A Pitiless Rain: The Battle of Williamsburg, 1862 by Hastings, Earl C., Jr.; Hastings, David S - 1997

London: Rawlings, Chapman Publications, 1972. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR 'TO KATHY McKAY VERY BEST WISHES SINCERELY LEO RAWLINGS'. Stated First Edition. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy. Dustjacket has a little wear to spine head and tail, sides and corner tips and is not price clipped and has a dustjacket protector fitted. Foreword by Lord Mountbatten of Burma. Dedication by Lord Russell of Liverpool. xxxi and 160 pages. Map of the notorious Railway of Death front endpaper and 119 plates. The artist's (1918-1984) now classic work as a prisoner of war for three and a half years of the Japanese in World War II, in which he describes the railway camps, the bridge building on the River Kwai, Changi in Singapore, the fall of Singapore, and all of the horrors experienced by the POW's - all graphically illustrated by his now famous drawings. **** A VERY SCARCE SIGNED COPY **** 22. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Rawlings, Leo. 8vo… Read More

Vancouver Island, British Columbia: E. W. Bickle, 1986. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, #114. Trade softcover. Published Vancouver Island, British Columbia: E. W. Bickle, 1986. 4to. wrappers, 8 1/4" x 10 1/2", frontis+600pp+indexes. Minor wear at the extremities. Very good.. 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

Trieste: David Waddington, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong 16mo. coarse buff covers, in buff slipcase, which has one corner worn through into the cardboard. no writing or marks. ship's roster in index..

Pasadena, Socio-Technical Books, 1970, hardcover, 176 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight and tightly bound, spots to top edge, previous owner's name and date to front endpaper. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, rubs, light wrinkles, slight edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The well-regarded anthropologist, museum director, supervising archaeologist for the Fort Massac Reconstruction project in Southern Illinois, and author of The Long Walk: A History of Navajo Wars, 1846-68 takes us back to the years 1863-68, the military roundup of the Navajo Indians and the creation of Bosque Redondo near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, a forty-square mile concentration camp where the Navajo lived according to the dictates of an alien people and suffered disease, starvation, and generational trauma. Illustrated with 22 period photographs. Appended: Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9780870261008

Washington, D.C., USA: Government Printing Office, 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with black cloth spine with white lettering; white paper-covered boards; no jacket; 676 pages; many foldout maps, etc, most b&w and some in color; small label inside back : "Ruhlen Bindery 1955". Good condition : boards mildly soiled and worn; straight and tight; only very slight interior flaws: about one inch of title page missing at lower corner; slight toning; slight wrinkling. .

Berlin: Karl Siegismund, 1912. Octavo. revised. 676 pp.Translated from the French, by Germain Bapf. frontispiece, 13 skteches, and 2 large fold-out maps at rear, 12pp. publisher's ads. Bound in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, spine lettering gilt. Binding rubbed, some wear to spine ends. A good copy.

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1984. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1984, first printing. Folio, 9 1/2" x12 1/4." xiv+621pp., illustrated with hundreds of reproductions. Very good in frayed, good dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Good. Folio.

Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Praeger Pub Text, 1987. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Westport, CT: Praeger Pub Text, 1987, first printing. 8vo., xiv+216 pp., illustrated with tables. Near fine.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Pub Group, 1988. First edition. Hard cover. Published Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1988, first printing. 8vo., xv+243pp. Fine. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo..

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