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TRENCH MAP:
France Sheet 66cNW Ed. 2A. 1:20,000.
Outline British trenches & detailed German systems south of St. Quentin around Itancourt & Urvillers, Berthenicour &c. Trenches corrected to 8/11/1917. Staining to front & some old tape rapairs to lower edge, hinges somwhat worn but interesting & scarce sheet. See illustration on our website.
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£75
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GILLAM (Major John Graham, DSO)
Gallipoli Diary.
1st Ed., 328pp., 13 plates. Allen & Unwin.
1918
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ASC 29th Division throughout the campaign; a detailed day-to-day diary/commentary of events. Rare 1st Ed., orig. cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.
£90
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LOCKE (William J.)
The Rough Road.
1st Ed., 346pp. NY: Lane.
1918
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Surprisingly uncommon novel - by an acclaimed American writer - about an English soldier in France who falls in love with a French girl although romantically attached at home... Orig. dec. cloth, little wear to sp. o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£20
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MOTTISTONE (Lord [Gen. Jack Seely])
My Horse Warrior.
Illustrated by Alfred Munnings. 2nd Imp., 160pp., 19 drawings. VG in sl. chipped dw. H&S.
1934
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Seely's charger who carried him throughout his service in France, Retreat from Mons to the Final Advance. Many of Seely's own experiences are naturally related via the medium of the beast. Appealing Munnings drawings, some executed on the Western Front. Orig. pale blue cloth, titled & dec. in black, VG in sl. chipped dw. See illustration on our website.
£45
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SCANLON (William T.)
God Have Mercy On Us! A Story of 1918.
1st Ed., 338pp. VG in worn dw. Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1929
#68181
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Novel based on personal experience in 97th Co. Marines, 2nd Div. of the American Expeditionary Force, inc. Verdun, Bois de Bellau & the St. Mihiel offensive. The work was joint winner of a substantial prize jointly offered by the publishers & American Legion Monthly for the "best World War novel." Orig. red cloth, gilt to sp. & front, VG in chipped & torn but attractive, scarce dw (loss at edges, generally intact). See illustration on our website.
£65
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WINANT (Cornelius)
A Soldier's Manuscript.
1st Ed., vii+143pp., portrait frontis. Boston, Mass., Privately Printed at The Merrymount Press.
1929
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Cornelius Winant, member of a prominent East Coast family, joined the American Ambulance Field Service in France in 1916, later in the year went to Salonika, was at Monastir &c., then in Jan. 1918 he joined the French Foreign Legion. Serving with the 236th Field Artillery on the Western Front, he was captured, taken PoW & escaped to Rotterdam. Now joining up with US forces he was assigned to the 18th Artillery but by the time he joined this formation the armistice had been signed. These war memoirs, which include an account of his escape adventures, were published by his family after his unfortunate death in 1928. He had staggered into the exclusive Princetown Club, injured & in distress, was put to bed by other club members but died during the night. According to newspaper reports a hemorrage, left unchecked for too long, combined with acute alcoholism, was fatal. Orig. blue paper covd. boards with wheat cloth backstrip & corners, gilt lettering label to sp., little rubbed/worn about VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£65
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LONG (Haniel) Ed.
The Soldier's Progress: From the War Letters of Carnegie Tech Men.
1st Ed., 39pp. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology.
1918
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Small format booklet containing a selection of humorous extracts from letters from France. Orig. card boards with paper wraps., VG & interesting curiosity. See illustration on our website.
£20
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Letters from Roger I. Lee, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army Medical Corps, 1917-1918.
1st Ed., [vi]+377pp., portrait frontis., 7 photos., one plate reproducing British MiD certificate & US Army Citation. Brookline, Mass., Privately Printed.
1962
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Detailed letters between May 1917 & Jan. 1919 of Roger Irving Lee (1881-1964) who was a distinguished physician & early pioneer of blood transfusion. He served in France with the Harvard Medical Unit & as consultant to 3rd Corps, A.E.F. Orig. blue cloth with red lettering label to sp., VG with loosely inserted personal letter from the author loosely inserted. See illustration on our website.
£35
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DALTON (Hugh)
With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement.
1st Ed., xv+267pp., 8 plates, 3 maps. Methuen.
1919
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Subaltern with 464th Siege Battery RGA 1917-18 inc. retreat from Caporetto &c. One of few accounts of the allied campaign in Italy: "His accounts of the operations, though strictly from the point of view of a battery subaltern, are excellent & informative, but the best part of his book consists in his descriptions of the country & of the Italian army." - Falls. The author was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Attlee government of 1945. Orig. red cloth, gilt to sp. & blindstamped title to front, VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
£120
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STALLINGS (Laurence)
The Doughboys: The Story of the AEF, 1917-1918.
1st Ed., x+404pp., approx. 50 photos., coloured endpapers & other plates depicting divisional insignia, 17 maps. VG in sl. chipped dw. NY: Harper Row.
1963
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Very useful, standard complete history, with good illus. & maps, compiled by a former junior infantry officer who was seriously wounded at Belleau Wood. VG in chipped dw. See illustration on our website.
£20
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