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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
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
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
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
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
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
The Rajputs: A Fighting Race. A Short Account of the Rajput Race, its Warlike Past, its Early Connections with Great Britain, and its Gallant Services at the Present Moment at the Front.
London: East and West Ltd. 1915. First Edition. Quarto, pp. xvi, 164. With a foreword by General Sir O'Moore Creagh, ex commander-in-Chief, India. With 61 plates tipped in. In khaki cloth with gilt titles spine and upper board, gilt margins to upper board. Top edge gilt, all other edges untrimmed..... More
An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands.
Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. 1914. FIRST EDITION, dated 1914 only (some remaindered copies were over-stamped with the date 1916). Octavo, pp.183, with full-page photographic plates inserted. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR [Fort Leavenworth, 1918] TO HER PUBLISHER, Captain Franklin Hudson, explaining..... More
The Sub: The Autobiography of David Munro, Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo. pp. 356 [2]. With 5 b/w illustrated plates including frontispiece. In publisher's cyan cloth with darker blue titles to spine and upper board. Lacking jacket. Slight browning to poor quality paper, and slight sunning to spine; near-fine overall. An account of..... More
The Legion Book. With contributions by Churchill, Kipling, Huxley, Wodehouse, Sapper, etc.
London: Cassell and co., 1929. Quarto. Bound in red buckram with gilt titles to spine, front and bottom edges uncut, top edge stained red. With twelve half-tone illustrations by promient artists. Binding is tight, with slight bumping to corners, as well as top and tail of spine, but otherwise good..... More
A Son at the Front.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 426. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Outer edge untrimmed. Spine slightly sunned and gilding dulled; otherwise very good indeed. More
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