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The Angry Hills

by Uris, Leon

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New York: Random House, 1955. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Full brick-red cloth. The spine is stamped in black and gilt. Black topstain. Octavo. 249pps. There is mild bumping to the spine-ends. Also, the endpapers are somewhat yellowed due to the acid content of the stock/jacket flaps. Otherwise excellent: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a faintly-sunned spine and shallow chipping at the extremities; overall, the jacket is quite presentable. The original price (3.00) is intact on the front flap. The author's second book, SIGNED by him -- without further inscription -- on the half-title page. An excellent, collector's-quality copy. ".When Mike Morrison arrived in Greece in 1941, the German invaders were already on the verge of driving the British Empire troops into the sea. Still, Mike figured on settling his affairs quickly, without undue trouble.… Read More
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The Beardless Warriors

by Matheson, Richard

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960. (1960). Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full mustard-yellow cloth. The spine is stamped in red. Octavo. 337pps. Stated First Edition. A previous owner's name has been crossed out on the front pastedown (beneath the jacket flap), otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has modest edgewear and a faintly sunned spine; the original price (4.50) is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of this earlier Matheson title. ".In 1944, long before he wrote such classic novels as 'I Am Legend' and 'What Dreams May Come,' author Richard Matheson served as an eighteen-year-old replacement in the 87th Division during the latter part of the war in Europe. His tour of duty there inspired this acclaimed novel about a group of equally young and inexperienced soldiers thrown into the fury of combat. 'The Beardless Warriors' are a squad of teenage U.S. infantrymen… Read More
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

by Fountain, Ben

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New York: Ecco, 2012. As New in an As New dust jacket. Ivory boards quarterbound in ivory cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. 307pps. First Printing. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dust jacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally Fine; the original price (25.99) is intact. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. <br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. 40-A.. First Edition. Hardcover.
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Biographies Of The 7th Cavalry

by Hammer, Kenneth

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Colorado: The Old Army Press, 1972. In Fine condition. Fully-bound in blue cloth. Both the spine and the front board are gilt-stamped. Gold endpapers. 238pps., with four pages of photos. An excellent collector's copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. ".A reference concerning the citizens, enlisted men, officers, Indian scouts and quartermaster employees who were in the Sioux campaign, or were members of the 7th Cavalry in June, 1876, or were in the Little Bighorn River fight." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth.
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Birdsong

by Faulks, Sebastian

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New York: Random House, 1996. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Purple boards quarterbound in black cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. 402pps. First Printing. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dust jacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has very light rubbing wear to the extremities; the original price (25.00) is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "Set before and during the Greart War, it captures the drama of that era on both a national and personal scale. It is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a yound Englishman who journeys to France on business in 1910 and becomes so entangled in a passionate, clandestine love affair that he never returns home. Rootless and heartbroken when war breaks out in 1914, he joins the army and is given command of a brigade of miners, whose macabre assignment… Read More
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The Caine Mutiny

by Wouk, Herman

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PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. In Near Fine condition. Bound in rich blue buffalo hide, lushly gilt-stamped on all sides. Raised hubs on the spine. All page-edges gilt. Gray silk moire endpapers with a matching ribbon bookmark. 576pps. The gilt on the top of the textblock is faintly mottled with dullness -- due, it would seem, to dust. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No aparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. A very nice copy of this Pulitzer Prize winner and 'the most exciting sea-story since Mutiny On The Bounty.'<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...Of the major war novels to emerge from World War II, one of the best was The Caine Mutiny, published in 1951. A gripping story about the officers and men on a Pacific Fleet destroyer-minesweeper -- the U.S.S. Caine -- and the subsequent court-martial of an officer who removed the captain of the Caine from his command."</b></font><br><br>… Read More
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Cold Mountain
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Cold Mountain

by Frazier, Charles

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1997. Uncorrected Manuscript. Fine in glossy, pictorial wraps, trade-sized. 367pps. There is a slight, superficial impression in the front wrap, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. An excellent, collector's-quality copy of the scarce pre-publication issue. ".A magnificent love story in the tradition of Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell To Arms', 'Cold Mountain' is a breathtaking account of one man's voyage home from the front at the end of the Civil War. Based on true stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his pre-war sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm with the help of an intrepid young drifter named… Read More
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Cold Mountain

by Frazier, Charles

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Atlantic, 1997. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Blue boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is gilt-stamped. Map endpapers. 356pp. 9th printing edition. There is a touch of very faint soiling to the fore-edge and a mild bump to the lower rear tip, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve and complete with the Berendt medallion, is lightly rubbed; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. SIGNED and inscribed by the author 'for Anna' on the title-page. A very nice collector's-quality copy. ".Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, 'Cold Mountain' is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the Civil War and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated… Read More
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Command A King's Ship

by Kent, Alexander (Douglas Reeman)

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New York: Putnam's, 1974. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is gilt-stamped. 'Frigate Undine' endpapers. 320pps. Stated First American Edition. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text and the boards are immaculate; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has touches of wear to the extremities; there are 3 closed tears and a couple of creases at the bottom of the rear panel. The original price is intact.<br><br> "Spithead, 1784. His majesty's Frigate Undine sets sail for India and the seas beyond. Europe may be at peace-but in colonial waters the promises of statesmen count for little and the bloody struggle for supremacy still goes on. Richard Bolitho would have cause to remember his admirals words: 'The task I am giving you would be better handled by a squadron.'." <br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and… Read More
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Form Line of Battle!

by Kent, Alexander

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New York: Putnam, 1969. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in gilt. Octavo. 'Map of the Mediterranean' endpapers. 320pps. Much of the gilt has been rubbed from the spine. Also, a previous owner has written his name on the ffep. Otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest rubbing wear at the extremities and a 1/4" closed tear at the top of the front panel; the original price is intact. A nice copy of Kent's second book. ".It is June of the year 1793 when Captain Richard Bolitho of the Royal Navy arrives at Gibraltar to take command of Hyperion, a seventy-four-gun ship of the line, and sail her in Britain's struggle against the rising might of Revolutionary France. Bolitho sails to join Lord Hood and partake in the monarchist-inspired occupation of Toulon. Beneath the… Read More
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From Cedar Mountain to Antietam

by Stackpole, Edward J

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Harrisburg: Stackpole, 1959. Very Good+ in a good dustjacket. Bound in full pictorial cloth. Octavo. Map-endpapers. 466pps., with numerous maps and illustrations. There is a lean to the spine and light dustspotting to the board-edges. Also, a small abrasion at the top of the front pastedown and the original owner's gift inscription, neatly-penned, at the top of the second fep. Otherwise clean, tight, and bright; the pages are immaculate. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has moderate chipping at the tips and the spine-ends with a couple of closed tears on either panel. The original price of $5.95 is intact on the front flap. SIGNED and inscribed by the author "with best wishes from another old Pennsylvania Guardsman." ".In the summer of 1862 Lincoln sought victory by constituting the Army of Virginia in the Warrenton area, under Maj. Gen. John Pope, to threaten Lee from that direction while McClellan continued to press against Richmond on the James River. But the… Read More
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Gettysburg : Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill (Civil War America Ser.)
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Gettysburg : Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill (Civil War America Ser.)

by Pfanz, Harry W

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Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black boards. The spine is silver-stamped. Quarto. 507pps. There is a mild bump to the heel of the spine, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new. ".In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, 'Gettysburg -- The Second Day', Harry Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill -- two of the most critical engagements at Gettysburg on 2 and 3 July, 1863. Pfanz provides detailed tactical accounts of each stage of the fighting and explores the interactions between -- and decisions made by -- generals on both sides. He suggests that Union blunders nearly resulted in a victory for Confederate lieutenant general Richard S.… Read More
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Going after Cacciato
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Going after Cacciato

by O'Brien, Tim

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1978. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Quarto. This is a Publisher's Review Copy, stamped thus on the ffep. 338pps. Second printing. The edges of the cloth are faintly sunned. Otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has a couple of creases in the front flap; the original price (8.95) is intact. "...When this extraordinary novel was still a work in progress, with chapters appearing in such varied magazines as Esquire, Redbook, and Shenandoah, it generated immediate pre-publication excitement. One chapter was an O. Henry Award winner in 1976; another was selected for The Best American Short Stories in 1977... As Cacciato, pursued by his own comrades-in-arms, walks out of the jungles of Vietnam -- over mountains and across continents,… Read More
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Insurrection

by O'Flaherty, Liam

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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1951. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full gray cloth. The spine is stamped in red. Octavo. 248pps. Stated first edition. There is bumping to the lower tips and very faint dustspotting atop the textblock. Also, a previous owner's bookplate is affixed to the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light rubbing wear at the extremities; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. "...In his new novel the author of that memorable book, The Informer, writes again of Dublin -- this time of the Easter uprising of 1916. That romantic and violent episode makes one of the most colorful and fantastic stories in modern history. Re-created now by Liam O'Flaherty, it comes enormously alive again, packed with action, and with the folly and the power and the glory of mankind..." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine… Read More
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Kydd

by Stockwin, Julian

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London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2001. Uncorrected Bound Proof. Fine in glossy pictorial wraps, trade-sized (pb). 309pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate acquired directly from him; the bookplate has been laid in. "...Europe is ablaze with war. The British prime minister is under pressure to intimidate the French and dispatches a Navy squadron to appear off the French coast. To man the ships, ordinary citizens must be press-ganged. Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized and taken across the country to be part of the crew of the ninety-eight-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all he goes through, amid dangers of tempest and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of his fellow seamen, taking up the challenge himself to become a true… Read More
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The Master Sniper : A Novel
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The Master Sniper : A Novel

by Hunter, Stephen

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New York: Morrow, 1980. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Beige boards quarterbound in brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. Beige endpapers. 292pps. There are eight small check-marks sporadically placed in the margins of pages, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No names or inscriptions. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has faint toning to the white panels; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price (10.95) is intact. A very nice copy of the author's first novel. "...It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a master sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilities by taking a little target practice at the remaining laborers in his own prison camp. But one man escapes and becomes the key to solving the mystery of the cold, calculating Kommandmant Repp and his plans for ending the war. Repp was the master… Read More
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The Moon is Down

by Steinbeck, John

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New York: Viking, 1942. First issue: meets all points. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. 188pps. The topstain is faded, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The dustjacket (first issue, textured), with light edgewear and with rubbing along the gutters and the flap-folds, has been laminated (as oppossed to mylar) on both sides; this has preserved it nicely, if altering its original state. Two small closed tears are at the top of the back panel. The original price (2.00) is intact. ".'The Moon is Down', Steinbeck's comment on the moral and ethical implications of war, begins in an unknown town that has just been occupied by a small regiment of enemy soldiers. With no altenrnative, the Mayor of the town agrees to meet with the enemy to try to work out a plan for peaceful co-existence before the impending war goes much further." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions… Read More
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One To Count Cadence

One To Count Cadence

by Crumley, James

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New York: Random House, 1969. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Bound in full brown cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Blue-gray topstain. Octavo. 338pps. Stated First Printing. There is very faint dustspotting to the closed page-edges and a previous owner's name is neatly penned on the front pastedown (behind the jacket-flap). Otherwise clean, tight, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no dog-ears, crimping, thumbing, or creasing. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is mildly rubbed with light general edgewear; the original price (6.95) is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the ffep. A very nice, collector's-quality copy. ".The time is the late summer of 1962. The place is Clark Air Force Base in the Philippine Islands. A new sergeant, 'Slag' Krummel, arrives from the States to take over the 721st Communication Security Detachment, a collection of dissatisfied, rebellious enlistees. Narrated by Krummel,… Read More
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The Pistol: a Novel

by Jones, James

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New York: Scribners, 1958. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Bound in full red cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 158pps. First Edition: A-10.58 [H], as required. There are modest touches of rubbing to the edges of the cloth and the closed page-edges are lightly dustspotted, otherwise clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The colorful dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a dulled rear white panel and light touches of wear at the extremities; the original price (3.00) is intact. A nice, collector's-quality copy of the author's third novel.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. First Edition. Cloth.
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Pork Chop Hill : The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring, 1953

by Marshall, S. L. A.

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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1956. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 315pps., with 22 maps. There is a faint bit of dustspotting to the top edge and bumping to the spine-ends. Also, a previous owner's name is neatly penned on the ffep. Otherwise overall clean, bright, and soundly bound. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest rubbing wear at the extremities and a small crease in the rear flap; the original price is intact. A nice copy of this classic of military history. ".S. L. A. Marshall went to Korea as Infantry Operations Analyst with the Eighth Army. A first brilliant report, 'The River and the Gauntlet,' dealt with dealt with the defeat of the Eighth Army by the Chinese Communists in 1950. Now General Marshall pinpoints the 1953 action on Pork Chop Hill in a stunning account of men in action. The battle began April 16, 1953, and lasted 48 hours. It was an impressive artillery duel, but… Read More
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Social Responsibility

Did you know that since 2004, Biblio has used its profits to build 16 public libraries in rural villages of South America?