Search Results: Authors starting with A from DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books

London: Greenhill Books, 1995. 320pp/maps. Clean no marks.. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Paul Ducrocq , 1880. 604pp with 16 tinted lithographs and 40 woodcuts all by Eugne Ciceri. Richly gilt tooled & lettered spine in compartments, Light foxing. Cover beginning to separate at spine. French text. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: J. Miles & Co. LTD, 1934. Twelve illustrations and 61 pages of text tell the story of the most well-known centre for performing Shakespearean works in the world. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Kama Shastra Society, 1885. 144pp w/several diagrams. Hardcover Cream boards gilt boarding and title to spine. "In the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the translation appears under the generic name of Kama-Shastra, which we first adopted, and the reader is told that only four copies exist for reasons best known to the printer. This is so far true that the limited supply has hitherto prevented the public deriving any benefit from our labours. We now take advantage of an offer made by a well-known house in Cosmopoli, and produce a reprint for PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY, with many additions and emendations." Although this work was first published in extremely limited numbers in 1873 (see above) under the title "Kama-Shastra", twelve years passed before Burton was able to find a publisher brave enough to reprint the text. The resulting Ananga-Ranga is essentially a manual for love-making, thought to have been written by the poet Kalyana Malla. Whilst the descriptions are somewhat… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1921. Thoughtful criticism of the English social scene in the late 19th and early 20th century. The author notes: "By the term Fashion I mean all those noisy, osentatious, and frivilous people, patricians and plutocrats, politicians and financiers, lawyers and tradesmen, actors and artists, who have scrambled on to the summit of England's national life, and who, setting the worst possible examples in morals and manners, are never so happy as when they are making people talk about them". Olive cloth, 176 pages plus publisher's advertisements. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Kansas, 1998. 393pp/illus/maps. chronicles Luftwaffe operations during that campaign, focusing on Hitler's use of the air force as a tactical rather than strategic weapon in close support of ground forces. He vividly details the Luftwaffe's key role as "flying artillery", showing that the army relied on Luftwaffe support to a far greater degree than has been previously revealed and that its successes in the East occurred largely because of the effectiveness of that support. Clean. No marks. . 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, England: Oxford University Press [1961-70], 1961. First Edition 5 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 5 portrait frontispieces, 66 plates on 40, 7 illustrations and charts in the text, 22 folding or double-page charts (most coloured in outline) bound in, and 16 folding charts coloured in outline in pocket at end of third volume; blue cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean set. The set comprises Volume I: The Road to War, 1904-1914 (1961); Volume II: The War Years: to the Eve of Jutland (1965); Volume III: Jutland and After (May 1916-December 1916) (1966); Volume IV: 1917: Year of Crisis (1969); Volume V: Victory and Aftermath (January 1918-June 1919) (1970). Set is exlib with remnants of tag on spine and minimal markings inside. The definitive history of the Royal Navy in the years leading up to and during the Great War. Arguably the finest contribution to the litertaure of naval history since Mahan. Now very scarce as a complete set. A clean tight difficult to find set,. 1st Edition. Cloth.… Read More

London, England: Oxford University Press [1961-70], 1961. First Edition 5 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 5 portrait frontispieces, 66 plates on 40, 7 illustrations and charts in the text, 22 folding or double-page charts (most coloured in outline) bound in, and 16 folding charts coloured in outline in pocket at end of third volume; blue cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean set. The set comprises Volume I: The Road to War, 1904-1914 (1961); Volume II: The War Years: to the Eve of Jutland (1965); Volume III: Jutland and After (May 1916-December 1916) (1966); Volume IV: 1917: Year of Crisis (1969); Volume V: Victory and Aftermath (January 1918-June 1919) (1970). Set is bound in uniform blue cloth although spines are faded on Vols 1-3. The definitive history of the Royal Navy in the years leading up to and during the Great War. Arguably the finest contribution to the litertaure of naval history since Mahan. Now very scarce as a complete set. A clean tight difficult to find set,. 1st Edition. Cloth.… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. 2 vols complete - 586pp/illus. with material on the houses of Valois and Bourbon, the Bastille, the Royal imprisonment and the establishment of the consulate.Profusely illustrated with line engravings. Some pages uncut Original green cloth. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. illustrated with 6 fine engravings,xi 331 pp., cat.,little edge worn. Spine worn. Light foxing.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883. 666pp/illus. A four volume set history of Napoleon, well illustrated with engravings and maps. Light wear. Clean. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. 457pp/illus. Biography of Beecher. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Seattle, WA: Superior Pub. Co, 1959. 182pp/illus. A collection of rare photos from private archives of western railroads. DJ has light wear/chipping.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Bonanza, 1960. Printed on high quality slick paper and lavishly illustrated in black and white. Great shots of vintage trains, plus lengthy captions which convey history, biography and interesting anecdote.191 pages/illus. DJ chipped). Cloth. Very Good/Very Good(-). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Bonanza, 1965. The Saga of Steam Engines in America. Bonanza Books Edition; 190pp/illus; fully illustrated in b/w; hardcover in dust jacket; large format; very good condition. For any hobbyist or historian who wants to check his records of American trains from the Iron Colts of the 1830's to the Speed Queens, from the mighty Freight Hogs down to the humble switcher, this is valuable reference. . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Bahrain: Beit Al Qur"an , 1996. 119pp/illus. Illustrations of ancient Qur'an texts. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, 1864. c. 1864. Bindings and contents quite fine, the hand-colored plates exceptionally bright. Three volumes bound as two. Large 8vo. xviii, 320p, 304p; xii, 308p. in original blue cloth box. Profusely illustrated by John Leech with many wood engravings and 30 hand-colored steel engravings. From the publishers of Punch. Uniformly bound in full blue polished calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines with red and green title labels gilt and ornate panel ornaments, the upper covers with pictorial gilt vignettes and gilt edges. Original cloth cover and spine bound in rear of each volume. All tight and clean. A beautiful set.. . Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. Illus. by Leech, John. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Columbia, SC: University Of South Carolina Press, 1961. 263pp. Hardcover. Previous owner bookplate. Inscribed by author. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Taipei, Taiwan: Buddha Educational Foundation, 2005. 290pp/illus. Only 15,000 copies printed. Stories of Buddha's relatives. Clean. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Beyrouth, Lebanon: Les Cahiers de l'Est, 1985. 392. illustrations: 68 colour & numerous b/w ills and plates. cloth, dustwrappers, 28.5 x 23 cm. Published with the collaboration of UNESCO. architecture: near eastern art Inscribed by author. Profusely illustrated study of Lebanese architecture from the 15th to the 18th century. Photographs in color and B/W. Text in French. This is the scarcer hardback version. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.