Ackroyd, Peter.

Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors.

First U.S. edition. New York, Thomas Dunne / St. Martin’s Press, 2012. 16 x 24cm. 486 pages, with colour illustration plates. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition, like new.

Adams, Geoffrey Pharaoh.

No Time for Geishas.

First Edition. London, Leo Cooper, 1973. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. 217 pages. With B&W photos. Original cloth with gilt title on spine. In original, unclipped dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free end paper. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.

Alanbrooke (Foreword).

The Royal Artillery Commemoration Book 1939 – 1945.

First Edition. [London], G. Bell and Sons for the Royal Artillery Benevolent Fund, 1950. xli, 790 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and B&W. Artists Impressions, photographs, maps and plates, many fold-outs. Original blue cloth with armorial gilt decorations to front board. Gilt title on spine. In original decorated dust jacket and glassine wrapper. In sturdy card board box, as published. Very good condition. Mild staining to boards. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally, as new.

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Pegasus Bridge: 6 June 1944.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1984. 14cm x 22cm. XX, 156 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.

Anon.

British Red Cross Register of Overseas Volunteers 1914-1918. Including Voluntary Aid Detachments, Order of St John, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Friends Ambulance Unit, Serbian Relief Fund, Scottish Women’s Hospitals. Covering All Theatres of War.

London, Savannah, 2004. 21 x 16 cm. Hundreds of unumbered pages. Laminated, decorated boards. Hard cover. As new.

ANON.

Tales of a Field Ambulance 1914 – 1918. Told by the Personnel.

First Edition. Southend-on-Sea, Printed for Private Circulation by Borough Printing and Publishing, 1935. 21 x 14 cm. 282 pages. With B&W Photographs and small Illustrations in Text. Blue cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. Blind decorations. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Spine ends a little frayed. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Occassional mild foxing, but generally bright and clean.

ANON.

The Lead-Swinger. The Bivouac Journal of the 1/3 Riding Field Ambulance.

[First Edition]. Volume 1: No. 1-6 incl. Special Christmas Edition 1915 plus Supplement. No publishing information. 1915. 26 x 18 cm. (6), 16, 19, 29, 32, 32, 52, 12. Illustrated with B&W drawings and sketches. Quarter cloth over paper covered decorated boards. Good condition. Binding seriously rubbed and bumped. Shaky. Free end papers appear to be missing. A few pages coming lose and some closed tears. Generally bright and clean. A good reading copy, which would benefit from rebinding.

Aris, George / Durtnell, C.S. (Editor) / Berney-Ficklin (Foreword).

The Fifth British Division 1939 – 1945. Being an Account of the Journey and Battles of a Reserve Division in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

First Edition. London, The Fifth Division Benevolent Fund, 1959. 21 x 14 cm. xi, 266 pages. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps (several fold outs). Original red cloth with B&W ‘Y’ Logo on front board. Gilt title on spine. Decorated end papers. In original dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping, mild discoloration to binding. Some creasing and short closed tears to dust jacket (now in archival jacket). Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. Signed (in green) by Major-General H. P. M. Berney-Ficklin, who wrote the Foreword. With a letter byEric [?], written on Mansion House stationary (home and office of the Lord Mayor of London).

Arnold, H.H. (Henry Harley ‘HAP’).

Global Mission. With Inscription and Letter to Field-Marshal Alanbrooke.

First Edition. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1949. 20 x 14 cm. xii, 626 pages. Illustrated. Original black cloth with black title on gilt on spine. In original dust jacket. Very good condition in fair dust jacket. Minor rubbing and bumping. Binding damp stained. Dust jacket water damaged with some losses. Edges and end papers age darkened, otherwise internally clean. With a long inscription by Arnold to Field Marshal Alanbrooke on the front free end paper. Included in this sale is also a letter by Arnold to Alanbrooke.

Austin, Sue & Ron.

The Body Snatchers. The History of the 3rd Field Ambulance 1914-1918.

First Limited Edition. Copy 467 of 500. McCrae, Australia, Slouch Publications, 1995. 21 x 14 cm. x, 150 pages. Illustrated. Original blue cloth with white title on spine. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by both authors on colophone page. Publishers line code sticker on back of dust jacket. Internally as new.