Supplemental Material on the First World War
West Point, NY: Department of Military Art and Engineering, USMA, 1943. Paperback. Wraps, 100 pp, many folding maps and charts, very good, light wear and soil, some tanning.
West Point, NY: Department of Military Art and Engineering, USMA, 1943. Paperback. Wraps, 100 pp, many folding maps and charts, very good, light wear and soil, some tanning.
Annapolis: United States Naval Academy, 1936. Hardcover. 16mo, 5 x 3.25 inches, dark blue pebbled leatherette, very good, light wear and soil. 192 pp, illustrated. Parts of interest include a glossary of Naval Academy slang & origin of some naval terms; officers' insignia, including 2 color plates of midshipmen's insignia.....
Asbury Park NJ: USNR, 1944. First Printing. Wraps. 10.5 x 8 inches, wraps, very good, light wear and soil, light bumping to upper outer corner throughout. 100 pp, illustrated. With index of names.
United States Naval Training Center. Hardcover. Hardcover. Decorative cloth. No date. circa late 1960's. 4to. Unpaginated. Illus. Very Good. Some soil to boards, light wear at spine-ends.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1917. Offprint. Paperback. 1917. Softcover. 109 pp. Very Good. Clean interior. Sections on diseases, food safety, disposal of sanitary waste, treating wounds in combat, etc.
(Washington): US Army, 1956. First Printing. Wraps. 10 x 8 inches, wraps, good with some soil and stains to covers, slight insect nibbling to the edges of a few pages. 72 pp, some folding leaves of charts. Very uncommon in the trade and fewer than 5 in institutions according to.....
Washington DC: Department of the Army, 1954. Revised. Paperback. Printed paper wrap with stapled binding, small octavo, 191pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has pen scribble to front panel, rubbing and soil to wrap, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked, has faint odor. No DJ.
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1963. Hardcover. Large 8vo, green cloth, no dust jacket. Shallow rubbing to spine ends and tips. Price clipping to front flyleaf, with contents clean.
NP: US Army 3d Armored Division, Noncommissioned Officer Academy, Ca. 1970. Quarto, wraps, 40 (1) pp, good plus copy with some wear and soil to covers. Probably Vietnam era, but no date, and no other copies in institutions, according to Worldcat, for us to compare. Lessons for a course in.....
Temecula, CA: Sydney B. Vernon, 1995. First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Vernon! Printed paper wraps, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has rubbing and edgewear to wraps, binding tight, small sticker ghost to inner front panel, previous owner's name written on all three sides of block, text has some mild ink.....
London: James Nisbet, 1858. Hardcover. Hardcover. c.1858. Red cloth, gilt titles. 12mo. 315pp. Good. Moderate rubbing to boardssome spotting to front cover, large dampstain to rear cover, light wear to spine-ends, sunning to spine, gift inscription on flyleaf, light soil.
Hardcover. In large cloth-bound flyer, good condition, binding somewhat stained, with meticulous layout and some printing skills exhibited by the compiler, William Gibson, about life in Da Nang, Vietnam at barracks 1044, over 50 color snapshots, including R&R in Hong Kong, flyers, army base newsletters, Vietnamese currency and stamps. A......
2 pp written on medium sized notebook sheets. "Dear Unk, I'm sorry that I haven't written for awhile but I've been pretty busy lately. Right now I'm on CQ. It's pretty easy. All yuou do is sit in our orderly room all night and monotor radio transmissions and telephone calls.....
Hardcover. No date, published 1968. Quarto, blue vinyl with color photographic onlay, ca. 50 pp mainly b/w photographic illustrations. Inscribed by a Vietname veteran from the North Hills of Pittsburgh to his grandfather and with two letters to his grandfather inserted, from March 23 and April 9, 1968. Book is.....
Belmont, MA: American Opinion, c. 1968. Paperback. Collection of 6 offprints in original mailer, also included are 2 membership sheets for TRAIN (To Restore American Independence Now). Staplebound pamphlets, Very Good, some with fading to the first and last pages. Label on the mailer calls for one additional pamphlet that.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards, paper spine-label, 213 pp., clean unmarked text, Good+ copy, previous owner's old signature and inscription on the half-title, a bit of soiling/discoloration to some pages of the text, a bit of wear to the corner of some pages.....
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1983. First edition thus. Hardcover. First edition thus, 1983, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 390pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of edgewear, binding tight, small number to top corner of front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ.....
New York: George U. Harvey, 1918. Third printing. Hardcover. 1918, third printing, 117 pp. Hardcover, tan cloth, 8vo. Near Fine copy: Minor shelfwear to covers. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown and signature on the fly leaf.
Glouchestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 1997 Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Near Fine condition, with a faint price tag removal scar to the front free end paper. In a Very Good Dust Jacket that shows light shelf wear.
Worcester: R. W. Walker Publishing, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 1985, First Edition, 252 pp. Hardcover, green cloth. Fine copy in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dust jacket.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1942. Paperback. 7 x 4.5 inches, stiff tan wraps, very good, minor soil to covers. 315 pp, lots of cool pictures of guys demonstrating combat.
London: War Office, 1845. Hardcover. 12mo, bound in recent maroon leatherette stamped in gilt, each month about 95-100 pp, very good, light age toning.
London: War Office, 1857. Hardcover. 12mo, recent ruddy dark brown leatherette, gilt stamped, very good, original rose wraps bound in, 224 pp.
London: War Office, 1833. Hardcover. 12mo, recent ruddy dark brown leatherette, gilt stamped, very good, spine a little cocked (i.e. slightly aslant), each montly volume 84-90 pp.
London: War Office, 1834. Hardcover. 12mo, bound in recent maroon leatherette, stamped in gilt, very good, each monthly issue 84-90 pp.