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THE GREAT WAR
-First English Illustrated Edition (Second Issue)-
This set constituted the first illustrated edition of THE WORLD CRISIS; the text judiciously abridged but extensively illustrated with spectacular black and white photographs. Originally serialized, beginning on 20 September…
THE CORRESPONDENTS’ WAR
Journalists in the Spanish-American War
The role played by mass print media and especially field correspondents during the Spanish American war was adventurous, celebrated, dangerous and extremely ambiguous. Brown examines the complex relationship between media…
PROPERTY TAKEN DURING THE WAR WITH SPAIN
“Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Report of the Board of Officers on Claims for Property Taken for Military Purposes Within the United States During the War With…
THE KOREAN WAR
…lessons of that war should be applied today in Southeast Asia; and why future wars must be fought for clear and limited objectives.” [from dust jacket] A very good copy,…
REMEMBERING THE “FORGOTTEN WAR”
The Korean War Through Literature and Art
In an attempt to confront a war that escapes the dichotomous categories of good and bad, the editors have brought together a range of writing and photographic evidence that reveals…
THE RIVER WAR
-Rebound From the Centenary Collected Works-
…was taken from Churchill’s later Abridged Edition of THE RIVER WAR. The book is in virtually mint condition. An especially attractive alternative to more common reprintings of THE RIVER WAR….
WAR SPEECHES 1940-1945
-The Rare Postwar Paperback Edition-
A very good copy of this very scarce and fragile paperback volume — the first selected edition of Churchill war speeches issued just after the war ended. The covers retain…
TOBACCO CARD: “Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill, ‘Morning Post,’ Special War Correspondent”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s highest paid war reporter of his time. The card measures 2 1/4 x 1 3/8 inches and is in very…
INDIA
-Rare Second Printing of the First Hardcover Edition-
As-new, virtually mint copy of the extraordinarily rare Second Printing of the First Hardcover Edition. “Few cased copies of [INDIA’s] second printing are known,” wrote bibliographer Ronald Cohen in his…
THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
-Silver Library Edition ("New Impression") VARIANT BINDING-
A very good copy of the Second Printing of this edition, which is, in fact, considerably rarer than the first printing. The title page states: “NEW IMPRESSION” (rather than “NEW…
THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS
THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS
Bibliographer Ronald Cohen notes five distinct issues of the Softcover Edition that bore the promotional imprints of individual regional British newspapers. This copy of the Second State (with page 71…
IMMORTAL WIFE: The Biographical Novel of Jessie Benton Fremont
-Signed First American Edition-
A very good copy of the First American Edition, signed in ink by the author on the second free endpaper. In an unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, a closed…