A NOVEL (AS YET UNTITLED) by Cobb, Humphrey - 1935

By the Author, [1919]. Quarto. German text, signed by the author Karl Muller. Typescript diary. Title page designed by author in a silver and gold geometric design and his signed copyright page also designed in silver and gold. 14 typed leaves(recto only), 1-198 typed leaves (rectos only) I-XXIV leaves (rectos only). The life of the battery Thiele from the first to the last day live 16 November 1916 to 30 December 1918. "Batterie Thiele" including Feld Artillerie-Regiment No. 39, Field artillerie-Regiment No. 103, Infanterie Geschutz-Batterie No. 3. Each section marked by different color tissue noting date, title and chapter. The last portion of the book lists the " Das Batterielied" 24 songs and verses. While Hans Rosenthal's Kurmarkisches Feldartillerie-Regiment nr. 39 gives a detail of the Regimental history with sketches, it does not provide what it was like for the average soldier. In this remarkable memoir the author has lovingly typed the names of all 160 members of the battery as well as… Read More

Berlin: Vaterlaendischer Verlag C. A. Weller, 1922. Decorative Cloth. Good Copy First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Gilt stamped cloth. Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, charicatures, full color plates. 410 pages.

Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1927. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1927. 8vo., 383pp., illustrated with frontis photo of Richthofen and plates of drawings by Clayton Knight. Original black cloth with red titles and designs, top edge tinted red, in original dust jacket. Name on fly leaf, else near fine, in near fine bright dust jacket with slight loss/fray at the extremities. . Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed U.S. first edition set of the 1916-1918 volumes of The World Crisis, Churchill's acclaimed history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end all wars”. The events of these 1916-1918 volumes include Churchill's time at the Front following his political exile and his subsequent return to the Cabinet. The U.S. is the true first edition, as U.S. Volume I publication preceded the British. Jacketed first editions are quite scarce - jacketed U.S. editions even more so. Charles Scribner's Sons originally issued the 1916-1918 volumes as a two-volume set. This set is very good plus in very good dust jackets. The bindings are extremely clean, marked only by slight dulling to the bottom edges of the spines. The contents are clean and tight with… Read More

London: National War Aims Committee, 1918. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This exceptionally rare speech pamphlet contains the speech of 25 April 1918 Churchill delivered in the House of Commons as Minister of Munitions during the First World War. This is the only copy we know of in private ownership. Churchill began the First World War as the powerful First Lord of the Admiralty, but was scapegoated for the Dardanelles disaster and forced out in May 1915. By November 1915, Churchill was serving at the Front, spending part of his political exile as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches. His May 1916 return to London saw "no upsurge in his political fortunes" and left him criticizing the war effort from an unaccustomed "position of political weakness and personal isolation" much as he would two decades later on the eve of the Second World War. (Gilbert, Vol. III) By May 1917 there was growing parliamentary opposition to the Government. "Lloyd George knew that… Read More

By the Author, [1919]. Quarto. German text, signed by the author Karl Muller. Typescript diary. Title page designed by author in a silver and gold geometric design and his signed copyright page also designed in silver and gold. 14 typed leaves(recto only), 1-198 typed leaves (rectos only) I-XXIV leaves (rectos only). The life of the battery Thiele from the first to the last day live 16 November 1916 to 30 December 1918. "Batterie Thiele" including Feld Artillerie-Regiment No. 39, Field artillerie-Regiment No. 103, Infanterie Geschutz-Batterie No. 3. Each section marked by different color tissue noting date, title and chapter. The last portion of the book lists the " Das Batterielied" 24 songs and verses. While Hans Rosenthal's Kurmarkisches Feldartillerie-Regiment nr. 39 gives a detail of the Regimental history with sketches, it does not provide what it was like for the average soldier. In this remarkable memoir the author has lovingly typed the names of all 160 members of the battery as well as… Read More

Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1927. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1927. 8vo., 383pp., illustrated with frontis photo of Richthofen and plates of drawings by Clayton Knight. Original black cloth with red titles and designs, top edge tinted red, in original dust jacket. Name on fly leaf, else near fine, in near fine bright dust jacket with slight loss/fray at the extremities. . Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed U.S. first edition set of the 1916-1918 volumes of The World Crisis, Churchill's acclaimed history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end all wars”. The events of these 1916-1918 volumes include Churchill's time at the Front following his political exile and his subsequent return to the Cabinet. The U.S. is the true first edition, as U.S. Volume I publication preceded the British. Jacketed first editions are quite scarce - jacketed U.S. editions even more so. Charles Scribner's Sons originally issued the 1916-1918 volumes as a two-volume set. This set is very good plus in very good dust jackets. The bindings are extremely clean, marked only by slight dulling to the bottom edges of the spines. The contents are clean and tight with… Read More

London: National War Aims Committee, 1918. First edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This exceptionally rare speech pamphlet contains the speech of 25 April 1918 Churchill delivered in the House of Commons as Minister of Munitions during the First World War. This is the only copy we know of in private ownership. Churchill began the First World War as the powerful First Lord of the Admiralty, but was scapegoated for the Dardanelles disaster and forced out in May 1915. By November 1915, Churchill was serving at the Front, spending part of his political exile as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches. His May 1916 return to London saw "no upsurge in his political fortunes" and left him criticizing the war effort from an unaccustomed "position of political weakness and personal isolation" much as he would two decades later on the eve of the Second World War. (Gilbert, Vol. III) By May 1917 there was growing parliamentary opposition to the Government. "Lloyd George knew that… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a superior, jacketed U.S. first edition set of the 1916-1918 volumes of The World Crisis, Churchill's acclaimed history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end all wars”. The events of these 1916-1918 volumes include Churchill's time at the Front following his political exile and his subsequent return to the Cabinet. The U.S. is the true first edition, as U.S. Volume I publication preceded the British. Jacketed first editions are quite scarce - jacketed U.S. editions even more so. Charles Scribner's Sons originally issued the 1916-1918 volumes as a two-volume set. This set is in excellent condition, near fine in near fine dust jackets. The maroon, ribbed cloth bindings are simply immaculate as only jacketed copies can be - vividly bright,… Read More