John Marrin - The Catalogue

331.	OFFICIAL HISTORY. NAVAL OPERATIONS. BY SIR J. CORBETT AND HENRY NEWBOLT. Longmans. 1920 - 1931 9 vols. with maps and plans throughout - some coloured. Orig. cloth, gilt. Some volumes sl. worn but a very good working set at a reduced price. A good complete set of the Naval Operations comprising five volumes of text and four boxes of maps. A minute examination of the Naval war from mobilisation and the Battle of the Falklands, to the Dardanelles and Jutland. The submarine war is covered in depth as are the many so-called minor theatres or actions. An essential reference tool.	Ł350.00
332.	OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA. THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY. 1914 - 1918. BY ARTHUR W. JOSE. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1935. 649 pp. with maps and photo illus. Orig. cloth, gilt.	Ł 90.00
333.	COMPLETE SET OF MESOPOTAMIA 333. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914 - 1918. BY BRIG. GEN. F.J. MOBERLY. H.M.S.O. 1923 - 1927. 4 vols. each with folding maps and some photo illus. Orig. red cloth, gilt. Old library numbers to spines but a fine set. A very good set of the detailed and definite official account of the campaign - the starting point of all research.	Ł350.00
334.	OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR. MILITARY OPERATIONS. FRANCE AND BELGIUM 1916. VOL.I. MAPS. Macmillan, ( 1932). 13 folding maps. Orig. cloth covered box, gilt. A fine copy.	Ł120.00
335.	RARE PRINCIPAL EVENTS 335. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR. PRINCIPAL EVENTS 1914 - 1918. COMPILED BY THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE. H.M.S.O., 1922. Folio.394 pp. + 27 pp folding tables. Original dark blue flecked cloth, gilt. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Rare part of the Official History - mainly compiled by Major H.T. Skinner and Capt. H. Fitz.M. Stacke. The record of events is arranged in three parts - I a general chronological list, in which all events of political, military or naval importance are entered. II consists in the main of the same entries as section I, divided into four sections "Political","Military", "Naval", and "Air" III contains the same entries as sections I & II but arranged alphabectically and is designed to enable the date of any known event to be ascertained at once.	Ł 220.00
336.	ORIGINAL LETTERS. A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL LETTERS RELATING TO THE WAR SERVICE OF LIEUT. CHARLES GORDON MORTIMER, R.F.A.,A.A.C. SON OF MR. CHARLES WHITE MORTIMER, BRITISH CONSUL AT LOS ANGELES. An archive of approxamately 60 original letters,mostly in the original envelopes and with stamps of the Censor, both long hand and typewritten, telegrams, newspaper cuttings and 2 fine photo head and shoulders portraits, all relating to Lieut. Mortimer’s war service - letters from him, his mother and father, brother and other relatives. Circa 1915 - 19. Approx. 60 letters, telegrams, notes, newspaper cuttings, 2 photo portraits a postcard and 3 small photographs, a later diary and other misc. material. Charles Gordon Mortimer was the eldest son of Charles White Mortimer, a lawyer, who held the post of British Consul to Los Angeles. Charles was educated at Trintity College School, Ontario and was starting to practise law in Vancouver when war broke out in Europe and he immediately shipped to England and was commissioned in the R.F.A., being posted to the anti-aircraft section. He served in the Gallipoli campaign "I was two weeks on the trip to Mudros and finally reached Suvla on Dec. 1st. I found the section the following morning and found Captain Wyn Thomas, the O.C., just about on his last legs from exposure. He had put in about seven weeks alone and had ruthlessly punished himself by being constantly on the look out from dawn till dusk in all weathers". After the evacuation he went to Egypt and finally Salonika. He was reported dangerously ill in September 1916, suffering from typhoid and the letters step up their urgency. He made a recovery and was moved by the Hospital Ship "Guilford Castle" to Malta where he suffered a relapse an died in Cottonera Military Hospital on 21st September 1916, aged 26 years. The detailed correspondance is between his father and mother, and his younger brother Arthur, who was serving in the Canadian Artillery on the Western Front, and also Miss Julie Mortimer of Co. Kildare in Ireland. Many of the poignant letters are directed to Lieut. Mortimer in military hospital in Salonika and finally from the doctors and nursing staff who treated him in hospital, and from the Chaplain who took the funeral service enclosing 3 tiny photographs of the prossion of the flag draped coffin of of the graveyeard on Anzac Memorial Day where he was buried. In the words of the Chaplians letter "an officer is buried in a grave by himself, men in the rank and file three in a grave".	Ł750.00
337.	ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE UNVEILING AND DEDICATION OF THE MEMORIAL TO THE 37TH BRITISH AT DIVISION AT MONCHY -LE - PREUX BETWEEN ARRAS AND CAMBRAI. Orig. photograph on board 7 x 10 ins. An audience of British and French Generals salute the Memorial of three soldiers on a stone plinth. The village nearby, on very high ground, was captured by the 37th Division on April 11th, 1917 during a blizzard and was held until the end of the war.	Ł 25.00
338.	OUGHTON, FREDERICK. THE ACES. Neville Spearman, 1961. 390 pp. with photo illus. Orig. cloth , top of spine repaired, in the dramatic D/W. (Wrapper sl. nicked around edges with repair at top of spine). Well compiled narrative of the air war.	Ł 35.00
339.	OWEN, EDWARD. 1914. GLORY DEPARTING. Buchan & Enright, 1986. 192 pp. with photo illus. Orig. cloth in D/W. Ł20 Well written book on the first year of the war.	Ł 20.00
340.	PACK, CHARLES LATHROP. THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1919. 179 pp. 64 pp. appendicies with colour frontis and other photo illus. The standard work on war gardening in the U.S. including additional chapters on canning, storing etc. ``The Kaiser is canned’’.	Ł 45.00