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Essays in Modern Military Biography Reprinted Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review

By: Chesney, Charles Cornwallis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Company: 1874

Seller ID: 33219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

414 pages; In original terra cotta colored cloth boards with title lettering in gitl to spine. Ex-library copy with rmanants of repair tape that was applied to strengthn the rear joint, of which the cloth is completely separated and the board tenuously attached by cords. Prior ownership of John Watts de Peyster, noted military historian, social and policy pioneer. This volume was among several thousand on military history to the library he established at Franklin and Marshall College. An exhaustive list of his honors and services is mounted to the verso of the title page and his bookplate to t...
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The Russo-Turkish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829; with a View of the Present State of Affairs in the East

By: Chesney, Colonel

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Redfield: 1854

Seller ID: 25912

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Partial maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages; Bound in original green cloth with borders in blind to boards and titles in gilt to spine. Light general mottling to cloth boards; boards rubbed at corners and spine ends with mild rub through at tips and modest fray at spine ends. Both folding maps missing large prtions with only partial single page stubs remaining. Split to the rear endpage joing; front free endpage appears to have been removed - liekely to excise ownership or gift inscription/ Text complete and generally clean with only modest foxing and light soiling to endpages and light...
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The Conquest of North Africa, 1940-1943

By: Clifford, Alexander G

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1943

Seller ID: 40596

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 450 pages; 1st edition. Snugly bound and very neat in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just light shelf rubbing to jacket edges. Pictorial map endpapers and maps in text. VG++/VG+
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Son of the Morning Star : Part 2 of 2; Audiobook

By: Connell, Evan S.

Price: $39.50

Publisher: Santa Ana, CA, Books on Tape, Inc.: 1986

Seller ID: 10839

ISBN: 0736610537

Binding: Audiobook cassette

Condition: Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; Set of 7 cassettes in clam shell case - part 2 of 2. Cassettes appear very fresh; from the prior owner the statemnt that he listened to them once only. Case immaculate. Appears as new ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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La France Militaire Illustree. Diverses Organisations De L'Armée. Armures Et Costumes - Armes - Drapeaux - Decorations Et Ordres Militairescostumes. Armes. Drapeaux. Décorations Et Ordres Militaires

By: Dally, A.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Paris, Vve P. Larousse: 1886

Seller ID: 40373

Binding: 1/4 leather

Condition: Very Good-

Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 378 pages; No date given. [1886] 1st edition. P. Larousse. Snugly bound in 1/4 green morocco leather backed spine and pebbled green cloth boards with extra gilt designs and ruling to spine with 5 raised bands. Boards with ruling in blind and decorative emblem in gilt to upper board. Handsome marbled endsheets. Binding snug and neat with handsome shelf presence. Mild shelf rubbing to cloth at corner tips. Scattered light to moderate foxing to page stock. Illustrated with 360 "gravures" - woodcuts in text of military dress, arms. Insignia and naval ve...
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The Secret War: the Spy Game in the Middle East

By: Dan & Ben-Porat

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Sabra Books: 1971

Seller ID: Alibris.0001300

ISBN: 0876310439

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages; Square sound and clean in heavy beige cloth. Original dust jacket edge rubbed at fore edge flap folds, spine ends etc. Solid neat copy in somehat worn original DJ. VG+/VG-Translation of Poker d'espions.
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A Journal Containing an Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships, Sufferings, Battles, Defeat, and Captivity, of Those Heroic Kentucky Volunteers and Regulars, Commanded by General Winchester, in the Years 1812-13, A. Also Two Narratives.

By: Darnell, Elias

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Company: 1854

Seller ID: 20580

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 98 pages; Hardcover in original cloth backed title lettered, paper covered boards. 4th edition. Sound, solid copy with the publisher's trade binding. Brown cloth spine with 4 horizontal rules in gilt; unlettered, as issued. Light general toning and light soiling to decorative title lettered boards. Short, mild scrapes to board edges; corners lightly bumped. A small gouge to the lower edge of the rear board. Missing the front free endpage, the book opens to the title page. Some foxing scattered in text; generally light but heavier to the first 10 or so leaves. Three ...
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Tm 30-303, Italian Language Guide; (1943)

By: Dept., U.S. War

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Washington D. C., U. S. War Dept.: 1943

Seller ID: 16053

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Line drawings; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 61 pages; Small, pocket sized paperback in lettered, green card stock covers. Solid and clean with just light shelf rub to spine edge and expected mild toning to page stock. VG
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Lee's Lieutenants, 3 Volume Set. Vol I: Manassas to Malvern Hill; Volume II: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville; Volume III: Gettysburg to Appomattox

By: Douglas Southall Freeman

Price: $110.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1942

Seller ID: 39935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Maps, B&W plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2255 pages; 1942/1943/1944. Scribners HC/DJ. Volume III is a 1st printing with A on the copyright page. Volumes I and II have 1942 and 1943 on the title pages but lack the designated "A" on the copyright page - thus very early but not 1st printings. All in original dust jackets, details and faults described with regard to each volume thus. Volume I - early printing with 1942 on title page. In original pictorial dust jacket with $5.00 issue price on unclipped front flap. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends and rubbed and worn at edges with sev...
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The Douglas Diary; Student days at Franklin and Marshall College, 1856-1858

By: Douglas, Henry Kyd, Frederic S. Klein, and Florence Starr Taylor

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Franklin and Marshall College: 1973

Seller ID: 29263

ISBN: 0910626006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Drawings and Photographs; Square Small 8vo 7½" - 8; 192 pages; HC in publisher's faux leather-style cloth over boards; evokes appearance of the original journal. Title lettering in gilt to spine. Bright, sound and clean; no marks. A hint of fading to gilt. Binding slightly shelf cocked. Illustrated with period photographs and modern drawings illustrating sections of text. A handsome copy. VG+
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The Douglas Diary; Student days at Franklin and Marshall College, 1856-1858

By: Douglas, Henry Kyd, Frederic S. Klein, and Florence Starr Taylor (Illust. )

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Franklin and Marshall College: 1973

Seller ID: 35872

ISBN: 0910626006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Drawings and Photographs; Square Small 8vo 7½" - 8; 192 pages; HC in publisher's faux leather-style cloth over boards; evokes appearance of the original journal. Title lettering in gilt to spine. Bright, sound and clean; no marks. A hint of fading to gilt at spine. Inscribed and signed on the half-title page by the editor, historian Frederic Klein. Laid in at front is a program for the Nevonian Society Luncheon of 1982 at F&M. Illustrated with period photographs and modern drawings illustrating sections of text. A handsome copy. VG+; Signed by Author
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The Douglas Diary; Student days at Franklin and Marshall College, 1856-1858

By: Douglas, Henry Kyd, Frederic S. Klein, and Florence Starr Taylor (Illust. )

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Franklin and Marshall College: 1973

Seller ID: 37798

ISBN: 0910626006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Drawings and Photographs; Square Small 8vo 7½" - 8; 192 pages; HC in publisher's faux leather-style cloth over boards; evokes appearance of the original journal. Title lettering in much faded gilt to spine. Bright, sound and clean; no marks. Usual fading to gilt at spine. Illustrated with period photographs and modern drawings illustrating sections of text. A handsome copy. VG
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Bugles Blow No More

By: Dowdey, Clifford

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1937

Seller ID: 26711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 497 pages; Soundly bound and clean in original wraparound pictorial dust jacket. Gray cloth with title lettering in red to cover and spine. Dust jacket is rubbed at edges with small chips missing from flap corners; several closed edges tears have been mended and reinforced with period tape on the blank reverse surface. Price clipped from top corner of front flap; mild sunfading to jacket's spine panel. Jacket states 4th printing but book indicates 5th. Binding a little shaken in the spine. Early printing, uncommon in original dust jacket. VG-/G++
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Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, United States Navy: a Biography

By: Du Pont, H. A.

Price: $27.95

Publisher: New York, National Americana Society: 1926

Seller ID: 14855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Handsomely bound in ribbed blue cloth with borders and patterned design blind stamped with rope, shell and star designs. Titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Dust jacket with identical desing to boards patterned and lettered in blue to a white background. Jacket is well worn at edges and has separated at spine edge and one flap fold. We have preserved the jacket by reattaching the joints with application of archival paper tape to the reverse surface and then placed a fresh mylar cover over the dust cover. Illustrated with tissue guarded portraits, p...
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National History of the War for the Union; Civil, Military and Naval - in Three Volumes

By: Duyckinck, Evert A. ; Alonzo Chappel & Thomas Nast (Illust. )

Price: $465.00

Publisher: New York, Johnson, Fry and Company: 1865

Seller ID: 36985

Binding: 3/4 leather

Condition: Very Good

Steel engraved plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1922 pages; 3 volumes complete. 1st edition thus. 620; 660; 642 pp. Uniformly and handsomely bound in 3/4 burgundy colored morocco over pebbled red cloth boards. Titles and ruling brightly in gilt to spines; tooled decorative ruling to leather and cloth seams. Decorative pictorial seals to cover boards in gilt. Bindings sound, though there are partial splits to the endpapers in the inner hinges of Vols II & III. Mild shelf scuffing to leather at corners; light silverfish patchiness to cloth of board surfaces. Profusely illustrated with tissue...
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General Gordon's Khartoum Journal

By: Elton, Lord (Ed. ) & Charles Gordon

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press: 1963

Seller ID: 38146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 244 pages; Presumed 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $6.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Dust jacket has light general toning and some light foxing to panels; lightly edge rubbed and with a small sticker abrasion/scar to spine panel. Light soiling to page block front edge and mild dustiness top edge. Pictorial map endpages. VG-/VG-
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The Eagle in the Egg

By: Farge, Oliver La

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co: 1949

Seller ID: 12910

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; 1949 Houghton Mifflin. HC/DJ 2nd or early printing, lacking printing year on title page. Square, solid and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial map endsheets. Dust jacket with a few short closed tears and small chips; sunned at spine with moderate fading of the background but with titles bright and undimmed. VG+/VG-
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A Surgeon's Duty; The World War II Memoir of John L. Farmer, M.D.

By: Farmer, John L.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Richmond, VA, A.H. Farmer: 2004

Seller ID: 22242

ISBN: 0974496006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 155 pages; Paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, sound, and clean. Signed by author to the title page. Text unmarked. Front corners gently bumped; mild shelf evidence to cover surfaces. Illustrated with B&W photographs. VG++; Signed by Author
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The Black Watch The Record of an Historic Regiment

By: Forbes, Archibald

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1897

Seller ID: 12810

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; 1897 Scribners. HC 1st US edition. Original ribbed dark blue cloth with titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Pictorial design of a Highlander in uniform is stamped brightly in gilt to cover board. Binding snug and contents neat. Tiny nick to cloth at crown of spine; mild shelf rub at spine ends and tips. Tissue guarded frontis. Prior owner's (Redmond Conyngham) attractive bookplate, designed and engraved by noted historian of American printmaking, David McNeely Stauffer. Solid bright copy. VG or a little better.
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GI Europe : a Pocket Guide to Shoestring Furloughs

By: Ford, Dan

Price: $50.00

Publisher: [germany], GI Europe Publications: 1959

Seller ID: 13194

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good-

Oblong Small 8vo 7½" - 8; 125 pages; 1959 GI Europe Publications. Oblong paperback in illustrated wraps. Sound clean copy of this exceptionally uncommon guide book to Europe written for US GI's stationed in Europe. Illustrated with cartoons by Jack Niles and Jim Dye, "stolen" from their collections, "Mox Nix" and "More Mox Nix." Expected light toning to page stock; laminate lifting over spine with a partial split to the laminated at the crown of the spine. A practical but humorous guide to most major European destinations, done specifically for the post-war Europe...
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Category: Military History