A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916
[Max Plowman] "Mark VII"
First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth boards and dust jacket. Regarded as a classic account of life in the trenches during World War I, Plowman evokes a deeply personal account of the Battle of the Somme, during which his own battalion in real life, the 10th West Yorkshires, suffered among the highest casualties loosing nigh on half their men in a single day...
£1000.00
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The German Prisoner
HANLEY, James
Limited edition; 8vo; original red cloth, frontispiece by William Roberts and an introduction by Richard Aldington. This is number 243 of an edition of 500, signed and numbered by the author on the limitation page...
£475.00
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Four Infantrymen on the Western Front 1918
JOHANNSEN, Ernst
First English edition; 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Originally published in German under the title Vier von der Infanterie. Translated into English by A...
£350.00
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Cold Feet
MAHON, Terence
First edition; 8vo original cloth, and dust jacket. Cold Feet details the exploits of a man court-martialled for cowardice and due to face the firing squad, only to redeem himself in saving his execution party from a German pilot...
£550.00
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The War Poems.
SASSOON, Siegfried
First edition, first impression.; 12mo; bound by Stuart Brockman in full black goatskin; design applied with goatskin onlays, gold tooling; lettered in gold leaf; paste paper endleaves and gilt edges...
£5000.00
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Marching in Line [Three Variant Studies]
SMITH, Percy John Delf
Marching in line [three variant studies], pencil on various papers, two signed, one dated '1918' with borderlines and inscribed measurements, each sheet approx...
£1200.00
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Poems.
THOMAS, Edward ('Edward Eastaway')
First edition; 8vo; original cloth-backed boards and paper label to spine. Portrait frontispiece of the author by Duncan Williams. The author's first regularly published collection...
£500.00
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These Men Thy Friends
THOMPSON, Edward
First edition, 8vo, original cloth boards and dust jacket. Signed presentation inscription from the author to front end paper. Thompson's novel is set on the Eastern Front, during the last eighteen months of the Mesopotamian campaign of the First World War which was fought between the Allies - a mixture of Australian, British and British Empire (mainly Indian) troops - and the Central Powers, mainly from the Ottoman Empire...
£800.00
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Two Pencil Drawings
WORLD WAR ONE
Two pencil drawings of 9th Heavy Battery position between Armentières and Houplines August 1915. Framed and glazed with original label pasted to rear with indistinct signature...
£450.00
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Draft of a speech made by the then Prince of Wales at a dinner in honour of Marshal Foch
WORLD WAR ONE: EDWARD VIII
An autograph manuscript, unsigned, four pages, 4to and slightly smaller. The boldly penned holograph manuscript, with a number of corrections, is the draft of a speech made by the Prince of Wales at a dinner in honour of Marshal Foch at the end of World War One and states, in part, 'This is an occasion of such unique & historical interest that I find it very difficult to address such a so distinguished an assembly...
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The Unveiling of the Thiepval Memorial to The Battle of the Somme
WORLD WAR ONE: EDWARD VIII; LEBRUN, Albert
Photograph by F.W. Patrick of the British Legion, 21cm by 16cm in mount 33cm by 21cm. Thiepval 1st August 1932. Signed on the mount, showing the Prince and the French President at the unveiling of the Thiepval Memorial...
£1500.00
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Signed Hand Written: The First Day of the Somme
WORLD WAR ONE: Private later Acting Sergeant Walter Keeble
Autograph signed letter; two pages on Northampton General Hospital head note paper, dated 12th July 1916. Together with photographs of Keeble and his wife and a small number of documents including Demobilization Certificate...
£2000.00
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Winox War stamps attached to 'LEST WE FORGET' application form.
WORLD WAR ONE: Propaganda
Four Winox War stamps attached to 'LEST WE FORGET' application form for Winox War Stamps. The Four stamps are based on designs by Dutch artist Louis Raemaekers, are the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, the execution of nurse Edith Cavell, the killing of French and Belgian civilians, and civilian casualties produced in Zeppelin bombing raids against Great Britain...
£100.00
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Archive of Wilfred Taylor 1916-1918
WORLD WAR ONE: Royal Flying Corps
Two small notebooks, seven drawings and four period photographs of Air Mechanic Wilfred Taylor. Taylor joined the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in 1916. The first notebook is titled W Taylor Royal Flying Corps...
£1500.00
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