World War II from Tannery Books

Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Good. L. Vanloan Naisawald, In Some Foreign Field: The Story of Four British Graves on the Outer Banks, Winston-Salem, NC, John F. Blair, 1972, first edition. The story of four crewmen buried in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, their ship, the British trawler HMS Bedfordshire, the U-boat U-558, and… Read more

Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 1987. Paperback. Good. Perry Manley. Larry Davis, with Don Greer and Perry Manley, B-24 Liberator in action, Carrollton, Aircraft Number 80, Carrollton, Texas, Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 1987. Horizontal 4to (21 x 28 cm), 58 pp, many bw and some color illustrations. Good: covers scuffed (writing pad), light warping (could be weighted), crisp, no… Read more

Human Events, Inc., 1946. First Printing. Paperback. Ex-library. Douglas V. Steere, The Soil of Peace: The Human Factor in Reconstruction, The Human Events Pamphlets number 8, Washington and Chicago, Human Events, Inc., 1946, First Printing. A Haverford College (Quaker) professor of philosophy's essay on post-World War II action. Green and white stapled pamphlet, 8vo, [21] pp plus 3… Read more

Kennet Square, Penn.: Quaker Publications, 1982. First printing. Paperback. Good. Leonard S. Kenworthy, An American Quaker Inside Nazi Germany: Another Dimension of the Holocaust, Kennet Square, Penn., Quaker Publications, 1982, First printing. Red paper covers with American Friends Service Committee star and barbed-wire design, 8vo, x, 118 pp including 5 pp reproductions from Kenworthy's Berlin diary. Good-: covers… Read more

New York: British Information Services. Paperback. Fair. African Victory with the British Forces from el Alamein to Cape Bon, New York, British Information Services [1943-1944]. Stapled red paper covers with bw photos, 64 pp counting covers, bw photos and history of expulsion of Axis forces from northern Africa, 1942-1943 in World War II. Fair: staples rusting, worn and… Read more

New York: British Information Services, 1945. First printing. Paperback. Good. African Challenge: The Story of the British in Tropical Africa, New York, British Information Services, 1945, First printing. Green paper covers with bw illustrations, 64 pp, bw illustrations and maps. Exploration, slavery, British involvement and colonization, and future improvements. Good: corners bumped, lightly tanned, no markings. printed… Read more

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1944. First UK edition. Paperback. Good. Target: Germany - The U.S. Army Air Forces' Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command's First Year Over Europe, London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1944, British Edition. Paper covers with bw photo on front and contents on back, 8vo (18 by 23 cm), viii, 120 pp, many… Read more

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1943. Paperback. Good. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr., Egypt and the Suez Canal, Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies, Number Eleven, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, March 31, 1943. Stapled mottled gray paper covers, 8vo (23 cm), iv, 66 pp with bibliography, 25 plates including frontispiece with bw photos. People and life in "modern" Egypt, history,… Read more

Airlines War Training Institute, U.S. Army Air Forces. Paperback. Good. Pilgrim's Process, A Handbook to Guide Passengers of the Air Transport Command, Airlines War Training Institute, for the Service Division, Supply and Service, U.S. Army Air Forces [ca. 1943-44]. Stapled orange paper covers with blue and red design, 18mo (13 cm), [iv] 40 pp. Practical advice and cartoons… Read more

Office Chief of Military History, Department of the Army. First edition. Loose_leaf. Very Good. The American Soldier, Office Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1964-undated. Historically researched paintings by H. Charles McBarron, commissioned as part of the Army Historical Program, prints 9 x 12.5 inches (23 x 32 cm). This collection contains the complete first three… Read more

Paperback. Good +. Ricordo di Roma e Citta del Vaticano [Memory of Rome and Vatican City], 124 Views, [ca 1940]. Blue paper covers with embossed color pastedown on front, horizontal 8vo (22 by 16 cm), title page has upside-down 4 in "124 Views," page of contents, 120 sepia plates, fold-out panorama (last 4 views). Pictures of Rome, mostly… Read more

1947. Paperback. Ex-Library. The Spiritual Need of Europe and the Responsibility of Friends, A Report of the Tenth European Conference of Friends held at Castle Eerde, Ommen, Holland, Easter 1947 (April 4th to 7th), published by the Friends World Committee for Consultation, 32 Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 1. Special Report, Friends World News no. 24. Contains epistle (papers);… Read more

Frank Schaffer Publications, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Anita Meyer Meinbach and Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Memories of the Night : A Study of the Holocaust, Frank Schaffer Publications, 1994, First Edition. Glossy white paper covers with barbed wire photo on front, xii, 148 pp, bw photos by Sharon Gurman Socol. Formatted for classroom use (limited reproduction authorized)… Read more

New York: Ferrar, Strauss and Co., 1963. Second printing. Hardcover. Good/fair. H. Montgomery Hyde, with foreward by Ian Fleming, Room 3603 : The story of the British Intelligence Center in New York during World War II, New York, Ferrar, Strauss and Co., 1963, First Edition, Second Printing. Brown paper boards and tan cloth spine with gold lettering, 8vo,… Read more

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1975. Later printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. XII, Leyte, June 1944-January 1945, With Illustrations, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1975. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering and design on spine, 8vo, xxv with abbreviations, 446 uneven… Read more

Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2005. First printing. Hardcover. New. Elizabeth A. Saunders, Archdale Friends Meeting, Genealogical Extracts from the Monthly Meeting Minutes: 1924-1949, Baltimore, Gateway Press, 2005. Dark red cloth with gold lettering, 224 pp. NEW: direct from publisher; corners sharp, tight, pages bright. No DJ as issued. Contains anecdotal excerpts from prohibition through the Great Depression to World… Read more