War novels and poetry
Collection of works
£378
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Waugh, Evelyn. [Sword of Honour trilogy:] Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender. London: Chapman & Hall, 1952-55-61. 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, top edges dyed blue, dust jackets, spotting to versos of jackets, Men at Arms jacket with small tape-repairs verso;
Graves, Robert. The More Deserving Cases. Eighteen Old Poems for Reconsideration. Marlborough: Marlborough College Press, 1962. One of 400 copies bound in full red morocco and signed by the author (there were also 350 copies in cloth), tall 8vo, frontispiece;
Sitwell, Osbert. Argonaut and Juggernaut. London: Chatto & Windus, 1919. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author ‘To Madama Mahlfeld from Osbert Sitwell, June 23 1912’ on the half-title, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket (with minor repairs);
Baring, Maurice. Poems: 1914-1917. London: Martin Secker, 1918. First edition, 8vo, original wrappers, housed in a custom blue quarter morocco solander box;
Aldington, Richard. At All Costs. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930. First edition, of 275 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original cloth-backed marbled boards;
and approx. 30 others including more Robert Graves first editions, works by Edmund Blunden, a set of 'Bairnsfather', Fragments from France in custom chemise, and similar (approx. 40)