Search Results: Military History from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First edition. Duodecimo (7.25" x 5"), 48 pp. plus 8 unnumbered pp. providing the publisher's catalog of "Books on the Great War." Original printed & decorated blue paper over boards backed in tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Binding lightly soiled, old price in ink at the ffep, brief offsetting/ toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good in worn, torn, chipped, & soiled dust jacket with a substantial loss at the rear panel, fair only.
Known primarily for her mystery fiction, author Rinehart, often called the American Agatha Christie, directs her appeal to the mothers of the United States noting that "Personal service is not rolling bandages for the other woman's son."
This title was published in April, 1917, the same month when the United States reversed its neutrality stance & declared war on the German Empire.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), 103 & [1] pages, with frontis portrait. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards depicting a light blue sky & clouds, the upper cover lettered in darker blue with the crest of the Royal Flying Corps below.
Covers & spine soiled & browned, upper joint beginning to split (still secure), corners bumped & rubbed, offsetting at title page from adjacent frontis, a good or so copy.
Briggs Kilburn Adams was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1893. He volunteered as a driver with the American Ambulance Service in France in the summer of 1916 & returned to complete his education at Harvard University thereafter. In 1917 Adams presented himself at the Royal Flying Corps recruiting office in Toronto, Canada, as he wrote his mother in August, 1917, "I am now a British subject and will hold the commission when I get it until the end of the War."
On March 14, 1918, Adams was found dead in his plane, whether he was brought down by an enemy… Read More

[Baltimore, Maryland]: B & O Railroad, May 23, 1943. Original stapled pamphlet measuring 8.75 inches by 8 inches folding to 8.75 inches by 4 inches (as issued) with 39 panels of text on 10 leaves. Includes a double-page map (8.75 inches by 16 inches) showing the routes of the railroad. Modest soiling, sporadic minor foxing & age browning, slight edge wear, otherwise Very Good. "On the B & O alone, there are nearly eleven thousand miles of track. Over this vast system the supply trains roll day and night. And 60,000 B & O workers are going to keep them rolling - till VICTORY!"
 ~Excerpted from the front cover.

Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio: Published Monthly by the C.M.T.C. office in the interest pf the Citizens' Military Training Camps, Volume 1, [number 1], April, 1931. First edition. Octavo (7.75" x 3.75"), 6 pages plus covers, illustrated. Original pictorial stapled stiff paper wraps.Moderately browned, scuff on the rear cover affecting return address, staples rusted, otherwise Very Good. "Here is the first issue of the C.M.T.C. Bugle. For the benefit of our new subscribers (first year applicants) we wish to announce that this leaflet will appear intermittently for the duration of the C.M.T.C. procurement campaign and will contain short items of interest concerning the C.M.T. Camps to be held in the Corps Area." ~Excerpted from page one.The camps, which ran from 1921 to 1940, offered basic military training during summer sessions & did not require an obligation for active duty service. Participants included Harry S. Truman, Ronald Reagan, Robert Penn Warren, Walter S. McIlhenny, Chuck Yeager, John J.… Read More

New York: Random House, (1997). First edition, this copy signed in ink by Salter on a tipped in leaf following the ffep. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), x, [4], [1] - 365, & [4] pages. Publisher's black-lettered white paper over boards, in translucent, pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with slight edge wear & hint of creasing.
James Salter (born James Arnold Horowitz), who passed away in 2015, was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1989 & the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in 2012. His "Recollection" includes substantial treatment of his "second life" as a writer.
"Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by… Read More

New Haven, Connecticut, 1933. New Haven, Connecticut: Privately Printed for the Author, printed by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1933. First edition, one of a thousand copies. Tall 8vo, xxv, [3]-296 pages, illustrated (frontis, plates, portraits, facsimiles). Original dark blue cloth with printed paper labels at the spine & upper cover. Partially unopened. Previous owners embossed stamp & signature at half-title page, otherwise a Fine & apparently unread copyAuthor Seymour, a patent attorney, historian, & city planner, was a member of the American Antiquarian Society & the Walpole Society In addition to extensive research on the life of Nathan Hale, resulting in two books, he purchased the Hale Homestead in coventry, Connecticut which he restored & donated to the American Landmarks Society.

Winchester, Virginia: [Robert H. Gallaher], "Friday Morning, February 14, 1862." Folio newspaper, single sheet measuring 18 inches by 24 inches folded once vertically forming four pages.
Old folds, lightly browned & foxed, tiny losses at fold intersects, brief youthful scribblings in ink & pencil in the margins, old ink signature in the top margin of page one & small rubber stamped mark in the bottom margin of page one, otherwise very good.
Contents include: Military Forces of the State;Federal Account of the Partial Destruction of Harper's Ferry; $20 Reward for Deserters from Company A; Strasburg Extension; Head Quarters Department of Northern Virginia, General Orders

New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, (1985). First edition, "Commemorative Copy for the Dear America Celebration, May 6, 1985." This copy signed in green ink by General William Childs Westmoreland on the title page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), 316 pages including full page illustrations from photographs & endpaper maps. Publisher's gilt-lettered off white paper over boards backed in blue cloth lettered in red on the spine, in slipcase to which the program for the celebration is pasted (as issued) to the front panel (12 pages, stapled light card covers).
Binding soiled, spine lettering dull, corners bumped & rubbed, otherwise Good. The attached program has rusted staples, brief evidence of bio-predation, &minor foxing affecting the front cover, still Good or so. The slipcase is lightly rubbed, otherwise Very Good.
"The New York Veterans Memorial Commission is pleased to present you with this commemorative copy of "Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam" to mark this very special occasion." 
~Quoted… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition, first printing. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), 260 pages. Publisher's buff paper over boards backed in brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover, in gilt-lettered dust jacket.
Upper margin lightly sunned, small stain at the top edge of the text block, previous owner's illustrated bookplate at the front pastedown, otherwise very good in good or better dust jacket with soiling (including a faint cup ring on the front panel), browning at the spine, with edge wear including a couple of nicks & a half inch closed tear.
"Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and death." ~William S. Burroughs, excerpted from the dust jacket.

[Martinsburg]: J.Q.A. Nadenbousch, June 19, 1877 to June 19, 1880. Partially printed document completed in manuscript. Folio broadsheet (22.5" x 17.25") using both sides. Signed twice by Nadenbousch.
Folded once horizontally & three times vertically, light edge wear, couple of small losses at fold intersects, moderately soiled, stained, & foxed, otherwise Good.
Records in ink the names of 6 officers, 12 sergeants, 2 musicians, & 36 privates, most of whom were Confederate veterans. Additionally provides age, height, residence, occupation, & occasional "remarks" which seem relevant to uniforms, equipment & accoutrements. The document is signed twice by Nadenbousch.
John Quincy Adams Nadenbousch (1824 - 1892), of Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), was a founding member, principle organizer, and captain of the Berkeley Border Guards. In October, 1859 the Company was ordered to Harper's Ferry by Governor Henry A. Wise. Quite probably the first to arrive, they participated in quelling John… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1975. First edition, this a presentation copy for Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore, signed on a laid in sheet by author Hewes & Brigadier General James L. Collins, Jr., Chief of Military History. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), xvii & 452 pages, illustrated, plus [10] folded leaves of plates. Publisher's textured maroon fabricoid simulating crushed morocco lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in gilt with the Seal of the United States & the name of presentee Moore on the upper cover.
Spine gilt a bit rubbed, otherwise very good or better.
The first volume in the special studies series published by the Center of Military History, United States Army, this a unique copy which was presented to Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore. Moore was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor at the Battle of Drang during the Vietnam War. He wrote about that experience in We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young which was made into a movie starring Mel… Read More

Charlestown, [Virginia]: Head Quarters, Banks' Division, Charlestown, March 5, 1862. First edition.Folio (13.5" x 10"), letterpress broadside printed on thin paper in black ink Accompanied by a manuscript version of the text (single sheet, 2 pages) which includes corrections as reflected in the published version, almost certainly contemporary Corona & Shetler/ West Virginia Imprints 805, citing this copy.
Broadside with old folds, edge wear, tears, & a couple of old tissue repairs on the verso, good or better. Manuscript folded & foxed.
General Nathaniel P Banks, via Assistant Adjutant General & Major of Volunteers R Morris Copeland, condemns the actions of troops for "depredations on property, disturbance of peaceful families and the most reprehensible infringement upon the rights of citizens" and warns of the consequences:
"To countenance, excuse or tolerate such crimes, is to impair and destroy the discipline of the army and injure the holy cause, that we have left our homes to sustain The… Read More

New York: NSWC, Group of 5 newsletters: Volume 1, numbers 9 & 10, October & November, 1942; Volume 1, numbers 1, 2, & 4, February, March, & May, 1943 First editions. The 1942 issues are single sheets measuring 8.5" x 16.5" folded twice to form 6 pages. The 1942 issues are single sheets measuring 11" x 17" folded once to form 4 pages.
Old folds, trace edge wear, Near Fine.
The National Security Women's Corps was a volunteer civilian organization founded in 1940 in New York. Their mission was to train female personnel to respond to emergency situations and to serve in auxiliary roles in the war effort. A large number of its members went on to serve as part of the WAVES, WAACS and similar groups. Quite uncommon, this publication is not found in OCLC.

Paris, France: Chez Devambez, [1918]. Pictorial paper wraps, sewn. Paris: Chez Devambez, no date [1918]. Oblong sextodecimo (5" x 6.5"), 28 unnumbered pages providing text in English with 12 color pochoir illustrations captioned in French adjacent. Printed on thick laid paper. Original printed & illustrated self wraps, sewn.Moderately soiled, edge wear including a small loss at the lower corner throughout, otherwise good or better.Apparently published in appreciation of British troops in France during World War I. The illustrations depict English, Scottish, Irish, & Indian troops in often amusing situations away from the field of battle.

Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1816. First edition. Folio (13" x 8.25"), letterpress on laid paper, 5 pages including 2 folding tables. Shaw & Shoemaker/ Early American Imprints series II, 39535. Disbound.
Removed from a bound volume, moderately toned, foxed, stained, edge wear, tears, separating at the spine, some creasing, otherwise Good.
"The estimate for arsenals, etc. appears large, but it is believed that the public interest requires it. The sums paid for store rent, etc. during the three last years, amount to nearly that sum; and twenty-five percent on that amount would be expended annually for the same object, if the necessary arsenals are not erected ..." 
~William H. Crawford, Secretary of War, excerpted from the text.

Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1816. First edition. Folio (13" x 8.25"), letterpress on laid paper, 2 leaves & 10 folding tables. Shaw & Shoemaker/ Early American Imprints series II 39500. Disbound.
Removed from a bound volume, moderately toned, foxed, stained, edge wear including small tears, otherwise Good.
"Having this day received the enclosed abstracts on the books of the Accountant of the War Department, which were unsettled on the 30th of September 1812, and which still remain unsettled., I do myself the honor to transmit the same to Congress." 
~Joseph Anderson, Comptroller of the Treasury, excerpted from the text.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 24mo (5.5" x 3.5"), xii & 382 pages. Publisher's bright blue cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt on the spine & in blind on the covers All edges gilt
Binding lightly rubbed, slight fraying at spine extremities, hinge started at title page, otherwise Very Good. Originally published in London in 1862, this copy is one of seven titles in Ticknor & Field's "Books in Blue and Gold" series. The publisher utilized imported sheets from the original printer & provided decorative bindings which "were an instant success and made it clear that buyers do judge books by their covers" (American Antiquarian Society). As described in the preface, "The present volume is rather a condensation than an abridgment of the later volumes of Captain Hall's 'Fragments of voyages and travels,' inasmuch as it comprises all the chapters of the second and third series, only slightly abbreviated, in which the author describes the various duties of the naval lieutenant and commander."

Baltimore, Loch Raven, Maryland: Press of the Maryland School for Boys, 1912. First edition. 8vo, [8] & [9] - 232 pages plus frontis & 10 plates Original green cloth letered in gilt on the spine. Dornbusch/ Military Bibliography of the Civil War II: 486
Brief wear including slight fraying at spine extremities & corners, hinge cracked at the Dedication page (still secure), light foxing mostly at or adjacent to plates, otherwise Very Good
The author served in Alexander's Battery, was captured & imprisoned at Libby in Richmond, Virginia, & later taught at the Maryland School for Boys, a storied reform school.
"Telling the story of what they saw and experienced in the Great Civil War for the Union." ~from the Dedication page

Washington, [DC]: Printed for the Senate, 1850. First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6"), [3], 4 - 444, & [3] pages (part I); [3], 4 - 488 pages (part II), including 2 pages of illustrations (plans for a lighthouse), plus 35 engraved lithographs (3 folding), 6 folding charts, and 1 folding map of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Contemporary marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered black morocco Howes/ USiana C923, noting variance in plate collation among issues
Binding rubbed & scuffed, small split at the upper front joint, backstop creased, archival tissue repair at part I leaf 139/140, sporadic foxing & toning (occasionally heavy), a Good or better copy of an uncommon book.
Not to be confused with the edition in one part with of 447 pages, this edition adds some 488 pages and reprints the contribution of Major Osborne Cross (pages 126 - 244, part II). Cross was the quartermaster for the first United States military expedition to travel the full length of the Oregon Trail from Fort… Read More

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, (1972). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink in the year of publication at the first blank page by Colonel Booth. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 168 pages. Publisher's black lettered tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Top corners bruised, minor foxing mostly at the edges of the text block, otherwise very good in very good lightly soiled & foxed dust jacket, with brief edge wear including a short closed tear & a couple of nicks.
The author was the commanding officer of the Proust program which sent French military personnel recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the C.I.A.) to France to produce intelligence for the Allied invasion at Normandy. This copy is inscribed "with thanks" to Carroll Godwin who was news director, anchorman and talk show host at WCSC- Channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Mission Marcel Proust "is a story of incredible heroism displayed by patriotic Frenchmen and of their amazing accomplishments.… Read More