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Catalogue No. 178 “Gazala”
January 2022
A Happy New Year to all! My first catalogue of the year consists entirely of new stock and contains an outstanding range of material in the customary areas. I hope you will find something of interest to you within it
We are a leading dealers in rare and second hand books on British military history from around 1800 to 1945. The Great War, 1914-1918, has always been our speciality and we hold extensive stocks of regimental and divisional histories, official histories, standard works, memoirs, Rolls of Honour, Army Lists and so forth. For more information see www.turnerdonovan.com. |
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Order of Battle of the German Army.
 Not to be Published. This Document Must Not Fall into Enemy Hands. Detailed order of battle (plus various explanatory notes) inc. sections on Motos Cycle Batalions, Waffen SS, Infantry Motorised & Light Divisions, Cavalry, Artillery &c. Nice clean example & rare survival. 1000 copies printed of this edition, April 1943. See illustration on our website. 1942 £145
History of the 19th King George's Own Lancers from 1858-1921, formerly 18th K.G.O. Lancers & 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse), amalgamated in 1921.
 Indian Mutiny, 2nd Afghan War, Tirah & WW1 Western Front & Palestine campaigns. A detailed & handsome history with numerous rolls & appendices (inc. awards, casualties, wounded or killed &c., all ranks). "A superb publication..." - Perkins. Orig. dec. blue cloth, gilt, very nice copy, near fine throughout. See illustration on our website. 1937 £245
History of the 5th Bn. (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment formerly 40th Pathans ("The Forty Thieves").
 A fine & substantial volume covering the period 1780-1936 (inc. Tibet & NWF expeditions, 3rd Afghan War &c.) but especially detailed on the Great War: France & East Africa. Rolls of officers (inc. KiA, wounded) &c. "...longer & contains more basic research material than is usually found in IA histories of that period" - Perkins 478. Orig. green cloth, gilt, very nice copy with armorial bookplate of Lowther-Pinkerton & contemp. ownership inscrip. of C. Leslie Smith (Lt.-Col., mentioned many times in the text: commanded the regiment on NWF 1932 &c.). This copy provided with photocopies of extensive Addenda & Corrigenda notes previously unseen by me & evidently not known to Perkins.) See illustrations on our website. 1936 £350
Desert Patrol.
 Rare novel of military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula in 1915-16. In his Foreword Col. Jarvis states: "So far as I am aware, despite the great output of war literature, no novel has as yet been published giving as its setting the life led by certain of the Empire's troops during the holding of the Suez Canal in 1915 & the advance eastwards to Palestine across the Sinai Desert in 1916. There is a general impression that the Army in Egypt had a 'good war' as compared with their comrades in France, & this book will do something towards dispelling this misconception, for the author portrays with a ready pen the discomforts & hardships suffered by the men who for two years of the war marched & fought through the shifting sands of Sinai. His description of the battle of Romani is a particularly strong piece of writing... as a subaltern in the 42nd Division, he helped to hold the canal... This book should certainly be read by the survivors of those divisions who served in Sinai... by no means least the Australian Light Horsemen who were in the van of the advance." Just five copies on Library Hub (formerly Copac) & none online. See illustrations on our website. 1935 £225
A Memoir by G.H. Addy of His Son, Kenneth James Balguy Addy, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st King's Royal Rifle Corps. Killed in Action at the Quarries, near Vermelles, October 3rd, 1915.
 Kenneth Addy was Ed. at Whitgift but left aged sixteen to join his father in business, also joining the Artist's Rifles, with which he was mobilised in 1914. He went to France in October 1914, was in due course commissioned and joined 1st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps in March 1915. He was twenty-three years old when he fell during the Battle of Loos and is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery. The volume consists almost entirely of letters from the front, initially full of enthusiasm, but by the time of his last letter, written shortly before his death, he had seen enough to appeal:... See illustrations on our website. 1916 £245
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De Bello Germanico: A Fragment of Trench History written in 1918 by the author of Undertones of War.
 Written ten years before 'Undertones of War' containing descriptions of his early war experiences at Festubert & Cuinchy in 1915, elegantly written but less flowery, and to some minds more appealing, than his classic memoirs (which depict the same events but are contrastingly different). Published here for the first time by Blunden's brother who explains: "The following manuscript having come into my possession, I decided to make it the opening number in my present Publishing experiment... we find 'Undertones' & 'De Bello Gemanico' in complete understanding with each other. While 'Undertones' has the mellowness of time & experience, this older story gives more attention to the very small detail which a young soldier was sure to notice..." Orig. paper covd. boards with labels to front & spine. Little chipped o/w VG & rare, one of just 250 copies printed (as well as 25 signed copies on special paper). This copy one of the unsigned edition, but curiously there is a loose leaf inserted bearing an inscription by Blunden: "David not producing his account of military concerns in his time is desired to receive this from his friend E.B. Times L.S. 17 iii 53." An unknown hand has added a pencil note: "Presentation to David Tylden-Wright TLS." See illustrations on our website. 1930 £600
The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919: A Chronicle of Service in France & Belgium with the 2nd Bn. HM 23rd Foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, founded on personal records & reflections, assembled, edited & partly written by One of their Medical Officers.
 1st Ed. of probably the finest depiction of an infantry bn's. experiences of war on the Western Front: a composite account formed from numerous contributions collected by Dunn, the attached MO whose regimental pride is recorded by several other notable members of the 2/RWF including Graves (whom significantly Dunn did not select to contribute), Siegfried Sassoon & Frank Richards. Very seldom seen in the original edition which is understood to have been a limited printing, perhaps 500 copies or fewer. Orig. red cloth, gilt, little rubbed o/w VG indeed & rare original edition. See illustration on our website. 1938 £600
A Brass Hat in No Man's Land.
 9th Royal Irish (36th Ulster Div.) 1915-17 inc. Somme Battles. Cmd. 119th Inf. Bde. 1917-18. Good memoir by hard-driving CO who resorted to personally patrolling no-man's-land to obtain information. Orig. red cloth, gilt, near fine copy of 1st Ed. in like dw. See illustration on our website. 1930 £75
Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine-Gun Squadron.
 Formed from the MG sections of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry & South Notts. Hussars for the 7th Mounted Bde. in July 1917 & later served with the 14th Cav. Bde., 5th Cav. Div. Fascinating account. Attractive orig. pictorial cloth, VG & rare. See illustration on our website. £165
The Pals at Suvla Bay: Being the Record of 'D' Company of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
 Detailed account of the raising & training of the Pals company of 7th Dublins & the August 1915 landings at Suvla to the end of the campaign, with 10th (Irish) Div. Nominal rolls & service details of every member of the coy., with photos. of nearly all of them. Orig. wheat cloth, gilt, near fine & very scarce, especially in dw (this chipped & neatly repaired internally). See illustrations on our website. 1916 £220
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