A Collection of Vintage Books including Military History, Technical Manuals, and Classic Fiction

This collection comprises multiple volumes across several genres, including historical fiction, military history, and technical instructional manuals. Notable fiction titles include Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! (London: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., in elaborately gilt-decorated red cloth); John Buchan, Prester John; and mid-20th century volumes of Alexandre Dumas’ The Forty-Five Guardsmen and Twenty Years After. Military and naval subjects are well-represented by Bernard Newman, The Tools of War (Doubleday Doran, 1942); Stuart Legg (comp.), Trafalgar: An Eye-Witness Account; John Milsom, German Half-Tracked Vehicles of World War 2 (Arms and Armour Press); Admiralty Navigation Manual 1938 Volume I; and the large-format Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy 1938 Volume II (Admiralty). Other works include General Sir Leslie Hollis, One Marine’s Tale (Andre Deutsch); Howard Ricketts, Firearms (Weidenfeld & Nicolson); C.W. Thurlow Craig, Shooter’s Delight; and Automobile Workshop Practice (Pitman). The volumes are primarily octavo and quarto in size.