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NEW YORK: WM. H. WISE & CO., INC., 1946 BEAUTIFUL BOOK, HEAVY WITH DETAILED EMBOSSING COVER, GOLD SOLDIER DESIGN OF ONE OF THE MOST WELL KNOWN SCENES IN WAR HISTORY. VERY LIGHT WEAR FRONT AND BACK COVER.
TOLD BY THE GREAT ADMIRALS WHO SAILED THE FLEET FROM NORFOLK TO NORMANDY AND FROM THE GOLDEN GATE TO THE INLAND SEA.
FORMER OWNERS BOOK LABEL IN FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. TREMENDOUS DETAIL AND PICTURES.
BINDING DESIGN USED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE SOCIETY OF MEDALISTS.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY U,S, MARINES, COAST GUARD, ACME NEWSPICTURES, PRESS ASSOCIATION, WIDE WORLD PHOTOS, INTERNATIONAL NES PHOTOS, BRITISH COMBINE, PLANET NEWS, BRITISH INFORMATION.
NICE INDEX IN BACK.
THANKS TO THE 3,500,000 MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL SERVICESWHO MANNED BATTLE STATIONS FROM THE RHINE RIVER TO TOKYO BAY IN WORLD WAR II.
WONDERFUL BOOK DETAILING A MAJOR WAR IN HISTORY.
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NEW YORK: Walter J. Black, Inc., 1928 LIGHT BROWN LEATHER COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD DESIGN SPINE, VERY NICE LOOKING. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. 12 SECTIONS- HEDDA GABLER, GHOSTS, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, A DOLL'S HOUSE, THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH, THE WILD DUCK, THE MASTER BUILDER, PILLARS OF SOCIETY, ROSMERSHOLM, PEER GYNT, BRAND. INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. Henrik Johan Ibsen , Norwegian; 20 March 1828 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time.His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006. ANTIQUE… Read More

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD IMPRINT ON THE SPINE OF TITLE AND AUTHOR. SOME WEAR TOP OF SPINE AND FADING OF LETTERS. COVER IS SLIGHTLY FADED WITH AGE AND CLEANING. TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE. FORMER OWNERS NAME SIGNED IN FRONT IN PENCIL, NO OTHER MARKINGS. FRONTISPIECE SHOWS AN ART PICTURE OF LOUISE. Marie Louise, originally Maria Louise (Vienna, 1791-1847, Vienna), Empress of the French, was the eldest daughter of the Emperor Franz II. In 1810, possibly through the agency of Metternich, she was married to Napoleon, who had recently divorced the Empress Josephine. A proxy wedding took place in the Augustinerkirche in Vienna in March, followed in April by civil and religious ceremonies in Paris. In 1811 she bore a son, the King of Rome and later Duke of Reichstadt. In 1813 and 1814 she was regent of France during Napoleon's absence at war (see Napoleonic Wars). On Napoleon's fall she fled to Austria and refused to rejoin her husband on Elba. The Congress… Read More

MENASHA, WISCONSIN: THE GEORGE BANTA PUBLISHING CO.; THE U.S. CAVALRY ASSOCIATION, 1916 NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. A SERVICE MANUAL CONSISTING OF A COMPILATION IN CONVENIENT, HANDY FORM, OF CUSTOMS OF THE SERVICE AND OTHER MATTERS OF PRACTICAL, WORTH-KNOWING NATURE- THINGS OF VALUE AND ASSISTANCE TO THE INEXPERIENCED- MOST OF WHICH CAN NOT BE FOUND IN PRINT, BUT MUST BE LEARNED BY EXPERIENCE- OFTEN BY DOING. PRINTED AUGUST 1916, FIFTH EDITION- REVISED AND ENLARGED. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1906 BY MOSS. SOME SECTIONS AS FOLLOWS: COMMENTS FROM ARMY OFFICERS, NATIONAL GUARD AND SERVICE OPERATIONS. TABLE OF CONTENTS- 35 CHAPTERS, INDEX ALPHABETICALLY LISTED. SOME CHAPTERS ARE SUGGESTIONS OFFICERS JUST APPOINTED, HOW TO SUCCEED IN ARMY, ORGANIZATIONOF ARMY, MILITIA OF UNITED STATES, RECRUITING, PRISON, ARTILLERY, SIGNAL, PAPER WORK, DISCIPLINE, CUSTOMS, FIELD, ATHLETIC, RANGE, MACHINE GUN, SMALL ARMS, SURVEYING, ATTACHES, EDUCATIONAL, EMPLOYMENT,… Read More

CHICAGO: FRANK V. IRISH, 1896 BEAUTIFUL AND EXCELLENT DETAILED BOOK ON AMERICAN AND BRITISH AUTHORS BY EDUCATOR AND AUTHOR FRANK V. IRISH. A GUIDE AND HELP IN THE PRIVATE STUDY OF THE BEST AUTHORS AND THEIR WRITINGS. DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. 25 ILLUSTRATIONS OF AUTHORS AND HOMES. 60 AUTHORS, PREFACE, HINTS TO TEACHERS, INTRODUCTION, BIOS, INDEX, DETAIL EVALUATING, CLASSICS, BIBLE AS A CLASSIC, THOUGHTS. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Philadelphia, PA: HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY, 1911 ALTEMUS ANNAPOLIS SERIES. 16 PAGES OF ADVERTISEMENTS IN BACK. ILLUSTRATED WITH DRAWINGS. VERY NICE BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION. ENTERTAINING AND INFORMATIVE ABOUT NAVY LIFE AT ANNAPOLIS. EXPERIENCE IN THE THIRD YEAR. HANCOCK PUBLISHED 4 BOOKS IN THE ANNAPOLIS SERIES AS FOLLOWS: The Annapolis Series"Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis" 1910, Altemus "Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis" 1911, Altemus "Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis" 1911, Altemus "Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis" 1911, Altemus HANCOCK WAS BORN IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1868 AND WROTE MOSTLY FOR BOYS TO GIVE THEM INTERESTING AND EXCITING BOOKS TO READ. Harrie Irving Hancock (1866?1922) was an American chemist and writer, mainly remembered as an author of children's literature and juveniles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and as having written a fictional depiction of a German invasion of the United States. ANTIQUE… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 1870 NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND PRINT SPINE. WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE SPINE AND LOWER RIGHT CORNER FRONT. FORMER OWNER LABEL INSIDE FRONT, COUPLE SMALL ERASED PENCIL MARKS INSIDE VERY FRONT. NO OTHER MARKINGS. PAGES AND BINDING TIGHT. AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. RIVERSIDE EDITION. VIGNETTE TITLE PAGE. BEAUTIFUL PICTURE FRONTISPIECE. published in 1822 under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Resembling its predecessor, The Sketch Book, the collection includes stories with English, French, and Spanish settings, but is chiefly remembered for ¿Dolph Heyliger¿ and its sequel, ¿The Storm-Ship,¿ which recount the adventures of a New York lad who undertakes to discredit the legend of a haunted house, but encounters its ghost and recovers a fabulous buried treasure, as well as marrying an heiress. Americanized versions of the Flying Dutchman theme are presented in ¿The… Read More

NEW YORK: P. F. COLLIER & SON, 1880 NICE MAROON COVER, IMPRINTED DESIGN, LIGHT WATER STAIN FRONT WITH HEAVIER STAIN SHOWING BACK, GOLD PRINT SPINE, TIGHT INSIDE, NO MARKINGS, VERY SLIGHT EDGE RUN OF RED FROM COVER INK. FRONTISPIECE IS BATTLE OF TRENTON. PREFACE WRITTEN 1855 BY IRVING. CHAPTER 1 IS GENEALOGY WASHINGTON, 2 BOYHOOD, 13 IS FORT CUMBERLAND, 30 GENERAL COURT, 42 AND FINAL CHAPTER FOCUSES ON DEPARTURE FROM PHILADELPHIA, BUNKER HILL, MILITARY COUNCIL, NEW YORK, JOHNSON FAMILY, FINISHING WITH A SITUATION WITH CORNWALLIS. THE NEW HUDSON EDITION. CIRCA 1880, NO PUBLISH DATE. THIS BOOK IS PACKED WITH INFORMATION. Irving, Washington (1783-1859), American author of essays, travel books, biographies, and true and legendary histories. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: SYNDICATE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1912 RED COVER, TEXTURED FRONT, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. 1/4" TEAR TOP OF SPINE COVER,
22 CHAPTERS, FRONTISPIECE A CHARACTER NAMED CONSTANCE. GOOD SHAPE TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT.
William Henry Irwin (September 14, 1873 – February 24, 1948) was an American author, writer and journalist who was associated with the muckrakers. Irwin was born in 1873 in Oneida, New York. In his early childhood, the Irwin family moved to Clayville, New York, a farming and mining center south of Utica.
Irwin began his writing career as a humorist with the San Francisco magazine The Lark but quickly moved on to war reporting and nonfiction writing on serious subjects. Managing editor, McClure's Magazine, 1906-07; writer, Collier's Weekly, 1907-08; war correspondent for the London Daily Mail 1914-15, and the Saturday Evening Post, 1916-18. His brother was humorist Wallace Irwin and his wife was reporter-novelist Inez Haynes Irwin.
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PHILADELPHIA: THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 1897 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER, DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 24 CHAPTERS. THE CENTRE OF SOCIAL LIFE, LIFE IN THE SYNAGOGUE, COMMUNAL ORGANIZATION, INSTITUTION OF THE GHETTO, SOCIAL MORALITY, THE SLAVE TRADE, MONOGAMY AND THE HOME, HOME LIFE, LOVE AND COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE CUSTOMS, TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS, JEWS AND THEATRE, PURIM PLAY AND DRAMA, COSTUME IN LAW AND FASHION, JEWISH BADGE, PRIVATE AND COMMUNAL CHARITIES, POOR, SICK ANDAPTIVE, MEDIEVAL SCHOOLS, EDUCATION, MEDIEVAL PASTIMES AND INDOOR AMUSEMENTS, CHESS AND CARDS, JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS. Israel Abrahams, MA (b. London, 26 November 1858; d. Cambridge, 6 October 1925) was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most notably, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896). ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.