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Hill & Wang, New York, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 246 pp. Near Fine/Very Good-. Original grey cloth on boards. Rust-colored lettering on spine. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Frontispiece of photos. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Slight wear to lower edges of case and small bump to upper tip of rear board. Very slight soiling to text block edges, with a scattering of foxing to fore-edge. Interior pristine. Dog-ear corner crease to leaf 193/194. Unclipped dust jacket shows edgewear, rubbing, several closed tears, and chipping, primarily at head and tail of spine. Dust jacket now in archival protective sleeve. The harrowing story of the author's six-year ordeal, from her prosperous middle-class family home in Poland, through her enslavement by the Nazis regime, to her liberation by American troops.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1973. First Edition, First Impression (stated). Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good+. Small quarto. 9-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches. Blue leatherette over board. Stamped metallic gold lettering to spine. xv, 280 pp. Illustrated with halftones, line drawings, and diagrams. Footnotes, bibliography, and index. Several small indentations to back board and text block edges lightly toned, else Fine. Dustjacket shows slight creasing along top edges of both faces and at head and foot of spine, as well as small closed tears and minor chips at tips. Now in removeable archival protective cover. Commander W. E. May was a leading authority on the history and use of the compass. He was a founder member of the Royal Institute of Navigation and one of its first Fellows.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing (no additional printings indicated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 238 pp, including index. Very Good+ / Very Good. Teal buckram on board, spine lettered in silver. Bump to tail of spine. Very slight shelf wear. Former owner's name and date inked on front free endpaper. Occasional tidy penciled marginalia by former owner, an acknowledged scholar of Byzantine and Post Byzantine art, else pages clean. Text block tight, but ever so slightly canted forward. Dust jacket worn with tiny closed tears at head and tail of spine, worn through finish on fold of rear flap. Now in archival protective cover.

New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1916-1917. First Edition. First Printing. Set of 12 volumes (complete set to 1917, Vol. XII). Hardcover. Octavo. 9.25 x 6.75 inches. 3816 pp. Near Fine. No jackets as issued. This compilation, published incrementally as the war progressed, ultimately consisted of 20 volumes. Dark blue blind-stamped cloth over boards with gilt-stamped lettering on spine and gilt-stamped decoration on spine and front board. Illustrated endpapers. Top edge gilt. All volumes contain colorized photo frontispiece with annotated tissue guard, b&w and color plates, illustrations, and fold-out maps. Index at end of some volumes. Prefaced in Vol. I by "What The War Means to America" by Major General Leonard Wood; U.S.A.; "Naval Lessons of the War" by Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, U.S.N.; "The World's War" by Frederick Palmer; "Theatres of the War's Campaign" by F.H. Simonds and "The War Correspondent" by Arthur Ruhl. Clipping from 1958 Indianapolis Star laid in between pages 388 and 389. All… Read More

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012. First US Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. 275 pp. Fine / Fine. Textured navy-blue paper over board. Particulars gilt-stamped to spine. Pale blue endpapers. Pictorial dustjacket. Pages clean, bright, and unmarked. Previous owner's name inked on front pastedown. Dustjacket shows slight creasing to top and bottom edges of front panel and top of rear panel. Else, Fine/Fine. Now in removeable archival protective cover.