WORLD WAR I HISTORY FROM THE LIBRARY OF HENRY WILLIAMSON:&nb...

Hammer

£2,500

WORLD WAR I HISTORY FROM THE LIBRARY OF HENRY WILLIAMSON: a quantity of books over 4 shelves, to include at least 32 volumes with ownership/annotations of or dedications to Henry Williamson, to include (A Rifleman) 'Four Years on the Western Front', London, Odhams Press, 1922, inscribed by Williamson and dated July 1927, additional pencil note opposite 'some of the wet from standing in boxes in the broken-roofed granary at Stiffkey', the boards and end leaves damp stained, publishers green cloth, 8vo: WILLIAMS-ELLIS (Major Clough) 'The Tank Corps', London, Offices of County Life, 1919: front FE inscribed 'ex War Library Henry Williamson, Georgeham N.Devon 1925', with his owl monogram below, publishers brown cloth blocked in green, rubbed, 8vo: BLUNDEN (Edmund) 'Undertones of War', London, Richard Cogden-Sanderson, 1928: inscribed in red ink 'Henry Williamson Ox's Cross, Georgeham, June 1951...this book came to me from J C Squire of The London Mercury in the autumn of 1928 for review..': two envelopes tipped onto blank leaf before title addressed to Williamson in blue ink, a later note tipped-in stating these contained letters from Edmund Blunden removed by Williamson, publishers black cloth with dustjacket, dustmarked and chipped: OSMAN (Lt. Col A H) 'Pigeons in the Great War..a complete history of the carrier-pigeon service during the Great War, 1914-18', London, The Racing Pigeon Publishing Co Ltd, n.d: sm.8vo, printed wrappers, good: mainly 8vo publications, many in dustjackets, generally in very good condition. (4 shelves)