BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE GENERALS OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION.; Printed for Sale at Mount Vernon by Leiter, Mary Theresa - 1889

London: W. Clowes & Sons. Good+. 1850. Hardcover. Clean marbled boards, brown leather corners & spine with label. Text tight & intact. [4, 655pp, 1]. Boards lightly scuffed. Front hinge just starting with cover firmly attached. Corners lightly rubbed. Pages 1-18 ink line drawn over apparently deceased senior officers. Armorial bookplate of Lt. Col. CHARLES ARTHUR WYNNE FINCH of Denbighshire. Military; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 655 pages .

Toronto: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [0-920092-80-2] 2003. (Hardcover) 705pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Green leatherette with gilt lettering. Additional title page and introductory pages in English, index, sources. Publisher series: Litopys UPA New Series 7 . Text in Ukrainian Language. Locale: Ukraine. (Military, Resistance Movement--Ukraine, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Ukrainska Povstanska Armiyi).

Boston: Printed by Buckingham & Titcomb for Thomas & Andrews, 1810. Early edition. Original Wraps. Good. pp: 50, (8); Massachusetts seal at top of page 3. Front endpapers are from another publication. Ownership signature of W.C. Wilde at top of title-page, his handwritten title on the cover, and copious manuscript annotations on 30 pages of text. Some spotty foxing at front and back. 6.75" x 4" American Imprints 20661 locates only the Library of Congress and American Antiquarian Society copies.

London: Henry Fisher, 1827. 600 pages. 13 engraved plates. A handsome copy in contemporary straight grain red morocco with gilt dentelles; title label missing; very good otherwise. The attractive plates include a spirited plate of the Grand Old Duke in action during one of his few victories in the Netherlands campaign (Roublaix) and a folding depiction of the funeral procession. (For other books about the Napoleonic Wars please search my stock using the codeword napoleonic.)

Ottawa: Hunter Rose, 1870. 241 pages. 3 actual portrait photographs. A very good copy in the publisher's patterned boards. The Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III, served in Canada mainly with the Royal Fusiliers from 1791 to 1798 and was commander in chief British North America in 1799 and 1800.

Boston: Printed by Buckingham & Titcomb for Thomas & Andrews, 1810. Early edition. Original Wraps. Good. pp: 50, (8); Massachusetts seal at top of page 3. Front endpapers are from another publication. Ownership signature of W.C. Wilde at top of title-page, his handwritten title on the cover, and copious manuscript annotations on 30 pages of text. Some spotty foxing at front and back. 6.75" x 4" American Imprints 20661 locates only the Library of Congress and American Antiquarian Society copies.

London: Henry Fisher, 1827. 600 pages. 13 engraved plates. A handsome copy in contemporary straight grain red morocco with gilt dentelles; title label missing; very good otherwise. The attractive plates include a spirited plate of the Grand Old Duke in action during one of his few victories in the Netherlands campaign (Roublaix) and a folding depiction of the funeral procession. (For other books about the Napoleonic Wars please search my stock using the codeword napoleonic.)

Ottawa: Hunter Rose, 1870. 241 pages. 3 actual portrait photographs. A very good copy in the publisher's patterned boards. The Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III, served in Canada mainly with the Royal Fusiliers from 1791 to 1798 and was commander in chief British North America in 1799 and 1800.

Albany, NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; First several pages of volume one loose, front . hinge is cracked, boards heavily worn. Volumes two and three much tighter . and with only mild wear to spines.. 1900. Hardcover. A three volume set comprising a detailed record of New York State's official involvement in the Spanish-American War. Peach-colored cloth bindings with blind-stamping and black-stamped lettering on spines. Frontispiece photograph of New York Governor Frank T. Black in first volume. Volume One contains information about all official State documents issued concerning the conflict, long lists of ordnance, quartermaster supplies and medical supplies issued, and detailed lists of soldiers who died during the War. Volume one also lists short biographical information about soldiers enlisted in Troop A, Troop C, 4th Battery, 5th Battery, 7th Battery, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 8th Regiments. Volume two provides registers of soldiers enlisted in the 9th, 12th, 13th, 14th,… Read More

South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition (stated). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Slight reading wear to lower corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 436 pages. For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be running a perfect covert war in Laos - quiet, inexpensive, just enough arms to help Meo (Hmong) tribesmen defend their home territory from the communist Pathet Lao. Then the big American war next door in Vietnam spilled across the border. How the perfect covert war ballooned into sorrow and disaster is the story Roger Warner tells in Shooting at the Moon, awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award for 1995's Best Book on Foreign Affairs by the Overseas Press Club. Warner describes his characters with a novelist's touch - soldiers and diplomats busy with war-making; CIA field officers from bareknuckle warriors to the quiet men pulling strings in the shadows; and above all the Meo as they realized… Read More