…exterior is very lightly scuffed, the contents are in mint condition. Gertrude Stein selected Clement Hurd to illustrate her first and only children’s book, THE WORLD IS ROUND, in 1939…
…jacket. The book is the second binding variant of the First Printing, per Cohen (A69.1[II].b).] The spine lettering has faded a bit and the cloth is lightly scuffed. The contents…
…the Sixth Printing of the First English edition, according to Cohen (published March 1929 and denoted by the publisher as the ‘3rd Impression of the Second English edition’). The dust…
Repaired over 7000 merchant vessels in World War II, and built four destroyers. A very good copy, corners a bit worn, spine somewhat rubbed & lightly dampstained, published without dust…
An expose of widespread communist infiltration, not atypical for 1955 but rather reactionary nonetheless, that claims to situate major communist personalities in their proper context of a world wide secret…
A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, which the publisher designated as a “Second Edition” but which bibliographer Ronald Cohen argues is really more…
…and Index at rear. The Second State has page 71 numbered correctly and a Second Appendix replacing the Index at rear. Printed on cheap, acidic paper that deteriorated quickly, these…
A typed letter on 28 Hyde Park Gate letterhead, dated “15 October, 1950” to John Colville, Churchill’s Private Secretary during World War II and after, right through Churchill’s second stint…
…is similarly mint, inside and out, with a tiny vintage bookshop sticker on the lower corner of the front free endpaper. VOLUME V: THE UNKNOWN WAR (Book 6) dust jacket…
This is a new paperback reissue of Scribner’s earlier abridged edition of the first four books. It does not include “The Aftermath” or “The Unknown War” (Books V and VI)….
The Vietnam war explained by a man at the epicenter of governmental negotiations and policy decisions. A very good copy, slight shelf wear, black remainder mark on bottom edge.
Absorbing eyewitness accounts convey the courage, ferocity and humanity of those who fought, deftly combining visions of hell with an intelligible grasp of the battle. New, in dust jacket.