New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Alexander, E.P. [Edward Porter]. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges lightly foxed, hinges just beginning to weaken, boards lightly rubbed, closed split along one seam of folding map.
xviii, 634 pp. 8vo. Fold-out map follows text, maps from sketches by the author in.....
New York: Touchstone, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
299 pp. An exciting foray into the lives of the young men - pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous missions during World War II details their courage.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. An exceptional copy.
299 pp. An exciting foray into the lives of the young men - pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous missions during World War.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine base bumped with small tear.
299 pp. An exciting foray into the lives of the young men - pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous missions during.....
East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2015. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. No jacket. Minor general wear.
xxvi, 559; lxv, 449 pp. Two volume set. Field Marshal Jeffery[n 1] Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, KB (29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797) was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief.....
. Time Life Books, 1984. Full-Leather.
Ex Libris bookplate and publisher slip laid in.
xxvii, 517 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.
New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1959. Orban, Paul. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Page ridges faintly foxed, "Grade 7" in ink on title page.
181 pp. John Barry (March 25, 1745 – September 13, 1803) was an Irish-American officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Faint stain on jacket spine base.
523 pp. Traces the careers of Grant and Lee from West Point and the Mexican War, through the war between the states, to their first face-to-face meeting at Appomattox,
New York: Doubleday, 2013. Hard Cover.
1cm tear to upper jacket, ink name on endpaper.
A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine very faintly faded, front board very lightly soiled, front hinge starting.
375 pp. Blue boards. Gilt title on spine and on front board. With sixteen illustrations. "Woman, wrote the young Napoleon in 1791, "is indispensable.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and tears. Quarter inch tear to spine cloth, spine cloth lightly toned.
499 pp. The story opens in Europe in the late fall of 1944. Private Lester Atwell's outfit, an inexperienced infantry.....
New York: Citadel Press, 2007. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Appears to be faint foxing to some pages (almost seems to be intentionally printed that way for "distressed look"?).
From Fort Knox to the front lines, accounts of Doc's brilliance in time of war became the stuff.....
Granville, Ohio: First Baptist Church of Granville, Ohio, 1911. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Ink gift note on front free endpaper.
291 pp. Illustrated with plates of figures. CONTENTS: The First American; The Real Washington; Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Paine; Benedict Arnold; Aaron Bur and Alexander Hamilton; Ulysses S......
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1986. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. A fine copy.
LXXXIV, 354 pp. "The text is the autobiography of George Ballentine, a Soctsman, who emigrates to America expecting to use his skill as a weaver. Unable to find work in New York City, he enlists in.....
New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Faint edge wear.
229 pp. "This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide.....
New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Signed Copy. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "For David Mihalgou." A nice copy.
229 pp. "This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become.....
. Self-Published. Signed Copy. Spiral-Bound Softcover.
Signed on front cover verso by both authors with inscription from John Bellinger, "To Ralph Mecher, My Civil War Friend. From the "Colonel"
Includes black-and-white photographs. This is the first attempt since the Civil War to identify Union army dead in Woodlawn National Cemetery.--Introduction
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint 1/2 inch stain on spine base, jacket lightly toned.
496 pp. Includes black-and-white maps. "The never-before-told story of how Ultra first proved itself in battle, turning defeat into victory." "Written by a man who was personally.....
New York: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author with inscription. Jacket edges rubbed with some tears along front jacket flap edge, small stain on page ridge.
xxiii, 455 pp. Living memories of a forgotten war. The American experience in World War I. Illustrated.
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly crinkled.
xvi, 494 pp. "Uncovers the story of Francis Gary Powers's flight in a CIA U-2 spy plane into Soviet airspace two weeks before a vital Paris summit meeting in 1960 between Eisenhower and Khrushchev."
Austin, Texas: Easkin Press, 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Page ridges faintly foxed.
vii, 283 pp. Sixth Marine Reconnaissance Company. Rising Sun Sinking is the dramatic story about the fighting men of the Striking Sixth Marine Division Reconnaissance Company and their experiences during the invasion of Okinawa in.....
PA: Burd Street Press, 1999. Hard Cover.
Map of Andersonville laid in. Jacket edges rubbed. Spine slightly cocked.
xvi, 214 pp. "Paints a vivid picture of nine months of life in a Civil War prison, through diaries and letters of a Union prisoner at the peak of the converted warehouse's.....
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped.
127 pp. Includes 10 color plates, 33 figures, and 18 ship model photographs, several unnumbered 'draughts,' and facsimiles of documents. Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Duras, was a warship in the American Continental Navy.....
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Ink underlining and marginalia.
xi, 404 pp. "Raphael Semmes (September 27, 1809 – August 30, 1877) was an officer in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Until then, he had been a serving officer.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Bottom edges of pages stained, hinges starting, ink name on front free endpaper.
xvi, 324 pp. CONTENTS: Lee before the War; The Great Decision; Lee and Davis; Lee and the Confederate Government; Lee and.....