£50
Travel. Yorkshire: a Windsor clergyman's summer motoring holiday journal, The Rev. W.R. Flex, cleric, school master and sometime Eton beak, August 1932, 103 ff manuscript diary, principally to verso, with social, topographical and antiquarian observations, including the Weavers' Strike at Hebden Bridge, the leaves adjoining the narrative illustrated with 12 hand-drawn motoring and other maps, 35 b/w photographs and 7 loosely-inserted of local sites and his family, further printed ephemera, contemporary papered limp boards, some wear, but holding, 8vo; World War Two, South-East Asia: My Pencil, my Rifle, and Me, dated 1945, an army serviceman's unfinished memoir, [iii], [24]pp of MS only, 6 mixed media illustrations (of 7, apparently), including a pen-and-ink self-portrait of the author in military uniform, the extant narrative comprises an amusing, and at times, self-deprecating introduction and an account of the sea voyage only, inscribed in a contemporary Japanese ruled ledger, with a later tacked-on tan pigskin leather wrapper, the upper-cover lettered in blind relief, foolscap 4to (31 x 23cm), (2)
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