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THE GOLDEN PONY.

Ratcliff, Delphine I., · 1966

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Lutterworth Press, London, 1966, 1st edn., 126pp, coloured pictorial frontis (unattrib.), green cloth lettered in black at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib), upper edge sl. dusty and faintly foxed, ink initials front free endpaper, dustwrapper: price clipped, l...

TALES AFTER SUPPER.

Blyton, Enid, · 1968

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Collins, London, 1968, 188pp, chapter heads and in text line drawings (unattrib.), yellow cloth lettered in red at spine, top edge coloured, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, eighteen short stories, in the Junior Story Books series, lightly rubbed at tips and bumped at upper cn...

SUNSHINE BOOK.

Blyton, Enid, · 1965

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Dean and Son, London, ND (copyright 1965), 184pp, in text line drawings (unattrib.), light green cloth lettered in black at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib.), thirty short stories, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, rubbed with sl. lo...

DOG STORIES - Three Boys and a Circus and The Adventures of Scamp.

Blyton, Enid, · 1969

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Collins, London, 1969, 188pp, chapter heads in line (unattrib.), yellow cloth lettered in red at spine, upper edge coloured, coloured pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib.), in the Junior Story Books series, lightly rubbed at tips, pages tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, rubbed ...

BRER RABBIT'S A RASCAL.

Blyton, Enid, · 1965

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Dean and Son, London, ND (copyright 1965), 184pp, in text line drawings by Grace Lodge, light green cloth lettered in black at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib.), lightly rubbed at tips, pages tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, rubbed with sl. loss at extrems., old...

ADVENTURES ON WILLOW FARM.

Blyton, Enid, · 1979

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Collins, London, 1979, reprint, 188pp, in text line drawings (unattrib.), coloured pictorial upper board, upper edge coloured, in the Junior Story Books series, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, four line ink inscr. front pastedown, ink initials half title, ink check ...

NO TIME TO WAVE GOOD-BYE.

Wicks, Ben (intro. Michael Caine), · 1989

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Bloomsbury, London, 1989, 1st in imprint, paperback, xii, 228pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial upper wrapper, moving personal records of the experiences of children who were evacuated during WW2, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

THE CODE BOOK - The Secret History of Codes and Codebreaking.

Singh, Simon, · 2000

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Fourth Estate, London, ND (circa 2000), reprint, trade paperback, xiv, 402pp, half tone ills., maps, diagrams and tables in text, coloured lettered wrappers, a history of codes and cryptographers, from the time of Mary Queen of Scots through to encryption on the internet and ...

ENIGMA - The Battle for the Code.

Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh, · 2001

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Phoenix, London, 2001, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xvi, 491pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, a new examination of all the component contributions which went into the cracking of the German Naval Enigma code, lightly rubbed with ti...

THE YEAR OF LIBERTY - The story of the great Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Pakenham, Thomas, · 1972

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Panther, London, 1972, 1st in imprint, paperback, 480pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 7 in text maps, coloured pictorial wrapround wrappers, an account of the violent and tragic Irish rebellion of 1798, the result of Pitt's lack of any policy for Ireland leading to the abuse of...

OPERATION CICERO.

Moyzisch, L. C., · 1969

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Tandem, London, 1969, 1st in imprint, paperback, 190pp inc. 3pp postscript by Franz von Papen, photo pictorial upper wrapper by Juanita Grout, the account of the running of the agent 'Cicero' 1943/44, an Albanian who was valet to the British Ambassador in Ankara, Turkey, by h...

THE RECOLLECTIONS OF SERGEANT MORRIS.

Morris, Thomas (ed. John Selby), · 1998

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Windrush Press, Moreton-in-Marsh, 1998, paperback, xiv, 137pp, 3 in text maps, [i] ads., large format 8.5 x 5.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, based on 'Recollections of Military Service 1813-15....' published 1845 and first published in this form as 'Reco...

COMBAT REPORT.

Lambert, Bill DFC, · 1975

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Corgi Books, London, 1975, 1st in imprint, paperback, 254pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., double page map in text, [ii] ads., wraparound coloured pictorial laminated wrappers (unattrib.), the author, born in Irontown, Ohio, was working in Canada in 1917 when the Royal Flying Co...

THE FULL MONTY - Volume 1 : Montgomery of Alamein 1887-1942.

Hamilton, Nigel, · 2002

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,320)

Penguin, London, 2002, trade paperback, xxvii, [xiii], 902pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 14 maps on 13 pages, photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, NOT a reissue of the author's previous 'Monty - The Making of a General 1887-1942' but a new examination of the life and caree...

FIRST INTO ACTION - A Dramatic Personal Account of Life in the SBS.

Falconer, Duncan, · 1999

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Warner, London, 1999, paperback, xvi, 431pp, [i] ads., coloured lettered upper wrapper, an account of service with the Special Boat Service, the Royal Marines equivalent of the SAS, on training exercises and operations, in Northern Ireland, the Falklands and the Gulf, slight...

FINEST HOUR.

Clayton, Tim and Craig, Phil, · 2000

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, ND (copyright 2000), revised edn., x, 422pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., tv tie-in, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial montage wrappers, the book of the BBC TV series of the same name, first published in 1999 this revised editio...

THE THIRD REICH - A New History.

Burleigh, Michael, · 2001

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,898)

Pan Books, London, 2001, trade paperback, xxvi, 965pp, 5 maps and 10 half tone photo ills. in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a radical re-examination of the acceptance by the German people of the Nazi party, how a Germany exhausted by war and depression allowed a lib...

MR BROWN'S WAR - A Diary Of The Second World War.

Brown, Richard (ed. Helen D. Millgate), · 2003

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Sutton Publishing, Thrupp, 2003, trade paperback, xii, 308pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 5 in text maps, photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, the diary of Richard Brown 1939-46, by day a design draughtsman with the engineering firm of Reavell's in Ipswich and an ARP Warden...

BERTIE, MAY AND MRS. FISH - Country Memories of Wartime.

Bingley, Xandra, · 2006

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Harper Perennial, London, 2006, trade paperback, [xiv], half tone photo frontis, double page map, many half tone photo ills. in text, coloured photo pictorlal upper wrapper, a memoir of childhood on a Cotswold farm during WW2 to the immediate post-war years, sl. slant to ligh...

FATHER TO THE MAN and other stories.

Plass, Adrian, · 1997

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

HarperCollins, London, 1997, 1st edn., xiv, 171pp, [v] ads., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, seven short stories, fine in a fine dustwrapper,