Search Results: Military History from Rose's Books, IOBA

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 326 pp. Introduction and afterword by Peter Maas. Small rip on bottom of dustjacket and some scuffing. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1957. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Dodd Mead, 1957. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 402 p. Index. Part of Churchill's notable History of the English-Speaking Peoples series. Minor edgewear. Jacket chipped and shelfworn. Very good+ in good jacket in mylar cover..

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1958. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Eleventh Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harrisburg, PA, Stackpole, 1958. Eleventh edition. 8vo. Dark navy-blue cloth with silver lettering on spine and front board, illustrated in black and white throughout, 378 pp. Everything an Air Officer needed to know in 1958 and a very interesting look at the United States Air Force at that point in history. Owner name on endpaper and underlining on one page, otherwise in very good condition with a clean, crisp text block..

Traplet Book. As New. Trade Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Modellsport Verlag GMBH, Aircraft Profiles Volume 4 - Military Aircraft of World War II. Superbly produced, this 66 page soft-bound book contains detailed information on a range of military aircraft, with over 80 full colour photographs and accurate 3 view drawings. There is also comprehensive technical data and an in-depth history of each aircraft and its various derivatives. The ideal addition to your aircraft reference library. Contents include: The Focke-Wulf Fw 189 A-1, Chance Vought F4 U-1 D 'Corsair', Hawker 'Typhoon' Mk. 1A/1B, Henschel Hs 123, Focke-Wulf Ta 152 H, Messerschmitt Bf 109 G, Dornier Do 335 A-1 'Ameisenbar' and the Heinkel He 100 V1 bis V8..

Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1945. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1945. First thus. 12mo. Cloth binding, 202 pp. A Triangle Books vintage World War II novel. Dust jacket has edgewear and small chips. No writing inside. Very good in good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

New York: Coward-McCann, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 433 p. Frontispiece portrait of author. A discussion of modern military and naval air power and warfare. Minor shelfwear. Near fine..

New York: Random House Large Print, 2001. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Large Print Edition. 4to. First large print edition. 4to. Cloth. 428 p. Illustrated with black and white photographs. History comes alive in this album-style book, where people's stories are told in their own words, accompanied by photographs and memorabilia of Word War II. The letters were written to newscaster Brokaw after the release of his book The Greatest Generation. Fine in near-fine dustjacket in mylar cover..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. First edition. 8vo. Hardcover binding, 249 pp. plus bibliography and index. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on free front endpaper. The story of the regrouping and recovery of the U. S. Navy after its devastating losses at Pearl Harbor. Very good in very good dustjacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

Plandome, NY: New Age Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Memorial Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No publishing date. Facsimile reprint of the Memorial Edition, originally published in 1919. 8vo. Soft cover. 407 p. The documented account of the Armenian genocide first of the century reported by America's Ambassador to Turkey. Moderate edgewear. Very good..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First trade edition. 8vo. Cloth spine with paper covered boards. 155 p. Black and white illustrations and photographs. A collection of letters written from the front lines in France during World War I. Moderate shelfwear. Interior clean and tight. Owner's name. Very good..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1990. Ex-Library. Illus. by Illustrated. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 1990. First edition. Volume 50 No. 3, Summer 1990. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on A History of Fluvial Navigation -- The Example of the Meuse; An Old Fashioned Form of Protectionism -- The Role Played by British Naval Power in China from 1860-1941; Warships of the Ancient Mediterranean; The Philadelphia Steamboat of 1796; A Dangerous Sport -- A Boston Boy's Life at Sea 1820-1837; The Safe and Timely Arrival of Convoy SC 130, 15-25 May 1943; book reviews, and more. Only exlibrary markings are barcode of Sturgis Library inside and marked-out stamp on front. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1990. Ex-Library. Illus. by Illustrated. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 1990. First edition. Volume 50 No. 2, Spring 1990. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on Acting Master Samuel B. Gregory : The Trials of an Unexperienced Captain on the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron; Pestilence from the Sea and American Maritime Quarantine Policy; Reform in the United States Navy : The "Plucking" of Officers in the Latter 1850s; Right Whales, Not Humpbacks, Taken in Contra Bay; Orkney Disasters Changed the Course of History; Duhamel du Monceau: Savant and Naval Architect; book reviews, and more. Only exlibrary markings are barcode of Sturgis Library inside and marked-out stamp on front. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2000. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 60 No. 2. Spring 2000. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on Lost Opportunities -- Women in Britain's Private Wartime Shipyards; the Medea Floats Again -- Steel Hull Preservation Using Foam Core and FRP; Methodists to the California Gold Fields in 1849; History of U.S. Law and Juridical Rulings that Differentiated "Public Vessel Seamen" from Merchant Marine Seamen; Hunting Submarines in the English Channel 1918 - Excerpts from an Account by Charles Kane Cobb, Jr., 1888-1968; book reviews, and more. Marked-out library stamp and barcode of Sturgis Library. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1992. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 52 No. 3. Summer 1992. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on A Romance en Route -- the Advertising Fiction of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company; The Origins and Development of the T2 Tanker; Descriptions of the Shallop in Western Europe and the New World 1587-1671; Autonomy, Politics, and Embargo in New London, Connecticut 1807-1809, The China Trade Brig John Gilpin, Captain Caleb Carver's Letter to Captain Lincoln Alden Colcord; book reviews, and more. Marked-out library stamp and barcode of Sturgis Library. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1999. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 59 No. 3, 1999. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on Honolulu and Whaling on the Japan Grounds; Broadsides and Brown Water -- The US Navy in Riverine Warfare During the War of 1812; The Gertrude L. Thebaud Aground in Frobisher Bay -- With Donald B. MacMillan's 1937 Arctic Expedition; Marsala -- The Tribulations of a Ship, Her Captain, and his Government; book reviews, and more. Only exlibrary markings are barcode of Sturgis Library inside and marked-out stamp on front. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2001. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 61 No. 1. Winter 2001. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on the Continental Naval Brig Andrew (Andrea) Doria; A Norse Etymology for Luff -- Weather Edge of a Sail; Big Ben -- Squire Sail of the Yacht America -- Navy Wives and WAVES -- Sources for W Omen's History in the Naval Ware College's Naval Historical Collection; the Last Voyage of the Juan de Fuca; book reviews, and more. Marked-out library stamp and barcode of Sturgis Library. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1995. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 55, Number 3, Summer 1995. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on the Piracy Trial of Luke Ryan; Debt-Collector or King-Maker -- The Royal Navy in Mexico 1861-1862; Anglo-American Naval Logistic Cooperation in World War I; God, Leadership, Flemings, and Archery -- Contemporary Perceptions of Victory and Defeat; The Frigate Strikes her Colors; book reviews, and more. Only exlibrary markings are barcode of Sturgis Library inside and marked-out stamp on front. Near fine..

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1990. Ex-Library. Illus. by Illustrated. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 1990. First edition. Volume 50 No. 3, Fall 1990. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on Pistols and Honor -- The James Barron-Stephen Decatur Conflict 1798-1807; The Panay Revisited -- A Maritime Perspective; Armed Merchantmen and Privateers -- Another Perspective on America's Quasi-War with France; Finding Longitude at Sea by Magnetic Declination on Dutch East Indiamen 1596-1795; Splice the Mainbrace -- The Story of a Naval Epic; In Memoriam -- Archibald Ross Lewis; book reviews, and more. Only exlibrary markings are barcode of Sturgis Library inside and marked-out stamp on front. Near fine..

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1961. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1960. First edition, 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering embossed on spine, 218 pp. No dust jacket. Appears unread or gently read. Very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2001. Ex-Library. Near Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 61 No. 2. Spring 2001. 4to. Soft cover. Black and white photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and maps. Includes articles on the Hallowell Family Shipyard in Boston, 1635-1804; Pre-Columbian Sailing Canoes; Iron Steamer the Mary Summers; The U.S. Navy & the Spanish Civil War; Human Friction in the British Naval Operational Intelligence Linkages -- Bletchley Park-Portsmouth Command, 1942-44; The Charles Davis Tui; Nathaniel Bowditch; an obituary of David Beers Quinn; book reviews, and more. Only exlibrary marking is barcode of Sturgis Library on rear cover. Near fine..