The German Army by Rosinski, Herbert - 1966

The Infantry Journal, 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. Washington, 1944; blue cloth covered boards; edges and corners scuffed with board exposed at corners; spine edges frayed; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; from the collection of John Shy, Professor at University of Michigan; hinges split with webbing exposed; no end papers; Interior is clean and unmarked; 220 pages.

Pall Mall Press, 1966. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1966. No Edition Remarks. 322 pages. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing.

Washington DC : The Infantry Journal, ( 1944 ). Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo, 220 pages, cloth; inked ownership markings on the title-page. The original edition of this study appeared in London in 1939. Rosinski was a Prussian who lectured at the various war colleges. This study has been improved by the activities of the German Army in World War II.

The First UK printing published by The Hogarth Press, London in 1939. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. Light pushing at the spine ends and a little bumping to the corners. Some mild age related markings to the boards. Red lettering to the spine as called for. Light offsetting to the blank endpapers and a little light toning and spotting to the text-block. Free from inscriptions. The errata slip to the contents page is present as issued. The fragile paper WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. A little loss at the spine ends, corners and a few very tiny areas of loss to the spine and front corner (see images). The red printed wrapper with a photograph of the tomb of the unknown warrior in Munich to the front cover is correctly priced at '12s 6d' to the spine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Only 1500 copies were issued in November 1939 (Woolmer 458), with one subsequent reprinting the following year. A history of the German army from Frederick The… Read More

London: Hogarth Press,, 1939. First edition, first impression, in the scarce jacket, of this Hogarth Press book, one of 1,500 copies printed. Planned before the war, but published after its outbreak, Rosinksi traces the history of the German military from the days of Frederick the Great through to its evolution into the Reichswehr. The author had emigrated to Britain in 1936, as, with a Jewish mother, he was forbidden to work in his native Germany following the Nuremberg Laws. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With dust jacket reproducing photograph of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Munich. W. Heffer and Sons bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Light spotting to endpapers, facing leaves, and edges, small patch of discolouration to top edge and rear pastedown, still a very good copy in the scarce jacket, tape reinforcement inside front flap fold and spine ends, spine panel sunned with small chips at end, price intact. Woolmer 458.