Montague C E Introduction (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Limited edition of 700 copies SIGNED by the antiwar journalist H. M. Tomlinson. This is #34. Patterned red- and-white paper over buckram-backed boards. Gilt titles to spine. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Jacket has a touch of wear at edges. Tall 8vo. 254 pp. In protective Mylar.; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, 2 vols.; G+; quarter tan cloth bindings, boards in gray paper; spines with leather labels with gilt lettering; some shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped and exposed; upper right corner of vol. 1 front board missing; mild scuffing to vol. 1 spine; two dark stains to vol. 2 front board; bumps to fore edges of vol. 2 boards; vol. 2 joints starting; small closed tears at crown and tail of vol. 2 spine; scuffing to vol. 2 back board; all edges of both vols. with decorative red speckling; both vols. profusely illustrated with color and black and white drawings and watercolors; pages clean; shelved Front Table. 1347428. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. London: Published from the Offices of "Country Life," Ltd. and George Newnes, Ltd., 1918. [40] pp. 31 x 24 cm. Stiff paper wrappers with color illustration and black and red titling to cover; illustrated with black and white and color illustrations. Mild to moderate soil and light staining to covers. Light nicking and chipping to edges of covers, with chipping to spine ends. Previous owner's name to head of front cover. Light spotting to front cover which is mainly visible on verso. Very light bump to bottom corner of text block. Binding sound despite chipping to spine ends. . Soft Cover. Very Good.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First American trade edition. Set with the original soft-cover pictorial wrappers. Small folio. Volume I, 100 plates in 5 parts with original folders, and each folder with a dust jacket. Volume 2, 100 plates but only Part I in a folder with a dust jacket; all the other parts are included but are undifferentiated by separation of parts into folders. The American issue did not sell well and Doubleday withdrew from the project which then was picked up and finished by Doran. Most likely in an attempt to save money, Doran sold the book in two differing formats: (1) most often bound up in two hardback volumes and (2) more rarely, as in this copy, with parts 2, 3, 4, and 5 lacking folders and dust wrappers. Copies of the original issues in parts are uncommon, especially in this condition. The folders and dust wrappers as well as all the text and prints (with the exception of part II, print number LXI which has a small closed tear in the margin which extends 1 inch into the image) are remarkably bright, crisp, and clean. In two publishers slipcases with a few stains and small tears at the extremities. Bone (1876-1953)was Britain's first official war artist. Commissioned as an honorary Second Lieutenant, he arrived in France during the Battle of the Somme, serving with the Allied forces on the Western Front and also with the Royal Navy for a time. He produced many drawings of the war.…