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New York: Beadle and Adams, 1881. Wraps. Orig. illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine. 16 pages. 28 x 21 .5 cm. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure. Vol. I. No. 1. 20th century facsimile.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orange brown cloth, front cover lettered in silver, black spine label lettered in silver. Fine. 368 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Landmark work on the American economy, reasoned and unpolitical, facing a future in pursuit of goods rather than investing in people. It is perhaps truer today than than the day published. Unclipped dust wrapper $5.00 price, pristine almost as new copy.

New York: Dial, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 201 pages. A bloody crusade against the Albigensian heretics and the massacre of Beziers that ended with the establishment of the Inquisition. Index.

New York: Beadle and Adams, 1882. Wraps. Orig. illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine. 16 pages. 28 x 21 .5 cm. Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure. Vol. III. No. 54. Back cover with list of titles, No. 1 - No. 56. 20th century facsimile.

Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 138 pages. Forty-three maps, many in color. Sources. Index. Reproduces original material drawn by battlefield participants and cartographers during the course of the American Revolution. Many maps are published here for the first time. Maps area accompanied by narratives. Small spot fore-edge head.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter green morocco with matching green buckram, spine evenly faded to brown. Teg. Near fine. 286 (2) pages. 29 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 71 of 350. 36 fine auto gravure plates each with a facing leaf of descriptive text. King George V and Queen Mary The historical record of the coronation of their Majesties. London, 1911. The author in the 1880 general election was elected Member of Parliament for Ayrshire North. He held the seat until 1885. and became the Permanent Under-Secretary for Scotland from 1887 to 1892. List of Artists, List of Portraits On The Medals and General Index. Interior contents pristine. EXTRA COPY ............NOT CATALOGUED.

New York: Privately Printed at the Gillis Press, 1912. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. blue stiff wrappers over boards. Very good. 80 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 124 of 125, a signed presentation copy dated January, 1913. Twenty plates, some in color of Regimental unit colors. The Infantry of the Army which succeeded the Continental Army did not carry the stars and stripes until 1841: generally, in the early years the Army's national flag color was blue, the regimental color, white. Plates present colors of Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers. Laid-in are three additional proofs. The author was appointed a Deputy Police Commissioner for New York City in 1903; John Davis, Governor of Massachusetts (1787-1854) was his grandfather. Clean and sound internally, front cover paper label chipped, paper spine label lacking.

Riverside Press: Privately Printed, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth nicked at backstrip extremities. Very good. 247 pages. Mostly unopened. Limited edition copy 285 of 350. Extra paper spine label tipped-in at inside back cover. Index. Classic work on the subject. GEPHART 261.

London: Robert Jennings, 1824. First edition. leather_bound. Full diced brown morocco. Aeg. Near fine. 3 Vols.. [2], 20, [2], lxxviii, [2], 206.; vi, 297, vi, 147, [1], [134] pages. 39 x 27.5 cm. 80 engraved plates, 70 are hand-colored embellished with gold or silver. and with historiated hand-colored initials heightened with gold for each chapter throughout. Extra engraved title pages. The book was illustrated in colour with Meyrick's own paintings, beautifully gilded, and solidified his reputation as an authority in the study of arms and armour. Meyrick practiced as an advocate in ecclesiastical and admiralty courts. A contemporary review of his book in the Edinburgh Review described the illustrations as "Plates as fine as the monuments of Westminster Abbey. Really and truly the work is admirably executed, and deserves every eulogy". Some have called this work, the greatest color plate book ever produced on the subject. Raised bands, spines elaborately decorated in gilt with cover arabesque… Read More

Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami North-South Center, 1992. Second edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine.. 203 pp. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", illustrated, and with photographs of prominent Cuban military commanders.Bibliography. Index. Contains biographies of the key Cuban naval and ground forces. The author discusses the historical background of Cuban leadership which has been dominated by the military, and concludes the next leader after Castro will undoubtedly come from the current military ranks.

Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami North-SouthCenter, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine.. 196 pp. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", with an Introduction by James A. Morris. Six essays by experts. Acronyms. A review and discussion of the role of the Armed Forces of Cuba [FAR]. Throughout the course of the Cuban Revolution the military has maintained a central position in the polity, and generally, has been held in high esteem by the Cuban people.

New York: Frank Tousey, 1894. Wraps. Orig. illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine. 16 pages. 28 x 21 .5 cm. Wide Awake Library No.1196. Vol. II. Two Custer illustrations. Bright, clean copy. 20th century facsimile.

Wurzburg: Christian Weiss, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's black morocco backed pictorial printed boards. Very good. Folio, 37.5 x 28 cm. Lithographed title page and 47 exquisite hand-colored lithograph plates that literally shimmer, Austrian military costume and regimental flags that include a host of nationalities under the authority of the Austro-Hungarian Empire -- German, Hungarian, Austrian Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery Regiments. These fine plates are from Eckert's larger series of German federal armies. The sheet count and price of this separate volume written in ink on the publisher's portfolio cover: 498 Blatt (i.e.leaves, including the title and 47 plates.) COLAS 935. Boards rubbed, light toning and finger soiling, but with bright colors and gum arabic; each plate with artist's blindstamp at lower margin.

New York: Street & Smith, 1896. Wraps. Orig. illustrated stapled wrappers. Fine. 16 pages. 28 x 21 .5 cm. Diamond Dick Library. No. 175. List of Diamond Dick Library on last page: Nos. 117-176. 20th century facsimile.

Munich: R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1917. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. 154 pages. 21 x 19.5 cm. With a 152 images and facsimiles. Satire and commentary on World War I with all the combatants included. Contemporary review with all participants skewered. Text slightly toned, front cover nick at foot. Text in German.

Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth with color photographic inset front cover. Fine. Unpaginated. 27.5 x 34.5 cm. Forty-eight color photographs of devastation in the USSR -- images of Kurchatov, Moscow 10 (a secret military base), The Aral Sea. Biography. English texts by Will Self and Nadav Kandar.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in chipped dust wrapper. 253 pp. 132 text figures and forty-five plates with many of the former large fold-outs. Bibliographies. Index. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. XXXIV. The author describes the defences and buildings of the outer bailey of the Norman castle erected by William Mauduit for William the Conqueror around 1086.

Lunenberg, Vermont: Limited Edition Club, 1969. Hardcover. Orig. blue illustrated cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in fine slipcase. Domjan, Joseph. 222 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Illustrated by Joseph Domjan with full-page multicolor and black and white woodcuts, printed at the Stinehour Press. Limited edition, copy 1376 of 1500, signed by Domjan. Introduction by Hanson W. Baldwin. NEWMAN & WICHE 417. Crisp. very bright copy.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter green morocco and white linen cloth, backstrip evenly faded to brown. Raised bands, backstrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 128 pages 25.5 x 20 cm. Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter in 14pt. Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Limited edition, copy 90 of 500. An account of the advance of the British Army from the Mediterranean to Baghdad, 1941. COCKALORUM. 155.

Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami North-South Center, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine.. 95 pp. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", this publication is a result of a seminar sponsored and organized by the Caribbean Resources Development Foundation[CARDEV]. The seminar invited government and anti-government factions in discussing the hope of seeing Guyana return to full democracy. Guyana's current free market approach appears to conflict with its continued tie to Cuba. Distributed by Transaction Publishers.