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The Unknown War; The Eastern Front

By: Churchill, Winston

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1931

Seller ID: 42703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Photographs and Maps, some folding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 396 pages; HC 1st edition with Scribner "A" on copyright page. Soundly bound in publisher's original brown cloth with titles in gilt to cover and spine. Binding cocked in the spine with shallow fray to cloth at spine ends and light darkening to cloth at spine. Some pages of the text roughly opened at the front edge; pages of the 8 page index at rear quite roughly opened with chipping and loss and short tears to the front edges Profusely illustrated with maps and some photo portraits. Large color folding map at rear has a short mended tea...
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The World Crisis [1911 -1918] [Bruce Catton Copy with Bookplate]

By: Churchill, Winston S.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1931

Seller ID: 42802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Maps. some folding; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 866 pages; Stout HC, 1st edition, thus, of the US issue of the combined and abridged Churchill history of the Great War. This copy from the library of Pulitzer Prize winning American historian, Bruce Catton, with his pictorial bookplate mounted to the front pastedown. Splits to the endpage hinges have been mended with archival japanese kozo. Binding shaken but with no internal splits. Cloth rubbed and frayed at spine ends. A few scattered pages with superficial spotting/soiling. Illustrated with maps, many folding in color. Would be much improved ...
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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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Lincoln and the First Shot

By: Current, Richard Nelson

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1963

Seller ID: 42954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Critical Periods Of History; Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages; Soundly bound and unmarked in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket lightly toned at spine with mild rubbing and a few minor nicks to edges. VG/VG-
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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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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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War Discovers Alaska,

By: Driscoll, Joseph

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1943

Seller ID: 41054

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket

B&W Photographs; maps endsheets; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages; Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is worn and tatty with heavy old tape repairs on the reverse surface of the jacket to long tears. Small tape remnants where prior owner anchored dust jacket to map illustrated endpapers. Binding a little shaken but sound. G+/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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A Genius for War The German Army and General Staff, 1807-1945

By: Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Military Book Club: 2002

Seller ID: 42702

ISBN: 0965532763

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

B&W Photographs & Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 362 pages; HC/DJ. Reprint. Tightly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with maps and b&w photos. Superficial stress bottom edge of jacket front panel. Otherwise just about as new. NF/VG++
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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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Blue Moon over Cuba; Aerial Reconnaissance During the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Ecker, William B. & Kenneth V. Jack

Price: $39.50

Publisher: Oxford, Osprey Publishing: 2012

Seller ID: 42984

ISBN: 1780960719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Historical photos on glossy stock; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 320 pages; 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread; just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket edges. Illustrated with 2 sections of photographs, color and b&w, printed on glossy stock. About as new. NF/NF
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The Imperial Republic, With Five Maps

By: Fernald, James C

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Funk and Wagnalls Co: 1898

Seller ID: 41059

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; HC 1st edition. Snugly bound in original pictorial cloth. Solid bright and neat; no marks. Light dust spotting top edge. A polemical consideration of America's role as a colonial power in view of the Phillipine and Cuban conflicts. Uncommon. VG+
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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