New York: Simon & Schuster, [1959]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 350pp. Illustrations, color map endpapers. Fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. Just a handsome, tight book club edition of this bestseller about the D-Day landings at Normandy -- but..... More
New York: Promontory Press, [1992]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 557pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. Faint spotting of top page edges. Reprint edition, tight and nice. More
New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter palle blue cloth with red and grey spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. x, 400pp. Illustrations. Very good/near fine. Touch of spotting at top page edges, else tight and bright. Handsome first edition of the account..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1993]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 241pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, 6 maps. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition, tight and bright, of this firsthand account of an ensign's capture at Corregidor in 1942, escape and recapture. More
New York: Random House, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and black paper over boards, dust jacket. xiv, 800pp. Illustrations, maps. Just a book club edition of this mammoth chronicle of what the jacket front panel describes as "The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle"..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1944]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with burgundy spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 474pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with a few small edge chips and lightly sunned spine. Just a book club edition of the last book by the famed war correspondent..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1987]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter green cloth with black spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 265pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Just a book club edition, but exceptionally perfect, bright and tight. More
London: Amber Books, [2007]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Glossy pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Extensive illustrations (many color), maps, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Upper outer corner a tad bumped, else tight and pristine. Handsome first edition of this superbly illustrated study. More
Philadelphia: Chilton Company, n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 283pp. Fine/fine. Cryptic modern undated (1990s?) facsimile reprint of the noted 1959 study. More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, [1995]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 273pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition. More
London: Arms and Armour, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Maps. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this fascinating compendium -- "not only... a detailed record of all the warships lost during the last war, but it is the first single-volume reference to..... More
New York: Elsevier-Dutton, [1978]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 184pp. Numerous illustrations, map. Near fine/near fine. Spine of otherwise-superb jacket lightly sunned. Handsome, tight first edition of this account of the ferocious and critical World War Two battle in the..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Otto Spamer, 1878. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering and rules. viii, 158pp, (2pp ads). Tissue-guarded chromolithograph, numerous illustrations and figures, plans, large (17" X 14¼") chromolithograph laid in loose. Very good overall. Tight and nice, only flaw a homely 3½" water line at upper..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1990]. Hardcover. Two items: First, Anderson's autobiography: 8vo. White paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 302pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. Except for spotted top page edges, this copy is tight and bright. Second, a PS, glossy 10" X 8", n.p., n.y...... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958. Hardcover. Introduction by V.S. Pritchett. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. 4to. Decorative cloth with gilt-lettered burgundy calf spine label, slipcase with paper spine label. xxxiv, 196pp. Full-page color plates. Near fine/near fine. Handsome copy of the 10th title in the LEC's 26th series..... More
Milwaukee: Verlag von Geo. Brumder, 1893. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with elaborate gilt lettering and extensive decorative and pictorial bluwe and gilt stamping. xi, 736pp. Numerous small illustrations, decorative endpapers, marbled page edges. Near fine. Expected mild age toning ot entire text block. Exceptionally, outstandingly tight and bright first edition..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Illustrations by George Him. Narrow 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, slipcase. xxxiv, 215pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color). Fine/near fine. Tight and bright LEC production, their 7th title in the 34th series, containing Shaw's 1897 play "The Devil's..... More
Hannover: Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, 1859. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter burgundy morocco with raised bands and gilt spine lettering/rules and marbled paper over boards. xvi, 978pp. Very good. Mild binding edgewear only, else internally tight and near fine. Attractive and tight twelfth edition of this well-known dictionary by the famed German lexicographer..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. Complete 2-volume set in slipcase. 12mo and folio. Quarter tan cloth with gilt-lettered green calf spine labels and marbled paper over boards, 2-compartment slipcase with paper spine label. xxiv, 394pp; 6pp, (ca. 50pp). Numerous illustrations (Volume II only)..... More
Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, [1988]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 193pp. Near fine. Tight and nice first softbound edition of these essays and poets and poetry by the noted poet/criticc/essayist (born 1940) -- with his huge signature in black fineline on half-title page, which he dates "5-1-91."..... More
Steyl, Germany: Verlag der Missionsdruckerei Johann Janssen, 1895. Hardcover. 4to. Dark green pebble-grain cloth with elaborate gilt lettering and decorations and black front board decorations. 429pp, (3pp). Numerous illustrations, line drawings, floral endpapers. Very good. Quite minor edgewear only -- overall tight and attractive, with all gilt bright. Handsome copy..... More
Chicago: Wartburg Pub. House, n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Heavily blind-embossed pebble-grain green cloth with gilt lettering and rules. xvi, 477pp, (4pp ads). Numerus full-page tissue-guarded plates, decorative endpapers. Near fine. Front flyleaf ownership signature. Handsome and quite tight later (11th through 25th thousand) U.S. edition of this popular life of..... More
Galena: The Gazette Publishing Company, 1899. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green blind-embossed cloth, gilt. 304pp. Frontispiece, decorative endpapers. Errata slip tipped in. Very good. Faint binding edgewear only (mainly at spine head-tail), else internally tight and near fine. Tight, attractive first edition of this scarce memoir by one of Galena, Illinois'..... More
Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Willy Planck. Small 8vo. Quarter khaki cloth and pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 157pp, (3pp ads). 32 illustrations. Near fine/very good. Other than light age toning to endpapers, the book itself is in exceptionally tight and pristine condition; jacket..... More
Eklingen, Germany: Verlag von J.F. Schreiber, n.y. Hardcover. 4to. Quarter red cloth with glossy pictorial paper over boards, decorative dust jacket. 13pp (rectos only). Numerous chromolithographs, decorative endpapers. Very good/good-. Binding faintly edgeworn, but overall tight and bright; jacket heavily edgeworn, with numerous edge tears and small edge chips, showing..... More