Military from Craftsbury Antiquarian Books

London: Methuen & Co, 1898. Book. Illus. by 5 maps & plans, plenty of full page photos. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original red cloth with bright gilt title on the frontand the slightly faded spine. Slight edgewear, mostly at the head of the spine. Several prior owner names on the… Read more about this item

New York: Century, 1915. Book. Illus. by 16 fuill page drawings by Lester Hornby, most on copper plate. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original dark blue cloth with Place Vendome on the front cover in gilt and grey, bright gilt title on the unfaded spine. Top edge gilt Slight wear… Read more about this item

Published just : Belhaven Press, with Scott Polar Research Institute, 1991. Book. Illus. by photos, drawings, graphs and maps. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Published just as the Soviet Union was disbanding, but a most pertinent book if you substitute the word Russian for "Soviet" in the title. Putin wants to compete an… Read more about this item

London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Book. Illus. by pertinent northern maps. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Again pertinent, as Putin has reopened the Cold War. A military consideration of the Russian naval threat in and near the Arctic. Original black cloth with a bright gilt title on the spine and… Read more about this item

London: Cresset Press, 1952. Book. Illus. by endpaper maps. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A nice copy in original black cloth with bright gilt title on the spine and only a hint of edge wear at the corners. Inside, clean and tight with no stains or prior owner marks. Dust jacket… Read more about this item

New York: Metropolitan, and Henry Hot, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First U.S.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vladimir Putin is very irritated and is still trying to revise the demise of the "mighty" USSR. So this book remains important in understanding current Russian msnufactured crises. Black cloth unfaded spine with a bright gilt title,… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937. Book. Illus. by endpaper maps and volume 2 frontispiece of Major Robert Rogers . Fine. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The two volume special edition, preceeding the first trade edition, signed and numbered, this copy 890 of 1050. This copy appears unread, as some… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cloth Binding with no edge wear, dust jacket with no wear and unclipped, as new inside and out. Gates was a highly successful intelligence analyst before rising to be Director of CIA and repacing Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense because… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Subtitled, How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq. It comes down to this. If you give the policy maker a choice of whether a dismal failure was the fault of bad policy or inept intelligence, he will choose that it… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1956. Book. Illus. by Profuse Maps, Illustrations and Portraits. Good. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A facsimile reprint in quality, as new paper inside. The same size as the first edition, an edition of only 100 copies bound in full dark blue morocco. Sadly the spines are worn and chipped. … Read more about this item

New York: R. Worthington, 1865. Book. Illus. by profuse full page steel engravings, including battle maps. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A nice, very solid edition of this classic, written during and just after the Civil War. I find no date of publication for this set, in original brown cloth with a… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Book. Illus. by ten full page portraits, and illustrations including two page battle plan of Charleston Island at Boston, 17 June 1775. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original red cloth with slight edge wear along the bottom and at the top of the spine. As new inside, with… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Birlinn, Ltd., 2016. Book. Illus. by maps and illustrations. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A beautiful copy with no wear, no prior owner marks, no flaws inside or out. With a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Burnes was a remarkable young man, thrust into leadership by his linguistic and other talents, but… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Press, 2008. Book. Illus. by 6 maps, and 36 pages of color photos. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "The Extraordinary Story of China's Wonder of the World", A fine copy of a very readable book. No wear and no prior owner marks. The dust jacket is… Read more about this item

New York : Grove Press, 2003. Book. Illus. by Sahara map and endpaper portraits of Laperrine and Foucauld. Fine. Hardcover. First U.S.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in the original cloth with a perfect dust jacket. No stains, as new inside, no prior owner marks. The adventures of two French imperialists, friends but… Read more about this item

Guildford and London, England: Croom Helm Ltd`, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy, subtitled "Sectarianism, Regionalism and Tribalism in Politics 1961 - 1978. Very clean and tight inside. Dust jacket is unblemished. A useful book to understand the roots of the current catastrophic civil war in Syria… Read more about this item

Oxford and Karachi: Oxford Univ Press, 2010. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This book , unfortunately, documents failed governmance in Pakistan, increasingly medieval and dysfunctional. The author is a professor of history at Quaid-i-IAzam University in Islamabad. I suspect he is not very popular for his honest exposition of the crisis… Read more about this item

Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2013. Book. Fine. Cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. China's influence is broader than deep, says the author. And that is especially true in "soft power" where few are tempted to emulate the Chinese government. A superb work and a fine read. Pages xvi, 409.… Read more about this item

NY Farrar,Straus & Giroux 1997. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A thorough documentation of the Kurdish tragedy in the 20th C. As new, inside and out. Randal was an excellent American journalist who was in and out of Kurdistan when few others were. Very readable. Recommended for… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 2002. Book. Illus. by 24 Pages of Plates, 16 in Color, Unlike the U.S. Edition. Fine. Cloth. 2nd PRINTING. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Subtitled, "Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century India". Pages xlviii, 459. The superlative British travel writer, Wm Dalrymple turns his talents to the Raj in India, under the East… Read more about this item