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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Normal age wear; a decent readable copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First ed. with some unopened pages. Although this volume is in excellent condition it is merely "acceptable" because there is only one map in back pocket; the pref. by Marechal Foch is in French, but there is a translation in the appendix. 385 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only mildly age-toned--no foxing; TEG; tissue guard on frontis. photo-portrait of Viscount French is creased but not torn; holograph of signature, on assumes, beneath frontis. portrait; binding tight; crimson boards with still bright gilt lettering have light bumping at corners and slight rubbing at some edges. Fascinating primary source.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes octavo bound in original quarter black cloth with green boards. The edges are a little foxed as re the preliminary leaves, but this is a very good set. xiii, 364; vii, 390pp. Complete with 16 photographic illustrations. *** Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War Office, playing a vital role in drawing up plans to deploy an Expeditionary Force to France in the event of war. He acquired a reputation as a political intriguer for his role in agitating for the introduction of conscription and the Curragh incident of 1914. (Wiki).…

Hardcover without Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First English Edition. This is a very good copy of the First English Edition, without dust jacket. There is a vintage bookplate on the front pastedown. Else fine.[There are extracts of letters from Winston Churchill on pages 303-305, 307 & 311, rendering this a Miscellanea item in the Woods bibliography.] 8vo (414 pages, errata slip, maps, index, 3 folding maps in rear pouch) (Woods D[b]38/1).…

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First English Language Edition. From the library of Lt. Gen. D. H. Connolly, WWII commander of the Persian Gulf Command. Gen. Connolly's signature on ffep; 15 maps in rear pocket. Spine is lightly sunned. Textblock is very clean and tight. Lightly worn boards. 410pp. including appendices. Maps in Rear Pocket (illustrator). Hard Cover. …