The 2nd Canadian Heavy Battery in the World War 1914-1919 by Second Canadian Battery Old Boys Association - 1932

Toronto: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is the first Canadian edition of the third volume of Churchill's acclaimed history of World War I. Of The World Crisis, Churchill bibliographer Frederick Woods wrote: "The volumes contain some of Churchill's finest writing, weaving the many threads together with majestic ease, describing the massive battles in terms which fitly combine relish of the literary challenge with an awareness of the sombre tragedy of the events." Churchill was in a unique position to write this history, having served both in the Cabinet and on the front; Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty until 1915 and then, after bearing blame for the Dardanelles tragedy, served as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches. The events covered in this volume include Churchill's time commanding a battalion in the line. The Canadian issue of Churchill's World Crisis was published in Canada from the American plates and is very similar in appearance. However,… Read More

All volumes illustrated with colour plates, photographs, drawings and maps. Bright gilt motif of battleship on front covers. An attractive set of books detailing the events of the First World War. Note: This collection is heavy (27x19.5x36cm, approx 18.2 kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.Good, all slightly faded, outer spines discoloured, else all bindings tight and firm. All volumes are very good throughout other than a little rubbing to corners, pages are clean and bright throughout.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1936.. Tan cloth, pictorially stamped in dark brown. Bookplate of Walter Chrysler on pastedown, faint tanning to endsheet gutters, otherwise about fine in near fine example of the pictorial dust jacket with a few minor nicks, shallow loss at the crown of the spine and a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel. First U.S. edition, with the binding and dust jacket designs after Barnett Freedman. Somewhat less common in jacket than its British counterpart. Keynes notes only the 1937 American printing. KEYNES A40a(n).

Paperback. Good. Published National Labour Press Limited, Manchester & London, nd (1915); small 8vo, pp vi, 87; grey-green paper wrappers, spine somewhat frayed in parts and the front cover torn along parts of the front hinge; a little foxed in places but overall a good copy of the original printing of a scarce political booklet consisting of a collection of essays on the topic of the title.

London: William Kimber [0-7183-0073-4] 1973, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 256pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographs. The dust jacket is price-clipped, edgeworn, and lightly faded on the spine. "An R.N.A.S. Volunteer from Canada, from 1917 Raymond Collishaw was in the thick of the combat in the air on the Western Front. Flying Sopwith Pups with No.3 (Naval) Squadron and Sopwith Triplanes with No.10 (Naval) Squadron, he soon proved himself to be an outstanding fighter pilot". Book about Sopwith Aircraft. Locale: Western Front. (Military--Canada, Fighter Aces, Fighter Pilots, Military--Canada, Royal Naval Air Service, World War 1).

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket . Published Guilford, CT: Lyons, 2005, first printing. 8vo., vii+295 pp., illustrated with b/w plates. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

All volumes illustrated with colour plates, photographs, drawings and maps. Bright gilt motif of battleship on front covers. An attractive set of books detailing the events of the First World War. Note: This collection is heavy (27x19.5x36cm, approx 18.2 kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.Good, all slightly faded, outer spines discoloured, else all bindings tight and firm. All volumes are very good throughout other than a little rubbing to corners, pages are clean and bright throughout.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1936.. Tan cloth, pictorially stamped in dark brown. Bookplate of Walter Chrysler on pastedown, faint tanning to endsheet gutters, otherwise about fine in near fine example of the pictorial dust jacket with a few minor nicks, shallow loss at the crown of the spine and a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel. First U.S. edition, with the binding and dust jacket designs after Barnett Freedman. Somewhat less common in jacket than its British counterpart. Keynes notes only the 1937 American printing. KEYNES A40a(n).

Paperback. Good. Published National Labour Press Limited, Manchester & London, nd (1915); small 8vo, pp vi, 87; grey-green paper wrappers, spine somewhat frayed in parts and the front cover torn along parts of the front hinge; a little foxed in places but overall a good copy of the original printing of a scarce political booklet consisting of a collection of essays on the topic of the title.

London: William Kimber [0-7183-0073-4] 1973, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 256pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographs. The dust jacket is price-clipped, edgeworn, and lightly faded on the spine. "An R.N.A.S. Volunteer from Canada, from 1917 Raymond Collishaw was in the thick of the combat in the air on the Western Front. Flying Sopwith Pups with No.3 (Naval) Squadron and Sopwith Triplanes with No.10 (Naval) Squadron, he soon proved himself to be an outstanding fighter pilot". Book about Sopwith Aircraft. Locale: Western Front. (Military--Canada, Fighter Aces, Fighter Pilots, Military--Canada, Royal Naval Air Service, World War 1).