TurnerDonovan Military Books Catalogue 176 “Contalmaison” September 2021 TurnerDonovan Military Books Catalogue No. 176 “Contalmaison” - September 2021
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India 4 Indian Army Regimental History 7 Africa 9 Other Campaigns and Wars 19 Training Manuals and Works of Instruction 20 The First World War: General History and Memoirs 21 Official History 1914-1918 39 Trench Maps 1914-1918 41 The Second World War 42 Official History 1939-1945 46 Regimental History 47 Rolls of Honour 1914-1918 51 Miscellaneous 52 Terms and Conditions 53
3 India
1. CHEVENIX TRENCH (Charles) The Indian Army 4. HODSON (Rev. G.H.) Ed. Twelve Years of a
& The King's Enemies 1900-1947. Soldier's Life in India: Being Extracts from the 1st Ed., 312pp., 50 illus., 20 maps Letters of the Late Major W.S.R. Hodson... Including & plans. VG in dw. T&H. 1988 A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Delhi & Capture
The Indian Army in WW1 (Western of the King & Princes. Front, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, 1st Ed., xix+365pp., portrait frontis. Palestine &c.) & WW2 (Eritrea, Parker. 1859 North Africa, Italy & Far East). Commandant of Hodson's Horse, Skilful account. Author served with killed at Lucknow, who had played the Indian Cavalry inc. NWF & Italy in decisive & controversial role in the WW2. VG in dw. [Ref: 62883] £15 arrest of Bahadur Shah, King of Delhi, & the execution of his sons. There were a number of editions, later ones including refutations of various 2. EDWARDS (William, BCS) Personal Adventures charges against Hodson made by during the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Bosworth Smith. This edition is scarce Futtehghur, & Oude. & includes a portrait not included in some later versions. 4th Ed, revised, iv+206pp. Smith, Orig. red cloth, gilt, boards somewhat stained, frontis. Elder. 1859 also, generally VG & inscribed: From the Editor to Sir Atmospheric account of flight from James Outram. [Ref: 62964] £50 mutineers (& reliance on loyal Indians) by magistrate of the Budaon 5. MEEK (Rev. Robert) The Martyr of Allahabad. district of Rohilcund. Orig. red cloth, Memorials of Ensign Arthur Marcus Hill Cheek, of blindstamped & gilt, minor wear, VG. the Sixth Native Bengal Infantry, Murdered by the
[Ref: 62963] £165 Sepoys at Allahabad. 4th Thousand, with Additions, [vii]+86pp., portrait frontis. Nisbet & Co. 1858 Memoir of a sixteen-year-old 3. GRIMWOOD (Ethel St. Clair) My Three Years in subaltern killed by mutineers. Manipur & Escape from the Recent Mutiny. Includes account of Mutiny 1st. Ed., xiv+321pp., portrait frontis., 8 events at Allahabad, letters of plates. Bentley. 1891 condolence &c. Raugh 6862. Ladendorf 176 ("A Author's husband was Political Agent collection of material on the Mutiny at Allahabad, at Manipur, north-east India near the particularly concerning the fate of Ensign Cheek.") Burmese border (state capital Imphal), Modern brown cloth, gilt to sp., VG ex-NAM. Unlovely but where he was murdered in the scarce. [Ref: 62956] £65 uprising there in 1891 which resulted in a brief Indian Army campaign to 6. PINCOTT (Frederic) Analytical Index to Sir John suppress the dissidents. Interesting W. Kaye's History of the Sepoy War & Col. G.B. account of life in the region. Orig. blue Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny. (Combined
cloth, bevelled boards, little worn, in One Volume). generally VG. [Ref: 62976] £35 1st Ed., iv+201pp. W.H. Allen & Co. 1880 The invaluable adjunct to Kaye & Malleson's important six Volume history of the Indian Mutiny. Contemp. qtr. red morocco, gilt, red cloth covd. boards, sp. sl. rubbed o/w VG. [Ref: 62970] £65
4 7. [Second Afghan War, 1880] The Royal Engineer 8. SHEPHERD (J.W.) A Personal Narrative of the Journal. 1880. Seven issues: 1/1/80; 1/3/80; 1/6/80; Outbreak & Massacre at Cawnpore, During the
1/9/80; 1/10/80; 1/11/80 & 1/12/80. Sepoy Revolt of 1857... And in Connection Therewith 140pp. in all, with around 10 is Now Added England's Great Mission to India, in
maps & sketches. Three Parts. Brompton: Woolley & Son. 2nd Ed., revised & corrected, Contemp. [ii]+vi+161+70+xxxixpp., engraved The RE Journal was a frontis., 4 sketch maps (2 fldg.). monthly publication which Lucknow: Printed at the London commenced in 1870 & Printing Press, by R. Craven. 1879 ceased in 1904 (when a By "One of the Survivors of the New Series was started). Garrison Under Major-General Sir Until the 1904 it was a Hugh Massy Wheeler, KCB." The "private newspaper" & author was a Eurasian clerk of the became the official Corps Cawnpore commissariat who left the organ only with the New cantonment as a spy on 24th May Series. Alongside, until 1857 & was later asked to prepare a 1905, the Corps published report for the Commissary General. While he was not its own Professional present at events towards the end of the siege, he was Papers, which in that year became incorporated in the evidently able to question witnesses. His account was new RE Journal. The original organ contained reports on first published in 1857 in several newspapers & then in active operations during the period of the issues, rolls & several revised editions, with, at the end, a roll of all the postings of officers, obituaries, reports from various Europeans & loyal Indians killed at Cawnpore. All posts, extracts from both the British & Indian Gazettes, versions are rarely seen. Ladendorf 375. Raugh #2567 &c. Many contained excellent loosely inserted maps/ at p.246. Contemp. half red cloth, gilt, marbled paper plans/sketches relating to the content of the issue. The covd. boards, lacking 6 plates (a tipped-in printed note sequence here offered (seven of the 12 issues for 1880) explains that it was not possible to provide the plates in contains much material on the Second Afghan War & RE all copies of this edition as the artist had "failed in his operations connected therewith, including excellent engagement" to provide enough plates. Even so, it maps & sketches of Kojak Roads; Country round Kabul; should have some plates.), worn title page trimmed & plan of City of Kandahar; map of Country round laid down of ffep., sound thus & commensurately priced. Kandahar; Halmand operations in July 1880 & sketch of [Ref: 62966] £145 the action at Maiwand, July 1880. Contents include Diary of Major Le Mesurier RE, Brigade Major with the Quetta 9. STILES (Richard G.M.) The Story of the India Column; accounts of Battle of Kushk-I-Nahud & other General Service Medal 1908-1935. operations near Kandahar; Looting in Afghanistan; 1st Ed., orig. dec. limp wraps., Operations at the Halmand & Battle of Maiwand. These [iv]+158pp., A4 format, 12 issues also include matter re Russo-Turkish War, maps. Knighton, Powys: operations in Naga Hills, &c. These issues loose, rather Terence Wise. 1992 worn, but excellent source material on 2nd Afghan War Describes the various with useful maps & sketches. [Ref: 62921] £150 campaigns & claps awrded for this medal inc. NWF 1908, Abor 1911-12, Afghanistan 1919, Mahsud & Waziristan 1919-21, Malabar 1921-22, Waziristan 1921-24 & 1925, Burma 1930-32, Mohmand 1933 & NWF 1935. Includes various orders of battle, casualty returns &c. VG. [Ref: 62797] £20
5 10. THOMSON (Capt. Mowbray) The Story of 11. WIMBERLEY (Capt. Douglas, sometime Lt. &
Cawnpore. Adjt., 79th) Some Account of the Part Taken by The 1st Ed., vii+262pp., 3 plates., fldg. 79th Regiment or Cameron Highlanders in the Indian
plan. Bentley. 1859 Mutiny Campaign of 1858. Fine personal account of the 1st Ed., [iv]+82pp., fldg. map in siege & subsequent escape of end-pocket (plan of Lucknow). one of the four British officers who Printed at the Northern Chronicle got away from the massacre at Office, Inverness. 1891 Cawnpore, & hence the standard A very useful account including the account of events. Ladendorf 400. author's personal recollections of Raugh 2568. Orig. red cloth, events (utilising the diary he blindstamped & gilt, cloth marked, maintained during the campaign & sp. chipped, generally VG with a notebook that he kept as pencil ownership inscrip. of H.J. adjutant). Includes Relief of Vibart. [Ref: 62965] £75 Lucknow & other events, & contains list of officers & sergeants, &c. Inscribed by author: Robert Stewart from Douglas Wimberley late 79th Highrs. Orig. red cloth, gilt to front panel, much faded/stained but internally VG, generally VG overall & rare. [Ref: 62955] £225
6 Indian Army Regimental History
12. Centenary of 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier 14. MURLAND (Lt.-Col. H.F.) Baillie-ki-Paltan:
Force) 1858-1958. Being a History of the 2nd Bn. Madras Pioneers
1st Ed., orig. dec. card wraps., (formerly IV Madras Pioneers) 1759-1930. 36pp., 7 photos. The Regiment. 1st Ed., viii+602pp., 4to, 17 fldg. 1958 maps, var. other maps & Contains a concise history of the sketches in text. Madras: 5th Gurkhas plus some interesting Published for the Regiment by statistics & notes re casualties & Higginbothams. 1932 awards in the various campaigns in Substantial, scarce history from which the regiment took part. Also early Anglo-India, Seringapatam, details of their VCs, roll of Ava &c. to Indian Mutiny (in Commandants, lists of names on Central India), Afghanistan, regimental memorials &c. VG. [Ref: Burma, China &c. East Africa & 62962] £35 Mesopotamia in WW1. Appendices include detailed services of the British 13. LINDSELL (Lt. Col. R.A.) A Short History of officers, also services of VCOs with dates of their Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers & Miners appointments & some notes of their war services. "A During World War II 1939-1945. Compiled from War major history, comprehensive & detailed..." - Perkins Diaries & Unit Histories. Completed up to December 443. Orig. pale blue cloth, sp. chipped, cloth rather 1947. unevenly sunned & worn but sound throughout, VG thus. 1st Ed., [iii]+iv+148pp., 27 photos., 6 [Ref: 61475] £145 col. & fldg. maps. VG in dw. Bangalore: Printed by Mr. D.N. 15. PETERS ([Brigadier] R.W. [OBE]) et al. Central
Hosali at the Hosali Press. 1950 India Horse Newsletter 1 to 24. Valuable & detailed records of the 1st Ed. in volume form, various Field Companies & various [iv]+225pp., 7 maps. Printed by C. other specialist units in the Group in Murphy at Thacker's Press, Abyssia, Western Desert, Italy & Bombay. nd (1945). Greece, Burma & Malaya. Various Reprint of all the CIH Newsletters Appendices inc. list of units raised that appeared from time to time during period 1939-45; lists of between the regiment's departure officers who commanded Field overseas in July 1940 to its return units, lists of senior VCOs, roll of awards (inc. MiDs, to India in Feb. 1946: in between noting the unit to which the recipient belonged), detailed it saw service with 4th Indian Div. Roll of Honour. 1000 copies printed & very scarce. in Eritrea, North Africa, Perkins states: "A good narrative account... The number PAIFORCE & Italy, initially armed of copies printed is said to have been one thousand [it only with carriers until Humber Armoured Cars arrived in was]. The number still in existence is likely to be much Italy in March 1944. The newsletters contain a goldmine reduced as a consequence of the original poor assembly of fascinating material on the regiment & its members in & binding." Orig. blue cloth, internally stained, cloth VG, the war, written for regimental consumption & with great in chipped but rare dw. [Ref: 62954] £225 immediacy. Much personal information includes various lists of officers, casualties among the ranks, full citations for awards &c. Orig. full green morocco, gilt to sp. & with regimental device to front. Perkins 420. VG, rare with ink inscrip. With Kind Regards from The Central India Horse. R .W.P. i.e. Brig. R.W. Peters, Commandant & one of the compilers, plus carbon ts letter to front paste-down from R.A. (Reggie) Savory, acknowledging receipt of this copy. [Ref: 61300] £425
7 16. POYNDER (Lt.-Col. F.S., MVO, OBE, MC) The 19. STEVENS (Lt.-Col. G.R., OBE) History of the
9th Gurkha Rifles Vol. I 1817-1936. 2nd King Edward VII's Own Goorkha Rifles (The
1st Ed., xx+275pp., frontis., 15 Sirmoor Rifles) Vol. III 1921-1948. photos., 17 maps (some fldg.). 1st Ed., xv+322pp., 4to, num. Printed by Butler & Tanner for the photos., 18 maps (most fldg.). RUSI. 1937 Aldershot: G&P. 1952 The rarest (alongside Petre's 1st Inc. NWF & WW2 in Middle East, GR) of the mainstream Gurkha Malaya & Burma (one bn. with histories, "produced to the finest Chindits). Roll of Hon., British & standards of Butler & Tanner in GOs. "The story of all five WW2 their hey-day. The narrative is battalions is told in detail" - Perkins. well-written & full of interest, with Orig. red & green cloth, gilt, VG. excellent supporting [Ref: 62882] £75 appendices... the WW1 coverage is superb. The 1st Bn served initially on the Western Front with the Indian Corps & 20. WILLASEY-WILSEY (Col. F.H., MC) A Brief then joined 2nd Bn in Mesopotamia." - Perkins. Also a Outline History of the 8th Gurkha Rifles. brief account of events before 1914, post-war Illustrated by Lt. H. Harry Sheldon. Afghanistan 1919 & Waziristan 1919-24 operations. War 1st Ed., [iv]+iii+52pp., portrait, 12 services of British officers, awards roll, Roll of Hon. for photos., several maps & sketches. British & Gurkha officers, &c. Orig. black & green cloth, Lahore: Civil & Military Gazttte. silver gilt to sp. & front, little rubbed, VG indeed & rare. 1944 [Ref: 62983] £325 Useful concise account of the regiment & its campaigns to 1939 17. SHAKESPEAR (Col. L.W.) History of the 2nd (much on WW1) with some King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor interesting WW2-era photos. of
Rifles). recruits & training which are not Regimental reprint of 1912 1st included in the main regimental Ed., xii+183pp., 4to, 26 plates, history. Orig. dec. paper covd. maps, plans. Aldershot: G&P. board with green cloth backstrip, little rubbed & worn, 1950 VG. [Ref: 62957] £60 Fine history covering Indian Mutiny (notably at Delhi), 2nd Afghan War, North-West Frontier &c. Perkins 498. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG. [Ref: 62990] £35
18. SPRING (Col. F.W.M.) Comp. The Bombay Artillery: List of Officers who have served in the Regiment of Bombay Artillery from its Formation in
1749 to Amalgamation with the RA... 1st Ed., xii+135pp., 6 plates. Clowes. 1902 The officers' services include full career details, campaign service, date of death &c. There is also a history of the early days of the regiment & a statement of the war services of each Troop, up to & including the Boer War. Perkins 431. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, white cloth backstrip, stained & worn but sound. [Ref: 62991] £40
8 Africa
21. The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1900: An Album of Royal Fusiliers at Kandahar in the 2nd Afghan War upwards of Three Hundred Photographic including letters to his father & sister from that place. Engravings. A Picture Record of the Movements of Orig. red cloth, gilt, stained & worn ex-circ. lib., but sound the British, Colonial & Boer Forces engaged in the & complete. [Ref: 62789] £30
Conflict. 1st Ed., 10 of 12 original parts, 24. BEET (A.J.) & HARRIS (C.B.) Kimberley Under oblong 4to, approx. 160pp. in Siege: An Illustrated Story of a Brave Defence all, photos. throughout. Cape endured by 50,000 Men, Women & Children for 124 Town: Dennis Edwards & Co. Days, A Saga of a Great Feat of Arms by 5,000 Contemp. Troops against Overwhelming Odds. Superb, clear photos. of the 2nd Ed., revised & enlarged, 130pp., battlefields, various locations num. photos. (inc. named fldg. & forces involved. Issued in twelve original periodically panorama of siege survivors in issued parts, of which here Parts I, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, 1950). Kimberley: Diamond Field X, XI & XII. Scarce thus although several issues lacks Advertiser. 1950 wraps., several are chipped & worn & several are VG. Published to commemorate the 50th [Ref: 62765] £40 anniversary & contains masses of interesting info. inc. casualty list, roll 22. AMERY (L.S.) Ed. The Times History of the War of siege survivors &c. Orig. blue in South Africa 1899-1902. cloth, titled in black to sp. with dec. 1st Ed., 7 Vols., in all some front board, VG indeed but for some 3,500pp., 88 plates, 6 fldg. maps Selotape residue to eps. [Ref: in end-pockets, 77 maps in text. 62713] £65 Sampson Low. 1900-1909. A very good set of one of the key 25. BELLAIRS (Lady) Ed. The Transvaal War authoritative works on the Boer 1880-1881. War, complete with elusive index Reprint of 1885 1st Ed., volume. Original plate, with xxiii+491pp., plate, map. VG in dw. misattributed portrait of Maj.-Gen. Cape Town: Struik. 1972 Fitzroy Hart, still in place at page 528 of Vol. III, but the Standard authoritative account. replacement plate, complete with the printed foldrer with Limited edition of 1000 copies. which it was issued is loosely inserted. Rather interesting Good quality hardback reprint. VG thus. Orig. red cloth, gilt, generally a good set, but spines in dw. [Ref: 62758] £25 rather worn, some speckling to boards, Vol. III with damage to rear board. [Ref: 62984] £200
23. BARTTELOT (W.G.) The Life of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, Captain & Bt. Major Royal Fusiliers, Commander of the Rear Column of the 26. BLEY (Dr. Helmut) South-West Africa under Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, being an Account of German Rule. his Services for the Relief of Kandahar, of Gordon & 1st Eng. Ed., xxxii+303pp., 29 photos., 3 maps. VG in dw. of Emin. 2nd Ed., xv+413pp., 4 plates, 2 fldg. Heinemann. 1971 maps. Bentley. 1890 Unflattering portrait of German Diary & letters of Major Barttelot who colonial rule 1894-1914. VG in dw. was treacherously shot by a native [Ref: 62727] £30 bearer on the Pasha/Stanley relief mission. Mainly concerns his campaign service in Egypt & the Sudan 1882-88 (& related correspondence) but includes a short account of his services with the 7th
9 27. BOVILL (Mai) & ASKWITH (G.R., MA, FRGS) 30. [Campaigns in Egypt & The Sudan 1882-1887] Roddy Owen (Brevet Major, Lancashire Fusiliers, The Royal Engineer Journal. 1882-1888. Twenty-two
DSO): A Memoir. issues: 1/3/82; 1/4/82; 1/5/82; 1/6/82; 1/7/82; 1/9/82; 1st Ed., viii+279pp., 3 plates, 4 fldg. 2/10/82; 1/11/82; 1/1/83; 1/3/83; 2/4/83; 1/11/83; 1/4/84; maps. Murray. 1897 1/5/84; 1/1/85; 2/2/85; 1/4/85; 1/8/85; 1/9/85; 1/10/85;
Includes Jebu Campaign (West 1/4/86; 1/5/86; 1/6/86 & 1/10/88. Africa); Uganda (DSO & Brilliant Star Around 400pp. in all, with of Zanzibar) & Dongola Expedition around 20 maps & sketches. 1896, on which he died of cholera. Brompton: Woolley & Son. Green cloth, gilt, decorated with silk Contemp. bands (racing colours, a little frayed The RE Journal was a as usual), VG. [Ref: 62828] £35 monthly publication which commenced in 1870 & ceased in 1904 (when a New Series was started). Until the 28. BULLOCH (John Malcolm) Ed. The Gordon 1904 it was a "private Book. newspaper" & became the 1st Ed., 84pp., 4to, frontis., 13 official Corps organ only with plates. Published for the Bazaar the New Series. Alongside, of the Fochabars Reading until 1905, the Corps Room & printed by the published its own Rosemount Press, Aberdeen. Professional Papers, which in that year became 1912 incorporated in the new RE Journal. The original organ Gordon clan history together contained reports on active operations during the period with other matter including an of the issues, rolls & postings of officers, obituaries, account of "The Duchess of reports from various posts, extracts from both the British Richmond & the Waterloo Ball" & Indian Gazettes, &c. Many contained excellent loosely plus a chapter on "The Gordons inserted maps/plans/sketches relating to the content of as Campaigners in South the issue. The sequence here offered (twenty-two Africa" which contains various notes & statistics with a issues, 1882-1888) contains much material on roll (with service details, some quite extensive) of 42 campaigns in Egypt & the Sudan inc. Official Despatches officers of the wider Gordon family who served in the re Bombardment of Alexandria; Kassassin 1882; Tel-el- Boer War, 1899-1902. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG. [Ref: Kebir (much on this inc. despatches, General Order & 62706] £50 Order of March, &c.); Occupation of Suez Canal; Diary of Works Performed by 8th Coy. RE in Egypt; Work of 29. BUTTERFIELD (Dr. Paul H.) War & Peace in Detachment of Queen's Own Sappers & Miners in Egypt; South Africa: The Writings of Philip Anstruther & El Teb with the Suakin Field Force; Work done by RE Edward Essex. with Suakin Field Force; Diary of an Officer with the 1st Ed., [xxx]+246pp., 4to, Karthoum Expedition; 17th Fd. Coy. RE at Suakim; several illus. & maps. Melville, Suakin 1885 Field Operations; Water Supply at Suakin; SA: Scripta Africana. 1986 Nile Campaign 1888 & more concerning RE operation, Scarce work includes letters of with excellent maps & sketches including First Position at Major Anstruther of the 94th Kafr Dowar; Formation for Attack, Tel-el-Kebir; Arabi (Connaught Rangers) in Zulu Pasha's Order of Battle at Kassassin; Section of Lines at War, including Battle of Ulundi Tel-el-Kebir; diagram of lines at Tel-el-Kebir; sketches of followed by subjugation of Sand-Bag redoubt near Suakim; diagrams of Forts at Sekhukhune alongside the Suakin &c. Contents also include other events during the journal of Major Edward Essex period of these issues, in India, Bechuanaland, &c. (one of the few survivors of These issues loose, rather worn, but excellent source Isandlwana) as Adjutant of the material on Egypt & Sudan campaigns with useful maps Natal Field Force. Orig. red rexine, gilt to sp. & front, & sketches. [Ref: 62922] £300 near fine. [Ref: 62764] £35
10 31. CARNEGIE (Margaret) & SHIELDS (Frank) In 35. CHURCHILL (W.S.) London to Ladysmith, Via
Search of Breaker Morant: Balladist & Bushveldt Pretoria.
Carbineer. New [i.e., 2nd] Imp., xiv+498pp., 3 1st Ed., xi+227pp., portrait frontis., fldg. maps., one in text, 4 plans. approx. 40 other photos, maps &c. Longmans, Green & Co. 1900 VG in dw. Published by the authors. Churchill's activities in Boer War, 1979 reporting for the Morning Post, Deeply researched study of the captured & escaped. This 2nd Ed. Australian legend: bushman, appeared in the same year as the horsebreaker & soldier in the Boer 1st Ed. Orig. wheat cloth, red & gilt, War when executed for alleged with pictorial front board blocked in atrocities. Contains a very full black, a very nice clean & bright account of his court martial &c. VG copy with just some minor wear, VG in dw & inscribed by principal author throughout. [Ref: 62724] £125 Carnegie. [Ref: 62748] £20 36. CLARKE (Sonia) Zululand at War 1879: The
32. CARTER (Thomas Fortescue) A Narrative of The Conduct of the Anglo-Zulu War.
Boer War: Its Causes & Results. 1st Ed. (trade edition), 300pp., 1st Ed., viii+574pp. Cape Town: Juta square 4to, illus. throughout et al; London: John MacQueen. (some in colour). VG in dw. 1900 Houghton, SA: Brenthurst Major work on the First Boer - or Press. 1984 Transvaal War 1881: the various A sumptuous but also battles, engagements & battlefields historically worthy work described in detail. Orig. brown described by Raugh (3186) as: cloth, gilt to sp. & front, minor wear, "This is a collection of VG. [Ref: 62720] £45 previously unpublished & generally candid letters written mainly by officers who served in Zululand. The majority of the letters were written by British Army officers... to Maj.-Gen. Sir 33. CHALMERS (Alan) Bombardment of Ladysmith Archibald Alison, Deputy QMG for Intelligence at the Anticipated: Diary of a Siege. War Office, 1878-1882..." VG in dw & a scarce work. 1st Ed., original laminated card [Ref: 62763] £90 wraps., xiv+319pp., num. photos., col. fldg. map in end-pocket. 37. CLARKE (Sonia) Ed. Invasion of Zululand 1879: Weltevreden, SA: Covos-Day Anglo-Zulu War experiences of Arthur Harness: Books. 2000 John Jervis, 4th Viscount St Vincent & Sir Henry
Detailed diary of George Charles Bulwar. Maidment, an RAMC orderly, 1st Ed., 296pp., col. frontis., 30 throughout the 100 day siege. VG. plates, 6 maps, 2 diagrams. VG in [Ref: 62761] £15 dw. Jo'burg: Brenthurst Press. 1979 Important Zulu war source, being edited letters of Arthur Harness, 34. CHILD (D.) Ed. The Zulu War Journal of Colonel Lt.-Col., Royal Artillery, throughout Henry Harford, C.B. the campaign; diary of John Jervis 1st Ed., [vii]+88pp., sketches, ep with the 17th Lancers & the letters maps. VG in dw. Hamden, Conn., of Sir Henry Bulwar, lieutenant- Archon. 1978 governor of Natal. VG in dw & now With Lord Chelmsford's Column & very scarce. [Ref: 62735] £90 Staff Officer to Commandant Lonsdale of the 3rd Natal Native Contingent. VG in dw. [Ref: 62746] £15
11 38. COLVIN (Ian) The Life of Jameson. 40. Command paper. [C.-2242] Further 2nd Imp., 2 Vols., vii+314pp., 3 Correspondence Respecting The Affairs of South portraits, map & [vii]+352pp., portrait, Africa. (In Continuation of [C.-2222] of February map (of Jameson Raid). Edward 1879). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by
Arnold. 1923 Command of Her Majesty, February, 1879. Leander Starr Jameson, his 1st Ed., iv+93pp., 2 maps. pioneering life in South Africa & the Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode eponymous raid. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, for HMSO. 1879 minor wear, VG, with armorial Fine series of correspondence bookplates of Alwyne Ainsworth between SA & War Office, Crossley (1881-1933: served in Admiralty &c. in London with France in WW1 with 1st King's customary detailed Table of Dragoon Guards & 1/7th Essex Contents. Raugh (p.477) states: Regt.). [Ref: 62745] £35 "Includes: Ultimatum to Cetshwayo; Dunn crosses 39. Command paper. [C.-2220] Further Thukela; need for Correspondence Respecting The Affairs of South reinforcements & causes of Africa. (In Continuation of [C.-2144] of August 1878). coming war explained; military Presented to both Houses of Parliament by instructions; troop movements; Command of Her Majesty, 6th December, 1878. irruption of the Zulu into Swaziland; telegrams reporting 1st Ed., xii+404pp., 5 maps (3 disaster at Rorke's Drift; two dispatches from Sir T. fldg.). Printed by Eyre & Shepstone on his meeting with Cetshwayo's envoys on Spottiswoode for HMSO. 1879 the Zulu Frontier." Excellent source material & rare, Fine series of correspondence ex-State Lib., Pretoria, lacking wraps., VG thus. [Ref: between SA & War Office, 62751] £145 Admiralty &c. in London during the tumultuous period July-Dec. 41. Command paper. [C.-2252] Further 1878, with customary detailed Correspondence Respecting The Affairs of South Table of Contents, excellent Africa. (In Continuation of [C.-2242] of February maps inc. Gassebone's Country 1879). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by
(with routes of Patrols of Command of Her Majesty, March, 1879. Carrington's Horse &c.), Zululand 1st Ed., iv+97pp., 2 maps (one (showing Norwegian, English & fldg.). Printed by Eyre & German stations & Kings Kraals), Spottiswoode for HMSO. 1879 the Transvaal & the Utrecht Region (inc. Blood River). Fine series of correspondence Correspondents include Hicks-Beach, Bartle Frere between SA & War Office, (predominently), Shepstone, Thesiger & Bulwer. Raugh Admiralty &c. in London with (p.477) states: "Includes: Unsettled conditions in customary detailed Table of Zululand; drafting of Zulu Workers by Cetshwayo to work Contents. Raugh (p.477) states: on railways; invasion of Natal by Zulu people; Mr "Includes: Conditions governing Colenso's claim of validity of his & Dr Walter Smith's recruitment of Native labour; appointment as agents of Cetshwayo; withdrawal of information from missionaries Norwegian missionaries from Zululand; revival of Zulu on violence by Zulu people practice of killing by impi." Drilling down into this matter against their Christian can be found accounts of various patrols & events, the countrymen; observations on operations against Gasibone (or Gassebone), operations Cetshwayo's military organization; Bishop Colenso's against Sikukuni, reports of Gen. Thesiger on forces views on the award in the boundary dispute between under his command, &c. Excellent source material & Transvaal & Cetshwayo; the Isandlwana dasaster." rare, VG ex-State Lib., Pretoria, bound in later (c.1940s) Includes reports on both Isandlwana & Rorke's Drift, a qtr. sand cloth with brown calf backstrip. [Ref: 62750] copy of Col. Bray's sketch of the former, also a fldg. map £250 of Langeberg region illustrating action of 14th Oct. 1878 in Griqualand, &c. Excellent source material & rare, ex-State Lib., Pretoria, lacking wraps., VG thus. [Ref: 62752] £225
12 42. Command paper. [C.-2260] Further Columns &c. Excellent source material & rare, ex-State Correspondence Respecting The Affairs of South Lib., Pretoria, lacking wraps., VG thus. [Ref: 62754] Africa. (In Continuation of [C.-2252] of March 1879). £225 Presented to both Houses of Parliament by
Command of Her Majesty, March, 1879. 44. Command paper. [C.-3247] Correspondence 1st Ed., [i]+111pp. Printed by Eyre Respecting The Affairs of Zululand & The Proposed & Spottiswoode for HMSO. 1879 Visit of Cetywayo to England. Presented to both Fine series of correspondence Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, between SA & War Office, June, 1882. Admiralty &c. in London with 1st Ed., ix+90pp. Printed by Eyre customary detailed Table of & Spottiswoode for HMSO. 1882 Contents. Raugh (p.478) states: Fine series of correspondence "Includes: Lord Chelmsford's between SA & War Office, report on military operations Admiralty &c. in London with against the Zulus; troop customary detailed Table of reinforcements from St. Helena; Contents. Raugh (p.482) states: various papers on Zulu affairs." "Correspondents include: Includes Official Report of the Lt.-Gen. Sir L. Smyth, Sir Defence of Rorke's Drift (with statement of forces Hercules Robinson, Lady present & list of those killed); various other Florence Dixie, Cetshwayo, Sir correspondence re this action, including Chard's report Henry Bulwer." Various missives with roll of those brought to notice for gallant behaviour, largely re Cetshwayo's wish to &c., as well as reports of the Ekowe Colum & other visit England & related concerns, matter, Roll of Honour for Isandlwana, &c. Excellent various Zulu grievances, &c. Excellent source material & source material & rare, ex-State Lib., Pretoria, lacking rare, ex-State Lib., Pretoria, bound in later (c.1940s) qtr. wraps., VG thus. [Ref: 62753] £250 sand cloth with brown calf backstrip, VG thus. [Ref: 62755] £125 43. Command paper. [C.-2367] Further Correspondence Respecting The Affairs of South 45. Command paper. [C.-3705] Further Africa. (In Continuation of [C.-2318] of May 1879). Correspondence Respecting The Affairs of Zululand Presented to both Houses of Parliament by & Cetywayo. (In Continuation of [C.-3616] of May
Command of Her Majesty, July, 1879. 1883). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by 1st Ed., vi+176pp., 2 maps (on Command of Her Majesty, July, 1883. one leaf: routes & ground at 1st Ed., vii+115pp., fldg. map. Ekowe), 2 leaves of sketches of Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode Fort at Ekowe. Printed by Eyre & for HMSO. 1883 Spottiswoode for HMSO. 1879 Fine series of correspondence Fine series of correspondence between SA & War Office &c. in between SA & War Office, London with customary detailed Admiralty &c. in London with Table of Contents. Raugh (p.483) customary detailed Table of states: "Includes: Cetshwayo's Contents. Raugh (p.478) states: defeat of Hamu & dispute with "Includes: Assistance offered by Zibhebu; disturbed conditions in inhabitants of Mauritius to war Reserve Territory." Excellent victims in Natal; relief of Eshowe source material & rare, ex-Union [aka Ekowe]; distinguished Education Depr., bound in later service of Col. Evelyn Wood, Col. Pearson; Mr Rudolph's (c.1940s) black cloth, retaining on Cetshwayo's changed attitude towards British orig. blue paper wraps., VG thus. [Ref: 62756] £90 officials; attitude of Boers during Ango-Zulu War; list of farms in disputed territory; Lord Chelmsford on military movements; Natal Native Contingent Levies; raids into Zululand; casualty lists; messages from Cetshwayo; state of affairs in Zululand; reports from border agents." The casualty rolls include those who died from disease (with location & date), battle casualty list, 12th-29th Match 879 (& later returns), despatches re Eshow/Ekowe
13 46. Command paper. [C.-4587] Further 49. DEVITT (Napier) The Concentration Camps in Correspondence Respecting The Affairs of Zululand South Africa During the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-
& Adjacent Territories. (In Continuation of [C.-4274] 1902. of February 1885). Presented to both Houses of 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 60pp. Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, August, Pietermaritzburg: Shuter & Shooter.
1885. 1941 1st Ed., xiii+119pp., fldg. map. A most informative (& scarce) Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode monograph on the establishment & for HMSO. 1885 organisation of the camps in which Fine series of correspondence Boer civilians (women & children) between SA & War Office &c. in were incarcerated, the London with customary detailed mismanagement of some of these Table of Contents. Includes institutions, the shortages of food, various correspondence re medical care &c. which led to some Boer Activity, disress caused by 20,000 deaths. Orig. printed wraps., famine in Zululand, boundary small piece missing from front, generally VG. [Ref: issues, &c. Excellent source 62744] £60 material & rare, ex-State Lib., Pretoria, bound in later 50. DUXBURY (G.R.) David & Goliath: The First War (c.1940s) qtr. sand cloth with of Independence 1880-1881. brown calf backstrip, VG thus. 1st Ed., orig. card wraps., vi+90pp., [Ref: 62757] £75 frontis., 18 illus., 4 maps. Jo'burg: SA National Museum of Military 47. COUPLAND (Sir Reginald) Zulu Battle Piece: History. 1981
Isandhlwana. Useful concise account of The 1st Ed., 144pp., 9 plates, 4 maps. First Boer War, Majuba Hil &c. VG. VG in dw. Collins. 1948 [Ref: 62732] £15 First modern study of the battle & subsequent events at Rorke's Drift, a masterly classic. VG copy of 1st Ed. in appealing dw. [Ref: 62740] £35 51. EMERY (F.) Ed. The Red Soldier: Letters from
the Zulu War 1879. 1st Ed., 288pp., 16 plates, 8 maps/ diagrams. VG in dw. H&S. 1977 Selection of letters of officers, NCO's 48. DAVEY (Arthur) Ed. Breaker Morant & the & men during the campaign. VG in
Bushveldt Carbineers. dw & uncommon hardback edition. 1st Ed., lxv+238pp., 21 photos., [Ref: 62739] £25 map. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society. 1987 Definitive, fully documented story of the BVC in South Africa. Includes nominal rolls of unit &c. Orig. brown cloth, gilt, VG. [Ref: 62747] £35 52. EMERY (Frank) Marching Over Africa: Letters
from Victorian Soldiers. 1st Ed., 204pp., 11 illus., 3 maps. VG in dw. H&S. 1986 Includes a selection of correspondence from num. campaigns from Abysssinia to Zululand. VG in dw. [Ref: 62743] £15
14 53. HALL (Darrell) Halt! Action Front! With Colonel 56. HOLT (H.P.) The Mounted Police of Natal.
Long at Colenso. 1st Ed., xviii+366pp., portrait frontis., 1st Ed., [xii]+183pp., num. photos. 34 photos. Murray. 1913 VG in dw. Weltevreden, SA: Including Zulu War, Transvaal War Covos-Day Books. 1999 1880, 2nd Boer War & Rebellion of Story of 4th Bde. RFA & supporting 1906. "The NMP was raised in naval artillery under Col. C.J. Long, 1874... This is a narrative account of RHA, commanding Artilery of the its services in four major upheavals... natal Field Force at Colenso in includes numerous eyewitness 1899. VG in dw. [Ref: 62729] £25 accounts." - Perkins. Solid history & scarce. Orig. red cloth, gilt, little spotted, generally VG, nice copy. [Ref: 62718] £120
54. HAMILTON-BROWNE (Col. G.) A Lost 57. IZEDINOVA (Sophia) A Few Months with The
Legionary in South Africa. Boers: The War Reminiscences of a Russian
1st Ed. (but Colonial Edition), Nursing Sister. xii+308pp., portrait frontis., 11 plates Trans. & Ed. by C. Moody. 1st Ed., by S. Valda. Werner Laurie. nd iv+254pp., photos., map. VG in dw. (c.1912). Jo'burg: Perskor. 1977 Valuable account by "Maori" Browne Service with a Russo-Dutch of his service with the Natal Native ambulance describing "some Contingent (ill-fated Centre Column) famous battles & many of the during Zulu War, inc. view of outstanding personalities of the Isandlwana, present at Ginginhlova, day whom she met." VG in dw. Bechuanaland Expedition &c. Orig. [Ref: 62759] £20 red cloth, this 'Colonial Edition' titled in black to front & sp., minor wear, generally VG & scarce. [Ref: 62726] £75 58. KESTEL (Rev. J.D.) & VAN VELDEN (D.E.) The 55. HEADLAM (Cecil) Ed. The Milner Papers: South Peace Negotiations Between the Governments of
Africa 1897-1899, 1899-1905. the South African Republic & the Orange Free State, 1st Ed., 2 Vols., ix+591pp., & the Representatives of the British Government, portrait frontis., 7 plates & which terminated in the Peace Concluded at
xii+592pp., frontis., 7 plates, Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902. ep maps. VG in chipped dws. 1st Eng. Ed., xix+212pp., several Cassell. 1931/1933 portraits, photos. & facsimiles of Milner was Governor of the original documents. Richard Clay & Cape Colony & High Sons. 1912 Commissioner for South Africa The official minutes of the Peace during Boer War; presided Negotiatons for the Boer War over Transvaal & ORC when (together with official annexed, & gave great support correspondence relating thereto). to military commanders. During the process Kestel was Essential source on the higher direction of the war, the Secretary to the OFS Govt. & Van question of concentration (or 'refugee') camps, conduct Velden to the Govt. of the South of the military commanders, &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, African Republic. Very nice copy, VG VG in sl. chipped dws. [Ref: 62710] £75 indeed, orig. olive green cloth, titles in white to front & sp. [Ref: 62719] £45
15 59. LABAND (J.P.C.) & THOMPSON (P.S.) Field African Republic. From 1898 to 1902 he was the Guide to the War in Zululand & the Defence of Natal Republic's special envoy & minister plenipotentiary in
1879. Brussels. He was author of several acclaimed works of 2nd Revised Ed., card wraps., South African history. Orig. brown cloth, gilt, eps viii+124pp., 4to, num. maps & renewed, VG thus, nice clean copy. [Ref: 62712] £45 diagrams, several photos. Univ. of Natal. 1983 62. NORRIS-NEWMAN (Charles L.) In Zululand with Well mapped useful standard the British Throughout the War of 1879. guide. Excellent plans of various Facsimile reprint of 1880 1st Ed., forts, battles & skirmishes. [Ref: xv+343pp., several illus., 8 battle 62734] £15 plans. VG in dw. Greenhill. 1988 War correspondent's detailed standard account with diagrams of the principal engagements, casualty returns &c. This good quality reprint 60. LEYDS (W.J., LL.D.) The First Annexation of the includes extra illustrations from the
Transvaal. ILN. VG in dw. [Ref: 62770] £15 1st Ed., xxiii+378pp., fldg. map. T. Fisher Unwin. 1906 In the 1870s the Transvaal was inhabited by Boer settlers & 63. PEARSE (R.O.) et al. Langalibalele & the The indigenous peoples. British interest Natal Carbineers. The Story of the Langalilbalele was awakened when diamonds Rebellion, 1873. were discovered in Griqualand & 1st Ed., [iii]+91pp., several photos., Transvaal claimed this area based map. VG in dw. Ladysmith Historical on the Bloemfontein Convention Society. 1973 which had stated that the British Chief of the Amahlubi tribe who put were not interested in areas north of up a spirited fight when ordered to the Vaal River. The Griqua however register guns in his men's were mindful of the poor treatment of blacks & half- possession with the Natal castes by the Boers and requested British protection: in Government, was transported 1871 the British annexed the area and formed it into a subsequently to Robben Island. The Crown Colony in 1873. Then in 1877 Britain annexed activities of the volunteer forces Transvaal as a way of resolving the border dispute sent to round him up, with rolls of between Boers & Zulus. This work covers the period up the Carbineers who took part. Orig. to 1884.. W.J. Leyds was a Dutch lawyer & statesman grey dec. dw over plain boards, sl. chipped at head of sp. who served as state attorney & secretary of the South o/w VG. [Ref: 62741] £30 African Republic. From 1898 to 1902 he was the 64. POTTINGER (Brian) The Foreign Volunteers: Republic's special envoy & minister plenipotentiary in They fought for the Boers (1899-1902). Brussels. He was author of several acclaimed works of 1st Ed., xxxi+340pp., 4to, South African history. Orig. brown cloth, gilt, eps approx. 25 photo. plates. SA: renewed, VG thus, nice clean copy. [Ref: 62711] £50 Scripta Africana. 1986 61. LEYDS (W.J., LL.D.) The Transvaal Surrounded. Volunteers of numerous A Continuation of "The First Annexation of the nationalities came to aid the Boer cause, from the German Transvaal." 1st Ed., xxivi+603pp., fldg. map. T. Commando to French & Fisher Unwin. 1919 Russian noblemen, Irish Hollowing the annexation of the revolutionaries, Americans in Transvaal in 1877 & events up to search of adventure, &c. 1884 covered in Leyds' first volume, Detailed account of their this covers the downfall of Cetywayo services with various portraits & onwards, events in Bechuanaland, group photos. Orig. red rexine, gilt to sp. & front, near Mashonalalnd, Matabele War. &c. fine. [Ref: 62768] £30 W.J. Leyds was a Dutch lawyer & statesman who served as state attorney & secretary of the South
16 65. PRESTON (A.) Ed. Sir Garnet Wolseley's South 69. STUART (J., Capt., Natal Arty. &c.) A History of
African diaries (Natal) 1875. the Zulu Rebellion 1906 & of Dinuzulu's Arrest, Trial
1st Ed., viii+359pp. VG in dw. Cape & Expatriation. Town: Balkema. 1971 1st Ed., xvi+581pp., 24 illus., 11 maps Wolseley's political campaign in & pland (one fldg.). Macmillan. 1913 Natal. VG in dw. [Ref: 62722] £25 Standard detailed account inc. rolls of casualties & honours, states of the various forces involved, &c. Author was a member of the Natal Artillery & an Intelligence Officer during the operations. Orig. maroon cloth, gilt, somewhat spotted & worn but sound ex-Resident Magistrate's lib. at 66. PRESTON (A.) Ed. The South African Journal of Helpmaakar, Natal. [Ref: 62749] £45
Sir Garnet Wolseley 1879-1880. 1st Ed., viii+359pp. VG in dw. 70. TAITZ (Jerold) et al. Eds. The War Memoirs of
Cape Town: Balkema. 1973 Commandant Ludwig Krause 1899-1900. Wolseley was sent to Natal to 1st Ed., xxxiv+163pp., col. frontis., succeed Chelmsford after several illus., ep maps. VG in dw. Isandhlwana & charged with the Cape Town: Van Riebeek Society. pacification of Zululand & the 1996 Transvaal until his return in May Fine memoirs of a Boer 1880. Valuable journals of this Commander leader until captured period in SA. VG in dw & rare. in Dec. 1900. VG in dw. [Ref: [Ref: 62723] £90 62762] £15
67. SCHIKKERLING (R.W.) Commando Courageous
(A Boer's Diary).
1st Ed., [x]+396pp., portrait frontis. 71. TREVOR (Major Tudor G.) Forty Years in Africa. VG in sl. chipped dw. Jo'burg: 1st Ed., 279pp., portrait frontis. Hurst Keartland. 1964 & Blackett. 1932 Absorbing & readable diary of field Ed. at the School of Mines & service with the Boers. VG in sl. employed in mines in South Africa chipped dw. [Ref: 62731] £30 from 1897. Served in Boer war with Plumer's irregular force & in German SW & East African campaigns during WW1 (as a Captain in the Royal Engineers). Orig. dec. cloth, ex-lib. but generally VG. [Ref: 62728] £20
68. SLOCUM (Capt. S.L'H.) & REICHMANN (Capt. C.) Boer War Operations in South Africa 1899-1901. 72. UYS (C.J., MA, D.LITT.) In the Era of Shepstone: Extracts from the Reports of Captain S.L'H Slocum Being A Study of British Expansion in South Africa
& Captain Carl Reichmann. (1842-1877). Facsimile reprint of 1901 1st Ed., 1st Ed., xix+469pp., 5 illus., 2 fldg. 325pp., 4to, photos. & maps. maps. VG in chipped dw. Lovedale, Mellville, SA: Scripta Africana. CP, South Africa: Lovedale Press. 1987 1933 Reprint of rare intelligence Important work incorporating reports compiled by two Shepstone's private papers & other American military attaches for the primary sources. VG in chipped/torn US War Dept. during the Boer dw. Rare (& not as yet reprinted). War, one with the British & the [Ref: 62760] £45 other with Boer forces. Much interesting detail. Orig. red rexine, gilt to sp. & front, near fine. [Ref: 62769] £30
17 73. UYS (Ian) Heidelbergers of the Boer War. an endeavour is made to 'trace the results flowing from 1st Ed., x+277pp., num. photos. VG the fall of Sir Bartle Frere & the reversal of his policy,' & in chipped dw. Heidelberg: The the history of the Boer War of independence... is related. Author. 1981 The last volume contains an account of the Jameson Work of the Heidelberg Commando Raid & its consequences, the Conquest of Rhodesia, & &c., based on the books, letters, the political situation throughout South Africa one year diaries & memories of participants. before the commencement of the South African War, VG in chipped dw. [Ref: 62738] £30 1899-1902." Orig. dark red cloth, gilt, minor wear, eps renewed, VG thus. [Ref: 62725] £225
77. WITTON (Lt. G.) Scapegoats of the Empire: The
True Story of The Bushveldt Carbineers. Reprint of 1907 1st Ed., [x]+247pp., 74. VERNON-HARCOURT (F.C.) The Bible on the portrait. VG in dw. Sydney: Angus &
Battlefield. Robertson. 1982 1st Ed., xvi+329pp., frontis., 6 plates. The Carbineers & Lt. Witton's Marshall Bros. nd (c.1903) experiences with them. He was Author sailed for South Africa as a sentenced to life imprisonment (but volunteer chaplain in 1899, to later released) at the same time as minister to the sick & wounded, & to Morant & Handcock were executed distribute 200,000 "Soldiers' New for shooting Boer PoWs. VG in dw. Testaments." He remained there for a [Ref: 62737] £25 year & describes his observations of several battles inc. Sannah's Post, witnessing the first CIV casualty 78. WULFSOHN (Lionel) Rustenburg at War: The brought in, &c. Orig. dec. blue cloth. Story of Rustenburg & its Citizens in the First & gilt, sp. tanned, generally VG & scarce. [Ref: 62839] £35 Second Anglo-Boer Wars. 1st Ed., [ix]+198pp., photos., 75. WATKINS-PITCHFORD (H.) Besieged in sketch maps. Rustenburg: The Ladysmith: A Letter to His Wife written in Ladysmith Author. 1987
during the Siege. Includes roll of local men killed 1st Ed., [iii]+129pp., 3 illus., col. ep (with the Boer Commandos) maps. VG in dw. Pietermaritzburg: during 1899-1902, various Shooter & Shuter. 1964 portraits, details of local actions Staff officer with Flying Column in &c. Orig. pictorial boards, VG. Ladysmith throughout the siege inc. [Ref: 62733] £35 attack on Caesar's Camp & Wagon Hill. VG in dw. [Ref: 62742] £20
79. BRYANT (A.T., D.Litt.) The Zulu People As They
Were Before The White Man Came. 2nd Ed., xv+769pp., portrait frontis. 76. WILMOT (Hon. Alexander, KSG, &c.) The History (author). VG in dw. Pietermaritzburg: of Our Own Times in South Africa. Vol. I, 1872-1879; Shuter & Shooter. 1967
Vol. II, 1880-1888; Vol. III, 1889-1898. Author was a distinguished scholar 3 Vols., 1st Eds., xvi+382pp., of the Zulu & compiler of a Zulu- viii+362pp. & viii+361pp. Juta & Co., English Dictionary published in London, Cape Town et al. 1903. According to the publishers' 1897/1898/1899. note this, his magnum opus, "is A rare complete set of this major probably the most exhaustive work survey of Colonial South Africa on Zulu civilisation so far produced." between 1872-1898. Mendelssohn Orig. grey cloth, gilt, VG in dw, (South African Bibliography) records reprint of 1949 1st Ed. [Ref: 62730] that Vol. I commenced in 1872 as in £25 that year "Cape Colony was crowned by responsible government." Goes on the state that "In the second volume
18 Other Campaigns and Wars
80. GOWING (Sgt. Maj. T.) A Soldier's Experience, 83. MALLESON (Col. G.B., CSI) Ambushes & or A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War Surprises: Being a Description of Some of the Most in Blood & Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Famous Instances of the Leading into Ambush & Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the The Surprise of Armies, From the Time of Hannibal,
Ranks; The Indian Mutiny, & some of its Atrocities; to the Period of the Indian Mutiny. The Afghan Campaigns of 1863. Slso Sketches of 1st Ed., xii+434pp., real photo. portrait the Lives & Deaths of Sir H. Havelock, KCB, & Capt. frontis. of Gen. Lord Mark Kerr, fldg. Hedley Vicars. Together with Some Things Not map. W.H. Allen & Co. 1885
Generally Known. By one of the Royal Fusiliers. From Lake Trasimenus 1858: "a New Ed., revised & enlarged, description of the soldierly manner in xv+530., portrait frontis., 17 plates which you [Lord Mark Kerr], in 1858, not & maps. Nottingham: Printed for only extricated the force under your the Author by Thos. Forman & command from a dangerous position, Sons. 1901 but led it to the defeat of the enemy who Crimea, Indian Mutiny & North- had drawn you into an ambush & West Frontier with Royal Fusiliers. surprised you" - i.e. events at Arrah & Azambargh. Orig. Ladendorf 274. Raugh 6516. Orig. brown cloth, gilt, stained & worn but sound & complete. dec. black cloth, little wear, VG. [Ref: 59740] £50 [Ref: 62906] £35 84. REID (Douglas Arthur, MD) Memories of the
Crimean War, January 1855 to June 1856. 81. KINGSTON (Wm. H.G.) Our Soldiers: Gallant 1st Ed., [xvi]+206pp., 4to, portrait Deeds of the British Army During the Reign of frontis., 19 plates 7 maps (some
Queen Victoria. fldg.). St. Catherine Press. 1911 New Ed., Revised & Brought Down to Asst. Surgeon with 90th the End of 1898 by G.A. Henty. Perthshire Light Infantry in the 352pp., 5 portraits. Griffith Farran trenches, camps & hospitals Browne & Co. nd (c.1899). before Sebastopol, inc. the Useful succinct accounts of the attacks on the Redan. Orig. green battles & principal events of all the cloth, gilt, VG, handsome & main Victorian era campaigns inc. scarce with good illustrations & Afghan, Sikh & Punjab wars, Crimea maps. This copy with small photo. & Indian Mutiny, China, New Zealand, of the author attached to tp, also Abyssinia, Ashanti, Zulu War, Egypt loosely inserted photo. in later life 1882, Reconquest of the Sudan, (signed by the author) plus two leaves (4pp.) of Press Chitral & Tirah. Orig. olive cloth, dec. & gilt, VG. [Ref: Notices for the work. [Ref: 62848] £145 62889] £35 85. VETCH (Col. R.H., CB, late RE) Life, Letters & 82. KNOLLYS (Lt.-Col.) & ELLIOTT (Major) Heroes Diaries of Lieut.-General Sir Gerald Graham VC,
of the Battlefield. GCB, RE. With Portraits, Plans & His Principal
440pp., frontis., num. steel Despatches. engravings (illus. & maps). 1st Ed., xxiii+492pp., 2 portraits, 8 Manchester: G.W. Goodwin & maps & plans. Blackwood. 1901 Son. nd (c.1900). Crimean War (over 100pp. letters, inc. Exploits & incidents largely of the all the main battles, VC), China 1860 Persian War (the charge of the (60pp.), Egypt 1882 (commanding square at Khooshab &c.), China Tokar Expy. Force), command Suakin 1860, Ashanti War 1873-74, a E.F. 1884, Eastern Sudan 1885. Much great deal on the 2nd Afghan War detail on these last campaigns inc. El 1878-80 & Zulu War 1879. Teb, Tamai, Tofrek. Orig. red cloth, Valuable if populist account with much of interest. Orig. gilt, Times book club symbol at foot of blue cloth, dec. & gilt, little rubbed, VG. [Ref: 62893] £25 sp., VG. [Ref: 62934] £75
19 Training Manuals and Works of Instruction
86. The Bren Light Machine Gun. Description, Use 89. War Office. Photographs of Some Military
& Mechanism. Vehicles & Weapons in Service. 1936. Coloured fldg. diagrams & sketches, 1st Ed., orig. printed each with captions/instructions, wraps., 12 full page contained in printed card wraps. (244x185 mm) plates. Aldershot: G&P. nd (c.1930s). HMSO. 1936 The Mark I Bren: cutaway drawings, Fine plates inc. Tank diagrams of mechanism &c. with Light Mk. IIA; Tank instructions for operation. Attractive Medium Mk. II; Dragon col. printed instructional work. VG. Medium Mk. IIIc; [Ref: 62894] £30 Lanchester Armoured Car; Rolls Royce Armoured Car, various other vehicles, field guns &c. Little stained but plate quality not affected. [Ref: 62972] £35 87. The Royal Signals Handbook of Line Communication: A comprehensive text-book 90. LEWIS GUNNER [Pseud.] The Tactical Handling dealing with the theoretical & practical aspects of of Lewis Guns, With Notes on Instruction, Etc.
the transmission of intelligence over lines. Volume I. 1st Ed., viii+104pp., several 1st Ed., [vii]+875pp., num. sketches sketches. Aldershot: G&P. 1918 & tables. War Office. 1947 Valuable contemp. manual based This volume includes An on author's first-hand experiences Introduction to Line Communication as a Lewis Gun Officer & Instructor followed by various technical details in France. Includes sections on re use of equipment. Orig. blue Principles of Lewis Gun Tactics; cloth, titled in black to front & sp., LGs in Defence; LGs in Offensive VG. [Ref: 62773] £25 Operations; Notes on Normal Trench Warfare for Lewis Gunners; The LG in Open & Semi-Open Warfare; Training; Duties of the Battalion LG Officer, &c. Orig. dec. canvas wraps., VG, 88. Text Book of Military Topography. Part I [and:] nice example of a rare work. [Ref: 62936] £85
Part II. 2 Vols., [iii]+258pp., sketches, maps 91. SOLANO (Capt. J.) Series Ed. Signalling: & diagrams (some fldg., one in Morse, Semaphore, Station Work, Despatch Riding,
end-pocket) & vii+158pp., several Telephone Cables, Map Reading. plates & tables (some fldg.). Printed Written by an Officer of the by Harrison & Sons for HMSO. 1898 Regular Army & Ed. by Capt. E.J. Part I contains mapping, drawing, Solano. 3td Imp. of 4th Ed., cavalry sketching, laying-out & xx+228pp., 32 illus. Murray. 1916 construction of military roads, One of the 'Imperial Army Series' reconnaissance, &c. Part II contains of useful commercial pocket triangulation, levelling & contouring, manuals 'Based on Official surveys on active service, Manuals.' Orig. khaki canvas reconnaissance in dense forest &c. covd. boards, VG. [Ref: 61721] Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG ex-lib. with £25 contemp. ink ownership inscrips. of D.B. Wilson, Yorkshire Hussars. [Ref: 62896] £45
20 The First World War: General History and Memoirs
92. Battlefields of France. Mary at Heligoland Bight 1914, North Sea 1915 & 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 79pp., c.30 appointed to destroyer HMS Viking, November 1915. He photos., map. Northern & Eastern died of illness on 29th January 1916 and is buried in Railway of France. nd (1920s) Freshwater (All Saints) Churchyard near his family home One of the many post-war battlefield on the Isle of Wight. An appendix contains a short guides, inc. Alsace, Argonne, memoir & letters of condolence for his brother, Captain Champagne, Soissons, Picardy, Hon. Alfred Aubrey Tennyson, 9th (S) Bn. Rifle Brigade, Artois & Flanders, with descriptions who was killed in action in France on 23rd March 1918. of events & what to see. Orig. dec. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. [Ref: 62987] £60 wraps., several leaves stained o/w about VG. [Ref: 62908] £25 95. In Memoriam Harold Parry, 2nd Lt., KRRC, Born at Bloxwich Dec. 13th 1896, Fell in Flanders May 6th
93. Geoffrey Watkins Smith. 1917. 1st Ed., 219pp., 197x133mm, portrait 1st Ed., xiii+144pp., portrait frontis. frontis., 7 plates. Oxford: Printed for Privately published. nd (c.1917). Private Circulation. 1917 Parry was Ed. at Queen Mary's Geoffrey Watkins Smith was born in School, Walsall & Exeter College, 1881 at Beckenham, Kent. He was a Oxford. 17th (S) Bn. KRRC 1916-17, Scholar at Winchester & New a memoir, atmospheric letters from College, Oxford, taking a First and France, a few of his poems & some becoming a Fellow & Tutor at New letters of condolence. KiA in College. A distinguished zoologist, Flanders & buried in Vlamertinghe he was commissioned in 13th Military Cemetery. Contains some (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, in interesting observations such as: 1914 & commanded "A" Coy. in "Two hundred years will not suffice France until his death on the Somme on 10th July 1916 to efface the traces of this tragedy from the land. Things during the battalion's attack at Contalmaison. He was can never be as they were, and the greatest indictment thirty-four years old and is buried in Pozieres Military that war can have, is the forlorn and shell-shattered land Cemetery. This memorial contains around 60pp. letters about here with its rude and pathetic crosses to mark the in training & at the front; also biography, lists of scientific last resting-place of those who in the fullness of their publications &c. Grey paper covd. boards with wheat youth - at the beginning of love and hope and ambition cloth backstrip. Number 75 of 125 individually numbered - were cut off from life..." Grey paper covered boards with copies printed, "Each copy is to be numbered & cloth backstrip, gilt to spine. Pages 138/139 are usually presented to a near relation or intimate friend & the pasted together to conceal misattributed Henry Newbolt name inscribed." This copy presented to Eric Bamford poem, but this copy intact & the pages unblemished (Eric St. John Bamford, Ed. Corpus Christi College, apart from a contemp. ink note: "This poem is by Henry Oxford & a brother officer in the Rifle Brigade). Minor Newbolt." A very nice copy. [Ref: 62982] £120 wear, VG & rare. [Ref: 62986] £225
94. Harold Tennyson R.N., The Story of a Young
Sailor, Put Together by a Friend. 1st Ed., vii+294pp. Macmillan. 1918 The Hon. Harold Courtenay Tennyson, son of the Rt. Hon. Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, PC, GCMG, & a descendent of the famous poet, was commissioned as a Midshipman, Royal Navy, from Osborne in 1913, served aboard the battle cruiser HMS Queen
21 96. James Lusk, BA (Cantab).; Chevalier de la 98. Poems and Imaginings by Capt: Templer, 1st
Legion d'Honneur; Captain & Adjutant 6th Battalion Gloucesters. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Letters & 1st Ed., 88pp., portrait frontis.
Memories. (from a painting by Mlle. Andree 1st Ed., [vii]+151pp., portrait frontis., Karpeles) & another portrait (from col. plate (of Legion d'Honneur). a painting by Mlle. Lissagaray). Oxford: Printed for B.H. Blackwell. Paris: Editions Bossard. 1920 1916 Captain Claude Frank Lethbridge James Lusk was commissioned in the Templer was born in India in 1893 6th Cameronians in 1908, mobilised & (his father was an officer in the served in France March-Dec. 1915. Indian Cavalry), Ed. Wellington Memoir followed by extensive & College, Paris & Sandhurst. He interesting letters from training and the was comm. in the Glosters Aug. Front: wounded by a trench mortar on 1914, joined 1st Bn. in France & Christmas Day 1915 whilst going was wounded & taken PoW on round his trenches & DoW 28/12/15. 22nd Dec. near Givenchy. Escaped from Strohen PoW He was awarded the Legion d'Honneur at Festubert in Camp in Aug. 1917, returned to his regiment & KiA 4th June when he was Bn. Transport Officer & the bn. June 1918. Introduction describes his life in captivity & having lost heavily in officers he made his way up the relates various escape attempts & an outline of his Army line & helped reorganise. He was appointed adjutant career. It is followed by a selection of poetry and short after this battle. Orig. grey paper covd. boards with stories composed in captivity. Paper covered boards with purple cloth backstrip, very nice copy with neat ink onlay to front (the same portrait as the frontis.) & presentation inscrip. To Brig.-General E.S. Girdwood, Glosters badge to rear. Sp. chipped with some loss. from Capt. Lusk's Mother. [Ref: 62989] £145 [Ref: 62859] £90
97. Keeling Letters & Recollections. 99. Reports on British Prison-Camps in India & Edited by E.T. [Mrs E. Townshend], Burma Visited by the International Red Cross
with an Introduction by H.G. Wells. Committee in February, March & April, 1917. xvi+329pp., 3 portraits. (one as 1st ED., orig. printed wraps., 63pp. Serjeant-Major, D.C.L.I.). Allen & NY: Doran. 1918 Unwin. 1918 Reports on all ten camps housing Frederic (but known variously as Turkish PoWs in India & Burma: "Frank", "Fred" or "Ben") Hillersdon "Nothing was kept from us. WE Keeling was born in 1886, Ed. at had full liberty to inspect all Winchester & Trinity College, premises, to examine registers, & Cambridge, travelled in Europe & to obtain all useful information. We was reading for the Bar when war were allowed to talk with the came in 1914. He enlisted in the prisoners as much as we liked... 6th (S) Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light The camp authorities always made Infantry, 14th (Light) Division, served in France from May a point of not being present, so 1915, disdained to accept a commission because of that prisoners might have full liberty to lay their socialist principals, was awarded the Military Medal & complains before us..." The conclusion was that the became a Company Serjeant Major. He was KiA on the camps were well run & the PoWs food, medical needs Somme on 18th August 1916 & is commemorated on the &c. were well met. Orig. printed wraps., little chipped, Thiepval Memorial. H.G. Wells wrote that "Ben" Keeling, VG. [Ref: 62872] £45 "was a copious, egotistical, rebellious, disorderly, generous, and sympathetic young man. His egotism is the prime cause of this book; he wrote abundant letters, and they were often about himself..." Contains around 100pp. letters written in training with the New Army (August 1914-April 1915) & at the front (May 1915-August 1916). Concludes with letters of condolence from his CO & another officer. Orig. blue cloth with paper label to spine, label chopped, generally VG. [Ref: 62853] £45
22 100. ALLEN (Trevor) The Tracks they Trod: Salonika 103. BALFOUR (John) Ruhleben Poems. & The Balkans, Gallipoli, Egypt & Palestine 1st Ed., [iii]+43pp. No imprint.
Revisited. London. 1919 1st Ed., 191pp., 14 photos. VG in Composed at Ruhleben Internment dw. Herbert Joseph. 1932 Camp 1915-18 & presumably Personal record of a Gallipoli printed by the author on his veteran on a St. Barnabas' repatriation. Orig. wraps. with battlefield tour/pilgrimage, inc. paper title onlay to front, sl. chipped visits to Mudros, Cape Helles, & worn o/w VG. [Ref: 62886] £25 Anzac & Suvla Bays. It was only through organised tours like these that many grieving relatives were able to visit the countries of their loved ones' deaths & see their 104. BARBER (Major Charles H., IMS) Besieged in graves & memorials. Orig. green Kut - and After. cloth, rare, especially so in dw. 1st Ed., viii+344pp., 11 photos., 4 Interesting light pencil note on tp recording that Mr B.H. maps. Blackwood. 1917 Pain & J.M. Pain went on the pilgrimage cruise. [Ref: Doctor's narrative of advance to 62817] £145 Baghdad, retreat to Kut, the siege & fall followed by captivity in Baghdad 101. ANDREWS ([Sir] William Linton) Haunting until exchanged. Orig. cloth, rather
Years: The Commentaries of a War Territorial. worn, rear ep renewed, but sound 1st Ed., 288pp. Hutchinson. 1930 copy. Scarce. [Ref: 62905] £50 1/4th (later 4/5th) Black Watch 1914-18; Pte., NCO, Orderly Room Clerk & CQMS. Commissioned in 1918. Outstanding narrative of Loos, Somme, Ypres &c. by noted 105. BARTLETT (Vernon) This is My Life. provincial journalist & editor (of the 1st Ed., 331pp., portrait frontis. Yorkshire Evening Post &c.) VG in chipped dw. Chatto & knighted in 1954. Orig. cloth, titled Windus. 1937 in black, rather foxed & staining to Bartlett wrote an acclaimed sp. but generally VG with pleasing fictional account of warfare in the ink author inscrip. To my old Ypres Salient, No Man's Land comrade Stephen Dakers, From (1930), based no doubt on his the old C.Q.M.S., Linton own experiences there as a Andrews. 22/11/32. [Ref: 62827] £75 junior officer; he also co-wrote the novel of Sherriff's play 102. ASTON (Major-Gen. Sir George, KCB) Secret Journey's End. He joined a UPS
Service. bn. in 1914, was commissioned 1st Ed., 316pp. F&F. 1930 in the Dorset Regt. & went to the An account of the part played by the front early in 1915, became a company commander & British Secret Service in the Great was invalided in 1916, afterwards joining the staff of the War & recollections of Naval Daily Mirror. His Western Front experiences, chiefly in Intelligence 1886-1890, containing the Salient, are described in an interesting chapter. Orig. much of interest including "Well-kept red cloth, gilt, VG in chipped dw (little loss at extremities). Secrets of the War" (Mobilization, [Ref: 62826] £25 Ostend Raid in 1914, &c.) alongside "The Worst-kept Secret of the War: The Dardanelles, 1915" &c. Orig. cloth, titled in yellow, little wear, VG. [Ref: 62834] £25
23 106. BELAND (Hon. Henri, MD, MP) My Three Years 108. BEWSHER (Capt. Paul, DSC, RAF) The in a German Prison. Bombing of Bruges. 1st Ed., [vii]+280pp., portrait frontis., 1st Ed., 81pp. H&S. 1918 7 photo. plates War poetry based on flying Henri Severin Beland (1869-1935) experiences, named after the title of was a Quebec-born doctor who the first poem in the book. Observer progressed via local politics to with bomber sqdrns. 1915-April 1918 membership of the Quebec then when the Handley Page 0/100 in Canadian legislatures & held which he was flying crashed at sea several ministerial posts. He & his after the Zeebrugge raid. Orig. blue wife were spending the summer of cloth, minor wear. His memoir, Green 1914 touring Europe. Soon after Balls: The Adventures of a Night war broke out he offered his Bomber, appeared the following year. services to the Belgian Medical Army Corps [sic] & [Ref: 62838] £35 worked in a hospital at Antwerp as casualties began to arrive from the Front. Describes the fall of Antwerp &c., 109. BIGLAND (Editha Blanche Hinde) The Soldier where he remained until picked up by the Germans in Squire: A Memoir with Portraits of Second- June 1915 & interned for three years at Stadtvogtei & Lieutenant George Braddyll Bigland of Bigland of Ruhleben camps. Most of the book concerns this period the 1/4th King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, the & most interestingly it is inscribed by the author to a Immortal Fifty-First Division. well-known fellow prisoner, who also wrote accounts of By his Mother. Edited by Alfred Fell. his prison & escape experiences: To my good friend 1st Ed., [xi]+72pp., 230x152mm, and fellow prisoner Wallace Ellison. With the portrait frontis., 7 plates including compliments of the author. Henry S. Beland. memorial tablet, example of a Beauce, Que., Canada, Dec. 1st 1920. It is evident that musical score composed by the the recipient actually read the book, both from its signs subject and two of juvenile of use & by half a dozen or so marginal notes by him. handwriting. Ulverston: Kitchin & (Note: Wallace Ellison was an Englishman employed Co. 1923 with the United Shoe Machinery Company at Frankfurt 2nd Lieutenant Bigland was born at whose escape attempts resulted in many months of St. Louis, Missouri, but returned to solitary confinement on short rations). Sp. worn, England aged two, was privately generally VG & most interesting association copy. [Ref: educated & took over running the 62891] £125 Bigland estate at an early age, his father having died in 1902. He received a commission in the 4th Bn. Royal 107. BERNARD (Oliver P. [OBE, MC]) Cock Sparrow: Lancaster Regiment (TF) in August 1914, joined in
A True Chronicle. September & left for the front with his battalion on 3rd 1st Ed., 384pp. VG in dw. Cape. 1936 May 1915. Six weeks later he was Killed in Action, Rare memoirs of Oliver Percy Bernard leading his platoon in the Battle of Festubert on 15th (1881-1939), self-taught artist & June 1915. An account of his childhood & youth largely set-designer, architect of, inter al, the recalled by his widowed mother, to whom, as an only Strand Place Hotel. Initially rejected child, he was naturally close, & of his military training. for military service because of poor His death is described in letters from officers & men of hearing, he was eventually his battalion. He was twenty-three years old & had commissioned in the Royal Engineers married in the spring of 1915, Audrey Hampson; a in 1916 & became a camouflage daughter, also Audrey, was born after his death. He is officer in France. The Western Front commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Orig. red occupies nearly 200 pages, with much cloth, gilt to front (title & coat of arms), VG, rare & of great interest on his work in the Ypres salient &c., & touching memorial, with lengthy presentation inscrip. the book is "Dedicated to the Corps of Royal Engineers." from his mother to front paste-down: This short memoir Bernard had survived the sinking of the Lusitania, of her only Son, is presented to Mrs Salmon by his produced much great work between the wars & died in very proud, but life-sorrow stricken Mother Editha 1939 (soon after he inscribed this copy). Orig. red cloth, Blanche Hinde Bigland of Bigland - He lived nobly, gilt, VG, in dw (& especially rare thus), inscribed by the he died nobly, he went to his death, a Gentleman, author: To Harold H.D. Anderson Esq. hoping it will Unafraid... [Ref: 61853] £175 not undo the cement of a valued friendship. Oliver Bernard 15/4/37. [Ref: 62822] £250
24 110. BORDEN (Mary) The Forbidden Zone. 113. BRISCOE (Walter A.) & STANNARD (H. Russell) 1st Ed., [x]+199pp., frontis. drypoint Captain Ball V.C., The Career of Flight Commander
by Percy Smith. Heinemann. 1929 Ball, V.C., D.S.O. The author (wife of Maj.-Gen. Sir Foreword by Lloyd George, Edward Spears) served as a nurse Appreciations by FM Sir Douglas with a French Army hospital in Haig et al. 1st Ed., xx+320pp., 16 Belgium & on the Somme front: "just plates. Herbert Jenkins. 1918 behind the trenches within range of Fighter ace Albert Ball, utilising his big guns." Memoirs & impressions of letters & diary written on active the period. Orig. black cloth, gilt, service in France until killed in May minor wear, VG. [Ref: 62833] £25 1917. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG & uncommon. [Ref: 62852] £30
111. BOWMAN (A.A.) Sonnets from a Prison Camp. 1st Ed., xi+152pp. Lane. 1919 Poetry with war &/or PoW 114. BROWN (James Ambrose) They Fought for King themes. Bowman, a subaltern in & Kaiser: South Africans in German East Africa
the HLI, was captured in April 1916. 1918 & incarcerated in the 1st Ed., xix+374pp., illus. Offizier-Gefangenenlager at throughout, several maps. VG in Hesepe. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, sp. dw. Jo'burg: Ashanti Pubg. 1991 dull o/w VG & inscribed by the The Tanganyika campaign &c. A author: "With kind regards, A.A. detailed & well-illustrated account. Bowman Christmas 1921." [Ref: 62902] £45 VG in dw. [Ref: 62715] £25
112. BOYD (Donald [F., MC]) Salute of Guns. 1st Ed., 389pp., 4 plates (from aerial photos.). VG in chipped dw. Cape. 1930 Eloquent & scarce memoirs of
war commissioned RFA officer in 115. BROWNE (Capt. D.G., MC) The Tank in Action. France May 1915-Oct. 1918 (with 1st Ed., x+517pp., frontis., 20 one six-month break); much on photos., sketch maps. Blackwood. the Somme, 3rd Ypres & March 1920 Retreat. The late Bob Wyatt Valuable contemporary account included the work in his revised by an officer who won the MC with edition of Falls (Greenhill, 1989): the 7th Bn. Contains detailed "...describes attitudes of Indian accounts of a large number of Army Regulars to the newly tank actions, including, from joined schoolboys; the Somme, personal experience, the Hill 60, Arras & the Spring Retreat are all covered with Cockcroft, Cambrai, Bourlon the sort of skill one usually expects only from writers Wood, 1918 battles &c. "...his best such as Sassoon & Blunden. The story is told here of the chapters are those of an eye- deserters who lived in High Wood who came out at night witness. He is at times severely to search for food amongst the corpses & when the critical & perhaps even unjust, Gunners went out to capture them seven or eight though he has obviously tried not to be. For the reader surrendered & the rest were bombed in their dug-out..." who contemplates tackling one book only on tanks in the Orig. orange cloth, gilt, VG in chipped but rare dw. [Ref: War this is probably the best, for Captain Browne is a 62771] £225 lucid & entertaining writer." - Falls. Orig. blue cloth, sp. tanned o/w VG & rare. [Ref: 62766] £225
25 116. BUTLER (A.S.G.) Plain Impressions. 119. CAMPBELL (P.J.) In the Cannon's Mouth. 1st Ed., x+95pp. Aeroplane & Genl. Pub. Co. 1919 1st Ed., [x]+146pp., map. VG in dw. Western Front cameos by a Royal Hamish Hamilton. 1979 Field Artillery officer, Ypres Salient Fine memoir of subaltern with a 1915 until wounded & in France West Riding RFA 18-lbr. battery at 1916-17 when buried by a shell at Passchendaele 1917. VG in dw. Arras. Various interesting pieces [Ref: 62927] £15 include "Observing: An Average Day" being a diary account of a day in the line commencing at 5.15 am & ending with the party's relief at 6.15 pm; "Shell shock" being a short account of this experience; "Brigade Staff: Nine Hours" being a diary account of 120. CHASSEAUD (Peter) Mapping The First World a day's work on the Staff, & others. Orig. mustard cloth, War: The Great War Through Maps from 1014 to titled in black to front, VG & rare. [Ref: 62772] £125 1918. 1st Ed., 304pp., 4to., col. & b/w 117. BUXTON ([Major] Anthony) Sport in Peace & photos. & maps throughout. VG
War. in dw. Collins/IWM. 2013 1st Ed., viii+120pp. Arthur L. A fine selection of some 150 Humphreys. 1920 trench maps & other illustrations Probably the only work devoted to sport (plus supporting text) covering on the Western Front including trout most of the main fighting fronts of fishing, shooting, galloping after hare & 1914-18. VG in dw. [Ref: 62919] partridge, & pigsticking. "These £20 chapters, some of which have already appeared in print, were written partly in times of peace and partly in times of 121. CLARK (T.B.) Poems of a Private: A Souvenir of War. I feel some apology is needed for France & Salonica. any further reference to that over- 10h Ed., 64pp., portrait frontis. written subject, the War, but the book contains nothing Nicholson & Sons. nd (c.1918) whatever of military value or interest except the most The author also published convincing testimony that a good many members of his "Rhymes of a Rifleman: A Souvenir Majesty's forces, myself included, ought to have been of the Trenches" & various court-martialled for spending a great deal more of our "broadsides." He served as a time in amusing ourselves than we were paid to do..." rifleman in the KRRC in France & Falls adds that "Major Buxton was a cavalryman & had Salonika, & verses in this work the fortune to enjoy long periods of rest & training in were written on both Fronts. Part of regions unscarred by warfare... had some exciting the profits of the book were pig-sticking about Hesdin... he was welcomed by the destined for St. Dunstan's Hostel farmers, for the boars had greatly increased in numbers. for blinded Sailors & Soldiers. Little The farmers believed that they had been driven down chipped, near VG, & considering that this is the 10th from Belgium in front of the Germans..." Orig. red cloth, Edition, remarkably scarce. [Ref: 62899] £25 titled in black, little stained but VG. [Ref: 62895] £45 122. CLAYTON (C.P. MC) The Hungry One. 1st Ed., 244pp., portrait frontis., 118. CAMPBELL (P.J.) The Ebb & Flow of Battle. 1st Ed., [vii]+167pp. VG in dw. several illus. & maps + ep maps. Hamish Hamilton. 1977 VG in dw. Llandysul: Gomer. 1978 Acclaimed memoir of subaltern with Diaries of four years on Western a West Riding RFA 18-lbr. battery of Front with 2nd Bn. Welch Regt., 5th Army, March-Nov. 1918 from subaltern in March 1915 to (including the German Spring battalion commander in 1918: Offensive). VG in dw. [Ref: 62928] Ypres, Loos, Somme, Final £15 Advance &c. VG in dw. [Ref: 62925] £20
26 123. COHEN (Israel) The Ruhleben Prison Camp: A 127. DOLBEY (Capt. R.V.) A Regimental Surgeon in
Record of Nineteen Months' Internment. War & Prison. 1st Ed., xiii+251pp., 26 photos., ep 1st Ed., ix+248pp., portrait. Murray. plans. Methuen. 1917 1917 Cohen, repatriated in 1916, wished to MO to 2nd KOSB August 1914 correct "the general ignorance in this until captured near La Bassee; country concerning the conditions in contains excellent account of the the Ruhleben camp" wherein he was Retreat from Mons & advance to a prominent figure: chairman of the the Marne & Aisne. Orig. red cloth, Literary & Debating Society &c. Orig. sp. worn, sound, generally VG. blue cloth, gilt, sp. dull, little rubbed & [Ref: 62887] £45 worn, VG. [Ref: 62861] £45
124. COLLYER (Brig.-Gen. J.J., CB, CMG, DSO) The 128. DURNFORD (H.G., MC, MA) The Tunnellers of
South Africans with General Smuts in German East Holzminden (With a Side-Issue).
Africa 1916. 2nd Ed., x+199pp., 21 plates & 1st Ed., xxi+299pp., 22 fldg. diagrams, map. VG in dw. maps. Pretoria: Govt. Printer. Cambridge: CUP. 1930 1939 Gunner officer's account of capture Excellent study - with fine with B/112th Battery RFA at coloured maps - of the campaign Passchendaele, PoW life at in German East while Smuts was Holzminden & successful escape. in command & the author was his Orig. grey cloth, VG, in chipped dw. chief of staff. Several lists of [Ref: 62901] £35 officers &c. Orig. red cloth, ex-lib., sp. worn, generally sound. [Ref: 62736] £45 129. FERNAND LAURENT ([Camille-Jean]) Chez nos 125. CUTTELL (Barry) One Day on the Somme: 1st Allies Britanniques (With our British Allies in the
July 1916. Field): Notes et Souvenirs d'un Interprete. 1st Ed., 128pp., photos. & maps. Preface par Francois de Tessan. GMS Enterprises. 1998 Dessins de Bairnsfather et Tricot. 1st Immensely useful ready-reckoner Ed., xvi+352pp., 40 plates (photos. & of regiments' affiliations to brigades drawings, inc. 6 Bairnsfather & divisions, alphabetical listing of cartoons), 33 small sketches in text. trenches & battle sites with maps Paris: Boivin & Cie. 1917 ref. & description of location, plus French language. Fernand Laurent accounts of the 1st July attacks (1889-1949) was a French advocate, with useful annotated photos. journalist & politician mobilized in showing positions of units &c. 1914 & served as an interpreter in a Spiral binding with laminated card British regiment until hospitalised covs. [Ref: 62923] £15 with mustard gas poisoning on the Somme in August 1916. This appealing & well-illustrated 126. DANE (Edmund) British Campaigns in the memoir includes an account of the work of an interpreter, Nearer East 1914-1918, From the Outbreak of War experiences of Loos, a visit to Ypres & the Somme, with Turkey to the Taking of including his being gassed & sent to hospital. Also Jerusalem. contains observations on British officers & soldiers, 1st Ed., xv+331pp., 19 maps & plans. bantams, padres, nurses, &c., & their habits, expressions H&S. 1917 & curiosities, also an account of the work of Bruce Campaigns in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Bairnsfather & much other matter. Nice contemp. binding Salonica & Syria up to end of 1916. by Maclehose of Glasgow: three qtr. straight-grain Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG, nice copy. morocco, gilt, marbled paper covd. boards, minor wear, [Ref: 62864] £50 generally VG indeed with armorial bookplate of Sir Norman Lamont, Baronet, of Knockdow. [Ref: 62867] £45
27 130. FLIGHT COMMNDER [Pseud.] Cavalry of the Air. 132. GIBBS (Major A. Hamilton) The Grey Wave. Illustrated by Geoffrey Watson. 1st Introduction by Philip Gibbs. 1st Ed., Ed., xii+270pp., 6 plates. Ed. J. xvii+271pp. Hutchinson. 1920 Burrow, et al. 1918 Enlistment & training with the 9th Personal impressions of an Lancers in 1914, serving with them Observer (or 'shock-absorber') with briefly in France before returning a two-seater reconnaissance home to a commission in the RFA at squadron in France: "I have not the beginning of 1915. Returned to attempted to write a history of my France with 379th Battery RFA, squadron... [but] to relate the ultimately to command it until gassed circumstances under which pilots & in the March Retreat, 1918. "Major observers of the Air Force are Gibbs is a brother of Sir Philip Gibbs, accustomed to do their work above & has some of his power of & beyond the lines... we were a 'crack' squadron, with a description, as well as a dash of his philosophy - record which future squadrons will find it hard to beat - if undeveloped when this book was written. He gives a only in casualties..." Orig. paper covd. boards, titled in good account of the life of a keen & diligent, but blue, little wear, generally VG & scarce. [Ref: 62842] somewhat emotional, New Army gunner officer in £45 France." - Falls. Orig. green cloth, titled in grey to sp., sp. little rubbed o/w VG & very scarce. [Ref: 62778] £85 131. FULLER (Bt.-Col. J.F.C., DSO) Tanks in the
Great War 1914-1918. 133. GOSSE (Philip) Memoirs of a Camp Follower. 1st Ed., xxiv+331pp., 8 plates, 16 1st Ed., xvi+302pp., frontis. diagrams, 10 maps (one fldg.). Longmans. 1934 Murray. 1920 Highly regarded memoirs of a From 1916-1918 Fuller was Chief medical officer on the Western Front General Staff Officer of the Tank with the 23rd Div., & afterwards in Corps & a leading planner of the India. Orig. brown cloth, gilt, VG. Battle of Cambrai. As one of [Ref: 62900] £25 Britain's foremost military thinkers & authors he was a constant & vocal advocate of the mechanised arm. "Colonel Fuller's book on tanks in the War differs from the others on this subject. Like them it gives a 134. GREENWELL (Graham H., MC) An Infant in short history of the early struggles, developments, & Arms: War Letters of a Company Officer 1914-1918. set-backs; but the author, a well-known writer on strategy 1st Ed., x+305pp., portrait frontis., & tactics, is always more concerned with the future of 13 plates. Lovat Dickson. 1935 armoured & catterpillar-propelled vehicles in warfare - Classic Western Front memoirs with whether for offence or transport - than in their actual 1/4th Bn. Ox. & Bucks. L.I. in France achievements between 1914 & 1918. The work was & Italy: invaluable insight into the life written before the 'mechanization' of the Army had & experiences of an enthusiastic advanced very far, but it does not suffer from this fact, so 1914 volunteer of the officer class. long as that is borne in mind. It is, indeed, ahead of its Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG, & scarce time." - Falls (awarding a coveted star). Important & 1st Ed., with author inscription to extremely scarce work, orig. red cloth, gilt with Tank half-title: To Evelyn Fitzgerald. Corps badge to front, VG but for some slight tanning to Graham H. Greenwell. 1935. [Ref: sp., comparatively a very good example given that the 62816] £220 inferior cloth which Murray unaccountably used in the book's production is prone to tearing at the head & tail of the sp. & to wear generally. [Ref: 62767] £325
28 135. HARDING (Lt.-Col. Colin, CMG, DSO) Far 138. HOGG (Ian) & THURSTON (L.F.) British Artillery
Bugles. Weapons & Ammunition 1914-1918. 1st Ed., [viii]+230pp., portrait frontis., 1st Ed., 255pp., 4to, profusely 21 photos. Printed for the author, trade illustrated. VG in dw. Ian Allan. selling agents Simpkin, Marshall. 1933 1972 Memoirs of a Colonial administrator in Authoritative standard the Gold Coast Colony & Northern reference, essential study. Rhodesia. Active service in the [Ref: 62920] £30 Matabele & Mashona Rebellions (commanding Native Police). Became a squadron commander in 2nd KEH in 1914 & served with the regiment in France 1915 (Festubert &c.) then posted to command 15th Warwicks until evacuated sick at the end of August 1916 (DSO). Orig. red cloth, traces of old label/tape at foot of sp., 139. HUTCHISON (Lt.-Col. G.S., DSO, MC) generally VG with author's presentation inscrip. "C.F. Footslogger: An Autobiography. Wilmot with The Author's Compliments Colin Harding." Limited Ed., 399pp., portrait frontis., Rare. [Ref: 62862] £95 23 plates. Hutchinson. 1931 Pre-1914 1st KOSB Egypt, Sudan, 136. HARVEY (F.W.) Gloucestershire Friends: India. 1914 2nd A&SH machine-gun
Poems from a German Prison Camp. officer & later CO of 33rd Bn. MGC. 1st Ed., 71pp. Sidgwick & Jackson. Chiefly remembered for his Bn.'s 1917 defence of Meteren in April 1918 The poet Harvey won a DCM in the (somewhat devalued by his ranks then commissioned. repetition of the story at every Captured with 5th Glosters in Aug. available opportunity) & his post-war 1916 & PoW at Douai, Gutersloh, espousal of fascism. Special Crefeld, Schwarmstadt, Strohen, superior edition, no. sixty-seven of Holzminden & Bad Colberg. Orig. 100 signed & numbered copies, additionally inscribed blue cloth with chipped paper sp. Barbara and John Beard With all best wishes for label (but with an unused & fine happiness in life from Graham Seton and Mollie spare label tipped-in at rear). [Ref: Hutchison on their Wedding Day 7th Nov 1936. At the 62898] £35 head of the same leaf Hutchison has written "This work gives something of early family history on the distaff 137. HARVEY (F.W.) A Gloucestershire Lad at Home side!" Orig. brown cloth sp. with contrasting cloth & Abroad. boards, titled on paper sp. label (this chipped with small 5th Imp., xv+64pp. VG in sl. loss), VG & a very scarce edition. [Ref: 62907] £125 rubbed dw. Sidgwick & Jackson. 1918 140. JONES (E.H., Lt. IARO) & HILL (C.W., Lt., RAF) Poems written at the front prior to The Road to En-Dor: Being an Account of How Two the poet's being taken PoW; most Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won their way
originally appeared in the '5th to Freedom. Glosters Gazette.' Orig. plain blue 16th Imp., xv+351pp., 14 photos. cloth, VG in dw with titles to front & VG in chipped dw. John Lane. sp. Uncommon in dw. [Ref: 62897] 1929 £35 Life in the camp & the spiritualist activities of officers there in order to upset the regime, which resulted in the authors being repatriated as lunatics. Roll of all British & Indian Army officers interned at Yozgad in 1917 appended. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG in scarce dw (this chipped, with a little loss at head & tail of sp.). Rather scarce (especially considering the number of impressions). [Ref: 62885] £75
29 141. LEE (Joseph) A Captive at Carlsruhe & Other 144. MCCARTHY (D.J.) The Prisoner of War in
German Prison Camps. Germany: The Care & Treatment of the Prisoner of With numerous illustrations by the War, with a History of the Development of the
author. 1st Ed., 219pp., frontis. & 60 Principle of Neutral Inspection & Control. further sketches. John Lane, The 3rd (enlarged) Ed., 256pp. Bodley Head. 1920 Skeffington. nd (c.1918). After service in France with 1/4th "based upon personal experience of Black Watch (his bn. was attached several months' intimate contact, in to the Indian Corps) in 1915-16 Lee, an official position, with the problem a notable war poet (vide Ballads of involved. It might be said that this is, Battle) was commissioned in the in simple language, a report of a KRRC & taken PoW at Cambrai with survey of the PoW situation in 10th (S) Bn. in 20th (Light) Div. on Germany for the year 1916" - Preface. 30/11/1917. A rare & nicely illustrated This edition with new chapter on account of PoW life. Orig. brown paper covd. boards, reprisals & expanded matter on diet. blocked black, chipped at head of. sp. with some loss, Orig. cloth, minor wear, generally VG. some minor wear o/w VG & scarce. [Ref: 62904] £75 [Ref: 62835] £35
142. LEWIS (Cecil, MC) Sagittarius Rising. 145. MCCLUNG (N.L.) Three Times & Out, told by
2nd Imp., viii+332pp. Peter Davies. Private [M.C.] Simmons. 1936 1st Ed., xi+247pp., portrait frontis., 13 The classic & most entertaining plates. Toronto: Allen. 1918 memoir of a young Western Front Canadian serving with 7th Bn. CEF, fighter ace: "We walked off the wounded & captured at 2nd Ypres, playing-fields into the lines. We lived April 1915; sixteen months PoW at supremely in the moment. Our Giessen & several other camps. He preoccupation was the next patrol, made three escape attempts, the last our horizon the next leave." Orig. one (absconding from a working cloth, VG. [Ref: 62777] £30 party weeding turnips) being successful. Orig. dec. blue cloth, VG & scarce. [Ref: 62840] £45 143. LIDDLE (Peter) Ed. Passchendaele in
Perspective: The Third Battle of Ypres. 146. MCKENNA (Marthe) [Marthe Cnockaert] I Was A
1st Ed., lxii+544pp., 87 plates, 37 Spy! illus, in text, 11 maps. VG in dw. Foreword by Winston Churchill, 1st Cooper. 1997 Ed., 288pp., frontis., 16 photos. VG Substantial & valuable collective in chipped/torn dw. Jarrolds. 1932 history containing essays on just Memoirs of spying for England in about every aspect by leading occupied Belgium & northern academic historians & experts. VG France during WW1, for which she in dw. [Ref: 62939] £25 was Mentioned in Despatches. "The looting, brutality & wanton destruction in her ruined native village [Roulers], caused the young gril to embark on her amazing career of anti-German espionage... For two years she was 'Laura' of the British Intelligence. Then she was caught, court martialled & condemned to death..." Scarce 1st Ed. in chipped/torn dw with orig. wraparound promotional band (with Churchill endorsement) loosely inserted. Author presentation inscrip. to half-title: To Mr and Mrs Cucker and family in grateful remembrance. Martha McKenna. Westroosebeke, Belgium, November 2nd 1932. Interesting & rare signed copy. [Ref: 62877] £95
30 147. MACKSEY (K.) The Shadow of Vimy Ridge. 150. MAUROIS (Andre) [Pseud. of HERZOG (Emile)
1st Ed., 264pp., 23 illus., 17 maps. Les Silences Du Colonel Bramble. VG in dw. Kimber. 1965 New Ed., 189pp., num. sketches. Battles of Vimy & Arras, based VG in little chipped/marked dw. largely on eyewitness accounts. Paris: Librairie Hachette. 1935 VG in dw. [Ref: 62937] £15 French language. "Les Silences.." was the classic Great War novel that made Maurois' name as a writer & outstanding observer of British character. It centres on a bemused French interpreter attached to the HQ of a Highland regiment in Flanders (Maurois 148. MASON (E. Williamson) Made Free in Prison. served in this capacity with 9th 1st Ed., ix+212pp. Allen & Unwin. Scottish Div., was awarded the DCM & commissioned as 1918 a Liaison Officer) & contains affectionate portraits of the Rewarding letters of a conscientious inmates including the Colonel, M.O. (Captain O'Grady), objector who, refusing to undertake Major Parker & others. A nice edition with num. any alternative war-related employ to appealing sketches by Andre Pecoud (1880-1951, a soldiering, was sentenced to hard French artist & illustrator), in attractive dw. [Ref: 62849] labour at Durham Prison. He £45 describes tribunals, atempts to make his join the Army, life in prison & his 151. MITCHINSON (K.W.) Pioneer Battalions in the
fellow prisoners. Ink inscrip. In Great War: Organized & Intelligent Labour. proud & grateful remembrance of 1st Ed., xvi+336pp., 16 photos., a GREAT fight. 8.4.1919 from several diagrams. VG in dw. Frank & Ada Clark. (Note: Frank Clark was another CO Cooper. 1997 who refused to undertake military or any other service & Excellent analysis of the sixty or so was sentenced to hard labour at Wormwood Scrubs & infantry units designated Pioneer Wakefield Prisons.) Orig. olive green cloth, titled in black, Bns. for work on the Western Front. VG & rare. [Ref: 62871] £75 Hardback edition, VG in dw. [Ref: 62940] £15 149. MAURICE (Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick) The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, GCB, GCVO, GCSI,
KCMG, From His Journals & Letters. 1st Ed., xviii+374pp., 17 plates,
fldg. map. VG in dw. Cassell. 152. MONEY (R.R.) Flying & Soldiering. 1928 1st Ed., 320pp., portrait frontis., 6 Remains the only biog. of Rawly plates. Nicholson & Watson. 1936 (Sudan, Boer War, GOC IV Corps Commissioned in the East 1914-15, commander of 4th Army Yorkshires in 1914, the author tired on the Somme & in the Final of waiting for active service & Advance 1918 &c.) although the transferred to the RFC as an 1915-18 period is effectively observer, joined 12 Sqdrn. in addressed in Prior & Wilson's France in time for Loos. He Command on the Western Front. returned to 12 Sqdrn. after pilot Based largely on his own letters training & crashed & was taken & journals during his various campaigns. Orig. blue cloth, PoW during the Somme; gilt, VG in scarce dw, sp. of dw tanned o/w very nice incarcerated at Osnabruck, copy. [Ref: 62858] £45 Clausthal &c. Orig. pale blue cloth, titled in brown, sp. little rubbed o/w VG & inscribed in ink by the author across the portriat frontis. Yours very truly R.R. Money. Leeds. 9.4.36. [Ref: 62854] £45
31 153. MOTTRAM (R.H.) Ten Years Ago: Armistice & 157. NOBBS (Capt. G.) Englishman Kamerad! Right
Other Memories forming a pendant to 'The Spanish of the British Line.
Farm Trilogy.' 1st Ed., [x]+341pp., portrait. 1st Ed., ix+180pp. VG in chipped dw. Heinemann. 1918 Chatto & Windus. 1928 Memoirs of a London Rifle Brigade Sixteen war sketches: "Some... deal officer, journey to the Front & with the War itself, others with the operations on the Somme, where country wherein Mr Mottram did most on 9th Sept. 1916 he was badly of his service, that is, Flanders." - Falls wounded by a German bullet 219. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG in (blinded) & captured after some attractive dw, this little chipped o/w VG. days in a shell crater. Orig. brown [Ref: 62843] £35 cloth, titled in black, VG. Inscribed "H. Stanley Cole with kindest regards Charles Fry Feb. 5 1918." 154. NEAME (Lt.-Gen. Sir Philip, VC, KBE, CB, DSO) [Ref: 62844] £45
Playing with Strife: The Autobiography of a Soldier.
1st Ed., 352pp., 31 plates, 4 fldg. 158. NOBBS (Capt. G.) Rhymes & Reminiscences. maps & plans. VG in sl. chipped dw. 1st Ed., 101pp. Sydney, Australia: Harrap. 1947 Oxford Press. 1922 Royal Engineers 1908: served with Nobbs was an officer of the 15 Fd. Coy., 8th Div., during 1914 London Rifle Brigade badly campaign in France & Flanders (VC wounded by a German bullet & DSO); Staff 56 Div. & XV Corps (blinded) & captured after some 1916-18. WW2 GOC-in-C days in a shell crater on the Cyrenaica 1940-41 until captured in Somme on 9th Sept. 1916. This the Libyan desert, taken eventually volume contains various to Castello di Vincigliata, Florence, the British Generals' reminiscences (in part about his PoW Camp, from where he escape & rejoined Allied time as a PoW) & poetry (mostly forces in 1943. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG in worn dw & on war themes), with frequent scarce. [Ref: 62865] £60 allusions to his blindness. Orig. red cloth, titled in black to front & sp., VG with author inscription "H. Gilbert 155. NICOL (Graham) Uncle George: Field-Marshal Nobbs" beneath which is neatly inscribed in another Lord Milne of Salonika & Rubislaw. hand: "Dungowan, Manly, Sydney, N.S.W., 14th 1st Ed., [x]+341pp., 33 photos., 4 February, 1923." Interesting copy of his very scarce maps. VG in sl. rubbed dw. second book of war experiences &c. [Ref: 62845] £75 Reedminster Publications. 1976 Sudan, Boer War, &c. WW1 Div. 159. OLDHAM (Peter) Pill Boxes on the Western commander in France & GOC Front: A Guide to the Design, Construction & Use of
Salonika from 1916, Commanding Concrete Pill Boxes 1914-1918. Army of the Black Sea 1919-20 inc. 1st Ed., 208pp., photos. & Trans-Caucasia/South Russia ops. diagrams throughout. VG in VG in rubbed dw & rare. [Ref: dw. Cooper. 1995 61846] £60 Unparalleled work with many interesting photos. & maps, records of surviving pill boxes, 156. "NIGHTHAWK" MC [Pseud. of HARVEY (W.J., &c. Original hardback edition. MC)] Rovers of the Night Sky. VG in dw. [Ref: 62924] £20 1st Ed., viii+204pp. Cassell. 1919 Personal account of service in France 1917-18 as an Observer with a night- bomber squadron, having previously been a footslogger (or 'gravel-crasher') in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Atmospheric account of various sorties over the Ypres Salient &c. Orig. dec. blue cloth, litle rubbed & worn, about VG. [Ref: 62863] £45
32 160. O'RIORDAN (Conal) et al. A Martial Medley: 162. PALMER (Frederick) My Year of the Great War.
Fact & Fiction. 7th Canadian Ed., xi+464pp. VG in Special limited edition version, 361pp. chipped dw. Toronto: McClelland, Eric Partridge, at the Scholartis Goodchild & Stewart. 1916 Press. 1931 Observations by the senior Copy number 5 of the specially American reporter with the French bound & numbered edition of 75 & British on the Western Front copies signed by the contributors. ("The only official representative of Interesting compilation containing the American Press with the specially commissioned pieces by British Army in France"). He was ten contributors, all of whom had later appointed Chief Press Officer first-hand experience on which to with the AEF. Orig. green cloth, draw, which addresses some titled in black, VG in chipped dw interesting aspects such as Rumours at the Front; (slight loss at head of sp.). Considering the number of By-ways of Army Slang; War from the Ranks &c., divided impressions this seems to be quite an elusive work, into three parts: The Conceivably True; Concerning the especially in dw. [Ref: 62878] £45 True & Actually True. The first contains four pieces (by C.W. Grundy, 'Miles', John Brophy & Corrie Denison); the 163. P.I.X. [Pseud. of HALLAM (S/L T.D.) The Spider second three pieces (by Stephen Southwold, John Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight. Brophy & Eric Partridge) & the third, four pieces (by 1st Ed., x+278pp., portrait frontis. Norman Hancock, Charles Edmonds [pseud. of Charles (caricature of author), 278pp., 16 Carrington], E.C. Pattison & Conal O'Riordan). 1000 photos., 3 maps/diagrams. copies were printed of the trade edition, of which 75 were Blackwood. 1919 specially bound with superior paper & cloth, numbered & Following brief but eventful service signed in ink by all of the contributors at the beginning or with the RND at Gallipoli Hallam end of their contribution, this being an example. Orig. was appointed Lt. in the RNAS at black cloth, gilt, VG & rare. [Ref: 62837] £145 Hendon then mainly at Felixtowe 1916-18, commanding seaplanes 161. OSWALD (Brig. Gen. O.C. Williamson, CB, CMG, sub-hunting in the North Sea &c. late RA, &c.) 61, How Some Wheels Went Round. Orig. dec. blue cloth, gilt & white, 1st Ed., 226pp., 3 maps. Henry J. VG. [Ref: 62841] £75 Drane. nd [1928] Covers the author's service in 164. PLUSCHOW (Kapt. Gunther) My Escape from Flanders 1915 with 25th Div. RFA Donington Hall, preceded by an Account of the then a history/memoir of 61st Heavy Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1914. Artillery Group in Macedonia 1916 & 1st Eng. Ed., ix+244pp., 4 plates. Egypt & Palestine campaigns Bodley Head. 1922 1917-18. A most informative & The lone German pilot at the Anglo- detailed personal memoir - curiously Jap. investment of Tsing-Tao in written in the third person - that also 1914; later escaped from POW includes the author's pre-war camp in England. Orig. green cloth, experiences in India with Mountain gilt, minor wear, VG. [Ref: 62860] Batteries from the 1880s to 1914 together with pen- £35 portraits of various members of 61 HAG, from the MO down to clerks &c. Also contains an interesting series of 'Notes' on various events, also listing various officers in several engagements, &c. Falls (who lists the work under 'Reminiscence' - hence so do I - adds: "It is not only a record of the War, but an effort to show how the average artillery officer prepared himself for that great trial. Written without any literary artifice, it is a valuable minor historical document from that point of view. It also contains a great detail of information regarding the heavy artillery in the Palestine Campaign." Orig. blue cloth, bevelled edges, gilt to sp. & front, sp. tanned & sl. chipped o/w VG & rare. [Ref: 62953] £225
33 165. PRIVATE No. 940 [Pseud. of STURGES (Robert 167. REMARQUE (Erich Maria) Three Comrades.
Simon Mansfield)] "On the Remainder of Our Front." Trans. by A.F. Wheen. 1st Eng. Ed., 1st Ed., 156pp. Harrison & Sons. 448pp. Hutchinson. nd (1937) 1917 Novel in which three young German Personal account of service in the soldiers vie for the love of a dying 19th (PS) Bn. Royal Fusiliers, woman in the years following World proceeding overseas in Nov. 1915, War I. Orig. black cloth, gilt, VG. experiences on the Festubert & [Ref: 62870] £20 Cambrin fronts until posted home for a commission in Feb. 1916 (Sturges was commissioned in the MGC & later served at the War Office). An informative, unvarnished but atmospheric account of the 168. RIBBLESDALE (Lord) Charles Lister: Letters & battalion's experience of active service (at the time Recollections with a Memoir by His Father. Sturges left it was pulled from the line & used as a 1st Ed., xv+256pp., 5 plates. Fisher potential officer pool before disbanding shortly after). Unwin. 1917 Harrison & Son., favoured printer of the War Office, were In Constantinople in 1914, as 3rd not known for general book publishing & it is possible Sec. at the British Embassy, Lister that this work was printed for the author. It is certainly returned to the UK & a commission in rare. Orig. maroon cloth, rubbed & worn, eps stained, the Middx. Yeomanry; trans. to Hood generally sound. [Ref: 62791] £60 Bn. RND & DoW 28/8/15 in the Dardanelles. Contains interesting 166. QUEX [Pseud. of NICHOLS (Capt. G.H.F., RFA)] letters from Turkey & Gallipoli. Orig.
Pushed. blue cloth, gilt, VG, nice clean copy, 2nd Ed., 336pp., 2 maps. VG in with ownership inscrip. of Gladys chipped dw. Constable. 1930 Waterbury, 61 Curzon Street, Fine personal account of March February 1917. [Ref: 62892] £35 Retreat & Allied Advance in 1918, serving with 82nd Bde. RFA, 18th 169. SAMSON (Air-Commodore Charles Rumney) Divisional Artillery. The author (who Fights & Flights. also authored the history of the 18th 1st Ed., 372pp., 32 plates, 3 Division in the war) was dedicated maps. Benn. 1930 to his Colonel - Thorp, who RNAS Armed Cars in France & commanded the Battery throughout Flanders 1914-15, command No. the events described in this work 3 Sqdrn. RNAS at Gallipoli & until Killed in Action on 30th seaplane-carrier HMS Ben-my- October 1918: the news of the death of the beloved Chree in the Med. & Red Sea Colonel occupies the last few leaves of the text. "Below 1916-18. Orig. green cloth, gilt, the title on the copy of this book before the writer, some VG, sp. somewhat worn, trace of irreverent spirit has pencilled a sub-title, 'or, I and the old Boots label to front, generally Colonel.' The well-known journalist known as 'Quex' VG & rare. [Ref: 62821] £95 does not, in fact, hide his light under a bushel. He has, however, written a most entertaining account of a battery of the 18th Divisional Artillery in the German offensive of 1918 & of the great British 'return push.'" - Falls. Orig. blue cloth, titled in black, VG in chipped dw (with loss at head of sp. & parts of front panel), but rare in the jacket. First published 1919: this new edition includes a short Introductory Letter by R.C. Sherriff & two maps (the 18th Div. sector in March 1918 & the division's attack on the Hindenburg Line at Vendhuille at the end of September) not in the original 1919 1st edition. [Ref: 62776] £165
34 170. SASSOON (Siegfried) Selected Poems. 173. SETON (W.) William Howard Lister. 1st Ed., superior edition full dec. & 1st Ed., 95pp., portrait frontis., 5 gilt morocco, vii+75pp. VG in sl. plates. Printed for Private chipped dw. Heinemann. 1925 Circulation. 1919 The superior edition bound in full Memoir of Captain William Howard brown morocco, gilt to front & sp., Lister, D.S.O., M.C. (and two Bars), dec. motif & borders, little rubbed Royal Army Medical Corps, who o/w VG & complete with dw which was Ed. at the Friends' School at bears the statement: "This book Ackworth, Buxton College & gives a representative selection of University College, London. He Mr. Sassoon's work, as chosen by served with the Red Cross in the himself. It includes poems from Balkan War 1912-14 then became a 'The Old Huntsman' and 'War House Physician at University Poems' (both now out of print), and also from 'Picture College Hospital in July 1914, but before taking up Show' which was only published in a small limited residence the war broke out and he immediately edition." Nice copy of superior edition with dw. [Ref: obtained a commission in the R.A.M.C., was posted to 62903] £65 the 16th Field Ambulance in France, & was in action at the Marne & Aisne until wounded on 23rd October 1914. 171. SASSOON (Siegftried) Counter-Attack & Other Recovering from serious wounds, he joined the 18th Poems. Division on the Somme in 1916 & was killed in action in With an Introduction by Robert Italy in August 1918 whilst serving with the 21st Field Nichols. 2nd Imp. of 1st USA Ed., Ambulance. He was 31 & is buried in Magnaboschi viii+64pp. VG in sl. chipped dw. British Cemetery on the Asiago Plateau. Orig. blue cloth NY: Dutton & Co. 1919 with white buckram backstrip, gilt, number 190 of 500 Poems from France & copies. [Ref: 62881] £145 Craiglockhart. Orig. paper covd. boards with printed label to front, 174. SLACK (C.M., MC) Grandfather's Adventures in
VG in little chipped but rare dw. the Great War 1914-18. [Ref: 62969] £120 Intro. by John Terraine. 1st Ed., 284pp., 6 plates, ep maps. VG in dw. Ilfracombe: Stockwell. 1977 Excellent first-hand account as an 172. SCOTT (Peter T.) "Dishonoured" The "Colonel's officer with 1/4th East Yorks, TF, Surrender" at St. Quentin, The Retreat from Mons, Western Front 1915-18 & PoW. VG in August 1914. dw. [Ref: 62917] £20 1st Ed., [vi]+90pp., 3 maps. VG in dw. Tom Donovan. 1994 Surrender of 1st Warwickshire & 2nd Dublins in 1914, averted by Major Tom Bridges. The full story. 175. SLADEN (Douglas) Ed. In Ruhleben: Letters Original hardback edition, VG in from a Prisoner to His Mother. With an Account of dw. [Ref: 62926] £25 the "University" Life, Classes, Sports, Food, Accommodation, etc., of the Internment Camp of
British Prisoners. To Which is Prefixed a letter stating the case for a Wholesale Exchange of Civilian Prisoners by Sir Timothy Eden, Bart., late a prisoner at Ruhleben. Illustrated with pictures made by Stanley Grimm at Ruhleben & Plans of the Camp & Diagrams of the Barracks. 1st Ed., [viii]+292pp., c.20 illus. Hurst & Blackett. 1917 Orig. red cloth, gilt, sp. tanned, little rubbed & worn, generally VG. [Ref: 62866] £35
35 176. SOMMERS (Cecil) [Pseud. of DOWNS (N.C.S.)] 178. [STEWART (Major Oliver, MC, AFC)] Cinquante-
Temporary Heroes. Quatre. France 1917. 1st Ed., 244pp., 7 drawings by the 1st Ed., [ii]+16pp. (rectos only), 7 author. John Lane/Bodley Head. tipped-in plates. No imprint. [1917] 1917 Rare privately published first Informing as well as most amusing edition of a series of popular song anecdotes of service in France/ tunes rewritten by Stewart with Belgium (mainly the Salient) in 1915 RFC themes. A small trade edition by a territorial officer of the Gordon was published by Bowes of Highlanders. Orig. green cloth, VG Cambridge in 1918 with subtitle & rare, & pre-dates the OAS series "Flying Corps Songs." The author but clearly designed along the same was son a of Thomas Gibson principles: the author's second Bowles, founder of The Lady & volume of war memoirs, 'Temporary Vanity Fair magazines. His mother Crusaders' was published in the series. [Ref: 62941] was Rita Shell, who was Bowles' mistress after the death £120 of his wife, & later editor of The Lady. She later changed her surname to Stewart. Oliver Stewart was 177. STEEL (Col. J.P.) Comp. A Memoir of Lt.-Col. commissioned in the Middlesex Regt. but transferred to Edward Anthony Steel, DSO, RHA & RFA, 1880-1919, the RFC, qualified as a pilot in 1916 & served on the Consisting Chiefly of His Letters & Diaries, With Western Front from Jan. 1917, mainly flying photo. Numerous Illustrations. reconnaissance ops. with Sopwith Pups of 54 Squadron. 1st Ed., xvi+172pp., portrait frontis. He became an 'Ace', was awarded the MC (& later the & 37 other portraits & photos. AFC as a post-war test pilot). Orig. blue cloth, contents Simpkin, Marshall. 1921 sl. loose, generally VG & rare with labels of aviation Steel was born in India in 1880, historian Chaz Bowyer & 1917 pencilled ownership Ed. at Dover College & Woolwich: inscrip. of A.J. Arkell (i.e Anthony John Arkell, MBE, MC, commissioned RFA 1900. Served temp. 2nd Lt., RFC, 1916, whose personal papers &c. in India & with West African are held in the collection of the IWM, London). [Ref: Frontier Force in Nigeria (twice 62968] £225 Mentioned in Despatches), France 1914-15 (35th Battery in 4th, later 179. STROUD: The Stroud District & its Part in the 7th and 8th Divisions) inc. Le Great War 1914-1919: Records from the Parishes of Cateau, the Aisne, Neuve Bisley-with-Lypiatt, Cainscross, Chalford, Cranham,
Chapelle, Aubers Ridge & Horsley, King Stanley &c. &c. Fromelles, being slightly wounded 1st Ed., 240pp., 15 photos. The at Festubert. Late in 1915 he was sent home to train a "Stroud News" Pubg. Co. nd New Army battery, B/182, which he took to France in (c.1919) 1916, was severely wounded 15th Sept. 1916 on the Based on local newspaper files, Somme. On recovery he went to Mesopotamia, landing with a chronology containing at Basra just as the war was ending, but having survived mainly details on local casualties, it he was to die of illness contracted serving with the military promotions &c. as they British Military Mission to Siberia on 14th Oct. 1919 & is were reported. This is followed commemorated on the Vladivostock Memorial. Excellent by a complete roll of those on memoir inc. letters and diary extracts from West Africa service up to end of 1915 & Rolls before the war (exploration & colonial conquest in of Honour for each of the Southern Nigeria &c.), more from France & Flanders parishes. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, 1914-15 & 1916, with considerable detail on his services VG & scarce. [Ref: 61435] £60 & the activities of his Battery. Also unusual letters from the BMM in Siberia, April-October 1919. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little wear, VG. [Ref: 62985] £165
36 180. SYNTON (Edward) [Pseud. of CORSE-SCOTT 183. TREW (Lt.-Col. H.F.) Botha Treks.
(Edward)] Tunnellers All. 1st Ed., viii+190pp., 8 plates, Blackie. 1st Ed., 255pp. Grant Richards. 1918 1936 Most unusual & almost entirely Account of the German SW Africa unknown novel of the tunneller's war campaign 1914-15, in which author on the Western Front, & the character commanded Botha's bodyguard. Orig. of the the men who formed the mustard cloth, titled in brown to front & tunnelling companies, being a sp., minor wear, VG. [Ref: 62721] £30 reflection of the author's experiences as a sapper officer engaged in this work. Orig. blue cloth, blocked black, front board a little marked o/w VG & very scarce. [Ref: 62938] £90 184. VON KLUCK (Gen. A.) The March on Paris &
181. THORNTON (Lt.-Col. L.H., CMG, DSO) & The Battle of the Marne 1914. FRASER (Pamela) The Congreves, Father & Son: 1st Ed., xii+175pp., portrait, fldg. map General Sir Walter Norris Congreve, VC; Bt.-Major in rear cover + 2 in text. Edward
William La Touche Congreve, VC. Arnold. 1920 1st Ed., xvii+337pp., 8 plates. The German 1st Army's 1914 Murray. 1930 campaign by the Army Commander, Interesting diaries & letters of Walter with notes by the Historical Section of Congreve (VC at Colenso & GOC the Committee for Imperial Defence. XIII Corps on the Western Front) & Order of Battle appended. Orig. blue his remarkably able staff officer son cloth, gilt, nice bright copy with minor Billy, Rifle Brigade & 3rd Div. Staff, marling to sp. [Ref: 62918] £75 VC, DSO, MC, KiA on the Somme. Orig. black cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. [Ref: 62961] £85 185. WESTER-WEMYSS (Adml. Lord) The Navy in
the Dardanelles Campaign. 1st Ed., 288pp., fldg. map. H&S. nd 1924 182. THORP (C. Hampton, AIF) A Handful of Good account & uncommon.
Ausseys. Includes policy, strategy & Illus. by James F. Scott AIF. 1st Ed., administration & 'Rosy' Wemyss' xvii+296pp., 6 plates. Bodley Head letters from the campaign where he (On Active Service series) 1919 was SNO & Governor of Mudros, & Experiences of an Australian Draft as i/c 1st Sqdrn. was responsible for from leaving home, the voyage, the Helles landing. "Lord Wester- London life, the move to France Wemyss... was one of the great (early in 1917, evidently) & front-line organisers on the Naval side of the service with an infantry battalion. In War. he might have been one of the the final lines of the book the author great fighting men had that chance come his way, but it & his bn. charge 'over the top' at an did not. In the Gallipoli campaign his powers of unspecified location on the Bapaume organisation were thoroughly tested. His account is Front. No doubt based on author's frank, his criticism full-blooded, his comments shrewd. A experiences: 4380 Pte. (later L/Cpl.) Charles Hampton good idea of the problems of policy, strategy, & Thorp served with 29th Infantry Bn., embarked at administration in regard to the campaign can be obtained Sydney on 3rd Nov. 1916. Orig. plum cloth, blindstamped from this book." - Falls. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG, nice & titled in red, sp. rubbed, generally VG & scarce. [Ref: clean copy. [Ref: 60656] £50 62890] £75
37 186. W.G.S. A Tour in the Bavarian Alps 1914-1916. Oostaverne Military Cemetery. Mostly comprises his 1st Ed., 53pp. Woodchester, Glos: detailed & interesting letters during training with the 6th Arthurs Press Ltd. nd (c.1920s) (SR) Bn. at Sheerness & from the Front throughout his Unidentified author was travelling in active service, including a brief interlude as a Staff southern Germany during the "learner" at 73rd Brigade HQ. Orig. rifle green cloth, summer of 1914 & was interned at blocked black, VG. [Ref: 61854] £60 Ruhleben until repatriated in 1916 due to illness. Orig. blue cloth, gilt 189. YEATS-BROWN Golden Horn. to front, little rubbed & worn, 1st Ed., 287pp., 3 portraits, 2 genarally VG & inscribed: With sketches. VG in chipped dw. love from the Author. Three Gollancz. 1932 Gables, Reigate, 26 ix 1926. No Subtitled "Plot & Counterplot in copy on Library Hub (formerly Turkey, 1908-1918, as seen 'from the COPAC). [Ref: 62909] £50 inside' by a prisoner of war." Yeats- Brown, a captain in the 17th Cavalry 187. WOOD (John) Ed. A Life Well Lived: A Memoir (IA), was observing for Capt. White of James Wood Colin Taylor, Lt. 3rd Bn. Sherwood of the Australian Flying Corps when Foresters; born May 22nd 1887, Fell in Action at they were both captured in enemy
Hooge, Flanders, August 9th 1915. territory on a mission to Bagdhad in 2nd Ed., 158pp., portrait frontis., 3 Nov. 1915 (when they landed to blow plates. S.W. Partridge. 1916 up the Turk's telegraph lines), PoW & eventual escape James Wood was Ed. at Rugby & from Istanbul. He also records various Turkish intrigues, "Having no special aptitude for the Armenian Massacres, &c. VG in chipped dw. [Ref: study" entered a business career in 62847] £35 London. joined the HAC 1914, then commissioned in the Sherwood 190. YEATS-BROWN ([Major] Francis [DFC]) Bengal Foresters & joined the 2nd Bn. in Lancer. Flanders,. KiA after about six 1st Ed., 288pp. VG in chipped dw. weeks at the front. Includes letters Gollancz. 1930 from France with considerable Autobiography of life in the Indian allusion to God's work (he was a Cavalry, life in India, polo & service in keen Bible scholar) but also some details of his the First World War. Yeats-Brown was experiences & conditions at the front: he joined his ed. at Harrow & Sandhurst, joined the battalion on 24th June 1915 "in a torrent of rain, loaded 17th Cavalry in 1907 (he describes with pack etc. The roads were awful, & so was the odour initiation into the regiment, peacetime in certain spots... German flares were going up often... I stations &c.). Being in England on hope I shall soon get used to the banging, cracking & leave in 1914 he was attached to the swishing of different things..." Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers in France & [Ref: 62850] £35 Flanders 1914-15 then sent as an RFC observer to Mesopotamia. He records the advance on Kut in 1915 & 188. WOODS (E.S.) Ed. Andrew R. Buxton, The Rifle the sortie when he & his pilot were captured in enemy
Brigade. A Memoir. territory while undergoing a dangerous mission to blow 1st Ed., ix+294pp., 220x143mm, 16 up the Turk's telegraph lines. VG in chipped dw. [Ref: photos. Robert Scott. 1918 62846] £25 Buxton was born in London in 1879, Ed. at Harrow School. Born into the 191. YOUNG (Lt.-Col. James, DSO) With the 52nd Barclay's Bank dynasty, he joined (Lowland) Division in Three the bank in 1901 & was local Continents. director of the Westminster Branch 1st Ed., vii+112pp., num. illus. in 1914 when he enlisted in the Edinburgh: Green. 1920 University & Public Schools Bn. of Author commanded 1/3rd Lowland the Royal Fusiliers. He received a Field Ambulance in Gallipoli (Battle of commission in the Rifle Brigade Achi Baba &c.), Palestine & Western early in 1915 and served with the Front. Excellent personal account, orig. 3rd Bn. on the Western Front from June onwards, inc. paper covd. boards with green cloth trench life in Flanders, Battle of the Somme etc., & was backstrip titled in black. VG & scarce. KiA at Messines on 7th June 1917. He is buried in [Ref: 57623] £75
38 Official History 1914-1918
192. BEAN (C.E.W.) The Australian Imperial Force in 196. EDMONDS (Sir James) Military Operations France During the Allied Offensive, 1918: May 1918 France & Belgium 1917 Part I: The German Retreat to the Armistice. to the Hindenburg Line & The Battles of Arras. 1st Ed., lxxvi+1099pp., 430 illus. & 1st Ed., mapcase only: containing maps. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 12 fldg. maps. VG in dw. 1942 Macmillan. 1940 Vol. VI of the Australian Official History. One of the scarcest volumes of The Allied Offensive of 1918 &c. Orig. the OH, covering the first five maroon cloth, gilt, near fine in orig. months of 1917 inc. ops. on the plain paper wrap. & cardboard box of Ancre & the advance in the issue. [Ref: 62829] £60 'devastated area,' battles of Arras & Bullecourt. Orig. red cloth mapcase, near fine in dw & rare thus. [Ref: 62930] £145 193. EDMONDS (Brig. J.E.) Military Operations France & Belgium 1916 [Part I]: Sir Douglas Haig's 197. EDMONDS (Sir James) Military Operations
Command to the 1st July: Battle of the Somme. France & Belgium 1917 Part I: The German Retreat
Text only: 1st Ed., xxvi+523pp., 27 to the Hindenburg Line & The Battles of Arras. sketch maps. Macmillan. 1932 Appendices, 1st Ed., xi+158pp. VG Up to & including 1/7/16 with Order of in dw. Macmillan. 1940 Battle of the opposing armies. Orig. Contains various GHQ &c. red cloth, gilt, VG. [Ref: 62944] £45 documents, orders & plans re ops. at Arras & Bullecourt in 1917. Orig. red cloth, gilt, near fine in dw & scarce thus. [Ref: 62931] £120
194. EDMONDS (Brig. Sir J.E., CB, CMG) Military Operations France & Belgium 1918 Part III: May-July: The German 198. EDMONDS (Sir James) Military Operations Diversion Offensives & the First France & Belgium 1917 Part II: 7th June-10th
Allied Counter-Offensive. November, Messines & 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele). 1st Ed., xxxii+385pp., 3 fldg. maps in 1st Ed., xl+489pp., 8 photos., fldg. end-pocket + 19 sketch maps. map in end-pocket + 29 sketch Macmillan. 1939 maps. VG in dw. HMSO. 1948 Issued without separate mapcase. Orig. Very scarce 'Passchendaele' red cloth, gilt, VG & scarce volume. volume, issued without separate [Ref: 62949] £125 mapcase. Orig. red cloth, gilt, very nice copy, VG in dw & rare thus. 195. EDMONDS (Sir James) Military [Ref: 62932] £265 Operations 1918 Part II: March- April, continuation of the German
Offensives. 1st Ed., mapcase only: containing 26 fldg. maps. Macmillan. 1937 Including Villers Bretonneux & the Lys Offensive. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG, scarce. [Ref: 62950] £60
39 199. EDMONDS (Sir James) Military 204. EDMONDS (Sir James) Military Operations Operations France & Belgium 1918 France & Belgium 1916 Part II: 2nd July 1916 to the
Part IV: 8th August-26th September, end of the Battles of the Somme.
The Franco-British Offensive. Map & Appendices only. 1st Ed., Text (this volume not issued with x+119pp., frontis., 6 fldg. maps in mapcase), xxv+623pp., 4 fldg. maps in end-pocket. Macmillan. 1938 pocket, 31 sketch maps. HMSO. 1947 Fldg. maps to accompany 1916 II text: Battles of Amiens & Albert, advance to Battles of Flers, Morval, Thiepval the Hindenburg Line &c. Orig. red cloth, Ridge, Transloy Ridges, Ancre. Also gilt, near fine & among the rarest of the includes specimen orders & series. [Ref: 62933] £275 instructions re Battle of Flers- Courcelette, Transloy Ridges, Ancre 200. EDMONDS (Sir James) &c. Orig. cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. [Ref: Military Operations France & 62948] £120 Belgium 1914 Part II: Antwerp, La Bassee, Armentieres, 205. ROBERTS (Maj. Charles G.D.) Canada in Messines & Ypres, Flanders: Vol. III of The Official Story of the
Oct.-Nov. 1914. Canadian Expeditionary Force. Text only: 1st Ed., xxxiii+548pp., 18 With a Preface by Lord sketch maps, Macmillan. 1925 Beaverbrook. 1st Ed., xv+144pp, ep Orig. red cloth, VG. [Ref: 62943] £50 maps (rear fldg.). VG in dw. H&S. 1918 Last & scarcest volume of popular 201. EDMONDS (Sir James) Military official account, mainly relating their Operations France & Belgium 1916 operations on the Somme in 1916. Part I: Sir Douglas Haig's Command Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG in like dw. to 1st July 1916: The Battle of the [Ref: 62879] £95
Somme. Appendices: 1st Ed., viii+232pp. Macmillan. 1932 Various correspondence, orders & 206. WAITE (Major Fred) The New Zealanders at instructions relating to the Somme Gallipoli. offensive on 1st July 1916 &c. Orig. red 1st Ed., xix+330pp., num. photos. cloth, gilt, VG. [Ref: 62945] £60 throughout; maps in text & lge. fldg. trench map of Anzac at end. 202. EDMONDS (Sir James) Military Auckland: W&T. 1919 Operations France & Belgium 1916 The NZ official history. Good Part I: Sir Douglas Haig's Command account which "gives a clear to 1st July 1916: The Battle of the picture of the conditions of the Somme. campaign... It is very well Mapcase only: containing 13 fldg. illustrated." - Falls. Orig. green maps. Macmillan. 1932 cloth, minor wear at foot of sp. o/w Maps to accompany the 1916 text VG with ownership inscrip. "J.L. volume up to & including 1/7/16. Orig. Sleeman" (grandson of famous cloth, VG. [Ref: 62946] £50 "Thuggee" Sleeman; Col., CB, NZ Forces, served in France & Flanders, latterly as DMT of NZ Forces). See 203. EDMONDS (Sir James) Military illustration on on our website. [Ref: 61056] £75 Operations France & Belgium 1916 Part II: 2nd July 1916 to the end of
the Battles of the Somme. Text only. 1st Ed., xlv+601pp., frontis., 51 sketch maps. Macmillan. 1938 Orig. red cloth gilt, little sunned/mottled, VG. [Ref: 62947] £50
40 Trench Maps 1914-1918
207. [Hindenburg Line, September 1918] 210. TRENCH MAP: France. Sheet 62dNE Ed. 2B.
Four British oblique aerial 1:20,000. photographs taken on 23rd & Area south of Albert, trenches in 24th September 1918 prior to top RH corner only, but these the Fourth Army attack on the show British front line & German position on 29th September. trench systems before Fricourt & These photos. show much Mametz, corrected to 25/4/16 interesting details (identified in (position prior to 1/7/16). VG. the negative) inc. Quarry Wood [Ref: 62874] £75 & Quarry Ravine, Le Catelet & Bony, Top Trench, Quennemont Farm, Bellicourt, Paul Trench, Zoo Trench &c., & various map locations (British map sheet 62B refers). [Ref: 211. TRENCH MAP: Vis-en-Artois. Sheet 51bSW2 62935] £50 Ed. 4A. 1:10,000. Small portions of the Hindenburg
208. Sheet 51a Ed.1a. 1:40,000. Line south of Wancourt & Area includes Denain, Iwuy, le Geumappe & north of Cherisy, Quesnoy &c., with Enemy Heninel &c. (the line in front of Organisation (some reserve Monchy-le-Preux &c.) Trenches trenches, aerodromes &c.) corrected to 9/2/1917 (before the corrected to 24/9/1918. Front Battle of Arras). Small piece cut stained, generally VG. from margin o/w VG. [Ref: 62875] £45 [Ref: 62873] £75
209. TRENCH MAP: France. Sheet 36cNW. Ed. 7A
1:20,000. Fldg. linen-backed map showing outline of British front line & detailed German trench systems on the front from La Bassee south via Hulluch to Loos. Trenches corrected to 12/6/1916. Nice clean copy, VG. [Ref: 62929] £85
41 The Second World War
212. Arakan Assignment: The Story of the 82nd 214. The Guns of 6 A.G.R.A.
West African Division. 1st Ed., pictorial wraps. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 44pp., with red cord tie, 10pp. text photos. throughout, fldg. map. + 50 attractive drawings, Roxy Press, New Delhi, for P.R. oblong folio. Ommassini & Services (West Africa). nd [1946]. Pascon, Venice. nd (1946) Useful, well-illustrated & only 6th Army Group Royal published record of 82nd West Artillery in Sicily & Italy: African Division's Arakan illustrated souvenir campaign, 1944-45. Includes containing appealing drawings of campaign scenes, Order of Battle, portraits of senior personnel, batteries in action, list of units in the Group, officers & two African DCM &c. Orig. dec. wraps., little chipped o/w VG. [Ref: 62876] winners, fldg. map of the £35 campaign. Orig. dec. wraps., neat tape repair to sp., VG thus & scarce. [Ref: 62958] £95 215. The History of the 7th Medium Regiment Royal Artillery (Now 32nd Medium Regiment R.A.) During
213. British Army of the Rhine Battlefield Tour. World War II 1939-1945. Second Day: 2 Canadian Corps Operations Astride 1st Ed., ix+222pp., 27 photos., 8 the Road Caen-Falaise 7-8 August 1944 (Operation maps (several fldg.). Printed by
Totalize). Loxley Bros., Ltd., Sheffield. 1951 1st Ed., [vii]+71pp., foolscap, Detailed record of service with 30 10 maps (9 bound-in, 1 in Corps in Western Desert & Tunisia, endpocket). Prepared under Sicily, then NW Europe 1944-45. the Direction of G (Trg) HQ Excellent maps & photos. Orig. blue BAOR & with the assistance cloth, gilt VG. [Ref: 62951] £65 of The Canadian Amy Historical Section. 1947 RESTRICTED. Detailed account of the planning & execution of this phase of the 216. The Rise & Fall of the German Air Force (1933 Normandy Breakout, with to 1945). various original Operation RESTRICTED Air Ministry Orders &c. reproduced, also a Pamphlet No. 248. 1st Ed., short account by Kurt Meyer, xix+422pp., 100+ photos., 26 maps commander of 12 SS Panzer (some fldg.) & 5 tables. Air Ministry. Div. Excellent coloured fldg. maps. Preface states that 1948 this tour is "especially concerned with the air plan & the Detailed operational history part played by 51 (H) Div with particular reference to:- (a) compiled for use in staff college &c., The use of armoured personnel carriers; (b) with excellent photos., maps &c. Maintenance of direction during a night advance. It forms Orig. blue cloth, somewhat the necessary background to a detailed study of the serviceworn, generally VG with battle carried out on the ground." Orig. blue cloth, gilt to several ink stamps of No. 34 front. VG & rare (just 150 copies printed of this edition). Maintenance Unit Technical Lib. [Ref: 59134] £275 [Ref: 62868] £45
42 217. The Story of the 79th Armoured Division Oct. & well-thumbed, is of special interest as its original
1942-June 1945. owner, 210502 Warrant Officer Thomas Arthur Frederick 1st Ed., 314pp., 126 plates & one Cooksey, formerly a Flight Engineer with 61 Squadron fldg., num. fldg. maps. Hamburg: (Lancasters), & a PoW at Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug, BAOR. 1945 1943-45, has recorded details of 22 (out of 26) bombing Restricted. Hobart's "funnies" (DD missions flown by him, then, throughout the book, he has tanks, Crabs, Crocodiles, made his own small observations against some of the Kangeroos, Arks, Buffaloes &c.), drawings. Finally, the rera end-papers have been utilised Normandy to Germany. Orig. by him to list some German behaviour, & the manner in wheat hessian cloth, titled in black, which the 'kriegies' got their own back, presumably when col. onlay to front of divisional sign, liberated, e.g., "John Carew, shot on Boundary" = little wear, VG. [Ref: 62851] £45 "Russians kill two dogs. 1 German knifed." "Myself hit on foot by Rifle Butt" = "Guard killed by accidental fall of concrete over door (tut tut)" "George West beaten by 218. Taurus Pursuant: A History of 11th Armoured Commandant" = "Commandant made to crawl for 17 Division. hours. Troops stop us." "Polish girl stabbed by S.S. for 1st Ed., [viii]+vi+118+8+44pp., handing us water, child in arms kicked." = "5 S.S. in num. photos. & sketches, 17 fldg. payment with their own guns whoopee." Note: Cooksey maps, ep maps. VG in dw. recorded his experiences for the IWM Oral History Dept. AP&SS, BAOR. 1946 in 1995. [Ref: 62973] £225 North-West Europe campaign 1944-45, Roll of Hon. (listed by 220. BECKETT (Frank) Prepare to Move: With the
units). Well illustrated. Orig. blue 6th Armoured Division in Africa & Italy. cloth, VG in dw, nice copy. [Ref: 1st Ed., xiv+300pp., photos. & 62884] £45 maps. VG in dw. Grimsby: The Author. 1994 Personal account serving with the 12th HAC Regt. RHA, also incorporating the recollections of 219. ANDERSON (R.) & WESTMACOTT (D.) Handle other old comrades. Much With Care: A Book of Prison Camp Sketches Drawn detailed material on the & Written in Prison Camps in Germany. campaigns in Tunisia & Italy 1st Ed., 107pp., oblong (Kasserine Pass, Battles of 4to, sketches/cartoons Cassino, &c.). VG in dw (the throughout. No imprint scarcer hardback edition) & [for the Authors]. 1946 signed by the author. [Ref: 62830] £30 The joint authors explain in their Preface that 221. BROWN (James Ambrose) Retreat to Victory. A these sketches drawn in Springbok's Diary in North Africa: Gazala to El
various camps "has been Alamein 1942. a headache... since its 1st Ed., xiv+301pp., illus. birth in May, 1943. Some... were taken by the Germans throughout, several maps. VG in & had to be re-drawn. Others were damaged in transit dw. Jo'burg: Ashanti Pubg. 1991 from camp to camp. During the last big Allied Push the Author's diaries with South African book was so bulky that it had to be left with a friend in Infantry (The Transvaal Scottish) in the Camp Sick Bay, & we hoped never to see it again." the 8th Army in North Africa: The However, it eventually reached them in England & it is Crusader Offensive, Gazala & evident from later remarks in the Preface that it was Tobruk & on to El Alamein. A published by subscription. Contains around 50-60 detailed & well-illustrated account. cartoons, each with letterpress caption and/or VG in dw. [Ref: 62716] £25 explanatory notes. No copy on Library Hub (formerly COPAC), & appears to be rare. This copy, although worn
43 222. BUGLER (Warren) The Story of 114: An Informal 226. HAMMERTON (Capt Ian C., XXIInd Dragoon, History of the 114th (Sussex) Field Regiment (one- Royal Armoured Corps) Achtung! Minen! The time Jungle Field Regiment) R.A., (T.A.) 1939-1947. Making of a Flail Tank Troop Commander. 1st ED., orig. dec. card wraps., 1st Ed., 176pp., 40 photos., 6 maps. 192pp., 4 maps. Printed for the 114 VG in dw. Lewes: Book Guild. 1991 (Sussex) Fd. Regt. 1982 Author enlisted in the RTR TA in Preparations for active service 1939, was selected for a followed by three-and-a-half years commission & served with 22nd with 20th Indian Dv. in India & Dragoons, 79th Armd. Div., landing Burma inc. Kabaw Valley ops., on D Day & remaining in action with Battle of Imphal, &c. Roll of Hon., his regiment until the end of the war. awards. Somewhat worn, VG in dw with author's presentation generally VG & rare. [Ref: 62787] inscrip. VG in dw. [Ref: 62793] £30 £65
223. BULL (Peter) To Sea in a Sieve. 227. JAMES (Malcolm)
1st Ed., 224pp., portrait frontis., 12 Born of the Desert. photos. VG in little chipped dw. 1st Ed., 320pp., portrait frontis., 20 Peter Davies. 1956 photos., 3 maps. VG in sl. chipped Author joined RNVR in 1941 as a dw. Collins. 1945 seaman, was commissioned & The early days of the SAS in the served in landing craft inc. Dieppe Western Desert: a personal account Raid, Sicily & Salerno, plus a by their doctor, who was present Landing Craft glossary. Unusual during the operations described. VG account of this work. Nice 1st Ed. in dw. [Ref: 62869] £35 in attractive dw. [Ref: 62880] £25 228. KEMSLEY (Capt. W.) & RIESCO (Capt. M.R.) The Scottish Lion on Patrol: Being the Story of the 15th
224. CHIPPINGTON (George) Singapore: The Scottish Reconnaissance Regiment 1943-1946.
Inexcusable Betrayal. 1st Ed., 232pp., 12 plates, 20 maps, ep 1st Ed., 256pp., map. VG in dw. maps. Bristol: White Swan Press. 1950 Self Publishing Association with Recce Bn., 15th (Scottish) Division, the author. 1992 Normandy to the Baltic inc. Rhine Bitter personal account of the Crossing &c. Roll of Hon., awards. Orig. campaign in Malaya & Singapore green cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. [Ref: by a junior officer of 1st Bn 59854] £125 Leicestershire Regt. [Ref: 62988] £15
229. KNIGHT (C.R.B.) Historical Record of the Buffs,
225. FFRENCH BLAKE (Lt.-Col. R.L.V., DSO) A Royal East Kent Regiment, 1919-1948.
History of the 17th/21st Lancers 1922-1959. 1st Ed., xxiv+512pp., 21 plates, 20 1st Ed., xv+284pp., 9 plates, 12 maps maps (some fldg.). VG in dw. (inc. eps). VG in dw. Macmillan. 1962 Medici. 1951 Tank regiment 1939-45 (Valentines, Inc. Palestine 1938, WW2 Western Crusaders & Shermans): North Desert (Alamein &c.), Tunisia, Sicily, Africa, Italy (inc. Cassino, Gothic Line Italy, Burma & NW Europe. Roll of &c.). Roll of Hon., roll of officers. Orig. Hon., awards. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, blue cloth, gilt, VG in dw. [Ref: fine in dw & inscribed by author: 62825] £35 "Mrs R.P. Lister With my best wishes, & my thanks for your help & quite invaluable advice. C.R.B. Knight. 9th August 1951" Nice copy & scarce. [Ref: 61583] £120
44 230. LEWIS (Major P.J., MC) & ENGLISH (Major I.R., 233. SALMON (Matthew J.) Oh! to be a Sapper in the
MC) 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry 1939- Royal Engineers. The Memoirs of a WWII Soldier.
1945. 1st Ed., orig. dec. laminated wraps., 1st Ed., viii+319pp., 19 photos., 14 105pp., several photos. No imprint/ maps (inc. eps). Newcastle upon date (printed for the author). (c.1992) Tyne: Bealls Ltd. 1949 Service with 220 Fd. Co. RE in BEF & Dunkirk 1940; 50th Div. Middle East inc. Italian campaign Western Desert (inc. El Alamein, (Cassino Front &c.). VG, uncommon Mareth Line &c.), Sicily (inc. battle of & inscribed by the author. [Ref: Primosole bridge) then Normandy to 62796] £25 Nijmegan & disbanded Dec. 1944. Roll of Hon., awards. Orig. green cloth, gilt (hardback edition: an edition was also issued in card 234. SHEARS (Philip J.) The Story wraps.), VG. [Ref: 62836] £45 of the Border Regiment 1939-1945. 1st Ed., xv+184pp., 8 maps. Nisbet. 231. NICOLSON (Capt. Nigel, MBE) & FORBES (P.) 1948 The Grenadier Guards in the War of 1939-45. Vol. I, 1st Bn. with BEF 1940 later became The Campaigns in North-West Europe; Vol. II, The Airborne & landed at Arnhem; 2nd, 4th
Mediterranean Campaigns. (TF) & 9th Bns. served Burma; 6th Bn. 1st Ed., 2 Vols., xvi+256+xix & xi+323+xixpp., NW Europe 1944-45. Awards roll & 41 plates, 55 maps (some fldg.). Aldershot: MiDs. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. [Ref: G&P. 1949 62823] £30 Including BEF 1940, Normandy 1944 to the Rhine, Tunisia 1942-43 & Italy 1943-45. Roll of Hon., awards &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little 235. [SPICER [Lancelot Dykes]) Ed. marked, some tape residue to eps of Vol. II, Letters from my Son 1942-1944, generally VG with loosely inserted Roger Lancelot Spicer. prospectus for the work (22pp., orig. dec. Edited by His Father. 1st Ed., 104pp., wraps., containing a short description & a portrait frontis. Privately Printed by reproduction of the index) & OTC Cerificate Unwin Bros. Ltd. nd [c.1945]. "A" certifying that Ralph Humphrey Leeke of War letters written on active service the Wellington College Contingent was qualified in the 1942-44. Roger Lancelot Spicer was Infantry syllabus of training. Note: Leeke was commissioned in the KOYLI (as his commissioned in the Grenadier Guards & served with father had been in 1914) in 1941: the 6th Bn. in Italy where, with a Grenadier Company served with 1st Bn. in India, PAIFORCE, Sicily & Italy attached to the 3rd Bn. Welsh Guards, he was mortally where KiA 31/5/44 when a shell burst on Bn. HQ where wounded attacking a german occupied house near the he had just taken over as IO. Awarded MC for a fighting River Arno on 7th August 1944: an event described in patrol at Polacciano in Feb. 1944. This copy with the text. He was posthumously Mentioned in bookplate of Sir Basil Liddell Hart (who had served in Despatches. [Ref: 62790] £65 France alongside Lancelot Dykes Spicer on the Somme in 1916) & inscribed to: "Basil from Lance December 232. RICHARDSON (Gen. Sir Charles, KCB, DSO &c.) 1945." [Ref: 62856] £45
Flashback: A Soldier's Story. 1st Ed., 224pp., 54 photos., 6 maps. 236. WHITE (Lt.-Col. O.G.W., DSO) Straight on for VG in dw. Kimber. 1985 Tokyo: The War History of the 2nd Bn. The Sapper's memoirs inc. NWF in Dorsetshire Regiment 1939-1948. 1930s, Dunkirk evacuation, 8th 1st Ed., xix+425pp., col. frontis., 73 Army Staff as GSO 1 (plans) & later photos., 14 maps. Aldershot: G&P. GSO 1 (ops) inc. Alamein & Sicily, 1948 attached US 5th Army at Salerno & BEF in France 1939-40 then Burma Anzio landings then North-West with 2nd British Division: Kohima, Europe 1944-45, again on Monty's advance south & across the Irrawaddy staff planning & participating in the to Mandalay. Roll of Hon., awards. Normandy invasion &c. VG in dw. Detailed history with many good [Ref: 62815] £10 photos. & maps. Orig. green cloth, gilt, minor wear, VG. [Ref: 62824] £35
45 Official History 1939-1945
237. AGAR-HAMILTON (J.A.I.) & TURNER (L.C.F.) The 239. PLAYFAIR (Maj.-Gen. I.S.O.) The Mediterranean
Sidi Rezeg Battles 1941. & Middle East. Vol. II: "The Germans Come to the
1st Ed., xiv+505pp., 47 plates, 56 Help of Their Ally" (1941). maps (some fldg.). Cape Town: OUP. 1st Ed., xiv+392pp., 44 plates, 29 1957 maps & diagrams (many fldg.). VG South African OH. Orig. blue cloth, in dw. HMSO 1956 gilt, VG. [Ref: 62978] £50 Includes events in Western Desert (Tobruk &c.), Greece & Crete, Iraq & Malta. Orig. cloth, gilt, VG in chipped dw with some col. Illustrations of formation signs pasted in. [Ref: 62784] £35
238. DAVIN (D.M.) Crete. 1st Ed., xvii+547pp., approx. 50 photos., 29 maps (some col. & fldg.). 240. WALKER (Allan S., MD) Australia in the War of
Wellington: Historical Publications 1939-1945, Medical Series. The Island campaigns. Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs. 1953 2nd Ed., xvi+406pp., 87 photos., 45 A very detailed volume of the New maps & diagrams. VG in dw. Zealand Official History containing an Canberra: AWM. 1962 account of the NZ ops. on Crete in The Pacific campaigns inc. New May 1941. Orig. red cloth, VG & Guinea, the Solomons & Borneo. uncommon. [Ref: 62977] £65 Orig. cloth, VG in dw. [Ref: 62820] £25
46 Regimental History
241. 135 Survey Engineer Regiment (TA): History of 243. 47th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
the Regiment 1948-1965. B.E.F. France. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., dup. 1st Ed., orig dec. wraps. tied with typescript, spiral bound foolscap silk bow in RA colours, 23pp., 23 format, ii+35+[xiv]pp., with photos. The Press of John Warrillow loosely inserted col. plate of Ltd. nd (c.1920). uniforms Ewell, Surrey: RHQ. Very appealing illustrated record 1965 inc. named group photos., around An unusual TA regiment formed their 8-in. hows., of each sub- in 1948 comprising Topographic section, battery telephonists &c. Squadron, Cartographic Also photos. of gun park, cats. & Squadron & Lithographic hows. limbered up, positions &c. Squadron. Details of their work, Includes Roll of Hon., lists of rolls of officers, roll of awards of positions occupied by the battery 1915-18 inc. Ypres, Efficiency Medals &c. VG. [Ref: Somme, Vimy, Messines, Ypres again & Somme 1918. 62813] £45 Battery fired around 300,000 shells during its 36 months in France, an average of just under 2000 per week. 242. 2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders 1914, Attractive orig. dec. wraps., VG & scarce. [Ref: 62952] Cairo. £120 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., [24]pp. with tissue 244. From Otterpool to the Rhine with the 23rd
interleaves, oblong 4to, Battery Canadian Field Artillery. 31 photos. Paris: P.G. 1st Ed., 48pp., fldg. plate, one other Evrard. Contemp. photo. Printed by Charles & Son, An album of fine London. nd (c.1920). photogravure plates inc. D/23rd Batt., 5th C.F.A. Brigade CO (Lt-Col. H.P. raised & trained in UK, F&F from Uniacke), Maj. A.D. Jan. 1916 with 4.5-inch Hows. inc. Greenhill Gardyne & ops. at Ypres, Somme, Vimy, Capt. J.R.E. Stansfield (Adjutant), named officers group Passchendaele, Cambrai, Final followed by (unnamed) groups of regimental staff, Advance &c. Contains rolls of sergeants, corporals, band, pipers, drums, Ladysmith casualties plus nominal rolls of all veterans, company/platoon groups, signallers, police, ranks with service details. Orig. sons of the regiment, Maxim Gun Section & various blue cloth, gilt to boards, little sports groups. VG. Note: The battalion served in France marked & worn, generally VG & rare. "This is a very brief & Flanders with the 7th Division from 1914 onwards & record, but the basic facts are presented clearly & many many of the officers whose photographs appear within individuals are named in the narrative." - Perkins. [Ref: this work were casualties, including Uniacke & 62967] £95 Stansfield. [Ref: 62707] £65 245. History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Vol.
VI: Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt & Palestine 1914-18. 1st Ed., xvii+444pp., 6 portraits, 6 fldg. maps in end-pocket, 7 sketch maps in text. VG in dw. Chatham: Inst. of REs. 1952 Detailed history of all aspects of Sapper operations in Gallipoli, Salonika &c. RE Orders of Battle for each theatre of war appended. VG in dw. [Ref: 61066] £35
47 246. The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: Being the 249. DANIELL (D.S.) 4th Hussar: The Story of the 4th
History of the Regiment from December 1688 to July Queen's Own Hussars 1685-1958.
1914. Foreword by Winston Churchill. 1st Compiled under the direction of a Ed., xv+416pp., portrait frontis., 9 col. Regimental Historical Records plates, 4 b/w plates, 30 maps (many Committee. 2nd Ed., xx+673pp., fldg.). Aldershot: G&P. 1959 c.20 maps. VG in dw. Constable. Low Countries & Peninsula; 1st 1934 Afghan War; Crimea (in the charge of Napoleonic wars (inc. Waterloo, the Light Brigade); WW1 Western with casualty roll), Kaffir Wars, Front; WW2 Sherman tanks in North Indian Mutiny, China, Tirah & South Africa & Italy; post-war Malaya 1948- African War (with rolls of casualties 51 &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & killed, wounded &c., awards). This scarce. [Ref: 61489] £85 2nd edition excluded the plates in the 1st Ed. of 1928 but a very nice 250. FALLS (Cyril) The Gordon Highlanders in the copy, orig. green cloth, titled in red, First World War 1914-1918. complete with dw & scarce thus. [Ref: 62831] £85 1st Ed., xv+276pp., 21 sketch maps. Aberdeen Univ. Press. 1958 247. Second Korean Supplement to the Journal of Western Front (Somme, Arras, Ypres
the VIII King's Royal Irish Hussars, 1951-52. &c.) & Italy. Orig. green cloth, gilt, sp. 1st Ed., orig. green dec. card little sunned o/w VG & scarce. [Ref: wraps., 39pp. large format 62708] £75 (28x22cm approx.), 20 photos., several maps & sketches. Printed at Luneberg, Germany, by Druck-und Verlagshaus Hoppe & Co. [For the Regt.]. Contemp. 251. HANNA (Henry) The Pals at Suvla Bay: Being Containing a chronicle of the the Record of 'D' Company of the 7th Royal Dublin VIII R.I. Hussars in Korea; Fusiliers. Awards; account of the Battle 1st Ed., 244pp., col. frontis. + 7 col. of Koyang; Obituaries & other plates, 67 photos. + some 250 pertinent matter. VG & rare. [Ref: 61488] £95 portraits, maps. Dublin: Ponsonby. 1916 248. BRODIGAN (Lt.-Col. F.) Ed. Historical Records Detailed account of the raising & of the Twenty-Eighth North Gloucestershire training of the Pals company of 7th
Regiment From 1692 to 1882. Dublins & the August 1915 landings 1st Ed., v+232pp. Blackfriars Ptg. at Suvla to the end of the & Pubg. Co. 1884 campaign, with 10th (Irish) Div. Includes Marlborough's Wars, Nominal rolls & service details of expedition to Copenhagen, every member of the coy., with campaigns in the Peninsula, photos. of nearly all of them. Orig. Walcheren, Waterloo, Crimea &c. wheat cloth, gilt,, rather worn, one plate torn in half, Several rolls of officers. Orig. red generally sound & complete. [Ref: 61058] £75 cloth, gilt, ex-NAM & AMOT, somewhat chipped & worn, trace of old label at foor of sp., generally VG. See illustration on our website [Ref: 62788] £75
48 252. JOURDAIN (Lt.-Col. H.F.N., CMG) & FRASER 255. KIPLING (Rudyard) The Irish Guards in the
(Edward) The Connaught Rangers. Vol. III: 5th & 6th Great War.
Service Battalions 1914-1919. 1st Ed., 2 Vols., xvi+344 & 1st Ed., xvi+596pp., 66 illus., 15 vi+310pp., 11 maps. Macmillan. maps. RUSI. 1928 1923 The history of the two service Vol. I, 1st Bn., Vol. II, 2nd Bn. Both battalions of the Connaught battalions served in France & Rangers raised in 1914: 5th Flanders. Roll of Hon., awards. served Gallipoli (landing at Index in Vol. II. Orig. red cloth, gilt, ANZAC Cove in August & VG. [Ref: 62942] £65 serving on the Peninsula until the evacuation: several good maps & photos. of their service there), onto Salonika, Palestine then France in 1918; 6th on the 256. MOSES (Harry) The Gateshead Gurkhas: A Western Front 1915-18. History of the 9th Battalion, The Durham Light Appendices include services of all officers of the Infantr y, 1859-1967. Rangers throughout their history, including WW1 temp. 1st Ed., orig. laminated card commissions. Orig. green cloth, gilt, a very nice copy wraps., xii+441pp., num. photos., apart from three small punctures to front, caused by sketch maps &c. County Durham darts or somesuch, with author's presentation inscrip. to Books. 2001 ffep: "To Patricia Whelan signed With Comps. of H.F.N. Detailed history with num. illus., Jourdain The Last Lt Colonel of the Connaught Rangers. almost entirely devoted to WW1 1922." (Note: the recipient was the wife of Capt. J.P. Western Front inc. Ypres 1915 & Whelan, DCM, of the regiment). [Ref: 61894] £145 1917, Somme 1916 &c., WW2 in Western Desert, Italy & NW 253. KEHOE (Capt. J.A.) A History of 28 Engineer Europe from D Day onwards
Regiment 1951-2014. (50th Div.). Roll of Hon. (WW1 & 1st Ed., orig. dec. lainated wraps., WW2) & awards (WW1 & WW2). vi+81pp., num. col. & b/w photos & VG. [Ref: 62855] £25 maps. Chatham: RE Institution. 2014 257. OMMANNEY (Major C.H.) The War History of Including Korea, Northern Ireland, the 1st Northumbrian Brigade R.F.A. (T.F.): Later Iraq 2003, Afghanistan &c. VG. known as the 250th (Northumbrian) Bde. R.F.A., [Ref: 62792] £30 August 1914-July 1919. 1st Ed., xvi+250pp. Newcastle: Printed by Hindson & Sons. 1927 Western Front 1915-18 with 50th (Northumbrian) Division, initially in the Ypres Salient, later on the 254. KING (H.B., MC, late Capt.) 7th (S.) Battalion Somme & Arras, back to Ypres,
Northamptonshire Regiment 1914-1919. German Spring Offensive, Aisne 1st Ed., xi+114pp., 6 photos., 2 fldg. 1918 & Final Advance. Contains maps. Aldershot: G&P. 1919 much atmospheric & interesting Good account of a Kitchener bn. in detail. "This record has a pleasant training (inc. wooden machine- sense of humour, not surprising guns, sound supplied by when it is revealed that Mr drummers!) & on the Western Ommanney is the 'Forward Front 1915-18, 24th Div., inc. Observation Officer' of certain letters in Punch." - Falls. Somme, Messines & Ypres, March This copy inscribed: "Presented by Major R. Atkinson" Retreat & Final Advance. Lacks next to which the recipient has written "and later a ffep, little worn, VG. [Ref: 62775] friend." Also contains quite a large number of marginal £60 annotations & minor corrections by Major Atkinson & another, plus extensive notes at end inc. lists of "F" & "B" Subsections &, inter al, a statement: "This excellent account of the old Brigade is written mainly from an officers point of view. The life of the men at their guns or
49 at the wagon lines is touched upon rarely & sketchily. 261. THOMPSON (Lt.-Col. R.R.) The Fifty-Second
E.G. (see p.63) during this all night firing al men... were (Lowland) Division 1914-1918. carrying shells to the guns... The guns fired the 1st Ed., xvi+610pp., col. frontis., 40 ammunition more quickly than it could be carried. In spite plates, 15 fldg. maps. Glasgow: of this the required rate of fire was maintained in spite of Maclehose. 1923 the firing lever of No. 4 Gun... being smashed by a Detailed & uncommon history inc. shell..." &c. Orig. green cloth, blocked black, sp. worn, Gallipoli & Palestine then France in generally VG, scarce & interesting copy. [Ref: 62959] 1918. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG £125 indeed, very nice copy. [Ref: 61138] £75 258. SMITH (Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick) A History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796-1919. 1st Ed., xii+268pp., 10 col. uniform plates (numbered A-J), 13 b/w plates. Published for the "R.A.V.C. Officers' Fund" by Bailliere, Tindall 262. WARD (Major C.H. Dudley, DSO, MC) & Cox. 1927 Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers History + notes on uniform & rolls (23rd Regt.). Vol. IV: 1915-18 Turkey, Bulgaria,
of officers present in Peninsula, Austria. Waterloo & numerous other 1st Ed., xv+406pp. + [17]pp. index, campaigns in India, Africa &c. 4to, 22 illus., 29 maps, sketches of 1799-1908. WW1 officers Roll of divl. signs &c. Forster Groom. 1929 Hon. (plate). Handsomely 5th, 6th & 7th RWF at Gallipoli inc. produced work. Orig. blue cloth, Helles Landing & Suvla Bay, also gilt, VG. [Ref: 61479] £95 Mesopotamia, Palestine & Salonika campaigns. Roll of Hon. Orig. blue 259. STRUTT (Lt.-Col. G.A., TD) Ed. The Derbyshire cloth, gilt, to sp. & red "R.W.F." Yeomanry War History 1914-1919. lettering & dragon symbol to front, 1st Ed., xvi+211pp., 13 illus. Derby: very nice copy of the excellent Bemrose. 1929 quality original edition. [Ref: 61377] Gallipoli from Aug. 1915 then in £65 Egypt against the Senussi & later Salonika. Officers' roll, Roll of Hon., 263. WILLIAMS (Capt. A.C., RFA [T]) Comp. The
awards. Orig. green cloth, titled in 241st Brigade R.F.A. 1914-1918. black, somewhat stained covers, 1st Ed., 54pp., 4to, 37 photos. generally VG & scarce. [Ref: Redditch: No imprint. 1921 62832] £75 Appealing & rare history of territorial artillery unit with 48th (South Midland) Div. in France from 1915, first at Plugstreet 260. TERNAN (Brig.-Gen. T., CB, CMG, DSO) The Wood, later on the Somme front Story of the Tyneside Scottish. 1915-16 inc. battles of Somme & 1st Ed., 160pp., num. photos. Ancre; 3rd Ypres 1917 then on Northumberland Press. nd -.192 Italian front throughout 1918. 20th-23rd Bns. Northumberland Rolls of officers & casualties. Fusiliers in training & Western Orig. dec. paper covd. boards Front (34th Div.) until April 1917 with cloth backstrip, VG with very nice original photo. when author ceased to be GOC. portrait of the author pasted to ffep, over which he Includes La Boiselle on 1/7/16 &c. has inscribed in ink: "Wishing you many happy Orig. blue cloth, VG. [Ref: 62774] returns from O.C. B/241 10/12/21." Nice & interesting £50 copy. [Ref: 62960] £145
50 Rolls of Honour 1914-1918
264. The Dunelmian [Magazine of Durham School] 267. LEEDS: SCOTT (W.H.) Leeds in the Great War
December 1912-December 1919. 1914-1918 A Book of Remembrance. Incomplete run of 17 issues, each 1st Ed., xiv+324+[206]pp., 73 c.40pp. in orig. dec. card wraps. photos. Leeds: Libs. & Arts Durham. Contemp. Committee. 1923 Issues for Dec. 1912; April, July & War work on the Home Front, the Dec. 1913; March, July & Dec. Leeds Rifles & other local 1914; March & July 1915; Dec. territorials overseas, Roll of Hon. of 1916; March & August 1917; May & 9640 local men (noting rank, no., July 1918; May, August & Dec. regt., awards, & how died [i.e., KiA, 1919. All issues contain news of DoW, &c.]). Orig. blue cloth, gilt school events, sports &c., the (hardback edition, it was also 1915-1919 issues additionally published in a cheaper version in containing records of the work of printed wraps.), VG. [Ref: 61329] the OTC, notices of those killed (details of time at the £50 school & military service), lists of awards, rolls of wounded &c. VG. [Ref: 62888] £75 268. SHERBORNE SCHOOL: Old Shirburnian Navy
& Army List 1914-1919. 265. Lest We Forget: The short lives of the fourteen 3rd & Final Ed., xi+155pp. Sherborne. young Bishopthorpe men who gave their lives in the 1921 First World War, 1914 to 1918, & of the ten young Details of all who served including Bishopthorpe men who, in the Second World War, short obits. of over 200 who fell. Orig.
1939 to 1945... never came back. blue cloth, gilt, VG. [Ref: 62857] £45 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 68pp. York: Rusholmes Printers. 1975 Some account of the fallen from this village outside York & local family history. VG. [Ref: 62971] £25
266. BRITISH JEWRY: ADLER (Rev. M.) British Jewry
Book of Honour 1914-1918. 1st Ed., xix+636pp., 4to, approx. 2400 portraits of casualties on 365 plates. Caxton Publishing Co. 1922 Rolls under regimental headings of many thousands of Jewish servicemen with brief details (bn., awards, casualties &c.) with Roll & portraits of some 2400 casualties (these indexed) & a record of Jewish units. Copy no. 452 of 3000 copies printed. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little marked & worn, generally VG, with bookplate of Clive Behrens (presumably Major Clive Behrens, 1871-1935, of Swinton Grange, Malton, Yorkshire, DL & JP, who married into the Rothschild family.) [Ref: 62979] £145
51 Miscellaneous
269. The War Office List & Administrative Directory 272. HAY (Col. G.J.) History of the Militia (The for the British Army 1925. Constitutional Force). 191pp. HMSO. 1925 1st Ed., 444pp., royal 8vo. United Details the work of each Sces. Gazette. nd 1905 department in the War Office & lists Histories of all Militia units extant in the officers employed in each. Just 1905: origin, embodied service & 875 copies printed of this edition. special services including the Boer Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG. [Ref: War (with details of awards &c.). Orig. 62980] £35 red cloth, gilt, little rubbed & worn, generally VG. [Ref: 62794] £35
270. BLAXLAND (G.) The Regiments Depart: A 273. THOMSON (H. Byerley, Esq., of the Inner
History of the British Army 1945-1970. Temple) The Military Forces & Institutions of Great 1st Ed., xi+532pp. VG in chipped Britain & Ireland, Their Constitution, Administration,
dw. Kimber. 1971 & Government, Military & Civil. A "vivid & carefully researched 1st Ed., xxvi+399pp. Smith, Elder & survey of all the post-war Co. 1855 campaigns from the viewpoint of Including workings of the military staff, the small-scale units who command structure, discipline & law, conducted them" - Brian Bond. VG military schools, colleges & asylums, in chipped dw & scarce. [Ref: medical services of the Army &c., 62814] £25 together with separate Sections devoted to the Militia & Volunteer Corps. Contemp. full calf, richly gilt dec. sp. with raised bands, Eton leaving inscrip. from Leonard Micklem 271. DIETZ (Brig. Peter) The Last of the Regiments: to William N.G. Eliot. Little rubbed, VG. Their Rise & Fall. [Ref: 62779] £85 1st Ed., xiv+271pp. VG in dw. Brasseys. 1990 274. VERNON (Ernest Ralph) A Narrative of the A most absorbing historical study of Royal Scottish Volunteer Review in Holyrood Park
the British Army & the regimental on the Seventh of August 1860. system. VG in dw. See illustration 1st Ed., vii+115pp., frontis., plan (& on our website [Ref: 62819] £10 two extra illustrations in this copy). Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo. 1860 A full & detailed description of the review together with rolls (by units) of some 20,000 Volunteers who were present, including Mounted Rifles, Artillery, Engineers & Rifles, together with list of Corps & other matter. This copy bound in contemp. red binder's cloth, gilt to sp., retaining orig. dec. wraps. & extra-illustrated with two large fldg. engraved plates from the Illustrated London News, both laid down on linen & neatly bound in. [Ref: 62705] £120
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