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Catalogue 46 - Great War
150 items relating to the Great War.
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Roads to Glory.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Demy Octavo. pp. 278. no. 199 of 360 copies, signed by the author to limitation page. With original glassine jacket. In quarter blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and orange / white patterned paper-covered boards. All edges untrimmed. Near-fine with... More
With The American Ambulance Field Service in France.
Printed Only for Private Distribution. 1915. First Edition. Crown octavo, pp.[xvi]; 129; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth backed grey boards, printed in red, paper label to spine, edges untrimmed. Trivial wear, armorial bookplate, pencil name A.P. Andrew', one or two light marks to covers. A near fine copy. The personal... More
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
Episodes of the Great War.
Toronto, ON: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1936. First Canadian Edition. Octavo. pp. xiii, 402. With 10 photographic plates including frontispiece, and 6 maps. Maps of the Western and Eastern Fronts to end-papers. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket showing soldiers 'going over... More
A Prince of the Captivity.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. 383. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles in pictorial dust-jacket. Book appears unread, with some faint marking to the edges. The jacket shows light use; some nicks to the spine ends and one short tear to the rear joint. A bright... More
Money and Foreign Exchange After 1914.
London: Constable, 1922. First Edition. Octavo. pp. vii, 287. In publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine. Very minor edgewear, near fine. Fore-edge untrimmed, spotting to page edges, light sporadic foxing to page block. Ex libris label to front flyleaf. A very attractive copy of an intelligent assessment of... More
The World Crisis 1911-1918.
Thornton Butterworth, Limited, London, 1931, First Single Volume Edition, with the first appearance of the chapter on "The Battle of the Marne". 8vo., pps. 831. Illustrated with many maps and diagrams. Bound in green recent half morocco, green cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Fine. WOODS... 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
Memories and Adventures.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1924. FIRST US EDITION. Large Octavo. pp. vii, 410 [2]. With frontisportrait. In publisher's dark green gilt-titled cloth in original dust-jacket. Rather scarce in the jacket. Bookseller ticket 'Chas. E. Lauriat, Boston'. gilt nearly lost from spine titles. Jacket worn with losses to all edges... More
Tales of Wonder.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1916. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xi, 187. With 6 illustrations by H. Sime, including frontispiece. In publisher's grey paper covered boards with cream cloth spine. Black titles to spine and upper board. Some browning and wear. Good. The preface states: 'These are tales of peace. Those who... 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
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Blackwood's Magazine [Featuring 'The Thirty Nine Steps']: Volume 198.
London: William Blackwood and Sons, July-December 1915. FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo. pp. vi, 861, including index. In library-commissioned green cloth with gilt titles to spine, blind to upper board. All edges red-flecked. Green floral end-papers. Also including the first appearance of 'The First Hundred Thousand', by Ian Hay (here writing under... 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