L’Huile Sèche Iconique Cette huile sèche hydrate le visage et le corps et nourrit les cheveux même les plus secs. Sa texture cuivrée ultra-sensorielle adoucit. Vos protections pour : Téléphones portables, Antennes relais, Ordinateurs, Téléviseurs, Wi-Fi, DECT, Bluetooth, Appareils électriques. CMO, une solution aux. MARCILLAC Jacqueline, n. I’m running low on fresh images, b. I love. this scarce Helen Mc. Kie jacket & c. It’s too darned hot! Not based on any real experience of front. UK that Tommy was carrying on with life much as he did at home. It wasn’t until 1. He had some knowledge of the military having served. French 8th Artillery at the end of the previous century. This. is a slightly unusual copy being a UK 1st but in a jacket priced in dollars. Plus. the story of a Jewish American forced into service with the Turks, a general history. War at Sea & an account by an American Captain in the Motor Machine Gun Corps. Allenby in the Middle East. June. Not the most exciting batch today - maybe all the dealers are on holiday! So we just. have Tomlinson’s essay, . It’s unusual to find the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy. The Secret Garden here, but Francis Hodgson Burnett’s novel . I can’t say it’s one I’m likely to read let alone buy. June. Firstly, Charteris’ . La Vie Saine, le spécialiste du bio dans votre ville.
It was here already in b& w but having finally found. Charteris was Haig’s Head of. Intelligence throughout the War & the book is a series of letters to his wife with. Plus, the story of a Motor Launch Patrol boat during. War with some atmospheric drawings by Donald Maxwell, a history of the 4. I suspect there are numerous accounts of civic. War, but this one from Birmingham is the first I’ve seen in a. Even the ubiquitous one from Croydon never appears wrapped. Perhaps not the. most gripping of reads but there are some interesting details of Munitions manufacture. The R. W. Campbell is a book I’ve long. New Army cadet, but I was very pleased to finally. A trifle dear, but as it came from the Babylon Revisited site. I’ve been using their images for years, I felt duty bound to buy it. Pity it doesn’t. have a more military image but at least it doesn’t have the gormless Spud Tamson. And finally a jacket for the Punch anthology which I’d thought scarce. Sadly the cartoons weren’t as funny. I’d hoped. 2. 1st May. Despite my reluctance to buy Unit histories, once I see the description . Usually as dry as dust this one. Tyneside Pioneers really is a rewarding read, written by an officer with. Plus some War themed plays by the author. Peter Pan, the second copy of the History of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. Yeomanry in Palestine to appear on Ebay in as many days (are they printing new ones??). UK edition of Gurdon’s . I’ve had the book. Oxenham seems to have written 3. Maurice’s account of the War’s early days was already. The US first of Wilfred Owen’s poems seems to be even scarcer. UK one (from William Reece) & the poetry anthology . The Kiplings were all. September 1. 91. 4, presumably in an attempt to boost morale. Only one picture this week because, a. I’m running low on fresh images, b. I love this scarce Helen McKie jacket & c. It’s too darned hot!The other 2 date back to the previous century but were doubtless. The Memorial volume is to an officer who served. RFA & RGA who was killed in April 1. It’s an interesting series of letters. Field Battery. 2. April. Just a couple today as I’m still feeling the effects of the heart drugs. I’d never heard of this couple. Apparently it was the first book to address this tragedy. The author is now. Even. though the speech is written in a heavy Scottish brogue, the books proved enormously. Conal O’Riordan’s. Having bought same copy it’s worth updating the particularly. Wellington Arch (possibly a new favourite!). Plus the limited edition. Gilbert’s . William Le Queux was a strange. His output was prodigious. War years. He was so convinced of the authenticity of his. German command that he thought he would become a target for assassination. Police protection, which was refused. The books are largely fictional with. March. Sorry for the long delay but getting over this is proving harder than I expected. Can’t find much information on him other than to say he. War & served as a Captain in the intelligence services. I bought the Dunsterville. I didn’t have but it’s merely a re- titled reprint of Stalky’s. Reminiscences - sneaky!, plus an account of the Marne & a novelised account of the. Balkans & WW1 based on the author’s experiences,courtesy of Dave Golemon. March. I’m afraid the next update will be delayed. Last week I suffered a heart attack &. I’m still feeling too weak to do much. These are. the next books to be entered but as yet they’re not on their respective pages. March. Having finally managed to visit the excellent Paul Nash exhibition at Tate Britain. I was particularly pleased to find this copy of Richard Aldington’s . I’m not sure Aldington’s Imagist poetry has stood. Nash pen & inks. This is no. 1. 22 of 2. A previous owner has kindly tipped- in. Aldington’s signature as well. Secondly, thanks to John Etheridge, a rare copy of. Rather gushing, I’m told, but an important account. Plus the UK & US editions of Malcolm Cowley’s . Hasn’t changed a jot, apart from. February. James Hanley’s self- published . It tells the story of two soldiers. German who they proceed to sexually torture to death. Richard Aldington’s introduction. War & how it changes individuals. War began as to have been beyond any further influence. Limited, fortunately, to. I doubt it was ever jacketed. Plus an enlarged edition of Albert, King. Belgians , an American with the French Flying Corps & a colour image of . We have Edward Anthony Steel, Lt. Col. Details can be seen on their website. February. Berta Ruck’s . Described in Hager & Taylor as . Journalist Geoffrey Young’s . The elusive jacket has been cut down. IWM). Nice period examples but the Fitzgerald falls well short of. US version. The predominantly red 1st of Reitz . It’s really the last of his many volumes of verse to contain. War poetry - there’s a substantial group of them at the end of the book. Chalmers. Comes Back is a novel about a shell- shocked soldier & a young lady who go off to. Russia. Sillitoe Hill’s . Wedgwood Benn’s memoir, . Also we have a history of the West Kent Yeomanry & a series of War sketches. Montmorency. 8th January. Unusual to find the author of the . A recent article on Richard Blaker by George Simmers. Great War Fiction website, has led me to add a couple of his other novels. Neither are truly War novels but the conflict does form the background. And another book by the journalist Floyd Gibbons on America’s entry into. War. 2. 5th December. No special presents this Christmas Day but I imagine you’ll all have more exiting. So we have an account of Airships, both German & British, during. War, the earliest UK edition of Herbert’s . Also another chapter in the saga of Spud Tamson, the. War story yet. written. Here the usually manic- looking ! Published later than anticipated. Bystander & Grant Richards, it sold. The jacket is also extremely flimsy which. This has prompted me to produce. Bruce Bairnsfather page which you can now find between pages 2 & 3. November. Firstly what seems to be a very rare memorial volume to Edward Wyndham Tennant &. Christopher. Privately printed by their mother Lady Glenconner in 1. Edward. The only other copy I can find is in Yale, even eluding Tom Donovan. Plus another fine Fred Leist jacket for Boyd Cable’s . As a collector of such things I’d be quite keen to have them but finding. For better value I’d recommend. J and M books on ABE. Some rather desirable. Mars his Idiot, An Infant in Arms, Up to Mametz. Subaltern on the Somme & A Passionate Prodigality. November. I’ve recently managed to find a copy (sadly without the jacket shown below) of Monica. Salmond’s fine memoir of her time as a nurse in the War. Her claim to fame lies in. Lady Desborough, leading light of . She gives an account of visiting Julian in hospital. Plus an alternative jacket for the . It includes a very useful 7. Gallantry, whether awarded a medal or not. Journalist. Harold Ashton’s . A prominent Dorset family, the book. Thomas Hardy. Plus the US & UK editions of Thomas. Burke’s observations of London life during the War & Henrietta Leslie’s novel of. German trenches & the son in the. British. 2. 3rd October. Taking it easy this week with only 2 new titles. The Hutchinson is a novel about a woman who’s husband. October. I’m particularly pleased to have found today’s first offering, . Not being a big collector of Unit Histories this appealed because. It’s rare, b. It’s in its jacket & most importantly c. It’s inscribed by one of. Maj. Macmullen to the daughter of its other author, Maj. Gen. Nicholson. who died before the book could be completed. Plus a further Kipling which contains. F. A. Voight, of . Liggett’s memoirs of his time as Commander of. Corps, AEF , then a pictorial history of the Australians at War, a. Edward Thomas & finally. Inspector General of the Turkish Forces account of the War.( this last book is. Parveen Papers. They recently sold me a fine. Kipling’s . Written by. Howard Vincent O’Brien, a journalist, who served as a lieutenant of Artillery in. AEF. Although he wished to be with his men at the front, he spent most of his. Paris. The wonderfully art deco cover. K. Romney Towndrow who later became a prominent art critic. September. 2 additions from my rapidly growing set of Memorial volumes today. Both privately. printed ; the first an account of the War service of 4 brothers from the same family. Wright, only one of whom, a Brigade Major with the 6th Infantry, was killed. Plus. that to an officer with the 2nd Gordon Highlanders killed at Loos in 1. In addition. there are 2 novels concerning the War & the Russian revolution, still available from. Turner Donovan Catalogue. Incidentally, the Four Brothers volume comes. WW1 books dumped by Brighton Council’s library service along. The brothers came from a local Hove family where. It’s rare, was probably the only copy available locally. The Luddites on the library committee should feel thoroughly. Fellow collectors, the preservation of our History rests with us! September. I don’t usually collect Unit histories but this 2- vol. Humphry Ward about the wife of a missing. September. Firstly, a Russian nurse with the Swedish Red Cross tending German & Austrian POW’s. She was known as the Angel of Siberia.
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