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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
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
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
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
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
1982Q-0306801574Da Capo Press 1982-03-22. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Da Capo Press paperback
1951100126782Calmann lévy 1951 in8. 1951. Broché. Défense de l'Europe : EDefence of the Weste quelques problèmes de la guerre et de la paix traduit de l'anglais par A. Armand. Petitjean et D. Dominique Guillet
1965100137681Jonathan Cape 1965 in12. 1965. Broché. très bon état intérieur propre couvertures jaunes
19904082État : Bon état - Année : 1990 - Format : in 8° - Pages : 741pp - Editeur : Fayard - Lieu d'édition : Paris - Type : Broché - Divers : Dos très légèrement plié. Une tâche sur la tranche. - Commander rapidement : https://www.bons-livres.fr/livre/b-h-liddell-hart/4082-histoire-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale?lrb
1962R160219244Plon. 1962. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. XII + 454 pages - bandeau d'éditeur conservé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.53-Seconde Guerre mondiale 1939-1945
1949R320116823Stock. 1949. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 323 pages - fortes tâches brunes sur les plats et sur les contre plats - coiffes abîmées - 4 cartes en noir et blanc hors texte en fin d'ouvrage.. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.53-Seconde Guerre mondiale 1939-1945
1948R100085935Stock Delamain & Boutelleau. 1948. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Papier jauni. 323 pages - quelques cartes en noir et blanc hors texte - 1er plat désolidarisé et déchiré - 2ème plat absent - coiffes abîmées - dos fendu, ouvrage désolidarisé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.53-Seconde Guerre mondiale 1939-1945
20071593535672113GLN-537, Editions Perrin, 2007
1935R300324825Ed. de la Nouvelle Revue Critique. 1935. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Papier jauni. 317 pages - quelques cartes en noir et blanc hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1935R160204130DE LA NOUVELLE REVUE CRITIQUE. 1935. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, 2ème plat abîmé, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 317 pages - 2eme plat manquant - dos abîmé avec légers manques en coiffe - plat légèrement plié et décollorés - dos bruni. . . . Classification Dewey : 920-Biographie générale et généalogie
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; green cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
2008x-0415463378Routledge 2008. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 528 pages. 8.74x5.71x1.30 inches. Routledge hardcover
0415463378.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. 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.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpapers; green cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Crisp copy of Liddell Hart's valuable memoirs, with full accounts of service in the Great War, his subsequent (and controversial) espousal of armoured warfare long before the emergence of blitzkreig, and his advisory role in WWII. Fascinating material from one of the foremost military thinkers of two world wars.
pp. ix, 382 + Plus Portrait Frontis, full page maps and photographs. Sm. 4to. Original full dark green cloth binding. Spine decorated and lettered in gold, very slightly worn. Hardbound. Fourth Printing. Very good. ISLAM BOX 2
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
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
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
