Instructions for Officers and Men of the Army Air Forces in the Event of Capture or Landing in a Neutral Country (AG PP HQ ETO 5-44/20 M / L-8527) by War Department Staff - 1943

Interformat, Manila, Philippines, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Commemorative Edition. Includes a paste-in 3 page foldout on the front endpaper which says "Stingray Foundation Legacy - We the undersigned signatories are proud and honored to contribute to the legacy of this historical tome - and to authenticate by our participation with the Bolomen of Mayraira Point - in aiding them with recapture and restoration of ancestral lands to their peoples. Many names are listed from the USS Stingray SS 186. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 227 pp. Pages are tight and clean. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Light creasing in the upper right corner of several pages. Ex-library with minimal markings. DJ is now protected in mylar cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 - 3 pounds. Category: History; History::World War II; ISBN: 9719247010. ISBN/EAN: 9789719247012. Pictures of this item not already… Read More

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970, hardcover, xxi-409 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches, previous owner's embossing to title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, small spine-end and corner nicks, wear to folds, short closed edge tears, some discreet tape repairs, in new Brodart sleeve. The definitive account of the participation of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion at the Battle of the Bulge compiled by the famous Kentucky author from accounts given by her husband, fellow author Henry Giles, and other members of the Battalion who took part. Illustrated with 22 pages of black-&-white plates and 11 maps. Mapped endpapers show the Kampfgruppe Peiper advance route. ISBN 9780395077443

The American Army overcame and disarmed the resisting parts of the German garrison. The inhabitants of Plzen prepared and printed this booklet to express gratitude and to serve as a souvenir to strengthen their friendship.,Filled with pictures and a touching tribute. handwritten inscription"Sorry I couldn't get one with my pictures in it.Din" written by the gift giver.

Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1943. Condition: Fair. Wartime Edition with victory substitutes and economical recipes for delicious wartime meals. 816 pp to original book, plus eight pages on Wartime Cookery and 64 pages on How To Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week. Book has been recovered with orange vinyl cloth to keep all pages intact. Text is clean and unmarked with no foxing and arranged in 22 sections with finger tabs similar to a dictionary. Former owner attribution on frontispiece dedication page.B/W photo of General Douglas MacArthur frontispiece with this dedication: "This Wartime Edition of the American Woman's Cook Book is respectfully dedicated with affection and gratitude to General Douglas MacArthur. His heroic leadership and gallant fight against overwhelming odds should inspire every American woman to make the most of daily opportunities to support the war effort in her home and in every sphere of worthwhile war activity. There must be thousands of little… Read More

R. James Bender Publishing, Mountain View, Calif. @ 1971 stated First edition. This is a collector's volume #323 of the first 500 and signed by author, see picture. Hard cover with tight binding and pages. Some rubbing on the front and back cover and slight bumping at corners. Top edge of pages are slightly curling and stained up to about page 26, see pictures. Some browning on the edges and soiling to boards, spine and first free page, see pictures.Many black & white photos, some color photos and drawing.
No writing/underlining/highlighting; NOT a library copy. I have gone through this book and it is a good reading copy. Page 265/266 has a corner fold, pic #6.
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Harcourt & Brace 1943, First. VG/none. Rust orange boards with black titles to spine and illustration of young man on bike with dog chasing (delivering telegrams) . Also an illustration of a young boy on the spine. PO's signature on first fly leaf. Otherwise, a clean tight copy - no other marks. No DJ. The Human Comedya loving novel about a family during WWII. It was made into a movie starring Mickey Rooney , Fay Bainter and Frank Morgan. The book won a Pulitzer Prize, and the movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Rooney received an Oscar Nomination for Best Actor.

1945. Privately Published. Oblong 8vo. Softcover. Unpaginated. Near Fine condition. The book is intact and tight .Ernest Craige, MD, 89, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died on 24 January 2008 at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Dr. Craige served as Chief of the Division of Cardiology at the UNC School of Medicine for 26 years and was an internationally renowned expert in echocardiography. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1939 but did not take up residence in England because of the outbreak of World War II. Instead, he attended Harvard Medical School and graduated with an MD degree in the spring of 1943. After an internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Army training at Camp Barkley in Texas, Dr. Craige participated in the northern European campaign with the Fifth Auxiliary Surgery Group in 1944 and 1945. He published a cartoon history of his wartime experiences, When Our Hearts Were Young with Gay.

Valor Publishing Co, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Madeja, W. Victor : Russo-German War: Autumn 1941: Defeat of Barbarossa/No 27. Allentown (PA) : Valor Publishing Co, PB, 1988. First edition. Demy quarto (4to) size, 10 7/8"/28cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy stock wrappers glued to textblock; front cover features color reprod of German situation map for 6 Dec, 1941, Army Group North; back is 20 September '41, also northern sector. ii pp prelim material, 81 numbered pp, three unnumbered following. 14 separate orders of battle for German army groups during the period in question, along with 11 tables/charts, 19 photos or sketches, 66 b&w maps, four color glossy maps; small errata sheet tipped in on copyright page. Condition notes: Nine pp have pink highlighting of specific units in orders of battle, pages are thin, so the highlighting shows through to reverse side - irritating, but does not greatly affect utility (all text readable). Pages clean, binding sound. Light wear to cover. An extremely… Read More

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner name on front free . endpaper, pages toned, top corner torn from pp 273-274.. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated tan cloth. xii, 274, viii pp. Photos. Laurence was a science correspondent with the New York Times and was tapped by U. S. Army Major General Leslie Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project, to be its official historian. Laurence was present at the Trinity test at Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945 and has dramatic photos of the bomb as it explodes. Other photos in the book show the after-effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Laurence received a Pulitzer Prize for his A-bomb reporting but his journalistic integrity has come into question in recent years. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

The Easton Press, 1992. 2 vols. The Leather-Bound Library of American History. First thus; Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "as new" condition. Front lower edge of volume I shows very slight bump. Bindings and text blocks are otherwise tight, bright, crisp, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Appear unopened / unread. Bound in full (genuine) blue leather with hubbed spines. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spines and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. All edges gilt. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes from History sheet laid in. Photo is of the set we have at Barbed Wire Books. A beautiful gift!