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0266039669.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1918WORLDWAR000746Nisbet London. 1918. First edition. Octavo. pp xx 429. Plates and maps. The radical journalist reports on the disastrous campaign during which he was himself wounded and which led to Winston Churchill's resignation from his position as First Lord of the Admiralty.A bit of spotting to free endpapers. Very good. No dustwrapper. Nisbet, London. unknown
1918188124New York: John Lane Company 1918. First edition one of 1000 unnumbered "edition de luxe" copies inscribed on the front free endpaper "To the American Ambassador and Mrs Brand Whitlock who share with our soldiers sailors and nurses the title of this book. From the Editor July 21st 1920". Whitlock had left the post of United States Ambassador to Belgium the previous day having served since 1 May 1919. The book is a lavishly produced commemoration of the First World War with proceeds supporting veterans' families. There was also a trade issue called the "President's Edition". Quarto. Original blue quarter cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt grey card sides top edge gilt others uncut; housed in original grey card slipcase. Spine a little sunned and rubbed very minor wear to slipcase: a very good copy. hardcover
1916WORLDWAR013479Grant Richards London. 1916. Second printing. Oblong quarto. pp 50. Sub-Bellockian humorous verse. Unattributed illustrations by J. McKenna. Cloth-backed colour pictorial boards.From the library of Edmund Blunden with his pencilled inscription on the front free endpaper: ''A copy was given to me early in 1917 by J.G.W. Clark then at the headquarters of our 116th Infantry Brigade as Brigade Major. I may still have it stored away but have acquired one or two others partly as they remind me of him & partly for the book's merits. Its temper is obviously pre-Somme.''Covers dusty and a bit rubbed with some signs of damp. Small mark to spine. Good. Grant Richards, London. hardcover
1930WORLDWAR013829Keith Prowse London. 1930. First edition. Quarto. 12 pages. Sewn wrappers. The words and music of a song presented to members of the audience on the occasion of the first anniversary of R.C. Sherriff's play at the Prince of Wales' Theatre on January 21st 1930. Full-page photograph of a scene from the play.Ownership signature on title-page. The binding string has snapped. Faint signs of damp to front cover. Very good. Keith Prowse, London. unknown
1918WORLDWAR005967John Lane The Bodley Head London. 1918. First edition. Octavo. pp x 196. Frontispiece facsimile of a page of the manuscript. Anonymously published. Four-page introductory Explanation by John Lane in which he recounts how a ''red box'' of love letters was found in the abandoned dug-out of a gun position. In the last letter the writer is wounded and knows his death is inevitable; it ends in mid-sentence. Only recently however it has been discovered that the book is a fiction and the author who actually did serve at the front didn't die until 1959. The book was hugely popular at the time going through several editions and it would appear it was published for propagandistic rather than monetary reasons. A bit of spotting to endpapers. Very good indeed in very good rubbed chipped and nicked pictorial dustwrapper using an image probably by Raemaekers. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London. unknown
1919WORLDWAR039544Michelin Clermont-Ferrand London and Milltown New Jersey. 1919. First edition U.K. issue with price ''5'6'' on dustwrapper. Scarcer clothbound issue. Octavo. 264 pages. Profusely illustrated with photographs maps etc. A title in the series Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battlefields 1914-1918.Stamped on front free endpaper ''complimentary copy''. Short tear to fore-edge of front free endpaper. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly darkened at the spine. Michelin, Clermont-Ferrand, London and Milltown, New Jersey. hardcover
1929WORLDWAR005789The Piazza Press - issued to subscribers by Peter Davies London. 1929. First edition. Octavo. Two volumes. pp viii 226; iv 227-453. One of 520 numbered copies. Full brown buckram lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Printed on handmade paper. The World War One masterpiece of which T.E. Lawrence said: "No praise could be too sheer for this book." It was subsequently issued in an expurgated trade edition under the title of Her Privates We.Contemporary 1930 ownership inscription on first blank of each volume. Covers just a little marked. First blank of Vol. I. creased at upper corner. Very good indeed. Lacks the publisher's cloth slipcase. The Piazza Press - issued to subscribers by Peter Davies, London. hardcover
1945184570London: John Bull 12 May 1945. First edition a spoof newspaper issued soon after victory in Europe: "Had Hitler won here is your newspaper for to-day. Keep it as a reminder of what might have happened to us". The newspaper reports under the heading "My Conquest of Britain" on ten thousand SS troops greeting Hitler at Buckingham Palace in May 1945. Hitler addresses the crowd recounting the course of the war - Germany's victories at Stalingrad and Moscow then her development of the V3 and V4 rockets which brought Britain to its knees followed by Rommel's invasion in January 1945. Hitler appoints Ribbentrop Gauleiter of Britain. The spoof appeared in the 12 May 1945 issue of the satirical magazine John Bull. Single sheet quarto text on both sides. Browned with minor tape repair at head some chipping: in good condition. unknown
1944184343London: 1944. Allied intelligence on the Nazi flying corps A confidential Anglo-American intelligence report on the Nazi paramilitary aviation organization produced ahead of the Allied advance into Germany. The report provides extensive detail on the organization including illustrations of its uniforms and maps of its bases. The Military Intelligence Research Section MIRS was a joint Anglo-American intelligence agency established in 1943 to analyse and exploit captured Axis documents. MIRS produced a series of handbooks on Nazi military and paramilitary organizations for Allied intelligence officers and military officials. This report charts the origin and development of the corps its ties with the Hitler Youth and Luftwaffe its transformation during the war and its uniforms ranks and insignia. The foreword observes that there is no clear distinction between the Luftwaffe and the NSFK the latter serving as the chief training agency for the former. It notes the special threat the NSFK with its 1000 headquarters and 60 schools will pose to the occupation authorities: "from an occupational counter-intelligence point of view the regional network of the NSFK may well be considered an establishment easily transformed into an organized set-up to function as a source of disaffection. Nazi 'ideological camaraderie' is especially evident in the units of this formation and it is certain the NSFK may boast a particularly strong grip on Germany's youth". Provenance: Evgenii Semenovich Mollo 1904-1985 a military historian specializing in uniforms and insignia with his "Mollo Collection" bookplate to the front pastedown. Folio. With 2 coloured plates folding map folding diagram. Errata slip tipped-in preceding title page. Original dark blue quarter cloth grey boards printed in black string tied. Trivial wear at extremities a few marks to covers contents a little toned with some leaves browned some with nicking or minor chipping at extremities. A good copy. hardcover
1944184351London: 1944. A counter-intelligence problem of considerable importance A confidential Anglo-American intelligence report on the Reich Labour Service produced ahead of the Allied advance into Germany warning of the threat it poses as an ideologically committed force but also of the opportunity it presents if it could be commandeered for post-war reconstruction. The Military Intelligence Research Section MIRS was a joint Anglo-American intelligence agency established in 1943 to analyse and exploit captured Axis documents. MIRS produced a series of handbooks on Nazi military and paramilitary organizations for Allied intelligence officers and military officials. This report estimates the RAD's total strength at 300000 men and notes its close ties to the Wehrmacht with members increasingly committed to military action. It describes the organization's structure and insignia and traces its evolution from a voluntary labour service in 1931 to a compulsory state body in 1935 culminating in its full integration into the war effort. It highlights its threat: "For the occupying forces the entire German Labour Service may well pose a counter-intelligence problem of considerable importance since Nazi indoctrination has been carried out within its framework to a far-reaching degree most of its members having been schooled in the Nazi creed ever since they were in the Hitler Jugend". However it is "a ready instrument for reconstruction work in occupied countries once these have been freed and it could be used in Germany itself for the maintenance or reconstruction of vital utilities or the demolition of military installations. The RAD when transformed into an instrument of peace could easily become a valuable educational factor in post-war Germany". Provenance: Evgenii Semenovich Mollo 1904-1985 a military historian specializing in uniforms and insignia with his "Mollo Collection" bookplate to the front pastedown. Folio. With 3 full-page illustrations. Original dark blue quarter cloth grey boards printed in black string tied. Minor pencilled annotations. Trivial wear at extremities a few marks to covers contents a little toned with some foxing. A very good copy. hardcover
1919WORLDWAR014020Gay and Hancock London. 1919. First edition. 12mo. 32 pages. Pictorial wrappers. A satirical parody. The author's identity is a mystery. The Maconochie ration issued to troops in the trenches was a stew of turnips carrots potatoes onions haricot beans and beef.Ownership signature on last black. Spine rubbed and splitting. Some spotting. Good. Scarce. Gay and Hancock, London. unknown
1944184333London: 1944. Know your enemy A confidential Anglo-American intelligence report on the SA produced as the Allies advanced into Germany. It provides considerable detail on the organization and Allied understanding of it. The report warns that the SA as a paramilitary organization so deeply embedded in Germany poses a serious threat to the Allies and must be totally destroyed. The Military Intelligence Research Section MIRS was a joint Anglo-American intelligence agency established in 1943 to analyze and exploit captured Axis documents. MIRS produced a series of handbooks on Nazi military and paramilitary organizations for Allied intelligence officers and military officials. This report covers the origin of the SA the rise of the rival SS the purge of Röhm its declining power in the latter 1930s and its wartime revival. It offers detailed information on the SA's regiments and commanders training and records uniforms and insignia and terminology. The report stresses that the SA still numbered roughly 500000 active members and concluded that the organisation must be "not only disbanded but completely wiped out. the SA with its ramified structure and wide range of duties is not only a valuable defence and security organisation on the German home front today but presents a substantial counter-intelligence problem as a potential source of disturbance and conspiracy during and after the initial stages of the Allied occupation of Germany". Provenance: contemporary pencilled signature of "Captain Kettler" probably Hans Kettler transferred to the Intelligence Corps in 1942 and who worked at the London Cage Britain's interrogation centre for captured Nazis. "In the summer of 1944 he was listed as a captain on a regular emergency commission. Strong die-hard Nazis were said to quail before him. Kettler was regarded as 'outstanding in his rough treatment of prisoners'" Fry p. 43. There are numerous ink annotations to the text presumably Kettler's. The report was afterwards in the collection of Evgenii Semenovich Mollo 1904-1985 a military historian specializing in uniforms and insignia with his "Mollo Collection" bookplate to the front pastedown and his stamps throughout. Folio. With 3 coloured and 4 uncoloured plates folding map. Original black quarter cloth grey boards printed in black string tied ties renewed. Rubbed and a little worn at extremities title page loose browned occasional chipping and closed tears. A good copy. Helen P. Fry The London Cage 2017. hardcover
1943WORLDWAR007181Oxford University Press London. 1943. First edition. Small octavo. pp viii 92. Card wrappers with integral flaps the design on the front being by Michael D. Gibson. The third volume of Gibson's war poetry.Signed by the author on the half-title page.Very good. Oxford University Press, London. unknown
1919WORLDWAR000616Michaelin Clermont-Ferrand. 1919. First editions. Octavo. Two volumes: The First Battle of the Somme 1916-1917 Albert Bapaume Peronne; The Second Battle of the Somme 1918 Amiens Montdidier Compi�gne. pp 136; 128. Profusely illustrated with photographs of devastation and maps. Adverts on the endpapers. On the title-page of the first volume is the ownership signature of a Captain J.E. Massie.Covers a bit marked. Signs of repair to tail of spine of second volume. A very good set. Michaelin, Clermont-Ferrand. unknown
1914WORLDWAR014032T. Fisher Unwin London. 1914. First edition. Octavo. 57 pages. Pictorial wrappers with flaps. Jingoism from a British standpoint abounds in the these verses written by an American journalist.First blank slightly creased. A few light spots here and there. Covers slightly marked and dusty. Tail of spine starting to split. Very good. Very scarce. T. Fisher Unwin, London. unknown
1954WORLDWAR000915Hodder and Stoughton London. 1954. First edition. Octavo. 251 pages. The third volume of the author's war memoirs this covering the period of his incarceration having been arrested with members of the French Resistance including Odette. Unlike in the first two volumes here the author writes in the first person.Edges spotted. Tail of spine slightly pushed. Very good in very good dustwrapper with spotting largely on the front panel. Hodder and Stoughton, London. unknown
1917WORLDWAR012869Thomas Nelson London. 1917. First edition. Translated from the French. Octavo. 103 pages. Photographs including one which is captioned ''General Birdwood talking to a group of big Australians''. Wrappers. Journalistic impressions of the Battle of the Ancre and other frontline areas with particular reference to the colonial elements of the British army.On the back cover is the inkstamp of a Rotterdam bookshop. Covers a bit creased and marked. Spine scuffed and defective at head. Very good. Thomas Nelson, London. unknown
1940190246London: Post No. 5 A. R. P. Cleveland Yard St. James' S. W. 1 1 October 1940 - 30 April 1941. the BIGGEST SALES of any Blitzkrieg News-sheet in Britain Inevitably sole edition of this evocative Home Front journal by and for the crews of a London A. R. P. Air Raid Precautions post as a local morale booster and fund raiser. Numbered 31 of an unknown limitation only the Imperial War Museum lists a set theirs complete in 36 issues through to May 1942. A scarce resource offering genuine insights into London's uncensored mood under the Blitz. This is a typical wartime mix carrying harrowing reports of the impact of war "Calvary in St James'. almost half Jermyn Street was a shambles"; facetious humour "Is it only a rumour that the favourite drink of the Italian Navy is port"; local notes "the oldest lamp post in London. now unfortunately it has suffered at the hand of the Vandal. destroyed"; some dubious recipes "half a pint of Churchill sauce"; occasional reports from "other parts of the field"; appeals for volunteers; incitements to "carry on!"; all alongside not infrequent moments of genuinely moving introspection; "Piccadilly during the People's War at 9 p.m. Traffic lights flashing monotonously green - yellow - red. The noticeable ticking of the automatic lights' machinery. An occasional taxi and car. A rare bus. Perhaps fifty persons in Piccadilly Circus. The Statue of Eros boarded up and protected by rotting sandbags. The hot blast of exhausted air from the underground exits. The rush of fire-engines towards fire. The pleasing gap where the 'Fifty Shilling Tailors' had their shop. The stark picture of the blackened ruins of St James' church opposite. The whispered appeals of 'Hello darling' from mysterious female forms. The whizzing of shrapnel on the street. The criss-cross of searchlight beams in the heavens. Not a single newsboy. A solitary cat crossing the street". Circulation rose rapidly issue 5 claiming 2000 copies and the following number proclaiming five times that "Last week's issue was completely sold out. Although we keep on printing more and more copies we are quite unable to meet the demand. We claim the BIGGEST SALES of any Blitzkrieg News-sheet in Britain. Copies are being sent as historic mementoes to every part of the world". A "Final Notice" in issue 24 notes that there are for sale "a few bound volumes containing the first 24 issues at Six Guineas $30" maybe about £1000 today in real terms. All moneys raised from the Lyre went to the local St James' Bomber Fund "costs of production are borne privately". Folio. pp. 80 spirit-duplicated text in all on variously coloured paper stock. Original three-quarter - spine and fore-edges - greyish yellow buckram spine lettered longitudinally in black attractive matte black patterned paper boards golden stars on a wavy grid pattern. Pictorial masthead. Just a little rubbed and soiled endpapers slightly toned; text with occasional spots of foxing but overall clean and sound very good. hardcover
1955WORLDWAR006968G. Bell under the direction of the Institution of the Royal Army Service Corps London. 1955. First edition. Royal octavo. pp xxii 720. 4 colour plates 77 monochrome plates on 48 19 maps 6 double-page. Royal library binding of full dark blue morocco with raised bands gilt rules all edges gilt. Royal crest of George VI in gilt on front. Bound in at the front is a sheet printed with the words ''From The Officers Royal Army Service Corps to their Colonel-in-Chief''. The Colonel-in-Chief was Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester.Fine. G. Bell under the direction of the Institution of the Royal Army Service Corps, London. hardcover
1917WORLDWAR010845George Allen & Unwin London. 1917. First edition. Quarto. 144 pages. Illustrations including tipped-in colour plates. A reproduction of the eight issues of the magazine printed on board H.M.S. Blenheim. A mixture of humour and satire with accomplished artwork.Free endpapers partially tanned. Near fine in very good slightly nicked dustwrapper with some external tape marks at the edges. George Allen & Unwin, London. unknown
1928WORLDWAR011979Methuen London. 1928. First U.K. edition. First issue in smooth cloth stamped in gilt. Octavo. 277 pages. Translated by Cecil Lewis. A soldier returns home from war. George Bernard Shaw quipped that it was almost worth having a war that would produce so fine a play. Very good in good slightly dusty dustwrapper faded at the spine with a chip in the spine panel repaired on the reverse affecting the author's name. Methuen, London. hardcover
1928WORLDWAR011822Methuen London. 1928. First U.K. edition. First issue in smooth cloth stamped in gilt. Octavo. 277 pages. Translated by Cecil Lewis. A soldier returns home from war. George Bernard Shaw quipped that it was almost worth having a war that would produce so fine a play. Free endpaper partially tanned. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper reinforced on the reverse at the edges and faded at the spine. Methuen, London. hardcover
1915WORLDWAR013072Sidgwick & Jackson London. 1915. First edition. Octavo. pp 23 1 adverts. Wrappers. Eight poems. The author was the second son of the British Prime Minister at the time also called Herbert Asquith.A bit of foxing here and there. Covers slightly tanned at spine and edges. Very good. Sidgwick & Jackson, London. unknown
