War without Fighting
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. First Edition, number 7 of 100 copies. "On June 19th, 1916, the... Read More
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Le Bon Français.
Paris: Devamber, 43 bould. Malesherbes, nd [1918]. Plates are: Le Bon Français Cultive la Terre, Le Bon Français Travaille pour nos soldats, Le Bon Français Se Bat pour son Pays, Le Bon Français Assure la Reprise des Affaires, Le Bon Français Souscrit à l"Emprunt et Echange son Or contre des... Read More
Price: $300
Quatre Canon françois. Mis en Images par Guy Arnoux.
Paris: Devamber, 43 boulevard Malesherbes, nd [1918]. Plates are: Les Bleuets, Les Cadets, Les Marie-Louise, Les Tapins. EACH IS SIGNED BY ARNOUX in the lower right. Read More
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GROTON SCHOOL
2 Photograph Albums of Gordon Auchincloss including images from his years at the Groton School and Yale University.
1917- 1936. GROTON SCHOOL. A photographic chronicle of the first two decades in the life of Gordon Auchincloss from infancy to college. Highlights include the Groton School 50th Anniversary, June, 1934 with Fraklin D. Roosevelt pictured seated in the center of the porch, the Groton Football team of which Gordon... Read More
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![Discours prononcé à la Distribution des Prix du Lycée Hoche, à Versailles, le 3 Octobre 1918 par M. le Général … [Cover title]. Tasker H. Bliss.](/pictures/thumb/263995.jpg?v=1447132490)
Discours prononcé à la Distribution des Prix du Lycée Hoche, à Versailles, le 3 Octobre 1918 par M. le Général...
Versailles: Imprimerie J. Aubert et Cie, 1918. Rare. Address delivered to the students of the prestigious Lycée Hoche by Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, on the eve of the Allied victory. Bliss (1853-1930), U.S.M.A. class of 1875, was named Army Chief of Staff in 1916 and oversaw the transformation of the... Read More
Price: $275
‘But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold’
1914 and Other Poems.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson [Printed at the Complete Press, West Norwood], 1915. First edition of the poet's posthumous second book. ‘But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold’. Handsome copy of this landmark book of verse. Read More
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Inscribed To Senator Lodge
De Panama à Verdun. Mes Combats pour la France.
Paris: Librairie Plon, (1937). First edition. Inscribed To Senator Lodge. Inscribed by the author in 1938 to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Bunau-Varilla, 1859-1940, French engineer, prominent in the Panama Canal controversy. An engineer after 1884 in the original French company for building the canal, he was chief engineer before the company... Read More
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Paths of Glory.
New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. One of the great anti-war novels to come out of the First World War and the basis for the film by Stanley Kubrick starring Kirk Douglas and Adolphe Menjou. Read More
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Archangel: The American War With Russia. By a Chronicler.
Chicago: A.G. McClurg & Co, 1924. First Edition. About the American campaign into Russia. Read More
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Traité entre les Principales Poussances Alliés et Associées et la Tchéco-Slovaquie signé à Saint-Germain-en-Laye le 10 Septembre 1919...
[Paris: 1919]. The Czechoslavakian treaty of 1919 establishing boundaries following the war. Read More
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A Journal of the Great War.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1921]. First edition. Inscribed , 'For my friend Clarence Dillon from Charles Dawes." Read More
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![With Lawrence to Damascus. [At head of title:] Great Exploits. J. T. Gorman.](/pictures/thumb/308380.jpg?v=1507132078)
With Lawrence to Damascus. [At head of title:] Great Exploits.
London: Oxford University Press, [n.d., 1940]. Read More
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Armenia and the War: An Armenian's Point of View with an Appeal to Britain and the Coming Peace Conference. With...
New York: George H. Doran Co, [1917]. First Edition. Read More
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The Song of the Soldiers. Reprinted from the "Times" of the 9th September, 1914.
Hove: [by E. Williams], 1915. First Trade edition, first issue, with a comma after "9th September" on the front page. Read More
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The Great Events of the Great War.
The National Alumni, [1920]. This set done for L. Gordon Hamersley, First Lieutenant 6th Filed Artillery First Division U.S. Army. Signed by the Registrar and J.W. davison, President War Board, N.A.A. Contains in Volume 1: How the Great War Arose; Volume 2:A.D. 1914; Vol. 3: A.D. 1915; Vol.4: A.D. 1916;... Read More
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The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour. Volume 1: Behind the Political Curtain, 1912-1915...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First edition, # of 750 copies. Texan who became adviser to Woodrow Wilson and was his chief negotiator in Europe during the negotiations for peace (1917–1919). Read More
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The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First edition, #522 of 750 signed by House and Seymour. Read More
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War in the Garden of Eden.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf “for Francis Kettaneh with the warm regards of Kermit Roosevelt” The cosmopolitan Lebanese-American Francis Kettaneh was a close friend of the Roosevelt family. Read More
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King Albert's Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughtout the World. [Introduction...
[London]: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald & Hodder and Stoughton, [1914]. First edition. Read More
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The Mysterious A.C.2. A Biographical Sketch of Lawrence of Arabia.
Bognor Regis: John Crowther, 1940. Read More
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A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force Under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby...
Cairo: Produced by the Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919. First edition. Official history of the British campaign in Palestine and Syria, leading to the capture of Jerusalem and Damascus. T.E. Lawrence’s contributions to this volume, reporting on the “Sherifian Co-operation” and the progress of the Arab Revolt, appear... Read More
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Correspondence with Henry Williamson. Edited by Peter Wilson. With a Prologue and Epilogue by Anne Williamson and a Foreword by...
Woodgreen Common, Hampshire [England]: Castle Hill Press, 2000. One of an edition of 40 numbered from 16-55 copies, this copy is number 22. Volume IX in the publisher's series "T.E. Lawrence Letters" Read More
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The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. Edited by David Garnett.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1938]. First edition, first state. Read More
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Revolt in the Desert.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First London edition, one of 315 large paper copies. Revolt in the Desert was an instant bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic, and "[w]ithin weeks of publication the combined royalties from Revolt were more than sufficient to pay off the Seven Pillars overdraft. Lawrence's Trustees... Read More
Price: $2,250