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By: N/A
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., CBC Publications Branch.: 1941
Seller ID: 12672
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 20.5 x 14 cm.; 144 pp. Orange wraps with black lettering over a flat stapled binding. "Authoritative reports by qualified observers who have returned from the war zones as presented over the CBC National Network". In other words - transcripts of war time broadcasts by various journalists etc. Contributors are: Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, Davidson Dunton, William L. Shirer, Ralph Ingersoll, Col. W. J. Donovan, Brig. Maurice Pope, R. T. Bowman, John Bird, J. M. Minifie, Milo J. Warner, Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell, Helen Heitt, Joseph C. Harsch, L. B. Pearson, Saville R. Davis, Eli... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Publisher: London, Societe des Editions de la France Libre:
Seller ID: 13897
Condition: Fair
12mo - 18.5 x 12 cm.; 78 pp. Text is in French. No copyright date but letters dated 1941-1944. A collection of letters written by people executed by the Germans during occupation of France. Some of those whose letters are in this collection: Jean Catelas, Pierre Semard, Paul Gery Gabriel Peri, Henri Martel, Abbe Rene Bonpain, Daniel Decourdeman che, Louis Caron . . . . Paper wraps have a bad water stain on the front and a stain on the back, former owner's name on title page; interior pages are in good shape. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $14.40
Publisher: London, UK., His Majesty's Stationary Office.: 1927
Seller ID: 21024
Condition: Good
12mo - 18.5 x 12 cm.; vii - 171 pp. Tan paper over boards with brown cloth on spine. One fold-out drawing of a plug and socket panel facing page 136 and three more fold-outs, two charts and one map, at the back. Previous owner's name (a Corporal Morse of the signal corps) on the inside of the front cover. The book shows moderate wear and soiling with a tear in the cloth spine at the tail. The back free end paper is torn at the tail end of the gutter. Quite clean inside and the binding is solid. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts., Christian Science Publishing Society.: 1922
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 26827
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
8vo - 21.5 x 15 cm.; (2) - 378 pp. Dark blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and the front board along with blind stamped border rules on the front and back boards. The text block head edge is gilt as issued. The fore and tail edges of the text block are untrimmed, again as issued. Illustrated with 35 pages of black and white photographs printed on a coated paper stock. Various lists of workers and committee members are present. A few fore edges of the pages are yet unopened. The book shows mild wear to the externals (fore corners and spine tips) and with a faded (or mottled... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Canadian Forces Headquarters.: 1965
Seller ID: 33294
Condition: Near Fine
24mo - 13 x 9.5 cm.; 111 pp. Blue wraps with black lettering over a flat stapled text block. This pamphlet superseded the Canadian Army Manual for Drivers (Wheeled Vehicles) and RCAF pamphlet 55, Reference Handbook for Operators of RCAF Mobile Equipment and Marine Craft. Two page pictorial presentation of rank insignia at the back. Very minor wear to the fore edges of the covers and the spine is a tad sunned, otherwise clean with a sound binding. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Washington, DC., War Department / United States Government Printing Office.: 1944
Seller ID: 33296
Condition: Very Good
16mo - 17 x 11 cm.; iv - 249 pp. Beige wraps with black lettering over a flat stapled text block. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. From the title page: This manual supersedes Basic Field Manual 29-5, including C1, C2, C3 and Training Circular No. 38. Five appendices and a 7 and a bit page index. Minor wear and soiling to the covers and both the very first and the last page have small tears just around the staples. Otherwise very clean with a sound binding. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $6.30
Publisher: Washington, DC., War and Navy Departments.: 1945
Seller ID: 33304
Condition: Very Good
32mo - 11 x 13 cm. (oblong).; v - 89 pp. Paper wrappers in blue and black in a saddle stapled binding. "This pamphlet supersedes WD Pamphlet No. 21-4 and WD Pamphlet No. 21-24 and ND Pamphlet NAVPERS 43240." One address correction in ink on page 84 for the Veterans'Administration. Otherwise clean with a sound binding. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
By: A Sunny Subaltern (William Gray)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Toronto, Canada, McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart.: 1916
Seller ID: 25373
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
12mo - 19 x 12 cm.; 175 pp. Third impression, December, 1916. A very immediate look at a Canadian soldier's life in World War I. These letters were written to and published by Billy's mother. The letters cover a period of time from November 1915 to August 1916; book ends with a moving "Moriturus Te Salutat", to the memory of a fallen comrade referred to only as McCarthy. Brown paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine, gilt spine lettering, brown lettering on front board. Text block is foxed, former owner's name on front free endpaper; binding is solid, text is otherwise clean. View more info
By: Arnoult, Billig, Boudot, Cepede, Cezard, Chers, D'Hoop, Michel, Piatier, Rosier, Scherer, Schmitt.
Price: $8.10
Publisher: Paris, France., Presses Universitaires De France.: 1959
Seller ID: 12948
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 22.5 x 14 cm.; viii - 194 pp. A collection of 12 articles by the authors listed. The series, "Esprit de la Resistance", is a retrospective look at the Second World War: La Guerre - L'Occupation - La Deportation - La Liberation under the general direction of Henri Michel. The text is in French. Minor wear and soiling to the wraps and some foxing to the text block head edge. Previous owner's name on the first page (half title page). View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Paterson, New Jersey., St. Anthony's Guild.: 1952
Seller ID: 32715
Condition: Near Fine
16mo - 15 x 8.5 cm.; 32 pp. Red, white and blue wrappers in a saddle stapled binding. The author was formerly a chaplain of the 384th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. Very minor wear, actually quite negligible, to the wraps, else fine. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered. View more info
By: Bire, Edmond.
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Paris, France., H. Falque: 1907
Seller ID: 9130
Condition: Very Good
12mo - 18 x 11.5 cm.; 230 pp. Library rebind in a tan buckram with gilt lettering on spine. "Le Pere Gratry, Benjamin Constant, Le General de la Motte-Rouge, Felix Arvers, M. Cuvillier-Fleury et son journal intime, Le Marechal Canbobert, "Temps Passe, Jours Presents", M. Jules Simon. Usual library markings plus stamp on all 3 text block edges. Book appears to have been rarely used or even opened. This is one volume only of a 2 volume set. View more info
By: Corti, Eugenio.
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Paris, France., Editions de Fallois / L'Age d'Homme.: 2003
Seller ID: 32697
ISBN: 2877064859
Condition: Fine
8vo - 22.5 x 15.5 cm.; 246 - (6) pp. The text is in French. Translated from the original Italian, "I Piu non Retornano", with a 7 page preface by Francois Livi. Eugenio Corti served as a young artillery officer, 21 years old, with the Italian army in the eastern front. An as-new and unused book. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Hove, East Sussex, UK., Wayland Publishers.: 1978
Seller ID: 32814
ISBN: 853404364
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo - 21 x 18 cm.; 96 pp. Burgundy coth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. A volume from the pubisher's series "Wayland Kings and Queens". Profusely illustrated with many black and white photographs, 3 page listing of principal characters, 2 page chronology, 1 page of further reading and a 1 page index. Small sticker scar on the front flap of the jacket, else fine. View more info
By: Goodfriend, Captain Arthur.
Price: $15.20
Publisher: Washington, DC., The Infantry Journal: 1944
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14070
Condition: Very Good
4to - 25.5 x 18.5 cm.; 101 pp. Staple bound with photographic wraps (yapped edges of approximately .5 cm.). A text adapted from the Army's Elementary Map Reading program along with materials from the Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The back pocket includes a small protractor, map scale and 5 of the original 7 maps it was issued with: France and Belgium, New York and West Point, Alger, Berlin, "Hand Land". The yapped edges are creased and the covers are mildly scuffed. Interior is clean and the binding is solid. View more info
By: Hershey, Lt. General Lewis B.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Washington, DC., Selective Service System.: 1965
Seller ID: 22089
Condition: Good
8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; iv - 66 pp. Tan wraps with black lettering in a saddle stapled binding. "From Biblical days to June 30, 1965". Includes 14 tables of statistics and related information from the Service's files. Mild wear and soiling to the covers and the last page (not numbered and blank) is missing the top fore corner and is quite creased. View more info
By: Hine, Harold R.
Price: $7.20
Publisher: Canada, New Ventures Consultants.: 1999
Seller ID: 18274
ISBN: 0968023312
Condition: Fine
8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; [4] - 206 pp. Second printing. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hine joined the Canadian Navy at 16, transferred to the Royal Navy seeing action on the HMS Devonshire during World War II, put himself through law school after mustering out of the service, became a Queen's Counsel and upon retirement, began a business venture marketing products internationally that are dedicated to improving world health. A new and unread / unused book. View more info
By: Hogg, William B.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois., Chicago Gospel Tabernacle.:
Seller ID: 26767
Condition: Very Good
8vo - 21.5 x 15 cm.; 56 pp. Rebound as a soft cover and not a professional rebinding. No date given but appears to be soon after the Second World War. Author's photograph from the original cover tipped in on the inside of the front cover. William Hogg was a chaplain in the US Army during World War II. The text pages are browned with some minor wear to the edges of a few pages that does not affect any text. Previous owner's pencilled name on the title page. View more info
By: Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf and Hans Dollinger. (editors).
Price: $80.00
Publisher: Munich, Germany., Verlag Kurt Desch.: 1963
Seller ID: 22165
Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
4to (small) - 25 x 18 cm.; Volume I: Erster Band: Der europäische Krieg 1939-41. 479 - [1] pp. Volume II: Zweiter Band: Der Weltkrieg 1941-43. 478 - [2] pp. Volume III: dritter Band: Sieg ohne Frieden 1944-45. The texts are in German. All are bound in on off-white coarse linen cloth over boards with red lettering on spine and front and with photographic end papers. Profusely illustrated with period photographs along with maps, charts and graphs. The end paper hinges in volume 1 are torn though the mull cloth is still good. All three dust jackets show minor edge wear and the spines are a tad d... View more info
Price: $11.25
Publisher: New York., Fleming H. Revell: 1916
Seller ID: 11267
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
12mo - 19 x 13 cm.; 218 pages plus 4 pages of publisher's adverts. Originally delivered as the Merrick Lectures at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1916, these lectures were funded to promote understanding in the general field of Experimental and Practical Religion. Jefferson was the pastor of Broadway Tabernacle in New York City and was the 17th invited guest lecturer. Book shows minor shelf wear to the covers with some scuffing on the lower back. The interior is clean and the binding is tight. The book appears to have never been used, surprising, but 'tis so. View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania., The Military Service Publishing Co.: 1941
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 28537
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
12mo - 19 x 12.5 cm.; xvi - 159 pp. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering and decorations on the front board. Edward Johnston was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Infantry, United States Army and looks at the military readiness of the US Army as it prepares to enter the Second World War. Six page glossary and a 13 page index. The library was an Officer's Mess with fairly minmal and neatly done markings - call number on spine, ownership note on the front paste down end paper and a pocket on the back paste down end paper. The board fore corners are mildly bumped and some of the gilt lettering on... View more info
