Search Results: Titles starting with S from Island Books

[Privately Printed],, [1987]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. First published in 1947; this edition with amendments and some new photographs.

Collins,, [1985]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with title-vignette and numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (the majority full-page) throughout, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE.

Bell,, 1971. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at edges. Published in the series 'Writers and their Work'.

Leo Cooper,, [1996]. 8vo., First Edition, with 44 plates on 16 and 2 pages of maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first detailed account of this little-known SAS operation carried out during and after D-Day. Only now, with the release of hitherto classified documents and thanks to a remarkable amount of painstaking research and detective work by the author, can anything like the full story be told. Very scarce, especially in this condition

Leo Cooper,, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY WITH THE AUTHOR'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE, AND ADDITIONAL LENGTHY SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY ROY FARRAN ON TITLE. PRESENTED TO GERALD GREEN, THIS COPY IS ALMOST CERTAINLY UNIQUE. With a relevant cutting mounted on front paste-down. Challenor recounts his service with the SAS in Italy during WWII, during which he was decorated for bravery, followed by his chequered career in London's Metropolitan Police which culminated his being declared insane after the controversial 'Brick' case. Both inscriptions make clear the affection in which Farran holds Challenor; a fascinating if ultimately depressing story. MATERIAL SIGNED BY ROY FARRAN IS EXTREMELY SCARCE.

Arms & Armour,, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Headline,, [1997]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Reliant Sabre and Scimitar Owners Club, [Towcester],, [1980-1982]. 6 numbers, 8vo., with photographs, illustrations and advertisements throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean run. Published by the Reliant Sabre and Scimitar Owners Club. SCARCE.

Folio Society,, [2008]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver and red, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Kimber,, [1985]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, page-edges lightly browning as usual; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The first dedicated account of Alan Warren and the 'Orient Mission'. Not recorded by Enser.

Continuum,, [2011]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley],, [2021]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs throughout; cloth, glt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Compiled by SOE immediately after the war, this official history is based entirely on official documents and personal recollections. Read and authorised by Gubbins, this is its first public publication.

HMSO,, 1966 [1968]. Roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with 43 plates on 16, 2 folding charts, and 4 folding maps in pocket at end; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper. Published in the UK Government series 'History of the Second World War'. Revised issue of Foot's classic study, first published in 1966. Enser, p.410 (recording the first edition).

St. Ermin's Press,, [2001]. 8vo., First Edition, with 31 plates on 8 and 4 maps (one double-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal booplate on front free endpaper. The first full account of the disaster in Holland, mentioned briefly by Mackenzie but here retold in detail by SOE's 'official' historian. The story of operations in Belgium, initially very nearly as calamitous as their Dutch counterparts, resulted finally in the successful capture of Antwerp.

Sutton, [Stroud,, 2005]. 8vo., First Edition, with 22 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first dedicated account of SOE's audacious scheme to bring about administrative collapse in Germany during the closing months of WWII.

Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings,, [?1955-1970]. 10 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and plans throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, one or two stitches a trifle rusted else a near fine run. The run comprises: No. 1. Wilson: Watermills. A Introduction [?1955]; No. 2. Wailes: Tide Mills Part One [?1957]; No. 3. Wailes: Tide Mills Part Two [?1957]; No. 4. Gardner: Tide Mills Part Three [1957]; No. 5. Pelham: Fuelling Mills [?1958]; No. 6: Reid: Water-mIlls and the Landscape [?1958]; No. 7. Wilson: Watermills with Horizontal Wheels [1960]; No. 8. Luckhurst: Monastic Watermills [?1959]; Shorter: Water Paper Mills In England (1966); No. 10. Rollins: The Needle Mills (1970). RUNS OF THIS NATURE ARE VERY SCARCE INDEED.

Arms & Armour,, [1981]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reitlinger's standard account was first published in English in 1956. Enser, p.189 (recording the first English edition).

[Fan Publications, Cheltenham,, 1998]. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout and illustrated endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed and well-illustrated account of P&O's most famous passenger ship.

[Privately Printed],, [1972]. 8vo., with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly creased at edges else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1960.

[Army & Navy Publishing, Baton Rouge LA],, 1962. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout and coloured endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in silver, case a litle shaken else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.