Military from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Jonathan Cape 1955. Large 8vo. 206 pp. Original blue buckram with blind stamped device to front and gilt lettering to spine, in dust jacket. Some marks to the jacket and sunning/staining to the spine, with a few small tears to edges. Slight sunning to the head of the boards. Some spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Ink inscriptions to… Read more about this item

London: George Phillip & Son [1956]. Folding Map. 4' x 3' colour folding map in pictorial slipcase that shows the routes of Churchill's wartime trips abroad. Wear to slipcase, particularly at spine. Map clean. . Slipcase. 1956.

London: Focal Point Publications 1991. 8vo. vi, 857 pp. Hardcover in pictorial clipped jacket. Slight crushing and rubbing to jacket extremities. Boards clean, internally clean. The 'deluxe hardbound edition', a revised and abridged version of 'Hitler's War', including 'The War Path' in this single volume. Irving was found by a court in the UK of being a Holocaust denier and… Read more about this item

London: The Medici Society Limited 1926. Large 8vo. Three volumes. xviii, 370; xx, 386; xx, 362 pp. Dark blue half calf over cloth boards with gilt insignia to front board; gilt lettering, ruling and device to spines with raised bands; top edges gilt. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities, particularly volume 3. Some foxing throughout. Inclusive of a number of… Read more about this item

London: John Murray 1856. 12mo. First Edition. x, 348, map, 32 pp. Publisher's original ochre cloth with blind-stamped design to boards; gilt lettering to spine. Light bumping and slight wear to extremities. Bookplate of Henry Birkbeck to pastedown and tear and ink ownership mark to ffep. Some sections a little sprung, with occasional pencil marking and significant foxing. Including a… Read more about this item

London / New York / Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton 1915. 8vo. xi, 77 pp. 32 colour illustrated and black and white photographic plates. Cloth with lettering and device to boards and spine. Some rubbing, light marking and bumping to extremities. Minimal scattered foxing. Lord Sydenham was Governor of Bombay between 1907 and 1913. . Good. Cloth. 1915.

London: John Milne [1901]. 12mo. vii, 183 pp. Cloth spine with original illustrated boards. Rubbing to extremities and general discolouration. Small losses to a few corners of boards. Publisher's stamp to title page and light creasing to corner of pages, though internally clean and bright. Includes chapters on training of the soldier, the strategy of the war and the despatches… Read more about this item

London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson 1928. 8vo. First edition. xiv, 317 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine, in paper dust jacket (not price clipped). Clean boards. The binding is very slightly slanted with light bumping to spine ends. Laid paper with deckle edges; internally fresh and clean. Light shelf wear to extremities of jacket, some discolouration to spine and to… Read more about this item

London: Cassell. 8vo. First edition. 210 pp. Minimal rubbing to spine and to edges of jacket. Small tear to top edge of back panel. Clean boards and jacket. Foxing to edges. Clean internally. "By repute he was Winston Churchill's fire brigade chief par excellence: the man who was always despatched to retrieve the most desperate situations" wrote Lieutenant-General Sir Brian… Read more about this item

London: Geoffrey Bles 1930. 8vo.Illustrated. First edition. [ix], 194, [2] pp. Red cloth in jacket. Some darkening and spotting to jacket, with chipping and small areas of loss to extremities. Light bumping and rubbing to book extremities. Internally clean, with black and white linocuts by William Kermode. Jacket not price clipped. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1930.

London: Grant Richards Ltd. 1916. 12mo. First Edition. 305 pp. Red pictorial cloth. Sunning to spine. A small split to bottom of front joint. Light bumping to extremities. Binding slanted. Ex-libris. Pencil inscription of ownership dated 1916. A few marks to first blank. A small tear to bottom of one of the plates. Otherwise clean and bright internally. An autobiographical… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber 1931. Large 8vo. First illustrated edition. 311 pp. Original pictoral cloth. Minor rubbing to spine. Binding slightly slanted. Light shelf wear. Ink gift inscription dated 1941 to first blank. Internally clean and unmarked. Colour illustrated endpapers, very small tear to edge of front free endpaper. Uncut pages. With full-page colour and in-text black-and-white illustrations by Barnett… Read more about this item

Rouen: Chez Jacques Besongne 1624. Small 8vo. [16], 724, [13] pp. Vellum binding, gilt lettering to spine, edges speckled red. A few very small marks where the vellum has worn. Internally clean, occasionally a bit of creasing to pages, as usual. Laid paper. Two fold-out illustrations. A very smart volume. . Very Good. Vellum Binding. 1624.

Edinburgh: Stevenson, Clark & Co. [1930?]. Folio. Unpaginated, 8 plates. Card covers bound with red and blue ribbon at spine. Marks and yellowing around edges to covers with small tears around edges. 32 cm x 42 cm. Ffep. detached. Internally clean. 8 large coloured photographic plates of soldiers in the Scots Guards. This copy is a gift from Lord Atholl,… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Stevenson, Clark & Co. [1930?]. Folio. Unpaginated, 8 plates. Card covers bound with red and blue ribbon at spine. Marks and yellowing around edges to covers with small tears around edges. 32 cm x 42 cm. Internally clean. 8 large coloured photographic plates of soldiers in the Scots Guards. . Very Good. Card Covers. 1930.

London: Heath Ganton, Limited [1920]. Large 8vo. Scarce, and signed by the author. Blue cloth spine over brown boards with colour illustrated WRAF medallion of WRAF member to front board, in original glassine cover. Glassine is torn but still together at the top of the spine, and slightly worn around the edges. Slight rubbing to spine ends, but otherwise externally… Read more about this item

New York & London: Collier Books / Collier-Macmillan 1971. 4to. First UK Edition. 223 pp. Black & white illustrated card covers. Slight wear around edges, marks to covers. Slight yellowing to edges. Black & white photography of the Vietnam War, illustrated throughout. An extraordinary work. . Very Good. Card Covers. First UK Edition. 1971.

London: Jonathan Cape 1928. 8vo. First UK Edition. 332 pp. Recently bound quarter maroon morocco with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. With a small white marking to the front board. Occasional minor spots and marks to leaves, but otherwise in lovely condition. An autobiographical novel about Cummings' brief imprisonment in France during World War I for anti-war sentiments.… Read more about this item

London: Eveleigh Nash Company 1916. 8vo. First edition, 207 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. With two portrait illustrations of the Kaiser and Crown Prince. Rubbing to spine and corners. Cloth and gilt faded at spine. Ink inscription to first free endpaper dated 1916, and some minor markings to leaves. . Good. Cloth. First Edition.… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson & Co. [1925]. Large 8vo. First Edition. vii, 334 pp. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bumping and light wear to extremities. Some marking to boards. Map endpapers, which have some ghosting. Deckle edges and some pages unopened. Internally clean. Includes 10 black and white plates (complete). The Duke was the youngest son of George II and put… Read more about this item