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RICHARD ALDINGTON. Death of a Hero. Henri Babou & Jack Kahane. Paris 1930. The first of two volumes that comprise the first unexpurgated (and authorised) edition, de-bowdlerising the versions published in America and the UK the previous year. One of 300 numbered copies. 4to. Newly recased in fabric linen, the original wrappers retained. In very handsome state. £85

PAT BARKER. The Regeneration Trilogy. Complete in three volumes comprising Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road. Viking, London 1991-1995. A first edition set of Barker's award-winning Great War trilogy. Individual volume descriptions as follows: Regeneration (1991). First edition. 8vo. 251pp. A touch of bruising to the spine ends, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, with just a hint of corresponding bruising to the base of the spine panel. The Eye in the Door (1993). First edition. 8vo. 280pp. Spine ends rubbed and with just a touch of marking to the boards at one or two extremities. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of a blank preliminary leaf. A very good copy in rubbed and edgeworn dust wrapper. An uncorrected proof copy of this book is also included, bound in the publisher’s original card wrappers. The Ghost Road (1995). First edition. 8vo. 277pp. A fine copy in very good dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and with a touch of very light edgewear. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. A very good set. £225

PAT BARKER. Regeneration. A novel. Viking 1991. First edition. 8vo. 252pp. Top edge very lightly spotted, and with just a little toning to the paperstock. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at the spine ends and several corner tips. A super copy of the author’s celebrated Great War novel. £50

PAT BARKER. The Regeneration Trilogy. Comprising her novels Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road. Viking, London 1996. The first single-volume edition. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 592pp. The top edge very lightly spotted and with two small splashes of light miscellaneous staining. In virtually fine state with fine dust wrapper. £95

W.BEACH THOMAS. With the British on the Somme. Methuen, London 1917. First edition – a presentation copy inscribed: “From the author, with vivid memories of much hospitality. W.Beach Thomas Oct 16 1919”. 8vo. 285pp + xxxi publisher’s catalogue at rear. Cloth considerably marked and a little worn at corners, yet really quite a crisp and bright copy internally (although the paper used for the publisher’s catalogue is of significantly inferior stock to the rest). Beach Thomas’ oddly uncommon account of his wartime experiences: he reported for the Daily Mail and at the outset of the war, when Kitchener was opposed to the presence of journalists at the front, was one of several who managed to reach the front lines in Belgium where he was discovered and imprisoned by the British Army, an episode he described as "the longest walking tour of my life, and the queerest". Following his release he continued to report for the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, his subsequent reportage receiving national recognition. Extremely uncommon, and much more so with the author’s inscription. £150

ARNOLD BENNETT. Over There. War Scenes on the Western Front. Methuen, London 1915. First edition. Small 8vo. 192pp. Stiff paper-covered boards, rubbed, chafed and a little marked, with the paper spine covering chipped and partially defective, the binding a little tender yet sound. A single short tear to the fore edge of the half-title. Quite a bright copy. A series of six Great War essays, written whilst Bennett was Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information. £35

RUDOLF BINDING. A Fatalist at War. Translated from the German of Aus dem Kriege by Ian F.D.Morrow. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London 1929. First English edition. 8vo. 246pp + [i] publisher’s advertisement. A little dust soiling to the top edge, and some mottling to the cloth at the backstrip. The front hinge a little tender, with a little further tenderness at one gathering. Front free endpaper lightly toned and spotted. This copy formally belonged to Edward Lear- and Isaac Rosenberg-scholar Dr. Vivien Noakes, with her pencilled name to the base of the front free endpaper, and some light pencilled highlighting and marginal notes throughout. A very good copy in dust wrapper, toned at the spine panel, lightly marked in one or two places, a little rubbed at the spine ends and corner tips with just a touch of edge-loss, and with one small area of internal taped repair. The author’s first book: his Great War letters and diaries (Binding was 46 years old when war was declared; he became commander of a squadron of dragoons and spent the entire war on the Western Front bar a four-month period in Galicia in 1916. His collected war poems, stories and recollections were published posthumously). Quite uncommon. £125

EDWIN R.BOYD (writing simply as ‘E.R.B.). A Yarn of War. Palestine and France 1917-1918. Privately printed for the author by Maclehose, Jackson & Co., Glasgow 1919. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 251pp. With a photographic frontispiece, thirty-two captioned photographs, and five multi-panel folding colour maps. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Free endpapers lightly spotted, and with a tiny trace of very light further spotting to several preliminary leaves. Former owner gift inscription (dated 1961) neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy of this uncommon narrative of the author’s Great War career as Captain with the Scottish Rifles (he was wounded in France and retuned home). £200

FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG. Marching on Tanga. (With General Smuts in East Africa). Collins, London 1917. First edition. 8vo. 264pp. With thirty photographic plates and a four-panel, three-colour fold-out map at rear, marred by a single short tear. Top edge dust marked, backstrip faded and spine ends a little rubbed and nicked. Minor slant to binding. Some fox spotting, mostly confined to margins. No dust wrapper. A slightly dusty copy of the author’s personal account of the disastrous East African Campaign. The author served with the Medical Corps (passages censored from this account were subsequently incorporated into his 1930 novel Jim Redlake). £50

GWENDOLYN BRODRICK. Au Front. ("At the Front"). Privately printed by the author, 1920. First edition, limited to 110 numbered copies [this being #6]. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to her sister: “Horatia – from Gwendolyn. In memory of the never-to-be-forgotten experiences we shared. 1920”, and accompanied by the recipient’s pencilled signature. 8vo. 215pp. With a photographic frontispiece portrait of the Brodrick sisters and one companion, and eleven captioned photographs over six plates. A touch of wear to several extremities. A very good copy of this most uncommon account of the author’s Great War experiences (Broderick, her sister and several companions ran a series of Front Line canteens for the British Committee of the French Red Cross). Includes one lengthy marginal note in the author’s hand.  £350

CAPTAIN R.W.CAMPBELL. The Kangaroo Marines. Cassell & Co. Ltd., London 1915. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. A minor slant to the binding. The backstrip cloth lightly toned, the top edge dust soiled and with just a touch of spotting to the fore edge, preliminary and concluding leaves and to occasional margins. Some browning to the free endpapers, title page and to the final text leaf. Hand some armorial bookplate to the front free endpaper. A good copy of this collection of eleven Gallipoli stories. £10

R.W.CAMPBELL. The Mixed Division (T). A novel. Hutchinson, London 1916. First edition. 8vo. 320pp + xxxii publisher’s catalogue at rear. Covers a little soiled and marked. Endpapers browned. A good, bright copy. No dust wrapper. “With the Publisher’s Compliments” inkstamp to the title page. A novel based upon experiences with a Lowland Scottish Territorial regiment. £25

GUY CHAPMAN. Vain Glory. A Miscellany of the Great War 1914-1918, Witten by Those who Fought in it on Each Side and on All Fronts. Edited with an introduction by Guy Chapman. Cassell, London 1937. First edition. 8vo. xviii, 762pp. Red cloth with slightly defective silver blocking to the spine. Fore edge and several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. A seven-page introduction precedes extensive chronologically ordered extracts from Robert Graves, T.E.Lawrence, V.M.Yeates, Wilfred Owen, Ernst Junger, R.H.Mottram, C.E.Montague, Beverley Nichols, Herbert Read, Henry Williamson, John Buchan, &c., &c., &c. £15

CAPTAIN J.C.DUNN. The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919. A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium with The Second Battalion His Majesty’s Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: Founded on Personal Records, Recollections and Reflections, assembled, edited and partly written by one of their Medical Officers. Jane’s Publishing, London 1987. First trade edition, originally published anonymously in 1938 in a limited edition of 500 copies. 8vo. 613pp + xxvii sketched maps. Illustrated with thirty-one photographs. A little toning to the paperstock, as is invariably the case. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, a little sunned at spine panel with some fading to the lettering, and with a narrow sliver of further fading to several margins of the front and rear panels. James Dunn served with in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and wrote this volume of memoirs in response to Robert Graves' and Seigfried Sassoons’ wartime memoirs, accounts he deemed fictions and half-truths. £25

SEBASTIAN FAULKS. Birdsong. Hutchinson, London 1993. First edition. 8vo. 407pp. A bump to the tip of two corners, else in fine state with dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at head and base of spine panel and one corner of front panel. An extremely good copy of Faulk's celebrated Great War novel, and the central volume of his loose trilogy, following The Girl at the Lion d'Or and preceding Charlotte Gray. £250

FORD MADOX FORD. No More Parades. A novel. Duckworth, London 1925. The correct first edition, this English issue preceding the American issue by several weeks. 8vo. 319pp. A touch of wear to the spine ends and a slight ridge to the backstrip. The top edge lightly dust soiled and the free endpapers browned. Former owner name and neat neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy of the second volume of the author’s celebrated Parade’s End tetralogy. No dust wrapper. See Harvey A59. £125

JOHN FRENCH. The Despatches of Sir John French. Mons, The Marne, The Aisne, Flanders. Chapman & Hall Ltd., London 1914. First edition. 8vo. 160pp. With a two-panel fold-out map at the rear. Edges a little spotted and with a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. Endpapers browned and with some spotting to the first dozen leaves and to two or three concluding leaves. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. Despatches between 7th September and 20th November 1914, and with a forty-nine page Mentioned in Despatches section. £25

PAUL GÉRALDY (published anonymously). La Guerre, Madame…  Georges Crès & Cie, Éditeure, Paris and Zurich 1916. First edition of his anonymous Great War story, probably his third book. This copy inscribed by the author at the head of the half-title and dated 1918 (the name of the recipient partially erased). Small 8vo. 108pp + [xvi]. Publisher’s advertisements at the rear. Card wrappers, lettered in red and black at the upper wrapper and title page. With a frontispiece drawing by Jean Lefort. The first gathering a little tender and some tears to the fore edges where they have been inexpertly cut. Paperstock a little tanned. A nice bright example of a fragile production, handsomely enhanced by Géraldy’s near-contemporary signature. Text in French. £50

ROBERT GRAVES. Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography. Jonathan Cape, London 1929. First edition, first state, retaining one passage and one poem which so infuriated Siegfried Sassoon that a second state expurgating these elements was immediately issued. Tipped to the title page is a slip of paper bearing the author's inked signature. 8vo. 446pp. With a portrait frontispiece and seven photographs, maps and reproductions. Top edge dust soiled and very lightly spotted. A little damp marking to the base of the upper board, and a small area of further damp marking to the fore edge, just impacting the margin of half a dozen text leaves. Binding cracked at the title page but still perfectly sound. A little occasional marginal soiling and a narrow strip of light partial toning to the free endpapers. Some bruising to the backstrip ends. A good, bright copy in dust wrapper designed by Len Lye, somewhat dust soiled and darkened, with some creasing, nicking and a little edge loss, now addressed by some professional restoration. Graves’ celebrated Great War memoir, this unexpurgated edition exceedingly uncommon (Higginson, A32, notes that less than one hundred copies exist – probably an underestimation - and that it might perhaps be deemed a prepublication state rather than a true first edition, yet it remains the keystone for any serious Graves or Great War collection). £1,500

ROBERT GRAVES. Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography. Jonathan Cape, London 1929. The expurgated second state of the first edition, issued in the same month as the first state. 8vo. 446pp. With a portrait frontispiece and seven photographs, maps and reproductions. Errata slip tipped between pp.398-9, as required. Top edge dust soiled and with just a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends.  A small area of discolouration to the foot of the spine where the dust wrapper is defective. Free endpapers lightly toned and spotted. A tiny bump to the tip of one corner. A very good copy in good dust wrapper designed by Len Lye, quite toned at the spine panel, a little dust soiled, and with a sliver of loss from the head of the spine, just a little more from the base, and with several tiny closed edge-tears. This second state removes a passage of text from p.290 (replaced simply with three asterisks) – text Siegfried Sassoon objected to so vehemently that he and Graves barely spoke for many years – and also a poem by Sassoon (‘the most terrible of his war poems’), which was originally reproduced on pp.341-43 and is once again replaced simply with a series of asterisks. Graves' celebrated Great War memoir. Higginson A32b. £225

ROBERT GRAVES. Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography. Jonathan C\ape, London 1929. Third impression, issued in November 1929, the same month as the first state and the subsequent second (expurgated) state. This copy signed by the author on the dedication leaf and dated 1930. 8vo. 446pp. With a portrait frontispiece and seven photographs, maps and reproductions. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a tiny trace of light narrow browning to the free endpapers. A single tiny nick to the cloth at the head of the backstrip. Former owner name and date (1943) neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and with a tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, lightly marked, soiled, tanned at the spine panel, and split into three parts at the natural folds with some careful subsequent restoration to rejoin them, leaving seven small areas of loss to the spine panel.  Laid-in are three type-written sheets, the first of which details the full unexpurgated text that was found on p.290 of the first state edition, an inclusion which so incensed Sassoon that he and Graves barely spoke for many years. The other two sheets comprise the full text Sassoon’s ‘verse letter’ to Graves (‘the most terrible of his war poems’) which originally appeared on pp.341-343 and was also excised from all subsequent states. Signed copies of Graves' celebrated (and sometimes vilified) Great War memoir are scarce indeed. See Higginson A32. £1,000

JAMES LANSDALE HODSON. Grey Dawn – Red Night. A novel. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 1929. First edition. 8vo. 287pp. A very light scattering of spotting to the top- and fore edge, and with a little further spotting and some uneven toning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in lightly rubbed and spotted dust wrapper with several tiny areas of loss, and housed in the original wrap-around band which proudly claims “The war novel which Mrs. Snowden read ‘in a sitting’ at The Hague”. A Great War novel based on the author’s own infantry experiences. Most uncommon, and considerably more so in the dust wrapper and wraparound band. £250

BRIGADIER GENERAL SIR ARCHIBALD HOME. The Diary of a World War I Cavalry Officer. Edited by Diana Briscoe. Costello (Publishers) Ltd., Tunbridge Wells 1985. First edition. 8vo. 222pp. Illustrated with fifty-four captioned photographs and various maps. A touch of tanning to the leaf margins and a small area of spotting to the rear endpaper. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper, with just a trace of chafing to the spine ends and some internal fox-spotting. The Great War diaries of ‘Sally’ Home of the 11th Hussars, who sailed to France on 12 August 1914 and stayed there almost continuously until after the Armistice. £15

DAVID JONES. In Parenthesis. Seinnyessit e gladyf ym penn mameu. Faber, London 1937. First edition. 8vo. xv, 225pp. With a tissue-protected frontispiece, one plate and a map all designed by the author and each with the tissue protector present. Edges spotted, and the top edge dust marked. The rear gutter split and only just holding, and with a little tenderness also to the upper gutter. The cloth lightly marked in places. Some spotting to the endpapers and pastedowns, a series of tiny holes to the fore edge of the front endpaper, and some moisture marking and creasing to the two dozen leaves. A fair copy of the author's celebrated Great War prose-poem, his first book, based upon his experience as an infantryman, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize. No dust wrapper. £350

M.E.KÄHNERT. Jagdstaffel 356. Translated from the German by Claud W.Sykes. John Hamilton Ltd., ‘The Airman’s Bookshelf’ series, London [no date]. The first English edition. 8vo. 126pp. Illustrated with twenty-seven photographs. Cloth lightly soiled and with just a touch of wear to the upper gutter. A touch of light marginal and endpaper spotting. A nice bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, somewhat torn and creased with several notable areas of loss. Accounts of aerial combat over Flanders in 1918, penned by Elisabeth Maria Kähnert and now deemed almost certainly a fictional rather than factual account (despite wrapper blurb to the contrary). £35

MAJOR PERCIVAL ST. LAWRENCE LLOYD. The Wood of Death and Beyond. First World War Recollections. Edited by R.J.Lloyd. Oakham Books, Surrey [1998]. First edition – this copy inscribed by the editor. 111pp. Publisher’s laminated card wrappers. Light superficial crease to rear wrapper and final few leaves. Very good. The Great War memoirs of a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Fusiliers. He was injured at the Battle of Cambrai, but returned to Belgium for the latter part of the penultimate Allied advance, participating in the 2nd Army’s March to the Rhine and subsequent occupation. £15

FREDERIC MANNING. Her Privates We. A novel by ‘Private 19022’. Peter Davies, London 1930. First edition. 8vo. 453pp. Oatmeal cloth featuring a striking pictorial design. Top- and fore edges lightly spotted, and the binding just a fraction tender at one gathering. A small area of staining to the head of the terminal leaf and rear pastedown An unusually crisp and bright copy with only a tiny trace of the common darkening to the backstrip cloth. Lacking the original paper-flapped unprinted glassine protector, but with a fresh sheet of acetate supplied. The expurgated trade edition of the author’s Great War double-decker The Middle Parts of Fortune, which was first published a year earlier in a limited edition of 520 copies. £95

JOHN MASTERS. Loss of Eden Trilogy. Complete in three volumes comprising Now, God be Thanked [and] Heart of War [and] By the Green of the Spring. Michael Joseph, London 1979-1981 A first edition set of Master's celebrated Great War trilogy. Individual volumes as follows: Now, God be Thanked (1979). First edition. 8vo. 589pp. A trace of very light toning to the free endpapers and pastedown, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. Heart of War (1980). First edition. 8vo. 617pp. Top edge fractionally spotted and just a trace of bruising to the backstrip ends. A virtually fine copy in very good price-clipped dust wrapper with a short crease to the head of the spine panel. By the Green of the Spring (1981). 8vo. 599pp. The boards lightly dust soiled, the top edge very lightly spotted and the backstrip ends gently bruised. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper, with a little corresponding creasing to the spine panel ends. £50

R.H.MOTTRAM. Ten Years Ago. Armistice & Other Memories. Forming a Pendant to ‘The Spanish Farm Trilogy’. With a foreword by W.E.Bates. Chatto & Windus, London 1928. First edition. 8vo. viii, 180pp + [iv] publisher’s catalogue. A little minor discolouration to the cloth at several extremities. Contemporary former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, featuring a striking design by B.F.Shaw; the wrapper, a little soiled and rubbed, with several tiny slivers of loss from the spine ends and corner tips, and some internal repair. Bates’ brief two page foreword precedes sixteen Great War sketches. £50

BEVERLEY NICHOLS. Cry Havoc! Jonathan Cape, London 1933. First edition. 8vo. 254pp + a tipped in one-page advertisement for Nichols’ Down the Garden Path, as issued. Publisher’s maroon stain to top edge. Tips of two corners gently knocked, backstrip lettering very slightly defective and with a single miniscule nick to the cloth. An extremely crisp and bright copy in the quite striking octopus dust wrapper, price-clipped, lightly tanned at spine panel, a little dust marked and with a tiny area of loss to the lower edge of the rear panel, another enclosed fraction of loss to the spine panel and a third, slightly larger area to the head of the spine panel, impacting the first word of the title. A very good copy of the author’s equally celebrated and controversial pacifist Great War novel, loathed by Francis Yeats-Brown (who called it “a masterpiece of making drivel sound convincing” and went so far as to publish a repost, Dogs of War!, the following year). £50

T.P.O’CONNOR. Epic War Stories of the Mercantile Navy. C.P.S., London [c.1920]. A series of first-hand merchant seamen narratives from the First World War, collected and edited by Thomas Power O'Connor. M.P., and produced to raise funds for The Merchant Seamen's War Memorial Society. Small 8vo. 22pp. Stapled wrappers, the staple rusting and with just a touch of occasional fox spotting. A very good copy of a scarce ephemeral item. Includes personal accounts of the torpedoing of the SS Kariba, the SS Apapa and the Innisfallen. Uncommon. £35

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE. All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated from the German by A.W.Wheen. G.P.Putnam’s Sons, London 1929. The first English-language edition. 8vo. 319pp. Oatmeal cloth lettered in green at the spine and upper board, and with the publisher’s original green top edge stain now all but vanished. Backstrip lightly tanned and the top edge a little spotted. The free endpapers lightly browned and spotted and with just a touch more spotting to the half-title and to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy in the most uncommon first issue dust wrapper, chipped and a little tanned, with some loss from the spine panel ends, corner tips and top edge. A respectable copy of the first English edition of the author’s highly celebrated Great War novel. £2,000

MANFRED FREIHERR VON RICHTHOFEN. The Red Air Fighter. [Translated from the German by T.Ellis Barker] With a preface and explanatory notes by C.G.Grey. The “Aeroplane” & General Publishing Co. Ltd., London 1918. First English edition. 8vo. vi, 140pp + [ii] publisher’s advertisements. Pictorial blue cloth. With a portrait frontispiece and four captioned photographic plates. Boards a little rubbed, marked and creased, and with the backstrip cloth now completely absent. Some tanning to the paperstock. Tiny nicks to the fore edge margin of the first three leaves. A few pencilled notes to the rear pastedown. A somewhat handled copy of an uncommon item, housed in a homemade card presentation case. The flying memoirs of the Red Baron, written on the instructions of the Press and Intelligence section of the Luftstreitkräfte whilst Richthofen was on convalescent leave following a severe head wound sustained in July 1917. He died three months before the publication of this English-language edition (which was presumably rushed out to capitalise on news of his demise). £175

PHILLIP ROCK. The Passing Bells. A novel. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1979. First UK edition, issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 464pp. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, marred only by a trace of corresponding wear to the spine panel ends. The story of one family during the 1914-1918 war. £10

SAPPER [i.e. Cyril McNeile]. Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1915. First edition. 8vo. 177pp. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth, backstrip a little darkened, spine ends rubbed and with a minor crease to the spine. Edges and endpapers lightly spotted, and with a little browning to the endpapers. A nice crisp copy, lacking the dust wrapper. The author’s first book, most of which was originally published in the Daily Mail (as serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names, McNeile was dubbed ‘Sapper’ by Daily Mail owner, Lord Northcliffe). £50

SAPPER [i.e. Cyril McNeile]. Mufti. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1919. First edition. 8vo. 295pp. Original publisher’s cloth, lettered in black at spine and upper board. backstrip faded and with several small splashes of miscellaneous staining. Spine ends and corner tips rubbed and chafed. Some browning to endpapers, half-title and final text leaf.  Former owner bookplate to front pastedown. A good copy, really quite crisp internally. No dust wrapper. The author’s first novel, ‘The Breed’ and fore-shadowing the publication of Bull-Dog Drummond a year later. £50

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Faber, London 1930. First edition. 8vo. 334pp. Cloth a little faded at the backstrip, and the edges very slightly spotted, with a touch of further spotting to very occasional leaf margins. A trace of light toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in about good dust wrapper, with a small area of spotting to the head of the front panel, some toning to the spine panel, and about an inch of loss from the head of the spine, impacting some of the lettering.  A respectable copy of the second volume of Sassoon’s fictionalised autobiography, bookended by Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1929) and Sherston’s Progress  (1936). Keynes A33. £125

HELEN ZENNA SMITH. Not so Quiet. Stepdaughters of War. Albert E.Marriott Ltd., London 1930. First edition. 8vo. 239pp. The cloth very lightly marked in places, and with a touch of occasional light marginal soiling. A former owner had pencilled the true identity of the author to an unprinted preliminary leaf. A very good copy in a somewhat handled example of the most uncommon dust wrapper: toned, soiled, nicked, chafed and creased with an area of internal reinforcement and with some loss to the spine panel ends and corner tips. An early feminist Great War novel depicting the experiences of British female ambulance drivers, penned by Evadne Price under her ‘Helen Zenna Smith’ pseudonym and noted for its early realistic portrait of an often romanticised conflict. £95

CAPTAIN ALEXANDER STEWART. A Very Unimportant Officer. Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele. Edited by Cameron Stewart. Hodder & Stoughton, London 2008. First edition. 8vo. 318pp. Illustrated with a number of photographs and reproductions in the text. Spine ends rubbed, else in fine state with correspondingly rubbed price-clipped dust wrapper. A detailed account of the experiences of an ordinary Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) officer on the front line in France and Flanders throughout 1916 and 1917, edited from the original manuscript by his grandson. £10 

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ERNEST D.SWINTON. Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War including the Genesis of the Tank. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1932. First edition. This copy inscribed by way of a sheet of his Woodstock Road headed notepaper pasted to the front free endpaper bearing the following inked inscription: “To Edward Michael, with the author’s regards. April 1933”. Tall 8vo. 321pp. With map-illustrated pastedowns, a photographic portrait frontispiece, nine plates of captioned photographs and facsimiles, and one folding multi-panel plan. Top edge dust soiled, and with a trace of spotting to the fore edge. Corner tips and backstrip ends very gently rubbed. Some quite light fox spotting to a number of preliminary and concluding leaves, and a single tiny tape-repaired tear to the base of the front free endpaper. A very good copy of the author’s Great War memoirs (Swinton played a vital role in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War, and is co-credited with initiating the use of the word ‘tank’). Uncommon, and much, much more so with the author’s contemporary presentation inscription. £300

LORD THOMSON OF CARDINGTON Princesse Bibesco. Le Destin de Lord Thomson of Cardington. Suivi de Smaranda par Le Brigadier-Général Lord Thomson of Cardington. With a preface by James Ramsey MacDonald. Ernest Flammarion, [Paris] 1932. First edition, number 3 of just twenty numbered copies on pur fil Outhenin Chalandre paper (from a total edition of 70 copies). 8vo. 278pp. Card wrappers lettered in red and black. A touch of tanning to the wrappers, and a little rubbing and creasing to some of the untrimmed fore edges. A very good copy of this biography of Lord Thomson, followed by Smaranda, his 113-page wartime journal. £55

Thomson first served at the British Expeditionary Force Headquarters, acting as the Chief Military Interpreter between Sir John French and General Joffre.  He later served as Commander Royal Engineers (CRE) of 60th (2/2nd London) Division in Palestine, distinguishing himself at the Capture of Jericho. He was killed on the maiden flight of the R101 airship in 1930 along with forty-seven other passengers (the accident a result of pressure put on by Thomson to make the flight before safety checks were complete).

WILFRED TREMELLEN. The Three Squadrons. Newnes, London [c.1936]. Undated, but probably the cheap edition, with the dust wrapper priced 2’6 net. 8vo. 251pp. A virtually fine copy in the uncommon colour pictorial dust wrapper, lightly soiled and a little chafed at extremities with several tiny fractions of loss. A Great War aviation adventure. The author - whose name is misspelt on the dust wrapper as ‘Wilfrid Tremellin’ - was a regular contributor to the W.E.John’s-edited magazine Air Stories (1935-1940). £95

HERBERT WARD. Mr. Poilu. Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French. With an introduction by Sydney S.Pawling. Hodder and Stoughton, London 1916. First edition. Small 4to. xx, 158pp. Cloth-backed boards with paper spine and title labels. With a title page decoration and forty-six superb tipped-in plates including a number in colour. Edges spotted, the boards a little marked, soiled and chafed, and with some tanning and dust marking to the labels. A sliver of moisture marking to the base of the upper board. Front free endpaper lightly toned, and with four small adhesive labels to the front pastedown which probably once secured a clipping or plate. A good copy. No dust wrapper. Contemporary former owner inscription inked to the head of the half-title. Ward, a noted explorer and sculptor, lived in France for fifteen years prior to the outbreak of the First World War and was then attached to the British Ambulance Committee where he was mentioned in dispatches and decorated with the Croix de Guerre. This is his account of that period, presented in words and images. £25

REBECCA WEST. The Return of the Soldier. Nisbet & Co., Ltd., London 1918. First edition of the author’s second book and first novel – a modernist Great War story, which has only semi-recently been lavished with the praise it deserved almost one hundred years ago. Crown 8vo. 188pp + [iv] publisher’s advertisements. The front free endpaper absent, and with some uneven toning to the half-title, which now serves as the free endpaper. Top edge dust soiled. The backstrip ends and corner tips a little rubbed and bruised, and with an area of residue (?) marking to the upper board. Edges lightly spotted, encroaching just a fraction of occasional leaf margins. A good copy, in all surprisingly well preserved. The novel recounts the traumatic return of the shell stocked protagonist Captain Chris Baldry from the trenches of the Western Front, told from the perspective of his cousin Jenny. Uncommon. £350

JAMES B.WHARTON. Squad. A novel. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1929. First UK edition, issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 300pp + [viii] publisher’s advertisements. Top edge dust soiled, the cloth a little marked and soiled, and with a minor slant to the binding. Free endpapers lightly toned, and with some pencilled marginal notes and highlights. A good copy, slightly dusty. No dust wrapper. A fairly uncommon novel set during the last months of the Great War, based on the author’s experiences with the 111th Infantry, 28th Division, American Expeditionary Force. £15

T.W.WHITE. Guests of the Unspeakable. The Odyssey of an Australian Airman – Being a Record of Captivity and Escape in Turkey. With a foreword by Lieut.-General John Monash and a preface by Major-General G.V.Kemball. John Hamilton Ltd., London [1928]. First edition, preceding the Australian edition by four years. 8vo. 320pp. With twenty-six black and white captioned photographs and a three-panel folding colour map tipped to a blank concluding leaf.  A touch of light wear to several extremities, a little toning to the free endpapers, and a touch of light spotting to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Uncommon in this correct first edition state. £75

LEON WOLFF. In Flanders Fields. The 1917 Campaign. Illustrated with photographs and maps and with an introduction by Major-General J.F.C.Fuller. Longmans, London 1959. First UK edition, originally published in the US the previous year. 8vo. 310pp. Neat contemporary former owner name and date to front endpaper. A hint of wear to head of spine. A very good copy in slightly dust marked dust wrapper, a little nicked at head of spine panel and lightly rubbed at several extremities. The author’s second book, an account of the tragic 1917 Flanders campaign. £15

V.M.YEATES. Winged Victory. Jonathan Cape, London 1934. First edition. 8vo. 456pp. With a printed dedication to Henry Williamson, “at whose suggestion the book was begun, with whose encouragement and help it was completed and ended”. Some light soiling and marking to the cloth, and the top edge dust soiled. The edges spotted, with some further spotting to a dozen preliminary leaves and to occasional margins thereafter. Quite a nice crisp copy, lacking the fugitive dust wrapper. The classic of Great War aviation (the author died six months after publication). Uncommon. £275

BRIAN BOND. The Unquiet Western Front. Britain’s Role in Literature and History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. A scholarly study of the distorted understanding of British achievements during the Great War, penned by the Emeritus Professor of Military History at King’s College London, and expanded from his 1997 Liddell Hart lecture and his 2000 Lees Knowles lectures. £15

J.M.BRUCE. British Aeroplanes 1914-18. Putnam, London 1957. First edition. 4to. viii, 742pp. Illustrated with 645 black and white photographs, and a few plans. The tip of one corner gently knocked, and the binding slightly shaken. A very good copy, lacking the dust wrapper but housed in the original stiff card slipcase, which is a little rubbed and worn at the margins. An exhaustive study of British aeroplanes designed and/or used during the Great War. £100

“The aircraft described herein were the weapons which were forged in the heat of the first war in the air. They were more – they and their crews were founders of a tradition which was to survive a later conflict of far greater aerial intensity; and they have a unique place of honour in the nation’s history. Inevitably, many of them have come close to becoming legends. They have been badly served by writers who cared more for sensational effect than for historical accuracy, and by those whose belief in everything they see in print is unshakeable. Perhaps this book may help to make amends – from the author’s foreword.

CHRISTY CAMPBELL. Band of Brigands. The First Men in Tanks. Harper Press, London 2007. First edition. 8vo. 479pp. Illustrated with forty-three photographs and three maps. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, marred by a tiny touch of chafing to spine panel ends. An account of the origins of The Royal Tank Regiment or ‘Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps’ as it was then known, covering the period 1916-18. £15

COUNT CHARLES DE SOUZA & MAJOR HALDANE MACFALL. Germany in Defeat. A Strategic History of the War: First Phase. Kegan Paul, London 1915. First edition. 8vo. 207pp. Illustrated with maps. A bright copy. Neat name of former owner inked to the head of the front free endpaper. £20

JOHN DOS PASSOS. Mr. Wilson’s War. Hamish Hamilton, London 1963. First UK edition. 8vo. 517pp. Map-illustrated endpapers. With a frontispiece and twenty photographs. Several light finger marks to fore edge, else in virtually fine state with price-clipped dust wrapper with a single short closed tear and some dust marking to predominantly white rear panel. A detailed account of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. £10

WILL ELLSWORTH-JONES. We Will Not Fight. The Untold Story of the First World War’s Conscientious Objectors. Aurum Press, London 2007. First edition. 8vo. 296pp. Illustrated with seventeen photographs and reproductions. A single short score to the top edge, else in fine state with fine dust wrapper. £15

CYRIL FALLS. War Books. An Annotated Bibliography of Books about the Great War. With a new introduction and additional entries by R.J.Wyatt. Greenhill Books, London and Presidio Press, California 1989. The first printing of this new edition. 8vo. 328pp. Tip of one corner gently bumped and the embossed stamp of a former owner to the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in lightly sunned, marked and rubbed dust wrapper. £50

NEIL HANSON. First Blitz. The Secret German Plan to Raze London to the Ground in 1918. Doubleday, London 2008. First edition. Illustrated with forty photographs. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. £10

ÉMILE HENRIOT. La Guerre. La Bataille de la Marne. 1. Les Combats sur l‘Ourcq. Librairie Payot, Lausanne 1915. 8vo. 85pp. Pictorial card wrappers. Illustrated with eighty-nine plans and figures. The wrappers chipped and tape repaired at the spine, with a partially defective binding resulting in some considerable tenderness to several preliminary leaves. Some leaves lightly tanned. Text in French. A fair copy of the first part of Henriot’s history of the Battle of the Marne. £10

BRIAN EDWARD HOLLEY. They Went Away to War. Book Guild Publishing, Lewes 2005. First edition. 8vo. 631pp. Illustrated with fifteen photographs and fifteen maps. In fine state with dust wrapper, lightly chafed at head and base of spine panel and with a lengthy crease to front flap. An uncommon account of the Great War, based around the experiences of four of the author’s relatives, one of whom spent the war in India, a second died after the second Battle of Ypres, a third was killed in the opening attack of the Battle of Loos and a fourth was taken prisoner during the German advance of April 1918. £10

RICHARD HOUGH. The Great War at Sea 1914-1918. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1983. First edition. 353pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Cloth lightly rubbed at head of spine and tip of front endpaper and half-title clipped. A very good copy in very good pictorial dust wrapper. A reassessment of the naval conflicts of the Great War. £15

SAMUEL HYNES. A War Imagined. The First World War and English Culture. The Bodley Head, London 1990. First edition. 8vo. 514pp. Illustrated with twenty-seven photographs and reproductions. A small area of soiling to the fore edge of the front free endpaper, a single instance of inked underlining in the text and one line of the contents page highlighted in pink. A very crisp copy in fine dust wrapper. The author’s masterly cultural history of the Great War. £35

EDWARD G.LENGEL. To Conquer Hell. The Battle of Meuse-Argonne, 1918. Aurum Press, London 2008. First edition. 8vo. 491pp. Illustrated with thirty-three photographs and eight maps. A fine copy in fractionally dust soiled dust wrapper. £10

ALLAN MALLINSON. 1914: Fight the Good Fight. Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War. Bantam Press, London 2013. First edition – this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 503pp. With pictorial endpapers and fifty-four photographs. Top edge very lightly spotted and with just a touch of soiling to the title page. A virtually fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £40

FRANCIS K.MASON. Battle Over Britain. A History of the German Air Assaults on Great Britain 1917-18 and July-December 1940, and of the Development of Britain’s Air defences Between the World Wars. Aston Publications Ltd., Bucks 1990. A new edition of  Mason’s 1969 publication, this being one of 100 numbered copies for The Royal Air Force Museum, with a pasted plate to the front free endpaper noting the limitation and signed by the author, alongside the signatures of Wing Commander P.P.C.Barthtopp, Wing Commander E.G.Barwell, Wing Commander D.S.S.R.Cox, Group Captain D.E.Gillam, Group Captain T.Gleave, Wing Commander R.E.Havercroft, Air Vice Marshal Desmond Hughes, Group Captain C.B.F.Kingcome, Air Commadore J.A.Leathart, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Denis Smallwood. 4to. 539pp. With scores and scores of black and white photographs, plus a few maps. A virtually fine copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, with some fading to the publisher’s red spine panel colouring. An exhaustive companion to the Battle of Britain and various Great War dogfights. £250

PETER PARKER. The Old Lie. The Great War and the Public-School Ethos. Constable, London 1987. First edition. 8vo. 319pp. Illustrated with forty-six black and white photographs and reproductions. A tiny nick to the head of the rear board and a single very faint crease to the backstrip. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, with a single tiny nick to the upper edge and a little light fading to the publisher’s spine panel colouring. Includes multiple index references to J.M.Barrie, Rupert Brooks, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Wilfred Owen, Siegfreid Sassoon, various public schools and of course cricket. A two-page clipping from Country Life containing a review of the book by Nicholas Herbert is laid-in. £20

GEORGE HERBERT PERRIS. The Battle of the Marne. Methuen, London 1920. First edition. 8vo. 274pp. With a three-panel folding frontispiece map and eleven other two-colour maps. Some fading to the backstrip cloth, a little wear to the spine ends and corner tips, and some quite light chafing to extremities. Top- and fore edge spotted. A nice bright copy of this account of the Battle of the Marne, written by the Special Correspondent of The Daily Chronicle, who billeted with the French Armies throughout the war. £35

JOSEPH E.PERSICO. 11^th Month, 11^th Day, 11^th Hour. Armistice Day 1918, World War 1 and its Violent Climax. Hutchinson, London 2004. First UK edition. 8vo. 456pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. A single tiny bump to the base of the upper board, else in fine state with fine dust wrapper. Former owner name sticker and brief inked inscription to front pastedown, obscured by the wrapper flap. An account of the last days of the Great War, based on military archives and public records, as well as the diaries and journals of Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Field Marshall Haig, plus numerous unsung soldiers. £10

DONALD RICHTER. Chemical Soldiers. British Gas Warfare in World War One. Leo Cooper, London 1994. First UK edition. 282pp. Illustrated with thirty-three maps and photographs. Light clue residue mark to upper board else in fine state with fine dust wrapper. A critical account of the British Special Brigade, the ‘comical chemical corporals’. £15

JOHN TERRAINE. The First World War 1914-18. Papermac, London 1987. Paperback reprint – this copy inscribed by the author to an un-named recipient. 8vo. 195pp. card wrappers. A virtually fine copy. £5

RAY WESTLAKE. British Battalions on the Western Front. January to June 1915. Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Aubers Ridge and Festubert. Leo Cooper, Barnsley 2001. First edition – this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 270pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper, just fractionally faded at spine panel. A detailed account of the 291 infantry battalions of the British Army which served in France and Belgium from January-June 1915. £20

DOUGLAS HAIG. Gerard J. De Groot. Douglas Haig 1861-1928. Unwin Hyman, London 1988. First edition. Illustrated with eleven maps and sixteen photographs. Small bump to base of spine, else in fine state with dust wrapper, exhibiting a single tiny enclosed tear to rear panel. A biography of Haig produced “after eight years of painstaking and detailed research into previously neglected sources” – blurb. £15

DOUGLAS HAIG. Denis Winter. Haig's Command. A Reassessment. Viking, London 1991. Second impression. 362pp. Illustrated with nearly fifty photographs and reproductions. Top edge lightly speckled, else virtually fine with dust wrapper, lightly faded at spine panel. £10

KEITH WILSON. The Rasp of War. The Letters of H.A.Gwynne to The Countess Bathurst 1914-1918. Selected and edited by Keith Wilson and with a foreword by William Deedes. Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1988. First edition. 8vo. 346pp. A shade of very light tanning to pastedowns and a small area of off-set tanning from a publisher’s rear flap sticker to the adjacent free endpaper. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, the publisher’s laminate a little marked, scratched and lifting in places. The Great War correspondence between the editor of the Morning Post, Howell Gwynne, and its Proprietor, The Countess Bathurst. £10

ST. JOHN ADCOCK. Collected Poems of St. John Adcock. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1929. First edition. 8vo. 303pp. Top edge dust marked and the boards very lightly marked in one or two places. A small smudge to the tip of the front free endpaper, presumably from where previous pricing was partially erased. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, with some fading to the publisher’s red spine panel colouring, a touch of further fading to the upper edge of the front and rear panels, and just a touch of wear to the spine ends with a single tiny area of loss. A brief foreword by the author precedes ninety-two poems, including The Anzac Pilgrim’s Progress and several more of his Great War poems. See Reilly p.37. £25

ANTHOLOGY. A Selection of Poems from Recent Volumes Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London 1916. First edition. Small 8vo. 32pp. Card wrappers, lightly rubbed at the yapped edges and with a lengthy but quite light crease to the upper wrapper. A very good copy of this anthology-catalogue of work (mostly) published since the outbreak of the Great War. Includes nineteen poems contributed by Rupert Brooke (The Hill and The Dead), Herbert Asquith (The Fallen Subaltern), John Drinkwater (Gathering Song and To the Defilers), F.W.Harvey (If We Return and In Flanders), Rose Macaulay (The Thief), Edward Shanks (Song for an Unwritten Play and On Trek), W.J.Turner, (India and Marah), Katharine Tynan, Everard Owen, William G.Shakespeare, Elinor Jenkins and Elizabeth Kirby. Uncommon. £15

JOHN STANHOPE ARKWRIGHT. The Supreme Sacrifice and Other Poems in Time of War. With illustrations by Bruce Bairnsfather, Wilmot Lunt, Louis Raemaekers and L.Raven-Hill. Skeffington & Son Ltd., London 1919. First edition. Royal 8vo. 78pp. Illustrated with ten plates. Free endpapers browned, and with a little light spotting to the reverse of the plate leaves. A tiny dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown and a light crease to the base of a dozen consecutive leaves. A very good copy. Thirty-six Great War poems (plus one from the Second Boer War), and including Welsh and Latin translations of the title verse (the basis for the hymn O Valiant Hearts). Sir John Stanhope Arkwright, the great-great grandson of Sir Richard Arkwright, was MP for Hereford between 1900-1912. In 1893 he was awarded the Newdigate poetry prize and throughout the First World War he toured the country giving recruitment speeches, writing many of these poems on those travels. Reilly p.42. £35

EDMUND BLUNDEN. Retreat. Poems. Richard Cobden-Sanderson, London 1928. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 112 specially bound and numbered copies printed on hand-made paper and signed by the author (this being #46). 8vo. 70pp. Buckram. A little light toning to the pastedowns and to the front free endpaper; the rear free endpaper all but absent. A very good copy in marked, rubbed, toned and chipped dust wrapper, with some internal reinforcement. This copy from the library of Siegfried Sassoon’s great friend Dennis Silk, with his bookplate to the front pastedown, and with two letters to Silk from a third party laid-in. Twenty-one poems followed by twenty-three sonnets and occasional stanzas. £225

EDMUND BLUNDEN. Retreat. Richard Cobden-Sanderson, London 1928. First edition. 8vo. 70pp. Cloth with a slightly chipped paper spine label, but a fine spare tipped-in at rear. A very slightly dusty copy with a tiny bump to the tip of a single corner and a single miniscule snag to the cloth. Endpapers spotted and with some further very minor spotting to several preliminary leaves. Very good but lacking the dust wrapper. Twenty-one poems followed by twenty-three sonnets and occasional stanzas. Reilly p. 60. £15

RUPERT BROOKE. “1914”. Five Sonnets. Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1915. The first separate edition, issued five months after his collection 1914 and Other Poems, from which these poems are taken. 12mo. Eight unpaginated leaves including one sheet of advertisements. Sewn lettered wrappers, the upper wrapper exhibiting some unsightly discolouration, and also a touch of very light spotting and a little creasing to the yapped fore edge. Faint trace of (probably contemporary) former owner details neatly inked to the head of the upper wrapper. A nice bright copy, particularly crisp internally, but lacking the original mailing envelope. Brooke's third appearance in print, the sonnets here being Peace, Safety, The Dead [“Blow out, you bugles”], The Dead [“These hearts were woven”] and The Soldier. 20,000 copies were printed. Keynes 28. £30

RUPERT BROOKE. Arthur Stringer. Red Wine of Youth. A Life of Rupert Brooke. With illustrations. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis & New York 1948. First edition (never issued in the UK). 8vo. 287pp. Spine ends lightly rubbed and with just a trace of discolouration to the board edges. The text ‘Rupert Brooke’ has been neatly inked to the backstrip. Former owner name and colour sticker to the front free endpaper, and a quotation from Michel de Montaigne inked to the front pastedown. A nice bright copy in dust wrapper, slightly nicked, chipped and dust soiled. £25

RUPERT BROOKE. Michael Hastings. The Handsomest Young Man in England: Rupert Brooke. Michael Joseph, London 1967. First edition. 4to. 235pp. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, a little sunned and dust soiled. Former owner bookplate to the front free endpaper, and the signature of a second owner inked to the front pastedown (and almost entirely obscured by the wrapper flap). A study of the life and work of Rupert Brooke, illustrated with nearly 250 photographs and letter & manuscript reproductions. £25

RUPERT BROOKE. Rupert Brooke: Four Poems. Drafts and fair copies in the author’s hand. With a foreword and introductions by Geoffrey Keynes. The Scolar Press, Ilkley 1974. First edition, of which 400 copies were printed (plus an additional 100 deluxe issue copies). A cloth-bound portfolio with facsimiles of draft and fair copies of Brooke’s poems The Fish, Grantchester, The Dead and The Soldier, presented in separate folders housed in an inner pocket of the upper board. With a tipped-in photograph of the poet by Sherril Schell. Some light discoloration to cloth at spine and extremities, else in virtually fine state. Also laid-in is a copy of the original prospectus, one corner a little creased and with the original printed pricing obscured. £150 

RUPERT BROOKE. John Lehmann. Rupert Brooke. His Life and His Legend. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 1980. First edition. 178pp. Illustrated with twenty-three photographs and reproductions. A sliver of discolouration to extreme top edge of spine, else in fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper. £20

T.W.H.CROSLAND. War Poems by “X”. Martin Secker, London 1916. First edition of this anonymous collection of Great War poems by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, author and journalist more widely known now for the small role in played in events following Oscar Wilde’s trial and imprisonment (with Lord Alfred Douglas he persecuted Robbie Ross in the civil courts in a variety of actions and the two unsuccessfully sued Arthur Ransome for libelling Douglas in his 1912 book on Wilde). Small 8vo. 95pp. Cloth with tanned and just a little chipped paper spine label. Cloth chafed, dust marked and a little soiled, but, bar some tanning to the half-title and final text leaf, a nice crisp copy internally. Forty-two poems, several of which originally appeared in newspapers and periodicals with the remainder printed here for the first time. Reilly p.100. £25

GUY DAWNEY. Nigella. Poems. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1919. First edition. Small 8vo. 39pp. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece reproducing the upper board design,  accompanied by a two-line quotation from Kipling. The spine ends a little rubbed and with several tiny areas of wear to the backstrip. Endpapers browned and with a former owner pencilled name. A very good copy of a scarce collection of Great War verse. Twelve poems, including a two-page verse dedication. Dawnay fought during the Second Boer War and later during the Gallipoli Campaign before being transferred to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, where he befriended T.E.Lawrence. In October 1920 Dawnay established Army Quarterly, a journal which he also edited, and Lawrence proffered his essay Evolution of a Revolt (later included in Oriental Assembly) to help the launch (it appeared in the inaugural issue). See Reilly p. 107.  £200

GEOFFREY DEARMER. A Pilgrim's Song. Selected Poems to Mark the Poet's 100th Birthday. Compiled by Laurence Cotterell and with a foreword by Jon Stallworthy. John Murray, London 1993. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece. Forty-six of Dearmer's poems, primarily drawn from his war poetry and later peace-time verse (he fought at Gallipoli, where his brother was killed, and later severed in the trenches of the Western Front). Top edge lightly dust marked and paperstock lightly tanned. A very good copy in dust wrapper, lightly faded at spine panel. £10

FORD MADOX FORD (writing as Ford Madox Hueffer). On Heaven and Poems Written in Active Service. Jona Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1918. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. Cloth at the backstrip discoloured and with just a hint of tanning to the board margins. Some fox spotting to the [cancelled] half-title, title page and final few text leaves. A nice crisp copy. A six-page preface by the author precedes nineteen poems, most here making their first bookform appearance (a note by the author states that only five had been printed previously in periodicals, and the actual total is twice that). Harvey A50 / Reilly p.129. £50

CHARLES T.FOXCROFT. The Night Sister and Other Poems. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1918. First edition. Small 8vo. 96pp. Stiff card wrappers with a printed paper label to the upper wrapper, lettered in black and ruled in red. A tiny hint of wear to one or two extremities, and a little light spotting to the endpapers and to two or three preliminary leaves. The author’s quite uncommon first and only book, containing fifty-five poems including a number with a Great War theme. Foxcroft, who was aged 45 at the outbreak of the war, served as a captain in the Somerset Light Infantry before being elected MP for Bath in 1918 following the death of the sitting MP, Lord Alexander Thynne who was himself killed in action in September 1918 whilst commanding 6th (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Bn. Wiltshire Regiment. Reilly p.130. £25

ROBERT GRAVES. Fairies and Fusiliers. Poems. William Heinemann, London 1917. First edition, of which 1,000 copies were printed. 8vo. x, 84pp. Maroon cloth with slightly dulled gilt spine lettering.  Cloth lightly faded at the backstrip, and with a little further fading to two margins of the rear board. Free endpapers browned. The top edge spotted and with some further quite light spotting throughout. Binding just a little tender as several gatherings. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper. The author’s third book - forty-six poems with a printed dedication of The Royal Welch Fusiliers. A number of the poems celebrate Graves' great friendship with Siegfried Sassoon, who, following Graves' intervention with the military authorities, was hospitalised for shell shock at Craiglockhart the same year this collection was published. See Reilly p.146 / Higginson A3. £85

ROBERT GRAVES. Over the Brazier. Poems. The Poetry Bookshop, London 1920. A new revised edition of the author’s first book, and the first hardback issue (originally issued in wrappers four years earlier). Slim 8vo. 32pp. Cloth-backed decorated boards featuring a Menin Gate design by Claud Lovat Fraser. Top edge dusty. Endpapers browned. Head and tail of spine and corner tips bumped and a little rubbed. Covers very slightly marked and one binding string to the first gathering snapped. A very good copy in nicked, rubbed and marked, slightly creased, chipped and dusty dust wrapper which repeats the Lovat Fraser design, browned at the spine and at some edges and with the publisher’s price sticker to the front panel. Twenty-four poems, divided into two parts: Poems Mostly Written at Charterhouse – 1910-1914 and Poems Written Before La Bassée – 1915. 1,000 copies were printed. Higginson A1b / Reilly pp 146-7. £300

“When these poems, written between the ages of fourteen and twenty, first appeared, I was serving in France and had no leisure for getting the final proofs altogether as I wanted them. The same year, but too late, I decided on several alterations in the text, including the suppression of two small poems, inexcusable even as early work. These amendations appear in this new edition, but I have left the bulk of the book as it stood” – the author’s Foreword to New Edition.

IVOR GURNEY. Poems. Principally Selected from Unpublished Manuscripts. With a memoir by Edmund Blunden. Hutchinson, London 1954. First edition. 8vo. 104pp. Paper-covered boards. A review copy, with the publisher’s review slip laid-in. Ownership signature of author and scholar Kenneth Hopkins to the front free endpaper. Some light partial toning and light spotting to the free endpapers, and a touch of further spotting to the top- and fore edges. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper, very lightly toned and faded at the spine panel and with several quite small areas of fox spotting. An eleven-page introductory memoir by Edmund Blunden precedes seventy-six poems, the vast majority appearing here in print for the first time. Increasingly uncommon, and here nicely enhanced by the Hopkins association (Hopkins was foremost a Powys scholar, but he was friendly with Blunden, and edited the 1950 publication Edmund Blunden: A Selection of His Poetry and Prose). £500

IVOR GURNEY. War Letters. A selection edited and introduced by R.K.R.Thornton. The Mid Northumberland Arts Group and Carcanet New Press, Northumberland & Manchester, 1983. First edition. 8vo. 171pp. Portrait frontispiece. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and Some toning to the paperstock, as is customary with the publication, but still a very good copy in dust wrapper, faintly rubbed at the head of the spine panel, and with a little partial fading to the publisher’s red spine panel lettering. A selection of nearly 150 of Gurney’s war letters covering the period from his enlistment in February 1915 through his training and service at the front from May 1916 to September 1917, his subsequent hospitalisation in England and Scotland, to his return home towards the end of the war. £20

F.W.HARVEY. Anthony Boden. F.W.Harvey. Soldier, Poet. Alan Sutton, Gloucester 1988. First edition, a paperback original (never issued in casebound format). 8vo. 359pp. Glossy card wrappers. Illustrated with over fifty photographs and reproductions. A single very light readership crease to the spine. A very good copy of this biography of Harvey, issued on the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Great War, and the centenary of the poet’s birth. £5

A.P.HERBERT. The Bomber Gipsy and Other Poems. Methuen & Co., Ltd., London 1918. First edition. Small 8vo. xii, 84pp. Chipped at the head of the backstrip, with a little wear to the base, and the cloth a little toned and faded in places. The binding a fraction tender at several gatherings. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the head of the front free endpaper, which also exhibits a little light uneven toning. A good bright copy. No dust wrapper. Thirty-one poems accredited here to ‘Lieut. A.P.Herbert (Late Hawke Batt. Royal Naval Division)’. About two-thirds of these poems were originally printed in the pages of Punch; eight are hitherto unprinted. A very early A.P.Herbert collection, just his second volume of Great War verse following Half-hours at Helles (1916). Sir Alan Patrick Herbert fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. He was ultimately injured by shrapnel and invalided out, going on to be a successful author and an independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University. See Reilly pp.166-167. £35

CLAUDE HOUGHTON. The Phantom Host and Other Verses. Elkin Mathews, ‘Vigo Cabinet’ series, London 1917. First edition. 12mo. 47pp. Card wrappers, just a little creased at the yapped edges and with a sliver of discolouration. A touch of light spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves, and several leaves uncut at the fore edge. A very good copy. The author’s first book, containing thirty-three poems including a number of Great War verses. The author, whose full name was Claude Houghton Oldfield, was rejected for active service due to poor eyesight and obtained a position at the Admiralty. He later became a modestly successful novelist whose works included some early fantasy and science fiction elements, and he was much admired by J.B.Priestley, Hugh Walpole and Henry Miller. See Reilly p.242. £55

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE. The Silk-Hat Soldier and Other Poems. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1915. First edition. 8vo. 48pp. Card wrappers with an integral pictorial dust wrapper, which is a little faded at the margins. A trace of spotting to three or four preliminary leaves. A very good copy. Six Great War poems. See Reilly p.197. £20

ARCHIBALD MACLEISH. Tower of Ivory. Poems. With a foreword by Lawrence Mason. Yale University Press, New Haven, and Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press,  London 1917. First edition. This copy signed by the author at the head of the half-title. 8vo. x, 71pp. Paper-covered boards with lettered paper spine and title labels. The tiniest hint of wear to two or three extremities, and some tenderness to the front hinge. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. A two-page foreword by the author’s former tutor precedes thirty-eight poems. The author’s first full-length collection of verse, which includes some Great War poems (MacLeish served first as an ambulance driver and later as an artillery officer. He fought at the Second Battle of the Marne and his brother Kenneth MacLeish was killed in action. £150

WILFRED MEYNELL. Rhymes with Reasons. Poems. Burns & Oates Ltd., London 1918. First edition. Slim 8vo. 28pp + [iv] publisher’s advertisements, sewn into card wrappers. The wrappers lightly marked, discoloured at the margins, and creased and a little nicked at the yapped edges. A good copy, really very crisp internally. This copy from the library of 'Friend to the Poets' John Wilton Haines, with his signature pencilled to the rear wrapper. (Haines was a Gloucestershire solicitor, naturalist and occasional poet, best remembered as the close friend of Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, and an associate of virtually all of the Georgian and Dymock poets). A collection of seventeen anonymously-published poems, most of them with a Great War theme, plus a one-page appendix (which details the soldier-poets name-check in his verse of the same name: Julian Grenfell, E.A.Mackintosh, E.Wyndham Tennant, William Noel Hodgson, Rupert Brooke, and Gerald Caldwell Siordet). See Reilly p.224. £20

ROBERT NICHOLS. Invocation: War Poems and Others. Elkin Mathews, London 1915. First edition of the author’s first book, published whilst he was serving on the Western Front and preceded only by his appearance in the 1915 Oxford poetry anthology. Small 8vo. 41pp. Lettered card wrappers with French flaps (issued simultaneously both hardcover and paperback formats). A touch of light toning and wear to the wrappers. A very good copy. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to a blank preliminary. Seventeen poems. See Reilly p.236. £40

WILFRED OWEN. The Poems of Wilfred Owen. A New Edition Including Many Pieces Now First Published, and Notices of his Life and Work by Edmund Blunden. Chatto & Windus, London 1931. First edition thus. 8vo. vii, 135pp. Tissue-protected portrait frontispiece. Errata slip tipped before p.3, as required. A touch of fading to the cloth at the backstrip, and at the head of the upper and lower boards. A tiny hint of very light spotting to the edges and free endpapers. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper, toned at the spine panel, with a touch of dust soiling and edge-creasing, and a tiny tear and accompanying crease to the base of the spine panel. Lacking a sliver from the lower tip of the front flap. Blunden’s thirty-eight page memoir precedes fifty-nine poems, followed by nine pages of notes and a personal memoir of Owen by Frank Nicholson, librarian of Edinburgh University. £750

WILFRED OWEN. A Tribute to Wilfred Owen. Complied with an introduction and two essays by T.J.Walsh. Birkenhead Institute, Birkenhead [1964]. First edition. Slim 8vo. 62pp. Stapled card wrappers featuring an original drawing by D.S.W.Jones. Illustrated with three photographs plus one further drawing by D.S.W.Jones. Includes brief tributes from Edmund Blunden, Benjamin Britten, Herbert Read, Stephen Spender, C.Day Lewis and T.S.Eliot, alongside longer essays by Siegfried Sassoon (Wilfred Owen – A Personal Appreciation, reproduced from the B.C.C.’s Third Programme), Francis Berry (Vain Citadels. An Essay on the Poetry of Wilfred Owen), Kenneth Muir and others. Some toning and soiling to the wrappers. Contemporary former owner details inked to the head of the inner wrapper. A good copy of an uncommon item (of which I understand circa 700 copies were produced). £95

MAITLAND RADFORD. Poems by Maitland Radford. With a Memoir by Some of His Friends. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., LOndon 1945. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #408). Slim 8vo. 45pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece. A tiny area of miscellaneous staining to the base of the rear board, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, faded at the spine panel, with a touch of further fading to the margins of the front and rear panels, two or three tiny edge-nicks and a small area of soiling to the rear panel. An introduction by C.E.Wheeler and tributes by David Garnett, Sydney Wood, Arnold Bax, Clifford Bax, Eleanor Farjeon and others precedes twenty-eight poems including a number of Great War verses. This would appear to be the first printing of any of Radford’s poems. Not noted by Reilly. £30

Maitland Radford was born in July 1884, his parents, Dollie and Ernest Radford, were distinguished writers of the late Victorian and Edwardian years but Maitland decided to study medicine. Upon the outbreak of the Great War he joined the R.A.M.C. and was in France by August 1914 in charge of the Medical Division of No. 3 General Hospital. During the Second World War he was the M.O.H. of a London borough during the Blitz. He died in 1944.

EDGELL RICKWORD. Behind the Eyes. Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1921. First edition of the author’s uncommon first book. Slim 8vo. 56pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with a paper title label. Spine ends chipped, the backstrip darkened, with some further uneven darkening to the margins of the upper and lower boards. Some browning to the free endpapers. A nice bright copy, particularly crisp internally. Thirty-six poems, included a number of Great War verses. Edgell served on the Western Front with the Artists’ Rifles and was awarded the Military Cross. See Reilly p.274. £95

MARY KENT RIVERS. Folk Rhymes of the Great War. Arthur H.Stockwell, London [c.1925]. First edition. Slim 8vo. 31pp. The backstrip ends a little rubbed and worn, and the cloth there faded with a little further uneven fading to the margins of the boards. Some light spotting to the endpapers and title leaf, and the binding a little tender at one gathering. Quite a nice, bright copy of a most uncommon book, which comprises fifteen chronologically ordered poems spanning 1914-1919, split into three sections: Portents 1914, Home and France and Flanders. Rather than folk rhymes, I believe these to be original poems, but the work is not noted by Reilly and I can find only two references to either the author or the book: a note in a 7 August 1925 issue of The Argus, and a passing reference in an article in the December 1928 issue of The Musical Times. £250

ISAAC ROSENBERG. Joseph Cohen. Journey to the Trenches. The Life of Isaac Rosenberg 1890-1918. Robson Books, London 1975. First edition. Large 8vo. 224pp. With a self-portrait frontispiece and sixteen photographs and reproductions of Rosenberg's artworks and manuscripts. A trace of discolouration to board edges. Very good in fractionally rubbed dust wrapper. £15

OSBERT SITWELL. The Winstonburg Line. 3 Satires. Hendersons, The Bomb Shop, London 1919. First edition of the author’s second book, and first solo publication. Tall slim 8vo. 19pp + [i] publisher’s advertisements. Sewn wrappers featuring a black-stamped illustration of Winston Churchill. The wrappers lightly faded, soiled and marked, with a touch of creasing to the yapped edges. Both gatherings uncut at the fore- and upper edges. Some quite light spotting to the half-title, advertisement leaf and to the final two text leaves. A very good, unopened copy of a scarce publication, featuring three poems satirising Churchill and the Great War (the poems that were originally printed in the Daily Herald and The Nation). Fifoot OA2 / see Reilly p.295. £250

J.C.SQUIRE. The Birds and Other Poems. Martin Secker, London 1919. First edition. Slim 8vo. 30pp. Lettered card wrappers, just a little rubbed and creased at the yapped edges. A very good copy. Eight poems penned between April 1918 and April 1919 including a number of Great War verses (Squire was unfit for active service due to his poor eyesight). See Reilly p.301. £15

MARTIN TAYLOR. Lads. Love Poetry of the Trenches. Edited with an introduction by Martin Taylor. Constable, London 1989. First edition. 8vo. 251pp. A tiny hint of speckling to the top edge, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, with some fading to the publisher’s spine panel colouring. An anthology of Great War verse which includes work by all the usual suspects, plus other “almost entirely unknown poets like Richard Dennys, J.Griffyth Fairfax and H.L.Simpson, poets whose work has often remained unread since its original publication” – blurb. £10

W.J.TURNER. The Hunter and Other Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1916. First edition. Slim 8vo. 76pp + [iii] publisher’s advertisements at the rear. Brown cloth with a tanned and slightly chipped paper spine label. Backstrip ends and corner tips very gently bruised. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Twenty-six poems, the author’s first collection of verse, including a number of Great War poems. Walter James Turner was born in Melbourne in 1884 and moved to England when he was twenty-three to pursue a career as a writer. He befriended Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Lady Ottoline Morrell (a caricature of her in his book The Aesthetes ended that friendship). He served as a Lieutenant in Royal Garrison Artillery, anti-aircraft section between 1916-18. Reilly p.319. £25

ALEC WAUGH. Resentment. Poems. Grant Richards Ltd., London 1918. First edition. Slim 8vo. 62pp. Paper-covered boards with a tanned paper spine label. Rubbed and worn at the backstrip ends, with the binding splitting at the terminal leaf. Some spotting to the edges, endpapers and half-title, and to occasional margins throughout. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown (Claud Cox describes the same plate in a different book as “in the style of Eric Gill; perhaps by Desmond Chute”). A fair copy. No dust wrapper. The author’s quite uncommon second book; twenty-four poems including several Great War verses, with a printed dedication to his wife-to-be Barbara Jacobs – they married a year after this collection was published. Waugh was commissioned the Dorset Regiment in May 1917, saw action as Passchendaele and was subsequently captured near Arras in March 1918 and spent the remainder of the War as a P.O.W. See Reilly 331. £40

MUIRHEAD BONE. The Western Front. Drawings. Part 1, December 1916. With an introduction by General Sir Douglas Haig. Country Life Ltd. and George Newnes Ltd, London 1917. 4to. Unpaginated. Card wrappers. With a title page drawing and twenty full-page plates with text by C.E.Montague to the adjacent versos. A touch of wear and nicking to the yapped edges, and a little chipping to the spine ends. A lovely crisp copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, albeit a somewhat distressed example, split into two parts, with some edge-nicking, and spotting, and four notable areas of edge-loss from the front panel. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the head of the front panel. The first number of Bone’s celebrated collection of Great War drawings, which were issued in ten separate monthly instalments. £40

GUUS DE VRIES. The Great War Through Picture Postcards. Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley 2016. The first English-language edition, translated from the Dutch by Britta Nurmann. 4to. 253pp. Illustrated with nearly five hundred examples, many of which are reproduced in colour. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. £20

PAUL GOUGH. A collection of Paul Gough’s Great War-inspired exhibition catalogues and flyers. Includes the illustrated catalogues for his 1999 solo exhibition Sixty Images of Venerated Sites and the 2001 solo exhibition Loci Memoriae, flyers for three additional exhibitions (and two duplicates), plus a catalogue for the 1995 New Terrain joint exhibition of map, chart and political landscape reinterpretations. All in very good state. £10

BARBARA JONES AND BILL HOWELL. Popular Arts of the First World War. Studio Vista, London 1972. First edition. Small 4to. 175pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout, occasionally in colour, with hundreds of examples of both trench art and postcards, toys and souvenirs of every kind from the home front. A virtually fine copy in nicked and repaired dust wrapper, the publisher’s red spine panel colouring really quite faded and with some creasing to the wrapper flaps. £10

WILLIAM ORPEN. Robert Upstone. William Orpen. Politics, Sex & Death.  The catalogue of a major 2005 retrospective exhibition at The Imperial War Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Dublin. Philip French Publishers and Imperial War Museum, London 2005. First edition, the card wrapper issue. 4to. 160pp. Pictorial card wrappers. Illustrated throughout and including scores and scores of full-page colour reproductions. In fine state. £15

WILLIAM ORPEN. Robert Upstone and Angela Weight. William Orpen. An Onlooker in France. A Critical Edition of the Artist’s War Memoirs. Paul Holberton Publishing, London 2008. First edition thus. 4to. 232pp. Illustrated with seventy-two plates, in colour where required. In fine state with dust wrapper, lifting a fraction at the upper edge. A new edition of Orpen’s celebrated wartime memoirs (originally published in 1921), accompanied by a lengthy critical essay by Robert Upstone, and with the illustrations reproduced in glorious colour and re-keyed to support and reinforce the narrative. £25

JOSEPH PENNELL. Pictures of War Work in England. Over fifty full-page reproductions of his drawings and lithographs of munition works. With an introduction by H.G.Wells. Lippincott, Philadelphia 1917.  The American issue of the first edition (printed from the UK sheets). Small 4to. Unlettered brown cloth with a pictorial plate to upper board, as issued. Slightly spotted and dusty. A good, bright copy. £20

STUART SILLARS. Art and Survival in First World War Britain. St. Martin’s Press, New York 1987. First edition. 8vo. 192pp. With twenty-one monochrome reproductions. Board edges lightly rubbed. A very good copy in just fractionally dust marked dust wrapper. A study of the psychological impact of popular and fine art through an analysis of the various portrayals of the major events of 1916. £20

WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE AND M.F.WREN. Sea Fights of the Great War. Naval Incidents During the First Nine Months. Text by M.F.Wren with illustrations by William Lionel Willie. Cassell, London 1918. First edition. Small 4to. 168pp. With a colour frontispiece, twenty-two colour plates and twenty-six black and white plates, plus nine maps and plans. The cloth faded at the backstrip, and a little bruised at the spine ends, with a further strip of vertical fading to one margin of both boards. A narrow sliver of white paint soiling to the fore edge of the upper board. Free endpapers browned. A good copy only, but really very crisp internally. An account of Great War naval conflicts, copiously illustrated with colour and monochrome reproductions of paintings by the renowned marine artist William Lionel Wyllie. £40

GREAT WAR. Ypres Après la Guerre. Historical Souvenirs. Ten postcards illustrating various views of war-shattered Ypres. A concertina binding within a lettered folding stiff paper envelope. Inked date (1923). Very good Also enclosed is an embroidered card sent “from somewhere in France” as a Christmas remembrance. £30

V.A.NEATHERWAY. Return to the Battlefields. Paceprint, Leicestershire 1978. First edition, number 344 of an unspecified limited edition. 30pp. Stapled card wrappers, a little dusty and stained and with some finger marks to occasional leaf margins. Illustrated with six photographs. A brief and informative account of the author’s annual pilgrimages to the Great War battlefields. £15

REGIMENTAL HISTORY. V.E.Inglefield. The History of the Twentieth (Light) Division. With an Introduction by Lieut.-General the Earl of Cavan. Nisbet & Co. Ltd., London 1921. First edition. 8vo. 319pp. Original stiff card boards. With twelve illustrations and four folding maps. Boards somewhat marked and rubbed, the upper board a little tender and with some creasing and wear to the paper backstrip. Some fox spotting throughout. £15

REGIMENTAL HISTORY. Short History of the London Rifle Brigade. Compiled Regimentally. With drawings and photographs. Gale & Polden (printers), Aldershot 1916. First edition. Slim 8vo. 48pp. Original publisher’s cloth with regimental motif to upper board. With a frontispiece, eighteen plates and a three sheet fold-out map with some fairly minor creasing to one leaf. A very good copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. £20

GREAT WAR. Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in the Great War. Volume V. Printed for private circulation for Rugby School by Philip Lee Warner (O.R.) of the Medici Society Ltd., 1919. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Quarter hessian cloth with paper-covered sides, with paper spine and title labels. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some browning and marking to the boards, and a little wear to the corner tips. Free endpapers slightly spotted and browned, and with a little further browning to the half-title and to one unprinted rear flyleaf. Former owner name pencilled to the head of the front free endpaper (one ‘T.McMaster’, presumably a relative of Major Hugh McMaster, one of the hundred Rugbeians detailed herein). A good copy of this lavishly produced memorial volume, really very crisp internally. Biographical and military summaries of one hundred Rugbeian’s killed in action between May 3rd 1917 and December 3rd 1917, each accompanied by a tipped-in portrait photograph. The fifth of a seven-volume set detailing the nearly seven hundred Rudby School graduates killed during the Great War. £30

EDWIN LUTYENS. Tim Skelton and Gerald Gliddon. Lutyens and the Great War. With a foreword by Gavin Stamp. Frances Lincoln Ltd., London 2008. First edition. 4to. 224pp. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, predominantly in colour and with a number of full-page presentations. The tiniest hint of wear to the cloth at several extremities, else a fine copy in dust wrapper which has been laminated by a former owner, lightly faded at several margins of the front panel and with some laminate-creasing to the front flap. A comprehensive and beautifully produced photographic study of Lutyens’ work for the Imperial War Graves Commission, across the UK and in Bermuda, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Zambia. £30

WAR MEMORIALS. The Scottish National War Memorial. The Castle, Edinburgh. A record and appreciation by Sir Lawrence Weaver, K.B.E. Country Life Ltd., London 1928. The fifth edition (“in new form”). 4to. 42pp. Stapled card wrappers, the staples rusted and the wrappers a little marked and chafed. Some fox-spotting. Weaver’s ten-page essay is accompanied by a tissue-protected colour frontispiece drawing of the castle, three plans and sixty-nine monochrome photographs of sculptures, bronzework and carving by Pilkington Jackson and Alice Meredith Williams, ironwork by Thomas Hadden, and stained glass by Douglas Strachan. Very good. £15

WAR MEMORIALS. The Scottish National War Memorial. With an introduction by Sir Ian Hamilton. Grant & Murray Ltd., Edinburgh 1932. Second impression (issued one month after the first). 4to. 64pp. Card wrappers, chipped at spine ends and a little rubbed and chafed at yapped edges, but a nice crisp copy internally. Hamilton's eleven-page introduction precedes forty-five pages of photographs by Francis Caird Inglis detailing the memorial and its decorative flourishes, many of which are colour-tinted. A slip of paper bearing the volume’s title has been pasted to the otherwise blank backstrip. £10

WAR MEMORIALS. John Garfield. The Fallen. A Photographic Journey Through the War Cemeteries and Memorials of the Great War, 1914-18. With an introduction by Gavin Stamp. Leo Cooper, London 1990. First edition – this copy signed by the author on the half-title, and dated the year after publication. Landscape 4to. 162pp. Lavishly illustrated with monochrome photographs throughout. The binding slightly cocked, and with just a touch of rubbing to the spine ends. A very good copy in price-clipped photographic dust wrapper, a little rubbed at the head of the spine panel with two tiny areas of surface abrasion, and a little creasing in places to the publisher’s laminate. Stamp’s three-page introduction precedes a hefty selection of war cemetery photographs from Flanders, the Marne and the Aisne, Artois, Ypres, Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme, Italy and Macedonia. £50

WAR MEMORIALS. John Garfield. The Fallen. A Photographic Journey Through the War Cemeteries and Memorials of the Great War, 1914-1918. With an introduction by Gavin Stamp. Spellmount, Stroud 2008. The updated and expanded edition, with a new final chapter. Small landscape 8vo. 168pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs of cemeteries and memorials throughout the Western Front, Gallipoli, Italy, and Macedonia. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. £20

WAR MEMORIALS. G.Kingsley Ward & Major Edwin Gibson. Courage Remembered. The Story Behind the Construction and Maintenance of the Commonwealth's Military Cemeteries and Memorials of the Wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1989. First edition - the Canadian issue, published simultaneously with the UK edition. 8vo 282pp. Illustrated with twelve colour and monochrome photographs. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £15

ANONYMOUS. The Absolute Truth. 30 photographs (many "U.S.Official"). [no place, no date]. Card wrappers, slightly creased. (Stark images of wounded soldiers and shattered corpses). £25

HARRY CAMPBELL. Belgian Soldiers at Home in the United Kingdom / Les Soldats Belges en Congé dans le Reyayume Uni. Saunders & Cullingham, London 1917. First edition – this copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and dated four months after publication. 8vo. 95pp. Card wrappers with a cloth-tape backstrip. Illustrated with sixteen black and white photographs. The wrappers dust soiled and chipped with a little loss several corners. A nice bright copy. Text in English and French. Two-sided advertising flyer laid-in, again printed in English and French. Penned by the Transport Superintendent of the War Refugees’ Committee, with all proceeds devoted to The British Club for Belgian Soldiers. Uncommon. £125

EPHEMERA. T.P.’s Journal of Great Deeds of the Great War. Vol. 1, No. 2, October 24, 1914. Edited by T.P.O’Connor. The Daily Telegraph, London 1914. The second issue of this weekly Great War magazine. 4to. Stapled wrappers, the staples rusted and the wrappers lightly spotted and tanned to the margins. Illustrated with photographs and with prose contributions from T.M.Kettle, W.Douglas Newton and Archibald Hurd. A good bright copy. £10

EPHEMERA. The Splendid Story of the Battle of Ypres. An eight-page offprint from The Daily Mail, where the piece originally ran on March 4, 1915. Folio. Stapled wrappers. Folded once, the rear wrapper spotted and the staples rusted. A good bright copy. £15

EPHEMERA. Three 1915 Overseas Club Empire Day certificates. “This is to certify that [name] has helped to send some Comfort and Happiness to the brave Sailors and Soldiers of the British Empire, fighting to uphold Liberty, Justice, Honour and Freedom in the Great War” A short tear to the margin of one certificate and a minor crease to the corner of another. Very good. £35

EPHEMERA. Sir John French’s Despatches. First and second series. The Graphic, London [circa 1915]. First Editions. Landscape 8vo. Sewn wrappers, creased, nicked and occasionally torn and chipped. Some spotting. The first issue provides the ‘official story’ of Mons, The Marne and The Aisne and the second issue the Battle around Ypres, Armentières and the Defence of Antwerp, all illustrated with specially drawn war maps. Somewhat handled copies. £30

EPHEMERA. Arras Avant et Apres le Bombardment. Fernand Benoit [no date]. Landscape 8vo. A series of thirty-five captioned tissue-protected photographs depicting Arras before and after the Great War (which saw roughly three-quarters of it destroyed). Stiff card leaves bound in paper wrappers, rubbed and chafed at extremities. A brief history of the city, in French and English, is printed to the front and rear endpapers (“Whole parts of the City have been whipped out: devastation is to be seen everywhere. Arras is not to be recognised. The town, however, has kept is [sic] outlines of past times. She shall rise again, out of the ruins, more beautiful than ever, for she was the inviolated Capital of the province of Artois, and must not desappear [sic]”). Uncommon. £25

THE GRAPHIC. The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. No. 2440, vol. XCIV. September 2, 1916. Folio. Paginated 270-296pp. Stapled wrappers, the staples rusted and partially defective with Louis Rémy Sabattier’s splendid centrespread drawing, Between the Acts: French Polius Going Home on Leave in the “Train des Permissionnaires”, detached but included. A lengthy tear to the base of one advertisement leaf, but no loss. A nice crisp copy. Illustrated with assorted photographs from the front. £20

GREAT WAR POSTERS. Chiffons de Papier. Proclamations Allemandes Affichées en Belgique et en France. With a preface by Ian Malcolm, Chambre des Communes, a Londres. "Messageries de Journaux" Hachette, Paris (printed in England and distributed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London) [no date]. Folio (37cm x 28cm) Internally stapled wrappers, with a pictorial front cover. A lengthy but quite light vertical crease where it was once folded, and the wrappers dusty, chafed at the edges and lightly fox spotted. Staples rusted. Seventeen facsimiles of French and Belgian proclamation-posters dated between August 1914 and April 1916, several reproduced on coloured backgrounds. Text in French. Uncommon. £50

KING GEORGE V. The King Inspects Troops at Aldershot, 1917 (A photograph album). Seven original photographs, 8.5 x 6.5". Landscape 8vo. Suede leather covers, quite marked. Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. King George V features in each of the photographs, either mounted and on foot, as he inspects the camp and the troops. £300