AUTUMN 2016

Plus a Great War addendum

AUTUMN 2016

CLEARWATER BOOKS

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Introductory Note This morning I took a quick stroll in Nunhead Cemetery, one of the Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries built in a ring around London. It’s delightfully dilapidated, a maze of woodland paths, some quite impassable with the headstones seemingly scattered at random, most of them sinking into the soil at near-impossible angles. At this time of year it feels more like a squirrel reserve than anything else. The cemetery houses two Great War Commonwealth plots, one principally made up of fallen Canadians and the other, which I chanced upon this morning for the very first time, for Australians. These plots are, of course, immaculate: the grass at near-Wimbledon standard and the white headstones crisp and arranged in razor sharp rows. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is a remarkable institution, currently caring for over 23,000 burial sites. This morning I stood in front of one of them: fifty-nine headstones marking the resting places of men so far from home, but now forever Londoners. It’s been perhaps twelve or thirteen years since Clearwater issued a Great War catalogue, and whilst I do not pretend that the current issue qualifies as the third, my find of this morning seems suitably apt for a mention here. And there’s just space for a quick shout-out to Trevor, who reads these for fun (!) and was also kind enough and sufficiently skilled to address the deficits of my door-based DIY efforts in scarcely ten minutes. It took me twice that length of time to pretend to read the instructions. Bevis

1. DRUMMOND ALLISON. The Collected Poems of Drummond Allison. Edited and with a lengthy introduction by Stephen Benson. Privately published by the editor [1993]. First edition, limited to 300 copies – this one inscribed by the editor at the head of the half-title and dated the year after publication. 8vo. 213pp. Illustrated with photographs. A tiny hint of spotting to fore edge, else in fine state with fractionally rubbed and sunned dust wrapper. One hundred and nineteen poems, nearly fifty of them hitherto unpublished, plus poems by Sidney Keyes, Robert Conquest and John Lehmann written in tribute and three critical appreciations. John Drummond Allison was killed in action in Italy in December 1943, shortly after having checked the proofs for his first volume of verse, The Yellow Night, posthumously issued by the Fortune Press in 1944. £30

2. AMERICAN LITERATURE. America and the Sea. A Literary History. Edited by Haskell

Springer. The University of Georgia Press 1995. First edition. 8vo. 414pp. A touch of minor marking to edges and front hinge just a little tender. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Fourteen essays by various authors exploring of the sea in American literature. £10

3. AMERICAN LITERATURE. Malcolm Cowley. Exile’s Return. A Literary Odyssey of the 1920’s.

The Bodley Head 1961. The UK issue of this new edition, revised by the author from his original text of 1932 and re-titled from Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas. 8vo. 322pp. A virtually fine copy in slightly rubbed and tanned dust wrapper. One of the key works on The Lost Generation. £10

4. MARTIN AMIS. The Rachel Papers. Jonathan Cape 1973. First edition of the author’s first book.

8vo. 223pp. Publisher’s pink stain to top edge very slightly patchy. Spine ends just a fraction bruised and with a little light staining to the head of the front free endpaper where the top edge dye has run. A very good copy in dust wrapper, a little rubbed and chafed at spine ends and corner tips but with no trace of the usual spine panel fading. £250

5. JANE AUSTEN. Michael Sadleir. The Northanger Novels. A Footnote to Jane Austen. The English

Association 1927. The first separate edition, issued here as number 68 of the English Association Pamphlets, and fully revised and expanded from its 1927 Edinburgh Review appearance. Tall 8vo. A twenty-one page essay followed by seven facsimile title pages, sewn into slightly tanned and dust soiled card wrappers. A nice crisp copy. £15

6. GEORGE BARKER. Dialogues etc. Faber 1976. The publisher’s proof sheets, five separate

gatherings which together comprise the entire book, bar of course the wrappers. In fine state. Housed in an envelope bearing the following handwritten text: “George Barker. ‘Dialogues etc.’ To be published 1976. ‘Proof’ pages ‘hot off the press’ November 12th 1975”. An uncommon find. £35

7. PAT BARKER. The Regeneration Trilogy. Complete in three volumes comprising Regeneration,

The Eye in the Door [and] The Ghost Road. Viking 1991-95. A first edition set of Barker's award-winning Great War trilogy. Individual volume descriptions as follows: Regeneration (1991). First edition. 8vo. 251pp. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. The Eye in the Door (1993). First edition. 8vo. 280pp. Two tiny blemishes to top edge, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, fractionally chafed at spine ends. The Ghost Road (1995). First edition. 8vo. 277pp. Head of backstrip very lightly rubbed, else a fine copy in very good price-clipped dust wrapper, with a single tiny nick to the head of the front panel-spine panel join, a miniscule area of surface abrasion and a short superficial score to the rear panel. A very good set. £195

8. H.E.BATES. The Hessian Prisoner. [A story]. With a line drawing by John Austen and a foreword

by Edward Garnett. William Jackson, ‘The Furnival Books’ series 1930. First edition, limited to 550 copies signed by the author and printed at the Chiswick Press. Tall 8vo. 42pp. Buckram, a little faded at backstrip, and with a touch of very light speckling to one or two preliminary leaves and several short superficial creases. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A very good copy. No dust wrapper required. The first printing of this Bates’ story, which was subsequently collected in The Black Boxer Tales. £75

9. CECIL BEATON. Far East. Batsford 1945. First edition. 8vo. 110pp. With a colour frontispiece, nearly fifty photographs and fifteen line drawings in the text, all by the author. A touch of spotting to edges and endpapers and just a little wear to spine ends. Very good in patterned paper dust wrapper, a little chipped, rubbed and torn, and with an inch of loss to the head of the spine panel (just impacting the lettering) and a smidgen more to the base. An account of the author’s wartime travels working as a photographer for the Ministry of Information in India, Burma, Assam and China. £20

10. PATRICIA BEER. Loss of the Magyar and Other Poems. Longmans 1959. First edition of Beers'

first collection of verse - this copy signed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 39pp. Full buckram. A trace of light spotting to edges, endpapers, preliminary leaves and extreme upper margin of some text leaves. A very good copy, housed in the original unprinted acetate protector. Twenty-six poems. £20

11. PATRICIA BEER. Just Like the Resurrection. Poems. Macmillan 1967. First edition - this copy

signed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 47pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Top- and fore edge spotted with a little additional light spotting to title page. A very good copy in fractionally dust marked dust wrapper. Thirty-one poems, the author's third collection. £15

12. PATRICIA BEER. The Estuary. Poems. Macmillan 1971. First edition - the casebound issue. This

copy signed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 48pp. A very good copy in dust wrapper with four short tears and some accompanying creasing. Former owner name inked to front endpaper. Twenty-seven poems, the author's fourth collection of verse. £15

13. PATRICIA BEER. Collected Poems. Carcanet, Manchester 1988. First edition. 8vo. 216pp. In fine

state with spotted and lightly handled dust wrapper, a little faded at spine panel. One-hundred and sixty-eight poems, including fourteen hitherto unprinted, plus an introduction by the author. £10

14. BRENDAN BEHAN. Seamus Du Burca. Down to the Sea in a Tanker. A Work in Progress. With

an introduction by Brendan Behan: a holograph letter written by Behan to Du Burca, his uncle, from Mountjoy Prison in 1943 and hitherto unpublished. J.P.Bourke, Dublin 1972. First edition of Du Burca’s brief memoir of his time as an engineer abroad the M.V.Chesapeake – limited to 250 numbered copies for use by the author, this one inscribed by him on the half-title, dated the year after publication and signed as ‘Jimmy Bourke’. 8vo. 27pp stapled into card wrappers. Illustrated with two photographs. Wrappers a little soiled and browned but very crisp internally. Uncommon. £35

15. JOHN BETJEMAN (writing as Richard M.Farran). Ground Plan to Skyline. Newman Neame,

‘Take Home Book’ series 1960. First edition. 15pp stapled into pictorial card wrappers. With seventeen two-colour illustrations by Peterjohn Kenny, plus two more in the upper wrapper. An extremely crisp and bright copy of an elusive pseudonymous architecture pamphlet. £50

16. JOHN BETJEMAN. Raymond Erith 1904-1973. An address given by Betjeman at St. Mary’s

Church, Paddington Green, 15 January 1974. Privately printed by John Betjeman. Four-pages sewn into lettered card wrappers, fractionally marked and handled. Most uncommon, only the second copy we have seen. £75

17. MALCOLM BRADBURY. Eating People is Wrong. Secker & Warburg 1959. First edition of the

author’s first novel, written in hospital in 1958 whilst he recuperated from heart surgery from which he was not expected to recover. 8vo. 288pp. One or two small areas of staining to the first two or three text leaves and a single small blemish to the rear endpaper. An extremely crisp and bright copy in the Donald Green-designed dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at several extremities and a little dust soiled at the predominantly white rear panel. £50

18. JOHN BRAINE. Waiting for Sheila. A novel. Eyre Methuen 1976. First edition – this copy signed

by the author on the title page. 8vo. 186pp. A single tiny blemish to the upper edge, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, the spine panel very lightly faded. £25

19. JOHN BRAINE. One and Last Love. A novel. Eyre Methuen 1981. First edition – this copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 175pp. A short production fault crease to the base of a single text leaf, else a fine copy in fractionally edgeworn dust wrapper with a strip of discolouration to the head of the rear panel. £25

20. JOCELYN BROOKE contributes the second part of his essay Miss Wimpole to an issue of The

London Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 9. October 1954. 8vo. Card wrappers. Very good. £5 21. RUPERT BROOKE. W.N.Wilson. Rugby School Memorial Chapel. George Oliver Limited, Rugby

1923. First edition. Tall 4to. 43pp. Canvas-backed boards with paper spine and title labels. Printed on handmade paper and illustrated with photographs. A touch of wear to spine ends and gutters. Endpapers browned. A nice crisp copy. A description of the Memorial Chapel which includes a reproduction of the memorial tablet upon which Rupert Brooke’s name is recorded. £20

22. RUPERT BROOKE. Grantchester. A Poem. Fitzwilliam Museum, ‘Fitzwilliam Museum

Facsimiles’ series, 1973. A facsimile copy of Brooke’s original holograph manuscript which is held by the Fitzwilliam Museum. Printed by the Scolar Press on two loose-leaved sheets with holograph text to both sides and housed in a protective paper folder (this last very slightly faded at several edges). Very good. Brooke’s poem was first published in Basileon No. 14 in June 1912. £35

23. GEORGE MACKAY BROWN contributes his poem The Last Battle to A Sang At Least - an

anthology of poems submitted in the 1959 Robert Burns Bicentenary competition. The Scotsman Publications Ltd., Edinburgh 1959. First edition. Tall 8vo. 60pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper with just a touch of edge wear, a single tiny portion of loss to the head of the rear board and perhaps a shade or two of near-invisible discolouration. Of the 463 competition submissions, the thirty-three which made the final cut are reproduced here. Mackay Brown – who penned this poem whilst still studying at Edinburgh University – was one of five poets awarded a consolation prize, losing out to Norman MacCaig and James Dickie who were awarded first and second places respectively. £25

24. GEORGE MACKAY BROWN. An Orkney Tapestry. With drawings by Sylvia Wishart. Victor

Gollancz 1969. First edition. 8vo. 192pp. Spine ends lightly rubbed and edges and endpapers just a little spotted. A nice crisp copy in dust wrapper, somewhat chafed, stained and nicked with an ugly ragged internally repaired tear to the front panel and some notable accompanying creasing. A celebration in verse and prose of Orkney and its history and inhabitants. £15

25. GEORGE MACKAY BROWN. Poems. New and Selected. The Hogarth Press 1971. First edition.

8vo. 96pp. A tiny hint of spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in very slightly rubbed, creased and dust soiled dust wrapper. This copy from the library of poet and critic Jeremy Hooker, with his name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. Fifty poems including sixteen new ones. £25

26. GEORGE MACKAY BROWN. Fishermen with Ploughs. A Poem Cycle. The Hogarth Press 1971.

First edition. 8vo. 100pp. A touch of spotting to fore edge and two small holes to the rear board impacting about a dozen leaves as well as the rear panel of the dust wrapper. A very crisp copy in very slightly chafed and marked dust wrapper. The author’s third full-length collection of original verse, this copy from the library of poet Jeremy Hooker, with his neatly inked name. £25

27. GEORGE MACKAY BROWN. Orkney: The Whale Islands. A poster poem. Book Trust Scotland,

Glasgow 1987. A framed poster measuring 33” x 23”, reproducing Mackay Brown’s twenty-line poem over Glasgow Girl Bet Low’s painting Rackwick Beach, created especially for this project in collaboration with the author. Several light superficial creases. Very good. The poem was subsequently included in the collection The Wreck of the Archangel (1989). Uncommon. £125

28. GEORGE MACKAY BROWN. Water. A five-part poem by Mackay Brown accompanied with a

painting and a drawing by György Gordon. North and South, Middlesex 1996. First trade edition (published simultaneously with a limited edition of twenty-six signed copies). 8vo. 15pp. Stapled card wrappers. Fine bar a narrow strip of discolouration to wrappers. Uncommon. £35

29. WILLIAM BURROUGHS contributes Ten Episodes from ‘The Soft Machine’ to the inaugural issue of the periodical Olympia. A Monthly Review from Paris. The Olympia Press, Paris 1962. First edition. Small 4to. 80pp. Card wrappers, dust soiled and with a single lengthy readership crease to the spine but internally a lovely crisp copy. Burrough’s piece includes a brief introduction by Allen Ginsberg, and other contributors include Lawrence Durrell (two poems), J.P.Donleavy (a suppressed chapter of The Ginger Man), Ann Federman, Terry Southern and Maxwell Kenton [i.e. Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg], plus a selection of photographs by Robert Doisneau. The first issue of a short-lives Olympia Press publication, which ran for only four issues between 1962-63 before running afoul of the censors. £25

30. CHARLES CAUSLEY. Underneath the Water. Poems. Macmillan 1968. First edition – this copy

inscribed by the author on the title page and dated three years after publication. Slim 8vo. 56pp. Three or four tiny pin pricks of spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in slightly rubbed, nicked and edge worn dust wrapper. Thirty poems. £25

31. CHARLES CAUSLEY. Figure of 8. Narrative Poems. With illustrations by Peter Whiteman.

Macmillan 1969. First edition. 8vo. 86pp. A touch of top edge spotting, else fine in slightly rubbed and chafed pictorial dust wrapper featuring an additional Whiteman drawing, this one in colour. Eight narrative poems, accompanied by eight splendid double-spread drawings. £10

32. CHARLES CAUSLEY. Causley at 70. Edited by Harry Chambers. Peterloo Poets, Cornwall 1987.

First edition of this Causley celebration. 8vo. 118pp. Glossy card wrappers featuring a portrait of the poet by Robert Tilling. In fine state. Includes a selection of poems by Causley (including two hitherto unprinted and one accompanied by a Ralph Steadman drawing), plus several of his uncollected prose pieces and manuscript reproductions. Additional celebrations in verse (all bar the Larkin hitherto unprinted) and prose are contributed by Seamus Heaney (his ten-line Beowulf translation here entitled The Scop), Ted Hughes (his poem Birthday Greetings), Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Jennings, John Heath-Stubbs, Roger McGough &c. £10

33. WINSTON CHURCHILL. A Speech by the Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Winston

Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th 1940. The Baynard Press, 1940. First edition. Tall 8vo. 16pp stapled into lettered card wrappers. Stapled rusted and wrappers lightly discoloured and spotted. Former owner name inked to the head of the upper wrapper. A very good copy of his celebrated oration praising the men of the Royal Air Force: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”. £125

34. WINSTON CHURCHILL. “What kind of a people do they think we are?”. Two Historic Speeches.

Printed by St. Clement Press 1940 [i.e. 1942]. First edition, first state (with the upper wrapper un-priced). 8vo. 8pp. Stapled wrappers with the text occupying both front and rear wrappers. Staples rusted with some light creasing, and the wrappers exhibiting a little spotting and some minor discolouration. Former owner name inked to the head of the upper wrapper. Quite a bright copy. The text of two speeches reprinted from the pages of The Daily Telegraph, the first made to members both Houses of the United States Congress at Washington on December 26th 1941; and the second to members of the Senate and the House of Commons at Ottawa on December 30th 1941. £75

35. WINSTON CHURCHILL. Douglas Hall. The Book of Churchilliana. New Cavendish Books 2002.

First edition. Landscape 4to. 196pp. Lavishly illustrated with over one thousand colour photographs and reproductions. In fine state with dust wrapper. Errata slip laid-in, as issued. An almost overwhelming array of ashtrays, toby jugs, jam spoons and jigsaw puzzles. £25

36. TOM CLANCY. The Hunt for Red October. Collins 1985. The first UK edition of the author’s first

book. 8vo. 479pp. Some tanning to paperstock and a short crease to the tip of a single text leaf. A very good copy in very good price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the head of the spine panel. Clancy’s first book, a huge bestseller and the basis for the 1990 film: perhaps most memorable for Sean Connery as the strangely Scottish-tinged Russian u-boat captain. £75

37. A.E.COPPARD. The Collected Poems of A.E.Coppard. Jonathan Cape 1928. First edition. 8vo. 109pp. Endpapers lightly spotted and darkened at margins. A very good copy in dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at spine ends. Sixty-five poems, collected from the author’s two previous collections Hips and Haws (1922) and Pelagae (1926), and including a number hitherto unprinted. £25

“Possibly this is the smallest volume of Collected Poems ever issued … if all Collected Poems could be got into as slim a compass it would not take the reader very long to know the worst about them” – from the author’s preface.

38. H.D. Hermetic Definitions. Poems. [no publisher] 1971. An unauthorised pirated edition, preceding

the New Directions first edition of 1972 and with some minor differences in the text. 8vo. Unpaginated. Card wrappers with French flaps and a small decorated paper spine label. Fine but for a lengthy crease to the rear flap. Forty-four poems, split into three sections. This apparently one of a pirated issue of 1,600 copies published by Frontier Press, New York. £10

39. W.H.DAVIES. My Birds. With wood engravings by Hilda M.Quick. Jonathan Cape 1933. First

edition. 8vo. 128pp. With a splendid engraved frontispiece, a title page decoration and one further illustration. Cloth just a little discoloured and rubbed at several extremities. Top edge lightly dust marked and with some spotting to edges, preliminary leaves and to occasional text leaves. Endpapers lightly browned. A nice bright copy in dust wrapper, a little chafed and dust soiled, and tanned at spine panel and with just a sliver of loss from the spine ends. A celebration in verse and prose of the avian life Davies observes in his Gloucestershire garden. £20

40. W.H.DAVIES. My Garden. With wood engravings by Hilda M.Quick. Jonathan Cape 1933. First

edition. 8vo. 127pp. With a splendid engraved frontispiece, a title page decoration and two further illustrations. Cloth a little discoloured at spine ends. Top edge dust marked and with some spotting to edges, preliminary leaves and to occasional text leaves. A shade of browning to endpapers. A very good copy in dust wrapper, a little chafed and dust soiled, and tanned at spine panel and with just a sliver of loss from the spine ends. A celebration in verse and prose of the author’s Gloucestershire garden; issued as a companion piece to My Birds. £20

41. C.DAY LEWIS. The Echoing Green. An Anthology of Verse. Book 1. Edited and with an

introduction by C.Day Lewis. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1937 [in fact 1938]. First edition – this copy signed by the editor on the front endpaper. Crown 8vo. 101pp. Decorated linen-covered card wrappers, a little rubbed at extremities and with a small area of chafing to spine ends. Endpapers spotted. An anthology “designed for boys and girls from eleven to fourteen years of age” which was published in three volumes in March 1938 (although the title verso states 1937). All three volumes went through several reprints, but the original editions remain uncommon. £50

42. RICHARD DE LA MARE. Richard de la Mare at 75. [A tribute]. The Merrion Press 2004. First

edition thus. 8vo. 28pp. Stapled pictorial card wrappers featuring colour reproductions of drawings by Barnett Freedman, and with various other Freedman illustrations throughout. A fine copy. Essays by Berthold Wolpe, Oliver Impey, George E.Brown &c. (all reproduced from the 1976 celebration of the 75th anniversary of Faber & Faber). A slightly miserly birthday tribute to the firm’s director. £5

43. HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT. The Saturday Match. With illustrations by James Thorpe. J.M.Dent,

‘Tales of Sport and Games’ series 1937. First edition. 8vo. 255pp. Top edge dust marked. A very good copy in the extremely uncommon colour pictorial dust wrapper designed by James Thorpe. The wrapper is a little tanned, nicked and faded, with half a dozen small portions of loss from edges and some internal reinforcement to edges. Another cricket novel from de Sélincourt, set in the same fictional village as his 1924 classic The Game of the Season. Extremely uncommon in the dust wrapper. £125

44. NORMAN DOUGLAS. London Street Games. The St. Catherine Press 1916. First edition –

reputedly limited to 500 copies. 8vo. 162pp. Buckram. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A tiny hint of wear to buckram at one or two extremities, and fore edge and several preliminary leaves fox spotted with some further sporadic but quite light spotting throughout. A very crisp copy. £95

45. NORMAN DOUGLAS. In the Beginning. A novel. Privately printed [Florence], 1927. First edition, limited to 700 copies, each numbered and signed by the author, and preceding the edition by a year. 8vo. 259pp. Patterned paper boards with a gilt-stamped morocco spine label, a little chipped and with the lettering partially defective. Spine ends chipped, corners rubbed, and boards lightly discoloured. A touch of spotting to preliminary and concluding leaves. A dusty and somewhat handled copy. No dust wrapper called for. £35

46. NORMAN DOUGLAS. How About Europe? Some Footnotes on East and West. Privately printed

[Tipografia Classica, Florence] 1929. First edition, limited to 550 numbered and signed copies, this one additionally inscribed by the author on the title page and dated 1933. 8vo. 216pp. Patterned paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Spine ends rubbed and with just a touch of tanning to backstrip and spotting to endpapers. A very good copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. £75

47. NORMAN DOUGLAS. Three of Them. Chatto & Windus 1930. First edition. 8vo. 239pp + [iv]

catalogue. Edges spotted and a little dust soiled and with a strip of light partial browning to endpapers and a touch of spotting to several preliminary leaves. Quite a nice, crisp copy in marked, dust soiled and a little nicked and torn dust wrapper, tanned at spine panel. Three lengthy Douglas pieces: One Day, an account of a visit to Athens written in 1929; Nerinda, a story hitherto only issued pseudonymously; and On the Herpetology of the Grand Duchy of Baden, which originally appeared in an 1891 issue of Zoologist. £20

48. DAPHNE DU MAURIER. Rebecca. A Play in Three Acts. Victor Gollancz 1940. The first trade

edition of the stage version (preceded by the Samuel French acting edition. 8vo. 120pp. Card wrappers (issued simultaneously with a casebound edition). Wrappers a little marked and stained with readership creases to spine and a little rubbing to spine ends. Some discolouration to wartime paperstock. Quite a bright copy - this one purportedly once belonging to actress Nova Pilbeam (1919-2015), who appeared in two early Hitchcock films and was the director’s initial choice for the lead in his 1940 film Rebecca (and producer David Selznick’s favoured choice too) but eventually lost out to Joan Fontaine. Together with an undated early Charles Fox reprint of the Samuel French active edition. Original wrappers, a little creased, stained, dust soiled and with the spine rolled. £150

49. DAPHNE DU MAURIER. Frenchman’s Creek. Victor Gollancz 1941. First edition. 8vo. 206pp. A

touch of spotting to boards, edges and endpapers. Printed on wartime economy paperstock which has remained surprisingly crisp. A very good copy in quite a fresh example of the yellow dust wrapper, lightly tanned at spine panel, and a little dust soiled and rubbed at edges with several tiny fractions of loss from extremities. Du Maurier’s first post-Rebecca novel, set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II. The dust wrapper, somewhat needlessly, states a word count of 80,000. £165

50. ROBERT DUNCAN. Lisa Jarnot. Robert Duncan. The Ambassador from Venus. A biography.

University of California Press 2012. First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in near fine dust wrapper. £20

51. DOUGLAS DUNN. Secret Villages. Stories. Faber 1985. First edition. 8vo. 170pp. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Sixteen stories, the author’s first collection of short fiction. £10

52. DOUGLAS DUNN. Boyfriends and Girlfriends. Stories. Faber 1995. First edition. 8vo. 262pp. A

hint of tanning to leaf margins, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. Fifteen stories, the author’s second collection of short fiction. £10

53. T.S.ELIOT. Animula. An Ariel poem. With wood engravings by Gertrude Hermes. Faber, ‘Ariel

Poems’ series 1929. The signed limited issue of the first edition, one of 400 numbered copies signed by the poet and bound in boards instead of wrappers. Slim 8vo. A two-page poem by Eliot, accompanied by two Hermes’ wood engravings, one in colour. A couple of small miscellaneous blemishes to boards. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper, as issued. The twenty-third Ariel Poems book, and the third of Eliot’s five contributions to the original series (this being the only one where his work was interpreted by anyone other than E.McKnight Kauffer). £500

54. T.S.ELIOT. T.S.Eliot. The Man and His Work. Edited by Allan Tate. Chatto & Windus 1967. First UK edition, printed from the US sheets. 8vo. 400pp. Illustrated with sixteen photographs. Lower corners of boards discoloured and a touch of very light spotting to two or three preliminary leaves. A nice crisp copy in dust wrapper, lightly edgeworn with several tiny nicks and a small area of surface abrasion to the spine panel. A collection of tributes to Eliot, with contributors including Ezra Pound, C.Day Lewis, Herbert Read, Mario Praz, Stephen Spender, Bonamy Dobrée, I.A.Richards, &c. £15

55. D.J.ENRIGHT. The Laughing Hyena and other poems. Routledge & Kegan Paul 1953. First edition

of the author’s second book (and his first to be published in England, following Season Ticket which appeared in Alexandria some five years previously). A review copy, with the publisher’s review notice laid-in. Slim 8vo. 86pp. Tips of two corners very lightly rubbed and with some uneven darkening to the front free endpaper, offset from the review notice. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper with a single minute tear to the head of the spine panel. Fifty-seven poems, including a small selection reprinted of the author’s debut collection. £15

56. PADRAIC FALLON. Collected Poems. Edited with an afterword and notes by Brian Fallon, and

with an introduction by Seamus Heaney. Carcanet Press, Manchester and The Gallery Press, County Meath 1990. First edition – the uncommon casebound issue, published simultaneously with a card wrapper issue. 8vo. 280pp. A tiny hint of soiling to top- and fore edge, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, the publisher’s red spine panel colouring lightly faded. This copy from the library of Lilliput Press founder Anthony Farrell, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Laid-in is an invitation to The Gallery Press launch event (with readings by Heaney) and also a postcard to Farrell from Irish poet, critic and musician Fred Johnston. Over 170 poems and translations, including a number of hitherto unprinted early poems and radio play lyrics. £30

57. PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR. Between the Woods and the Water. On Foot to Constantinople from

The Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates. John Murray 1986. First edition – this copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper. 8vo. 248pp. With a double-spread map printed on green paper. Some light off-set browning to front free endpaper where a newspaper clipping was once stored, but otherwise a fine copy in the delightful John Craxton dust wrapper with just the tiniest hint of wear to the head of the spine panel. £200

58. PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR (interest). Wes Davis. The Ariadne Objective. The Underground

War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis. Bantam Press 2014. First UK edition. 8vo. 329pp. Illustrated with photographs. A small bump to the tip of one corner, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. An account of the Crete Resistance, focusing on the ‘British gentleman spies’ John Pendlebury, Xan Fielding, Sandy Rendel and Paddy Fermor. £20

59. PENELOPE FITZGERALD. Offshore. Collins 1979. First edition of the author’s Booker Prize

winning third novel. 8vo. 141pp. Spine ends very lightly rubbed and with a light production fault ridge to the upper board. An exceptionally crisp and bright copy in double-spread pictorial dust wrapper, correspondingly rubbed at spine panel ends, but still very good indeed. The author’s semi-autobiographical third novel, recalling her time spent living on a boat in the Thames at Battersea. £75

60. JAMES ELROY FLECKER. Forty-Two Poems. J.M.Dent 1911. First edition. 8vo. 86pp. Maroon

cloth, somewhat faded at the upper board. Top edge dust marked and spine ends and tips of corners a little rubbed. Endpapers browned and a trace of minor sporadic spotting to a few leaves, mostly confined to the margins. Ghost of partially erased former owner pencilled details to front endpaper. A nice, crisp copy. No dust wrapper. An expanded reissue of Flecker’s Thirty Six Poems (1910), with six new poems added, mostly revised from their original periodical appearances. £35

61. JAMES ELROY FLECKER. Collected Prose. William Heinemann 1922. First edition. 8vo. 269pp.

Maroon cloth with a slightly tanned and chafed paper spine label, and several handsome gilt-stamped (institutional?) motifs. A little marking and discolouration to cloth and spine ends a little worn, but a nice crisp copy internally. A selection of prose pieces, in the main reprinted from periodicals, and including a critical essay on John Davidson written whist Flecker was an undergraduate. £15

62. JAMES ELROY FLECKER. Poems by James Elroy Flecker. Selected by Anthony Astbury. Greville Press Pamphlets, Warwick 1996. The first edition of this selection of seven Flecker poems, chosen by Astbury and published by his Greville Press. 8vo. 12pp sewn into card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. A very good copy. £10

63. IAN FLEMING co-edits the inaugural issue of the noted quarterly periodical The Book Collector.

Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1952. Queen Anne Press. 8vo. 64pp. Card wrappers, creased and a little nicked at yapped edges with one short skilfully repaired tear and a fairly unsightly crease to the upper wrapper. The editorial board for this first issue comprises Fleming, who conceived of the idea of a periodical dedicated to the collecting of books and published it via the Queen Anne Press, of which he was Managing Director, alongside the long-term editor John Hayward and P.H.Muir. The contributors include Howard M.Nixon on English Bookbindings, T.J.Brown on English Literary Autographs, B.J.Timmer on The History of a Manuscript, H.A.Hammalmann on Isaac Taylor the Elder, P.H.Muir on Elkin Matthews and Ifan Kyrle Fletcher on Theatrical Collecting; plus reviews of various publications including Allan Wade’s excellent W.B.Yeats bibliography. £30

64. ROY FULLER. Spanner and Pen. Post-War Memoirs. Sinclair-Stevenson 1991. First edition. 8vo.

190pp. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. The author’s second volume of memoirs, following The Strange and the Good (1989). £10

65. HERB GARDNER. A Piece of the Action. A novel. Simon & Schuster, New York 1958. First

edition – this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 313pp. Cloth-backed boards, very lightly marked in one or two places and with a sliver of discolouration to the upper edge of the rear board. A short crease to the corner of a single text leaf. A very good copy in dust wrapper, a little soiled and spotted and with a three-inch tear to the base of the rear panel, a single short tear to the head of the front panel and several small areas of loss from the spine ends and one or two other extremities. The only novel by the noted playwright and cartoonist, a semi-autobiographical satire on the world of advertising. £150

66. PENELOPE GILLIATT. [John Osborne]. Sunday Bloody Sunday. The Script for the John

Schlesinger film. The Viking Press, New York 1971. First edition – this copy inscribed by the author: “The book of the film from the ex of the ex. With love to John [Osborne] from Nell [i.e. Penelope Gilliatt]. London 1977” and with Osborne’s library label to the base of the front free endpaper. 8vo. 135pp. A small sliver of soiling to the head of the upper board. A virtually fine copy in very good dust wrapper, very lightly edge worn and with a single tiny tear and a little accompanying creasing. Gilliatt was a noted novelist, screenwriter and film critic. Her script for Schlesinger’s 1971 movie was nominated for an Oscar and won the New York Film Critics Circle, Writers Guild of America, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards. Gilliatt and Osborne were married in 1963 and divorced five years later; Osborne subsequently disowning their daughter, Nolan. £125

67. WILLIAM GOLDING. The Pyramid. Faber 1967. First edition. 8vo. 217pp. A tiny trace of

spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in Leonard Rosoman-designed pictorial dust wrapper, lightly dust marked at the predominantly white rear panel and with just a hint of minor wear to one or two extremities. Neat former owner name. Golding’s sixth novel. £20

68. WILLIAM GOLDING. Fire Down Below. Faber 1989. First edition – this copy signed by the

author on the half-title. 8vo. 313pp. A little tanning to paperstock and a tiny trace of spotting to top edge. A very good copy in dust wrapper, just a little rubbed at the head of the spine panel. The third and final volume of the author’s To the Ends of the Earth trilogy, preceded by the Booker Prize-winning Rites of Passage (1980) and Close Quarters (1987). £65

69. WILLIAM GOLDING. Samuel Hynes. William Golding. An essay. Columbia University Press,

‘Columbia Essays on Modern Writers’ series, New York 1964. First edition of Lodge’s 44-page critical essay. 48pp stapled into card wrappers. Staples rusted. Very good. The second issue of the Columbia Essays on Modern Writers series. £10

70. W.S.GRAHAM contributes his poem The Day and Night Craftsmen to an issue of the periodical Poetry Quarterly. Vol. 7, No. 2, summer 1945. 8vo. Card wrappers, a little tanned and dust soiled with some light creasing to one or two extremities. Also includes poems by Keith Douglas (A Storm), Paul Potts, Stephen Coates, Wrey Gardiner, David Wright, plus a review by Nicholas Moore. £25

71. W.S.GRAHAM contributes the first printing of his poem The White Threshold to an issue of the

periodical The Sewanee Review. Vol. LVI, No. 4 October-December 1948. Edited by J.E.Palmer. This copy has been hand-corrected, initialled and dated by Graham who introduces thirteen inked corrections, all of which were incorporated into the first bookform appearance of this poem when it was published the following year in the collection of the same name. Royal 8vo. Card wrappers, a little discoloured at margins, rubbed at yapped edges and chipped at spine ends. Very good. This issue also includes Vivienne Koch’s six-page essay A Note on W.S.Graham, and contributions from William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley, Yvor Winters and Herbert Read. £300

72. W.S.GRAHAM. The White Threshold. Poems. Faber 1949. First edition of the author’s uncommon

fourth collection of verse. Slim 8vo. 70pp. Top edge very lightly dust marked and with a small area of spotting to the front pastedown and endpaper. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, a little darkened to several edges and with a touch of spotting to the rear panel and a centimetre or so of loss to the head of the spine panel and one or two other tiny fractions of loss to extremities. Publisher’s compliments slip laid-in stating “With Compliments of the author” (the first two words printed, the final three typed). Thirty-one poems. 1,200 copies were printed. £200

73. GÜNTER GRASS. Show Your Tongue. Translated from the German by John E.Woods and

illustrated with fifty-five double-spread drawings by the author. Secker & Warburg 1989. The first UK edition of Grass’ Calcutta diary, covering the six-month period between 1987-88 that he and his wife lived in the city. 4to. 224pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. The tips of two corners triflingly bumped and with just a trace of spotting to the top edge. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper, marred only by a single miniscule nick and a little internal marking. A record in words and pictures – Grass reveals himself to be a considerably gifted draughtsman – of the slums and squalor of West Bengal (showing one’s tongue in Bengali being an expression of shame). £15

74. GRAHAM GREENE. A fourteen-page critical essay on Graham Greene by Neville Braybrooke

features in an issue of the periodical Envoy. An Irish Review of Literature and Art. Vol. 3, No. 10. September 1950. 8vo. Card wrappers, a little tanned and spotted. A nice crisp copy. £10

75. GRAHAM GREENE contributes A Few Pipes, an eight-page extract from his Indo-China Journal,

to an issue of the periodical The London Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 11. December 1954. 8vo. Card wrappers, lightly tanned and spotted. £5

76. GRAHAM GREENE. Nino Caffè. A monograph. L’Obelisco [Rome] 1960. First edition (never

reprinted). Landscape 4to. Red silk-weave cloth with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at spine and upper board with a small gilt-stamped decoration. An introduction by Graham Greene, reproduced in English, Italian and French, precedes fourteen superb captioned colour plates tipped to rectos, plus thirteen monochrome reproductions in the text and a full-page photograph of the artist. A tiny hint of wear to spine ends, a small area of light soiling to the base of the front free endpaper and a little border discolouration to the non-plate leaves. A very good copy of one of the scarcest of Greene’s works (his introduction reproduced from a 1953 Knoedler Gallery exhibition catalogue). No dust wrapper, as issued. £195

77. GRAHAM GREENE contributes the first printing of his noted short story (one of four which he

deemed his finest) Cheap in August to an issue of the periodical The London Magazine. Vol. 4, No. 5. August 1964. 8vo. Card wrappers, mark and a little dust soiled with a slight roll to the spine. A nice crisp copy internally. £5

78. GRAHAM GREENE. The Honorary Consul. The Bodley Head 1973. First edition. 8vo. 334pp. A virtually fine copy, marred only by a thin sliver of loss to the base of the final text leaf (impacting no text), housed in the original dust wrapper, with several miniscule nicks to the spine ends and a touch of discolouration to the spine panel. A thriller with an Argentine setting – one of Greene’s own personal favourites. £10

79. GRAHAM GREENE. Collected Essays. The Bodley Head 1969. First edition. 8vo. 463pp. Just a

tiny touch of spotting to a dozen preliminary leaves. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, lightly tanned at spine panel and to the margins of the rear panel, with a sliver of loss to the base of the spine, a touch of light surface abrasion and a single small blemish to the rear panel. A collection of eighty essays, many rewritten or expanded from their original publications, with over a third assembled together for the first time. Subjects range from Kim Philby, Fidel Castro, G.K.Chesterton, Ford Madox Ford, Edgar Wallace, Beatrix Potter, John Evelyn, Eric Gill and Norman Douglas. £35

80. JULIAN GRENFELL. Viola Meynell. Julian Grenfell. A memoir. Burns & Oates [1917]. The first

separate edition (reprinted from The Dublin Review). 8vo. 20pp stapled into stiff card wrappers. Staples rusted, wrappers rubbed, soiled and just a little chipped. Fox spotting throughout. A tiny sliver of enclosed loss to the upper margin of the first and last leaf, seemingly the result of a now absent stapled enclosure. About a good copy of Meynell’s scarce memoir of the Great War poet. Includes a reproduction of Grenfell’s famous poem Into Battle which he wrote on 29th April 1915. It was printed in The Times the day his death was announced but I believe that this marks its first bookform appearance. £35

81. JAMES HANLEY. A Kingdom. A novel. Andre Deutsch 1978. First edition. 8vo. 200pp. A fine

copy in dust wrapper, marred by just a touch of sunning to the rear panel and a single tiny area of surface abrasion. The author’s last novel - this the publisher’s file copy, with an inkstamp to that affect to the front free endpaper. £15

82. ALAN HARRINGTON. The Revelations of Dr. Modesto. A novel. Alfred Knopf, New York 1955.

First edition – a presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author: “To Milt Kerr. One of the nicest guys I’ve ever met, thanks so much for helping support this ‘savage and cynical’ book. Please remember that the writer has become a bit easier to get along with, partly because of his association with you. Alan”. 8vo. 256pp. Spine ends just a little rubbed. A selection of relevant newspaper clippings has been pasted to the front pastedowns and flyleaves, these now somewhat browned in places from the paste. Some off-set browning to two adjacent text leaves from where another clipping was once stored. A very good copy in dust wrapper, a little dust marked and edge worn with some loss to the spine ends and corner tips, and a lengthy crease of the spine panel. The author’s first book, a satirical take on 1950s American conformity. Harrington was a friend of Jack Kerouac and appeared in On the Road, as ‘Hal Hingham’ – also the name of the protagonist of this novel. £175

83. MACDONALD HARRIS [i.e. Donald Heiney]. Mortal Leap. W.W.Norton, New York 1964. First

edition – this copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, followed by his duel MacDonald Harris / Donald Heiney signatures. 8vo. 270pp. Paper-covered cloth. Tips of two corners knocked and boards a little marked and scored. A nice crisp copy in dust wrapper, chafed and a little edgeworn with several small slivers of loss from extremities and about an inch of additional loss from the base of the spine panel. The second of the author’s sixteen pseudonymous novels, Donald Heiney served as a merchant sailor during the Second World War, later going to college on the G.I. Bill. He became of Professor of Literature at UCL and co-founded their writing program. Michael Chabon was one of his students. £150

“Harris is a real writer, and I don’t use that phrase except of someone who ought to be cherished and encouraged.” – C.P.Snow.

84. TONY HARRISON. Black Daisies for the Bride. Faber 1993. First edition – this copy signed by

the author on the title page. Card wrappers (never issued in casebound format). 8vo. 34pp. A trace of tanning to leaf margins, else a fine copy. The shooting script of Harrison’s seventh film, shot on location in the Alzheimer’s ward of High Royde Hospital and broadcast on BBC2 in June 1993. £20

85. TONY HARRISON. Prometheus. Faber 1998. First edition of the script for Harrison's first feature length poem-film - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo 86pp. Card wrappers (never issued in casebound format). A fine copy. "The most important artistic reaction to the fall of the British working class…[and] the most important adaptation of classical myth for a radical political purpose for years…[Harrison's] most brilliant artwork, with the possible exception of his stage play 'The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus'" - Edith Hall. £20

86. SEAMUS HEANEY contributes the first printing of his three poems Father of the Bride, Mother of

the Groom and In Devon to a special Irish issue of the periodical Aquarius. No. 4. 1971. 8vo. Stapled card wrappers featuring a cover design by Eamonn O’Doherty. Wrappers lightly spotted and dust soiled. Very good. Mother of the Bride as subsequently included in Heaney’s collection Wintering Out (1972), and In Devon eventually appeared as the final section of the poem Bones Dreams in the collection North (1975). £20

87. SEAMUS HEANEY. Field Work. Poems. Faber 1979. First edition. Slim 8vo. 64pp. Tips of two

corners fractionally rubbed, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, marred by the neigh-on inevitable fading to the spine panel. Twenty-nine poems, the author’s fifth major collection. £125

88. SEAMUS HEANEY. Homage to Robert Frost. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York 1996. The first

paperback issue, preceding the UK edition. 8vo. 116pp. Card wrappers. Three essays on Frost penned by three Nobel Laureates. Heaney contributes Above the Brim: On Robert Frost (reproduced from the periodical Salmagundi); Joseph Brodsky contributes On Grief and Reason (originally printed in a 1994 issue of The New Yorker); and Derek Walcott The Road Taken (reproduced from The New Republic). A fine copy. £10

89. SEAMUS HEANEY. Robert Henryson. The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables. Translated

by Seamus Heaney. Faber 2009. First edition. 8vo. 183pp. In fine state with very good dust wrapper, marred by just a tiny trace of rubbing to the head of the spine panel and a small area of staining to the front panel. A new translation of Henryson’s finest poem: one of the masterpieces of Scots literature, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War and completing the story of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. £10

90. A.P.HERBERT contributes his poem The Bathe to Songs for Sale. An Anthology of Recent Poetry.

Edited by E.B.C.Jones. Blackwell, Oxford 1918. First edition – the fourth volume of this anthology of “poetry by proved hands”. 8vo. 59pp. Decorated stiff card wrappers with paper spine and title labels. Wrappers a little rubbed at extremities and creased at yapped fore edges. Some fox-spotting. With verse contributions from Edith Sitwell (Clown’s House), Edward Wyndham Tennant (In Memoriam, W.W.B. [published posthumously]), Aldous Huxley (three poems), Max Plowman (two poems), Dorothy L.Sayers (two poems), Osbert Sitwell (two poems), the editor and others – all bar two of these poems here making their first appearance in print. £30

91. A.P.HERBERT. Come to the Ball, or Harlequin. A new libretto by A.P.Herbert and Reginald Arkell

for the music of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Ernest Benn 1951. First edition – this copy inscribed by the author on the title page and dated the year of publication (Herbert’s inscription includes a somewhat cryptic suggestion that the libretto was written some fifteen years prior to publication). 8vo. 95pp. A touch of dust marking to top edge, else a fine copy in slightly tanned and chipped pictorial dust wrapper with two or three small areas of edge loss. £30

92. RALPH HODGSON. Collected Poems. Macmillan 1961. First edition. 8vo. 185pp. Portrait

frontispiece. Top edge dust marked and with a tiny sliver of spotting to the free endpapers. A very good copy in dust soiled, chafed and a little rubbed price-clipped dust wrapper. Eight-five poems reproduced from his collections The Last Blackbird and Other Lines (1907), Poems (1917) and The Skylark and Other Poems (1958), plus an index of first lines. £15

93. RICHARD JEFFERIES. Thoughts from the Writings of Richard Jefferies. Selected by H.S.H.Waylen. Longmans, Green & Co. 1895. First edition of this selection – the first anthology of Jefferies’ writings. 8vo. 127pp. Handsome art nouveau pictorial buckram, darkened at backstrip and lightly stained and grubby in places. Endpapers browned. Bookplate to front pastedown and a neatly inked contemporary ownership signature. Errata slip tipped-in. A nice crisp copy of a handsome production, comprising over 150 extracts including two complete essays, derived from The Story of My Heart, The Dewy Morn, Amaryllis at the Fair, and the later essays. £25

94. ELIZABETH JENNINGS contributes her poem Teresa of Avila to an issue of the multi-lingual

literary journal Botteghe Oscure XXI. Spring 1958. First edition. Royal 8vo. 542pp. Card wrappers, just a little rubbed and creased at yapped lower edge. Some tanning to leaf margins. A very good copy in dust wrapper, somewhat nicked and soiled with some uneven discolouration and a lengthy tear. Also includes original contributions by Vernon Watkins (his poems I, Centurion and Buried Light) and Saul Bellow (Henderson in Africa, a pre-publication extract from his classic novel Henderson the Rain King). £20

95. B.S.JOHNSON. Three Gregynog Englynion. Privately printed by the author on the Gregynog

Albion during his term at first Gregynog Arts Fellow in the University of Wales, August 1970. A single foolscap sheet, folded to form four leaves. This is a signed proof of an edition which ran to just five copies (several days later he produced a second printing of the three englynion, this time limited to 20 copies). Paperstock a little tanned at margins, and nicked, creased and a little torn at edges, with the upper left corner absent but all text unaffected. Bryan Johnson began his six-month Gregynog Fellowship in February 1970 (a period of his life he later described as ‘idyllic’ and which permitted him the time and resources to write his novel House Mother Normal). Towards the end of the Fellowship he was unable to withstand the lure of the hallowed Gregynog Albion Press and decided, along with the help (and indeed hindrance) of his friend Philip Pacey to use the Press to attempt to print the three short poems he had composed during that six-month period, each experimenting with the Welsh verse form englyn. The whole process was fraught with problems and in one instance genuine danger: Johnson provided a full account of the misadventures in his essay The Gregynog Press and The Gregynog Fellowship which appeared in a spring 1973 issue of The Private Library. Extremely uncommon – bar the three differing print runs he produced at Gregynog, these poems were never reproduced. Supplied together with a selection of letters from Johnson to fellow poet Jeremy Hooker. The correspondence comprises two postcards and five typewritten letters spanning May 1970 - July 1972 (he committed suicide a little over a year later) and covers a multitude of subjects including his work for Transatlantic Review (he was the poetry editor), discussion of several of his novels and constant encouragement and praise for Hooker’s own verse. The letters are insightful and often witty (Jack Russells are several times referred to ‘Ken Russells’ and the line about house-training them is completely baffling until you recognise the joke), but sadly his tone becomes increasingly downbeat as the depression which was to end his life fully takes hold. Also included is the issue of The Private Library which includes his Gregynog reminiscences, a short handwritten note from Jo McCrindle, founding editor of Transatlantic Review, which briefly references Johnson, and a first edition copy of Jonathan Coe’s biography Like a Fiery Elephant, fine in dust wrapper. £750

96. DAVID JONES. Hilary Pepler. Libellus Lapidum. Tempus Spargendi Lapides et Tempus

Colligendi Tempus Amplexandi et Tempus Longe Fieri ab Amplexibus. The First Part of a collection of verses and wood-engravings made by H.P. and D.J. who having no windows left in their own dwelling take a mean advantage of their neighbours, the result can be shared by the public for one shilling and six pence. St. Dominic’s Press, Ditchling 1924. First edition. Small 8vo. 25pp. Original cream card wrappers with a Jones’ wood-engraving in black with red lettering to the upper wrapper. With a title page device and fifteen wood-engravings by David Jones. Fifteen short poems contributed by Ronald Knox, Hilaire Belloc, G.K.Chesterton, Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb &c. Wrappers very lightly spotted and with a tiny chip to the base of the spine. Some fox spotting throughout, although the engravings have been almost entirely spared. A very good copy. £150

97. DAVID JONES. The Fatigue. Privately printed by Will & Sebastian Carter at The Rampant Lions Press, 1956. First edition, printed in honour of the author’s seventieth birthday in a limited issue of 298 copies, this being one of 241 reserved for subscribers. 8vo. 20pp. Card wrapper with an integral dust wrapper. Errata slip pasted to the base of the final text leaf, as issued. A tiny hint of wear to spine ends, else in fine state. A four-page introduction by the author followed by an eleven-page poem, plus notes and a list of subscribers. £75

98. DAVID JONES. Peter Levi. In Memory of David Jones. The text of a sermon delivered in

Westminster cathedral at the Solemn Requiem for the poet and painter, David Jones, on 13 December 1974. The Tablet 1975. First edition. 8vo. Eight unpaginated leaves sewn into card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. A seven-page sermon with two Jones’ poems, a reproduction of one of his engravings and a photograph. In fine state. £15

99. DAVID JONES. Frances Richards. Remembering David Jones. Privately printed for the

Enitharmon Press, 1980. First edition, #3 of 105 copies, twenty-five of which were reserved for the author. 8vo. Seven leaves sewn into card wrappers. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. A four-page reminiscence of David Jones, penned by the noted painter, embroiderer and illustrator Frances Richards, the wife of Ceri Richards. £25

100. THOMAS KINSELLA. New Poems 1973. The Dolmen Press, Dublin 1973. First edition. 8vo.

79pp. A tiny sliver of discolouration to the head of the backstrip, else a fine copy in chafed, stained and a little rubbed dust wrapper. Twenty-seven poems, the author’s fourth full-length collection of verse, published alongside the companion piece Selected Poems 1956-1968. £10

101. THOMAS KINSELLA. Selected Poems 1956-1968. The Dolmen Press, Dublin 1973. First edition,

the paperback issue, published simultaneously with the casebound issue. 8vo. 110pp. Card wrappers, very lightly soiled. A very good copy. Fifty poems selected by the author from his collections Another September (1958), Downstream (1962) and Nightwalker and Other Poems (1968), plus a small selection of earlier poems, some here revised. £10

102. THOMAS KINSELLA. Blood and Family. Poems. Oxford University Press 1988. The first

collected edition (the five sections originally issued as individual pamphlets by the author’s Peppercanister Press). 8vo. 89pp. Card wrappers (never issued in casebound format). Fine. £10

103. C.H.B.KITCHIN. Jumping Joan and other stories. With a splendid Ronald Searle dust wrapper

design. Secker & Warburg 1954. First edition – a presentation copy inscribed by the author: “For Jack, with affection, from Clifford July ‘54”. 8vo. 288pp. A small nick to the head of the upper board, and a resulting crease to the corner. A strip of light partial browning to endpapers. A nice crisp copy in handsome pictorial dust wrapper, a little chafed, nicked at extremities with several tiny slivers of loss and some internal repair. An uncommon collection of eight short stories. £150

104. ARTHUR KOESTLER. Darkness at Noon. Translated from the German by the author’s friend and

intimate Daphne Hardy. The Macmillasn Company, New York 1941. First Amercian edition of the author’s most famous novel, issued a year after the UK edition. 8vo. 267pp. Spine ends fractionally rubbed and with a touch of browning to margins of endpapers and pastedowns. Ghost of partically erased former owner pencil marks to tip of front free endpaper. Very good indeed in a poor example of the uncommon dust wrapper, split into two two parts, torn, nicked and with several small slivers of loss, some internal repair with offset browning and with some tape residue browning where a repair was once attepted. £150

105. CHARLES LAMB. Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist. With illustrations by Roberta F.C.Waudby.

J.M.Dent, ‘The Aldine Chapbooks’ series, 1930. The first separate edition of this Lamb essay, and the first with these elegant Waudby illustrations. 8vo. 29pp sewn into card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper (the yellow wrapper version; one in red was also issued but I have not been able to determine a priority). Wrappers a little dust marked, faded and creased at yapped upper edge. A very crisp copy of an essay which originally appeared in Lamb’s Essays of Elia (1823). £15

106. CHARLES LAMB. Wallace Nethery. Charles Lamb in America to 1848 [and] Eliana Americana. Charles Lamb in the United States 1949-1866. Achille J.St. Onge, Massachusetts 1963 [and] The Plantin Press, Los Angeles 1971. First editions of Nethery's two volumes documenting the Transatlantic reputation and publishing history of Charles Lamb, the first limited to 500 copies and the second to 350 copies. Both in virtually fine state. £15

107. WILLIAM LANGLAND. F.R.H.Du Boulay. The England of ‘Piers Plowman’. William Langland

and His Vision of the Fourteenth Century. D.S.Brewer, Cambridge 1991. First edition. Tall 8vo. 147pp. A fine copy in very slightly marked and faded dust wrapper. £20

108. PHILIP LARKIN contributes the first printing of his poem An Arundel Tomb to an issue of the

periodical The London Magazine. Vol. 3, No. 5, May 1956. 8vo. Card wrappers, just a little chafed and dust marked and with the glue beginning to fail at the front hinge. This issue also include John Betjeman’s new poem Variation on a Theme by Newbolt. £10

109. PHILIP LARKIN contributes the first printing of his poem Nothing to be Said to an issue of the

periodical The London Magazine. New series. Vol. 1, No. 11, February 1962. 8vo. Card wrappers, a little tanned and dust soiled. Very good. £5

110. PHILIP LARKIN contributes his poems To the Sea and Annus Mirabilis to an issue of the

periodical London Magazine. New Series, Vol. 9, No. 10, January 1970. 8vo. Glossy card wrappers. A small area of tape residue to front wrapper, else a fine copy. This marks the first appearance in print of Larkin’s poem To the Sea (subsequently collected in High Windows), and the first complete printing of Annus Mirabilis (which first appeared in an issue of the periodical Cover under the title History, but with one line omitted in error). £5

111. PHILIP LARKIN contributes the first printing of his poem Sympathy in White Major to an issue of

the periodical London Magazine. New Series. Vol. 7, No. 9, December 1971. 8vo. Card wrappers, lightly dust marked at rear wrapper, else fine. £5

112. T.E.LAWRENCE. A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the

Command of General Sir Edmund H.H.Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources. H.M.S.O. 1919. The second edition (preceded by The Palestine News first edition of December 1918). 4to. 116 unpaginated leaves plus a portrait frontispiece of Allenby with his printed facsimile signature and fifty-six plates of colour maps. Paper-covered boards with a linen spine. Boards a little marked and corners and spine ends rubbed. Covers, endpapers and several blank preliminary leaves spotted. Impression and rust marks from a now absent paperclip to the head of several preliminaries. Former owner name pencilled to the head of the front pastedown. A nice bright copy, particularly crisp internally. No dust wrapper, as issued. Includes two sections (Sherifian Co-operation in September and Story of the Arab Movement) compiled from Lawrence’s official notes, unaccredited yet still his first published accounts of the Arab Campaign. Lawrence is also mentioned twice in the text. O’Brien A012. £35

113. T.E.LAWRENCE. T.E.Lawrence: Soldier, Writer, Legend. New Essays. Edited and with an

introduction by Jeffrey Meyers. Macmillan 1989. First edition. 8vo. 220pp. A single tiny scuff to the head of the front pastedown, else a virtually fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. Essays by Kingsley Widmer, C.Ernest Dawn, Albert Cook, Eugene Goodheart, William M.Chace and two by the editor. £25

114. T.E.LAWRENCE. J.N.Lockman. Meinertzhagen’s Diary Ruse. False Entries on T.E.Lawrence.

Cornerstone Publications Inc., Grand Rapids 1995. First edition. 8vo. 114pp. A tiny hint of spotting to top edge, else in fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. A detailed study refuting the T.E.Lawrence-related entries in Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen’s Middle East Diary 1917-1956: claims long doubted (Jeremy Wilson called them “pure fantasy” in his 1989 biography) and here irrefutably rebuffed. £30

115. T.E.LAWRENCE. J.N.Lockman. Parallel Captures. Lord Jim and Lawrence of Arabia. Falcon Books, Michigan 1998. The second edition, slightly corrected. 8vo. 44pp. Stapled card wrappers. In fine state. An essay comparing the capture and escape episode in Conrad’s Lord Jim with the ‘Deraa incident’ in Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom. £10

116. T.E.LAWRENCE. Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw. 1922-1926. Volume I.

Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. Castle Hill Press, Hampshire 2002. First edition – one of 600 cloth-bound copies (out of a total proposed edition of 702). Royal 8vo. 227pp. Top edge gilt. With a portrait frontispiece of Lawrence by Augustus John. Errata slip pasted to the base of the final contents leaf, as issued. A fine unread copy in dust wrapper. A hefty selection of over one hundred letters and diary extracts, much of it hitherto unprinted. The first of a planned three-volume set, but a fourth volume was issued in 2009. The original limitation was 702 sets but in the end only 475 of each volume were produced, with the sheets for the additional 227 copies remaining unbound. £125

117. T.E.LAWRENCE. Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw. 1927. Volume II. Edited by

Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. Castle Hill Press, Hampshire 2003. First edition – one of 600 cloth-bound copies (out of a total proposed edition of 702). Royal 8vo. 238pp. Top edge gilt. With a tipped-in photographic frontispiece, one further tipped-in photograph and two manuscript reproductions. A fine unread copy in dust wrapper. A selection of sixty-six letters, many hitherto unprinted. £125

118. LAURIE LEE contributes Toledo, an extract from his then unprinted novel As I Walked Out One

Midsummer Morning to an issue of the periodical The Cornhill. No. 1061. Autumn 1969. 8vo. Card wrappers. In virtually fine state. £5

119. JAMES LEES-MILNE. Michael Bloch. James Lees-Milne. The Life. John Murray 2009. First

edition. 8vo. 400pp. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece sketch and thirty-five photographs, including seven by Lees-Milne. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. £15

120. ROSAMOND LEHMANN. A Note in Music. Chatto & Windus 1930. First edition of the author’s

second novel. 8vo. 318pp + iv advertisements. Edges lightly spotted and with a narrow strip of light browning and spotting to the free endpapers. A nice crisp copy in pictorial dust wrapper, chafed at spine panel and at several extremities, and rubbed at spine ends with several tiny fractions of loss. A semi-autobiographical novel, based on Lehmann’s marriage to the painter Wogan Phillips. £20

121. ANDREA LEVY. Small Island. Review 2004. First edition. 8vo. 441pp. A tiny hint of wear to spine

ends, else in fine state with dust wrapper, marred only by some very minor corresponding chafing to the head of the spine panel. The author's acclaimed fourth novel, winner of the Whitbread, Orange and Commonwealth Writer's Prizes. £25

122. MICHAEL Z.LEWIN. Ask the Right Question. Hamish Hamilton 1972. The first UK edition of the

author’s first novel. 8vo. 190pp. Tips of two corners bumped and edges and endpapers lightly spotted. Very good in very good dust wrapper, with a strip of light discolouration to the head of the rear panel, some fading to the publisher’s red spine panel lettering and a little spotting to the flaps. The first Albert Samson novel, a private detective of the distinctly non-hardboiled variety. £35

123. ALUN LEWIS. Brenda Chamberlain. Alun Lewis and the Making of the Caseg Broadsheets. With

a Letter from Vernon Watkins and a Checklist of the Broadsheets. Enitharmon Press 1970. First edition – one of a deluxe issue of thirty-five specially bound copies, this being xxii, (the total edition comprised 335 copies, all of them signed by Brenda Chamberlain). Royal 8vo. 44pp. Leather-backed patterned paper boards. Illustrated with several drawings by Brenda Chamberlain, reproductions of Broadsheets One and Two and with a tipped-in photograph of Alun Lewis. A hint of wear to leather at spine ends and a dash of very light spotting to top edge. A light and entirely superficial crease to the edge of perhaps half the text leaves. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper required. An account of the origins and production of the Caseg Broadsheets, which ran to a total of six copies produced between 1941-1942 in a partnership between Alun Lewis, Brenda Chamberlain and John Petts. £100

124. MARIO VARGAS LLOSA. The Time of the Hero. Translated from the Spanish of La Ciudad y los Perros by Lysander Kemp. Jonathan Cape 1967. The first UK edition of the author’s first novel. 8vo. 409pp. A tiny hint of wear to the head of the spine panel. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, tanned and dust soiled, and with a crease to the front flap. Contemporary former owner inscription neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. The author’s first novel, based on his experiences at Lima's Leoncio Prado Military Academy and originally published in 1963 as La Ciudad y los Perros (literally The City and the Dogs), with a US edition appearing in 1966 and this much scarcer UK edition a year later (both English-language editions use this same Lysander Kemp translation). £50

125. CHRISTOPHER LOGUE. First Testament. A poem. Botteghe Oscure, Rome [1955]. The first

separate edition, reproduced for the use of the author from the pages of the fifteenth issue of the periodical Botteghe Oscure. 8vo. 16pp stapled into slightly dust soiled and handled card wrappers. Some tanning to leaf margins. Reputedly limited to circa 25 copies, plus a few others for review, none of which were offered for sale. An early and uncommon ephemeral item by the British poet, playwright and pacifist (not forgetting his small walk-on role in Terry Gilliam’s cult failure Jabberwocky, where he appears as the memorably named ‘Spaghetti-eating Fanatic’ – this early Botteghe Oscure contribution clearly having a lifelong impact!). £50

126. MICHAEL LONGLEY. An Exploded View. Poems 1968-1972. Victor Gollancz 1973. First edition

– a presentation copy inscribed by the author to poet and critic Jeremy Hooker: “For Jeremy every best wish Michael. Sligo 21.viii.74”. Slim 8vo. 64pp. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, faded at spine panel and to extremities of the front and rear panels and with just a touch of edge wear and a single short tear. Thirty-nine poems, the author’s second full-length collection. £175

127. CORMAC MCCARTHY. Outer Dark. Andre Deutsch 1970. First UK edition of the author’s

uncommon second novel. 8vo. 238pp. Top- and fore edge spotted with some further spotting to the half-title and a hint more to two or three following leaves. A very good copy in dust wrapper featuring a design by Michael Heawood, lightly discoloured at the upper and lower margins of the rear panel and with a single miniscule nick to the base of the spine panel. £400

128. CORMAC MCCARTHY. Child of God. Chatto & Windus 1975. First UK edition of the author’s

third novel. 8vo. 197pp. A very light scattering of spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in dust wrapper featuring a design by Graham Palfrey-Rogers (and far more striking than the fairly plain wrapper which housed the US edition), fractionally rubbed at spine ends and with a touch of spotting to the wrapper flaps. £300

129. HUGH MACDIARMID. Hugh MacDiarmid. A Critical Survey. Edited by Duncan Glen. Scottish

Academic Press, Edinburgh 1972. First edition. 8vo. 241pp. A review copy, with the publisher’s review slip laid-in, along with a letter from the editor of Poetry Wales and the reviewer’s pencil ticks to occasional margins. A virtually fine copy in very slightly tanned and rubbed dust wrapper. Sixteen critical essays plus a bibliography by W.R.Aitken. £10

130. IAN MCEWAN. In Between the Sheets and other stories. Jonathan Cape 1978. First edition. 8vo.

144pp. A tiny bump to the tip of a single corner, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper with just a tiny hint of internal marking. Seven stories, the author’s second book. £150

131. JOHN MCGAHERN. Amongst Women. A novel. Faber 1990. First edition. 8vo. 184pp. Tips of two

corners lightly bumped and with some noticeable tanning to the paperstock, primarily impacting the leaf margins as is so often the case with Faber productions of this period. Quite a crisp copy in dust wrapper, a little rubbed at the head of the spine panel and at one or two other extremities and with a small area of internal offsetting from the board dye. The author’s fifth novel, and probably his most celebrated; shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the 1991 Irish Times Literary Award. £25

132. JOHN MCGAHERN. That They May Face the Rising Sun. A novel. Faber 2002. First edition. 8vo. 298pp. Former owner gift inscription inked to front endpaper, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. The author’s sixth and final novel. £20

133. JOHN MCGAHERN. Creatures of the Earth. New and Selected Stories. Faber 2006. The newly

revised edition of McGahern’s short fiction, including a number of stories edited by the author shortly before his death, plus two stories hitherto unprinted in book-form. 8vo. 408pp. In fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper, just fractionally sunned at spine panel. Twenty-nine stories. £15

134. THOMAS MCGUANE. Ninety-Two in the Shade. A novel. Collins 1974. The first UK edition of

the author’s third novel. 8vo. 197pp. Faint trace of partially erased former dealer pencil marks to front free endpaper, else a fine copy in very slightly edgeworn price-clipped dust wrapper with a single tiny tear to the bottom edge. £20

135. THOMAS MCGUANE. Something to be Desired. A novel. Secker & Warburg 1985. First UK

edition of the author’s sixth novel. 8vo. 168pp. Sub-standard paperstock a little tanned, else in fine state with publisher clipped and re-priced dust wrapper, lightly faded at spine panel. £15

136. THOMAS MCGUANE. To Skin a Cat. Stories. Secker & Warburg 1987. The first UK edition. 8vo.

212pp. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, very lightly tanned at spine panel and with a touch of spotting to front and rear flap margins. Thirteen stories, the author’s first collection of short fiction. £10

137. THOMAS MCGUANE. Keep the Change. A novel. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1989. First edition.

8vo. 230pp. Paper-back cloth. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, very lightly chafed at one or two extremities and with a single tiny area of surface abrasion to the base of the rear panel. £10

138. THOMAS MCGUANE. Nothing But the Skies. A novel. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1992. First

edition. 8vo. 349pp. Cloth-backed paper boards. Tips of two corners knocked with a trace of discolouration to the upper edges of both boards and some offsetting from the dust wrapper lettering. A touch of light spotting to top- and fore edge. A lovely crisp copy, internally in fine state and with fine dust wrapper. £10

139. SORLEY MACLEAN (writing as Somhairle MacGilleathain). Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile

[Poems to Eimhir and Other Poems]. William MacLellan, Glasgow 1943. First edition of the author’s first collection of verse. 4to. 103pp. With a frontispiece and eight striking full-page drawings by William Crosbie. Just a touch of very minor wear to one or two extremities. A very good copy of an extremely uncommon book, and housed in the even scarcer dust wrapper featuring an additional two-colour Crosbie drawing; the wrapper a little dust soiled and with several short edge tears, several tiny fractions of loss from the spine panel ends and a single short enclosed ragged tear. An introductory note by poet and scholar Douglas Young (mercifully, for this cataloguer, in English) is followed by the lengthy sixty-part Dian do Eimhir, plus a further twenty-six poems and satires, and a selection of English translations (thirty-one in total). The first collection by the ‘father of the Scottish Gaelic Renaissance’, and one of the most important books published in Gaelic in the 20th century. £350

140. LOUIS MACNEICE contributes The Strand (the first printing of this poem, an appearance not

noted by Armitage & Clark) to the inaugural issue of the periodical Irish Writing. The Magazine of Contemporary Irish Literature. Number One, 1946. Edited by David Marcus and Terence Smith. 8vo. Card wrappers, lightly dust soiled and paperstock a little tanned. A nice bright copy. Also includes contributions by Seán O’Faoláin (his story Viva la France!), James Stephens (his story A Rhinoceros, Some Ladies, and a Horse), Frank O’Connor (his story The Stepmother), Liam O’Flaherty (his story The Touch), Patrick Kavanagh (his poem Through the Open Door), Myles na gCopaleen, Bill Naughton, Lord Dunsany, Somerville & Ross, Vivian Mercier, L.A.G.Strong &c. £25

141. ROSE MACAULAY. Orphan Island. Collins 1924. First edition. 8vo. 322pp + vi publisher’s catalogue bound in at rear. Cloth a little rubbed at extremities and marked in places. A touch of very light spotting to several preliminary leaves and a little more, still very light, to occasional text leaves. A single tiny tear to the base of the contents leaf. A nice crisp copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. A satire of Victorian England, inspired by Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines. £15

142. DEREK MAHON. Night-Crossing. Poems. Oxford University Press 1968. First edition of Mahon's

first full-length collection of verse. 8vo. 38pp. Card wrappers (there was no casebound issue). Wrappers a little creased, marked and chafed and with a touch of spotting to fore edge. A nice crisp copy. Twenty-eight poems, with the relevant Poetry Book Society Bulletin laid-in. £35

143. OLIVIA MANNING. The Levant Trilogy. Complete in three volumes comprising The Danger Tree,

The Battle Lost and Won and The Sum of Things. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1977-1980. First editions. Individual volumes as follows: The Danger Tree (1977). First edition. 8vo. 196pp. A hint of spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in very slightly rubbed and dust marked dust wrapper, enhanced by the original wraparound band, lightly chafed, sunned and with a single short tear. The Battle Lost and Won (1978). First edition. 8vo. 185pp. A hint of spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, lightly chafed at the head and base of the spine panel and with just a touch of sunning to rear panel. The Sum of Things (1980). First edition. 8vo. 203pp. A strip of very light partial browning to endpapers, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, with just a trace of sunning to rear panel and fading to spine panel. A super set of Manning's follow up to her celebrated Balkan Trilogy, (and the second and final part of the Fortunes of War sequence) continuing the story of Guy and Harriet Pringle, now sheltering from the German advance in Egypt and the Middle East. £150

144. EDWARD MARSH. Eugène Fromentin. Dominique. Translated from the French by Edward

Marsh. The Cresset Press 1948. The first English edition of the author’s only novel. 8vo. 249pp. Buckram. Just a hint of spotting to front endpaper and several preliminary leaves, else in fine state with very lightly spotted dust wrapper. Originally published in 1863, Fromentin’s classic of romantic psychology was lauded upon publication by Flaubert (who is alleged to have read it in a single sitting) and by George Sand. £10

145. A.E.W.MASON. At the Villa Rose. Hodder & Stoughton 1910. First edition (in the blue cloth

binding). 8vo 311pp. Spine ends and tips of corners rubbed and a little chafed. Some fox spotting to endpapers and to preliminary and concluding leaves. A small rectangle has been clipped from the head of the front free endpaper (presumably to remove former owner details). A sound and quite bright copy of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone (which marks the first appearance of Mason’s Inspector Hanaud character, an anti-Sherlock Holmes figure, said to be one of the primary influences behind Christies’ Hercule Poirot). £50

146. JOHN MONTAGUE. The Bread God. A lecture with illustrations in verse on the recent history of

the church in the ancient parish of Errigal Kieran already referred to in the Annals of the Four Masters as being a monastic centre twelve centuries ago. The Dolmen Press, Dolmen Editions VII, Dublin 1968. First edition, limited to 250 signed copies. Slim 4to. 9pp sewn into card wrappers with an unevenly tanned and very lightly rubbed integral dust wrapper. A little sporadic spotting, in the main confined to the margins. Quite a crisp copy. Six poems. £40

147. JOHN MONTAGUE. Tides. Poems. The Swallow Press, Chicago 1971. The paperback issue of the

American edition. 8vo. 64pp. Card wrappers with just a touch of dust soiling. A nice crisp copy. Twenty-six poems. £10

148. JOHN MONTAGUE. The Rough Field. Poems. The Dolmen Press, Dublin 1972. First trade edition

– a review copy with the publisher’s review slip laid-in alongside a letter from the editor of Poetry Wales. Tall 8vo. 80pp. Card wrappers (the signed limited edition aside, never issued in casebound format). Wrappers chafed, marked and a little creased but a nice crisp copy internally. A lengthy ten-part poem plus an epilogue, written between 1961-1971. £15

149. NICHOLS MOORE contributes ten poems to the anthology Poets of Tomorrow. Second Selection. Cambridge Poetry 1940. [Edited by John Lehmann]. The Hogarth Press 1940. First edition (of which 900 copies were printed). 8vo. 87pp. A bright if slightly dusty copy in nicked, tanned and dust soiled dust wrapper. A follow-up to Cambridge Poetry in 1929, with further contributions from Alexander Comfort, Terence Tiller, Gervase Stewart, John Bateman, Stephen Coates, Maurice James Craig, Mark Holloway, Jock Moreton, George Scurfield and E.V.Swart. £20

150. EDWIN MORGAN. The New Divan. Poems. Carcanet New Press, Manchester 1977. First edition.

8vo. 118pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel with a little additional fading to the front panel and a single miniscule nick to the head of the spine panel. Twenty-six poems by the noted Scottish poet, the last survivor of the canonical 'Big Seven'. £10

151. EDWIN MUIR. An issue of the periodical Chapman Magazine in-part devoted to Edwin Muir in

celebration of his centenary. Chapman 49. Vol. ix, No. 6. Summer 1987. 8vo. Stapled card wrappers, lightly marked and with a small area of surface abrasion to the upper wrapper. Includes four critical essays and recollections of Muir, plus ten poems by Kathleen Raine. Promotional inserts laid-in. £8

152. PAUL MULDOON. Plan B. Poems. With photographs by Norman McBeath. Enitharmon Press

2009. First edition. Slim 8vo. 63pp. Tip of one corner bumped, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Ten poems, accompanied by twenty-eight McBeath photographs. £15

153. V.S.NAIPAUL. Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion. A novel. Andre Deutsch 1963. First edition.

8vo. 159pp. Spine ends very lightly rubbed and a small strip of minor surface abrasion to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in Leonard Rossoman-designed dust wrapper, a little marked and edge worn with two short tears and some chafing to spine panel ends with several tiny slivers of loss. The author’s fifth novel. £30

154. PETER NEAGOE. Americans Abroad. An anthology. Edited and with a foreword by Peter Neagoe.

The Servive Press, The Hague 1932. First edition, second issue (in linen-backed boards). Tall 8vo. 475pp. Endpapers browned and with a small area of surface abrasion to the title-page verso. A very good copy in the elusive dust wrapper, considerably faded at spine panel, a little chipped at spine ends and with one internally repaired tear and several areas of internal tape reinforcement. An important anthology of post-war American expatriate writers – this copy unusually well preserved. Includes work by Conrad Aiken, Djuna Barnes, Kay Boyle, Malcolm Cowley, the Crosbys, e.e.cummings, John Dos Pasos, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams &c, plus Henry Miller’s first appearance in bookform. Most selections are accompanied by a brief self-penned biography, bibliography and photograph (Hemingway manages to sum up his life in five words and six numbers, Ezra Pound’s effort is somehow even better (“I can’t bloody well be bothered to write my own biography...)”. £250

155. CLERE PARSONS. Poems. Faber 1932. First edition of the author’s only book (he edited the 1928

issue of the Oxford Poetry, but died of pneumonia a year before this collection of his verse was published at the age of only twenty-three). 8vo. 31pp. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. Wrappers detached and a touch of very light spotting to occasional leaves. A fairly poorly preserved copy of an uncommon item. Eighteen poems. £75

156. PERIODICAL. The New Saxon Pamphlets and The New Saxon Review. Edited by John Atkins.

Complete in five issues comprising numbers 1, 2 & 3 of The New Saxon Pamphlets and then numbers 4 & 5, re-titled as The New Saxon Review. [1944-1947]. 8vo. Stapled card wrappers, stales rusted and with a touch of spotting and light rubbing to several wrappers. A very crisp set. Includes the first appearance of George Orwell’s essay Poetry and the Microphone (Atkins was the literary editor of the Tribune before Orwell took over the post), Stevie Smith’s short poem The Roman Road with an accompanying drawing by the author, Malcolm Elwin’s essay Henry Williamson: Novelist and Prophet of Reconstruction, plus further contributions from Patric Dickinson, Alex Comfort, Reginald Moore, Margaret Crosland, Hugo Manning, Woodrow Wyatt &c., plus the editors science fiction story The Apoplectic Revolution. Several printed inserts laid-in, as issued. Uncommon. £50

157. SYLVIA PLATH contributes six poems to an issue of the periodical The London Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 5. August 1961. 8vo. Card wrappers, a little tanned and dust soiled with a lengthy crease to the rear wrapper. A nice crisp copy internally. Plath’s poems, all bar one here making their first appearances in print, are Zoo Keeper’s Wife, You’re, Small Hours, Parliament Hill Fields, Whitsun and Leaving Early. £15

158. SYLVIA PLATH. Ten Sylvia Plath poems – all here making their first appearance in print - feature

in an issue of the periodical Encounter. Vol. xxi, No. 5. October 1963. 4to. Card wrappers, just a little mark marked. A very good copy. Includes the following poems, appearing here ten months after the author’s suicide, and with a brief biographical note by T[ed] H[ughes]: Death & Co., The Swarm, The Other, Getting There, Lady Lazarus, Little Fugue, Childless Woman, The Jailor, Thalido Mide and Daddy. £15

159. GEORGE PYSCHOUNDAKIS. The Cretan Runner. His Story of the German Occupation.

Translated from the Greek and with an introduction by Patrick Leigh Fermor and annotations by Fermor and Xan Fielding (both of whom appear in the text). John Murray 1955. First edition of Pyschoundakis’ seminal account of the German invasion of Crete and the subsequent Resistance. 8vo. 242pp. With a double-spread sketch map by E.G.Morton and twenty-seven photographs. A little spotting to top- and fore edge and just a hint of partial browning to endpapers. A short crease to the tip of a single text leaf. A very good copy in clipped and re-priced pictorial dust wrapper designed by Anthony Baynes, exhibiting a little light uneven tanning to the rear panel, several short tears and two or three tiny slivers of loss to spine ends and tips of corners. Contemporary gift inscription neatly inked to the front free endpaper. £250

160. JOHN RODKER. Collected Poems 1912-1925. The Hours Press, Paris 1930. First edition, limited

to 200 copies printed by the Curwen Press, this one un-numbered but with a presentation inscription from the author dated May 1932. Tall 8vo. Unpaginated. Leather-backed pictorial boards featuring a design by noted Surrealist Len Lye, and with illuminated initials by Edward Wadsworth. Spine heavily chipped with several inches missing from the head and tale of the backstrip and the front gutter split. Board extremities lightly chafed and corners rubbed. Some browning to endpapers but thereafter a very crisp and bright copy internally, with just a pinprick or two of spotting to occasional leaf margins. A rather fragile example of an uncommon book, and the only Hours Press publication not printed in Paris. Thirty-one poems from the founder of the Ovid Press, and foreign editor of The Little Review (two of them written during his internment for conscientious objection). £50

161. FREDERICK ROLFE. Hubert's Arthur. Being Certain Curious Documents Found Among the

Literary Remains of Mr. N.C. With an introduction by A.J.A.Symons. Cassell 1935. First edition, first state (with the spine lettering blocked in gilt). 8vo. 453pp. One or two small marks to top- and fore edge and just a touch of tanning to free endpapers. A very good copy in tanned, soiled, stained and nicked dust wrapper with several small portions of loss to edges. 1,515 copies were printed, that number forming the first and second states. £60

162. FREDERICK ROLFE. 'Without Prejudice'. One Hundred Letters to John Lane. Edited and

introduced by Cecil Woolf. Privately Printed for Allen Lane 1963. First edition, limited to 600 copies, designed by Hans Schmoller. Boards, very slightly bumped at some extremities. A very crisp copy. £65

163. FREDERICK ROLFE. Donald Weeks. Frederick William Rolfe, the 1903 Conclave & Hartwell de

la Garde Grissell. The Tragara Press, Edinburgh 1982. First edition, limited to 110 numbered copies, this one signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 19pp. Card wrappers. £35

164. AMY SACKVILLE. Orkney. Granta 2013. First edition of the author’s second novel, set on the

shores of an un-named and untamed Orcadian isle. 8vo. 253pp. A tiny indentation impacting the fore edge of five text leaves, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £10

165. V.SACKVILLE-WEST. Challenge. George H.Doran, New York [1923]. The second American issue. 8vo. 297pp. Seemingly a binding variant, identical to Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A9b but without the decorative device to the upper board. Backstrip very lightly faded with a sliver of discolouration to the head of the upper board and just a hint of wear to the tips of the corners. Rear hinge tender. A very crisp copy, lacking the most uncommon dust wrapper. A semi-autobiographical novel, the protagonists were based on Violet Trefusis (‘Eve’), with whom the author was having an affair, and the author herself (‘Julian’). The book had been scheduled for publication in the UK by Collins in 1920 but Sackville-West, under pressure from her mother during the height of the VSW/Trefusis scandal, withdrew it at the last moment after the sheets had been printed and these were subsequently sold to Doran who published it in the US in 1923. This second issue (comprising 2000 copies) appeared later the same year, this time bound with sheets printed in the US. The novel was not published in the UK until 1974. £200

166. SIEGFRIED SASSOON. The Old Century and Seven More Years. Faber 1938. First edition. 8vo.

293pp. With a Reynolds Stone wood-engraved title-page decoration. The publisher’s green top edge stain just a little faded and with a little spotting to fore edge and to endpapers. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown. A lovely bright copy of this volume of early reminiscences, housed in the original dust wrapper, fractionally tanned at spine panel and with several instances of minor rubbing, creasing and wear to top edge. £75

167. SIEGFRIED SASSOON. Collected Poems 1908-1956. Faber 1961. First edition of this collection,

expanded from the 1947 edition to include earlier privately printed verses re-issued under the title Sequences in 1956. 8vo. 317pp. A faint trace of spotting to top- and fore edge with a touch of further spotting to endpapers and half-title. A lovely crisp copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at spine panel and with a tiny hint of dust soiling and discolouration to front and rear panels. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown. Over 350 poems. £35

168. SECOND WORLD WAR. British Artists of the Second World War. The catalogue of a 1965 Arts

Council Exhibition. 4to. [16pp]. Stapled pictorial wrappers featuring a colour Paul Nash reproduction, lightly marked and with a small area of surface abrasion. A two-page introduction by Colin Coote precedes seven monochrome reproductions (Edward Ardizzone, Edward Bawden, Richard Eurich, Anthony Gross, Henry Moore, Eric Ravilious and Graham Sutherland). Inked inscription to the base of the rear wrapper. A nice crisp copy. £8

169. SECOND WORLD WAR. Leslie C.Hunt. The Prisoners’ Progress. An Illustrated Diary of the

March into Captivity of the Last of the British Army in France – June 1940. Hutchinson [1942]. Second edition, preceded by a limited issue of 1000 numbered copies. Landscape 4to. A one-page introduction precedes eight sheets of handsomely illustrated colour maps detailing the route of the 850 mile march through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany in June 1940 following the evacuation of Dunkirk, enhanced with facsimile censorship stamps. Cloth a little marked and lightly discoloured in places. Corners rubbed with a touch of light spotting to title label and, occasionally, to leaf margins. £50

“We slept variously, in open fields, barns, churches, schools, factories and barracks, in the grandstands of racecourses and running tracks, and in the cells of a civil prison. Nights spent huddled together in fields, in the pouring rain without any cover, after a twenty-mile march and with another to come, are not easily forgotten”

170. SECOND WORLD WAR. Kenneth A.Lohf. Poets in a War. British Writers on the Battlefields and

the Home Front of the Second World War. The Grolier Club, New York 1995. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies issued to accompany the Grolier Club exhibition of WWII poetry. 4to. 171pp. A fine copy in lightly dust soiled dust wrapper with a single small area of miscellaneous staining to the base of the front panel. A scholarly catalogue of British WWII poets, focusing on Western European Fronts, North African and Italian Campaigns, Southeast Asian Front, Poets on the Home Front and Poets of the Great War. Illustrated with photographs and manuscript reproductions, plus a drawing by John Craxton, reproduced in colour on the dust wrapper. £25

171. SECOND WORLD WAR. Emeric Pressburger. One of Our Aircraft is Missing. H.M.S.O. 1942. First edition. Small 4to. 32pp stapled into pictorial card wrappers, a little chafed and creased at edges with the tip of one rear corner missing. The story of the celebrated Powell & Pressburger WWII movie, illustrated with thirty stills. £15

172. SECOND WORLD WAR. William Rothenstein and David Cecil. Men of the R.A.F. Two lengthy

essays by Rothenstein and Cecil, accompanied by forty Rothenstein portraits. Oxford University Press 1942. First edition. Crown 8vo. 134pp. Tip of one corner bumped, cloth lifting in several places at upper board and with a touch of occasional spotting. Quite a crisp copy in spotted and a little nicked dust wrapper designed by Michael Rothenstein. £25

173. GEORGE SEFERIS. The King of Asine and other poems. Translated from the Greek by Bernard

Spencer, Nanos Valaoritis and Lawrence Durrell and with an introduction by Rex Warner. John Lehmann Ltd. 1948. First edition. Slim 8vo. 82pp. Buckram. With a frontispiece portrait of the author by Ghika. Three small areas of discolouration to the upper board and just a hint of spotting to the top edge. A very good copy in Keith Vaughan-designed dust wrapper, just a little tanned at the margins of the rear panel and with some wear and internal reinforcement to the ends of the spine panel and one miniscule tear. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown, almost entirely obscured by the wrapper flap. Thirty-nine poems, the first collection of Seferis’ work to be published in the UK. £60

174. HUBERT SELBY JR. Last Exit to Brooklyn. Calder & Boyars 1968. The second edition, with a

new foreword by the publisher outlining in some considerable detail the history of the obscenity trial that resulted from the original 1966 publication, and a new five-page introduction by Anthony Burgess. 8vo. 234pp. A single tiny indentation to the top edge of the upper board, else a fine copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, a little rubbed and frayed at spine ends and at one or two extremities and with just a touch of dust marking to the rear panel. £20

A series of six uncompromising stories set in and around Brooklyn in the 1950s. First published by the Grove Press in 1964, the first UK edition was published in January 1966 resulting in a landmark obscenity trial and a guilty verdict, which was subsequently overturned following an appeal launched by Rumpole-creator John Mortimer, marking a major turning point in British censorship laws.

175. [ERNEST SHACKLETON]. Laura Riding. Four Unposted Letters to Catherine. Hours Press,

Paris [1930]. First edition, limited to 200 copies handset and printed by Frazier-Soye and numbered (#87) and signed by the author. This copy from the library of Ernest Shackleton with his name label to the front pastedown. 8vo. 50pp. Leather-backed boards featuring a striking Surrealist design by Len Lye. Tipped-in dedicatory leaf. Spine ends rubbed and the tip of one corner bumped. A tiny hint of spotting to the front endpaper. Very good indeed. A series of essays in the form of letters to Catherine Graves, the eight-year-old daughter of Robert Graves and his first wife Nancy Nicholson, written by the poet and long-term friend of the couple. £400

176. [ERNEST SHACKLETON]. Marguerite Mertens-Stienon. Studies in Symbolism. Theogonic and

Astronomical. Based on H.P.Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine. The Theosophical Publishing House 1933. First edition - this copy from the library of Ernest Shackleton with his handsome bookplate to the front pastedown (itself an interesting study in symbolism). 8vo. 135pp. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, and with a touch of light spotting to edges and three or four preliminary leaves. Another former owner name has been inked to the head of the front free endpaper, Francis Chenevix Trench, this presumably spurious. A nice crisp copy. £200

177. [ERNEST SHACKLETON]. Freya Stark. Traveller’s Prelude. An Autobiography. John Murray

1950. First edition – this copy from the library of Ernest Shackleton with his name label to the front pastedown. 8vo. 346pp. Illustrated with photographs, a sketch map of Northern Italy and wood engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone. Some unsightly damp staining to the buckram, else a nice crisp copy in dust wrapper, a little tanned at rear panel and with several quite small portions of loss from the spine ends. The first volume of the author’s autobiography. £250

178. [ERNEST SHACKLETON]. Freya Stark. Dust in the Lion’s Paw. Autobiography 1939-1946. John Murray 1961. First edition – this copy from the library of Ernest Shackleton with his name label to the front pastedown. 8vo. 296pp. Illustrated with twenty-two photographs. Binding cracked at half-title and the final page of the foreword detached but laid-in. Tips of corners bumped and buckram somewhat marked. About a good copy. No dust wrapper. £150

179. EDWARD SHANKS. The Night Watch For England and Other Poems. Macmillan 1942. First

edition. Slim 8vo. 50pp. A trace of spotting to edges and pastedowns. Very good in very good dust wrapper. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and an ownership inkstamp to the front pastedown (partially obscured by the wrapper flap). Thirty-five poems, including twenty-six WWII verses. £10

Shanks was a noted Great War and Georgian poet; he served with the British Army in France but was invalided out in 1915. His verse collection The Queen of China won the inaugural Hawthornden Prize in 1919

180. SHELL GUIDE. Stephen Bone. The West Coast of Scotland. Skye to Oban. Faber [1939]. The

uncommon Faber re-issue of this Shell Guide, which was originally published by Batsford just a year earlier. Small 4to. 44pp + iv colour maps. White cloth with an internal wire spiral binding. Photographic endpapers and with sixteen pink-tinted leaves of photographs, and further monochrome photographs throughout, including several by the author and one by his father, Sir Muirhead Bone. Spine ends bumped and two small indentations to the upper board. A touch of rusting to the spiral binding resulting in just a trace of offsetting to the front endpapers. Neat former owner name inked to a blank preliminary leaf. A very crisp and pleasing copy in dust wrapper, correspondingly bumped at spine ends resulting in several short but ragged tears and a little further chafing to corner tips. £250

181. LIONEL SHRIVER. We Need to Talk About Kevin. A novel. Counterpoint, New York 2003. First

edition. 8vo. 400pp. Just a hint of wear to spine ends else in fine state with dust wrapper with just a trace of corresponding rubbing to spine panel ends and a lengthy vertical crease to the front flap. A super copy of Shriver’s seventh novel, winner of the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction and perennial book club favourite. £50

182. GEORGES SIMENON. A special Georges Simenon double-issue of the periodical Adam

International Review. Vol. xxxiv, Nos. 328-330. 1969. 8vo. Card wrappers, just a little spotted and dust soiled. Very good. Includes a lengthy essay by Simenon (The Novelist is a Man who Writes Novels: I Insist on the s), an introductory essay by Miron Grindea, a series of letters (in French) from André Gide to Simenon, a bibliography by Claude Menguy and celebrations and appraisals contributed by Agatha Christie, J.B.Priestley, C.Day Lewis, C.P.Snow, Henry Miller, Jean Cassou, &c., plus a selection of photographs and manuscript reproductions. £10

183. SPANISH CIVIL WAR. Our Journey to Spain. Spanish State Tourist Department, Barcelona

[1938]. First edition. Internally stapled card wrappers. Staples rusting. Very good. A three-page introduction precedes reproductions of holograph letters from six British Members of Parliament stating their support for the Spanish Republican Government following first-hand observation (primarily of monuments and artworks). £25

184. MURIEL SPARK AND DEREK STANFORD. [Geoffrey Hill]. Tribute to Wordsworth. A

Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the Poet’s Death. Edited and introduced by Muriel Spark and Derek Stanford and with a foreword by Herbert Read. Allan Wingate 1950. First edition of Spark’s first book. This copy from the library of poet Geoffrey Hill, with his name and “Leeds 1957” inked in red to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 232pp. Portrait frontispiece by John Buckland Wright. Spine ends lightly rubbed, backstrip faded and with a shade or two of further fading to the top edge of the upper board. Some tanning to leaf margins. Quite a crisp and bright copy. No dust wrapper. Over twenty letters and critical essays by nineteenth and twentieth century critics, with contributors including William Hazlitt, John Keats, S.T.Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Walter Pater, Matthew Arnold, John Heath-Stubbs, Norman Nicholson, G.S.Fraser, Henry Treece, Wrey Gardiner, Derek Patmore &c. £30

185. PETER STANSKY. William Morris, C.R.Ashbee and the Arts and Crafts. The Nine Elms Press 1984. First edition, limited to 500 numbered and signed copies printed at The Whittington Press. Tall 8vo. 17pp sewn into card wrappers with a handsome dust wrapper of Morris ‘willow’ patterned paper and a title label. In virtually fine state. A very slightly revised version of Stansky’s opening talk for the 1978 Victorian Society Conference, The Arts and Crafts Movement. Uncommon. £20

186. TOM STOPPARD. Enter a Free Man. Faber 1968. First edition – the scarce casebound issue. Slim

8vo. 85pp. A touch of dust marking to top edge, else a fine copy in very slightly dust soiled and chafed dust wrapper. A revised adaption of Stoppard’s debut, the 1963 television play A Walk on the Water. This new version was first performed in March 1968 at the St. Martin's Theatre starring Michael Hordern. This casebound issue is particularly uncommon. £95

187. L.A.G.STRONG. Dublin Days. Poems. Blackwell, Oxford 1921. The first edition of his first book,

printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Square 12mo. Card wrappers, sewn. A crisp copy, just slightly faded. £40

188. L.A.G.STRONG. The Lowery Road. Basil Blackwell, ‘Adventurers All’ series, Oxford 1923. First

edition of the author’s second book, the casebound issue, published here as the first volume of Blackwell’s ‘Adventurers All’ series. Slim 8vo. 55pp. Paper-covered cloth with a gilt-lettered paper title label to the upper board. Handsome decorative title page border and series frontispiece. Boards worn and a little chafed and discoloured. Endpapers, half-title and final text leaf browned. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A bright copy. No dust wrapper, as issued, but lacking the original unprinted glassine protector. A three-page preface by the author precedes forty-seven poems, primarily inspired by the author’s beloved Devon. £35

189. JULIAN SYMONS. The Object of an Affair and Other Poems. The Tragara Press, Edinburgh 1974.

First edition, limited to 90 numbered copies, of which this is one of sixty-five copies bound in wrappers. Unpaginated. Tall 8vo. Card wrappers, very slightly creased. A very good copy. Nine poems, all bar one here making their first appearance in print. £35

190. ELIZABETH TAYLOR. Blaming. A novel. Chatto & Windus 1976. First edition. 8vo. 190pp.

Several very faint indentations of front free endpaper from a now erased former dealer’s pricing, else in fine state with handsome Angelica Garnett-designed dust wrapper, very lightly creased at spine ends. The author’s last novel, completed just before she died and published posthumously. £25

191. DYLAN THOMAS. John Ackerman. Welsh Dylan. Dylan Thomas’ Life, Writings, and his Wales.

John Jones, Cardiff 1979. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. Illustrated with nearly sixty photographs. Top edge spotted, and with a former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the front pastedown (partially obscured by the wrapper flap). In virtually fine state with dust wrapper, the spine panel lettering faded as usual. £10

192. DYLAN THOMAS AND CERI RICHARDS. Richard Burns. Ceri Richards and Dylan Thomas:

Keys to Transformation. A monograph issued to coincide with a Tate Gallery exhibition of Richards’ work. The Enitharmon Press 1981. First edition, the card wrapper issue. 4to. 137pp. Decorated card wrappers featuring a Ceri Richards design. Wrappers a little spotted, yet a fine copy internally. A study of the two artists’ work, taking as it’s starting point Richards’ grief-inspired illustrations to Thomas’ Collected Poems 1934-1952. £10

193. DYLAN THOMAS. Dylans Swansea. (“A brief insight into the relationship between Dylan Thomas

and Swansea – the town he loved, but sometimes described in unflattering terms – his ‘ugly, lovely town’”). City of Swansea Tourist Information [1983]. First edition, issued to celebrate the opening of Swansea’s Dylan Thomas Theatre. 24pp. Stapled card wrappers featuring Alfred Janes’ portrait of Thomas. A brief history of Dylan Thomas and the Swansea Theatre, illustrated with photographs. Rear wrapper a little dust soiled, else in fine state. An uncommon ephemeral item. £20

194. EDWARD THOMAS AND HELEN THOMAS. Personal Letters. Selected by R.George Thomas, with a foreword by Myfanwy Thomas and wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. The Whittington Press, Herefordshire 2000. First edition, one of 155 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 200). 4to. vi + 22pp. Paper-covered boards with a paper spine label and a small Weissenborn vignette to the upper board. Upper board lifting a fraction. Very good indeed. Six letters dated between 1900 and 1917, three from Helen to Edward Thomas, and three from Edward to Helen, illustrated with six sanguine Weissenborn wood engravings. £65

195. EDWARD THOMAS. Letters to Helen. With an appendix of seven letters to Harry and Janet

Hooton. Edited by R.George Thomas and with a foreword by Myfanwy Thomas. Carcanet, Manchester 2000. First edition – a paperback original. 8vo. 130pp. Glossy card wrappers. A photograph of Edward Thomas has been neatly pasted to the half-title, but this aside, a fine copy. Twenty letters from Edward to Helen Thomas, and eighteen replies. £15

196. J.R.R.TOLKIEN. Beowulf. The Monsters and the Critics. The 1936 Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial

Lecture. Oxford University Press 1958. The second separate edition of Tolkien’s Israel Gollancz Memorial lecture which was first printed in British Academy Proceedings XXII (1936) followed by a separate edition of 500 copies a year later (from which this issue is reproduced). 8vo. 53pp. Printed wrappers with some light uneven offsetting, the offender unknown. A very crisp copy. £125

197. J.R.R.TOLKIEN. David Day. A-Z of Tolkien. With illustrations. Chancellor Press 1996. A reprint

of the Martin Beazley first edition of 1993 – this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 271pp. Original publisher’s laminated pictorial boards. Just the faintest hint of tanning to paperstock, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. An illustrated A-Z of Middle Earth, reproducing some of the material from Day’s previous books, The Tolkien Bestiary and The Tolkien Encyclopaedia, but with much fresh material too. £20

198. CHARLES TOMLINSON. Collected Poems. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1985. First edition.

8vo. 351pp. A light scattering of spotting to top edge and several miniscule areas of blemishing to the upper board. A virtually fine copy in just fractionally edge worn dust wrapper which reproduces a drawing by the author. Over four hundred poems, taken (with one or two minor revisions) from the following collections: The Necklace (1955), Seeing is Believing (1960), A Peopled Landscape (1963), American Scenes and Other Poems (1966), The Way of a World (1969), Written on Water (1972), The Way In and Other Poems (1974), The Shaft (1978) and The Flood (1981). Laid-in are two letters and a post card from the author to poet and critic Jeremy Hooker, one of which includes a quite lengthy and very sad account of the deterioration of Tomlinson’s friend, the Objectivist poet George Oppen who passed away some months later. £50

199. TRAVEL. Robert Byron. The Road to Oxiana. With a new introduction by David Talbot-Rice and

a handsome dust wrapper design by Keith Vaughan. John Lehmann Ltd. 1950. The second edition of Byron’s travel classic. 8vo. 292pp. With map-illustrated endpapers and thirteen captioned plates featuring photographs taken by the author. Half-title and final index leaf browned with a little off-setting from the adjacent map to the former. Title page a little spotted and with a small scuff to the tip of the front free endpaper. A very nice crisp copy housed in the Keith Vaughan-designed dust wrapper, with several short closed edge tears, a touch of browning to the rear panel and a small area of loss from the head of the spine panel and a fraction also from the base. The original front flap price has been blanked out by the publisher and a new price (15s. net) printed beneath. Byron’s celebrated account of his 1933-34 Middle Eastern journey. Accompanied part of the way by Christopher Sykes, he travelled to Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan. £50

“The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book what Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry” – Paul Fussell.

200. TRAVEL. Sara Wheeler. The Magnetic North. Notes from the Arctic Circle. Jonathan Cape 2009.

First edition. 8vo. 354pp. Photographic endpapers and illustrated with forty-four photographs and nine maps. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. A companion piece to the author’s Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica. £10

201. B.TRAVEN. The Cotton-Pickers. Translated from the German by Eleanor Brockett. Robert Hale 1956. The first edition in English (preceding the US edition by thirteen years). 8vo. 190pp. Tiny chip to the tip of a single corner else an extremely bright copy in slightly torn, chipped and dusty pictorial dust wrapper. Tiny dealer plate to front pastedown. £35

202. HENRY TREECE contributes four poems to the anthology Modern Welsh Poetry. Edited by

Keidrych Rhys. Faber 1944. First edition. Slim 8vo. 146pp. A very crisp and bright copy, albeit printed on quite cheap wartime paperstock, housed in a slightly tanned and chafed dust wrapper with a single short closed tear. Other contributors to this anthology of living Welsh poets include Dylan Thomas, David Jones, Alun Lewis, Brenda Chamberlain, R.S.Thomas, Vernon Watkins &c. £15

203. WILLIAM TREVOR. The Love Department. A novel. The Bodley Head 1966. First edition of the

author’s fourth book. 8vo. 295pp. A hint of dust marking to top edge, and a touch of very light spotting to several preliminary leaves and to occasional text leaves. Slight pull to head of backstrip. A lovely crisp copy in the handsome Stephen Russ-illustrated dust wrapper, a little marked and rubbed with several short tears to the spine ends and another enclosed tear to the front panel-spine panel joint, but nothing in the way of significant loss. £50

204. WILLIAM TREVOR. Miss Gomez and the Brethren. A novel. The Bodley Head 1971. First

edition. 8vo. 291pp. Top edge spotted and with a trace of a little further spotting to fore edge and endpapers. Contemporary former owner name boldly inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper, the front and rear flaps lightly spotted. The author’s sixth novel. £50

205. WILLIAM TREVOR. The Ballroom of Romance and other stories. The Viking Press, New York

1972. The first US edition. 8vo. 269pp. Quarter cloth. A small blemish to the base of the upper board. A virtually fine copy in pictorial dust wrapper designed by Stephen Russ (the design identical to that of the English edition), just fractionally rubbed at one or two extremities. Former owner name boldly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Twelve stories, Trevor’s second collection of short fiction (this US edition scarce, if not quite as much as the UK edition of the same year). £75

206. ANNE TYLER. A Slipping-Down Life. Severn House 1983. The first UK edition (published some

thirteen years after the original US edition). 8vo. 157pp. A small area of staining to the front pastedown, else in fine state with fractionally sunned dust wrapper. The author’s third novel, written after the five year hiatus provoked by her relocation to Baltimore. £25

207. BARRY UNSWORTH. Mooncranker’s Gift. Allen Lane 1973. First edition of the author’s fourth

novel. 8vo. 288pp. A small slit to the base of the upper hinge, else fine in fine dust wrapper. £40

208. ROBERT VANSITTART. (T.E.Lawrence interest). The Singing Caravan. A Sufi Tale. With illustrations by William MacCance. The Gregynog Press, Newtown 1932. The revised edition, and the first with these MacCance illustrations, limited to 250 numbered copies hand-set by Idris and Idwal Jones and printed at the Gregynog Press on hand-made paper. 4to. 143pp. Full brown sheepskin, gilt lettered at spine and upper board. With a two-colour wood engraved frontispiece (offset a little to the adjacent title page), occasional illuminations and several vignettes in the text by MacCance, then controller of the Gregynog Press. Boards a little chafed at extremities and with half a dozen light superficial scores. A touch of spotting throughout and some off-set browning from the sheepskin to the margins of the front and rear endpapers. A very crisp copy of an uncommon Gregynog production, a book-length poem by Lord Vansittart, the second cousin of T.E.Lawrence and a work much admired by him. (Lawrence originally suggested this project to Gregynog, but declined an invitation to provide a preface. He was nevertheless extremely complimentary about the finished product, writing to MacCance in March 1933 upon receipt of his copy “My Caravan delights me. The print is small and neat and fine : paper and binding all right : and the decoration most fitting and restrained. The capital letters are quite new to me, in style and colour and most successful. Printing poetry is always difficult ... but you have kept it well in frame and harmonious. I call the whole book a very worthy performance. It is excellent stuff to read, too. I have liked it since it came out, and in this noble dress it reads better than ever. I hope you have sold them all”). £200

209. KURT VONNEGUT. Jailbird. A novel. Jonathan Cape 1979. The first UK edition. 8vo. 241pp. Publisher’s top edge stain just a fraction faded and with a tiny scuff to the tip of the front free endpaper. An extremely crisp and bright copy in dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at spine ends. £20

210. EVELYN WAUGH. Waugh in Abyssinia. Longmans, Green & Co. 1936. First edition. 8vo. 253pp.

Cloth just a little marked with a single tiny tear to the head of the backstrip. Binding just a little cocked and a fraction tender at two gatherings, short creases to the tips of three text leaves. A nice crisp copy, lacking the dust wrapper. Faint ghost from erased yet stubborn pencilled numerals to rear pastedown (soft leaded pencils, anybody?). Waugh’s first-hand account of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (he used some of his experiences for the novel Scoop which was published two years later). £35

211. EVELYN WAUGH. Work Suspended. Two Chapters of an Unfinished Novel. Chapman & Hall

1942. First edition – limited to 500 copies. 8vo. 150pp. Top edge dust marked and a little spotted, and fore edge also lightly spotted. A narrow strip of discolouration to cloth at the head of the rear board. Former owner name inked to front free endpaper, and the faint ghost of another partially erased pencilled name. A nice crisp copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. A similarly titled trade edition was issued six years later which also included a selection of reprinted stories. £200

212. EVELYN WAUGH. Brideshead Revisited. An eleven-part series for television adapted from the

novel by Evelyn Waugh. Granada Television, Manchester [1981]. A scarce publicity booklet for the celebrated John Mortimer-adaptation of Waugh’s classic, comprising an episode breakdown, cast biographies, an essay on Waugh, plus a bibliography and an essay on the writing of Brideshead. 4to. 75pp. Delightful double-spread pictorial wrappers plus a further eight unattributed full-page colour drawings in the same style. Illustrated throughout with stills, mostly in colour. Upper wrapper lightly soiled with a small area of tape-secured surface abrasion and with several scores to a single colour still. A very good copy. Uncommon. £30

213. PETER WELLS. Poems. The One Time Press, Linstead Magna 1997. First edition thus. A new

selection of Wells’ poems, mostly written and published in the 1940s and reproduced here in offset litho under his own imprint, accompanied by a selection of his woodcuts, one of which is reproduced in colour. Tall slim 8vo. Twenty-five unpaginated leaves of printed text, cloth-bound with handsome marbled endpapers. Several superficial marks to the upper board. A very good copy. Twelve poems from the co-editor (along with Alex Comfort) of Poetry Folios - an occasional anarchist periodical which ran from 1942-46. £15

214. KENNETH WHITE. The Cold Wind of Dawn. Poems. Jonathan Cape 1966. First edition. Slim 8vo.

60pp. Paper-covered cloth. A touch of spotting to top edge and light browning to endpapers. A very good copy in very slightly rubbed and tanned dust wrapper. Thirty-eight poems, the author’s first UK publication. £50

215. T.H.WHITE. The Green Bay Tree, or The Wicked Man Touches Wood. W.Heffer & Sons Ltd,

‘Songs for Sixpence’ series, Cambridge 1929. First edition of the author’s first book, a two-page poem issued as the third volume in Heffer’s Songs for Sixpence series highlighting the work of young Cambridge poets. Sewn card wrappers featuring a handsome series wood-engraved design by Raymond McGrath. Wrappers split into two parts at natural fold and lightly tanned. Quite a bright if disappointingly preserved copy of an uncommon and notoriously frail item. £75

216. HENRY WILLIAMSON contributes The Confessions of a Fake Merchant to the anthology The

Book of Fleet Street. Edited by T.Michael Pope. Cassell 1930. First edition. 8vo. 306pp. Spine ends just a little rubbed and with a touch or two of spotting to top- and fore edge and, very occasionally, to leaf margins. A very crisp copy in dust wrapper, spine panel a little faded, and with several tiny fractions of loss from the tips of two corners and several other extremities, and a small enclosed area of loss to the spine panel (impacting no text). Memoirs of the journalistic profession from around the world, as recollected by Williamson (the first appearance of this story), Arthur Machen, Alec Waugh, J.B.Morton, D.B.Wyndham Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, H.M.Tomlinson &c. £25

217. HENRY WILLIAMSON contributes a four-page introduction to Sir E.John Russell’s English Farming. Collins, ‘Britain in Pictures’ series 1941. First edition. Tall 8vo. 47pp. Paper-covered boards. With twelve colour plates, and various monochrome reproductions. Very good in dust wrapper, lightly spotted at flaps and rear panel, tanned at spine panel and with a tiny sliver of loss to the head of the spine. Tiny dealer plate. £15

218. HENRY WILLIAMSON contributes A Devon Stream to the anthology Countryside Mood. Edited

and with an introduction by Richard Harman. The Blandford Press [1943]. First edition. 8vo. 208pp. Very good in lightly tanned and dust marked dust wrapper, chafed at the head of the spine panel and with a single tiny area of loss. Williamson’s story is a redrafted version of a piece which originally appeared in a June 1943 issue of Strand under the title The Story of a Devon Stream. £10

219. HENRY WILLIAMSON contributes his story The Ackymals to the anthology Voices on the Green.

Edited by A.R.J.Wise & Reginald A.Smith and illustrated with wood engravings. Michael Joseph 1945. First edition. 8vo. 223pp. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, chipped at extremities with several small areas of loss and some accompanying creasing. £15

220. HENRY WILLIAMSON contributes The Clodhoppers to the anthology Countryside Character.

Edited and with an introduction by Richard Harman, and illustrated with photographs and wood engravings. The Blandford Press 1946. First edition. 8vo. 235pp. Very good in dust wrapper, a little soiled at rear panel and with a sliver of loss to the head of the spine panel. Former owner inscription. Williamson’s seventeen-page story was originally printed over three December 1943 issues of the Eastern Daily Press; this is its only bookform appearance. £10

221. HENRY WILLIAMSON contributes The Winter of 1941 to The Pleasure Ground. A Miscellany.

Macdonald 1947. First edition. 8vo. 297pp. Very good in slightly rubbed and chafed dust wrapper. Former owner gift inscription. The first appearance of Williamson’s nineteen-page story. £10

222. HENRY WILLIAMSON contributes an epilogue to George G.Gill’s A Fight Against Tithes. Edited

by Donald Gill and S.S.Gill. Privately Printed, Haslemere 1952. First edition. 8vo. Paper-covered boards with a title-label. Frontispiece. A very good copy, just a little rubbed at head of spine. Former owner name inked over a slightly scuffed area of the front endpaper. Scarce. £100

“During late February I had been plowing all night by the moon and all day by the sun in order to catch up with the work. Carting and loading 200 tons of sugar-beet in a rainy autumn had kept the tractor-plow idle, as labour was short in those war years…And, of course, the business manager and clerk, filling in forms for wood, for new machinery, for petrol, for feeding-stuffs, for seed-corn, as well as the accounts, in time snatched from meals and mending machinery…There was book-writing, too, in order to educate the children – for my farm supported all who worked on it, except the farmer”.

223. HENRY WILLIAMSON contributes Out of the Prisoning Tower to John Bull’s Schooldays, an

anthology of school days reminiscences reproduced from the pages of Spectator. Hutchinson 1961. First edition. 8vo. 160pp. With endpaper illustrations and a dust wrapper design by Quentin Blake. Very good in dust wrapper, very lightly chafed at one or two extremities. Other contributors include Kingsley Amis, Jocelyn Brooke, William Golding, Simon Raven & Philip Toynbee. £10

224. HENRY WILLIAMSON. Brocard Sewell. Like Black Swans. Some People and Themes. Illustrated

with photographs and with an introduction by Colin Wilson. Tabb House, Padstow 1982. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author. 8vo. 232pp. Top edge a little soiled, and the tip of one corner bumped. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at several extremities and with the publisher’s red spine panel colouring really quite faded. Includes a ten-page appreciation of Henry Williamson, plus writings on Baron Corvo, Thomas Hardy, G.K.Chesterton, Olive Custance, &c. £20

225. R.D.WINGFIELD. Night Frost. Constable 1992. First edition. 8vo. 312pp. Edges very lightly spotted and with perhaps a shade or two of tanning to paperstock. Very good indeed in virtually fine dust wrapper, just fractionally rubbed at one or two extremities. The third Inspector Frost novel. £150

226. R.D.WINGFIELD. Hard Frost. Constable 1995. First edition. 8vo. 348pp. Boards lightly marked in

places, and edges lightly spotted. Several small indentations to the head of the front free endpaper, probably the impression from a now absent paperclip. A very good copy in dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at spine ends. The fourth Inspector Frost novel. £35

227. JAMES WOOD. The Broken Estate. Essays on Literature and Belief. Jonathan Cape 1999. First

edition. 8vo. 318pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper. Includes essays on Gogol, Melville, Chekhov, Mann, Flaubert, Woolf, T.S.Eliot, Pynchon, DeLillo, W.G.Sebald &c. £15

228. VIRGINIA WOOLF. Pages from a Diary. Seven pages of Woolf’s diary extracts appear in the

inaugural issue of the periodical Encounter. Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1953. 4to. Card wrappers, a little dust soiled. The first printing of these Woolf diary extracts, which appear here a month before the publication of the Leonard Woolf-edited collection A Writer’s Diary. This first issue of Encounter also includes contributions by Christopher Isherwood (The Head of a Leader), C.Day Lewis (his poem Pegasus), Albert Camus and the editors. Loose subscription sheet laid-in. £15

229. VIRGINIA WOOLF. Hours in a Library. Harcourt, Brace, New York 1957. First separate edition -

privately printed for friends of the publisher as a New Year's greeting. Slim 8vo. 24pp. Black cloth with blue cloth spine. Portrait frontispiece. Spine ends just a little rubbed and with some unsightly markings to the rear board. Lacking the unprinted wax-paper wrapper. A brief forward by Leonard Woolf precedes Woolf’s twelve-page essay, originally printed in the TLS in November 1916. £35

230. RICHARD WRIGHT. Uncle Tom’s Children. Four Novellas. With a foreword by Paul Robeson.

Victor Gollancz 1939. First UK edition (significantly more uncommon than the US edition). 8vo. 286pp. Backstrip faded and tips of two corners gently knocked. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown, alongside a small dealer plate, and five digits inkstamped to the corner of the front free endpaper (presumably a private library reference code). An extremely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. The author’s second book, a collection of four novellas which received an extremely favourable reception, permitting Wright sufficient financial freedom to begin his seminal Native Son. £150

231. WYNDHAM LEWIS. Blasting & Bombardiering. [An autobiography]. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1937.

First edition, probably a later binding. 8vo. 312pp. With a self-portrait frontispiece, six photographs and reproductions of four Wyndham Lewis paintings and eleven portraits. Top edge lightly spotted and dust marked and with a tiny area of rust marking to the front free endpaper and adjacent pastedown where several clippings were once stored. A small sliver of loss to the base of one text leaf. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. 3,000 copies were printed, with 1007 initially bound, 400 bound the year after and 99 further copies bound in 1941 – the rest presumably pulped. This particular copy is probably one of the later two bindings, without the publisher’s top edge stain. £30

232. WYNDHAM LEWIS. The Human Age. Complete in three parts (over two volumes) comprising

Childermass, Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta. With illustrations and dust wrapper designs by Michael Ayrton. Methuen 1955-56. The second edition of Childremass, which was first published by Chatto & Windus in 1928 in an edition of 2,500 copies (1,000 of which were pulped) and is here re-issued alongside the first edition of the two later parts. 8vo. Decorated cloth, designed by Michael Ayrton. The first volume contains three full-page drawings by Ayrton, with six further illustrations in the second volume. The backstrip of volume one a little discoloured and with a touch of spotting to the top edge, a strip of very light browning to the endpapers and a little wear to the rear hinge, but the binding still perfectly sound. Former owner name to the front endpaper of volume two. Very good copies housed in the handsome double-spread Ayrton dust wrappers with two small areas of loss to the spine panel of volume one, and the wrapper of the second volume encased in laminate. Originally planned at a tetralogy, Lewis died before the fourth and final volume, to be entitled The Trail of Man, was written, leaving only a draft rejected opening sequence. Pound & Grover A41a & A41b. £100

ART AND ILLUSTRATED

233. NORMAN ACKROYD AND JEREMY HOOKER. Itchen Water. Etchings by Norman Ackroyd accompanied by ten Jeremy Hooker poems. Winchester School of Art Press, 1982. The deluxe issue, limited to fifty copies (this being # XV) signed by both contributors and with ten original etchings. 4to. Thirteen loose gatherings printed on BFK Rives rag-made paper and housed in a card folder within the original publisher’s cloth-covered handmade clamshell case. Designed and printed by Ronald King at Circle Press. In fine state. Laid-in are two original handwritten letters from Ackroyd to Hooker containing updates on the project and Ackroyd’s preferred selection of the accompanying poems (“I am beginning to feel that this might be a very special book. The mood of the poems + etchings is very symbiotic”). A handsome and most uncommon production. £1,250

234. ELIZABETH BLACKADDER. The catalogue of a touring 1981-82 Scottish Arts Council

exhibition. Small landscape 8vo. 64pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. With forty reproductions, twelve of them in colour, plus several photographs of the artist. A fine copy. £10

235. EDWARD BURRA. Jane Stevenson. Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye. Jonathan Cape 2007.

First edition. 8vo. 496pp. Illustrated with forty photographs. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, just fractionally chafed at spine panel ends. The first full-length biography of Burra. £20

236. ALEXANDER CALDER. H.H.Arnason & Pedro E.Guerrero. Calder. A study of the works of

Alexander Calder, with text by H.H.Arnason and photographs by Pedro E.Guerrero. Studio Vista 1967. First UK edition. 4to. 192pp. Illustrated with over 150 photographs, thirty-two of them in colour, all created specially for this publication. A fine copy in dust wrapper, with a single short tear to the base of the spine panel and a lengthy accompanying crease. Publisher’s laminate lifting a little in one or two places and with a trace of discolouration to the wrapper flaps. A critical biography of the artist and his work. £35

237. ALEXANDER CALDER. Sculpture of the 1970s. Catalogue of an exhibition. With many plates.

Small square 4to. Card wrappers, slightly marked. £10

238. FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN. Mary Banham and Bevis Hillier. A Tonic to the Nation. The Festival of Britain 1951. Thames & Hudson 1976. First edition. 4to. 200pp. Card wrappers. With nearly 200 illustrations, a small number in colour. Includes contributions and recollections by John Piper, Barbara Jones, Rowland Emett, Hugh Casson &c. A virtually fine copy, marred only by a touch of fading to the spine alongside a very minimal readership crease, and a little sunning to the rear wrapper. A fascinating account of the Festival of Britain ("a gesture of defiance in the face of austerity") issued as a companion piece to the 1976 Victoria and Albert exhibition. £20

239. FOUGASSE. James Taylor. Careless Talk Costs Lives. Fougasse and the Art of Public

Information. Conway 2010. First edition. 8vo. 96pp. Pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout with scores of reproductions, many in colour. In fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. An illustrated guide to Fougasse’s Second World War public information posters. £10

240. LUCIAN FREUD. Lucian Freud. A monograph. Edited by Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall and

with an introduction by Bruce Bernard. Random House, New York 1996. First edition. Large square 4to. 360pp. A seventeen-page introduction precedes just under 300 plates, all in colour where required and predominantly full-page with a number a double-spread. The backstrip and upper board lettering very slightly defective in several small places, else in fine state with original cloth-covered slipcase with colour pictorial onlay. A lavishly produced and extremely hefty tome. £195

241. ERIC GILL. William Shakespeare. Henry the Eighth. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Limited

Editions Club, New York 1939. The first edition with these illustrations, limited to 1,950 numbered copies, designed by Bruce Rogers. Folio. Holland-backed patterned boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tips of two corners slightly bumped, else a fine copy with none of the customary offsetting from the illustrations to adjacent leaves. Commentary laid-in, as issued. £200

242. DUNCAN GRANT. Duncan Grant (1885-1978). Works on Paper. A catalogue of a 1981 Anthony d’Offay exhibition. First edition. 8vo. Stapled card wrappers. With an introduction by Angelica Garnett and sixteen black and white plates. A fine copy. £10

243. BARBARA HEPWORTH. Drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape. With an introduction to the

drawings by Alan Bowness. Cory, Adams and Mackay 1966. First edition – this copy inscribed by the artist at the head of the half-title and dated the year of publication. 4to. 32pp + lxxvi plates, twenty of them in colour, plus a number of other reproductions and photographs in the text. Cloth lightly marked and with some light tanning to spine. Very good but lacking the dust wrapper. A five-page introduction by Hepworth is followed by Bowness’ ten-page essay, plus the plates. £150

244. BARBARA HEPWORTH. The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69. Edited by Alan Bowness. Lund Humphries 1971. First trade edition – this copy signed and dated by the editor on the half-title. 4to. 222pp. Pictorial cloth. With nearly 250 reproductions, plus sixteen colour plates. A hint of discolouration to extreme upper edges of boards, which are also fractionally marked in one or two places, else in virtually fine state with dust wrapper, lightly chafed at several extremities, lifting a little at the upper edge with one tiny tear and a little accompanying lifting of the publisher’s laminate. Several creases to wrapper flaps. A catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s work in the sixties, which was preceded by a limited issue of 150 copies (75 each for the UK and US markets). Laid-in is Alan Bowness’ A Guide to the Barbara Hepworth Museum. £250

245. BARBARA HEPWORTH. Margaret Gardiner. Barbara Hepworth. A Memoir. The Salamander Press, Edinburgh 1982. First edition, the card wrapper issue. 8vo. 63pp. Illustrated with eighteen photographs and reproductions. Just a trace of darkening to the wrappers and tiny blemishes to the margins of three text leaves. A very good copy in slightly tanned, rubbed and dust soiled dust wrapper. A personal account of Hepworth’s early days in Hampstead, where she lived and worked with Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore and Herbert Read. The outbreak of the Second World War soon saw them joined by Naum Gabo, Piet Mondrian, Moholy-Nagy and other refugee artists. £20

246. HAROLD JONES. M.E.Atkinson. August Adventure. A Novel for Boys & Girls. With endpapers,

title pages, seventeen full-page drawings (three of which have been quite carefully coloured), head and tail pieces and a dust wrapper design by Harold Jones. Jonathan Cape 1936. First edition. 8vo. 336pp. Publisher’s green top edge stain somewhat faded and with just a touch of wear to spine ends. A little moderate spotting to preliminary and concluding leaves, and, occasionally, to text leaves throughout. A very good copy in the handsome colour dust wrapper, a little dust soiled, and chipped and torn, mostly at spine ends, with some small slivers of loss. Former owner bookplate to half-title. The author’s first novel, and the first of her Lockett family series. £75

247. E.MCKNIGHT KAUFFER. Arnold Bennett. Venus Rising from the Sea. With twelve colour

drawings by E.McKnight Kauffer. Cassell 1931. First edition – ‘La Belle Sauvage Editions’: one of 350 numbered copies signed by the artist (this being #92). 4to. 110pp. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Three or four tiny insignificant blemishes to cloth at rear board and head of backstrip, else a fine copy with original unprinted tissue protector (browned and defective at spine) and housed in the stiff card slipcase with a printed paper title label; the slipcase a little rubbed, marked and defective. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Printed at the Curwen Press. £250

248. FERNAND LÉGER. Fernand Léger. Paris-New York. A monograph published in conjunction with

the 2008 Fondation Beyeler exhibition. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008. The English-language issue of the first trade and first casebound edition. 4to. 207pp. Illustrated with over two hundred reproductions, the vast majority of them in colour. A hint of unevenness to the base of the boards, probably a production fault, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, fractionally rubbed at the head of the spine panel and at a small area of the upper edge. A series of lavishly illustrated essays explore all aspects of Léger’s life and work, with special attention to the period 1940-1945 where he lived in exile in New York. £35

249. CLAIRE LEIGHTON. H.M.Tomlinson. The Sea and the Jungle. With woodcuts by Clare Leighton and a new foreword by the author. Duckworth 1930. The first illustrated edition. 8vo. 343pp. Decorated paper-covered cloth. With a frontispiece, six superb Leighton plates, and eleven header and tail pieces. Top edge dust marked. Board margins lightly browned and with a touch of quite light spotting to the head of a dozen preliminary leaves. A very good copy in dust wrapper, tanned at spine panel, lightly discoloured at margins of front and rear panels and a little rubbed and chafed at spine ends with several tiny fractions of loss. Contemporary former owner gift inscription discreetly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. £25

250. L.S.LOWRY contributes three drawings, one titled Father & Son and the other two untitled to an

issue of the periodical London Magazine. New Series. Vol. 6, No. 9. December 1966. 8vo. Card wrappers. A lovely crisp copy. £5

251. JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS. Paul Goldman. Beyond Decoration. The Illustrations of John

Everett Millais. The British Library, London, Private Libraries Association, Middlesex, and Oak Knoll Press, Delaware 2005. First edition. Tall 8vo. 337pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout with reproductions of all of Millais’ published book and periodical illustrations, primarily wood engravings but with a few steel engravings and etchings. A small bump to the head of the backstrip, else a fine copy in correspondingly rubbed dust wrapper with a single tiny tear to the bottom edge and a short accompanying crease. £15

252. JOHN MINTON. Ernest Frost. The Dark Peninsula. A novel. With a splendid colour dust wrapper

design by John Minton. John Lehmann 1949. First edition. 8vo. 224pp. A tiny hint of wear to spine ends. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled and edge worn with several short closed tears. The author’s first novel (he published five further novels, two of which were also issued by John Lehmann, and a little verse). £50

253. JOHN NASH AND W.H.DAVIES. Leisure. A poem by W.H.Davies with colour decorations by

John Nash. The Poetry Bookshop [1921]. First edition, issued as no. 18 of the Rhyme Sheet series. A single sheet measuring 359 x 165mm, printed on one side only. Davies’ famous fourteen line poem (What is this life, full of care, / We have no time to stand and stare”), accompanied by two elegant blue and yellow Nash decorations. A little creased, rubbed and nicked at top and bottom edge and with a touch of very light occasional spotting. Very good. The first series of Monro’s Rhyme Sheets, which numbered a total of twelve issues, began at appear in 1914 and were available with both coloured and uncoloured decorations (although the latter were swiftly phased out). A second series totalling twenty-four issues was produced after the war and "was probably as effective as any of [The Poetry Bookshop's] other devices for spreading the gospel of poetry" - Joy Grant, Harold Monro and The Poetry Bookshop. £50

254. PAUL NASH. Jules Tellier. Abd-er-Rhaman in Paradise. Translated from the French of Les Deux

Paradis by Brian Rhys and with wood engravings by Paul Nash. The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire 1928. The first English-language edition, and of course the first with these magnificent Nash engravings. Number 327 of 400 copies (200 of which were reserved for the US market). Tall 8vo. 34pp. Buckram-backed marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Upper board lifting a fraction. A little light fading to backstrip, intruding slightly to upper board. Just a tiny hint of rubbing to tips of corners and the occasional pinprick of spotting to endpapers. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown (Pamela Lister, the wife of Samuel Palmer-scholar Raymond Lister), alongside a tiny dealer plate. Nash contributes a frontispiece, title-page decoration and two plates, all quite exquisite. Very good indeed if lacking the highly fugitive dust wrapper. £250

255. PAUL NASH. Aerial Creatures. Published on the occasion of a 1996-97 exhibition of Nash’s WWII

paintings at the Imperial War Museum. First edition. 4to. 88pp. Stiff pictorial card wrappers (there was no casebound issue). A lengthy essay by Charles Hall precedes thirty-one colour reproductions. Rear wrapper lightly dust soiled, with the publisher’s laminate lifting a fraction at one corner and the impression from a now absent price sticker. Some soiling to four adjacent plate leaves. A nice bright copy. £20

256. EDUARDO PAOLOZZI. Sculptures from a Garden. The catalogue of a 1987 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. First edition – this copy signed by the artist beneath his photograph on the first leaf. 4to. 48pp. Card wrappers with French flaps. An introductory essay by Frank Whitford precedes over forty photographs of the artist and his sculptures. A touch of very light marking and dust soiling to wrappers. A very good copy. £50

257. JOHN PIPER. Walter de la Mare. The Traveller. A poem with four magnificent full-page colour

lithographs by John Piper. Faber 1946. First edition. Slim 8vo. 34pp. A tiny hint of browning to endpapers. Very good indeed in slightly distraught price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked and chafed with four or five fairly small areas of edge loss. £15

258. JOHN PIPER. William Wordsworth. A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of

England, with a Description of the Scenery, &c. for the use of Tourists and Residents. With an introduction by W.M.Merchant and illustrations by John Piper. Rupert Hart-Davis 1951. First edition. 8vo. 174pp. Just a hint of spotting to free endpapers and upper board lifting a fraction. Very good in very slightly edgeworn, dust soiled and internally spotted dust wrapper reproducing two of Piper’s illustrations. £50

259. JOHN PIPER. Ronald Duncan. Judas. A poem. With illustrations by John Piper. Anthony Blond

1960. First edition – this copy inscribed by John Piper on the front free endpaper: “Karen, much love from John Dec 6 1960”. Designed by Christopher Bradshaw and printed at the Chiswick Press. 4to. 37pp. Gilt lettered and decorated buckram. With a frontispiece and seven abstract Piper plates. A little chafing to buckram and several small indentations to the read board. Very good. No dust wrapper, probably as issued. £125

260. JOHN PIPER. Ronald Duncan. Judas. A poem. With illustrations by John Piper. Anthony Blond

1960. First edition. 4to. 37pp. With a frontispiece and seven abstract Piper plates. A single tiny blemish to the fore edge of the upper board. Very good indeed. £30

261. JOHN PIPER. Anthony West. John Piper. A monograph. Secker & Warburg 1979. First edition.

4to. 224pp. Illustrated with over 250 reproductions, thirty-three in glorious colour. Ghost of former dealer pencilled price to the head of the half-title, else a fine copy in double-spread pictorial dust wrapper, lightly faded at spine panel and a little chafed at one or two extremities. One of the definitive Piper monographs. £35

262. JOHN PIPER. John Piper on his Eightieth Birthday. A festschrift edited by Geoffrey Elborn, with

numerous illustrations. Stourton Press 1983. First edition, limited to which 900 copies printed at The Stellar Press. Royal 8vo. 90pp. Pictorial boards. A hint of bruising to the base of spine, else in fine state. No dust wrapper called for. Contributors include Myfanwy Piper, John Betjeman, Henry Moore, J.M.Richards, Quentin Bell, Rigby Graham, Stephen Spender, Peter Pears &c. £35

263. JOHN PIPER. Piper’s Country. The catalogue of a 1992-93 exhibition of prints and

watercolours at the Berkeley Square Gallery, London. First edition. 4to. 36pp. Stapled card wrappers. With an introduction by Kate Pierrepont and forty-six colour reproductions. Just a trace of marking to wrappers, else in fine state. £20

264. GWEN RAVERAT. Henry Allen Wedgwood. The Bird Talisman. An Eastern Tale. With

illustrations by Gwen Raverat. Faber 1939. First edition. Tall 8vo. 69pp. With decorated endpapers, a title page design, eight colour plates and forty-six wood engravings in the text. Binding just a little sprung and cloth lightly discoloured at spine ends where the dust wrapper is defective. Rear endpaper slightly grubby and with several small stains to the top- and fore edge. A nice crisp copy in dust wrapper, a little dust soiled, marked and stained with an inch or so of loss to the ends of the spine panel and a single short jagged tear to the head of the rear panel. Former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper. The first edition of Wedgwood’s delightful children’s tale, hitherto known only to generations of the Wedgwood and Darwin families, and here illustrated by his cousin twice removed, Gwen Raverat. £30

265. CERI RICHARDS. Drawings to Poems by Dylan Thomas. With a ten-page introduction by Richard Burns. The Enitharmon Press 1980. First edition – the card wrapper issue. 8vo. A fine unread copy. ‘Archive copy’ lightly pencilled to the head of the half-title, possibly spurious. A reproduction of seventy pages of Ceri Richard's copy of Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems (1952) which has been embellished with forty hitherto unprinted drawings, all completed in a period of twenty-four hours in August 1953. “It is my belief that it presents new material which is crucial for a full understanding and enjoyment of both the poet and the artist” - from the introduction. £30

266. STANLEY SPENCER. Elizabeth Rothenstein. Stanley Spender. A monograph. Phaidon Press,

‘British Artists’ series 1945. First edition. 4to. 25pp + plates. A fifteen-page essay by Rothenstein plus five tipped-in colour plates and a further ninety monochrome reproductions. Top edge lightly dust marked. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, a little dust soiled and chafed, and with some light tanning to the spine panel. Contemporary former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the front free endpaper. £20

267. C.F.TUNNICLIFFE. Shorelands Summer Diary. Collins 1952. First edition. 4to. 160pp. Publisher’s

top edge stain just a little faded. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page decoration, sixteen full-page colour plates and nearly 200 drawings in the text. Endpapers and several preliminary and concluding leaves spotted. Very good indeed in pictorial dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at spine ends and with a single tiny sliver of loss from the head of the front panel, some spotting to the rear panel alongside a strip of light tanning and some further tanning to the spine panel lettering. A very good copy of the first natural history book that Tunnicliffe both wrote and illustrated; presented in the form of a diary, it covers the first six-months of his lengthy affair with Anglesey (he and his wife moved from Manchester to a house called ‘Shorelands’ at Malltraeth, on the estuary of the Afon Cefni in March 1947 and he lived there until he died in 1979). £75

268. EDWARD WADSWORTH. Sailing-Ships and Barges of the Western Mediterranean and Adriatic

Seas. Illustrated with twenty-three superb copper engravings, nineteen hand-coloured and nineteen full-page. Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, ‘The Haslewood Books’ series 1926. First edition, of which 450 numbered copies were produced (this being #263). 4to. 79pp. Gilt lettered and decorated cloth. Printed at the Curwen Press on J.W.Zanders hand-made paper with the copper plates subsequently destroyed. With a four-page introduction by Bernard Windeler, who also provides a short introduction to each plate and hand-coloured most of the engravings. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Some fading to the publisher’s orange cloth at the upper and lower boards and with a short crease to the head of the backstrip. A tiny touch of non-invasive spotting to pastedowns and to occasional leaves. A very good copy of a superb production. No dust wrapper, as issued, but lacking the slipcase. £500

269. EDWARD WADSWORTH. Paintings, Drawings and Prints. The catalogue of an exhibition.

Colnaghi 1974. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Pictorial card wrappers. With seven tipped-in colour illustrations and over one hundred monochrome reproductions in various sizes. A 156-item catalogue with a select bibliography and chronology. A virtually fine copy in lettered translucent protector, this last very slightly soiled and with a small area of staining to the upper edge of the rear panel. £15

270. REX WHISTLER. The New Keepsake. An anthology. With handsome decorations by Rex Whistler.

Cobden-Sanderson 1931. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to sixty numbered copies, each signed by Whistler (fifty of which were for sale). 8vo. 147pp. Original gilt-decorated cloth. All edges gilt. The merest hint of spotting to endpapers. Silk marked ribbon detached and laid-in. In virtually fine state. No dust wrapper. In addition to the cloth decoration, Whistler contributes a dedication page illustration (unused), and twenty-four header illustrations. Issued as a companion piece to The New Forget-Me-Not (1929), with many of the same contributors including Siegfried Sassoon, V.Sackville-West, Edmund Blunden, W.B.Yeats, Hilaire Belloc, Stella Benson, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, Lord Berners, Harold Nicolson, Clive Bell, Cyril Connolly, Rose Macaulay, J.C.Squire, H.M.Tomlinson, Hugh Walpole, Raymond Mortimer &c. £350

GREAT WAR SUPPLEMENT

GREAT WAR - ART

271. JAMES AULICH. War Posters. Weapons of Mass Communication. Thames & Hudson 2007. First edition. Large 4to. 256pp. With over three hundred colour reproductions – many full page. A fine copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. An extensive study of war posters based on the holdings of the Imperial War Museum. Includes an eighty-six page section of Great War posters. £15

272. JIM AULICH AND JOHN HEWITT. Seduction or Instruction? First World War Posters in

Britain and Europe. Manchester University Press 2007. First edition. Small 4to. 218pp. Illustrated with scores of reproductions, many full-page and in colour. Spine ends lightly rubbed and the tip of one corner bumped. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper, with a tiny area of corresponding loss to one corner. A critical and historical analysis of British and European Great War posters. £20

273. BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER. Fragments from France. Volumes 1-7. The Bystander [1916-1919].

The first seven volumes of Bairnsfather’s collected ‘Old Bill’ cartoons, with only the final eighth volume missing. The first issue is a reprint, with the remaining six being first editions. Most wrappers a little marked and dusty and staples rusted. The wrappers of the first volume splint at the natural fold, and volume 7 with an IWM inkstamp and inked reference number. Quite a nice, bright set. Together with The Best of Fragments from France. Compiled and edited by Tonie and Valmai Holt. Phin Publishing, Cheltenham 1978. The paperback issue of the first edition. 4to. Card wrappers, very lightly chafed and discoloured. With over 140 reproductions. £75

274. MUIRHEAD BONE. The Western Front. Drawings. Parts One and Two. With a brief introduction

to the first volume by General Sir Douglas Haig. Country Life Ltd. 1917. First editions. 4to. Card wrappers. A total of forty splendid reproductions, some in colour, each with captions to adjacent rectos. Lovely bright copies in very slightly dust soiled dust wrappers. The first two parts of an eventual ten volume set. Uncommon with the dust wrappers. £40

275. MATTHIAS EBERLE. World War I and the Weimar Artists. Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Schlemmer.

Yale University Press 1985. First edition – publisher’s review slip tipped to the front free endpaper. Landscape 4to. 134pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout with reproductions, and including twenty-three in colour. A touch of light spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, marred only by a touch of rubbing to the head of the spine. An insightful study of the Great War experiences of Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Schlemmer and the impact it had on their artistic output. £25

276. FRED A.FARRELL. The 51st (Highland) Division. War Sketches. With an introduction by Neil

Munro. Jack, Edinburgh 1920. First edition. 4to. 30pp + lxiv plates of Farrell sketches, eight in colour and each with a captioned protector. Top edge spotted and cloth a little dust soiled, and rubbed and occasionally bumped at extremities. Coloured free endpapers a little tarnished and a sliver of damp staining to the lower edge to occasional plate leaves. Quite a bright copy. No dust wrapper. £50

Glaswegian Frederick Arthur Farrell, an up-and-coming etcher and watercolourist of portraits and topographical subjects, enlisted as a sapper at the outbreak of the Great War but was discharged due to ill health. He later made two trips to the front in his capacity as war artists, the first in November 1917 with the Highland Light Infantry, and the second in late 1918 when he spent two months attached to the 51st (Highland) Division in France and where he produced these sketches – predominantly of contemporary operations but also some landscapes of earlier battle locations

277. LUCINDA GOSLING. Brushes and Bayonets. Cartoons, Sketches and Paintings of World War I.

Osprey Publishing, Botley 2008. First edition. Landscape 4to. 200pp. Cloth-backed boards. Lavishly illustrated throughout with 250 colour and monochrome reproductions reproduced from the pages of the Illustrated London News and its Great Eight subsidiaries: The Bystander, The Tatler, The Sketch, The Graphic &c. In fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. £15

278. GREAT WAR ARTISTS. War Pictures. Issued by Authority of the Imperial War Museum. Walter Judd Ltd. 1919. First edition. 4to. Internally stapled card wrappers. Forty-seven pages of advertisements bookend nearly 200 monochrome reproductions of works by Kennington, Meninsky, Nash, Schwabe, Nevinson, Orpen, Bone, Maxwell, &c., many of them presented full-page. The tip of the first (advertisement) leaf has been clipped. A very good copy. £20

279. MARTIN HARDIE AND ARTHUR K.SABIN. War Posters Issued by Belligerent and Neutral

Nations 1914-1919. Selected and edited by Martin Hardie and Arthur K.Sabin. A & C Black 1920. First edition. 4to. 43pp + lxxix reproductions, including a few in colour, each with a captioned protector. Pictorial cloth, lightly rubbed at spine ends and the tips of two corners bumped. Some spotting to fore edge and the occasional leaf margin, but the posters themselves all in super state. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. £50

280. KEITH HENDERSON. Letters to Helen. Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front. Chatto &

Windus 1917. First edition. 8vo. 111pp + vii publisher’s catalogue. Cloth-backed boards with a tanned and chipped paper spine label. With a frontispiece and eleven colour plates reproducing Henderson’s drawings, each with a captioned tissue protector. Boards discoloured, dust soiled and a little chafed at edges. Hinges just a little tender. Half-title and rear free endpaper browned but otherwise a nice crisp copy internally, albeit lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. £25

281. ROSALIND ORMISTON. First World War Posters. With a foreword by Gary Sheffield. Flame

Tree Publishing 2013. First edition. Large square 8vo. 144pp. Laminated pictorial boards. A lengthy introductory essay precedes one hundred full-page colour reproductions. A single miniscule blemish to the front free endpaper aside, a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £10

282. WILLIAM ORPEN. Sidney Dark and P.G.Konody. Sir William Orpen. Artist and Man. Seeley

Service 1932. First edition. 8vo. 287pp. Illustrated with sixty-four plates with captioned protectors and reproductions of five illustrated letters. A little minor discolouration to cloth, and top edge lightly dust marked and spotted. A very good copy in dust wrapper with an inset colour plate, the wrapper a little tanned and nicked at edges with two or three tiny slivers of loss. £65

283. LOUIS RAEMAEKERS. Raemaekers’ Cartoon History of the War. Volume One – The First

Twelve Months of the War. Compiled by J.Murray Allison. John Lane, The Bodley Head 1919. First edition. 4to. 208pp. Portrait frontispiece. A nine-page preface precedes over one hundred splendid Raemaekers cartoons, printed in monochrome to versos only, with brief related text to each adjacent recto. Cloth a little discoloured and with some light spotting to endpapers. A very good copy in dust wrapper, nicked and torn with some unsightly taped repairs and reinforcement. The first of a three volume set. Uncommon. £45

284. LOUIS RAEMAEKERS. Raemaekers’ Cartoons. Hodder & Stoughton [no date]. First edition. 8vo.

Forty monochrome Raemaekers cartoons with captions, staples into spotted, grubby and dust soiled card wrappers, with a lengthy ragged strip of loss to the head of the front wrapper, impacting the title text. Staples rusted. A fairly poorly preserved copy. £5

285. LOUIS RAEMAEKERS. Ariane de Ranitz. Louis Raemaekers. ‘Armed with Pen and Paper’. How

a Dutch cartoonist became world famous during the First World War. With an article, The Kaiser in Exile: Wilhelm II in Doorn, by Liesbeth Ruitenberg. Louis Raemaekers Foundation, Roermond 2014. The English-language issue of the first edition. Large 4to. 294pp. Cloth-packed pictorial boards. Lavishly illustrated throughout with examples of Raemaekers’ correspondence with government leaders, newspaper clippings from around the world and more than three hundred illustrations with hundreds of colour reproductions of Raemaekers’ cartoons. In fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. A full-length expansion of de Ranitz’s 1989 dissertation, telling the story of the First World War through the eyes of Raemaekers, “the one private individual who exercised a real and great influence on the course of the 1914-18 War” – The Times. £75

286. MAURICE RICKARDS. Posters of the First World War. Selected and reviewed by Maurice Rickards. Evelyn, Adams & Mackay 1968. First edition. Square 4to. A 32-page essay followed by 92-pages of splendid reproductions, many full-page and in colour, of Great War posters from Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, USA, Russia etc. Just a hint of wear to spine ends. Very good in slightly sunned and dust soiled dust wrapper. £20

287. NICHOLAS SAUNDERS. Trench Art. Materialities and Memories of War. Berg, Oxford 2003.

First edition. 8vo. 254pp. Card wrappers. Illustrated with dozens of examples. In fine state. £5

288. PETER T.SCOTT. Home for Christmas. Cards, Messages and Legends of the Great War. Tom Donovan 1993. First edition. Landscape 4to. 66pp. Illustrated with captioned reproductions, a few in colour, of some sixty divisional and regimental Christmas cards of the Great War sent home by men at the front. A fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at one or two extremities and with a short enclosed tear to the front panel. £10

289. STUART SILLARS. Art and Survival in First World War Britain. St. Martin’s Press, New York

1987. First edition. 8vo. 192pp. With twenty-one 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

290. NIGEL VINEY. Images of Wartime. British Art and Artists of World War I. Pictures from the

Collection of the Imperial War Museum. David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1991. First edition. Landscape 4to. 128pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout with nearly 130 reproductions, predominantly in colour. Base of spine bumped. A very good copy in dust wrapper, with two small areas of light scoring on the rear panel and a little internal taped reinforcement to spine ends. £25

291. LAWSON WOOD. Splinters. Duckworth 1916. First edition. 4to. 45pp stapled into card wrappers

with a colour reproduction pasted to the front wrapper. Staples rusted, paperstock a little tanned and wrappers very lightly faded and a little dusty. Twenty-two full-page Great War drawings with captions and comic silhouettes to the adjacent rectos, reproduced from the pages of The Sketch and Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News where they all first appeared. Wood drew these cartoons whilst serving as an officer in the Kite Balloon Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, spotting enemy planes from a hot air balloon (he was decorated by the French for his action over Vimy Ridge). £50

GREAT WAR - POETRY

292. ANTHOLOGY. A Garland of Patriotism. An Anthology. Edited by Mary Donald. W.P.Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, Edinburgh [1917]. First edition. Small 8vo. viii + 88pp. Limp leather wrappers with a blind-stamped decoration and gilt lettering to the upper wrapper. Pictorial colour endpapers. Wrappers lifting and extremities very lightly rubbed. A very good copy. Contemporary former owner gift inscription to a blank preliminary, subsequently struck-through and with a second ownership name added. An uncommon verse anthology which includes a section entitled ‘Poems suggested by the Present War’ featuring verse by Hardy, Seaman, William Watson, &c. Reilly p.7. £25

293. 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, 1919. First edition. Royal 8vo. 78pp. Full tan calf lettered and ruled in gold at spine and upper board. Illustrated with ten plates. All edges gilt and with handsome marbled endpapers. A touch of light wear to calf at several extremities, and several short shallow scores. Some very light spotting to endpapers. A very good copy of a handsome production. 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. £50

294. NICHOLAS MURRAY. The Red Sweet Wine of Youth. The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poems. Little Brown 2010. First edition. 8vo. 343pp. Illustrated with photographs and manuscript reproductions. A tiny bump to the tip of one corner, else in fine state with fine dust wrapper. £10

295. WILFRED OWEN. D.S.R.Welland. Wilfred Owen. A Critical Study. Chatto & Windus 1960. First

edition. 8vo. 158pp. Edges, endpapers and several preliminary leaves spotted. A nice crisp copy in lightly rubbed, spotted and internally reinforced dust wrapper. This copy from the library of Peterloo Poets founder Harry Chambers, with his name inked to the front free endpaper. A note of all W.B.Yeats references has been inked to the front flap of the wrapper, and there are some occasional inked ticks and highlights to the margins of the corresponding pages. Together with a proof copy of the first edition. Card wrappers discoloured, a little handled, and chipped at spine ends. £20

296. WILFRED OWEN. My Dear Old Wolf. An Undelivered Letter to Wilfred Owen from his Brother

Harold. The Blackwater Press, Wootton-by-Woodstock 1996. First edition, limited to 100 hand-set copies, seventy-five of which were reserved for members of the Wilfred Owen Society. Small 8vo. vii + 15pp. A touch of light print offsetting to the first leaf of the publisher’s foreword, else in fine state. The first printing of this letter, written in 1962 and originally intended as a preface to Owen’s three-part biography of his brother, but in the end remaining unused. Uncommon. £125

“Forty-four years have disappeared – how little I have done with them – since I last wrote to you in 1918. You never read this letter. You were killed before it reached you. I have always been sorry about this – stop muttering, the letter I mean, of course, not you. It was one of my few good letters. I thiuk [sic] it would have pleased you”.

297. PERIODICAL A special Great War poetry double-issue of the periodical Agenda. Vol. 48, Nos. 3-

4, autumn-winter 2014. Card wrappers, in fine state. Includes three new poems by Michael Longley, alongside his personal selection of Great War verse, plus scores of new poems and critical essays by various hands (including N.S.Thompson's poem Gurney: At the Front). £10

298. ANNE POWELL. A Deep Cry. A Literary Pilgrimage to the Battlefields and Cemeteries of First

World War British Soldier-Poets Killed in Northern France and Flanders. Edited and with an introduction by Anne Powell. Palladour Books, Aberporth 1993. First edition. 8vo. 470pp. Former owner name neatly embossed to the head of the front free endpaper. A fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the head of the spine panel and with some fading to the publisher’s red colouring to spine- and front panels. A meticulously researched and quite invaluable reference work. £15

299. ISAAC ROSENBERG. Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Isaac Rosenberg. Poet and Painter. A biography.

Cecil Woolf 1975. First edition. 8vo. 220pp. With a colour self-portrait frontispiece, handsome pictorial endpapers and various photographs and reproductions. Several tiny areas of staining to top edge, else a fine copy in fine price-clipped dust wrapper. £10

300. 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 1979. First edition. 8vo. 320pp. With twenty-three colour reproductions and a further twenty-seven in monochrome. A hint of wear to spine ends, else in fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper. 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. £25

301. SIEGFRIED SASSOON. The Library of the Late Siegfried Sassoon. An illustrated 1975 Christie’s

catalogue. Small 4to. 98pp + vi plates. Card wrappers exhibiting a little uneven sunning, and several numerals and characters neatly inked to the head of the title page. A nice crisp copy of this 413-item sale catalogue of Sassoon’s own original manuscripts and printed books, together with books, manuscripts and autograph letters from other important writers. £10

302. SIEGFRIED SASSOON. John Stuart Roberts. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). A biography. Richard Cohen Books 1999. First edition. 8vo. 354pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper. £10

303. SIEGFRIED SASSOON. Max Egremont. Siegfried Sassoon. A biography. Picador 2005. First

edition – this copy signed by the author. 8vo. 639pp. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper. £25

304. FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT. In the Battle Silences. Poems written at the Front. Constable 1916. First UK edition (following the Canadian edition printed earlier in the same year). 33pp. Card wrappers, somewhat marked, dusty and nicked at yapped edges. Binding a little defective with just a hint of spotting to preliminary leaves. Short tear to head of title page. Possibly spurious author's compliments slip pasted to front endpaper bearing the inscription "Ethel from Billy", and a neat former owner name to internal wrapper fold. Eleven poems, two originally printed in The Times with the remainder appearing in print in the UK for the first time. Scott, 'Poet of the Laurentians', was a noted Canadian poet. He enlisted in 1914, well over the age of 50, and held the rank of Major serving as the Senior Chaplain to the 1st Canadian Division. B.E.F. Reilly, index ref. only. £35

305. JON STALLWORTHY. Anthem for Doomed Youth. Twelve Soldier Poems of the First World War.

Constable 2002. First edition. Small 4to. 192pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper. An account of the lives and work of twelve Great War poets. £10

306. WILL STREETS. Victor Piuk. A Dream Within the Dark. A Derbyshire Poet in the Trenches.

Ashridge Press, Bakewell 2005. Reissue – this copy inscribed by the author on the half-title. 8vo. 100pp. Glossy card wrappers. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. A fine copy. An account of the life of John William Streets, a Derbyshire coalminer who enlisted at the outbreak of war and was killed during the Battle of the Somme. His one volume of verse, The Undying Splendor, was published posthumously a year later. £10

307. EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT. Anne Powell. Bim. A Tribute to The Honourable Edward

Wyndham Tenant. Lieutenant, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards 1897-1916. Privately printed 1990. First edition. 8vo. 59pp. Card wrappers. Illustrated with photographs and one map. A date has been inked to the head of the copyright page and another to the inner rear wrapper, else in fine state. A pen-portrait of Edward ‘Bim’ Tennant, reproducing a number of his poems and diary extracts. £10

GREAT WAR - MEMORIALS AND BATTLEFIELD GUIDES

308. GREAT WAR. Ypres Before and After the Great War. A monograph, illustrated with 122 photographs. Bénard, S.A., Liége 1927. The first English edition. 8vo. 154pp. Card wrappers, a little rubbed and soiled, and chipped and repaired at the base of the spine. A small area of staining to the upper edge of the first dozen leaves. Quite a bright copy. A descriptive account of Ypres before and after the catastrophic events of the First Word War. £10

309. GREAT WAR. 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. Uncommon. £25

310. MICHELIN GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS. The Americans in the Great War. Complete in

three volumes comprising The Second Battle of the Marne, The Battle of Saint Mihiel and Meuse – Argonne Battlefields. Michelin & Co. Clermont-Ferrand 1919. 8vo. Linen-covered card wrappers. With photographs and maps. Volume 1 from the Ruskin College Library, with two inkstamps to that effect, and volume 2 with tape-reinforced hinges, a former owner name ticket and several inked reference numbers. A sound working set, the third volume housed in the original dust wrapper. £20

311. MICHELIN GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS. Siossons. Before and During the War. Michael & Co., Clermont-Ferrand 1919. 8vo. Card wrappers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. A very good copy in the original dust wrapper, split into two parts at the natural fold. £10

312. MICHELIN GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS. Lille. Before and During the War. Michelin &

Co., Clermont-Ferrand 1919. 8vo. Internally stapled card wrappers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Staples rusted and partially defective and one instance of taped reinforcement. Wrappers tanned and dusty. Quite a bright copy. £10

313. MICHELIN GUIDES TO THE BATTLEFIELDS. The Battle-Fields of the Marne 1914. Michelin

& Co., Clermont-Ferrand 1919. 8vo. 264pp. Linen-covered card wrappers. With photographs and maps. Boards just a little marked and rubbed and front hinge tender. ‘Complimentary Copy’ inkstamp to the front free endpaper. Quite a nice, bright copy. No dust wrapper. £10

314. PHILIP LONGWORTH. The Unending Vigil. A History of the Commonwealth War Graves

Commission 1917-1967. With an introduction by Edmund Blunden. Constable 1967. First edition. 8vo. 253pp. Map-illustrated endpapers, a colour frontispiece and eighty-one photographs. A virtually fine copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. £15

315. LIEUT.-GEN. SIR WILLIAM PULTENEY AND BEATRIX BRICE. The Immortal Salient. An

Historical Record and Complete Guide for Pilgrims to Ypres. John Murray for The Ypres League, 1925. First edition. 8vo. 89pp. Stiff card wrappers, a little chafed and handled. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three splendid colour plates by Captain F.E.Hodge, plus two photographs, one plan and two large folding colour maps in a rear pouch. Some light browning to endpapers and spotting to preliminary leaf margins, and evidence of a little silverfish nibbling to the rear pastedown and map pouch. A good, sound copy of a really quite uncommon item. £50

316. GREAT WAR MEMORIALS. A special Canadian War Memorials issue of the Colour magazine.

Vol. 9, No. 2 September 1918. 4to. 24pp + various advertisement leaves. Stapled card wrappers, somewhat dust soiled and repaired at spine with the staples rusted, but really quite crisp internally. A lengthy essay, The Canadian War Memorials, by P.G.Konody, illustrated with reproductions of paintings and drawings, predominantly in colour, by C.R.W.Nevinson, A.J.Munnings, William Orpen, Leonard Richmond, Augustus John and others. £30

GREAT WAR – MILITARY AND NON-MILITARY BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

317. W.BEACH THOMAS. With the British on the Somme. Methuen 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. 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, 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

318. LORD BEAVERBROOK. Men and Power 1917-1918. Hutchinson 1956. First edition. 8vo. 447pp.

Illustrated with photographs. A nice crisp copy in dust wrapper, lightly chafed at spine ends and at tips of corners, and with just a touch of dust soiling to the rear panel. Beaverbrook’s 1917-1918 memoirs, detailing the struggle for peace and power that proceeded at Westminster as the fighting on the Flanders battlefields moved to its climax. £10

319. KATHLEEN BURKE. The White Road to Verdun. George H.Doran, New York 1916. First American edition. 8vo. 168pp. Cloth with partially defective lettering and an inset photographic portrait of the author. With a portrait frontispiece and fifteen captioned photographic plates, one a little tender and another detached and laid-in. Cloth rubbed at extremities. A bright copy of this account of the author’s Great War nursing experiences: in July 1916 Burke, organising secretary of the Scottish Women Hospitals, was sent on a special mission to Belgium and France where she visited the trenches and became the first woman to enter Verdun during the great siege. £15

320. FIELD MARSHAL JULIAN BYNG. Jeffery Williams. Byng of Vimy. General and Governor-

General. Leo Copper 1983. First edition – this copy inscribed by the author on the title page, dated the year after publication and with a short handwritten note laid-in. 8vo. 398pp. With map-illustrated endpapers, photographs and maps. A trace of wear to spine ends, else in virtually fine state with fine dust wrapper. A biography of Julian ‘Bungo’ Byng, whose distinguished Great War record included commanding the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge and later the Third Army. £25

321. CHARLES CARRINGTON. Soldier from the Wars Returning. Hutchinson 1965. First edition. 8vo.

287pp. With a photographic frontispiece and three maps. A very crisp and bright copy in slightly edgeworn price-clipped dust wrapper. Carrington's account of his Great War experiences, fighting with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment at the Battle of the Somme and at Passchendaele. This account was written some forty-five years after his celebrated pseudonymous account of some of the same events which appeared under the title A Subaltern's War. £15

322. GUY CHAPMAN. A Kind of Survivor. The Autobiography of Guy Chapman. Victor Gollancz 1975.

First edition. 8vo. 288pp. Portrait frontispiece. A very good copy in dust wrapper. The autobiography of Guy Chapman, who served in France and Belgium during the Great War with the Royal Fusiliers; edited by the author’s wife and published posthumously. £10

323. BILLY CONGREVE. Armageddon Road. A VC’s Diary 1914-1916. Edited by Terry Norman.

William Kimber 1982. First edition. 8vo. 223pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Edges lightly spotted. A very good copy in virtually fine price-clipped dust wrapper. The diary of staff officer Billy Congreve, who was killed on the Somme in July 1916 after having been awarded the DSO, MC, the Légion d’Honneur and finally a posthumous VC. £10

324. BRIGADIER-GENERAL F.P.CROZIER. The Men I Killed. Michael Joseph 1937. First edition.

8vo. 288pp. Cloth, considerably marked, discoloured and a little rubbed, with the red backstrip lettering only just visible. Publisher’s top edge stain a little patchy, yet a very crisp and bright copy internally. Frank Percy Crozier commanded the 9th (Service) Battalion of the 107th (Ulster) brigade in the Battle of the Somme, earning the promotion to Brigadier-General and later commanded the 119th (Welsh) Brigade in the Battle of Cambrai and the Spring Offensive. After the war he became a pacifist and published several controversial autobiographical works about the war, this one being the last (he died the year it was published). £40

325. HARRY DRINKWATER. Harry’s War. The Great War Diary of Harry Drinkwater. Edited by Jon

Cooksey and David Griffiths. Ebury Press 2013. First edition. 8vo. 395pp. Photographic endpapers. Illustrated with maps and photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A reproduction of Drinkwater’s Great War diaries, August 1914-November 1918. £15

326. CAPTAIN J.C.DUNN. The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919. A Chronicle of Service in France

and Belgium with The Second Battalion His Majesty’s Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: founded on personal records, recollections and reflections, assembled, edited and partly written by one of their Medical Officers. Jane’s Publishing 1987. First trade edition (originally published anonymously in 1938 in a limited edition of 500 copies). 8vo. 613pp + xxvii sketched maps. Illustrated with photographs. A touch of tanning to paperstock. Very good in dust wrapper, a little sunned at spine panel and lightly rubbed at top edge. James Dunn served with in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and wrote this volume of memoirs in response to Graves' and Sassoons’s wartime memoirs, accounts he believed to be fictions and half-truths. £30

327. GENERAL SIR HUBERT GOUGH. Soldiering On. Being the Memoirs of General Sir Hubert Gough. With an introduction by Sir Arthur Bryant. Arthur Barker 1954. First edition. 8vo. 260pp. With a frontispiece, map-illustrated endpapers and a number of photographs. Some discolouration to cloth and tips of several corners bumped. A crisp if slightly dusty copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, a little dust soiled and edge worn with several small areas of loss. Former owner bookplate. The autobiography of Sir Hubert Gough, commander of the Fifth Army, 1916 to 1918. £35

328. DONALD HANKEY. James Kissane. Without Parade. The Life and Work of Donald Hankey. ‘A

Student at Arms’. The Book Guild, Sussex 2003. First edition. 8vo. 286pp. Illustrated with eleven maps and reproductions. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A critical biography of Donald Hankey, killed in action in October 1916 on the Somme, and best remembered for his two volumes of essays, A Student in Arms, detailing the British volunteer army in the Great War. £10

329. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN. Journal of the Great War. From Sussex Shore to Flanders Fields.

Edited by Brian W.Harvey and Carol Fitzgerald. Phillimore, Chichester 2002. First edition. 8vo. 282pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. The Great War journal of Edward Heron-Allen, chronicling the impact of the conflict on the Home Front, his training with the Sussex Volunteer Regiment and his work with the propaganda department of the War Office, working along side the ‘uncongenial’ H.G.Wells. £15

330. 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 dust wrapper. The first biography of Horne, the “forgotten General of the Western Front”. £15

331. BRIGADIER-GENERAL J.L.JACK. General Jack’s Diary 1914-1918. The Trench Diary of

Brigadier-General J.L.Jack, D.S.O. Edited and with an introduction by John Terraine. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1964. First edition. 8vo. 319pp. Illustrated with over thirty photographs and several maps. A very good copy in dust wrapper, a little rubbed at extremities and with the publisher’s laminate lifting a little in places, as is invariably the case. The diary of Captain, and subsequently Brigadier-General J.L.Jack, edited into a continuous narrative and covering almost the entirety of the war on the Western Front. £15

332. THOMAS LIVINGSTONE. Tommy’s War. A First World War Diary 1913-1918. Edited by Ronnie

Scott. HarperPress 2008. First edition. 8vo. 382pp. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and manuscript reproductions. A fine copy in dust wrapper. The 1913-18 diary of a Glaswegian shipping clerk, detailing the Home Front life of an ordinary working class family. £10

333. E.P.F.LYNCH. Will Davies. Somme Mud. The War Experiences of an Australian Infantryman in

France 1916-1919. Edited by Will Davies. Doubleday 2008 Reprint. 8vo. 347pp. With photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. The memoirs of Private Edward Lynch, jotted down into twenty school exercise books upon his return from France in 1919. Together with In the Footsteps of Private Lynch by Will Davies. Doubleday 2009. The first UK edition. 8vo. 257pp. With maps and photographs. Spine ends very lightly rubbed, else a fine copy in correspondingly rubbed wrapper. A follow-up to Somme Mud, retracing the progress of Private Lynch and the 45th Battalion. £15

334. GENERAL SIR IVOR MAXSE. John Baynes. Far from a Donkey. The Life of General Sir Ivor

Maxse. Brassey’s 1995. The first UK edition. 8vo. 244pp. Illustrated with photographs, maps and reproductions. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, with just a shade or two of fading to the spine panel. The first biography of Ivor Maxse, the noted troop trainer, responsible for training the 18th Division in the new Kitchener army (one of the few divisions to succeed on the Somme) and later Inspector General of Training for the whole BEF. £15

335. R.H.MOTTRAM, JOHN EASTON AND ERIC PARTRIDGE. Three Personal Records of the War. Comprising A Personal Record by Eric Mottram, Broadchalk, a Chronicle by John Easton and Frank Honeywood, Private by Eric Partridge. The Scholartis Press 1929. First edition. 8vo. 405pp. With two maps. Buckram a little marked, rubbed and chafed in places and with a touch of spotting and a strip of light partial browning to endpapers. Production fault crease to one text leaf. Quite a nice, crisp copy. No dust wrapper. £15

336. ADMIRAL GEORG VON MÜLLER. The Kaiser and His Court. The Diaries, Note Books and

Letters of Admiral Georg Alexander von Müller, Chief of the Naval Cabinet, 1914-1918. Selected and edited by Walter Görlitz. Macdonald 1959. The first English edition. 8vo. 430pp. Illustrated with photographs. Binding just a little tender. A nice crisp copy in dust wrapper, a little edgeworn with several small slivers of loss and just a touch of fading to the spine panel lettering. £20

337. FIELD-MARSHAL HERBERT PLUMER. Geoffrey Powell. Plumer. The Soldier’s General. A

Biography of Field-Marshall Viscount Plumer of Messines. Leo Cooper 1990. First edition. 8vo. 362pp. With maps and photographs. A tiny touch of spotting to edges, and with a neat former owner inscription, alongside a single page reference, and a name ticket to the front pastedown, obscured by the wrapper flap. A very good copy in dust wrapper, with a strip of discolouration to the head of the front and rear panel, a little wear to upper edge and a small area of surface abrasion to the spine panel. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres, Plumer took command of the Second Army, and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines (which included the “loudest explosion in human history”). £10

338. J.B.PRIESTLEY. Priestley’s War. Edited by Neil Hanson. Great Northern Books, Ilkley 2008. First

edition. 8vo. A fine copy in dust wrapper. An account of the war career of J.B.Priestley, including the first printing of his Somme letters written whilst serving with the 10th Battalion, the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, and also hitherto unprinted copies of his WWII radio Postscripts. £10

339. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES Á COURT REPINGTON. The Letters of Lieutenant-

Colonel Charles Á Court Repington CMG. Military Correspondent of the Times, 1903-1918. Selected and edited by A.J.A.Morris. Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire 1999. First edition. 8vo. 364pp. Portrait frontispiece. A tiny bump to the tip of one corner, else in fine state with dust wrapper, fine but for a tiny hint of fading to the spine panel. £10

340. RONALD SKIRTH. The Reluctant Tommy. Edited by Duncan Barrett. Macmillan 2010. First

edition. 8vo. 354pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper. An account of Ronald Skirth’s Great War ‘active pacifism’, based on his letters, journals and a subsequent memoir. £5

341. GENERAL SIR HORACE SMITH-DORRIEN. A.J.Smithers. The Man Who Disobeyed. Sir

Horace Smith-Dorrier and His Enemies. Leo Cooper 1970. First edition. 8vo. With photographs. Edges lightly spotted and just a hint of wear to boards at one or two extremities. A very good copy in fine dust wrapper. A biography of General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, commander of II Corps at the Battle of Mons and Battle of Le Cateau, and controversially relieved of command by Sir John French for requesting permission to retreat from the Ypres Salient to a more defensible position. £35

342. MAJOR GENERAL SIR EDWARD SPEARS. Max Egremont. Under Two Flags. The Life of

Major General Sir Edward Spears. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1997. First edition. 8vo. 370pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A biography of “Winston’s spy”: Spears was an outstanding liaison officer between French and British forces during the Great War, and in 1940 was sent by Churchill to France, later escaping with Charles de Gaulle to raise the standard of Fighting France in London. £10

343. STANLEY SPENCER. Stanley Spencer’s Great War Diaries 1915-1918. Edited by Tony Spencer.

Pen & Sword, Barnsley 2008. First edition. 8vo. 176pp. Illustrated with eight photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A first-hand infantryman’s account of life and death on the Western Front; Spencer enlisted with the Royal Fusiliers as a private in 1915 and was commissioned in 1917, thereafter serving with the West Yorkshire Regiment. £10

344. JAMES LOUIS GARVIN. We Hope to Get Word Tomorrow. The Letters of James Louis Garvin, His Wife Christina and their Son Roland Gerard 1914-1916. Edited by Mark Pottle and John G.C.Ledingham. Frontline Books 2009. First edition. 8vo. 280pp. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. A fine copy in dust wrapper. The correspondence between a young subaltern on the Western Front and his parents Christina and James Garvin – the latter editor of the Observer. £10

345. CAPTAIN ALEXANDER STEWART. A Very Unimportant Officer. Life and Death on the Somme

and at Passchendaele. Edited by Cameron Stewart. Hodder & Stoughton 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

346. KEITH WILSON. The Rasp of War. The Letters of H.A.Gwynne to The Countess Bathurst 1914-

1918. Selected and edited by Keith Wilson. Sidgwick & Jackson 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 of the editor of the Morning Post, Howell Gwynne, and its Proprietor, The Countess Bathurst. £10

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347. CORRELLI BARNETT. The Swordbearers. Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1963. First edition. 8vo. 386pp. With photographs and maps. A touch of very light speckling to edges, else in fine state with dust wrapper, lightly tanned at spine panel and with a hint of spotting to extremities. An authoritative study of Great War commanders. £10.

348. BRIAN BEST. Reporting From the Front. War Reporters During the Great War. Pen & Sword,

Barnsley 2014. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. £15

349. BRIAN BOND. Survivors of a Kind. Memoirs of the Western Front. Continuum 2008. First edition. 8vo. 192pp. With photographs and maps. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A scholarly analysis of the memoirs of various Great War survivors including Robert Graves, Charles Carrington, Cecil Lewis, Guy Chapman, Edmund Blunden, Frederic Manning, Siegfried Sassoon and Max Plowman. £25

350. CHRISTY CAMPBELL. Band of Brigands. The First Men in Tanks. Harper Press 2007. First

edition. 8vo. 479pp. With photographs and maps. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, marred by a tiny touch of chafing to spine ends. An account of the origins of The Royal Tank Regiment or ‘Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps’ as it was then known, 1916-18. £15

351. TIM CAREW. The Vanished Army. The British Expeditionary Force 1914-1915. William Kimber

1964. First edition. 8vo. 239pp. With photographs and maps. Inscription. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, a little rubbed and with an unsightly area of staining to the head of the spine panel. £10

352. HUGH CECIL AND PETER H.LIDDLE. At the Eleventh Hour. Reflections, Hopes and Anxieties

at the Closing of the Great War, 1918. Edited by Hugh Cecil and Peter H.Liddle. Leo Cooper 1998. First edition. 8vo. 412pp. Illustrated with nearly one hundred photographs. Top edge lightly spotted, else a fine copy in dust wrapper. £10

353. PETER CHASSEAUD. Artillery’s Astrologers. A History of British Survey and Mapping on the

Western Front 1914-1918. Mapbooks, Lewes 1999. First edition. 4to. 558pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper. The “definitive operational history of British field survey organisation, units and personnel on the Western Front. It covers Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery survey, and all aspects of map production for the B.E.F, the use of maps, and technological progress in cartography and artillery survey in 1914-18” - blurb. Uncommon. £75

354. PETER CHASSEAUD AND PETER DOYLE. Grasping Gallipoli. Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915. Spellmount, Staplehurst 2005. First edition. 8vo. 330pp. Map-illustrated endpapers. With sixteen photographs and nine maps. A fine copy in dust wrapper. £15

355. GORDON CORRIGAN. Mud, Blood and Poppycock. Cassell 2003. Reprint, issued the same year

as the first edition – this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 431pp. Illustrated with photographs. Just a touch of very light spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in dust wrapper. £15

356. CHRISTOPHER DUFFY. Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916. Weidenfeld &

Nicolson 2006. First edition. 8vo. 383pp. Illustrated with sixteen photographs and reproductions, eleven maps and various chapter header illustrations. Minor ridge to backstrip and just a hint of paperstock tanning. A very good copy in dust wrapper, very lightly chafed at spine panel ends. An account of the Battle of the Somme from the German perspective, which differs considerably from the usual ‘lions led by donkeys’ approach of British historians. £15

357. WILL ELLSWORTH-JONES. We Will Not Fight. The Untold Story of the First World War’s

Conscientious Objectors. Aurum Press 2007. First edition. 8vo. 296pp. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. A single short score to the top edge, else in fine state with dust wrapper. £15

358. RICHARD VAN EMDEN. Meeting the Enemy. The Human Face of the Great War. Bloomsbury

2013. First edition. 8vo. 384pp. Illustrated with photographs. A light but lengthy crease to the front free endpaper, else in fine state with dust wrapper. An account of the 1914 Christmas Day truce, and various other lesser-known truces. £10

359. JOHN GILES. The Western Front Then and Now. From Mons to the Marne and Back. After the

Battle / Battle of Britain Prints 1992. First edition – this copy inscribed by the author’s wife and dated the year of publication (the author, founder of The Western Front Association, died just prior to publication). Landscape 4to. 272pp. Illustrated throughout with several hundred monochrome photographs, taken both during the war, and afterwards by the author. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A pictorial record of the Western Front, issued as a companion volume to the author’s two previous books: The Somme Then and Now and Flanders Then and Now. £20

360. JOHN GILES. The Western Front Then and Now. From Mons to the Marne and Back. After the

Battle / Battle of Britain Prints 1992. First edition. Another copy, fine in dust wrapper. £15

361. GERALD GLIDDON. When the Barrage Lifts. A Topographical History and Commentary on the Battle of the Somme 1916. With a foreword by Correlli Barnett. Gliddon Books, Norwich 1987. First edition. 8vo. 478pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. A short crease to the lower corner of the last four leaves. A near fine copy in fractionally edgeworn dust wrapper. £10

362. GERALD GLIDDON. Legacy of the Somme. The Battle in Fact, Film and Fiction. Sutton

Publishing, Gloucestershire 1996. First edition. 4to. 230pp. With over fifty photographs and reproductions. Brief former owner inscription. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, with just a hint of very minor rubbing to two or three extremities. A detailed bibliographic record of Somme coverage written, filmed or sound-recorded in the English language between 1916 and 1995. £5

363. PADDY GRIFFITH. Battle Tactics of the Western Front. The British Army’s Ark of Attack, 1916-

1918. Yale University Press 1994. First edition. 8vo. 286pp. A hint of wear to spine ends, else a fine copy in correspondingly rubbed else fine dust wrapper. £15

364. JAMES HAYWARD. Myths and Legends of the First World War. Sutton Publishing,

Gloucestershire 2002. First edition. 8vo. 202pp. Illustrated with thirty photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. An exploration of various Great War myths including the Angel of Mons, the Comrade in White, the Crucified Canadian and the German corpse rendering factory. £10

365. MAJOR H.HESKETH-PRICHARD. Sniping in France 1914-18. With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers. Helion, Solihull 2004. A new edition, re-set from the first edition of 1920. 8vo. 143pp. With drawings and photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. The author, an adventurer, big-game hunter and marksman, founded the First Army School of Sniping, a course that was so successful it led to him being awarded the Military Cross in October 1916. £10

366. I.V.HOGG AND L.F.THURSTON. British Artillery Weapons and Ammunition 1914-1918. Ian

Allan 1972. First edition. 4to. 255pp. Illustrated with scores of photographs. Top edge lightly spotted. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at spine ends and tips of corners and with a single taped repair. £30

367. ALISTAIR HORNE. The Price of Glory. Verdun 1916. Macmillan 1962. First edition - a review

copy, with the publisher’s review slip laid-in. 8vo. 371pp. Illustrated with over thirty captioned photographs and several cartoons, maps and plans. A tiny hint of wear to spine ends. A virtually fine copy in pictorial dust wrapper, the spine panel colouring somewhat faded. A detailed study of the Battle of Verdun, based in-part on hitherto un-translated testimonials and eye-witness accounts. £50

368. STEVE HURST. The Public School Battalion in the Great War. A History of the 16th (Public

Schools) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own). August 1914 to July 1916. Pen & Sword, Barnsley 2007. First edition. Small 4to. 303pp. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A record of the formation, exploits and destruction of one of the more unique Great War infantry battalions – all but whipped out on the first day of the Somme. £10

369. DOUGLAS JERROLD. The Lie About the War. Faber, ‘Criterion Miscellany’ series 1930. Second

impression (issued several months after the first). 8vo. 47pp sewn into card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. Wrappers lightly dust soiled and covers and half-title a little spotted. Very good. £15

370. SPENCER JONES. Stemming the Tide. Officers and Leadership in the British Expeditionary Force

1914. Edited by Spencer Jones. Helion & Co., Solihull 2013. First edition. 8vo. 375pp. Illustrated with eight colour maps. Tips of two corners bumped. A very good copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. A series of biographical essays on key officers with much original research. £10

371. JOHN KEEGAN. The First World War. Hutchinson 1998. First edition. 8vo. 500pp. With map-

illustrated endpapers, photographs and maps. Light backstrip ridge. A very good copy in dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at the spine panel head. A scholarly account of the Great War. £10

372. EDWARD G.LENGEL. To Conquer Hell. The Battle of Meuse-Argonne, 1918. Aurum Press 2008.

First edition. 491pp. With photographs and maps. A fine copy in minimally soiled dust wrapper. £10

373. PETER LIDDLE. Captured Memories 1900-1918. Across the Threshold of War. Pen & Sword, Barnsley 2010. First edition. 8vo. 313pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A collection of interviews focusing on the Western Front, the Gallipoli Campaign and the Battle of Jutland. Subjects include Henry Moore, Barnes Wallis, Harold Macmillan and the first conscientious objector to be court-martialed and sentenced to death (the sentence subsequently commuted). £10

374. LYN MACDONALD. They Called it Passchendaele. The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres and of

the Man Who Fought it. Michael Joseph 1978. First edition. 8vo. 253pp. With map-illustrated endpapers, photographs and maps. A hint of marking to boards in one or two places, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the head of the spine panel. The first book in the author’s vernacular history of the Great War. £25

375. LYN MACDONALD. The Roses of No Man’s Land. Michael Joseph 1980. First edition. 8vo.

318pp. With photographs. Errata slip pasted to the base of the title page. Contemporary former owner inked name to the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). A fine copy in dust wrapper, very lightly chafed at the top edge. A detailed account of the doctors and nurses of the Great War, the second book in the author’s vernacular history of World War One. £15

376. LYN MACDONALD. Somme. Michael Joseph 1983. First edition. 8vo. 366pp. Map-illustrated endpapers, photographs and maps. A hint of speckling to top edge and a contemporary former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the half-title. A very good copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. The third book in the author’s vernacular history of the Great War. £15

377. LYN MACDONALD. 1914. Michael Joseph 1987. First edition. 8vo. 446pp. Map-illustrated

endpapers, photographs and maps. Just a touch of tanning to paperstock else in fine state with very good dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the head of the spine panel and with the spine panel colouring a little faded. The fourth book in the author’s vernacular history of the Great War. £10

378. JOHN MASEFIELD. The Old Front Line, or The Beginning of the Battle of the Somme. Heinemann

1917. First edition. 8vo. 128pp + lxiv publisher’s catalogue. Illustrated with sixteen captioned photographs and one multi-panel two-colour fold-out map. Tipped-in errata slip, as issued. Two small indentations to the upper board, and a little spotting to edges, preliminary leaves and occasional leaf margins. A tiny area of loss to the base of the half-title. A nice crisp copy, lacking the dust wrapper. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown. £20

379. MARTIN & MARY MIDDLEBROOK. The Somme Battlefields. A Comprehensive Guide from

Crécy to the Two World Wars. Viking 1991. First edition – this copy signed by both authors on the title page. 8vo. 385pp. Map-illustrated endpapers and various maps and photographs. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the head of the spine panel. Former owner name ticket to the head of a blank preliminary leaf. £15

380. K.W.MITCHINSON. Pioneer Battalions in the Great War. Organized and Intelligent Labour. Leo

Cooper 1997. First edition. 8vo. 336pp. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. An account of the creation and history of the sixty-eight Pioneer Battalions, “the work horses of the Expeditionary Forces”. £15

381. CHRISTOPHER MOORE. Trench Fever. Little Brown 1998. First edition. 8vo. 238pp. A fine

copy in dust wrapper. A retracing of the Western Front experiences of the author’s grandfather’s, a private who fought with the Fifth Battalion, the Leicestershire Regiment at Ypres, Loos, Vimy Ridge, Riqueval and Bellenglise. £10

382. WILLIAM MOORE. A Wood Called Bourlon. The Cover-Up after Cambrai, 1917. Leo Cooper

1988. First edition. 8vo. 270pp. Illustrated with photographs and maps. A hint of spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. £10

383. ROBIN NEILLANDS. Attrition. The Great War on the Western Front – 1916. Robson Books 2001.

First edition. 8vo. 347pp. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A detailed account of the major Great War battles of 1916 and their principal commanders: von Falkenhayn, Joffre, Pétain, Nivelle, Rawlinson and Douglas Haig. £10

384. ROBIN NEILLANDS. The Death of Glory. The Western Front 1915. John Murray 2006. First

edition. 8vo. 298pp. Illustrated with photographs and maps. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A scholarly analysis of British Army confrontations of 1915: Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Second Ypres and the Battle of Loos. £20

385. THOMAS NEVIN. Ernst Jünger and Germany. Into the Abyss, 1914-1945. Constable 1997. The

first UK edition. 8vo. 284pp. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. £15

386. TERRY NORMAN. The Hell They Called High Wood. The Somme 1916. William Kimber 1984. First edition. 8vo. 256pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps. Title hinge just a fraction tender, else a fine copy in fine pictorial dust wrapper. An account of the struggle for High Wood, one of the focal points of the Battle of the Somme, and a struggle which saw some of the most bitter fighting and highest casualty numbers. £10

387. MARTIN PEGLER. Sniping in the Great War. Pen & Sword, Barnsley 2008. First edition. 8vo. 212pp. Illustrated with over fifty photographs and reproductions. A tiny hint of edge spotting, else in fine state with dust wrapper. An interesting account of the development and technique of sniping during the First World War, with a primary focus on the Western Front, but including other theatres such as Gallipoli, Salonika and on the Eastern Front. £15

388. ROBIN PRIOR AND TREVOR WILSON. The Somme. Yale University Press 2005. First edition.

8vo. 358pp. Illustrated with photographs and maps. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A painstaking day-by-day reconstruction of the Battle of the Somme drawn from the entire public archive, resulting in “the most precise and authentic account of the campaign on record, and a book which challenges almost every received view of the battle” – blurb. £10

389. PHILLIP ROBINSON AND NIGEL CAVE. The Underground War. Volume One: Vimy Ridge to

Arras. Pen & Sword, Barnsley 2011. First edition. 8vo. 269pp. Illustrated with scores of photographs and maps. A fine copy in dust wrapper. The first part of a planned four-volume series exploring in detail the tunnellers of the Great War (at the time of cataloguing no further volumes exist). £20

390. ANTHONY SAUNDERS. Dominating the Enemy. War in the Trenches 1914-1918. Sutton

Publishing, Gloucestershire 2000. First edition. 8vo. 182pp. Illustrated with photographs and plans. A fine copy in dust wrapper. A companion piece to the author’s Weapons of the Trench War, this volume describing the development of devices, from the brutal to the bizarre, designed to help the soldier on the Western Front survive the rigours of trench warfare. £10

391. NICHOLAS J.SAUNDERS. Killing Time. Archaeology and the First World War. Sutton

Publishing, Gloucestershire 2007. First edition. Tall 8vo. 250pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. £15

392. GARY SHEFFIELD. The Somme. Cassell 2003. First edition. 8vo. 192pp. Illustrated with scores of

photographs and maps (the wrapper blurb erroneously promises colour maps, but there are none to be found). A small label his been removed from the front free endpaper resulting in a small area of surface abrasion, but this aside, a fine copy in dust wrapper. A scholarly analysis of the strategy, course and consequences of the 1916 battle. £15

393. GARY SHEFFIELD. Command and Morale. The British Army on the Western Front 1914-1918.

With a foreword by Peter Simkins. Pen & Sword / Praetorian Press, Barnsley 2014. First edition. 8vo. 249pp. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. A fine copy in dust wrapper. £15

394. GENE SMITH. Still Quiet on the Western Front. Fifty Years Later. With drawings by Bill Berry.

William Morrow, New York 1965. First edition. 8vo. 108pp. With map-illustrated endpapers, twenty photographs and various maps and drawings. Edges lightly spotted. A very good copy in dust wrapper, a little rubbed and repaired at several extremities and with a single short enclosed jagged tear. An account of the author’s 1964 pilgrimage to the trenches of the Western Front. £10

395. SOMMERVILLE STORY. The Battlefields of France and Belgium. Ypres and the Struggle for

Calais. Le Renaissance du Livre, Paris [1920]. First edition. Small 8vo. 96pp. Limp linen wrappers, rubbed at extremities. With four captioned photographs and a folding two-colour map at rear. Paperstock tanned and binding tender at several gatherings. The fifth volume of Story’s Battlefields of France and Belgium series, all of which are uncommon. £35

396. DAN TODMAN. The Great War. Myth and Memory. Hambledon and London 2005. First edition.

8vo. 299pp. Illustrated with ten photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper. Yet another reassessment of the Great War: as it was and as it is recalled. £25

397. RICHARD M.WATT. Dare Call it Treason. Chatto & Windus 1964. First edition. 8vo. 285pp.

With map-illustrated endpapers and several photographs. A very good copy in slightly chafed, rubbed and marked dust wrapper. An account of the causes of the 1917 French Army mutinies. £10

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