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8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 7 plates and 2 full-page maps on japon, free endpapers lightly browned; original grey pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue and black, edges very lightly spotted else a near fine copy. Several plates and maps are misplaced as follows: that called for at p.75 faces p. 80; p.235 faces p.240; p.251 faces p.256; map at p.147 faces p.152; p.202 faces p.208. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Zweite erweiterte Auflage. 208 S. (Fraktur). Original Leinwand mit Original Umschlag, jeweils mit Deckeltitel. umschlag stärker berieben und lädiert (Risse, Fehlstellen). Einband berieben und etwas fleckig. Klammerbindung angerostet, roststellen auch an den Seiten sichtbar, Bindung gelockert, 1 Lage lose. Stellenweise etwas stockfleckig. Insgesamt passabel. Mit einem Frontispiz-Porträt des Verfassers und weiteren sw Abbildungen auf 18 Tafeln.
Paris, Tallandier, 1995. In-4 relié toile sous jaquette illustrée rempliée de 253 pages. Nombreuses photos. Exemplaire de bibliothèque
Verdun Fremont vers 1960. In-8 broché de 159 pages illustrées sous jaquette. Bon état
Perrin 1998, fort In-8 broché. 445 pages. Bon état. Broché
français In-8 de 408 pp.; broché de l'éditeur. Traduit de l'anglais par Patrick Hersant. Collection Les journées qui ont fait la France.
NRF Gallimard 2013, Collection Les Journées qui ont fait la France. In-8 broché, 415 pages. Parfait état.
in-8°, 307 pages, ill. h.t. n., carte en p. de garde, rel. cartonnage, jaquette illustree. Bel exemplaire. [HI-8]
1ère édition (après 15 exemplaires d'édition originale sur vélin) de cet ouvrage de l'écrivain Pierre MAC ORLAN (1883-1970) qui, soldat d'infanterie, fut mobilisé en 1914, où il réunit souvenirs du front et pélerinage: "On va à Verdun une fois, on revient à Verdun. Il est impossible de se libérer de Verdun"; notice pour touristes in fine; illustré de photos de la guerre et de la ville ("73" annoncées); exemplaire avec dédicace manuscrite de l'auteur à son "vieil ami" l'écrivain René Bizet (1887-1947). Français
VERDUN, Ed. Lorraine Frémond - Vers 1930 - Petit In-4 - cartonnage éditeur souple avec jacquette illustrée (bicolore) avec léger manque au dos - 160 pages - Nombreuses cartes + Carte sur double page HT de Verdun - Importante iconographie. Très bel exemplaire.
in-8°, 188 pages, broche, couverture illustree Bon etat (couverture recouverte d'adhesif tansparent, qq. cachets). [HA-4]
71 pages. Features: Bob (Robert) Goulet - he finds there is room at the top for hard work; Sweat Equity helps pay for their house - Joe Hodgen and Jeannette MacDonald prepare their new home in Chippawa, Ontario; Fidel Castro - Liberator or Slave-Maker? - a Canadian journalist visits Havana; Tragedy strikes the young duchess - The Duchess of Kent Story, Part 3 of 3; Ventriloquist Carolyn Blythe of the Blue Sky Revue in Verdun, Quebec; Porpoise with a purpose - Even blindfolded, Kathy can find her goal; Tachibana Ballet Institute in Tokyo - bathing helps their ballet; Sober piety and sturdy self-reliance mark the old-world ways of Canada's Mennonites; The Man the Sharks would't eat - Captain Haliburton (Bertie) Himmelman explains what happened to the Giant King 38 years ago; Workshop for Equality - Core, the Congress of Racial Equality, uses non-violence/sit-in strikes; School at Concrete, Washington, has a road beneath it; Charles Mohr, Jr., a University of Wisconsin senior, dies as a result of his first and last boxing knockout; Sid Caesar says "I conquered Shyness"; A new generation of bookworms is invading our libraries - children; The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood - a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly sunned dustwrapper. Invaluable standard reference.
24 pages. Map of Sollum, Western Egypt showing the various centres of defence along the Suez Canal; Photo of camels arriving by rail to support Major-General Peyton's force; photo of British and Australian officers consulting in the desert of Western Egypt; One-page illustration of Private G. Ingle, 4th Hussars, rescuing his troop leader, Lieut. Radclyffe, for which he received the D.C.M.; Photos round about the Allied base at Salonika - including General Mahon; Photos of personalities and pawns in the Verdun contest - German prisoners, an artillery horse, General Petain (in fur coat), and General Joffre; Two interesting photos above and below ground near the French Front; Two-page illustration of a busy scene along the Tigris on the way to Kut; Five photos of Portugal in arms; The Great Push against German East Africa - two photos; In the wake of General Smuts' offensive - four photos; Three photos of humane interludes amongst the strife; Six photos of British training in the art of bomb throwing; Will the German Navy Come Out?; Four photos of a large captive observation balloon arising from the H.M.S. Canning; Photos of 21 brave British sons decorated for Valour; One-page photo of a French '155' (6 inch) gun; Four photos of British submarine sailors in a Turkish prison. Lacking outer wraps. Centre and last pages loose but present. Appears to have been disbound from a hardcover volume. A rough but worthy reference copy. Book
Features: Article by Lovat Fraser - War Problems of the New Year; Gallant charge of the Fort Garry Horse (photos) - Lieutenant H. Strachan; Chinese men view war's ruin in west; Photos of Australians in France; French Premier with the heroes of Mort Homme; 'Thunderers' (gunes) that defy the foe before Verdun; Glimpses of East Africa from a German Camera; How I was arrested as a spy - an experience undergone three times by Hamilton Fyfe during Russia's spy-fever; Cambrai illustrations; Spotting for the Guns - adventures of John S. Margerison, Observation Officer of the Kite Balloons; From the Yser and Somme to Brenta and Piave; The Kaiser as Patron of the 'Prince of Hell' (illustrations); Airship that searches the sea for submarines; War-time wages and prices - causes and effects of their simultaneous increase (article); Forcing the entrance to Palestine at Gaza (illustrations); Photos of American Engineers who aid the British guards; Photos of English women engaged in agriculture on the home front; Photos of Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients Pte. M.J. O'Rourke, Sergt. J. Ockenden; Pte. W.H. Butler; Cpl. E.A. Egerton (brief text included); The South Lancashires - 1 page (with photo) information about this regiment. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
Features: What really happened at Kut (article); Winter photos from the western front; Photos of massive guns in France; Cairns to the memory of Verdun; Why were we misled? - an article to shed some light upon the corruption and ineptitude in Russia; French allies who aided in Allenby's advance; Article - Meeting the Spy Menace - how Britain's counter-espionage was successfully carried out; Help for homeless Hun victims; Airplane caught in mast of wireless station!; article - dealing with the U-Boat - some wonderful episodes in the hunting of the Submarine Hun; Photo of Col. J.H. Patterson, D.S.O. inspecting the Jewish Battalion; glimpses of some warships in the American Navy; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
Pages 41-80. This issue deals with the Battle of Verdun and includes the following photos and illustrations: General Joffre with General Nivelle, a French bell to warn soldiers of German gas attacks, large photo of corduroy road on the French Front, French troops, one-page photo of devastation along a road after a German bombardment, a French mortar being loaded, scenes of destruction in Verdun, captured German soldiers carrying their machine gun to the French lines, trench scenes, fantastic one-page photo of a gangly French observation balloon at Verdun, the Fort des Paroches. Extensive damage and soiling to covers which are free of staples but present. Contents in sound condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Numerous black and white photographs. "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - From Preface. Contents: Chapter CXXXVI - The Western Front During the Battle of Verdun. As this is the last issue of Vol. VIII, it contains an index, plus list of illustrations, places, and maps and plans. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
xii, 372 pages. Black and white photographic plates, bibliography, index, and index of army units. "As much as any First World War battle, Verdun was a turning point in the course of the war; it also had a profound lasting effect on the history of France and during the following decades. The attack on Verdun was an offensive unique in the history of war, the brainchild of the cold and inhuman mind of the German Chief-of-Staff, von Falkenhayn." - dust jacket. "I have found it enthralling - a superbly moving picture of that appalling struggle, and the best account of it that I have ever read." - Liddell Hart. Prior owner's name stamped twice upon front endpaper and blind-stamped upon title page. Annotations to four pages with additional hand-written comments on removeable sticky notes on several pages. Pen mark along length of front hinge. Prior owner affixed an envelope containing his annotated research materials to back free endpaper. Average wear to publisher's red cloth. Binding intact. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound and carefully studied copy. ENSER p.383 Book
160 pages. Features: What was killed was not only the President but the Promise; How to Survive in the Kremlin; General Westmoreland - inheritor of a wretched war; The Road Back for teh G.O.P., by Jacob K. Javits; White Mercenaries on a 'rabbit hunt' in The Congo; Photos of the new Verrazano-Narrows bridge; Michelangelo Antonioni - 'Most Controversial Director'; Gallery of Presidential Also-Rans, including Goldwater-Miller; The dizzying pace of Luxembourger life - and why Common Market bureaucrats don't want to make it their headquarters; After the Yankees What? - a TV Drama - C.B.S, the Columbia Broadcasting System; New Musicals, New Songwriters; Petain - of Verdun, of Vichy, of history; When children don't achieve. Crossword completed in pencil. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
Features: The Struggle before Cambrai - a Contest of Giants - Profit and Loss - A Critial Issue - French Local Combats - Italy Against Heavy Odds. Photo of a French listening post - overhearing talk in German trenches; Great photos from the Cambrai battlefield; Two-page photo of the retreat of the Italian Third Army; French Troops in Italy; Romances of the Regiment - the 28th North Gloucestershires; The Canal du Nord; Clearing a blown bridge on the Canal du Nord; A German Prisoner detention camp in France; Photo of Vauban's Ditch at Verdun; French wire-netting trench barricade; A wrecked Gotha; The new Sultan of Egypt's state entry into Cairo; The Final Rout of the Germans in East Africa; Four photos on the Palestine Front during General Allenby's advance; Early morning Gotha raid on London, Dec. 6; Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
48 pages. Features: Lovely full-page ad for Benger's Food; Front page photo of the King - Chief Mourner of the Unknown British Warrior; Article by G.K. Chesterton; Photos of notable world events in the news; Sport and Earnest - photos of notable events at home and abroad; Photos of personalities of the week; Illustrations and photos of the famous pall-bearers for the unknown warrior; Full-page photo of the H.M.S. Verdun; Gassing the Gassed - photos of Paris Doctor Arnold's apparatus for curing victims of Germany's poison gas weapons; Colour centerfold (loose but present) illustrates the burial place of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey; Excellent colour full-page ad for Treloar Carpets; Rare photo of doubl-column of fume and incandescent gas 40,000 feet high rising from the Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Loa; The Greatest Poison Trial of Modern Times - The Greenwood Case at Carmarthen - with illustrations of the dramatis personae and a view of the court in session; Full page ads for Johnny Walker Scotch Whisky, Cadillac automobiles, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., and smaller ads for other auto manufacturers. Full-page Michelin ad inside back cover missing chips, as is two-colour ad for McClinton's Colleen Toilet Cream on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Faint ink stamps on front cover. External advertorial coverfold mostly open. A worthy copy. Book
Features: How Britain Raised Six Billion Pounds for the War; French Victories of 1917 - At Verdun & on the Aisne. Centerfold photos of scenes of devastation in France. Staples have disintegrated. Average wear. Book
