HISTORY / Military / World War I from JimsOldBooks

Lerwick, Shetland: The Shetland Times Ltd, 1973. Some creasing and small tears to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of blue-gray boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Anecdotal memoirs by the author, including service in the Great War in France in the artillery and in Shetland during WW2 as a medical… Read more about this item

Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2016. A small half-inch tear to bottom of front fold of unclipped dustwrapper, original owner's gift message written inside front board, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the 1916 Battle of Jutland based on British and German accounts up-to-date (at the time of writing) research. The author is the grandson… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2007. Folio Society edition in slipcase. Some marking to one side of brown slipcase, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 2006, this is a third printing from 2007. Deals with the 1916 Battle of the Somme, based on first-hand accounts from letters, diaries and interviews. … Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1919. Unclipped dustwrapper (original price of 12/- on spine) has creasing and tears to edges, particularly a 2.5 inch tear at bottom right of spine and a smaller one-inch tear to opposite side, also a little bit missing at top end and at bottom right of same. Slight bumping to spine ends of gray boards with… Read more about this item

Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2014. A very good clean tight copy,with no creasing to the spine of covers, of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Images of War" series, this one looks at the Imperial Russian Army during the Great War up to 1917. 144pp, almost 200 b&w illustrations.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

London: C Arthur Pearson, 1918. Scuffing to spine ends of orange paper covers which have been damp at some point resulting tin the orange dye staining the front page and the back of the map inside back cover. Cover has come loose from text block but could be glued back on, and some of the stitching is a bit… Read more about this item

London: Allen Lane, 1976. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends of brown boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915, based largely on diaries and letters from the time. 320pp, 30 b&w illustrations, 5 maps.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo… Read more about this item

Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1977. Minor creasing to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, part of the publisher's "Pocket Encyclopedia of World Aircraft in Colour" series. Originally published in 1968, this is a second, revised edition from 1977 with several aircraft… Read more about this item

Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2003. Very slight creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at two brothers from Boston, Lincolnshire (2nd Lieut. Geoffrey Staniland and his brother Capt. Meaburn Staniland of the 1/4th Lincolnshire Regiment) who were killed in Belgium on 14th April and 29th June 1915. Signed… Read more about this item

Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2011. A tiny bit of scuffing to the outer corners of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumpung to corners of black boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 2009, this is a reprint from 2011. Deals with the efforts made by the Royal Naval Air Service to destroy… Read more about this item

Derby: Breedon Books, 2004. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with Joe Lee, a Dundee-born writer and journalist who served in France with the Black Watch during the Great War. He was captured in December 1917 and spent the rest of the War as a PoW.… Read more about this item

London: Leo Cooper, 1989. Some creasing to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of green boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Letters sent by Ralph Verney, an officer in the Rifle Brigade, to his family from South Africa during the Boer War, Australia where he was ADC to the Governor of Queensland,… Read more about this item

London: Jarrolds, 1965. Unclipped dustwrapper has quite a lot of creasing and small tears to the edges, some shelf-wear to bottom edge of black boards, some foxing to outer edge of pages, and the book does smell of being shut away in a cupboard for a long time. But otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book dealing… Read more about this item

New York: NAL Caliber, 2004. Very slight scuffing to bottom end of spine, otherwise a very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. The author's account of the First World War sevice of his father, Charles H Woolley, who served as a pilot in the US Army Air Corps in… Read more about this item

Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 1997. A very good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. The WW1 diaries and letters of Norman Ellison, edited by David R Lewis. The author served in the 6th (Rifle) Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment from 1914 onwards, serving in Belgium and France in 1915-17 before being invalided Home. The… Read more about this item