Military History from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Austin, TX: Encino Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xvi, 268 p. w/maps, endnotes, bibliography, index, and maps on endpapers. In 200 separate articles, Pierce details all the major military establishments - 53 forts, 30 military towns, and 130 posts or camps.… Read more about this item

Oxford & New York: Osprey, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Squarish octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 272 p. w/glossary, index, many color and b&w illus.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. Hardcover. Very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Corners bumped. Some foxing to endpapers, and light foxing on various pages throughout, xx, 393 p. w/illus., 2 folding maps.bibliography, index. A pre-WWI detailed study of the campaign and battle of Fontenoy,… Read more about this item

London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. xii, 286 p. w/maps, essay endnotes, appendix, index. 13 scholarly essays.

Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2022. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. vii, 253 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index. Section B

Harrisburg PA: Stackpole Books, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more to dust jacket. Page edges turning brown. 159 p. w/ illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Includes a recommendation from the Company of Military Historians opposite the title page. A survey of Spanish weapons, including firearms, accounrements,… Read more about this item

Lanham : Hamilton Books, 2009. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Small tear at top rear cover. 533p. w/ maps, appendices, Chronology, endnotes, bibliography, index, and a review of the book itself at the end.

York, PA: George Shumway Publishers, 1992. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 201 p. w/illus. index. A stanard and well done survey of the classic Kentucky flintlock rifle.

Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Name and a number in ink on flyleaf. 238 p. w/maps, illus., endnotes, bibliography, index.

Milwaukee, WI: Z & M Enterpises, 1974. First edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of lllustrated covers. Old stucker removal mark on rear cover. 50 p. w/tables digrams, appendices, glossary, bibliography. The original rules for this classic of tabletop miniature wargaming.

Manila (?): The Squadron, 1938. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Good. Thin quarto (over size). Wear to edges and corners of lllustrated covers, eps to spine. Book still bound by the strng binding, but a bit fragile. Tape redisue on cover. 80 p. w/ many b&w photographic illus. A survey of the cruise of this US submarine squadron … Read more about this item

London: Conway Maritime Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket. Pages slightly browned. 423 p. w/ appendices, bibliography, general and ships' names index. A modern classic.

West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. Spotting on the jacket is actually a feature of the paper, not foxing or dirt. xv, 441 p. w/maps, end of chapter notes, appendices, bibliography, index. A study of the surprisingly… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Eastern Eureopan Monographs / Columbia University Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 231 p. w/ footnotes. A collection of some 9 essays covering Polish armies in exile : Napoleonic WWI, and WWII.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 185 p. w/ b&w illus., notes, bibliography, index. A detailed overview of Revolutionary war maps from both sides, archival and published, and organizes them into types, discusses map makers, characteristics of maps,… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. x, 364 p. w/ footnotes, index. 18 scholarly essays on the reactions & legacies of WWI, and of ideas and practices for the "next war".

New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Later printing. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued with this printing. ix, 303 p. w/ chapter endnotes and bibliographies, overall index. A study postulating the primary cause of Austro-Hungarian defeat was having an offensive strategy against enemies with… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Later printing. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued with this printing. x, 215 p. w/maps, essay endnotes, select bibliography, index. A collection of 8 essays with a scholarly introduction covering the ancient world, Vikings, China, the British empire,… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. more so to dust jacket. xiv, 495 p w/ maps, illus., endnotes slelct bibliography, index. and maps on endpapers. A solid account of the South African war from 1899 - 1902, including the political… Read more about this item

Baltimore / Washington DC: The Johns Hopkins University Press / Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xvii, 383 p. w/ illus., maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. A study looking at the failure of useful institutional reforms by the General Staff… Read more about this item