World War II from Grimalkin Books

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009. This Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) also includes a "number line" ending with a "1" to indicated First Printing. This New, unread novel of Nazi Germany deals with an idealistic young naval officer, his fiancée back home, and the moral decisions that engulf them both as the war effect… Read more about this item

New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2009. This Stated First Edition from November, 2009, includes the required "number line" ending with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys uncovers secret treaties made by Theodore Roosevelt with Asian leaders that ultimately paved the way for the spread of communism in China and Korea,… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968. Kim Philby, "the best spy the Russians ever had", infiltrates the British Secret Intelligence Service and acts as a double agent for 33 years. The author, E.H. Cookridtge, was himself a secret agent and knew Philby over three decades. The book is a First Edition in Very Good+ condition, with a signature of the… Read more about this item

New York: David McKay, 1977. This First Edition is in Fine condition with a Fine, price-unclipped dust jacket. Military historian Roger Parkinson has drawn on extensive contemporary accounts and on formerly unpublished documents to provide new insights into the four months of 1940 in which Britain battled for her survival. Included are appendices, an index, sources, notes, and maps, as… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1944. This book club edition is in Fine Condition with a Very Good dust jacket. The dust jacket has some chips and a few tears. (Click on photo.) I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book itself is bound in a woven mustard-colored cloth with die-stamped brown spine titles.… Read more about this item

Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1976. This handsome, complete 20-volume set is in Fine condition. Most volumes appear to be unread. It also includes an oversized Near-Fine paperback, Introduction. This Introduction volume also contains the Contents of all 20 volumes and an Index of Authors and Sources. The Encyclopedia Britannica published this edition in 1976, just in time for America's Bicentennial… Read more about this item

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2000. This First Edition Thus with a "number line' starting with a "00" to indicate the year, 2000, and ending with a "1" to indicate First Printing is in Fine condition with a Fine dust jacket. This incredible work deals with the creation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1967. Edited by Nigel Nicolson, Harold Nicolson's son, these diaries and letters give an uncompromising view of Britain during the years of the Second World War. Not only does Nicholson give his insightful views of key players in the war effort (such as Winston Churchill) but also presents a candid image of his marriage to Vita Sackville-West.… Read more about this item

Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Konecky & Konecky These four volumes in a box set with a slipcase were published without dust jackets. All four books are bound in a uniform chocolate brown leatherette cloth with die-stamped silver titles on the front panels and spines. They are all in Fine condition with only minimal wear. These are all facsimile editions of… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. The movie of the Bridge on the River Kwai was mainly fictional. The horrifying story of what actually happened to the British and Austrialian POWS after the bridge was built was not at all fictional. This book details how 2,000 POWS were jammed into a single hold on each of two Japanese ships,… Read more about this item

Boulder, Colorado: Sentient Publications, 2005. Although this is a Stated First Edition, the "number line" indicates that it's actually a Fifth Printing. It may also be a BCE. At any rate, the book is in New, unread condition and comes with a New dust jacket, which I've placed into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book includes a Foreword by… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1969. This stated Second Printing is in Fine condition, with a close to Fine dust jacket. (Click on photo.) Although 1969 is the only copyright date, the book was probably published around 1980, since the back cover mentions Hellman's other memoirs up through 1979. This memoir details Hellman's life with the novelist, Dashiell… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1976. This Stated First American Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in close to Fine condition, with a close to Fine unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) Field Marshal Sir Michael Carver has assembled 43 biographies of dominant military commanders of the 20th Century, including Rommel, MacArthur, Patton, Montgomery, Zhukov, Halsey, Foch, Pershing,… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1982. This Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) was written by President Dwight Eisenhower's son, John, himself a retired brigadier general and former ambassador. This book concentrates on the Allied effort, the military campaigns, and the personalities -- Churchill and Roosevelt, Brooke and Marshall, Eisenhower, Dill, Patton, Montgomery, and… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. Released to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this book is in As New, unread condition, with an As New, unclipped dust jacket by a skilled master at recreating history. (Walter Lord also authored "A Night to Remember," the definitive work on the sinking of the Titanic.) The book… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969. This Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine condition with a close to Fine, unclipped dust jacket. As described on the front dust jacket: "An all-encompasing collection of pieces, may of them never before published in English, by people who were themselves victims and witnesses of the… Read more about this item

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2000. This beautifully produced volume is in New condition with a New dust jacket. (Click on photo.) Illustrated with more than 90 photographs, color maps, and 3D battle maps, the largest amphibious landing operation in history on June 6, 1944, is vividly recreated by a renowned military historian. The book measures 7 1/2… Read more about this item

New York: PublicAffairs, 2005. This Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) also has the required number line, ending in a "1" to indicate First printing. The book is in New, unread condition, with a New dust jacket. Translated from the German by Giles McDonough, this 1945 biography of Hitler written for Stalin, was based on long interrogations… Read more about this item

New York/Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little, Brown and Company, 1952. This Stated First Edition from 1952 (NOT to be confused with later Arlington House reprints) is in Fine condition with a Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Click on photo. The author deals with espionage during World War II, including the story of Soviet master spy Richard Sorge, the whitewashed Amerasia… Read more about this item

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1956. "Holocaust at Sea" is in Near-Fine condition with a Near-Fine unclipped dust jacket. Click on photo. The book is translated from the German by Eleanor Brockett and Anton Ehrenzweig and is illustrated with photographs. The Scharnhorst was one of the most feared ships in Atlantic and North Sea waters. This thrilling real-life adventure… Read more about this item