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ARMOURED FORCES. A History of Armoured Forces & Their Vehicles.
New York:Arco Publishing Company, Inc. (1970). xv+475pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Aside from some minor soiling to page edges, a very good, clean copy. The dust jacket is in very good, clean condition with some minor wear to edges.
$25.00
DAS BUCH VOM WESTWALL.
Berlin:O. Elsner. 1940. 125pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Binding shows some light shelf-wear, concentrated mostly towards the spine, which also shows some soiling. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, though there is some significant age-toning to the page edges throughout and a brief previous owner's inscription on the first free end-paper. Overall, this is a good copy.
$25.00
LAND OHNE GRENZE. Aachen/Luttich/Maasatricht. Historische Sakizze....
164pp. Illus. Hard bound. With dust jacket. Book very good. Jacket frayed and some small tears. TS026.
$10.00
MICAH LEADS HIS MARINES. The Yankee Invasion of Tripoli in the Year 1905
(Dedham MA):(The Transcript Press). (1937). 102 pp. Hardcover. Boards lightly mottled. Spine is lightly faded, but otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of markings.
$25.00
"THE SHOP" The Story of the Royal Military Academy
London:Cassell and Company, Limited. 1900. Presumed 1st edition. xii+276pp. +16pp ads. Illustrated, including 8 color plates and 2 folding plans. Hardcover. Blue decorated boards soiled and shelfworn, with wear to edges and spine hinges, spine ends worn and frayed, with edge points gently bumped and worn to boards. Internally end pages with some age toning/ foxing and a previous owners gilt inscription inked to 1st free endpage and a bookseller ticket to bottom edge of inside front board. Otherwise, aside from some foxing to 2 folding plans, a good, solid clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact.
$50.00
A HISTORY OF THE ART OF WAR IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
New York:E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. (1937). xv+784pp. Illustrated with 33 maps and 12 plates. Hardcover with remains of dust jacket. Beige boards lightly soiled and shelf-worn. Internally, the end-pages are age toned but otherwise, a very good, clean copy. No previous owners marks or signatures found. The dust jacket is quite worn with chips and tears to edges and missing the lower half of its spine strip with the lower half of front panel torn off, but still present.
$75.00
HISTORY OF THE WAR IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, IN 1815; Containing Minute Details of the Battles of Quatre-Bras, Ligny, Wavre, and Waterloo
Philadelphia:Lea and Blanchard. 1845. 1st American from the Second London Edition. 642pp. Illustrated, with plans of battles and maps. Hardcover. Rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and end-pages. Leather is soiled and rubbed, with small split to top edge of rear gutter, but with gilt on spine still bright. Binding is tight and hinges intact. Internally, a previous owners small bookplate to the inside front board but otherwise pages clean and bright. All 11 folding plates present. Overall, in very good, clean condition.
$300.00
L'ARTE DE LA GUERRE PRATIQUE
Paris: Ch. A. Jombert, 1754. 2 volumes. Volume 1: xix, 371pp. Volume 2: viii, 351pp. Preface to volume 1 was bound in after the table of contents, so pagination reads i-vi, xii-xix, vii-xii. Full leather binding with fine, hand tooled gilt spine strip and stained edges. All edges shelf-worn with small tear to spind end of volume 1 and a tear to front board of volume 2. Free of owners marks and pages are generally clean and bright. Binding is tight. [whm]
$250.00
LETTERS ON ARTILLERY
London:Edward Stanford. 1898. 3rd edition. (xiii)+427pp+6 folding plates. Translated by Colonel N. L Walford, R.A. Red boards lightly soiled, rubbed and shelfworn with wear and fraying to spine ends and edge points. Internally, the end-pages are age-toned but with no previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight, but the rear hinge has cracked and the front hinge has started. The folding plans look to be in very good condition.
$65.00
MANUAL FOR SUPPLY OFFICERS AFLOAT. UNITED STATES NAVY. 1917
New York:Military Publishing Co. (1917). 1st thus, supersedes 1913 edition. 387pp. Hardcover. Boards soiled and shelfworn with something stuck to lower edges of front board. Page edges soiled. Internally, end-pages age-toned with previous owners name on 1st free flyleaf, otherwise, aside from slight age toning, a very good, clean copy.
$35.00
THE ARMED HORDE, 1793-1939, A study of the Rise, Survival and Decline of the Mass Army
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. Second Edition. xviii+427pp. Hardcover, no jacket. Good condition. Yellow buckram boards show considerable grime and spine toning. Interior has owner name and bookseller marking to ffep. Interior is otherwise clean, square and tightly bound. "This book traces the origin, survival, culmination and recent decline of the mass army recruited by universal, compulsory service which...has so evilly transformed warfare during the last hundred and fifty years." (cfm)
$30.00
THE CONGRESS FOUNDS THE NAVY, 1787-1798
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 1959. 229pp. Blue boards sun-faded on spine and around edges, otherwise a very good clean copy.
$25.00
TRIAL OF WAR CRIMINALS. DOCUMENTS: 1. Report of Robert H. Jackson to the President. 2. Agreement Establishing an International Military Tribunal. 3. Indictment. (Department of State Publication 2420)
(Washington):(Government Printing Office). (1945). 89pp. Stapled wrps. Covers soiled and worn with spine seam starting to separate from bottom edge to first staple and at top edge down about 2 inches. Internally clean with page edges creased throughout.
$50.00