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JANE’S FIGHTING SHIPS
1942 (Issued June, 1943)
The bible for technical information on warships since 1898. This is one of the scarcer World War II editions. A fair copy, spine shaken as usual, covers worn & somewhat…
THE QUALITY OF MERCY
Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience
Post Viet Nam War famine & devastation, and world reaction. A very good copy, in dust jacket (464 pages, tables, bibliography, index, map endpapers)….
THE HISTORY OF THE CHAPLAIN CORPS
VOL. 2: 1939-1949
…up to and during World War II. A very good ex-libris copy with bookplate on front paste down, spine and corners bumped, gilt lettering slightly faded on spine, contents fine….
THE SERBS
The Guardians of the Gate
A good historical review from the Russo-Turkish Wars through World War I, originally published in 1918. A very good copy, in slightly rubbed dust jacket.
SICILY-SALERNO-ANZIO
January 1943-June 1944
Volume IX of Morison’s monumental “History of United States Naval Operations in World War II.” A very good copy, covers a bit scuffed and slightly scraped, light wear to corners,…
FROM FIJI THROUGH THE PHILIPPINES WITH THE THIRTEENTH AIR FORCE
The marvelous pictorial and history of “The Jungle Air Force” in World War II, in combat from January, 1943 to the end. A good copy, covers somewhat soiled, corners frayed,…
TOBACCO CARD: “Mr. Winston Churchill”
A very early Boer War-era tobacco card featuring Great Britain’s Boer War hero, manufactured for The American Tobacco Co.’s “Boer War Series B” of 1901. The card measures 2 1/4…
CHURCHILL STYLE: The Art of Being Winston Churchill
-Signed First American Edition-
…is a unique, full-length Churchill biography about the world that Winston Churchill created for himself away from politics. Written by Barry Singer, the founder and longtime proprietor of Chartwell Booksellers,…
THEY NEVER SURRENDERED
A True Story of Resistance in World War II
Aa near fine copy of a very scarce first-hand account of the fierce Philippine resistance against the Japanese in World War II, in a dust jacket with faint wear to…
A FOWL ALPHABET
-The Deluxe Cheloniidae Press Edition-
…of “OUR LIVING WORLD: A Natural History,” by Rev. J.G. Wood, Volume II Birds 1885. Illustrated with 26 Wood Engravings by Alan James Robinson and a Newly Designed Alphabet by…
WINGS OF GOLD
The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II
…military historian Geral d Astor comes the first account of how the airplane transformed the U.S. Navy and paved the way to victory in the Pacific in World War II….
SLEEP IN PEACE TONIGHT: A Novel
-Signed First American Edition-
A crackling historical novel of World War II that tracks President Roosevelt’s trusted emissary, Harry Hopkins, as he arrives in London to meet and assess the new British Prime Minister,…