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THE ANGEL GANG
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third 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 -
SHOAH: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST: The Conplete Text of the Film
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Pantheon, 1985 dj. Hardcover first edition - transcription of English subtitles to the 1985 French film. Photographs. 200 pages. ISBN: 0-394-551427.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17659More details Price: $25.00 -
DEAD WAKE: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, (2015). First edition - On May 1st, 1915 the Lusitania set sail on its final voyage, sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. In addition to the account of its sinking, this focuses on the politics of World War I, on the rise of the importance of Germany's submarines, and on some of the passengers - including the famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat and pioneering female architect Theodate Pope - on the Captain, William Thomas Turner, and on the total unpreparedness for the attack, despite a warning from the Germans as the ship left New York. Notes, bibliography. 418 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73059More details Price: $20.00 -
MOTHER SPEAKS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Portland, OR: Paper Radio Press, (1997). First edition - An uncommon collection of narrative poems, written in the first person voice of the author's mother, as he tells the story of her birth in Ukraine in 1925, growing up in a Stalinist orphanage, working as a slave laborer during World War II, and more. 87 pp. ISBN: 0-96509938.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74839More details Price: $20.00 -
WORLD GONE BY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015). SIGNED first edition - A complex novel which continues the story of Joe Coughlin, during the years of World War II, as he tries to raise his son in peace, and also to navigate the criminal underworld between Bautista's Cuba and Ybor City, Florida. SIGNED on the title page and dated 2015. 308 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with wraparound band.
Book ID: 82544More details Price: $30.00 -
WORLD GONE BY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015). First edition - A complex novel which continues the story of Joe Coughlin, during the years of World War II, as he tries to raise his son in peace, and also to navigate the criminal underworld between Bautista's Cuba and Ybor City, Florida. 308 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers (the earlier of the two advance issues for this title, preceding the advance reading copy).
Book ID: 73106More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SPECIAL PRISONER.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel about a man, a bishop now nearing retirement, who is taken back to the days when he was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during World War II. SIGNED bookplate attached to the half title page. ISBN: 0-375-503714.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 19349More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HOLOCAUST: The Destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945.
Edition: Taiwan piracy.
New York: Crowell, (1968) dj. Hardcover - An inexpensive printing of this detailed study not just of the events at the death camps themselves but of the factors which led up to them and also of the influence of the course of the war on the implementation of the "final solution." Illustrated with photographs. Notes, index. 769 pp.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (some dampstaining to the outer edges of the textblock, printed on the usual very thin paper, short tears to dj edges. ).
Book ID: 84603More details Price: $20.00 -
HIROSHIMA IN AMERICA: Fifty Years of Denial
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Book written to mark the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Index, notes and an appendix that discusses the images of Hiroshima in film and books.425 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140727.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 7703More details Price: $18.00 -
MOON TIGER
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Booker Prize winner. As a woman lies dying, she reflects back on her long and adventurous life, as a newspaper correspondent, historical novelist, wife, mother, lover - but her thoughts focus repeatedly on a passionate love affair in Cairo during World War II. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-10274.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 24899More details Price: $24.00 -
MAKING IT UP.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In her preface, Lively contends that this is fiction - that it is an anti-memoir in which she uses events from her own life to examine alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path and changed our lives completely. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-670-034479.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 45249More details Price: $15.00 -
A NEGRO'S FAITH IN AMERICA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - In addition to discussion of the issues of "many Harlems', Negro leadership, etc. this book contains an interesting chapter on African Americans in the military, based on his own experiences. vi, 88 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in a somewhat worn, but still good, dustjacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 20986More details Price: $28.00 -
A NEGRO'S FAITH IN AMERICA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1946. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In addition to discussion of the issues of "many Harlems', Negro leadership, etc. this book contains an interesting chapter on African Americans in the military, based on his own experiences. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. vi, 88 pp.
Condition: Near fine in navy blue cloth with silver lettering in a good only dustjacket with a few small chips, some sunning and wear to the spine, rubbing to the folds, original price of 1.75 on dj flap.
Book ID: 87979More details Price: $95.00 -
IMPERIAL VALLEY NISEI WOMEN: Transcending Poston.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
DeWitt, NY: New Persephone Press in conjunction with the Japanese American Citizens League, Imperial Valley, California. (2006). SIGNED first edition - "A collection of oral histories of five articulate Japanese-American women whose young lives had been interrupted by Executive Order 9066, a presidential order on 2/29/42, which put 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wires during World War II" - for these women in Poston, Arizona. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Notes, selected works and resources. Oblong format. 90 pp. ISBN: 0-977976904.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78433More details Price: $50.00 -
TULE LAKE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
W a l d p o r t , O regon: H o u s e B y t h e S e a P u b l i s h i n g C o . , (1979.). One of the first Japanese-American novels to portray the struggle for justice and freedom from within the confines of America's concentration camps by those who refused to cooperate with the internment of 120,000 of their fellow Americans during World War II. The author was seven years old when he was sent to a camp with his family. Tule Lake was unique among these camps in that it housed those who were deemed 'disloyal' by the US government. 3 2 8 p p . p l u s g l o s s a r y .
Condition: Very good+.
Book ID: 46881More details Price: $18.00 -
MY LIFE AND TIMES: Octave Nine 1946-1953.
Edition: First printing.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The ninth volume of his ten volume autobiography. This begins with Mackenzie at age sixty-three, travelling to every battleground between Tunis and Hong Kong where the Indian Army had fought, in preparation for a book on the history of India's achievements during World War II. Photographs. Eight appendices. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-701115777.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (underlining - some in pencil and some in ink- affecting some of the first 80 pages of the book, dj is price-clipped.) Rather hard-to-find.
Book ID: 40176More details Price: $24.50 -
BLOOD TIES: A Woman's History.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco & New York: Moon Books / Random House, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Part an account of the author's life - she was born in Yugoslavia in 1934, and with her family fled to Dalmatia during World War II, where they were interned on an Italian-controlled island - and part an oral history of her maternal grandmother (Hofbauer), a Jewish woman of Serbo-Croation heritage, who was 84 when this book was written. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "Happy Birthday dear Sally and to us all" and signed as Ani, dated in San Francisco in 1978. Only of one 5000 copies. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-394407660.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to the pages, short closed tear to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 72770More details Price: $25.00 -
THIS PEACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - An ironically titled brief book, written after the Munich agreement of September 1938 in which Mann "castigates those whom he holds responsible for a settlement unfortunate for the future of the democratic peoples" - an event he calls the final triumph of fascism, aided by the ruling classes of England, as he lays out one betrayal after another - of the German people themselves, of the atrocities of the concentration camps and the torture and murder of Jews and Christians, of the annexation of Austria, and of the betrayal of the Czech Republic. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Bibliography. 38 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some discoloration to the gutters of the endpapers and sunning and discoloration to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 87519More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HIDDEN CHILDREN: Secret Survivors of the Holocaust.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains 22 stories, recorded by Marks, many being told for the first time of "Jewish men and women who hid from the Nazis as children - and of how this experience shaped their later lives. . . In Nazi-occupied Europe, there were about 1.6 million Jewish children, ny 1945, about 1.5 million had been killed. . Some children, however, survived by disguising themselves as Christians and hiding--often without their families, and often forced to live in sewers, huts, barns, and woods." (Kirkus) Preface by Abraham H. Foxon and a chapter on the historical perspective by Nechama Tec. Photographs. xxvii, 307 pp. ISBN: 0-44990685X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 88591More details Price: $20.00 -
BETWEEN SILK AND CYANIDE: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster) (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir by the son of the bookseller at 84 Charing Cross Road. In 1942, at 22 years old, Leo Marks left his father's famous London bookshop and went off to fight the war. He became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into occupied Europe, including "the White Rabbit" and Violette Szabo. Although this book displays Marks's keen sense of the absurd and his wry wit, it is even more a book which celebrates individual courage and endeavor, as it never loses sight of the human cost and horror of war. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 614 pp. ISBN: 0-684864223.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 83083More details Price: $21.50 -
NAVAL BATTLES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: Pacific and Far East.
Edition: First printing.
Yorkshire - Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Maritime, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first part of this book covers from Pearl Harbor to Midway and the second part is pn the long and bloody campaign in the southwest Pacific. Illustrated throughout with photographs, charts and drawings. Slightly oversized. Glossary and abbreviations. Includes a list of warships. vii, 157 pp plus 1 p selected bibliography. ISBN: 978-1399098984.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a few corners lightly dog-eared, some creasing to top edge of dj)
Book ID: 88449More details Price: $35.00 -
HIROSHIMA NO PIKA.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards in a very good dust jacket (some edgewear to the dj, creasing to the flaps)
Book ID: 86178More details Price: $300.00 -
HIROSHIMA NO PIKA.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a very near fine dust jacket (light toning to cream background, original price of 12.95 on dj flap)
Book ID: 89089More details Price: $95.00 -
THE MUSHROOM YEARS: A Story of Survival.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Camino, CA: Henderson House, (c 1998.). SIGNED - An account of a relatively unknown aspect of World War II, the story of the house arrest and eventual imprisonment of a British family in the Japanese prison camp of Weihsien in occupied China, as told through the eyes of one of the teenaged daughters of the family. Includes a new preface from 2001 by Halmar Moser-Flynn and an author's note in which she explains very definitely that Amelia Earhart had not been imprisoned there. INSCRIBED by the author on the first page. Maps, illustrated title page, bibliography, 311 pp. ISBN: 0-9664489-28.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44537More details Price: $20.00 -
MISSION TO SHANGHAI: The Life of Medical Service of Dr. Josiah C. McCracken.
Edition: First printing.
New London, New Hampshire: Tiffin Press, (1995.). Hardcover first edition - Biography (by his eldest daughter) of this doctor, a college and Olympic athlete, and a deeply religious man, who spent most of his life serving in China - from 1907 to 1912 and in Shanghai from 1914 to 1942, including under the Japanese occupation, and following repatriation to the U.S. during World War II, he returned to China after the war, " helping in the monumental task of revitalizing the St. John's University medical department, coping with wartime devastation, shortages of money, fuel, food, supplies, and the vagaries of an emerging communist government." Photographs. List of graduates of St John's Medical College, Notes. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-9646018-18.
Condition: Fine (as new) in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 44413More details Price: $18.00 -
ORDER OF BATTLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1972) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first full-length novel by this Danish born writer, director and television and movie producer of mostly science fiction films. While this book, set in the final days of the World War II Allied drive into Nazi Germany is fiction, it is based on the author's own experiences and files of the US Counter Intelligence Corps; the story deals with ferreting out and destroying the Nazi Werewolf organization. SIGNED on the title page (not on a bookplate). Bibliography. 304 pp. Dust jacket design by Muriel Nasser. ISBN: 0-06-0129379.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a hint of spine slant)
Book ID: 62799More details Price: $35.00 -
HANGING SAM: A Military Biography of General Samuel T. Williams: From Pancho Villa to Vietnam.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, (1980.). First edition - Biography of this Brigadier General who first enlisted in the Texas militia in 1916 to fight Pancho Villa. Frontispiece, photographs. Notes, bibliography, index 192 pp. ISBN: 0-929398122.
Condition: Very good (gift inscription, crease to rear cover.)
Book ID: 37698More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WORLD IS MY HOME: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of some of the events which shaped his life - from a small town Pennsylvania boy brought up in a foster home, to a young naval officer during World War II to a Pulitzer prize winning author. Photographs. Index. 519 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-678-401342.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (gift inscription.)
Book ID: 51847More details Price: $12.50 -
THE FIRST DAY ON THE SOMME: 1 July 1916
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Norton, (1972.) dj. Hardcover - An account of the blackest day in British military history - on that date, the mostly volunteer British Army went over the top and into the German trenches and had 60,000 casualties in just one day. With the deaths went a loss of innocence and a confidence that the war could be won. Photographs, maps, Index. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-39305442X.
Condition: Very good in an edgeworn and fair only dust jacket.
Book ID: 37943More details Price: $14.00 -
INCIDENT AT VICHY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A play by this Pulitzer prize-winning, set during the early years of World War II in a detention center in Vichy, France where nine men and a boy have been taken into custody for reasons unknown to them. 70 pp. plus cast list of original production.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some fading to the gray cloth spine, edgewear, one short closed tear, to dj., original price of 3.50 still present.)
Book ID: 36007More details Price: $35.00