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Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback First Edition. The Whites of Their Eyes : Close-Quarter Combat.An anecdotal history of close-quarter combat since 1900 that draws on authentic accounts to describe that experience in chilling detail. Packed with firsthand accounts from American, British, German and French servicemen, it covers both worlds wars, Korea, Vietnam and the Falklands campaign. 298pp illustrated.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

8vo. Outer edge of B3 & B4 a little roughly opened. Recent stiff marbled wrappers, red cloth spine. D. Wickham bookplate. 22pp. ESTC N15097; BL, Bodleian, Huntington, UNCCH only. FIRST EDITION. The notorious murderess, Mary Blandy, the only child of Francis Blandy, was hanged in 1752, after being found guilty of poisoning her father. Mary was courted by Captain William Henry Cranstoun who proposed marriage, but her father (an attorney from Henley-on-Thames) objected, suspecting that Cranstoun was a philanderer and already married. Mary was persuaded by Captain Cranstoun to give her father powders which he described as an ancient 'love philtre', and which he assured her would make Francis like him. The dose was in fact arsenic, and when this was discovered by Mary she burned Cranstoun's love letters and disposed of the remaining powders. Susannah Gunnell, the housemaid, had the presence of mind to rescue some of the powder from the fire, and when her father died in August 1751, Mary was arrested for murder. In her condemned cell she wrote 'Miss Mary Blandy's Own Account of the Affair between her and Mr. Cranstoun' which has been described as the 'most famous apologia in criminal literature'.…

[4], 26pp. BOUND WITH: Miss Mary Blandy's Own Account of the affair between her and Mr. Cranstoun, from the commencement of their acquaintance, in the year 1746. . Published by her dying request. Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand. 1752. [4], 64pp. Two works in one vol. in 19thC half sheep, blue marbled boards, spine up-lettered in gilt; hinges a little rubbed. Bookplate of D. Wickham. ESTC T78265 & T134857. Blandy's letter, written from her condemned cell, has been described as the 'most famous apologia in criminal literature'. The macabre case was known to Charles Lamb, who referenced the Mary Blandy and hew subsequent punishment in the essay The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple in Essays of Elia.…