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London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, spine a bit cocked, front endpaper corner-clipped, small spots to front board. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, rubs, light scratches, short edge tears carefully repaired on the interior side with archival quality tape, very faint stains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author's first book in the Orlando Trilogy followed by Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha. A modern classic. ISBN 9780370006529
The A-B-C Of Aviation, A Complete Practical Treatise by Victor W Page - 1918
by Victor W Page
The A-B-C Of Aviation, A Complete Practical Treatise
by Victor W Page
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Norman W Henley, 1918. hardcover. Readable. cover shows some rubbing and discoloration especially to the lower section, corners and edges of cover a little rubbed.. Find thousands more books at Wings Of War Books. All our books are sent by Royal Mail in cardboard to ensure they arrive to you in perfect condition.
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Orlando King
by Colegate, Isabel
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50 Years Later: Remains of the Battle of the Bulge
by Emonts-Pohl, Joseph; Schuren, Hermann-Josef
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Grenz-Echo Verlag. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. Hardcover. 9054330414 . A photoessay on the tank memorials and other military remains of the Battle of the Bulge along the Luxembourg-Belgium border. Many color photos. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages .
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The White Maiden Male.
by [sailorBOYpress] Jeffrey W. Morin.
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Stevens Point, Wisconsin:: sailorBOYpress,, 2012.. Edition of 50. 11 x 9"; 28 pages. Letterpress printed with Plantin type. Printed on Barcham Green and other handmade papers. Sewn binding with matching paper covers. In 11.75 x 9" lidded aluminum box with embossed titles. Signed and dated by artist. This is the story of Rudolph Brazda, who when he died in 2011 was the last known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who had been incarcerated because he was a homosexual. Forced wear a pink triangle, Brazda survived 3 years in Buchenwald. After his liberation, Brazda lived in Alsace until his death. Morin overlays Brazda's story with the German folktale of The White Maiden. Jeff Morin, Colophon: "The White Maiden is the tale of a hunter who wishes for the ancient wines of the cellars at Thurnberg in a moment of great thirst. His wish is granted by the White Maiden but, as a result of drinking his wine, she forever plagues him with a sense of wanting, an inability to take…
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
by W. B. Dixon
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- New
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
Printed in the United States of America by
Publishers Press / Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.
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Die Befreiung 1813 - 1814 - 1815 : Urkunden - Berichte - Briefe mit geschichtlichen Verbindungen
by Klein, Tim
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A 1st ed. good paperback, soiling & other signs of wear on covs. & spine as in image, with stamp fr. end p. & inside of cov. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1941 Gau Danzig" also FON pasted label. 520p. 19x13cm. 500gr. "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen.Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte… Read More
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Orlando King
by Colegate, Isabel
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780370006529
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- 0370006526
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, spine a bit cocked, front endpaper corner-clipped, small spots to front board. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, rubs, light scratches, short edge tears carefully repaired on the interior side with archival quality tape, very faint stains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author's first book in the Orlando Trilogy followed by Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha. A modern classic. ISBN 9780370006529
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A Collection of World War II Illustrated Instruction Manuals for Aviators
by n.a
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San Anselmo, California, United States
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Washington D.C. Training Division- Bureau of Aeronautics- United States Navy. 1942-1943. Bound in pictorial wrappers. 8vo (7" x 9.5"). Illustrated throughout with animated drawings, charts, etc. A fine grouping of instructional manuals issued by the Navy to acquaint aviators with specific wartime tasks and scenarios. Designed in a humerous almost comic book fashion, this collection is comprised of the following titles; Parachute Sense, Flat-Hatting Sense, Patrol Sense, There's no Substitute for Marksmanship, Manners Sense, Gunnery Sense. A smattering of incidental soiling here and there, generally all crisp, clean and Near Fine.
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50 Years Later: Remains of the Battle of the Bulge
by Emonts-Pohl, Joseph; Schuren, Hermann-Josef
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.
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- ISBN 13
- 9789054330417
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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Grenz-Echo Verlag. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. Hardcover. 9054330414 . A photoessay on the tank memorials and other military remains of the Battle of the Bulge along the Luxembourg-Belgium border. Many color photos. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages .
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The New Temple
by Bojer, Johan
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Thessaloniki, Greece
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RARE - COLLECTIBLE. A good+ copy with minor faults. With interesting ex library stamps. Front cover end papers "U.S. CENSORSHIP EXAMINED by 421" & "WAR PRISONERS AID WORLD'S COMMITTEE - YMCA - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND". On title page "PW CAMP - CAMP CARSON, COLO - CENSORED" & EICENTRUM der BÜCHEREI - PROPERTY of the LIBRARY - PoW CAMP, CAMP CARSON - No, B/216". Back cover end papers the property stamp a DATE DUE paper glued & the card with the BORROWERS NAMES (13 names) next to the DATE DUE (beginning from 15.5.45). Also in BOOKSTALLblog more books from War Time Libraries
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The Schlieffen Plan: Critique Of A Myth
by RITTER, Gerhard
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Oswald Wolff (Publishers) Limited, 1958. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG. 1st UK Edition. Blue cloth with gilt stamped titles to the spine 195pp. Together with original price clipped dust jacket and scarce publisher's wrap around band. Tucked inside is a typewritten letter from the author asking his British publisher to send copies of the book to three academics in Cambridge and London A very good plus book that has been well protected by its dust jacket and has only a hint of shelf wear to the bottom corners and spine tips. Internally there is a little toning and spotting to the half of the front and rear free endpapers not covered by the dust jacket but otherwise the book is clean and bright and without marks or inscriptions. The dust jacket is very good, complete with only a hint of rubbing to the spine tips and corners and a little toning to the spine and a little fading to the spine area of the wrap around band. The rear panel is a little spotted and has an area of toning along the top…
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Santa Barbara Photographs
by Bill Zeldis; Editor-Zeldis; Illustrator-Zeldis
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- Used - Very Good
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- very good
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780971908079
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- 0971908079
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Littlerock, California, United States
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Santa Barbera: Zeldis Publishing, 7-04. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Large format hardback with dust jacket which is has minor wear, Signed by Photgrapher Bill Zeldis
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Hasen
by Bercovitch, Reuben
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Sebastopol, California, United States
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New York: Knopf, 1978. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jacket woodcut from Rockwell Kent Legacies, cover design by Lidia Ferrera.. This First Edition title translates to "Hare", a story of two young boys surviving in the wild near a concentration camp, and the day everything changes. "As simply and beguilingly told as a fairy tale, this is a novel whose terror belongs to reality-a novel that evokes with extraordinary power the essence, the beauty, of loyalty and commitment tested to the utmost." (from DJ). 5½ x 8". Original black boards over cloth, silver letters to spine, black top edge. Bottom spine slightly bumped, DJ has tiny chips at top & bottom spine and light wear to back, else a near fine dustjacket over a near fine book with Kent's striking woodcut on cover.
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THE ASIATICS
by Prokosch, Frederic
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., 1945. 348 pages, Armed Service edition #764, published in July 1945. During World War II more than seventy American publishers cooperated with the Council on Books in Wartime to distribute books free of charge to American servicemen. The flat oblong paperback books were designed to be easily carried into battle in soldiers' pockets. From September 1943 through June 1947, there were 1,322 titles published in Armed Services Editions. The book offered here is in very good condition: clean and tight, with minor edgewear.. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong 32mo - over 4" - 5" Tall. Book.
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Yank, The Army Weekly; World War II from the guys who brought you victory
by Steve Kluger
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- Used - good
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- good, faded spine (red spine)
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- 9781854091017
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- 1854091018
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Arms and Armour, 1991. Hardback. good/good, faded spine (red spine). with Dw, slightly faded on the spine, slightly foxed and tanned on the page edges otherwise very good
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Orlando King
by Colegate, Isabel
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- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780370006529
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, spine a bit cocked, front endpaper corner-clipped, small spots to front board. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, rubs, light scratches, short edge tears carefully repaired on the interior side with archival quality tape, very faint stains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author's first book in the Orlando Trilogy followed by Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha. A modern classic. ISBN 9780370006529
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
by W. B. Dixon
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- New
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- First
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9789110456990
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- 9110456996
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
Printed in the United States of America by
Publishers Press / Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.
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50 Years Later: Remains of the Battle of the Bulge
by Emonts-Pohl, Joseph; Schuren, Hermann-Josef
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.
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- 9789054330417
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Grenz-Echo Verlag. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. Hardcover. 9054330414 . A photoessay on the tank memorials and other military remains of the Battle of the Bulge along the Luxembourg-Belgium border. Many color photos. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages .
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Die Befreiung 1813 - 1814 - 1815 : Urkunden - Berichte - Briefe mit geschichtlichen Verbindungen
by Klein, Tim
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A 1st ed. good paperback, soiling & other signs of wear on covs. & spine as in image, with stamp fr. end p. & inside of cov. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1941 Gau Danzig" also FON pasted label. 520p. 19x13cm. 500gr. "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen.Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte… Read More
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The Damned Engineers: How one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the Battle of the Bulge
by Giles, Janice Holt
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Good+
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- ISBN 13
- 9780395077443
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- 0395077443
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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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
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Schlieffens Vermaechtnis
by D. Von Zoellner
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Berlin: E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1938. Orginal Wraps. Octavo. First Thus. Zum 25. Todestage des Generalfeldmarschalls Graf von Schlieffen. Sonderheft der "Militaerwissenschaftlichen Rundschau". 56 pp. Two portraits. The central problem not accurately dealt with in World War I would definitely have to be considered for any invasion friends to the West. Here is the issue published in the Third Reich without explicitly stating the obvious implications for the near future.
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