Softcover. Washington DC/NY, Infantry Journal and Penguin Books, reprint, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 305 pages. Frontis map. The author became the oldest Junior Subaltern (Second Lieutenant) in the British forces and became known later as the "water bloke" by building an ever-extending pipeline to furnish filtered fresh-water to the British troops pursuing Rommel's army into Tunisia. From the very beginning and especially from the Battle of El Alamein onwards, he traveled the whole 2,000 mile mine-ridden way providing life-sustaining water to the British Eighth Army who spearheaded the allied Tunisian Campaign in a dozen bitter battles that ended in victory on 13 May 1943. The Sappers retired Peter William Rainier as a Major in June 1943 just after the hostilities in Africa had ended. He is remembered as one of the few original members of The Army of the Nile (General Wavell's "thirty thousand") who survived the three long years of fighting allowing him to witness the final victory over the Axis powers in Africa. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Jackson, 1st, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Black & white illustrations. Missing approx. 1/4" of cloth at top and bottom of spine. Covers and spine faded. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New Hampshire, State of New Hampshire, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 401 pages, hardcover. Adjutant General's report of New Hampshire from 1868. Stamped boards, gilt titling intact. Heavy chipping to spine. Corners bumped. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to boards as well. Mild age toning to text block edge. Gutter crack at rear panel. Unmarked. A clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Allston & Depew, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Illustrated blue boards. Illustrations by George R. Depew throughout. Moderate age toning to all edges. Spotting and soiling to panels, much less so to front panel. Fore and bottom edges rough-cut. Scarce. A tight copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, United States Air Force, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, approximately 300 stapled pages. A guide to the SAC's worldwide bases, circa 1959. 8 1/2 X 11", three hole punched. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos of airfields, barracks, NCO clubs, housing for airmen and other facilities covering bases in the states, England, Guam, Germany, etc. Also maps showing locations. Not classified in the early days of the Cold War. Front fly leaf with and introduction by Thomas Power, Commanding General.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated primarily with black & white drawings (some color) by C. LeRoy Baldridge. Dust jacket with chipping, closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 334 pages, 4 fold-out maps and chart of naval ships, gilt lettered spine. Previous owners' signatures on front endpage, embossed stamp on title page. A very good copy of an amazing book that foretold Japan's involvement in WWII.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton, Reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 559 pages. Volume 2 only. Black & white illustrations. Front and rear hinges cracked, with hinge cloth revealed. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Cloth covers show light wear with minor rubbing. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. York, George Shumway, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 71 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Stain along dust jacket spine and edge of front and rear dust jacket cover. No slipcase. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 145 pages. Black and white photographs and sketches throughout. Cohesive history follows the evolution of United States coastal defense from the 1700s until World War II. Appendix. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 500 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge partially cracked, but minor. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Top edge gilt. Clean, tight copy. First printing of the revised, much enlarged edition of 1901, with "Published November 1901" on copyright page, and Mahan's new preface, dated October 1901. Originally published in 1893, this edition contains four biographies that first appeared as contributions to the Atlantic monthly in 1893 and 1894, and "the original treatment has been here considerably modified, as well as enlarged".
Hardcover. Janes Information Group, 104th, June 1, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 907 pages, b&w and color photographs and diagrams throughout. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. First few pages slightly wrinkled. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Penguin Books/The Infantry Journal, 3rd pr., 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages, b&w illustrations. Mild soil to covers, edgewear, edges darkened. Still a very nice, tight copy of this classic work on guerrilla warfare.
Hardcover. Burlington, State of Vermont, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 620 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners names on front endpaper. Bound in brown leather with gilt title on black background on spine. Clean, tight copy. Volume 1 only.
Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Since its inception in 1970, MX has been fiercely debated in the White House, the Pentagon, and on Capitol Hill. President Jimmy Carter called it, initially, "the craziest thing I ever heard," and yet only two years later, caught up in the implacable logic of the nuclear arms race, he would approve an expanded budget for its development. John Edwards interviewed all the major actors in this drama, and through his incisive portraits of the scientists, politicians and generals who control the weapons community, he shows how policy grows out of their personal and ideological conflicts. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. West Port CT, Greenwood, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows standard wear with rubbing and chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages, hardcover. Illustrated history of the armies of India. 72 color plates after paintings of Maj. A.C. Lovett with titled tissue guards, plus 19 line drawings in text. Impressed edging decoration to front boards and spine. Minor fading, edgewear, and rubbing to boards, as well as light soiling. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The 77th Division Association, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages, hardcover. History of famed military division. Designed and written in the Field (France). Beautifully illustrated with b&w and color plates. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to boards, as well as some light soiling. Bumping to corners, slightly flayed. Spotting/yellowing to half title page and rear flyleaf. Unmarked. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, reprint, 1886, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 688 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt and black titles and gilt design on front and spine. Binding is very delicate. Some internal signature coming loose. Handle with care. Small tear to front gutter, ex-lib numbers at bottom spine. Previous owner's stamp on prelim-page. Light wear and rubbing to pictorial boards.
Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 604 pages. Stated: First Edition - Third Thousand. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Minor fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bramhall House, 2nd Printing, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Illustrations throughout, with a treatise on The Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and an appendix on The Catapult, Balista and the Turkish Bow. Dust jacket soiled and worn, foxing on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 809 pages, b&w photography. Black cloth spine, silver title. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to covers and upper edges, else a very nice, tight, clean copy in excellent shape.
Hardcover. NY, Central African Division Air Transport Command , 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with gilt lettering. 48 pages, photo illustrations, maps. A pictorial history on the operations of the Central African Division of the Air Transport Command of the United States Army during the Second World War. Lots on activities of servicemen on air bases in Africa.
Hardcover. Hartford, CT, American Publishing Company, Reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt design, 298 pages. "Property of U.S. Navy" stamped on bottom edge. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. London, Cassell & Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 213 pages, map. Memoirs of a British subaltern in a West African regiment serving in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya and Ethiopia ca. 1940-41 fighting against Italians: Wajir Fort, Buno, Bura Hachi, Battle of Uadara. Spine cloth faded, name on front flyleaf, light foxing. Otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 229 pages. This book examines the lost voices of returning World War II veterans in the immediate postwar years and shows how the developing Cold War silenced or altered dissenting opinions that many vets expressed upon their return. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 Pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Author's scarce 2nd book. Blue fabric covered, no fraying, intact, no rips or tears. Some foxing on boards and endpapers. Pages yellowed from age and a small bit of water damage at very bottom of fore edge, does not affect text or illustrations. Original owner's signature on front flyleaf dated 1941. Picture of author glued on front flyleaf. An overview of American aircrafts up to 1941, both commercial and military.
Hardcover. Barnsley UK, Pen & Sword Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 155 pages., b/w plates., maps, index, This remarkable account describes the open warfare Polish Underground fighters waged against the Nazi occupiers of their city-with a shortage of arms, ammunition, and medical support-in the expectation of Soviet assistance that came too late to help the precipitous uprising.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Illustrated with drawings by R. F. Zogbaum celebrating military life in France, Germany, Great Britain, and United States. Title in gilt on cover with drum and rifle illustration. Cloth missing from top 3/8" of spine. Corners of front and back covers bumped and rubbed. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Maroon cloth covers. Reprint edition by the Johnson Reprint Corporation 1968. Previous owners stamp embossed on title page. Light moisture spotting to covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and yellowing to dust jacket edges. An otherwise tight copy. First printing of the author's first book, which won an Edgar as Best First Novel.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Gilt illustration on front cover. Spine cloth slightly age darkened. Light rubbing at top of spine. A very nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hovendon & Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Blue cloth covers with bright gilt and 3-color design. Illustrated with black & white engravings and color plates. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Light fraying at top and bottom of spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Providence RI, J.A. & R.A. Reid, 1st, 1887, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 389 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR'S WIFE on front flyleaf. EX-LIBRARY. The Civil War ruminations of a Rhode Island army volunteer. Gilt titling to spine and front panel. Embossed and decorated green boards. Moderate bumping and slight fraying to spine, top and bottom edges. Gutter crack repaired. Usual library markings and stamping to prelim pages. Library index sticker affixed to spine. Spotting and age toning to text block edges. Scarce. A bright copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "...in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American Foreign policy." Clean copy.
Hardcover. Coral Gables, Fla., University of Miami Press, 1st, June 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Scarce. 176 pages. Edge wear, rubbing, small tears to dust jacket. Foxing to edges and end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.
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