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ZWEIG, Arnold.
The Case of Sergeant Grischa. 1928
£75
First English edition, first impression, First published in Potsdam in 1927. Lion Feuchtwanger described Grischa as "a memorable figure, for he is the hero of the first great German...
Octavo. Original yellow cloth lettered in brown, brown top-stain .With the dust jacket. Cloth slightly soiled, jacket a little rubbed and chipped head and tail of the... Read more
YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis.
India and Tibet. 1910
£375
Second impression in the same month as the first. An intriguing character, protégé of Lord Curzon, soldier, explorer, and Forward Policy exponent of the Great Game, whose...
Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt. top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece of the Dalai Lama and 25 other plates, 2 folding coloured maps at the rear. Light browning... Read more
YOUNGHUSBAND, G. J.
Indian Frontier Warfare. 1898
£150
First edition. Far from common analysis of Indian frontier warfare "as it is exemplified by campaigns and expeditions which have taken place in the last twenty years." Younghusband...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, black surface-paper endpapers. 7 maps, one of them coloured, 5 of them folding, 2 of these in an... Read more
YOUNG, Sir Hubert.
The Independent Arab. 1933
£150
First edition. A contemporary review in International Affairs considered that Young's "unpretentious narrative of his own experiences … carries us a long way towards what...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine. 3 folding maps at the rear. Very slightly rubbed, a very good copy. Read more
YEATS-BROWN, F[rancis] C.C., Major.
The Star and Crescent. Being the Story of The 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922. c.1927
£750
First edition. The book was Yeats-Brown's own personal project, "and the number of copies printed probably did not exceed 100 (each impressed with a serial number)." (Perkins) This...
Large octavo (245 × 152 mm). Original white pigskin backed blue cloth boards, title and regimental crest gilt to the upper board, pale green "moiré" printed... Read more
WYNTER, Philip H. M.
On the Queen's Errands. 1906
£75
First edition. Account of the services of one of the Silver Greyhounds, Britain's secret diplomatic couriers, during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Wynter had previously...
Octavo. Original purple cloth, title gilt to the spine, and to the upper board together with the insignia of the King's Messengers in gold and silver, top edge gilt... Read more
WYLLY, H.C., Colonel.
From the Black Mountain to Waziristan. 1912
£250
First edition. "This book is the outcome of my own experience of the want of something of the kind in the early autumn of 1897, when the Second Battalion of my old Corps, the...
Octavo. Original sand cloth, lettered in black to the spine and in red to the upper board, mulberry edge-stain. Recased, spine relined, new endpapers. 8 folding maps... Read more
WYLLY, H.C.
The Military Memoirs of Lieut-General Sir Joseph Thackwell. 1908
£45
First edition. Thackwell was colonel of the 16th Lancers, this memoir arranged from his diaries and correspondence. A record of over 50 years' service of a cavalry commander,...
Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and rule to spine. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 1 plate, 4 folding maps and 5 plans. Spine relined and hinges... Read more
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(WYETH, N. C.) JOHNSTON, Mary.
The Long Roll [together with] Cease Firing. 1911 & 12
£75
First editions, first printings. Two novels of the Civil War by the daughter of a Confederate general.
2 volumes, octavo. Original grey cloth panelled in dark grey, titles to spines and upper boards gilt, map endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 3 plates in each volume by... Read more
(WRENS) MILLER, Lee.
Wrens in Camera. 1945
£85
First edition, first impression. An engaging look at the Women's Royal Naval Service of World War II with photographs by acclaimed art photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller....
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and anchor device to upper board in white. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout from photos by Lee Miller. Binding... Read more
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(WORLD WAR I.)
Ministry of National Service. 1917-1919. Report Vol. I. [all published] 1920
£500
First and only edition, 625 copies, extremely uncommon, COPAC locates the IWM copy only, OCLC adds a copy an the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek, further copies located in the Wellcome...
Quarto. Original red cloth-backed printed boards. Frontispiece, 5 folding coloured charts in an end-pocket, numerous tables and graphs to the text. Variably sunned on... Read more
WOOLLEY, Chester Leonard. (Edited)
From Kastamuni to Kedos. 1921
£150
First edition. An uncommon book. With the outbreak of the First World War, Woolley (an archaeologist, who once worked with T. E. Lawrence as his assistant) served as an intelligence...
Large octavo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece, 14 plates, 2 in colour, 12 illustrations to text, 2 maps. Plate indicated to... Read more
WOODYATT (Maj.-Gen. Nigel G.) & (Brig. C. N.) BARCLAY (eds.)
The Regimental History of The 3rd Queen Alexandria's Own Gurkha Rifles from April 1815 to December 1927. 1929 & 1953
£475
First Editions. Woodyatt "A useful source, strongest in its coverage of C19th campaigns... The Appendices are very good, and include details of each officer's career." (Perkins) and...
2 volumes large octavo. Original rifle green cloth with titles gilt to spines and Regimental crest to the upper boards. Portrait frontispiece and 4 other plates, 7... Read more
WOODWARD, Houston.
A Year for France. War Letters of Houston Woodward. 1919
£575
First edition. This copy inscribed to the man who found Woodward's grave. Henry Howard Houston Woodward was born in 1896 at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, educated at Taft and Yale, he...
Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine and upper board, crest of the Armée de l'Air to the upper board in gold and silver. Photogravure portrait... Read more
WOODARD, David.
The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen, 1804
£950
First edition. "In January of 1793, Woodard sailed in the American ship Enterprise form Batavia, bound for Manila. Sent off in a boat with five others to purchase provisions from...
Octavo (211 × 128 mm). Contemporary purple half calf on dark green seaweed sprigged cloth, tan morocco label, narrow bands with double gilt rules, compartments... Read more
WOOD, Sir Evelyn.
The Revolt in Hindustan, 1857-59. 1908
£65
First edition. "This work originally appeared as articles in the "Times" in October 1907. Mainly descriptive of military movements … Wood is quite free from bias in this book...
Octavo. Original brick red cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 7 other plates, 5 folding maps. Cloth a little mottled, front hinge repaired,... Read more
WOOD, J.E.R. (ed.)
Detour. The Story of Oflag IVC. 1946
£150
First edition. Handsomely produced - by the standards of the day - souvenir of Colditz Castle in Saxony, the infamous 'bad boys' POW camp. This copy inscribed by the editor on the...
Quarto. Original red cloth backed grey boards, title gilt to spine and upper board. Remains of dust jacket loosely inserted at the rear. Coloured portrait frontispiece... Read more
WOOD, Evelyn.
From Midshipman to Field Marshal. 1906
£150
Third edition, same year, same month as the first. "One of the more notable volumes of military reminiscences, covering the period of the Crimean War" (Bruce). This copy with the...
2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to upper board, and to the spine together with naval buttons and field marshal's baton, top edges gilt, the others... Read more
(WOMEN’S LAND ARMY)
Meet the Members. A Record of the Timber Corps of the Women's Land Army. 1944
£40
First edition. Appealing war-time publication showing the training and work of the timberjills, "all profits from the sale of this book will be given to the Benevolent Fund of the...
Octavo. Original green cloth, lettered in red on the spine and with the WLA badhe in red to the upper board. with the dust jacket. 12 plates. Cloth a little bubbled... Read more
WOLSELEY, General Viscount.
The Life of John Churchill Duke of Marlborough to the Accession of Queen Anne. 1894
£300
First published in the same year.
2 volumes octavo ( 215 × 131 mm) contemporary plum half hard-grained morocco on matching linen boards, title gilt to spines, marbled edges and endpapers.... Read more
WOLFF, Henry Drummond.
The Island Empire; or, the Scenes of the First Exile of the Emperor Napoleon I. 1855
£625
Second edition, the same year as the first. Dedicated to Lord Holland "a name already united by a bond of friendship with that of the Emperor Napoleon," Wolff's account was written...
Octavo. Original rose, blind-stamped sand-grain cloth, title gilt to the spine, yellow surface-paper endpapers. Hand-coloured lithographic portrait frontispiece and a... Read more
WOLCOTT, Oliver.
Revolutionary War Pay Warrant of the Connecticut Pay Table to reimburse Samuel Squier, Commissary. November 3, 1779
£250
Interesting piece of documentation from the American War of Independence, authorizing the reimbursement of £1400 to Samuel Squier by the State Pay Table of Connecticut, and...
Fully manuscript pay warrant (169 × 215 mm) Lightly toned, some slightly fraying at the edges, creases from old folds, one or two small splits on the folds,... Read more
WILSON, W.A.M., Captain.
Historical Records of the 23rd Regiment (Second Battalion, Rifle Regiment), Bombay Infantry, 1894
£425
First and only edition, uncommon - OCLC shows only the BL copy, as also COPAC - and important. On his 5-point scale Perkins rates the book as 5 in terms of rarity, and 4 in terms of...
Octavo. Original green cloth, title and regimental crest gilt to the upper board within blind panel, blind panel to the lower board, yellow surface paper endpapers.... Read more
(WILSON, Sir Robert Thomas) RANDOLPH, Herbert (ed.)
Life of General Sir Robert Wilson. 1862
£350
First Edition. "Holland in 1799, Egypt, Friedland campaign, commanded Loyal Lusitanians in Portugal, British commissioner with Russian and Austrian Armies from 1812 to 1814"...
2 volumes, octavo (225 × 142 mm). Contemporary scarlet full calf, double gilt fillet panel to the boards, spine gilt in compartments, dark blue and sage green... Read more
(WILSON, Sir Robert)
Campaign between the French Army of the East and the British and Turkish Forces in Egypt. 1802
£1,750
First and only edition. Uncommon, COPAC has just BL, Cambridge and Birmingham, OCLC adds 4 copies in the US, and the American University in Cairo. Following service in the campaigns...
Octavo (209 × 128 mm) Contemporary streaked calf, rebacked, red morocco label, compartments formed by triple rules, small foliate tools within, milled rolled... Read more
