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THE GREAT FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'great fire' of the title is World War II, which swept Europe and Asia - in the aftermath, Leith, a war hero, is sent to occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima. Dustjacket praise from Michael Cunningham (who calls Hazzard 'purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today') and Ann Patchett (who says it is 'brilliant and dazzling... worth a twenty year wait.') Winner of the 2003 National Book Award. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166447.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (gold award sticker on dj)
Book ID: 86129More details Price: $20.00 -
THE GREAT FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'great fire' of the title is World War II, which swept Europe and Asia - in the aftermath, Leith, a war hero, is sent to occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima. Dustjacket praise from Michael Cunningham (who calls Hazzard 'purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today') and Ann Patchett (who says it is 'brilliant and dazzling... worth a twenty year wait.') Winner of the 2003 National Book Award. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166447.
Condition: Fine in fine (first issue) dust jacket.
Book ID: 35915More details Price: $25.00 -
STONES FROM THE RIVER
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Scribner, (1995.). A novel of Germany in the first half of the 20th century - a period of two devastating wars and uneasy years between. 525 pp. ISBN: 0-684-84477x.
Condition: Very good..
Book ID: 46979More details Price: $10.00 -
THE AIRMEN AND THE HEADHUNTERS: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007). First edition - The story of American airmen, whose B-24 was shot down in 1944 during a mission over Japanese-controlled Borneo, into the territory of headhunters, who befriended and protected the airmen, as they used their hunting skills against the occupying Japanese, until the eventual rescue of the Americans. Glossary, sources. 271 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66257More details Price: $18.00 -
SORROWLESS TIMES: A Narrative.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look back at his youth, by this teacher and writer on education - when, at 17, he had joined the Merchant Marine at the tail end of World War II and set out to see the world. ISBN: 0-671-243217.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (remainder mark, light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 21262More details Price: $12.50 -
THE WALL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - An important novel by Hersey about the Warsaw ghetto during World War II: "On the surface 'The Wall' is the story of the systematic piecemeal extermination of the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto, and of the heroic resistance of defenseless men and women against the full brute force of the Germans. But the real story is the growth in spirit of a group of friends, so that they emerge undismayed and triumphant in the face of physical annihilation." Striking dustjacket design by George Salter. 632 pp.
Condition: Very good in embossed green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fair only dust jacket (significant edgewear to the dj, with several small chips, rubbing to the folds, price-clipped)
Book ID: 80116More details Price: $21.50 -
THE SWASTIKA POEMS.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third collection of poetry and one of his most important. In this he looks at his heritage as an American born son of a German immigrant, one whose relatives were fighting for Germany duing World War II, and at the horrors of the Holocaust. One of only 50 numbered and SIGNED copies out of a total edition of 3500 copies. Notes. 82 pp. ISBN: 0-814907806.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket in a fine slipcase.
Book ID: 82071More details Price: $85.00 -
NIGHT OF THE FOX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set on German-occupied Jersey during World War II. 316 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-671-637274.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53992More details Price: $16.00 -
GERMAN SECRET WEAPONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR : The Missiles, Rockets , Weapons and New Technology of the Third Reich.
Edition: First printing.
London & Pennsylvania: Greenhill Books / Stackpole Books, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed examination of the revolutionary new weapons developed by Germany during WW 2, incl. V-Weapons - "The sheer magnitude of the secret weapon projects of the Third Reich is now revealed in this comprehensive study written by one of the world's great experts on weaponry, which captures both the reality behind the weapons actually produced and the intentions behind projects still in their infancy when the war ended." Illustrated with line drawings and photographs. List of German code names, index. 224 pp. ISBN: 1853673250.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 42785More details Price: $25.00 -
WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Her first novel, the story of a family trying to survive the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80771More details Price: $28.50 -
WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first novel, the story of a family trying to survive the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-609609521.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80772More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BLACKBIRDER.
Edition: Reprint - 2nd Tower printing.
Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co., (1945) dj. Hardcover - The old slave-traders were known as "blackbirders," and now during the second World War, with thousands desperate to flee from the Nazis, traffic in humans is going on again. One thousand dollars to fly a refugee over the border and into New Mexico. After a young German is shot outside her apartment in New York, where she was living, undocumented, a desperate girl - who had already escaped once from German controlled Paris to Cuba to precarious sanctuary in the US - finds her way to Santa Fe in order to escape - but what or who is pursuing her and why? A suspenseful novel, with a vulnerable but appealing heroine. 250 pp.
Condition: Good in a good dustjacket - usual rather severe toning to the pages, small spot whited out on front endpaper, some toning and edgewear to the dj
Book ID: 86016More details Price: $19.50 -
SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Very good overall - the usual toning to the pages, some minor wear to the covers.
Book ID: 87970More details Price: $50.00 -
WHAT THE SCARECROW SAID.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins [Reagan Books], (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Japanese American writer's very highly praised first novel. 'Cast out of his native California, 'relocated' to an armed camp, and made a victim of almost unbearable family loss, Billy Fujita finds himself in the coldest reaches of Massachusetts in the closing months of World War II. A spirited widow, Margaret Kelly, has helped secure his release in the hope that Fujita, a horticulturist, will turn her barren land into a working farm. Together with Margaret, a war widow named Livvie, and her damaged young son, Garvin, Fujita becomes a reluctant participant in an impromptu family... a story of how even in the harshest soil the roots of love and family can thrive.' Appendix, glossary. 445 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0391642.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (peeled spot on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 31521More details Price: $20.00 -
WHAT THE SCARECROW SAID.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 40947More details Price: $28.00 -
OPERATION NAPOLEON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An international thriller by this award-winner writer - one which sweeps from modern Iceland to Nazi Germany. Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0312659103.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (tanning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 87401More details Price: $18.50 -
A PALE VIEW OF HILLS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Putnam, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ishiguro's first novel, a book which fuses past and present in the story of a Japanese woman living in England, who, after the suicide of her older daughter, shares with her English-born younger daughter memories of life in Nagasaki one summer after the bomb, as new buildings were just beginning to be built on top of the devastation. This book was the winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Ishiguro went on to win the Booker Prize (four of his novels were short-listed for that prize) and in 2017 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. 183 pp. Dust jacket by Joel Avirom. ISBN: 0-399127186.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a tight copy which appears unread, but with remainder mark, with ink smudge on top edge of front board, 1 1/4 " tear to dj at fold of rear flap)
Book ID: 81135More details Price: $275.00 -
FOR THE DURATION.
Edition: First printing.
Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of memoirs which span the years from 1939 to 1946. When war was declared in England in 1939, the author joined the British Red Cross Society and was posted as a nurse to a London hospital and later is sent to India. INSCRIBED on the title page "To dear --- with happy remembrances. Read and enjoy. Affectionately, Eve." Illustrated with photographs. 134 pp. ISBN: 1571970061.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (some shelfwear to bottom edge of boards.)
Book ID: 60431More details Price: $25.00 -
JAGENDORF'S FOUNDRY: A Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941-1944.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author, then a 56 year old engineer, was among the Romanian Jews deported to the German-occupied Soviet territory of Moghilev. He set up a small task force to repair the city's iron-works (The Foundry), and then continued to devise new projects to keep the spared workers alive - eventually saving 15,000 lives. Written by Jagendorf before his death in the United States in 1970, but never published, this account is interspersed with commentaries with Hirt-Manheimer that expand and document this account. Photographs, sources, index. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-06-016106x.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 37444More details Price: $15.00 -
THE THIN RED LINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (1962.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Jones' massive novel about the fighting on Guadacanal during World War II, basis for the movie of the same name. 495 pp plus 2 pages of sheet music: "Don't Monkey Around With Death" at end. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very good+ in very good dust jacket (some rubbing and wear to the dj, sunning to the spine.)
Book ID: 57601More details Price: $75.00 -
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: Memoirs of a Wartime Boomtown.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77823More details Price: $30.00 -
WHY MY FATHER DIED: A Daughter Confronts Her Family's Past at the Trial of Klaus Barbie.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83992More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ALIBI.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63161More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ALIBI.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. SIGNED on the title page. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63266More details Price: $30.00 -
KAO'S BOYHOOD (Originlly entitled Child Labour)
Edition: 3rd printing.
Peking (Beijing): The Foreign Language Press, 1963 (c 1954). A graphic novel / comic strip from before the Cultural Revolution. Adapted from one chapter of Kao Yu-pao's autobiography, this tells of the part he played in the underground against the Japanese invaders in Northeast China before and in WWII. "The story thoroughly exposes the Japanese imperialists' oppression of the Chinese workers and faithfully brings out the militant struggle and lofty qualities of the Chinese working class led by the Chinese Communist Party." Illustrated in black and white on every page by Kao Yu-Pao, Tao Chih-an, Lu Tan, Pen Ching-yu, Wang Hsu-yang and Chou Li. Oblong format. 96 pp.
Condition: Good overall - toning to pages and covers, slight chipping to bottom edge of front cover.
Book ID: 86723More details Price: $40.00 -
SELECTED LATER POEMS OF MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ.
Edition: First printing.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book length translation of this noted German poet's work into English - most of the poems are from the last two decades of her life, and many deal with confronting the past - that is, the years under Hitler and World War II. Bilingual edition with the original German on the verso, the English translation on the right. Introduction by the translater. SIGNED on the title page by Mueller and uncommon thus. A title in the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. xii, 111 pp. ISBN: 0-691-064423.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 55241More details Price: $50.00 -
HEAVEN PAYS NO DIVIDENDS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of World War II, told dispassionately and with irony by a young German writer who lived through these events. Translated from the German by Eric Mosbacher.
Condition: Near fine in a slightly edgeworn, but overall very good, dustjacket.
Book ID: 16019More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BASTARD BRIGADE: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86233More details Price: $21.50 -
THROUGH THE BURNING STEPPE: A Wartime Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Written as a tribute to her mother's heroism, this is the story of an 8 year old girl and her mother, evacuted with her family from Leningrad when the Germans laid seige to it in 1941. Her brother, sister and grandmother all died on the journey or shortly after their arrival in a remote Cossack village, leaving only Elena and her mother to struggle for survival. Translated from the Russian by the author's son, Vadim Mahmoudov. 176 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-1538.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 27447More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ANGEL GANG
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third and final mystery in the the award-winning Tom Hickey trilogy, set during World War II. n the 1940's in San Diego, California. SIGNED by the author. ISBN: 0-312-10930x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 43555More details Price: $28.50