 419pp, portrait frontispiece, maps,
illustrations. Green cloth gilt with black
cloth spine, no d/j, covers rubbed, both
spine gutters are split for their entire
length but re-glued, inner hinges cracked,
end-papers discoloured, edges dusty and
foxed otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
17385
Osburn, Arthur
Unwilling
Passenger
London: Faber
and Faber Limited, 1932 First Edition
5¼" x 8¼".
415pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked
and rubbed, edges lightly foxed otherwise
Very Good.
£195.00
eBay
17387
Gillon,
Captain Stair
The Story of
the 29th Division : A Record of Gallant
Deeds
London: Thomas
Nelson and Sons Ltd, October 1925 First
Edition
5¾” x 9”. [xv]
+ 276pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Tan cloth blocked in black
with Divisonal Symbol (red triangle) on
front boards, no d/j. This volume is
ex-Library. Original brown cloth blocked in
black with red Divisional flash. The covers
are marked and rubbed with some old staining
and lifting of the cloth. There is a large
over-painted black band on the spine and a
crude letter "M" in white ink. The spine
ends and corners are heavily bumped with
some fraying to the cloth. This volume is
ex-Library (Reference Library, Boys’ Wing,
R.A.F. Cranwell) and there is a stamp to
this effect on the front pastedown (together
with other markings) and stamps are also
scattered throughout the volume including
the Title-Page, text and some of the maps.
The front inner hinge is cracked at the
Title-Page. Other than for the Library
stamps, the text is very clean throughout.
The edge of the text block is untrimmed and
has a ragged edge.
£85.00
eBay
17389
Harvey, F. W.
Comrades in
Captivity : A Record of Life in Seven German
Prison Camps
London:
Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd, 1920
5¼” x 8¼”.
[xi] + 319pp, map frontispiece, sketch
illustrations. Red cloth blocked and ruled
in black, no d/j, covers worn and soiled,
spine gutters frayed, tanned pages, Good.
eBay
17394
Rule,
Alexander
Students Under
Arms : Being the War Adventures of the
Aberdeen University Company of the Gordon
Highlanders
Aberdeen: The
University Press, 1934
4¾” x 7½”.
[xvi] + 220pp, sketch map. Blue cloth gilt,
no d/j, edges lightly foxed otherwise Very
Good. An account of the only British
University Infantry unit to serve in the
B.E.F. in the Great War - U Company of the
Gordon Highlanders. By September 1915, half
had fallen on the battlefields of Flanders
and the University Unit had ceased to be.
£95.00
eBay
17397
Anon.
[Foreword by Major-General John E. Capper]
History of the
1st and 2nd Battalions The North
Staffordshire Regiment (the Prince of
Wales), 1914-1923
Longton,
Staffordshire: Hughes & Harber Limited, The
Royal Press, n.d. [1932]
7½” x 10”.
(xiv) + 120pp, maps, illustrations. Brown
cloth gilt with leather backstrip, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, gilt blocking
dull, corners bumped and frayed, otherwise
Very Good.
£245.00
eBay
17398
Day, Henry C.
[with a preface by Field-Marshal Sir George
F. Milne and illustrations by Fred A.
Farrell]
Macedonian
Memories
London: Heath
Cranton Limited, 1930
5¼" x 8¾".
196pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Blue cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, covers rubbed, patchy and soiled,
spine dull, edges & end-papers foxed,
otherwise Good
£60.00
eBay
17403
Petain,
Marshal of France Henri Philippe
Verdun
London: Elkin
Mathews & Marrot, Ltd., 1930
5½" x 8¾".
254pp, maps, b&w plates.
£2,995.00
eBay
17408
Casson,
Stanley
Steady Drummer
London: G.
Bell & Sons, Ltd, 1935 First Edition
5½" x 8¾".
281pp, ills, maps. Original red cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed,
spine discoloured and frayed, internally
clean, otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
17411
Petre, F.
Loraine; Ewart, Wilfrid and Lowther,
Major-General Sir Cecil
The Scots
Guard in the Great War 1914-1918
London: John
Murray, 1925 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiii] + 349pp, maps, Publisher’s
Advertisements. Red cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, covers rubbed and faded, spine dull,
otherwise Very Good. The standard history
of the Regiment in the Great War. 1st and
2nd Bns fought with Guards Division on the
Western Front. With a chapter on the Reserve
Battalion; includes casualties, strengths
and drafts, honours and awards. The work was
started by Ewart, but he was killed in
Mexico in 1922. Petre then carried out most
of the work but died in 1925. It was then
finished and edited by Lowther.
£75.00
eBay
17412
Grimwade,
Captain F. Clive [4th Battalion, The London
Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)]
The War
History of the 4th Battalion The London
Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) 1914-1919
London: The
Headquarters of the 4th London Regiment,
1922 First Edition
5½” x 9”.
[xii] + 532pp, 12 photographs, 21 maps. Red
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, head of
spine snagged, spine faded, some patchy loss
of colour to boards, spine ends and corners
bumped, previous owner's name label on front
pastedown (R. H. S. Spaight, A. B. A.)
otherwise Very Good. 1/4th Bn. briefly in
Malta then Western Front from Neuve
Chapelle to armistice inc. 2nd Ypres, 1/7/16
at Gommecourt, Arras, 3rd Ypres, Cambrai
&c., 2/4th Bn. in France from Jan. 1917 inc.
Bullecourt, 3rd Ypres, Final Advance &c.
Detailed history with various rolls of
officers &c., awards roll.
£150.00
eBay
17414
Headlam,
Cuthbert [Late Lieut.-Colonel, General
Staff, B.E.F]
History of the
Guards Division in the Great War 1915-1918
[2 vols.]
London: John
Murray, 1924
6” x 9¼”.
[xvii] + 322pp, [xi] +358pp, coloured
frontispieces, maps. Decorative red cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
spines faded, head of spines snagged and
frayed, edges & end-papers lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good
£95.00
eBay
17415
Butler,
Patrick Richard [Major and Bt.-Lieut.-Col.
Patrick Richard Butler, DSO, The Royal
Irish]
A Galloper at
Ypres : And Some Subsequent Adventures
London: T.
Fisher Unwin, 1920
5¾” x 9”.
276pp, colour frontispiece by Lady Butler,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers stained, frontispiece detached, spine
lean otherwise Very Good.
£175.00
eBay
17416
Middlebrook,
Martin
The First Day
on the Somme, 1 July 1916
London: Allen
Lane, The Penguin Press, 1981 [first
published 1971]
5½" x 9".
365pp, illustrations, maps. Original cloth
in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good/Very
Good
£30.00
eBay
17418
Munby, J. E.
Lieut.-Colonel (C.M.G., D.S.O.) [Ed.] "By
the G.S.O's. I of the Division"
A History of
the 38th (Welsh) Division
Malpas,
Newport: Ray Westlake Military Books, 1991
[A reprint of 1920 Edition]
5¾” x 8¾”.
[xv] + 86pp. Original red leatherette
blocked in gilt on the spine only. The
covers are lightly rubbed and with a small
indentation on the front leading edge and
one on the rear spine gutter; otherwise in
Near Fine condition.
£40.00
eBay
17419
Allen, Hervey
Toward the
Flame : A War Diary
New York:
Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1934 [first
published 1926]
6” x 8¾”.
[xiii] + 282pp. Original green cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine
gutter split, water staining, otherwise
Good.
£70.00
eBay
17422
Ward, Fred W.
The 23rd
(Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First
Sportsman's) : A Record of its Service in
the Great War, 1914-1919
London:
Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd, 1920
5½” x 8¾”.
[vii] + 167pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Original red cloth blocked in
black with grey Regimental motif on front
boards, no d/j, head and tail of spine
bumped, covers very faded, edges lightly
foxed otherwise Very Good. 2nd Div., Western
Front 1915-18. Detailed Roll of Hon.,
awards, nominal roll. The unit was more
popularly known as "First Sportsman's"
because of the large number of prominent
sportsmen in all ranks. It included several
first class cricketers, the lightweight
boxing champion of England, an ex-mayor of
Exeter, to 2nd Division. The battalion saw
action at Vimy Ridge, the Somme and the
battle for Delville Wood.
£70.00
eBay
17426
Anon. [The
Author, who desired to remain unknown, is
referred to as "E. R." on the Author's
Foreword : E. W. J. Rowan]
The 54th
Infantry Brigade 1914-1918 : Some Records of
Battle and Laughter in France
London and
Portsmouth: Gale and Polden Ltd, 1919
[Printed for private circulation only]
4¾” x 7¼”.
[xi] + 207pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine
faded, some patchy discolouration,
frontispiece detached otherwise Very Good.
Scarce. The subtitle sets the tone of this
history of one of the most remarkable
brigades that fought on the Western Front.
The 18th (Eastern) Division became an elite
formation, one of Kitchener's Second New
Army divisions, which had the advantage of
being commanded by Ivor Maxse, foremost
among commanders for his training and
leadership qualities. He commanded it for
two and a quarter years and his successor,
R.P Lee, another good commander, lead it
for the rest of the war. Only two GOCs in
four years of war.The 54th Brigade was to
win eight VCs, the highest number for a
non-regular army brigade, eight out of the
eleven awarded to the division. The history
is made up of the stories and recollections
of all ranks, and the style is very
informal. The compiler or editor has chosen
to remain anonymous, but the result is
something like a regimental history, with a
good sprinkling of personalities identified
in the narrative. Much is made of the
Spirit of the Brigade, a morale booster
undoubtedly helped by the fact the
battalions stayed together from the time
they arrived in France in July 1915 till the
reorganization of the BEF in February 1918
when brigades were reduced to three
battalions. The 54th Brigade certainly saw a
great deal of action and there are plenty
of lively descriptions. The Brigade
commander tells of his visit to an
emplacement known as Panama House during a
lively 'strafe'. The company sergeant-major
emerged, grabbed the brigadier and threw
him inside saying: "We don't want no dead
Brigadiers round our pillbox." The brigade
commanders and staff and the unit
commanders are listed in the appendix and
the eight VC citations are given.
£95.00
eBay
17430
Nobbs, Captain
Gilbert
Englishman,
Kamerad! : Right of the British Line
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, March 1918 2nd
Impression
4¾" x 7¾".
[xii] + 210pp, portrait frontis. Original
cloth, no d/j, covers worn and soiled with
some fraying to corners and head of spine,
spine slightly canted, edges browned,
otherwise Good.
£30.00
eBay
17440
Coop, The Rev.
J. O.
The Story of
the 55th (West Lancashire) Division
1916-1919 [The cover of the cheaper card
edition includes the dates "1916-1919"]
Liverpool:
'Daily Post' Printers, 1919
5” x 7½”.
184pp, maps, illustrations. Brown cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed,
head of spine slightly frayed, corners
bumped, detached bookplate, letter to
Editor by Rev. Coop dated 2nd January 1919
tipped in to front free end-paper, edges
dusty and foxed (sometimes heavily)
otherwise Very Good. Unit history of the
55th English division in France during
WW1,comprising the 1st,2nd 3rd & 4th West
Lancs. Brigade RFA, 1/1,2/1 & 2/2 West
Lancs. Engineers, 1/5,1/6,1/7,1/8 & 1/9
Kings [Liverpool Regt], 1/4 & 1/5 KORLR, 1/4
& 1/5 Loyal North Lancs. Regt. 2/5
Lancashire Fusiliers, 1/5 South Lancashire
Regt. & supporting arms. Describes the
actions of the Division in the Cambrai &
Givenchy sectors among others, lists awards
& honours with the citations for the 11 VC
winners, casualty lists etc. The 55th was a
pre-war territorial division, recruited in
an area extending northwards from the
Mersey to the Lune. The divisional and two
of the brigade headquarters were located in
Liverpool, the third brigade in Lancaster.
The divisional sign was the red rose of
Lancaster and the infantry battalions came
from the King's Own (R Lancaster), the
King's (Liverpool), the Loyal N Lancs and
the S Lancs. The artillery, engineers,
signals, transport and medical units were
all designated West Lancashire, the Mounted
troops were the Lancashire Hussars
(Yeomanry). Between November 1914 and March
1915 eight battalions left the division for
France to provide reinforcements for the
BEF. In April a complete brigade, the North
Lancashire, was transferred to the 51st
Highland Division and having been
redesignated 3rd Highland Brigade went to
France with that division in May, whether
they were in kilts or not is not made clear.
In January 1916 the division was reformed in
France, with the original battalions
returning, and numbered 55th. Subsequently
it fought on the Somme at Guillemont,
Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette and Morval. It
took part in Third Ypres and was at Cambrai
for the tank attack and the German
counter-attack. In April 1918 the 55th was
engaged in the fighting on the Lys during
the German offensive, doing exceptionally
well in their stubborn defence of Givenchy
where their memorial stands today bearing
the inscription "They Win or die who wear
the Rose of Lancashire." By the end of the
month they had suffered 3,871 casualties and
been awarded three VCs. The division earned
a high reputation, it won the highest number
of VCs (12) among the non-regular divisions
including the only double VC to be awarded
during the war, Capt Noel Chavasse RAMC, the
MO of the 1/10th King's (Liverpool) - the
Liverpool Scottish. Appendices give the
citations for these VC awards, full casualty
details, totals of honours and awards and
reproduce the first and last operation
orders issued by the division (9 February
1916 and 10 November 1918). In all the
division had 35,701 casualties of which
6,520 were dead.
£70.00
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17442
Haldane,
Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer L.
A Brigade of
the Old Army 1914
London: Edward
Arnold, 1920
5½” x 9”.
[vii] + 149pp, map and folding map. Original
red cloth gilt in poor condition. The covers
are faded, heavily rubbed and badly
damp-stained with extensive loss of
original colour, particularly around the
edges. There is also evidence of old
staining in addition to two small frayed
patches on the front cover. The spine has
faded with total loss of colour and is
snagged at the head of the spine with a
large split in the cloth and some loss.
There is also a split in the front spine
gutter at the head. The tail of the spine
is also frayed, though not to the same
extent. The corners are bumped and frayed,
with further splits to the cloth. This
volume was formerly owned by
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Banastre Crosse,
D.S.O., 52nd Light Infantry, of Raven's Oak,
Stapeley, Nantwich, Chester, whose calling
card is tipped in to the front pastedown,
under which Col. Crosse has noted: “I came
to know the author of this book well during
the 1914-18 War, esp. in 1918, when he was
a Corps Comdr., VI Corps, I think. There is
understandably a lot left out that might
have been included in this book: it ought to
be read in conjunction with another account
by Arthur Osburn, R.A.M.C., who wrote
“Unwilling Passenger” [initialled] RC” The
text is reasonably clean throughout on
slightly tanned paper, with some corners
being creased. The edge of the text block is
dust-stained and lightly foxed and is not
evenly trimmed, resulting in a somewhat
ragged edge and pages of varying sizes. The
folding map at the end is present but has
been completed detached from the stub and is
loosely inserted. The front inner hinge is
cracked.
£195.00
eBay
17447
Fairclough, J.
E. B. [With Forewords by Sir R. B. Stephens,
K.C.B., C.M.G. and Colonel G. White Lewis]
The First
Birmingham Battalion in the Great War
1914-1919 : Being a History of the 14th
(Service) Battalion of the Royal
Warwickshire Regiment
Birmingham:
Cornish Brothers Ltd, 1933
4¾” x 7½”.
[xvi] + 210pp, small portrait frontispiece,
illustrations, maps. Original purple cloth
with yellow diagonal stripe on front cover,
no d/j, covers rubbed and faded in parts,
spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped
and slightly frayed, end-papers foxed, edges
dusty and lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.
£90.00
eBay
17453
Conyngham,
Captain D. P.
The Irish
Brigade and its Campaigns : With some
account of the Corcoran Legion, and Sketches
of the Principal Officers
London: Burns
Oates & Washbourne Ltd (Cameron Ferguson
Edition), n.d.
4¾” x 7¼”.
302pp. Original printed paper wrappers,
corners are creased and dog-eared,
ex-Library, otherwise Good.
£40.00
eBay
17460
Parry, Harold
[Foreword by "G.P.D." (Geoffrey Pomeroy
Dennis)]
In Memoriam
Harold Parry : Second Lieutenant, K.R.R.C.
Born at Bloxwich-December 13th, 1896; fell
in Flanders-May 6th, 1917
Privately
published, n.d. [1917] Printed at The Arden
Press, Stamford Street, London
5¼” x 7¾”.
[xiii] + 144pp., portrait frontis. Grey
paper-covered boards with cloth backstrip,
gilt to spine and front board, no d/j,
covers rubbed, spine ends and corners
bumped, edge of text block untrimmed, gift
inscription on front end-paper otherwise
Very Good. Parry was educated at Queen
Mary's School, Walsall & Exeter College,
Oxford. 17th (S) Bn. KRRC 1916-17, a memoir,
atmospheric letters from France, a few of
his poems & some letters of condolence. KiA
in Flanders & buried in Vlamertinghe
Military Cemetery. Contains some interesting
observations such as: "Two hundred years
will not suffice to efface the traces of
this tragedy from the land. Things can
never be as they were, and the greatest
indictment that war can have, is the forlorn
and shell-shattered land about here with
its rude and pathetic crossesto mark the
last resting-place of those who in the
fullness of their youth - at the beginning
of love and hope and ambition - were cut
off from life."
£195.00
eBay
17482
William of
Germany, Crown Prince
My War
Experiences
London: Hurst
& Blackett, Ltd, n.d.
6" x 9¼".
364pp, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, spine faded, head of
spine nicked, otherwise Good
£80.00
eBay
17488
Chase, H. L.
The 2/1st
London Field Ambulance : An Outline of the
4½ Years Service of a Unit of the 56th
Division Home & Abroad during the Great War,
1914-1919
London:
Morton, Burt & Sons Limited, 1924
6½” x ¼½¾”.
104pp, portrait frontispiece, 8 photographs,
2 folding maps [one missing]. Original cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers worn and soiled,
heavily foxed otherwise Good.
£125.00
eBay
17489
Herbert,
Aubrey [with an introduction by Desmond
MacCarthy]
Mons, Anzac &
Kut
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, n.d. [2nd Impression]
5½" x 8¾".
270pp. Red cloth, no d/j, covers marked,
scuffed and rubbed, edges & end-papers
lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£45.00
eBay
17490
Fortescue,
Captain Granville
What of the
Dardanelles? An Analysis
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1915
4¾” x 7½".
91pp. Green cloth blocked in white in a
torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, end-papers
discoloured, inner hinges cracked, previous
owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good
£65.00
eBay
17493
Masefield,
John
The Old Front
Line : or the Beginning of the Battle of the
Somme
London:
William Heinemann, 1917
4¾” x 7½”.
128pp, illustrations, folding map, 64pp
publisher’s catalogue. Red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
otherwise Very Good. The publisher’s
catalogue has been printed on cheap paper
which has browned severely. From the Toc. H
Library, with a stamp on the front
pastedown.
£40.00
eBay
17496
Falls, Captain
Cyril [With a Preface by Brigadier-General
Sir James Edmonds and maps and sketches
compiled by Major A. F. Becke]
Military
Operations : France and Belgium, 1917 :
Volume I : The German Retreat to the
Hindenburg Line and the Battle of Arras
London:
Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1940 [First
Edition.]
5½" x 8¾".
[xxxix] + 586pp, maps. Red cloth gilt, no
d/j, spine darkened with age, no d/j,
ex-Reference with shelf number on backstrip,
impressed Library stamps throughout
otherwise Very Good. Due to a limited print
run and lack of interest following the
outbreak of the Second World War, this is
the scarcest of the Great War volumes.
£175.00
eBay
17497
Edmonds,
Brigadier-General Sir James E.
Military
Operations : France and Belgium 1918 :
Volume I : The German March Offensive and
its Preliminaries
London:
Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1935
5½" x 8¾".
[xxx] + 569pp, sketch maps. Original red
cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Reference Library
with usual markings otherwise Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
17502
Craven, Digger
[as told to W. J. Blackledge]
Peninsula of
Death
London:
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, n.d. [1936]
5½” x 8¾”.
[vii] + 248pp, frontis, illustrations. Red
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
rubbed and marked, spine slightly canted,
edges heavily foxed otherwise Very Good
£50.00
eBay
17503
Ewart, Wilfrid
When
Armageddon Came : Studies in Peace and War
London: Rich &
Cowan Ltd, 1933 [2nd imp.]
4¾" x 7½".
368pp, portrait frontis. Brown cloth, no
d/j, spine rubbed, white title lettering on
spine rubbed off, spine damaged, bookplate
of National Peace Council otherwise Very
Good
£95.00
eBay
17507
Robertson,
Field-Marshal Sir William
From Private
to Field-Marshal
London:
Constable and Company, 1921 [2nd imp.]
5¾" x 8¾".
[xix] + 396pp, portrait frontis, folding
map, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a
torn, scuffed and chipped d/j, colour loss
along edges, The edges are foxed, otherwise
Very Good.
£65.00
eBay
17510
Ashmead-Bartlett, E.
Ashmead-Bartlett's Despatches from the
Dardanelles
London: George
Newnes, n.d.
5" x 7¼".
164pp, folding map, advertisements. Original
pictorial card cover, no d/j, spine creased,
inner hinges cracked, soiling to last few
pages, otherwise Good.
£85.00
eBay
17511
de Lisle,
General Sir Beauvoir [K.C.B., K.C.M.G.,
D.S.O.]
Reminiscences
of Sport and War
London: Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1939 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
276pp, portrait frontis, illustrations.
Green cloth gilt, no d/j, small white mark
on top front corner, gift inscription on
front end-paper dated 1939, otherwise Very
Good. A bright copy. Autobiography of
General Beauvoir de Lisle, a General in the
British Army, first commissioned into Durham
Light Infantry in 1883. "He commanded the
2nd Cavalry Brigade at Mons, and went on to
command the 1st Cavalry Division and the
15th Corps. Excessively self-effacing."
(Lengel). After the War he was appointed
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of
Western Command: he held this post until
1923 and retired in 1926. He was known for
his polo skills and spent much of the years
1929 to 1930 training polo teams for the
Maharaja of Kashmir in India (ODNB).
£65.00
eBay
17513
Adams, Bernard
Nothing of
Importance : A Record of Eight Months at the
Front with a Welsh Battalion - October 1915
to June, 1916
Stevenage: The
Strong Oak Press with Tom Donovan
Publishing, 1988 [first published by
Methuen, 1917] The Fourteen-Eighteen
Collection
5½” x 8½”.
[xxx] + 324pp, portrait frontis, maps.
Rebound ex-Library in a scuffed and rubbed
d/j, otherwise Good.
£35.00
eBay
17516
Lockhart,
Captain J. G. [John Gilbert Lockhart]
Palestine Days
and Nights : Sketches of the Campaign in the
Holy Land
London: Robert
Scott, n.d. [Introduction dated 1920]
4¾” x 7½”. [x]
+ 140pp, Publisher’s catalogue. Original red
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
rubbed and slightly marked, spine dull,
spine ends and corners bumped, end-papers
browned and discoloured otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17518
Ackrell, P.
G. [lately No 81398 Private Philip George
Ackrell, 62 Company MGC]
My Life in the
Machine Gun Corps
Ilfracombe,
Devon: Arthur H Stockwell Ltd, 1966
4¾” x 7¼”.
80pp. Green cloth blocked, no d/j,
ex-Library.
£95.00
eBay
17521
Atkinson,
Captain C. T.
The Seventh
Division 1914 - 1918
London: John
Murray, 1927
6" x 9".
529pp, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth
blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j, spine
dull, covers marked and rubbed, Divisional
motif from front cover, edges foxed and
stained otherwise Good
£65.00
eBay
17522
Luard,
Katherine
Diary of a
Nursing Sister on the Western Front
1914-1915
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915
5” x 7½”.
[vii] + 300pp. Original cloth gilt. The
covers are rubbed and slightly stained with
a few splash marks. There spine is very dull
(the lettering is almost impossible to
read). The spine ends and corners are bumped
and more heavily rubbed. There is a slight
spine lean.
£150.00
eBay
17524
Davson,
Lieutenant-Colonel H. M. [C.M.G., D.S.O.,
R.A. (Retired)]
The History of
the 35th Division in the Great War
London: Sifton
Praed & Co. Ltd, 1926
5½” x 8¾”.
[xii] + 346pp, maps, illustrations (12
portraits, 3 views, 14 maps, plans &
panoramas). Original blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed with patchy fading,
spine darkened and slightly dull, spine ends
and corners bumped, edges dusty and lightly
foxed, some slight internal foxing,
otherwise Very Good. A Bantam Division on
the Western Front from January 1916: Somme,
Arras, 3rd Ypres, German Offensive, Final
Advance &c. One of the best written
divisional histories and certainly one of
the scarcest.
£195.00
eBay
17526
Carrillo,
Gomez [Translated by Florence Simmonds]
Among the
Ruins
London:
William Heinemann, 1915
5” x 7½”.
346pp. Brown cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed otherwise Very
Good. Uncommon early World War One report by
a Spanish correspondent: "his volume will
be read with interest by all who care to
know what the traces were like which the
German hordes who invaded France left behind
them, and how their infamies inspired our
allies to almost superhuman efforts."
(Publishers note).
£70.00
eBay
17528
Gardner,
Nikolas
Trial By Fire:
Command and the British Expeditionary Force
in 1914 (Contributions in Military Studies,
Number 227)
Westport, CT:
Praeger Publishers, 2003
6” x 9½”.
[xvii] + 259pp, maps. Green cloth blocked in
silver, no d/j [as issued], As New. While
existing accounts of this period have
elevated the exploits of the British
soldiers on the battlefield to almost
legendary status, the operations of the
British Expeditionary Force in the dramatic
opening campaign of World War I remain
poorly understood. Based on official unit
war diaries, as well as personal papers and
memoirs of numerous officers, this study
sheds significant new light on the retreat
from Mons in August 1914; the advance to the
River Aisne in September; and the climactic
First Battle of Ypres in October and
November. In addition, Gardner provides
important insights into the ideas and values
of British officers in the initial stages of
the war. Beyond explaining the conduct of
the 1914 campaign, Gardner analyses the
initial stages of the "learning curve"
experienced by British officers as they
grappled with an unaccustomed type of
warfare, including the unprecedented scale
and intensity of the conflict as well as the
advent of trench warfare. He also
demonstrates the impact of rivalries amongst
senior officers on the operations of the
army. As a whole, the study aims to add
depth to our understanding of command in
European armies during World War I.
£65.00
eBay
17529
Gibbons, John
[With Illustrations by Edgar Norfield]
Roll on, Next
War! : The Common Man's Guide to Army Life
London:
Frederick Muller, 1935
4¾” x 7½”.
186pp, illustrations (drawings). Red cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, covers faded with
some loss of colour, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17534
Mackenzie,
Seaforth Simpson
The Official
History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
: Volume X: The Australians at Rabaul
Sydney: Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, 1938 Sixth Edition
5" x 8¼".
[xvi] + 412pp, illustrations, maps. Rebound
ex-Library, no d/j, stamps throughout
otherwise Very Good.
£85.00
eBay
17537
Alport, A.
Cecil [Major, R.A.M.C., T.F.]
The Lighter
Side of the War : Experiences of a Civilian
in Uniform
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, n.d. [c.1934]
5¾” x 9”.
290pp, portrait frontis, illustrations,
diagram. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed and bowed, end-papers discoloured,
edges foxed, otherwise Very Good. Bookplate
of Alice Augusta Calvert.
£95.00
eBay
17542
Dent, Olive
[With Illustrations by R. M. Savage and
Others]
A V. A. D. in
France
London: Grant
Richards Ltd, 1917
5" x 7¾".
349pp, illustrations. Pictorial cloth, no
d/j, inner hinges cracked, front free
end-paper missing, otherwise Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
17558
Campbell,
Gerald
Verdun to the
Vosges : Impressions of the War on the
Fortress Frontier of France
London: Edward
Arnold, 1916 Second Impression
5¾" x 9".
[xix] + 316pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Grey cloth, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed
£80.00
eBay
17563
Adam, George
Behind the
Scenes at the Front
London: Chatto
& Windus, 1915
5¾” x 9”.
[viii] + 240pp, frontispiece. Tan cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
previous owner's name inscribed, otherwise
Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
17567
Spears, E. L.
Brigadier-General
Liaison, 1914
: A Narrative of the Great Retreat
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, October 1930 [New
Impression; first published September 1930]
6" x 9½".
[xxix] + 597pp, maps, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Original cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, front free
end-paper removed otherwise Very Good
£50.00
eBay
17578
Edmonds,
Brigadier-General J. E. [maps and sketches
compiled by Major A. F. Becke]
Military
Operations : France and Belgium, 1914 :
Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, The Marne
and The Aisne, August-October 1914
London:
Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1928 [Third
Impression of the 1925 Second Edition; first
published 1922]
5½" x 8¾".
[xxix] + 545pp, maps. Red cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers stained and very faded, inner
hinges are quite slack due to the volume's
size and weight. There is an inscription on
the front end-papers: "Officers' Mess
Reference Library, Fulford Barracks,
14/12/35 H.G. 235". The end-papers are
browned and discoloured and the paper has
tanned with age, with some pages having
grubby marks (including the Title-Page).
Although the text is reasonably clean
throughout, there are sections where there
are a number of pencilled marks or
annotations in the margins. The edge of the
text block is very grubby and dust-stained
and also foxed. Some corners are creased
and there is a "Supplied for the Public
Service" oval stamp on the reverse of the
Title-Page.
£50.00
eBay
17580
Edmonds,
Brigadier-General Sir James E.
Military
Operations : France and Belgium 1918 :
Volume I : The German March Offensive and
its Preliminaries
London:
Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1935
5½" x 8¾".
[xxx] + 569pp, sketch maps. Original red
cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Boots Library, The
spine has faded. and frayed otherwise Good.
£70.00
eBay
17582
Crozier,
Brigadier-General F. P.
The Men I
Killed
London:
Michael Joseph Ltd, September 1937 Sixth
Impression [first published August 1937]
5¼" x 8".
288pp. Original cloth, no d/j, faded patch
at head of spine, spine slightly cocked,
edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good
£70.00
eBay
17583
Watkins, Owen
Spencer
With French in
France and Flanders : Being the Experiences
of a Chaplain Attached to a Field Ambulance
London:
Charles H. Kelly, March 1915 First Edition
5" x 7¾".
192pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine
faded toning to pages adjacent to
illustrations, otherwise Very Good
£60.00
eBay
17588
Montgomery-Cuninghame, Colonel Sir Thomas
Dusty Measure
: A Record of Troubled Times
London: John
Murray, 1939
5½" x 8¾".
356pp, illustrations. Pale green cloth, no
d/j, spine faded, rear inner hinge cracked,
previous owner's name inscribed otherwise
Very Good
£35.00
eBay
17589
Jobson, Allan
(72109. Private, R.A.M.C.) With a Foreword
by General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough
Via Ypres :
Story of The 39th Divisional Field
Ambulances
London: The
Westminster City Publishing Company Ltd,
1934
5½” x 8¾”.
(xiv) + 237pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, edges rubbed, some
small indentations where book has been bound
with twine, spine ends and corners bumped,
otherwise Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
17594
Burrows, John
Wm.
Essex Units in
the War 1914-1919 : 1st Battalion The Essex
Regiment : Vol. I [Title Page: The Essex
Regiment 1st Battalion (44th)
Southend-on-Sea: John H. Burrows & Sons,
Ltd, n.d. [c.1923]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiv] + 161pp, frontispiece, illustrations,
maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded,
rear cover slightly marked, spine ends and
corners bumped, end-papers discoloured
otherwise Very Good. Detailed accounts of
the 1st Battalion Essex Regiment in the
Great War where they saw action at Gallipoli
as part of the 29th Division. Then later on
the Western Front at the Somme, Arras,
Flanders and the final stages in late 1918.
£90.00
eBay
17598
Huguet,
General
Britain and
the War : a French Indictment
London:
Cassell, 1928
6¼" x 9½".
[xi] + 243pp, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
edges dusty and lightly foxed, bookplate
otherwise Very Good
£50.00
eBay
17600
Brophy, John
The Five Years
: A Conspectus of the Great War Designed
Primarily for Study by the Successors of
Those Who Took Part in it and Secondarily to
Refresh the Memory of the Participants
Themselves
London: Arthur
Barker Ltd, 1936
6¼" x 9½".
320pp, maps. Red cloth, no d/j, covers
rubbed, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good
£20.00
eBay
17601
Kennedy, J. M.
The Campaign
Round Liege
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1914 ["The Daily Telegraph War
Books"]
4¼" x 7".
188pp, maps. Decorative red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded,
tanned pages, edges foxed otherwise Good
£30.00
eBay
17602
Potter,
Captain C. H. (M.C.), and Fothergill,
Captain A. S. C. [With appreciations
by-General Sir H. A. Lawrence, G.C.B. (late
Chief of the General Staff, B.E.F.);
General Sir Hubert Cough, G.C.M.G. (late
Vth Army Commander); General Sir Alexander
J. Godley, K.C.B. (G.O.C. Southern Command);
Major General Sir Neill Malcolm, K.C.B.
The History of
the 2/6th Lancashire Fusiliers (which
amalgamated successively with the 1/6th and
the 12th Battalion of the same Regiment) :
The Story of a 2nd Line Territorial
Battalion, 1914-1919
Rochdale: Made
and Printed at The "Observer" General
Printing Works, 1927
5½” x 8¾”.
[xv] + 232pp, 10 folding maps. Original blue
cloth gilt with Divisional Flash on front
cover, covers marked and rubbed but still
quite bright, spine ends and corners bumped
and slightly frayed, previous owner's name
inscribed in ink on front free end-paper,
Half-Title and final page of text browned
and discoloured, occasional foxing
otherwise Very Good. With 66th (West Lancs.)
Division in France from February 1917
including Passchendale, March Retreat &
Final Advance of 1918. Roll of Honour and
Orders of Battle.
£145.00
eBay
17605
Kennedy, J. M.
How the
Nations Waged War
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1914 ["The Daily Telegraph War
Books"]
4¼" x 7".
190pp. Decorative red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed with some
colour loss, spine faded, edges & end-papers
lightly foxed otherwise Very Good
£30.00
eBay
17606
Page, Edward
[Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry]
Escaping from
Germany
London: Andrew
Melrose Ltd, 1919
4¾” x 7”.
[xvii] + 387pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Red cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, covers rubbed and marked, tanning to
pages, some slackness in binding, musty,
otherwise Good. "In writing the story of my
three attempts to escape from Germany, and
the experiences and impressions during the
three years I was a prisoner of war there,
I do so for several reasons, the chief being
the requests of my family and intimate
friends, that they shall be placed on
record, and a feeling within myself that in
so relating them an opportunity will be
given, not only to my own countrymen and
countrywomen, but to the folk of the other
allied countries now linked together in the
great fight for democracy and freedom,
against tyranny and oppression, of studying
for themselves the conditions under which
we were compelled to live. They will thus
learn our sufferings, both mental and
physical, of our struggles against
starvation, disease, vermin, and filth of
all kinds, and in the study be able to
compare the treatment meted out to Germans
interned in the different countries of the
Allied Powers, particularly our own, and
that which we received from the hands of
our captors during the time the fortunes of
war had caused us to be interned in Germany.
I do not pretend to be the possessor of any
literary skill or talent; I have felt the
lack of these powers during the time I have
been engaged writing this work. Had I been
fortunate enough to possess them, I should
have been able to write more clearly and
concisely concerning the happenings and
events recorded in the following chapters.
As it is, very often words have failed me
to describe fully the horrors and feelings
of those times. I have done my best,
however, sincerely hoping that in the event
of these memoirs of mine being published,
they will be interesting as the actual
experiences of a prisoner in German hands. I
have confined myself, as far as it has been
possible, to my own actual experiences,
feelings, and impressions ; but where I have
recorded the testimony of others I
unhesitatingly say I have numberless
witnesses among the men of the Allied armies
interned, who were present and witnessed the
sights, and endured with myself the
hardships of which I write. Those men, I
have not the slightest doubt, would come
forward if necessary, when the war is over
and they have once again been restored to
freedom, to testify to the truthfulness of
what I have set down, if my statements and
assertions are challenged by the Hun. I
sincerely hope that rigorous measures will
be taken by the respective Allied
Governments to bring to account those
Germans who were in authority at the
different Concentration Camps and working
centres during the period of which I write
; and that, as the result of investigation,
suitable punishment will be meted out to
them for their inhuman conduct towards us,
during the time we were helpless and
powerless in their hands."
£145.00
eBay
17608
Vivian, A. P.
G.
The Phantom
Brigade or The Contemptible Adventurers
London: Ernest
Benn Limited, March 1930 Second Impression
[first published January 1930]
4¾" x 7½". [x]
+ 255pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, cocked,
covers marked and rubbed, tanned pages,
otherwise Very Good. Uncommon.
£125.00
eBay
17611
Hornung, E. W.
Notes of a
Camp-Follower on the Western Front
London:
Constable & Company Ltd, 1919
4¾” x 7½”.
260pp. Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, edges dusty
otherwise Very Good. Important and elusive
memoirs of life on the Western Front, being
atmospheric and acclaimed memories of YMCA
work in and around the front line and back
areas.
£125.00
eBay
17613
Tilsley, W. V.
[With an Introduction by Edmund Blunden]
[William Vincent Tilsley]
Other Ranks
London:
Cobden-Sanderson, 1931
5” x 7¾”.
[xiv] + 269pp. Black cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, edges dusty, spine slightly
creased and canted otherwise Very Good.
Rare.
£895.00
eBay
17617
Irace,
Chevalier Tullio
With the
Italians in Tripoli : The Authentic History
of the Turco-Italian War
London: John
Murray, 1912
5½" x 9".
[xxxiii] + 321pp, portrait frontis, b&w
plates, maps. Green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed with large area of colour loss
on front and rear boards, head and tail of
spine bumped, edges foxed, previous owner's
name inscribed, otherwise Good.
£70.00
eBay
17623
Baker, Peter
Shaw
Animal War
Heroes
London: A. &
C. Black Ltd 4, 5 & 6 Soho Square, W.1,
October 1933 Second Edition [first
published March 1933]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxi] + 130pp + Publisher’s advertisement.
Original brown cloth blocked in black, no
d/j, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
17624
Rogerson,
Sidney [with a foreword by Basil Liddell
Hart]
Twelve Days
London: Arthur
Barker Ltd, 1933
5½" x 8½".
172pp, 8 drawings by Stanley Cursiter. Black
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed
with some loss of colour, otherwise Very
Good.
£55.00
eBay
17626
Mackenzie,
Captain D. [M.A., M.C.] With a Foreword by
Lieutenant-General Sir G. M. Harper, K.C.B.,
D.S.O.
The Sixth
Gordons in France and Flanders (with the 7th
and 51st Divisions)
Aberdeen:
Printed for the War Memorial Committee at
the Rosemount Press, 1921
7½” x 10”.
[xiv] + 241pp, 13 plates, 2 maps. Original
white cloth, blocked in blue with Regimental
device in gilt to front, no d/j, covers
scuffed, marked and rubbed, forward spine
lean, spine ends and corners bumped,
end-papers browned, corners creased on first
few pages, otherwise Very Good. Territorials
in France from December 1914: many
engagements including Neuve Chapelle, Loos,
Somme, Arras, Final Advance.
£250.00
eBay
17629
Monash,
General Sir John [Edited by F. M. Cutlack]
War Letters of
General Monash
Sydney: Angus
and Robertson Limited, 1935 [first published
1934, although this is not stated]
5” x 8”. [xx]
+ 299pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Black
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine
dull, end-papers foxed and browned, edges
foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
17637
Maze, Paul
[with a preface by Winston Churchill]
A Frenchman in
Khaki
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, April 1936 New
Edition [first published October 1934]
5½" x 8¾".
(xv) + 353pp, frontis, illustrations, maps.
Ochre cloth blocked in blue, no d/j, covers
rubbed and dull, previous owner's name
inscribed otherwise Very Good
£50.00
eBay
17638
Bickersteth,
Lieutenant J. B.eBay [M.C. 1st Royal Dragoons,
S.R.] Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas
Haig (eBayJohn Burgon Bickersteth)
History of the
6th Cavalry Brigade 1914-1919
London: The
Baynard Press (Sanders Phillips & Co.,
Limited), n.d. [1920]
6½” x 9”.
[xii] + 124pp, maps, illustrations. Original
boards with label titles to front and spine
in fair but solid condition. Spine label
very worn with some loss. Head and tail of
spine show wear and are bumped. Front title
label soiled and marked. Scuffing to boards
in general. Edge wear with several
indentations to the edges. Internally very
good. Light foxing to endpapers, and
occasional light foxing throughout. Maps are
not affected. Internal webbing visible
between pastedown and front free end-paper
and, to much lesser extent, between pages
66-67 and 98-99. Coloured endpapers show
browning. All pages and fold-out maps
present and intact. The maps are excellent,
except for: Map 1 right edge turned up,
Maps 3, 4 & 6 show small amount of faint
creasing, Map 6 also has ruffled edges and
some marks, and Map 7 has a flat crease
across top right corner. (Note that the
title page states 1914-1919 whereas the
cover shows 1914-1918.)
£45.00
eBay
17640
Wyrall,
Everard
The History of
the Second Division 1914-1918 : Volume II :
1916-1918
London: Thomas
Nelson and Sons Ltd, n.d. [1921]
5¼” x 9”.
347-739pp (the pagination continues from
Volume I), 20 maps. Blue cloth gilt in a
badly torn, scuffed and chipped d/j with
loss to either end of the spine panel and
numerous taped repairs, covers rubbed, spine
ends and corners bumped, tape residue on
pastedowns otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17642
Carrillo,
Gomez [Translated by Florence Simmonds]
Among the
Ruins
London:
William Heinemann, 1915
5” x 7½”.
346pp. Brown cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed otherwise Very
Good. Uncommon early World War One report by
a Spanish correspondent: "his volume will
be read with interest by all who care to
know what the traces were like which the
German hordes who invaded France left behind
them, and how their infamies inspired our
allies to almost superhuman efforts."
(Publishers note).
£55.00
eBay
17646
Molony, Major
C. V.
Invicta : With
the First Battalion The Queen's Own Royal
West Kent Regiment in the Great War
London: Nisbet
& Co. Ltd, 1923
5½” x 9”. [xi]
+ 326pp, frontispiece, maps, illustrations.
Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed (rear cover scuffed and
stained), rear spine gutter split for
entire length but re-glued, front spine
gutter frayed at head and tail and in
centre, spine darkened and discoloured,
shelf number in white ink near tail,
corners bumped, ex-Library with bookplate
and card pocket on front pastedown and
various Library markings on front free
end-paper, previous owner's name inscribed
on front free end-paper with details of his
service in the Regiment, internally clean
but in damaged covers.
£85.00
eBay
17648
Various
[Regimental Committee]
Sixteenth,
Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth
Battalions the Manchester Regiment (First
City Brigade) : A Record 1914-1918
Manchester:
Sherratt & Hughes, 1923 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xvi] + 357pp, frontispiece map, folding
maps and illustrations of the two Victoria
Cross winners. Original green cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed, heavily in places and
particularly around edges and spine gutters
(rear spine gutter starting to fray in
centre), spine ends and corners bumped and
frayed, edges dusty and lightly foxed,
otherwise Very Good. Including 1st July 1916
at Montauban, Trones Wood and Guillemont,
Arras and 3rd Ypres 1917, March Retreat
including epic of Manchester Hill, &c. Roll
of Hon. & awards for each Battalion. The
Spectator, 16 FEBRUARY 1924: "This is an
excellent record of the four" City"
battalions raised in Manchester within the
first month of the War. Formed of the
admirable material which was then available,
they fully lived—and died—up to the
standard of their famous regiment, of which
Sir James Willcocks records that "none more
devoted and none more valiant" served in the
late War. Few episodes could be finer than
that of the gallant handful of the 16th who
literally carried out Colonel Elstob's order
on March 21st, 1918: "Here we fight, here we
die." We are glad to see that this
well-printed volume is sold at a price which
should bring it within the reach of
Manchester survivors and relatives of the
fallen."
£125.00
eBay
17650
Boraston,
Lt-Colonel J.H. and Bax, Captain Cyril E. O.
The Eighth
Division in War, 1914-1918
London: The
Medici Society Limited, 1926
6” x 10”. [xv]
+ 360pp, frontispiece, maps, illustrations.
Black cloth gilt with Divisional Patch on
front boards, no d/j, covers heavily rubbed,
lower edge of front boards snagged, spine
ends and corners bumped and frayed with
small splits in cloth, edges lightly foxed
and dust-stained otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17651
Curry,
Frederic C. [Late Captain 2nd Eastern
Ontario Regiment]
From the St.
Lawrence to the Yser With the 1st Canadian
Brigade
London: Smith,
Elder & Co., 1916
5” x 7¾”. [xi]
+ 167pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Original blue cloth blocked in dark blue, no
d/j, covers rubbed and soiled, spine very
faded, spine ends and corners bumped and
frayed, otherwise Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17664
Malthus, Cecil
Anzac : A
Retrospect
Christchurch,
New Zealand: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited,
1965 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
160pp, sketch maps. This volume is
ex-Library. Original red cloth blocked in
gilt on the spine in a torn, scuffed and
chipped d/j. The covers are rubbed and
there is some discolouration from the
Library's dust-jacket protector while the
spine ends and corners are bumped. The main
defect, however, is noticeable bowing out
of the covers. There are two abraded patches
on the front free end-paper from the removal
of a lending schedule and card pocket and
two Library numbers on the reverse of the
Title-Page (one stamped, one hand-written)
but that appears to be the extent of the
Library markings. The text is otherwise
reasonably clean throughout, on tanned
paper, though with some pages being stained.
Quite a number of corners have been creased
down. The edge of the text block is
dust-stained (particularly the top edge) and
lightly foxed.
£36.00
eBay
17667
White, Rev.
John [M. A.]
With the
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in France :
Leaves from a Chaplain's Diary
Glasgow: John
Smith & Son Limited, 1917 First Edition
4¾” x 7¼”.
[xi] + 111pp. Original red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded,
particularly along top edge where there is
significant colour loss, spine faded
evenly, spine ends and corners bumped, some
bowing of covers, end-papers foxed and
discoloured, edges lightly foxed, top edge
dusty, otherwise Very Good. The Author
ministered to a Brigade that included 1st &
5th Scottish Rifles, but he is mostly
concerned with the latter, including trench
warfare in 1915, Battle of Loos &c.
£65.00
eBay
17669
Bluett, Antony
[Late of "A" Battery, H.A.C., and Egyptian
Camel Transport Corps]
With Our Army
in Palestine
London: Andrew
Melrose Ltd, 1919
5" x 7¾". [xi]
+ 288pp, illustrations. Blue cloth, no d/j,
covers rubbed, spine slightly faded and
canted, offsetting to end-papers, previous
owner's name inscribed, otherwise Very
Good. "This book is an attempt to give those
interested some idea of the work and play
and, occasionally, the sufferings of the
Egyptian Expeditionary Force, from the time
of its inception to the Armistice." - from
the Foreword. In his foreword the author
thanks Capt B. T. Hinchley, late of the
Egyptian Camel Transport Corps, and L.
Allard Stonard and R. Arrowsmith, both late
of the "A" Battery, Honourable Artillery
Company.Contents: Mersa Matruh and the
Senussi; "Somewhere East of Suez."; On
'Untin'- and some other matters; Kantara and
the Railway; The Wire Road; "The Long, Long,
Trail"; On the Fringe of the Holy Land; The
First Battle of Gaza; The Retreat; The
Second Attempt; Tel El Jemmi and the Camels;
Cave Dwellers and Scorpions; In the Wadi;
The Attack on Beerheba; Gaza at Last; The
Road to Jerusalem; Ou l'on s'amuse; In the
Jordan Valley; The Valley of Chaos; In Full
Cry; Over the ladder of Tyre; Deserted
Villages in Lebanon.
£80.00
eBay
17679
Sandall,
Colonel T. E. (C.M.G., T.D.) With a Chapter
on its Reconstitution by G. H. Teall
A History of
the 5th Batt. The Lincolnshire Regiment
Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, Broad Street, 1922
5½” x 8¾”
[viii] + 222pp, portrait frontis., 15
photographs. Original blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed and dull, spine faded and
very dull, ex-Library with shelf number in
white ink on spine, head and tail of spine
bumped, Library bookplate on front pastedown
and tipped in letter from Godfrey Lowe, who
presented the book to the Library in June
1924, Library stamps scattered throughout,
otherwise just about Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
17680
Carstairs,
Carroll [With a Foreword by Osbert Sitwell]
A Generation
Missing
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, March 1930 First
Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
[xiii] + 223pp. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, lightly foxed otherwise Very
Good.
£95.00
eBay
17684
Grey, W. E.
With the
French Eastern Army
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1915 ["The Daily Telegraph War
Books"]
4¼" x 7".
187pp, publisher’s catalogue. Red cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed,
spine faded, pages browned otherwise Very
Good. One of the rarest of The Daily
Telegraph War Books series.
£26.00
eBay
17685
Warburton,
Ernest [Lieutenant, Sherwood Foresters]
Behind Boche
Bars
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920 ("On Active
Service Series")
4¾” x 7½”.
(vii) + 126pp, frontis, illustrations,
publisher’s advertisements. Blind-stamped
green paper covered boards blocked in black,
no d/j. Almost all of the spine is missing,
inner hinges cracked, old Library lending
schedule on rear pastedown, some pages badly
opened, previous owner's name inscribed. A
rare title but this is a reading copy only.
£70.00
eBay
17686
Berry, James;
Berry, F. May Dickinson; Blease, W. Lyon [
James Berry, B.S., F.R.G.S., F. May
Dickinson Berry, M.D., B.S., W. Lyon Blease,
Ll.M., \r\nand Other Members of the Unit ]
The Story of a
Red Cross Unit in Serbia
London: J. &
A. Churchill, 1916
5½” x 8¾”.
[xvi] + 293pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Grey cloth blocked in black
with Serbian Red Cross Decoration on the
front cover, no d/j, covers rubbed and
dull, edges heavily foxed as are some pages,
otherwise Very Good. A history of the
“Anglo-Serbian” or “Royal Free Hospital”
Unit 1914-16, compiled on its return by
members of the hospital, with a list of
members of the unit.
£125.00
eBay
17689
Harvey, H. E.
[D.C.M., M.M.]
Battle-Line
Narratives 1915-1918
London:
Brentano's, 1928
4¾” x 7¼”.
255pp. Original brown cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
slight spine lean, edges & end-papers
lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.
Uncommon. Experiences with UPS Bn., 17th &
22nd Bns. Royal Fusiliers at Festubert, La
Bassée, Somme, Cambrai &c.
£36.00
eBay
17696
Atkinson,
Captain C. T.
The Seventh
Division 1914 - 1918
London: John
Murray, 1927
6" x 9".
529pp, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth
blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j, spine
dull, covers marked and rubbed, Divisional
motif on front cover retouched, edges foxed
otherwise Very Good
£95.00
eBay
17699
Wynne, Captain
G. C. [King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(Retired)]
If Germany
Attacks : The Battle in Depth in the West
London: Faber
and Faber Ltd, March 1940 First Edition
5¼” x 8¼”.
343pp, maps, illustrations. Original black
cloth blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, head and tail of
spine bumped, spine dull, scattered foxing
otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17711
A Royal Field
Leech [Lt.-Col. (temp. Col.) Frank Albert
Symons, D.S.O., M.B., R.A.M.C.] (1869 - 1917
Apr 30)
The Tale of a
Casualty Clearing Station
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1917
4¾” x 7½”.
306pp, Publisher’s advertisements. Red cloth
gilt, no d/j, spine very dull, head of spine
bumped, bottom corner of front cover
replaced otherwise Very Good. Rare.
£150.00
eBay
17715
Wylly, Colonel
H. C. [C.B.]
History of the
1st & 2nd Battalions The Leicestershire
Regiment in the Great War
Aldershot:
Gale & Polden, Ltd, 1928 [Printed and
Published for the Regimental Committee]
7¼” x 9¾”.
215pp, maps, illustrations. Original green
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and bowed,
edges foxed otherwise Very Good.
£90.00
eBay
17730
Harrison-Ainsworth, E. D.
The History
and War Records of The Surrey Yeomanry
(Queen Mary's Regt) 1797-1928
Printed for
the Regimental Committee as a Private
Subscription work by Messrs. C. & E. Layton,
London, 1928
6” x 9½”. [xv]
+ 335pp, frontis, maps, illustrations.
Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed with a small puncture in rear spine
gutter, spine faded, otherwise Very Good.
This volume was formerly owned by 45806
Lance-Corporal William Victor Randall, of A
Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry, whose Army Form
Z. 18 (“Certificate of Employment During
the War”) is loosely enclosed.
£125.00
eBay
17732
Duncan,
Lieutenant Walter (1/8 Batt. King's
Liverpool Regiment)
How I Escaped
from Germany
Liverpool:
Printed for Private Circulation by Edward
Howell Ltd, 1919
5” x 7¾”.
[xiii] + 108pp, portrait frontis. Green
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and soiled
with circular stain on rear cover,
backstrip frayed along gutters, corners
bumped otherwise Very Good. Rare. Duncan was
a member of the 1/8 Battalion, King's Own
Liverpool Regiment.
£195.00
eBay
17733
Lowry, Edward
P.
With The
Guards' Brigade : From Bloemfontein to
Koomati Poort and Back
London: Horace
Marshall & Son,Temple House, Temple Avenue,
E.C., 1902
5¼” x 8¼”.
[xii] + 277pp, portrait frontispiece,
illustrations. Original pictorial red cloth
blocked in black. The covers are faded,
scuffed and heavily rubbed, and also very
dull. There is patchy colour loss which is
particularly evident on the rear cover,
which now has a mottled appearance. The
spine is also very dull, again with patchy
colour loss. The spine ends and corners are
bumped (heavily) and frayed, with splits to
the cloth. There are some indentations along
the edges of the boards and there is a
forward spine lean.
£95.00
eBay
17739
Hatton, S. F.
(Middlesex Imperial Yeomanry) [With a
Foreword by Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby]
The Yarn of a
Yeoman
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, n.d. [c.1930]
5½” x 8¾”.
286pp, frontis, maps, illustrations. Red
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, covers
rubbed, spine slightly canted, edges lightly
foxed, gift inscription on front end-paper
otherwise Very Good. This is an account of
World War I by a member of the Middlesex
Yeomanry who began guarding the East Coast
and then was sent to Egypt. After more
training the Regiment was sent to Gallipoli.
After months of unceasing warfare the
remnants of the Regiment, less than fifty
strong, embarked back to Egypt. Here they
did frontier duty on the Canal and beyond,
until they were despatched to Salonica. The
author's descriptions of Gallipoli and
Salonica vividly portray the Regiment's
experiences of 'real war'. After much
difficult campaigning in that theatre, the
scene was changed to Sinai and the
Palestine frontier. "No unit of our armies,
probably, had a more varied experience; and
nowhere is to be found a truer picture, than
is given here, of war as the fighting man
sees it."
£75.00
eBay
17742
Various
The War
History of the 1st/4th Battalion The Loyal
North Lancashire Regiment, Now the Loyal
Regiment (North Lancashire), 1914-1918
Published by
the Battalion History Committee; Printed by
Geo. Toulmin & Sons, Ltd, Guardian Works,
Preston, 1921
7¼” x 10”.
(xviii) + 193pp, 18 photographs, 13 maps (8
coloured and folding). Original green cloth
with red formation patch and gilt Regimental
badge to front, blocked in gilt on the
spine, no d/j, covers damaged, one page
detached, reading copy only.
£70.00
eBay
17743
Clifton-Shelton, Alfred
On the Road
From Mons : With An Army Service Corps Train
: By its Commander
London: Hurst
& Blackett, Ltd, 1916
4¾” x 7¾”.
[xi] + 164pp, folding map, diagrams,
facsimile telegram. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
end-papers and edges lightly foxed, lower
edge untrimmed, folding map torn at stub
otherwise Very Good. Uncommon.
£90.00
eBay
17746
Djemal Pasha
Memories of a
Turkish Statesman, 1913 - 1919
London:
Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [c.1920]
6" x 9".
302pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, spine dull, slightly shaken,
previous owner's name inscribed otherwise
Good. An unprepossessing copy of a very
scarce title.
£250.00
eBay
17750
Badoglio,
Pietro
The War in
Abyssinia
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1937
7¼” x 10”.
[xv] + 208pp, illustrations. Original tan
cloth gilt. The covers are rubbed and
stained, particularly the front boards where
there is widespread staining (which appears
to be water splashes). The spine is dull.
The spine ends and corners are heavily
bumped. This volume is ex-Library (Royal
United Service Institution) and there is a
R.U.S.I bookplate on the front pastedown,
showing that the book was purchased on 30th
October 1937. There are remnants of a
removed label on the front free end-paper.
Apart from this, there is a hand-written
note on the map pocket at the end to check
the maps on receipt and before returning
(all maps are present). The text is clean
throughout; however the paper has tanned
with age. The page corners are slightly
bumped. The edge of the text block is
dust-stained.
£40.00
eBay
17766
Fortescue,
Granville
Russia, The
Balkans and The Dardanelles
London: Andrew
Melrose, Ltd, n.d. [c.1915]
5½" x 8¾".
285pp, b&w plates. Blue cloth, no d/j,
covers scuffed and rubbed, spine ends and
corners bumped otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
17768
Mottram, R.
H., Easton, John and Partridge, Eric
Three Personal
Records of the War
London: The
Scholartis Press, 1929
5¾" x 9¼".
406pp, 2 maps. Black cloth blocked in gilt
on the spine, no d/j, covers bowed with
heavy bumping, spine gutters frayed,
otherwise Very Good
£40.00
eBay
17769
Hodgson,
William Noel [Late Lieutenant, 9th Devons
M.C.]
Verse and
Prose in Peace and War
London: Smith,
Elder & Co., 1917 Second Edition
5” x 7¾”.
104pp, portrait frontis. Green cloth with
paper labels to front cover and spine, no
d/j, spine darkened, edges dusty and foxed,
otherwise Very Good.
£90.00
eBay
17770
Dalbiac,
Colonel P. H. [C.B., T.D.] Forewords by
Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby, G.C.B.,
C.G.M.G. and General Sir E. S. Bulfin,
K.C.B., C.V.O.
History of the
60th Division (2/2nd London Division)
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1927
6¼” x 10”.
255pp, colour frontispiece and two plates,
maps. Original black cloth gilt with
Divisional motif on front cover, no d/j,
covers rubbed, head of spine snagged with
small splits in cloth, corners frayed,
end-papers foxed and discoloured, previous
owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.
At the end of August 1914 the Territorial
Force (TF) was authorized to raise reserve
or 2nd-line units and from these came the
2nd-line Divisions, fourteen of them, one
for each 1st-line or original pre-war TF
divisions. The 60th came into existence in
September as the 2/2nd London Division,
receiving its number in August 1915 when
all the 2nd-line divisions were numbered. It
embarked for France in June 1916 and went
into the line in the Vimy sector where it
endured four months of crater and trench
fighting. The division was withdrawn from
the BEF in November and sent to Macedonia ,
assembling at Salonika on Christmas Day
1916. For the next five months it was
engaged in fighting the Bulgars,
participating in the British attacks near
Lake Doiran in April and May. Their stay in
Macedonia lasted only six months, for in
June 1917 the division was moved again - to
Palestine where it saw out the war. The
division made a good name for itself in this
campaign, at Third Gaza, Beersheba,
Jerusalem, Jericho and especially in
carrying out two raids across the Jordan,
which are described in detail.Two
appendices list command and staff, one when
the division left for France and the other
when it arrived in Palestine. Three VCs were
awarded (one of which does not get a
mention), all in Palestine, but there is no
list of honours and awards nor roll of
honour. The author, an ASC officer,
commanded the division Train till returning
home in June 1917 before the division
arrived in Palestine. The maps could be
better, in fact one of them depicting the
battle for Jerusalem (p 152) shows a 71st
Division as part of the force; the 71st
Division was a home service only division,
and in the text on p133 reference is made to
the 179th Division which should be 179th
Brigade.
£50.00
eBay
17773
Marden,
Major-General T[homas] O.
A Short
History of the Sixth [6th] Division : Aug.
1914 - March 1919
London: Hugh
Rees, Ltd, 1920
5¼” x 8½”.
[viii] + 120pp, folding map. Red cloth
blocked in black with white circular
Divisional flash on front boards, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed with diagonal
crease on upper front cover, spine faded,
slight spine lean, spine ends and corners
bumped and frayed, otherwise just about
Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
17775
More, John
[Captain 1/6 Royal Welch Fusiliers T.A.
(E.E.F.)]
With Allenby's
Crusaders
London: Heath
Cranton Limited, n.d. [c.1923]
5½” x 8¾”.
232pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Red
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, spine faded, head and tail of spine
frayed, edges lightly foxed, gift
inscription on front end-paper (dated
14.4.23), otherwise Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
17776
Miller,
Charles
Battle for the
Bundu : The First World War in East Africa
London:
Macdonald & Jane's, 1974
6¼" x 9½". [x]
+ 353pp, illustrations. Black cloth in
chipped, discoloured d/j, otherwise Very
Good
£30.00
eBay
17777
Cruttwell, C.
R. M. F. [Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser
Cruttwell]
A History of
the Great War
Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1961
5½” x 9”.
[xiv] + 655pp, frontis, maps, illustrations.
Blue cloth gilt in a torn, scuffed and
chipped d/j, covers rubbed, edges &
end-papers foxed otherwise Very Good
£40.00
eBay
17780
Young,
Geoffrey Winthrop
From the
Trenches : Louvain to the Aisne : The First
Record of an Eye-Witness
London T.
Fisher Unwin, October 1914 Second Impression
4¾” x 7½”
318pp. Original brown cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed and scuffed,
spine creased and dull, spine ends and
corners bumped, edges foxed otherwise Very
Good. Young, the famous mountaineer and
author, wrote these reports from the front
lines in Northern France during the opening
phase of the Great War
£125.00
eBay
17782
Various
[illustrated with drawings by Bert Thomas
and win an introductory story by General Sir
Ian Hamilton]
The Best 500
Cockney War Stories : Reprinted from the
London Evening News
London:
Associated Newspapers Ltd, n.d. [1921]
6¾” x 9¾”.
223pp. Pictorial card cover to front, plain
card to rear, covers worn and soiled,
contents dog-eared, worn overall; reading
copy.
£40.00
eBay
17783
One of Its
Officers [Captain H. J. Blampied]
With a
Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916-1917
Bombay: The
Times Press, September 1918 Second
Impression [first published May 1918]
5" x 7½".
165pp, frontis, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head
and tail of spine bumped, generally grubby
otherwise Good
£40.00
eBay
17789
Thompson,
Major-General C. W. [C.B., D.S.O.]
Records of the
Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own) 1914-1919
Sherborne,
Dorset: F. Bennett & Co. Ltd, 1921
6¾” x 8¾”.
[xi] + 155pp, illustrations, sketch maps,
appendices, including Roll of Honour,
Honours etc. Grey cloth blocked in silver
with red backstrip, no d/j, covers worn and
stained, untrimmed, otherwise Very Good.
Excellent account with campaigns in
Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine.
£90.00
eBay
17791
Ogston, Sir
Alexander (KCVO)
Reminiscences
of Three Campaigns
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, n.d. [1919]
5¼” x 8¼”.
[viii] + 335pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Rebound ex-Library, no d/j,
covers marked, usual Library treatments,
otherwise Good. Surgeon in Egypt 1884
(Suakin, Tamai &c.), Boer War 1899-1900 &
WW1 in charge of a hospital detachment for
the British Naval Force on the Danube, 1915,
then 15 months with a British Ambulance
unit in Italy.
£75.00
eBay
17793
Dolbey,
Captain Robert [Captain Robert Dolbey, MB,
MS (Lond.), FRCS (Eng.), Royal Army Medical
Corps]
A Regimental
Surgeon in War and Prison
London: John
Murray, 1917
5" x 7½". [ix]
+ 248pp, portrait frontis, publisher’s
advertisements. Re-backed red cloth blocked
in black, no d/j, spine soiled, marked and
faded, edges & end-papers lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good. Contents: The
Expeditionary Force in the Retreat; The
Miracle of the Marne; The First Battle of
Ypres; In German Hands; Crefeld; Minden;
Sennelager Bei Paderborn; Guetersloh; Home.
£60.00
eBay
17796
Howell, Major
P.
The Campaign
in Thrace, 1912 : Six Lectures
London: Hugh
Rees, Ltd., 1913
5½" x 8¾".
[xi] + 163pp, 5 maps. Red cloth gilt, no
d/j, crease in front cover, head of spine
bumped, previous owner's name inscribed
otherwise Very Good
£150.00
eBay
17797
G [Preface by
E. B. O.]
The Last Lap
London: Andrew
Melrose, Ltd, September 1917 [Second
Edition, reprinted same month as First
Edition]
4¾” x 7¾”.
141pp. Original blue cloth ruled and blocked
in pale blue, no d/j, head of spine bumped,
no front free end-paper, paper severely
tanned, particularly in margins, otherwise
Very Good.
£70.00
eBay
17798
Wedd, A. F.
German
Students' War Letters : Translated and
Arranged from the Original Edition of Dr
Philipp Witkop
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1929
5" x 7½".
[vii] + 376pp, publisher's catalogue. Red
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, half-title page creased, gift
inscription on front end-paper, edges
dusty, a few pencil markings, otherwise Very
Good. Rare in this edition.
£75.00
eBay
17804
Majendie,
Major V. H. B. [D.S.O.] (Somerset Light
Infantry)
A History of
the 1st Battalion The Somerset Light
Infantry (Prince Albert’s) : July 1st, 1916,
to the End of the War
Taunton:
Goodman and Son, The Phoenix Press, North
Street, 1921 First Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
[xii] + 127pp, folding maps. Green cloth
gilt, no d/j, spine darkened, covers rubbed,
spine ends and corners bumped, end-papers
discoloured, otherwise Very Good. Including
Honours and Awards, eight Folding Maps at
Rear. This Regular Battalion fought on the
Somme, Ypres, Arras, and took part in the
Final Campaigns of October and November
1918.
£80.00
eBay
17805
Bonnett,
Chris; Wilson, Mike
The Great War
Heroes of Bridlington
Bridlington,
East Riding of Yorkshire: Published by Free
Spirit Writers, 2011
5¾” x 8¼”.
364pp, profusely illustrated. Softback, Very
Good.
£65.00
eBay
17807
[Written by
Officers of the Battalions] With a Foreword
by Gen. Sir. H. L. Smith-Dorrien, G.C.B.,
G.C.M.G., D.S.O., Col. Sherwood Foresters,
Commanding 2nd Army
The Sherwood
Foresters in the Great War : "The Robin
Hoods" : The 1/7th, 2/7th & 3/7th Battns.
Sherwood Foresters 1914-1918
Nottingham: J.
& H. Bell Limited, 1921
5” x 7½”.
471pp, maps, illustrations. Green cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers worn and heavily rubbed
with marked colour variation, inner hinges
cracked, previous owner's name inscribed,
tanned pages, end-papers discoloured, just
about Very Good. All three Bns. served on
the Western Front, including all main
operations 1915-1918, also Easter Rising in
Dublin 1916. Roll of Hon., awards.
£145.00
eBay
17809
Members of Her
Majesty Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military
Nursing Service
Reminiscent
Sketches, 1914 to 1919 by Members of Her
Majesty Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military
Nursing Service
London: John
Bale, Sons & Danielsson Ltd, 1922
4¾” x 7½”.
[vii] + 80pp, with two illustrations at the
end of the volume: "A Hospital Ward—Past and
Present". Original grey cloth with the
Imperial Military Nursing Service crest
blocked in red on the front cover, but no
spine titling. The covers are rubbed, dull
and slightly marked (there are some faint
stains on the rear cover). There is a
noticeable bruise on the top edge of the
front cover, near the spine. The spine has
faded. The spine ends and corners are bumped
and slightly frayed, with the front bottom
corner being creased and heavily bumped.
There is quite an attractive bookplate on
the front pastedown: "Di Millicent
Catherina Michell Her Book". The
end-papers are very browned and discoloured,
with the bookplate having created a shadow
on the front free end-paper. There is
extensive toning and heavy foxing to the
final few pages, adjacent to the two
illustrations at the end. The text is
otherwise clean throughout on noticeably
tanned paper and with further scattered
foxing. The edge of the text block is
dust-stained and very heavily foxed, with
the foxing extending into the margins
(please see the images below).
£125.00
eBay
17812
Whalley-Kelly,
Captain H. [p.s.c., The Prince of Wales's
Volunteers]
Ich Dien : The
Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South
Lancashire) 1914-1934
Aldershot :
Gale & Polden, Ltd, 1935
6” x 9¾”.
[xvi] + 336pp, twelve plates, ten folding
maps in end-pocket and four in text.
Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed with some variation in colour but
still bright, end-papers lightly foxed,
edges dusty, otherwise Very Good. Western
Front including Somme, Passchendaele,
Cambrai; also Gallipoli & Salonika & the
1st Battalion on the North-West Frontier.
Detailed awards roll.
£90.00
eBay
17813
Smith-Dorrien,
General Sir Horace [G.C.B., G.C.M.G.,
D.S.O.]
Memories of
Forty-Eight Years' Service
London: John
Murray, 1925 First Edition
6" x 9". [xii]
+ 522pp, portrait frontis, illustrations,
maps. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, spine quite dull and with one small
patch of frayed cloth (exposing card), head
and tail of spine snagged (slight loss of
cloth at head), previous owner's name
inscribed, corners bumped, edges &
end-papers foxed, otherwise Good.
£95.00
eBay
17815
Luard,
Katherine
Diary of a
Nursing Sister on the Western Front
1914-1915
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 191
Third Impression
5” x 7½”.
[vii] + 300pp. Original grey cloth gilt, no
d/j, ex-Library, covers marked and rubbed,
Library markings on Title-Page and reverse,
otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17816
Greenwell,
Graham H.
An Infant in
Arms : War Letters of a Company Officer,
1914-1918
London: Lovat
Dickson & Thompson Ltd., 1935
5½" x 8¾".
305pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed and slightly marked,
one-inch split in front spine gutter from
head, top inch of spine faded, head and
tail of spine bumped and frayed, corners
bumped, gift inscription on front end-paper
and previous owner's name inscribed, edges
dusty and foxed, otherwise Very Good. A
classic memoir of service with 1/4th Bn. Ox.
& Bucks. Light Infantry in France and Italy.
A classic Great War memoir of a public
school boy who joined up in 1914 and served
throughout the war with the Ox and Bucks
L.I., emerging in 1918 as a Captain and
company commander on the Italian front.
Based on letters to the author's mother,
this book describes the Somme and
Passchendaele, but Greenwell looks back on
the war as the happiest years of his life.
£50.00
eBay
17819
Taylor, H. A.
[Captain (Retired) Royal Fusiliers and
General Staff] With a Foreword by
Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby, G.C.B.,
G.C.M.G.
Good-Bye to
the Battlefields : To-day and Yesterday on
the Western Front
London:
Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd, 1928
6” x 9½”.
288pp, frontispiece, illustrations, rear
end-paper map. Original blue cloth blocked
in gilt on the spine, no d/j, covers scuffed
and rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped,
edges foxed otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17820
Fox, Frank
[R.F.A.]
The Battles of
the Ridges : Arras - Messines, March - June,
1917
London: C.
Arthur Pearson Ltd, 1918
4¾” x 7”.
112pp, frontispiece (of Haig), maps (two
folding at end), illustrations. Original
printed paper wrappers (orange blocked in
black), no d/j, covers rubbed and scuffed,
corners creased and dog-eared, split in
front spine gutter at tail, edges dusty and
lightly foxed otherwise Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17821
Gough, General
Sir Hubert
Soldiering On
: Being the Memoirs of Gen. Sir Hubert Gough
London: Arthur
Barker Ltd, 1954
5½" x 8¾".
260pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, maps
as end-papers. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spine
faded, page edges browned, some damage to
top edge of text block otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
17827
Farrell, Fred
A.
The 51st
(Highland) Division : War Sketches
Edinburgh: T.
C. & E. C. Jack Ltd, 1920
8¾” x 12¼”.
30pp text, 63 plates with separate captions.
Original cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked
and rubbed, with old staining, end-papers
browned and discoloured, scattered foxing,
untrimmed, edges dusty and lightly foxed,
otherwise Very Good. This is the scarce
larger Edition with gilt blocking on the
covers. The book traces the part played by
the 51st Division at Festubert, High Wood
and Beaumont Hamel, Roclincourt (Arras and
Vimy Ridge), Passchendael, Cambrai &c.
£95.00
eBay
17828
Haig,
Major-General Douglas
Cavalry
Studies : Strategical and Tactical
London: Hugh
Rees Ltd, 1907 First Edition
5¼” x 8½”.
[ix] + 333pp, folding map. Red cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers rubbed and discoloured, spine
gutters split and partially re-glued,
horizontal split near head of spine also
re-glued, end-papers lightly foxed otherwise
Very Good. The was Douglas Haig's own copy,
passed to his son. Haig's initial appear on
the front pastedown, while his son's name
is pencilled on the front free end-paper
together with his Regiment ("R. S. Greys").
£275.00
eBay
17832
Price, Julius
M. [War-Artist Correspondent of the
"Illustrated London News"]
On the Path of
Adventure : Illustrated with Jottings from
the Author's Sketch Book and a Map
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919
5½” x 8½”.
[xvi] + 244pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations, map. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, head and tail of
spine bumped, spine discoloured, edges
foxed, spine slightly canted, one plate
detached otherwise Good Plus.
£60.00
eBay
17836
Corbett, Elsie
The Red Cross
in Serbia 1915 - 1919 : A Personal Diary of
Experiences
Banbury, Oxon:
Cheney & Sons Ltd, 1964
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiii] + 186pp, illustrations, frontispiece
map. Green cloth gilt, no d/j [as issued],
covers rubbed, head and tail of spine bumped
otherwise Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
17839
Gibb, Rev.
Harold [Lieut., 4th R. I. Dragoon Guards
1914-15]
Record of the
4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards in the Great
War 1914-1918
Canterbury: No
imprint (printed by Butler & Tanner), 1925
[no other publication details]
5½” x 8¾”.
[viii] + 76pp., colour frontis., 3 plates,
map. Original green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed but still bright, head and
tail of spine bumped, otherwise Very Good;
internally clean and bright. France and
Flanders from August 1914: Mons & the
Retreat, Aisne, Ypres 1914-15 etc. Notes of
officers' services, casualties.
£95.00
eBay
17843
Haddow, G. W.
and Grosz, Peter M.
The German
Giants : The German R-Planes 1914-1918
London:
Putnam, 1969 [2nd ed.; first published 1962]
8¾" x 11¼".
[ix] + 310pp, profusely illustrated. Blue
cloth gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j
otherwise Near Fine
£80.00
eBay
17844
Cassavetti, D.
J. [Demetrius John Cassavetti]
Hellas and the
Balkan Wars
London: T.
Fisher Unwin, 1914
5½" x 9". [xv]
+ 368pp, portrait frontis, 74 illustrations,
maps. Blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, no
d/j, Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, rear cover
badly stained with some colour loss, edges
foxed, end-papers browned, otherwise Good
Plus. One of the rarest Balkan War titles.
£95.00
eBay
17847
Mulvaney,
Charles Pelham
The History of
the North-West Rebellion of 1885 :
Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of
the Origin and Progress of the War, of the
Various Engagements with the Indians and
Half-Breeds, of the Heroic Deeds Performed
by Officers and Men, and of Touching Scenes
in the Field, the Camp, and the Cabin;
Including a History of the Indian Tribes of
North-Western Canada, Their Numbers, Modes
of Living, Habits, Customs, Religious Rites
and Ceremonies, with Thrilling Narratives
of Captures, Imprisonment, Massacres, and
Hair-Breadth Escapes of White Settlers, Etc.
Toronto,
Ontario: A. H. Hovey and Co., 1885
4¾” x 7½”.
[viii] + 17-424pp, portrait frontispiece,
illustrations. Original cloth half-bound in
leather. The cloth sections are faded
(particularly on the rear cover), dull and
discoloured. There is also some staining on
the rear cover and two small gouges. As is
typical, the leather spine and corners are
heavily rubbed, especially the edges and
corners which are frayed in places. The
leather at the head and tail of the spine is
chipped, with small tears. The leather at
the start of each spine gutter has split,
with the worst being at the tail of the
front spine gutter where there is a one-inch
split which a previous owner has re-glued.
The inner hinges are badly cracked, with
ragged tears in the pastedown end-papers.
The yellow end-papers are also soiled,
browned and discoloured and a pencilled
note on the front free end-paper has been
almost wholly erased (there is also a
vertical crease running the full length of
the front end-paper). There is scattered
foxing throughout and the paper has tanned
with age, while some pages are stained or
have grubby marks. The Publisher’s blue edge
stain has bled into the margins on some
pages (including the Title-Page).
£95.00
eBay
17848
Binding,
Rudolf [Translated from the German by Ian F.
D. Morrow]
A Fatalist at
War
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, March 1929 [3rd Imp.;
first published January 1929]
5½" x 8¾".
246pp. Yellow cloth blocked in black, no
d/j, edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very
Good. Scarce in this edition. German
novelist and infantry officer, with a
Jungdeutschland division in 1914 and later
divisional staff. Considered by Falls as
being "among the most vivid of German
documents relating to the War."
£70.00
eBay
17849
Heath, Arthur
George
Letters of
Arthur George Heath, Fellow of New College,
Oxford, and Lieutenant in the 6th Batt.
Royal West Kent Regt., with a Memoir by
Gilbert Murray
Oxford: B. H.
Blackwell, 1917
5" x 7¾".
[viii] + 222pp, portrait frontis. Original
green cloth blocked in green, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, ink-spots on backstrip,
edges foxed, end-papers foxed, previous
owner's name inscribed, otherwise Good.
Memorial volume to an Oxford scholar and his
friends who joined up as volunteers and paid
the price on the Western Front. Heath's
letters follow his soldier's progress from
the day he volunteered to his death at La
Bassee, October 1915, ending with his
touching last letter home. Gilbert Murray
provides a lengthy memoir in his Foreword.
Some of Heath's poems, found on his corpse,
are reprinted among several posthumous
tributes.
£95.00
eBay
17851
Trapman,
Captain A. H.
Straight Tips
for "Subs"
London:
Forster Groom & Co. 23 Craven Street,
Strand, W.C. 2, 1940 (Fifteenth Edition,
75th Thousand)
2¾” x 4¼”.
[xlvii] adverts + 62pp. Original
cloth-covered wrappers, no d/j, covers
rubbed, particularly around edges, slightly
marked and dull, corners creased, otherwise
Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17853
Housley,
Clifford
A History the
10th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
1914-1918
Long Eaton,
Nottingham: Miliquest Publications, 1998
5¾” x 8¼”.
(viii) + 164pp, illustrations. Paperback,
covers rubbed, bottom corners creased,
otherwise Very Good
£25.00
eBay
17858
Hussey,
Brigadier-General A. H. (C.B., C.M.G.) and
Inman, Major D. S.
The Fifth
Division in The Great War
London: Nisbet
& Co. Ltd, 1921 First Edition
5½” x 9”.
[xvi] + 278pp., colour frontis., 17
illustrations, 18 maps (2 folding).
Blind-stamped red cloth blocked in gilt on
spine, no d/j, covers rubbed and mottled,
particularly front boards, inner hinges
cracked, spine ends and corners bumped and
frayed, otherwise Very Good. Regular
division in France from Aug. 1914 &
participated in all main battles on Western
Front then in Italy 1918. Appendices include
Order of Battle & composition of staff.
£165.00
eBay
17861
MacMunn,
Lieutenant-General Sir George
Behind the
Scenes in Many Wars : Being the Military
Reminiscences of Lieut.-General Sir George
MacMunn
London: John
Murray, 1930
5½" x 8¾".[ix]
+ 370pp, illustrations, maps, publisher's
catalogue. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, light
foxing to edges otherwise near Fine. The
Author joined the Royal Artillery in 1880
and served in Burma, India (the Northwest
Frontier, the Tirah Expedition), the Boer
War, and World War One (Gallipoli,
Mesopotamia).
£50.00
eBay
17864
Dawson,
Captain A. J. [Illustrations by Captain
Bruce Bairnsfather]
Back to
Blighty : Battle Stories Recorded by Captain
A. J. Dawson
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1917 [Published for "The
Bystander"]
4¾” x 7½”.
[vii] + 231pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Blue cloth blocked in black, no d/j, spine
faded, spine ends and corners bumped, tanned
pages, otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
17866
Newton, Walt
The Soul of
the Camp : A Derbyman’s O’dyssey
London: Arthur
H. Stockwell, 29, Ludgate Hill, E.C.4., n.d.
[1920]
4½” x 7¼”.
112pp, one illustration within text. Badly
damaged, reading copy.\r\n290. NEWTON
(Walt.) The Soul of the Camp: A Derbyman’s
O’dyssey. 1st Ed., 112pp., frontis. Arthur
H. Stockwell. 1920.\r\nCritical,
anti-authority memoirs of an unwilling
conscript ensnared by the raising of the
recruiting age to 50 & called up in April
1918. Describes a training camp in East
Anglia with its uncivilised, brutalising,
regime & (mostly) hated instructional staff
(“In our camp, there were a surfeit of
Captains & many Kings, their power we knew
& felt, much of it was for evil... I
understand it was considered unhealthy or
unwise to send the lion tamers out with the
Lions; nor does it surprise me in view of
what I have both seen & heard in the camp,
where I have come across men, normally of
mild disposition, & in many instance men of
high intellect, smarting under some hot
indignity or deep humiliation received, at
the whim or caprice of some striped or
starred boor; absolutely thirsting for
gore.”)
£85.00
eBay
17867
Somville,
Gustave [Translated by Bernard Miall]
The Road To
Liege : The Path of Crime : August 1914
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1916
4½” x 7¼”.
[xxii] + 296pp, folding map. Ex-Library
rebound in blue cloth gilt, no d/j, shelf
number blocked in gilt on spine, pocket,
lending schedule and stamps on rear
pastedown, a few stamps in blind in text,
tanned and trimmed pages otherwise Good.
£50.00
eBay
17868
Hamelius,
Professor Paul
The Siege of
Liege : A Chapter in the History of the
European War
London: T.
Werner Laurie, Ltd, 1914
4¾" x 7". [x]
+ 79pp, map, publisher’s advertisements.
Grey card cover which is rubbed and
discoloured, edges dusty, contents Very
Good. Uncommon.
£75.00
eBay
17869
Crozier,
Brigadier-General F. P. [C.B., C.M.G.,
D.S.O.]
Impressions
and Recollections
London: T.
Werner Laurie Ltd, 1930
5½” x 8¾”.
330pp, portrait frontispiece, 29 plates.
Second issue binding, paper-covered boards
blocked yellow, no d/j, covers heavily
rubbed, frayed at edges, otherwise Very
Good.
£65.00
eBay
17872
Blair, Clay
The Forgotten
War: America in Korea, 1950-1953
New York:
Times Books, 1987
6” x
9”.\r\nRobert Silvers
£95.00
eBay
17873
Gibbs, Philip
Open Warfare :
The Way to Victory
London:
William Heinemann, 1919
5" x 7¾".
[viii] + 552pp, maps. Green cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed, tanning to
pages, previous owner's name inscribed
otherwise Very Good. Mr. PHILIP GIBBS has
gathered together, under the title. Open
Warfare, the Way to Victory (HEINEMANN), his
despatches written from the Western front
during the last year of the War. What
strikes one most on seeing them again in
book form is the obscurity in which they
veil the events they record. They so shine,
as it were, with a luminous mist that they
seem to reveal everything, yet in sober
truth very often it is only in the light of
later knowledge that they reveal anything
at all. Congratulations, therefore, to Mr.
GIBBS, the perfect war correspondent! I defy
anyone from these papers alone (apart from
the plentiful and excellent maps) to form
anything like an adequate conception of the
disaster that swept down upon the British
Armies in the Spring of 1918. And yet in a
sense it is all there, gorgeously
camouflaged under the control—I daresay the
wise and necessary control—of the
censorship. The author, watching the very
moulding of history with every advantage of
proximity, has written down, if not much
bare statement, yet an amazing sequence of
heroic detail, associated with such
stirring names as Arras or Givenchy or
Cambrai. Curiously enough, though each
chapter is intensely vivid, they become,
through much instancing of the same
unconquerable spirit, something monotonous,
though never wearisome, in bulk. One trusts
that a future generation will realise that
the value of a book of this order consists
in its first-hand record of such incidents
of valour; it would be pitiful to have it
hastily assumed, because so much is slurred
or omitted to deceive the enemy, that
England was so feeble-hearted as to require
her evil news predigested before
consumption in this manner. It should be
added that the writer gives us a good sound
introduction that goes a long way to fill
the yawning gaps. [PUNCH, OR THE LONDON
CHARIVARI. Vol. 156. June 11, 1919.]
£36.00
eBay
17875
Ex-Private X
[Alfred McLelland Burrage]
War is War
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, February 1930 [2nd impression
issued in same month as 1st edition]
5" x 7½".
288pp. Black cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed,
edges dusty, spine slightly canted otherwise
Very Good
£40.00
eBay
17877
Burrows, John
Wm.
Essex Units in
the War 1914-1919 : Essex Territorial
Infantry Brigade, (4th, 5th, 6th and 7th
Battalions). Also 8th (Cyclists) Battalion
The Essex Regiment
Southend-on-Sea: John H. Burrows & Sons, Ltd
[There is no date of publication given;
however, the Foreword is dated March 1932]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxvii] + 409pp, colour frontispiece,
illustrations, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
spine faded, spine ends and corners bumped,
front free end-paper creased otherwise Very
Good.
£195.00
eBay
17880
Wintringham,
Tom
English
Captain
London: Faber
and Faber, 1939
5¼” x 8¼”.
333pp, portrait frontispiece, illustrations.
Original blck cloth blocked in gilt on the
spine, no d/j, damage to some pages
otherwise Very Good.
£145.00
eBay
17885
Campbell,
Cyril ["A Special Correspondent"]
The Balkan War
Drama
London: Andrew
Melrose, 1913
5¼" x 8".
[xii] + 206pp, frontispiece, illustrations,
maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers a
little rubbed, some toning to pages opposite
plates, otherwise near Fine. Campbell was
The Times' correspondent.
£75.00
eBay
17886
Stirling,
Lt.-Col. W. F. (D.S.O., M.C.) [With a
Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon and an
Epilogue by Lord Kinross]
Safety Last
London: Hollis
and Carter, 1953
5½” x 8¾”.
[viii] + 251pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers dull and rubbed, end-papers browned,
Very Good. The Author served as Colonel
Lawrence's staff officer in Arabia. In these
memoirs he discusses his experiences in
South Africa, Egypt, the Palestine Campaign
in World War I, Palestine, Albania,
Rumania, the Balkans (from 1940 to 1941),
and Syria during World War II.
£60.00
eBay
17890
Vansittart,
Peter [Ed.]
John
Masefield's Letters from the Front, 1915 -
1917
London:
Constable, 1984
6¼" x 9½".
307pp. Black cloth in creased d/j, otherwise
Very Good
£35.00
eBay
17891
Jack,
Brigadier-General J. L. [Edited and
Introduced by John Terraine; With a Foreword
by Sydney Rogerson]
General Jack's
Diary 1914 - 1918 : The Trench Diary of
Brigadier-General J. L. Jack, DSO
London: Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1964
5½" x 8¾".
320pp, illustrations. Orange cloth in a
rubbed d/j, some browning to page edges
otherwise Very Good/Very Good
£35.00
eBay
17893
Jerrold,
Douglas
The Hawke
Battalion : Some Personal Records of Four
Years, 1914-1918
London: Ernest
Benn Ltd, 1925
6" x 9¼".
240pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates, maps.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers scuffed,
marked and rubbed, contents very good.
£60.00
eBay
17896
Caunter,
Captain J. A. L.
13 Days : The
Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison
London: G.
Bell and Sons Ltd, 1918
4¾” x 7½”.
[xv] + 224pp, frontis, illustrations by the
Author. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers rubbed and mottled, spine faded,
front free end-paper excised otherwise Good
Plus. Rare.
£150.00
eBay
17899
Day, Henry C.
(S.J., M.C., Order of the White Eagle of
Serbia) [With an Introduction by Lieut.-Gen.
Sir W. E. Peyton, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.B.,
D.S.O.]
A Cavalry
Chaplain
London: Heath
Cranton Limited, October 1922 [2nd imp.;
first published September 1922]
5½” x 8¾”.
188pp. Original tan cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed with small stain on front,
spine ends and corners bumped, slight spine
lean, Library label on front pastedown (Ex.
Bibliotheca Congr. SS. Redempt. Domus ad S.
Joseph, Dundalk), front free end-paper
excised, Library stamp on discoloured
Half-Title page, otherwise Very Good.
Chaplain in Salonika 1916-18 with 7th Mtd.
Bde. attached to Derby Yeo. & senior RC
Padre to 1st Div. in France from May 1918.
£95.00
eBay
17901
Taylor, Lieut.
George W. [Arranged by his sister, Mrs Roger
Cookson from notes and letters]
The Boy With
the Guns
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919 [The On Active
Service Series]
5” x 7½”.
[xliv] + 197pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Blind-stamped blue cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, tanned pages
otherwise Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
17902
Stanley,
Monica M.
My Diary in
Serbia : April 1, 1915 - Nov. 1, 1915
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
Limited, 1916
4¾" x 7¼".
128pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue
cloth, no d/j, end-papers browned,
ex-College Library, otherwise Very Good
£110.00
eBay
17903
Black Tab
On The Road to
Kut : A Soldier's Story of the Mesopotamian
Campaign
London:
Hutchinson & Co., 1917
5½" x 8¾".
[viii] + 304pp, frontis map, illustrations.
Original blind-ruled red cloth blocked in
black on the spine, no d/j, covers stained
and heavily rubbed with extensive loss of
original colour (the staining is heaviest on
the rear cover while on the front cover
there is a noticeably mottled appearance to
the bottom half of the boards), spine faded
and very dull, inner hinges badly cracked
exposing the mull, withdrawn from Imperial
War Museum usual markings to end-papers,
previous owner's name inscribed in ballpoint
on front free end-paper, text generally
clean but 45 of the 56 illustrations are
missing, edges dusty and lightly foxed,
Good. Informative account by a Regular
Officer of the Indian Army Supply &
Transport Corps with the original 1914
expeditionary force (6th Indian Div.).
£75.00
eBay
17908
[A Committee
of Officers who Served with the Battalion]
The War
History of the Sixth Battalion The South
Staffordshire Regiment (T.F.)
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1924 First Edition
5½” x 9”. [x]
+ 248pp, map, 42 black and white
photographs. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed and faded, particularly spine where
there is extensive colour loss, edges
foxed, otherwise Very Good. Excellent,
detailed & well-illustrated. 46th Div.,
Western Front 1915-18 inc. Hohenzollern
Redoubt, Gommecourt &c. Roll of Hon.,
awards.
£125.00
eBay
17910
Weetman,
Captain W. C. C. (M.C., Croix de Guerre)
[With an Introduction by Brig.-General C. T.
Shipley, C.B.]
The Sherwood
Foresters in the Great War 1914-1919 : 1/8th
Battalion
Nottingham:
Thos. Forman & Sons, 1920
4¾” x 7½”.
323pp, illustrations, maps. Green cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head
and tail of spine bumped, spine faded and
dull, previous owner's name inscribed,
edges dusty and lightly foxed otherwise Very
Good.
£145.00
eBay
17914
Dunn, Captain
J. C.
The War The
Infantry Knew 1914 - 1919 : A Chronicle of
Service in France and Belgium
London:
Jane's, 1987
5½" x 8¾".
[li] + 613pp, illustrations, sketch maps.
Red cloth blocked in silver in a rubbed,
slightly discoloured, price-clipped d/j,
page edges browned otherwise Very Good.
Subtitled: "A Chronicle of Service in France
and Belgium with The Second Battalion His
Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal
Welch Fusiliers: founded on personal
records, recollections and reflections,
assembled, edited and partly written by One
of their Medical Officers." Possibly the
finest account of an infantry battalion's
experience on the Western Front.
£60.00
eBay
17916
Repington,
Lieut.-Col. Charles a Court
The First
World War 1914 - 1918 [2 vols]
London:
Constable, 1920 8th Impression
5¾" x 9".
[xvii] + 621pp, [xiii] + 581pp. Green cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers stained, cloth slightly
bubbled near hinge, ex-Library otherwise
Good
£60.00
eBay
17917
Yardley,
Lieut.-Colonel J. Watkins
With the
Inniskilling Dragoons : The Record of a
Cavalry Regiment during the Boer War,
1899-1902
London:
Longmans, Green and Co., 1904 First Edition
6” x 9¼”.
[xiv] + 365pp, portrait frontispiece,
illustrations, folding map. Original red,
green & yellow cloth blocked in gilt. The
covers are rubbed and scuffed with evidence
of old staining, particularly to the front
cover where there are some old circular
stains. The yellow cloth portions of the
covers are grubby, with marked variation in
colour. The spine has faded significantly,
with total loss of original colour. The
spine ends and corners are bumped and
frayed with minor splitting of the cloth.
There are some indentations along the edges
of the boards. The inner hinges are a little
tender due to the weight of the volume. The
text is very clean throughout, on tanned
paper. The edge of the text block is not
uniformly trimmed and is quite ragged in
places, particularly where pages have been
badly opened (the top edge is gilt). The
large folding map at the end is in good
order. There is a small stain on the
portrait frontispiece. The edge of the text
block is dust-stained. The tissue guard to
the portrait frontispiece is foxed.
£195.00
eBay
17923
Maude, Alan H.
[Ed.] [With a Foreword by The Viscount
Esher]
The 47th
(London) Division 1914-1919 : By Some who
Served with it in the Great War
London:
Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1922
5¾” x 9”. [xx]
+ 297pp, portrait frontis, illustrations,
folding maps. Green cloth and half-leather,
no d/j, covers scuffed and rubbed, spine
faded, rear inner hinge slack due to map
pocket at rear, missing eight of ten folding
maps otherwise Very Good.
£70.00
eBay
17924
Priestley,
Major Raymond E.
Breaking The
Hindenburg Line : The Story of the 46th
(North Midland) Division
London: T.
Fisher Unwin, Ltd, 1919
5½” x 8¼”.
200pp, two maps, seventeen illustrations.
Blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, spine darkened, small frayed
patch on rear spine gutter near tail,
previous owner's name inscribed on front
free end-paper (dated 1919) otherwise Very
Good.
£125.00
eBay
17925
Mark Severn
[pseud. Franklin Lushington]
The Gambardier
: Giving Some Account of the Heavy and Siege
Artillery in France 1914-1918
London: Ernest
Benn Limited, 1930
4¾" x 7½".
224pp, illustrations, maps. Black cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded,
ex-Boots Library with remnants of sticker on
front boards, front inner hinge cracked and
re-glued, spine slightly canted, otherwise
Good. Detailed classic account based on
personal experience with 90th Bde. RGA in
France from Festubert 1915 through the
Somme, Arras, Ypres & Messines to the final
advance in 1918, containing much useful
information on guns & gunners.
£70.00
eBay
17926
Washburn,
Stanley (Special War Correspondent of the
“Times” with the Russian Armies)
[Illustrated by the Photographs of George H.
Mewes]
Field Notes
from the Russian Front
London: Andrew
Melrose, Ltd, n.d. [1915]
5½" x 8¾".
291pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates. Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers stained, marked
and rubbed, inner hinges cracked, shaken
edges foxed otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
17927
Davis, Richard
Harding [War Correspondent, with the Allies,
of the Wheeler Syndicate of Newspapers and
the London "Daily Chronicle"]
With the
Allies
London:
Duckworth & Co., 1915
5" x 7½".
240pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates,
publisher's catalogue. Decorative red cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, otherwise Very
Good
£40.00
eBay
17928
Hussey,
Brigadier-General A. H. (C.B., C.M.G.) and
Inman, Major D. S.
The Fifth
Division in The Great War
London: Nisbet
& Co. Ltd, 1921 First Edition
5½” x 9”.
[xvi] + 278pp., colour frontis., 17
illustrations, 18 maps (2 folding).
Blind-stamped red cloth blocked in gilt on
spine, no d/j, ex-Library, covers rubbed
and mottled, particularly front boards,
spine gutters split, inner hinges cracked,
spine ends and corners bumped and frayed,
otherwise Very Good. Regular division in
France from Aug. 1914 & participated in all
main battles on Western Front then in Italy
1918. Appendices include Order of Battle &
composition of staff.
£85.00
eBay
17931
Tuohy,
Ferdinand
The Crater of
Mars
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1929
4¾” x 7¼”.
325pp. Rebound ex-Library, reading copy.
£60.00
eBay
17939
Cumming,
Hanway Robert
A Brigadier in
France, 1917-1918
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1922
5” x 7¾”.
272pp, portrait frontis. Brown cloth blocked
in blue, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine
darkened and soiled, occasional foxing
otherwise Very Good. Hanway Robert Cumming
was commissioned into the Durham Light
Infantry (DLI) in 1889 and saw active
service during the South African War. He was
in a staff appointment in India in August
1914 and did not arrive in France till June
1915 where he again held staff appointments
until August 1916 when he took command of
2nd DLI. In November 1916 he was appointed
to command of the 91st Brigade, 7th
Division, a post he held till May 1917 when,
during the Battle of Bullecourt he was
summarily dismissed by the divisional
commander (Shoubridge) and went home on
leave, under protest as he describes in the
book (less than a month later he was awarded
the DSO in the 1917 Birthday Honours!). From
August 1917 to the following February he
commanded the MG Corps Training Centre at
Grantham and then, in March 1918 he went
back to France to command the 110th Brigade,
21st Division where he stayed to the end of
the war. After the war, while commanding the
Kerry Brigade in Ireland he was murdered, on
6th March 1921.This book is concerned with
his two periods as a brigade commander, and
as battlefield reminiscences of officers at
that level are not all that common, it is a
record of special interest. The greater
part of the book deals with his command of
the 110th Brigade which he took over less
than a week before the German Spring
offensive, which is dealt with in detail, as
is the May offensive in Champagne in which
21st Division was one of the five British
divisions fighting under French command,
and then the final allied counter-offensive.
In all this is an interesting picture of the
life of a brigade commander on the Western
front. He tells his story in the third
person, referring to himself throughout as
the Brigadier.
£75.00
eBay
17943
Buchanan,
Capt. Angus [Captain Angus Buchanan MC, 25th
Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Frontiersmen)]
Three Years of
War in East Africa
London: John
Murray, 1919
5½” x 9”.
[xxi] + 247pp, frontis, illustrations, maps,
publisher’s advertisements. Original
pictorial cloth, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, spine darkened, head and tail of
spine frayed, end-papers browned, inner
hinges cracked, edges & end-papers lightly
foxed, the map of the "Lindi Area" called
for at page 172 has been excised, otherwise
Good. The Great War in East Africa was much
more than a 'sideshow’ - it was a classic
guerilla campaign that has entered military
legend. The author of this account was an
officer of the 25th Royal Fusiliers, a
British unit in the predominantly Indian and
South African Allied Army that attempted,
with huge losses and only limited success,
to hunt down the elusive Paul von
Lettow-Vorbeck, the brilliant and
resourceful commander in German East
Africa. Lettow’s small force of white
officers and native African 'Askaris’ ranged
across a vast region, twice the size of
Germany itself, to keep one jump ahead of
their allied pursuers. Initially
outnumbered, the allies harried their
quarry, but never finally defeated him. The
Armistice found Lettow still in the field,
barely able to credit the news that his
beloved Fatherland had crumbled. Buchanan’s
book shows why one of his soldiers griped:
'Ah, I wish to hell I was in France! There
one lives like a gentleman and dies like a
man; here one lives like a pig and dies like
a dog’. The Allies found themselves
battling a hostile climate, terrain, and
above all disease - especially the dreaded
malaria - which took a greater toll of
lives than the fierce enemy resistance. A
nature lover, Buchanan makes many
observations of African flora and fauna, as
well as his unsparing account of the tough
military campaign. Rare in this edition.
£125.00
eBay
17945
Sir Hugh
Clifford
The Gold Coast
Regiment in the East African Campaign
London: John
Murray, 1920
5½” x 8¾”.
[ix] + 306pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations, folding colour map. Red cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, covers rubbed with
marked variation in colour, spine faded,
tanned pages otherwise Very Good. The East
Africa Campaign and von Lettow-Vorbeck's
successful guerilla actions which kept
vastly numerically superior British forces
occupied until after the Armistice in Europe
£75.00
eBay
17947
Fortescue,
Granville
Russia, The
Balkans and The Dardanelles
London: Andrew
Melrose, Ltd, n.d. [1915]
5½" x 8¾".
285pp, b&w plates. Blue cloth, no d/j,
covers scuffed and rubbed, spine ends and
corners bumped otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17951
Buckley,
Captain F. [Edited by]
War History of
the Seventh Northumberland Fusiliers :
Dedicated to the Memory of All Ranks of the
Battalion Who Laid Down Their Lives in the
Great War
Newcastle: T.
Grierson, Printer (Privately Published),
n.d. [1919]
6¼” x 9¾”.
[viii] + 155pp, 31 illustrations, folding
map. Original green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed with some fading
and noticeable variation in colour, small
white stain on front cover, two snagged
patches on spine, spine ends and corners
bumped, otherwise Very Good.
£225.00
eBay
17954
Arminius
From Serajevo
to the Rhine : Generals of the Great War
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1933
5¾" x 9".
287pp, frontis, b&w plates. Blue cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers rubbed, spine dull,
end-papers replaced, edges & end-papers
lightly foxed otherwise Good Plus. From the
Introduction: "This book aims at giving to
the average lay reader a succinct account of
the parts played by the various leaders on
all fronts during the Great War. Strict
impartiality and accuracy in detail were the
writer's objectives during the course of his
meticulous sifting of the various
authorities on which the work is based . .
. the 'motif' has been a study of the
reaction of the character and temperament of
the various generals upon the morale of
their troops and upon the trend of the
mighty issues whose destiny they guide. It
is the writer's firm conviction that the
personality of a commander is as important
a factor in modern warfare as it was in the
days generals with gleaming swords charged
on high-mettled steeds at the head of their
troops against the serried ranks of the
enemy . . . " From the Translator's Preface:
"To British readers the visualisation in
this book of the war achievements of the
Allied and enemy generals by a German, who
aims at a strictly impartial survey of the
wide field he covers, but whose perspective,
for all that, is occasionally blurred by
the mirage of patriotic partialties, will be
illuminative. While making allowance for
involuntary 'suppressio veri',
overstatement and rather fulsome
hero-worship, we profit by 'seeing oursells
as ithers see us'. Incidentally, the author,
who prefers to remain anonymous, is a
well-known authority on the history of the
Great War . . . "
£65.00
eBay
17956
Gowland, John
Stafford
War is Like
That
London: John
Hamilton Ltd, n.d. [1933]
4¾” x 7½”.
239pp. Original orange cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed with
staining to front and rear boards and
irregular fading, spine faded with
significant loss of colour, boards slightly
bowed, previous owner's name inscribed and
address in pencil on front free end-paper,
otherwise Very Good. Rare.
£195.00
eBay
17957
Napier, Lt.
Col. the Hon. H. D.
Experiences of
a Military Attache in the Balkans
London:
Drane's, n.d. [1924]
6” x 10”.
293pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, map.
Red cloth gilt, no d/j, backstrip slightly
creased, a few pages lightly marked, one
plated detached otherwise Very Good. There
was a cheaper edition published [10589] with
the folding map but no illustrations, which
might explain why there are no
illustrations listed in the Table of
Contents for this volume. However, there are
thirteen plates altogether (including the
frontispiece), with the other twelve facing
pages: 22; 32; 34; 61; 76; 84; 91; 113; 175;
198; 220; 264.
£85.00
eBay
17958
Elliot,
Captain Walter Robert [M.C.] (Adjutant.
December. 1916—March. 1919) Illustrations by
S. A. Court; Maps by Captain H. C. Lovell
The Second
Twentieth : Being the History of the 2/20th
Bn. London Regiment
Aldershot:
Printed by Gale & Polden Ltd, Wellington
Works, 1920
4¾” x 7¼”.
[xv] + 314pp, portrait frontispiece,
illustrations, folding maps. Original blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, spine ends and corners
bumped, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17966
Black, Donald
[Pseud. of John Lyons Gray]
Red Dust : An
Australian Trooper in Palestine
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1931
4¾” x 7¾”.
303pp, frontispiece, illustrations, folding
map. Rebound ex-Library, reading copy only.
£85.00
eBay
17970
Ballard,
Brigadier-General C. [C.B., C.M.G.]
Smith-Dorrien
London:
Constable, 1931 [First Edition]
5¼" x 8¾".
345pp, frontis. Blue cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, covers rubbed and slightly mottled,
spine dull, otherwise Very Good
£80.00
eBay
17972
Ashmead-Bartlett, E.
Ashmead-Bartlett's Despatches from the
Dardanelles
London: George
Newnes, n.d.
4½” x 7”.
164pp, folding map. Rebound ex-Reference
Library (Manchester Central), internally
clean.
£70.00
eBay
17978
Atkinson, C.
T. (Late Captain, Oxford University O. T.
C.)
The Queen's
Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914-1919
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd,
London, 1924 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxviii] + 629pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Original blue cloth blocked
in silver, no d/j, ex-Library (Exter
College, Oxford), edges foxed, otherwise
Very Good. "Well above the average of
regimental histories in interest. He has
dome 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).
£95.00
eBay
17979
Falls, Captain
Cyril [With a Preface by Brigadier-General
Sir James Edmonds and maps and sketches
compiled by Major A. F. Becke]
Military
Operations : France and Belgium, 1917 :
Volume I : The German Retreat to the
Hindenburg Line and the Battle of Arras
London:
Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1940 [First
Edition.]
5½" x 8¾".
[xxxix] + 586pp, maps. Red cloth gilt, no
d/j, spine faded and damaged, covers
stained, ex-Library with shelf number on
backstrip, and Library stamps throughout
otherwise Good.
£95.00
eBay
17980
Edmonds,
Brigadier-General Sir James E.
Military
Operations : France and Belgium 1918 :
Volume I : The German March Offensive and
its Preliminaries
London:
Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1935
5½" x 8¾".
[xxx] + 569pp, sketch maps. Original red
cloth gilt, no d/j, ex-Reference Library
with usual markings otherwise Very Good.
£80.00
eBay
17982
Edmonds,
Brigadier-General Sir James E. (Maps and
sketches compiled by Major A. F. Becke)
Military
Operations : France and Belgium 1918 :
March-April: Continuation of the German
Offensives
London:
Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1937
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxviii] + 550pp, maps. Original red cloth
gilt, no d/j, ex-Library, this is a reading
copy only.
£50.00
eBay
17987
Radiguet, Rene
[General de Division, Army of France]
(Translated by Henry P. Du Bellet)
The Making of
a Modern Army and its Operations in the
Field : A Study Based on the Experience of
Three Years on the French Front, 1914-1917
New York and
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918
4¾” x 7½”.
[xiv] + 163pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations, publisher’s advertisements.
Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed
£85.00
eBay
17992
Nevinson, H.
W.
The
Dardanelles Campaign
London: Nisbet
& Co. Ltd, 1918 First Edition
5½" x 8½".
[xx] + 429pp, portrait frontis, b&w plates,
maps. Blind-stamped red cloth, no d/j, spine
dull and soiled, otherwise Very Good.
Readable & detailed narrative of operations
+ orders of battle, trench map of the
peninsula &c. “His narrative was to be a
plain, straightforward account of the
operations... but Mr Nevinson is incapable
of writing unattractive prose... As an
eye-witness his testimony is also valuable.”
- Falls.
£85.00
eBay
17994
Neave, Dorina
L.
Remembering
Kut : "Lest We Forget"
London: Arthur
Barker Ltd, 1937
5½" x 8¾".
[ix] + 324pp, portrait frontis, map. Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine
badly faded, spine gutter split, rear inner
hinge cracked otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17995
Ward, Major C.
H. Dudley [D.S.O., M.C.] With a Foreword by
General Lord Horne of Stirkoke, G.C.B.,
K.C.M.G.
The 56th
Division (1st London Territorial Division)
London: John
Murray, 1921 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xvi] + 331pp, portrait frontispiece, maps,
illustrations. Original red cloth gilt. The
covers are scuffed and rubbed, with patchy
discolouration and loss of colour, which is
most obvious on the front cover. There is
also a small stain near the front bottom
corner. The spine has faded and is very
dull, with a small, though obvious, patch
of colour loss. The spine ends and corners
are bumped and slightly frayed, with minor
splitting of the cloth. There are some
indentations along the edges of the boards
(most noticeably along the rear fore-edge).
There is a previous owner's name ("J. S.
Williams") inscribed in ink on the front
free end-paper and the end-papers are very
browned and discoloured. The inner hinges
are cracked. There is some scattered foxing
and the paper has tanned with age, though
the text remains quite clean throughout. The
edge of the text block is grubby,
dust-stained and foxed, with the foxing
occasionally extending into the margins.
£65.00
eBay
17996
Ironside,
Edmund
Archangel
1918-1919
London:
Constable and Company Ltd, 1953
5½” x 8¾”.
220pp, frontispiece, illustrations. Green
cloth blocked in silver in a torn, scuffed
and chipped d/j with some minor loss, edges
dusty otherwise Very Good.
£65.00
eBay
18000
Rorie, Colonel
David [D.S.O., T.D., M.D., D.P.H.]
A Medico's
Luck in the War : Being Reminiscences of
R.A.M.C. Work with the 51st (Highland)
Division
Aberdeen:
Milne and Hutchison, November 1929 First
Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiv] + 264pp, frontispiece, maps,
illustrations. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed and faded with significant
colour loss, numeorus circular stains on
front boards, ex-Library otherwise Very
Good. Personal account of medical services
work in the Western Front by officer
commanding the 1/2nd Highland Field
Ambulance and ADMS of 51st Highland
Division.
£40.00
eBay
18003
Waugh, Alec
The Prisoners
of Mainz
London:
Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1919
4¾” x 7½”.
[ix] + 274pp, illustrated with frontispiece
drawing, 'The Doom of Youth,' photographs,
and other drawings by Captain R. T. Roussel.
Grey cloth with paper spine lable which is
chipped and abraded, slight spine lean,
spine ends and corners bumped, previous
owner's name inscribed, staining to inside
edges of pastedowns and margins of
illustrations, otherwise Very Good.
£30.00
eBay
18007
Lloyd, T.
The Blazing
Trail of Flanders
London: Heath
Cranton Limited, 1933
5½” x 8¾”.
255pp, illustrations. Red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, widespread foxing otherwise
Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
18010
Lee, Lieut.
Joseph
A Captive at
Carlsruhe and Other German Prison Camps
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920
4¾” x 7½”.
[xii] + 15-219pp, frontispiece,
illustrations. Original russet cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers rubbed, slight spine lean,
edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good.
eBay
18012
Pares, Bernard
[Official British Observer with the Russian
Armies in the Field]
Day by Day
with the Russian Army 1914 - 15
London:
Constable & Company Ltd, 1915
5¾" x 9". [xi]
+ 287pp, portrait frontispiece, maps,
Publisher’s advertisement. Original yellow
cloth blocked in black no d/j, covers
darkened, marked and rubbed with pronounced
variation in colour, spine ends and corners
bumped, end-papers foxed and discoloured,
edges foxed otherwise Very Good.
£85.00
eBay
18013
Mrs Humphry
Ward
Fields of
Victory
London:
Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [1919]
4¾” x 7¾”.
[xi] + 13-260pp + Hutchinson’s catalogue of
New Books for Spring 1919. Original cloth
blocked in black. The covers are heavily
rubbed with some old areas of staining and
distinct lines of fading. There is a
diagonal scuff mark on the front cover,
starting at the tail of the spine, a
pronounced line of fading along the top
edge and another line of fading adjacent to
the spine. There are some old marks on the
small stains on the rear cover and the same
lines of fading. The spine is severely
faded, to the extent that nothing remains of
the original colour, and is also stained.
There is a split at the head of the front
spine gutter. The spine ends and corners are
bumped and frayed with further splits in the
cloth. There are a number of indentations
along the edges of the boards, including
one on the front fore-edge where there is a
small tear in the cloth. The front inner
hinge is cracked and the front free
end-paper has been roughly removed so the
volume now opens directly to the (foxed)
Half-Title page on which there is a previous
owner's name inscribed in ballpoint pen,
dated 1981. There are also two short notes
(in a different hand) on the rear end-paper.
The paper has tanned with age, some pages
have grubby marks and there is some
scattered foxing. There is some separation
between the inner gatherings. The edge of
the text block is dust-stained and grubby
(particularly the top edge) and lightly
foxed. There is an erratum slip tipped in to
page 239. The underside edge of the text
block is not uniformly trimmed and is quite
ragged. Mrs Ward's account is surprisingly
scarce in the First Edition, but this
example is quite well-used, noting a
severely faded and discoloured spine and
missing front free end-paper. No
illustrations are listed in the Table of
Contents, with the Title-Page referring to
"Illustrations, Coloured Map and Folding
Statistical Chart". There are two
photographs (frontispiece and one facing
page 90 which is partially detached), the
Coloured Map is between pages 76 and 77,
and the Folding Statistical Chart is at the
end of the volume.
£60.00
eBay
18018
Fraser-Tytler,
Major Neil
With
Lancashire Lads and Field Guns in France
1915 - 1918
Manchester:
John Heywood Ltd, 1922
5½” x 8¾”.
287pp, maps. Red cloth blocked in black, no
d/j, covers rubbed, head of spine frayed
(with a two-inch tear in the rear gutter),
offsetting to end-papers, otherwise Very
Good.
£75.00
eBay
18019
Weetman,
Captain W. C. C. (M.C., Croix de Guerre)
[With an Introduction by Brig.-General C. T.
Shipley, C.B.]
The Sherwood
Foresters in the Great War 1914-1919 : 1/8th
Battalion
Nottingham:
Thos. Forman & Sons, 1920
4¾” x 7½”.
323pp, illustrations, maps. Green cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head
and tail of spine bumped, spine faded and
dull, edges dusty and lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£125.00
eBay
18023
Stanley,
Brig.-Gen. F. C.
The History of
the 89th Brigade 1914-1918
Malpas,
Newport: Ray Westlake Military Books, 1996
[A reprint of 1919 Edition] (Produced in a
Limited Edition of 150, of which this is
number 149)
4¾” x 7½”.
295pp. Original black leatherette blocked in
gilt on the cover and spine. The covers are
lightly rubbed and there are some minor
indentations along the edges of the boards,
but show little signs of wear otherwise and
remain in good condition. The spine ends and
corners are slightly bumped. This Limited
Edition reprint does not include the
illustrations which were present in the
First Edition.
£95.00
eBay
18025
Wadham,
Lieut-Colonel W. F. A. and Crossley, Captain
J.
The Fourth
Battalion The King's Own (Royal Lancaster
Regiment) and the Great War
No publication
details (Crowther & Goodman, Printers,
London) : Foreword to Part I dated February
1920; Foreword to Part II dated December
1935
5¼” x 8½”.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers faded, head
and tail of spine bumped, some underlining
of text, Very Good. Service on the Western
Front from May 1915 until the end of the
War, including the epic defence of Givenchy
in April 1918. 3 V.C.s were won by the
battalion.
£60.00
eBay
18029
Fallon, M.C.,
Captain David
The Big Fight
London:
Cassell and Company Limited, 1919
4½” x 7”.
272pp. Rebound ex-Library.
£40.00
eBay
18032
Mockler-Ferryman, Lieut.-Colonel A. F.
[Compiled and Edited by]
The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light
Infantry Chronicle, 1915-1916 : An Annual
Record of the First and Second Battalions,
formerly the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry,
together with the War Records of the Other
Battalions of the Regiment : Volume XXV
From the 1st August 1915 to the 30th June
1916
London: Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1916
5½” x 8½”.
[viii] + 478pp, frontispiece map,
illustrations, folding maps. Green cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed around the
edges but still bright, spine ends and
corners bumped, otherwise Very Good.
£145.00
eBay
18033
Galet,
Lieutenant-General [H.M.’s Military Adviser,
Chief of Staff of The Belgian Army]
Translated by Major-General Sir Ernest
Swinton, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., Chichele
Professor of Military History, Fellow of All
Souls College, Oxford
Albert King of
the Belgians in the Great War : His Military
Activities and Experiences Set Down With His
Approval
London:
Putnam, September 1931
6” x 9¾”.
[xviii] + 341pp, maps, illustrations.
Original black cloth gilt with bevelled
edges. The covers are scuffed and rubbed
with patchy discolouration and fading
around the edges, particularly along the top
edges. The spine has faded noticeably and
there are a few small marks. The spine ends
and corners are bumped (quite heavily) and
also frayed, with small splits in the cloth.
There is also a small frayed patch on the
front fore-edge just above the bottom
corner. There are some indentations along
the edges of the boards. There is widespread
and heavy foxing throughout and the paper
has tanned noticeably with age. Although
usually confined to the margins, the foxing
does occasionally extend into the text and
on some pages is particularly heavy and
unsightly. There is toning and heavy foxing
to those pages adjacent to the photographic
plates. The edge of the text block is
grubby, dust-stained and heavily foxed.
£90.00
eBay
18035
Macnaughtan,
S.
A Woman's
Diary of the War
London: Thomas
Nelson and Sons, n.d. [1915]
4¾” x 7¼”.
168pp. This volume is ex-Library (Dundee
Free Libraries) and has been rebound in red
cloth gilt, no d/j, shelf number blocked in
gilt on spine, Library bookplate on front
pastedown and stamp on front free
end-paper,smaller Library stamp on
Title-Page and a few in text, otherwise Very
Good. Internally clean and showing little
sign of having been borrowed; a date stamp
on the Title-Page (23.Oct.15) indicates the
date of accession.
£150.00
eBay
18041
Moody, Colonel
R. S. H. [Colonel R. S. H. Moody, CB, psc,
Late the Buffs]
Historical
Records of The Buffs East Kent Regiment [3rd
Foot] Formerly Designated The Holland
Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's
Regiment 1914-1919
London: The
Medici Society Limited, 1922
5½” x 9”. [xx]
+ 554pp, colour frontis, one other plate in
colour, maps, illustrations (including
folding maps and maps as end-papers). Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed,
ex-Library, one plate missing, edges lightly
foxed otherwise Very Good.
£65.00
eBay
18055
Hody, Major E.
H.
With the Mad
17th to Italy
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1920
5½" x 8½".
160pp, folding colour frontis,
illustrations, maps. Teal cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, corners bumped, offsetting to
end-papers, otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
18056
Bean, C. E. W.
[Charles Edwin Woodrow]
The Official
History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
: volume III: The A. I. F. in France, 1916
St Lucia:
University of Queensland Press, 1982 [first
published 1929; this copy is a reprint of
the 1942 edition]
5¼” x 8¼”.
[xlii] + 1,036pp, maps, illustrations.
Paperback, covers rubbed, head of spine
bumped, otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
18057
Bean, C. E. W.
[Charles Edwin Woodrow]
The Official
History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
: volume IV: The A. I. F. in France, 1917
St Lucia:
University of Queensland Press, 1982 [first
published 1933; this copy is a repint of the
1943 edition]
5¼” x 8¼”.
[xxxii] + 1,030pp, illustrations, maps.
Pictorial card covers, covers rubbed, some
shelfwear otherwise Very Good
£40.00
eBay
18058
Bean, C. E. W.
[Charles Edwin Woodrow]
The Official
History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
: volume V : The A. I. F. in France, during
the main German Offensive, 1918
St Lucia:
University of Queensland Press, 1983 [first
published 1937; this copy is a reprint of
the 1943 edition]
5¼" x 8¼".
[xxxiv] + 825pp, illustrations, maps.
Softback, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good
£40.00
eBay
18060
Gullett, H. S.
(Henry Somer)
The Official
History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
: volume VII: The Australian Imperial Force
in Sinai and Palestine 1914 - 1918
St Lucia:
University of Queensland Press, 1984 [first
published 1923; this copy is a reprint of
the 1944 edition]
5¼" x 8¼".
[xl] + 844pp, illustrations, maps. Softback,
covers rubbed otherwise Very Good
£50.00
eBay
18064
Gilliland,
Captain H. G. [Horace Gray Gilliland]
My German
Prisons : Being the Experiences of an
Officer During Two and a Half Years as a
Prisoner of War
London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1918
4¾” x 7½".
316pp, diags. Blue cloth, no d/j, slightly
cocked, covers rubbed otherwise Very Good.
Served with Loyal North Lancs. & was
captured Dec. 1914 in an attack near La
Bassee. Experiences in several camps &
successful escape jumping from a train. He
reached home in April 1917.
£125.00
eBay
18067
Uys, Ian
Delville Wood
Rensburg,
South Africa : Uys Publishing, 1983
6¾” x 9½”.
[xi] + 299pp, maps, illustrations. Tan cloth
blocked in white in a scuffed and rubbed
d/j, head of spine bumped, d/j creased along
top edge otherwise Very Good
£30.00
eBay
18071
Anon
Handbook for
Company Officers
London:
Harrison and Sons, Printers in Ordinary to
His Majesty and to Queen Alexandra, St.
Martin's Lane, W.C., n.d. [c.1916]
5¼” x 7”.
184pp, sketch maps, diagrams, short
Publisher’s catalogue. Original thick
cloth-covered card covers blocked in black
on front cover (no spine titling), no d/j,
edges rubbed, covers dull, previous owner's
name inscribed on front free end-paper ("B.
Stephenson 1916") otherwise Very Good. A
very clean example. Includes studies of
actions at Waterloo. the 1870 campaign and
the Russo-Japanese war of 1905.
£95.00
eBay
18072
Miller, Henry
W.
The Paris Gun
: The Bombardment of Paris by the German
Long-Range Guns and the Great German
Offensives of 1918
London: George
G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1930
5½" x 8¾".
277pp, frontis, map, illustrations. Red
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, edges
lightly foxed, previous owner's name
inscribed Very Good
£45.00
eBay
18083
Rendel, A. M.
Appointment in
Crete : The Story of a British Agent
London: Allan
Wingate, September 1953 Second Impression
[First published July 1953]
5” x 8”.
240pp. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j,
ex-Rugby School Library, otherwise Very
Good.
£125.00
eBay
18091
Mottistone,
Lord (General Jack Seely)
My Horse
Warrior
London: Hodder
& Stoughton Ltd, October 1934 [2nd imp.
issued in the same month as the 1st Ed.]
6” x 8¼”.
160pp, illustrations by A. J. Munnings.
Decorative blue cloth blocked in black, no
d/j, covers rubbed and soiled, some pages
finger-marked in the margins otherwise Very
Good.
£75.00
eBay
18094
Various
German
Students' War Letters : Translated and
Arranged from the Original Edition of Dr
Philipp Witkop by A. F. Wedd
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1929
4¾” x 7½".
[vii] + 376pp, publisher's catalogue. Green
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, ex-Library
£40.00
eBay
18096
Crowe,
Brigadier-General, J. H. V.
General Smuts'
Campaign in East Africa
London: John
Murray, July 1918 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xxiii] + 280pp, portrait frontis, four
maps. This volume is ex-Library and has been
rebound by the Library in red buckram with a
leather spine. As is all too common, the
leather spine is badly scuffed, which can be
seen in the image above. There are also
areas of colour loss on the side panels.
The cloth sections are scuffed and rubbed,
with surface scratching to both front and
rear, but far more pronounced on the rear
cover. The spine ends and corners are
heavily bumped, and also frayed.
£50.00
eBay
18097
Gibb, Rev.
Harold [Lieut., 4th R. I. Dragoon Guards
1914-15]
Record of the
4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards in the Great
War 1914-1918
Canterbury: No
imprint (printed by Butler & Tanner), 1925
[no other publication details]
5½” x 8¾”.
[viii] + 76pp., colour frontis., 3 plates,
map. Original green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed and water stained, staining to
most pages, a reading copy only.
£65.00
eBay
18098
Anon.
Uncensored
Letters from the Dardanelles written to his
English wife by a French Medical Officer of
Le Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient
London:
William Heinemann, 1916
5" x 7½".
282pp, ills. Red cloth blocked in black, no
d/j, spine faded and dull, rear bottom
corner damaged, extensive foxing, otherwise
Good.
£75.00
eBay
18099
Messenger,
Charles
Terriers in
the Trenches : The Post Office Rifles at War
1914-1918
Chippenham:
Picton Publishing, 1982
5¾” x 8½”.
[xii] + 170pp, frontispiece map,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a scuffed,
rubbed price-clipped d/j, otherwise Very
Good
£60.00
eBay
18100
Phillimore,
Lord
Recollections
of a Prisoner of War
London: Edward
Arnold & Co., 1931 [2nd imp.; first
published 1930]
5½" x 8¼".
[viii] + 312pp, sketch maps. Red cloth
blocked in black, no d/j, covers stained and
worn, edges foxed, extensive internal foxing
otherwise Good.
£50.00
eBay
18101
Colonel J. F.
C. Fuller, D.S.O.
Imperial
Defence 1588-1914
London: Sifton
Praed & Co. Ltd, The Map House, 67, St.
James's Street, S.W., 1926
4” x 6¾”.
[vii] + 102pp.
£45.00
eBay
18104
Sandilands,
Colonel J. W. [C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.] and
Macleod, Lieut.-Colonel Norman [C.M.G.,
D.S.O.]
The History of
the 7th Battalion Queen's Own Cameron
Highlanders
Stirling:
Eneas Mackay, Murray Place, 1922
4¾” x 7½”.
207pp, frontispiece and three plates.
Original blue cloth gilt, no d/j, head and
tail of spine bumped, end-papers foxed,
edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good; a
bright copy. Loos, Somme, Arras, 3rd Ypres
&c. with 15th (Scottish) Div. Roll of
awards, Officers' services.
£75.00
eBay
18105
Gibbon,
Frederick P.
The 42nd (East
Lancashire) Division 1914-1918
London:
Country Life Ltd, 1920 [New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons]
5¾” x 9”.
[xii] + 246pp, frontispiece, maps,
illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt with
Divisional flash on front boards, no d/j,
front inner hinge cracked, front free
end-paper missing otherwise Very Good. Maj A
F Allen, Machine Gun Corps, 1918
£85.00
eBay
18106
Evans, Captain
H. K. D. (M.C.) and Chapters IX and X by
Major N. O. Laing, D.S.O [With a Foreword by
Right Hon. Winston Churchill, P.C.]
The 4th
(Queen’s Own) Hussars in the Great War
Printed for
the Regimental Committee by Gale & Polden
Limited, Wellington Works, Aldershot, 1920
7¼” x 10”.
[xv] + 198pp, frontispiece, maps,
illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt with
bevelled edges. The covers are marked,
scuffed and rubbed with extensive old
staining, other areas of darkening to the
cloth, and significant variation in colour.
There are are number of marks on the front
cover and some shallow gouges, with
darkening to all but the central area. The
rear cover is heavily stained/darkened,
covering about half the cloth. The spine
has darkened with age and is also soiled.
The spine ends and corners are bumped and
frayed with splits in the cloth and there
are indentations along the edges of the
bevelled boards. There is widespread and
extensive foxing throughout and the paper
has tanned significantly with age. The
folding maps are very discoloured. There is
separation between the inner gatherings and
some play in the inner hinges. The edge of
the text block is grubby, dust-stained and
heavily foxed, with the foxing extending
into the margins.
£125.00
eBay
18108
Gibbs, Philip
From Bapaume
to Passchendaele 1917
London:
William Heinemann, 1918
5" x 7¾".
[vii] + 384pp, maps. Green cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed, one folding
map chipped otherwise Very Good
£35.00
eBay
18110
Wright,
Captain P. L. [D.S.O., M.C.] With a Foreword
by Major-General Sir Robert Fanshawe,
K.C.B., D.S.O.
The First
Buckinghamshire Battalion 1914-1919
London and
Aylesbury, Bucks: Hazell, Watson & Viney,
Ld, 1920
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiv] + 216pp, portrait frontispiece, maps,
illustrations, including large folding map
in pocket at end. Original dark green cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and slightly
marked (old splash stain on rear cover) but
still bright, head and tail of spine bumped,
bookplate on front pastedown, toning and
foxing to those pages adjacent to
photographic plates, otherwise Very Good.
Detailed account of service on the Western
Front & Italy 1915-18, 48th Div., Somme,
Arras, 3rd Ypres, Asiago Plateau. Rolls of
officers & men, Honours & Awards.
£125.00
eBay
18111
Miles, Captain
Wilfrid (Late 13th Durham Light Infantry)
The Durham
Forces in the Field 1914-18 : Volume II :
The Service Battalions of the Durham Light
Infantry [NOTE: Volume I never appeared]
London:
Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1920
5½” x 8¾”.
[xii] + 380pp, frontispiece, illustrations,
5 maps in end pocket. Original blind-stamped
green cloth blocked in red on the spine, no
d/j, covers marked and rubbed and quite
dull, rear spine gutter split for entire
length (due to map pocket), gift inscription
on front pastedown (dated 1920) and
bookplate, edges dusty otherwise Very Good.
£120.00
eBay
18114
Forbes,
Archibald
The Afghan
Wars : 1839-42 and 1878-80
London: Seeley
& Co Limited, 1892 First Edition
5¼” x 8¼”.
337pp, portrait frontis, illustrations and
plans, Publisher’s Advertisement. Red cloth
gilt, no d/j, head and tail of spine bumped,
otherwise Very Good. Formerly owned by
Major Ernest Gambier-Parry (1853 – 1936)
£150.00
eBay
18115
von
Freytag-Loringhoven, Lieutenant-General
Baron
Deductions
from the World War
London:
Constable and Company Limited, 1918
4¾" x 7½".
[viii] + 176pp. Teal cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, covers rubbed and mottled, covers
bowed, edges dusty, otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
18123
Black Tab
On The Road to
Kut : A Soldier's Story of the Mesopotamian
Campaign
London:
Hutchinson & Co., 1917
5½" x 8¾".
304pp, b&w plates, frontis map. Red cloth,
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head and
tail of spine frayed, front inner hinge
strengthened with tape, previous owner's
name inscribed, a good copy in a poor
binding.
£95.00
eBay
18124
Lucy, John
There's a
Devil in the Drum
London: Faber
and Faber
4¾” x 7½”.
£195.00
eBay
18125
Ewing, Major
[M.C.] Brevet-Major, Late 6th K.O.S.B.
(Introduction By Field-Marshal Lord Plumer
G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.)
The History of
the 9th (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919
London: John
Murray, 1921 First Edition
6” x 9”.
[xviii] + 435pp + 11 folding maps at end. 24
illustrations including 20 tissue-guarded
colour illustrations. Blue cloth gilt with
gilt thistle on front boards, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, otherwise Very
Good.
£80.00
eBay
18126
Mackenzie,
Donald A.
From All The
Fronts
London:
Blackie and Son Limited, 1917
5¼” x 7¾”.
(vii) + 199pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Decorative cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded
around edges, spine faded, end-papers
foxed, previous owner's name inscribed,
edges foxed otherwise Very Good
£25.00
eBay
18127
Dalton, Hugh
With British
Guns in Italy : A Tribute to Italian
Achievement
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1919
5" x 7¾".
[xiv] + 267pp, illustrations, maps,
publisher's catalogue. Blind-stamped red
cloth, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
edges foxed, previous owner's name
inscribed, otherwise Good.
£95.00
eBay
18132
Bairnsfather,
Bruce
Bullets and
Billets
London: Grant
Richards Ltd, December 1916 First Edition
4¾” x 7½”.
304pp, frontispiece, illustrations.
Decorative red cloth blocked in black, no
d/j, covers worn and soiled, spine gutters
split, edges foxed, otherwise Good.
£30.00
eBay
18133
Fife, Ronald
The History of
the 7th Battalion Green Howards, a Narrative
Extract from "The Green Howards' Gazette"
Printed by
Herald Printing Works, York & London, n.d.
7¼” x 9¾”.
56pp. Original green cloth blocked in gilt
on the front cover but with no spine
titling. The covers are rubbed, dull and
have bowed outwards significantly. There s
also fading, particularly around the edges.
The spine has faded severely. The spine ends
and corners are bumped and slightly frayed
and there are some indentations along the
edges of the boards. This volume has been
signed by Lieut.-Col. Ronald Fife on the
front pastedown. The end-papers are very
browned and discoloured and there is a large
previous owner's bookplate on the front free
end-paper. There is some insect damage: a
wormhole starts at the front pastedown and
carries on throughout the volume, becoming
progressively smaller, until it eventually
is about the size of a pin-head. This can
be seen in the images below, in the margin
near the top corner. The paper has tanned
noticeably with age.
£125.00
eBay
18135
Wyrall,
Everard
The East
Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
1914-1918
London:
Harrison & Sons Ltd, 1928
5½" x 8¾".
[xx] + 486pp, colour frontis, maps,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers faded and rubbed, edges foxed,
offsetting to end-papers otherwise Very
Good
£125.00
eBay
18138
Various
Military
Operations : France and Belgium, 1917 : The
German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and
The Battles of Arras : Appendices
London:
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1940 First
Edition
5¼” x 8¾”.
[xi] + 158pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
previous owner's name inscribed, edges
foxed, otherwise Very Good.
£85.00
eBay
18149
Wood, Major W.
de B. [Editor]
The History of
the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in the
Great War 1914-1918
London: The
Medici Society Limited, 1925 First Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
[xvi] + 471pp, maps. Green cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers rubbed and discoloured, spine
ends and corners bumped and frayed,
indentations along board edges, previous
owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.
Eight Battalions saw active service, all in
France, the 2nd and 8th then went on to
Salonika and the 10th was initially in
Palestine. Roll of Honour, awards.
£50.00
eBay
18151
Clissold,
Stephen
THE CETNIKS :
A Survey of Cetnik Activity in Yugoslavia,
April 1941 - July 1944 [CONFIDENTIAL.
PB/274. G-2 (PB), A.F.H.Q. SEPTEMBER, 1944.]
Printed by
Printing and Stationery Services CMF
(Central Mediterranean Forces), 1944
5¾” x 8”.
95pp. Original printed paper covers which
are soiled, discoloured and heavily rubbed,
particularly around the edges and on the
spine. The front paper cover is scuffed and
quite heavily soiled and stained in the top
left-hand section; there is a previous
owner's name inscribed in ink on the top
left ["Capt. P. D. Harrisson, R.E." (Royal
Engineers)]. The rear cover is stained
adjacent to the spine and also soiled;
additionally, there is a diagonal crease
across the bottom corner. The plain,
untitled, spine is creased and chipped. The
corners are creased and dog-eared.
£395.00
eBay
18154
Steevens, G.
W.
With Kitchener
to Khartum
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1898
[13th ed.]
5" x 7¾".
[xvi] + 326pp, maps
£75.00
eBay
18159
Schroder, Hans
[translated from the German by Claud W.
Sykes]
An Airman
Remembers
London: John
Hamilton Ltd, n.d. [c.1938]
5½" x 8¾".
320pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue
cloth blocked in black, no d/j, head of
spine snagged, corners bumped, edges foxed
heavily, otherwise Very Good. German
flier’s memoirs of the Eastern and Western
Fronts. Schroder describes his war as an
ordinary soldier in 1914, and as an
infantry officer in 1915, then an airman in
1916-1917, and finally as an air
intelligence officer during 1918.
£45.00
eBay
18163
Gillam, Major
John Graham
Gallipoli
Diary
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1918
5¼” x 8¼”.
328pp, illustrations. Rebound ex-Reference
Library, no d/j, minimal Library markings,
tanned pages otherwise Very Good.
£60.00
eBay
18164
Wyrall,
Everard
The East
Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
1914-1918
London:
Harrison & Sons Ltd, 1928
5½" x 8¾".
[xx] + 486pp, colour frontis, maps,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
ex-Bridlington Library, Good
£65.00
eBay
18167
Thompson, P.
A. [Captain, R. A. S. C.]
Lions Led By
Donkeys : Showing How Victory in the Great
War was Achieved by Those Who Made the
Fewest Mistakes
London: T.
Werner Laurie Ltd, 1927
5½” x 8¾”.
[xv] + 317pp, frontispiece only, maps
(including end-paper map). Original blue
cloth blocked in gilt on the spine, no d/j,
covers rubbed and faded (particularly along
top edge) with significant variation in
colour, spine darkened, spine ends and
corners bumped and frayed with minor
splitting of cloth, frontispiece printed on
thin paper and has wrinkled, some scattered
foxing, edges dusty and lightly foxed,
otherwise Very Good.
£90.00
eBay
18171
Fox, Frank
The History of
the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry,
1898-1922 : The Great Cavalry Campaign in
Palestine
London: Philip
Allan, 1923 First Edition
5½” x 9”.
[xvi] + 336pp, 15 plates, 7 maps (which
should include one folding map; however,
this is missing). Original blue cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers rubbed and scuffed, with
fading around edges, spine very faded and
with a mottled appearance, spine ends and
corners bumped, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good; internally clean.
Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, including
Romani, Gaza, Jerusalem and on to Aleppo.
Roll of honour, etc. The large folding map
of Palestine is rarely present.
£45.00
eBay
18172
Nicholson,
Major-General Sir Lothian; MacMullen, Major
H. T.; Bullen, Brigadier et al.
History of the
East Lancashire Regiment in the Great War
1914-1918
Liverpool:
Littlebury Bros. Ltd, 1936
6¾” x 9¾”.
[xvi] + 568pp, portrait frontis, maps,
illustrations. Green cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, frontispiece
detached otherwise Very Good. Covers all
aspects from Le Cateau, Marne, Aisne, 1st
Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Arras, Battle
of the Somme, Ypres, German Offensive,
Hindenburg Line etc.
£195.00
eBay
18173
Swinton,
Major-General Sir Ernest D.
Eyewitness :
Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain
Phases of the Great War, including the
Genesis of the Tank
London: Hodder
& Stoughton Limited, 1932
6" x 9½".
321pp, frontis, maps. Black cloth gilt, no
d/j, ex-Library, reading copy.
£40.00
eBay
18174
MacMunn,
Lieut.-General Sir George and Falls, Captain
Cyril
Military
Operations : Egypt & Palestine : From the
Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917
London: His
Majesty's Stationery Office, 1928
5½” x 8¾”.
[xviii] + 445pp, maps, illustrations.
Original red cloth gilt, no d/j. The covers
are rubbed and there are areas of patchy
fading and minor colour loss. The spine is
very faded. The spine ends and corners are
bumped. There is a previous owner's name
inscribed on the front end-paper. The paper
has tanned with age and the edge of the text
block is lightly foxed. There is some play
in the inner hinges.
£95.00
eBay
18175
Falls, Captain
Cyril Falls (Maps and sketches compiled by
Major A. F. Becke)
History of the
Great War : Military Operations Egypt &
Palestine from June 1917 to the End of the
War Vol. II Part II
London: His
Majesty's Stationery Office, 1930
5½” x 8¾”.
Volume II, Part 2: pagination continues from
the separate Part 1 : pages 395 to 748.
Original Red cloth gilt, no d/j The covers
are rubbed and there are areas of patchy
fading and colour loss. The spine is
severely faded. The spine ends and corners
are bumped. There is a previous owner's
name inscribed on the front free end-paper.
The paper has tanned with age and the edge
of the text block is lightly foxed. There is
some play in the inner hinges.
£85.00
14296
Berk, Leon
Destined to
Live: Memoirs of a Doctor With the Russian
Partisans
Melbourne:
Paragon Press, 1992
6½” x 9¾”.
[xxii] + 232pp, illustrations. Softback,
covers rubbed, some insect damage on corner
of pages 187-232, not affecting text,
otherwise Very Good
£15.00
15396
Maihafer,
Harry J.
The General
and The Journalists : Ulysses S. Grant,
Horace Greeley, and Charles Dana
Washington and
London: Brassey's, 1998
6" x 9¼". [xv]
+ 315pp, maps, illustrations. Black boards
in d/j, As New
£20.00
10213
Paschall, Rod
The Defeat of
Imperial Germany, 1917-1918
New York: Da
Capo Press, 1994
5¼" x 8½".
247pp, maps, ills. Softback, as new.
£9.00
12325
Fleming, Peter
The Siege at
Peking
London:
Readers Union, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960
4¾" x 7¾".
229pp, illustrations. Original cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers rubbed, otherwise Very Good
£8.00
10232
Prange, Gordon
W. with Goldstein, Donald M. and Dillon,
Katherine V.
Target Tokyo :
The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring
New York:
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1984
6¼" x 9¼",
595pp, ills. Red boards in chipped d/j, Very
Good+
£16.00
10246
Perrett, Bryan
At All Costs!
Stories of Impossible Victories
London: Arms
and Armour, 1994
6¼" x 9½".
223pp, ills. Black cloth in d/j, Fine/as
new. An examination of famous victories,
including Minden, Little Round Top, Arras,
Nijmegen, etc.
£14.00
10251
The Royal
United Services Institute for Defence
Studies
Royal United
Services Institute & Brassey's Defence
Yearbook 1983
Oxford:
Brassey's, 1983
5¾" x 9¼".
399pp. Softback, fine/as new. Including
Weapons Development and a comprehensive
strategic review for the year.
£12.00
10265
Lawrence, T.
E.
Seven Pillars
of Wisdom : A Triumph
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1949 [a reprint of the 1940
new edition]
5¼" x 8".
700pp, ills. Blue cloth, stained and marked,
otherwise Very Good
£10.00
10283
Taylor, A. J.
P.
The Origins of
the Second World War
London:
Penguin, 1975
4¼" x 7".
357pp. Paperback, excellent, little sign of
wear.
£4.00
11663
Mumby, Frank
A. [General Editor] David Hannay; C.
Grahame-White; Harry Harper; Edwin Sharpe
Grew and others
The Great
World War : A History [9 volumes]
London: The
Gresham Publishing Company Limited, n.d.
7¼" x 10".
Vol. I: 336pp, portrait frontis [detached
but present], maps, ills. Vol. II: 336pp,
portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol. III:
336pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol.
IV: 336pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills.
Vol. V: 336pp, portrait frontis, maps,
ills. Vol. VI: 336pp, portrait frontis,
maps, ills. Vol. VII: 336pp, portrait
frontis, maps, ills. Vol. VIII: 336pp,
portrait frontis, maps, ills. Vol. IX:
344pp, portrait frontis, maps, ills. Maroon
cloth, quarter-bound in dark blue leather
gilt, no d/js, marbled edges. The leather
spines are a little scuffed, and some of the
earlier volumes have tiny paint splashes on
the covers; otherwise, apart from the
following two defects, a very good, tight
set: Vol. III is missing a two-inch section
of leather from the head of the spine; Vol.
II is missing a small section of leather
from the head of the spine. One of the best
of the Great War histories. A heavy set
with commensurate postage.
£195.00
11109
Gilbert,
Adrian
World War I in
Photographs
London: Guild
Publishing, 1986
8½" x 11¼".
192pp, ills. Blue cloth gilt in chipped d/j
with one repaired tear, else Very Good/G
£14.00
11110
Westwell, Ian
World War I
Day By Day
Hoo, Kent:
Grange Books, 2001
8¾" x 11¼".
192p, illustrations, maps. Laminated boards
in d/j, this was in "as new" condition, but
careless handling in our shop has resulted
in a minor tear on the lower edge of the
rear d/j flap.
£18.00
11114
Healey, Tim
Journeys into
the Past : Life on the Home Front
London:
Reader's Digest, 1996
8½" x 11¼".
160pp, profusely illustrated. Laminated
boards, no d/j [as issued], covers lightly
marked and rubbed, else Very Good+
£8.00
11127
Various
The World at
Arms : The Reader's Digest illustrated
History of World War II
London: The
Reader's Digest Association Limited, 1989
8½" x 11¼".
480pp, profusely illustrated. Black boards
gilt in d/j, Fine. Originally published at
£24.99. Please note: this is a very heavy
book.
£14.00
12457
Carew, Tim
Wipers
London:
Coronet Books (Hodder & Stoughton), 1976
[first published 1974 by Hamish Hamilton]
4¼” x 7”.
220pp, map, illustrations. Paperback, covers
rubbed, page edges browned otherwise Good
£4.00
12078
Ousby, Ian
The Road to
Verdun : France, Nationalism and the First
World War
London:
Jonathan Cape, 2002
6¼" x 9½".
[xiii] + 304pp, illustrations, maps. Brown
cloth gilt in d/j, As New
£14.00
12082
Thomas, Hugh
SS 1 : The
Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler
London: Fourth
Estate, 2001
6¼" x 9½".
[xii] + 276pp, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in d/j, As New
£12.00
11509
Lawrence, T.
E.
Seven Pillars
of Wisdom : a triumph
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1935 [6th impression]
7½" x 10".
672pp. Text only: re-bound in plain brown
cloth with all plates removed. A reading
copy only; however text is very clean.
£9.00
11892
Chambrun, Rene
de
Mission and
Betrayal 1940-1945
London: Andre
Deutsch, 1993
6¼" x 9½".
221pp, ills. Red cloth gilt in d/j, Near
Fine
£18.00
11687
Remarque,
Erich Maria
All Quiet on
the Western Front
St Albans:
Triad/Mayflower, 1977
4¼" x 7".
191pp. Paperback; blemish at base of spine
where sticker has been removed, some
yellowing to page edges, otherwise Very
Good.
£3.00
12316
Toland, John
No Man's Land
: The Story of 1918
New York:
Smithmark Publishers, 1995 [first published
in London in 1980 by Eyre Methuen Ltd]
6¼” x 9½”.
[xx] + 651pp, maps, illustrations. Brown
boards blocked in silver in a rubbed d/j
otherwise Near Fine
£15.00
10463
Various
Epic Stories
of the Second World War
London: Odhams
Press, 1962 [3rd impression]
5¼" x 8½".
318pp. Red cloth, no d/j, some shelfwear
else Very Good+. Contains excerpts from many
famous WWII stories, including "The Last
Enemy", "The Colditz Story", "Reach for the
Sky", "The Dam Busters", "The Wooden
Horse", "Tobruk Commando", etc.
£5.00
11626
Adair, Paul
Hitler's
Greatest Defeat : The Collapse of Army Group
Centre, June 1944
London:
Brockhampton Press, 1998 [first published
1994]
6¼" x 9½".
192pp, illustrations. Laminated boards in a
rubbed d/j with two small sealed tears,
otherwise Near Fine/Very Good.
£7.00
11540
Smyth,
Brigadier The Rt Hon Sir John
Leadership in
Battle 1914-1918 : Commanders in Action
Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1975
5½" x 8¾".
191pp. Black cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j, a
bump on outer edges of front and back boards
also affecting d/j which is creased,
otherwise Very Good/G
£18.00
12287
Dallas, Gregor
1918 : War and
Peace
London: John
Murray, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
[xvi] + 616pp, illustrations, maps. Black
cloth in d/j, As New
£20.00
12301
Masefield,
John
Gallipoli
Adelaide:
Rigby Limited (Seal Books), 1978 [first
published 1916]
4½” x 7”.
183pp, maps, illustrations. Paperback, edges
lightly foxed otherwise Very Good
£3.00
12037
Palmer, Alan
Napoleon in
Russia
London:
Constable, 1998 [2nd imp.; first published
by Deutsch in 1967, re-issued by Constable
in 1997]
6¼" x 9½".
318pp, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth in
d/j, As New
£14.00
12039
Guerlain,
Robert
A Prisoner in
Germany
London:
Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1944
5" x 7¾". [ix]
+ 161pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed,
previous owner's name inscribed otherwise
Very Good
£9.00
12020
pseud: [Pepys,
Samuel Junior]
A Second Diary
of the Great Warr [sic]
London: John
Lane, 1917 [5th ed]
5¼" x 7½".
304pp, illustrations by John Kettlewell.
Brown cloth, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, head and tail of spine frayed, page
edges browned, end-papers lightly foxed,
otherwise Good.
£10.00
12134
Hayward, James
Myths and
Legends of the First World War
Stroud: Sutton
Publishing, 2002
6¼" x 9½".
[xviii] + 202pp, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in d/j, As New
£18.00
11074
Waller, John
H.
The Unseen War
in Europe : Espionage and Conspiracy in the
Second World War
London: I. B.
Tauris, 1996
6¼" x 9½".
475pp, ills. Black cloth gilt in d/j,
Fine/Fine
£22.00
12272
Wasserstein,
Bernard
Secret War in
Shanghai : Treachery, Subversion and
Collaboration in the Second World War
Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
[xiv] + 354pp, maps, illustrations. Black
boards in d/j, As New
£18.00
11705
Sellers,
Leonard
For God's Sake
Shoot Straight : The Story of the Court
Martial and Execution of Temporary
Sub-Lieutenant Edwin Leopold Arthur Dyett,
Nelson Battalion, 63rd (RN) Division during
the First World War
London: Leo
Cooper, 1995
6¼" x 9½".
179pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in
d/j, as new.
£15.00
11218
Lawrence, T.
E.
Seven Pillars
of Wisdom : A Triumph
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1965 [type re-set; complete
and unabridged]
5½" x 8".
700pp, portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue
cloth gilt in a scuffed d/j, covers marked
and rubbed, corners bumped, otherwise Very
Good/
£24.00
11261
Winn, Godfrey
Scrapbook of
Victory : Further Extracts from a War-time
Scrapbook kept by Godfrey Winn
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, n.d.
7¼" x 10".
124pp, ills. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers
badly damp-stained, internally very good; a
reading copy.
£3.00
11266
Williams, Eric
The Wooden
Horse
London:
Collins, 1949 [7th ed.]
5½" x 8".
256pp. Red cloth gilt in a chipped, grubby
d/j, covers badly stained, edges foxed else
G/G.
£3.00
11268
Strachan, Hew
[ed.]
The Oxford
Illustrated History of the First World War
Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998
7" x 9¾".
356pp, colour and b&w plates, maps. Blue
boards gilt in d/j, as new.
£20.00
12405
Atteridge,
Capt. A. Hilliard
The British
Army of To-Day [The People's Books]
London &
Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack and New York:
Dodge Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1915]
4¼” x 6½”.
92pp, diagrams, publisher’s advertisements.
Green cloth blocked in black, no d/j, edges
dusty otherwise Very Good Plus
£8.00
11971
Strachan, Hew
The First
World War : A New Illustrated History
London: Simon
& Schuster, 2003
7½" x 10".
[xviii] + 350pp, illustrations. Black cloth
in d/j, As New
£22.00
10567
Wilcox, John
Masters of
Battle : Selected Great Warrior Classes
London: Arms
and Armour, 1996
6¼" x 9½".
224pp, ills. Red cloth in slightly chipped
d/j, Very Good+/Very Good
£8.00
10569
Lord, Walter
The Miracle of
Dunkirk
London: Allen
Lane, 1983
6¼" x 9½".
323pp, ills. Light blue boards in d/j, near
Fine/Very Good+
£14.00
10572
Various
Authors
The Vietnam
War : The Illustrated History of the
Conflict in Southeast Asia
London: Book
Club Associates, 1979
8¾" x 12¼".
248pp, ills. Orange cloth in chipped, torn
d/j, near Fine/G
£5.00
11599
Churchill, The
Right Hon. Winston Churchill
The Great War
[Volume I only]
London: George
Newnes Limited, 1933
6¾" x 9¾".
512pp, index, profusely illustrated. Newnes
produced a heavily illustrated magazine
format version of Churchill's "World Crisis"
in 1933, which was subsequently bound into a
three volume set of which this is the
first, covering the period 1905 to 1915. The
blue cloth covers are very rubbed, while
both inner hinges are cracked, leaving the
boards loose. The contents, other than dusty
edges, are clean and bright.
£55.00
12353
Tucker,
Spencer C.
The Great War
1914-18
London: UCL
Press, 1998
6" x 9¼". [xx]
+ 272pp, maps. Card covers, water-stained at
end, dog-eared, a reading copy
£8.00
11347
Beaverbrook,
Lord
Men and Power
1917 - 1918
London:
Hutchinson, 1956
5½" x 8½".
448pp, frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, ex-library with shelf number
in white ink at base of spine, and usual
library markings. Internally clean.
£5.00
12186
Farrar-Hockley, Anthony
Death of an
Army [The First Battle of Ypres, 1914, in
which the British Regular Army was
destroyed]
London:
Arthnur Barker Limited, 1967
5½" x 8¾".
[xi] + 195pp, illustrations, maps. Blue
cloth gilt in a chipped, scuffed and rubbed
d/j, ex-Library with usual stamps, front
free end-paper excised, spine slightly
canted, a reading copy
£6.00
11609
Laffin, John
On the Western
Front : Soldiers' Stories from France and
Flanders 1914 - 1918
Stroud:
Budding Books 1997 [first published 1985]
6¼" x 8¾".
277pp, ills. Laminated boards in a creased,
scuffed d/j. Remnants of label on front of
d/j, remainder mark on top edge of text
block, otherwise Very Good/G.
£15.00
11617
Rickards,
Maurice and Moody, Michael
The First
World War : Ephemera, Mementoes, Documents
London:
Jupiter Books, 1975
8¼" x 10¼".
Unpaginated, contains 31pp text and 245
illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a d/j with
faded spine. The book appears to have been
dropped in the bath: all text and
illustrations are clear but the text block
has rippled when dried. A reading copy only.
£9.00
11618
Stallings,
Laurence [ed.]
The First
World War : A Photographic History
London: Daily
Express Publications, 1933
8¾" x 12¼".
307pp, profusely illustrated. Black cloth,
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, sporadic
light spotting otherwise Very Good
£24.00
11291
Rickards,
Maurice and Moody, Michael
The First
World War : Ephemera, Mementoes, Documents
London:
Jupiter Books, 1975
8¼" x 10¼".
Unpaginated, contains 31pp text and 245
illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a d/j with
one-inch repaired tear near the head of the
spine, a few marks on end-papers, else Very
Good/G-.
£16.00
10299
Denniston,
Robin
Churchill's
Secret War : Diplomatic Decrypts, the
Foreign Office and Turkey, 1942-44
Stroud: Sutton
Publishing, 1997
6¼" x 9½".
208pp, ills. Brown cloth in d/j, Fine/as
new. During the course of his research the
author was offered access to the secret
wartime files of diplomatic intercepts which
Churchill valued very highly. They showed
that Churchill's role in British foreign
policy and war planning was far more
significant that had hitherto been supposed.
Although he was neither a
commander-in-chief nor a head of state, he
personally exerted considerable influence on
British foreign policy to force Turkey into
WW2 on the side of the Allies. This study
helps us to understand Churchill's use of
secret signals intelligence before and
during WW2 and Britain's relations with
Turkey, shedding new light on the role of
the neutral countries (of which Turkey was
one).
£16.00
10300
Palmer, Alan
Victory 1918
London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998
6¼" x 9½".
368pp, ills. Blue cloth in d/j, Fine/as new.
£16.00
11984
Grigg, John
1943 : The
Victory That Never Was
London: Eyre
Methuen, 1980
5½" x 8¾".
255pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in a
rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good+
£12.00
12008
Newman,
Bernard
Spy
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1944 [16th impression; first
published 1935]
5" x 7½".
139pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers marked and
rubbed, spine faded, pages browned, hinge
weak, previous owner's name inscribed
otherwise Good
£8.00
11940
Arthur, Max
Forgotten
Voices of the Great War
London: Ted
Smart [first published by Ebury Press], 2002
6¼" x 9½".
326pp, illustrations. Pictorial boards, no
d/j, corners bumped otherwise Very Good+
£14.00
11830
Dunn, Captain
J. C.
The War The
Infantry Knew 1914 - 1919 : A Chronicle of
Service in France and Belgium
London:
Abacus, 2001 [first published in a private
edition in 1938]
5" x 7¾".
613pp, ills, maps. Paperback, unread.
Subtitled: "A Chronicle of Service in France
and Belgium with The Second Battalion His
Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch
Fusiliers: founded on personal records,
recollections and reflections, assembled,
edited and partly written by One of their
Medical Officers."
£14.00
10889
Smyth,
Brigadier The Rt Hon Sir John
Leadership in
Battle 1914-1918 : Commanders in Action
Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1975
5½" x 8¾".
191pp. Black cloth gilt, no d/j, Very Good
£16.00
11463
George, David
Lloyd
War Memoirs
[volume I only]
London: Ivor
Nicholson & Watson, 1933 [1st ed.]
5¾" x 9".
529pp, frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt with facsimile signature on front
cover, end-papers lightly foxed, head and
tail of spine frayed otherwise Very Good
£12.00
12161
Terraine, John
The Smoke and
the Fire : Myths and Anti-Myths of War
1861-1945
London:
Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980
6¼” x 9½”.
240pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in a
scuffed and chipped d/j with a sealed tear
at the base of the spine, old label removed
from inside dust-jacket flap and front
pastedown, crayon mark on rear pastedown
otherwise Very Good
£12.00
10619
[George Philip
& Son, The London Geographical Institute,
The Daily Mail]
The Daily Mail
War Atlas with 32 pages of fully coloured
maps and large-scale folding map of the
Western Front
London: The
Daily Mail, n.d. [c.1940]
8¾" x 11¼". 32
maps & large folding map. Decorative red
cloth, no d/j, inner hinge cracked, covers
marked and rubbed, a few maps with ink
markings, else G.
£18.00
11768
George, David
Lloyd
War Memoirs [6
vols]
London: Ivor
Nicholson & Watson, vol. 1 [7th imp., July
1936]; vol. 2 [5th imp., November 1933];
vol. 3 [2nd imp., September 1934], vol. 4
[2nd imp., October 1934]; vol. 5 [1st ed.,
September 1936]; vol. 6 [1st ed., November
1936]
5¾" x 9".
3,531pp, paginated over six volumes,
portrait frontis, b&w plates. Blue cloth
with gilt facsimile signature, no d/js,
heads and tails of spines and corners
bumped, covers marked and rubbed with some
discolouration to cloth, otherwise a very
good, internally clean set. Lloyd George's
contentious and self-serving memoirs or,
"How I Won the War".
£175.00
11771
Hammerton, Sir
John [ed.]
The Great War
... "I Was There!" : Undying Memories of
1914-1918 [Vol. I: August 4, 1914 to July 1,
1916; vol. II: July 4, 1916 to October 22,
1917]
London: The
Amalgamated Press Ltd, n.d. [2 volumes of 3]
8¼" x 11".
1,376pp paginated over 2 vols, profusely
illustrated throughout. Blind-stamped red
cloth gilt, no d/j, spine faded on vol. I,
edges dusty, otherwise Very Good. Please
note, as this is a very heavy set postage
will be charged at actual cost.
£80.00
11773
Hammerton, Sir
John [ed.]
World War 1914
- 1918 : A Pictured History [2 volumes]
London: The
Amalgamated Press Ltd, n.d.
8¼" x 11".
1,560pp paginated over 2 vols, profusely
illustrated throughout. Blind-stamped red
cloth gilt, no d/j, some staining and colour
loss on cover of vol. II, end-papers
discoloured, spine faded on vol. I, edges
dusty, otherwise Very Good. Please note, as
this is a very heavy set postage will be
charged at actual cost.
£125.00
11774
Hammerton, Sir
John [ed.]
World War 1914
- 1918 : A Pictured History [volume I only]
London: The
Amalgamated Press Ltd, n.d.
8¼" x 11".
792pp, profusely illustrated throughout.
Blind-stamped red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, spine detached along
front inner hinge, end-papers discoloured, a
good reading copy. Please note, as this is
a very heavy book postage will be charged at
actual cost.
£38.00
12311
Macintyre, Ben
A Foreign
Field : A True Story of Love and Betrayal in
the Great War
London:
HarperCollins, 2001
5½" x 8¾".
(xi) + 301pp, maps, illustrations. Brown
cloth gilt in a scuffed d/j, otherwise Near
Fine
£10.00
12313
Ellis, John
and Cox, Michael [Eds]
The World War
I Databook : The Essential Facts and Figures
for all the Combatants
London: Aurum
Press, 2001
8½" x 11¼".
[xix] + 323pp, maps. Black cloth gilt in
d/j, Near Fine (though with a lingering
smell of tobacco smoke)
£30.00
12146
Flower, Newman
[Ed.]
The History of
the Great War [vols. I to V and VII to X]
London: The
Waverley Book Company Limited, n.d.
7¼" x 10½".
Approximately 184 pages per volume, each
with coloured frontis, illustrations, maps.
Red cloth gilt, no d/j, spines dull, covers
rubbed, faded and soiled otherwise Good.
These nine volumes cover the war from its
start until the middle of 1917. A heavy set,
with commensurate postage. A digital
photograph is available on request.
£90.00
10419
Lamb, Richard
Mussolini and
the British
London: John
Murray, 1997
6¼" x 9½".
356pp, ills. Green cloth in d/j, as new.
Fine/fine. Besides throwing favourable light
on the dictator himself, this account of
Mussolini's relations with Britain shows
that Italy was ready to become Britain's
ally until Britain felt obliged to take a
lead in economic sanctions against Italy for
its invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. Mussolini
despised Hitler and his anti-Semitism, yet
felt surprised and antagonized by Britain's
mobilization of the League of Nations over
the Abyssinian affair. Thus, this book
shows, Britain missed the opportunity to
bring the Italians onto the Allied side, as
it did again when Italy attempted to make a
separate peace in 1943.
£18.00
10690
Goodspeed, D.
J.
The German
Wars, 1914 - 1945
Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1977
6½" x 9½".
561pp. Original cloth in chipped, torn d/j,
pages damp-stained, pencil annotations, a
good reading copy
£8.00
10178
Northcliffe,
Lord
At The War
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1916
5½" x 8¾".
288pp, frontis. Red cloth, gilt lettering,
spine badly faded, spotting throughout, Good
£9.00
10778
Barker, A. J.
Redcoats
London: Gordon
& Cremonesi, 1976
5¾" x 8½".
156pp, ills. Blue cloth gilt in chipped,
torn d/j, Very Good+/G
£12.00
10792
Lawrence, T.
E.
Seven Pillars
of Wisdom
London:
Penguin, 1981
5" x 7¾".
700pp, ills. Paperback, some shelfwear else
Very Good
£4.00
16508
Serrano,
Andrew Smith
German
Propaganda in Military Decline 1943-1945
Edinburgh: The
Pentland Press Ltd, 1999
6" x 9¼". [x]
+ 341pp. Large format Softback, covers
scuffed otherwise Very Good
£35.00
12601
Rintelen,
Captain Von
The Return of
the Dark Invader
London: Lovat
Dickson & Thompson Ltd., 1935
5½" x 8¾".
[xiii] + 266pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, spine faded and mottled,
otherwise Very Good.
£15.00
12637
Jenkinson,
Keith
Preserved
Military Vehicles
Chatham :
Rochester Press Transport Books, 1983
6” x 9¼”.
Original green cloth gilt in Near Fine
condition. The dust-jacket is scuffed and
chipped, with a few small tears at the head
of the spine.
£20.00
12704
Wilkinson,
Spenser [Illustrated by M. Prior, R. Caton,
F. Villiers and others]
The
Illustrated London News Record of the
Transvaal War, 1899 - 1900 : The
Achievements of the Home and Colonial Forces
in the Great Conflict with the Boer
Republics
London: The
Illustrated London News and Sketch, c.1901
12” x 16½”.
82pp, illustrations. Bound in half red
leather however the spine is missing
completely. The front and rear boards and
scuffed and worn, especially on the corners
where the card is exposed. This is an
ex-Library copy with labels on the front
pastedown and end-paper, together with a few
impressed stamps. As the spine has become
detached at some stage, some of the pages
have been strengthened along the inner edge
with tape. The contents are shaken, again a
result of the missing spine, and the inside
edge of the front hinge is torn. The
contents are to be complete and in good
condition other than the taped repairs.
£35.00
12884
[War Office]
Royal Army
Medical Corps Training 1935
London: His
Majesty's Stationery Office, 1939
4½" x 7".
438pp, diagrams. Maroon cloth covered card,
inner hinges weak, slightly shaken,
otherwise Very Good
£15.00
12978
Northcliffe,
Lord
At The War
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1916
5½" x 8½".
[viii] + 288pp, portrait frontis. Red cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine very
faded with L-shaped tear at head, edge of
text block grubby, otherwise Good Minus
£12.00
13702
Forty, Simon
[Ed.]
World War I :
A Visual Encyclopedia
London: PRC
Publishing Ltd, 2002
9" x 12¼".
448pp, profusely illustrated. Laminated
boards in a rubbed d/j, corners bumped,
small tear in rear d/j flap otherwise Very
Good
£20.00
13766
Gilbert,
Martin
Winston S.
Churchill : Volume III : 1914 - 1916
London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1971
6¼" x 9¼".
[xxxvii] + 988pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations, maps. Red cloth gilt, no d/j,
shelf number in white ink on spine, labels
removed from end-papers, musty, otherwise
Very Good
£25.00
14068
Pocock, Tom
Fighting
General : The Public & Private Campaigns of
General Sir Walter Walker
London:
William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1973
6” x 9¼”.
280pp, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt in a
chipped and torn d/j, edges lightly foxed
otherwise Very Good.
£7.00
14070
Harman,
Nicholas
Dunkirk : The
Necessary Myth
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1980
6¼” x 9½”.
271pp, map, illustrations. Red cloth gilt in
a creased, rubbed and price-clipped d/j,
otherwise Near Fine
£7.00
14078
Oman, C.
The Outbreak
of the War of 1914 - 1918 : a narrative
based mainly on British Official Documents
London: His
Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919
8" x 13".
146pp. Front paper cover torn with some
loss, rear cover missing, contents
dog-eared, a reading copy only
£25.00
14084
[Ernst
Friedrich]
Nie wieder
Krieg! No more War! Plus jamais de Guerre!
Nunca jamas Guerra! Nooit meer Oorlog!
Aldrig mere Krig!
Amsterdam:
International Federation of Trade Unions,
1930 [2nd Edition]
6” x 9”. 59pp,
profusely illustrated. Original worn printed
paper wrappers. Text and captions in six
European languages. The pphotographs were
collected by Ernst Friedrich, director of
the Anti-War Museum of Berlin. Numerous
black & white horrendous photographic
illustrations of frightful mutilations left
by the war. 63 pages, slim 8vo, black &
white wrappers with an illustration by
Kathe Kollwitz. 45 black-and-white
photographs, text and captions in six
European languages. These photographs were
collected by Ernst Friedrich, director of
the Anti-War Museum of Berlin. He first
published them in his book Krieg dem Kriege!
War Against War! (1924). The International
Federation of Trade Unions reproduced the
photographs here with a preface that
states, 'Each one of these photographs
describes, better than any studied eloquence
could do, the agony which the War brought
upon millions of workers and their wives and
children. Look upon these frightful
mutilations, these human wrecks left
stranded by the war, to drag out the rest of
their miserable lives as best they can. And
as you look, remember that all of you -
especially you young workers - are
threatened by the same fate: you too will
have these horrors to face - these, or even
worse - next time your country 'needs' you.'
£150.00
14086
Brovkin,
Vladimir N. [Ed.]
The Bolsheviks
in Russian Society : The Revolution and the
Civil Wars
New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1997
6¼" x 9½".
333pp. Black boards in d/j, As New. In this
book distinguished scholars from East and
West draw on recently opened archives to
challenge the commonly held view that the
Bolsheviks enjoyed widespread support and
that their early history was simply a march
toward inevitable victory. They show instead
that during this period Russian society was
at war with itself and with the Bolsheviks.
Authors discuss such previously neglected
subjects as government policies toward women
and toward religious institutions, the
protests of workers and peasants, and the
anti-Bolshevik movements and parties.
Describing not one civil war but several
social, political, and military
confrontations going on simultaneously, they
portray a Russia in turmoil and on outcome
that was by no means inevitable.
£20.00
14144
Milligan,
Spike [Edited by Jack Hobbs]
Monty : My
Part in His Victory (War Biography Vol. 3)
London:
Michael Joseph Ltd, 1976
5½” x 8¾”.
128pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in a
scuffed and rubbed d/j, covers rubbed, top
edge dusty, otherwise Very Good
£15.00
14175
Allen, Louis
Burma: The
Longest War 1941-1945
London: J. M.
Dent & Sons Ltd, 1986 [first published 1984]
6” x 9¼”.
[xix] + 686pp, maps, illustrations.
Softback, Near Fine
£20.00
14223
Strachan, Hew
[Ed.]
The Oxford
Illustrated History of the First World War
Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998
7" x 9¾".
356pp, illustrations, maps. Blue boards gilt
in d/j, As New
£18.00
14275
Gooch, John
Armies in
Europe
London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980
5½” x 8¾”. [x]
+ 286pp. Green cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j,
previous owner's name inscribed otherwise
Very Good.
£20.00
14421
Ellis, John
Eye-Deep in
Hell : The Western Front 1914 - 18
Abingdon:
Purnell Book Services Limited by arrangement
with Croom Helm Ltd, 1976
7" x 9¾".
215pp, profusely illustrated. Black cloth
gilt in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good.
£15.00
14448
Vansittart,
Peter [Ed.]
Voices from
the Great War
London:
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1981
5½" x 8¾".
303pp. Black cloth gilt in chipped d/j
£20.00
14458
Moss, Norman
Klaus Fuchs :
The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb
London:
Grafton Books, 1987
6¼" x 9½".
216pp, illustrations. Grey cloth in a
scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good
£15.00
14470
Petrow,
Richard
The Bitter
Years : The Invasion and Occupation of
Denmark and Norway, April 1940 - May 1945
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1974
6¼" x 9¼".
403pp, illustrations. Green cloth gilt in a
tatty, torn d/j, edges dusty otherwise Very
Good
£15.00
14481
Liddle, Peter
The 1916
Battle of the Somme: A Reappraisal
London: Leo
Cooper, 1993 [2nd imp.; first published
1992]
5" x 7½".
[xiii] + 192pp, maps, illustrations. Green
cloth gilt in d/j, As New
£20.00
14489
Marshall,
Bruce [from the story told to him by Wing
Commander F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas]
The White
Rabbit
London: Evans
Brothers Limited, 1956 [10th imp.; first
published 1952]
5½" x 8¾".
[ix] + 262pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Blue cloth, in a torn,
scuffed and chipped d/j, covers rubbed and
faded, spine dull, otherwise Good
£15.00
14496
Goebbels,
Joseph [Translated and Edited by Fred
Taylor; Introduction by John Keegan]
The Goebbels
Diaries 1939-41
London: Hamish
Hamilton Ltd, 1982
6¼” x 9½”.
[xv] + 490pp, map, illustrations. Red cloth
gilt in d/j, Near Fine
£30.00
14508
Fleming,
Thomas
The Illusion
of Victory : America in World War I
New York:
Basic Books, 2003
6¼” x 9½”.
[xi] + 543pp, illustrations, map. Cream
boards in d/j, As New
£15.00
14516
Maurois, Andre
Why France
Fell
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1941 [3rd imp.]
5" x 7½".
174pp. Yellow cloth, no d/j, covers marked
and rubbed, spine soiled, otherwise Very
Good
£15.00
14519
Hall, Timothy
Tobruk 1941 :
The Desert Siege
Sydney:
Methuen Australia, 1984
5¾” x 8¾”.
224pp, maps, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt
in a rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£25.00
14529
Seaman, Mark
[introduction by]
Garbo : The
Spy Who Saved D-Day
Richmond,
Surrey: Public Record Office, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
410pp, illustrations. Black cloth in d/j, As
New. Note: the bulk of the book comprises
actual files which are in typescript.
£20.00
14547
Carlyon, Les
Gallipoli
London:
Doubleday, 2002
6¼" x 9½".
600pp, illustrations, maps. Black cloth gilt
in d/j, As New
£20.00
14626
Accoce, Pierre
and Quet, Pierre
The Lucy Ring
: the astonishing story of one of the most
successful spy rings of all time
London: W. H.
Allen, 1967 [2nd impression]
5½" x 8¾".
224pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in
chipped, torn d/j with some slight loss,
front cover bowed, covers rubbed otherwise
Good Plus
£15.00
14637
Rubinstein,
William
The Myth of
Rescue : Why the Democracies could not have
saved more Jews from the Nazis
London:
Routledge, 1997
6¼” x 9½”.
[xiii] + 267pp, maps, tables. Black cloth
blocked in silver in d/j, Fine
£25.00
14647
Sapper [Herman
Cyril McNeile] (1888-1937)
Shorty Bill
[from "No Man's Land" and "The Human Touch"]
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, September 1941 [14th ed.; first
published May 1926]
4½” x 7”.
319pp. Blind-stamped red cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed, page edges
browned otherwise Very Good
£15.00
14718
Verney, Ralph
[Edited By David Verney]
The Joyous
Patriot: The Correspondence of Ralph Verney
1900-1916
London: Leo
Cooper Ltd, 1989
6¼” x 9½”. [x]
+ 207pp, map, illustrations. Green cloth
gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise
Very Good. Compiled from his letters, an
account of the experiences of Ralph Verney
with the Rifle Brigade in South Africa
during the Boer War (1900), as ADC to Lord
Chelmsford, the Governor of Queensland
(1907), where he married the daughter of an
Australian banker, Nita Walker (1909), and
rejoining his regiment in France (1914),
where he was wounded in 1915, with added
material from his wife's letters.
£20.00
14723
Mankowitz,
Zeev W.
Life between
Memory and Hope : The Survivors of the
Holocaust in Occupied Germany
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002
6” x 9½”.
[xii] + 335pp, illustrations. Original black
cloth blocked in silver. The head of the
spine is bumped, otherwise Near Fine.
£15.00
14736
Johnston,
Alexander [Edited by Edwin Astill]
The Great War
Diaries of Brigadier General Alexander
Johnston 1914-1917
Barnsley,
South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Military,
2007
6” x 9½”. [xi]
+ 244pp, maps, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in d/j, As New. Alexander Johnston went
over to France in August 1914 as the signals
officer for 7 Infantry Brigade. He went on
to serve in that capacity with 3rd Division
before becoming, in turn, Brigade Major,
Commanding Officer 10th Battalion Cheshire
Regiment and finally Officer Commanding 126
Infantry Brigade. Throughout he proved
himself to be a brave, resourceful and
determined soldier. He was always close to
the front line, yet his signals and staff
duties gave him insights into the conduct of
the war at higher levels. Therein lies the
value of this diary. Many of the major
engagements of the war are covered. He took
part in Mons, Le Cateau and the subsequent
retreat and advance to the Aisne. The diary
provides valuable insights into the battle
of La Bassee and the trench warfare of
1915. As a Brigade Major he was kept busy in
1916 with both holding the line (in the face
of intensive enemy mining operations) and
the Somme battle. By 1917 his work in
command of 10th Cheshire Regiment showed
positive results in the battalion's
performance at Messines and gained him
promotion to Brigadier General. Within days
of taking command he was up at the front
line where he was badly wounded. But for the
wound Johnston may well have gained even
higher command and wider acclaim for his
services.
£15.00
14747
[Issued by The
U. S. War Department]
Handbook on
Japanese Military Forces
London:
Greenhill Books, 1991
7½” x 10½”.
403pp, profusely illustrated. Original black
cloth gilt in d/j, the covers are rubbed,
otherwise in Near Fine condition.
£20.00
14752
Keegan, John
The First
World War : An Illustrated History
London:
Hutchinson, 2001
9¼" x 11".
435pp, profusely illustrated, maps. Black
cloth gilt in d/j, As New
£25.00
14763
Kiyosawa
Kiyoshi [edited and with an introduction by
Eugene Soviak and Kamiyama Tamie]
A Diary of
Darkness : The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa
Kiyoshi
Princeton, New
Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
[xx] + 391pp. Grey boards in d/j, Near Fine
£25.00
14778
Barthorp,
Michael
Blood-Red
Desert Sand : The British Invasions of Egypt
and The Sudan 1882-1898
London:
Cassell and Company, 2002 [first published
1984 as "War on the Nile"]
7½" x 9¾".
190pp, profusely illustrated. Large format
Softback, As New
£20.00
14787
Bloch, Camille
Bibliothèques
et musées de la guerre
Paris: L.
Pochy, 52, Rue du Chateau, 1920
6¼” x 9½”.
26pp. Original stapled paper wrappers, now
somewhat dog-eared and chipped at the edge
and with a one-inch vertical tear from the
top of the spine downwards. There are no
internal markings and the text is clean
throughout but the paper has tanned
noticeably with age.
£25.00
14808
Carver, Field
Marshal Lord
The National
Army Museum Book of the Boer War
London:
Sidgwick and Jackson in association with the
National Army Museum, 1999
6" x 9½".
301pp, illustrations. Black cloth in d/j, As
New
£20.00
14812
Patry, Leonce
[translated by Douglas Fermer]
The Reality of
War : A Memoir of the Franco-Prussian War
1870-1871
London:
Cassell and Company, 2001
6¼" x 9½".
384pp, maps. Red cloth gilt in d/j, As New
£25.00
14844
Campbell,
Captain R. W.
Private Spud
Tamson
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915
[5th imp.]
5” x 7½”.
292pp. Original blue cloth blocked in black.
£20.00
14853
Foy, David A.
For You the
War is Over : American Prisoners of War in
Nazi Germany
New York:
Stein and Day, 1984
6” x 9¼”.
200p, illustrations. An ex-Library reading
copy
£5.00
14863
Gokay, Bulent
A Clash of
Empires : Turkey Between Russian Bolshevism
and British Imperialism 1918 - 1923
London: Tauris
Academic Studies, 1997
5½" x 8¾".
268pp. Blue cloth, no d/j [as issued], Fine
£175.00
14874
Atkinson, Rick
An Army at
Dawn : The War in North Africa 1942-1943
London:
Little, Brown, 2003
6¼" x 9½".
[xv] + 681pp, maps, illustrations. Brown
cloth in d/j, As New
£20.00
14885
Fussell, Paul
Doing Battle :
The Making of a Skeptic
Boston:
Little, Brown & Company, 1996
6¼" x 9½".
310pp, illustrations. Black boards in a
scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£15.00
14898
Ousby, Ian
Occupation :
The Ordeal of France 1940 - 1944
London: John
Murray, 1997
6¼" x 9½".
[xviii] + 348pp, maps, illustrations. Red
cloth blocked in silver, in d/j, As New.
£20.00
14920
Macleod, Jenny
Reconsidering
Gallipoli
Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2004
5¼” x 8½”. [x]
+ 262pp, illustrations, maps. Softback, As
New
£15.00
14930
Twining USMC
(Ret'd), General Merrill B. [Edited by Neil
Carey]
No Bended Knee
: The Battle for Guadalcanal : the Memoir of
Gen. Merrill B. Twining
Novato, CA;
Presidio Press, 1996
5¾” x 8¾”.
[xvii] + 206pp, portrait frontis,
illustrations. Black cloth gilt in a rubbed
d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£20.00
14954
Damaskin, Igor
[with Geoffrey Elliott]
Kitty Harris :
The Spy with Seventeen Names
London: St
Ermin's Press, 2001
6¼" x 9½".
[viii] + 260pp, illustrations. Red cloth
gilt in d/j, As New. Kitty Harris was born
in London to an emigre Jewish family, and
became a key figure in Soviet espionage
networds across the globe, running agents in
London, Berlin, Shanghai, Mexico and Los
Alamos. She was Donald Maclean's controller
and lover and the bigamous wife of Earl
Browder, General Secretary of the American
Communist Party. She also played a role in
the penetration of the Manhatten Project
and helped organise an illegal spy-ring in
Mexico City. Thought to have disappeared
without a trace her story and its sad end is
now told by a senior Russian intelligence
officer with access to her astonishing
archive.
£15.00
14982
Czernin, Count
Ottokar
In The World
War
London:
Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1919
6¼" x 9½".
352pp, 4 plates. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers worn and soiled, a reading copy. From
the Thomas Hope Floyd Bequest.
£40.00
14995
Sereny, Gitta
Albert Speer :
His Battle with Truth
London:
Macmillan, 1995
6¼” x 9½”.
[xvi] + 757pp, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in d/j, Fine
£25.00
15017
Wedemeyer,
General Albert
Wedemeyer
Reports!
New York:
Henry Holt & Co., 1958
5½" x 8½".
[xii] + 497pp, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed with
some colour loss, previous owner's name
label, end-papers stained otherwise Very
Good
£15.00
15028
Marc Ferro;
Malcolm Brown; Remy Cazals; Olaf Mueller
Meetings in No
Man's Land : Christmas 1914 and
Fraternization in The Great War
London:
Constable and Robinson Ltd, 2007
6” x 9½”.
[viii] + 264pp, maps. Green cloth blocked in
silver in a rubbed d/j, Near Fine. The
soldiers 'football match' and the unofficial
ceasefire of Christmas 1914 has become a
legend of the Great War, but fraternization
between enemy troops was actually
widespread. In winter 1914, after months of
marching, soldiers on both fronts began to
dig trenches, and the war became a battle of
attrition in which young men faced each
other across what was often only a few yards
of the muddy, bombed landscape called No
Man's Land. Trapped in this devastation the
soldiers of both armies experienced a shared
feeling of pointlessness that culminated in
the unofficial armistice of Christmas 1914,
when German and English soldiers laid down
their weapons for a few hours of joyful
peace and carol singing. Using original
research from the best European historians
and discovering a history forgotten or lost
in censor reports, officer journals and
official reports, these brief moments of
humanity are explored on all fronts during
the long years of conflict.
£20.00
15033
Mayo, Lida
Bloody Buna :
The Campaign that Halted the Japanese
Invasion of Australia
London:
Purnell Book Services Ltd, n.d. [Book Club
edition, by arrangement with David & Charles
Limited]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiv] + 222pp, maps, illustrations. Green
cloth gilt in d/j, Fine
£15.00
15048
Fursenko,
Aleksandr and Naftali, Timothy
One Hell of a
Gamble : Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy and the
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958 - 1964
London: John
Murray, 1997
6" x 9½". [xi]
+ 420pp, map, illustrations. Black boards
quarter-bound in cloth, in d/j, Fine
£25.00
15068
Kieser, Egbert
Hitler on the
Doorstep : Operation "Sea Lion", the German
Plan to Invade Britain, 1940
London: Arms
and Armour, 1997
6” x 9½”.
287pp, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt in
d/j, Fine
£20.00
15101
Warren, Alan
Singapore 1942
: Britain's Greatest Defeat
London New
York: Hambledon and London, 2002
6" x 9¼".
[xiii] + 370pp, maps, illustrations. Blue
cloth gilt in d/j, As New
£20.00
15104
Fry, Varian
Surrender on
Demand
Boulder:
Johnson Books, 1998
5½" x 8".
[xiv] + 272pp, illustrations. Softback, As
New
£15.00
15109
Colvin, Ian
Chief of
Intelligence
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1951
5½" x 8½".
223pp. Green cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
rubbed, spine dull otherwise Very Good
£15.00
15114
Hicks, George
The Comfort
Women : Sex Slaves of the Japanese Imperial
Forces
London:
Souvenir Press, 1995
5¾" x 8¾".
[xxi] + 265pp, illustrations, map as
end-papers. Blue cloth gilt in a rubbed d/j,
otherwise Near Fine
£20.00
15115
Blandford,
Edmund
Fatal
Decisions : Errors and Blunders in World War
II
Shrewsbury:
Airlife Publishing Limited, 1999
6" x 9½".
[viii] + 242pp, illustrations. Green cloth
gilt in d/j, As New
£15.00
15143
Lindsay,
Franklin [With a Foreword by John Kenneth
Galbraith]
Beacons in the
Night : With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in
Wartime Yugoslavia
Stanford, Ca.:
Stanford University Press, 1995 [first
published 1993]
6” x 9”.
[xxiii] + 383pp, maps, illustrations.
Softback, As New
£15.00
15148
Gibbs, Captain
Charles Cobden Stormont [edited by Richard
Devonald-Lewis]
From the Somme
to the Armistice : The Memoirs of Captain
Stormont Gibbs, MC
London:
William Kimber, 1986
6" x 9½".
206pp, illustrations. Brown cloth gilt in a
scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good.
Stormont Gibbs was commissioned into the 4th
Suffolk in 1915 and first saw action at the
height of the battle of the Somme in the
summer of 1916; against the odds he survived
and was to take part in Arras in 1917, the
Third Battle of Ypres and the retreat in
1918. By this time he was a battle-hardened
veteran. His recollections are edited and
set in their historical context by Richard
Devonald-Lewis, one of his former pupils
during his later career as a schoolmaster.
£30.00
15155
pseud: [Pepys,
Samuel Junior]
A Last Diary
of the Great Warr [sic]
London: John
Lane The Bodley Head, 1919 [1st]
5¼" x 7½".
308pp, colour frontis, illustrations. Brown
boards with cloth backstrip, spine rubbed
and dull, covers marked and rubbed,
otherwise Good.
£20.00
15167
Marino, Andy
American
Pimpernel : The Story of Varian Fry : The
Man Who Saved the Artists on Hitler's Death
List
London:
Hutchinson, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
[xi] + 403pp, illustrations. Black cloth
gilt in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise
Near Fine
£20.00
15168
Moszkiewiez,
Helene
Inside the
Gestapo : A Young Woman's Secret War
London: The
Bodley Head, 1987 [2nd imp.]
5½" x 8¾". [x]
+ 189pp, illustrations. Black cloth in a
scuffed and chipped d/j, page edges browned,
otherwise Very Good
£15.00
15180
Blunden,
Edmund
Undertones of
War
London:
William Collins Sons and Co. Ltd, 1978
[first published by Richard Cobden-Sanderson
in 1928; first Collins' edition published in
1965]
5¼” x 8½”.
255pp. Original flecked cloth in a torn,
scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise Very Good
Plus
£30.00
15192
Various
With the First
Canadian Contingent
Toronto &
London: Hodder & Stoughton [published on
behalf of the Canadian Field Comforts
Commission], 1915
7¼" x 9¾".
119pp, illustrations. Original cloth, no
d/j, edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very
Good
£40.00
15193
Rivett, Rohan
D.
Behind Bamboo
: An Inside Story of Japanese Prison Camps
Morley:
Elmfield Press, 1974
5½" x 8¾".
[xiii] + 400pp, maps, illustrations. Yellow
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and
soiled, title page missing, edges dusty,
reading copy
£10.00
15204
Liddell Hart,
Basil
'T. E.
Lawrence' : In Arabia and After
London:
Jonathan Cape, March 1940
5½” x 8”.
491pp, maps, illustrations. Original green
cloth blocked in silver, no d/j, covers worn
and soiled, frontispiece missing, otherwise
Good.
£15.00
15231
Lucy, John
There's a
Devil in the Drum
London: The
Naval & Military Press, 1993
5” x 7½”.
393pp. Original laminated green boards. The
covers are scuffed and rubbed. There are a
number of indentations along the edges of
the boards and, on the lower edge of the
rear boards there is a pronounced area of
crushing (which appears to be a binding
fault). The spine ends and corners are
bumped.
£15.00
15240
[Bryce, Right
Hon. Viscount (Chairman)]
Report of the
British Committee on the Alleged German
Outrages : Presented to both Houses of
Parliament
Critchley
Parker: The Statesman and Mining Standard,
1915
5¼" x 8¼".
429pp. Original paper covers, covers
detached, pages browned and dog-eared, a
reading copy
£30.00
15332
Knight, Frank
The
Dardanelles Campaign
London:
Macdonald and Co Ltd, 1970
5” x 7½”.
94pp, illustrations by F. D. Phillips. Green
cloth gilt in a scuffed, chipped and soiled
d/j, otherwise Very Good
£15.00
15393
[Text,
Pictorial Design and Production By W . J .
Thomas. Official Pictures: U.S. Office Of
War Information, Commonwealth Department of
Information]
Yanks and
Aussies in Battle : Official Photographs of
Pacific War From Pearl Harbor to Timor
Sydney,
Australia: N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Pty. Ltd,
n.d. [c.1943]
8½” x 10¾”.
32pp + covers (there is printed text on the
front and rear inside covers). Original
stapled printed paper wrappers. The covers
are discoloured, soiled and dog-eared. The
corners are creased and dog-eared. The edges
are chipped, creased and torn with some loss
of the paper covering at the front
fore-edge. There are no other internal
markings and the text is clean throughout;
however, the paper has tanned with age. The
corners are a little dog-eared.
£40.00
15447
Falls, Cyril
The Second
World War : A Short History
London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1948
5½” x 8½”.
[xiii] + 304pp, maps. Original red cloth
gilt. The covers are rubbed. The spine has
faded noticeably. The spine ends and corners
are bumped. There is a marked forward spine
lean. There are no internal markings and the
text is clean throughout. The paper has
tanned slightly with age.
£20.00
15575
Butler, Daniel
Allen
The Burden of
Guilt : How Germany Shattered the Last Days
of Peace, Summer 1914
Newbury,
Berkshire: Casemate Books, 2010
6” x 9¼”.
330pp, map, illustrations. Black cloth gilt
in d/j, As
£18.00
15586
Hay, Ian
[pseud.: Major John H. Beith] (1876-1952)
Their Name
Liveth : The Book of the Scottish National
War Memorial
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1931 [2nd
imp.]
5” x 7½”.
[xiv] + 163pp, publisher’s advertisements.
Blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, edges foxed
otherwise Very Good
£15.00
15597
Dower, John W.
Embracing
Defeat : Japan in the Wake of World War II
New York: W.
W. Norton & Company/The New Press, 1999
6¼" x 9½".
676pp, illustrations. White boards with blue
cloth backstrip in a rubbed d/j, otherwise
Near Fine
£25.00
15598
Dower, John W.
War Without
Mercy : Race and Power in the Pacific War
London: Faber
and Faber Limited, 1986
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiv] + 399pp, illustrations. Red cloth gilt
in a rubbed d/j, page edges yellowed
otherwise Near Fine
£20.00
15607
Krylov, Ivan
[Translated by Edward Fitzgerald]
Soviet Staff
Officer
London: The
Falcon Press, 1951
5½” x 8¾”.
[vi] + 298pp. Original red cloth blocked in
black in a scuffed and chipped d/j, Very
Good.
£25.00
15635
Brittain,
Harry E.
To Verdun From
The Somme : An Anglo American Glimpse of the
Great Advance
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917
5” x 7¾”.
[xviii] + 142pp, frontispiece. This volume
is ex-Library. Original blind-stamped green
cloth in damaged condition, but with all the
damage confined to the spine: the top inch
of the spine cloth is missed altogether,
with the head-band now loose. There is a
further tear in the backstrip one third of
the way up from the tail. There is a
bookplate and Library label on the front
pastedown and front free end-paper, together
with a "Withdrawn" stamp. There are further
markings on the Title-Page and Copyright
Page and, scattered throughout at regular
intervals, an impressed circular Library
stamp. The paper has tanned noticeably with
age. The edge of the text block is not
uniformly trimmed.
£15.00
15644
Lawrence, T.
E.
Seven Pillars
of Wisdom
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1936 [7th impression]
7½" x 10".
672pp, portrait frontis, illustrations,
maps. Brown cloth gilt, no d/j, a few marks
on cover, ink stain on a few pages otherwise
Very Good.
£45.00
15656
Philpot,
Oliver
Stolen Journey
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1950 First Edition
5¼" x 8".
412pp, portrait frontis, illustrations
(including line drawings by Ronald Searle),
maps as end-papers. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers worn and soiled, edges foxed,
otherwise Good
£20.00
15893
Warr, Charles
L.
Echoes of
Flanders
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
Ltd, 1918 Cheap Edition [first published
October 1916]
4¼” x 7”.
249pp. Original paper-covered boards in poor
condition.
£15.00
15911
Wolff, Leon
In Flanders
Fields : The 1917 Campaign
London:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1959 [2nd imp.]
5½" x 8¾".
310pp, b&w plates. Red cloth gilt in chipped
d/j which is frayed at head and tail of
spine, otherwise Very Good
£20.00
16144
Goodchild,
George
Down "Plug
Street" Way and Other Tales
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
Ltd, 1918
4½” x 7¼”.
190pp. Original paper-covered boards, no
d/j, reading copy.
£25.00
16263
Scott, Ralph
[Preface by Major-General Sir Frederick
Maurice] (Scott is pseudonym for George
Scott Atkinson)
A Soldier's
Diary
London: W.
Collins & Co. Ltd, 1930
5½” x 8”.
194pp. Original cloth, no d/j, Very Good.
£40.00
16860
Clapham, H.
S. (The Honourable Artillery Company)
Mud and Khaki
: The Memories of an Incomplete Soldier
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, n.d. [c.1930]
5½” x 8¾”.
224pp, frontispiece, illustrations. This
volume is ex-Boot's Library; poor condition.
£30.00
eBay
17895
Pakenham,
Thomas
The Boer War
London: BCA
(Book Club Associates) by arrangement with
The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, 1999
6¾” x 10”.
[xxii] + 659pp, maps, illustrations. Brown
cloth gilt in a torn d/j, otherwise Very
Good.
£25.00
eBay
16559
Brittain, Vera
Poems of the
War and After
London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1934 First Edition
5” x 7½”.
94pp. Original cloth with chipped paper
spine label, no d/j, covers rubbed, previous
owner's name inscribed otherwise Very Good.
£695.00
eBay
16592
Campbell, Ivar
Poems by Ivar
Campbell with memoir by Guy Ridley
London: A. L.
Humphreys, 1917
4¾” x 7”.
99pp, portrait frontis. Rebound ex-Library,
internally clean.
£85.00
eBay
10180
Miller,
Geoffrey
Superior Force
: The Conspiracy Behind the Escape of Goeben
and Breslau
Hull: The
University of Hull Press, 1996
6¼" x 9¼".
458pp, ills, maps. New softback. Can be
inscribed by the author if desired. The
definitive account of the escape of the
German ships to Constantinople in August
1914.
£12.95
eBay
15883
Reed, E. J.
[Chief Constructor of the Navy]
Our Iron-clad
Ships : Their Qualities, Performances and
Cost, with Chapters on Turret Ships,
Iron-clad Rams Etc.
London: John
Murray, 1869 First Edition
5½” x 9”.
[xxxii] + 330pp, frontispiece,
illustrations, publisher’s catalogue. The
original covers have been professionally
re-backed, no d/j, bookplate, tanned pages,
otherwise Very Good
£395.00
eBay
16113
Gordon, Andrew
The Rules of
the Game : Jutland and British Naval Command
London: John
Murray, 1997
6" x 9½".
[xii] + 708pp, illustrations, charts. Red
cloth in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise
Very Good
£75.00
eBay
16139
Wester-Wemyss,
Admiral of the Fleet Lord
The Navy in
the Dardanelles Campaign
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, n.d. [c.1924]
5¾" x 9".
288pp, folding map. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, head and tail of spine and
corners bumped and rubbed, otherwise Very
Good. Awarded two stars by Cyril Falls in
his "War Books", and described thus: "Lord
Wester-Wemyss, known to the war-time public
as Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, was one of the great
organisers on the Naval side of the War. He
might have been one of the great fighting
men had that chance come his way, but it did
not. In the Gallipoli Campaign his powers
of organisation were thoroughly tested. His
account is frank, his criticism
full-blooded, his comments shrewd. A good
idea of the problems of policy, strategy,
and administration in regard to the campaign
can be obtained from this book."
£70.00
eBay
16240
Stoker,
Commander H. G.
Straws in the
Wind
London:
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1925 [ First
Edition ]
5½" x 8½".
316pp, illustrations. Green cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
edges foxed otherwise Very Good.
£195.00
eBay
16425
Fayle, C.
Ernest
Seaborne Trade
Volume I : The Cruiser Period [History of
the Great War based on Official Documents by
Direction of the Historical Section of the
C. I. D.]
London: John
Murray, 1920
5½" x 9".
[xvii] + 442pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
spine dull, covers marked and rubbed, head
of spine snagged, inner hinges cracked,
edges dusty, bookplate of Chatham Dockyard
Trust on front pastedown, otherwise Good
Plus
£225.00
eBay
16511
Hough, Richard
The Great War
at Sea 1914-1918
Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1983
6" x 9½".
[xviii] + 353pp, maps, illustrations. Blue
cloth gilt in a rubbed and creased d/j,
edges lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good
£30.00
eBay
16578
Trayes, F. G.
Five Months on
a German Raider : Being the Adventures of an
Englishman Captured by the "Wolf"
London:
Headley Bros., 1919 First Edition
5" x 7½".
187pp, portrait frontis, illustrations, map
as rear end-paper. Teal cloth, no d/j,
covers rubbed, spine dull, front free
end-paper removed, previous owner's name
inscribed, edges dusty otherwise Very Good
£65.00
eBay
16750
Bean, C. E. W.
[Charles Edwin Woodrow]
Flagships
Three
London: Alston
Rivers Ltd, 1913 First Edition
5½" x 8¾".
[xvi] + 339pp, frontis, illustrations. Blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, inner
hinges cracked, end-papers browned, spine a
little dull, otherwise Very Good
£70.00
eBay
16772
Bywater, H. C.
and Ferraby, H. C.
Strange
Intelligence : Memoirs of Naval Secret
Service
London:
Constable & Company, 1934 [first published
1931]
4¾" x 7½".
[xi] + 299pp, fold-out map. Tan cloth, no
d/j, covers rubbed, backstrip soiled and
faded, top edge of upper boards frayed,
previous owner's name inscribed, edges
lightly foxed otherwise Good Plus
£36.00
eBay
16870
Wester-Wemyss,
Admiral of the Fleet Lord
The Navy in
the Dardanelles Campaign
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, n.d. [c.1924]
5¾" x 9".
288pp, folding map. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, head and tail of spine and
corners bumped and rubbed, otherwise Very
Good. Awarded two stars by Cyril Falls in
his "War Books", and described thus: "Lord
Wester-Wemyss, known to the war-time public
as Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, was one of the great
organisers on the Naval side of the War. He
might have been one of the great fighting
men had that chance come his way, but it
did not. In the Gallipoli Campaign his
powers of organisation were thoroughly
tested. His account is frank, his criticism
full-blooded, his comments shrewd. A good
idea of the problems of policy, strategy,
and administration in regard to the campaign
can be obtained from this book."
£60.00
eBay
17022
Chatterton, E.
Keble
Fighting the
U-Boats
London: Hurst
& Blackett, Ltd, 1942
5¼" x 8¾".
216pp, maps, illustrations. Blue cloth, no
d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine dull,
head and tail of spine bumped, otherwise
Good Plus. Uncommon.
£40.00
eBay
17023
Price, William
Harold
With the Fleet
in the Dardanelles : Some Impressions of
Naval Men and Incidents during the Campaign
in the Spring of 1915
London: Andrew
Melrose, Ltd., n.d. [c.1915]
5" x 7½". [xv]
+ 124pp, illustrations, folding map,
publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth, no d/j,
covers rubbed, head and tail of spine
bumped, previous owner's name inscribed,
front free end-paper missing, on eplate
partially detached otherwise Very Good
£50.00
eBay
17106
Newbolt, Henry
Submarine and
Anti-Submarine
London:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1919 [2nd Impression]
5½" x 8".
312pp, illustrations, coloured frontis.
Original blue cloth blocked in black, no
d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine soiled
and dull, otherwise Very Good
£27.00
eBay
17112
Gwatkin-Williams, Captain Rupert Stanley
Under the
Black Ensign
London:
Hutchinson & Co., n.d.
5½" x 8¾".
238pp, 8 plates, 1 folding map. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, ex-library with
minimal markings, previous owner's name
inscribed, spine slightly faded otherwise
Good Plus. The memoirs of a naval "dug-out"
officer in a variety of craft, including
operations in the Mediterranean (Armoured
Cars in the desert), and North Russia.
£27.00
eBay
17217
Plivier,
Theodor [Translated from the German by
William F. Clarke]
The Kaiser's
Coolies
London: Faber
and Faber Limited, 1932
5” x 7½”.
332pp. Red cloth blocked in black, no d/j,
covers rubbed and blotchy, spine lean
otherwise Very Good
£60.00
eBay
17242
Stoker,
Commander H. G.
Straws in the
Wind
London:
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1925 [3rd
impression]
5½" x 8½".
316pp, illustrations. Green cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed,
edges foxed otherwise Very Good.
£150.00
eBay
17247
Stumpf,
Richard [Edited, Translated and with an
Introduction by Daniel Horn]
The Private
War of Seaman Stumpf
London: Leslie
Frewin, 1969 [first published 1967]
5½" x 8½".
[vi] + 442pp, illustrations, map as
end-papers. Blue cloth gilt in a scuffed and
rubbed d/j, edges lightly foxed otherwise
Very Good
£35.00
eBay
17269
Hurd,
Archibald
History of the
Great War Based on Official Documents By
Direction of the Historical Section of the
Committee of Imperial Defence : The Merchant
Navy : Volume I
London: John
Murray, 1921
5½” x 8¾”.
[xiv] + 473pp, maps, illustrations (one map
and three illustrations missing). Original
blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers worn and
soiled, inner hinges cracked, reading copy.
£35.00
eBay
17341
Kopp, Georg
[Translated by Arthur Chambers]
Two Lone Ships
: "Goeben" & "Breslau"
London:
Hutchinson, 1931
5½" x 8¾".
288pp, frontis, illustrations. Original blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, edges
lightly foxed, otherwise Very Good
£50.00
eBay
17407
Bywater, H. C.
and Ferraby, H. C.
Strange
Intelligence : Memoirs of Naval Secret
Service
London:
Constable & Company, 1931
4¾" x 7½".
[xi] + 299pp, fold-out map. Original black
cloth gilt, no d/j, in worn condition.
£30.00
eBay
17450
Brassey, T. A.
[Ed.]
The Naval
Annual, 1909 [23rd year of issue]
London and
Portsmouth: J. Griffin and Co., 1909
6” x 9¾”. [ix]
+ 440pp, frontis, 6 illus, 64pp plate
section, text illus. Blind-stamped blue
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed with some
damp-staining along bottom edges of boards,
spine darkened, shelf number on spine, front
free end-paper and frontispiece originally
missing but replaced, front inner hinge
taped, otherwise Good. Standard rundown of
naval strengths & naval expansion of
Germany, new construction, the all big gun
ship, engines & means of propulsion. Naval
Volunteers, Naval Expansion in Germany,
Dockyard Administration
£60.00
eBay
17452
Auten , Lt.
Commander Harold, V.C.
Q Boat
Adventures : The Exploits of the Famous
Mystery Ships by a "Q" Boat Commander
London:
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1919
4¾” x 7¾”.
289pp, frontis, illustrations. Red cloth
blocked in black in a torn, scuffed and
chipped d/j with some loss, covers rubbed
and faded, spine cocked, shaken, previous
owner's name inscribed, a Good copy only,
but was formerly the property of John Kirby,
who was clearly in correspondence with the
Admiralty regarding Decoy Ships (with
pencilled annotations throughout,
mentioning, inter alia, letters he wrote to
both Fisher and Churchill). Attached to the
rear cover is a note (1919) concerning "The
Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors : In
the Matter of Claim of Mr John Kirby as to
Decoy Boats v. U Boats". In 1915, Harold
Auten was one of the first six officers
selected for Q-Ship service. As one of the
pioneers, he helped develop the design and
tactics of Q-ships. He was awarded the
Victoria Cross for his involvement in a
fierce encounter with a U-boat off Start
Point in July 1918.
£50.00
eBay
17475
Fawcett, H. W.
& Hooper, G. W. W. [Eds]
The Fighting
at Jutland : The Personal Experiences of
Sixty Officers and Men of the British Fleet
Privately
Printed [Maclure, MacDonald & Co., Glasgow,
1921]
7½" x 10¼".
[xv] + 472pp, maps, diagrams, illustrations.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers marked and
stained, spine gutters split, ex-Imperial
War Museum with usual markings, inner
hinges cracked, otherwise Good
£95.00
eBay
17483
Marder, Arthur
[Ed]
Fear God and
Dread Nought : The Correspondence of Admiral
of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone
Volume II: Years of Power 1904 - 1914
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1956
5¾" x 8¾".
521pp, portrait frontispiece and one other
plate. Original red cloth gilt, no d/j,
spine ends and corners bumped, The edges are
foxed., previous owner's name inscribed,
otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17557
Hirst, Lloyd
[With a Preface by Admiral Sir Herbert W.
Richmond]
Coronel and
After
London: Peter
Davies Limited, May 1934 First Edition
5" x 7½".
[xvi] + 278pp, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no
d/j, covers marked and rubbed, spine faded,
otherwise Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17571
Gwatkin-Williams, Captain Rupert Stanley
Prisoners of
the Red Desert : Being a Full and True
History of the Men of the "Tara"
London:
Thornton Butterworth Ltd, n.d. [November
1919] The September 1922 Second Edition
gives the date
5" x 7¾".
[xii] + 304pp, two small linear sketch maps
in text; rough map and sketch of Camp as
end-papers. Original red cloth, no d/j,
covers marked and rubbed, spine faded,
edges lightly foxed otherwise Very Good. An
account of Light Armoured Car Brigade
operations against the Senussi. Having been
captured, Gwatkin-Williams led his party to
freedom through the desert.
£65.00
eBay
17621
Marder, Arthur
From the
Dardanelles to Oran : Studies of the Royal
Navy in War and Peace 1915 - 1940
London: Oxford
University Press, 1974
5½" x 8¾".
301pp, b&w plates, 5 charts. Blue cloth gilt
in a rubbed, creased d/j, ex-Library
formerly from the Royal Naval College,
Greenwich and subsequently The Joint
Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC)
Library, gift inscription on front
end-paper, otherwise Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17656
Schubert, Paul
and Gibson, Langhorne
Death of a
Fleet, 1917-1919
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, n.d. [c.1933] Second
Impression
5½" x 8¾".
288pp, frontis, b&w plates. Green cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head
and tail of spine snagged & frayed, edges
foxed otherwise Good Plus
£20.00
eBay
17698
Various
Contributors [James Irvine, Brian Budge,
Jude Callister. Kevin Heath, Andrew
Hollinrake, Issy Grieve, Keith Johnson, Neil
Kermode, Michael Lowrey, Tom Muir, Emily
Turton and Ben Wade]
HMS Hampshire
: a Century of Myths and Mysteries
Unravelled
Kirkwall:
Orkney Heritage Society, 30 August 2016
8¼” x 12”.
[viii] + 112pp, map, illustrations. Original
pictorial boards, no d/j [as issued], As
New. On 5 June 1916, HMS Hampshire left the
Royal Navy’s anchorage at Scapa Flow,
Orkney, bound for Russia. The Secretary of
State for War, Lord Kitchener, was on board
as part of a diplomatic and military mission
aimed at boosting Russia’s efforts on the
Eastern Front. At about quarter to nine in
the evening, in stormy conditions and within
two miles of Orkney’s northwest shore, she
struck a mine laid by German submarine
U-75. Only twelve survived. To help
commemorate the centenary, twelve authors
with local knowledge have pooled their
expertise to sort fact from fiction with an
objective review of the many books, press
cuttings and copious unpublished records now
available.
£95.00
eBay
17714
Taffrail
[Captain Taprell Dorling, , D.S.O.,
F.R.Hist.S., Royal Navy]
Swept Channels
: Being an Account of the Work of the
Minesweepers in the Great War
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1935
6" x 9½".
388pp, frontispiece, b&w plates. Original
black cloth blocked in white, no d/j, covers
marked and rubbed, backstrip split along
front gutter, spine snagged and very dull,
front free end-paper missing, ex-Library
with a few stamps, end-papers browned, edges
dusty and foxed, otherwise Good.
£50.00
eBay
17726
Brassey, Earl
[Thomas] [Conducted By Earl Brassey ] and
Leyland, John [Ed.]
Brassey's
Naval Annual, 1915 [War Edition]
London:
William Clowes and Sons, Limited, 1915
6” x 9¾”.
[vii] + 264pp + (x pp advert.), frontispiece
and five other plates, numerous ship
sketches and illustrations to the text, some
full-page. Blind-stamped blue cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers rubbed with small stain in
centre of rear cover, otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
17727
Brassey, T. A.
[Ed.]
The Naval
Annual, 1910 [24th year of issue]
London and
Portsmouth: J. Griffin and Co., 1910
6” x 9¾”.
[vii] + 471pp, frontis, 7 illus, diag, 63pp
plate section, text illus. Original
blind-stamped blue cloth blocked in gilt on
the spine. The covers are scuffed, rubbed
and dull, faded around the edges and with
noticeable surface scratching and variation
in colour on the rear cover, and two holes
on the front cover, near the head of the
spine. These holes appear to have been
drilled for some reason, but do not
penetrate completely through the cover as
the board is quite thick. The spine has
faded completely with total loss of original
colour; there is also patchy discolouration,
resulting in a mottled appearance. There is
a small frayed patch on the front spine
gutter an inch below the head. The spine
ends and corners are bumped and frayed, with
splits in the cloth, particularly at the
head of the spine, where there is some
minor loss. There are some indentations
along the edges of the boards.
£70.00
eBay
17840
Fitzgerald,
Rear-Admiral C. C. Penrose
Life of
Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, K.C.B.
Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1898
Cheap Edition
5½” x 8½”.
[xvi] + 338pp, publisher’s advertisements,
portrait frontis, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, old Prize Label
(dated 1902) on front pastedown otherwise
Very Good. A bright copy. Tryon (1832-1893)
commanded the first British ironclad, and
later rose to command the Mediterranean
Station. In 1893 he went down with his ship
(HMS Victoria) after a collision at sea
during naval manoeuvres.
£75.00
eBay
17854
Fleet,
Vice-Admiral H. L.
My Life and a
Few Yarns
London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1922
5½” x 8¾”.
343pp, frontispiece. Blue cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, end-papers browned otherwise
Near Fine. Chapters : 1. Boyhood; 2. The
Britannia; 3. The Victory; 4. The
Constance; 5. The Duke of Wellington; 6. The
Monarch; 7. The Plover; 8. The Raleigh; 9.
Half-Pay; 10. The Indus; 11. The Condor; 12.
The Serapis; 13. The Express; 14. The
Northampton; 15. The Tartar; 16. HMS
Magdala; 17. The Howe, Empress of India,
Thames and Eolus; 18. Coastguard and
Retirement. With index.
£30.00
eBay
17857
Anon. [by the
Author of "In the Northern Mists", "Grand
Fleet Days"] (Montague T. Hainsselin)
Naval
Intelligence
London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1918
4¾” x 7½”.
[xiii] + 237pp, publisher’s advertisements.
Blind-stamped blue cloth blocked in black,
no d/j, covers marked and rubbed, head and
tail of spine frayed, pages very browned,
otherwise Good
£30.00
eBay
17863
R.N.V.
[Dawson, Eric P.]
Pushing Water
London: John
Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919 [On Active
Service Series]
5” x 7¾”.
143pp, publisher’s advertisements.
Blind-stamped blue cloth blocked in dark
blue, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine mottled,
two small abraded areas each on front and
rear pastedowns, tanned pages, otherwise
Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17883
Brodie, C. G.
Forlorn Hope
1915 : The Submarine Passage of the
Dardanelles
London:
Frederick Books, 1956
5½” x 8¾”.
[ix] + 91pp. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
previous owner's name inscribed otherwise
Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
17887
Pollen, Arthur
Hungerford
The Navy in
Battle
London: Chatto
& Windus, Second Impression Dec. 11, 1918
[First published Nov. 28, 1918]
5½” x 8½”.
[vi] + 371pp, charts. Original blue cloth
gilt, no d/j. The covers are rubbed and the
cloth is lifting in places. The spine ends
and corners are bumped and frayed, with
some minor loss of cloth. There are numerous
indentations along the edges of the boards.
There is some play in the inner hinges. The
edge of the text block is lightly foxed. The
end-papers and preliminaries are foxed.
£20.00
eBay
17912
Wilkinson,
Norman
The
Dardanelles : Colour Sketches From Gallipoli
London:
Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1915
7" x 9¼". 60pp
of text, colour plates and b&w sketches.
Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and
discoloured, tanned pages otherwise Very
Good
£70.00
eBay
17952
Goodchild,
George [from the log-book of Ex-Petty
Officer J. G. Cowie, HMS "Majestic"]
The Last
Cruise of The "Majestic"
London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd,
1917
4¾" x 7½".
189pp, frontispiece and one other
illustration. Original paper-covered boards,
now soiled and discoloured, no d/j, pages
very browned as usual, otherwise Good.
Comprises an account of service in the
pre-Dreadnought battleship from late 1914
until her sinking in the Dardanelles on 27
May 1915.
£95.00
eBay
17955
Milne, Admiral
Sir Archibald Berkeley
The Flight of
the 'Goeben' and the 'Breslau' : An Episode
In Naval History
London:
Eveleigh Nash Company Limited, n.d. [c.1921]
4¾” x 7½”.
160pp, map as end-papers. Blue cloth gilt,
no d/j, covers creased and rubbed with some
colour loss and shadow from old Boots
Library label, spine quite dull, edges
dusty, remnants of old label on rear
pastedown, small hole in front free
end-paper, a little shaken. This copy was
presented to the Ward Room Mess of the
Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham by Lieutenant
R. T. C. Woods, RN in May 1931 [inscribed
thus on front free end-paper]. There are
two "Port Library Chatham" stamps on the
front end-papers. Milne's furious apologia
was written following the publication of
Volume I of Sir Julian Corbett's Official
History of the War : Naval Operations, in
response to some mild criticism.
£60.00
eBay
17968
Cato, Conrad
[Pseudonym of Cyril Cox, Assistant Paymaster
RNR]
The Navy in
Mesopotamia 1914 to 1917
London:
Constable and Company Ltd, 1917
4½” x 7¼”.
[xi] + 211pp, maps. Rebound ex-Library,
reading copy.
£75.00
eBay
17973
Brennecke,
Jochen [Translated from the German by
Frederick Holt]
The Tirpitz :
The Drama of the “Lone Queen of the North”
London: Robert
Hale Limited 63 Old Brompton Road, S.W.7,
1963 First English Edition
5½” x 8¾”.
187pp, illustrations. Original blue flecked
cloth blocked in gilt on the spine in d/j,
previous owner's name inscribed otherwise
Very Good.
£50.00
eBay
17989
Clowes, Sir
William Laird
Four Modern
Naval Campaigns : Historical, Strategical,
and Tactical
London:
Hutchinson & Co., 1906 [first published
1902]
4¼” x 6¾”.
[ix] + 244pp, maps, plans. Original red
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed and faded,
end-papers browned, previous owner's name
inscribed otherwise Very Good. Contents:
Preface; The Campaign of Lissa, 1866; The
War Between Chili and Peru, 1879-81; The
Chilian Revolutionary War, 1891; The
Attempted Revolution in Brazil, 1893-94
£50.00
eBay
17990
Manwaring, G.
E. and Dobree, Bonamy
The Floating
Republic : An Account of the Mutinies at
Spithead & The Nore in 1979
London: Frank
Cass & Co. Ltd, 1966 [first published 1935]
5½” x 8¾”.
[xi] + 299pp, illustrations. Original blue
cloth blocked in gilt on the spine in a
scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Very Good.
£35.00
eBay
17991
Gwyn, Julian
[Ed.]
The Royal Navy
and North America: The Warren Papers
1736-1752
London: Navy
Records Society, 1973 (Navy Records Society
volume 118)
5¾” x 9”.
£30.00
eBay
18009
Clarke,
Lieut.-Col. Sir George S. and Thursfield,
James R.
The Navy and
the Nation : or Naval Warfare and Imperial
Defence
London: John
Murray, 1897
5½” x 9”.
(vii) + 344pp, maps, plans, publisher’s
catalogue. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
worn and soiled, both spine gutters and
inner hinges split, head and tail of spine
and corners frayed, missing front and rear
free end-papers, otherwise Good; internally
quite clean. A series of reviews of various
subjects bearing on the Navy's role in a
rapidly changing world. Chapter headings
include, Imperial Defence, Training and
Supply of Naval Officers, National
Insurance (the problems of insuring ships in
time of war), the Jeune Ecole Francaise etc.
Considering the decision to vest mining in
the Army's hands the article on Submarine
Mines in War must have caused some comment.
£40.00
eBay
18042
Garbett,
Captain H. [R.N.]
Naval Gunnery
: a Description and History of the Fighting
Equipment of a Man-of-War
London: George
Bell and Sons, 1897
4¾” x 7¼”.
[xiv] + 360pp, frontispiece, illustrations
(plates and in text). Original blind-stamped
blue cloth gilt, no d/j, extensive foxing
otherwise Very Good.
£95.00
eBay
18050
Giffard, The
Late Admiral Edward
Deeds of Naval
Daring : Anecdotes of the British Navy
London: John
Murray, 1910
4¾” x 7¾”.
410pp. Red cloth gilt, no d/j, covers
spotted, spine very faded although gilt
still bright, contents very clean and tight.
£20.00
eBay
18075
Hardy, Hilbert
[Commander, V.R.D., R.N.V.R. (Rtd.)]
The
Minesweepers' Victory . . . a silent
service of the Royal Navy
Printed,
published and distributed by Keydex a
division of Unitoken Limited, Eyot House
Walton Lane, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 SLX,
1976
5” x 8”. 245pp
+ Publisher’s advertisement (page 246).
Original thin, printed, yellow card covers
in a protective plastic sleeve. The front
inner hinge is cracked with some residue
from the inner margin of the cover adhering
to the front free end-paper. The pages have
yellowed with age, more noticeably in the
margins. The text is reasonably clean
throughout, but the production standard is
not high with poorly reproduced text,
including blotches, faint characters and so
on. Printed in typescript. The edge of the
text block is dust-stained and slightly
grubby.
£295.00
eBay
18116
Spencer-Cooper, Commander H.
The Battle of
the Falkland Islands : Before and After
London:
Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1919
5¼” x 8¼”.
[xii] + 224pp, "with coloured frontispiece
and ten maps and charts". Blue cloth blocked
in white, no d/j, covers rubbed and soiled
with large circular stain on front boards,
spine dull, spine ends and corners bumped,
end-papers browned and discoloured,
otherwise Very Good.
£40.00
eBay
18140
D'Eyncourt,
Sir Eustace H. W. Tennyson
A
Shipbuilder's Yarn : The Record of a Naval
Constructor
London:
Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, n.d. [c.1945]
6" x 9¼".
207pp, 18 plates. Blue cloth blocked in
black, no d/j, covers rubbed, spine faded
and dull, edges foxed, otherwise Very Good
£45.00
eBay
18145
Jellicoe of
Scapa, Admiral of the Fleet Viscount
The Crisis of
the Naval War
London:
Cassell and Company Ltd, 1920 First Edition
6¼" x 9½".
[xii] + 331pp, illustrations, 6 charts in
pocket at end. Original blue cloth blocked
in gilt on the spine, no d/j, covers badly
discoloured, otherwise Very Good.
£35.00
eBay
18146
Fyfe, Herbert
C. [Introduction by Admiral The Hon. Sir
Edmund Robert Fremantle, G.C.B., C.M.G.;
with a Chapter on "The Probable Future of
Submarine Boat Construction" by Sir Edward
J.Reed, M.P.]
Submarine
Warfare : Past, Present, and Future
London: Grant
Richards, 1902
5¾" x 8¾".
[xxviii] + 332pp, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, covers worn and soiled, being
stained and heavily scuffed, inner hinges
cracked, shaken, edge of text block foxed
and dusty, previous owner's name inscribed;
overall, Good. The author's aim has been to
produce a book which should be essentially
of a popular character and should appeal to
those who have neither the time nor the
inclination to pursue the subject very
deeply. That the book may appeal to the
general public, and that it may also be
found worthy of a place on the shelves of
the student of naval history abd naval
warfare is the author's wish. The book
traces the story of under-water warfare from
the earliest times to the present day.
£95.00
eBay
18148
Cato, Conrad
[Pseudonym of Cyril Cox, Assistant Paymaster
RNR]
The Navy
Everywhere
London:
Constable and Company Ltd, 1919
5¾" x 9¼".
[ix] + 297pp, maps. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
covers rubbed, spine quite faded, end-papers
lightly foxed, front free end-paper removed
otherwise Very Good.
£75.00
eBay
18155
Hase,
Commander Georg von
Kiel & Jutland
London:
Skeffington & Son, n.d. [this is almost
certainly the Second Edition, circa 1933,
with the title shown as "Kiel & Jutland",
rather than "Kiel and Jutland" as on the
First Edition of circa 1921]
5½" x 9".
128pp, 10 illustrations, 2 charts. Black
cloth gilt, no d/j, covers rubbed, edges
foxed otherwise Very Good
£55.00
eBay
18165
Peillard,
Léonce [Translated from the French by Oliver
Coburn]
U-Boats To The
Rescue : The Laconia Incident
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1963
5¼” x 8”.
270pp, maps, illustrations. Original dark
grey paper-covered boards blocked in silver
on the spine in a torn, scuffed and chipped
d/j. The covers are rubbed and scuffed with
a shallow indentation on the rear cover. The
spine ends and corners are bumped, with some
fraying to the paper covering at the spine
ends. There is a very noticeable forward
spine lean.
£35.00
eBay
18176
Blair, Clay
The Atomic
Submarine : The Story of the “Nautilus,” the
World’s First Atomic-Driven Vessel
London: Odhams
Press Limited, 1955
5¼” x 8½”.
224pp, ills. Original blue cloth blocked in
gilt on the spine in a torn, scuffed and
chipped d/j, tanned pages otherwise Very
Good.
£40.00
14474
Galantin,
Admiral I. J. [U.S.N. (Ret)]
Take Her Deep!
A Submarine Against Japan in World War II
London: Unwin
Hyman Ltd, 1988 [1st English edition]
6¼” x 9¼”.
[xviii] + 262pp, illustrations, map as
end-papers. Black cloth gilt in d/j, Fine
£25.00
14475
O'Kane,
Richard H. [Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)]
Clear the
Bridge! The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang
Novato, CA:
Presidio Press, 1989 [first published 1977]
6¼” x 9¼”.
480pp, maps, illustrations. Blue boards gilt
in a scuffed and rubbed d/j, otherwise Very
Good. From the date of her departure on her
first patrol in January, 1944, to her
tragic loss only nine months later, "Tang"
averaged one enemy ship on the bottom every
11 days, a rate twice that of any other U.
S. Submarine. "Tang" also developed new
tactics in sub-air rescues, picking 22 navy
fliers out of the water while under Japanese
gunfire at Truk.
£25.00
10207
Hythe,
Viscount [ed.]
The Naval
Annual, 1913
Newton Abbot:
David & Charles Reprints, 1970 [being a
facsimile reprint of the 1913 edition
originally published by J. Griffin & Co.,
Portsmouth]
6¼" x 10".
520pp, ills, plans. Light blue cloth in d/j.
A few small creases in top of d/j, else near
fine. A snapshot of the world's navies
immediately before the outbreak of the
Great War. Articles include: "The Progress
of Naval Aeronautics", "The Turco-Italian
War", "The Dominions and Imperial Defence",
"The Personnel of the German Navy", etc.
£29.00
11105
Domville-Fife,
Charles W. [Ed.]
Evolution of
Sea Power : studies of modern naval warfare
and the effect of evolution on the basis and
employment of Sea Power
London: Rich &
Cowan, Ltd, 1939
6" x 9¼".
258pp, ills, map. Blue cloth, no d/j, spine
faded, some spotting to edges, else Very
Good
£18.00
12305
Farago,
Ladislas
The Broken
Seal : The dramatic story of Operation Magic
and the Pearl Harbour (sic) disaster
London:
Mayflower, 1969
4¼” x 7”.
415pp. Paperback, page edges browned, spine
creased, well-used, otherwise Fair/Good
£2.00
11083
Willmott, H.
P. [with Tohmatsu Haruo and W. Spencer
Johnson]
Pearl Harbor
London:
Cassell and Company, 2001
10" x 10".
208pp, illustrations. Black cloth gilt in
d/j, as new.
£16.00
10994
Cunningham of
Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet Viscount
A Sailor's
Odyssey
London:
Hutchinson, 1951
6" x 9¼".
715pp, 46 photographs, 16 maps. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, front and rear inner hinges
exposed, otherwise Good.
£12.00
11424
Cunningham of
Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet Viscount
A Sailor's
Odyssey
London:
Hutchinson, 1951
6" x 9¼".
715pp, 46 photographs, 16 maps. Blue cloth
gilt, no d/j, previous owner's label on
front free end-paper, else Very Good
£18.00
12120
T124
Sea Power
London:
Jonathan Cape, 1940 [2nd impression]
5½" x 8".
261pp. Blue cloth, no d/j, covers rubbed and
faded, gift inscription on front end-paper,
otherwise Very Good
£9.00
10653
Danielsson,
Bengt
What Happened
on the Bounty
London:
Readers Union/George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1963
5" x 8¼".
221pp, map. Green cloth, no d/j, corners
bumped, spine cocked, else Very Good
£6.00
10682
Winton, John
Hurrah for the
Life of a Sailor : Life on the lower-deck of
the Victorian Navy
London:
Michael Joseph, 1977
6¼" x 9½".
320pp, ills. Original cloth in very slightly
chipped d/j, previous owner's name
inscribed, else Very Good+/Very Good+
£15.00
12849
Whiting, J. D.
S.O.S. : A
Story of the World War at Sea
Indianopolis:
The Bobs-Merrill Company, 1928 [1st ed.]
5¼" x 8¼".
303pp, illustrations. Blue cloth gilt with
[chipped] print laid-in on front cover, no
d/j, rear pastedown torn at edge, bookplate
on front pastedown, gift inscription on
front end-paper, edges grubby, otherwise
Good Plu
£20.00
13616
Bainton, Roy
Honoured By
Strangers : The Life Of Captain Francis
Cromie CB, DSO, RN : 1882-1918
Shrewsbury:
Airlife Publishing Ltd, 2002
6¼” x 9½”.
[xvii] + 315pp, illustrations. Blue cloth
gilt in d/j, As New. From the dust-jacket:
"For many years the story of Francis Cromie
has been overshadowed by histories of the
greater tragedy found on the Western Front
in World War I. Yet, like TE. Lawrence,
Cromie's individual exploits reveal a
classic British hero: noble, tenacious and
beloved by all who served under him.
Churchill called him `a man of exceptional
gifts'. Captain Francis Cromie became a
submarine commander at the remarkably young
age of 24. By this time he had already seen
action in the Boxer Rebellion, received the
China Medal and had been mentioned in
despatches. His compassion and care for his
men had already gained him the Royal Humane
Society's Bronze Medal, when he almost lost
hislife attempting to save a drowning
sailor. In 1915 he was chosen to head a
flotilla of submarines to attack German
shipping in the Baltic Sea. Here,he achieved
great success despite the hazardous nature
of the climate and the threat of the German
navy. He was decorated three times by the
Czar of Russia and received the DSO. During
his three years in the Baltic he became
fluent in Russian. He only survived the
difficulties of the Bolshevik Revolution in
1917 because of his consummate skills as a
mediator and diplomat. His murder in the
British Embassy in 1918 at the age of 37
remained a tragic mystery for many years -
until now. Roy Bainton's extensive
researcheshave revealed why Cromie has
previously been omitted from official
histories of that difficult period. The
circumstances surrounding his murder
exposed facts about his complex character,
his relationship with the Bolsheviks and the
British Establishment- and importantly the
story uncovers the duplicity of the allies
as they struggled to formulate a reaction
to the tidal wave of the Russian
Revolution."
£12.00
14332
Various
H.M.A.S. Mk
III
Published for
the Royal Australian Navy by Australian War
Memorial, Canberra, 1944
8½" x
11".200pp, colour frontis, illustrations.
Original cloth, no d/j covers marked and
rubbed, previous owner's name inscribed,
shaken, covers bowed otherwise Good
£15.00
14473
O'Kane,
Richard H. [Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)]
Wahoo : The
Patrols of America's Most Famous WWII
Submarine
Novato, CA:
Presidio Press, 1987
6¼” x 9½”. [x]
+ 345pp, maps, illustrations. Blue boards in
d/j, Fine. Wahoo was christened in February
1941, with her mission already decreed the
night of Pearl Harbor: Conduct unrestricted
submarine warfare. Her first patrols were
average for a new boat, but then came
Commander Dudley W. ("Mush") Morton. He
cast aside bugaboos, and originated daring
new submarine tactics. His credo was: We'll
go wherever the Japs are, and do whatever
it takes to sink there. Morton's astonishing
tactics included a successful down the
throat attack against an attacking Japanese
destroyer, and surface-running gun attacks.
He also formed a rubber-boat landing and
assault team known as Wahoo's Commandos. The
results spoke for themselves; Wahoo soon
led in sinkings as she went after the
Japanese with a vengeance and Morton became
known as the Navy's most aggressive and
successful sea raider. Wahoo's first
spectacular achievement was the sinking of a
4-ship convoy in one day: coming back into
port after this exploit, she displayed a
broom atop her periscope, signifying a clean
sweep, while below placards proclaimed
Wahoo's motto-Shoot the Sons of Bitches.
Through the eyes of her executive officer,
we become members of the sub's crew:
standing watches, readying the torpedoes,
coaxing more speed, tracking ships with the
scope, playing cribbage. The general alarm
calls all hands to battle stations. Then the
deadly duel between enemy and submarine
begins: in the conning tower, angles and
bearings are called, the order is
given-Mark! Set! Fire!, and with a shudder
each torpedo is on its way. With the whack
of the torpedo detonations, the escort heads
down the torpedo wakes, and Wahoo goes deep,
rigging for depth charge and silent
running. After many daring missions, Wahoo's
brilliant career was cut short. O'Kane,
through extensive research and assistance
from the Japanese, has written her final,
fatal patrol, with its heart-rending
revelations. So, of all 37 American
submarines lost without survivors, only
Wahoo's story is finally complete.
£25.00
14561
Stinnett,
Robert B.
Day of Deceit
: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
New York: The
Free Press, 2000
6¼" x 9½".
[xiv] + 386pp, illustrations. Grey boards in
a rubbed d/j, corners bumped otherwise Very
Good
£15.00
14624
Cassells, Vic
For Those in
Peril : a comprehensive listing of the ships
and men of the RAN who have paid the supreme
sacrifice in the wars of the twentieth
century
Kenthurst,
NSW: Kangaroo Press, 1995
5¾" x 8¾".
269pp, illustrations. Softback, Near Fine
£30.00
14884
Rose, Lisle A.
The Ship That
Held the Line : The USS Hornet and the first
year of the Pacific War
Annapolis,
Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995
6" x 9". [ix]
+ 309pp, illustrations. Grey cloth gilt in a
scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise Near Fine
£25.00
14901
Parkes, Dr
Oscar
British
Battleships : 'Warrior' 1860 to 'Vanguard'
1950 : A History of Design, Construction and
Armament
London: Seeley
Service & Co., 1957
8¾" x 11½".
[xv] + 701pp, 450 plans and photographs,
advertisements. Blue cloth gilt, no d/j,
remnants of removed bookplate, small stain
on page ix, tiny blemish on backstrip,
otherwise a very good copy indeed of an
exceptional work of reference. Please note,
as this is a very heavy book postage will be
charged at actual cost.
£150.00
14966
Tuleja,
Thaddeus V.
Climax at
Midway : The Story of the Battle that
Changed the Course of the Pacific War
London: J. M.
Dent & Sons Ltd, 1960
5½" x 8¾".
248pp, illustrations, maps. Blue cloth gilt
in a scuffed and chipped d/j, otherwise Very
Good
£20.00
15015
White, W. L.
They Were
Expendable
New York:
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942 [fourth
printing]
5½" x 8¼".
[vii] + 209pp. Blue cloth in a scuffed and
chipped d/j with some minor loss, covers
rubbed, page edges yellowed, offsetting to
end-papers otherwise Very Good
£20.00
15060
Samuels, Peggy
and Harold
Remembering
the Maine
Washington and
London: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1995
6" x 9¼".
[viii] + 358pp, illustrations. Blue boards
quarter-bound in red cloth, in d/j, Fine |