Search Results: Authors starting with G from Chartwell Booksellers

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (209 pages 16 illustrations, map, bibliography, index.) ko. The Navy’s only night fighter squadron to see combat in Korea; VC-4 & VMF-513 by one of the pilots. A very good copy, in dust jacket .

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo . Engineering & Technical Services, Soviet Army, including ICBMs. A very good copy in chipped, rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket with faded spine (180 pages, 24 figures & diagrams).

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/Phaidon, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 4to (239 pages, illustrated with black & white and 43 color plates) . This is a very good copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A beautiful set in very good condition, without dust jackets. Very discreet bookplate on front pastedown of Volume I, owner name discreetly in ink on front free endpaper of Volume II.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (340 pages; 7 illustrations; 6 maps) . A very good copy, in a lightly edge-chipped dust jacket. Discreet bookplate on front free end paper.

London: Methuen, 1951. Early English Reprint Edition (20th Edition). Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (252 pages) . A handsome reprint of the original English Edition in a shelfworn dust jacket, edge-chipped along the upper edges, with fractional loss at the head of the spine. Roughly price-clipped on the front flap. The contents are fine.

New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 2009. Second Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. As New. 4to (440 pages, profusely illustrated) . A lavish and comprehensive pictorial history, filled with photographs and information. As new, in dust jacket.

CA, 1988. Presidio Press. Hardcover. Very Good. 3rd Marine Div. & 305th Inf., 77th Div. 7,714 casualties & 18,000 Japanese KIA. Clean Ex-Library copy, without dust jacket. ( 231pgs. 21 illus., 5 maps. Notes. Biblio. Index.)

New York: Pantheon Books, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (203 pages, index.) Esp. Hubertus Lauwers, a Dutch Section SOE radioman captured by the Germans was part of a German plan to “turn” radio agents and send false messages in order to obtain important allied information. One of the greatest German successes of World War II, and an incredible failure on the part of the Allies, Lauwers attempts to inform the British of his capture were ignored and agents continued to be sent into Holland, where they were either captured or killed. A fine copy, in dust jacket with chipped spine head.

New York: Harper & Row, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (490 pages; illustrated with black and white photographs) . This is a very good copy of the First American edition without dust jacket.

New York: Harper Collins, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (492 pages) . Defeat of the U-boats, 1943." The book is in good condition, dose not have a dust jacket, the bottom edge has a black magic marker mark.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (303 pages, 21 illustrations, numerous diagrams, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index). . A survey of key findings; biomedical, biodynamic, physical conditioning, time dilation, etc. A very good copy, in worn dust jacket, slight shelf wear, former owner’s name on front end paper.

Paris: Actes Sud/Hermes, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo (272 pages, profusely illustrated) . As-new, without dust jacket, as issued, still in publisher’s shrink-wrap.

London: Methuen & Co., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (350 pages) (ZA333) (R253). This is a very good copy of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust jacket that is very modestly edge-chipped. Contents fine. A largely critical collection of articles that purport to explain Churchill’s plummet in popularity at home during the war and after. Published in the U.S. under the title: CHURCHILL IN POWER. Dismissed by the Times Literary Supplement as “journalistic rubbish,” it is nevertheless not without some interest.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (350 pages biblio, index) (Za333). A collection of largely critical essays that purport to explain Churchill’s plummet in popularity at home during the war and after. Published in the UK under the title: CHURCHILL IN HIS TIME: A Study in a Reputation, 1939-1945. Dismissed by the Times Literary Supplement as “journalistic rubbish,” it is nevertheless not without some interest. This is a very good copy of the First American edition in a price-clipped dust jacket. The contents are fine.

Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1992. 2nd American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo . A collection of biographical sketches and portraits from 1781 to the publication date. Revised and updated from the 1982 first edition. A very good copy, published without dust jacket (177 pages, circa 80 color portrait paintings, bibliography).

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (381 pages) . “The greatest untold story of World War II - the extraordinary adventures of the schoolboy who becomes Winston Churchill’s personal agent and assassin.” This is a very good copy of the First American edition in a price-clipped dust jacket. There is a lengthy gift inscriiption on the front free endpaper. The contents are fine

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (184 pages) . A very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. A former owner’s dated initials are written discreetly in ink on the final page, else fine.

Devon, England: Herridge & Sons, 2009. Reprint Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. (96 pages; illustrated with color and black and white photographs) . First published in the U.K. in 1978, this survey of Frederick Gordon Crosby’s work stands as the definitive source of his art. Now considered the premier early twentieth century automotive illustrator, Crosby (1895-1943) recorded exciting milestones and innovations in an industry that changed the world.

New York: Random House, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (680 pages; illustrated with maps, graphs, tables) . This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket that has a few short tears around the edges and is chipped at the corners and head and tail of the spine; else fine. Contents fine.