San Fransisco: The Hicks-Judd Company, 1899. 8vo, pp. iv, vii, [1], 314; bound with, as issued: Official History of the Operations of the First South Dakota Infantry, U.S.V. in the Campaign in the Philippine Islands, written by Captain Frank W. Medbery who was given access to such official records as..... More
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. Fourth edition, 4to, pp. xii, 188; 12 hand-colored aquatint plates, 2 line engravings and 1 colored etching; beautifully bound in full contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco, boards with elaborate gilt borders, inner dentelles, spine richly gilt with gilt lettering direct, a.e.g.; nice copy. Contains important information on..... More
[Francestown, N.H.]: Typographeum, 1994. Edition limited to 150 copies, 8vo, pp. 48, [8]; portrait frontispiece; navy blue cloth, paper label on spine with replacement tipped in; fine. The text is extracted from Fielding's memoir, Hide and Seek. More
New York: Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Frederick A. Praeger, 1967, 1963. Fourth printing, 8vo, pp. xi, 488; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine, ex-U.S. Air Force with usual interior markings, a good copy. More
New York: John B. Alden, 1884. First American edition, 12mo. pp. 215; black & white frontispiece portrait, ownership inscription and stamp on front blank; original green cloth with a dragon stamped in gilt on front cover; fine. Major-General Charles George Gordon, also know as Chinese Gordon, was a British Army..... More
[Madrid]: Instituto de Estudios Sobre Armas Antiquas, [1980]. 8vo, pp. 203, [1]; illustrated throughout; printed paper wrappers; spine creased, else near fine. Publisher's list laid in. With the signature of Professor M. A. R. Barker on flyleaf. Barker was a linguist at the University of Minnesota, but is best known..... More
Paris: Éditions du Pavillon, [1969]. 8vo, pp. 109, [3]; extremities a bit worn and soiled, else good in original white pictorial wrappers. More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1965. First edition, 8vo, pp. 158; blue cloth (soiled) in pictorial dust jacket, slightly bumped at top and bottom of dj spine. A novel about the Korean War. More
London: Routledge, 1925. First and only edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 372, frontispiece and 4 plates; publisher's morocco-backed red cloth; spine rubbed, owner's signature on flyleaf, hinge on lower board split, old dealer's description taped to endpaper. A glossary of slang terms and phrases from World War I, oft-cited and commended..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. 8vo, pp. xvii, 291, [20] pages of black and white photographic illustrations; black buckram in tri-color printed price-clipped dust jacket, small tear to top of dj spine, otherwise very good. Personal narrative on the Sino-Japanese War. More
[Perry Hall, MD: Jon-Jay Publishers, 1972]. First edition, oblong 4to, pp. [8], 121, [1]; illustrated throughout; original camouflage cloth with rising sun; near fine throughout. Presentation copy from the author inscribed by him on the title page; subsequent presentation on front free endpaper to James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine..... More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1992. 4to, pp. 192; illustrated throughout; black cloth, fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. More
Lahore: The Times Publishing Company, [1929]. Large 8vo, pp. 213, [1]; portrait frontispiece of Herbert Hoover and 14 plates plus text illustrations; original black cloth; very good in a toned and shallowly chipped green pictorial dust jacket. Uncle Sham was a response to Mother India, a book focused on child..... More
Monte Carlo: Regain, [1950]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 313; No. 441/1000, 1 plate, marbled endpapers, hinges weak, extremities worn and rubbed with numerous worm holes at rear which extend into text from p.283 on, upper spine cracked along gutter, else good in half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering..... More
Richmond VA: West & Johnson, 1862. 8vo, pp. 559, [1]; 87 plates, 7 of them folding; original publisher's burgundy cloth; spine sunned, corners bumped, occasional light offsetting on plates, very good. A difficult book to find in decent condition. Gilham was a Confederate colonel and instructor at West Point and..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1862. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 96; 4 folding maps and plans, 8 tinted lithograph plates; original red cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover; slight chipping at spine ends; very good. More
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, 1970. First edition, 8vo, pp. 3-350; frontis.; illus.; jacket, slight tears near head of spine and near bottom edge on rear cover, owner's inscription on front free endpaper; else very good or better. More
Washington, D.C. G.P.O., 1986. 8vo, xxvi, 774; near fine in original red cloth stamped in gilt on spines. More
London: Johnson, [1968]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 316; frontispiece, 10 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 5 plates, folding map, maps in the text, near fine in the dust jacket. Medical doctor and former member of the House of Parliament becomes a journalist and goes to Vietnam. More
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1973. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, 313; frontispiece photograph, extremities a bit soiled, else a very good copy in red cloth with pictorial dust jacket. More
Paris: Perrin & Cie, 1904. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvi, 560; original blue printed wrappers bound in; later full red calf, gilt-lettered spine and upper cover. This copy lacking the portraits and the map. More
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullins, n.d., [ca. 1943]. 4to, pp. [24]; illustrated throughout with photographs and cartoons by Graham; original cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in green and black; small abrasion at the gutter near the bottom of the spine; all else very good. "The Aussies and the Yanks in Papua ....... More
Washington: printed by William A. Davis, 1817. Folio, pp. [8]; self-wrappers; paper toned, edges curled and with minor short tears; all else very good. American Imprints 42608. More
New York: Bonanza Books, [1953]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xxii, 413; 80 illustrations including frontispiece; 2 newspaper articles taped on free endpapers; near fine copy in slightly rubbed dust jacket. More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1927]. Advance copy only / not for sale, 8vo, pp. [2], 454; with the full compliment of 28 plates and maps as in the published edition; original brown printed wrappers; bookplates inside both front and back wrapper, minor cracks at the spine extremities; in all, a very..... More
