AIR FORCE POETRY. Ed. H TREECE & J PUDNEY. 1944. Dw frayed.
Contributions from Squadron Leader H E Bates, C Hamblett, M Savage,
V Watkins,
T R Hodgson, H Treece, A Richardson, etc. £12.00
ALL BULL: THE NATIONAL SERVICE MEN. Ed. B S JOHNSON. 1973. Quartet Books. Original contributions by Jeff Nuttall, Wes Magee, E Lucie-Smith, Mel Calman,
M Holroyd, J Furnival, B Tyler, A Sillitoe, J Arden, David Hockney, etc.
Original wraps. Name on front end paper. £20.00
ATLANTIC ANTHOLOGY.NEW VOICES. Ed. N MOORE & D NEWTON. 1945.
Fortune Press. Proof copy in original wraps.
These poems are either first book-form or first printings.
(J Maclaren-Ross, A White, Wallace Stevens. (H Miller, S Bellow, N Moore, L Durrell,
R Todd, H Henderson, G S Fraser, Allen Tate, W S Graham, R Eberhart.) £45.00
ATLANTIC ANTHOLOGY. NEW VOICE S. Ed. N MOORE & D NEWTON. 1945.
These poems are either first book-form or first printings.
(Wallace Stevens, L Durrell, G S Fraser, Allen Tate, W S Graham, R Eberhart, H Miller, Maclaren-Ross, S Bellow, R Todd.) £40.00
BACKWATER. Ed. D Guy ADAMS. 1944. OFLAG IX A/H LOWER CAMP.
Contributions from Officers quartered in the Camp. Illustrated.
Covers a little faded. Illustrated. £8.00
BALLET-TO POLAND. Ed. A L HASKELL. 1940.
In Aid of the Polish Relief Fund with illustrations by E McKnight Kauffer, A Pavlova,
F Topolski, O Messel, C Beaton, K Ambrose. Poems by J Masfield, W J Turner.
Illustrated by K Ambrose. Introduced with one poem relating to the War.
Covers somewhat used but contents very good. £6.00
BATTLE TOGETHER FOR BRITAIN. MORAL RE-ARMAMENT. nd.
A War-time propaganda booklet containing apposite quotations, articles,
exhortations & illustrations. 30pp. Original wraps. Uncommon. £10.00
THE BRITISH WAY AND PURPOSE. 1944. Army Education.
Consolidated Edition of B.W.P. Booklets 1-18 with Appendices of Documents of Post-War Reconstruction prepared by The Directorate of Army Education.
Lectures given to British soldiers from 1942 onwards on citizenship, domestic & international affairs, how Britain sees the Post-War World, etc.
Lge 8vo 606pp with additional pamphlets of similar title.
Name on front end paper. Covers a little worn. £6.00
CAMBRIDGE FRONT. Ed. G SCURFIELD,M HOLLOWAY & N MOORE. 1940.
Original wraps. (V Mayakovsky, F Urquhart, G Scurfield, M Holloway, N Moore,
P Potts, Dylan Thomas-"The Countryman's Return", 100 line Poem was not included in any collection published during Dylan Thomas's life. Scarce. £45.00
CAN PLANNING BE DEMOCRATIC? 1944. Routledge.
A Collection of Essays prepared for the Fabian Society by Herbert Morrison,
T W Agar, Barbara Wooton, C E M Joad, Joan Robinson & G D H Cole. £6.00
CONTEMPORARY GERMAN POETRY. 1967. Oleander Press. Original wraps.
A Personal choice from the work of 14 Poets born since WW1
translated by Ewald Osers.(H Cibulka, E Fried, H Piontek, R Anders, W H Fritz, J Becker, H Hartung, A Zornack, R Kunze, P Hartling, H D Schafer, D Leisegang, etc.) £5.00
CROWN AND THE SICKLE. THE. Ed. H TREECE & J F HENDRY. (1943) Dw.
A War Time Apocalyptic Anthology with contributions from the Editors,
D Val Baker,
A Comfort, F Marnau, G Stewart, R Greacen, W Gardiner, M Lindsay,
S Jennett,
S Schimanski, R Herring, etc.). £30.00
DAILY TELEGRAPH. Ed. J B FIRTH. 1942. Third Miscellany.
A New Anthology of prose & verse. Frayed dw. 30th thousand. £5.00
DECADE.1931-1941. A COMMEMORATIVE ANTHOLOGY. 1941. 2nd Edn.
".. an anthology which will appeal to widely divergent tastes. It ranges over domestic & foreign affairs & personalities, science & poetry, Fiction & the theatre...".
(J Dickinson Carr, J Thurber, E St V Millay, A Werth, A Thirkell, R Ardrey,
J Gunther, M Muggeridge, D Parker, J Flanner.)
Spine sunned. £5.00
THE EAGLE LOOKS BACK. THE STAFF MAGAZINE OF BARCLAYS BANK. 1951.
Dw little chipped on top edge. A Silver Jubilee Anthology of twenty-five years' contributions to "The Spread Eagle"-the staff magazine of Barclays Bank;
articles, short stories, verses & illustrations including cartoon & humour.
Contributors include J M Barrie & contributions from the War Years. £6.00
THE EVACUEES. Ed & introduced by B S Johnson. 1968. Dw.
Contributions by A Sillitoe & R Fainlight with their signatures, Jonathan Miller,
Bryn Griffiths, B S Johnson, Michael Aspell, etc & a poem by N Nicholson. £35.00
FEAR NO MORE. Ed. F KENDON. 1940. Dw.
A Book of Poems for the Present Time by living English Poets who are not identified
but who include E Blunden, R Church, W De La Mare, C Fry, C S Lewis, S Sassoon,
S Spender, etc. Name on front end paper. £20.00
THE FIRST EIGHTEEN. Ed. R WESTERBY & P J BRUCE.1943. Original wraps.
Stories by Writers in Uniform:- J Maclaren-Ross, W Sansom, R Williams,
G Kersh, J Beeching.) Uncommon, particularly in decent condition. £20.00
THE FORTUNE ANTHOLOGY. Ed. J BAYLISS, N MOORE & D NEWTON. (1942)
Fortune Press. Dw soiled & chipped but otherwise complete. Stories, Criticism &
Poetry by J Maclaren-Ross, H Miller, L Durrell, A Ridler, C Fry, O Sitwell, D Stanford, Editors, C Aiken, A Perles.) £45.00
FROM OASIS INTO ITALY. Ed. V SELWYN, D DAVIN, E De MAUNY, I Fletcher. 1983. Dw. War Poems & Diaries from Africa & Italy 1940-1946.
Signed by M Carver & J Hackett, both advisers on the book, & by V Selwyn, D Davin,
E DeMauny. Edn Lim to 110 numbered copies. £40.00
THE GREENWOOD ANTHOLOGY OF NEW VERSE. Ed. H PALMER. 1948. Dw.
This uncommon Anthology of poems submitted for a Poetry Competition,
contains War Poetry printed only in the Poetry Review as well as other poems
published in Collections subsequent to the Competition.
(W W Gibson, W Jarman,
H Corby, H Sergeant, D Gibson, A Vickeridge, etc.)
Small line annotation of titles in contents otherwise very good. £16.00
HOME IS THE SOLDIER. 1947. Fortune Press. Dw. A New Anthology.
(D Birch, J Franklin, P Savage, R Shuckburgh, R Smith, D Reade, R Benn.) £20.00
I BURN FOR ENGLAND. Ed. C HAMBLETT. 1966. Dw.
An Anthology of the Poetry of World War 11. £8.00
IN PRAISE OF THE FEW. Ed. A H NARRACOTT. 1947.
A Battle of Britain Anthology. Comments, Description & poems relating to the subject
by both participants & leaders of the day. Name on front end paper. £35.00
KEEP LEFT. 1947. New Statesman Pamphlet. A notable manifesto written during
the Atlee government by a group of M Ps:- R H S Crossman, Michael Foot, Ian Mikardo,
L Hale, Woodrow Wyatt, S Swingler, J P W Mallalieu, R W G Mackay, E R Millington,
G Wigg, F Lee, G Bing, D Bruce, H Davies. Original wraps. £8.00
KING AND COUNTRY. 1940. Zodiac Books.
Selections from British War Speeches 1939-40, including several by Churchill
as well as The King and Queen, Eden, Chamberlain, Bevin and J B Priestley. £5.00
LAUGH WITH SEAC. Ed. F OWEN. nd. SEAC. Original wraps. Cartoons & jingles from the troops in Burma during the Second World War. Published by the Seac Newspaper. Illustrated.A very good copy of a fragile production. £20.00
LAUGHS WITH THE NAVY. Ed. S E THOMAS. nd. Original wraps.
Cartoons, ancedotes & jokes relating to the Second Wold War.
Includes illustrations by Giles. £24.00
LET THE LIVING REMEMBER. Ed. L LAZAREV. 1976. Moscow. Dw.
Soviet War Poetry. Introduced by A Mikhailov.
This Anthology of Poetry, inspired by the struggle against German Fascism during
World War 11, represents some of the best works of more than 50 Soviet poets,
most of whom were on active service in the war. The texts are printed in both Russian & English. (Akmatova, I Ehrenburg, Pasternak, A Surkov, Y Smelyakov.) £12.00
LIFE AND FANTASY. (1946) Alliance Press.
First publication of short stories on the title theme by R Moore, R Heppentall,
P Ratazzi, J Bayliss, N Moore, A Comfort, etc.
Original wraps somewhat frayed,creased and internally strengthened along the spine but complete.Internally a very good copy of a scarce collection. £30.00
LITTLE BOOK OF MODERN VERSE.A. Ed. A RIDLER. 1941. Dw a little frayed. Introduced by T S Eliot. The dust wrapper reads "A Little Book of Modern Verse".The title page reads "The Little Book of Modern Verse". Later editions were corrected so that dw, title page & binding all read the same. £20.00
LITTLE REVIEWS ANTHOLOGY. Ed. D VAL BAKER. 1943-1949.
This Series provides "Contemporary records of trends in new writing."
Contributors include V Watkins, J Hanley, S Keyes, Alun Lewis, R S Thomas,
H Macdiarmid, Dylan Thomas, G Barker, C Day Lewis, H E Bates, J Betjeman,
Denton Welch, A Soutar, D Gascoyne, P Hansford Johnson, E Muir, etc.)
5 volumes, all very good each containing a bibliography of current British
& Irish Little Reviews. £95.00 LITTLE REVIEWS ANTHOLOGY. Ed. D VAL BAKER. 1945.
Dw torn & frayed. Inscription on front end paper.
Contributors include A Koestler, K Rhys, E Mannin,
A Kavan, F Urquart, P Fallon,
Alun Lewis, J Atkins, S Chaplin, J Bayliss, M Lindsay,
V Watkins, S Keyes, G Barker,
W S Graham, S Goodsir Smith, H MacDiarmid,
W Soutar, J Betjeman, R Fuller,
J Heath-Stubbs, R S Thomas, R Greacen,etc. £8.00
LITTLE REVIEWS ANTHOLOGY Ed. D VAL BAKER. 1946. Dw torn & frayed.
(Poems by Dylan Thomas, V Watkins, H Read, E Muir, J Heath-Stubbs, N Moore,
A S J Tessimond, C Day Lewis, J Hewitt, N MacCaig, J Waller, Stevie Smith,etc.
Stories & articles by H E Bates, Rhys Davies, F O'Connor, W Sansom, M Lavin,
D K Haynes, S Spender, E Bowen, V S Pritchett, P Nash, H MacDiarmid,etc £10.00
A LITTLE TREASURY OF MODERN POETRY. Ed. OSCAR. 1947. First English.
English & American poetry. Dw frayed. Name on front end paper. £13.50
A MAP OF HEARTS. Ed. H TREECE & S SCHIMANSKI. 1944.
A Collection of Short Stories by A Ross, J Pudney, J F Hendry, W Sansom,
J Heath-Stubbs, W Sansom, H Treece, M R Anand, R Heppenstall, Gwyn Jones,
M Lavin, G Stewart, etc with a section on War.
Inscription on front end paper. The Henry Moore dw is a little frayed. £25.00
A MAP OF HEARTS. Ed. H TREECE & S SCHIMANSKI. 1945. 2nd Edn.
A Collection of Short Stories with a section on War. £25.00
MESSAGE FROM NOWHERE.(MESSAGES DE NULLE PART). Ed. E L T MESENS. 1944. London Gallery. A Collection of Surrealist Poetry, Drawings & Criticism in French or English by E L T Mesens, A Breton, Conroy Maddox, J Banting, H Treece, J B Brunius,
R Penrose, A Comfort, O Sitwell, H Read, E M Fortser, J Banting, S Cherkeshi, etc. Illustrated by A Jarry, J Banting, Picasso, F A Cazals, etc. Original wraps £200.00
MIDDLE EAST ANTHOLOGY. Ed. J WALLER & E De MAUNY. 1946.
Dw frayed. Contributors include G S Fraser, S Keyes, L Durrell, J Jarmain, J Pudney,
K Douglas, Editors, B Spencer, J Gawsworth, O Manning, etc. £16.00
MODERN WELSH POETRY. Ed. K RHYS. 1944. Editor, P Hellings, R Herring,
N Heseltine, Glyn Jones, A Pryce Jones, R Mathais,B Chamberlain, V Watkins,
H Treece,
H Menai, L Roberts, Dylan Thomas, D Jones, R S Thomas, I Davies. etc. £8.00
MORE POEMS FROM THE FORCES. Ed. K RHYS. 1943. Dw.
A Collection of Verses by Serving Members of the Navy, Army & Air Force.
(H Treece, G S Fraser, R Fuller,J Symons, F Scarfe, F T Prince, E Litvinof, V Watkins,
J Manifold, J Hendry, S Keyes, L Whistler, A Lewis, J Pudney, A Rook, N McCaig, etc). Name on front end paper. £25.00
THE NEW APOCALYPSE. Ed. H TREECE, J F HENDRY, S SCHIMANSKI. (1940)
Fortune Press. An Anthology of Criticism, Poems & Stories.
An uncommon Anthology being the first of a group edited anonymously by J F Hendry. Frontis by Picasso. Contributors include Dylan Thomas, H Treece, N MacCaig, N Moore, D Cooke, S Schimanski, R Melville, P O'Connor,etc. £40.00
NEW LYRICAL BALLADS. Ed. M CARPENTER, J LINDSAY & H ARUNDEL. 1945.
Poetry London. Contributors include P Potts, F Scarfe, A Lewis, J Pudney, J Atkins,
I Davis, J Singer, H Corby, J Lindsay, etc. Dw. £10.00
NEW POEMS:1940. Ed. OSCAR WILLIAMS. 1941. USA.
Introduced by G Barker.
Dw frayed. Inscription on front end paper.
"New & vital work by the majority of the leading poets writing today."
Contains 3 poems & Ten Sonnets by Dylan Thomas. (E Bishop, R P Blackmur,
H Gregory, A MacLeish, F Prokosch, J C Ransom, M Rukeyser, D Schwartz,
A Tate,
M Moore,
C Aiken, R Eberhart, W Empson, W H Auden, G Barker,
J Berryman,
W C Williams,
R Jeffers, L Macneice, R P Warren.) £16.00
THE NEW TREASURY OF WAR POETRY. Ed. G H CLARKE. 1943. USA.
Contains many 1st book appearances by both British & American Poets:-
B Deutsch, L Whistler, A Macleish, R Frost, Prokosch, Meyerstein, L Lee, J G Fletcher,
R Church, E Blunden, A Young, L Binyon, J Berryman, E Muir, Mervyn Peake,
C Sanburg, Wallace Stevens, T H White, Andrew Young & many more.
Very good copy in rubbed & slightly torn dust jacket.
Complimentry slip laid in £16.00
NEW YORKER WAR ALBUM. 1943. Hamish Hamilton. Name & date on front end paper. Black & white topical cartoons from the New Yorker . £15.00
NORTHERN HARVEST. Ed. R GREACE N. 1944. Introduced by R Lynd.
An Anthology of Ulster Writing. Editor's signature on front end paper. An anthology of essays, stories and poems almost entirely "published for the first time" reflecting every viewpoint from Unionist to Nationalist with many war associated themes. (Forrest Reid, R Mcfadden, J Hewitt, St John Ervine, M Mclaverty, W R Rodgers, D Ireland, H Waddell.) Dw slightly chipped. Uncommon.£16.00
NUTSHELL NOTES ON PRISON REFORM. Ed. Alan HADFIELD & OTHERS.
(1944) Northern Lights. Original pictorial wraps. Introduced by Stuart Morris.
Alan Hadfield's copy with his notes & textual annotations.
Hadfield was sent to prison as he was a Conscientous Objector.
(F De Montaigne, R A Wing, J Bedeker, A Hadfield.) £20.00
THE ONLOOKER BOOK OF VERSE. nd. India.
A selection of verses, mainly humorous, which have at one time or another appeared in The Onlooker. Illustrated by W F N Watson.
Covers slightly worn otherwise very good. Pin rust marks on front end paper £20.00
THE OXFORD BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY VERSE. 1945-1980. Ed. D J ENRIGHT. 1980.
(Stevie Smith, R S Thomas, R Lowell, K Amis, P Larkin, D Walcott, R Fuller, J Berryman, R Jarrell, C H Sisson(Over the Berlin Wall), C Causlightlyey, J Heath-Stubbs, Editor,
R Wilbur, G Mackay Brown, V Scannell, L Simpson,T Gunn, P Porter, S Heaney, etc. ) Dw. Name on front end paper. £12.00
THE OXFORD BOOK OF TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLISH VERSE. Ed. P LARKIN. 1973. Dw badly torn. Introduced by P Larkin. "traces the progress of our poetry from the major talents that dominated the turn of the Century through the separate & contrasting worlds of its principal innovators up to the present day.. "£12.00
PENGUIN BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY VERSE.1918-1960. Ed. K ALLOTT. 1968. Reprint. Inscription on front end paper. Original wraps slightly dusty otherwise very good.
(W Owen, A Huxley, R Graves, E Blunden, L MacNeice, P Quennell, S Sitwell, L Binyon, E Muir, S Sassoon, W de La Mare. Wyndham Lewis, W B Yeats, D H Lawrence,
C D Lewis, J Joyce, W H Auden, S Spender, J Betjeman, T S Eliot, H Read, etc.) £15.00
POEMS BY CONTEMPORARY WOMEN. Ed. T ROSCOE & M WINTER WERE. nd. Introduced by P H B Lyon. ( V Sackville-West, V Brittain, R Pitter,
M Sackville,
M Stopes, C Dane, S Lynd, V Meynell, Editors, D Wellesley, etc.
-many first book form.) Biographical notes. Name on front end paper. Spine sunned £12.00
POEMS FROM INDIA. Ed. R N CURREY & R V GIBSON. 1945. India.
The uncommon 1st edition printed in India. Dw frayed. Tips of spine damaged.
by Members of the Forces. Contributors include C Bransom, J Gawsworth,
Alun Lewis, S Piggott, Viscount Wavell, P Widdows, F Carnell, M Obroi, H Shelley, H L Shorto, F Symes & M Wasi. A very good copyin dw. £25.00
POEMS FROM INDIA. Ed. R N CURREY & R V GIBSON. 1946. Dw.
by Members of the Forces. Contributors include C Bransom, J Gawsworth,
Alun Lewis, S Piggott, Viscount Wavell, P Widdows, F Carnell, M Obroi, H Shelley, H L Shorto, F Symes & M Wasi. A very good copy in dw. The preface reflects the death of Alun Lewis since the publication of the 1945 edition. £16.00
POEMS FROM ITALY. Ed. Eighth Army. 1945. Dw frayed.
Verses written by Members of the Eighth Army in Sicily & Italy. July 1943-March 1944. Introduced by S Sassoon. (T I F Armstrong.) £12.00
POEMS FROM NEW WRITING.1936-1946. Ed. JOHN LEHMANN. 1946. Dw.
(D Gascoyne, W H Auden, G Barker, C Day Lewis, S Spender. T Tiller, R Brooke,
R Fuller, R Graves, Aragon, Birney, N Cameron, D Capetankis, A Chamson,
A Comfort, R N Currey, C Dyment, J Heath-Stubbs, P J Jouve, L Lee, A Lewis,
L Little, E Milne, N Moore, N Nicholson, W Plomer, F T Prince, A Ridler,
A Ross, G Seferis, E Sitwell, R Swingler, A J S Tessimond, R Waller, P Yates. £8.00
POEMS FROM THE DESERT. 1944. Verses by Members of the Eighth Army.
Advance Proof copy. 46 pp in original wraps with intro &
facsimile signature by General Montgomery. Front wrap detached.
(P A A Thomas, L E S Cotterell, P N R Russell.) £12.00
POEMS FROM THE DESERT. 1944. Egypt. Reprint.
Verses by Members of the Eighth Army. Foreword by General Montgomery. £5.00
POEMS FROM THE FORCES. Ed. K RHYS. 1941. Dw slightly frayed.
A Collection of Verses by Serving Members of the Navy, Army & Air Force.
Introduced by W Elliot.
(A Lewis, M Peake, L Whistler, G Ewart, G S Fraser, R Fuller, B Warr,
E Litvinoff, C Hamblett, J F Hendry, R Heppenstall, Editor, P Baker,
G Scurfield, J Waller, J Cromer, etc) Inscription front end paper. £25.00
POEMS OF THE WAR YEARS. Ed. M WOLLMAN. 1948.
(C S Lewis, A Clarke, H. D, W De La Mare, P Dickinson, L Durrell, R Fuller,
D Gascoyne, J Gawsworth, W Gibson, O St John Gogarty, R Graves, J Grigson,
C Hassall, J Heath-Stubbs, J Lehmann, A Lewis, C Day Lewis, H MacDiarmid,
MacNeice, L Abercrombie, J Redwood Anderson, J Arlott, W H Auden, G Barker,
J Betjeman, L Binyon, E Blunden, R Campbell, R Church.) Slight dmap staining to prelims and spot foxing to fep, otherwise very good. £18.00
POEMS OF THIS CENTURY. Ed. C B COX & A E DYSON. 1968.
Name on front end paper. Short biographies of contributors with Editor's notes at rear. (D H Lawrence, L MacNeice, O Nash, E Pound, S Spender, W B Yeats, J Betjeman, D J Enright, R Graves, T Gunn, S Heaney, Ted Hughes, P Larkin, A Lewis, R Lowell, E Muir, S Plath, Dylan Thomas, R Frost*. (R Brooke, W H Davies, W De La Mare, T Hardy, W Owen, S Sassoon, Edward Thomas, W H Auden, T S Eliot, J Wain.) £5.00
POEMS OF THIS WAR BY YOUNGER POETS. Ed. P LEDWARD & C STRANG. 1942. Introduced by E Blunden. Dw slightly frayed. Inscription on front end paper.
Contributors include D Gascoyne, N Moore, C Sansom, A Comfort, C Dyment, F King,
N Nicholson, A Rook, L Whistler, E Litvinof, J Waller, R Greacen, B Warr, W Jarmen,
P Scott, Tambimuttu, etc. Many being original book form. £16.00
POESIE,39-45. Ed. Pierre SEGHERS. 1947.
Introduced by Editor. Taken from the Magazine Poesie, first book form.
French Poems by such as Valery-Larbaud, Mauriac, P Eluard, L Masson,
A Gide,
C Roy, Vercors, R Queneau, Frenard, Aragon, etc.
with English translations by R Campbell, R Porter, R Heppenstall, F Scarfe,
E L T Messens, R Penrose, etc. £15.00
POETRY FROM CAMBRIDGE IN WARTIME. Ed. G MOORE. 1946. Fortune Press. Dw.
A Selection of Verse by Members of the University. Name on front end paper.
(J Bayliss, S Coates, D Davie, G Ewart, J Garratt, J Manifold, W Mankowitz, G Scurfield, N Moore, B Rajan.) £20.00
POETRY IN WARTIME. Ed. TAMBIMUTTU. 1942. Dw frayed. (K Allott, R Church,
S Coates, A Comfort, H Corby, G Ewart, J F Hendry, S Keyes, A Lewis, C Day Lewis, MacNeice, A Ridler, M Roberts, A Rook, F Scarfe, R Todd, H Treece, D Thomas,
G Barker, B Chamberlain, L Durrell, G S Fraser, D Gascoyne, M Peake, K Raine,
W H Auden, V Watkins.) £28.00
POETS AT WAR. Ed. Ian MUDIE. 1944. Australia.
An Anthology of Verse by Australian Fighting Men.
(R S Byrnes, D Campbell, A W Dawes, M Finnin, J A Henderson,
K Mackenzie,
D Mcnicoll, T L Moore, F O'Connell,, etc. £6.00
PRELUDES. Ed. A Wartime Anthology of New Poetry. (1943)
Contributors include R Atthill, J Bayliss, M Lindsay, D Stanford, B Bain,
S Read, J Bate, V Turner, etc. Original wraps.£16.00
RETURN TO OASIS. Ed. V SELWYN, E De MAUNY, I FLETCHER, J WALLER.
1980. Egypt. War Poems & Recollections from the Middle East 1940-1946.
Edition limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Durrell, Tambimuttu,
Selwyn & Waller. £50.00
THE ROAD TO THE WEST. 1945. Introduced by J Lavarin. Dw slightly frayed.
Sixty Soviet War Poems chosen & translated by A M Williams & V De Sola Pinto.
Some poems were written in besieged Leningrad, some have been re-translated f
rom Ukrainian, Azerbaijan & one was found in the papers of a dead german soldier.
(A Akhmatova, A Surkov, I Ehrenburg, N Tikhonov, M Rylsky, M Bazhan.) £8.00
BOOK OF RUSSIAN VERSE. Ed. C M BOWRA. 1943. MacMillan. Dw a little frayed. Edited by C M Bowra. Translated into English by various hands
with contributions by Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Blok, Mandelstam, Akhmatova,
Ivanor, Esenin.etc. Name on front paste down.£16.00
SAILING TO-MORROW'S SEAS. Ed. M LINDSAY. 1944. Fortune Press.
Introduced by J Lavarin. An Anthology of New Poems by M Lindsay, E Litvinoff,
P Leward, C Hamblett,
J Singer, K Gee, H Treece, N Moore, J F Hendry, R Herring,
Wrey Gardiner, W S Graham, C Hamblett, R Todd, F Scarfe, etc.)
Dw slightly frayed £16.00 SCOTTISH STUDENT VERSE.1937-1947. 1948. Introduced by E Linklater .
Material drawn from student magazines.
(Iain Smith, A Scott, A Reid, W H Hamilton, J H Burns, M Hunton.) £8.00
SEA POEMS. Ed. MYFANWY PIPER. 1944. Chosen by Myfanwy Piper with
original coloured lithographs by Mona Moore. Covers a little worn £6.00
SELECTED POEMS. nd. Dw frayed.
(G Every, J D C Pellow, S L Bethell. (G Every, J D C Pellow, S L Bethell.) £6.00
SOVIET LITERATURE ART MUSIC. Ed. M GRINDEA. 1942. Adam. Original wraps. Introduced by M Grindea. With articles on Russian Music,
Various aspects of Soviet Culture, Soviet Peasants and their Poetry, Soviet Art, etc.
(U Sinclair, Kirilov, V Mayakovsky, M Svetlov, A Blok, etc.)
Uncommon. Upper wrap a little spotted otherwise very good.£16.00
SPEAK FOR ENGLAND. Ed J AGATE. (1939) Dw.
Poetry & Prose for the Forces. "
Specially bound in waterproof cloth". £12.00
THE SPIRIT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA . 30/9/41. T G Masaryk, M E Sadler,
Odlozilik, Wickham Steed, General J Haller, H Wodehouse &
others celebrate
the Tercentenary of Comenius. Programme laid in. £10.00
SOVIET SHORT STORIES. Ed. R NEWNHAM. 1968. Penguin. Reprint.
Bulk of stories not previously translated - all especially translated for this
collection in English & Russian. .
(Paustovsky, Olyosha, Inber, Nagibin, Ilf & Petrov) Original wraps. £3.00
SOVIET SHORT STORIES.1942-1943. Ed. I MONTAGU & H MARSHALL. 1 943.
Pilot Press. Original wraps. Base of spine very slightly frayed.
(Sholokhov, Simonov, Wassilewska, Isbach, Gorbatov, Kassil, etc.) £6.00
STORIES OF THE FORTIES. Ed. R MOORE & W WYATT. 1945. Vol 1.
(P Hansford Johnson; Woodrow Wyatt, O Sitwell, J MacLaren Ross,
F O'Connor, H E Bates, A Comfort, J Hanley, W Sansom, E Bowen, R Davies,
V S Pritchett, A Lewis, M Laverty, A Kavan, O Sitwell,etc.) Dw frayed. £16.00
THE SUN GOES DOWN. Ed Jean LARTEGUY ED. 1956. William Kimber. Last letters from Japanese Suicide-pilots and soldiers. The uncommon dw is a little chipped not affecting text or illustration. Slight edge foxing. 183pp. £10.00
TOC H. Ed. J B BOOTH. (1940) SEVENTY YEARS OF SONG.
Introduced by Max Beerbohm. Sold in aid of the War Services Fund.
(D L Murray-Our Back-Street; N Coward-Songs I Remember; W Eliot-War Songs;
J Agate-Some Pantomine Songs; C B Cochran-Melodies & Memories;
W MacQueen-Pope-The Men Who wrote the Songs).
Original wraps slightly frayed on the spine otherwise very good. Uncommon. £16.00
TOC H GIFT BOOK IN AID OF WAR SERVICE S CLUBS. Ed. HILDA HUGHES. 1944. Introduced by Lady Tweesmuir. Short Stories by V Britain, A Blackwood, C Dane,
J B Priestley, C Asquith, W De La Mare, H E Bates, Dunsany, etc.
Dw frayed at top of spine. £15.00
TODAY'S NEW POETS. Resurgam Books. nd. Dw frayed.
An uncommon collection containing a good deal of War Poetry by a new school of younger poets:-H Treece, C Dyment, Wrey Gardiner, D Gascoyne, E Litvinoff,
C Sansom, A Comfort, A Rook, F King, G S Fraser.etc.)
Inscription on front end paper. £40.00
TRIDENT. 1944. Original wraps. Name on front end paper.
(J Manifold, H Nicholson, D Martin.) £20.00
VERSE OF VALOUR. Ed. John L HARDIE. 1943.
An Anthology of Shorter War Poems of Sea, Land, Air. Dw.
As well many well known poems there are Ist bookform poems by Lady Wellesley,
Lord Vansittart, H Newbolt, E Mannin, A L Rowse, P R Chalmers, E Philpotts,
P Dickinson, F Scarfe, etc.. £10.00
VOICES FROM THE SEA. Ed. R HOPE. 1977. Dw.
Poems by Merchant Seaman. £6.00
VOYAGE. Ed. D VAL BAKER. 1945.
Sixteen short stories mostly not previously
published in Britain.
(
H Miller, F Urquhart, M Sholoklov, M Ray Anand, W Sansom, A Barea, J Hanley,
W De La Mare, M Lavin, R Davies. War-time paper of eps lightly foxed. £10.00
WAR POEMS FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES. 1945. Dw.
Printed for Private Circulation. (R Church, L Binyon, Lord Dunsany, W W Gibson,
J C Squire,
E Shanks & Lord Gorell, etc.£152.00
THE WAR POETS. Ed. OSCAR WILLIAMS. 1945. USA. Dw frayed.
An Anthology of the War Poets of the 20th Century. (Dylan Thomas, H Treece, R Brooke, W B Yeats, R Graves, G Ewart, J Masefield, V Watkins, R Eberhart, M Rukeyser.)
Inscription on front end paper. £30.00
WAR REPORT. 1946. Original leather binding & ribbon marker.
A Record dispatches broadcast by
the BBC's
War Correspondents
with the Allied Expeditionary Force, June 1944-May 1945.
Foreword by B L Montgomery.
Name on front end paper. Illustrated. £16.00.
WARTIME HARVEST. Ed. H TREECE & S SCHIMANSKI. 1943.
An Anthology of Prose & Verse from Kingdom Come. (D Gascoyne, D Welch, A Lewis,
S Keyes, J Heath-Stubbs, H Read, L Woolf, E Blunden, A Comfort, C Dyment,
J F Hendry, De la Mare, N Moore, R Pitter, F Prokosch, M Roberts, G S Fraser, etc.) Covers a little chipped £25.00
THE WHITE HORSEMAN. Ed. J F HENDRY & H TREECE. 1941.
Original boards slightly rubbed. Inscription on front blank end paper otherwise a
very good copy of scarce title. Illustrated in black & white. Dw frayed & torn.
Corners bumped.
(G S Fraser, The Editors, N McCaig, N Moore, V Watkins,
T Scott, R Melville...,.) £30.00
WORK IN HAND. 1942. Hogarth Press. Dw marked.
Poems by R Graves, N Cameron, A Hodge. 1250 copies printed. £20.00
WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ARMED SERVICES.
These books were written, illustrated & prepared by Serving Personnel
of the Australian Service & include anecdotes, stories, poems, cartoons
together with
details of the fighting in which they participated.
Profusely illustrated both in colour & black & white.
The date enclosed in brackets is that of the original publication & indicates
that the book is a reprint otherwise it is a first edition.
Each series is complete.
THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY AT HOME AND OVERSEAS . includes:-
ACTIVE SERVI CE . Australia in the Middle East.(1941)
SOLDIERING ON . At Home and Overseas.(1942)
KHAKI AND GREEN . With the Australian Army.(1943)
JUNGLE WARFARE . (1954)
STAND EASY . After the Defeat of Japan.(1945)
SIGNALS . The Australian Corps of Signals.(1954)
ON GUARD . With the Volunteer Defence Corps.(1953)
CORPS OF R.A.E . War History.1946. 8 volumes all very good. £65.00 THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FOR CE .
THESE EAGLES . The Story of the RAAF at War.(1954)
RAAF LOG . The RAAF at War. (1954)
VICTORY ROLL . The RAAF at War.(1954)
RAAF SAGA . (1944) 4 volumes all very good. £35.00
THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY .
H.M.A.S . (1942)
H.M.A.S . Mk ll. (1954)
H.M.A.S . Mk lll.(1953)
H.M.A.S . Mk IV. (1954) 4 volumes all very good £35.00
AS YOU WERE . A Cavalcade of Events with the Australian Services from 1788-1950.
Ed R O'MALLEY & F NORTON . 1946-1950.
A contemporary record of the developments in the Australian Services.
Covers occupation of New Guinea , Japan , etc. with Publisher's extract on the
Australian Forces in Korea & Malaya.8pp.
5 volumes all with this title. All very good. £60.00
SOLDIERING ON. 1949. Dw. The Australian Army at Home & Overseas. "Prepared by some of the boys". Poems, stories as well as acounts of episodes in the war, humorous and serious. Tipped in cld illus as well as b/w illus in text.. Illustrated.£10.00
STAND EASY. Ed. Continuation of Khaki & Green. 1945. Dw. Poems, stories & articles by Australian Service men. Profusely illustrated. First 3 pages slightly damp stained but text not affected.£10.00
THE UNDERGROUND PRESS IN BELGIUM. Original wraps with dw.
Issued by The Belgian Ministry of Information, 1944. Lincolns-Prager.
Extracts from Belgian publications issued during the War in Belgium
ranging from April 1942 to June 1943.
Name & date(1944) on reverse of front end paper. Very good condition. £25.00
WAR PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS.
WAR AT SEA. No.1. 1942. O U P. Foreword by Sir Herbert Richmond.
Contributions by Stanley Spencer, Muirhead Bone, Eric Ravilious, Charles Churchill, Eric Kennington, John Nash, J Worsley, C W Dyson-Smith, Henry Lamb, etc.
Original siff wraps with dw.
Booksellers label on inside cover otherwise in very good condition. £10.00
AIR RAIDS. No.4. 1943. Second Series. O U P.
Introduced by S Spender.
Contributions by Duncan Grant, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, E Boyye Uden, Ardizzone, Eric Ravilious, L Rosoman, Feliz Topolski, H S Merrill, A Macpherson,Gilbert Spencer, R V Pitchforth, etc.Henry Moore, John Gross, John Nash, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, etc.
Booksellers label inside front cover.£10.00
POETRY OF TWO WORLD WARS. 1974. Privately Printed. Original wraps.
Over 993 items many of which were incorporated into the Reilly Catalogue.
A duplicated catalogue issued by I D Edrich in 1974 with a large number
of
privately printed items. A Very useful reference material. £5.00 DESTRUCTION OF AN ARMY. HMSO. nd.
DESTRUCTION OF AN ARMY; Front Line 1940-1941;
HMSO.
THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE CIVIL DEFENCE OF BRITAIN;
HMSO.
TARGET GERMANY -The US Air Forces' Official Story of the V111 Bomber Command's First year over Europe.
Bound in one volume ex Paul Tabori with his Bkplt on the front end paper. £12.00
HMSO PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
AIR RAIDS with Air Warden's Pass laid in. 1940.
AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS. TRAINING MANUAL No.1.
Basic Training in Air Raid Precautions. 1941. 1st Edn. Disbound.
THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. Aug-Oct 1940. 1941.
COMBINED OPERATIONS 1940-1942. nd. Illustrated.
HIS MAJESTY'S MINESWEEPERS. 1943. Illustrated.
THE AIR BATTLE OF MALTA. 1940-1942. 1944. Illustrated.
DESTRUCTION OF AN ARMY.
The First Campaign in Libya Sept 1940-Feb 1941. nd. Illustrated.
OVER TO YOU. New Broadcasts by the R.A.F. 1943. Spine damaged.
THE EIGHTH ARMY. 1941-1943. nd. Illustrated.
BOMBER COMMAND 1941
BOMBER COMMAND CONTINUES. 1942.
BOMBER.Stategic Air Power in the Twentieth Century by Stephen Brooke.
Issued by the Imperial War Museum. 1983. Illustrated.
12 items in original wraps. £48.00
THE HARDWARE OF WORLD WAR 211. 1984. Galley Press. Dw. 216pp.
Tanks, Aircraft & Naval Vessels by Eriv GRIVE, Christopher CHANT, David LYON &
Hugh LYON. P profusely illustrated both in colour & black & white. £15.00
SIX HEATH RULES mounted on flannelgrapgh paper. Issued by the Ministry of Information about 1940-50. Each rule has been cut out & neatly mounted on flannelgraph paper. The coloured illustrations reflect the fashions of that time. £6.00
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