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371. |
RECRUITING POSTER. THE
RECRUITING SARGEANT. P.R.C. 129. September 1915.
Monochrome photographic image. 40 x 25 ins.
One of the great classic images of the poster campaign
of the First War. Here the beefy typical Sergeant-Major
dressed in full uniform beckons to the by-now humbled
recruit. Rare.
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£ 250.00 |
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372. |
RECRUITING POSTER TO THE
SHIRKER: A LAST APPEAL ! Now of your free choice, whilst
the chance is yours
To share their glory who have gladly died
Shielding the honour of our Island shores
And that fair heritage of starry pried -
Now ere anothe evenings shadow falls
Come for the trumpet calls.... From "Punch"
November 11, 1914. (1914).
30 x 20 ins.
An Owen Seaman poem printed in red and black on a white
background. Rare |
£145.00 |
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373. |
RECRUITING POSTER. WHAT IN
THE END WILL SETTLE THIS WAR? TRAINED MEN. IT IS YOUR DUTY
TO BECOME ONE. ENLIST NOW. P.R.C. Nos. 34
30 x 20 ins.
Fine poster showing men being trained and then marching
to war.
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£200.00 |
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374. |
RECRUITING POSTER. WHY
NOT JOIN THE ARMY. Parlimentary Recruiting Committee,
(1915).
Strip Poster. 6 x 31 ins.
Scarce bus poster with the strong words on a background
of the Allies Flags. |
£ 85.00 |
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BOOKS
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375. |
REYNOLDS, QUENTIN. THEY
FOUGHT FOR THE SKY. THE STORY OF THE FIRST WAR IN THE AIR.
Cassell. 1958
298 pp. with photo illus. Orig. cloth in the scarce
D/W. (Wrapper torn on upper and lower spine with small
loss).
Good history of the air-war.
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£ 35.00 |
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376. |
RIFLE BRIGADE CHRONICLE
FOR 1919. John Bale & Sons, 1920.
305 pp. Orig. green decorated cloth, gilt. Old damp
stain effecting lower edges of boards and lower margin of
pages.
The final Chronicle of the Rifle Brigade for the war
and covers the record of the four Battalions during 1918. |
£ 45.00 |
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377. |
ROBERTS, JOHN STUART.
SIEGFRIED SASSOON. (1886 - 1967). Richard Cohen Books, 1999.
354 pp. with photo illus. Orig. cloth in D/W
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£ 20.00 |
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378. |
ROGERSON, SIDNEY. TWELVE
DAYS. WITH A FOREWORD BY B.H. LIDDELL HART. Arthur Barker,
(1933).
172 pp. with 8 drawings (one coloured) by Stanley
Cursiter. Orig. cloth, gilt.
First Edition.
Highly thought of personal account of service with the
2nd West Yorkshire Regiment during the latter part of the
Battle of the Somme. The book was reissued in 1988 but
without the superb drawings by Stanley Cursiter. |
£ 85.00 |
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379. |
ROSENBERG, ISAAC. POEMS.
SELECTED AND EDITED BY GORDON BOTTOMLEY. WITH AN
INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR BY LAURENCE BINYON. William Heinemann,
1922.
186 pp. with frontis portrait. Orig. black cloth, with
paper label to spine, within the very rare printed D/W.
(Wrapper v. sl. discoloured around the edges and sl worn
on the edges of the spine and with small loss at the top
of the spine.). A very good copy.
Extremely rare First Edition of Rosenberg’s poems
issued in an edition of only 500 copies.Rosenberg enlisted
in the Suffolk Regiment in the early part of 1915. He
transfered to the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
and was killed in action on the Somme in April 1918. Edith
Sitwell’s review of this book in "New Age" in
1922 stated that "Rosenberg was one of the two great
poets killed in the war, the other being Wilfred
Owen". Reilly 278. |
£450.00 |
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380. |
ROSHER, HAROLD. IN THE
ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE. BEING THE WAR LETTERS OF THE LATE
HAROLD ROSHER TO HIS FAMILY.
With an Introduction by Arnold Bennett. Chatto &
Windus, 1917. Reprinted.
148 pp. with 14 photo illus. Carefully recased in blue
cloth, gilt with the original pictorial wrapper on the
upper board and the original printed wrapper on the rear
board.
Rosher joined the R.N.A.S. in August 1914 - his letters
home provide a fascinating insight into the early years of
naval flight. He was killed in an air accident in February
1916. The dramatic wrapper illustration is of a fighter
diving through gunfire with a large factory on the ground
below. |
£ 85.00 |
