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Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County, With Connecting Narratives, Explanatory Notes, and Additions

By: Onderdonk, Henry

Price: $29.50

Publisher: Port Washington, NY, Kennikat Press: 1970

Seller ID: 38537

ISBN: 0871980746

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; HC. Facsimile reprinting of the 1880 original. Snugly bound in original blue cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine. Text clean and unmarked. Issued without dust wrapper. VG+
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The General

By: Opitz, Karlludwig; Constantine Fitzgibbon (Trans)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: N. Y., John Day Company: 1957

Seller ID: 11773

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; 1957 John Day Company. HC/DJ. 1st American edition and printing. Fresh, snug and very neat copy in original dust jacket. No marks. Tightly bound book. Just light shelf rub to dust jacket edges. Spine slightly cocked. Feels and appears unread and nearly as new. NF/NF
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America in France

By: Palmer, Frederick

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co.: 1918

Seller ID: 23861

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 479 pages; Snug and solid in original title-lettered dust jacket. Text clean and unmarked. Light toning to DJ spine panel and light general shelf soiling to jacket surfaces. Superficial nicks and tears to DJ corners and edges; small open tear to DJ spine edge. VG/VG-
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"Bushido"; The Anatomy of Terror

By: Pernikoff, Ossip Alexandre Joseph

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation: 1943

Seller ID: 28016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages; HC/DJ. Soundly bound and neat in glossy illustrated dust jacket. Light general shelf/handling wear to jacket with mild crimping at edges and superficial rub to surfaces. Trace sunning to jacket at spine. Binding just a little shaken in the spine. Period book store label mounted to gutter of rear endpage. Solid unmarked copy. VG+/VG
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The Great Sea War; The Dramatic Story of Naval Action in World War II

By: Potter, E. B. & Chester W. Nimitz (Eds. )

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice Hall: 1960

Seller ID: 34816

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

B&W Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 468 pages; Bright, snug copy in original pictorial dust jacket. A mild shelf bump to the top front corner of the text block jas left a shallow stress crease to the top front corner of 20 or so pages. Dust jacket clean and generally bright but with a short closed tear at the crown of the spine panel and light shaelf rubbing at edges. Mild sticker scar to base of rear panel. Illustrated with numerous maps. VG/VG
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Dredges and Dredging

By: Prelini, Charles

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, D. Van Nostrand: 1912

Seller ID: 15187

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

B&W Illustrations and Diagrams; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages; Bright, tight, and very fresh in publisher's blue cloth with title lettered brightly in gilt to spine. Just trace shelf wear to spine ends. From the library of Lieut. J. O. Fisher, a 1902 graduate of Annapolis and member of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. Apparently he was on board the U. S. S. Dolphin at the time that he acquired this book. Fisher later took command of the submarine K-6 when it was launched in 1914. In WWI he took the sub on patrol in the Azore Islands, seeking out U-boats and surface raiders. Glossy pages...
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High Command in the World War

By: Puleston, William Dilworth

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1934

Seller ID: 23859

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 331 pages; Snug, solid and neat in original pictorial, map illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket spine moderately toned and faded but with titles still readily legible. Jacket edges lightly rubbed with small, shallow chips at spine ends and upper front corner; prior owner's minimal reinforcement to spine ends with archival japanese paper. Small, faint drip outline to jacket mid-spine. Light binder's glue offsetting as usually found in books printed in the 1930's. Prior owner name and Fort benning address penned neatly to front endpaper. Cloth slightly rub...
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Wellington's War; His Peninsular Dispatches

By: Rathbone, Julian

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1994

Seller ID: 19467

ISBN: 0718138414

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations and Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 340 pages; Papeback in glossy pictorial covers. A square, sound and clean copy; no marks. Expected mild toning to page stock. Trace reader creasing to the spine. Illustrated with B&W drawings and maps. VG+
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Torture and Democracy

By: Rejali, Darius

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press: 2007

Seller ID: 37605

ISBN: 0691114226

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 880 pages; Stout HC/DJ 3rd printing. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Text fresh and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly shelf rubbed to edges and surfaces. Superficial ripple to cloth at spine. VG+/VG+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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The Gamble; General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 [SIGNED by David Petraeus]

By: Ricks, Thomas E.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Press: 2009

Seller ID: 35385

ISBN: 1594201978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 394 pages; 1st printing. Tightly bound and exceptionally fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $27.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Inscribed and signed by Petraeus on the front flyleaf. Aside from Petraeus inscription the book feels and appears about as new. NF/F; Signed by Biographee
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New York in the Revolution As Colony and State; Volumes 1 and 2 [I and II], With Supplement

By: Roberts, James A. ; Office Of The State Comptroller

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Albany, NY, J. B. Lyon Company: 1904

Seller ID: 18161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. ; Facsimile documents; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Oversize 2 volume set in matching bindings of pebbled green cloth. Vol I with pictorial panel to cover in six colors. Title lettering and borders to cover in burgundy and in gilt to spine of vol I to spine and gilt to Vol II. Bright, snug copies with mild crimping and superficial fray to cloth at spine ends and mild bumping to corners. Short tear to binding cloth along the front spine edge of Vol I. Endpages intact in the joints but tender in both Vols. Illu...
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Imagining Hitler

By: Rosenfeld, Alvin H

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 27895

ISBN: 0253139600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 121 pages; Snugly bound and neat in crisp-edged dust jacket. A touch of shelf/handling wear to jacket at edges with just light rub and shelf soiling to surfaces. Solid unmarked copy. VG++/VG+
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Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord De Saumarez: from Original Papers in Possession of the Family. Volume 1

By: Ross, Sir John

Price: $145.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1838

Seller ID: 13464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

engraved frontis & 3 plates and 2 charts/diagrams; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 440 pages; Volume 1 only, of 2. Publisher's original green cloth with decorative arabesque design stamped in blind to boards and with title lettering to spine bright and clear at spine. Pages unopened at top edge. Binding snug with just suggestion of splits in the internal hinges. Mild sunning to green cloth at spine. Top front corners bumped but not abraded. Illustrated with 4 finely engraved plates and 2 engraved maps/charts. A quite attractive example of this 1st of two volumes. Near VG
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Mid Atlantic Air Museum Presents - War News, June 1944 [Program 2006] the Magazine of the Warfront and the Homefront

By: Russell A. Strine, President, Mid Atlantic Air Museum

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Reading PA, Boyertown Publishing Co.: 2006

Seller ID: 38660

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 72 pages; 2006 Program for the 16th annual WWII encampment and exhibition at Reading PA. Bright clean copy; oversize paperback format with saddle stapled binding and glossy color pictorial covers. Includes notes on exhibitors, aircraft and guests along with short articles, notes and related ads many done with period graphic work. Diagaonal stress crease across the top corner of the book. VG
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The United States Navy in the World War - Official Pictures Selected from the Files of the Navy Department, the War Department and the United States Marine Corps

By: Russell, James C. & William E. Moore

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Pictorial Bureau: 1921

Seller ID: 39500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

["Stars & Stripes" Writers' Copy - Jack Luckett with Drawing]; Sepia toned photos; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 320 pages; Oversize oblong format HC soundly bound in original blue cloth with color pictorial panel mounted to the cover board. Spine unlettered, as issued. Appears to have been a gift to fellow writers on staff of the Stars and Stripes who travelled back to the states on one of the several return journeys made by the troop ship, Pretoria. Penned to the verso of the title page is a gift inscription to memebers of Squad 1 of the Stars and Stripes is singed by Jack Lucke...
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Ground Warfare: An International Encyclopedia 3 volume set

By: Sandler, Stanley L. (ed.)

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO: 2002

Seller ID: 32945

ISBN: 1576073440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Maps, photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1067 pages; 3 volume set in original, glossy, color illustrated boards. Bright, tight and fresh with just superficial indications of prior library ownership. Bookplate to front endpage and small barcode label to rear pastedown. Otherwise essentially as new. Illustrated throughout with maps, diagrams and photographs. Graded down to VG to reflect superficial evidence of prior institutional ownership. ... Oversize book will require additional charges for most shipping methods.
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The History of An Expedition against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755; under, Major- General Edward Braddock

By: Sargent, Winthrop (ed.)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Company: 1855

Seller ID: 13387

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Publications of the Pennsylvania Historical Society; Maps and plans, folding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 423 pages; 1855 Lippincott, Grambo & Company. HC 1st edition. Original brown cloth textured and bordered in blind. Binding snug and contents complete and generally clean. About 1/3 of the cloth at spine is missing with the raminder split and chipped. Sewn spine sound; no loose pages or plates. Prior ownership indications of an old PA University library; small ink stamp to pastedown, a small pressure stamp in blind to the margin of the title page and the remnant of a card pocket at rear. All...
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General Joan of Arc

By: Sarmiento, Marcel P.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Carlton Press Corporation: 1981

Seller ID: 22246

ISBN: 0806207256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 143 pages; Bright, snug and very neat in a crisp-edged pictorial dust jacket. No marks. Light foxing to the top edge. Mild halo toning to the jacket's front panel. Jacket price-clipped to the top corner of the front flap. Scarce, especially in this condition. NF/VG++
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We Band of Brothers; The Sullivans & World War II

By: Satterfield, John R.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Parkersburg, IA, Mid-Prairie Books: 1995

Seller ID: 39413

ISBN: 0931209587

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 261 pages; Trade sized paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Bright, tight and fresh; feels and appears unread and about as new. Illustrated with b&w photos. NF
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Hunt and Kill; U-505 and the U-Boat War in the Atlantic

By: Savas, Theodore P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Savas Beatie: 2004

Seller ID: 38592

ISBN: 1932714014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Apparent book club edition. Tightly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w photos on glossy stock. VG++/VG++
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Category: Military History