Chicago: Rand McNally, 1951. Small Hard Cover.
Board edges rubbed, ink gift note on front free endpaper.
36 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's Address to Congress, April 19, 1951, Washington, D.C., with Highlights of His Career.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1967. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Jacket spine base lightly rubbed, light stain along bottom edge of front jacket panel.
250 pp. "The most extraordinary story of Allied espionage yet to emerge from World War II. Is this man the master spy who.....
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. First UK Edition. Hard Cover.
First UK edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
li, 763 pp. Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of.....
Harrisburg, PA: The Archive Society, 1995. Facsimile. Hard Cover.
1995 facsimile of 1907 original. A very nice copy.
634 pp. Grey boards with gilt page ridges. Marbled endpapers. "“First published in 1907, Military Memoirs of a Confederate is regarded by many historians as one of the most important and dispassionate.....
New York, New York: M. Evans and Co., Inc., 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Very minor tear on front jacket panel near spine. Faint smudge on top page ridge.
xxx, 312 pp. Many would have suspected the Duke of Windsor of treason but until recently proof has been.....
. 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.
Ohio: Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1975. Dickinson, L.T. Facsimile. Hard Cover.
1975 facsimile reissue of 1897 original. No jacket.
280 pp. A narrative of one man's experiences in the Confederate Army. "James Dinkins served in Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, for the first two years of the war.....
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.
Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
xv, 234 pp. From the Introduction:"Look around," the drill sergeant said. "In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will.....
New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A few pages dog-eared.
xxvii, 574 pp. "An oral history of the Vietnam war in both the United States and Vietnam features first-hand accounts of how the war was experienced by soldiers, policy makers, protesters, operatives, doctors, artists, and journalists;.....
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1991. Hard Cover.
Four inch cut on front jacket panel. A few light stains on top page ridge, page ridge foxed.
558 pp. During the first two years of World War I a German general called from obscure retirement, Paul Von Hindenburg, aided.....
Great Britain: Greenhill Book, 1996. Hard Cover.
Jacket spine head lightly bumped. Smudge on page ridge.
464 pp. "1812: The Great Retreat tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's.....
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. Blue smudge on bottom page ridge.
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.....
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.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1857. Hard Cover.
Pre-Civil War one-volume edition. Some loss to spine head and to spine base, joints starting, bookplate on second blank, some pages lightly foxed.
223, 218 pp. One volume edition of the work originally published in two volumes in 1807. A biography of.....
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1895. Hard Cover.
No publisher date, circa late 1800s. Spine and board edges lightly faded, top corner of front board bumped, pages lightly toned.
489, 2 pp. Engraved frontispiece. A biography of the life of George Washington.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1997. Full-Leather.
Still in original plastic wrap.
xxiv, [2], 348 pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. A biography of the twelfth President of the United States of America, who.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape, minor loss from spine head, boards rubbed, single page in appendix loosening.
ix, 337 pp. 8vo. A biography of a West Point graduate and career soldier who served as a brigadier general 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.....
. Time Life Books, 1983. Full-Leather.
Ex Libris bookplate laid in.
vii, 401 pp. Blue boards with gilt title on spine and front board. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. "John Beatty (December 16, 1828 – December 4, 1914) was an American banker and statesman from Sandusky, Ohio. He served as.....
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.....
Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2004. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Ink name on front wrapper verso.
238 pp. "In No Picnic on Mount Kenya, Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring adventures of this century. In 1943, Benuzzi and two fellow Italian prisoners of war escaped from a British camp.....