Dust Jacket Collector Posted 9 March , 2023 Author Share Posted 9 March , 2023 16 minutes ago, other ranker said: 6.38am eh DJC? Is that why I haven't bought a book this week ! My wife insists on tea by 6.15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 17 April , 2023 Share Posted 17 April , 2023 I was looking for a copy of this book to buy cheaply with nice dust jacket and found this bookplate inside. The owner was a great friend to both Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 18 April , 2023 Author Share Posted 18 April , 2023 A really important copy. Silk had a superb collection of Sassoon’s books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 18 April , 2023 Share Posted 18 April , 2023 4 hours ago, Dust Jacket Collector said: A really important copy. Silk had a superb collection of Sassoon’s books. He was a good friend of Sassoon, and had a long and full life as a cricketer and an educator: Dennis Silk - Wikipedia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 18 April , 2023 Share Posted 18 April , 2023 No famous names here I'm afraid. My copy of 'Aircraft of the 1914-18 War', by O.G.Thetford and E.J.Riding, published in 1946, has the owners name inscribed. He is a Warrant Officer First Class in the Royal Army Educational Corps. His initials are possibly E.J.M., can anyone make out the surname? A further signature at the top of the page is also difficult to decipher. The book contains many excellent 1/72 scale drawings of all the main types, with full specifications and service history. For the larger examples of aircraft the drawings are fold outs. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johntaylor Posted 18 April , 2023 Share Posted 18 April , 2023 I could be wrong, but one looks like E J McAdam and the other looks like E MacAdam. I haven't tried to identify him, but I'm sure someone can. All the best, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 18 April , 2023 Share Posted 18 April , 2023 2 hours ago, johntaylor said: I could be wrong, but one looks like E J McAdam and the other looks like E MacAdam. I haven't tried to identify him, but I'm sure someone can. All the best, John Thanks John, So obvious, now you point it out! Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 18 April , 2023 Share Posted 18 April , 2023 Thanks for the info about the Sassoon book. I think Black Maria told us to keep looking at the common books for sale and a rare gem will often be winkled out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_a Posted 18 April , 2023 Share Posted 18 April , 2023 My copy of Arch Whitehouse’ ‘The Early Birds’. As far as I know Charles Caine was another aviation author and historian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 2 May , 2023 Share Posted 2 May , 2023 I have been looking for a copy Of 'Adventures On The Western Front', for years. Finally found a reasonably priced copy and lo and behold look who it belonged to..... bought from an entirely different place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 2 May , 2023 Author Share Posted 2 May , 2023 1 hour ago, other ranker said: I have been looking for a copy Of 'Adventures On The Western Front', for years. Finally found a reasonably priced copy and lo and behold look who it belonged to..... bought from an entirely different place! Any sign that Sassoon may have owned it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 2 May , 2023 Share Posted 2 May , 2023 I think it was previously owned by the top bookplate owner. We need to Google him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 2 May , 2023 Author Share Posted 2 May , 2023 1 hour ago, other ranker said: I think it was previously owned by the top bookplate owner. We need to Google him Probably the 16th Earl of Pembroke, Tory Peer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 1 June , 2023 Share Posted 1 June , 2023 You may think I have a rare obsession with Edmund Blunden. I grew up in a village called Helpston in Cambridgeshire, the home of the poet John Clare. Blunden was the president of the John Clare Society and spent time in the village when I was a child. I can't remember meeting him, but I did go the John Clare County primary school, which he must have visited. Any way I have just found a copy of The Waggoner And Other Poems with a poem in the front to W N Roughead, a famous crime author. If you read it at the end it is signed. Chad brook is the stream that runs through Long Melford, Blunden's home village. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 1 June , 2023 Author Share Posted 1 June , 2023 58 minutes ago, other ranker said: You may think I have a rare obsession with Edmund Blunden. I grew up in a village called Helpston in Cambridgeshire, the home of the poet John Clare. Blunden was the president of the John Clare Society and spent time in the village when I was a child. I can't remember meeting him, but I did go the John Clare County primary school, which he must have visited. Any way I have just found a copy of The Waggoner And Other Poems with a poem in the front to W N Roughead, a famous crime author. If you read it at the end it is signed. Chad brook is the stream that runs through Long Melford, Blunden's home village. What a brilliant find. I’m very envious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 13 August , 2023 Share Posted 13 August , 2023 This not particularly rare book has been sitting on ebay for years! I thought it better come back to the UK. Owned by a very important Aviation pioneer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 13 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 13 August , 2023 2 hours ago, other ranker said: This not particularly rare book has been sitting on ebay for years! I thought it better come back to the UK. Owned by a very important Aviation pioneer. Very public spirited of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 13 August , 2023 Share Posted 13 August , 2023 I have found out from the Short family archivist that the book belonged to Francisco Samuel Short who was the director of the Windermere factory from 1941-1945. He was married to a famous aviatrix Winnie Drinkwater. Pleased to serve the nation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 14 August , 2023 Share Posted 14 August , 2023 19 hours ago, other ranker said: I have found out from the Short family archivist that the book belonged to Francisco Samuel Short who was the director of the Windermere factory from 1941-1945. He was married to a famous aviatrix Winnie Drinkwater. Now you have me hunting through my shelves. I have a volume with that bookplate, purchased a few years ago, but on which shelf? I don't recall it having a further name added though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 20 November , 2023 Share Posted 20 November , 2023 Here is a book I have never heard of until seeing this copy. Written by John Graham Gillam, a fictional work based on his own experiences covered earlier in the 'Gallipoli Diary '. As you can see it has a nice message from him to William Henry Hewitt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 20 November , 2023 Author Share Posted 20 November , 2023 What a super find. I have the book but no jacket, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 21 November , 2023 Share Posted 21 November , 2023 A very nice find with a great inscription ( and jacket ) . I have a copy of 'Contemptible' with an inscription by Arnold Gyde to a colleague who he worked with in the A.O.R.G ( Army Operational Research Group ) dated 1943 in memory of their walks to the local pub together . It highlights the fact that many of the well known authors ( to us anyway) who fought in the Great War were also very involved in the following one . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 23 November , 2023 Share Posted 23 November , 2023 Hi Black Maria, I have never seen the UK edition of the 'Contemptible' book for sale in a jacket. I will persevere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 23 November , 2023 Share Posted 23 November , 2023 1 hour ago, other ranker said: Hi Black Maria, I have never seen the UK edition of the 'Contemptible' book for sale in a jacket. I will persevere! Hi there , no i don't think i have either . Mine is without unfortunately , as i do really like that particular jacket . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 23 November , 2023 Author Share Posted 23 November , 2023 1 minute ago, Black Maria said: Hi there , no i don't think i have either . Mine is without unfortunately , as i do really like that particular jacket . It is rather nice, isn’t it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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