LEND A HAND ON THE LAND.
Volunteer's badge issued in 1947 to those of us who volunteered to work on the land during the summer months.
Excellent condition. £10.00

NAVAL SONGS AND OTHER SONGS AND BALLADS OF SEA LIFE. Ed. FRANK RINDER. nd. Walter Scott Ltd.
The poems are divided into sections:-Patriotic, Sea Fights, Disaster, Afloat, Ashore, Piracy, Drink, Love, 1page in the introduction loose otherwise very good in very slightly rubbed original gilt letterd and decorated spine and covers. £10.00

THE SEA'S ANTHOLOGY. Ed. J E PATTERSON. 1913.
Blind stamp presentation copy on title page. Small neat portion cut from dedication page (poems covering every aspect of the sea & seafaring). £6.00

SALT SEA HORSES. Ed M CROMBIE. nd. Knights Press.
An Anthology in Miniature of Nautical Verse. Decorations by D W Burley. Original wraps. 24pp. £10.00

KENTISH RAG. REGIMENTAL RHYMES AND OTHER VERSES. (1893) With an Essay on the poetic treatment of War at the rear.
Some pencilled annotation. Paper spine defective & stitching loose of the original wraps. Uncommon. £12.00

THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE.1250-1918.
Intro by QUILLER- COUCH. 1948. Reprint.
Front hinge slightly tender. School stamp on end papers. 1166 pp. £5.00

THE OXFORD BOOK OF TWENTIETH CE NTURY ENGLISH VERSE.1973. Edited & introduced by P LARKIN who "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. " Dw badly torn. £20.00

POEMS FOR …… . New Departures.
6 page folded pamphlet-anti-nuclear-early sixties otherwise undated.
(M Horovitz, B Kops, A Mitchell, Pete Brown.) £20.00

ARROWSMITH, Pat.
ON THE BRINK. Poems. 1981. Original wraps.
Introduced by Adrian Mitchell. Presentation copy inscribed by poet. £20.00
ON THE BRINK. Poems. 1981. Original wraps.
Introduced by Adrian Mitchell. £12.00

SEYMOUR, Gerald. HOLDING THE ZERO. 2000.
Original stiff wraps. £6.00

SHUTE, Nevil. ON THE BEACH. 1957. Dw chipped at head of spine with closed tears at base of spine not affecting text or illustration. £20.00

RATHKEY, W A. A QUESTIONNAIRE FOR GOD. 1978.
Edition limited to 200 copies. Mainly anti-war poems, parodies of well known songs & nursery rhymes. A very attractive production printed by Will Carter at The Rampant Lions Press. Original decorated wraps. £20.00

SLATER, A. ATOMIC CHALLENGE & Other Poems. Nd.
Original wraps. £6.00

POETS FOR PEACE . Ed. Lynne BANKER. 1967. NY.
The Collection arises from the poetry reading climaxing in the poets Fast for Peace aiming to end the war in Vietnam . (C Eshleman, W H Auden,
P Blacburn, M Heller, W Lowenfels, R Roth, A Kramer, D Levertov,
W Oaks, M Rukeyser, C Berge, etc.) Original wraps. £30.00

THE PLOUGH AND THE PEN. Ed. I DUCZYNSKA & K POLANYI. 1963.
Top of the dw's spine is very slightly nicked. Introduced by W H Auden.
Writings from Hungary 1930-1956.
(T Dery, G Illyes, L Tamasi, A Jozsef, Z Zelk, F Juhasz, etc.) £10.00

AL-QASIM, Samih. SONS OF WAR. nd. Menard Press.
Man-c-ard number 2 of poem translated by A al-Udhari. £6.00

CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO. 1898. Smith. Forty full page illustrations by S Paget. Red cloth gilt with little rubbing on spine.
One page torn. A little shook otherwise a nice copy. £50.00

WERGE, John. WAR AND PEACE OR TWO ASPECTS OF THE WORLD. 1867. A Poem in 2 Cantos. Bkplt. Bevelled boards a little worn. Gilt. £20.00

THE BRITISH WAY AND PURPOSE . 1944. Consolidated Edition.
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. £8.00

CAN PLANNING BE DEMOCRATIC ? 1944.
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. £8.00

MUMFORD, Lewis. PROGRAMME FOR SURVIVAL. 1946.
Frayed dw. £8.00

KEEP LEFT. 1947.
A notable manifesto written during the Athlee Government .
( R H S Crossman, M Foot, L Hale, I Mikardo, Woodrow Wyatt,
S Swingler, J P W Mallalieu, R W G Mackay, G Wigg, E R Millington, F Lee, G Bing, D Bruce, H Davies.) New Statesman Pamphlet. Original wraps. £10.00

BOOKS OF HATE.
An Exhibition at the National Book League presented by the Antiquarian Bookseller's Association for the benefit of Amnesty International 9-14 June 1969. Original wraps. £12.00

BENSON, Bernard. THE PEACE BOOK. 1981.
Uncorrected Proof Copy in original printed wraps with a printed label giving the provisional U.K. publication date. The foreword states the book " will shortly be published in America and throughout Europe ". Written by hand & illustrated in colour by the author. An uncommon first British edition. £20.00

IGNATIEFF, Michael. THE WARRIOR'S HONOUR. 1998.
Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience.
Uncorrected proof copy in original wraps. £8.00

PRIESTLEY, J B. THE SECRET DREAM. 1946.
Original printed wraps. An essay on Britain , America and Russia . £8.00

LAND , Thomas . STRANGER, SIT AT MY TABLE. 1975.
Original wraps. The Private Notes of a Foreign Correspondent. £5.00

SMITH, Bradley F. THE WAR'S LONG SHADOW. 1986. Dw.
China , Russia , Britain , America :The Second World War & Its Aftermath. £6.00

AUS TAUSEND JAHREN BALLADEN UND KRIEGLIEDER.
Ed. Will VESPER. 1912. Munchen.
Iinscription on front end paper dated 1917. £25.00

BRADY, Robert A. THE SPIRIT AND STRUCTURE OF GERMAN FASCISM. 1937. Foreword by H J Laski.
Left Book Club Edition in original orange wraps. 384pp plus several illustrive folded charts depicting the flow of power in Nazi German Industry and Society. £5.00

FORSTER, Thomas M. NVA - DIE ARMEE DER SOWJETZONE. 1964. Dw. Ex library stamps on end papers.
Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. German text. £10.00

GOLDBERG, Anatol. ILYA EHRENBURG. 1984. Dw.
Introduced by E De Mauny. Writing, Politics & the Art of Survival. £5.00

JOHNSON, Uwe. TWO VIEWS. 1967. A novel about the Berlin Wall translated from the German by R & C Winston. Original stiff wraps. £5.00

STALIN, J. FRAGEN DES LENINISMUS. 1938. Moscow.
Some ink annotation on the early pages. 840pp. German text. £6.00

SALMON, Mr. THE CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORIAN. 1723.
Containing a regular Account of all material transactions & occurrences Ecclesistical, Civil & Military, relating to the English Affairs from the Invasion of the Romans to the Present Time. Illustrated. Full leather binding. Covers loose. £85.00

THOMAS, David. ROYAL ADMIRALS 1327-1981. 1982. Dw.
Inscribed presentation copy signed by the Author. Near fine. £15.00

THE CRUEL WARS. Ed. Karl DALLAS . 1972. 100 soldiers' songs from Agincourt to Ulster . With guitar chords. Original pictorial stiff wraps.
(R McTell, R Garioch, E MacColl .) £8.00

THE RAMBLING SOLDIER. Ed. Roy PALMER. 1977. Dw.
Life in the lower ranks 1750-1900 through soldiers' songs & writings. Illustrated in black & white. £6.00

LEONARD, Col R G. NEPAL AND THE GURKHAS. 1965. HMSO. Dw chipped. Name on front end paper. 34 b&w photo illustrations.
The official textbook for all who served with Gurkahs in the British Army, this edition being updated to mark the 150th anniversary of the first Gurkah enlistment into the service of the British Crown. £16.00

FARWELL, Byron. THE GURKHAS. 1985. Penguin.
Original pictorial wraps. 19 pages of black & white illustrations. £5.00

WEDGWOOD, C V. BATTLEFIELDS IN BRITAIN. 1944.
Britain in Pictures. Dw.
8 Plates in colour & 21 black & white illustrations.. . £6.00

THE BOOK OF THE KING'S JUBILEE . Ed. Philip GIBBS. 1935.
The Life & Times of our King & Queen & their People. 1865-1935. Bkplt. Photo/illustrations. 500pp. £8.00

DUTT, R Palme.
THE CRISIS OF BRITAIN AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE . 1953. £5.00

GRAHAM, Gerald S. THE BRITISH EMPIRE . 1970. Dw.
A Concise History. Inscribed presentation copy from Alice & Cyril Beaumont. 248 illustrations and 2 maps. £10.00

MOSLEY, Oswald. THE GREATER BRITAIN. 1932.
The rare first edition of this title which is in extremely good condition save for a small centre page stain penetrating a half a dozen pages of the 'conclusion' not affecting the clarity of text. £150.00

TUCHMAN, Barbara W.
THE PROUD TOWER. 1966. Dw.
A portrait of the World before the War. 1890-1914. £15.00
A DISTANT MIRROR. 1979. Dw.
The calamitous 14th century. Illustrated. £15.00
THE MARCH OF FOLLY. 1984. NY. Dw. From Troy to Vietnam. Long inscrip on front blank. Review laid in. Illustrated. £15.00

MILLER, Yuri. Ed. RUSSIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR. 1982. Dw. Leningrad. Contains reproductions of the collection of the Armoury in the Moscow Kremlin & Historical Museum encompassing the period from the 16th to the mid 20th centuries. Profusley illustrated both in colour & black & white with explanatory notes. Large 4to. 207pp. £16.00

SAXTORPH, Niels M. WARRIORS AND WEAPONS OF EARLY TIMES. 1972. Dw. A history of weapons & fighting dress covering 3000 BC to 1700 AD. Over 400 colour illustratsions.
Light tape stains on front end papers owvery good. £8.00

WILKINSON-LATHAM, R J. PICTORIAL HISTORY OF SWORDS AND BAYONETS. 1973. Dw. Fully illustrated work tracing the history of swords, bayonets, dirks & daggers from their beginnings until 1918. £10.00

COMMUNIST PARTY. HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION . 1939. Moscow.
Ed by A Commission of the C C of The C P S U (B). Short Course.
Name on front end paper. Original ribbon marker. £5.00

SHAW, George Bernard. THE INTELLIGENT WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM,CAPITALISM,SOVIETISM & FASCISM. 1937. Pelican Books. 2 volumes, both in original soft covers with dws which are very slightly frayed and with spines sunned. 492pp in total. £8.00

JOHNSTON, S H F. BRITISH SOLDIERS. 1944. Britain in Pictures. Dw. 8 plates in colour & 25 black & white illustrations. £6.00

HUXLEY, Aldous.Ed. AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PACIFISM. 1937. Chatto & Windus. Spine & edges of original wraps slightly darkened otherwise very good. £12.00

ROWSE, A L. REFLECTIONS ON THE PURITAN REVOLUTION. 1986. Methuen . Dw. £6.00

BROOKS , Stephen . BOMBER. 1983. Original wraps.
Strategic Air Power in Twentieth Century Conflicts issued by
The Imperial War Museum.
Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. 64pp. £6.00

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM HANDBOOK . HMSO. 1967.
Profusely illustrated. Original stiff wraps. 56pp.
smaller 6pp leaflet laid in. £5.00

RATION BOOK. Ministry of food 1953-54. £5.00

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MUSEUM.
8pp leaflet giving detailed plan of the lay out of the Museum. £2.00

FIRST SPRING OF PEA CE . Contact Book no 1. (1946)
(Mealtime by T Layton illus by W Goetz; J Laver-Period Piece,
illustrated in colour;
Facade at Folkestone-E Bowen; English Literary Scene-P Toynbee;
A Piece of Cake-H Casson; Nostalgie-A Barea; My Philosophy - B Croce;
J Laver, J D Bernal, etc.) £17.50

THE PUBLIC'S PROGRESS. Contact Book no. 5. 1947
Dw a little frayed.
(The Public's Progress by Tom Harrisson; The Republican Party by Alistair Cooke; His Majesty's Opposition by N Nicolson; The First Burma Campaign 1824; Monte Carlo 1947 by P Quennell; The Day that failed to end the War by S Haffner; A Public for Jive by W Sansom; I Barea,
H Massingham, R Niebuhr, etc.) £17.50

GRAND PERSPECTIVE. Contact Book no.4. 1947. Dw torn.
(Peace in Perspective by H Nicolson; 38 th Parallel by Fitzroy Maclean;
In Search of the Postwar Writer by P Quennell; Mayfair Scrapbook by
M Laski; Faith and Fear in Postwar Britain-Mass Observation; H Casson, Clive Bell, etc.) £17.50

THE CHANGING NATION. Contact Book no.7. 1947. Dw slightly frayed. (Marriage & Divorce in Post-War Britain-Mass Observation;
The Causes of War by H Nicolson; Oklahoma Impact by W Sansom &
L Rosoman; Weekend at Wilton Park by P Gordon-Walker illus by
W Goetz; H G Wells-Prophet of Change by P Quennell; Jinnah:
First Gentleman of India; G M Callman, H Casson, D Jay,
G Romilly, C Sykes, K Martin, R H S Crossman, etc.) £17.50

WORLD OFF DUTY . Contact Book No.6 . 1947 (E Bawden-4 full page coloured drawings. Other contributors include S de Madariaga,
V Sackville-West, A Moorehead, O Lancaster, I Deutscher, C W Bowra,
N Nicolson, M Balcon, B Hollwood, A Barea, E Marx, P Toynbee, C Ray, etc. 140pp. 4to. £25.00

FIREWEED . A Quarterly Magazine of Working Class & Socialist Arts.
Ed D CRAIG & N GRAY. 1975-1977 . Nos 1-12 .
Special Issues on Work, Poetry, Vietnam, Childhood, Chile & South Africa,
Women's Struggles, Germany. Complete texts of Arden & D'Arcy's first Connolly play, Bond's Grandma Faust, Brecht's War Primer,
Arthur Miller's Fitter's Night. Extract from Trevor Griffith's Sam
& Comedians, Anna Segher's The Price of a Head & the investigatory journalism of Gunther Wallraff. Other contributors include
H Boll, S Chaplin, L Fernlinghetti, A Mitchell, P Neruda, J C Oates,
K Sprague, A Seghers, J Brunner, D Craig, D Levertov, N Tomalin , R Bly,
K Vonnegut etc.
12 issues in original wraps. together with the separate issue,
“The Journalists” by A Wesker-1975 sent only to all those ordering no. 1 of Fireweed. £95.00

THE FORCES MAGAZINE. Ed W BATESON et Al.
The Journal of the Royal Navy, The Army, The Royal Air Force, The Forces of the Commonwealth, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organsiation.
June 1954-June 1956 . 8 issues bound in one, complete with indices. Service Notes and Articles on all aspects of service life.
This magazine was only issued for these 2 years before amalgamation. £30.00

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . Jan. 1942. E BENES-The Organisation Of Postwar Europe-reprinted from the magazine. £5.00

FORUM AND CENTURY . USA . August 1937 . Original wraps.
(China Unconquerable by Mde Sun Yat Sen; Keeping out of War by
H G Leach-Editor; I am a Labour Organizer-anonymous; The Self you have to Live with by W Rhoades; Ford Madox Ford-The Sad State of
Publishing 4pp; Can we accept Astrology -a debate by D Rudhyar &
W M Malisoff-6pp; etc.)
part of advert page removed magazine text unaffected. £7.00

PHOENIX . Ed. Norman SWALLOW. 1946. Spring.
(Poems by H Treece, A L Rowse, N Hampson, E Bartlett .
Stories by D Gardner, J Atkins, N Storn , D Webbe.
W H Mason on THE W.E.A. )
Described by Tolley as “one of the most promising ventures of 1946.”
Uncommon.1 of 2 issues. Original wraps. £10.00