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INDIA
-Second Printing of the First English Softcover Edition in Slipcase-
A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, published in the same month as the First Printing but in green wrappers rather than orange. The…
MARLBOROUGH: His Life and Times
-English "Presentation" Edition-
…Volume I, which was reprinted expressly for this edition. Volume II is bound from the second printing of 1934; Volumes III and IV from original First edition sheets. The very…
GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
-First American Edition (Second Impression)-
This is a very good copy of the Second Impression of the First American edition, reprinted in the month of publication. The dust jacket is shelfworn, with rectangular loss of…
GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
-Wartime English "Revised Edition (Second Impression)-
This is a very good copy of the Second Impression of the First English “Revised” Edition, without dust jacket, issued in May 1940, the month Churchill became PM. The book…
GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
-Wartime English "Revised" Edition-
This is a very good copy of the wartime second printing of the First “Revised” English edition, without dust jacket. The cloth and gilt lettering are bright and fresh on…
THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS
-First English Hardcover Edition-
…and that they are extremely scarce.” The book did not generally age especially well but this is a first-rate example of the Second State, with the numeral on page 71…
THE TREASURER’S REPORT & Other Aspects of Community Singing
-Signed First Edition Inscribed to Douglas Fairbanks-
…star Douglas Fairbanks’ elaborate crested bookplate is affixed to the second front free endpaper, opposite the title page. Save for some light fraying to the cloth at the spine head…
THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
-First Colonial Library Hardcover Edition-
…dropped on all Second Edition covers.) The binding is tight and square, with sharp corners. The contents are fine and unfoxed, with a vintage Indian library ink-stamp on the title…
THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
How the policies and perceptions that led to Korea and Vietnam were formed during World War II. Reading copy, covers partially detached, extensive underlining….
HET VERGETEN SQUADRON
Het verhaal de Nederlandse vliegers, die tegen Japan hun vergeten strijd vochten.
The memoirs of a Dutch bomber squadron commander in the Pacific in World War II; Dutch participation in the Pacific theater has been largely forgotten. Uncommon in Europe, rare on…
THE PACIFIC CRUSADERS
The 42nd Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force, in combat against the Japanese from 1942 to the end. A rare World War II history of an important unit. A very good…
BLENHEIM
-Excerpted From MARLBOROUGH-
…wartime paperback; the first excerpted edition taken from Churchill’s MALBOROUGH biography, reprinting text that covers the Battle of Blenheim, appropriately, in the darkest days of World War II. Rare thus….