Resultados de búsqueda: War from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The central event of Jones' sixth novel is the Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge. He focuses on the effects of that battle on the members of a single Western Arkansas family; remainder dot on bottom edge of text, top edge very lightly foxed; dustjacket shows only minor edgewear; Very Good/Very Good. Collectable.

New York: The Free Press, 2003. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A detailed history of the North African campaign in World War II, from the siege of Malta to the Allied victory at El Alamein, from first-person descriptions of the fighting at the front to the command posts of the generals, Clayton and Craig have made an important contribution to WW II history; illustrated with numerous black and white photos, with bibliography and index.

New York: Knopf, 1978. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Deighton's non-fiction account of the air war called the Battle of Britain between England and Germany in the summer of 1940; First Printing of the First American Edition; illustrated with photos; boards and text clean, tight; dustjacket shows some creasing and one small tear top of back panel. Collectable.

New York: Ballantine Books, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The fourth volume in Shaara's highly-praised quartet of novels about World War II and the only one to deal with the war's Pacific Theater. A master of military fiction, Shaara tells his story from the perspectives of the enlisted men in the bloody battle for Okinawa, from the generals and admirals in their strategy rooms and from Washington and Tokyo, where he finds voices for the men and women in the factories and well as high officials. Bottome edge of text lighltly bumped, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows only minor edge wear, no tearing or chipping, not price-clipped, a very tiny corner crease on the front inside flap. A collectable copy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Forsyth's seventh novel, set against the backdrop of the Persian Gulf War, features British Intelligence Major Mike Martin, infiltrated into Baghdad to re-establish contact with an Israeli mole buried in the highest levels of Saddam Hussein's government.

New York: Bantam Books, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Del Vecchio's first novel was the highly praised Vietnam War novel, "The 13th Valley:" this, his second book, is an epic effort recreating the violence and horror of the Cambodian holocaust through the eyes and minds of a Cambodian family and the American adviser whose life becomes entangled with theirs; bottom edge of text very slightly soiled, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minor surface and edgewear. Large size (790 pages) may require extra postage.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1970. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Crest M1351; a bestseller when published in hardcover in 1968, the commandos who silenced the Nazi guns at Navarone, parachute into Yugoslavia to free a Partisan army trapped by two German armored divisions; Third Printing of First Crest Edition; text is clean, tight with a slight spine lean in white pictorial wrappers with light, 3 cm semi-circular stain on edge of back cover, very minor age-discoloration on spine and along edges o/w minimal surface and edgewear. A fine reading copy of a classic WWII adventure story.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1970. First Printing, First U.S. PB Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Berkley Medallion N1831; The second novel in Kent's series of British Naval adventure novels set in the late 18th Century and featuring Captain Richard Bolitho; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with very slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show slight reading crease, minor wear along spine and edges.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Walbert's first novel, based on her Pushcart and O. Henry Prize-winning short story, features Ellen, a young woman coming of age in Maryland at the end of World War II, her cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima, and Henry, about to leave the U.S. for the war in Korea. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1982. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Deighton's novel of a pair of young American fighter pilots during the air war over Europe in 1944-45; First Printing of the First American Edition. A collectable copy

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1965. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Anchor A487; a political science classic published during the Cold War but worth reading as long as any nation maintains nuclear weapons; written by a noted French sociologist and philosopher, translated by Ernst Pawel; one-reader text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers showing minor soiling on back cover o/w very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. Hardcover. About Very Good/Good Plus. This is a late novel from the award-winning Western genre writer, Lutz. It is the story of a war between the rich and powerful Rock Island Railroad and the people of Enid, OK, who refused to give up their independence and become a company town. It features Jason Keeler, a lawyer, who suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a conflict turning violent. First edition, first printing. About 5 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches, 183 pages bound in beige paper-covered boards with orange lettering on the spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows a graphic of a 19th century steam locomovtive facing a crowd of angry citizens. Back panel contains a seven paragraph excerpt from the novel. Boards and spine show only lightly bumped spine ends; no bumped corners, no noticeable edgewear. Binding is firm, no cracked hinges. Text is complete, clean and unmarked. Text edges show light foxing with remainder spray on bottom edge. A few pages have tiny… Leer más

Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1976. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The book explores in detail an often overlooked aspect of modern military hardware -- how it all works. There are numerous books on what these weapons can do but very few provide an illustrated examination of "how." It should be noted that while technological improvements in the past thirty years have resulted in greater power and efficiency, weapons remain basically the same. The book's sections cover everything from small arms and ammunition to artillery, from tanks to ships and aircraft, to bombs and missiles, with short histories to provide context and numerous photos and hundreds of full color cut-away illustrations. 8.5 x 11 inches, 249 pages including an index; covers and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows some minimal surface and edgewear, no tears or chipping. A Fine, collectable copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fair. National Book Award winner O'Brien's sixth book, about a marriage and political career built on deceit, was chosen as Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year. A collectable copy.

New York: G.W. Dillingham, Publisher, 1888. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/No Jacket. A prominent, bestselling Southern novelist both before and after the Civil War, Wilson wrote "Inez" in 1850, when she was fifteen and living with her parents in San Antonio shortly after the Mexican-American War. It was first published in 1855 and many times since by many different publishers. "Inez" is a sentimental, moralistic love story of an orphan girl's religious journey from skepticism to devout faith. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, 298 pages plus 2 pages of publisher's ads in dark blue, cloth-covered boards with gilt title/author box and decorations on spine. Back cover shows faded pattern where another book or other item rested for an extended period of time, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Front hinge just beginning to loosen, not cracked. Rear hinge intact; binding firm. Text edges are somewhat foxed and soiled. Front end page shows neatly-written signatures of two previous… Leer más

New York: Bantam Books, 1966. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback, Bantam F3105; Hersey's award-winning, first-person account of a company of U.S. Marines in combat on Guadalcanal during World War II; text shows some age-tanning, o/w clean and tight; back cover slightly creased, o/w wrappers show minimal edge and surface wear.

New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Coonts' sixth novel is the sequel to his bestselling "Flight of the Intruder," considered by many to be the best Vietnam air combat novel; boards and text are clean, tight and square; dustjacket shows only some light shelf wear.

Washington-New York: Robert B. Luce, Inc., 1969. First Edition, Later Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/Good Plus to Very Good. A history of the famed Irish Brigade of the North's Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Comprised largely of Irish volunteers serving in regiments raised in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, they were commanded by the "larger-than-life" Gen. Thomas F. Meagher, a youthful leader in the 1848 uprising in Ireland and a lawyer-journalist-publisher in the U.S. at the beginning of the Civil War. This book is particularly strong on the issues and politics leading to the Brigade's formation as well as its service in most of the major battles fought by the Army of the Potomac, including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and the Wilderness. Green cloth-covered boards show only a touch of wear at the spine ends and edges, text's top edge slightly soiled, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered.… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Hemingway's late novel featuring Thomas Hudson, an artist living on an island between Florida and Cuba during the 1930s, and later, during World War II, in Havana; published posthumously; text is clean, tight, square in green boards worn lightly at edges, corners and base of spine. Dustjacket shows wear at spine ends, corners and edges with a nickel-sized chip missing at top of front panel near spine. An acceptable reading/study copy.

New York: New American Library, 1967. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Signet Non-Fiction T-3340; in 1965-66, Esquire Magazine reporter John Sack followed the 200 enlisted men and officers of M Company from advanced infantry training at Fort Dix, N.J., through its first combat in Vietnam. His book is one of the most memorable of that war; one-reader text is clean and unmarked, tight and square; white areas of wrappers show some slight age-discoloration, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.