Several of her books online, including "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "A Lady of Quality," and "The Secret Garden." At Project Gutenberg. UPDATED "Combat Light" Soldier's Load Solution for the 21st century 1 st Tactical Studies Group (Airborne) Director Mike Sparks: after 28+ years of. How to Care for a Flock of Ducks. Ducks are wonderful pets to keep. Though noisy, they are usually cheerful and loving to their owners. They can also be a good meat. Scottish brogue, the books proved enormously. Conal O’Riordan’s. Having bought same copy it’s worth updating the particularly. Wellington Arch (possibly a new favourite!). Plus the limited edition. Gilbert’s . William Le Queux was a strange. His output was prodigious. War years. He was so convinced of the authenticity of his. German command that he thought he would become a target for assassination. Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that aired on NBC in primetime from 1981 to 1987 for a total of 146 episodes. The show chronicled the lives of. User Reviewed wiki How to Breed Ducks. Four Parts: Preparing for Duck Breeding Selecting Breeders Mating Ducks Incubating and Hatching Ducks Community Q&A. Ashdale Farm, Axminster, Devon. Police protection, which was refused. The books are largely fictional with. March. Sorry for the long delay but getting over this is proving harder than I expected. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can’t find much information on him other than to say he. War & served as a Captain in the intelligence services. I bought the Dunsterville. I didn’t have but it’s merely a re- titled reprint of Stalky’s. Reminiscences - sneaky!, plus an account of the Marne & a novelised account of the. ![]() ![]() Balkans & WW1 based on the author’s experiences,courtesy of Dave Golemon. March. I’m afraid the next update will be delayed. Last week I suffered a heart attack &. I’m still feeling too weak to do much. These are. the next books to be entered but as yet they’re not on their respective pages. March. Having finally managed to visit the excellent Paul Nash exhibition at Tate Britain. I was particularly pleased to find this copy of Richard Aldington’s . ![]() Raising Ducks for Meat, Eggs or Both with Information on Duck Breeds. As much as I enjoy pulling up a chair and watching chicks hatch from eggs in an incubator in my kitchen, there is no question that allowing a hen to hatch eggs is. I’m not sure Aldington’s Imagist poetry has stood. Nash pen & inks. This is no. 1. 22 of 2. A previous owner has kindly tipped- in. Aldington’s signature as well. Secondly, thanks to John Etheridge, a rare copy of. Rather gushing, I’m told, but an important account. ![]() Plus the UK & US editions of Malcolm Cowley’s . Hasn’t changed a jot, apart from. February. James Hanley’s self- published . It tells the story of two soldiers. German who they proceed to sexually torture to death. Richard Aldington’s introduction. War & how it changes individuals. War began as to have been beyond any further influence. Limited, fortunately, to. I doubt it was ever jacketed. Plus an enlarged edition of Albert, King. Belgians , an American with the French Flying Corps & a colour image of . We have Edward Anthony Steel, Lt. Col. Details can be seen on their website. February. Berta Ruck’s . Described in Hager & Taylor as . Journalist Geoffrey Young’s . The elusive jacket has been cut down. IWM). Nice period examples but the Fitzgerald falls well short of. US version. The predominantly red 1st of Reitz . It’s really the last of his many volumes of verse to contain. War poetry - there’s a substantial group of them at the end of the book. Chalmers. Comes Back is a novel about a shell- shocked soldier & a young lady who go off to. Russia. Wedgwood Benn’s memoir, . Also we have a history of the West Kent Yeomanry & a series of War sketches. Montmorency. 8th January. Unusual to find the author of the . A recent article on Richard Blaker by George Simmers. Great War Fiction website, has led me to add a couple of his other novels. Neither are truly War novels but the conflict does form the background. And another book by the journalist Floyd Gibbons on America’s entry into. War. 2. 5th December. No special presents this Christmas Day but I imagine you’ll all have more exiting. So we have an account of Airships, both German & British, during. War, the earliest UK edition of Herbert’s . Also another chapter in the saga of Spud Tamson, the. War story yet. written. Here the usually manic- looking ! Published later than anticipated. Bystander & Grant Richards, it sold. The jacket is also extremely flimsy which. This has prompted me to produce. Bruce Bairnsfather page which you can now find between pages 2 & 3. November. Firstly what seems to be a very rare memorial volume to Edward Wyndham Tennant &. Christopher. Privately printed by their mother Lady Glenconner in 1. Edward. The only other copy I can find is in Yale, even eluding Tom Donovan. Plus another fine Fred Leist jacket for Boyd Cable’s . As a collector of such things I’d be quite keen to have them but finding. For better value I’d recommend. J and M books on ABE. Some rather desirable. Mars his Idiot, An Infant in Arms, Up to Mametz. Subaltern on the Somme & A Passionate Prodigality. November. I’ve recently managed to find a copy (sadly without the jacket shown below) of Monica. Salmond’s fine memoir of her time as a nurse in the War. Her claim to fame lies in. Lady Desborough, leading light of . She gives an account of visiting Julian in hospital. Plus an alternative jacket for the . It includes a very useful 7. Gallantry, whether awarded a medal or not. Journalist. Harold Ashton’s . A prominent Dorset family, the book. Thomas Hardy. Plus the US & UK editions of Thomas. Burke’s observations of London life during the War & Henrietta Leslie’s novel of. German trenches & the son in the. British. 2. 3rd October. Taking it easy this week with only 2 new titles. The Hutchinson is a novel about a woman who’s husband. October. I’m particularly pleased to have found today’s first offering, . Not being a big collector of Unit Histories this appealed because. It’s in its jacket & most importantly c. It’s inscribed by one of. Maj. Macmullen to the daughter of its other author, Maj. Gen. Nicholson. who died before the book could be completed. Plus a further Kipling which contains. F. A. Voight, of . Liggett’s memoirs of his time as Commander of. Corps, AEF , then a pictorial history of the Australians at War, a. Edward Thomas & finally. Inspector General of the Turkish Forces account of the War.( this last book is. Parveen Papers. They recently sold me a fine. Kipling’s . Written by. Howard Vincent O’Brien, a journalist, who served as a lieutenant of Artillery in. AEF. Although he wished to be with his men at the front, he spent most of his. Paris. The wonderfully art deco cover. K. Romney Towndrow who later became a prominent art critic. September. 2 additions from my rapidly growing set of Memorial volumes today. Both privately. printed ; the first an account of the War service of 4 brothers from the same family. Wright, only one of whom, a Brigade Major with the 6th Infantry, was killed. Plus. that to an officer with the 2nd Gordon Highlanders killed at Loos in 1. In addition. there are 2 novels concerning the War & the Russian revolution, still available from. Turner Donovan Catalogue. Incidentally, the Four Brothers volume comes. WW1 books dumped by Brighton Council’s library service along. The brothers came from a local Hove family where. It’s rare, was probably the only copy available locally. The Luddites on the library committee should feel thoroughly. Fellow collectors, the preservation of our History rests with us! September. I don’t usually collect Unit histories but this 2- vol. Humphry Ward about the wife of a missing. September. Firstly, a Russian nurse with the Swedish Red Cross tending German & Austrian POW’s. She was known as the Angel of Siberia. September. Firstly a couple of additions to my ever widening Kipling collection - the 5- vol. Plus a stout defence of his. Gerald French & a biography of an American Air Ace. August. Just a single book today as I’ve been a little under the weather lately. But what. a book!! Never thought I’d see this again. Rota had a copy many years ago as did. Tom Donovan a few years later & this it seems is that very same copy so possibly. Far to expensive for me but I believe this copy will be. London book dealer in the next few days. August. A memorial volume to Dr Macfarlane, first published in 1. Lloyd George’s peculiar memoirs in the 2- volume edition from 1. Unit history from the prolific Everard Wyrall and 2 years in Constantinople. July. The plain dark cloth below covers what is certainly one of the finest memorial volumes. War. It’s a fascinating account of gilded lives of extreme privilege. This copy is inscribed to her ladies maid, Rosa Gaston. Plus. a scarce early jacket by Douglas Swale for Klaxon’s submarine volume, a novel of. Russian secret agent & a volume of poetry for Marshal Foch! July. Today we have the UK edition of Mc. Fee’s . The author served in France as a 2nd Lt. This led to his passing the remainder of the War in. War Office. He wrote half a dozen books, mostly thrillers, the first two of which. War. Sniper Jackson, shown here as a b& w image from an old catalogue. Battalion’s sniping officer. The Seventh Vial is a spirited romance which contains. Plus a rare appearance of the Official. History - Italy in a jacket, available on Ebay for around . It seems to be rather scarce. This may be due to the fact that. Faber have merely stitched together unsold copies of the original 2- volume edition. It obviously didn’t sell well in 1. Alongside is the best image I can. Battle of the Somme with Haig. June. Sorry to have been away for so long but I bought myself a new computer & have been. Sadly it’s proved to be beyond my limited. So I’m back to square one but with a redundant. As I’m still traumatised. I can only manage 1 new book today but it’s a rather fine. Thanks to John Etheridge for providing the image - a lucky Ebay find (dammit!!). Service should be back to normal next week. May. A rather nice early flying memoir today, . Plus an account of the French army at Verdun by an American ambulance driver. T. E. Lawrence by . Also the UK edition of Temple. Thurston’s fictionalised life of Mata Hari, . It’s rather. apt therefore to have discovered on my shelves this copy of Dorina Neave’s . It’s probably a sign that I have too. A. particularly rare book, the UK edition of William March’s . I bought the cheaper of the 2, both. Gollancz. It’s interesting to note that. A sign that I’ll buy almost anything is this slim volume on the Gordon. Highlanders which has barely a page on WW1! April. Back from bouncing around on the Bay of Biscay, so a rather brief precis today. Firstly. the UK edition of Britten- Austin’s . Drury’s Flag. Lieutenant series, Dane’s account of the Battles in Flanders in 1. William Le Queux’ novel of a wartime aviatrix . A further batch will be added. Here we have jacketed copies of Capt. Magazines (and Websites) About Homesteading and Self- Sufficiency. When I was a boy, my father used to buy Mother Earth News from the grocery store. The magazine was filled with stories about self- sufficient country living, the sort of thing my dad aspired to. I’d read the magazine after he was finished, but never really understood the appeal of building your own greenhouse or raising goats. Now, as an adult, it makes a little more sense. Kris and I are not radically self- sufficient, but we do enjoy growing our own food. Besides frequent articles on gardening, in the past I’ve shared stories like these: Though our own adventures in self- sufficiency are limited, they’re edifying, and I admire those who do even more. I’m a strong advocate of the DIY ethic. I believe there’s real value in traditional skills, such as gardening and sewing, canning and carpentry. As a bonus, most of these practices save money. After spending last Saturday planting peas and pruning fruit trees — and contemplating where to put a chicken coop — I took some time to research the current state of homesteading magazines. Turns out there are half a dozen that seem interesting. Most of them have a companion website with excellent information: Mother Earth News. Mother Earth News is “the original guide to living wisely”. Its content leans left, and includes articles on subjects such as renewable energy, green homes, organic gardening, green transportation, and sustainable farming. The Mother Earth News website is polished and filled with content, with stories on: Back. Home. Back. Home is “your hands- on guide to sustainable living”. It covers topics like owner- built homes, backyard livestock, rural heritage, green building, and country skills. The Back. Home website isn’t very useful, but it does offer a taste of the magazine. You can see the table of contents from the most recent issue, and view PDF versions of articles like: Backwoods Home. Backwoods Home, is like the first two publications in this list — but with guns. Backwoods Home leans right (or libertarian), and offers “practical ideas for self- reliant living”. Like Back. Home, it offers how- to articles on owner- built housing, independent energy, self- employment, and country living. And there’s a regular column on gun ownership. The Backwoods Home website is fantastic, packed with great stuff, including articles on: I am not a libertarian, and I’m ambivalent about guns, but after looking at the website, I think I’m going to subscribe to Backwoods Home. This magazine looks awesome. Small Farm Today. Small Farm Today is “the original how- to magazine of alternative and traditional crops and livestock”. According to Amazon, this publication discusses “alternative and traditional crops, livestock, and direct marketing, designed to help make small and family farmers profitable and sustainable”. The Small Farm Today website doesn’t provide much useful content, and offers no glimpse of what a typical issue features. It does provide farm links, an events calendar, and online classified ads, but I’d rather see some past articles so that I could know if I’d find it useful. Hobby Farms. Hobby Farms is a magazine about “rural living for pleasure and profit”. Its marketing copy says that it “embraces the growing segment of population that is returning to farm life in search of a more meaningful existence”. The Hobby Farms website includes plenty of useful stuff, including: Countryside. Countryside & Small Stock Journal is “the magazine of modern homesteading”. It features articles on constructing a homestead, the homestead as a business, the country kitchen, and self- reliance and survival. The Countryside website includes two blogs, only one of which is actually updated. It also offers many past articles from the magazine, including: Here’s a long list of past Countryside articles for future reading. Looking at the contents of these magazines makes me dream of things I can build and grow. I don’t subscribe to any of them right now, but may have to begin picking up a few. Or maybe I’ll just start checking out their websites regularly. Do you read any of the these? 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