Hungaria, Semper Sua, Ad Explicandam, É Legibus Regni, Conscriptionem Recentissimam, Proposita de Andream Chazar - 1785

Milano: Editrice Moderna, 1947. Third Edition. Printed wrappers. Opere Volume VII. Stain to top edge and to lower corner of text block, old price to back cover. About very good. In the Italian language.; Octavo.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. xxvii, 288 pp. Bound in full blue cloth, top edge stained red, in white dust jacket printed in plum. Perspectives on Southern Africa, 23. Includes bibliography and index. Near Fine, rubbing to bottom edge of binding, internally crisp and clean, in Near Fine dust jacket with minor age-toning. Excellent copy.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970, hardcover, xxi-409 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches, previous owner's embossing to title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, small spine-end and corner nicks, wear to folds, short closed edge tears, some discreet tape repairs, in new Brodart sleeve. The definitive account of the participation of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion at the Battle of the Bulge compiled by the famous Kentucky author from accounts given by her husband, fellow author Henry Giles, and other members of the Battalion who took part. Illustrated with 22 pages of black-&-white plates and 11 maps. Mapped endpapers show the Kampfgruppe Peiper advance route. ISBN 9780395077443

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition. Dust jacket slows slightest shelf wear, and there is some yellowing of the pages around the edges, but the book binding is tight and clean. Signed and inscribed by author. Inscription reads, "To Richard Best Wishes." Book will be bubble wrapped upon shipping.At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments… Leer más

Cambridge University Press, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxi, 418pp, frontispiece map of The Southern Netherlands, 5 Appendices. Bookplate of a former owner on the fep, with his name discretely in ink on the ffep, otherwise a clean, tight copy..

Milano: Editrice Moderna, 1947. Third Edition. Printed wrappers. Opere Volume VII. Stain to top edge and to lower corner of text block, old price to back cover. About very good. In the Italian language.; Octavo.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. xxvii, 288 pp. Bound in full blue cloth, top edge stained red, in white dust jacket printed in plum. Perspectives on Southern Africa, 23. Includes bibliography and index. Near Fine, rubbing to bottom edge of binding, internally crisp and clean, in Near Fine dust jacket with minor age-toning. Excellent copy.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970, hardcover, xxi-409 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches, previous owner's embossing to title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, small spine-end and corner nicks, wear to folds, short closed edge tears, some discreet tape repairs, in new Brodart sleeve. The definitive account of the participation of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion at the Battle of the Bulge compiled by the famous Kentucky author from accounts given by her husband, fellow author Henry Giles, and other members of the Battalion who took part. Illustrated with 22 pages of black-&-white plates and 11 maps. Mapped endpapers show the Kampfgruppe Peiper advance route. ISBN 9780395077443

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition. Dust jacket slows slightest shelf wear, and there is some yellowing of the pages around the edges, but the book binding is tight and clean. Signed and inscribed by author. Inscription reads, "To Richard Best Wishes." Book will be bubble wrapped upon shipping.At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments… Leer más

Cambridge University Press, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxi, 418pp, frontispiece map of The Southern Netherlands, 5 Appendices. Bookplate of a former owner on the fep, with his name discretely in ink on the ffep, otherwise a clean, tight copy..