Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer - 1941

Text is clean & tight & unmarked. Mild to moderate shelf wear with two-inch crease to lateral edge of back cover & slight bumping of corners.

Hellman, Lillian: The Searching Wind. PLAY The Viking Press, 1st Ed., First printing Thus, June, 1944. DRAMA. Used. Good/Good unclipped DJ $2.00 price. Protected in a mylar wrap.

1945. Privately Published. Oblong 8vo. Softcover. Unpaginated. Near Fine condition. The book is intact and tight .Ernest Craige, MD, 89, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died on 24 January 2008 at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Dr. Craige served as Chief of the Division of Cardiology at the UNC School of Medicine for 26 years and was an internationally renowned expert in echocardiography. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1939 but did not take up residence in England because of the outbreak of World War II. Instead, he attended Harvard Medical School and graduated with an MD degree in the spring of 1943. After an internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Army training at Camp Barkley in Texas, Dr. Craige participated in the northern European campaign with the Fifth Auxiliary Surgery Group in 1944 and 1945. He published a cartoon history of his wartime experiences, When Our Hearts Were Young with Gay.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1991. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 318, a little age-toned throughout, black cloth just very slightly worn, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but just a little worn and scuffed, it's rear cover lightly scored, but now nicely protected in a removable clear cover. A good copy of a very scarce book.[Ursula Kuczynski (15 May 1907 - 7 July 2000), also known as Ruth Werner, Ursula Beurton and Ursula Hamburger, was a German Communist activist who spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s, most famously as the handler of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs. She moved to East Germany in 1950 when Fuchs was unmasked, and published a series of books related to her espionage activities, including her bestselling autobiography, Sonjas Rapport, of which this is a slightly updated translation. She was a singularly accomplished spy, whose espionage activities spanned some fifteen years, from 1931 to 1946. Deployed by the Soviet military intelligence service, she won recognition… Read More

USA: Schiffer Publishing , 2010. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2010 1st edition. Firmly bound and very carefully read. Both book & jacket are in excellent clean condition, Almost like new, condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Illustrated in colour & b/w. Very heavy book (approx 3kg) & not suitable for overseas shipping..

Les Chasseurs Japonais De La Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale, Collection Docavia Volume 7 - Millot (1977 Hardcover w/DJ)
Collection Docavia Volume 7, editions LARIVIERE (Paris) copyright 1977; written in French. Protective mylar cover has swirl-marks. Dust jacket is yellowing on the spine and has a square tanning/yellowing impression on the rear of the cover. Black hardcover shows minor shelf-wear. No writing or markings and several foldouts included throughout the volume. Overall, it is in Very Good Plus (VG+) condition.

The American Army overcame and disarmed the resisting parts of the German garrison. The inhabitants of Plzen prepared and printed this booklet to express gratitude and to serve as a souvenir to strengthen their friendship.,Filled with pictures and a touching tribute. handwritten inscription"Sorry I couldn't get one with my pictures in it.Din" written by the gift giver.

Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1943. Condition: Fair. Wartime Edition with victory substitutes and economical recipes for delicious wartime meals. 816 pp to original book, plus eight pages on Wartime Cookery and 64 pages on How To Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week. Book has been recovered with orange vinyl cloth to keep all pages intact. Text is clean and unmarked with no foxing and arranged in 22 sections with finger tabs similar to a dictionary. Former owner attribution on frontispiece dedication page.B/W photo of General Douglas MacArthur frontispiece with this dedication: "This Wartime Edition of the American Woman's Cook Book is respectfully dedicated with affection and gratitude to General Douglas MacArthur. His heroic leadership and gallant fight against overwhelming odds should inspire every American woman to make the most of daily opportunities to support the war effort in her home and in every sphere of worthwhile war activity. There must be thousands of little… Read More

R. James Bender Publishing, Mountain View, Calif. @ 1971 stated First edition. This is a collector's volume #323 of the first 500 and signed by author, see picture. Hard cover with tight binding and pages. Some rubbing on the front and back cover and slight bumping at corners. Top edge of pages are slightly curling and stained up to about page 26, see pictures. Some browning on the edges and soiling to boards, spine and first free page, see pictures.Many black & white photos, some color photos and drawing.
No writing/underlining/highlighting; NOT a library copy. I have gone through this book and it is a good reading copy. Page 265/266 has a corner fold, pic #6.
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N. P.: Patrick County Genealogy Society, 2005. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 133 pages. Burgundy hardcover. Overall minimal wear to the binding, but there are a few little contact marks on the front cover. A sound copy with secure inner hinges and clean text. Illustrated throughout.