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

Bombay, India: Orient Longmans, 1949. 105 pp w 79 Maps (one fold-out in rear (slightly torn) This atlas is not a collection of locational maps of the conventional type. It contains a number of specialized maps, based on field and library work, carried out by the author for a number of years. The observations and statistics were then plotted on large scale maps, mainly for the purpose of teaching the geography of Bengal to University.post-graduate students. Light edgewear to dj/text clean.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Penguin Pr, 2005. 292pp. A pristine unread copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Army sergeant Erik Saar’s description of the sexual interrogation tactics used on prisoners at Guantanamo; Saar details his experience as an enthusiastic volunteer in the War on Terror who witnessed torture and abuse at the prison camp. First state issue, . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Press Of The Pioneers, Inc, 1935. 2 vols, 996pp/illus. one of 1, 000 copies trade edition green cloth with gilt lettering ."This book is without doubt the best of the many works that have appeared on that famous scout and trapper. There is little known material that has not been used by Sabin." Title page indicates "autographed edition" however, no autograph present. Minimal markings. Tesxt clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948. A history of hunting as it has affected monarchs of this realm. 16 b/w plates from old prints and photographs. Light brown cloth, gilt. 185pp includes index. DJ worn. Text clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, England: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948. 185pp/illus. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate of hunt scene from the Bayeux Tapestry. Title page illustrated with small b/w drawing. 15 more illustrations and few small drawings in text. Pages clean, Light edge-wear to dj.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1969. 518, xxix pp., maps, biblio., index; The collapse in the First World War of the Ottoman Empire, the exertions of the great European powers in launching a series of carefully interlocked military and diplomatic campaigns from the Dardanelles to the Persian Gulf, the emergence between 1914 and 1924 of unsuspected national ambitions and realigned political loyalties in the Middle East. DJ has small tear. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Russian Information Bureau, 1918. 552pp + index/illus. History of the Russian Revolutionary Movement in Imperial Russia. Spine has staining - otherwise very good. Text clean. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Viking, 1971. 181pp. Lieutenant Calley was found guilty of premediated murder in the village of Mylai Four on 16 March 1968. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Praeger Pub Text, 1990. 165pp/maps. Manstein's struggle to free the trapped German 6th Army, November 1942-March 1943. Following the capitulation of the trapped army, Manstein fought a desperate campaign to stem the Red Army. The book describes the dramatic counter-attack and the remarkable victory at Karkov. Clean. 1st Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Prague, Czech Rep: Olympia, 1991. 157pp/illus. 127 photographs of the historical monuments of Prague's ghetto, with text in Czech, French and English. Illustrated end papers. Clean. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. Book contains 267 pages. Chaos theory - argues that the much-heralded processes of globalization are actually breeding a reaction of irrational violence.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tulle: Archives Departementales De La Correze, 2007. 796pp/illus. French text. Clean. First Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. As New/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1990. 177pp. Details the failed Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Clean. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Columbus & Greenville Railway, 1981. 108pp/illus. INSCRIBED by Sam Wilhite, former Chairman & President of The Columbus & Greenville Railway on the title page in 1986. A lightly foxed copy with clean contents and tight binding in a very good dust jacket. . Inscribed by Chairman of the Board/Director. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good++/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

Tokyo, Japan: Bureau of Reconstruction Home Office Japan, 1929. orig. cloth. Title in gilt lettering on spine, with 2 narrow gilt borders at spine-ends. (vi), (ix), [1](list of maps, verso blank), 219pp. ills. on plates, many text-ills, facsim. of the original imperial edict on reconstruction on [4]pp. with tissue-guards, many tables in text and full-p. mainly at end, 6 large fold. maps and plans at end of volume, with loosely inserted the complimentary card of Nozomu Nakagawa, Director of the Bureau of Reconstruction, Home Office, Imperial Japanese Government. A complete official report of the reconstruction of Tokyo & Yokohama, stricken by an earthquate 1st September 1923. It was a gigantic work, unparalleled in the history of city planning of the world. The report does not only supply vas information on the technical side of the reconstruction-work but also on the financing of the undertaking by foreign aid from the U.S.A.(US.dollar loan), England, private & commercial reconstruction… Read More

East Brunswick, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982. 266pp. Subjects: Jews -- Emancipation -- Great Britain. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century. Great Britain -- Ethnic relations. DJ has wear. Text clean.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1992. 544pp/illus. Examination of the personalities and private lives of Chinese Communist Party leaders from Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping.. Chapters on Mao's interaction with Stalin and the uneasy relations of the two Communist giants are outstanding. Clean. . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr, 2003. 528pp/illus, some color./maps. The story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they "discovered. DJ slightly rubbed. Text clean.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, 2002. 400pp. A behind-the-scenes examination of the War on Terrorism shares up-to-the-minute details about the decision-making process of George W. Bush and his team from within the White House Situation Room-on board Air Force One-and elsewhere. . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1987. 365 pages/illus. A definitive biography of the legendary General Claire Chennault the leader of the Flying Tigers and the US 14th Air Force in China during World War II. Illustrated with photographs, area map on the endpapers, and a notes section, and bibliography. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.