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1936182202N: Corvinus Press 1936. Pp. 48including blanks; wide demy 4to; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half maize linen lettered and decorated in gilt patterned papered boards; t.e.g. others uncut; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown the free endpapers faintly offset a couple of tiny spots of foxing; Corvinus Press 1936. First edition limited to 128 numbered copies signed by the authors; this being one of 24 copies on Barcham Green 'Medway' paper specially printed for the authors. O'Brien E101; Ridler 2; Nash & Flavell 2. The first 24 copies of this edition were printed for the authors 12 each for presentation. This is one of the copies printed for Sir Ronald Storrs and is inscribed by him on the upper free endpaper: 'Homage from the English Arachnoit' dated '22 VII 36'. The text comprises two speeches made about a month after the death of T. E. Lawrence at a luncheon held in his memory: Lawrence. The artist in war and letters by Liddell Hart and Lawrence. Himself by Storrs. The Corvinus Press was founded by Viscount Carlow in the mid-1930s. In 1944 Carlow was killed in action during the Second World War and the plant and equipment were acquired by Lord Kemsley who established the Dropmore Press in 1945. Corvinus Press unknown
1936142590London: The Corvinus Press 1936. Inscribed by Liddell Hart to his "dearest friend since birth" Signed limited edition number 8 of 12 copies printed for Liddell Hart and signed by himself and Ronald Storrs out of a total edition of 128 additionally inscribed by Liddell Hart on the front free endpaper "To Marie my dearest friend since birth from Basil". This copy retains the rare glassine jacket and flaps unknown to Philip M. O'Brien Lawrence's bibliographer. The recipient of the book was surely given the tender inscription his childhood nurse Marie Nield: "It was fortunate that I had an angelic nurse Marie Nield - to her I owed much in every way and she was a friend for the rest of her life" Liddell Hart The Memoirs vol. I 1965 p. 6. The Corvinus Press was established in 1936 by Viscount Carlow who had formed a friendship with Lawrence in the early 1930s based on a shared interest in book-collecting fine printing and languages; they had even discussed setting up a private press - a plan that foundered due to Lawrence's premature death. Lawrence of Arabia prints the speeches by Liddell Hart and Storrs given at a luncheon in memory of Lawrence about a month after his death; that by Liddell Hart is entitled "Lawrence: The Artist in War and Literature" and that by Storrs "Lawrence: Himself". Quarto. Original sand-coloured half cloth matching kinari chiri paper sides by Sangorski & Sutcliffe spine lettered in gilt single gilt rules at spine and corner edges Corvinus device to front cover top edge gilt others uncut. With the original glassine jacket and paper flaps. Some unsightly foxing to limitation and terminal leaves the book in all other respects fine glassine with minor loss and closed tear at extremities yet in a remarkably nice state of preservation. An excellent copy. O'Brien E101. hardcover
1936177747London: The Corvinus Press 1936. Inscribed by the owner of the Corvinus Press to E. M. Forster Signed limited edition number 103 of 128 copies signed by Liddell Hart and Ronald Storrs inscribed on the front free endpaper "To E. M. Forster from Carlow. The printer of this book. Nov 22 1936". This copy retains the rare jacket unknown to O'Brien. The Corvinus Press was established in 1936 by Viscount Carlow who had formed a friendship with Lawrence in the early 1930s based on a shared interest in book collecting fine printing and languages. They had even discussed setting up a private press - a plan that foundered due to Lawrence's premature death. E. M. Forster and Lawrence first met in 1921 at the house of Emir Feisal. Forster was impressed by Lawrence who was already famous for his exploits in the Arab Revolt. Three years later Siegfried Sassoon asked Forster to read the as-yet unpublished Seven Pillars of Wisdom which left him so inspired that he wrote a letter of effusive praise to Lawrence: "You will never show it to any one who will like it more than I do: its subject and incidentals suit me: also my critical sense never stops telling me it's fine" Lawrence 9. This kindled a friendship that lasted until Lawrence's death as one of Forster's many queer relationships forged through the intimate exchange of literature. They continued most of their correspondence through letters discussing and critiquing each other's work but also visiting in person a number of times. In 1927 Forster dedicated The Eternal Moment and Other Stories "To TE in the absence of anything else". Lawrence of Arabia prints the speeches by Liddell Hart and Storrs given at a luncheon in memory of Lawrence about a month after his death; that by Liddell Hart is entitled "Lawrence: The Artist in War and Literature" and that by Storrs "Lawrence: Himself". The edition comprised 24 copies on Medway paper specially printed for Liddell Hart and Storrs 25 copies on Boswell paper 6 copies on Winchmore Blue paper and 70 further copies on Medway paper. There were also 3 copies kept for the publisher. All 128 copies in the edition were signed. Quarto. Original brown quarter hessian cloth spine lettered in gilt single gilt rules at spine and corner edges brown kinari chiri paper boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe Corvinus device to front board top edge gilt others uncut. With original clear plastic dust jacket and paper flaps. Cloth fresh title a little offset; jacket with a few chips to edges rear flap judiciously stabilized: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. O'Brien E101. hardcover
1936180791London: The Corvinus Press 1936. Born of ambition founded on knowledge executed through personality Signed limited edition number 95 out of 128 copies printed for Liddell Hart and signed by himself and Ronald Storrs. Loosely inserted is a compliments slip from Viscount Carlow who founded the Corvinus Press in 1936. Carlow had formed a friendship with Lawrence in the early 1930s which was largely based on a shared interest in book-collecting fine printing and languages. They had even discussed setting up a private press - a plan that foundered due to Lawrence's premature death. Lawrence of Arabia prints the speeches by Liddell Hart and Storrs given at a luncheon in memory of Lawrence about a month after his death; that by Liddell Hart is entitled "Lawrence: The Artist in War and Literature" and that by Storrs "Lawrence: Himself". The edition comprised 24 copies on Medway paper specially printed for Liddell Hart and Storrs 25 copies on Boswell paper 6 copies on Winchmore Blue paper and 70 further copies on Medway paper. There were also 3 copies kept for the printer. All 128 copies in the edition were signed. Quarto. Original brown quarter hessian cloth spine lettered in gilt single gilt rules at spine and corner edges brown kinari chiri paper boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe Corvinus device to front board top edge gilt others uncut. Small repair to top edge of front board spine ends and fore edges of leaves a little darkened rear endpapers with minor foxing: a very good copy. O'Brien E101. Arnold Walter Lawrence ed. T.E. Lawrence by His Friends 1968 pp. 182-88. hardcover
193621662London: The Corvinus Press 1936. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Finely printed on Barcham Green "Medway" handmade paper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe cloth spine gilt title handmade paper over boards with the Corvinus device block in gilt on the upper board. A fine copy. In the original strange glassine cover with paper flaps and in the publisher's nondescript slipcase.<br /> <p><br /> The book is in fine condition. The glassine has some splits and is a bit shorter than the book its paper flaps with some foxing. The card slipcase is worn especially at the top and bottom ends.<br /> <p><br /> One of 70 copies from a total edition of 128 copies. This is number 98 and is signed by both authors.<br /> <p><br /> Prints the authors' speeches made at a luncheon in memory of Lawrence about a month after his death. <br /> <p><br /> O'Brien E101.<br /> <p>. The Corvinus Press hardcover
194032442AB1940. Mixed Editions. 30 Volumes. London John Lehmann / Allen Lane - Penguin Books / Rupert Hart-Davis 1940-1965. Octavo. The Postcards written from Venice Florence and Santa Barbarabetween the years 1952 and 1977 / Postcard I: From John Lehmann in Venice to Adrian Liddell Hart: "This city does not boast a supply of the "Sunday Dispatch" and as the writer was gripped and enthralled by the last installment on June 1st he hopes you will keep copies of the .for him to read on his return in ten Days time - J." / Postcard II: From John Lehmann in Florence to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Am staying with Sir Harold Acton here in his marvellous Villa - calme luxe "Villa La Pietra" all night.pity you aren't with me. Off to the sea this afternoon - may post this in Porto Ercole. Your old friend is relaxing. Gracefully - Love J." Date hard to decipher possibly in 1962 / 3. Postcard III: From John Lehmann in Santa Barbara in California to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Terribly sorry to hear about the broken leg may it mend quickly as surely it must undo the ministrations of Florence .Nightingale. I expect to be in England all March but then off again - to Jimmy Carter Country - Love J." 20.2.77. Hardcover and Softcover. Of the series of 28 Volumes of the "New Writing " Series only three with stronger signs of wear and in poorer condition. All others in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Lehmann's personal copy of Sean O'Faolain's Autobiography with the original dustjacket in poor condition but the Volume itself very good. This set of books belonged to Adrian Liddell Hart Lover and friend of publisher John Lehman from whom he received these publications fresh from the press. Included in the collection are for example: "The Penguin New Writing" Volume I - Second Edition 1941 with Georg Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" / Morton Freedgood - "Good Nigger" etc. Volume II: - First Edition 1941 with a note in pencil by Lehman: "Publication Jan. 10" with Rosamond Lehmann - A Dream of Winter / Stephen Spender - Books and the War I / Louis MacNeice - June Thunder / B.L.Coombes - The Way we live now I / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz etc. Volume III: - First Edition 1941 with W.H.Auden - Lay your sleeping Head / Willy Goldman - The Way we live now II / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz - II / Rosamond Lehmann - When the Winters came / Jean Giono - The Corn Dies / Volume IV: - First Edition 1941 with Louis MacNeice - March gave clear Days / C.Day Lewis - Ode in Fear / Margot Heinemann - Grieve in a New Way etc. Volume V: - First Edition 1941 with W.H.Auden - Exiles / F.G.Lorca - The Dawn / Louis MacNeice - The Way we live now IV etc. Volume VI: - First Edition 1941 with John Lehmann - Seven Poems of Vienna / Bert Brecht - The Informer / Dylan Thomas - A Visit to Grandpa's / etc. Volume VII: - First Edition 1941 with Jean Paul Sartre - The Wall / F.G.Lorca - Song / W.H.Auden - The Leaves of Life / Rosamond Lehmann - For Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume VIII: - First Edition 1941 with Laurie Lee - The Armoured Valley / Dylan Thomas - The Peaches / Georg Anders - Song of the Austrians / Ahmed Ali - Morning in Delhi / Beatrix Lehmann - The £2000 Rasperry etc. Volume IX: - First Edition 1941 with Graham Greene - Men at Work / Robert Pagan - The Night before the War / F.G.Lorca - Song of the Andalusian Sailors / Charles Brasch - In These Islands / Inez Holden - The Flat above me / Yuri Olesha - Love etc. Volume X: - First Edition 1941 with Laurie Lee - Poem / Jean Howard - The Night of the Landslide / Ignazio Silone - The Journey to Paris / Rex Warner - Two Sonnets / Roderick Finlayson - The Totara Tree / W.H.Auden - The Novelist etc. Volume XI: - First Edition 1941 with Anna Seghers - The Rescue / Dylan Thomas - Extraordinary Little Cough / F.G.Lorca - The Clear Death / Isobel Leslie - Fine Spring Weather / Volume XIII: - First Edition 1942 with Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Christopher Isherwood - Berlin Diary II / John Lehmann - Vigils / Frank Sargeson - Making of a New Zealander / Paul Nizan - About Theseus / Elsa Triolet - "Mayakovsky - Poet of Russia" / With Drawings by Keith Vaughan / Volume XIV: - First Edition 1942 with Julia Strachey - Fragment from a Diary / Christopher Isherwood - The Day at La Verne / W.H.Auden - Two Poems / Walter Allen - Reflections on Aldous Huxley / With Photogravure Illustrations From the Film "The Foreman went to France" / Volume XVIII: - First Edition 1943 with John Lehmann - The Heart of the Problem / Walter Allen - The Novels of Graham Greene / George Barker - Elegy on the Eve / Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Jiri Mucha - Manoeuvres / etc. Volume XIX: - First Edition 1944 with Edith Sitwell - One Day in Spring / Donagh MacDonagh - My Grandfather was Irish / W.H.Auden - Victor / John Lehmann - Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume XX: - First Edition 1944 with Demetrios Capetanakis - The Isles of Greece / Elizabeth Bowen - Mysterious Kor / George Barker - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - Girl and Butterfly / John Lehmann - Three Poems / H.B.Mallalieu - Two Poems / William Plomer - Introduction to E.M.Forster etc. Volume XXIII: - First Edition 1945 with Denis Glover - It was D-Day / John Heath-Stubbs- The Defeat of Romanticism / Laurie Lee - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - A Song of the Cold etc. Volume XXIV: - First Edition 1945 with Frank O'Connor - A Story by Maupassant / Peter Viertel - Smudge / John Lehmann - State Art and Scepticism / etc. Volume XXV: - First Edition 1945 with Anthony Thorne - Potatoes Have Hips of Their Own / Rupert Doone - Three Shakespearean Productions / John Heath-Stubbs - Georg Crabbe and the Eighteenth Century / etc. Volume XXVI: - First Edition 1945 with John Lehmann - Two Poems / Alec Guinness - Money for Jam / etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann 2 June 1907 7 April 1987 was an English publisher poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals "New Writing" and "The London Magazine" and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. Born in Bourne End Buckinghamshire the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann and brother of Helen Lehmann novelist Rosamond Lehmann and actress Beatrix Lehmann he was educated at Eton and read English at Trinity College Cambridge. He considered his time at both as "lost years". At Trinity Lehmann had a passionate relationship with Virginia Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell. After a period as a journalist in Vienna he returned to England to found the popular periodical New Writing 193640 in book format. This literary magazine sought to break down social barriers and published works by working-class authors as well as educated middle-class writers and poets. It proved a great influence on literature of the period and an outlet for writers such as Christopher Isherwood W. H. Auden Edward Upward and miner-author B. L. Coombes. Lehmann included many of these authors in his anthology Poems for Spain which he edited with Stephen Spender. With the onset of the Second World War and paper rationing New Writing's future was uncertain and so Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe for Pelican Books one of the first critical summaries of the writers of the 1930s in which he championed the authors who had been the stars of New WritingAuden and Spenderand also his close friend Tom Wintringham and Wintringham's ally the emerging George Orwell. Wintringham reintroduced Lehmann to Allen Lane of Penguin Books who secured paper for The Penguin New Writing a monthly book-magazine this time in paperback. The first issue featured Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant". Occasional hardback editions combined with the magazine Daylight appeared sporadically but it was as Penguin New Writing that the magazine survived until 1950. He joined Leonard and Virginia Woolf as managing director of Hogarth Press between 1938 and 1946. He then established his own publishing company John Lehmann Limited with his novelist sister Rosamond Lehmann who had a nine-year affair with one of Lehmann's contributing poets Cecil Day-Lewis. They published new works by authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Nikos Kazantzakis and discovered talents like Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee. Lehmann edited two anthologies of new writing entitled Orpheus: A Symposium of the Arts 194849. He also published the first two books by the cookery writer Elizabeth David A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking. He published two of Denton Welch's posthumous works: A Voice Through a Cloud for which he supplied the title 1950 and A Last Sheaf 1951. This publishing house published several book series including the Chiltern Library the Holiday Library the Modern European Library and the Library of Art and Travel. It operated from 19461953. In 1954 he founded The London Magazine remaining as editor until 1961 following which he was a frequent lecturer and completed his three-volume autobiography Whispering Gallery 1955 I Am My Brother 1960 and The Ample Proposition 1966. In The Purely Pagan Sense 1976 is an autobiographical record of his homosexual life in England and pre-war Germany discreetly written in the form of a novel. He also wrote the biographies Edith Sitwell 1952 Virginia Woolf and her World 1975 Thrown to the Woolfs 1978 Rupert Brooke 1980 and Christopher Isherwood. A Personal Memoir 1987. His book Three Literary Friendships 1983 deals with the relationships between Lord Byron and Percy Shelley Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine Robert Frost and Edward Thomas. In 1965 he published Christ the Hunter a spiritual/autobiographical prose poem which had been broadcast in 1964 on the BBC Third Programme. In 1974 Lehmann published a book of poems The Reader at Night hand-printed on handmade paper and hand-bound in an edition of 250 signed copies Toronto Basilike 1974. An essay by Paul Davies about the creation of this book is included in Professor A.T. Tolley's collection John Lehmann: A Tribute Ottawa; Carleton University Press 1987 which also includes pieces by Roy Fuller Thom Gunn Charles Osborne Christopher Levenson Jeremy Reed George Woodcock and others. John Lehmann died in London on 7 April 1987 aged 79. Wikipedia paperback
1938132338London: Faber and Faber Limited 1938. Information about himself in the form of letters notes answers to questions and conversations. In two volumes. Volume 1: Robert Graves: Pp. iix188last blank frontispiece plus l plate title page vignette printed in brown several pages printed in red & black; Volume 2: Liddell Hart: Pp. iix234last blank frontispiece portrait title page vignette printed in brown; both med. 8vo; one volume Hart grey buckram the spine and upper board blocked in red & lettered & ruled in gilt the same colours reversed for the other volume; t.e.g. others uncut; the printed paper flaps only of the original acetate & paper dust wrappers loosely inserted in each volume; housed together within a grey cloth slipcase which is a trifle soiled; bookplate on upper free endpapers the outer leaves slightly offset scattered light foxing; Faber and Faber Limited London 1938. First editions limited to l000 sets each volume signed by the author; this being number 42 of 500 sets for Great Britain. O'Brien A210 & A211. 'These volumes published in editions of 500 each in both England and America are remarkable documents showing Lawrence's intimate work with two of his biographers. The letters manuscript commentary and corrections reveal the nature of information Lawrence supplied and the interpretation he allowed the authors to derive from it.' O'Brien p. 147. Faber and Faber Limited unknown
1936182054London: Faber and Faber Limited 1936. First edition warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Otto Miksche a cherished friend for many years - this further memento of our scholarly discussions from Basil Liddell Hart Wolverton Park Bucks 29 September 1953". A prolific and influential writer on politico-military affairs Miksche 1904-1992 attended the Imperial Military College in Vienna and the Ludovika Military Academy in Budapest. After service in the Czech army he joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Forced to flee Czechoslovakia at the onset of the war he held various posts with the Allies serving for some time on De Gaulle's personal staff. In 1945 he became advisor to SHAEF on central European affairs and was appointed Czechoslovakian Military Attaché to both France and Belgium until the communist regime took power in Czechoslovakia in 1948 when he accepted a commission in the French army. He continued writing into the late 1980s. Liddell Hart contributed the preface to his Paratroops: The History Organization and Tactical Use of Airborne Formations 1943. Octavo. 4 in-text maps 3 folding maps at the end. Original pale blue cloth red-lettered spine. With dust jacket. Edges foxed touch of foxing internally occasional light pencil underlinings to text presumably by Miksche; spine of unclipped jacket toned a few nicks and chips: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
1938767A14London: Faber and Faber 1938. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 9" by 6.5". Unnamed. A fascinating set complete in two first editions illustrating T E Lawrence's intimate work with his biographers Robert Graves and Liddell Hart. A limited edition signed by Graves and Hart in slipcase. The first edition of this work issued in a limited edition to one thousand numbered and signed copies five hundred of which are printed for Great Britain. Complete in two volumes with the original slipcase.Signed by Graves and Hart to each respective volumes on the limitation page.A fascinating set documenting the remarkable work of T E Lawrence with two of his biographers Robert Graves and Liddell Hart. With letters notes answers to questions and conversations that reveal the nature of the information provided and how Graves and Hart interpreted as well as what Lawrence allowed them to take from it. Two volumes illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally excellent with only minor shelfwear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Signed by Robert Graves and Liddell Hart to each respective volumes on the limitation page. The cloth to the spine has slightly faded. Loosely inserted three newspaper articles relating to Lawrence dated 2010. With KG and GNL Edmonds' bookplate to the front pastedown. The slipcase is in excellent condition with minor shelfwear only. Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. Near Fine Faber and Faber hardcover
1965167337London: Cassell 1965. First edition first impression presentation copy from the author inscribed on the front free endpaper of each volume "For Gerry Bryant in grateful appreciation of his help his grasp and his insight as my teaching assistant at UCD. Basil Liddell Hart"; and "To Gerry Bryant in friendship and esteem - with warm appreciation of an association in the exposition of military history and every good wish for his future from Basil Liddell Hart. Davis November 1965". Dr Gerry J. Bryant assisted Liddell Hart when in 1965 the latter was appointed visiting distinguished professor at the University of California Davis where Bryant studied for an MA in Modern European History. He has written extensively on the British military experience in 18th-century India publishing in 2013 The Emergence of British Power in India 1600-1784: A Grand Strategic Interpretation. 2 vols octavo. With 44 photographic half-tone illustrations. Original green cloth spines lettered in gilt. With dust jackets. Light fading of cloth foxing to edges and outer leaves; jacket spines toned and faded that of vol. I torn and creased but sound vol. II jacket slightly nicked with single crease to rear flap neither price-clipped: a very good set in good and very good jackets. hardcover
1927181926London: John Murray 1927. First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To 'Tim' Harington from B. H. Liddell Hart 15 July 1927." General Sir Charles Harington 1872-1940 distinguished himself on the western front serving in the Second Army under Plumer his "brilliant staff work complementing Plumer's powers as a commander" ODNB. Liddell Hart inscribed this copy a few months after Harington's promotion to full general. Five years later Harington was one of the names he proposed when asked by Maurice Hankey the secretary to the Cabinet to suggest a replacement for George Milne as Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Between 1918 and 1920 Harington had served as Deputy CIGS. In Remaking one of his regular collections of published articles Liddell Hart stresses the importance of mobility. "Its moral is that nothing less than rebirth can revive mobility in armies and in warfare. And without mobility an army is but a corpse - awaiting burial in a trench" p. x. Octavo. Original red cloth spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Hint of bowing spine sunned through gaps in jacket gilt tarnished; jacket flaps without price as issued losses to spine and front panel touching first word of title on latter short splits along folds: a very good copy in good jacket. hardcover
1934191023London: Jonathan Cape 1934. First edition first impression the copy of David Garnett with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. Liddell Hart produced one of the earliest and most influential biographies of Lawrence relying on official histories correspondence with friends and colleagues and research into Lawrence's own war time papers. David Garnett 1892-1981 was the son of Edward Garnett the publisher and editorial advisor to Jonathan Cape. He came to share a close friendship with Lawrence often exchanging letters and giving his thoughts on manuscripts. Garnett was one of the first readers of The Mint and published their correspondence in The Letters of T. E. Lawrence 1938 and Selected Letters of T. E. Lawrence 1952. Octavo. Photographic portrait frontispiece of T. E. Lawrence 11 half-tone photographic plates 5 folding maps maps in text. Original red buckram spine and front board lettered in gilt red board blind-stamped with publisher's device top edge red bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Cloth a touch marked spine a little cocked contents lightly foxed especially title page; jacket unclipped overall toned and foxed closed tears and spine ends sometime repaired with tissue on verso: a very good copy in like jacket. O'Brien E058. hardcover
1970181900London: Cassell 1970. You are such a brilliant editor First edition thus presentation set each volume inscribed by Kathleen Liddell Hart to Kenneth Parker her husband's close friend and literary executor. In her preface to Second World War she writes "that we are all most indebted to Kenneth Parker of Cassell's. who has had the heavy task of organizing the History for publication after Basil's death." Second World War is inscribed "For Kenneth Parker To whom so much is owed for his dedicated work as editor especially in the final stages with deep gratitude. From Kathleen Liddell Hart" the inscription in First World War thanking Parker "with gratitude and affection always." Loosely inserted is a typed letter signed dated 21 July 1970 in which she praises Parker's editorial skill: "You have with such efficiency knowledge and may I say affection seen three works through the press - all difficult ones. I've never known you cross or nettled and you knew always just how to deal with an exacting author and now with a poor especially in brain-power widow. You are such a brilliant editor." An accompanying second letter written by hand and dated 24 October 1970 thanks him for flowers sent by Cassell "I'll put some on Basil's grave of course" and describes A. J. P. Taylor's review of Second World War as "horrid." The Second World War in this set is a first edition. To coincide with publication Cassell released a new companion edition of First World War first published in 1930 and revised in 1934. The histories were available separately or together in a slipcase as here. 2 vols octavo. Maps in text. Original red cloth spines lettered in gilt top edge red. With dust jackets. Housed in publisher's blue card slipcase. A few marks and light rubbing to cloth; jackets unclipped spines sunned a few nicks: fine copies in near-fine jackets the slipcase worn in places. hardcover
1944101382AB1944. Firenze / Reims / Tanger / Dingle etc. etc. 1944 - 1970. Small Oblong Octavo. 45 postcards. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The collection also comes with 3 additional postcards written by Kathleen to Basil's mother. paperback
1938167352London: Faber and Faber Ltd 1938. First edition first impression inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Esmé Wingfield-Stratford a token of long friendship & common endeavours from Basil H. Liddell Hart. 15th December 1938". An archive of their correspondence across more than 30 years is held at King's College London. Wingfield-Stratford 1882-1971 was a prolific writer outstanding among his 40 books being The History of English Patriotism 1913 The History of British Civilization 1928 and a wartime study of Churchill. "He was intensely patriotic as befitted someone with a military ancestry on both sides devoted in particular to England's free institutions. Yet he was at the same time strongly opposed to the imperialism which was so prominent a feature of the political scene in his early years. He saw tragedy in England's relationship with Ireland and in the conflict with the Boers. This aspect of his thought was fully apparent in his series of volumes on the Victorian age and its aftermath which occupied him in the 1930s" ODNB. Dedicated to the official historian Sir J. E. Edmonds Liddell Hart here "denounces British generalship harshly" ODNB and analyses the First World War "when Europe appears to lie under the shadow of another 'Great War'" foreword. He gives a brief overview of the conflict followed by chapters on the leading personalities T. E. Lawrence included; covers personal views from some of the main protagonists; focuses on the campaigns on the Western Front and Gallipoli; details three further "episodes" in the war; and concludes with "Some Lessons from History". Octavo. Original black cloth spine lettered in gilt. Number "797" marked in red pencil on front free endpaper. Binding lightly rubbed sporadic internal foxing. A very good copy. hardcover
1938175886New York: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1938. First US edition signed limited issue number 419 of 1000 copies. These works collect Lawrence's correspondence with two of his most famous biographers. The letters contained in these two works span 1920-35 revealing Lawrence's close connection with his biographers and his attempts to carefully control his reputation. The corrections to both Graves's and Liddell Hart's manuscripts take the form of strikethroughs and additions in italics showing both Lawrence's attention to detail and his skill as a writer. Other matters are also discussed such as Lawrence's opinions on the publication of I Claudius pp. 174-79 in Graves. The frontispiece in Graves is based on a pen-and-ink sketch he bought at the Caledonian Market. Robert Graves published the greatly successful biography Lawrence and the Arabs in 1927. Liddell Hart published his biography T. E. Lawrence in Arabia and After in 1934. 2 works octavo. Portrait frontispieces single half-tone photographic plate; title pages printed in brown and black. Original light brown buckram red spine labels flat spines ruled in gilt and red front covers lettered in blind cream coated endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed. With dust jackets. Housed in publisher's card slipcase with pictorial label and blurb. Covers inner hinges titles and frontispieces with some foxing and tidemarks otherwise clean; jackets clipped variously toned spines a little nicked spine lettering faded; slipcase repaired at joints: a very good set in like jackets. O'Brien A214 A215; Higginson A49. hardcover
1965545319London: Cassell & Company Ltd 1965. Volume One and Two. Hardcovers in good condition with unclipped dust jackets in acceptable condition. Signed and dedicated by author to Michael and Khoan Sullivan two of the world's most significant collectors of Modern Chinese Art whose bookplate is present to inside pastedown. Postcard from Lady Liddell Hart to the Sullivans laid in. Jackets are marked and sunned and edges are creased and torn. Board spine ends are bumped and rubbed and page blocks are tanned and blemished. Bindings are sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Used. Cassell & Company Ltd Hardcover
1944188104London: Faber and Faber Ltd 1944. First edition warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper "To F. O. Miksche in friendship and admiration - for his own zealous and stimulating thought on war from Basil Liddell Hart" and with a number of marginal markings presumably by Mikscke. Brian Bond describes Thoughts on War as one of Liddell Hart's "most self-revealing and interesting books." A prolific and influential writer on politico-military affairs Ferdinand Otto Miksche 1904-1992 attended the Imperial Military College in Vienna and the Ludovika Military Academy in Budapest. After service in the Czech army he joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Forced to flee Czechoslovakia at the onset of the war he held various posts with the Allies serving for some time on De Gaulle's personal staff. In 1945 he became advisor to SHAEF on central European affairs and was appointed Czechoslovakian Military Attaché to both France and Belgium until the communist regime took power in Czechoslovakia in 1948 when he accepted a commission in the French army. He continued writing into the late 1980s. Liddell Hart contributed the preface to his Paratroops: The History Organization and Tactical Use of Airborne Formations 1943. Octavo. Original black cloth rebacked with the original gilt-lettered spine laid down. A few marks to covers. inner hinge cracked at last spread of index. general peripheral toning. A good copy. Brian Bond Liddell Hart: A Study of His Military Thought 1991. hardcover
1942101384AB1942. Santa Barbara / Firenze / Washington / Sweden / Germany etc. etc. etc. 1942 - c. 1989. Small Oblong Octavo. postcards. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Content of the postcards mainly of private nature about travel meetings small talk etc. paperback
1968167287London: Cassell 1968. First edition first impression presentation copy from the author with a typed letter signed and inscribed warmly on the front free endpaper "To Alice Saxby in deep appreciation and affection - with its personal tribute to you on page 111. From Basil Liddell Hart. States House Medmenham Marlow Bucks". In the letter signed "Basil" and dated 20 August 1969 Liddell Hart asks Saxby to confirm safe receipt of this copy and notes that "Monty was here for lunch today - looking better than he did last year and full of vigour and we were talking warmly about you"; this is presumably a reference to Field Marshal Montgomery whom Saxby nursed while he was undergoing minor surgery at the King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers in January 1955. Alice Saxby 1904-1987 was matron at the hospital from 1948 to 1969 and a leading figure who "lived for the hospital" Hough p. 126. Liddell Hart describes his visits to the hospital in the present work in his essay "Forced to Think": "I did not myself return there as a patient until forty years later for a major operation when I was happy to find that founder Sister Agnes's successor as matron Miss Alice Saxby was quite as dynamic while more knowledgeable" ibid. p. 111. Saxby's death was widely reported in the newspapers and "all the senior members of the royal family were represented at the service" Dorothy Shipsey cited in Hough p. 171. This collection of 42 original essays was published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the armistice. It includes pieces by Robert Graves Edmund Blunden Gerald Brenan L. P. Hartley R. C. Sherriff Charles Carrington R. H. Mottram Cyril Falls Sir Compton Mackenzie Alec Waugh Vera Brittain Esmé Wingfield-Stratford and Correlli Barnett. Octavo. Map of the Western Front facing Robert Graves's contribution on p. 2. Original black cloth spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Cloth lightly rubbed and marked spots to edges contents clean; jacket spine lettering faintly toned purple colour bright rubbing and occasional nicks unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket. Not in Higginson & Williams A Bibliography of the Writings of Robert Graves. Richard Hough Sister Agnes: The History of King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers 1899-1999 1998. hardcover
1934175310London: Jonathan Cape 1934. First edition first impression of this influential early biography which was central to the formation of the Lawrence myth. Captain Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1895-1970 was one of the leading military thinkers of the 20th century and his book is often considered the first "serious" Lawrence biography after the sensationalism of Lowell Thomas and Robert Graves. It provides valuable insight into Lawrence's achievements as a strategist "who had the vision to anticipate the guerrilla trend of civilized warfare" p. 382. Liddell Hard considered that his friend Lawrence "was more deeply steeped in knowledge of war than any other general of the First World War"; a judgement that has been seen as hyperbolic by many in the intervening 80 years but which in view of current thinking on the increasing prevalence of asymmetric warfare and counterinsurgency operations seems remarkably prescient. Liddell Hart views Lawrence as a brilliant leader worthy of comparison to Napoleon and Marlborough. Using minimal resources against a numerically and technologically superior foe Lawrence "turned the weakness of the Arabs into an asset and the strength of the Turks into a debit" p. 383. Octavo. Half-tone portrait frontispiece after Augustus John 11 similar plates 5 folding maps. Original red cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt publisher's device in blind on rear cover top edge red bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. A few faint stains to cloth top right corner a little bumped; jacket unclipped minor chips along edges spine a touch toned with small skinned patch at foot front panel with faint tide marks and neat repair to foot: a very good copy in like jacket. O'Brien E058. hardcover
194032445AB1940. Mixed Editions. 30 Volumes. London John Lehmann / Allen Lane - Penguin Books / Rupert Hart-Davis 1940-1965. Octavo. The Postcards written from Venice Florence and Santa Barbarabetween the years 1952 and 1977 / Postcard I: From John Lehmann in Venice to Adrian Liddell Hart: "This city does not boast a supply of the "Sunday Dispatch" and as the writer was gripped and enthralled by the last installment on June 1st he hopes you will keep copies of the .for him to read on his return in ten Days time - J." / Postcard II: From John Lehmann in Florence to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Am staying with Sir Harold Acton here in his marvellous Villa - calme luxe "Villa La Pietra" all night.pity you aren't with me. Off to the sea this afternoon - may post this in Porto Ercole. Your old friend is relaxing. Gracefully - Love J." Date hard to decipher possibly in 1962 / 3. Postcard III: From John Lehmann in Santa Barbara in California to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Terribly sorry to hear about the broken leg may it mend quickly as surely it must undo the ministrations of Florence .Nightingale. I expect to be in England all March but then off again - to Jimmy Carter Country - Love J." 20.2.77. Hardcover and Softcover. Of the series of 28 Volumes of the "New Writing " Series only three with stronger signs of wear and in poorer condition. All others in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Lehmann's personal copy of Sean O'Faolain's Autobiography with the original dustjacket in poor condition but the Volume itself very good. Adrian John Liddell Hart 19221991 was a British soldier Royal Navy officer Liberal Party politician author and adventurer. He served briefly in the French Foreign Legion and portrayed it in the 1953 book Strange Company. The son of Sir Basil Liddell Hart 18951970 by his first wife Jessie Stone Liddell Hart was the godson of Major-General J. F. C. Fuller and was educated at St Andrew's School Pangbourne before Eton and King's College Cambridge. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 he joined the British Army and in 1940 became adjutant of the Local Defence Volunteers at Dartington Devon. In 1941 he joined the trained Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and after training at HMS Collingwood Fareham he was selected as an officer candidate. After obligatory sea time as a junior rank on the Flower-class corvette Carnation during which he saw service in the Battle of the Atlantic he was commissioned and attended the RNVR officer training course at HMS King Alfred in Hove Sussex. He was promoted to sub lieutenant on HMS Jamaica in 1942 and saw active service in the Mediterranean in 1943 before joining the Combined Operations Command of British North African Forces later that year and the Signal Division of the Admiralty in London from 1943 to 1944 then HMS Coldstreamer and HMS Guardsman later in 1944. In 1945 he was appointed flag lieutenant to the admiral commanding Iceland. From 1945 to 1946 Liddell Hart was assistant editor to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations and from 1946 to 1947 was a political affairs officer of the United Nations Organisation based in New York. He next joined the Control Service for Germany attached to the British Army of the Rhine and the administrative staff headquarters of the Allied Control Council British sector. He worked for the original Outward Bound Sea School in 1949 and as the House of Commons lobby correspondent of The Yorkshire Observer from 1949 to 1950. Under the name of Peter Brand Liddell Hart served in the French Foreign Legion as an ordinary legionnaire from 1950 to 1951 then in the Legion's First Foreign Cavalry Regiment in French Indo China. In 1952 he took a job with the Outward Bound Trust at Aberdyfi Gwynedd and from 1953 to 1954 worked in the Canadian oil industry. From 1955 to 1956 he was with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto before joining the Federation of British Industry from 1959 to 1960 when he was appointed Assistant Director of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors. In 1962 he became an Analyst in London for Gordon Rayment and Co. Ltd. and in 1963 Assistant General Secretary of the United Nations Association International Service. He was a public relations executive for Informat from 1965 to 1966 then in 1968 joined St John's House London a hostel for homeless young offenders. In 1971 he was briefly Warden of the Elswick Lodge Rehabilitation Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. In later life he lived in Stroud Gloucestershire where he died in 1991. Wikipedia paperback
128 parts in 8 vols., roy. 8vo. First Edition, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts (less wrappers as intended ) housed in publisher's branded black rexine binders blocked in gilt, a near fine set. Purnell's mammoth endeavour is arguably the crowning achievement of the 'partwork' fashion of the late 60s. Produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, edited by Barrie Pitt and written by a host of eminent historians, scholars and veterans, the series is equally fortunate in having Liddell-Hart as editor-in-chief. Produced in 'magazine' format, the work as a whole makes full use of its size and space to create a lucid, vivid and valuable account of the conflict. The number, choice and quality of the photographs, illustrations and diagrams are worthy of special mention. The work was intended originally in six volumes (ending with the Japanese surrender), but as the series neared its conclusion it was decided to extend it to eight volumes to include the consequences of the conflict such as the birth of the nuclear era, the foundation of the UN and so on. Technically the set is complete in the original six volumes (complete with detailed index issued at that point); an additional cumulative index was issued for those subscribers who wished to continue collecting the extended set as here. The series as a whole was reissued with considerable revision in 1970-72. THIS SET IS COMPLETE WITH TWO OF THE THREE INSERTS WHICH ARE OFTEN MISSING; IT WANTS ONLY THE FOLDING MAP ISSUED WITH FIRST VOLUME. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS FORMAT AND CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
128 weekly parts in 8 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Edition, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts (including original wrappers) housed in black rexine binders blolcked in gilt, a bright, clean set. The considerably revised version of the original edition of 1966-1969. Purnell's mammoth endeavour is arguably the crowning achievement of the 'partwork' fashion of the late 60s. Produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, edited by Barrie Pitt and written by a host of eminent historians, scholars and veterans, the series is equally fortunate in having Liddell-Hart as editor-in-chief. Produced in 'magazine' format, the work as a whole makes full use of its size and space to create a lucid, vivid and valuable account of the conflict. The number, choice and quality of the photographs, illustrations and diagrams are worthy of special mention. The work was intended originally in six volumes (ending with the Japanese surrender), but as the series neared its conclusion it was decided to extend it to eight volumes to include the consequences of the conflict such as the birth of the nuclear era, the foundation of the UN and so on. Technically the set is complete in the original six volumes (complete with detailed index issued at that point); an additional cumulative index was issued for those subscribers who wished to continue collecting the extended set as here. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS FORMAT AND CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
1938mon0000001452Doubleday Doran 1938-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. No DJ. Signed limited edition. Two Volume set. One volume signed by Robert Graves the other volume signed by Liddell Hart. Both volumes are #420 of 1000 copies limited edition. Previous owner was the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation as per stamp and book plate in each volume on front free page stamp on the title page and Hillel Foundation Library pocket etc. in rear of books. Almost all of the Liddell volumes have pages still uncut. Approx. the final 1/4 of the Graves vol. the pages are still uncut. Both volumes have sunning to the spines and cover edges. 187 and 233 pages. Doubleday, Doran hardcover
