Resultados de búsqueda: Biography - War Figures from Texas Star Books

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1966. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book club edition - Tight bright copy with minor shelfwear and slight soiling to page ends. Corner bumping and edgewear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition. Tight, clean, crisp and bright copy with very light shelfwear. Appears unread. Dust jacket is bright and colorful - has a small ship missing fron front hinge area and very faint rubbing. Very nice copy.

New York, NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 376 pp. Book has a very slight right lean and light wear to edges and corners. Clean interior. Dust jacket is bright with light edgewear. Nice book club copy.

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Personal narrative of the experience of a Blackhawk helicopter pilot in Somalia. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 361 pp. Tight, clean and bright copy with minor edgewear. Dust jacket is bright and crisp - light creasing and rubbing.

Austin, Texas: The Steck Co., 1958. Facsimile Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Slip Case. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Elizabeth Rice. Facsimile reproduction of 1888 original edition. Biography of Texas Ranger, Confederate General. Jenkins' Basic Texas Books #170. 260 pp. Crisp, clean, tight and bright copy with very minor wear. Clear mylar cover issued by publisher has slight rubbing. Slip case has some corner wear with a little chipping. Publisher's presentation card laid in.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight and crisp copy with gift inscription on 1/2 title page and some yellowing of end papers. Very slight edgewear. Price-clipped dust jacket has creasing, chipping and tearing along edges. Spine has darkened. Overall, a nice book.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biography of air power advocate, General Billy Mitchell. 420 pp. Clean and crisp copy with leght edge wear and a clean interior. Dust jacket has moderate chipping on corners and flap folds. Also creasing with slight tearing on edges. Top of spine has 1/3" and 1/4" chips missing. Also rubbing and a little scuffing shows on the red, white and blue colors of front and on white background of back. Nice copy.

New York: Random House, 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 2nd Ptg. 302 pp. Blue cloth boards have light bumping on corners and some rubbing/spotting on boards. Clean interior. Dust jacket has creasing and chipping with small tears at spine ends and corners. Some rubbing.

New York, NY: Roy Publishers, Inc.. No Stated Edition . Hardcover. Very Good--/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Horace Vernet. 112 pp. Book has slight cupping of boards and light corner bumping and edgewear. Front free end paper has smudge at forward edge. Pages 61 - 79 have scuffing/creasing on bottom margin. And last 5 pages have small tears (maybe 1/3"). Price-clipped dust jacket has corner and spine end bumping with slight tearing. Mauve background shows a little rubing on edges and hinges.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. First Thus, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red boards are bright as is the gilt print on spine. Crisp and clean with a little bottom edgewear on back board. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear with a 2" tear along spine at front hinge. Very nice copy.

New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 100 black and white illustrations and 16 color plates in this biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. Has minor shelfwear; pages a little yellowed from age as are top page ends. Dust jacket is bright and colorful with only a little bumping to top spine and some yellowing on flaps. Very nice copy.

Spokane, Washington, U.S.A.: Arthur H Clark, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 327 pp. Blue boards with bright gilt print on spine. Front pasted down paper has previous owner's bookplate and notation in pencil "A past president of the Houston CWRT". Clean and crisp interior. Dust jacket has minimal wear. Spine has light rubbing. Else bright and clean - now in protective cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. Reprint . Cloth. Very Good++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 322 pp. Crisp and bright copy - edges of dark red cloth boards have some wear and spotting - light wear to corners and spine ends. Page edges have a little spotting/discoloration. Clean interior. Very nice copy.

Staplehurst, Kent, United Kingdom: Spellmount Publishers Ltd, 2002. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. British reprint of respected WWII historian, Whiting's biography of Gen. Patton's last year. 311 pp. Bright, crisp and clean book, as is dust jacket which has slightest edge creasing. Very nice copy.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1934. No Stated Edition . Cloth. Very Good--/Fair-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Teal blue cloth boards with navy design and print. Corners and spine ends are slightly bumped. Cloth is worn on bottom edges. Spine has spotting and rubbing, and top edge is slightly discolored. Top page edges have moisture stains which affect the top margin of about one hundred pages, but not the text. Top of front cover has a small bubble in the fabric. Previous owner's label is on the front pasted down paper. Dust jacket is tattered and in two pieces - now in protective cover.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984. Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 441pp. Book has very slight right lean - minor shelfwear on corners and spine ends. Page edges show a few very small stains. Previous owner's bookplate on front pasted down paper. Dust jacket has minor edgewear and spine is somewhat sunfaded. Now in protective cover.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1971. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good--/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 621 pp. Black cloth boards have corner wear and spine ends are bumped and faded at the very edges. Also slightly fraying at edge of hinges. Hinges are a little loose and pages are a little darkened, with light shelf-soiling on bottom page edges. Previous owner's bookplate is on half title page. Dust jacket has chipping, creasing and tearing, with several chips missing. Still, intact and now in protective cover. Good reading/reference copy.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Hyperion, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With a foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose. Drez was an associate of Ambrose, and his account of the action at Lanzerath, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge is notable for the oral history of the battle, never before recorded by WWII historians. Tight and clean copy with very light corner and edgewear. Dust jacket has clight rubbing and bumping. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. Bright, crisp, tight and clean copy with very minor spine end bumping. 456 pp. Appears unread. Dust jacket is bright and crisp with slight edgewear. Nice copy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is crisp and clean with finish on edges wearing and slight give to spine. Dust jacket shows rubbine with chipping and tearing on spine and edges.