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Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam & Co, 1st, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes in one. 267, 248, and 100 pages respectively. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Heavy spotting to endpapers, title page, and spotting throughout. Previous owner's signature and stamp on front flyleaf, bookplate on front endpaper. Front hinge cracked. Markings on top edge. Damp stains, wear, rubbing, and soiling to cover.

Nafziger Collection , reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Large size 28cm x 21cm in soft card covers. Clean and sound. History of the Polish Revolution of 1830 by Joseph Hordynski - Major of the Late Tenth Regiment of Lithuanian Lancers (Originally pub. in 1833) .

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. no place , Tenth Vermont Regimental Assoc., 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None , Hardcover, 249 pages. Includes a complete roster of the regiment & details of Vermont actions. Light edgewear to covers, slight fading to spine otherwise very good.

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. Dublin, James Duffy, 1st , 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 250 pages. Ex-library, rebound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Residue on endpapers, Interior is clean.

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. 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. Annapolis MD, Naval Institute Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 313 pages. Red cloth covers, gilt titles, red dust jacket with color illustration, b&w maps and illustrations. Slight wear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding; overall, a clean, tight copy. In 1949, as the Chinese Civil War was about to enter its final, explosive stage, the small British frigate HMS Amethyst was sent on a dangerous mission up the Yangtze River to protect British citizens in Nanking. En route it was attacked by the Chinese Communists and held hostage on the river for several months before the crew managed to make a daring escape. The Amethyst captured news headlines around the world and became an unlikely symbol of the cold war in Asia. This dramatic episode, hailed in the West as a triumph of the human spirit but bitterly condemned by the Chinese Communists, was to prejudice Anglo-Chinese relations for years to come.

Softcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press , reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages. An analysis of how culture, class and gender shaped American foreign policy during the Cold War. The author examines the institutions that shaped the members of the US foreign policy establishment, including all-male prep schools and Ivy-League universities.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 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. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 138 pages. B&w drawings by Major Donald L. Dickson, USMC. Edition not stated but 1943 on title page. "On the eighth day of October in the first year of our war, I went down into a valley with Captain Charles Rigaud of the United States Marines. A small skirmish took place down there. The Valley was on Guadalcanal Island, but it might have been anywhere. The skirmish was just an episode in an insignificant battle." Hersey's second book.

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Map endpapers, 176 pages, b&w photos. The first book by a German general published in America after the war, a German account of the D-Day & Normandy 'invasion' by Allied forces; the author was Rommel's Chief-of-Staff and therefore had an inside view of Rommel's efforts to get Hitler to negotiate a peace in the face of overwhelming Allied superiority. Speidel was a career military officer and trained historian; a German nationalist, he disagreed with racist Nazi policies, was involved in the 20 July plot to kill Hitler, and was important in rebuilding Germany's army after the war. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 5th Ed., 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, illustrated with b&w photographs and maps (some fold-out). Navy blue cloth with gilt titles on spine, gilt battleship on front covers, top edge gilt. Vol. 1 with frontispiece and title page loose (easily repairable), rear hinges cracked, Vol. 2 opened roughly at page 80-81, otherwise a clean, sharp set.

Hardcover. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 442 pages, b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Light wear to edges and boards, faint foxing to a few pages. Neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. Account of the US Navy from Independence through the War of 1812. 8 maps, numerous illustrations. Clean copy.

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. New York, Wiley & Halsted, 2nd Ed., 1822, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246, 256 pages, two volumes bound as one. A total of 6 engraved plates - 2 illustrations in vol. I and 4 illustrations in vol. II, but lacks the map, an illustration at page 20, fold-out chart and frontispiece portrait that some dealers describe. Polished brown calf with leather label, gilt lettering still very readable. Previous owner's small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Auburn NY, Knapp, Peck and Thomson, 1st, 1887, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original red cloth, gilt titles and rules, blind-stamped double border. 581 pages including Errata leaf. Includes several fold-out maps, plus pockets inside the front and rear boards containing maps and plans. Engraved frontispiece of Sullivan, engraved portraits in text of Brigadier General James Clinton, Colonel Peter Gansevoort (from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, famous for his portrait of George Washington), and Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt. John Sullivan was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a delegate in the Continental Congress. Sullivan served as a major general in the Continental Army and as Governor (or 'President') of New Hampshire. He is most famous for leading the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, a scorched earth campaign against the Iroquois towns that had taken up arms against the American revolutionaries. This volume contains journals by 27 officers present during the campaign, and has become the authoritative primary source of the event. Both front and rear hinges cracked with spine cloth loose, battlefield map at page 288 has a tear but no loss, front signature with title page loose but whole. All other maps present in envelopes and in very good condition. Covers worn.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a hole on front fore-edge, 318 pages. Mutsu Munemitsu was the Foreign Minister of Japan during the time of the Sino-Japanese War from 1894 until the signing of the peace treaty on May 8, 1895. Mutsu was responsible for the secret documents on diplomatic matters in which he was involved, such as the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the facts about the Triple Intervention. The phrase "kenken" means "serving the sovereign with a pained heart," thus showing his loyalty to serve the Emperor. The documents in this book are exceedingly important as they are virtually the only material mentioning the diplomatic situations in the days of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume XII in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 445 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, light paper residue to front covers, lacks dust jacket, dj flaps pasted onto front endpapers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Clark & Lyman, 2nd Ed., 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages, frontispiece plus 3 other engraved plates. Rebound with new cloth spine and endpapers, original calf covers present. The frontispiece has some loss to the gutter edge and has been reattached. Image not affected. Moderate foxing throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 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. In 1861 William Watson, a native Scot who had established himself as a Louisiana businessman, enlisted in the Confederate forces although still a British subject. In 1887 he penned his memoirs "to give", he said, "a simple narrative of my experience in a war campaign". Far from simple, Watson's work clearly and forcefully describes his experiences with the 3rd Louisiana infantry in battles at Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge while depicting the mundane aspects of camp life and providing delightful and colorful character sketches of fellow soldiers and officers, including the legendary General Ben McCulloch. But Watson offers much more than the story of a soldier's life. He also provides an excellent depiction of southern society undergoing the crisis of secession and the tumultuous early years of the Civil War.

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.