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Lot 297
JAMES B. A. 'JIMMY': (1915-2008) British Squadron Leader with the Royal Air Force. A Prisoner of War from 1940-45, James made numerous efforts to escape from various POW and Concentration Camps, most famously from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 as part of the 'Great Escape'. A selection of five note and exercise books of different sizes, each featuring various manuscript notes by James relating to his linguistic studies in Russian and Czech (1), mainly late 1940s to 1950s, and one dated 1976, the notes including military and technical vocabulary and featuring the Russian words for air force, armour, aeronautics, bomb, camouflage, coastal command, refuel, report for duty, sortie, target, throttle, weather conditions etc., notes taken in conjunction with linguaphone lessons and covering more commonly used Russian vocabulary in relation to hotels, restaurants etc., notes made for James's Russian revision over eight lessons in 1976 and detailing various useful words and phrases etc., and one notebook containing a few pages of Czech words for days of the week, months, numerals etc. Two of the notebooks bear the ink ownership signature ('B. A. James') of James to the front covers. Some light overall age wear, G, 5 James achieved a Royal Society of Arts qualification in Russian and began learning the language whilst imprisoned at Stalag Luft III during breaks in the preparation for 'The Great Escape'. He was also the founder of the Anglo-Russian Friendship Association.
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Lot 311
[JAMES B. A. 'JIMMY']: (1915-2008) British Squadron Leader with the Royal Air Force. A Prisoner of War from 1940-45, James made numerous efforts to escape from various POW and Concentration Camps, most famously from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 as part of the 'Great Escape'. JAMES HERBERT MARK (1873-1933) English Businessman, manager of a tea plantation in India. Father of Jimmy James. A collection of thirty five A.Ls.S., Daddy, eighty nine pages, mainly 4to, most written from Shamshernagar, South Sylhet, India, June 1931 - April 1933, all to his son, Jimmy James ('My dear Bertram') and written in the period when Jimmy James returned to England following the death of his mother up to Herbert James also returning, shortly before his own death. The largely social letters from father to son discuss family and business matters, as well as his social activities, participating in games of polo, tennis and bridge etc., in part, 'I think that you have made an excellent choice of a career in the Mercantile Marine & sincerely hope that you will stick to your first choice & take it up seriously. If you have to work hard to get into it, put your back into it & determine to pass any necessary exam. I was never in favour of you going into the church & think that Mummy only favoured it from sentimental reasons…..I don't want you to stop uselessly at school too long. It is only a waste of money. Excuse me for talking so frankly to you, but you are old enough to understand old boy, & I hope you will do your best to help me. Times in tea are very hard, money is getting scarcer & scarcer' (29th June 1931), 'It has been raining all the afternoon & I have just got to the office after having given all the pluckers leave. We have any quantity of leaf on the bushes & can't get it off owing to the rain, which is very disappointing' (11th August 1931), 'I chaffed Betty [his daughter, Jimmy's sister] about her shyness. What is the good of being shy. You both are as good as anyone else, so hold your heads up & look about you…..PS The most important part of my letter is at the end. You will be interested to hear that I am engaged to be married to Mummy's greatest friend Miss May Wood. When we are going to be married I cannot say but I know that you two will love her for she is very very jolly…..' (19th November 1931), 'Your letter congratulating me on my engagement old Boy is very much appreciated, & I am very glad to know that both you & Betty are pleased about it. I think that it will be a great thing for you & Betty having a Mother's care once more' (14th January 1932), 'I am not quite certain what your job in a tea broker's office would be, but I consider it a very good opening & advise you to put your best foot foremost. I never had such a good start, so hope that you will make the best of a real good opportunity……You may be said to have your foot on a very good bottom rung of the ladder of life. It is now up to you to make good by your own efforts' (18th February 1932), 'I think your Captain must be a bit of a brute to act as he did. Nasty tempered fellow apparently? You say that he hacked your shins. About your writing, it is very legible indeed but it might be improved by being a little bigger. I've told you about this before…..' (26th February 1932), 'I took Mr. C. for a long jungle walk……& he was attacked with malaria in the afternoon his temperature rising to 104◦. He is going home shortly & wants a thorough over hauling at the Tropical School of Medicine……Mr. Elder now has a wireless set on which he can get Paris & Moscow. The music pieces are more or less OK but it is impossible to hear when people are talking. Atmospherics I understand are the trouble' (12th March 1932), 'Sir Stanley Jackson, the famous cricketer, was Governor of Bengal - I should say is - but he is on the point of retiring' (26th March 1932), 'I was very amused to see that the players were done down by Duleepsinhji and Pataudi in the Gentlemen & Players match. Hardly any one else but those two did anything' (17th July 1932), 'I have had to…..give evidence that I gave information about a murder that was committed in Shamshernagar. I know nothing about the murder but the mere fact of my having given the information has dragged me into the case' (3rd September 1932), 'I didn't like hearing of your experience in that boat with Francois, & it is a good thing that the old man came and rescued you. I know that messing about in a boat along the coast is very dangerous…..I do not think that I shall be able to afford to let you join the Territorials. I am very hard up & there is no improvement in the tea trade' (14th September 1932), 'Do you remember my telling you of Mr. Hall - a Lyon's taster. He is here again & on his way to Calcutta…..He says that you are very lucky to have secured your job' (6th October 1932), 'I was up…..yesterday to lunch with the Allans…..& much enjoyed the outing. Elisabeth (sic) Allan is now getting £12,000 per annum. She is a very good actress, & has gone to Hollywood' (8th January 1933). Many of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes hand addressed by James. Together with a small selection of manuscript notes (in several unidentified hands) and printed ephemera etc., relating to the death of Herbert Mark James in December 1933 including a printed small 8vo Order for the Burial of the Dead at Norwood Crematorium, obituary provided to King's School, Canterbury etc., and also including a selection of vintage photographs of various sizes, most associated with or depicting Jimmy James's father (and mother?) and largely dating from his time in India, a few showing Jimmy James as a baby and young boy accompanied by his sister, some images of King's School Canterbury sports teams including the football team of 1889, later school photographs of 1931 & 1932 (one annotated by Jimmy James to the verso) etc. Some of the photographs are loosely contained in envelopes annotated by Jimmy James and some bear annotations to the verso in the hand of his father identifying the subjects etc. FR to generally G, 106
Lot 318
JAMES B. A. 'JIMMY': (1915-2008) British Squadron Leader with the Royal Air Force. A Prisoner of War from 1940-45, James made numerous efforts to escape from various POW and Concentration Camps, most famously from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 as part of the 'Great Escape'. A collection of 8vo desk and pocket engagement Diaries kept by Jimmy James and his wife, Madge, covering the years 1979, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1996 (2), 1998, 1999, 2001 (2), 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 (2), 2006 (2) and 2007 (4), with many entries in the hand of Jimmy James (and a smaller number in the hand of his wife), recording various domestic and medical appointments, flights, golf days, weddings, funerals, Prisoner of War, Battle of Britain, D-Day and other RAF memorial days and services (including the 50th & 60th Anniversaries of the 'Great Escape') as well as talks and other events, including a meeting with Earl Moorhouse in connection with his research for a book, publication date of Moonless Night, garden party at Buckingham Palace, television interviews, book and print signings, Oundle History tours to Sachsenhausen, dates of telephone conversations with individuals concerning Roger Bushell, 92 Squadron etc., trips to Berlin, Poland and France etc., also including an oblong folio calendar for 2005 with many entries, the majority in the hand of Madge James. Some of the diaries bear the ownership name, address and other personal details of Jimmy James and some also include various addresses and telephone numbers (including those of Air Chief Marshal Kenneth Cross, Jack Churchill etc.) and the diary for 1994 also features details of income received from the sales of Moonless Night. Together with a small 8vo diary presented by Jimmy James to his wife in 1947, with a warm inscription to the front free endpaper, in full, 'To my Own Darling, in the assurance that we shall be as happy in five years, when this book is full, as at the moment I am writing this on the waters of the Lake of Lucerne 26th Mar. 1947. Always, Sweetheart, all my love and more, Jimmy', the diary (with printed German text) bearing the ownership signature ('Madge Tughan James, Aged 25') and date, 1947 (in pencil) of Madge James and with a few intermittent entries in her hand between January and June 1947, recording the 'very happy life Jimmy and I have' and walks in the woods, skiing, moving into a flat in Germany together, preparing for their second honeymoon and trips to Brussels and Paris ('At last my dream of years is realized - at last. So grand, so wonderful'), shopping expeditions in Switzerland ('Jimmy's headache…..Darling Jimmy is so good he buys me everything, never thinks of himself. I hope he doesn't spoil me. I'm sure I don't deserve it'), commenting on a visit to Engelberg ('I suppose it always remains peaceful. How lucky not to have known war, heartache & bombs as we have, or concentration or Prisoner-of-War camps like my Darling Jimmy') and their married life ('Jimmy is so loving, kind and considerate. I am so happy to have married him. It is complete happiness to be together like this. I love him very much') as well as fears of another war occurring ('I can't bear the thought of it - the thought that one day I might lose Jimmy. Life would be so empty without him….'), recording a few days spent in Hamburg at the [Ravensbruck] trials ('It must have be[en] dreadful for Jimmy - reliving those horrible memories') etc. G to generally VG, 23
Lot 323
JAMES B. A. ‘JIMMY’: (1915-2008) British Squadron Leader with the Royal Air Force. A Prisoner of War from 1940-45, James made numerous efforts to escape from various POW and Concentration Camps, most famously from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 as part of the ‘Great Escape’. An amusing and unusual collection of original manuscript limericks composed by Jimmy James, the majority in the standard form of a stanza of five lines, examples include – An Airline Pilot from Milan Flew the Great Circle route to Japan But, due to the weather He made a slight error And finished up where he began A bookish old man of Hay Stood and read books all day He said “I know it’s a bore When I stand in the store But you see it’s just my way” A nasty old Judge of Devizes Wore wigs of all different sizes He deemed it wise To come in disguise When he attended any assizes There was a young scientist from Kiev Who divided Einstein’s equation by two When the smoke had cleared It was what we feared He was only the man that we knew A young flier used to boast He could fly faster than most One day near the ground He flew faster than sound And now you can see his ghostAnd also including one of an autobiographical nature There was a young pilot called James Who over Holland was shot down in flames He had tunnel vision And made a decision To leave camp by u/g [underground] trainsAll are written on various pieces of paper, some to the versos of letters etc. to James, and many of them bear red ink annotations in the hand of his wife, Madge, expressing her verdicts on their qualities and in some cases suggesting alterations etc. Together with a typed manuscript of Limpid Limericks for Libatory Lirerates by James, comprising some seventy pages, 4to, n.d. (c.1969), with many red ink annotations in the hand of his wife, accompanied by a few letters of rejection from publishers including Hamlyn and Methuen, a few letters relating to the possible inclusion of the limericks in Christmas crackers. Also including a small selection of manuscript odes and other literary efforts by James, including a typed manuscript of his short story entitled Green Hills (with many holograph corrections) and typescripts of his essays Arctic Circular Tour and From Atlantic to Pacific by the Trans-Canada Highway. FR to generally G, Qty.
Lot 294
JAMES B. A. 'JIMMY': (1915-2008) British Squadron Leader with the Royal Air Force. A Prisoner of War from 1940-45, James made numerous efforts to escape from various POW and Concentration Camps, most famously from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 as part of the 'Great Escape'. Two pale blue small 4to feint ruled Royal Air Force notebooks belonging to James, both containing extensive notes and diagrams made by James (the majority in ink, and some in pencil) whilst a Flight Lieutenant (December 1952) and Squadron Leader (November 1955), the first entitled Notes on RAF Regt Weapon Training and Fieldcraft and including notes on the theory of small arms fire, the recognition, mechanism and packing of bombs, small arms ammunition, grenades, stalking ('Defeat the enemy:- 1. By killing 2. By capturing. To do this:- 1. Observe 2. Come to close quarters.'), electrical method of demolition, smoke, field firing etc. (the back of the notebook also including several pages of notes dedicated to a trip James made with his wife to Scandinavia) and the second notebook entitled No.2 SROC and containing notes regarding RAF installations, the threat of Cold War, chemical warfare, the general effects of Atomic and Thermo-Nuclear warfare etc. One of the notebooks contains three loosely inserted printed 8vo Royal Air Force Staff Qualifying Examination sheets dated March 1953 and featuring questions regarding Current British and International Affairs, Principles of Strategy and the Employment of Air Power and the Organization and Role of the Royal Navy and of the British Army. Both notebooks bear the ownership signature ('B. A. James', with rank alongside) of James and date etc. to the front covers. Some slight staining and age wear, G to about VG, 2
Lot 295
JAMES B. A. 'JIMMY': (1915-2008) British Squadron Leader with the Royal Air Force. A Prisoner of War from 1940-45, James made numerous efforts to escape from various POW and Concentration Camps, most famously from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 as part of the 'Great Escape'. Two pale blue small 4to feint ruled Royal Air Force notebooks and a third pale brown notebook belonging to James, each containing various notes and diagrams made by James (mainly in ink, with a few of the diagrams in pencil) whilst a Flight Lieutenant during the early 1950s, the first entitled Instruments and containing notes regarding the gyroscope in its various forms, the altimeter, vertical speed indicator, magnetism and compasses etc., the second entitled Meteorology and including eight pages of notes relating to a definition of terms, clouds and air masses etc., and the third simply entitled Notes and containing notes regarding official RAF correspondence, formulating plans of action, organizational charts for RAF Command Headquarters, Stations, the Air Ministry, the Admiralty etc., and also including some notes relating to Russia's Far Eastern Policy. One of the notebooks also includes a few pages of notes in the hand of James's wife, Madge, relating to her nursing career and in particular allergies. Each of the notebooks bear the ownership signature ('B. A. James, F/Lt'; one very faded) of James to the front covers. Some slight staining and age wear, G to about VG, 3
Lot 296
JAMES B. A. 'JIMMY': (1915-2008) British Squadron Leader with the Royal Air Force. A Prisoner of War from 1940-45, James made numerous efforts to escape from various POW and Concentration Camps, most famously from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 as part of the 'Great Escape'. Small selection of four notebooks of different sizes (folio and smaller) belonging to James and each containing notes on a variety of subjects made by James (largely in ink, and some in pencil) whilst a Flight Lieutenant during the early 1950s, including lists of crew members stationed with him at Headquarters, 289 (2) Squadron, notes on the WAAF, Air Force law and administration, form of Operation Orders, flying and airmanship, radar, accounting within the air ministry, aircraft casualty reporting procedures, the history of the British Empire Colonial Office, India, the principles of war, the principles of strategy & the employment of air power, the Battle of Britain, some Russian and English vocabulary and phrases relating to aeronautics etc. Two of the notebooks bear the ownership signature ('B. A. James, F/Lt') of James to the front covers. Some slight staining and age wear, G, 4
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