Black Maria Posted 23 November , 2023 Share Posted 23 November , 2023 14 minutes ago, Dust Jacket Collector said: It is rather nice, isn’t it. Yes it certainly is Alan , one of my favourites . It's just such a shame it's so rare . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 24 November , 2023 Share Posted 24 November , 2023 DJC, I will find a copy one day. I sold an unjacketed copy to someone who was a Gyde, a grandson , I think a couple of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 24 November , 2023 Author Share Posted 24 November , 2023 1 minute ago, other ranker said: DJC, I will find a copy one day. I sold an unjacketed copy to someone who was a Gyde, a grandson , I think a couple of years ago. Knowing your remarkable ability to find the impossible, I’m sure you will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 25 November , 2023 Share Posted 25 November , 2023 DJC, I follow in your steps master! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 8 December , 2023 Share Posted 8 December , 2023 Here is a book I have been trying to find a dust jacket for. Signed by the author, but owned by someone with a big connection to him. The front boards and both sets of end papers are covered in paper clippings of the inquest in to Lieutenant Pat O'Brien's death in 1920. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 8 December , 2023 Share Posted 8 December , 2023 A nice find . It's a really good read and such a sad ending for a man who went through so much to escape , he was buried in an unmarked grave originally but that has now been rectified thankfully . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 14 January Share Posted 14 January I really enjoyed reading , 'Adventures On The Western Front 1914-1915', by A Rawlinson. He was the brother to General Rawlinson and a former racing driver. He took his very fast car to The Western Front and drove officers around who needed to get there quickly! One of his close friends was the Duke Of Westminster, famed for his armoured cars in France and Flanders, but also the Middle East. There nicknames were 'Roly' Rawlinson and 'Benny' for Bendor. I bought the follow up book, 'Adventures In The Near East 1918-1922', by Rawlinson recently which is gifted to the Duke for his Yachts library! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 15 January Share Posted 15 January 20 hours ago, other ranker said: I really enjoyed reading , 'Adventures On The Western Front 1914-1915', by A Rawlinson. He was the brother to General Rawlinson and a former racing driver. He took his very fast car to The Western Front and drove officers around who needed to get there quickly! One of his close friends was the Duke Of Westminster, famed for his armoured cars in France and Flanders, but also the Middle East. There nicknames were 'Roly' Rawlinson and 'Benny' for Bendor. I bought the follow up book, 'Adventures In The Near East 1918-1922', by Rawlinson recently which is gifted to the Duke for his Yachts library! Very nice . I agree Adventures on the Western Front is a great book , I've recently finished Prisoners of the Red Desert ( featuring the Duke who also wrote the introduction ) which was also a terrific read . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 15 January Share Posted 15 January Yes. I read that not long ago. They certainly were put through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 28 January Share Posted 28 January I keep doing what Black Maria suggested long ago. Keep looking at the mundane, see them all the time books. This time I have found a copy of 'Realities Of War', by Philip Gibbs with a gift inscription from him to Robert Tait McKenzie, who at that time would have been a physician in The Royal Army Medical Corps. He lay the foundations of many of the practices used today in physiotherapy working with the war wounded. He went on in later life to become known as one of Canada's greatest sculptors. Google him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 30 January Author Share Posted 30 January This book has been knocking around on the net for quite a while at a probably not unreasonable but still far too high a price. Suddenly it appeared on a popular auction site with a starting price some 20 times lower. Couldn’t resist although it did shoot up a bit towards the end! War verse from the writer of one of the finest of all War books - ‘Her Privates We’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 30 January Share Posted 30 January Well done. I did see it. I think it has gone to a good home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other ranker Posted 2 April Share Posted 2 April I am not sure where to this book belongs on the forum, but I had to show you.... I bought a copy of Air Stories from the Ace Publishing Company because it had a rare dust jacket on it. However when the book came today a whole story came with it. If you follow the pictures you see it was given as a gift on September 28th 1939, to a boy Alan whose address was in Mordern Surrey. He made his own paper dust jacket from an old brown paper parcel with an address in Devon. It looks like he was a young lad that was evacuated to the countryside and this was a treasured posession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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