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MILITARIA -- MILLINGTON-DRAKE, Eugene (ed.). The Drama of the Graf Spee and the Battle of the Plate. London: Peter Davies, 1964. 8° (248 x 186mm). Folding map, plates and illustrations. Original red leather by the St. Giles Bindery, upper side blocked in gold, spine lettered in gold. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 55 DELUXE COPIES, SIGNED BY OVER 40 CREW MEMBERS of 'Ajax', 'Achilles', and 'Exeter' including Captains Charles Woodhouse, Edward Parry, and Frederick Bell, and the author and contributors, including Mountbatten of Burma and Philip Vian.
HOZIER, H.M. (ed.). The Franco-Prussian War. London: William Mackenzie, [c. 1872]. 2 vols, 4° (260 x 204mm). Frontispieces, additional engraved titles and 46 plates and maps. (Occasional marginal spotting.) Contemporary green calf gilt, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: ?James Maxton (pencilled inscription on p.1). FIRST EDITION.
NEWBOLT, Henry. The Book of the Thin Red Line. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915. 8° (186 x 130mm). Coloured plates, illustrations. Contemporary blue half morocco by Best & Co., top edge gilt (spine evenly faded). INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'The cast of all earth's noble hearts is the right soldier's faith. Henry Newbolt'. (4)
HOZIER, H.M. (ed.). The Franco-Prussian War. London: William Mackenzie, [c. 1872]. 2 vols, 4° (260 x 204mm). Frontispieces, additional engraved titles and 46 plates and maps. (Occasional marginal spotting.) Contemporary green calf gilt, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: ?James Maxton (pencilled inscription on p.1). FIRST EDITION.
NEWBOLT, Henry. The Book of the Thin Red Line. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915. 8° (186 x 130mm). Coloured plates, illustrations. Contemporary blue half morocco by Best & Co., top edge gilt (spine evenly faded). INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'The cast of all earth's noble hearts is the right soldier's faith. Henry Newbolt'. (4)
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