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441. TRENCH MAP. 57D S.E. (MAILLY MAILLET - BEAUMONT HAMEL - THIEPVAL - POZIERES - ALBERT). Trenches corrected to 6. 2. 17. Scale:1/20,000.

26 x 35 ins. Laid on linen. A fine example. 

The Somme in February 1917 - German trenches shown in red in right corner of the map.

£120.00
442. TRENCH MAP. SOMME. BAZENTIN LE PETIT - LONGUEVAL - DELVILLE WOOD - GUILLEMONT. 57 C. SW 3. Trenches Corrected to 15/8/ 1916. 1:10,000.

28 x 37 ins. Finely backed with linen. A very fine example. 

Important map showing the German trenches around the crucial village of Longueval - the gate way to Delville and HighWood. Rare.

£185.00
443. TRENCH MAP. SOMME. MAUREPAS. LONGUEVAL. HARDECOURT. MAUREPAS.

1:20,000.

Trenches corrected to Jan. 19th, 1916.

32 x 21 ins. laid on linen. A little muddy and dusty. Interesting pencil map in the left margin and other Mss. on the map in pencil and ink. The British front line shown in blue and the opposite German trenches shown in red across the centre of the map.

£120.00
444. TREVES, SIR FREDERICK.(EDITOR). MADE IN THE TRENCHES. COMPOSED ENTIRELY FROM ARTICLES & SKETCHES CONTIBUTED BY SOLDIERS. Allen & Unwin, 1916.

4to. 240 pp. with orig. illus. (some coloured). Orig. pictorial boards showing a uniformed "Tommy" lighting a pipe. 

Contemporary anthology of "trench" humour issued to raise money for injured soldiers. Attractively produced.

£ 45.00
445. TREVOR, ELLESTON. BURY HIM AMONG KINGS. Piatkus Editions, 1970.

364 pp. Orig. cloth in D/W. 

Novel based on the war.

£ 25.00
446. TROTTER, JACQUELINE (EDITOR). VALOUR & VISION. POEMS OF THE WAR 1914 - 1918. Martin Hopkinson, 1923. New and enlarged edition.

184 pp. Orig. quarter cloth, boards. Paper labels to upper board and spine. 

Large paper edition. A special edition published in the New Aldine Library series of this excellent anthology in which seventeen poets have been added and 35 new poems since the first edition.

£ 65.00

447. TURNER, E.S. DEAR OLD BLIGHTY. Michael Joseph, 1980.

288 pp. with photo illus. Orig. cloth in D/W. 

Life on the Home Front.

£ 20.00
448. TWO MEN. A MEMOIR. . O.U.P., 1919.

302 pp. with 2 photogravure portraits. Orig. quarter buckrum, paper label to upper board. 

Scarce personal account of two Shrewsbury school masters - Evelyn Southwell and Malcolm White. Inseperable companions they joined the Rifle Brigade( the 1st and 9th battalions) and after training were sent to France. White was killed on the first day of the Somme leading his men in front of Mailly-Maillet. Southwell was shot by a sniper in Delville Wood in September 1916. The text consists of letters by the two to each other and family and friends.

£ 85.00
449. UNION OF DEMOCRATIC CONTROL PAMPHLET. LABOUR AND THE COSTS OF WAR. BY J.A. HOBSON. U.D.C., January 1916.

16 pp. Orig. printed wrappers. 

Pamphlet No. 16A. The effect of war on industry and wages, and the Workers plight after the war.

£ 12.00
450. VAN DER MEERSCH, MAXENCE. INVASION ‘ 14. Translated by Gerald Hopkins. Constable. 1937.

519 pp. Orig. cloth in the rare dust wrapper. 

First English edition of this novel of life in German occupied French territory.

£ 65.00

 


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