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THE WORLD OF EARL HINES
A wide-ranging, richly illustrated oral history of the great pianist’s career, one in a notable series assembled by this eminent jazz critic and journalist. This is a very good copy…
DONATELLO AND HIS WORLD
Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance
This is a mint copy of the First American edition, in publisher’s shrink wrap….
THE SHAKER WORLD: Art, Life, Belief
-First American Edition-
A very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket; virtually mint.
JAPAN’S WAR
The Great Pacific Conflict, 1853-1952
Japan’s forced emergence from isolation, its industrialization, the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War II and its aftermath. A very good copy, upper edge of front cover dented, in…
WAR AND ADMINISTRATION: The Significance of the Crimean War for the British Army
Reforms in the aftermath of one of the worst managed wars in history. A very good copy, in slightly rubbed dust jacket. (174p., 2 maps, 2 Tables of Organization, notes,…
THE NEW ZEALAND PEOPLE AT WAR: WAR ECONOMY
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45
A virtually mint copy copy, in a shelfworn but altogether intact dust jacket.
IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH
-First English Edition (Second Printing)-
A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, which the publisher designated as a “Second Edition” but which bibliographer Ronald Cohen argues is really more…
THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
-Second Colonial Library Edition-
This is a beautiful copy of the Second Colonial Library edition, bound in a vivid blue-green cloth, fascinatingly different from the standard Colonial Library gray-green cloth. The Second Colonial Library…
THE TIME FOR DECISION
-First English Edition-
FDR’s wartime Special Envoy to Europe analyzes the causes of World War II in the midst of World War II, placing the blame squarely on the failures of U.S. policy…
CHURCHILL AT WAR
His "Finest Hour" in Photographs 1940-1945
…the Imperial War Museum, with text and captions by Churchill’s esteemed official biographer. This is a very good copy of the English edition, second printing, in an unclipped dust jacket….
SEA LANES IN WAR TIME: The American Experience, 1775-1942
Excellent analysis by noted author; may still be the best on the subject. The first half is chronological through the Civil War; second half is topical through the summer of…