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INDIA
-Rare Second Printing of the First Hardcover Edition-
As-new, virtually mint copy of the extraordinarily rare Second Printing of the First Hardcover Edition. “Few cased copies of [INDIA’s] second printing are known,” wrote bibliographer Ronald Cohen in his…
IMMORTAL WIFE: The Biographical Novel of Jessie Benton Fremont
-Signed First American Edition-
A very good copy of the First American Edition, signed in ink by the author on the second free endpaper. In an unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, a closed…
BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
-Second Printing of the First Canadian Edition-
A very good copy of the Second Canadian edition, without dust jacket. The contents are fine, but the prelims only are faintly dampstained. There is an ink gift inscription (dated…
BETWEEN-THE-WARS VINTAGE PROMOTIONAL POSTCARD of Winston Churchill
…message: “Jan. 4th 1933. Six of the World’s greatest stories re-told by Winston Churchill begin next Sunday Jan. 8th in the News of the World. – ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ ‘Count…
CHINDWIN TO CRICCIETH: The Life of Godfrey Drage
Godfrey Drage served principally in Burma prior to World War I. In World War I he served in all four theaters, including Gallipoli. Uncommon. Most of the wartime episodes are…
TOP GUNS
America’s Fighter Aces Tell Their Stories
Twenty-seven U.S. aces from all services tell their stories, from World War I through Vietnam (though most are from World War II), by the legendary Marine Corps ace. As new,…
THE OUTPOST WAR
U.S. Marines in Korea, Volume 1: 1952
Written by a combat veteran of the Korean War, this volume examines the atypical and largely defensive role played by the U.S. Marine Corps during the period of stalemate beginning…
SEA SOLDIERS IN THE COLD WAR
Amphibious Warfare, 1945-1991
“An operational history of amphibious warfare in the cold war, principally as refined and executed by the two superpowers, their allies, and surrogates.” A fine copy in very good dust…
ONCE UPON A DISTANT WAR
Young War Correspondents and the Early Vietnam Battles
…the Vietnam War had yet to become the massive tragedy that we know today. According to Prochnau, Saigon was a “tempting oriental backwater” and it is in this setting that…
BETWEEN THE LINES: Reflections on War and Peacetime
U.S. Air Force from 1941 to 1973: bomber maintenance, 5 & 13th Air Forces, Pacific, WWII; Korea, 3rd AF; England and Norway, Cold War. A very good copy, in dust…
WITHIN LIMITS. THE U.S. AIR FORCE AND THE KOREAN WAR.
Korean War fiftieth anniversary commemorative edition. 61pages, 12 illustrations, 2 maps, bibliography….
REGULATIONS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT GOVERNING THE ORGANIZED MILITIA
Document 319, superseded by the 1910 “Regulations for the Organized Militia … ” A good copy, covers a bit rumpled, some edge wear, slight dampstaining in front matter, name on…