Search Results: Authors starting with A from Chartwell Booksellers

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, 1974. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. The hardest hit, and most decorated, ship in U.S. history, the carrier (CV-13) was though doomed after kamikaze attacks in March, 1945, but managed to return to the Brooklyn Naval Yards for full repairs. A very good copy, slight wear to corners, ink price on front free endpaper, in dust jacket. (132p., 26 illus., biblio., index.)

New York: Random House, 1972. First American Edition (Later Printing) . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (308 pages). As-new copy of the Seventh Printing of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York: William Morrow, 1999. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (344 pages; illustrated with black and white photographs). As-new in an unclipped dust jacket. There is a small black remainder mark on the lower fore-edge, else fine.

New York: Abbeville Press (Skira), 1999. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (416 pages). This is a very good copy of the First American edition, in dust jacket. Minor dampstaining to the lower page edges, else fine.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936. First English Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (372 pages). This is a very good copy of the First English edition without dust jacket, SIGNED and Inscribed on the prelims by the author. The previous owner’s bookplate is affixed to the facing page. The corners of the cloth cover, head and tail of the spine are worn and frayed; else fine. Contents fine. The Napoleonic Wars, 1796 to 1815, from the points of view of his twenty-six Marshals.

New York: Library of America, 2008. First Printing . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, in publisher’s shrink wrap. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

New York: Library of America, 2009. First Printing . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, in publisher’s shrink wrap. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

New York: The Dial Press, 1969. First American Edition (Za344) (R265). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (262 pages). Five famous authorities (A.J.P. Taylor, R. Rhodes James, J.H. Plumb, B. Liddell Hart and Anthony Storr) take a mildly revisionist look at Winston Churchill the politician, the strategist and the historian. Storr offers a controversial psychological profile. This is a very good copy of the First American edition, in a price-clipped dust jacket. The English edition was titled: THE FOUR FACES OF MAN.

New York: Greenwich House, 1979. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. large 8vo (160 pages; illustrated with color and black and white photographs). A very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Virtually mint.

South Brunswick, NY: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1968. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. An excellent overview of Samuel Pepys’ administration (and virtual creation) of the Royal Navy in the late 17th c.; he became known as “the Saviour of the Navy.” Also much on the ships, equipment and sailors. A fine copy, except for clipped front end paper, without dust jacket. (189p., 74 illus., index.)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First American Edition (Zb349). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (430 pages, illustrated). A single-volume volume edition comprising Rowse’s THE EARLY and LATER CHURCHIILLS combined. This is a very good copy of the First American edition, in a price-clipped dust jacket. The contents are fine.

New York: Dorset, 1990. American Reprint (Zb349). Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (378 pages). Recent reprint that reproduces the original text, absent the illustrations. This is a virtually mint copy, in dust jacket.

France: Alain de Gourcuff Editeur, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover (in Slip Case). Very Good. folio (176 pages; color and black and white photographs, drawings). This is a mint copy of the First Edition, slipcased, as issued, in a very good dust jacket. Press materials for A La Vielle Russie gallery and a 2000 exhibit held at the gallery in New York and the New Orleans Museum of Art are laid-in.

London: Phoenix House, 1964. First English Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo. Good look at the political and social atmosphere at the time. A very good copy, slight shelf wear, in somewhat worn dust jacket with faded spine. (228p., 9 plates [1 color], 5 text illus., 5 maps, biblio., index, map end papers.)

London: George Newnes Ltd., 1916. First English Updated Edition (Za6) (R6). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (162 pages). This is a very good First Edition copy of the updated World War I edition issued by the author, A. MacCallum Scott, of his 1905 biography, WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL; the very first Churchill biography ever published. New material includes a defense of Churchill’s Dardanelles strategy. The cloth here is lightly spotted and mottled, the binding is square and tight. The contents are fine but the front free endpaper has been excised and the rear free endpaper has been overwritten with ink notations.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. First English Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (301 pages; photographic frontispiece). This is a very good copy of the First English edition without dust jacket. Ink gift inscription on front pastedown; light foxing on endpapers and fore edge; contents fine. Cover has minor edgewear; else fine.

London: W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1928. First English Edition (Zb72). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8v0 (276 pages). Fascinating compendium of 1920s-circa British political personality profiles covering “The Three Leaders of Parties:” Badwin, Lloyd George and MacDonald; “The Cabinet,” then-including “Mr. Churchill;” the opposition Liberal and Labour Leaders, and even important figures in “The Background.” This is a very good First English edition copy, without dust jacket.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (317 pages, 17 illustrations, map, genealogy, notes, index). . The final, decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, 1485. From “The Crossroads of World History Series.” A near fine copy, spine head & tail lightly worn, in slightly soiled dust jacket with chipped spine head & tail.

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1917. First English Edition/2nd Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Naval support at Gallipoli. A very good copy, without dust jacket. Upper front joint with a one inch tear. Spine somewhat shelfworn, cloth a bit faded.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (224 pages, profuse drawings, appendix, indices.). A good overview and reference; Norman was Master of the Armories at the Tower of London. A very good copy, corners lightly worn, in dust jacket with slight edge wear.