The First World War and The Second World War by Martin Gilbert - 2014

New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo. 292 pages. Hardcover with a tan, blue, green and brown pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket is worn and chipped about the edges. Headcap of the jacket spine is especially chipped. There is tear at the lower right corner of the rear panel, stretching around to the foot of the spine, and there may have been some damping there as well. The binding of the book has a little paper stuck to the cloth in this area. The book itself is sound with secure inner hinges and clean text. Collates complete with 16 photos.

New York: Dial Press, 1945. 1st edition,Poet's SECOND book featuring the poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." 2000 copies printed. Dark blue boards with imprinted stars, yellow and black writing and designs on spine.Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. (Touch of light sunning at upper edges of cloth. first owners name neatly written inside front cover and dated 1947. Pages clean, no marks or tears.

(Ministère de la Guerre) Librairie Armand Colin, s.d. (1916) 35x28,5 cm. Fascicule VI: Reims - Soissons - Arras Fascicule VII: En Alsace reconquise Fascicule VIII: Armes et munitions Fascicule IX: En Artois Fascicule XI: Prisonniers et trophées Fascicule XII: De l' Yser à la mer du Nord Fascicule XIV: Les étapes du blessé
--- Some wear at spines. Valuable B&W photographs from the First World War. Text in french.

London: William Heinemann, LTD., 1929. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [x], [199], [1] + illustrated frontis reproducing Percy Smith's drypoint 'Solitude'. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt embossed design echoing the docked solitary tree of 'Solitude' to upper board. Spine baggy, spine ends frayed, extremities bruised and top corner bumped, slight warp and faint bloom to boards, wear to blind-stamped Heinemann device. Grey marbled endpapers tanned. Foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. A robust copy of Borden's celebrated WWI collection. The Chicago-born socialite, suffragette and prolific author, Mary 'May' Borden (1886-1968) used her own private wealth to fund and staff a mobile hospital at the French front, for which she received the Croix de Guerre and was made a member of the Légion d'honneur. The Forbidden Zone is considered "her most enduring work," comprising five stories "written recently from memory" and poems and sketches penned during her four years in France, and… Read More

Montabaur-Frankfurt, Germany: Printing Office Martin Flock, 1919. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 12mo. 92 pages. Soft cover bound in salmon colored wrappers. The binding is worn and bumped, and the spine ends are chipped. Bottom corner bumped and creased. Scuffing along the fore edge of the front cover. A sound copy. The text is toned. The two leaves for pages 63-66 have large creases at the top right, affecting the text. Signed by an officer on the front cover. Signed "A. F. Kingman" who is listed in the rear of the book as 2nd Lt / 1st Lt. Capt. Early markings (presumably by Kingman), have pencil notations in the list of names, some marginal notes reading "KIA" for those killed in action. Scarce.

Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1962, 391 pages, 7" x 9.75", Near Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket. Text in German. Volume 1 only

New York: Dial Press, 1945. 1st edition,Poet's SECOND book featuring the poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." 2000 copies printed. Dark blue boards with imprinted stars, yellow and black writing and designs on spine.Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. (Touch of light sunning at upper edges of cloth. first owners name neatly written inside front cover and dated 1947. Pages clean, no marks or tears.

(Ministère de la Guerre) Librairie Armand Colin, s.d. (1916) 35x28,5 cm. Fascicule VI: Reims - Soissons - Arras Fascicule VII: En Alsace reconquise Fascicule VIII: Armes et munitions Fascicule IX: En Artois Fascicule XI: Prisonniers et trophées Fascicule XII: De l' Yser à la mer du Nord Fascicule XIV: Les étapes du blessé
--- Some wear at spines. Valuable B&W photographs from the First World War. Text in french.

London: William Heinemann, LTD., 1929. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [x], [199], [1] + illustrated frontis reproducing Percy Smith's drypoint 'Solitude'. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt embossed design echoing the docked solitary tree of 'Solitude' to upper board. Spine baggy, spine ends frayed, extremities bruised and top corner bumped, slight warp and faint bloom to boards, wear to blind-stamped Heinemann device. Grey marbled endpapers tanned. Foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. A robust copy of Borden's celebrated WWI collection. The Chicago-born socialite, suffragette and prolific author, Mary 'May' Borden (1886-1968) used her own private wealth to fund and staff a mobile hospital at the French front, for which she received the Croix de Guerre and was made a member of the Légion d'honneur. The Forbidden Zone is considered "her most enduring work," comprising five stories "written recently from memory" and poems and sketches penned during her four years in France, and… Read More

Schiffer Publishing Ltd (US), 2010. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2010 1st edition. Firmly bound and very carefully read. Both book & jacket are in excellent clean condition, Almost like new, condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Illustrated in colour & b/w. Very heavy book (approx 3.5kg) & not suitable for overseas shipping..