‘The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War (1914-18). The opening day of the attack, 1 July 1916, saw the British Army sustain 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in its history. The campaign finally ended in mid-November after an agonising five-month struggle that failed to secure a breakthrough.’ [National Army Museum, Chelsea, UK]. The books in this shortlist cover aspects of the Battle of the Somme, either in detail or in passing. Several works of fiction are also included.
Pp. xiv+334(last blank), 16 plates (5 coloured), 11 folding maps, appendices, index; cr. 4to; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt insignia to upper board, edges and fore-corners lightly worn; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, margins of plates lightly browned; 3rd Carabiniers, Chester, 1966. First edition..... More
With maps, charts, photographs, and appendices. Foreword by Marshal F. Foch. Pp. xx+468, frontispiece portrait, 13 full page plates plus 2 tipped-in coloured plates ((unit colour patches), numerous maps and diagrams in text plus 3 folding maps, appendices; med. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and ruled in..... More
Pp. x+322, coloured frontispiece plus numerous black & white text illustrations, appendices, index; med. 8vo; navy boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, lower board a trifle marked; dust wrapper; lacking the errata slip; 6th Battalion Association, Melbourne, 1993. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. History of..... More
With a foreword by Brigadier-General Stanley Price Weir. Pp. [viii]+320, Honours and awards list, roll of Honour, nominal roll, errata slip (quite browned and foxed) loosely inserted; demy 8vo; red cloth, lettered and ruled in black & blind, the boards lightly marked; red speckled edges; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney..... More
Pp. viii+326, 8 plates, with tissue guards, 10 full page text maps, appendices; post 4to; grey cloth, lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt & black, the boards lightly rubbed, edges lightly worn, fore-corners bruised and lightly frayed; t.e.g, others uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, and..... More
Pp. xvi+348, frontispiece, 2 folding panoramas, 5 plates, 15 maps (12 folding), upper endpaper map, itinerary, The Roll of Honour, Rewards won by officers, warrant officers, no-commissioned officers and men, 1914-1919, list of officers who served in the First Battalion, 1914-1919, index; roy. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in..... More
Pp. x+278, coloured frontispiece, 6 coloured plates, text illustrations, maps and plans (some full page), appendix, index; roy. 8vo; green papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, gilt insignia to upper board, fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Leo Cooper, London..... More
Pp. 228, frontispiece, 14 plates, 16 plans of operation (several full page), appendices, Honours and awards list, roll of Honour, printed upper endpapers; demy 8vo; pictorial brown cloth, lightly marked and flecked, lightly frayed and split from head of spine along upper joint and lower edge of upper board, fore-corners..... More
Drawings and Maps by Daryl Lindsay (Official Artist with the A.I.F.). Pp. xii+180(last colophon), 12 plates, lettered tissue guards, 4 full page maps, appendices, including Honours and awards list, roll of Honour; demy 8vo; red cloth, lettered in black, lightly rubbed, edges lightly worn, slightly frayed at head of spine..... More
Pp. x+372, double pictorial title page, text illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers printed in sepia, appendices, bibliography, index; small impl. 8vo; boards rubbed, with light vertical paper creases in upper board; dust wrapper, lightly worn; sunned; ownership inscription on the upper free endpaper, edges of leaves slightly marked; Nelson..... More
Pp. xiv+274, text illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index; cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, a little worn; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993. First paperback edition. More
![Item #156775 THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1914-1918 [series title]. C. E. W. Bean](https://kaycraddock.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/156775.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701074849)
In twelve volumes, complete, totalling over 9,000 pages of text (the final volume comprising reproductions of pictures taken by the Australian Official Photographers), numerous plates (2 coloured in Volume X), a few text illustrations, many maps & plans (several coloured, some double page), chronologies, appendices, glossaries, indices; demy 8vo; maroon..... More
Pp. xviii+192, 4 plates, 2 text maps, notes, appendix (chronology of publications), select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown;, Continuum, London, 2008. First edition. *Includes references to the Somme offensive. More
Pp. x+128, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002. First edition. *Includes references to the Battle of the Somme. More
With an introduction by Major-General Sir J. Gellibrand, K.C.G., D.S.O. Pp. xvi+370+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece, 13 plates, District enlistments, Tasmania's Muster Roll, Tasmanians enlisted in other states; med. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the spine and portions of boards lightly faded, edges lightly worn, lower fore-corners slightly bruised;..... More
Volume One: 1911-1914. Pp. [viii]+536, 6 maps (5 folding), 2 facsimile plates, appendices, index, errata slip tipped onto p. 339; foxing to edges of leaves, light soiling to fore margins of two pages; 1923. Cohen A69.2(I).a First state; Volume Two: 1915. Pp. 558(last blank), 7 maps (5 folding), 2 page..... More
Photography by James Kerr. Pp. 208, coloured illustrations, map, bibliography; obl. med. 4to; black boards, spine lettered in silver; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, West Midlands, 2016. First edition. *Includes, Ypres & the Salient, Artois, The Somme, Verdun & St Mihiel..... More
With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Pp. 52, 21 plates; super royal 4to; tan cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, the cloth marked and lightly faded, edges of boards lightly bruised, with original upper pictorial paper wrapper bound in; endpapers browned; Cecil Palmer & Hayward, London, 1918. First edition..... More
Pp. xiv+356(last blank), frontispiece portrait, 19 folding coloured and 1 black & white text maps, top edge of one browned and lightly creased; med. 8vo; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, red and white, fore-corners very slightly bruised and rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip and portion of back panel..... More
In two volumes. Pp. xviii+322+xii+358, 2 coloured frontispieces (by Olive Snell), 19 folding maps, appendices, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, upper boards lettered in black and with 'seeing eye' insignia in gilt, black & white, within black framed border, cloth lightly faded and worn;..... More
Pp. xviii+510(last blank), 12 plates, 3 text maps, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges lightly worn and split; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, margins of leaves lightly browned, edges slightly soiled; Atlantic Books, London, 2007 . First edition..... More
Complete in six volumes, totalling over 3,800 pages, with 378 plates, numerous text maps (several full page), diary of events in each volume, index in Volume VI; small cr. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & black, all spines faded, as are some of the boards, edges occasionally..... More
Pp. [xii]+146, text illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers; bibliography, index; tall cr. 4to; brown boards, lettered in black; dust wrapper; Robert Andersen and Associates, Melbourne, 1987. First edition. *Includes poems by Martin Boyd, Christopher Brennan, C. J. Dennis, Leon Gellert, Henry Lawson, 'Banjo' Paterson, etc. More
Pp. viii+376, text illustration and full page maps (1 double page) index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a little browned and foxed on the reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers a trifle foxed, edges of leaves slightly browned and lightly foxed; Jonathan Cape, London, 1992..... More
Pp. xx+154, 12 text illustrations, 7 text plus endpaper maps, appendices, further reading, index; small demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in black; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002. First edition. *Includes the Somme. More
