Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender [trilogy] by Waugh, Evelyn

William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of his Hawthornden Prize-winning tenth novel. 8vo. 280pp. Yellow cloth lettered in red at the spine. Spine ends just a little bruised, and the top edge lightly dust marked. A narrow strip of discolouration to the head of the upper board, and with some notable browning to the half-title, which is also a little tender. Several small tape residue marks to the pastedowns. A nice, crisp copy. No dust wrapper. A slip of paper bearing the author's signature, the name of a recipient and the date 1982 has been pasted to the front free endpaper. Uncommon. Wobbe A16..

Some discoloration to spine of book. Discoloration of pages due to age of book.DJ without clipped corners. Original price $2.50.DJ has rubs to edge and spine edge. Slight toning to spine.1st edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 286 pages; VG-/G; spine light blue with age-toned white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear to volume; significant wear to jacket; front flap detached; dust jacket spine slightly faded and age-toned; chips missing at crown and tail of jacket spine; small closed tear at lower edge of jacket back; two small chips missing from upper edge of jacket back; back flap joint starting; small closed tears to crown and tail of volume spine; jacket very fragile; upper edge of textblock dyed navy; pages 273-280 uncut; pages clean; CX consignment; Shelved in Room G. 1346227. Special Collections.

Condition: VG+. First edition, second issue with tipped in title page (as expected). 327 pp. followed by two leaves of ads. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's stamp to FFEP and an owner's bookplate affixed to rear of first color plate. Solid and square book. Front pastedown has some cracking at hinge.

Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1910. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.6 inches). Four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Fine leather binding of recent full red morocco. The spine with five raised bands, compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A little very light foxing to a few pages but overall a near fine copy. -- Contains the Poem "If".

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1918. First Edition, First Issue . Green Cloth. Very Good/Good Dustjacket. 8" Tall. 475 Pages. Green Cloth Stamped In Yellow And Brown, Illustrated Endpapers. There Is No Definitive Published Bibliography Of The Various Issues Of The Huge Printings Of Books By The Immensely Popular Gene Straton-Porter, But This Is Indeed The Very Scarce First Issue: First Binding State With Publisher's Name With Ampersand In Shape Of Open "E", Without Diagonal Cross Line; Lettering On Cover And Backstrip Both Orange (Not Mixed With One Panel In Yellow).; First Issue With "Were" On Line 20, Page 304 ( Almost All Copies Were Printed With "Were" Corrected To "Was" In Heavier Type); And All Other Points Sometimes Present Even After "Were" Corrected: Perfect Page Number On Page 11; Pages 1 1/8" Thick When Compressed. First Editions Lacking Several Or All Points Are Common; Issues With All First Issue Points… Read More

New York : Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Dust Jacket. 244 Pp. Red Cloth Spine Over Patterned Boards. Stated First Printing. Book Is Near Fine, Slight Rubbing At Corners And At Ends Of Spine. Dj Not Price Clipped ($3.50), Minute Losses At Upper Corners, Spine And Top Edges A Little Browned. Signed By The Author In Green Ink In Both English And Chinese, And Additionally Inscribed Above In Blue Ink By Lee To His San Francisco Friend The Actress Marjorie Lord ( Mrs. Randolph Hale), "To Marjorie Lord With [Chinese Character]".

NY: ***** Privately Printed *****. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1930. Buckram cloth. Tom Maloney of U. S. Camera and other photography fame was also a poet. His first commercial publication was published by Morrow in 1935. This book was copyright, 1930, Mountain Lakes, N.J. On the front fly leaf it is inscribed "For Bill and Ruth and food and fun not forgetting drink. Tom" . Sm 8vo., 60 pp. .

New York (1953): Simon and Schuster, 1993. First Edition Thus . Boards. Fine Book/Near Fine Dustjacket. With A New Eleven Pp Preface By Bradbury For This Edition, And Including The 1966 Ten Page Introduction By Bradbury, And Minor Editorial Revisions. Fine In Fine Dj, As New. Signed By Bradbury On Front Endpaper, And With His Signed Note To Forrest Ackerman Transmitting The Book. Bradbury And Ackerman Were Good Friends Since The Time In The Late 1930'S When Bradbury Rented A Typewriter At Ucla To Do His Writing, And Ackerman Was Of Critical Assistance To Him; Ackerman Was Later His Agent For Some Time.

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova… Read More