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...
£1250.00
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"On the Remainder of Our Front ---"
[STURGES, Robert Simon] Private No. 940
First edition, 8vo, original cloth and dust jacket. A rare early memoir from Robert Simon Sturges, where he recounts his time in the Tirst World War on the Western Front between 1915-1916...
£600.00
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The Arab of Mesopotamia
BELL, Gertrude
First edition; 8vo; original cloth, frontispiece map, 202 pages. The Preface states the volume includes "… essays on subjects relating to Mesopotamia, written during 1916 by persons with special knowledge… many of those whom the fortune of war has brought to these regions would be glad to have the opportunity of obtaining them in a convenient and permanent form...
£1000.00
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Torment (A study in Patriotism).
JACOMB, C.E.
First edition, 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author to his parents. Biographical clipping mounted to front pastedown and review tipped-in on verso of the front-free end paper...
£750.00
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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...
£500.00
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In Parenthesis, seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu.
JONES, David
First edition, first impression; 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Frontispiece and one other plate by the author. In Parenthesis was David Jones first literary work and took nine years to complete...
£3000.00
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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 Letters of a Light Infantryman,
NEVILLE, Capt. J.E.H, M.C.
First edition; 8vo; original cloth. Born 1897, Neville was the son of Reginald James Neville M.P. and his wife Ida, nee Henderson, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst...
£125.00
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The Silver Tassie: A Tragi-Comedy in Four Acts.
O'CASEY, Sean
First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed paper covered boards, printed paper label to upper cover. With a portrait frontispiece of the author by Evan Walters...
£1250.00
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The Life of Ronald Poulton
POULTON, Edward Bagnall Poulton
First edition; 8vo; original cloth, top edge gilt. Ronald 'Ronnie' William Poulton (12 September 1889 – 5 May 1915) was an rugby union footballer, who captained England...
£175.00
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Last Poems.
THOMAS, Edward
First edition; 8vo; original boards, printed spine label and original dust jacket. With no adverts to the rear. Ownership inscription of Cornelius Weygandt (Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, 1871-1957) on title page dated 6 December 1920...
£3250.00
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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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Come to the Cook-house Door!
WHITSED, Juliet de Key
First edition; 8vo; original boards and dust jacket. Inscribed on the front free end paper "Good wishes from Juliet de Key Whitsed . May 1935. An autobiographical account of the author's the service as a 'V...
£450.00
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Portrait miniature of a World War One Army Officer
World War One
A miniature oval half length portrait of a World War One Army Officer in uniform in an oval decorative gilt metal frame housed in a leather case. 5...
£300.00
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Prisoner of War Model of the Austro-Hungarian battleship Viribus Unitis
WORLD WAR ONE
A prisoner of war model of about 1:180 scale of SMS Viribus Unitis, skillfully and accurately made from scraps of wood, wire and cotton. mounted on a wooden plinth with a brass plaque, housed in a case measuring 95 by 23 by 45cm...
£4000.00
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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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War Loss Valuations manuscript ledger for C. H. Rugg & Co
WORLD WAR ONE
A manuscript ledger; small folio; original vellum boards, with hand written titles to front cover and spine.. The entries are dated from 20th Match 1917 to 26th July 1918...
£1000.00
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A Comprehensive Archive of letters and photographs: January 1914 to August 1921
WORLD WAR ONE: John Bostock RN
Two extensive albums of letters, photographs and documents, a unique archive from Cadet and later Midshipman and
Acting Lieutenant John Bostock R...
£3000.00
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Collections & Recollections of Farnborough & R.F.C. 1915
World War One: BRIGHT, R.G.T (Compiler)
Album; small folio; original half cloth. An archive of letters often accompanied with drawings sent to The Royal Flying Corps at Farnborough between November 1914 and February 1915, from soldiers and civilians (male and female) wishing to join the R...
£1250.00
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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...
£2000.00
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