Search Results: WWI from Quiet Friends

NY: Cupples & Leon. Hardcover. FAIR to GOOD DJ (in brodart). From book 7 3/4" high, 5.5" wide, 1.5" thick. Clean but worn. Spine sunned a bit. .

Garden City, NY: Issued by the division. NEAR FINE book. 1st ed. 8"x5", xvi,368pp.. 1920. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book. No DJ, likely as issued. "Published" by the division but printed by Country Life Press, Garden City, NY. . Gilt lettered & decorated green cloth. Illustration index with 50+ entries of mostly b/w photos, 5 from Captain Leon Dabo paintings. MISSING the 5 maps called for in index. FINE between the covers, including both pastedowns, BUT the text block edges are very lightly foxed. ALSO, book stays closed when stood on its spine. Read with care, if at all. Very nice cover. No spine sunning. Gilt on covers bright as new. Spine ends scuffed a tad but tips square & flat. .

Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin. FINE book, VG DJin rodart. 1st edition. 8.5"x6.5". 466pp.. 1935. 1st edition. Hardcover. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Tight. Bkplt but no wear, aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. DJ clean & attractive but worn. . Book stays closed when stood on spine, so: read with care, if at all. Text block edges with three 1/4" soiled spots. This & bkplt book's only flaws. DJ as bright and clean as new but with several 1/2" chips & one at 1". Millus was a 30 year editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune which was known for its coverage of international news. Before it folded in 1966 it had won 12 Pulitzer prizes. This book is not a history of the US invovlement in WWI but the history of HOW we got involved. Book ends when we declared war. MIllis was much AGAINST our getting involved. Millis was a revisiobist historian. He'd written a previous book on the Spanish American war. It showed how "..our fighting ferver was fanned by the Yellow Press and party politics to a point that… Read More

London: Heinemann. VG book, no DJ. Silver lettered blue green cloth. 8vo, 145pp.. 1920. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. Bright cover. Touch of red on front cover's WWI biplane. Noffsinger "WWI AVIATION", 2416, says "very scarce". . FLAWS: cover extrems w minor wear. FINE text, maps & plates. BUT: 1st & last two pages foxed, as are text block edges which are deckled & free of soiling. 20 b/w photos and an in text drawing of a biplane with its various sections named. Of the two fold out maps one is FINE, other has a few incorrect fold lines & a 1" fold line tear. Forward by Lord Hugh Cecil. An important book. Noffsinger 2416: "A valuble record of an active squadron beginning with the early stages of scouting to the final concepts of offensive aerial warfare during WWI", "The squadron participated in the Somme Campaign, Arras, Passchendale and the Mar '18 offensive.", "it scored 274 victories". Pilots included;… Read More

NY: Garden City Publishing Co. VG book, no DJ. 1/8" tear in spine top. Crisp, clear signature.. (1924). REPRINT. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. Clean book. FINE text BUT: inked name & address on fep, below which is Lowell Thomas' green inked signature. .