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hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth. The back paste-dwon endpaper is misaligned. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st edition. Fair (incomplete). 8vo, iv+148pp (lacking pp. 1-8), printed wrappers. This spectacular 1931 literary magazine includes three early Cantos by Ezra Pound, plus writing by Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, et al. The first 8 numbered text pages, affecting Dos Passos story, have been removed (noted on cover), else an unmarked copy with wear and soil to wrappers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of this 1951 issue, featuring Ann Arbor Variations by a 25-year-old Frank O'Hara, five poems by Robert Graves, etc. Light exterior wear and toning (mainly at spine). Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 32 Pp + 2 Pp Ads At Rear. Grey-Green Covers Printed In Red And Black, Covers Are Ribbed Paper And Folded Over The Interior Plain Card Covers. Ownership Signature Of California Author Olive Percival In Ink At Top Of Front Cover. Oversize Title Page Is Loose, Spine Edge Of Title Page Is Straight But Oversize Foredge Is Creased And Chipped In The Area Which Overlaps The Page Block, So Perhaps Never Bound In Properly; Otherwise Near Fine, No Other Wear And No Soiling, But Two Very Small Chips On Spine (Only).

Condition: Sehr gut. A third Edition revis'd & enlarged by the Author. 20 x 12 cm. xii, 406 pages. With a frontispiece, two foldout maps and other illustrations. Brown calf with gilt line decorations. Label with gilt title on spine. Speckled edges. Good condition. Binding seriously rubbed and bumped. Material losses to spine and spine label. Abrasion to boards. Edges dust dulled. Internally slightly age darkened, otherwise in very good condition. Initials A.F.B. and 13 signatures on front end papers. Placed and dated (Williamsburg, Virginia 5/16/43). Text block bright and clean. Provenance: From the Library of Sir Alan Francis Brook, Field Marshal Alanbrooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke. The Third Washington Conference (codenamed Trident) was held in Washington, D.C from May 12 to May 25, 1943. It was a World War II strategic meeting between the heads of government of the United Kingdom and the United States. On May 15, 1943 the Combined Chiefs of Staff (US and UK Military Leaders) travelled to Williamsburg, Virginia. On Sunday May 16, they attended a church service in Williamsburg, followed by lunch hosted by the Mayor of Williamsburg, before traveling back to Washington D.C. The following signatures can be found on the front end papers of this book (left to right, top to bottom): 1. Kenneth Chorley - President of Colonial Williamsburg 2. Vernon Geddy - Attorney, Executive Vice President of Colonial Williamsburg 3. Channing M. Hall - Mayor of Williamsburg, 1934 - 1947 4. Dudley Pound - First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Navy, Royal Navy 5. Charles F.A. Portal - Marshal of the Royal Air Force 6. Richard E.C. Peirse - Air Chief Marshal, Royal Air Force 7. James F. Somerville - Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Navy 8. George C. Marshall - Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, later Secretary of State, and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1953) 9. Archibald P. Wavell, Field Marshall, later Commander in Chief, India & Viceroy India 10. Hastings L. Ismay - General British Army, later first Secretary General of NATO 11. H. Merrill Pasco - Lieutenant Colonel, Aide to General Marshall 12. Frank McCarthy - Brigadier General, later Film Producer ('Patton') 13. Joseph T. McNarney - was a United States Army Air Forces / Air Force general officer who later served as Military Governor of occupied Germany The initials at the top are A.F.B. for Alan Francis Brooke, Field Marshal Alanbrooke. In a letter to Mrs. M.C.Long on June 23, 1955 Marshall describes the trip to Williamstown in 1943 as follows: 'I was most impressed of him as a guest of mine when I was entertaining the British Chiefs of Staff with Lord Wavell and his subordinate Chiefs at the restored, ancient Colonial Capital Village of Williamsburg, Virginia. Some swam (the Sea Lord Dudley Pound), some occupied themselves in photography (Lord Wavell), but Alanbrooke, with his field glasses, devoted his time to a study of the Virginia birds in that locality. His persistence and his pleasure in the task were very appealing. We had been having a very hard time in Washington reaching agreements, but the weekend in Williamsburg with no business discussions cleared the air entirely.' According to the official reports about this visit other guests at Williamsburg in May 1943 were Air Chief Marshal Charles Portal, chief of the British air staff; Admiral Sir James Somerville, commander in chief of the Eastern Fleet; and Lieutenant General Sir Hastings Ismay.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Carruthers, G.P.; Holloway, C.; Wigfull, T.C.; Hiley, F.; Tennant, Dudley; Williams, C. Fleming (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part II - The U.S. attempts to prevent the arming of revolutionaries in Dominica in 1906-7; Hunting Wild Goats By Seaplane and Motorcycle Near San Clemente - article with photos; Remanded - a perfectly blameless man is blamed for a crime; Full Speed Astern - 400 men aboard the steamer Remiji Maru are saved by the action of a young engineer on watch two days out of Hong Kong; The Wild Men of Borneo - Wonderful photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Dyaks; Photo and letter from a reader who, with five friends, dressed up in KKK outfits and brought along a relative in blackface to entertain at a fancy-dress ball in Leeds; Across Remote Yunnan - Part II - Capt. F. Kingdon Ward continues his journey through the little-known region where the frontiers of China and Tibet meet - article with nice photos; Two Men and a "Pink" - terrifying experience of two returned Canadian soldiers off the coast of Labrador aboard their vessel Terra Nova, nicknamed the Turn Over; "Gentleman" Girard - Frenchman Henri Girard made a profession of poisoning people whose lives he had insured; The Ghost Dancers of the Imst - unusual customs in the Tyrolian valley village of Imst - article with photos; Down the "Old Delph" - two men venture into a disused mine near Roby Mill in Lancashire; Marooned On a Precipice - Three mountain climbers, Karl Aichner, Alois Netzer, and Conrad Schuster, are stranded for six days in the Northern Tyrol; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 180-264, 9-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear and some soiling to back cover. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Elcock, Howard; Hodgson, E.S.; Tennant, Dudley; Prater, E.; Holmes, Fred; Wood, Stanley L.; Peddie, Tom (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Michel the Spy - a remarkable WWI character; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part II - "Shooting" big game with a camera - article with great photos; A Bid for a Bride - love finds a way in the lonely outpost of Mersa Matruh, Egypt; Four-Figure Milestones; Seeking Six Million Pounds - recovering gold and silver from the White Star liner 'Laurentic' which was sunk off the coast of Ireland in January 1917; Through the East By Air - Part IV - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; Diamond Cut Diamond - farmhand matches wits with farmer who cheats his men of their wages; Adrift in Mid-Air - French artilleryman M. Clinckmaille was carried high in the air by a runaway observation balloon - suspended by his leg!; Restoring the Dead to Life! - The Secrets of Katsu, known to the Japanese for two thousand years, but jealously guarded from the outside world - fascinating article with photos; A Race for Life in Death Valley - The ordeal of two motorcyclists who attempted to drive through Death Valley during the hottest month of the year - article with great photos; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part IV - A trap is set for George Keene; Magalloway's Grizzly - life and death encounter with a Wyoming rancher; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1926). 1926 1st edition. Foolscap. Ppvi,85. Side-stapled foolscap text-block, black cloth-tape spine to purple paper-coverd boards. Boards slightly used but good copy. An interesting compilation of reports by sporting Royal Naval officers. "The enclosed notes on the shooting to be obtained at various places by the Mediterranean Fleet have been collected from many sources during the last 20 years. For information regarding many places in the Aegean or the Levant as it was known in 1893 to our predecessors, I am indebted to 'Sporting Notes in the Levant', published by Lieutenant (now Captain) Dayrell Davies who at that time was serving in the Trafalgar, one of the ships of the Levant Division. .These notes have purposely been printed for private circulation only as it is not desired to give gratuitous information to possible poachers of the Fleet's preserves." Dudley Pound was Chief of Staff to the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet (and a Rear Admiral) at the time of publication. He served as First Sea Lord and Admiral of the Fleet from 1939 to 1943, dying of a brain tumour later that year. Chapters include: Safety first; Big game; Small game; Migration; Western Mediterranean; Adriatic and West Coast of Greece; The Aegean; Eastern Mediterranean; Sea of Marmora and Black Sea. Contains brief notes on trout fishing in Yugoslavia. An extremely rare piece of naval and sporting history. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited. 85p-single sided. A compilation from various RN officers as to the types of game, where to be found, local permissions, etc. over 20 years. Foolscap size, light wear, small ink stain to top front edge. 900g.

Folio. [3], 85 [printed rectos only]. Cloth backed boards, Very Good. Issued by the Chief of Staff of HM Mediterranean Fleet for officers of the fleet with notes on the various game available, how and where to find it. The areas covered are the Western Mediterranean, Adriatic and West Coast of Greece, the Aegean Eastern Mediterranean, Sea of Marmora and the Black Sea. The notes cover small game and big game including Ibex, wild pig, wild goats etc. partridge, quail, dove; the areas giving notes on town, station, game likely to be encountered, comments and what bags made or have been obtained i.e. Kavala "In September the local people organised a pig drive at which one pig was killed, no information as to whether it is any good to cook." Imbros "Best day 195 partridges and 15 various for 8 guns in the Valley of the Ridge.".

The three items derive from the Bilainkin papers. Each is separately paginated and stapled, with the text on one side only of the leaves. All three in good condition, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with rusty staples. Item One: Titled 'ADD 1960 DIARY. Saturday, July 23.' 7pp., foolscap 8vo. With carbon copy of the same. The entry describes a reception at 'the imposing and out of date house in South Audley Street, Mayfair, where this evening three to 400 hundred [sic] leading diplomatic social military and other notables of London, gathered to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the July 23 revolution in Egypt, with the handsome charge d'affaire, [sic] and Madame Kamil Eldin Khalil, a strikingly handsome brunette, the height of Princess Margaret.' A gossippy account, with reference to Katsumi Ohno of Japan, the Burmese Ambassador, Harold Walton, Laurence Cadbury, 'Miss Schofield', Tom Bairstow. 'To the Bairstows I recalled the many occasions when, as wife of the Foreign Secretary, Florence Bevin would suffer the humiliation of walking up 3 and 4 times an evening to the one time lorry driver for anaerated water co. in Bristol, and plead in the presence of other guests, "Ernie, Ernie you have had more than enough . . . I am going home now . . . Do come. Ernie, Ernie you promised 10 minutes ago you would come along." All to no avail. I remembered particularly one occasion at the Iraki Embassy when Bevin snuggled his huge paws round the gulf of the waist of the Princess Zaid Al-Husseini and another round the slim red haired wife of the arabist, St. John Philby, and resist the blandishments of his wife.' Item Two: Titled 'ADD DIARY 1960. Thursday, August 18.' 10pp., foolscap 8vo. The first sentence explains the context: 'Hundreds of delegates, from governments, international organisations, private societies, and individuals interested in dealing with crime, and juvenile delinquency, crowded Church House, Westminster, when I returned today to chat with many of my friends from a dozen foreign lands.' These include the 'dynamic' and 'heavily-built vice-chairman of the supreme Soviet Court, Smirnov, with his charming, thoroughly official interpreter, Mrs Stepanova.' There are also reminiscences of Maisky, Churchill, 'the restless Nancy, Viscountess Astor, of Cliveden', the Japanese4 ambassador Baron Tsuneo Matsudaira, 'a fresh-faced youthful Argentine delegate', 'a French missionary', Senor Sir Roberto Pettinato, and Judge Almeda Lopez; also a reference to Admiral Sir Dudley Pound's 'mental illness' and the fact that 'he had often been asleep during sessions of the British Cabinet'. The article concludes: 'Moments of self satisfaction came to me as I waited in the corridor to see Professor Manuel Lopez-Rey, chief of the Section of Social Defence, United Nations, head of the Conference. Spaniard from Madrid, he is thin, medium height, looks as though he has lived principally on mushrooms and herbs. By my side were two or three white delegates who changed with chameleon speed from Russian to German, from English to French, from Polish to something Scandinavian, or maybe Finnish. I smiled to myself with all the vulgarity of that great sin, pride.' Item Three: Titled 'MONASTERY'. 5pp., foolscap 8vo. Incomplete (breaks off suddenly). Written in the form of a dramatic dialogue, beginning: 'Christmas morning in the Monastery. | Scene: Cistercian Monastery in England, early morning of Christms Eve, sitting room for guests visiting in the heart of a Midlands forest. | Time: At present. | Dramatis Personae: Abbot of Monastery, 55, mathematician from Scotland; | Sub-Prior, 70, native of Midlands; | The Rev guest master, 55, School teacher from Dublin; | Lay Brother of the door, 50, former tailor from York; | Instructor of the novices; 45, solicitor from London; | Editor of Daily Newspaper, 45, ex-Public school London; | News Editor of local Daily Paper, 40, half timer in Lancashire cotton mills. | Act 1, Scene 1: - Journalists are approaching the Monastery which stands in its own grounds in a forest. They are walking from the taxicab which was to have taken them for a game of golf but the snow is too thick in the ground, and they have decided on first visit to the remote home of the Order of the Cistercian Monks, first known 800 years ago.' In the dialogue the journalists ask the monks about their practices. It ends: 'News Editor: - And if someone does speak, what happens, is there any punishment? | Sub-prior: - Once a week the Community meets in Chapter, when all lie down, stretched out, facing the Abbot. We then get open confession. Thus a member may say, "I have to confess that on Tuesday I spilt the salt carelessly," or [.]'. Also present is the last foolscap 8vo page of a fourth extract, paginated 13 and headed 'ADD DIARY 1960. Thursday, July 28.' It concerns 'Kennedy' and 'his son Jack', and in it Bilainkin refers to his book 'Diary of a Diplomatic Correspondent' (1942): 'the record of day to day conversations, criticisms, praise, the fearful agony of wondering what America could give us when she had so little to spare'. It concludes: 'And I should be less frail than I am were I not inwardly to feel minute satisfaction that fortuitous fate favored me with the pleasure and privilege of knowing Ambassador Kennedy so well, so closely, in those perilous months of 1939 and humbling 1940.'.

First edition. The very first issue of the long-running American poetry magazine. Vol. 1 No. 1, published in October 1912. 32, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine with small closed tear to front wrap, light soiling and wear to yapped edges, slight roll to spine. A very nice copy. Founding editor Harriet Monroe would publish Poetry until her death in 1937; it continues to this day. This issue features work by modernist firebrand Ezra Pound.

85 pages, privately printed, 4to., Printed by the Chief of Staff of HM Mediterranean Fleet for officers of the fleet, notes on the various game available, how and where to find it, the areas covered are Western Mediterranean, Adriatic and West Coast of Greece, the Aegean Eastern Mediterranean Sea of Marmora and Black Sea. The notes cover small game and big game including Ibex, wild pig, wild goats etc. partridge, quail, dove, the areas giving notes on town, station, game likely to be encountered, comments and what bags made or have been obtained i.e. Kavala "In September the local people organised a pig drive at which one pig was killed, no information as to whether it is any good to cook. Imbros "Best day 195 partridges and 15 various for 8 guns in the Valley of the Ridge. First published Circa 1926, this copy with circular stamp for the Commanding Officer HMS London 6 February 1930, note written beneath "compedia dated 7 Feb 1930 inserted". This appears to be pre publication for a revised edition with typed sheets or slips placed between relevant pages i.e. "page 15 cancel present notes and substitute" then follows a typed page in this case detailing licences, big game, pigsticking, similar inserts throughout, occasional ink notes to text, cloth index tabs to some pages. Retained in the original cloth backed paper covered boards, title to upper board, some surface rubbing. A rare item 1 copy listed on COPAC 1926 edition giving Malta as the place of publication.