ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. US ARMY.

Biennial Reports 1941-1945 [with] Supreme Commander's Report 1944-1945. [First UK Edition of first two reports.] NEAR FINE COPIES IN MODERN CLOTH

HMSO, 1943; 1945; 1946]. 3 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition thus, with maps and charts in the text (first work with folding maps and charts in pocket at end); strongly bound in green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, July 1 1941 to June 30 1943 (first UK edition, 1943); Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, July 1 1943 to June 30 1945 (first UK edition, 1945); Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force (first edition, 1946).

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Book number: 36892

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, us army, aef, allied expeditionary force,

ALLILUYEVA Svetlana

Twenty Letters to a Friend. Translated from the Russian by Priscilla Johnson. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Hutchinson,, [1967]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, small tape mark on front free endpaper; terracotta cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper lightly sunned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 41834

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, russia, soviet russia, stalin, gulags, svetlana alliluyeva

ALLINGHAM William

The Diaries. Edited by H. Allingham and D. Radford. Introduction by John Julius Norwich. NEAR FINE COPY IN SLIP-CASE

Folio Society,, 1990. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; green cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in publisher's green board slip-case.

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Book number: 22099

Catalogue: Folio Society0

Keywords: folio society, allingham, william allingham, john julius norwich

ALLINGHAM Margery

Hide My Eyes. [An Albert Campion mystery]. Illustrated by Alexandru Savescu. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

Folio Society,, 2018. 8vo., with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured illustrations; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, a fine copy in publisher's slip-case.

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Book number: 35247

Catalogue: Folio Society0

Keywords: mstock, folio society, allingham, margery allingham, crime fiction, detective fiction, albert campion

ALLINGHAM Margery

Mr. Campion and Others. Illustrated by Darya Shnykina. THREE GENERATIONS OF THE PASTERNAK FAMILY

Folio Society,, 2020. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and plates; brown pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

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Book number: 43408

Catalogue: Folio Society0

Keywords: folio society, allingham, margery allingham, darya shnykina, campion, albert campion, crime fiction, detective fiction

ALLINGHAM Margery

Traitor's Purse. Introduced by A.S. Byatt. Illustrated by James Boswell. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

Folio Society,, [2015]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 6 plates; pictorial boards, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Albert Campion is trapped in a living nightmare.

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Book number: 28313

Catalogue: Folio Society0

Keywords: mstock, folio society, margery allingham, albert campion, crime fiction, detective fiction, traitor's, purse

ALLISON Nigel

Collecting German World War II Military Pay and Service Books. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

Ulric Publishing, [Church Stretton],, [2007]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Published in Ulric's 'Collecting' series. Every page of every sample is photographed, with full English translations.

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Book number: 47788

Catalogue: Military0

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ALLISON J.E.

The Mersey Estuary. IN FULL BUCKRAM

University Press, Liverpool,, 1949. 8vo. First Edition, with a frontispiece, 8 plates (one double-page), 23 plans and diagrams in the text and 2 mounted folding coloured maps; handsomely bound in red full buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of this detailed post-war survey.

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Book number: 20826

Catalogue: Naval0

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ALLISON Mike

MG. The Magic of the Marque. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Dalton Watson,, [1989]. 4to., First Edition, with title in red and very numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, black endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 45054

Catalogue: Transport0

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ALLISS Peter

The Who's Who of Golf. With Research by Michael Hobbs. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Orbis,, [1983]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 24239

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

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ALLITT John Stewart

The Wonder and Glory of Felicity. (on reading the 'Dobell' Poems of Thomas Traherne). NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

[Privately Printed,, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Transcript of a lecture given on 31 October 1994 at the Temenos Academy, Regents Park, London. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 32150

Catalogue: Theology0

Keywords: theology, thomas traherne, dobell poems, temenos academy, john stewart allitt

ALLIX Charles

Carriage Clocks. Their History and Development. Illustrated by Peter Bonnert. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Antique Collectors' Club, [Woodbridge],, [1974]. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with many hundreds of photographs and illustrations in the text; blue buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, buff endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Near fine copy of a standard reference.

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Book number: 33310

Catalogue: Science & Medicine0

Keywords: science, technology, clocks, horology, timekeeping, carriage clocks, charles allix

ALLMAND C.T.

English Suits before the Parlement of Paris 1420-1436. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by C.T. Allmand and C.A.J. Armstrong. NEAR FINE COPY

Royal Historical Society,, 1982. 8vo., First Edition; original series binding of olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Camden Fourth Series Volume 26.

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Book number: 28253

Catalogue: History0

Keywords: history, camden society, english, suits, before, the, parlement, paris, 1420-1436

ALLSOP Kenneth

In the Country. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Hamish Hamilton,, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Essays collected from the author's highly sucessful 'Daily Mail' column 'In the Country'

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Book number: 41759

Catalogue: Countryside Authors0

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ALLSOP Kenneth

In the Country. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Hamish Hamilton,, [1973]. 8vo., Second Impression; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Essays collected from the author's highly sucessful 'Daily Mail' column 'In the Country'. Published a year after the first edition.

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Book number: 48144

Catalogue: Countryside Authors0

Keywords: countryside authors, countryside, rural, allsop, kenneth allsop, modern first editions, modern firsts