Search Results: Military History from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 2010. First edition. hardcover in illustrated boards. Very good/no dust jacket issued. Landscape quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 207 p. w/ maps, bibliography, index. An examnation of a collecion of maps of the early Revolutionary war, primarily drawn from reports from German officers to their rulers and superiors in various states of Germany. This is the first published apppearance of a number of these maps.

Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Good octavo hardcover in silver cloth binding without dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and light scuffing to covers. Some browning along upper edge of front cover. Page edges are lightly browned. Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown endpaper. 143 pages with appendix, selected bibliography, and index. An early look at air power and strategic bombing.

Baltimore / Washington DC: The Johns Hopkins University Press / Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xvii, 383 p. w/ illus., maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. A study looking at the failure of useful institutional reforms by the General Staff in the Imperial Russian Army, primarily because of internal inefficiency and the incompetence of their superiors.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Name and address of former owner on flyleaf. Slight soiling to foredge. 276 p. w/ footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. A first-of-its-kind, detailed study of the Spanish Fleet of Flanders, based primarily at Dunkirk. The creation, development, and naval domination of the Fleet during the Thrity Years War is thoroughly examined.

New York, NY: Eastern Eureopan Monographs / Columbia University Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 231 p. w/ footnotes. A collection of some 9 essays covering Polish armies in exile : Napoleonic WWI, and WWII.

London: I. B. Tauris, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 168 p. 9 different studies on conscription and/or its processes and effects covering the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Iran, Bosnia, and Central Asia.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket, Jacket has foxing. Light musty smell to book when opened. 373 p. w/ appendices, index, and extensive notes. A look at how the artisans and wage workers came to power in the Militia and Committee of Privates in 1775 and 1776, and helped make the Pennsylvania Revolution one of the most radical of all the state revolutions.

New York, NY: New York University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, and with a tear at spine in dust jacket. 275 p. w/ endnotes, references, index. A study of the day to day experiences of common US soldiers in this mid-19th century war.

London: Conway Maritime Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket. Pages slightly browned. 423 p. w/ appendices, bibliography, general and ships' names index. A modern classic.

Cambridge: Ken Trotman, Ltd., 1988. Facsimile. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners. Front cover has a long diagonal crease at lower right. 320 p. w/ maps, including 2 fold out maps. An attractive reprint in softcover of an important Victorian campaign memoir during the Mahdist war of 1881 - 89 by Burleigh, a war correspondent for British newspapers. Originally published in 1884, and covers the battles of El-Teb and Tamaai.

Casamari, 1992. First edition. Trade Paperback. Good. Good softcover with white illustrated cover. Light wear to edges of covers with pastemark leftover from removed tag on front cover. Otherwise slight scuffing to covers. 63 pages with illustrations. Documents regarding the military service of the author in Ethiopia while serving in Mussolini's army. Text of this work is in Italian.

Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, ca. 1968. First edition. Hardcover in blue decorated cloth. Very Good. Thin quarto ( oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners off boards. Head and heel of spine bumped. Light scuffing to covers. 80 p. w/ maps, tables, and many B&w illustrations. An uncommon history of this regiment, still active as the 1st & 3rd Battalions, 15th Infantry. The regiment has seen action from the Civil war to Iraq (but not World War One), though this book covers them only thru their deployment in Germany during the Cold War era. The regiment is famous for more than its long lineage. It spent extensive time (over 20 years) on 2 two tours of China duty, including action in the Boxer rebellion. The dragon on their crest signifies this service. Also, in WWII, the regiment was part of the 3rd Infantry division in Italy and France and had 16 Medal of Honor winners, including one Lt. Audie Murphy, whose full page photograph is in the book. An interesting, though brief, survey… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, missing dust jacket. 208 p. w/ maps, endnotes, bibliography, index.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. Hardcover. Very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Corners bumped. Some foxing to endpapers, and light foxing on various pages throughout, xx, 393 p. w/illus., 2 folding maps.bibliography, index. A pre-WWI detailed study of the campaign and battle of Fontenoy, won by the French under Marshal Maurice de Saxe against a coalition of forces led by Britain under Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1967. First Trade paperback printing. . Trade Paperback. Very good. Small octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 165 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index, and fold out organizational chart. An important survey work of the technical structures of the French Army during this war that ultimately weakened the Bourbon regime.

London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. xii, 286 p. w/maps, essay endnotes, appendix, index. 13 scholarly essays.

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. more so to dust jacket. xiv, 495 p w/ maps, illus., endnotes slelct bibliography, index. and maps on endpapers. A solid account of the South African war from 1899 - 1902, including the political machinations and the treatment of Boer prisoners and civilians.

York, PA: George Shumway Publishers, 1992. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 201 p. w/illus. index. A stanard and well done survey of the classic Kentucky flintlock rifle.

Artois Presses Universite, 1998. First Trade paperback printing. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very good trade paperback. Light wear to edges of covers with slight scuffing. Clean, unmarked text. Tight binding. 253 pages with footnotes, maps, and bibliography. Study of the debates around military conscription in France during the 19th century.

London: Trustees of the Regimental Historical Fund, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Quarto (oversize). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. Hand numbered 93 of 600 copies. Bookplate of Ernest J. Martin former Lt. in the regiment and military historian on pastedown. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Various ephemera laid in, noting the development of the book : An advert announcing the history, in Gills Sans, asking for orders and donations ; a 4 page preview with the title and contents pages and 2 specimen pages ; a notice from the Trustess of a delay in production; 1964 statement of accounts of the Regimental Historical Fund, noting 2 fund raising dances and the cost of the book - over £3000; a list of subscribers, noting copy #1 as a donation to the Queen; a typed note from the Trustees noting the book is sent; and a letter from the author to Martin noting 3 misprints in the book. 500 p. w/ color and b&w illus., maps, chronological… Read More