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A History of Roman Sea-Power before the Second Punic War

By: Thiel, J. H.

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company: 1954

Seller ID: 42855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 367 pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound copy in original cream paper jacket with titles printed in red. Text clean and unmarked; light shelf bumping top front corners. Dust jacket sun toned and fading at spine with shelf rubbing and shallow chips and short tears at edges. Illustrated with one plate of photographs addressing the problem of the Corvus. Solid clean copy in worn jacket. Scarce. VG/G
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The Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon; Complete in 5 Volumes

By: Thiers, Louis Adolphe

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, E Claxton & Co: 1883

Seller ID: 29711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 5 volume set, complete. Uniformly bound in pebbled brown cloth with decorative pictorial title designs to spines brightly in gilt. Externals bright and neat; light crimping and just superficial fray to cloth at spine ends. Text printed in double columns and in a rather small font. Page stock with usual, expected uniform toning. Illustrated with engraved plates, portraits. Solid complete set with a very handsome shelf presence. VG thus. ... Oversize set will ship at cheapest possible rate but will require additional charges for expedited or international s...
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Charleston At War; The Photographic Record, 1860-1865

By: Thomson, Jack

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Gettysburg, PA, Thomas Publications: 2000

Seller ID: 22098

ISBN: 1577470524

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

B&W Photographs and maps; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 222 pages; Oversize HC in glossy pictorial boards. 1st edition. Signed by author to title page. Bright, snug and clean. No marks. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of period photographs and maps. Feels and appears unread. About Fine ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. ; Signed by Author
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The Banners and the Glory; The Story of General MacArthur

By: Times, The editors of The Army Times

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnams Sons: 1965

Seller ID: 21657

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 189 pages; Large-format HC/DJ. 1st edition. Bright, snug and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. No marks. Shallow chipping and nicks to the dust jacket at spine ends. Illustrated with B&W photographs. VG+/VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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The Bombard

By: Treece, Henry and Christine Price (Illust. )

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Bodley Head: 1959

Seller ID: 29028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages; Handsome copy is snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright, wraparound pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is price clipped from front flap's lower corner. In text illustrations and jacket art by Christine Price. Snug fresh copy appears not far from as new. NF/NF
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Last Hours of Sheridan's Cavalry, A Reprint of War Memoranda

By: Tremain, Henry Edwin

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Bonnell, Silver & Bowers: 1904

Seller ID: 34414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

frontis portrait; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 563 pages; 1st edition. In original ribbed blue cloth with decorative pictorial title design; red and white standard to upper board with titles still brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Two leaves at front - including frontis portrait and title page - are losse from the binding and laid in. Insect predation with shallow loss to paper at top and bottom edges of these two leaves, with milder insect evidence to the following two or so leaves. A few signatures starting at front edge. Light shelf rub to cloth at spine ends and corners. Noatably with fau...
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Pawns of Liberty; a Story of Fighting Yesterdays in the Balkans

By: Tsanoff, R. A. and S. Corrinne

Price: $239.00

Publisher: New York, Outing Publishing Company: 1914

Seller ID: 11682

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 424 pages; 1914 Outing Publishing Co. HC 1st American edition and printing. Original ribbed blue cloth. Titles very boldly stamped in white to cover and spine. Binding sound; contents clean and unmarked, Rear hinge a little shaken; just mild bumping at corners. A handsome and clean example of this scarce WWI era fictional treatment of the Balkan conflicts. VG
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Text-Book of Ordnance and Gunnery

By: Tschappat, Lt. Col. William Harvey

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1917

Seller ID: 33707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Photographs, diagrams, gravure ; formulae; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 705 pages; HC 1st edition. Text block soundly bound and generally clean. In original red cloth with title lettering in gilt to spine. Ex-library copy with catalog label to spine and expected attachments to endpages. Cloth rubbed and moderately frayed at spine ends; corners lightly bumped. Rear endpages split in the hinge. Prior owner name penned to front endpages. Profusely illustrated with figures, diagrams, gravure plates and photographs and a large folding plate of the Lewis .30 machine gun. A bit shabby and shaken...
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Victory Rode the Rails; The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War

By: Turner, George Edgar

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill: 1953

Seller ID: 42727

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 419 pages; HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original green cloth with titles in gilt. Cloth a little sunned at spine; binding slightly shaken. Mild fading to cloth at board edges. Illustrated with pictorial map endpages; b&w photos. VG-
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Drill Regulations for Cavalry; United States Army.

By: United States Army.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Government Printing Office: 1902

Seller ID: 42201

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

B&W Drawings & Diagrams; 16mo 6; - 7; tall; 529 pages; Small format 16mo HC in original brown oil cloth covered boards with titles in gilt to cover. Sound binding and clean contents. Prior owner had placed a length of cloth tape over the spine and there is light to moderate offset color remaining from the dried tape adhesive. A short run in the cloth over the front joint does not threaten the integrity of the binding. Halo toning to endpages and just mild general toning to page stock. Profusely illustrated with b&w drawings and diagrams, and including some sheet music notation at rear. Uncomm...
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The Military Policy of the United States

By: Upton, Emory

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Washington D. C., Government Printing Office: 1917

Seller ID: 14577

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good+

War Department. Document 290; Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 495 pages; Bound in printed card stock covers. Shelf soiling to cover stock. Weakness to cover joints reinforced with archival paper tape. Prior owner's handlettered titles to spine. Binding sound but a little shaken. Good copy only
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Battlefield [Battle Field] and Prison Pen; or through the War, and Thrice a Prisoner in Rebel Dungeons

By: Urban, John W.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers, Publishers: 1882

Seller ID: 39824

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 486 pages; In publisher's decorative cloth binding. Titles ornately stamped in gilt and black to cover and spine. Decorative borders and rules in black with cannon corner pieces and inset illustration of a Union prisoner in gilt with numerous pictorial flourishes. A well worn copy with cloth nicked and fraying at spine ends and rubbed through at board corners. Binding well shaken with a split to the rear hinge in the endpaper gutter and a split in the binding between the title and dedeication pages. Binding still sound otherwise but fragile. Missing one ...
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Wings For The Fleet

By: Van Deurs, George

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press: 1966

Seller ID: 17153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 175 pages; Large format HC/DJ. 1st edition. Bright, snug and neat in original photo illustrated dust jacket. Light shelf rub to jacket surfaces and several mild sets of drink ring ripples. Book itself bright, snug and unmarked. Profusely illustrated with period photographs. NF/VG- ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Mighty Stonewall

By: Vandiver, Frank E.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1957

Seller ID: 42651

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Photographs & Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 547 pages; Stout HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $6.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Red 1/4 cloth and tan paper covered boards; slight spine lean from shelf storage. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed and with some superficial nicking and a short closed tear to edges. Though without any indication as such, this copy from Bruce Catton's library through his son William B Catton, whose boos we are cataloging for sale. Catton provides a glowing review on the rear jacket panel. V...
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The Art of Warfare In Western Europe During the Middle Ages; From the Eighth Century to 1340

By: Verbruggen, J. F

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Amsterdam & New York, North-Hoilland Publishing Company: 1977

Seller ID: 29388

ISBN: 0720490065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

B&W Maps and Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; HC in original glossy grass green cloth with title lettering in white. Soundly bound and clean. Just light shelf/handling wear to cloth at edges. Two short pen strokes to cloth front boardand a few tiny dings to surface of rear board. Binding just a little shaken in the spine. Illustrated with 5 b&w plates and a few maps. Solid unmarked copy. VG
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[Field Manual] FM 23-30 (French) Reserve Au Personnel Militaire, Manuel De Campagne: Grenades With "Changes" Inserts C1, C2, C3, C5, C6

By: War Department

Price: $39.50

Publisher: Washington D. C., Us Gpo: 1943

Seller ID: 13516

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 75 pages; French language edition of WWII manual on Grenades, dated June 30, 1943. Stamped to cover "ADVANCE COPY," and with changes pamphlets/sheets C1 through C,6 lacking a C4. Change sheet additions are in English. Bright, clean and neat. Presumably prepared for French Resistance forces. Notable for the inclusion of Changes sheets C1 to C6 added between Sept 1942 through May 1943. Scarce in this format. Bright and neat; VG+
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FM 4-20. Coast Artillery Field Manual. Seacoast Artillery. Formations, Inspections, Service and Care of Materiel [Together With] FM 4-20 *C 1 (Changes No. 1)

By: War Department

Price: $12.35

Publisher: Washington D. C., Us Gpo: 1940

Seller ID: 16015

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 71 pages; Manual 4-20 in 1940 printing, together with Cahnges No. 1, a 7 page circular, laid in at front. In publisher issued printed wraps. Saddle stapled binding. Light toning to cover stock, but otherwise very neat. Added "Changes" papmphlet ruffled a little at edges. VG+
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The Franco-Prussian War; The German Conquest of France in 18701871

By: Wawro, Geoffrey

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 42700

ISBN: 0521584361

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 344 pages; 1st edition. Tightly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread and about as new. NF/NF
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When Johnny Comes Marching Home [Signed Association Copy]

By: Wecter, Dixon

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1944

Seller ID: 16326

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 588 pages; Inscribed by the author to then very highly regarded American novelist, Joseph Hergesheimer. "For Joseph Hergesheimer/ with the compliments of Marcella du Pont, and the best wisheds of a common friend .... [etc]// Dixon Wecter / December 1944." Bound in orange cloth with title lettering brightly in black to cover and spine. Pictorial dust jacket bright and clean with just light shelf rub at edges. Price clipped front flap. Assumed early reprinting without year of publication on the title page. NF/VG+; Signed by Author
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American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy

By: Welch, Bob

Price: $10.50

Publisher: New York, Atria: 2004

Seller ID: 1124H581623

ISBN: 0743477588

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 308 pages; 2004 Atria HC/DJ New copy. No remainder mark. A perfect copy in immaculate DJ. Superb; Signed by Author
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Category: Military History