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Photo of "Memoir of Thomas Thrush, Esq., ..."
WELLBELOVED, C[harles]. Memoir of Thomas Thrush, Esq., formerly an officer of rank in the royal navy: who resigned his commission on the ground of the unreasonableness of war. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845. First edition. 8vo. [4], 116pp. With a facsimile portrait frontispiece and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Slightest of loss and splitting to head and foot of spine. Light offsetting to title, very short marginal tear to F8, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 13856
Photo of "My life among the bluejackets"
WESTON, Agnes. My life among the bluejackets. London. Nisbet & Co., Limited, [1917]. New and Revised edition. 8vo. xiv, 373pp. With half-title, a photogravure portrait frontispiece of the author and 15 further photographic plates. Modern red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. A trifle rubbed. A presentation copy, with the author's presentation bookplate to FEP, reading 'To Sir J. C. H. Seale Bart., With kind regards from Agnes E. Weston, Royal Sailors Rest, Portsmouth. May 1917'. Light scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34525
Photo of "With our army in flanders"
WILLIAMS, G. Valentine. With our army in flanders. London. Edward Arnold, 1916. Second impression. 8vo. xi, [1], 34, 8pp. With a frontispiece, a further 15 plates, a a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spins sunned. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 21511
Photo of "The wet flanders plain"
WILLIAMSON, Henry. The wet flanders plain. London. The Beaumont Press, 1929. First edition. 8vo. 96pp, [8]. Original publisher's decorated paper of rifles and ploughshares over quarter buckram, designed by Randolph Schwabe along with the title page. Title lettered in gilt. Bottom and fore-edge uncut, though a little foxed. Wear to all edges, minor bumping to corners, with a few marks and darkening to the spine. Internally bright and clean. Numbered '146' of 400. From the recently dispersed Williamson family ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27918
Photo of "The wet flanders plain"
WILLIAMSON, Henry. The wet flanders plain. New York. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. , 1929. First American edition. 8vo. 122pp, [6]. Original publisher's black and yellow cloth boards, yellow title label; lettered in black, the dustwrapper with a stark black and cream bayonet design. Slightly edgeworn, spine a trifle cocked, wrapper worn and creased with significant loss to upper panel and spine. Internally bright and clean, with a note in Williamson's hand 'author's copy, please return when read enough', his initials and Shallowford address. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27919
Photo of "The wet flanders plain"
WILLIAMSON, HENRY. The wet flanders plain. New York . E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929. First American edition. 8vo. 122pp, [6]. Original publisher's black and yellow cloth boards, lettered in yellow, fore and bottom edge uncut. Without dustwrapper. Page block starting. Boards are lightly worn with some marking. Internally bright and clean save extensive penmanship. Inscribed 'for Henry Williamson: I hope you will like having this part of the past brought back to you and I hope it is pleasant to recall at least ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27920
Photo of "The wet flanders plain"
WILLIAMSON, Henry. The wet flanders plain. Norwich, Norfolk. Gliddon Books, 1987. First Gliddon Books edition. 8vo. xx, [2], 13-182pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the photographic dust wrapper. With eight photographic illustrations. A little spotting to the wrapper, otherwise clean. With the initials of Williamson's son Richard (RLCW) on the title page. From the family library of Henry Williamson. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28300
Photo of "Arabia no Rorensu"
WILSON, Jeremy [Keisaburo Yamaguchi]. Arabia no Rorensu. Japan. Shinshokan, 1989. First Japanese edition. Quarto. 160pp. Original publisher's white laminated boards, lettered in blue with the contrasting spine, monochrome portrait of Lawrence to the rear board. With the photographic dustwrapper and the additional British Airways orange advertising band. From the family library of Henry Williamson, now dispersed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28301
Photo of "General wolfe's instructions to young ..."
WOLFE, General [James]. General wolfe's instructions to young officers. London. Printed for J. Millan, 1780. Second edition. 12mo. [2], ix, [3], 106pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep, contrasting red calf lettering-piece, supralibros to boards. Heavily worn, significant surface loss, upper board held by cords only, lower joint split. Title page lightly browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 22799
Photo of "In flanders fields the 1917 ..."
WOLFF, Leon. In flanders fields the 1917 campaign. London. Longmans, Green and Co, 1959. Second impression. 8vo. 310pp. With twenty-one photographs and seven maps. Original publisher's red cloth boards, lettered in gilt, with the unclipped photographic dust wrapper. Minor bumping to boards, a little shelf-wear. Wrapper worn and marked without loss. With extensive annotations and refutations throughout in Williamson's hand. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 28216
Photo of "Narrative of the war with ..."
WOLSELEY, Lieut.-Colonel G. J. Narrative of the war with china in 1860. London. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. First edition. 8vo. [5], viii-xiv, 415pp, [1]. Without half-title. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound by Riviere and Son in contemporary gilt-tooled dark brown morocco, marbled paper boards, T.E.G., marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Offsetting to title, scattered spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29515
Photo of "Indian pageant"
YEATS-BROWN, Francis. Indian pageant. London. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942. First edition. 8vo. Original publisher's pale-yellow cloth lettered in red, with the decorative unclipped dust wrapper. Small nick to front board, otherwise crisp. Wrapper a little creased and frayed without major loss. With the ink presentation inscription to FFEP 'For Henry from Francis, 16 ou '42. for ornament, not for reading, sweepe the last chapter, perhaps.' More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28293
Photo of "Regulations and allowances applicable to ..."
[YEOMANRY CAVALRY]. Regulations and allowances applicable to corps of yeomanry cavalry. [London]. Printed by J. Hartnell, 1833. 8vo. 20pp, [4]. Contemporary calf, tooled in blind, ruled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Inscribed to upper board 'Earl of Lovelace'. Rubbed, loss to head and foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, lightly creased and spotted. Autograph letter pasted to front blank fly-leaf, [8]pp of manuscript tables to rear blank fly-leaves listing the 'Return of the arms and accoutrements in possession of the Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry on ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25433