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MIDDLE EAST WAR PROJECTS
OF JOHNSON, DRAKE & PIPER, INC. FOR THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 1942-1943
Privately printed by Johnson, Drake & Piper documenting their engineering and construction projects in the Middle East for the U.S. Army during World War II, including Egypt, the Sudan, the…
A DIFFERENT VALOR
The Story of Joseph E. Johnston C.S.A.
Otherwise identical to the 1956 First Edition, these were printed for the Civil War Book Club and signed by both authors on a second half-title page. One of the South’s…
MY DEAR MISTER CHURCHILL
An Intimate View of the Twentieth Century's Great Statesman [Publisher's Reference Copy]
…insider memoir by Churchill’s point man at Life magazine for the serialization of his war memoirs. The author is particularly incisive about life at Chartwell in the late-1940’s and early-1950’s….
ALEXIS
The Memoirs of the Baron de Rede
This is a virtually mint copy, in dust jacket, of the Baron de Rede’s memoirs, privately printed by the Estate of the late Baron de Rede and distributed by the…
MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission
-New Annotated Edition-
A new hardcover edition of Churchill’s only volume of personal memoirs, superbly annotated by historian James W. Muller, and here published with Churchill’s ethereal autobiographical short story, “The Dream.”…
ALIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD: My Life In and Out of Jazz Time
-Signed by Lorraine Gordon-
One of the most entertainingly straightforward jazz memoirs ever written, by the late-legendary owner of the Village Vanguard. This mint First Edition copy is signed by Lorraine Gordon and Barry…
ADVENTURES ASHORE AND AFLOAT
-First English Edition in Dust Jacket-
The memoirs of Churchill’s close colleague, the Royal Navy’s Admiral of the Fleet, published just as Churchill was about to return as First Lord of the Admiralty. This is a…
THE THREE DAY PROMISE
A Korean Soldier’s Memoir
Chung’s memoirs provide a rare English language account of the life of a Korean soldier and a touching portrait of the American dream. Born in Northeastern Korea during Japanese occupation,…
ALIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
My Life In and Out of Jazz Time
One of the most entertainingly straightforward jazz memoirs ever written, by the late-legendary owner of the Village Vanguard. This is a mint First Edition, in dust jacket. (Signed copies are…
FLYING FOR FRANCE
With the American Escadrille at Verdun
This is a very good copy of the Third Printing without dust jacket. The pages are age-toned; contents fine. The cloth is mildly faded, particularly the spine; else fine. Memoirs…
A TEXAS RANGER
Jennings served from 1874 to 1878 in Capt. McNelly’s Company. One of the better memoirs of Texas Ranger service, first published in 1899 and reprinted many times. A good copy,…
SOLDIERS AND STATESMEN 1914-1918
-Slipcased First American Edition in Dust Jackets-
War memoirs by the first British Army soldier to rise from private to field marshal; COS to Haig,1915-1916; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1917-191 This is an astonishingly beautiful…