Search Results: Titles starting with O from DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1998. 119pp/illus. First major study of her early years in Texas. Illustrated with 50 colorplates and copious supporting images including photographs of the artist, and with a detailed chronology, this book is an important contribution to the growing body of knowledge on this pioneering American modernist. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Harper Bros. , 1902. 144 pages Illus. throughout in sepia tones by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Book is clean and tight however binding has come off spine.. 1st American Printing. Decorative Cloth. Good+/No Jacket Issued. Illus. by Elizabeth Shippen Green. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: South Street Seaport Museum, 1973. Ltd ed. of 2,000 copies 180p. Maps, Photos. Convoy of tugs & barges to England in 1944. Oversize. DJ worn. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: A. L. Burt. 538pp/frontis. Classic. Clean. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1949. 181pp. Stated 1st Printing. Black cloth. Clean in red and black printed unclipped dust jacket. DJ is lightly aged with a small piece missing from the bottom front corner.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berchtesgarden, Germany: Verlag Josef Geiss , 1980. 207pp/illus. Shows the way and change of the Obersalzberg from a summer resort to a preferred domicile of the rulers of the Third Realm. With a lot of historical pictures and sketches. . 1st Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hampton, VA: Virginia Numismatic Association, 1968. Vol 1 (2d ed) - 235pp/illus some color. Vol 2 (1st ed) - 265pp/illus some color. Vol 1 is #772 of 800 total copies (1st and 2nd Ed). Vol 2 is 567 of 1,000 copies. Both volumes have numerous illustrations of historic Virginia paper money. Both are clean other than normal marks. . Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1963. Book has 192 pages with illustrations. Light wear to edge of cover. DJ has wear along the edge and has a couple of chips on top edge. Gordon Newell's salty stories and fine photos bring the monarchs and superliners to life. . Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good(-). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: James Miller, Publisher , 1882. 366pp/illus. A tale of adventure and shipwreck, for the juvenile reader, with four full-page engraved plates including front. Hinges cracked. Clean sound copy. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Columbia, New York, U.S.A.: Konemann, 1999. 552pp/illus.with over 330 photographs from the Hulton Getty Picture Collection. English/French/German Text. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Oblong Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall.

New York: Random House, 1971. 307pp/illus. Inscribed by author on ffep. Exploration and adventures in flight in the 1920's and 1930's. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Co. , 1930. 305pp/illus. Written by the last head of the tsarist secret police (Okhrana); includes the part he played in Rasputin's death & his experiences during WWI & the Revolutions; comparison between the Okhrana & the Cheka, the Soviet secret police, in which he describes a kinder, gentler Okhrana. Tight. Usual markings.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Dulles, VA, U.S.A.: Brassey's, Incorporated, 2000. 448pp. Notes, Index. A political history of the contentious American-Soviet-Chinese interaction during 1949 and 1950 that precipitated the Korean War and altered the shape of global politics from then to now. Based on recently declassified and previously unavailable documents from Soviet, Chinese, and U.S. archives. Illustrated by Maps.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dulles, VA, U.S.A.: Brassey's, Incorporated, 2000. 448pp. Notes, Index. A political history of the contentious American-Soviet-Chinese interaction during 1949 and 1950 that precipitated the Korean War and altered the shape of global politics from then to now. Based on recently declassified and previously unavailable documents from Soviet, Chinese, and U.S. archives. Illustrated by Maps.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. 537pp/illus. Scarne author of many books such as Scarne on Dice/Cards/Card Tricks/Magic Tricks/etc. The autobiography of a man, had he chosen, would have been the greatest card shark of all times. He was the greatest practitioner of card and dice sleigt of hand ( his artistry impressed FDR as well as underworld overlords ) and during WW II he was chosen by the U.S. Army to show GI's how not to be fleeced in crooked games. . 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Pr, 1972. 337pp. First. dj has light edge wear and small tear.Text clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2005. 597pp/illus. This highly illustrated book tells the extraordinary story of the exciting recent discovery of the true location of Homer's Ithaca by following a detective trail of literary, geological and archaeological clues. We can now identify all the places on the island that are mentioned in the epic - even the site of Odysseus' Palace itself. The pages of the Odyssey come alive as we follow its events through a landscape that opens up before our eyes via glorious colour photographs and 3D satellite images. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1932. Hardcover 327 pp. Blue cloth. Clean. 4th Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Thessoloniki, Greece: Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies, 1985. 554 pages. Book has gift inscription inside front cover. Beginning to separate inside front cover. Complete story of the Greek-American experience in the New World the discovery of America by Columbus (and the little-known Greek involvement in it) to the mass immigration of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries and into the 1970s. Chronicles the successful struggles of Archbishop Athenagoras to meld the Greeks into a unified church. . Hard Cover. Very Good(-)/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Paris, France: Librairie De L. Hachette, 1862. Approx 50 unpaginated pages having engravings related to Pierre Corneille. Including a full-page engraved portrait and a color (hand-colored?) full-page coat of arms. Several double page engravings. Interesting book. Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called the founder of French tragedy and produced plays for nearly forty years. French text. Clean. Boards. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.