Great War from Clearwater Books

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London, 1916. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. xv, 64pp. Original publisher's blue cloth with a lettered and decorated title plate pasted to the upper board. The cloth lightly soiled and discoloured in places, with some wear to the backstrip ends. Free endpapers toned. Contemporary former owner name and date inked… Read more about this item

Jane's Publishing, London, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First trade edition (first printing), originally published anonymously in 1938 in a limited edition of 500 copies. 8vo. 613pp + xxvii sketched maps. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-one photographs. A little toning to the paperstock, as is invariably the case. Very good indeed in… Read more about this item

Macdonald, London, 1957. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 448pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Binding very slightly cocked, and with a trace of spotting to the edges and very light partial toning to the free endpapers. A nice crisp copy in pictorial dust wrapper, with a hint of dust soiling to… Read more about this item

Nisbet & Co., Ltd., London, 1918. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second book and first novel - a modernist Great War story, which has only semi-recently been lavished with the praise it deserved almost one hundred years ago. Crown 8vo. 188pp + [iv] publisher's advertisements. Green cloth, lettered, ruled and bordered in black… Read more about this item

Collins / HarperCollins, London, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the half-title. 8vo. 187pp + [iv] publisher's advertisements. Maroon boards lettered in silver at the spine. A trace of bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a virtually fine copy in slightly edgeworn non-price-clipped… Read more about this item

Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 208pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece reproduction of a drawing by C.R.W.Nevinson, fifty-two photographs and reproductions, and four maps. A tiny trace of near-invisible spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1916. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. xx, 158pp. Cloth-backed boards with paper spine and title labels. With a title page decoration and forty-six superb tipped-in plates including a number in colour. Edges spotted, the boards a little marked, soiled and chafed, and with some tanning and dust marking to the… Read more about this item

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1929. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 300pp + [viii] publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in blue at the spine and upper board. Top edge dust soiled, the cloth a little marked and soiled, and with a minor slant to the… Read more about this item

Macdonald, London, 1960. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 464pp. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A trace of near-invisible toning to the free endpapers. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering as is often the case, several tiny… Read more about this item

Privately printed for the author by Maclehose, Jackson & Co., Glasgow, 1919. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvi, 251pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. With a photographic frontispiece, thirty-two captioned photographs, and five multi-panel folding colour maps. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Free endpapers lightly spotted, and with… Read more about this item

John Hamilton Ltd., London [1928]., 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), preceding the Australian edition by four years. 8vo. 320pp. Dark blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, and with the publisher's blue top edge stain. With twenty-six black and white captioned photographs and a three-panel folding colour map tipped to… Read more about this item

Peter Davies, London, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 453pp. Oatmeal cloth featuring a striking pictorial design, lettered in black at the spine. Top- and fore edges lightly spotted, and the binding just a fraction tender at one gathering. A small area of staining to the head of the terminal leaf and rear pastedown… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1918. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 96pp. Stiff card wrappers with a printed paper label to the upper wrapper, lettered in black and ruled in red. A tiny hint of wear to one or two extremities, and a little light spotting to the endpapers and to two… Read more about this item

Grant Richards Ltd., London, 1918. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 62pp. Paper-covered boards with a tanned paper spine label. Rubbed and worn at the backstrip ends, with the binding splitting at the terminal leaf. Some spotting to the edges, endpapers and half-title, and to occasional margins throughout. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown… Read more about this item

Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. 8vo. xv, 208pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece reproduction of a drawing by C.R.W.Nevinson, fifty-two photographs and reproductions, and four maps. A fine copy in fine… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press in association with the Imperial War Museum, London, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Small slim 4to. 32pp. Stapled card wrappers featuring a reproduction of a detail from Paul Nash's painting 'Over the Top'. Illustrated throughout with photographs and manuscript reproductions. Some light toning to the wrapper margins, and former owner initial neatly… Read more about this item

Spellmount, Stroud, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. The first printing of this new edition, updated and expanded from the original edition of 1990 and with a new final chapter. Small landscape 8vo. 168pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs of cemeteries and memorials throughout the Western Front,… Read more about this item

The Dodman Press, Hitchin, 1982. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, hand-printed and limited to 200 copies. Slim 8vo. [16pp] stapled into lightly faded card wrappers with some off-set soiling. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece (with a trace of off-setting from the paste to the adjacent title page). A nice crisp copy. Three hitherto unprinted letters from brothers George… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury, London, 2015. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xv, 480pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers, one further map, a drawn portrait of Thomas by his brother Ernest, and 56 black and white photographs. A near-invisible speckling of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy dust wrapper,… Read more about this item

Cecil Woolf, 'The War Poets' series, London, 2014. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition of the thirty-fourth number of Woolf's 'The War Poets' series. Slim 8vo. 43pp. Card wrappers featuring a series design by Faith Binckers. A fine copy of this overview of the life and work of poet Roy Campbell. [A light item, UK postage will be… Read more about this item