Winged Mars 2 Volumes, Volume 1 The German Air Weapon 1870--1914, Volume 2 The Air Weapon 1914--1916 by John R Cuneo

Military Service Publishing. Used - Very Good. 1942. 1St Edition Cloth, dj., 8vo., 338 pp., illus.; 503 pp., illus. Volume 1 is a 2nd printing (published december, 1942). Volume 2 is a second printing. both dj.'s have a little edgewear; one also has a small piece missing from the back panel, not affecting text. Internally quite clean, solid. Vol. 2 spine is very lightly sunned; vol.1 not at all. A nice set.. (Subject: Military History & Exploration.)

New York: Knopf, 1978. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jacket woodcut from Rockwell Kent Legacies, cover design by Lidia Ferrera.. This First Edition title translates to "Hare", a story of two young boys surviving in the wild near a concentration camp, and the day everything changes. "As simply and beguilingly told as a fairy tale, this is a novel whose terror belongs to reality-a novel that evokes with extraordinary power the essence, the beauty, of loyalty and commitment tested to the utmost." (from DJ). 5½ x 8". Original black boards over cloth, silver letters to spine, black top edge. Bottom spine slightly bumped, DJ has tiny chips at top & bottom spine and light wear to back, else a near fine dustjacket over a near fine book with Kent's striking woodcut on cover.

New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., 1945. 348 pages, Armed Service edition #764, published in July 1945. During World War II more than seventy American publishers cooperated with the Council on Books in Wartime to distribute books free of charge to American servicemen. The flat oblong paperback books were designed to be easily carried into battle in soldiers' pockets. From September 1943 through June 1947, there were 1,322 titles published in Armed Services Editions. The book offered here is in very good condition: clean and tight, with minor edgewear.. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong 32mo - over 4" - 5" Tall. Book.

London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, spine a bit cocked, front endpaper corner-clipped, small spots to front board. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, rubs, light scratches, short edge tears carefully repaired on the interior side with archival quality tape, very faint stains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author's first book in the Orlando Trilogy followed by Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha. A modern classic. ISBN 9780370006529

Arms and Armour, 1991. Hardback. good/good, faded spine (red spine). with Dw, slightly faded on the spine, slightly foxed and tanned on the page edges otherwise very good

EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000
Seattle, Washington USA 98155
Printed in the United States of America by
Publishers Press / Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.

Santa Barbera: Zeldis Publishing, 7-04. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Large format hardback with dust jacket which is has minor wear, Signed by Photgrapher Bill Zeldis

Grenz-Echo Verlag. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. Hardcover. 9054330414 . A photoessay on the tank memorials and other military remains of the Battle of the Bulge along the Luxembourg-Belgium border. Many color photos. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages .

This Book is a Masterpiece account of one of the greatest American Military Generals of all time by award-winning Author, William Manchester. This Biography details the life of General Douglas MacArthur from childhood to the day he died. It covers his military career that spanned more than 50 years and includes his participation in all wars from the beginning of the 20th Century through Korea. This Book has maps and several sections of photographs spanning MacArthur's life and contains 793 pages, including the Bibliography and Index.

Erin, ON: The Boston Mills Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [1-8]9-120. FIRST EDITION. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth boards, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece photograph, photos, maps, glossary, nominal roll for D-Day. A history of the actions of the Highland Light Infantry of Canada near the village of Buron during the month following the D-Day landings. They faced the 12th SS (Hitler Youth) exchanging artillery barrages and fighting patrols. On the 8th July, 1944 the regiment executed a plan to capture the village which is described in this book. The unusual aspect of the fighting was the ferocity with which it was carried out on both sides. The text includes many full page photographs. The soldiers in most of the photos are identified by name and rank. The appendices include; a list of participants in the battle taken from The Highland Light Infantry of Canada with a determination of killed or wounded.… Read More

A 1st ed. good paperback, soiling & other signs of wear on covs. & spine as in image, with stamp fr. end p. & inside of cov. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1941 Gau Danzig" also FON pasted label. 520p. 19x13cm. 500gr. "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen.
Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte… Read More