Search Results: Military History from Rose's Books, IOBA

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 326 pp. Introduction and afterword by Peter Maas. Small rip on bottom of dustjacket and some scuffing. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1957. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Dodd Mead, 1957. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 402 p. Index. Part of Churchill's notable History of the English-Speaking Peoples series. Minor edgewear. Jacket chipped and shelfworn. Very good+ in good jacket in mylar cover..

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1958. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Eleventh Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harrisburg, PA, Stackpole, 1958. Eleventh edition. 8vo. Dark navy-blue cloth with silver lettering on spine and front board, illustrated in black and white throughout, 378 pp. Everything an Air Officer needed to know in 1958 and a very interesting look at the United States Air Force at that point in history. Owner name on endpaper and underlining on one page, otherwise in very good condition with a clean, crisp text block..

Traplet Book. As New. Trade Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Modellsport Verlag GMBH, Aircraft Profiles Volume 4 - Military Aircraft of World War II. Superbly produced, this 66 page soft-bound book contains detailed information on a range of military aircraft, with over 80 full colour photographs and accurate 3 view drawings. There is also comprehensive technical data and an in-depth history of each aircraft and its various derivatives. The ideal addition to your aircraft reference library. Contents include: The Focke-Wulf Fw 189 A-1, Chance Vought F4 U-1 D 'Corsair', Hawker 'Typhoon' Mk. 1A/1B, Henschel Hs 123, Focke-Wulf Ta 152 H, Messerschmitt Bf 109 G, Dornier Do 335 A-1 'Ameisenbar' and the Heinkel He 100 V1 bis V8..

Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1945. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1945. First thus. 12mo. Cloth binding, 202 pp. A Triangle Books vintage World War II novel. Dust jacket has edgewear and small chips. No writing inside. Very good in good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

New York: Coward-McCann, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 433 p. Frontispiece portrait of author. A discussion of modern military and naval air power and warfare. Minor shelfwear. Near fine..

New York: Random House Large Print, 2001. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Large Print Edition. 4to. First large print edition. 4to. Cloth. 428 p. Illustrated with black and white photographs. History comes alive in this album-style book, where people's stories are told in their own words, accompanied by photographs and memorabilia of Word War II. The letters were written to newscaster Brokaw after the release of his book The Greatest Generation. Fine in near-fine dustjacket in mylar cover..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. First edition. 8vo. Hardcover binding, 249 pp. plus bibliography and index. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on free front endpaper. The story of the regrouping and recovery of the U. S. Navy after its devastating losses at Pearl Harbor. Very good in very good dustjacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

Plandome, NY: New Age Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Memorial Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No publishing date. Facsimile reprint of the Memorial Edition, originally published in 1919. 8vo. Soft cover. 407 p. The documented account of the Armenian genocide first of the century reported by America's Ambassador to Turkey. Moderate edgewear. Very good..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First trade edition. 8vo. Cloth spine with paper covered boards. 155 p. Black and white illustrations and photographs. A collection of letters written from the front lines in France during World War I. Moderate shelfwear. Interior clean and tight. Owner's name. Very good..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2000. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 60 No. 4. Fall 2000. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on Frederick Myrick 1808-1862; An Island Offshore -- Frederick Myrick and the Nantucket Milieu; "Curiously Carved" -- Early Collections of Susan's Teeth 1830-1921; Myrick's Scrimshaw -- Benchmarks and Anomalies; The Scrimshaw of Frederick Myrick -- The Rig and Rigging of the Whaling Vessels Susan, Ann, Frances, and Barclay ca. 1829; book reviews, and more. Marked-out library stamp and barcode of Sturgis Library. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1990. Ex-Library. Illus. by Illustrated. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 1990. First edition. Volume 50 No. 1, Winter 1990. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on Lattitude Errors and the New England Voyages of Print and Waymouth; Edmund Custis and His "Wreck-Fishing" Invention; Sea Power and South America -- The Brazils or South American Station of the Royal Navy 1808-1837; Voyage to Canada's Arctic Islands; The Battle for Convoy TM 1, January 1943; Creating the U. S. Bureau of Aeronautics; Roux Painting Mystery Solved!; book reviews, and more. Only exlibrary markings are barcode of Sturgis Library inside and marked-out stamp on front. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1995. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 55, Number 2, Spring 1995. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on The Jeffersonian Gunboats in Service 1804-1825; A Means to an End -- Gunboats and Thomas Jefferson's Theory of Defense; Lothrop Awards Announcement; The Ship Without Liberty -- Mutiny and the Clipper Contest; The Plattsburg Mutiny 1816; Pilots and Pilotage in North Carolina to the Civil War; book reviews, and more. Only exlibrary markings are barcode of Sturgis Library inside and marked-out stamp on front. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1992. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 52 No. 1. Winter 1992. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on the American Concrete Shipbuilding Program of World War I; Weather-Reporting U-Boats in the Atlantic 1944-45 -- the Hunt for U-248; The Last Injury -- The Revenue Marines' First Steam Cutters; The Transmission of Chinese Maritime Technology by the Arabs to Europe; A Gratifying Testimonial to a Captain; book reviews, and more. Marked-out library stamp and barcode of Sturgis Library. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1998. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 58 No. 3, Summer 1998. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on The Killing of Shabet -- A Narrative of Extraterritorial Rights Zanzibar 1846-1851; US Revenue Cutters Captured in the War of 1812; Columbia Navy in the Korean War 1950-1953; The Brig Mexican of Salem, Captured by Pirates, and her Escape; Shipping Out -- Crossing the North Pacific in Winter; book reviews, and more. Only exlibrary markings are barcode of Sturgis Library inside and marked-out stamp on front. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1997. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 57 No. 4. Fall 1997. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on Becoming James Fenimore Cooper; Uses of Maritime History in Cooper's Afloat and Shore; James Fenimore Cooper's New Myers -- A Life Before the Mast; Nelson Resartus -- Legitimate Order in Cooper's Fleet Novel; Illustrations from Cooper's History of the United States Navy; Enabling and Disabling the Lake Erie Discussion -- Cooper and Alexander Slidell Mackenzie Respond to the Perry / Elliott Controversy; Cooper as Passenger; Images of the Sailor in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper; Cooper & the Sea -- A Bibliographical Note; book reviews, and more. Marked-out library stamp and barcode of Sturgis Library. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1992. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 52 No. 2. Spring 1992. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on An Apple and an Orange -- Two Constellations at Gosport 1853-1855; Fouled Anchors? Foul Blow; The Caribbean Theater Transformed -- Britain, France, Germany, and the U. S. 1900-1906; The Crusade of Emperor Frederick II 1220-29 -- The Implications of the Maritime Evidence; book reviews, and more. Marked-out library stamp and barcode of Sturgis Library. Near fine..

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth binding, 316 pp., including index. Spine faded, boards scuffed. Previous owner bookplate. Very good condition..

Boston: Educational Publishing Company, 1891. Book. Good. Pictorial Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presumed first edition. 8vo. Pictorial boards. 178 p. Illustrated. The story of the Civil War for young people in chapters that include illustrations, anecdotes and stories, dramatizations, poetry, essays, and music. Shelfwear; boards rubbed and corners bumped. Good..

Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1961. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1960. First edition, 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering embossed on spine, 218 pp. No dust jacket. Appears unread or gently read. Very good condition..