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[BROWN (Cedric Clifton)]
Cedric's Letters During the Great War 1914-1919.
1st Ed., ix+162pp., real photo. portrait frontis., 4 maps (2 fldg.). Printed for Private Circulation by Clowes & Sons.
1926
#66089
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Subaltern, Sussex Yeomanry at Gallipoli, subsequently Worcester Yeomanry in Palestine until transferred to Grenadier Guards Oct. 1917: Part I (Gallipoli from Oct. 1915-Jan. 1916, including a good account of the evacuation) occupies 36pp, letters from Egypt & Palestine (first battle of Gaza &c.) 50pp. & 3rd Bn. Grenadier Guards in France & Germany, April 1918-Feb. 1919 some 74pp. Handsome & rare privately published work, orig. blue cloth, gilt, rear a little stained & corners rubbed o/w VG & inscribed by the author: "To Eric Flint from Cedric." See illustration on our website.
£165
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CARSTAIRS (Carroll, MC)
A Generation Missing.
1st USA Ed., [ix]+259pp. VG in chipped dw. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran.
1930
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Classic Western Front memoirs. Carstairs, an American, was commissioned in the RFA in 1914, seeing action with D/50 Battery at Loos before transferring to the Grenadier Guards in Nov. 1915. Served a total of eleven months with 3rd Bn. in France between 1916-18 until badly wounded four days before the armistice. Awarded MC at Bourlon Wood 1917. Carroll Chevalier Carstairs was a son of Charles S. Carstairs, London representative of American art dealers Knoedler & Co. Carstairs senior died in 1928, by which time both father & son were part owners of the Knoedler business. Carroll subsequently opened his own gallery in New York. Orig. mustard cloth, titled in black, VG in chipped/creased but neatly repaired & scarce dw. See illustration on our website.
£100
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CARSTAIRS (Carroll, MC)
A Generation Missing.
With a Foreword by Osbert Sitwell. 1st Ed., xiii+223pp. Heinemann.
1930
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Classic Western Front memoirs. Carstairs, an American, was commissioned in the RFA in 1914, seeing action with D/50 Battery at Loos before transferring to the Grenadier Guards in Nov. 1915. Served a total of eleven months with 3rd Bn. in France between 1916-18 until badly wounded four days before the armistice. Awarded MC at Bourlon Wood 1917. Carroll Chevalier Carstairs was a son of Charles S. Carstairs, London representative of American art dealers Knoedler & Co. Carstairs senior died in 1928, by which time both father & son were part owners of the Knoedler business. Carroll subsequently opened his own gallery in New York. Orig. brown cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£65
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DEARDEN (Capt. Harold, RAMC)
Medicine & Duty: A War Diary.
1st Ed., [iv]+xi+234pp. Heinemann.
1928
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Doctor at a base hospital in France then MO to 3rd Bn. Grenadier Guards from mid-1917 to 1918. "Mr Dearden, a well-known writer, served as a medical officer on the Western Front. The chief fault to be found with his diary is that it is in fact not a diary at all, for the entries are undated. Otherwise it is good. The little trivial incidents of life in a base hospital, 'the daily round, the common task,' are described in an interesting way. The operating ward is dealt with impressively but with dignity. The later sketches of the line are equally good. Mr Dearden writes well & thinks sanely" - Falls. Orig. red cloth, gilt, little worn, generally VG & uncommon. See illustration on our website.
£65
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FRYER (E.R.M.)
Reminiscences of a Grenadier 1914-1919.
1st Ed., [iv]+241pp. Digby, Long & Co.
1921
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Etonian, HAC 1914 & went overseas as servant to the MG officer; Ypres Salient then Cadet School, joining 2nd Bn. Grenadiers in May 1915. During Loos he was transferred to 3rd Bn. & remained with them, latterly as a company commander, almost continuously until the Armistice, inc. battles of the Somme, Pilckem Ridge 1917, Final Advance, &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, minor wear but VG copy of a very scarce & desirable memoir. See illustration on our website.
£145
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GRONOW (Capt. [Rees Howell, formerly 1st Foot Guards])
The Reminiscences & Recollections of Captain Gronow: Being Anecdotes of The Camp, Court, Clubs & Society 1810-1860.
New Ed., 2 Vols., xxviii+353pp., col. portrait frontis. & 15 col. plates & xiv+340pp., 17 col. plates. John C. Nimmo.
1892
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Good complete edition of celebrated classic society-soldier's entertaining memoirs of London life & campaign experiences with Grenadier Guards in Peninsular War (Nivelle &c.) & Waterloo. Orig. olive green cloth, gilt, minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.
£35
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NICOLSON (Capt. Nigel, MBE) & FORBES (P.)
The Grenadier Guards in the War of 1939-45. Vol. I, The Campaigns in North-West Europe; Vol. II, The Mediterranean Campaigns.
1st Ed., 2 Vols., xvi+256+xix & xi+323+xixpp., 41 plates, 55 maps (some fldg.). Aldershot: G&P.
1949
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Including BEF 1940, Normandy 1944 to the Rhine, Tunisia 1942-43 & Italy 1943-45. Roll of Hon., awards &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little marked, some tape residue to eps of Vol. II, generally VG with loosely inserted prospectus for the work (22pp., orig. dec. wraps., containing a short description & a reproduction of the index) & OTC Cerificate "A" certifying that Ralph Humphrey Leeke of the Wellington College Contingent was qualified in the Infantry syllabus of training. Note: Leeke was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards & served with the 6th Bn. in Italy where, with a Grenadier Company attached to the 3rd Bn. Welsh Guards, he was mortally wounded attacking a german occupied house near the River Arno on 7th August 1944: an event described in the text. He was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches. See illustration on our website.
£65
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