Books Of The Great War – a selection of rare books from the First World War – first editions, some signed about or pertaining to WW1.
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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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Robert Graves – Good-Bye To All That – SIGNED
£375.00First edition thus, first printing. Originally published in 1929, this is the revised edition. Published by Cassell in London, 1957. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust…
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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]
£450.00First editions, first printings. Published by Cassell between 1948 and 1954. The collection is in very good (or better) condition, and as each volume is in very similar condition, I…
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John McCrae – In Flanders Fields – First UK Edition 1919
£475.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1919. A very good book without inscriptions. Burgundy endpapers with a little spotting to the page edges. A little…
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Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong – First UK Edition 1993 –
£225.00A first edition, first printing published by Hutchinson in 1993. A near fine book without inscriptions in a very good clipped wrapper with a thin stain to the top of…
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Winston S. Churchill – The Second World War – First UK Editions 1948-54 – SIGNED to Volume I
£9,750.00First Edition, First Printings, published by Cassell and Co., 1948. Six volumes. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth titled in gilt to spines – spotting to four volumes. Very good indeed in…
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Karl Broger – Pillbox 17 – First UK Edition 1930
Original price was: £250.00.£125.00Current price is: £125.00.A first edition, first printing published by Thornton Butterworth in 1930. A very good book without inscriptions. Some bumping and wear to the corners, board edges showing a little wear….
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Robert Graves – Good-Bye To All That – SIGNED First UK Edition 1929
£3,750.00First edition, first printing, second-state. Published by Jonathan Cape, London, in 1929. SIGNED. This is a very good copy. This is the expurgated second-state, without the Siegfried Sassoon poem. The…
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