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New York: Henry Holt, 1994. In new condition, appears to have never been opened. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. First American. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. 8vo size black clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 735 pages including index From jacket: "John Adams was convinced that the American Revolution took place before 1176 - that it was effected in the minds and hearts of the people, 'in the course of 15 years before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.' A correct history of the Revolution, he declared, would take account of British government records as well as those of all 13 colonies ,and of the pamphlets, newspapers, and handbills of both parties. (This) is just such a definitive history... The book follows the growing revolutionary crisis form the first stirrings of Colonial resistance to Britain at the end of the Seven Years War to the 'torrent' of popular sentiment for independence that swept through the halls of the Second Continental congress. Jacket is quite worn, book has bumped head and heel of spine and corners, toned pages, dusty top and shelf-soil to bottom fore-edge.… Leer más

Washington, DC: War Department, 1942. Military Intelligence Service Information Bulletin No. 15, War Department, Washington DC 1942. "The purpose of this bulletin is to facilitate and encourage the study of military German. To accomplish this end, instructions given German infantry companies, and typical German combat orders, are presented together with notes on the German language." 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover with black titles on the spine and front cover; 376 pages with black and white drawings and photographs This volume includes Section I: the 1939 German language edition of Die Schutzen Companie: Ein handbuch fur den Dientunterricht by Ludwig Quedborner, Uber/Lieutenant. It has black and white drawings and photographs throughout and runs for 290 pages. It is followed by Section II: Information Bulletin 15, MIS 461 Combat Orders in English and German which runs to page 307 and is followed by Section III: Aids to Translation, mostly in English to page 316, followed… Leer más

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1984. From jacket: "...assesses and explains the role of Goering, dismissing the popular image of the corrupt adn indolent buccaneer in order to show the central and serious political role the Goering played in the Third Reich." Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacket covered in mylar. 310 pages with more than a dozen previously folded page corners. Section of glossy black and white photographs. Minor wear to jacket under mylar. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

London: Peter Davies, 1964. Some rubbing wear to jacket, price clipped; 274 pages; a couple very small spots at top and bottom. Introduction by Edmund Blunden. From jacket: "(This book) is, and always will be, not only a noble memorial of the 1914-18 war, but a profound and truthful picture of the ordinary Englishman standing up to the perennial ordeal of war. Methods and weapons change, the basic realities do not." Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. 187 pages. The author, a renowned historian "sets out to solve a historiographic mystery: Why has the mass murder of European Jews been overlooked or trivialized by historians through the world? In a forceful outspoken work (the author) looks for explanations." Sticker or sticker remnant on covers. Two small creases on back cover Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. 7th. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1945. 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover; 287 pages with many black and white photographs. Contents include: Canning - Fruits, Vegetables, Meats and Poultry Fruit Butters Conserves and Marmalades Jams, Jelly-Making Preserves Pickled and Spice Fruits and Vegetables Meats and Meat Products Marine Products Home Storage Freezing Recipes include: Pure Grape Butter; Citrus Marmalade; Quince Honey; Strawberry-Pineapple Jam; Apple or Crab-Apple Jelly; Pickled Pears; Watermelon Rind Pickle; Spiced Cranberries; Tomato Ketchup; Chili Sauce; Green Tomato Relish; Raspberry Shrub; Mincemeat; Gooseberry or Grape or Raspberry Jam; Mixed Fruit Conserve; Peach or Plum or Cherry Butter, more. Pages are toned with slightly darker margins; inside covers, endpapers and top have some light soil or dust. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Prague: The Jewish Museum, 1993. Softcover book with color jacket. Jacket has light wear, edgewear and tiny tag tear at top back. 92 glossy pages with color illustrations by children who were in the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust. The translated into English text are poems also done by the children. This very poignant volume tells you whether the author/artist survived or when they were killed. Illustrations are in a variety media and mixed media from crayon to yarn to watercolor. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning. . Soft Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Salamander Books Ltd., 1980. 159 pages with black and white and color illustrations. Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out. Washable illustrated covers; 3 out 4 bumped corners; book feels a little shaken. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Columbia House, 1971. Pages numbered from 225 to 336. This is volume 3 (III) in the series. Photo illustrated cover has some light soil. Bumped lower back corner. Loaded with black and white and color illustrations. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Independence Press, 1973. A POW Story as told to Glen deWerff Signed by author and inscribed "to George" on fep 8vo size trade paperback; 287 pages From back: "It is no pretty story. It tells of the torture room with walls built to muffle human screams, of the "rope trick" and "fanbelt" techniques deigned to make a man talk, of illness, of insanity. But it also tells of the ingenuity and creativity which allowed the men to out-smart their guards and to set up communication systems, classes, escape plans, and to maintain their chain of command. It is a revealing story. It pictures men who are reduced to the basics - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It shows how these situations can be survived with individual integrity and pride intact." Some light rubbing to covers. . Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dell Book, 1987. From back: "With false identity papers and pure nerve, she became an agent in place within the Gestapo itself..." 203 tanned pages with section of black and white photographs. Cover has some wear and a crease at bottom. The true story of a courageous resistance fighter. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1917. Reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government with notes by the artist and with an introduction by H.G. Wells Joseph Pennell (1857 - 1926) was an illustrator, etcher and lithographer. 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover with tipped in illustrated front cover; unpaginated - full page black and which engravings with descriptive text on reverse. Bumped and worn head and heel of spine and corners and some light soil to the tipped in illustration on front cover. Front pastedown is cracked and half title page has fingermarks. We noted several pages with small spots or foxing or fingermarks and there is a pencilled notation inside back cover. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Nautical & Aviation Pub Co, 1995. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 344 pages with some black and white illustrations and maps. From jacket: "The fate of the nation hung in the balance for two hot July days in 1864. After two weeks of hard marching, General Jubal A. Early had positioned his troops outside of Washington... Jubal Early's famous "raid" was to be the last Confederate invasion, yet it severely shook up the Union leadership. President Lincoln drove out to see how things were going each day of the attack..." Ex-library with typical treatments; jacket is covered with mylar. Tape used to hold jacket has tanned. We noted some tiny, light spots on outside pages. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1974. 400 pages. From back: (the author) "has assembled here over 200 of the documents that reveal the policies behind Germany's actions on the critical weeks before the outbreak of war." Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out, abrasion to back cover where sticker was removed. One previously folded page corner; some wear and edgewear to covers. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

6 hours on 4 cassettes cassettes are housed in a black plastic clamshell . Audio Cassette. New/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Harper Collins, 2016. 8vo size trade paperback; 520 numbered pages with some black and white photographs. Covers are unique to proof with front cover stating Uncorrected Proof. Back cover also state Uncorrected Proof. It provides an overview of the book, a very brief biography of the author and details on the marketing campaign and the finished book. This proof is different from the final book, for example, there is no index, although those pages have been allocated. From back cover: "Betty Pack was charming, beautiful, and intelligent - and she knew it. As an agent for Britain's MI6 and then America's OSS during World War II, these qualities proved crucial to her success. This is the remarkable story of this 'Mata Hari from Minnesota' and the passions that ruled her tempestuous life - a life filled with dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions vital to the Allied victory." Book has edgewear, a scrape and stray pen mark on the bottom, fingermark on… Leer más

Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1927. Lee The American by Gamaliel Bradford. Hardcover. 1927, Revised edition. 323 pages including index. In good condition with some browning of endpapers and age spots on margins of some pages in the index. Owner's name on flyleaf. Dusty top. Frontspiece sepia illustration of Lee with ghostly image on opposing tissue paper.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1967. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 256 pages with many illustrations, maps and black and white photographs throughout. Endpapers are maps. From jacket: "Joe Lockard, a Technician Third Class, supposed that he was a fool, but he liked to encourage ambition. Permanent radar station had not yet been installed at Pearl Harbor. There were six temporary stations, but none of them would have been operational that Sunday morning of December 7, 1941 if Joe didn't admire youngsters who wanted to break from the pack - go-ahead guys like Private George Elliott, who asked Joe to keep the station open so that he could brush up on Radar Detection. With this little-known fact, and through other little-known facts of this sort, and 'forgotten' people such as Joe Lockard and George Elliot, (the author)...guides his readers back and forth across the huge stage on which the war was fought." Ex-library with typical treatments, some blacked out;… Leer más

Oxford University Press, 2011. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 303 bright, white pages. From jacket: "The complexity and difficulty of moral decision-making requires a new ethical approach - here characterized as virtuous consequentialism - that recognises the importance of both the internal quality and external effects of agency; and of the moral principles and virtues needed to enact them. Having reinforced the key tenets of just war thinking, (the author) uses these to address contemporary security issues, including the changing nature of war, military pre-emption and torture, the morality of the Iraq war, and humanitarian intervention." Light wear to jacket and a large chip has been torn from blank fep. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.