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Washington DC Salutes Andrews AFB: a Guide to Andrews Air Force Base

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington DC, C. F. Boone Nationwide Publications: N.D.

Seller ID: Alibris.0003633

Binding: Trade paperback

Condition: Near Fine

BW Photographs; Thin 4to 11" - 13" tall; 68 pages; Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Guide book issued to newly arrived Pilots and Serviceman. Magazine size format in color pictorial cover with side staple binding. 44 pages of history, background and guide to services and facilities. Large fold-out map nid book. 22 pages of yellow pages at rear. Black & white photography throughout. Bright clean and neat. NF
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Exercice Pour Les Compagnies Franches De La Marine

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Salem, MA, New England & Virginia Co: 1995

Seller ID: 14954

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 24 pages; Facsimile reproduction in printed card stock covers with side sewn binding. No date given, but presumably printed in the 1990's for the Museum trade. Very thin band of smoke toning along the top edge. Otherwise bright and fresh. VG
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Ordnance Replacement Training Center; October 1953

By: Aberdeen Proving Ground

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Army & Navy Publishing Co: 1953

Seller ID: 28708

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

4to 11" - 13" tall; Large format HC in textired maroon cloth with title design in yellow and black to cover; spine unlettered as issued. Essentially a training camp year book with Company group photos and individual head shots, along with history and some editorial content. Solid copy; original owner has placed small pen checkmarks adjacent to a small number of photo portraits, presumably of friends and mates. Soild and decent. VG- thus. ... Oversize set may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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A. Woollcott, His Life and His World

By: Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Armed Services Edition: 1945

Seller ID: Alibris.0001359

Binding: Vintage mass market paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Armed Services Edition # 931; Oblong 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 479 pages; Original pictorial oblong stiff wraps. Published in 1944-45 for the reading enjoyment of soldiers and military persons during WWII. The complete novel, unabridged. Square and sound; no marks. Mild surface and edge rubbing to unlaminated covers; mild reader crease spine light stress crease to upper corner of bothe covers. This title, uncommon in Armed Services editions, is a clean neat copy: VG-to VG
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Too Young for a Forgettable War

By: Alli, William Edward

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Xlibris, Corp.: 2009

Seller ID: 14693

ISBN: 1441510788

Binding: Trade paperback

Condition: Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 332 pages; Trade paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Superb unread copy. Tight, bright and fresh. Feels and appears as new. Fine
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The Book of Psalms: Translated out of the Original Hebrew [WWI] Army & Navy Edition

By: American Bible Society.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, American Bible Society.: 1918

Seller ID: 37974

Binding: Flexible cloth

Condition: Good+

32mo 4" - 5" tall; 133 pages; Small pocket sized Psal Book printed for use by service members during WWI. Bound in tan flexible oil cloth with saddle stapled binding; Titles and "Army and Navy Edition" lettered in brown to cover. Publisher provided spaces for owner's name and service inside the front cover have been filled out by prior owner, Michael H. Pletcher, Infantry, from Centre County PA. Covers a little grubby with some light fraying to oilcloth at edges. Here and there some pencil marks in the text. Blank area of the last leaf torn away and some penciled ruminations o...
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Ordnance : Land, Sea Air, Volume XXXIX No. 205 Long-Range Artillery - 1954, July-August 1954

By: American Ordnance Association

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Washingon, DC, American Ordnance Association: 1954

Seller ID: 29593

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

B&W Photographs and Color Advertisement; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 168 pages; American Ordnance Association ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Jane's Infantry Weapons 1976

By: Archer, Dennis H. R. (Ed. )

Price: $37.00

Publisher: London, Jane's Yearbooks & Franklin Watts: 1976

Seller ID: 35699

ISBN: 0354005316

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 850 pages; Stout, massive oversize HC in original dust jacket. Generall neat and attractive but with a split in the rear hinge // lining page gutters exposing the crash. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Dust jacket generally bright and clean. G+/VG+ ... Oversize book will require additional charges for most shipping methods.
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Pictorial Review 73rd Field Artillery Brigade Army of the United States; Camp Shelby, MS 1941

By: Army Of The United States

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Atlanta, GA, Army Navy Publishers: 1941

Seller ID: 39901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 126 pages; Oversize HC year book style format. Soundly bound copy, a record of the training camp for the 141st, 166th and 190th Field Artillery Units under the 73rd Brigade. Profusely illustrated with photos of offices and enlisted men. Light to moderate shelf rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips. Mild dulling and soiling to boards. VG- ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Chemical Handling and Loading Equipment. TM 3-255. Restricted.

By: Army., US

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Washington DC, GPO: 1943

Seller ID: 36004

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages; Trade sized paperback in title lettered covers' spine unlettered, as issued. Snugly bound and very neat with just trace shelf evidence to cover edges. Expected general light toning to war time paper stock. Illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Uncommon technical manual on US preparations for using chemical arms. VG+
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Global Mission

By: Arnold, Henry Harley

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1949

Seller ID: 13162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 626 pages; 1949 Harper & Bros. HC. 1st edition, stated. Original black cloth with title field in gilt to spine a bit rubbed and fading. Binding snug and contents neat. No marks. Illustrated with historical photographs. Solid clean copy with fading titles at spine and lacking dust jacket. G+
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Uncle Sam's Army; How it Fights

By: Avison, George

Price: $19.50

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company: 1943

Seller ID: 35836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Drawings; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 40 pages; Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Bound in army tan cloth with titles in black to cover; spine unlettered as issued. Pictorial dust jacket is toned and tanned at spine and edges. Small chips to unlettered jacket spine panel and lower front corner with a short closed tear from the bottom edge of the rear panel. Illustrated with large drawings on each page, depicting the numerous Army specialist jobs described in the text. VG+/VG-
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La Vie Militaire Sous L'Ancien Regime Tome 1. Les Soldats

By: Babeau, Albert Arsene

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie De Firmin-Didot: 1889

Seller ID: 33317

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; Volume 1 of 2, only - "Les Soldats" ... This copy from the de Peyster collection of Napoleonic and 19th century European military history. Ex-library copy from de Peyster's collection donated to establish Franklin & Marshall college library in the late 19th C. Trimmed original wraps mounted to leaves and bound inside Heavy blue cloth covered boards. Library binder's attempts to mount the first several leaves to stubs have not succeeded and the first few leaves are cracked in the margins and are laid in at front. The text block is soundly bound and...
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La Vie Quotidienne Dans Les Armées De Napoléon

By: BALDET, Marcel

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Paris, Hachette: 1964

Seller ID: 33318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 315 pages; Ex-library copy rebound in mustard yellow cloth. Soundly bound and clean, but with call label to spine and expected but light library attachments to endpages. G to G+
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The Caissons Roll; A Military Survey of Europe

By: Baldwin, Hanson W.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1938

Seller ID: 28582

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

folding map; tables; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 323 pages; Square, snug and very neat in original title lettered dust jacket with publisher's $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket just slightly sunned at spine with mild shelf rub to edges. Folding map at front; several tables in text. A substanial study of the armed forces of Europe and possible war scenarios published on the eve of WWII. Handsome copy; uncommon thus. NF/VG
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The Life of Richard Earl Howe ; Admiral of the Fleet, and General of Marines

By: Barrow, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1838

Seller ID: 35308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Folding facsimile manuscript leaves; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages; In original textured blue cloth with decorative patterns in blind and titles in gilt to spine. Ex-library copy with expected institutional attachments and indications. Cloth rubbed and fraying at spine ends. Small open scrape to cloth mid-spine. Scattered occasional underlining in old blue and red wax pencil and some in more recent ballpoint. Two leaf signature including title page and tissue guarded frontispiece is loose from the binding and laid in. Original edition in ex-lib copy decent reading or restoration copy. I...
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Vietnam in Verse: Reflections of a Soldier

By: Barton, Roger S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Walkersville, MD, Roger Barton (Self-Published): 1986

Seller ID: Alibris.0004742

Binding: Trade paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. ; 54 p. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 54 pages; Roger Barton (self-published) trade size paperback in glossy pictorial wraps. Spine unlettered, as issued. Signed by author on title page. Just superficial shelf evidence to externals. Excellent condition. NF; Signed by Author
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The Bayles Brothers of Middle Island: 1839 - 1930 [Including] Civil War Letters Written by Albert & Edward Bayles

By: Bayles, Donald M.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Southold, NY, Self-Published: 1990

Seller ID: 39687

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

4to 11" - 13" tall; 120 pages; 1990 (self-published) Sohtold, NY. Oversize paperback in commercial document binder. Printed single (recto) side only by mimeo. Unpaged; approximatley 120 pgs. Includes b&w maps and illustration reproductions. A brief history of the Bayles family of Long Island, but by far the majority of the book is the reproduction of Civil War letters written by Albert & Edward Bayles Aug 1862 to May 1864. Both brothers died in action June 2 during a charge on Confederate works near Jamestown. Not found in any Worldcat collection, though the author did include the Civ...
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New Illustrated Edition - Do or Die; a Manual on Individual Combat

By: Biddle, Colonel A. J. D.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washingon, DC, The Leatherneck Association: 1944

Seller ID: 35693

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 108 pages; 2nd edition, revised and enlarged with b&w photographs. Soundly bound with original pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's red cloth with title lettering in orange to cover. Pictorial dust jacket is worn and rubbed at edges with small nicks and chips and some short closed tears. Furring and partial separation along the flap folds has been mended with archival japanese tissue paper applied to the blank reverse side of the jacket. Bit of superficial mottling to the color of the cloth cover board. Contents clean and neat; illustrated throughout w...
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Fire in the Night; Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion

By: Bierman, John & Colin Smith

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1999

Seller ID: 38500

ISBN: 0375500618

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 448 pages; Snugly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $29.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Handsome fresh copy just about as new. NF/NF
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Category: Military History