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London: Ernest Benn, 1930. 1st Edition. 224pp/12 illus/8 plates/3 maps. Has long detailed inscription by author to a fellow artillery veteran on ffep. Author signs with both his pseudonym and his real name Franklin Lusington. Classic war account based on authors experiences with the 90th Brigade, RGA in France from 1915-1918. Book is also signed by the veteran inside front cover. Original black cloth. Clean with clean dust jacket having light edgewear, Very scarce book from period.. . Inscribed By Author. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First Edition, Second issue. 448pp with frontis and 7 plates (one double-page) including trench maps. Has errata slip tipped in between pp 398-9 as issued. With the infamous Sossoon poem excised and replaced with asterisks on pg 290 and 341-3. Sassoon was horrified to kearn that it had been incuded and demanded the recall of the edition and excision of the offending pages, Book is centered on author's ex[periences in World War I. Overall a clean almost fine copy of a rare book, . 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Briand, 1810. 1 frontispice + 160 pp. Light foxing. Spine worn and separated from cover. French text.. Leather. Very Good(-)/No Jacket Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Scholastic, 1999. 341pp. 1st printing. No number on spine. Rare spelling error "sorceror" First state binding and jacket. Copyright page has full number line and Printed in U.S.A. 37 and First American Editition June 1999 $17.95 price on dj. Clean no marks other than previous owner name on ffep... 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Indanapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1903. Unpaginated. ca 80pp. Brown boards with gold pictorial decoration, teg, others untrimmed. 19 tipped-in plates behind cloth guards. Gift inscription ffep. Light foxing.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Christy, Howard Chandler. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First Issue Illustrated with 8 tipped-in color plates from paintings by the Dos Passos. " John Dos Passos was born in Chicago in 1896, was educated both here and abroad, and graduated from Harvard in 1916. He then traveled to Spain, but soon joined the French Ambulance Service, later transferring to the U.S. Medical Corps. These experiences furnished the fuel for his early books and the resulting THREE SOLDIERS, published in 1921, was received with popular and critical acclaim. He followed it with MANHATTAN TRANSFER, which did in prose for New York what Carl Sandburg did in poetry for Chicago. Dos Passos then treated himself to a trip through Russia and the Levant. He kept a journal and published it in 1927 as ORIENT EXPRESS. In 1921-1922, Dos Passos took a 10,000-mile trip from New York across Europe to the Soviet republic of Georgia and then circled through the Middle East to North Africa and back to Europe through Spain. He traveled by boat, train,… Read More

Chicago, IL: Chicago, IL: Knight, Leonard & Co, 1895, 1895. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. Second Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 883 pages with several portrait engravings of Grand Masters. Complete record of the first eleven years of proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Territory of Nebraska. Includes Constitution, ules and Installation Ceremonies for the Masons.Title page separating slightly - otherwise book is tight and complete.. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: William Grattan, 1822. 208pp. Lightly foxed. Old signatures inside front cover and on title page. Spine worn. Cover loose. Pages tight.. 1st American Edition. Quarter Leather/Boards. Good+/No Jacket Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. 128pp. Black cloth with clean yellow dust jacket. Has Gollancz Review slip for Oct 7, 1929 publication. Story of a World War 1 French conscientious objector. Clean with no marks and unclipped dust jacket.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1894. 61pp Illustrated throughout with full-page printed drawings by Elihu Vedder. Printed on French- folded pages. "Elihu Vedder, N.A. (1836-1923)..was born in New York, and his artistic talents were precocious..Among his murials are a mosaic in the Library of Congress and a commission for the Walker Art Gallery at Bowdin College. His best known illustrations were done for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.." (The Illustrator In Americ 1880-1980). "America produced one exponent of the Book Beautiful. Elihu Vedder..was a visionary artist much drawn to imaginative, enigmatic themes..he regarded his illustrations to Omar Khayyam (1884) as his best work. This is superior copy in the publisher's dramatically decorated cloth, the gilt swirling motif from top to bottom, the petals, lettering and stylized decoration are bright, bordering on Art Nouveau. Corners bumped. Tight clean beautiful book.. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Elihu Vedder. 8vo -… Read More

New York: Random House, 1930. (The New Fine Books Series, Vol. 1), 26 pp., With 3 original linoleumcuts in 3 colors by Vojtech Preissig. Original quarter vellum binding, title printed in purple and yellow on the covers. #19 of 360 signed by the artist in the impressum, printed by the State Printing Office in Prague, on Zanders handmade paper, in a new type cut by Preissig. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket Issued. Illus. by Preissig, Vojtech. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Limited Numbered Copy.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1929. Rare Fiirst Printing. 284pp. Classic World War I story by German Army veteran. Clean with No marks or writing. Extremely rare first printing/fiorst edition. Original blue cloth. Clean no marks.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1929. Rare Fiirst with Dust Jacket. 284pp. Classic World War I story by German Army veteran. Clean with clean unclipped dust jacket having light edgewear/chipping. No marks or writing. Original blue cloth. Extremely rare edition.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1930. 25+pp/color frontis. Hardcover Limited edition #55/360 copies signed by the illustrator, bound in 1/4 cloth and paper over boards, illustrated in color by Vojtech Preissig, with the essay on Poor Richard's Philosophy by Phillips Russell. A beautiful clean bright copy. . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket Issued. Illus. by Preissig, Vojtech. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Limited Numbered Copy.