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361. PRYOR, ALAN. & JENIFER WOODS. GREAT UNCLE FRED'S WAR. AN ILLUSTRATED DIARY. 1917 - 1920. Pryor Publications, 1985.

4to. 97 pp. with maps and photo illus. Pictorial boards. 

Personal diary of the Egypt and Palestine campaign.

£ 15.00
362. PUNCH. CARTOONS OF THE GREAT WAR. New York, George Doran, 1915.

4to. 215 pp. with cartoon illus. on each page. Orig. coloured pictorial boards within the rare coloured pictorial wrappers. (Wrapper repaired and sl. stained own one side but a good example). 

Scarce US published selection of Punch’s war cartoons.

£ 65.00
363. PUNCH. MR PUNCH IN WAR TIME. Educational Book Co.,(1920).

Sm. 4to. 240 pp. with colour frontis and cartoon illus. on every page. Orig. decorated cloth, gilt. 

Part of the "New Punch Library". A complete survey of four years of war humour in Punch.

£ 25.00
364. PUNCH. MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR. Cassell. 1919

303 pp. with cartoon illus. Orig. pictorial cloth, gilt . 

Contemporary humour of the war.

£ 25.00
365. PUTKOWSKI, JULIAN. & JULIAN SYKES. SHOT AT DAWN. EXECUTIONS IN WORLD WAR ONE BY AUTHORITY OF THE BRITISH ARMY ACT. Leo Cooper, 1998. New & Revised Edition.

302 pp. with illus. Orig. cloth in D/W. 

Important definitive study.

£ 20.00
366. QUIGLEY, HUGH PASSCHENDAELE AND THE SOMME. A DIARY OF 1917. Methuen, 1928.

191 pp. Orig. cloth, gilt. 

A good copy of this scarce account. The author served with the 12th Royal Scots (9th Division) and writes an unretouched account of his experiences on the Somme and at Passchendaele. It is not only a diary of events, but a personal expression of his feelings.

£ 85.00
  RECRUITING POSTERS  
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367. RECRUITING POSTER. COME AND DO YOUR BIT. JOIN NOW. P.R.C. No. 93. June, 1915.

40 x 52 ins. A very good example. £350

Powerful large poster with a fully uniformed smiling soldier, rifle and bayonet in hand beckoning towards the yellow lettering on a black background. A classic recruiting poster of the 1915 campaign in remarkably fine condition.

£ 350.00
368. RECRUITING POSTER. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM WITH THE STRENGTH OF FREE MEN. P.R.C. Nos. 48.

91/2 x 291/2 ins. 

Narrow strip poster with white letters on a green background

£ 85.00
369. RECRUITING POSTER. JOIN THE BRAVE THRONG THAT GOES MARCHING ALONG. P.R.C. No. 124. 1915

Two sheets each 19 x 48 ins. Very good examples. 

Smiling head and shoulder portraits of uniformed soldiers by the artist Gerald Wood. Probably designed to fit alongside a bus or on trams - scarce.

£350.00
370. RECRUITING POSTER. RALLY ROUND THE FLAG. Newcastle, (1915)

Strip poster 5 x 32 ins. 

Scarce strip poster for use on buses and trams.

£ 75.00

 


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