Search Results: Military History from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

N.p.: N.p., 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt lettering, rules and insignia. 276pp. Illustrations, foldout pictorial map. Very good. Faint binding wear only; endpapers a bit age toned and neat blue cloth tape on inner hinges. A tight and quite nice first and likely only edition of this bibliographically-challenged regimental history. This storied regiment, part of the 1st Infantry Division ("The Big Red One"), has been extremely active in every military engagement from the Civil War on up through the War in Afghanistan. Co-author Samuel Fuller (1912-97) was an infantryman in the 16th and went on to fame and fortune as a Hollywood director, novelist and screenwriter. A revised, refocused softbound edition titled "16th Infantry Regiment 1861-1946, Featuring the 8 Campaigns of World War II" was published in 1995, but this hardbound predecessor is rarely seen. Scarce.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. Hardcover. 12mo. Black blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 122pp. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly age toned and lightly edgeworn, with chip at head of spine. A clean, tight, most handsome first edition of this political commentary by the Missouri-born journalist, writer, travel writer and novelist (1879-1929) -- in the almost always missing dust jacket! The book itself is rather uncommon, and a copy in the jacket more so.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth. viii, 309pp. Illustrations. Very good. First edition, clean and tight, of this British view of the contemporary political and military climate since World War One.

New York: Crescent Books, 1983. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with white lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 176pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Superb, tight first edition.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 579pp. Numerous maps. Near fine/fine. Just a book club edition of this thick (to cite jacket front panel) "Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo," but tight, clean and near pristine.

Tokyo: Kantosha Co., Ltd, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. 258pp. Numerous illustrations, foldout chart, foldout drawing. Near fine. Tight, handsome copy of the second volume (only) of this bibliographically cryptic title, No. 88 in the Aireview series, printed in Japanese with a foreword in German. Front flyleaf bears an unidentified signature that appears to read "Henry Hajime Kogawa" and possibly the same name in Japanese characters -- whether this a simple ownership signature or someone connected with this title is uncertain. An uncommon title, in any case.

[Novato, CA]: Presidio Press, 1987. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards. 159pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine. First U.S. edition, tight and nice.

New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. xiv, 418pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A tight and handsome first edition.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1971. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jackets. xvi, 168pp, vi, 192pp, (23pp); xii, 136pp, vi, 228pp, (27pp). Numerous illustrations. Very good. Jackets a bit edgeworn, with a few tiny edge chips;. A tight and attractive book club edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "illustrated history of air power in the Second World War" - complete two-volume edition of this four-volume work.

London: Arms & Armour Press Ltd, 1990. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Numerous illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. Wonderfully tight, clean and pristine first edition.

Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 257pp, (1p ad). Map. Good plus/very good. Book itself tight and pristine, and would grade higher but for numerous lightly inked checkmarks in margins and light underlinings, with occasional margin comments; mild jacket edgewear. Second printing of this memoir by this Tipetan freedom fighter. She boldly signs her first name in black ballpoint on the title page, adding her circular red personal inkstamp alongside (with red ink smear from same, possibly bearing her fingerprint, on the facing blank leaf!). Despite checkmarks and other text markings, highly uncommon to find signed.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1941. Hardcover. 16mo. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. Numerous illustrations (some color), 2 maps (one color). Very good. Mild edgewear. A tight, nice first edtion of this nifty little World War Two pocket guide -- a volume in the "American Patriot's Series."

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. vi, 424pp. Good/good plus. Moderate cloth discoloration; chipping along dust jacket edges. Ownership signature of Marshall Field. First edition, with Marshall Field's ownership signature on the front flyleaf. Focuses on American policy between the two world wars.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Hardcover. 16mo. Blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 32pp. Very good/very good. A tight and attractive first edition of this Bede Lecture, delivered at the University of Cambridge on July 30, 1942. "Mr. MacLeish describes," notes the front wrapper, "the revolutionary change that has taken place in our attitude towards the war and towards the purpose for which we are fighting." From the library of MacLeish's good friend, Illinois governor and twice presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 793pp. Illustrations, text endpapers. Very good/very good. Large nonauthorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. First edition, tight and attractive.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 793pp. Illustrations, text endpapers. Very good/very good. Just a book club edition of this thick classic, but tight and quite nice.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. liii, 554pp. Fine/good plus. Large jacket chip at top of rear panel, a few other tiny edge chips and couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears. A tight and attractive first edition of this volume in "The American Heritage Series." This copy extra-illustrated with added frontispiece in the form of a Typed Note Signed from Millis, 1p, 8" X 10", New York, NY, 5 April 1941. Addressed to Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Near fine. Cordial note to an admirer -- in part: "To answer your two questions (a) though busy enough in other ways, I am not at work on any book now and (b) I do not in fact 'come' from Cleveland, although I lived there for some years as a boy." Boldly signed in full. Unusual anthology of military writings, ranging from Franklin, Washington and other founding fathers in the 18th century up through Ike, JFK, Robert S. McNamara and others in… Read More

Boulder: Paladin Press, 1994. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 627pp. Numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Handsome first edition of this exhaustive reference source.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 146pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with lightly sunned spine; nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown. A tight and nice first edition of this slim (to cite front jacket panel) "cyclopedia of the makers of American firearms, fully described and alphabetically arranged in more than 2100 entries." An excellent reference.

Boulder: Paladin Press, 1994. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 627pp. Numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and nice first edition of this hefty reference source.