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A bibliography of materials pertaining to World War I. An annotated collection compiled and edited with selective comments.Gordon Press, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering, lightly bumped. Looks new and unread. Very tight binding. Pages crisp and clean, no writing, tears or creases.
Shoot and Be Damned by Sergeant Ed Halyburton - 1932
by Sergeant Ed Halyburton
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Shoot and Be Damned
by Sergeant Ed Halyburton
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1932 Covici Friede first edition. 452 pages.
Sergeant Halyburton was a POW during the first World War. The book is his account of the time spent in German captivity. Halyburton is also reputed to be the first non-officer to receive the Distinguished Service Medal.
Condition of the book is Very Good Minus. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The main condition issues are light soil to the top edge of the text block, and some discoloration to the endpapers.
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Sergeant Halyburton was a POW during the first World War. The book is his account of the time spent in German captivity. Halyburton is also reputed to be the first non-officer to receive the Distinguished Service Medal.
Condition of the book is Very Good Minus. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The main condition issues are light soil to the top edge of the text block, and some discoloration to the endpapers.
Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good Minus. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It shows minor shelf wear, including some chipping along the edges. It presents well housed inside a new mylar cover.
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The Darkling Plain: The Great War In History, Biography, Diary, Poetry, Literature and Film
by Phillips, Jill M
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Kriegs-atlas Uber Samtliche Kriesschauplatze
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Zurich: Verlag Des Kriegs-Atlas, 1914. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 10 folding maps published at outbreak of World War I in Switzerland. All in very good condition with half having closed tears but no chips. The only recorded copy in OCLC is at the Swiss National Library.
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DIARY: Experiences of a Physician with the British Army 1917 to 1919
by Dr. E.H. Truex
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Privately Printed. Hardcover. Very Good. 106 pages. Signed by author,inscribed, & dated on title page. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to covers, text & illustrations are very clean.
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Stampkraft Mother Goose and Other Rhymes
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United Art Publishing, 1916. Hardcover. Used- Good condition. Book shows shelf wear. Scuffing along the edges and corners of book. Tear on the left middle side (next to the spine). Blotches of slightly darkened stains on the back cover. Writing on the front end-paper. Tear on the top and bottom of the end-paper up against the binding. All pages are intact. No further markings on the inside of the book. The envelope that originally held the stamps is no longer in the book. All 72 stamps are affixed to the corresponding spaces. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Rocket Book
by Newell, Peter
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By Peter Newell, author of "The Hole Book". The Rocket Book, Harper & Brothers Stated October, 1912 First Printing. USED. GOOD+ CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET INCLUDED. 7 1/8 X 8 7/8. Seller's Note: Sadly, (no one is sadder than me) the Front paper paste-down label has been removed from cover. Minor corner-bumps. No titling on spine if printed there originally. Pages are all present, in nice shape, and affixed to binding. HOLE-DRILLED straight through the book. RARE IN THIS FIRST PRINTING.
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SHERSTON'S PROGRESS
by Sassoon, Siegfried
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1936.. Tan cloth, pictorially stamped in dark brown. Bookplate of Walter Chrysler on pastedown, faint tanning to endsheet gutters, otherwise about fine in near fine example of the pictorial dust jacket with a few minor nicks, shallow loss at the crown of the spine and a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel. First U.S. edition, with the binding and dust jacket designs after Barnett Freedman. Somewhat less common in jacket than its British counterpart. Keynes notes only the 1937 American printing. KEYNES A40a(n).
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No More Parades. A novel. Volume two of the Parade's End tetralogy.
by FORD MADOX FORD
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Duckworth, London, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The correct first edition, this English issue preceding the American issue by several weeks. 8vo. 319pp. Green textured cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped border to the upper board. A touch of wear to the spine ends and a slight ridge to the backstrip. The top edge lightly dust soiled and the free endpapers browned. Former owner name and date neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy of the second volume of the author's celebrated Parade's End tetralogy. No dust wrapper. See Harvey A59..
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The Aftermath; The World Crisis- 1918-1928
by Churchill, Winston S.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 502pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Burgundy cloth. Maps, folding maps, appendix, index. Lightly shelfworn and a small dampstain on the back cover. "This volume completes the task I undertook nearly ten years ago of making a contemporary contribution to the history of the Great War. As in previous volumes, the record and discussion of world-famous events is strung upon the thread of personal narrative. This method will justify itself to the read who seeks to form his own opinion from a number of similar authentic accounts" - from the Preface. Book about Woodrow Wilson. Locale: Greece; Turkey. (World War 1, League of Nations, Russian Revolution, Treaties, World War 1).
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Pylon (Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing Thus)
by Faulkner, William
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WILLIAM FAULKNER! Stated Second Issue, 2nd Printing Thus. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Faulkner, William: PYLON. Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing 1935, Smith & Haas, NY. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BLUE DUST JACKET. RARE SASCHA MAURER COVER ART. ART DECO. Used. Very Good-/ Very Good- Blue cloth, \ The second printing (stated). In second issue dust jacket (blank rear panel and flap. Faulkner's tale of the exciting, dangerous, and short-lived, sport of airplane "barnstorming". Set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Original source material for the 1958 film "Tarnished Angels" Starring Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, and Jack Carson and directed by Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987)."
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Air Command; A Fighter Pilot's Story
by Collishaw, Raymond (With R.V. Dodds.)
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London: William Kimber [0-7183-0073-4] 1973, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 256pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographs. The dust jacket is price-clipped, edgeworn, and lightly faded on the spine. "An R.N.A.S. Volunteer from Canada, from 1917 Raymond Collishaw was in the thick of the combat in the air on the Western Front. Flying Sopwith Pups with No.3 (Naval) Squadron and Sopwith Triplanes with No.10 (Naval) Squadron, he soon proved himself to be an outstanding fighter pilot". Book about Sopwith Aircraft. Locale: Western Front. (Military--Canada, Fighter Aces, Fighter Pilots, Military--Canada, Royal Naval Air Service, World War 1).
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Shoot and Be Damned!
by HALYBURTON, Sergeant Ed
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New York: Covici-Friede, 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks and tears. Account of the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Word War I. Scarce, especially in jacket.
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THE BATTLE OF EASTLEIGH
by Bolle, Frederick N
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Octavo (8 1/2 X 10 1/2 inches) New York: United States Naval Air Force, 1918. First Edition. oblong format, 144 pages illustrated with black and white halftone photographs, and a map, original gray cloth, hardcover, good condition (lower right corner of front cover slightly bumped, minor shelf wear to lower spine, not affecting contents which are clean and complete).This is a unit history, with many photos of the Eastleigh U. S. Navy repair base in England during World War I; its officers and men. There are many photos of early military aircraft, and an essay on "Liberty Twelves" and "DeHavilands."
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
by W. B. Dixon
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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
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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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Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom (Salesman's Dummy)
by P.J. O'Brien
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O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.
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The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Christie, Agatha
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Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."
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Freckles
by Gene Stratton-Porter
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Gene Stratton-Porter Freckles. Copyright 1904, by Doubleday, Page & Company. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York. G&D reprint edition. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Green boards. 427 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.
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The FOURTH BATTALION THE KING'S OWN (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and THE GREAT WAR (signed)
by Wadham, Lieut.-Colonel W.F.A., and Captain J. Crossley
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London: Privately Published (printed by Crowther & Goodman) Book. Fair. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. Small octavo. No date, but published in late 1935 or early 1936, since Wadham's contribution (ending at page 19) is dated 13th November, 1935, and Crossley's "Foreword to Part II" is dated December of the same year. Wadham writes, "These notes have been compiled, more or less in the form of a diary, with a view to placing on record the services of those who voluntarily came forward to serve their country in its hour of need." This copy from the library of 2nd Lt. I. (Irvine) B. Rouse of the battalion, who is listed thrice in the appendices, once in "Additional Nominal Roll of Officers who served with the I/4th Battalion The King's Own Royal Regt. (in order of joining)," once in a list of those wounded in action, and lastly in the list of those who received the Military Cross. Wadham has written his inscription ("A…
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A Record of the United Arts Rifles 1914-1919.
by Potton, Edward
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London: Alexander Moring De La More Press, 1920, hardcover. Published 1920. Anecdotes and humor, "not an official history but a collection of articles and photographs" of this Volunteer Corps, the Great War. -- Includes photographs of the personnel, drawings, and a list of the fallen. 92 pages, 9x11 inches. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (binding little weak with one loose plate; cover worn at edges; owner name). -- Very nice item for the World War One collector.
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Soldiering On: Being the Memoirs of General Sir Hubert Gough
by Gough, Gen. Sir Hubert
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London: Arthur Barker Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, jacket rubbed at edges, . with a bookseller label on front jacket flap.. 1954. First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth. Endpaper map, black and white frontispiece photo, black and white photos, appendix, and index. WWI historical autobiography with an introduction by Sir Arthur Bryant. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 260 pages .
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Roster of Vermont Men and Women in the Military and Naval Service of the United States and Allies in the World War 1917-1919 (Three Volumes)
by Johnson, Herbert T
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Adjutant General. Very Good; Covers very lightly scuffed, volume numbers written on front . covers, else a clean, tight set.. 1998. Reprint. Softcover. Printed light blue wraps with black cloth spines. A reprint of this 1927 title. ; 1665 pages .
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Irish Guards in the Great War, The (2 volumes): Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, vol 24 and 25
by Kipling, Rudyard
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The Outward Bound edition.: two volumes As nice a pair of copies as one is likely to see, in the original glassine protective wrappers (no printing on them; some small closed tears, one long closed tear on rear of one volume). Top edges gilt (dusty); original tissue guards present at frontispiece. No markings inside. Clean, bright, tight copies.
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