american military

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 547 pages. Hardcover. A Special Hall of Fame Edition of 1,000 copies of which this is SIGNED and hand numbered #738/1000 BY THE AUTHOR. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Faint darkening to top right corner, edge of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Unmarked text. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages. In this collection of more than a dozen interviews one of the giants of American comic strips talks about his life and his craft. The years spanning 1937 to 1986, when the interviews were conducted, embrace almost all of Caniff's career as he was producing the legendary Terry and the Pirates and his post-World War II masterpiece Steve Canyon. In long talks with such comics luminaries as Jules Feiffer and Will Eisner, Caniff (1907-1988) discusses his signature chiaroscuro style, his passion for realism in every detail, and his relationships with such other cartooning greats as Al Capp (Li'l Abner), Noel Sickles (Scorchy Smith), and Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) As Caniff speaks earnestly about his art, his techniques, and his intentions, he discloses his inspirations. He based his characters on real persons and his material on contemporary politics and military issues. He gives candid opinions about the effects of the marketplace, business, and sales upon his art. "I would have created Blondie if I'd known that I could have sold it, you can be damn sure." He notes that the cause for terminating his association with Terry and the Pirates and his creation of Steve Canyon was neither lack of interest nor censorship but the opportunity to exert full creative control over his work.

Softcover. Greensburg PA, privately printed, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, octavo, 25 pages, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild general shelfwear to wrap, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Includes a b/w sketch by John Trumbull.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 389 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy. The commander of a Georgia regiment through much of the Civil War mused later in his memoirs that the heaviest burden fell not upon the man at the front, but upon the woman who waited and prayed for victory: "While the men were carried away with the drunkenness of the war, she dwelt in the stillness of her desolate home." Sallie Brock Putnam spoke for Southern womanhood. She was a native of Madison County, Virginia, and seems to have come from a family of good social standing. The book contains an unexpectedly full history of the Civil War; the author exhibits a strong grasp of strategy and tactics. But at its heart is an incisive eyewitness account of life in a capital that was swollen to four times its normal population by the exigencies of war. Brock's descriptions of Jefferson Davis' inauguration and the Richmond Bread Riot of 1863 are dramatic, but no more so than her accounts of nameless refugees, race relations, opportunistic merchants and blockade runners. Confederate prisons and family matters. In contrast to other female Southern writers of the period, she was more sober and factual, less gossipy and speculative. She wrote with shrewdness and maturity, and with a remarkable lack of self-pity and exaggeration. Yet the reader cannot miss her courage, sacrifice and suffering. Sallie Brock Putnam died in 1911.

Hardcover. New York, Ralph Kenyan, 1st Edition, 1896, 511 pages. Hardcover. Over 200 b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in gray cloth, beveled at edges, gilt title/decoration on spine, gilt title and decoration on front cover board, designed engraved on back cover board. cover boards have some rubbing and light soil, a touch of fraying to top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front preliminary page. Binding tight. Spine slightly cocked. "...From the Diary of a Private, Supplemented and Verified with Official Reports of Federal Officers and Also of Mosby; With Personal Reminiscences, Sketches of Skirmishes, Battles and Bivouacs, Dashing Raids and Daring Adventures, Scenes and Incidents in the History of Mosby's Command."

Hardcover. New York, Baker and Taylor, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering, b&w illustration on cover pastedown, 220 pages. Black & white illustrated. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title to front and spine. 1486 pages. VOL. 3 ONLY. Includes maps, illustrations, and facsimiles of contemporary documents. Edited by William Bell Clark. Forewords by President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Introduction by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller. Illustrations and charts by Commander Dermott V. Hickey and W. Bart Greenwood. Maps on endpapers. Primary documents, letters from the Revolutionary War as it was being fought day by day at sea and in Congress. Letters from Ezra Stiles on the Cannons at Ticonderoga. George Washington to John Hancock on forming the Marines, Master's log of H.M. Nautilus. Philip Schuyler letters Maps. Painting of Ezra Hopkins. Original sketch of the American ship Privateer Washington. Ex-Library copy with tape on spine and embossed stamp on title page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Metuchen, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 219 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Vancouver, UBC Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Burrows Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 549 pages plus 19 page publisher's catalog in rear. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 391 pages, b&w illustrations. An excellent study of a military commander who transformed the American Frontier and the West. Based on a wide range of sources, including materials only recently made available to researchers, this first complete, carefully documented biography of Miles skillfully delineates the brilliant, abrasive, and controversial tactician whose career in many respects epitomized the story of the Old Army. Nelson A. Miles was probably the best Indian fighter produced by the U.S. Army between 1865 and 1890, figuring prominently in some of the most famous and significant conflicts between whites and Native Americans. This carefully documented biography of Miles skillfully delineates the brilliant, abrasive, and controversial tactician whose career in many respects epitomized the story of the Old Army. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, 8 b&w illustration, fold-out chart. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, dust jacket edgewear, small clear tape repair to top of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 4th pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VIII in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 435 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, Dust jacket flaps pasted on front endpapers otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 375 pages. This collection of articles from thirty-four different newspapers begins with the "alarming intelligence" of the shots fired at Lexington and Concord, followed by the Battle of Bunker Hill and other skirmishes, military affairs and the siege of St. John's. The source of these articles include letters smuggled out of Boston by terrified colonists, proclamations, speeches, affidavts as well as unconfirmed reports and fabrications. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, War Department, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, Large folio volume (17x12 inches) in pebbled red embossed cloth with gilt lettering, modest wear at the extremities with bottom corners bumped. Marbled edges, 584 pages. Hundreds of woodcut illustrations with no stains or flaws. Massive work which reproduces hundreds of black and white engravings of the Civil War. The illustrations originally appeared in Leslie's Magazine during the war. Narrative and descriptions by John Clark Ridpath, Rossiter Johnson, General Fitzhugh Lee, General John T. Morgan, George L. Kilmer, General Joseph B. Carr. No makings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 297 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. This volume covers the operations of the United States Navy in North African waters, both on the Atlantic coast and in the Mediterranean, from the beginning of World War II through the capture of Pantelleria in June 1943. More than half the volume is devoted to the capture of bases in French Morocco, which was an all-American operation and in many respects one of the most remarkable of the war. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Lobster fishermen, art by Mead Schaeffer. 10.5 x 13.5". Very good. Schaeffer enrolled in the Pratt Institute in 1916. In 1922, at age 24, he was hired to illustrate a series of classic novels for publisher Dodd Mead. During the 1930s and 1940s he received commissions from magazines including Good Housekeeping, McCall's, the Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies Home Journal, Country Gentleman, and Cosmopolitan. He produced 46 covers for the weekly Saturday Evening Post. His work as a war correspondent for the Post during World War II resulted in a well-known series of covers illustrating American military personnel. For most of his career lived in Arlington, Vermont, where his studio was in a barn. Norman Rockwell was a good friend, and Schaeffer and his family often posed as models for Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post illustrations and paintings.

1917, Book: Very Good, Two-color art by J. C. Leyendecker. 10 X 13", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1917, Book: Very Good, WW1 European soldier giving embarassed American soldier a hug. Two-color art by J. C. Leyendecker. 10 X 13", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

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. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages. Details the 'whole story' of events leading up to and away from the American invasion of Panama. By December 1989, when George Bush unleashed American troops, Panama had become a crisis. The U.S. Christmas invasion had one real purpose: topple Manuel Antonio Noriega, the general whose name had become synonymous with drugs, deception, and murder. Clean copy.