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MOTORING MEMORIES IN PEACE AND WAR
Written by Tindall Harris.
Stock no. 2133442
Published by St. Catherine Press. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Memories of the author who in October 1914 joined a Red Cross convoy for France as a volunteer driver. Small format. Red cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. 5 b/w plates. 91 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine very slightly browned. Name and address in pencil on front pastedown. Contents bright and clean. Address label to rear pastedown. A very nice copy of this rare Great War account.

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FROM MUD TO MUFTI
Written by Bruce Bairnsfather. Illustrated by Bruce Bairsnfather.
Stock no. 2133363
Published by Grant Richards Ltd.. 1st 1919. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth. B/w illustrations. Spine is browned with a few pin holes; a little fraying to cloth. Corners are bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and page margins. Page browning.

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THE BRITISH BOMBER SINCE 1914
Written by Francis K. Mason.
Stock no. 1819834
Published by Putnam Aeronautical Books. 1st 1994. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A type by type survey of more than 350 types of bomber. B/w photos. 416 pages. Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0851778615. Pictorial dustwrapper lightly scuffed.

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THE GERMAN ARMY ON VIMY RIDGE 1914-1917
Written by Jack Sheldon.
Stock no. 1819532
Published by Pen & Sword Military. 1st 2008. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 9781844156801. Small initials in ink to front endpaper else a fine copy.

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THE WAR OF THE NATIONS: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT EUROPEAN CONFLICT VOL. V
Written by Edgar Wallace.
Stock no. 1819504
Published by George Newnes Limited. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red pictorial boards. B/w photos. 240 pages. Corners bumped and rubbed, rear board cracked/creased to bottom half of which also affects rear pastedown. Small split to base of front edge of spine. Browning throughout. Bookplate to front pastedown.

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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE 20TH BATTALION KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS (B.E.L. PIONEERS) 1915-1919
Written by A.S. Turberville.
Stock no. 1819230
Published by Goddard, Walker & Brown, Ltd.. 1st 1923. Good condition.

The special interest and importance of pioneer work in relation to the operations of the great division to which the 20th for most of its career belonged. Green cloth boards, gilt titles and vignette to front. Spine and front board water stained. Foxing mainly to prelims and text block. Pencil erasure to blank page facing title page.

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GERMANY AND THE NEXT WAR
Written by Friedrich Von Bernhardi.
Stock no. 1819223
Published by Edward Arnold. 1914. Almost very good condition.

Popular Edition. Orange decorated cloth. Thirteenth impression. Spine browned, boards grubby. Names to front endpapers. Foxing throughout, mainly to vertical edge of text block.

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L'AERONAUTIQUE MILITAIRE FRANCAISE PENDANT LA GUERRE DE 1914-1914 TOME II
Written by Simone Pesquies-Courbier.
Stock no. 2132213
1979. Very good condition.

Icare revue de l'aviation francaise. Icare No. 88. Text in French. Rough title translation: French Military Aeronautics during the first world war, Volume 2. Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos and illustrations.

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L'AERONAUTIQUE MILITAIRE FRANCAISE PENDANT LA GUERRE DE 1914-1914 TOME 1
Written by Simone Pesquies-Courbier.
Stock no. 2132212
1978. Almost very good condition.

Icare revue de l'aviation francaise. Icare No. 85. Text in French. Rough title translation: French Military Aeronautics during the first world war, Volume 1. Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos and illustrations. Creasing to corners. Some marks to covers. A few joints are a bit pulled.

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I REPARTI DELL'AVIAZIONE ITALIANA NELLA GRANDE GUERRA
Written by Roberto Gentilli; Paolo Varriale.
Stock no. 2132186
Published by Stilgrafica Srl. 1999. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Rough translation is: The Italian Aviation Departments In the Great War. Text is in Italian. B/w photos. SIGNED by one author (Varriale), with dedication to a previous owner to prelim page. 1" split to top of spine. Bumping along cover edges. Contents are still very good. Top 2" of wrapper has tear, repaired to verso with sticky tape.

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DYNAMIC OF DESTRUCTION: CULTURE AND MASS KILLING IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Written by Alan Kramer.
Stock no. 1818875
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 2008. Fine condition.

The cultural mobilization and mass killing of the period were decisive in the development of the communist and fascist regimes in the years to come. The First World War had made the unthinkable thinkable. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780199543779.

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LAST POST
Written by Max Arthur.
Stock no. 1818765
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The Final Word from our First World War Soldiers. Beige paper boards, red title to spine. Endpapers are photographs of WWI scene. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780297846444. Clear plastic protecting dustwrapper stuck to verso with clear tape.

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