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London: Preface /Random House, 2009. First edition, first impression. (viii), 280pp, illustrated. Title page humorously INSCRIBED by author. Contents otherwise very clean and fresh and unmarked. In the original black textured binding with spine titled in gilt: clean, bright and sharp. In protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket: top edge slightly knocked, and a little very faint soiling to pale ground colour. Very nice copy. Fine in very good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £40.00

Portsmouth, Griffin and Co., 1885. Presumed first and only edition. First Edition, INSCRIBED. vi, 53, followed by 27 diagrams in colour on 14 protruding fold-outs (designed to be seen when the book is open at other pages) + 16pp adverts. "This pamphlet was drawn up with a view to publication; but one of my oldest friends thinks there is in it so much of a confidential nature that its use should be confined to Her Majesty's Officers. I bow to his superior judgement, and recommend it to my brother officers." The endpapers are split, and that at the front is inscribed: "Captain G.A.Giffard RN from the author". At some time the text block has been resewn through from the gutter preceding the advertisements at the back. Contents clean, but the leading edges of the foldouts are creased. 8.75" x 5.5", in original binding of blue cloth lettered in gilt on front and spine and with ruling and naval device on front in black. The gilt lettering is clear, but the cloth appears to have met with some sea-spray on manoeuvres, and is heavily spotted. The extremities are worn, and the head of the spine has lost about 1cm. Not on copac. Extremely scarce. G-.

Price: £300.00

Oxford, at the Clarendon Press; London and New York: Henry Frowde, 1908. First Edition. viii, 149pp, (i) (list of author's other works). Ex-Library copy. Endpapers browned. Front free endpaper bears library armorial bookplate and stamps (including discard stamp). Front pastedown bears the visiting card of Sir Erle Richards, who succeeded Holland in the Chichele Chair in International Law and Diplomacy in 1911; there is also the handwritten name of a later owner. There are also library stamps on the upper corner of both p.i and p.iii. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked but for a pencilled note on p 55 and the underlining of a phrase on p 57. In the original binding of red cloth, boards ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Boards bright, sharp, clean and firm, spine dulled but legible, with some fraying at the ends. VG. Very scarce.

Price: £300.00

London: Forster Groom & Co, 1917. First edition. 57pp +(xii) adverts + (iii) Memorandum pages. Stapled booklet with small Heffers bookseller stamp on title page. Rusted staples visible near spine inside front and back covers, contents otherwise fresh, clean and unmarked. 5 x 3.8 ins, in printed grey card covers. Very slight fading or marks, very nice copy. [nb - also in stock - Musketry: A Lecture on "Fire Orders", by the same author]. VG+.

Price: £40.00

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923. First edition. 557pp, with foldout maps and facsimile. 1923 gift inscription to front endpaper. Foxing to prelims, final blanks, and fore-edge of text block: contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original smooth navy cloth, upper boards ruled and titled in blind, spines lettered in gilt. Clean and firm, spine ends puckered, slight rubbing of joints: nice copy but for unsightly bubbling of cloth down both sides of spine. Forms the second of the four books of the World Crisis. VG.
[Vols 3 & 4 also in stock]

Price: £70.00

Methuen, London, 1928. First Edition. x, (ii), 191pp + 8 adverts. Prefatory note SIGNED by author, dated 1942 (or 1972?); he served with the 12th Royal Scots in the 9th Division. Contents clean and tight. In original binding of pale buff cloth ruled and lettered in navy. Cloth slightly mottled and with a small stain and an indentation at the spine, but otherwise very clean. Boards slightly bowed. In protected orange DUSTWRAPPER: half the width of the lower part of its spine is missing, and there is a stain to the upper part. Flaps and front and back panels are clean and complete but for a few very small edge chips. Several repairs to reverse surface with archival tape. VG / G+

Price: £120.00

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1959. Special edition limited to 2,000 copies. 536pp, with many illustrations. Map endpapers. Errata slip pasted on verso of portrait half-title. Limitation statement on verso of title page, this being copy No.104. With the ownership signature of the former British double agent and Soviet spy, member of the Cambridge Five, GUY BURGESS on the first blank. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original binding of black cloth lettered in silver. Slight sunning at spine ends, and some extremities slightly blunted. In protected red unclipped pictorial dust jacket, sunned, scuffed and chipped, with internal repairs. The three principal chips are less than an inch. [Burgess gave it to the previous owner when the latter visited him in Moscow.] Very Good in worn dust-jacket.

Price: £160.00

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: £120.00