TAYLOR, A.J.P.; LIDDEL HART, B.H.; HARRIS, Sir Arthur 'Bomber'; RYAN, Cornelius; EISENHOWER, Dwight D. et al.
[First & Second World Wars].
[First & Second World Wars].
A collection of 45 works primarily on the First World War and Second World War, with individual titles also on the Korean War and the history of warfare more generally.
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1939-1985.
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A fantastic collection of 45 titles on the Firsts & Second World Wars, with individual works on the Korean War and the history of warfare more generally. The majority bound in half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with the remainder in the original publisher's bindings and housed in custom-made morocco-backed boxes.
Highlights include A.J.P. Taylor's illustrated histories of the First and Second World Wars, and his thesis War by Time-Table, Eisenhower's wartime memoirs Crusade in Europe, and Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge too Far and The Longest Day, both adapted successfully into films of the same name.
Comprising in full:
1. Louis Allen, The Longest War 1941-5, (London and Melbourne, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1984). First edition, 8vo, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine faded and slightly stained.
2. Douglas Bader, Fight For the Sky, (London, Book Club Associates, 1973). First edition, 8vo, numerous photographic illustrations, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
3. Douglas Bader & Lucas Laddie, Flying Colours: The Epic Story of Douglas Bader, (London, Hutchinson, 1981). First edition, 8vo, black & white photographic plates, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, a little faded, covers slightly marked, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
4. Russell Braddon, Cheshire V.C.: A Study of War and Peace, (London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1954). First edition, 8vo, black & white photographic plates, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
5. Paul Brickhill, Escape or Die, (London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1952). First trade edition, 8vo, black & white photographic plates, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, a little faded, covers slightly marked, original dustjacket bound-in at rear.
6. Paul Brickhill, The Dam Busters, (London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1968). Later printing, 8vo, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded.
7. Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, 1939-1943, (London, Collins, 1957). First edition, 8vo, photographic frontispiece, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, very good.
8. Arthur Bryant, Triumph in the West, (London, Collins, 1959). First edition, 8vo, photographic frontispiece, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, very good.
9. John St. John Cooper, Invasion: The D-Day Story, (London, Beaverbook Newspapers Limited, 1964). First edition, folio, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
10. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, (New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948). First trade edition, 8vo, black & white photographic plates, bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, spine a little faded, very good.
11. Cyril Falls (editor), Great Military Battles, (London, Spring Books, 1972). Fifth impression, folio, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, covers soiled, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
12. Jon Halliday & Bruce Cumings, Korea: The Unknown War, (London, Viking, 1988). First edition, 4to, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
13. Sir Arthur Harris, Bomber Offensive, (London, Collins, 1947). First edition, 8vo, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, a little faded, original dustjacket bound-in at rear.
14. Liddell Hart, B.H., History of the First World War, (London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1970). First in larger printing-format, 8vo, ink-stamp to title-page, half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, very good.
15. Liddell Hart, B.H., History of the Second World War, (London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1971). First edition, second impression, 8vo, half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, very good.
16. [Flying Corps], Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot, (London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1933). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, very good.
17. General Heinz Guderian & Captain B.H. Liddell Hart, Panzer Leader, (London, Michael Joseph, 1952). First edition, fourth impression, 8vo, half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, very good.
18. Richard Holmes, Epic Land Battles, (London, Octopus Books Limited, 1976). First edition, folio, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, covers soiled, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
19. Alistair Horne, To Lose a Battle: France 1940, (London, Macmillan, 1969). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Shepherds of London, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
20. T.A. Innes & Ivor Castle (editors), Covenants With Death, (London, Daily Express Publications, 1934). First edition, folio, publisher's black cloth stamped in red to upper covers, housed in a custom-made black morocco backed black cloth clamshell case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
21. James Lucas, The Last Days of the Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945, (London, Arms and Armour Press Limited, 1986). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine and top-edge slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
22. Lyn Macdonald, Somme, (London, Michael Joseph, 1983). First edition, second impression, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
23. Russell Miller, The Resistance, (Chicago, Time-Life Books, 1979). First edition, folio, photographic illustrations, original publisher's illustrated boards, housed in a custom-made red morocco backed clamshell case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
24. Field-Marshall Montgomery, El Alamien to the River Sangro & Normandy to the Baltic, (London, Barrie & Jenkins Ltd, 1973). First edition thus, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
25. Mountbatten: Eighty Years in Pictures, (London, Macmillan London Limited, 1979). First edition, 4to, numerous photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
26. Airey Neave, Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945-6, (London, Hodder and Stroughton, 1978). First edition, 8vo, numerous photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
27. James P. O'Donnell, The Berlin Bunker, (London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1979). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
28. Bob Ogley, Biggin on the Bump, (Brasted Chart, Froglets Publications, 1990). First paperback edition, oblong 4to, photographic illustrations, housed in a custom-made blue morocco backed clamshell box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
29. P.R. Reid M.B.E. M.C., The Colditz Story, (London, Hodder & Stroughton, 1952). First edition, fourth impression, 8vo, bound in half blue-green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded.
30. Cornelius Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1974). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
31. Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle, (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1966). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
32. Cornelius Ryan, The Longest Day, (London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
33. Dudley Saward, 'Bomber' Harris, (London, Cassell Ltd, 1984). First edition, 8vo, photographic plates, bound in half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
34. David Shermer, World War I, (London, Octopus Books Limited, 1973). First edition, folio, photographic illustrations, original illustrated endpapers bound in at rear, half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, very good.
35. William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941, (New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1943). Later printing, 8vo, publisher's black cloth lettered in pale-blue, original dustjacket, very good, housed in a custom-made red-morocco backed cloth folding box by Shepherds of London.
36. William L. Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1947). First Edition; 8vo, publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, original dust-jacket, very good, housed in a custom-made red-morocco backed cloth folding box by Shepherds of London.
37. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, (London, Secker & Warburg, 1960). First edition, 8vo, bound in black half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue-grey cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine faded, very good.
38. Sir Edward Spears, Two Men Who Saved France, (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966). First edition, 8vo, publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, unclipped dustjacket, housed in a custom-made red morocco backed red cloth folding clamshell box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, very good.
39. A.J.P. Taylor, From Sarajevo to Potsdam, (London, Thames and Hudson, 1974). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, very good.
40. A.J.P. Taylor, The First World War: An Illustrated History, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1976). Fifth impression, 4to, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, very good.
41. A.J.P. Taylor, The Second World War: An Illustrated History, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975). First edition, 4to, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, very good.
42. A.J.P. Taylor, War by Time-Table: How the First World War Began, (London, Macdonald Library of the 20th Century, 1969). First edition, 8vo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, housed in a custom-made half red-brown morocco folding clamshell box, very good.
43. John Terraine, The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945, (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1985). First edition, 8vo, photographic plates, bound in blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
44. Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe, (London, Collins 1952), First edition, signed by the author to the title-page, 8vo, illustrated with maps, half red-brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine slightly faded, original 'map' endpapers bound-in at rear.
45. Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten: the official biography, (London, Collins, 1985). First edition, photographic illustrations, half red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine soiled, original photographic dustjacket bound at rear.
45 works; the majority bound in half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe or Shepherds of London (two examples in full morocco bindings), some with the original publisher's dustjackets bound-in, a few examples in the original publisher's binding and housed in custom-made folding morocco backed boxes.
Highlights include A.J.P. Taylor's illustrated histories of the First and Second World Wars, and his thesis War by Time-Table, Eisenhower's wartime memoirs Crusade in Europe, and Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge too Far and The Longest Day, both adapted successfully into films of the same name.
Comprising in full:
1. Louis Allen, The Longest War 1941-5, (London and Melbourne, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1984). First edition, 8vo, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, red cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine faded and slightly stained.
2. Douglas Bader, Fight For the Sky, (London, Book Club Associates, 1973). First edition, 8vo, numerous photographic illustrations, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
3. Douglas Bader & Lucas Laddie, Flying Colours: The Epic Story of Douglas Bader, (London, Hutchinson, 1981). First edition, 8vo, black & white photographic plates, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, a little faded, covers slightly marked, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
4. Russell Braddon, Cheshire V.C.: A Study of War and Peace, (London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1954). First edition, 8vo, black & white photographic plates, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
5. Paul Brickhill, Escape or Die, (London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1952). First trade edition, 8vo, black & white photographic plates, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, a little faded, covers slightly marked, original dustjacket bound-in at rear.
6. Paul Brickhill, The Dam Busters, (London, Evans Brothers Limited, 1968). Later printing, 8vo, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded.
7. Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, 1939-1943, (London, Collins, 1957). First edition, 8vo, photographic frontispiece, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, very good.
8. Arthur Bryant, Triumph in the West, (London, Collins, 1959). First edition, 8vo, photographic frontispiece, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, very good.
9. John St. John Cooper, Invasion: The D-Day Story, (London, Beaverbook Newspapers Limited, 1964). First edition, folio, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
10. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, (New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948). First trade edition, 8vo, black & white photographic plates, bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, spine a little faded, very good.
11. Cyril Falls (editor), Great Military Battles, (London, Spring Books, 1972). Fifth impression, folio, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, covers soiled, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
12. Jon Halliday & Bruce Cumings, Korea: The Unknown War, (London, Viking, 1988). First edition, 4to, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
13. Sir Arthur Harris, Bomber Offensive, (London, Collins, 1947). First edition, 8vo, half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards, top-edge gilt, a little faded, original dustjacket bound-in at rear.
14. Liddell Hart, B.H., History of the First World War, (London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1970). First in larger printing-format, 8vo, ink-stamp to title-page, half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, very good.
15. Liddell Hart, B.H., History of the Second World War, (London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1971). First edition, second impression, 8vo, half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, top-edge gilt, very good.
16. [Flying Corps], Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot, (London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1933). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, very good.
17. General Heinz Guderian & Captain B.H. Liddell Hart, Panzer Leader, (London, Michael Joseph, 1952). First edition, fourth impression, 8vo, half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, very good.
18. Richard Holmes, Epic Land Battles, (London, Octopus Books Limited, 1976). First edition, folio, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little fading, covers soiled, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
19. Alistair Horne, To Lose a Battle: France 1940, (London, Macmillan, 1969). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Shepherds of London, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
20. T.A. Innes & Ivor Castle (editors), Covenants With Death, (London, Daily Express Publications, 1934). First edition, folio, publisher's black cloth stamped in red to upper covers, housed in a custom-made black morocco backed black cloth clamshell case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
21. James Lucas, The Last Days of the Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945, (London, Arms and Armour Press Limited, 1986). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine and top-edge slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
22. Lyn Macdonald, Somme, (London, Michael Joseph, 1983). First edition, second impression, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
23. Russell Miller, The Resistance, (Chicago, Time-Life Books, 1979). First edition, folio, photographic illustrations, original publisher's illustrated boards, housed in a custom-made red morocco backed clamshell case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
24. Field-Marshall Montgomery, El Alamien to the River Sangro & Normandy to the Baltic, (London, Barrie & Jenkins Ltd, 1973). First edition thus, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
25. Mountbatten: Eighty Years in Pictures, (London, Macmillan London Limited, 1979). First edition, 4to, numerous photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
26. Airey Neave, Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945-6, (London, Hodder and Stroughton, 1978). First edition, 8vo, numerous photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
27. James P. O'Donnell, The Berlin Bunker, (London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1979). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound-in at rear.
28. Bob Ogley, Biggin on the Bump, (Brasted Chart, Froglets Publications, 1990). First paperback edition, oblong 4to, photographic illustrations, housed in a custom-made blue morocco backed clamshell box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
29. P.R. Reid M.B.E. M.C., The Colditz Story, (London, Hodder & Stroughton, 1952). First edition, fourth impression, 8vo, bound in half blue-green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded.
30. Cornelius Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1974). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
31. Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle, (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1966). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
32. Cornelius Ryan, The Longest Day, (London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
33. Dudley Saward, 'Bomber' Harris, (London, Cassell Ltd, 1984). First edition, 8vo, photographic plates, bound in half blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
34. David Shermer, World War I, (London, Octopus Books Limited, 1973). First edition, folio, photographic illustrations, original illustrated endpapers bound in at rear, half black morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, very good.
35. William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941, (New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1943). Later printing, 8vo, publisher's black cloth lettered in pale-blue, original dustjacket, very good, housed in a custom-made red-morocco backed cloth folding box by Shepherds of London.
36. William L. Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1947). First Edition; 8vo, publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, original dust-jacket, very good, housed in a custom-made red-morocco backed cloth folding box by Shepherds of London.
37. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, (London, Secker & Warburg, 1960). First edition, 8vo, bound in black half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue-grey cloth boards, top-edge gilt, spine faded, very good.
38. Sir Edward Spears, Two Men Who Saved France, (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966). First edition, 8vo, publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, unclipped dustjacket, housed in a custom-made red morocco backed red cloth folding clamshell box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, very good.
39. A.J.P. Taylor, From Sarajevo to Potsdam, (London, Thames and Hudson, 1974). First edition, 8vo, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, very good.
40. A.J.P. Taylor, The First World War: An Illustrated History, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1976). Fifth impression, 4to, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, very good.
41. A.J.P. Taylor, The Second World War: An Illustrated History, (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975). First edition, 4to, photographic illustrations, bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, very good.
42. A.J.P. Taylor, War by Time-Table: How the First World War Began, (London, Macdonald Library of the 20th Century, 1969). First edition, 8vo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, housed in a custom-made half red-brown morocco folding clamshell box, very good.
43. John Terraine, The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945, (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1985). First edition, 8vo, photographic plates, bound in blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded, original photographic dustjacket bound in at rear.
44. Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe, (London, Collins 1952), First edition, signed by the author to the title-page, 8vo, illustrated with maps, half red-brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine slightly faded, original 'map' endpapers bound-in at rear.
45. Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten: the official biography, (London, Collins, 1985). First edition, photographic illustrations, half red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine soiled, original photographic dustjacket bound at rear.
45 works; the majority bound in half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe or Shepherds of London (two examples in full morocco bindings), some with the original publisher's dustjackets bound-in, a few examples in the original publisher's binding and housed in custom-made folding morocco backed boxes.
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