New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith Inc., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 521; black cloth ruled in red and lettered in silver. A view of the European powers in the period leading up to WWII; British, Germans, Italians, Russians, French all careening toward the edge..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1943. second printing before publication. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 159, (i); sixteen plates and two folding maps; green cloth, lettered in gilt;. The story of the Tunisian Campaign, the 8th Army, Gen. Patton. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Second Edition, but first Macmillan edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 131, glossary; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; photographs by Cpl. Edward J. Freeman and Pfc. John H. Birch Jr.; quarter gray blue cloth and pictorial boards; lettered in silver. This copy is inscribed..... More
(Hamden Ct.): Anchon Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (viii), 119; black cloth lettered in gilt; in a dust jacket; A beautiful inscribed copy. The personal experiences of an American infantry soldier of the 10th Mountain Division in WWII. He recounts the final skirmishes against the retreating German Army..... More
(Guernsey): (Guernsey Press Co. Ltd.), Nd (1956). First Edition. Wraps. Duodecimo; pp; 24; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and four additional black and white plates, map on rear wrappers; original pictorial color wrappers, mostly uncut;. The story of an imprisoned Spanish soldier, held by the Nazis in the Channel Islands..... More
New York: Metropolitan Books, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (x), 507, (i), index; illustrated with black and white photographs and maps; burgundy cloth and cream paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. In France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There..... More
Delacorte Press, (2014). First Edition, ARC Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (x), 292; illustrated with black and white photographs and a map; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback;. This is "The #1 New York Times Bestseller Adapted for Young Adults." Advanced Reading Copy. These are prepublication copies, true first editions that..... More
New York: Pantheon, (1989). Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 365; green cloth and cream paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Extensive excerpts from Kennan's diaries. Kennan was at the center of so much 20th century history. More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 337, index; eight plates, map endpapers; beige linen in a dust jacket, top edge stained red; jacket chipped at spine ends;. An inciteful account from both sides of the lines by a Red Cross PR officer..... More
Italy: Stars And Stripes Mediterranean, 1945. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp. (viii), 117, (i); illustrated with the cartoons of Bill Mauldin; original printed stiff pictorial paper wrappers; Some edge wear, fading to the covers, what do you expect, it has been through a war, else very good. Mauldin chronicaled the..... More
(Somerset): Patrick Stephens Limited, (1994). Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo, pp; (16), 224, index; photographs; gilt lettered blue cloth in a pictorial dust jacket;. WWII memoirs and incidents. More
London: George Rainbird, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 32; beautifully illustrated throughout with impressionist color plates; black cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. More
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (2000). Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 765; profusely illustrated with twenty-four maps and one hundred twenty-eight black and white photographs; black cloth and gray boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. "In the course of the twentieth century, no war..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; (xvi), 767, index; illustrated with fifty-five maps and other photographs; cream cloth lettered in red in a dust jacket;. Photographs, glossary, chronology, tables, plans, maps, bibliography, indexed, a very substanial reference work. More
New York: Doubleday & Company, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xii), 353, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; black cloth and gray paper covered boards, lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket;. A Chronicle of Joe & Jack in WWII. More
(Boulder): University of Colorado Press, (2005). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xviii, (iv), 256, index; photographs, maps; gray cloth, lettered in silver, in a dust jacket; Very good in very good dust-jacket. Concentrates on three American ski champions who were transformed into alpine troopers in the storied 10th Mountain Division..... More
New York: Arcade Publishing, (1995). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; viii, (ii), 286, bibliography; illustrated with photographs and a genealogical chart; red cloth and black paper covered boards lettered in black in a dust jacket; A review copy with the release laid in;. Wallenberg saved as many as 100,000..... More