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V. S. Pritchett's A Careless Widow and Other Stories; inscribed by him to British photojournalist Sally Soames
PRITCHETT, V. S.
A Careless Widow and Other Stories.
New York: Random House, 1989.
First American edition, second printing of Pritchett's classic short story collection. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page and inscribed on the half-title page, "For Sally Soames with admiration from V. S. Pritchett March 1993." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 124590
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"There are few pastimes that supply their followers with more innocent merriment than is afforded by the royal and ancient": First edition of Mr. Punch's Golf Stories
PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR. EDITED BY J.A. HAMMERTON,.
Mr. Punch’s Golf Stories: Told By His Merry Men.
The Educational Book Co. Ltd, 1909.
First edition of this charming compilation of golf stories. Octavo, original red cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 88075
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"Fade in: film - a quick group of shots showing New York in a real thunderstorm": First edition of Best Television Plays; edited by Gore Vidal
VIDAL, Gore. [Editor].
Best Television Plays.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1956.
First edition of this collection of eight previously unpublished television scripts selected by Gore Vidal. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Editor photograph by Roger Moore.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 139759
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First edition of Bernard Darwin's Dickens; the 11th book in the Duckworth Great Lives Series
DARWIN, Bernard.
Dickens.
London: Duckworth, 1933.
First edition of Bernard Darwin's concise biography of literary master Charles Dickens. Small octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 117034
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Thy Servant A Dog
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Thy Servant A Dog.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930.
First British edition of Kipling's beloved children's classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by G. L. Stampa. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121847
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"Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray": First Edition of John LeCarre’s The Looking-Glass War
LE CARRE, John.
The Looking-Glass War.
London: Heinemann, 1965.
First edition of the author's fourth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some toning to the spine.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146216
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"In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say!": Rare first edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Fringes of the Fleet
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Fringes of the Fleet.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.
First edition of this collection of nautical essays and poems. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 122463
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First edition of Tchertkoff's The Last Days of Tolstoy
TCHERTKOFF, Vladimir. [Leo Tolstoy].
The Last Days of Tolstoy.
London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition of Chertkov's illuminating biographical work including numerous excepts from Tolstoy's personal diaries and letters. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133949
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First Edition of Howard Greenfeld's Puccini; lengthily inscribed by him
GREENFELD, Howard. [Puccini].
Puccini.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980.
First edition of Greenfeld's authoritative biography of the great composer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To James Canner, With gratitude, admiration, and friendship. Howard Greenfeld Jan 23, 1981." In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115708
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First Edition of Mark Singer's Funny Money; Signed by Him
SINGER, Mark.
Funny Money.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mark Singer on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Jacket illustration and design by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 126326
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First Edition of The Sea Lion; Signed by Ken Kesey
KESEY, Ken.
The Sea Lion: A Story of the Sea Cliff People.
New York: Viking, 1991.
First edition of this beautiful piece of children's literature. Super octavo, original half cloth, lavender endpapers, fully illustrated by Neil Waldman. Boldly signed and dated by the author in gold felt tip on the front free endpaper, "Ken Kesey 1992." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145361
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"Revolution, Revolution, Get your fresh hot revolution here": First edition, first printing of Jymi Jones' Guerilla Warfare in Philly
JONES, Jymi.
Guerilla Warfare In Philly.
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Uhuru/Publications, 1970.
First edition of the Philadelphia activist's first book of poetry. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 134011
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Volume 129 of Punch weekly; containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
Punch, or The London Charivari: Vol. 129.
London: Published at the Office and Sold by All Booksellers, 1905.
Volume 129 of Punch weekly containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by numerous artists including 10 illustrations by Rackham in issues of July 5, August 30, September 6, September 27, October 11, October 25, November 15, and November 29. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate and ownership stamp.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142537
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Rudyard Kipling's Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. [Baa, Baa, Black Sheep; His Majesty the King; The Drums of Fore and Aft]
Allahabad: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co, n.d.
Later printing of this classic collection of Kipling's tales for children. Octavo, original cloth. Contains Wee Willie Winkie, Baa Baa Black Sheep, His Majesty the King, and The Drums of Fore and Aft. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135005
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First edition of George Clinch's English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times
CLINCH, George.
English Hops: A History of Cultivation and Preparation for the Market from the Earliest Times.
London: McCorquodale & Co. Ltd, 1919.
First edition of Clinch's history of hop cultivation. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115808
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First edition of Arthur Piver's Trans-Pacific Trimaran; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
PIVER, Arthur.
Trans-Pacific Trimaran.
Mill Valley: PI-CRAFT, 1963.
First edition of the sequel to the author-designer's Trans-Atlantic Trimaran of 1961. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, charts to the verso of the dust jacket. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fosset…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115630
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Yuichi Hibi's A Weekend With Mr. Frank; one of 500 copies signed by Hibi on the verso of an original print
HIBI, Yuichi. [Robert Frank].
A Weekend With Mr. Frank: A Book of Five Reproductions and One Original Print.
Tuscon, Arizona: Nazarelli Press, 2006.
Signed limited edition of the companion book to Yuichi Hibi's 2001 documentary on the life and work of Robert Frank. Small octavo, original boards, containing five reproductions of black and white photographs and one original print. One of 500 numbered copies signed on the verso of the original print by Yuichi Hibi, this is number 240. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 122098
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"Hello Sun in my face": First Edition of Mary Oliver's Why I Wake Early
OLIVER, Mary.
Why I Wake Early.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
First edition of this collection by the Pulitzer prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146882
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"Here at the quiet limit of the world": First edition of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy
WAUGH, Evelyn.
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1948.
First edition of Waugh's short satirical novel about a Los Angeles funeral parlor. Octavo, original boards, marbled endpapers, illustrated by Stuart Doyle. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146931
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“The more bare a life is, the more we fear change"; First Edition of Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case
GREENE, Graham .
A Burnt-Out Case.
London: Heinemann, 1961.
First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Lacey Everett.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115799
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“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this": First Modern Library Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kim.
New York: The Modern Library, 1950.
First Modern Library edition of what many consider Kipling's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121867
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First edition of William Safire's The Relations Explosion; from his personal collection
SAFIRE, William .
The Relations Explosion: A Diagram of the Coming Boom and Shakeout in Corporate Relations.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963.
First edition of Safire's controversial book. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Abner Dean. From the library of the author, William Safire. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by S. A. Summit, Inc.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 127393
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First Edition of Diane Johnson's Le Mariage; Signed by Her
JOHNSON, Diane.
Le Mariage.
New York: Dutton Book, 2000.
First edition of this "splendid entertainment... Johnson is one of our most astute cultural critics" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Diane Johnson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mary E. O'Boyle. Jacket illustration by Nina Berkson.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 110599
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First edition of Henry Williamson's How Dear Is Life
WILLIAMSON, Henry.
How Dear Is Life.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1954.
First edition of the fourth novel in the author’s semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 128068
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First Edition of Henry A. Wallace's Democracy Reborn
WALLACE, Henry A; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Russell Lord.
Democracy Reborn.
London: Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd, 1945.
First English edition of this work on democratic politics. Octavo, original tan cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated with black and white plates. In very good condition with toning to the spine, front and rear panels.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146243
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"For, unlike you, I can't break through, a truant where the blue begins": First edition of Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins; wonderfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham
MORLEY, Christopher. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Where the Blue Begins.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1922.
First edition of Morley's classic canine story, wonderfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with four color plates and numerous line drawings by Arthur Rackham. In very good condition with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. A nice example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 137414
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First Edition of This collection of Nadine Gordimer’s Writings; Signed by the Nobel Laureate
GORDIMER, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman.
Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.
First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 546
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First edition of the Star Wars: Punch-Out and Make-It Book; designed by Ib Penick and illustrated with Instructional Drawings by Charlotte Staub
PENICK, Ib [Designer]. Illustrated by Patricia Wayne; Instructional Drawings by Charlotte Staub.
Star Wars: Punch-Out and Make-It Book. Based on the film by George Lucas.
Glasgow and London: Collins, 1978.
First edition of this classic 70s punch-out and make-it book. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. Designed by Ib Penick. Illustrated by Patricia Wayne. Instructional Drawings by Charlotte Staub. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145053
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“Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn": First Edition of Truman
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
First edition of the historian's first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket and illustration design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145614
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First Edition of Lionel Robbins’ The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought
ROBBINS, Lionel.
The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought.
London: Macmillan, 1968.
First edition of Robbins' work on the history of economic theory. Octavo, original cloth. With the publisher's complementary slip laid in. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 110422
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First Edition of Elie Wiesel's The Accident
WIESEL, Elie.
The Accident.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1962.
First edition of the author's final book in his acclaimed Night Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, stamp of the Judah Magnes Museum to the front free endpaper and side edges. Jacket design by Saul Lambert. Translated from the French by Anne Borchardt.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147439
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"This is precisely what I expected Hong-Kong would be like": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's 'They' and the Brushwood Boy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
‘They’ and the Brushwood Boy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925.
First edition of this collection of two Kipling stories. Octavo, original cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, with illustrations in color by F. H. Townsend. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121873
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Charles Lever's Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragoon; illustrated by Arthur Rackham
LEVER, Charles.
Charles O’Malley: The Irish Dragoon.
London: James Nisbit & Co., Limited, 1899.
Later printing of this tale illustrated by Arthur Rackham very early in his career. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with frontispiece and 15 plates. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142691
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"The sole revenge that maturity can take upon youth for the sin of being young is to preach to it": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.
First English edition of Kipling's October 1923 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123116
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First expanded edition of Jason Fry's Star Wars: The Last Jedi
FRY, Jason. Based on a story by Rian Johnson.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
London: Century, 2018.
First expanded edition of the international bestselling author's novelization of the eighth installment in the Star Wars film franchise. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with an 8-page color photo insert of images from the film. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145011
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"You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you": First Edition of the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award Winning Novel
TAYLOR, Mildred D.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
New York: The Dial Press, 2001.
First edition of the 25th anniversary edition of the author's classic Newbery Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146375
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' The Kipling Country
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
The Kipling Country.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1924.
First edition of Hopkins' illustrated homage to Kipling's home in rural Burwash and its surrounds. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Captain Irvine B. Bately and Gordon Volk. In good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135263
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First Edition of The Last King of Scotland; Signed by Giles Foden
FODEN, Giles.
The Last King of Scotland.
London: Faber and Faber , 1998.
First edition of this exceptional piece of historical fiction, the basis for the 2006 adaptation by the same name starring Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, and Gillian Anderson. Octavo, original flexible wrappers. Signed by Giles Foden on the title page beneath his typed name, which he has stricken out. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Steve Caplin.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146632
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Limited First Edition of A Turn in the South; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
A Turn in the South.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1989.
Signed limited first edition of captivating travelogue of the American South, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece by Bart Forbes specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the front flyleaf. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147061
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First Edition of All About Golf: How to Improve Your Game
SEYMOUR, Bert.
All About Golf: How to Improve Your Game.
London: Ward, Lock & Company, 1924.
First edition. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, illustrated by 33 action photographs and many diagrams. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 87637
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First edition of Jim Lehrer's The Special Prisoner; inscribed by him to legendary American journalist William Safire
LEHRER, Jim [William Safire].
The Special Prisoner.
New York: Random House, 2000.
First edition, second printing of Lehrer's fascinating war story. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Helene & Bill - With love & affection J." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. Following Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for both Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of “libertarian conservatives” and authored several political…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135274
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"The best-printed American writer": First edition of Joseph Blumenthal's Robert Frost and His Printers
BLUMENTHAL, Joseph.
Robert Frost and His Printers.
Autin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985.
First edition of this work on Frost's relationships with his printers. Large octavo, original cloth, illustrated. One of 1000 copies printed at the letterpress of A. Colish with plates made and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121466
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First Edition of Jack Whittingham's Sabu of the Elephants
WHITTINGHAM, Jack.
Sabu of the Elephants.
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1938.
First edition of Whittingham's account of the filming of "Toomai of the Elephants." Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 126935
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First Edition of Love, Roger; Signed by Charles Webb
WEBB, Charles.
Love, Roger.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969.
First edition of this brilliant absurdist comedy from the author of 'The Graduate.' Octavo, original blue cloth, orange top stain, frontispiece by Tomi Ungerer. Boldly signed by Charles Webb on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tomi Ungerer. Author photograph by Eve Webb.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145170
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First English edition of the author's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145277
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"STILL FIGHTING FOR POPULIST CAUSES": FIRST EDITION OF BERNIE SANDERS' OUR REVOLUTION
SANDERS, Bernie.
Our Revolution. A Future To Believe In.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 2016.
First edition of Bernie Sanders' account of his life and influences, featuring a detailed account of his campaign praised as "well worth reading… his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn." Octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Bernie Sanders in facsimile. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Storrings.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 130641
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud; one of 700 numbered copies signed by Frederic van de water and illustrator Bernadine Custer
VAN DE WATER, Frederic. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont Feud.
Weston, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1937.
First edition of Van de Water's account of Kipling's feud with his brother-in-law in Dummerston, which was made very public by local newspapers. Octavo, original buckram, illustrated with drawings by Bernadine custer. One of 700 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page, this is number 132. Fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121944
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First edition of Isaac Asimov's Banquets of the Black Widowers
ASIMOV, Isaac.
Banquets of the Black Widowers.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1984.
First edition of the fourth book in Asimov's Black Widowers series. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Al Nagy.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142875
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“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see": First Edition of Jose Saramago's Blindness
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Blindness.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine Guerguerian.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147085
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First Edition of Richard Nixon's Six Crises
NIXON, Richard.
Six Crises.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962.
First edition of Nixon's first book, a summary of how he was tested in his public life up to the time of losing the 1960 Presidential election. Octavo, original cloth. Facsimile signature of Nixon to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Photograph by Philippe Halsman. A sharp example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147255
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale of the Nile Expedition. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with ten illustrations by Joseph Nash, R.I. and John Schonberg. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123068
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First edition of War Service Record 1939-1945: The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited
War Service Record 1939-1945: The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited.
Edinburgh: Printed for the Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited, 1952.
First edition of the Commercial Bank of Scotland's War Service Record 1939-1945. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 124208
