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London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1887. First edition. xvi, 325pp, with a guarded frontis portrait and two other portrait plates. Unopened: contents very clean and fresh and unmarked. Black endpapers: armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Some very minor foxing to closed edges. Quarto, very firm, bright and clean, in the original binding of navy cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt harp on front and gilt titling to front and spine. Spine ends slightly puckered. Beautiful copy. Near Fine.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £120.00

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927. First editions. 580pp in all, plus a number of maps and charts, plus (vi) appendix to Part I. Errata slips tipped in at p.52 of Part I and at half-title of Part II. Both volumes have slight browning to the endpapers, and both bear a small faded 1927 gift inscription on front free endpaper and a 2 x 4cm gilt on black 'The Times Book Club' label at the bottom of the rear pastedown. Paper slightly yellow as usual, but contents otherwise very clean, with no foxing, and perhaps unread. In the original smooth navy cloth, upper boards ruled and titled in blind, spines lettered in this publisher's deeply impressed, but not very glittering, gilt. Spine ends puckered and small knocks to lower leading corners of Part II. A very good clean firm set, forming the third and fourth books of the World Crisis. Very Good+.
[Heavy Item] [1915, the second book, also in stock]

Price: £120.00

London: Royal United Service Institution, 1933. First edition. Volume II only. xx, 235pp, illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs. Printed gift bookplate from Lieut Colonel W.G.Elphinston and the Officers of the Poona Horse, recipient unspecified. Some minor foxing to the prelims and the Index: contents otherwise clean. Quarto, in the original half binding of grained brown cloth, with green grained cloth boards. Boards mottled, spine titled in gilt, bright. Clean firm copy. Vol II is scarce. Very Good.

Price: £350.00

London: Arthur Barker, 1969. First edition. 336pp, illustrated. Contents fresh, clean, and unmarked. In the original binding of dark green cloth, spine titled in gilt: clean, bright, firm and sharp, though with some shelf-scuffs to bottom edges. In the protected unclipped orange pictorial dust jacket: clean and bright, scuffed at corners and spine ends, and with short tears to joint ends; two closed tears to lower panel. Spine very slightly sunned. Deleted price to flap fold. Very nice copy. Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.

Price: £60.00

London: Ian Allan, 1978, 1978. First editions. 160, 128pp, with many illustrations. Contents very fresh, clean and unmarked. In the original cloth-textured bindings (blue, and red, respectively) titled in gilt, very clean, bright and firm. One corner slightly blunted, and slight puckering to spine ends of Vol 2 and foot of Vol 1. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jackets, very bright and clean, with very light knocks to edges, some fading to the spine of Vol 2, and a 4mm scuff to the top corner of the lower panel of Vol 1. A beautifully kept set. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £34.00

London: Chatham Publishing, 1998, 1998, 1999, 1999, 1999. First editions. Vols I-IV are large format paperbacks, 9.15 x 6.15 ins; Vol V is hardback, 9.5 x 6.3 ins. Each vol has c.370pp, with illustrations and maps in the text. Contents clean and unmarked. Pictorial covers firm, bright and clean: vols II & III have each a slight pressure indentation to the fore-edge of the front cover, and the top edge of vol IV is slightly knocked. Vol V is in the original cloth-textured binding lettered in gilt, very clean, bright and firm, with slight blunting to base of spine and one corner. The protected unclipped pictorial dustjacket is very bright and clean. Very fresh and useful set. VG+ in near fine dust-jacket.
[Heavy item]

Price: £80.00