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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

ANONYMOUS. The Love of an Unknown Soldier. Found in a Dug-Out. With a prefatory “explanation” by the publisher, John Lane. The Bodley Press, London 1918. First edition. 8vo. viii, 195pp. Manuscript reproduction frontispiece. The backstrip ends gently bruised and a hint of soiling to the head of the rear board. Some spotting to the pastedowns and free endpapers. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. The uncommon first edition of a popular anonymous novel, supposedly based upon a series of letters discovered in an abandoned gun position on the Western Front. £50

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. 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

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

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

P.B. ‘TUBBY’ CLAYTON. Plain Tales From Flanders. Longmans, London 1929. First edition. 8vo. xi, 168pp. A touch of very light uneven discolouration to the board margins, and some spotting to the edges, endpapers and to several preliminary and concluding leaves. Former owner gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Very good in price-clipped and little tanned, dust marked and frayed dust wrapper. Sixteen Great War tales from The Reverend Philip Thomas Byard Clayton (‘Tubby Clayton’), the Anglican clergyman and founder of Talbot House (Toc H). £35

E.E.CUMMINGS. The Enormous Room. A novel. With a nine-page introduction by Robert Graves. Jonathan Cape, London 1928. The First UK edition (the second overall) of his first book (excepting the 1917 pamphlet Eight Harvard Poets). 8vo. 332pp. The backstrip ends a little bruised, twos of two corners gently bumped and with a tiny nick to the fore edge margin of the upper board. Backstrip cloth a little faded. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the head of the half-title, and with the bookplate of a subsequent owner to the front pastedown. A little light uneven browning to the front free endpaper. A very good copy of the author’s autobiographical novel detailing his four-month imprisonment in France during the Great War. No dust wrapper. Graves notes in his introduction that this UK issue is based on Cummings’ original manuscript and contains much material excluded from the US edition; a claim almost entirely refuted by Cummings bibliographer George Firmage, who notes that the only alternation is the re-naming of Cummings “introduction” to “foreword”. Firmage A2b. £50

E.E.CUMMINGS. The Enormous Room. A typescript edition with drawings by the author. Edited, with an afterword, by George James Firmage, and a foreword by Richard S.Kennedy. Granada Publishing / Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London 1978. A new ‘authoritative’ edition, based on three corrected copies of the complete manuscript plus Cummings’ original notes and drafts, and reproducing for the first time circa sixty of the author’s on-the-spot drawings. 8vo. 275pp. Decorated endpapers. A virtually fine copy in very good dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel. An autobiographical novel detailing the author’s four-month imprisonment in France during the Great War. £35

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

ARTHUR GIBBONS. A Guest of the Kaiser. The Plain Story of a Lucky Soldier. J.M.Dent, Toronto and Robert McBride, New York 1919. First edition - this copy boldly inscribed by the author to his cousin: "To my Dear Cousin Chrissie, from the author Arthur Gibbons. Toronto April 1st 1919". 8vo. 198pp. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece and five photographic plates. Binding lightly cocked and with some marking and staining to boards. Some internal spotting, mostly confined to margins, and several instances of light pencilled marginalia, which could be easily erased. No wrapper, were one required. An account of the Great War experiences of Sergeant Arthur Gibbons who served with the Toronto Regiment, 1st C.E.F. Gibbons was wounded and captured during the Battle of Ypres and subsequently interned at Giessen, a German prison camp. He was included in a prisoner exchange after feigning insanity and retuned to Canada where he became a recruiter, lecturing on his experiences. Most uncommon. £150

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. 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). £1,000

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 Cape, 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 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 and soiled, 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. £2,000

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

GEOFFREY RATCLIFF HUSBANDS. Joffrey’s War. A Sherwood Forester in the Great War. Edited and introduced by J.M.Bourne and Bob Bushaway, with a foreword by Professor Peter Simkins. Salient Books, Nottingham 2011. First edition. 8vo. iv, 628pp. Portrait frontispiece. A virtually fine copy in fine dust wrapper. A review has been neatly pasted to the rear pastedown. A much praised personal account of the Great War, penned by an ordinary soldier; Husbands served with the Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham and Derbyshire) Regiment on the Western Front, surviving the hostilities. Uncommon. £50

CAPTAIN M.A.B.JOHNSTON AND CAPTAIN K.D.YEARSLEY. Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London 1919. First edition. 8vo. 295pp. Pictorial cloth. With a photographic frontispiece (“The successful escape party, with some captured trophies”), seven plates of illustrations and photographs, and a multi-panel folding map tipped to a rear flyleaf. The binding cocked, the cloth very lightly spotted and with a touch of light occasional margin soiling. The front hinge cracked and just a little tender, and with a little light wear to the backstrip ends. Former owner name inked to the front free endpaper and a subsequent former owner name ticket to the head of the half-title. A good bright copy. No dust wrapper. The title is presented in words on the title page, and in numerals on the backstrip and upper board. An account of the escape of eight British officers from a Turkish P.O.W. camp, jointly penned by two of the escapees. £40

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

BERNARD LIVERMORE. Long ‘Un – A Damn Bad Soldier. With an introduction by Major G.S.M.Burton. Harry Hayes, Batley 1974. First edition. 8vo. 172pp + [vi] musical score. With one double-spread map, a sketch map, and twenty-two photographs and reproductions. A slip of paper bearing a brief handwritten note from the author has been pasted to the front pastedown. A touch of marking to the boards. Very good in chipped, nicked and frayed dust wrapper (mostly a result of it being slightly over-sized). The author’s Great War memoirs; Livermore served with the Queen’s Own 2/20 London Regiment, Territorials and endured life as a private soldier for almost three years abroad (without Blighty leave) on the Western Front, and in Egypt, Palestine and Macedonia. £20

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

ARTHUR MACHEN. The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War. With an introduction by the author. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., London 1915. First edition, Small 8vo. 86pp. Stiff pictorial boards. Some light spotting to half a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and just a touch of very light soiling and marking to the boards, with some light readership creasing to the spine. Several newspaper clippings tipped to a rear flyleaf, and a former owner initials neatly inked to the front board. A small repaired chip to the base of the spine. A very good copy of this collection of five Great War stories, followed by a postscript. The celebrated title story, which tells of the ghosts of archers from the Battle of Agincourt coming to the aid of British troops, was originally printed in The Evening News; it was not presented there as fiction and is believed to be the origin of the Angels of Mons legend. £50

JOHN MASTERS. Loss of Eden trilogy. Complete in three volumes comprising Now, God be Thanked, 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. In fine state with fine price-clipped dust wrapper. Heart of War (1980). First edition. 8vo. 617pp. Spine ends lightly rubbed, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. By the Green of the Spring (1981). 8vo. 599pp. Spine ends lightly rubbed and a small bump to the tip of one corner. A virtually fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £50

C.E.MONTAGUE. Rough Justice. A novel. Chatto & Windus, London 1926. First edition. 8vo. 383pp. One blank flyleaf browned and cloth a fraction faded at spine. Quite a nice, bright copy. No dust wrapper. £15

R.H.MOTTRAM. The Spanish Farm. With a preface by John Galsworthy. Chatto & Windus, London 1924. Third impression, issued six months after the original publication. 8vo. 233pp + iv publisher’s catalogue at rear. A little light spotting to fore edge and several preliminary leaves and some browning to endpapers and half-title. A very bright copy of the first volume of Mottram’s celebrated Great War trilogy. £10

R.H.MOTTRAM. The Crime at Vanderlynden's. Volume three of The Spanish Farm trilogy. Chatto & Windus, London 1926. First edition. 8vo. 220pp. Backstrip and covers slightly faded and with a little chafing to the head of the backstrip. Top edge dust soiled and with some spotting to a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves and some browning to the final text leaf. Small Times book club sticker to the rear pastedown and a contemporary former owner name inked to the front free endpaper. A good copy. No dust wrapper. The denouement of The Spanish Farm trilogy. £10

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. 179pp + iv publisher’s catalogue. Spine sunned and with some spotting to fore edge and a single blank preliminary leaf and some occasional margins. Several numerals to front endpaper in stubborn colour pencil. No dust wrapper. Sixteen sketches and stories. £10

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

HUGH QUIGLEY. Passchendaele and the Somme. A Diary of 1917. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1928. First edition. 8vo. x, 191pp + viii publisher’s catalogue at the rear. Edges spotted, the free endpapers lightly browned, and with some spotting to several dozen preliminary leaves and to occasional margins thereafter. Several penciled corrections in the text in an unknown hand. Quite a nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. Hugh Quigley served with the 12th Battalion Royal Scots. The ‘unvarnished’ diaries of his wartime service, much admired by Eric Partridge who wrote “Quigley’s account can be fairly compared with that in Undertones of War…in thought and style it is the most beautiful book yet written on the War, not merely in English but anywhere”. Cyril Falls was slightly less enthusiastic, calling Quigley “a good writer with sober views”. Uncommon. £55

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

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE. All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated from the German and with an afterword by Brian Murdoch. Jonathan Cape, London 1994. The first edition of this new English translation. 8vo. 215pp. A fine copy in fractionally marked dust wrapper. £10

LUDWIG RENN. War. Translated from the German of Krieg by Willa & Edwin Muir. Martin Secker, London 1929. The first English edition. 8vo. 364pp. A W.H.Smith lending library copy, with a bookplate to that effect to the front pastedown and with a second non-specific plate pasted on top. Cloth lightly marked in places. The front free endpaper missing and the rear hinge cracked. Some light occasional marginal spotting. Quite a bright copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. £15

The pseudonymous first novel of Arnold F.V.von Golssenau. "The author is believed to be an ex-officer of the old army who has joined the Communist party. The book poses most successfully as the work of an N.C.O. [it] contains the reminiscences and reflections of a simple man who did his duty. It has been rather extravagantly praised as the only book that tells the whole truth about the War" - J.Knight Bostock, ‘Some Well-known German War Novels’.

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. Diaries 1915-1918. Edited and with an introduction by Rupert Hart-Davis. Faber, London 1983. First edition. 8vo. 288pp. Portrait frontispiece. A light scattering of spotting to the top edge, else a virtually fine copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly faded at the spine panel. The first of three volumes of Sassoon’s diaries edited by Hart-Davis, this volume covering his Great War years and subsequently used as material for his celebrated trilogy Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston’s Progress. £30

FRIEDRICH SCHILLING. Flieger an allen Fronten. [A Fligher on all Fronts]. Verlag Scherl, Berlin 1936. 8vo. 223pp + i publisher’s advertisement. Cloth backed boards lettered in black and red at spine and with five biplanes depicted on the upper board. Illustrated with forty-four monochrome photographs, several very much of the ‘how not to do it’ school. Covers somewhat marked and handled, with several small areas of staining and a single tiny tear to the rear gutter. Tips of corners rubbed and edges lightly spotted, yet a nice crisp copy internally. Tiny dealer plate to front pastedown. Text in German. An account of Great War aviation experiences with settings including in Galicia, Serbia, Salonica and France. £25

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 

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).

H.M.TOMLINSON. All Our Yesterdays. William Heinemann Ltd., London 1930. The deluxe issue, limited to 1025 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #304). 8vo. 539pp. Fawn buckram with bevelled edges, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. With a frontispiece drawing of the author by Percy Smith (which was not included in the standard trade edition). Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Silk place-marker ribbon. Just a hint of toning to the cloth at the backstrip and some spotting to the free endpapers, fore edge and to several preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy of the author’s celebrated autobiographical account of his Great War experiences. No dust wrapper called for, but housed in the original cloth-covered slipcase, which is a little marked, soiled and rubbed. £35

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

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

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

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

HENRY-D.DAVRAY. Chez les Anglais pendant la Grande Guerre. [Among the English during the Great War]. Librairie Plon, Paris 1916. First edition. 8vo. 295pp. Card wrappers. Paperstock tanned and a little brittle, with a lengthy horizontal tear to eight consecutive text leaves. Former owner name inked to the head of the upper wrapper and dated 1917. A good copy. Text in French. Henry Durand-Davray was a noted French critic and translator, and a friend of Oscar Wilde (he translated The Ballad of Reading Goal). During the Great War he was a war correspondent and official delegate of the French government, and this book is a record of his 1915 visit to England which included a visit to the Canadian Camp at Salisbury Plain and observing Kitchener review units of the New Army. £20

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

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

CHARLES PLATER. Catholic Soldiers by Sixty Chaplains and Many Others. Edited by Charles Plater. Longmans, Green & Co, London 1919. First edition. 8vo. 157pp. “The Convent, Loughborough” inkstamped to the head of the front free endpaper and also to the half-title. Very good indeed. An uncommon study of the impact of the Great War on Commonwealth Catholic soldiers, compiled from replies to questions from sixty chaplains and “a large number of officers and men”, fighting with the British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces, and edited into sections including The Faith of the Men, The Wounded, Facing a Death Sentence and General Effects of the War on Catholic Soldiers. £35

REGINALD POUND. The Lost Generation. Constable, London 1964. First edition. 8vo. 288pp. With a frontispiece and thirty photographs. Edges and endpapers lightly spotted and with a touch of very light spotting to occasional text leaves. Errata slip tipped to the copyright page, as issued. A very bright copy in tanned, nicked and chafed and internally reinforced dust wrapper, with the printed price to the front flap obscured. A collective biography, based partly on a collection of hitherto unpublished letters, diaries and personal recollections, which features Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Julian and Billy Grenfell, Edward Wyndham Tennant, Charles Hamilton Sorley &c. £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

TALBOT HOUSE. Bertin Deneire. A Peace of Flanders. Talbot House 1915 - ? A Personal Story. De Klaproos Editions, Belgium 1993. First edition - this copy inscribed by the author on the half-title. 8vo. 78pp. Glossy card wrappers. In fine state. A history of Talbot House, opened by P.B.Clayton during the Great War as an "Every Man's Club" where soldiers of every rank could pause and forget the war. £20

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

GENERAL HENRY SINCLAIR HORNE. Don Farr. The Silent General. Horne of the First Army. A Biography of Haig’s Trusted Great War Comrade-in-Arms. Helion & Co., Ltd., Solihull 2007. First edition. 8vo. 319pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. The first biography of Horne, the “forgotten General of the Western Front”. £15

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

RICHARD ALDINGTON. War and Love (1915-1918). The Four Seas Company, Boston 1919.  The first edition of this collection of Great War and love poems: the author’s second US publication, which saw no equivalent UK issue. 8vo. 94pp. Patterned paper-covered boards with paper spine and title labels. Head of spine chipped, and base of spine and corner tips a little rubbed. A very good copy with the blurb portion of the uncommon dust wrapper pasted to the front free endpaper. A three-page foreword by the author (in the form of a letter to the Imagist poet F.S.Flint), precedes forty-four Great War poems and eighteen love poems. To Aldington’s disappointment Constable declined to publish the collection in the UK, and the author was forced to split the war and love poems, each eventually being issued separately: Images of War by Allen & Unwin in December 1919 (an edition which omitted some of these poems, and added others) and Images of Desire by Elkin Matthews in June 1919. £75

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. The Shepherd and Other Poems of Peace and War. R.Cobden Sanderson, London 1922. First edition. Tall 8vo. 86pp. Blue cloth with a paper spine label. A review copy, with the publisher’s compliments slip pasted to the front free endpaper. Backstrip ends a little bruised and the free endpapers browned. A very good copy in poor dust wrapper, with most of the spine panel absent, the rear flap detached and laid-in, and with some spotting and edge-loss. Forty-four poems. Reilly p.60. £55

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

G.K.CHESTERTON. The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses. Cecil Palmer, London 1922. First edition. 8vo. x, 83pp. Cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards. Cloth very slightly marked and soiled, and with a little very light toning to the free endpapers. A short fore edge tear to one text leaf where it has been poorly cut, and two further tiny carefully repaired marginal tears. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper, which is lightly toned and rubbed, with several tiny slivers of loss front the spine panel ends. A very nice copy of a handsome production. A dedication in verse precedes thirty-three poems, including a number with a Great War theme. Sullivan 54 / Reilly p.84. £50

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

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.

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

FRANCIS LEDWIDGE. Songs of the Fields [and] Songs of Peace [and] Last Songs. Each volume with an introduction by Lord Dunsany [who also edited them]. Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London 1916, 1917 and 1918. Individual volumes as follows: Songs of the Fields (1916). First edition. 8vo. 122pp. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Free endpapers browned. Some fox spotting to half a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and just a touch more of occasional margins in between. Contemporary (1917) former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Dunsany’s six-page introduction precedes fifty poems. Songs of Peace (1917). First edition. 8vo. 110pp + [ii] publisher’s advertisements. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, and the tips of two corners gently bumped. Former owner name all but erased from the head of the front free endpaper. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper. Dunsany’s four-page introduction precedes thirty-nine poems. Last Songs (1918). First edition. 8vo. 80pp. A tiny hint of bruising to the backstrip ends. Former owner name all but erased from the head of the front free endpaper. A tiny hint of toning to one blank preliminary leaf and to the final text leaf. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper. Dunsany’s three-page introduction precedes thirty-three poems. The super set of Ledwidge’s three primary collections of verse. A year later, in 1919, The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge was published, combining these three publications. Over the years two further Complete editions were issued, each one containing more hitherto unidentified verses, but it was these three primary collections (the latter two published posthumously following his death during the Battle of Passchendaele) that cemented his reputation as Ireland’s foremost Great War poet. £225

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

CAROLA OMAN. The Menin Road and Other Poems. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1919. First edition of the author’s first book, a collection of thirty-three Great War poems. 8vo. 74pp. The cloth somewhat marked, rubbed and soiled, with some moisture marking to the margins of the endpapers and to one or two preliminary and concluding leaves. A small tear to the cloth at the head of the upper gutter, and the spine lettering a little dulled. Binding just a little tender at several gatherings. A good copy, very bright internally, of this uncommon collection of Great War verse. Oman worked as a nurse with a Voluntary Aid Detachment, stationed in the  UK and subsequently in France. She was a childhood friend of fellow VAD nurse and poet May Wedderburn Cannan who is one of the dedicatees of this volume (in turn Cannan dedicated her poem France to Oman). Scarce. Reilly p.242. £125

WILFRED OWEN. War Poems and Others. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Dominic Hibberd. Chatto & Windus, London 1973. First edition of this selection of Owen verse. 8vo. 158pp. Discreet former owner embossed stamp to the half-title, else a fine copy in just fractionally dust soiled dust wrapper. A thirty-two page introduction precedes all of Owen’s war verse, plus a selection of his lyrical work and juvenilia, interspersed with extracts from his letters, all arranged in roughly chronological order. £45

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 [no date]. First edition. Slim 8vo. 31pp. Textured purple cloth with gilt lettering and a blind-stamped border to the upper board. The backstrip ends a little rubbed and worn, and the cloth there faded with a little further uneven fading to the margins of the boards. Some light spotting to the endpapers and title leaf, and the binding a little tender at one gathering. Quite a nice, bright copy of a most uncommon book, which comprises fifteen chronologically ordered poems spanning 1914-1919, split into three sections: Portents 1914, Home, and France and Flanders. Rather than folk rhymes, I believe these to be original poems, but the work is not noted by Reilly and I can find only a single reference to either the author or the book: 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

ISAAC ROSENBERG. The Collected Works of Isaac Rosenberg. Poetry, Prose, Letters, Paintings and Drawings. Edited with an introduction and notes by Ian Parsons and with a foreword by Siegfried Sassoon. Chatto & Windus, London 1979. First edition. 8vo. xxxii + 320pp. With twenty-three colour reproductions and a further twenty-seven in monochrome. A touch of light spotting to the top edge and a little bruising to the spine ends. Very good indeed in price-clipped dust wrapper, correspondingly rubbed at the spine ends and with some moisture marking to the lower edge. The definitive collection of the poet and artists’ work, expanded from the Collected Works of 1937 to include a substantial number of hitherto unpublished letters, poems and fragments, with new notes and variant readings and a considerably more extensive collection of reproductions, mostly hitherto unprinted and with many in colour where previously they had only appeared in monochrome. £15

ISAAC ROSENBERG, Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Isaac Rosenberg. The Making of a Great War Poet. A New Life. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2007. First edition. 8vo. 468pp. Illustrated with forty-two monochrome photographs and colour reproductions. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £15

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. John Stuart Roberts. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). A biography. Richard Cohen Books, London 1999. First edition. 8vo. 354pp. Illustrated with forty-two photographs and reproductions. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £10

JON SILKIN. Out of Battle. Poetry of the Great War.  Oxford University Press, London 1972. First edition. 8vo. 366pp. Top edge spotted and with a touch of further very light occasional spotting. A very good copy in lightly rubbed and frayed dust wrapper. A review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid-in. An examination Great War poetry with chapters on Charles Sorley, Edward Thomas, Robert Brooke, Hardy, Kipling,  Blunden, Gurney, Sassoon, Read, Aldington, Ford Madox Ford, Owen, Rosenberg and David Jones. £15

CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY. Marlborough and Other Poems. Cambridge University Press, London 1916. First edition of the author’s posthumously published first book. 8vo. 106pp. Blue textured cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with blind-stamped emblems to the upper and lower boards. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece and another photographic portrait of a younger Sorley at the end. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some quite light wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Free endpapers browned. Some light spotting. An inked inscription to the front pastedown reads “Wall, Cotton House – Marlborough”. A very good copy. A brief unaccredited preface precedes thirty-six poems (a second edition appeared one month later, adding one further poem and slightly altering another). Sorley was educated at Marlborough College, and Cambridge. He served during the Great War in the Seventh (Service) Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, and was promoted to captain in August 1915. He was killed two months later by a sniper during the final offensive of the Battle of Loos. Uncommon. Reilly pp. 299. £225

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

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

CYRUS CUNEO. Told in the Huts. The Y.M.C.A Gift Book. Contributed by Soldiers & War Workers. With an introduction by Arthur K.Yapp and with six splendid colour plates by Cyrus Cuneo, the last work completed in his lifetime (Cuneo died of blood poisoning in July 1916). Jarrold & Sons, London [1916]. First edition. 4to. 236pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Boards lightly marked and the paper covering lifting a little in one small area. Free endpapers lightly toned. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the tip of the front free endpaper. A very good copy of this anthology, “published for the benefit of the Y.M.C.A. Active Service Campaign amongst our Soldiers, Sailors & Munition Workers, in all parts of the World”. Scores of Great War stories “of reckless daring and deathless heroism that have been recounted from time to time in the Huts of the Y.M.C.A” – introduction. £10

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. 4to. 232pp. Illustrated with seventy-two plates, in colour where required. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. 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

ROSE E.B.COOMBS. Before Endeavours Fade. A Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War. Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., London 1976. First edition of this important Great War battlefield guide, oft reprinted yet rarely seen in this first edition state. 4to. 136pp. Pictorial card wrappers. Illustrated throughout with maps and hundreds of black and white photographs, predominantly taken by the author. A small bump to the head of the spine, and a little light miscellaneous soiling to the rear wrapper. A very good copy of this exhaustive study of the battlefields of France, Belgium and Flanders, written by the Special Collections Officer of the Imperial War Museum. £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

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. 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. The Glory of Neuve Chapelle. An eight-page offprint from The Daily Mail, where the piece originally ran on April 19, 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. Notts. Patriotic Fair Whit-Monday & Tuesday 1917. With a foreword by John E.Pendleton, Mayor of Nottingham and William Cavendish-Bentinck, Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. Printed by Thos. Forman & Sons, Nottingham 1917. First edition of this handbook of the Nottinghamshire Patriotic Fair. 8vo. 126pp. Stiff card wrappers with a cloth-tape spine. Illustrated with twenty-six black and white photographs and reproductions, and a two-panel folding plan of the fair. A touch of wear to the corners tips, and a little light fox-spotting to the wrappers and throughout. A very good copy of this uncommon handbook to the 1917 Patriotic Fair, and two-day event organised to provide funds for The Comforts for Troops and Prisoners of War Fund, Local Ambulance Societies, The Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops and War Hospitality Supply Depots. £30

GREAT WAR. Medicine and Surgery in the Great War 1914-1918. The catalogue of a 1968 exhibition at The Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Armistice. First edition. Slim 8vo. 48pp + [xvi] pages of photographs. Lettered card wrappers. An introduction by F.N.L.Poynter precedes a 344 item catalogue and thirty-two black and white photographs. Addenda sheet of ten further exhibition items laid-in, as issued. A touch of light discolouration to the wrapper margins. A very good copy in double-spread pictorial dust wrapper reproducing a painting by H.R.Mackey, nicked and creased at the upper edge, and with just a touch of wear to two or three other extremities. £15

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

OLD CONTEMPTIBLES. Honours and Awards of the Old Contemptibles. The Officers and Men of the British Army and Navy Mentioned in Despatches 1914-1915. Arms & Armour Press, London 1971. Reprint (originally published in 1915 by the Army and Navy Gazette). Small 4to. 58pp. A lengthy yet entirely superficial crease to the front endpaper and half title, else a fine copy in slightly nicked and internally repaired dust wrapper. A detailed reference work listing the names of those honoured at Mons, The Marne, The Aisne and Ypres; and also including those of the Royal Navy, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, the Indian Army and Colonial Forces. £10