Antique Books & Ephemera #128
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The Battle Summer: Being Transcripts From Personal Observation of the French Revolution (1852)
The Battle Summer: Being Transcripts From Personal Observation by Ik Marvel, (Mitchell, Donald Grant) Published by Charles Scribner, New York (1852) Donald Grant Mitchell talks about his experiences in Paris during the French Revolution of 1848. Good condition with some minor spotting. Book also has signature giving the idea this was on a ship a long time ago.
Blow All Ballast ! The Story of the Squalus (1945) SUBMARINE RESCUE
Blow All Ballast ! The Story of the Squalus, Nat A. Barrows, Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York (1945) good with no dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth on boards. A detailed and harrowing story of the plight and eventual rescue of a U.S. Navy submarine, helpless at a depth of 240 feet!
Captain Forrester: The Story of a Salem Merchant Prince by Purcell (1962) SIGNED WITH LETTER
Captain Forrester: The Story of a Salem Merchant Prince by Hugh Devereux Purcell, Carlton Press,, New York:, 1962. Hardcover. First Edition, First printing. Good condition in fair/good dust jacket. SIGNED by author with additional letter from author on his letterhead.
Realistic Combat Training and How to Conduct It (1955)
Realistic Combat Training and How to Conduct It by Robert B. Rigg, Published by Military Service Publishing, Harrisburg, PA (1955) A guide to combat training with chapters about about the battle of mind and flesh, creating training battlefields, armor-artillery action and activity, intelligence, demonstrations, teaching, and other topics.
Korea: The Limited War by David Rees (1955)
Korea: The Limited War by David Rees, Published by St. Martin's Press, New York (1964) Second printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 511 pages; Description: xvi, 511 p. , [13] p. Of plates : ill. , ports. , maps (part fold. ) ; 22 cm. Includes index.
Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan: General United States Army - 2 VOLUMES (1888)
Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan: General United States Army [2 Volumes] P. H. [Philip Sheridan] Published by Charles L. Webster & Company, New York (1888) fair/good condition with some cover wear and some staining. Complete set. Profusely illustrated.
Back to Mandalay by Lowell Thomas (1951) First Airborne Jungle WWII
Back to Mandalay by Lowell Thomas, Published by Greystone Press, (1951) good condition with good dust jacket. Map end papers (Same for front and rear). Illustrated with numerous photos and with occasional Milton Caniff drawings. In the original dust wrapper with front flap price of $3.50. The story of the first all-airborne invasion into the Burmese jungle during The Second World War.
SHIPS THAT SAVED THE EMPIRE by Charles Gibson (1919) LARGE Hardcover Illustrated
SHIPS THAT SAVED THE EMPIRE by Charles Gibson, Published by Collins Clear Type Press (1919) First Edition. size 12.5 x 10.25 inches. 96pp. text by Charles R.Gibson. Pictured by Charles J.De Lacy. Illustrated by 14 colour plates and 15 in Half Tone. Good condition, with wear. Contents include: How the ships saved us; coal and iron; a visit to the steel works; how the ships are built; what drives the ships; how the ships fight; the silent navy and what the great liners did.
ROUND TRIP TO RUSSIA by Walter Graebner (1943) News From Behind the Russian Front WW2
ROUND TRIP TO RUSSIA by Walter Graebner, Published by J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, PA (1943) First Edition. Size is 12mo. Spot News From Behind the Russian Front WW2. Good condition with no dust jacket. Many photographs.
The Lexington-Concord Battle Road, April 19, 1775 - Samuel Adams - Maps
The Lexington-Concord Battle Road, April 19, 1775. Published by Boston: First National Bank of Boston, 1975 (1975) 74 pp.+ ads, Illustrated, Map in rear. No dust jacket. Frontispiece is portrait of Samuel Adams. Profusely illustrated by photos. Marbled inside covers and end papers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
The Secrets of the German War Office, by Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves (1914)
The Secrets of the German War Office, by Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves, with the Collaboration of Edward Lyell Fox. Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves, Published by New York, McBride, Nast & Company (1914) Good condition with little wear. B/w frontis photos of Graves' German secret service card. 256 pages.
Hitler's Professors:Scholarship in German's Crimes Against the Jewish People by Max Weinreich (1946)
Hitler's Professors The Part of Scholarship in German's Crimes Against the Jewish People by Max Weinreich, Published by Yiddish Scientific Institute (1946) Good condition. An important study of how such a large part of the German academic community accepted the ideas of Anti-Jewish "Science". Among the worst was Gerhard Kittel whose expertise in the Hebrew Bible was soon interpreted through the Nazi system of hermeneutics. This is important for it shows how scholarship itself can be twisted in the hands of the totalitarian state. This insane hatred of the Jews had already driven many professors out of Germany and into England or to the United States. The result was the flowering of the American and English universities and the decline of the German Universities in comparison to the growing superiority of scholarship in the West
PRAYER BOOK Abridged for JEWS IN THE ARMED FORCES of the UNITED STATES (1943)
PRAYER BOOK Abridged for JEWS IN THE ARMED FORCES of the UNITED STATES, 1943, Revised Edition, good with some wear to the covers. Small sized 4" x 6", softcover, signed 1944 by a woman.
Sheet of 50 Project Mercury 4c Stamps (1962)
Sheet of 50 Project Mercury 4c Stamps (1962) very good condition.
Sheet of 50 Decade of Achievement Stamps (1971) MAN ON MOON
Sheet of 50 Decade of Achievement Stamps (1971) very good condition. These stamps show the man on the moon.
Biography of Important Historical Figures (1845) by Izaak Walton
The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson, Published by Henry Washbourne, by Izaak Walton, London (1845) fair/good to good condition, some foxing, exterior rubbing, chipped upper spine and owner signatures. Fully illustrated.
Dialogues with the Dead - Dialogues des Morts (1805) Nouvelle Edition
Dialogues des morts. "Dialogues with the Dead" Anciens et modernes, avec quelques fables; composés pour l'education d'un prince. Nouvelle Edition. Fénélon, F.de Salignac de la Mothe: Published by Barbou, Limoges, (1805) fair/good to good with wear. Interior pages good, outer spine is together but chipped.
Sheet of 32 Apollo 11 FIRST MAN ON MOON Stamps (1969)
1969 SHEET (32) 10-CENT MINT AIR MAIL STAMPS - APOLLO 11 FIRST MAN ON THE MOON, very good condition with little to no wear.
Two Years in the Forbidden City & OLD BUDDA by Princess Der Ling (1929) CHINA
Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling, Published by Dodd Mead & Company (1929), good no dust jacket, some soiling on the cover. Fully illustrated with photographs. Later printing. Frontispiece is photogravure portrait of Princess Der Ling, plus 16 pages of photos. Daughter of a Chinese Minister to the French Republic, dance student of Isadora Duncan, lady-in-waiting Empress Dowager Cixi and wife of an American, Thaddeus C. White. Der Ling here writes of her life in the Chinese Court. ALSO COMES WITH OLD BUDDA by Princess Der Ling, Published by Dodd, Mead & Co (1934) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good condition with photographs of the Princess.
South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses by H. Krishna Sastri (1916)
South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses by H. Krishna Sastri, Published by Madras Government Printing Office (1916) good with a slight musty smell - I wouldn't normally bother selling it if it was not a rare title. 163 plates and illustrations, 4 plates, biblio., index. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's light brown decorated cloth.
Good Morning: Music, Calls, and Directions for Old-Time Dancing by HENRY FORD (1941) Dearborn MI
Good Morning: Music, Calls, and Directions for Old-Time Dancing as Revived By Mr. And Mrs. Henry Ford. Henry Ford, Dearborn Michigan (1941) good condition with music inside. Softcover, 93 pages, someone wrote on the last few blank pages dance notes in pencil.
RARE WESTERN CHINA; a Journey to the Great Buddhist Centre of Mount Omei (1888)
WESTERN CHINA; a Journey to the Great Buddhist Centre of Mount Omei. Virgil C, Rev. Hart, Published by Tichnor., Boston. (1888) With frontisp. & protective tissue-guard, num. full-page plates, and a folding map. 1st edition. Good, a few pages in the center of the book are becoming loose (can be fixed).
Vacation Days in Hawaii and Japan by Charles M. Taylor, Jr. (1898)
Vacation Days in Hawaii and Japan by Charles M. Taylor, Jr. Published by George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia (1898) fair/good to good. Someone pasted additional articles inside this book on the inside cover pages. It's up to you if you feel this adds or subtracts in value. One page had the articles removed. Very interesting book.
120 Days of Sodom, Sex Life of the French Age of Debauchery (1934) Privately Printed
120 Days of Sodom, or the School for Libertinage (Sade) / the Sex Life of the French Age of Debauchery (Iwan Bloch) Sade, Marquis De; Bloch, Dr. Iwan. Published by Falstaff Press, Inc. / Anthropological Press, New York (1934) Privately Printed. Good some soiling on the covers, interior pages good+. Hardcover, 320 pages.
