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THE SECRET WORLD
Deriabin fled the Soviet Union in 1954 and was the first officer of the Kremlin guard known to have escaped from behind the iron curtain. A very good copy, in…
SIGNED OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY MAIN VOLUME IV: “The Stricken World 1917-1922”
-Signed First English Edition-
A very good First English edition, in price-clipped dust jacket dust jacket, signed in ink by the author: “Martin Gilbert,” on the title page.The notoriously fade-prone jacket spine is only…
THE AMERICAN GARDENER’S WORLD OF BULBS: Bulbs for Formal and Informal Gardens
-First American Edition-
A very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket; virtually mint.
THE GLITTER AND THE GOLD
The memoirs of young Winston Churchill’s favorite cousin, by marriage. This is a very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, without dust jacket. The boards…
JAPAN’S WAR
The Great Pacific Conflict, 1853-1952
Japan’s forced emergence from isolation, its industrialization, the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War II and its aftermath. A very good copy, upper edge of front cover dented, in…
WAR AND ADMINISTRATION: The Significance of the Crimean War for the British Army
Reforms in the aftermath of one of the worst managed wars in history. A very good copy, in slightly rubbed dust jacket. (174p., 2 maps, 2 Tables of Organization, notes,…
THE NEW ZEALAND PEOPLE AT WAR: WAR ECONOMY
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45
A virtually mint copy copy, in a shelfworn but altogether intact dust jacket.
THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
-Second Colonial Library Edition-
This is a beautiful copy of the Second Colonial Library edition, bound in a vivid blue-green cloth, fascinatingly different from the standard Colonial Library gray-green cloth. The Second Colonial Library…
IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH
-First English Edition (Second Printing)-
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…
MALTA AIRMEN
New Zealanders in the defense of Malta, World War II, including Malta’s Air Officer Commanding. From the New Zealand in the Second World War Official History series. A very good…
SEA LANES IN WAR TIME: The American Experience, 1775-1942
Excellent analysis by noted author; may still be the best on the subject. The first half is chronological through the Civil War; second half is topical through the summer of…
U.S. ARMY IN THE KOREAN WAR
Truce Tent and Fighting Front
The second of five volumes to be published on the United States and the Korean War, Truce and Tent Fighting covers the seemingly unending negotiations during the last two years…