John Marrin - The Catalogue

381.	ROYAL ENGINEERS. HISTORY OF THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS. VOL VII CAMPAIGNS IN MESOPOTAMIA AND EAST AFRICA, AND THE INTER-WAR PERIOD, 1918 - 38. Chatham Institution of Royal Engineers, 1952. 351 pp. with folding maps and portrait sketches. Orig. cloth, gilt in D/W. Fine copy of this important history of the R.E.’s part in the Mesopotamian and East African campaigns.	Ł 50.00
382.	ROYAL ENGINEERS. THE WORK OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS IN THE EUROPEAN WAR, 1914 - 1918. MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS. THE ORGANISATION AND EXPANSION OF THE CORPS;ORGANISATION OF ENGINEER INTELLIGENCE;CAMOUFLAGE SERVICE;CONCRETE DEFENCE WORKS;FORWARD COMMUNICATIONS;MACHINERY, WORKSHOPS AND ELECTRICITY;ANTI-AIRCRAFT SEARCHLIGHTS;INUNDATIONS;SCHOOLS. Chatham, Mackay, 1926. 372 pp. with numerous folding plates, photo illus. and diagrams throughout. Orig. blue cloth, gilt. The final part of the nine volume series devoted to the part played by the RE's in the war. Includes chapters on defence works, trenches, supply of electricity to tunnels, forward tramlines, the building of roads behind the front line on the Ypres Salient and the construction of an Observation Tree.	Ł100.00
383.	ROYAL TANK CORPS. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ROYAL TANK CORPS. Gale & Polden, 1931. Second edition. 134 pp. with photo illus. Orig. decorated wrappers. Complete history of the Corps during the Great War.	Ł 35.00
384.	RUSSELL, HENRY. SLAVES OF THE WAR LORDS. Hutchinson, (1928). 287 pp. Orig. cloth, repaired and rather worn. A reading copy. Scarce memoir of service on the Western Front from 1916 onwards with the "Worcesters". Russell, an Irishman, recalls service on the Somme and on the Ypres Salient in a highly personal manner.	Ł 45.00
385.	RUTTER, OWEN (EDITOR). THE HISTORY OF THE SEVENTH (SERVICE) BATTALION THE ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT. 1914 - 1919. The Times Publishing Co., 1934. 347 pp. wth folding map, 22 maps in the text and 8 photo illus. Orig. cloth, gilt. Head of spine sl. frayed otherwise a very good copy. Includes a diary of movements and a summary of casualties.	Ł 90.00
386.	RARE PERSONAL ACCOUNT 386. SANDERS, LESLIE YORATH. A SOLDIER OF ENGLAND. MEMORIALS OF LESLIE YORATH SANDERS. BORN JULY 5TH, 1893. KILLED IN ACTION MARCH 10TH, 1917. Dumfries, J. Maxwell & Son, 1920. 4to.145 pp. with photo illus. Orig. decorated cloth, gilt. Scarce personal memorial volume - Sanders was educated at St. Olave’s Grammar School, Southward, and Trinity College,Cambridge and enlisted, together with his brother, in the New Army in February 1915. He was wounded on Hill 60 in April of the same year and suffered slight shell shock. In July he was gazetted with his brother to the Queen Victoria’s Rifles and was transfered to the R.G.A. at Woolwich as a signal training officer. He was sent back to the front in November 1916 to a Field Survey Company attached to the Royal Engineers, and was killed by shell fire on 10th March, 1917. The memoir consists of earlier articles and poetry, and then letters written whilst serving at the front, and then appreciations of his short twenty years of life.	Ł150.00
387.	"SAPPER". THE LIEUTENANT AND OTHERS. Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. 175 pp. Orig. cloth. Stories set on the Ypres Salient.	Ł 15.00
388.	SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. MEMOIRS OF A FOX - HUNTING MAN. Faber & Faber, 1954. 313 pp. with illus. by William Nicholson. Orig. cloth in scarce pictorial dust wrapper (wrapper sl. nicked around the edges with very small loss at head of spine). Reprint of the 1928 illustrated edition - now quite scarce in itself.	Ł 45.00
389.	SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. Folio Society. 1971. 290 pp. with illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Orig. pictorial cloth in card box.	Ł 25.00
390.	SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER. Faber & Faber, 1930. 334 pp. Orig. cloth, gilt in the scarce yellow and blue printed dust wrapper (corner clipped on inside of front wrapper - but a fine example). First edition of the second part of the trilogy. Covering the period from the Spring of 1916 through to the summer of 1917 and includes the battles of the Somme and Arras. Keynes A33.	Ł150.00