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Published by Dated 28th February 1968, 1968
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
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Original typed letter signed Basil Liddell Hart on his States House Marlow Bucks stationary Thanking Brett-James for his letter and stating that he enjoyed his visit Ò You can consult my files anytime that suits youÓ Ò I am interested to hear that the Encyclopedia Amaricana have commissioned you to write a number of short biographical articles Ò Ò you can find a number of sidelights on Jack Dill, some rather important, in my memoirs -also at least one on ÒPugÓ IsmayÓ A Vg conditioned letter.
Published by Cassell, 1948., London:, 1948
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st ed. 320p. Maps. US Title: German Generals Talk. Black cloth. Title lettering very faint. Cocked. Copy of Alan G. Kirk. Admiral USN. Commander of US naval forces for the Normany landing. Good copy. Signed VIP.
Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1938
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Signed limited edition hardback book (233 pages)T.E.LAWRENCE TO HIS BIOGRAPHER, LIDDELL HART. Information About Himself, in the Form of Letters, Notes, Answers to Questions and Conversations. Published in 1938 by Doubleday, Doran and Company in a limited edition of 1,000 copies of which 500 are printed for the United States. This is number 390 - signed by Liddell Hart under statement of limitation. Boards show moderate rubbing/scuffing with browning on endpapers and spine - frontispiece portrait of Lawrence is loose from binding. Bookseller since 1995 (ULTV-L-Bottom) rareviewbooks. Signed by Author(s).
Published by New York Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. 1938, 1938
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
LIMITED EDITION. First US Edition, stated 'FIRST EDITION' on copyright page, limited to 500 copies, this hand-numbered '50' in each volume. Two volumes, SIGNED by Liddell Hart, and Robert Graves respectively. Octavo. pp. x, 236 and pp. x, 188. Bound in the original publisher's cloth bindings, with lettering pieces and gilt decorative bands to spines and impressed lettering to front boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeves fitted to the dust-jackets. Both volumes are in Very Good condition indeed. Good dust-jackets with spine darkening and minor blemishes, but which are not price-clipped (showing 'Price, $20 the set'). Lacking the slipcase. NOT FOR SALE First US edition, no. 50 of 1,000 numbered sets signed by Graves and Liddell Hart, of which 500 sets were for Great Britain and the remaining 500 for America. 'These volumes [.] are remarkable documents showing Lawrence's intimate work with two of his biographers. The letters, manuscript commentary and corrections, reveal the nature of information Lawrence supplied and the interpretation he allowed the authors to derive from it. These volumes expose a process of biographical writing that is rarely documented' (O'Brien). The set was printed in the United States, and Higginson and Williams state that the Graves volume was first published in the United States in December 1938, and that the British edition of the volume was first published on 12 January 1939 (despite the statement on the verso of the title-page that it was first published during December 1938 in Great Britain). O'Brien A214 and A215.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938
Seller: Agathon Books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Two volumes. "This edition is limited to 1000 numbered and Signed copies for sale, of which 500 copies are printed for the United States." This is number 250 SIGNED by GRAVES and HART, each in their respective volume. Original gray cloth bindings, with gilt, red, and blind-stamped titles and decorations. Top edges gilt. Both volumes are FINE (no names, bookplates, remainder marks, or writing of any kind, etc.), with NEAR FINE+ dust jackets, each with the "Price, $20 the set" intact. Housed in FINE publisher's slipcase. As New. Signed by Author(s).
Published by London: Faber and Faber, 1938, 1938
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Signed
[Letters and Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS. Two volume box set. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] x; 187 [1]; pp.[2] x; 233 [3]. Each with a black and white frontispiece, and printed on fine, handmade paper. Both being copy 172 of 1000 thus, SIGNED by Graves and Liddell Hart respectively to the limitation leaves. Publisher's orange and grey buckram, with gilt titles to contrasting red and grey labels to spines and uppers. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With the grey cloth-covered slipcase. Spotting to box and to buckram. Spines a little sunned and toned. Clean, unmarked copies internally. Very good.
Published by London: Faber & Faber; (1938), 1938
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. #87 of 500 (numbers 501 - 1000 were issued in the U.S. by Doubleday) of this signed, limited edition. Two volumes in a cloth covered slipcase. Near fine, as the spines of both volumes are just slightly sunned. Minimal foxing on the first few pages of both volumes. The slipcase is very lightly soiled, but otherwise fine. The original acetate wrappers are not present. Signed by Graves and Liddell Hart in the appropriate volume. Signed by Authors.
Published by London: Cassell, 1968, 1968
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, first impression, presentation copy from the author, with a typed letter signed, and inscribed warmly on the front free endpaper, "To Alice Saxby, in deep appreciation, and affection - with its personal tribute to you on page 111. From Basil Liddell Hart. States House, Medmenham, Marlow, Bucks". In the letter, signed "Basil" and dated 20 August 1969, Liddell Hart asks Saxby to confirm safe receipt of this copy, and notes that "Monty was here for lunch today looking better than he did last year, and full of vigour, and we were talking warmly about you"; this is presumably a reference to Field Marshal Montgomery, whom Saxby nursed while he was undergoing minor surgery at the King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers in January 1955. Alice Saxby (1904-1987) was matron at the hospital from 1948 to 1969 and a leading figure who "lived for the hospital" (Hough, p. 126). Liddell Hart describes his visits to the hospital in the present work, in his essay "Forced to Think": "I did not myself return there as a patient until forty years later, for a major operation, when I was happy to find that [founder Sister Agnes's] successor as matron, Miss Alice Saxby, was quite as dynamic while more knowledgeable" (ibid. p. 111). Saxby's death was widely reported in the newspapers and "all the senior members of the royal family were represented at the service" (Dorothy Shipsey, cited in Hough, p. 171). This collection of 42 original essays was published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the armistice. It includes pieces by Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, Gerald Brenan, L. P. Hartley, R. C. Sherriff, Charles Carrington, R. H. Mottram, Cyril Falls, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Alec Waugh, Vera Brittain, Esmé Wingfield-Stratford, and Correlli Barnett. Not in Higginson & Williams, A Bibliography of the Writings of Robert Graves. Richard Hough, Sister Agnes: The History of King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, 1899-1999, 1998. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Map of the Western Front facing Robert Graves's contribution on p. 2. Cloth lightly rubbed and marked, spots to edges, contents clean; jacket spine lettering faintly toned, purple colour bright, rubbing and occasional nicks, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
Published by London: Cassell, 1965, 1965
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the honorée on the front free endpaper, "For Gerry Bryant, who has shown exceptional promise among the rising generation of historians, with every good wish for his future, Basil Liddell Hart". Dr Gerry J. Bryant assisted Liddell Hart when, in 1965, the latter was appointed visiting distinguished professor at the University of California, Davis, where Bryant studied for an MA in Modern European History. He has written extensively on the British military experience in 18th-century India, publishing in 2013 The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784: A Grand Strategic Interpretation. Published to mark Liddell Hart's 70th birthday, this festschrift, edited by the distinguished military historian Michael Howard, gathers 15 essays. It opens with Howard's "Jomini and the Classical Tradition in Military Thought" and includes contributions by Jay Luvaas, Brian Bond, Norman Gibbs, Henry Kissinger ("American Strategic Doctrine and Diplomacy"), and Yigal Allon ("The Making of Israel's Army"). Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Light bump and fading to spine ends, foxing to edges, contents clean; jacket spine lightly toned, a few faint marks and edge chips, 5 cm tear at foot of rear flap fold with resultant creasing, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
Published by London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1938, 1938
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Esmé Wingfield-Stratford, a token of long friendship & common endeavours from Basil H. Liddell Hart. 15th December 1938". An archive of their correspondence across more than 30 years is held at King's College London. Wingfield-Stratford (1882-1971) was a prolific writer, outstanding among his 40 books being The History of English Patriotism (1913), The History of British Civilization (1928), and a wartime study of Churchill. "He was intensely patriotic as befitted someone with a military ancestry on both sides devoted in particular to England's free institutions. Yet he was at the same time strongly opposed to the imperialism which was so prominent a feature of the political scene in his early years. He saw tragedy in England's relationship with Ireland and in the conflict with the Boers. This aspect of his thought was fully apparent in his series of volumes on the Victorian age and its aftermath which occupied him in the 1930s" (ODNB). Dedicated to the official historian, Sir J. E. Edmonds, Liddell Hart here "denounce[s] British generalship harshly" (ODNB) and analyses the First World War "when Europe appears to lie under the shadow of another 'Great War'" (foreword). He gives a brief overview of the conflict, followed by chapters on the leading personalities (T. E. Lawrence included); covers personal views from some of the main protagonists; focusses on the campaigns on the Western Front and Gallipoli; details three further "episodes" in the war; and concludes with "Some Lessons from History". Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Number "797" marked in red pencil on front free endpaper. Binding lightly rubbed, sporadic internal foxing. A very good copy.
Published by London: Cassell, 1959, 1959
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, first impression, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper of each volume, "For Gerry Bryant, who has most ably proved that an historical mind of high quality can soon achieve a grasp of technical problems. Basil Liddell Hart"; and "For Gerry Bryant, in friendship and high esteem. Basil Liddell Hart". Dr Gerry J. Bryant assisted Liddell Hart when, in 1965, the latter was appointed visiting distinguished professor at the University of California, Davis, where Bryant studied for an MA in Modern European History. He has written extensively on the British military experience in 18th-century India, publishing in 2013 The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784: A Grand Strategic Interpretation. "Liddell Hart's dedication to mechanization and the cause of the Royal Tank Corps always implied much more than an interest in the tank or even armoured warfare. It was a means to an end - the revival of generalship as an art" (ODNB); and Montgomery, in his foreword, notes that Liddell's Hart's book does more than chronicle a regiment, it "tells of the rebirth of mobility as a fundamental principle of strategy and tactics". 2 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, spines lettered in silver. With dust jackets. Numerous photographic half-tones and folding maps. A couple of bumps to corner, foxing to edges; jacket edges rubbed and nicked, toning and foxing not affecting bright front panels, unclipped: a very good set in very good jackets.
Published by London: Cassell, 1965, 1965
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, first impression, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper of each volume, "For Gerry Bryant, in grateful appreciation of his help, his grasp, and his insight as my teaching assistant at UCD. Basil Liddell Hart"; and "To Gerry Bryant, in friendship and esteem - with warm appreciation of an association in the exposition of military history, and every good wish for his future from Basil Liddell Hart. Davis, November 1965". Dr Gerry J. Bryant assisted Liddell Hart when, in 1965, the latter was appointed visiting distinguished professor at the University of California, Davis, where Bryant studied for an MA in Modern European History. He has written extensively on the British military experience in 18th-century India, publishing in 2013 The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784: A Grand Strategic Interpretation. 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With dust jackets. With 44 photographic half-tone illustrations. Light fading of cloth, foxing to edges and outer leaves; jacket spines toned and faded, that of vol. I torn and creased but sound, vol. II jacket slightly nicked with single crease to rear flap, neither price-clipped: a very good set in good and very good jackets.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1938
First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Unnamed (illustrator). First edition. A fascinating set complete in two first editions illustrating T E Lawrence's intimate work with his biographers Robert Graves and Liddell Hart. A limited edition signed by Graves and Hart in slipcase. The first edition of this work, issued in a limited edition to one thousand numbered and signed copies, five hundred of which are printed for Great Britain. Complete in two volumes, with the original slipcase.Signed by Graves and Hart to each respective volumes on the limitation page.A fascinating set documenting the remarkable work of T E Lawrence with two of his biographers, Robert Graves and Liddell Hart. With letters, notes, answers to questions, and conversations that reveal the nature of the information provided and how Graves and Hart interpreted, as well as what Lawrence allowed them to take from it.Two volumes illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally excellent with only minor shelfwear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Signed by Robert Graves and Liddell Hart to each respective volumes on the limitation page. The cloth to the spine has slightly faded. Loosely inserted, three newspaper articles relating to Lawrence, dated 2010. With KG and GNL Edmonds' bookplate to the front pastedown. The slipcase is in excellent condition with minor shelfwear only. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. Near Fine. signed by author. book.
Published by The Corvinus Press, London., 1936
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition. Quarto. Original binding of linen-backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Two speeches given at a luncheon in memory of T.E. Lawrence about a month after his death: ''Lawrence: The Artist in War and Letters'' by Captain B.H. Liddell Hart; ''Lawrence: Himself'' by Sir Ronald Storrs.Out of a total edition of 128 copies signed by the authors this is one of 70 on Barcham Green ''Medway'' hand made paper numbered 56 to 125.Fine. Lacks the original glassine dustwrapper and slipcase.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited edition. Folio. Finely printed on Barcham Green "Medway" handmade paper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe cloth spine, gilt title, handmade paper over boards with the Corvinus device block in gilt on the upper board. A fine copy. In the original strange glassine cover with paper flaps and in the publisher's nondescript slipcase. The book is in fine condition. The glassine has some splits and is a bit shorter than the book, its paper flaps with some foxing. The card slipcase is worn, especially at the top and bottom ends. One of 70 copies from a total edition of 128 copies. This is number 98 and is signed by both authors. Prints the authors' speeches made at a luncheon in memory of Lawrence about a month after his death. O'Brien E101. .
Published by [Corvinus Press, 1936
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Signed
1 vols. 4to. One of 12 copies printed for Liddell Hart, signed by both authors. 1 vols. 4to. Presentation from Storrs, who sent Lawrence to Arabia. With presentation inscription from Storrs to Sir Edward Marsh. A beautiful memorial production of the Corvinus Press, here inscribed from Ronald Storrs, at whose behest Lawrence was assigned to the British-organized conference at Jiddah in the fall of 1916. Lawrence impressed the Arab leaders, and thereafter played his spectacular role as the revolt succeeded, entering into the mythology of the twentieth century. O'Brien E101; Ridler, p. 51, #2 Cloth and paper over boards. Fine One of 12 copies printed for Liddell Hart, signed by both authors.
Published by London: The Corvinus Press, 1936, 1936
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Signed limited edition, no. 8 of 12 copies printed for Liddell Hart and signed by himself and Ronald Storrs (out of a total edition of 128), additionally inscribed by Liddell Hart on the front free endpaper "To Marie, my dearest friend since birth, from Basil". This copy retains the rare glassine jacket and flaps, unknown to Philip M. O'Brien, Lawrence's bibliographer. The recipient of the book was surely, given the tender inscription, his childhood nurse Marie Nield: "It was fortunate that I had an angelic nurse, Marie Nield - to her I owed much in every way, and she was a friend for the rest of her life" (Liddell Hart, The Memoirs, vol. I, 1965, p. 6). The Corvinus Press was established in 1936 by Viscount Carlow, who had formed a friendship with Lawrence in the early 1930s, based on a shared interest in book-collecting, fine printing, and languages; they had even discussed setting up a private press - a plan that foundered due to Lawrence's premature death. Lawrence of Arabia prints the speeches by Liddell Hart and Storrs given at a luncheon in memory of Lawrence, about a month after his death; that by Liddell Hart is entitled "Lawrence: The Artist in War and Literature" and that by Storrs, "Lawrence: Himself". O'Brien E101. Quarto. Original sand-coloured half cloth, matching kinari chiri paper sides by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt, single gilt rules at spine and corner edges, Corvinus device to front cover, top edge gilt, others uncut. With the original glassine jacket and paper flaps. Limitation and terminal leaves soiled, the book in all other respects fine, glassine with minor loss and closed tear at extremities yet in a remarkably nice state of preservation. An excellent copy.
[London], Corvinus Press, 1936. 4to. Original mottled boards with tan cloth spine and corners, spine lettered in gilt, gilt device at foot of front cover, top edges gilt, others uncut; pp. [40]; slight darkening at head and foot of spine, small skilful repair to initial blank leaf, still a very nice copy. First edition. 128 numbered copies were printed, of which this is no. 3 of 24 copies printed for the authors on Barcham Green 'Medway' handmade paper (this being one of 12 printed for Capt. Liddell Hart), signed by the authors. This copy is inscribed by Liddell Hart to his wife. - Old Henry Sotheran label inside front cover. This book contains the text of two speeches made at a luncheon given in memory of Lawrence about a month after his death. Lord Lloyd was in the chair. Nash and Flavell 2; O'Brien E101.