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8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Purnell's History of the Second World War, Battle Book No. 5.
Grand Livre du Mois, 2010. In-8 broché de 262 pages illustrées. Rares passages discrètement soulignés au crayon de papier en marge sinon Très bon état.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, oversize format in bright orange heavy cloth with gilt letting at cover and spine. Covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows moderate wear with chipping at top spine, two very small tears and one 1" closed tear near spine. 244 illustrations, including 190 full page plates in full color, with descriptions/commentary at end of book. Plates are impressively large and from the collection of Italian paintings in the Leningrad Hermitage. Artists include Simone Martini, Campigli, Morandi, Guttuso, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Giorgione, Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese, Carracci, Tiepolo, Guardi, Canaletto, 307 pp.
Features: A pictorial message for friends and relatives of war prisoners - sketches of POWs; Amazing photos of camouflaged Russian soldiers; Large overhead photo of Leningrad; Great overhead photos of military positions near Tobruk; Photo of Churchill in Liverpool; photo of Guderian; Photos of Fascist prisoners in Peveril Camp at Peel, Isle of Man; Science and World Order - The British Association Conference - photos; Article - The War with Nazi Germany - The New Developments; Large portrait of U.S.S.R. Marshal K. Voroshilov of Leningrad; Photo of Rumanian prisoners of the Soviets; Photo of German prisoners under Soviet escort; Photos from the Vast Eastern Battlefront - Russia fights on; Two-page illustration of the Caucasion Oilfield Region - Russia's Achilles' Heel - Objective of the German Drive on Kharkov and Rostov; Centerfold illustration entitled "Rosyth Dockyard", by Sir Muirhead Bone, showing H.M.S. "King George V."; Photos of "Mickey" The Dog mascot of the A.I.F.; Air force photos - electric gloves, larynx microphone, etc.; Photo of French Quadricycle; America's new light cruiser the "Atlanta"; New black state police uniforms in Vichy France; Inter-Allied Conference Photo; British tanks for Russia; Many photos highlight Sarawak's hundred years under the rule of the white rajahs - excellent photos of the Dyak (Dayak) peoples, including their tattoos; Personalities and events of the week, including Brigadier D.A. Sandford; London Sixty Years After the Great Fire - article; Illustrations of fire-fighting in the 18th century - early appliances in use; Large photo of London's Auxiliary Fire Service (A.F.S.) battling a large blaze; Article on Gourds - edible, ornamental and poisonous; Nice colour BSA ad inside front cover; Colour Dewar's "White Label" Scotch ad on back cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine and externally along spine. A sound copy. Magazine
28 pages. Features: Cover Photo of Roosevelt and Churchill seated together at Casablanca attending what was later described by the President the "Unconditional Surrender" meeting; Chiefs of Staff at Casablanca Conference discuss problems while the President and Prime Minister decide 1943 Strategy - 12 photos with captions; Amazing aerial photo of an airfield literally plowed up by the enemy in the Middle East; Two Great Soviet Deeds - Leningrad Relieved and Stalingrad Cleared - five photos; Personalities and Recent Events; Closing Up in Tunisia - article by Cyril Falls; Six-photo feature on "A Weapon Which Has Come to the Fore in This War - The Land Mine"; The Ears of the Army - Seven Photos of "Signals" Laying Cables in Forward Areas; Photos of General Alexander, Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Forces; Photos of - "the Regent of Iraq and the little boy-King Feisal II inspecting a guard of honour at Baghdad Airport, Commander F.A. Worsley, His Highness the Maharajah of Kikanir, Viscount Maitland - son of the Earl of Lauderdale - K.I.A., Haile Selassie; Photo of Roosevelt in Jeep with President Vargas of Brazil; Large photo of Churchill and President Inonu of Turkey conferring during their rail-coach discussions; Centerfold map of Northern Tunisia - the Terrain and Communications where the Axis is faced by three Allied Armies and Montgomery's Advance from the South; Two-pages of illustrations related to "The Problem of the U-Boat Menace - the Case for and Against building Faster Cargo-ships capable of 15 knots as against the present average of about 11 knots; A page of great miscellaneous war photos; Stone Column unveiled in Belfast to Commenorate First Landing of U.S. Forces; The Massacre of the Innocents - the Burial of Lewisham's Child Victims; The Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria - article by S.F. Nadel; Full-page photo of a ghostlike member of the Archconfraternity of Mercy collecting money in the street prior to an execution in Malta; Malta's Ordeal - a fine tribute paid by the screen to the men and women of the George Cross Island - twelve photos; The Troglodyte Dwellings of Southern Tunisia - Matmata - Underground town near the Mareth Line - ten photos; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Cover illustration of "Silent Telephony on the Battlefront" - showing one of our troops in Tunisia using throat microphones and "silent speech" transmitters to report to base from under the noses of the enemy; Scenes during the Eighth Army's Advance into Tripolitania - includes photos of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines removed from the airfield at Marble Arch; Dramatic two-page illustration of the damaged Stirling bomber piloted by Flight Sergeant Rawdon Hume Middleton about to plunge into the Channel - how he won the Victoria Cross (V.C.) - Devotion "Unsurpassed in the annals of the Royal Air Force"; The Great World War - Lessons from Papua - article by Cyril Falls; Rabaul - Main Japanese Base in New Guinea Area Campaign - three illustrations and two photos; The German Retreat Across the Snow - Dramatic Views of Hitler's Sorry Army - Russians Close on Their Heels - 13 photos; How a "Liberty" Freighter was built in less than five days - Henry J. Kaiser's shipyards built the "Robert E. Peary" using pre-fabricated sections; Photos of personalities and events of the week - including Von Ribbentrop welcoming Laval to Berlin, Lloyd George at age 80, and a ceremony in London honouring American airman Sec. Lieut. Johnson; Pictures Behind the News - photo of the new Lockheed Constellation on its maiden voyage, aerial photo of now free Leningrad; A Japanese Bomber's Suicide Dive on the U.S. Aircraft-Carrier "Hornet" - dramatic photos; Centerfold illustration of Captain Robert Sherbrooke, V.C. in H.M.S. "Onslow," Challenging Superior Naval Forces of North Cape; Photos of enemy bombers down over London; Scenes in Malta's War Headquarters; Illustration of Flak over London; Three dramatic photos show Squadron Leader T.M. Bulloch settle the fate of a U-boat; Two-page illustrated map indicates the vast economic development of French Africa - roads and communications from Algeria to Congo; The Trans-African Air Route - a six-thousand miles daily flight over virgin forests and desert tracts - three great photos; The Rivals of Rubber - article by E.S. Grew; Nice colour-illustrated ad for Johnnie Walker on back cover; Unmarked. Average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Book
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 71pp. Castle and park views of the city Pushkin near St Petersburg, Russia. A significant city in Russian architecture and its connection with the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. All text in German.
Introduction by Montgomery of Alamein. 'This book on Russia, published by The Sunday Times, is of tremendous interest because it presents in clear and readable form an introduction to Russia and its people.' 10 chapters plus Appendix, Notes and Index; numerous photographs and illustrations, 168 pages, Book has some light soiling of covers from handling, scuffed corners. Text pages clean and tight. Binding sound.
Book is in excellent condition with very bright red covers, gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket has one 1/2" tear, a little edge wear. Previous owner's name at front endpaper. Contents include: A nuclear weapon over Detroit or Leningrad: a tutorial on the effets of nuclear weapons, Civil defense, Three attack cases, Other long-term effects, with six apendices. Lots of great graphics: maps of Detriot and Leningrad with bomb graphics over them showing PSI ratings, for instance, surface burst, air burst, casualty counts, terrorist weapon senario, radioactive graphics over Lake Erie, fireball, breakaway, shock front, Mach front, fallout, thermonuclear ground burst, lots of great stuff we can thank the Pentagon for: making us safer!
pp. 219 + Plus index. Profusely illustrated with photographs from the Soviet Archives. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Book Club edition. Nice copy. Russia vs. Germany in the World War II Bloodbath That Took 30,000,000 Lives.Picture Editor and Designer: Irwin Glusker. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWII 1
fort volume in-8°, 653 pp., 1 cahier d'illustrations N&B, cartes, index, broche, couverture illustree plastifiee à rabats. Bon état (plis de lecture au dos), plats un peu défraichis. [LA-3]
8vo. First Edition thus with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser p.246.
This is an about very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light edge wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Russian with 1 page English summary. Captions to plates in English and Russian. Organized chronologically from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Hundreds of black & white photographs of public sculpture and decorative sulptural ornament on buildings. 11" high X 8" wide, 478 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
88 pages. Features: Brief obituaries for Dr. James McKeen Cattell and Admiral Mark Kerr; Bing Crosby's crutch with folding seat; Cute color ad for Bryand gas heating features Chihuahua; Reynolds Aluminum ad features astounding photo inside Fort Worth plant building Liberator Bombers - as far as the eye can see!; Photo of Pvt. Bob Kearney and Sgt. Jack Malone on the beach below Rome; New Blows in Italy and Russia put more Cracks in Nazi Wall; Extensive war coverage; Release of Leningrad; Photo of 75-millimeter howitzer crew on Cape Gloucester, New Britain enduring mud and rain; Other photos of Marines tending fallen buddy and toughing out the heat; Photo of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and his officers crossing Piazza Venezia in Rome; Discussions between de Gaulle and Churchill; Nice color General Tire ad with cartoon about recapping; Nice military-themed Camel cigarettes ad features Ethel Brett and Marine training photos; Koala rescue photos at Quail Island; Uncommon ad for Pennsylvania-Central Airlines; Photos of prison reform in Georgia which, until recently, had floggings, sweatboxes and chains; Rail settlement paves way for new wave of raise demands; Photo of Ford workers Neil Smith and John Elvin of the Edgewater, NJ plant - who were suspended from the union for working too fast!; Seagram's V.O. color ad features interesting artist's rendering of a future submarine salvaging submarine; Eddie Rickenbacker photo in Hotel New Yorker ad; War Bond ad sponsored by Timken features portrait of General Marshall; Nice one-page ad for movie "Destination Tokyo" starring Cary Grant and John Garfield; Nice 2/3-page Snap-on Tools ad for their Torqometer (torque wrench); And much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
This is a very good hardcover copy in blue-grey embossed cloth, with title in gilt on the front cover. All text in Russian. This is a survey of the architectural history of Leningrad. Profusely illustrated in black & white with a few color plates. There are individual portraits of the most famous of the Russian architects of the past, as well as maps and prints reproducing old views and layouts of the grounds of 17th and 18th century buildings. Most of the illustrations are of individual buildings or complexes. Including public monuments, bridges and parks, major thoroughfares, also interior views. Much neo-classical architecture. Captions contain dates for all buildings illustrated. Large folio, 14" high X 10 1/2" wide, 337 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
8vo. First Edition thus with illustrated title-spread very numerous photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; black cloth backstrip lettered in silver a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. No dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Russian and English. This is a small encyclopedia of Russian architecture in Leningrad over the centuries. One section on the Soviet Period of architecture. Another section on bridges. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs, plans, etc. 11" high X 9" wide, 497 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
in-8°, 311 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, carte, tabl. geneal., rel. cartonnage ed., jaq. ill. plast. Bel exemplaire. [SAS]
212pp.richly ill.(some of which unfolding) wtih description, linen cover, VG, [picture-book about historical Leningrad and its daily life in communist period]
[ix] + 68pp. + 125 planches hors texte, 29cm., reliure toile, jaq.ill., bel état, dans la série "Les Primitifs Flamands. I: Corpus de la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux au quinzième siècle" volume 8, S84592
Aurora 1985. Grand in-4 carré reliure éditeur sous jaquette et étui de 299 pages. . Nombreuses reproductions en noir et en couleurs ; dans et hors texte. Très bon état
in-8 etroit, 249 pages, abdt ill. in- et h.t. n&b, cartes depl., relie pl. toile illustree ed., jaquette rhodoïde. Bon etat (coins us.). [NV-32]
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at head and tail of backstrip. The Russian version was published in 1948. Enser, p.246.
151pp. + 3 platen buiten tekst, 26cm., roodlinnen uitgeversband met titel in goudopdruk, stofwikkel, tekst in het Middelnederlands, in de reeks "Verzameling van Middelnederlandse Bijbelteksten. Kleine reeks, afdeling 5: Psalters" deel 1, enkele vage roestvlekjes op bovenste bladsneden, verder in zeer goede staat, [text in Middle Dutch, in the series "Corpus Sacrae Scripturae Neerlandicae Medii Aevi. Series minor. Tomus V: Psalteria" vol.1], R102761
in-8°, 350 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, 6 cartes, -, broche, couverture illustree à rabats. Etat correct (traces de mouillure a la couv., empreinte aux premieres pages) [DV-23]
