New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Hardcover. Grant's memoirs in the publisher's green cloth with gilt medallions. Written in the final year of his life and published posthumously by Mark Twain's publishing company. From the Preface: "Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined.....
Surrey: Jane's Information Group, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Stated first edition of Jane's Battlefield Surveillance Systems, 1989-90. The Foreword outlines the editor's decision to, for the first time, divide Jane's Weapons Systems into eight more specialized yearbooks. With perforated stiff blue order form. 218pp. 11.5 x 8.5"...
Thunder Bay Pr, 2001. Hardcover. 13.5" x 10.25". Handsome Easton Press edition of Brendan Morrissey's study of the American Revolution. Clean and unmarked.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8.5" x 7". Repaired first edition of the Poems of Wilfred Owen, with the 1920 title page. Unfortunately a previous owner cut out the frontispiece portrait of Owen. A high-quality reproduction has been professionally inserted, with a neat, clear line indicating the repair.....
Duckworth & Co., 1916. Robinson, W. Heath. Hardcover. 14.75" x 10". 24 full page drawings by W. Heath Robinson, with captions and silhouette cartoons on the facing pages. The 1916 reprint of the collection first published in 1915, offering an absurd view of an ongoing war. Folio, no dust jacket.....
Oberpfalz, Bavaria: Ferdinan Nickl Buchdruckerei Weiden. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 7.5" x 5.5" Stated first edition. With fold-out map and numerous black and white photographs. Covers are tanned, minor creasing near spine. Small stain on front cover and ink mark on back cover (see photo).
Turner Publishing Company, 1994. Hardcover. A collection of recollections, diaries, records and photographs of the 31st Bomb Group, compiled and edited by Ken Stone. Glossy hard covers with slight bumping to corners, 199 unmarked pages, illustrated endpapers. 11.5 x 8.5"
Turner Publishing Company, 1999. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. This is a limited second edition of the history of the marines that have served in China, by the China Marine Association. There is slight wear to the edges and slight damage to the outside hinge and bottom spine. Pages are clean and.....
Philadelphhia: Hubbard Brothers, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. We are pleased to offer John W. Urban's glimpse into the events of the Civil War, his exploits in battle and the deprivations he suffered in several of the prison camps of the Confederacy, including the notorious Andersonville. Dark blue cloth over boards.....
Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Clean and unmarked, almost like new. Signed "Ken Burns" on a book plate at the half title page.