History of the Great War Based on Official Documents, Military Operations Egypt & Palestine : From the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917+ From June 1917 to the End of the War Part I-2. Three Volumes of Text, Two of Maps, 5 Volumes in Total by Macmunn, Sir George & Falls Cyril & Becke, A.F - 1928

London: The Mandrake Press, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 187pp. One of the most brilliant dust jacket with front panel showing the horrors of war where the real enemy is the ugly monster symbolized by the green ravenous beast faced by the soldier in stark horror. Liam O'Flaherty served in World War I as a private in the Irish Guards, so this was his coming to grips with the "war to end all wars". Bound in brown cloth, spine lettering green, some off setting to endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket with chipping to corners and along upper edge of jacket, a crease to rear panel and a dark spot to spine. A very good copy.

Undated, believed to be 1916. With owner's name neatly written in gothic script, and also something mentioning that it was given to him on 11th June 1917 [which I happen to know was his tenth birthday]. Probably unread. Contains many full-page colour illustrations.. Pictorial Cover. Fine.

Bovington Camp, Wareham: Royal Rank Corps Center. Quarto. May 1928-April 1929. 442p. One of the most important sources on tank development and theory of usage in the period between the World Wars. Full page photographs of King George reviewing the Officers (p. 51-58); B.H. Liddell Hart's article on "the Army and the Future--Lessons of 1928" Articles on modern anti-tank weapons translated from the German and also Friz Heigl's articles on the new light tanks (using his own translation from into English so awkward but full of details). J.F.C Fuller's article "The Ancestors of the Tank" p. 331ff with illustrations. Captain MacWatt's article "Aim Off Simplified" is well illustrated with drawings and statistics which some argue was ahead of its time. Many other articles as well as the physical training and sports of the men. Library deaccesion bound in library buckram, evidence of bookplate removal from front and rear pastedowns, some soiling to covers, all pages clean and easy to read. (Note: We have… Read More

1941. Hardcover. Good. Oblong Quarto. Second World War photo album compiled by American Red Cross worker Elizabeth Ridley, with three wartime Naval yearbooks & souvenir books owned by her sister Christine, a naval air mechanic in the WAVES programme. Oblong folio (340 x 260 mm). 1941-45. Contemporary dark blue skiver elaborately embossed in grey with military motifs including an American Eagle, planes, tank, battleship, artillery, and blimp. Bound with black nylon ties that may not be original. 80 black paper pages containing 219 photographs attached with photo corners. The photos range in size, with the majority measuring 90 x 60 mm, and the largest 255 x 200 mm. A few items, including some photos, a small colour Kodachrome, several negatives, and an unused Anchor Line trunk label are loosely inserted. Elizabeth has written her name and address on the front free endpaper and annotated many of the photos with white ink. The naval books owned by Christine Ridley include We Keep 'Em Flying: A Visit… Read More

Arthur H.Stockwell, London [c.1925]., 1925. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 31pp. Textured purple cloth with gilt lettering and a blind-stamped border to the upper board. The backstrip ends a little rubbed and worn, and the cloth there faded with a little further uneven fading to the margins of the boards. Some light spotting to the endpapers and title leaf, and the binding a little tender at one gathering. Quite a nice, bright copy of a most uncommon book, which comprises fifteen chronologically ordered poems spanning 1914-1919, split into three sections: 'Portents 1914', 'Home' and 'France and Flanders'. Rather than folk rhymes, I believe these to be original poems, but the work is not noted by Reilly and I can find only two references to either the author or the book: a note in a 7 August 1925 issue of 'The Argus', and a passing reference in an article in the December 1928 issue of 'The Musical Times'..

Paris: Henri Jonquieres, 1922. First Edition. Octavo. This book, the fifth in the collection (fine novels) was limited to 1180 copies. This is #1062 on Rives paper. 361p Illustrated by Albert Ande. Beautifully bound in three-quarter rich black crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands with compartments decorated in gilt with small central embellishment in brown, top edge gilt, silk ribbon marker, original wrappers bound in.. Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon - 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French author. Les petites alliées is set in the French coastal city and military harbor of Toulon; the plot concerns young naval officers living and working there and entertaining themselves with a series of adventures. The book was made into a film in 1936.

Viking, London 1991-1995 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A first edition (first printing) set of Barker's award-winning Great War trilogy. Individual volume descriptions as follows: 'Regeneration' (1991). First edition. 8vo. 251pp. Grey boards lettered in red at the spine. A touch of bruising to the spine ends, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a hint of corresponding bruising to the base of the spine panel. 'The Eye in the Door' (1993). First edition. 8vo. 280pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Spine ends rubbed and with just a touch of marking to the boards at one or two extremities. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of a blank preliminary leaf. A very good copy in rubbed and edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of this book is also included, bound in the publisher's original card wrappers. 'The Ghost Road' (1995). First edition. 8vo. 277pp. Black boards lettered… Read More

Candidates of the Third Officers' Training School, Camp Sherman, Ohio, Jan. 5 --April 19, 1918. Softcover. Condition: Very Good+ No dust jacket. 93 pp of crisp, white leaves with profuse b/w drawn illustrations throughout. No foxing. Prior owner attribution dated April 27, 1918 on front free endpaper from Glenn M. Hood to Mary Jane Nixon. (Glenn M. Hood is listed on page 92 among the roster of Clerical Force of Company K, 331st Infantry along with his picture on page 14.) This book is a very rare compilation of a training manual that prepared U. S. Army officers to go to WW I. It contains the Roster of the Third Officers Training School present at Camp Sherman near Chillicothe, Ohio. The book also contains b/w group photographs of the training officers and each of the Infantry and Battery training classes. The back cover has a small water stain near the bottom edge at the spine and the bottom outer edge corner is missing. Otherwise, in remarkable condition for its age and construction.

1917 Harvey Military Series Small hardcover format. Previous owner's name & address penciled behind the front board, else pages clean, unmarked & bright. Binding leans slightly, firm. Rust cloth covered boards clean & square. Black lettering & tank illustration on front board fine. From the Foreword,"...This book is based on the practical experience of the writer while on service with his battalion in France & from his knowledge as an instructor on Bombing & Trench Warfare."

From the preface to this book, written by Eng. Dante Ferrari: A few words of preface to these notes collected with so much care and love by Eng. Gustavo Colonnetti, who during the war uninterruptedly lent his work as a scholar and a skilful technician in the Workshops of this Society, realizing a first and effective experiment of true and proper collaboration between Science and Industry such as I have always sought, and such as I wish for the future for the progress of our industries and for the good of our country. And these few words will give reason for the dedication of this scientific work, which the well-known modesty of the young but already distinguished professor wanted to baptize as simple notes.CONDITION:This book was Rebinded in the 1970's, by hard binding in black percaline and gilt lettering, maintaining the original book cover as well as all of its interior contents. It contains a large number of technical drawings, plans, and full page sepia photos, protected by onion paper sheets. At… Read More