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Hart, Liddell. Through the Fog of War. Faber & Faber London 1938, 1938.
Price: US$59.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition worn orig. cloth Very Good octavo 366pp., index, Liddell Hart's history of the Great War. Inc. personalities of the war; Haig, Foch, T.E. Lawrence, Allenby, Ian Hamilton, Wully Robertson, Grand Duke Nicholas & Cadorna, Three French Soldiers: Joffre, Berthelot, & Sarrail. Three Germans; Bernhardi, Von Kluck, Ludendorff. Three British soldiers: Smith-Dorrien, Townshend, Monash. Boards rather worn o/w a very good copy of a scarce title
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slipcase: Light foxing and marking to side, end and top panels. Heavy foxing to lower panel. Overall case condition is Good. Book: Limited edition of 1000 copies, 500 of which printed for Great Britain. Two volume set. Liddell Hart volume in grey buckram with title panel in red to front board and spine. Signed by Liddle Hart to limitation page. Graves volume in red buckram with grey title panel to front board and spine, with mottled discolouration to boards. Signed by Graves to limitation page. Both volumes with top page gilt and other edges untrimmed. Fading to spines. Slight foxing to endpapers. Light offsetting to leading and trailing blanks. Light browning to the verso of the half title page and to the title page in both volumes. Clean text throughout. Overall book condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.65; USA £27.60; Oceania £30.50; Rest of World £25.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches (16.5 x 24.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: viii, [2], 233; ix, [1], 187
Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom
Price: US$418.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii, 186; viii, 233 pp., Limited, numbered edition. Buckram binding in red and grey cloth with top edge gilt and cloth slipcase. Slight marks to the slipcase which is firm. Mark to the boards of the first volume with sunning to the spines. Bindings firm. Internally clean with some marks; offsetting to the endpapers from a now removed inset. Owner's name and gift inscription in ink to the front endpapers. Numbers 342 of 500 UK copies and signed by Robert Graves and Liddell Hart respectively. 8vo. Limited Edition
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. 1st : Faber & Faber 1938 HardbackEdition: First Limited Edition: Very Good: Number 490 of One thousand sets , 500 for the UK market and 500 for the USA market. This set is the UK edition and with matched numbers. The red cloth of the Graves volume is slightly faded. Otherwise in very good condition . A significant collection of letters to Robert Graves and Liddell Hart when they were preparing their own biographies of Lawrence. "The 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 210 & 211. 187pp + 283pp; this set is without the grey card slipcase
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One thousand sets were issued, 500 for the UK market and 500 for the USA market. This set is the UK edition and with matched numbers. The red cloth of the Graves volume is slightly faded. Otherwise in very good condition and in the original grey slipcase as issued. A significant collection of letters to Robert Graves and Liddell Hart when they were preparing their own biographies of Lawrence. "The 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 210 & 211. 187pp + 283pp.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: LIMITED EDITION. First UK Edition, limited to 500 copies, this hand numbered '120'. Two volumes: Volume 1 is SIGNED by Liddell Hart, Volume 2 is SIGNED by Robert Graves. Octavo. pp. x, 236 and pp. x, 188. Bound in the original publisher's cloth bindings, with lettering pieces to spines and front boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. In the original grey cloth slipcase. Some very minor fading to the spines but a most superior set in the less than common original slipcase. Both volumes in Near Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase. The Liddell Hart volume has the bookplate of Michael Newton to the front pastedown and a letter to his son George on the latter's first birthday First British edition, no. 120 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). Nonetheless, a set is known with ownership inscriptions dated 1938, which indicates that the British edition was, in fact, published in late 1938. O'Brien A210 and A211
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$508.86 + shipping
Description: [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.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume I: ix, 187 pp. frontispiece portrait, vignette on title page, few red ink underlining / Volume II: viii, 233 pp, frontispiece portrait, vignette on title page, original buckram, gilt partially faded, Limited edition to 1000 copies, signed by Graves & Hart, untrimmed pages, set in good condition. First edition which is a record of the letters and notes that passed between Lawrence and his two authorized biographers, as they compiled their books. “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'Brein p.176]. #2324.
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: #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.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
LIDDELL HART, Basil Henry.. Through the Fog of War.. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1938, 1938.
Price: US$869.58 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1153.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1175.65 + shipping
Description: Information about himself, in the form of letters, notes, answers to questions and conversations. In two volumes. Volume 1: [Robert Graves]: Pp. [ii]+x+188(last blank), frontispiece, plus l plate, title page vignette printed in brown, several pages printed in red & black; Volume 2: [Liddell Hart]: Pp. [ii]+x+234(last blank), frontispiece portrait, title page vignette printed in brown; both med. 8vo; one volume [Hart] grey buckram, the spine and upper board blocked in red & lettered & ruled in gilt, the same colours reversed for the other volume; t.e.g., others uncut; the printed paper flaps only of the original acetate & paper dust wrappers loosely inserted in each volume; housed together within a grey cloth slipcase, which is a trifle soiled; bookplate on upper free endpapers, the outer leaves slightly offset, scattered light foxing; Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1938. First editions limited to l,000 sets, each volume signed by the author; this being number 42 of 500 sets for Great Britain. O'Brien A210 & A211. *'These volumes, published in editions of 500 each in both England and America, 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.' [O'Brien, p. 147].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First editions, one of 500 copies signed by Graves and Liddell-Hart, both marked "Out of Series". 2 vols. 8vo. David Garnett's copies. Garnett edited The Letters of T. E. Lawrence (1938). O'Brien A214 & A215 Original red buckram (Graves) and original gray cloth (Hart). Bookplate of David Garnett in each volume. Some minor fading to spines, occasional light foxing, otherwise near fine First editions, one of 500 copies signed by Graves and Liddell-Hart, both marked "Out of Series".
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$5153.05 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In Limited edition in fine condition, signed by both Liddell Hart and Robert Graves. Two volumes, in full black niger (by Asprey), decorative gilt edge tooling and central Arabic style image. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling & titles, gilt turn-ins and board edges. Vol 1, [1938], limitation, half title, frontis, [1], [6], (vii-ix), [1], [2], 3-187 pp, 1 pl (portrait), signed by Graves at limitation. Vol 2, [1938], limitation, half title, frontis, [1], [4], (v-viii), [2], [1], 2-233 pp, 1 pl (portrait), signed by Hart to limitation. Both volumes with green marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with the original covers bound at the rear of their respective volumes. An edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies of which 500 were for the UK. A Fine example, possibly bound by Aprey's in the 1980's 219*143 mm). (Higginson A49).
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom