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Catalogue 46 - Great War
150 items relating to the Great War.
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Austro-Hungarian Red Book. Official English Edition with an Introduction.
No Place, No Date (circa 1914). Printed pamphlet, pp.98; [4]. blank. Original price Ten Cents. Red wrappers, simple later paper spine and label. Slight lean else fine. More
Documents Diplomatiques 1914 La Guerre Européene. 1. Pièces Relatives aux Négotiations qui ont Précédé Les Déclarations de Guerre de L'Allemagne a La Russie (1er Août 1914) et a La France (3 Août 1914) Déclaration du 4 Septembre 1914.
Paris: Librairie Hachette Et Cie. 1914. Foreign Office Government publication [Ministére Des Affairés Etrangéres]. Printed pamphlet, pp.xx; 194; [1], imprint. Quatriéme édition. Original price 0fr.50. Slightly browned, simple later paper spine and label. Near fine. More
Great Britain and the European Crisis. Correspondence, and Statements In Parliament, together with an Introductory Narrative of Events.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914. Government publication. Printed pamphlet, pp.xxvi; 102. Original price One Penny. Blue wrappers, slightly browned, simple later paper spine and label. Near fine. More
The War Romance of the Salvation Army.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1919. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. 356 [4]. With 16 b/w photographic plates including frontispiece; 14 being double-sided. In publisher's brown cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. With original pictorial dust jacket. Near-fine with some wear to jacket edges and minor chipping to..... More
Winston Churchill in Peace and War.
London: George Newnes, Ltd. 1916. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[vi], xiv; 162; [2], blank. Bound in original red cloth titled and trimmed in black. Tape marks to flyleaves otherwise internally clean. Armorial bookplate of Charles Bird Williams, minor bumping, spine sunned. A very good copy of this wartime account of..... More
The Man From The Clouds.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. First US Edition. Crown Octavo. pp. 292. In publisher's blue cloth titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. From the library of Otto Penzler, owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York. Very minor edgewear, a light bump to head..... More
The Spy in Black.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1917. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt to spine and upper. Faded spine, dusty edges, extremities lightly rubbed. A sound and tight copy of this scarce title. A Great War espionage tale from the author of 'Carrington's Cases', etc. More
The Strand Magazine no. 322.
London: George Newnes. October 1917. First publication of Joseph Conrad's short story 'The Tale'. 24 x 17cm. pp. 62; 323 - 416. With 3 illustrations by C.M. Padday. In publisher's paper plain covers with blue Strand design and red 'Powerful Story by Joseph Conrad' to top, and 'The Fate of..... More
The British Campaigns in Europe 1914-1918.
London: Geoffrey Bles, [n.d. 1928]. FIRST EDITION. Demy Octavo. pp. 1024. In publisher's purple cloth, sunned to extremities, titled in gilt to spine. Very good. In a very good example of the scarce dustwrapper, spotted, chipped to spine ends with light edgewear and a closed tear to the upper margin..... More
Miss Eden's Letters.
London: Macmillan, 1919. General Wavell's copy. First Edition. Royal Octavo, pp. xvi, 414, [2], advertisements (predominantly listing military titles). In publisher's blue buckram. Discreet ownership inscription, covers flecked white; spine lettering dulled. A very good copy, which bears the pictorial bookplate of [then Brigadier General] A.P. Wavell, showing a Private..... More
Economic Problems of the Next War.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1939. FIRST EDITION. Demy Octavo. pp. x, 146 [2]. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Lacking jacket. Slight sunning to spine, otherwise very good. More
The History of the First Seven Battalions, The Royal Irish Rifles (Now the Royal Ulster Rifles) In the Great War. Vol. II.
Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1925. BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. xiv, 188 [1]. With 3 illustrations including frontispiece and 19 folding maps. In contemporary half brown morocco with brown cloth boards. Gilt titles to spine and gilt regimental badge to upper board. Top edge gilt and marbled end papers. Central..... More
The African Queen.
London: William Heinemann, 1935. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. 283. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Only 2500 copies were originally printed. Some discrete well-executed repair work to spine. Some marks to boards, otherwise a very good copy. Set in 1915 on the treacherous rivers of war-torn..... More
The Mud Larks, and The Mud Larks Again.
London: Methuen, 1918 - 1919. TWO FIRST EDITIONS, 'The Mud Larks Again' being scarce in good condition. Duodecimo. pp. 95 [8]; 96. 'The Mud Larks' in publisher's blue cloth, and 'The Mud Larks Again' in publisher's red cloth - both with white titles to spine and upper board. Edges untrimmed..... More
Genealogical Tables Illustrative of Modern History.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1916. FIFTH EDITION. Inverted Foolscap Folio (25x41cm). pp. iii, 54. In quarter blue cloth with grey paper-covered boards. Titles hand-inscribed in black ink to upper board. Binding weak; gutting split, and one of three tapes missing. Mould staining to spine. Large damp mark to top..... More
The Windsor Magazine No. 264. Vol. 45.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., December 1916. RARE ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Demy Octavo. pp. xl, 192 [8]. With frequent b/w in-text illustrations and 15 full-page colour plates. In original colour pictorial paper covers featuring Windsor Castle above the Thames; red and white titles. Adverts to prelims in the style of the..... More
The Last Million.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1919]. First Edition. Octavo. pp. xxxv, 271. In publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original dust jacket showing an impressionistic scene of soldiers set against a red exploding sky. Portions of jacket lost to corners and spine head/tail;..... More
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[SCRAPBOOK: Pancho Villa Expedition].
Private compilation, n.d., [June 1916-1918]. MEXICAN EXPEDITION SCRAPBOOK. Crown Quarto. Unpaginated. Containing newspaper clippings, personal letters, postcards and photographs relating to Horace L. Hevenor's involvement as a National Guardsman in the Pancho Villa Expedition during the Mexican Border War of 1910-1919. Lined paper notebook in quarter black leather-effect cloth with..... More
An Air Fighter's Scrapbook.
London: Nicholson and Watson, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 332. With 16 illustrated plates, including frontispiece. In publisher's black cloth blocked in red in pictorial dust jacket. Edges lightly spotted; bookplate of Robert Bradford Reid to paste-down. Minor crease to crown of jacket, slightly sunned at spine. A near fine..... More
Number 70, Berlin: A Story of Britain's Peril.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. pp. viii, 248. In publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and black/green titles to upper board. Purple pencil inscription to front paste-down errased, dated 1916. Some soiling to lower board, otherwise very good indeed. '[Le Queux] wrote scores of espionage..... More
Sir William Robertson: The Life Story of the Chief of the Imperial Staff.
London: Cassell, 1917. FIRST EDITION, SIR WILLIAM'S COPY. Duodecimo. pp. i, 150. With a b/w photographic frontispiece portrait of Sir William. In publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. Printed name-plate of Sir William Robertson to front free end-paper. Spine heavily sunned; further selective sunning to..... More
Sagittarius Rising.
London: Peter Davies, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp.viii; 332. In publisher's cream cloth with black titles to spine. Near-fine with a little spotting to edges. A memoir of the war in the air, and the inspiration for the 1976 film 'Aces-High', staring Malcolm McDowell and Christopher Plumber... More
Gallipoli.
London: William Heinemann, 1916. First Edition. Small Octavo. pp.viii, 183. With 18 plates, frontispiece map and folding map. The printed dedication is to Sir Ian Hamilton. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine and upper. Pictorial bookplate to pastedown, covers rather sunned. A very good copy overall. This is..... More
Army Diary 1899-1926.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1960. [Travel/Military] FIRST EDITION. Royal Octavo. Pp.viii; 301; [3], blank. With 39 black and white plates and 25 maps printed in colour. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. Minor shelfwear, internally very clean, jacket a little nicked and rubbed, faded to spine. Colonel Richard Henry Meinertzhagen..... More
Flying and Soldiering.
London: Ivar Nicholson and Watson, 1936. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 320. With 7 photographic illustrations including frontispiece. In publisher's pale blue cloth stamped in red to spine. With original mottled blue and white dust jacket. Some moderate wear, a few neat tape mends to reverse side, spine a little toned;..... More