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Catalogue 46 - Great War
150 items relating to the Great War.
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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
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 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 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
The German White-Book (only authorized translation) How Russia and her ruler betrayed Germany's confidence and thereby caused the European War, with the original telegrams and notes
Berlin: Liebheit and Thiesen [1914]. Printed pamphlet, pp.48. Original price 40Pf. Cream wrappers, slightly browned, simple later paper spine. Near fine. More
Diplomatic Correspondence Respecting The War Published by the Belgian Government. Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. October 1914.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914. Government publication, Miscellaneous No.12 (1914). Printed pamphlet, pp.viii; 76. Original price 4 1/2d. Slightly browned, simple later paper spine. Near fine. More
Her Privates We.
London: Peter Davies, 1930. First Cheap Edition, being the first impression sold with an illustrated paper dust-wrapper (the sixth impression overall). Octavo. pp. i, 453. All previous impressions had pictorial cloth with a glassine jacket. Bound in oatmeal cloth blocked in black to the back-strip. A very good copy in..... More
Sapper's War Stories.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1930]. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 1056. In publisher's cream cloth, with original dustjacket. Armorial bookplate of Hibbert family. A very good copy, with tide mark to rear board and lower area of gutters, some soiling to jacket. Still a presentable copy. This is a rather..... More
The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War, 1914-19. Bridging.
Chatham: W. and J. Mackay, 1921. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. 87. With 3 very large folding colour maps, 59 b/w photographs, and 33 folding schematic plans for various military structures and vehicles. In publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Blue ink ownership inscription to front..... More