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194700008708Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1947 Limited and signed edition to 555 copies of whcih this No. 265 720 pages gilt edged top. A bit rubbed big book a bit wobbly but sturdy. Bobbs-Merrill Co. hardcover
194738930Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. 10pp 720pp. Frontispiece illustrations maps. Very good. Spine lightly sunned. Tight handsome first edition of this thick anthology signed by both compilers: On the front flyleaf Eisenschiml pens "Sincerely / Otto Eisenschiml" in black ink and below this his co-compiler adds "And / Ralph Newman" in blue ink. Scholar E.B. Long who compiled a "Pictorial Chronicle" volume to accompany a 1956 Grosset & Dunlap edition of this title reviewed this first edition as "One of the first of the modern 'readers;' composed largely of eyewitness accounts of military events." NEVINS II 12. The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover
195020640Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth pictorial dust jacket. 344pp. Frontispiece illustrations maps. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. First edition tight and attractive. Typically rabble-rousing Eisenschiml -- according to Warren W. Hassler Jr. "A lightly documented strongly argued but on the whole convincing brief on behalf of Porter." NEVINS I 28. The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover
199425551Grenz-Echo Verlag. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed. 1994. Hardcover. 9054330414 . A photoessay on the tank memorials and other military remains of the Battle of the Bulge along the Luxembourg-Belgium border. Many color photos. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages . Grenz-Echo Verlag hardcover
198919120English Civil War Society of America 1989. Paperback. Good. Softcover pages in a three-ring binder. Light shelfwear to covers. Contents are clean but pages are photocopies. This is a guidebook for English Civil War reenactors. 256 pages b&w photos and illus. English Civil War Society of America paperback
1866055534New York: Carleton Publisher 1866. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 224 pages. Hardcover bound in original green publisher's cloth with cover designs embossed in blind. An ex-library copy with full markings. There is a university library bookplate with discard stamps on the front pastedown and a handwritten note pasted onto the front flyleaf reading "The Property of C. S. Darling Lyons N.Y. / Feb'y 8th 1883 / Adrift in Dixie by Edmund Kirke Author". There are some small soldier stickers or stamps on the front flyleaf and some removed stickers on the rear flyleaves. The binding has been damped at the fore and bottom edges and this affect the text at the front and the rear of the book. A sound copy with secure inner hinges but a reading copy only. <br/> <br/> Carleton Publisher hardcover
1986067033Kanona NY: R. Leisenring Jr. 1986. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Facsimile Reprint Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Booklet black faux limp leather wraps stapled binding. Facsimile reprint of original 1892 edition. 38 pp. 1st thus. As issued. Scarce. R. Leisenring, Jr. Paperback
1997240421Martini Paint Media Inc. Very Good. 1997. Paperback. 158035002X . 142 pages . Martini Paint Media Inc paperback
1919GO6791Franklin Indiana: Published By The Author 1919. HB. Maroon cloth gilt lettering on spine 8vo 269 pp. Author was a graduate of Miami University of Ohio 1903 and was pastor for fourteen years at two Presbyterian churches in Indiana in the towns of Howe and Hopewell then later at the American Union Church in Manila in the Philippines. During World War I he served as a Y.M.C.A volunteer attached to the 32nd Division A.E.F. This book Ferguson's account of his World War I experiences first appeared as supplements to the Hopewell Herald. No marks in book binding tight. Illustrated with photographs. Small amount of staining to rear end-papers. Covers show light edge wear especially top of spine. Book condition VG. Published By The Author hardcover
1900584Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxv 368pp 4pp ads. Tissue-guarded map frontispiece 23 maps some partly-colored. Top edge gilt. Very good. Faint edgewear with rear inner hinge a tad delicate. First edition of what Parrish in Nevins' Civil War bibliography considers an "overrated outdated study" but which I still find useful. NEVINS II 149. DORNBUSCH III 2540. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
065751Charles F. Foust Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Light blue wraps lettered in black front cover laminated. Approx. 58 pp. Modest handling wear clean interior. Transcription of letters 1860-1863 and his 1864 diary. Interesting Civil War content. Sgt. Foust Co. I 149th PA Infantry died at Andersonville prison on 15 Nov. 1864. Charles F. Foust Paperback
1988031982Gettysburg PA: Downtown Gettysburg 1988. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stiff color illus. wraps oblong format. As issued. xii160 pp. illus. Very scarce. Downtown Gettysburg Paperback
193181338Paris: Henri Jonquieres 1931. Paperback. Very Good. 33 portrait 3 folding maps 442p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29 cm. French text. Portions written by Maurice Besson Jean Cotard Alfred Martineau and many others. Les Armees Francaises d'Outre-Mer series prepared for the Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris. Henri Jonquieres paperback
194200008716New York: Art Foundation 1942 38 pages my 2design teacher in college Roy Behrens was very interested in camouflage and the cover of the magazine has a nice photograph of this strategy. and there is an article how the military used it during ww2. Hi Professor Behrens! if you look at this. you encouraged me to do printmaking which I did and enjoyed. This item has minor wear fading small tear on top of cover. Art Foundation paperback
1999060647Butler PA: Mechling Associates Inc. 1999. Book. As New. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff light tan wraps lettered in black. As issued. 240 pp. 1st thus: Jan. 1999. Scarce. Mechling Associates, Inc. Paperback
1992067038H. R. Frederick Printed by the Print Shop Havelock NC 1992. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff orange wraps lettered in black. 178 pp. 1st ptg. As issued. Scarce. H. R. Frederick [Printed by the Print Shop, Havelock, NC] Paperback
1991067036H. R. Frederick Printed by the Print Shop Havelock NC 1991. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff tan wraps lettered in black. As issued. 89 pp. printed on rectos only. 1st ptg. Scarce. H. R. Frederick [Printed by the Print Shop, Havelock, NC] Paperback
19866414London: Jane's 1986. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. John B. Rabbets. Quarto 311 pp. maps b/w photos color illus. indices. First pub. in the UK in 1970 and reprinted several times this is the rev. edn. of 1986. Laid in is a label signed by the author. <br/> <br/> Jane's hardcover
1918HN7058Paris: Librairie H. Floury 1918. HB. Half red leather and red cloth covered boards gilt lettering on spine 8vo 223 pp. marbled end papers. Warmly signed and inscribed on the half title page by the author. Unmarked book binding solid. Covers show some edge wear front joint cracked chipping top and bottom of spine. Text in French. Book condition Good. Librairie H. Floury hardcover
197638665Seattle: Superior Publishing Company 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with red lettering pictorial dust jacket. 336pp. Frontispiece numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear. Tight 'n' bright first edition of this heavily-illustrated biography of Elizabeth Bacon Custer. Front pastedown bears bookplate of the noted founder of Chicago's Abrham Lincoln Bookshop Ralph Geoffrey Newman 1912-98 -- actually it's his 4" X 2½" membership card for the Chicago Corral of The Westerners signed by that organization's sheriff. Superior Publishing Company hardcover
1996007792Fairfax Virginia: Firearms Classics Library 1996. Book. As New. Full-Leather. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full brown leather with raised spine decorated in 22-karat gold. Front cover decorated with triple gilt rules and gilt flourish at center. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker sewn-in. 37 pages of illustrations. Silk moire endpapers. 333pp. Appenicies Glossary. Special edition reproduced from the text of the 1944 edition and bound in genuine pigskin. A very fine copy with no previous ownership marks. As new. Firearms Classics Library Hardcover
19988513New York: HarperCollinsPublishers 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxviii 492 pp. b/w photos notes bib. glossary index. A study of the critical month of May 1943 in the war against the U-Boats in the Atlantic. Signed photo of Erich Topp attached to the f.f.e.p. Topp was the 3rd highest scoring U-Boat commander in terms of tonnage sunk. Remainder line on bottom edge of book. Hardcover book in v.g. cond. d/w v.g. not price-clipped. <br/> <br/> HarperCollinsPublishers hardcover
191626980London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. Good with no dust jacket. 1916. Softcover. Some rubbing to covers. Some foxing. Plate IX map scales with heavy creasing misfolds and 35mm tear. Plate XX Supply Service map with creasing and tears to outer margin. ; 16 advertisements on pink paper xii 290 pages 21 plates 8 folding some with colour 17-23 advertisements on pink paper 1 blank pink paper pages. Brown limp cloth covers. Page dimensions: 164 x 100mm. Wallet style pocket empty at front cover. Plates include colour plate "Distinguishing Flags and Lamps" Plate XXI. . His Majesty's Stationery Office paperback
191438316Ernst Siegfried Mittler and son. 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good in No DJ As Issued dust jacket. All German text . Ernst Siegfried Mittler and son hardcover
188315919Portland: Hoyt Fogg & Donham 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 816 page book bound in brown cloth with gold and black stamped title and decorations on front and spine. A 1" x 1/2" scrape on front board. Corners are worn through and edge wear top and bottom of spine. Corner crease at top of 8 pages. Small chips on edges of front and rear endpapers a bit of foxing on the half-title page and end page and in margin of a couple of inside pages. Straight and unmarked. <br/><br/> Hoyt, Fogg & Donham hardcover
