World War Two, South-East Asia. My Pencil, my Rifle, and Me,...

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£40 - £60

World War Two, South-East Asia. My Pencil, my Rifle, and Me, dated 1945, a serviceman's unfinished memoir, [iii], [24]pp of MS only, 6 mixed media illustrations (of 7, apparently), including a pen-and-ink self-portrait of the author, the extant narrative comprises an amusing, and at times, self-deprecating introduction and an account of the sea voyage only, inscribed in a contemporary Japanese ruled ledger, with a later tacked-on tan pigskin leather wrapper, the upper-cover lettered in blind relief, foolscap 4to (31 x 23cm); Topography. A mid-19th c album, n.d., illustrated with eight mixed size watercolours, principally of European landscapes, and seven photographic albumen prints, the remaining leaves blank, contemporary black quarter-morocco over cloth, rubbed and split, but holding, folio (39 x 29cm), (2)