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1950101383AB1950. Namur / Stockholm / Panama / Gibraltar / Tarjeta etc. 1950 - 1965. Small Oblong Octavo. 7 postcards. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Content of the postcards mainly of private nature about travel etc. The collection comes with two 2 additional postcards by Basil Liddell Hart to his mother. paperback
96 weekly parts in 6 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout; all original parts (including original wrappers) housed in black rexine binders blocked in gilt, first binder chafed at bottom corner else 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. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS FORMAT AND CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
1938mon0003787329New York Doubleday Doran & Co. 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. . scarce. 2 volume set in slipcase. signed by Hart and Graves in their books limited edtion #61 of 1000 copies. pages lightly tanned. in near fine condition. New York Doubleday, Doran & Co. hardcover
195910094London: Cassell 1959. First Edition. v.1 good v.2 fair to good. 462 & 555 2 vols. illus. fold-out maps tables appendices index board & text corners creased v.2 some soiling to fore-edges. Boards slightly scuffed v.2 stains to fore-edge & pages slightly wavy no pages stuck no stains to text 2 maps misfolded v.2 pp. 3 and 37 smalltear at edge of map v.2 p. 37. Major work by a major author with many fold-out maps. Unlikely to be reprinted in this quality. Very scarce. Cassell hardcover
1926158659London: William Clowes and Son 1926. Third and updated edition uncommon in commerce incorporating the findings of two years Liddell Hart spent watching Regular and Territorial Army training. "Apart from an increase in the 'meat' or explanation clothing the bones of the framework the revisions comprise a modification in the framework and a slight change in nomenclature" author's preface. The first edition published under the title The Framework of a Science of Infantry Tactics 1921 was an early exploration of Liddell Hart's "Expanding Torrent" system of attack. For the third edition Ivor Maxse revised his foreword praising the author for having "visualised minor tactics from the point of view of junior commanders" and for his "diagrams plates and definitions which can be understanded of the people" p. vii. Small octavo. With 3 folding plates including 2 illustrating "Expanding Torrent" system. Original brown cloth cloth title in black to spine and front board. Ex-War Office Library with its bookplate on front pastedown and ink stamps on verso of half-title and title page; couple of instances of blue pencil sidelining. Spine ends fraying boards clean front free endpaper renewed: a very good copy. hardcover
1978181741London: Cassell & Company 1978. First UK edition the copy of Kenneth Parker Liddell Hart's long-time editor at Cassell and his literary executor. Loosely inserted is a December 1973 autograph letter signed from Adrian Liddell Hart to Parker expressing a hope that Cassell will acquire the UK rights to his father's book. "As his publisher as well as his friend I felt you should be the most appropriate person to consider the publication of a book originally planned by him." Liddell Hart began compiling this anthology in 1968 but the project remained incomplete at the time of his death. The project was completed by Adrian drawing on Liddell Hart's proposed outline the notes made in the margins of books from his library and his correspondence with historians and military figures. Parker's 7 January 1974 reply a file copy of which is also loosely inserted expresses his view - in the event only transitory - that Cassell cannot publish the work. "It is all very unfair because there is no doubt that had it been wholly your father's selection and your father's commentaries then we should have published it like a shot; but without that we have to treat the collection purely as an anthology and that is where the thing falls down. Anthologies really are the very devil to sell however well chosen the contents. There is I think a very real danger that if we were to publish the book some parts of the trade and certainly some of the reviewers would infer that we were trying to 'pass off' something under your father's name. We could put 'Adrian' in letters three inches high and 'Liddell Hart' in twelve point but I'm afraid that wouldn't make the slightest difference." Octavo. Original red boards spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Spine ends lightly sunned top edge and margin of last few leaves foxed; jacket unclipped spotting at head: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. hardcover
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous portraits, plates and maps (a number folding); black cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A splendid copy of the standard reference. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.123; White, p.26.
1959019157Cassell & Company. FIrst Printing. Stated First Published. No DJs. Extra shipping required for this set. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1959. Cassell & Company hardcover
1934B5188London: Jonathan Cape c. 1934. The book is in very good condition. Maps and pictures are clean and crisp. Lacks its dust jacket . Edition: First Edition. First impression. Binding: Contemporary red cloth. Gilt title on top cover. Publisher’s device blind stamped on bottom cover. Gilt title on spine. Notes: A biography on the famous T. E. Lawrence better known as “Lawrence of Arabia.†In fact there are many who consider this volume to be the first serious biography on the man that was devoid of the rampant sensationalism that plagued other volumes about his life. That being said the author Liddell Hart still puts Lawrence on a high pedestal. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1895 – 1970 was an English soldier military historian and military theorist. He is often credited with greatly influencing the development of armoured warfare although some research casts some doubt on the extent of his influence upon the pre-war German military.<br>Thomas Edward Lawrence 1888 –1935 was an archaeologist and British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations and his ability to describe them vividly in writing earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia a title which was later used for the 1962 film based on his First World War activities.<br> Size: 8vo 220x146mm. Illustration: Illustrated with five maps 4 are fold-outs and numerous photographs and illustrations of Arabia. Category: Book Military; Book Voyages General; Book Asia Middle East General; Book Biography; Jonathan Cape hardcover
196883918London: Purnell 1968. 1st edition. Nice set. lge. octavo. orig. binders 3584pp. colour & b/w plates text ills. maps indexes Published in 125 weekly parts. Bound into eight uniform black publisher's ring-binders and complete with the index Purnell unknown
1928016273Little Brown and Company. First Printing. Publisher's black cloth with gilt blind stamped titles on front and spine. Meddallion blind stamped to front. No DJ. Edges worn. Corners bumped. Front hinge starting. Illustrations and maps. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1928. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
195917947London: Cassell 1959. Hardcover. Good in Very Good dust jacket. .and its predecessors heavy branch machine-gun corps tank corps & royal tank corps 1914-1945" Volume I 1914-1939 Good 462 pages 3 fold-out maps black cloth covers appear to have been wiped down leaving uneven coloration front and rear paste-downs stained along long edge dust jacket has one 1/2" tear; Volume II 1939-1945 Very Good 555 pages 17 fold-out maps. Both dust jackets have a few chips both in mylar sleeves. ; 2 Volume Set; 6 x 8 3/4 Cassell hardcover
1959048851N.Y.: Praeger. very nice set; small chip from top of spine of dust jacket of volume 2; volume one is on WWI and the interwar period and volume two is on WWII . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1959. Praeger hardcover
192746860London: John Murray 1927. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth xii 315pp. index Fascinating analysis by a great Military Strategist. Key word is mobility the rebirth of the cavalry via the Tank. Browning to first & last pages o/w nice bright tight copy. Scarce John Murray hardcover
196889727London: Purnell 1968. 1st edition. Very Nice set. lge. octavo. orig. binders 3584pp. colour & b/w plates text ills. maps indexes Published in 125 weekly parts. Bound into eight uniform dark blue publisher's ring-binders and complete with the index Purnell unknown
192516406New York: E.P. Dutton 1925. Book. VG. Cloth. 1st. 18mo. Today and Tomorrow series predictions about the future. Red cloth is very good plus with only very minor abrasions. Dust jacket is chipped at the head and heel of spine with tears half inch to the top and bottom of front panel. Pretty good copy of a scarce book by the still respected military historian. E.P. Dutton Hardcover
1928832Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1928. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. fair. viii 4 316 pages. Illustrations. Maps four fold-out. Front board weak. Some wear to edges of spine. Small tear at rear board pages have darkened somewhat. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 31 October 1895 - 29 January 1970 known throughout f his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart was a soldier historian and military theorist. Liddell Hart was placed on half-pay from 1924. He later retired from the Army in 1927. Two mild heart attacks in 1921 and 1922 probably the long-term effects of his gassing precluded his further advancement. He spent his career as a theorist and writer. In 1924 he became a military correspondent for the Morning Post. He worked as the Military Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph from 1925 to 1935 and of The Times from 1935 to 1939. Liddell Hart wrote a series of histories through which he advanced his ideas that the frontal assault was a strategy that was bound to fail. He argued that the tremendous losses Britain suffered in the Great War were due to her commanding officers not appreciating this fact of history. . In his early writings on mechanized warfare Liddell Hart had proposed that infantry be carried along with the fast-moving armored formations. He described them as "tank marines" like the soldiers the Royal Navy carried with their ships. He proposed they be carried along in their own tracked vehicles and dismount to help take better-defended positions that otherwise would hold up the armored units. Liddell Hart foresaw the need for a combined arms force with mobile infantry and artillery which was similar but not identical to the make-up of the panzer divisions that Guderian developed in Germany. This book is an examination of ten leading figures of WW I "the war to end all wars" ten years after the armistice. Liddell Hart revisits generals on both sides including Joffre Foch Petain Ludendorff and Pershing. "If you believe as we do that armed conflict revealing as it does human nature with merciless clarity affords us insight and possible guidance into situations less deadly but nevertheless of great importance then this book is for you." Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
19281826Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1928. First U.S. Edition. fair to good. 315 figures chart index weakness to front board some wear to top and bottom edges of spine. Little, Brown and Company unknown
19382052New York: Random House 1938. First Printing. fair to good. 379 bibliography index discoloration inside boards foxing on fore-edge. Random House hardcover
1959AQ28923London: Cassell 1959. In two volumes. xix 1 462; xiv 555pp 1. With numerous plates and folding maps. Original publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spines printed paper dustwrappers. Lightly rubbed dustwrappers worn and price-clipped. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition of Basil Henry Liddell-Hart's 1895-1970 survey of the actions of the Royal Tank Regiment during the First and Second World Wars. . First edition. 8vo. Cassell hardcover
1978Q-0313202885Praeger 1978-08-23. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Praeger hardcover
0151784558.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1980DADAX0313221758Bloomsbury Academic 1980-01-15. hardcover. New. 5.50x1.00x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Bloomsbury Academic hardcover
0415463378.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19511390698London Toronto Melbourne: Cassell and Company Limited 1951. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 10mo 487 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine beige with dark green and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Exterior has moderate wear including age toning minor soiling and few instances of chips to the head/tail edges. Boards have very light wear including lightly rubbed edges. Text block has head edge colored red and slight age toning to the fore/tail edges. Previous owner's name to the front pastedown. Previous owner's information to the front end paper. Modest offsetting to the end papers. Illustrated. Second edition revised. <br /> <br /> <p> NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Office. 1390698. FP New Rockville Stock. Cassell and Company Limited hardcover
