ALANBROOKE Field-Marshal

War Diaries 1939-1945. Edited by A. Danchev and D. Todman. FIRST UNABRIDGED PUBLICATION: NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [2001]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. By common consent the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army, Alanbrooke occupied a unique position at the heart of Britain's efforts in WWII. By common consent the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army, Alanbrooke occupied a unique position at the heart of Britain's efforts in WWII. Scarcely a man to pull punches, he provides a blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and won, sparing no-one from politicians to generals of virtually every Allied nation. This is the first publication of the diaries in unabridged form, complementing rather than superseding the famous and long-standing two-volume abridgement by Bryant.

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Book number: 38421

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ALCORN Robert Hayden

No Bugles for Spies. Tales of the OSS NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

David McKay, New York NY,, [1962]. 8vo., First Edition; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly rubbed dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 38599

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ALCORN Robert Hayden

No Bugles for Spies. Tales of the OSS. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Jarrolds,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white and orange, fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition. The UK edition is considerably scarcer than its US counterpart. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 38600

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ALDERSON Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Edwin Alfred Hervey

With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force, 1896. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Methuen,, 1898. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 8 plates and large folding map at end; navy diced cloth, boards framed in blind, upper board blocked in gilt with 'Types of the Force' repeated from frontispiece, gilt back, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, new hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with neat circular stamp on title only. With 40pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 36271

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ALDRICH Mildred

A Hilltop on the Marne. Being Letters written June 3 - September 8, 1914. NEAR FINE COPY

Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, Cambridge MA,, 1915. 8vo., First US Edition, with a frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 4 plates and endpaper maps, neat contemporary signature in pencil on frontispiece recto; original green cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Scarce in this condition. Enser, p.202 (recording the first UK edition of the same year).

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ALLARDYCE, ed. Colonel James

Historical Papers of the Jacobite Period 1699-1750. Volume Second [only]. 525 COPIES WERE PRINTED

New Spalding Club, Aberdeen,, 1896. Roy. 4to., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 9 fine plates (all original tissue guards present), free endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of olive-brown cloth, boards blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 525 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 491). With the nineteenth century trade tickets of Edmond & Spark, Bookbinders of Aberdeen. Allardyce is one of the most valuable collections of contemporary Jacobite records. This is the second of two volumes (the first appeared in 1895) each of which is complete in itself. This volume comprises: XXX. Depositions against Jacobites, 1746; XXXI. Memorials for Thomas Forbes of Echt and Andrew Hay, 1746; XXXII. Concerning Highland Depredations, 1747; XXXIII. Memorial anent Thieving and Depredations in the Highlands, 1747; XXXIV. Description of the Road from Aviemore to Aberdeen, 1747; XXXV. Description of the Hills, Glens and Passes in the Counties of Aberdeen, 1747; XXXVI. Proposals for Cantoning the Five Highland Additional Company's, 1747; XXXVII. Highland Reports, 1749-50. The Appendix contains a further eight important records. VERY SCARCE. Pargellis & Medley 3306.

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ALLEN Peter

One More River. The Rhine Crossings of 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Dent,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser p.239.

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Book number: 27454

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ALLEN Louis

Sittang: The Last Battle. The End of the Japanese in Burma, July-August 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Macdonald,, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8 and 4 full-page maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Standard reference. Graham & Cole E1 (recording the book club edition of the same year); Enser p.87.

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ALLIED MILITARY MISSIONS IN BERLIN.

The Allied Military Missions in Berlin 1945-1948. 300 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Allied Liaison and Protocol, Berlin,, [1948]. Folio, First Edition, text in English, French and Russian, with numerous full-page portraits throughout; publisher's full green roan, boards framed in blind, upper board lettered in blind, back with five raised bands, covers very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO.150). With the separately printed publication and errata slips loosely inserted. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF COLONEL ALEXANDER PHELPS HODGES, WHO SERVED AS CHIEF OF ALLIED LIAISON AND PROTOCOL FROM FEBRUARY 1947. Hodges's portrait appears at p.41. He was formerly leader of the British Military Mission to Siberia, 1918-1922, his personal account of which was published as 'BRITMIS' in 1931.

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Book number: 36870

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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

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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

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ALMACK Edward

Regimental Badges worn in the British Army One Hundred Years ago. BRIGHT COPY OF THE FACSIMILE REISSUE

Frederick Muller,, [1970]. Roy. 8vo., with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1900.

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Book number: 39642

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ALMAN et al] [Karl

Einzelkampfer. Da Weisse im Auge des Feindes. Portrats hochausgezeichneter deutscher Soldaten. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Erich Pabel, Rastatt,, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition, text in German, with photographs in the text; green cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 34752

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ALTES A Korthals

September 1944. Operation Market Garden. NEAR FINE COPY

De Haan,, [1987]. 8vo., text in Dutch and English, with frontispiece, and photographs and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Well-illustrated chronological survey.

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Book number: 36332

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AMRINE Michael

The Great Decision. The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Heinemann,, [1960]. 8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edges mildly spotted; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 38519

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