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5212. [CLAIBORNE, F. ]: A Boy's Life Aboard Ship As It Is told by Himself.
London, Ward, Lock, n.d. (19thC.) Black and white frontispiece, vignette title page of ship, head and tail pieces. Cr.8vo. original green cloth decorated with black design and gilt vignette of ship enclosing title in black lettering. Gilt spine. All edges gilt. 24 pages of publisher's adverts at end of book. The Youth's Library of Wonder and Adventure. Ownership signature written three times in different coloured ink on fep. £30.005633. CHURCHILL (The Rt. Hon. Winston): The World Crisis 1911-1918
London, Macmillan & Co. (reprint) 1943 Abridged and revised edition. With and additional chapter on The Battle of the Marne. Numerous textual maps, 8 folding maps and 2 folding facsimile items. Thick roy8vo. original dark blue cloth, slight fading to top of covers, otherwise very good condition in very good dustwrapper. Some foxing spots to edges. Ownership signature and date in ink on front free endpaper. £20.005390. EDWARDS (Lionel) DAWSON (Captain Lionel).: Sport in War.
London, Collins, 1936 First Edition. Coloured frontispiece and 5 further full page coloured plates, 6 full page monochrome and textual illustrations by Lionel Edwards. Large 4to. original green cloth, fading to spine and top and bottom of covers. Bottom of upper cover marked. No dustwrapper. Internally beautifully clean. No inscriptions. £28.005584. JONES (R. V.): Most Secret War. British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945.
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First Edition. Foreword by the Vicomtesse de Clarens who, then known by the name 'Amniarix' gave ten months' warning of the V-bombardment of London. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates and textual drawings. Thick roy8vo. original pale blue cloth, slightly faded at top of cover and spine but in very good condition in very good dustwrapper. No inscriptions. £20.005641. LLOYD GEORGE (David): War Memoirs
London, Odham Press Ltd. n.d. (1938) New Edition. Black and white frontispiece and numerous photographic illustrations. Maps and textual material. in volume one. 8 pages photographic illustrations at start of volume two. Two volumes. Very thick roy8vo. original blue cloth, volume one is dark blue, volume two is lighter blue. both in good condition. Ownership signature in each volume. £20.005140. PALMER (Svetlana) & WALLIS (Sarah): A War in Words accompanying the major channel four series The First World War.
London, Simon & Schuster, 2003 First Edition. Black and white illustrations. 5 maps. 8vo. original black cloth fine in fine dustwrapper. No inscriptions. £5.00