Vansittart Peter Editor (4 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 404 pp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 404pp, index, chronology, sources. Or black cloth in jacket. Quite heavily foxed on page egdes and last section of book, remainder stamp on bottom edge, slight edge wear to jacket. Fascinating collection of writings on and by British royalty taken from diaries, letters, poems, prayers, epitaphs, memoirs, histories, journalism and conversation over the centuries from Alfred the Great to the current monarch. Size: 8vo.…

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Price Clipped. First Edition. - 240 mm. Cloth hardcover, gilt titling to spine. Illustrated. Line drawings. Pp. 307. DJ is price clipped. Sunning to DJ spine. Mild edge wear and rubbing to DJ. Name and date written to FEP. Overall, VG / VG. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. At the outbreak of the First World War John Masefield was 36 and a well-established writer. Staunchly patriotic and totally at odds with some of his fellow writers like Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw, he volunteered as a medical orderly for the British Red Cross and in February 1915 he left for France. He tended the wounded, carpentered, burnt amputated limbs. In 1916 he was asked to write an account of the Somme campaign. He travelled over the whole desolate area of the battle, recording in his letters home the devastation of war in all its rawness. His letters to his wife, Constance, are published for the first time. Copyright © Constable.…