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Auction No 369, Tag: World War I

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

[Hugh E. Howson] "Two Men – A Memoir", Oxford University Press, 1919, 1st Edn, octavo, cloth-backed boards,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £50
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[Hugh E. Howson] Two Men – A Memoir, Oxford University Press, 1919, 1st Edn, octavo, cloth-backed boards, printed title and additional title label to front board, VG; endpapers browned, ownership signature of 1926; six photogravure plates; occasional fox mark, mostly between pp.263-275; a biography of  Evelyn H.L. Southwell and Malcolm G. White who came together as masters at Shrewsbury School in 1910, left together in 1915, joined the Rifle Brigade, and were both killed in the Battle of the Somme; pp.viii,302.

            

WWI Memoirs and Letters including C.P. Clayton "The Hungry One", 1978, in d/jkt;

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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WWI Memoirs and Letters including C.P. Clayton The Hungry One, 1978, in d/jkt; Princess Marie de Croy War Memories, 1932, 1st Edn; T.A.H. Nash The Diary of an Unprofessional Soldier, 1991, in d/jkt; Lancelot Spicer Letters from France 1915-1918, 1979, in d/jkt; and 2 others. Mainly VG to VF (6)

                                                                                                                  

Lanchester "Aircraft in Warfare: The Dawn of the Fourth Arm", 1916, photo-plates, VG;

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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Lanchester Aircraft in Warfare: The Dawn of the Fourth Arm, 1916, photo-plates, VG; Vivian Voss Flying Minnows, 1977, in d/jkt; “Contact” An Airman’s Outings, 1918; Gray & Thetford German Aircraft of the First World War, 1962, in d/jkt; Heydemarck War Flying in Macedonia, plates & folding-Map; and other WWI Aviation. Good to VF (8)

                                                                                    

John Hayward "The Liverpool Merchants' Hospital in France 1915- 1918", Daily Post, Liverpool, 1919,

Lot: 49

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £56
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John Hayward The Liverpool Merchants’ Hospital in France 1915-1918, Daily Post, Liverpool, 1919, small octavo, printed cloth, spine a little worn, endpapers browned, few finger marks o/w VG internally; 86pp plus 8pp of photo-plates. Very scarce

WWI Memoirs, Letters, Diaries including Ernest Swinton "Eyewitness", 1932, orig.cloth;

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £46
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WWI Memoirs, Letters, Diaries including Ernest Swinton Eyewitness, 1932, orig.cloth; John Harris Covenant with Death, 1961 in d/jkt; R.B. Talbot Kelly A Subaltern’s Odyssey, 1980 in d/jkt; Fritz Nagel ​Fritz: The World War I Memoir of a German Lieutenant, 1981 in djkt; and others, mostly in d/jkts. All first editions. VG/VF (14)

Lieut. Geoffrey Malins "How I Filmed the War", Herbert Jenkins, 1920, 1st Edn, original printed cloth,

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Lieut. Geoffrey Malins How I Filmed the War, Herbert Jenkins, 1920, 1st Edn, original printed cloth, spine slightly faded, rear inner hinge a little weak o/w VG; endpapers browned, few minor fox marks in the text; 32pp of photo-plates; xii,307pp.