London: Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith. 1879. 1 chromolithographed print 39 x 26 cm. signed "Spy," with accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' Major-General Henry Hope Crealock (1831-1891), British soldier, author, and artist, was commissioned into the..... More
Utrecht: P.W. van de Weywer, 1898. 1 color print 39 x 26 cm. signed "Spy," with accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' William Stephen Alexander Lockhart (1841-1900) was a British general who spent most of his career in..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1973. Paperback. 322, [4] p., [8] p. of illustrations; 20 cm. Paperback. In 1906 the 25th Infantry Regiment, known as Buffalo Soldiers, were stationed at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas. After a shooting was blamed on members of the regiment, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1917. Hardcover. Published September, 1917. [8], 341, [11] p.; color frontispiece by C. Allan Gilbert; 20 cm. Publisher's red rib-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Publisher's advertisements for other books by Wells on verso of half title and on unpaginated pages..... More
1893. 1 typed letter, dated Oct. 3, 1893, from Joseph Wheeler on stationery of the Committee of the Territories, House of Representatives, to J. W. Morgan, of Florence, Alabama. Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906) represented Alabama in Congress 1881-1883 and 1885-1899. He graduated from West Point in 1859 and jointed the Confederate..... More
New York: Lippincott & Crowell, 1980. Hardcover. ix, [3], 243 p.: illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with blue paper over boards and gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Stated First Edition. A "searing and unique account" of the Battle of Iwo Jima, "told from the perpective of both the..... More
London: Thomas Davison, 1820. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 111, [1] p.; 23 cm. Contemporary binding with spine rebacked, retaining much of original red leather; plain pink paper over boards. Pages are untrimmed. In attractive modern slipcase covered in red and black paper; gilt-tooled title on slipcase spine: Battle of Waterloo. List..... More
New York: Willis McDonald & Co., 1886. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 302 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece and 14 leaves of plates (portraits); 26 cm. Modern leather spine and corners with new gilt-tooled spine title. Original boards with gilt-stamped cover emblem and title "History of 71st Reg't N.G.S.N.Y." All edges gilt. Original..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1939. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 498, [2] p.; 25 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Lacking dust jacket. Top page edges red. Includes appendices and indexes. First Edition. Tipped in on the front free endpaper is a typed letter to "Jackson" from Duckham House, 16, Cannon..... More
New York: A Galaxy Book, Oxford University Press, 1966. Paperback. xxxii, 816 p.21 cm. Paperback. Includes index. The author looks at 30 men and women who lived during the American Civil War and left a written document reflecting on that experience. Among those discussed are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949. Hardcover. 78 p.; 19 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. The Swarthmore Lecture for 1949. First Edition. The author draws on his experience as General Secretary and Travelling Commissioner of the Friends Relief Service during the Second World..... More
1906. 1 typed letter on armorial letterhead of the Massachusetts Inspector General's Department, signed by Roger Wolcottt, Lt. Col. A. I. G. Mass. Dated Boston, 21 July 1906, the letter is to Col. Charles P. Nutter, Commanding Corps Coast Artillery. Roger Wolcottt (1877-1965), son of the governor of the same..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. Second printing, Nov. 1994. [12], 221, [3] p.; 23 cm. Black cloth spine with red gilt spine title; brick red textured paper over boards with gilt author's initials on front board. Top page edges brick red. Illustrated dust jacket with embossed silver label..... More
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Paperback. vii, [1], 194 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Gift inscription by the author on half title page to Professor Kenneth L. Kusmer of Temple University, whom he thanks first in the Acknowledgments (p. vii). The author "crosses disciplinary borders i ways rarely attempted by..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1874. Hardcover. Second edition. 339, [2], 46-72 p.: engraved frontispiece map of West Point, many in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Rebacked using original publisher's green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped illustration on both boards, which have been professionally rehinged. Dark brown endpapers. Publisher's catalog of..... More
Washington, D.C. Signal Office, 1885. Paperback. 21 p.: tables; 24 cm. Plain wrapper printed in black. Caption title: Cold Waves and Their Progress Across the United States. In 1870 the U.S. military was authorized to begin taking meteorological observations across the country. Because the information was most quickly communicated nationwide..... More
London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. [1], 25, [1] p.; 33 cm. Stapled. "Miscellaneous. No. 28 (1916)." Partially printed in parallel columns of French and English; the remainder in English. Contains 18 documents from and to County Herman Wrangel (1857-1934), representative..... More
Jamaica Plain, Mass. YMAA Publication Center, 1996. Paperback. xiv, 363, [7] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Publisher's catalog on final 2 unpaginated pages. In Very Good- Condition: cover slightly soiled; ink underlining on a few pages; otherwise, clean and tight. More
Roslindale, MA: YMAA Publication Center, 1995. Paperback. xx, 266, [2] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "Chinese internal martial arts" -- front cover. Includes appendices: Names of Qin Na Techniques -- Translation of Thirty-Seven Postures -- Translation and Glossary of Chinese Terms. In Near Fine Condition: cover curves..... More
London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. 10 p.; 33 cm. Sewn. "Miscellaneous. No. 34 (1916)." The detailed report on the typhus epidemic that occurred at the German internment camp at Gardelegen in 1915 was presented by Robert Younger (Baron Blanashburgh 1861-1946)..... More
London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. 5, [1] p.; 33 cm. "Miscellaneous. No. 27 (1916)." Printed in parallel columns of French and English. The French, British, and Russian governments express their unhappiness with Greece's failure to remain completely neutral. They insist..... More
Paris: Les Éditions Braun et Cie, 1944. Paperback. [24] p.: illustrations; 31 cm. Stapled. Printed in black and red. Wrapper title; wrapper designed by Pierre Boucher and included in page count. Text is in French. Documents the liberation of Paris from August 18 to 26, 1944, with captioned photographs by..... More