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Cecil Beaton – Theatre Of War – First Edition 2012
£75.00A first edition, first printing of Theatre of War by Cecil Beaton, published by Jonathan Cape, Random House in association with Imperial War Museums, London in 2012. A very fine…
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Neville Chamberlain – Original SIGNED and TYPED Downing Street Headed Paper – Weeks after the Munich Agreement 1938
£1,250.00A folded, typed reply on Downing Street headed notepaper, dated 24th October 1938 and reads:
‘Dear Sir, Please accept my very warm thanks for your kind message. During these difficult and…
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Cecil Beaton – War Photographs 1939-45 – First Edition 1981
£75.00A first edition, first printing of ‘War Photographs’ published by Imperial War Museum and Jane’s in 1981. A fine book in like clipped wrapper.
The book captures the early years of…
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Edith Sitwell [Wilfred Owen] – Wheels 1919 – Fourth Cycle – First Edition – First appearance of Owen’s Poetry
£950.00A first edition, first printing of the Fourth Cycle of ‘Wheels’, published by C. Daniel in 1919. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards featuring a magnificent colour design by William Roberts who…
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Winston S. Churchill – The Second World War – First UK Editions 1948-54 [The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy]
£750.00A set of first edition, first printings of ‘The Second World War’ published by Cassell between 1948-1954. All are in very good to near fine condition in very good (or…
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Montgomery of Alamein – A Humourous Letter From Monty to a Local Headmaster – with separate portrait – Framed
£450.00Montgomery of Alamein 1970
Measures 46cm x 37cm framed and mounted. The letter, on personalised headed notepaper reads, ‘Dear Headmaster/I will be ready for the / invasion at 3.30pm on Friday…
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A.M. Rendel – Appointment In Crete – The Story Of A British Agent – First Edition 1953
£1,350.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Appointment in Crete’ published by Allan Wingate in 1953. A near fine book without inscriptions – some spotting to the top edge. In the…
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Edith Sitwell [Wilfred Owen] – Wheels 1919 – Fourth Cycle – First appearance of Owen’s Poetry
£1,500.00A first edition, first printing, published by C. Daniel in 1919. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards featuring a magnificent colour design by William Roberts who also contributes colour decorations to the…
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Sidney Rogerson – Twelve Days – First UK Edition 1933
£1,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Twelve Days’ published by Barker in 1933. A near fine book with one neat name and date to the front endpaper, with a little…
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Richard Attenborough – The Great Escape – Mounted Signature
£225.00An original colour photo of Richard Attenborough in ‘The Great Escape’ – finally captured – 10 x 8 inch colour photo. Very good condition. SIGNED ‘Richard Attenborough’ to a mounted…
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Robert Graves – Good-Bye To All That – First UK Edition 1929 – the true first issue with the Sassoon poem present in exceptional dust wrapper
£2,950.00A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1929. A near fine copy without inscriptions. This is the FIRST ISSUE with the Sassoon poem. Gutter to front-endpaper marked. In…
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Tolstoi – War and Peace – First British Edition 1889
£750.00Walter Scott 1889. First British Edition, wear to edges, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif & gilt decoration to front board, 359pp (vol1), 392pp (vol2),…
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Alan Clark – The Donkeys – First UK Edition 1961 – The basis for ‘Oh, What A Lovely War’
£95.00A first edition, first printing published by Hutchinson in 1961. A near fine book with one neat name and date to the front endpaper. In a very good unclipped dustwrapper…
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Winston S. Churchill – The Second World War – First UK Editions 1948-54 [The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy]
£875.00A set of first edition, first printings of ‘The Second World War’ published by Cassell between 1948-1954. All are in very good to near fine condition in very good (or…
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