FREDERIC ALLEN AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
NY: Crown, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 178pp. Frontispiece in color, otherwise illustrated in b/w. Index. Fine in near fine, pc dj.
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FORGOTTEN VOICES of the Second World War in association with the Imperial War Museum
Ebury Press, London, 2004, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 486pp. Illustrated with occasional b/w photos. Index of Contributors. General Index. Pictorial endpapers. Signed by Arthur. "The Sound Archive -- the most important of its kind in the world -- holds a vast quantity of interviews with soldiers, sailors.....
HISTORICAL SKETCH AND GUIDE TO THE ALAMO
San Antonio: Privately printed, 1902. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Silver-stamped wraps. 131pp. Illus. Includes about 3 pps of list of "Honored Dead," those who fell at the Alamo. This copy we grade fair because of stains last few pps & on covers, but it is a tight copy.....
THE USE OF THE RONTGEN RAY BY THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN (1898)
Wash. D. C. Gov't Printing Office, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Apparent 1st printing. 4to blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. 98pp. XXXIII plates plus 26 figures. Charts. Statistics. "Prepared under the direction of Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg, United States Army. Borden was "Captain and Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army.".....
ONE SKY TO SHARE: The French and American Journals of R. L. Bruckberger (Signed)
NY: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. We believe this to be a first printing of the first edition although the info on Kenedy & Sons publishers is spare. No additional printing are given. Dj price is $3.00. Drawings by Jo Spier. Signed on the half-title by.....
WELCOME TO POW STALAG LUFT 1 - BARTH - GERMANY
Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial paper over boards. (74pp). Illustrated with full-page Kriegie cartoons produced by the authors. This Prisoner of War book, published probably between 1947 & 1950, depicts with both humor & gravity what life was like in the German POW camp.....
THE COMPLETE ROSTER OF THE FORTIETH DIVISION CAMP KEARNY CALIFORNIA
Camp Kearny: John Milledge & William B. Tyler, 1917. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped full red leather. 235pp. Frontispiece: Maj. Gen. Frederick S. Strong (with facing bio). "President's Message and Proclamation of War". "History of General Kearny" (1p). Appendix: "List of Officers Active and Retired, Residing in San.....
THE COLONEL AND THE PACIFIST: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saito, and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II (Signed)
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 382pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed (signature only) by De Nevers. Fine copy.
PRISONER OF THE JAPS
NY: Knopf, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 309pp. Tipped in by publisher is a nice looking folding map of Hong Kong with inset map of China & that part of the Pacific. Well written memoir. "... Dew was the only American woman correspondent in the Far East when.....
ANGELS IN MY FOXHOLE
Gig Harbor: Plicata Press, 2013. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 261pp. A military autobiography from Vietnam. Fine, like new.
ATHENIA TORPEDOED BY GERMAN SUB: FRENCH TROOPS SWING INTO ACTION, and other headlines
Alberta: Edmonton Bulletin, 1950. Reprint. Soft cover. A reprint, full newspaper size, of various Canadian newspapers reproducing certain headlines, Athenia Torpedoed (Edmonton Bulletin 9/4/39), Hess Bails Out Near Glasgow (Globe and Mail 5/13/41), Bismarck is Engaged (Saint John Telegraph-Journal 5/27/41), War Grips Pacific (Regina Leader-Post 12/8/41), Dieppe Fight (Ottawa Citizen.....
BOB HOPE ORIGINAL PHOTO FROM USO TOUR
n.p. Centralia Publicity Committee, 1943. Soft cover. Original 8" x 10" photograph of the famous comedian, Bob Hope, on one of his USO tours, either in 1943 or 1944. Many years ago I purchased two photos in New York State attributed to a freelance photographer named Connolly. We have not.....
SUPERCHOCOLAT / SUPERCHOCOLADE
Belgium: Jacques, 1950. Soft cover. No edition or printing given. Circa post WWII. A fully populated album of war machines and automobiles produced by the famous Belgian chocolate firm, Jacques. The firm's website says it has been in business since 1896. Inside the front cover the information is printed in.....
RACINE COUNTY MILITANT An Illustrated Narrative of War Times, and a Soldier' Roster
Privately Printed, Racine, 1915, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Royal 8vo gilt-stamped burgundy cloth. 394pp.. Illustrated abundantly with small portraits & full page images; also photos of documents. This book is an incredibly extensive listing of name of soldiers from Racine County, Wisconsin, who served in the Civil War.....
THE IMPERIAL IDEA
Montreal: Colin McArthur & Co, 1901. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st and only printing. Oblong, silver-stamped, green cord-tied wraps. 23 printed leaves, including plates. 8" x 9 3/4". Illustrated with five beautiful full color plates and six b/w plates. In color: (1) The Imperial Idea expressed with coats of arms.....
AFTER DUNKIRK: A Novel (Signed)
NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 468pp. Signed and dated by McGraw in 1999. Fine, like new in dj.
THE QUEBEC ACT A Primary Cause of the American Revolution
NY: United States Catholic Historical Society, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 223pp. Appendices. Bibliography. fos. Ink number on front paste down. Monograph Series XVI. Long, but superficial scratch on front cover, else fine. Very scarce.
CODE GIRLS: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
NY: Hachette Books, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 416pp. Illus. Notes. Index. Bibliography. Superb account. Fine in dj.
THE CROSS ON CASTLE ROCK: A Childhood Memoir (Signed)
Lincoln: iUniverse, Inc., 2004. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. 117pp. Inscribed by Mr. Nakagawa & dated in year of publication. The author described his WWII years of internment while a citizen of the U. S. Mild diagonal crease up front cover, else fine. Signed copies scarce.
OREGON DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Portland: Oregon Hist Soc, 1993. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 103pp+. Illus. Several essays. "Special Issue", Winter 1992-93. Fine.
I'LL BE SERVING YOU World War II Diary and Correspondence of Cpl. Mary Elizabeth Osen February 1943 - September 1945.
Mid-Prairie Books, Parkersburg, Iowa, 1994. 1994. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st edition. Pictorial wraps. 143pp. Illust. Fine. Scarce.
B. PASQUALE CO. CATALOGUE NO. 119: OFFICERS' FIELD SERVICE UNIFORMS & EQUIPMENTS
San Francisco: B. Pasquale Co., 1917. Limited First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of a circa 1917 (WW I) catalogue printed in tall (4 1/4" x 10") pictorial, cord-tied wraps. 24pp. Illus. Index. The cover illustration shows a uniformed soldier beside a horse holding a guidon with "Standard of.....
THE EAGLES OF HEART MOUNTAIN: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
NY: Atria, 2020. ARC. Soft cover. Advance Reader's Edition. Trade wraps. 373pp. Notes. Publisher's promo letter laid in. Fine, like new.
OBERSALZBERG bis 1933, 1933-1945, 1945-heute
Berchtesgaden: Anoton Plenk, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to pictorial glossy wraps. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated mainly with b/w photos. Many photos from WWII and including photos of Hitler. Text is in triglott, German, English, French. Vg.
FORCING THE HAND OF GOD (Signed)
Bothell: Book Publishers Network, 2008. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial glossy wraps. 311pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine condition, but we note an ink strike through the bar code on the back & something printed just above it. WWII aviation fiction set in Yunnan.....