Spring Offensive, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes 24*b/w photographs, 7*maps and 2*diagrams. 431pp. DJ protected by removable clear plastic cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. White and black flecked cloth effect boards with bright blue titles to spine, 220 x 140 mm approx. 432 pp + 24 b/w illustrations on 24 glossy plates, 7 line maps and 2 diagrams all as called for. First Edition 1978 inscribed and signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book - mild shelf rubbing to bottom edge of boards, dust spotting to top edge of book block. Author insc. as above. No other previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - Light general shelf shelf rubbing , tiny nicks to laminate at top corner tips, flap fold clipped with publisher's replacement price sticker affixed - cover £8.50. No other notable defects to book or jacket). Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. The Kaiser's Battle - 21 March 1918: the first day of the German Spring Offensive.Middlebrook Martin.ISBN: 9780713910810.Penguin Books Ltd, London, 1978 1st edition, signed by author, 431pp, H/B with dust jacket (both very good), illustrated with b/w photos, maps and diagrams.Slight signs of shelf wear on dust jacket, price clipped.WORLD WAR I MILITARY HISTORY KAISER'S BATTLE.47150 HSITORY/WWI £1650. 431 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jessica Smith ( jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition. Introduction by author. The recounting of the greatest battle of the First World War - in the numbers of men involved - that began at 9:40 on March 21, 1918. 378 pp. plus: Appendix 1 - German Ranks, Appendix 2 - Order of Battle of German Infantry Divisions, 21 March 1918, Appendix 3 - Order of Battle of British Infantry and Calvary Divisions, 21 March 1918, Appendix 5 - Artillery Guns and Howitzers Available to the British Third and Fifth Armies, 21 March 1918, Appendix 5 - Royal Flying Corps Air Order of Battle on the Front of the German Attack, 21 March 1918, Appendix 6 - Timetable for the German Preliminary Bombardment of the Fifth Army Positions, 21 March 1918, Appendix 7 - Victoria Cross Awards for 21 March 1918, Appendix 8 - Senior Officer Casualties, 21 March 1918, Appendix 9 - ' The Three-Week Subaltern ' or Pilot, Acknowlegements to the British and German Armies, Personal Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Index. Book has blue text on spine only, is illustrated with maps and b/w photographs. Tail of spine is rubbed, ow book is as new. Price clipped, plastic protected, DJ has tiny tear at bottom of front flap. Book is flatSIGNED by author in black ink tiny script Bookseller's Inventory # 184762. By Author.

First edition. Card portfolio with title label, containing broadside poems by five different authors, each of which is illustrated with an etching by a different artist. The poets are Wendy Cope (''Autumn''), Jenny Joseph (''May Light''), Jeremy Hooker (''On a child's painting''), Christopher Hope (''Spring Snow'') and Lotte Kramer (''Faces''). The artists are, respectively, Clarissa Upchurch, David Donne, Bruce Glasser, Corridan Graddon and George Szirtes. The portfolio also contains a title-sheet and a Contributors sheet. Two pieces of Starwheel ephemera loosely inserted.Each poem is printed on handmade paper and is one of 55 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist.Portfolio slightly creased. Contents fine. This is among Wendy Cope's earliest appearances.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Broadside portfolio. Five broadsides, each measuring approximately 8½" x 12" and with an original Signed etching; the artists are Clarissa Upchurch, Corridan Graddon, Bruce Glasser, David Donne, and George Szirtes. Laid into a printed portfolio with a title sheet and sheet with information on contributors. The broadsides are fine; the supplementary sheets and portfolio are near fine with a bit of light wear and the portfolio with very light rippling along the bottom edge. Each broadside is Signed by both the poet and artist. A handsome production, issued in 55 sets only. The poems are "Autumn" by Wendy Cope; "Spring Snow" by Christopher Hope; "On a child's painting" by Jeremy Hooker"; "May Light" by Jenny Joseph; and "Faces" by Lotte Kramer. *OCLC* locates a single copy, at the National Library of Wales.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4to. Five sheets of handmade paper loose in portfolio, (printed paper label), with extra title and "Contributors" sheets; one corner of portfolio slightly creased. Edition limited to 55 numbered copies, each broadside signed by author and artist. The Starwheel Press was the child of George Szirtes, the poet, artist and translator, and his wife, the artist Clarissa Upchurch. "We ran it between 1976 and 1986 from our house in Hitchin," he told Cameron Self in an interview for the website Literary Norfolk, "on a big letterpress machine and an etching press in the cellar. It existed to bring together artists and mostly well-known poets (we contributed as artists, I only once produced poems for it). The poets included Peter Porter, Anne Stevenson, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Peter Scupham, Craig Raine, Wendy Cope and many others. There were five individual sheets of poem with etchings, in a card portfolio, all signed and hand-printed. We did one portfolio a year, working right through summer, not paying ourselves. The editions ran to 55 copies. They were sold at book, not art prices, and naturally they disappeared into collections." Spring Offensive's CONTRIBUTORS sheet begins with "Wendy Cope Teaches in a London school. A section of her work will appear in Poetry Introduction 5 to be published by Faber and Faber early in 1982." Cope had published a first, slim pamphlet, Across the City, with John Cotton's Priapus Press the year previously. She shared Poetry Introduction 5 (1982) with Blake Morrison, Medbh McGuckian, Michael Hofmann and others, but her first collection with Faber, Making Cocoa with Kingsley Amis, did not come out until 1986. It was the book that made her name. Cope here contributes "Autumn", Christopher Hope "Spring Snow", Jeremy Hooker "On a Child's Painting", Jenny Joseph "May Light" and Lotte Kramer "Faces". Signed by Author(s).