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THE CULT OF POWER: Essays.
Edition: First printing.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1946.). Hardcover first edition - A series of essays written at the end of World War II on the cult of power in literature, from the classics to modern writings, from Aeschylus to Dostoievsky, Dickens and Yeats. 155 pp.
Condition: Very good in original red cloth (no dust jacket, small strip torn off top of front endpaper, some rubbing to the spine.)
Book ID: 53004More details Price: $15.00 -
A THOUSAND SISTERS: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Balzer + Bray (Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - The story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - Led by Marina Raskova three regiments consisting of women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics were formed including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. Photographs, source notes and an author's note. 376 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 81283More details Price: $19.50 -
FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Postatomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe and then set out to explore the devastation inflicted on Nagasaki. Censored by General MacArthur in 1945, lost for 60 years, these never-before-published reports provide a moving, unparalleled look at the bomb that killed more than 70,000 people and ended WWII. Also includes other published reports on the horrors of Japan's Pow Camps. Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited with an essay by Anthony Weller, the son of George Weller. Photographs. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-307-342018.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45137More details Price: $18.00 -
CHERRY AMES, PRIVATE DUTY NURSE (# 7).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1950, c 1946.) dj. Hardcover - 1960's printing in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards. 216 pp.
Condition: Very good in a poor dust jacket (prev owner's name - dust jacket is essentially complete, but has several long tears, chipping, creasing, now protected by an archival cover.)
Book ID: 39554More details Price: $16.00 -
CHERRY AMES, CHIEF NURSE (# 4).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1955, c 1944.) dj. Hardcover - Cherry is sent to the South Pacific to deliver a new serum for tropical fever and finds herself appointed chief nurse of the Army hospital. A story of bravery on the battlefield during World War II. Frontispiece. Bound in burgundy boards, light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting to top edge. 213 pp. Yellow spine dust jacket lists through #9, book lists thru 18.
Condition: Good condition in a fair only dust jacket with several tears , chipping at ends of spine (now protected by an archival cover)
Book ID: 62794More details Price: $16.50 -
CHERRY AMES, PRIVATE DUTY NURSE (# 7).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1959, c 1946.) dj. Hardcover - Cherry is back in her hometown to 'rest' after her experiences as an Army nurse. Plain frontispiece. 1950s printing in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards. 216 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (neat stamp on front endpaper, some overall edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 71159More details Price: $21.00 -
CHERRY AMES, CHIEF NURSE (# 4).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1959, c 1944.) dj. Hardcover - Cherry is sent to the South Pacific to deliver a new serum for tropical fever and finds herself appointed chief nurse of the Army hospital. A story of bravery on the battlefield during World War II. Frontispiece. Bound in dusty rose tweed boards, light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting to top edge. Frontispiece. 213 pp. Yellow spine dust jacket and front of book lists through #20.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (neat stamp on front endpaper, some overall edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 71160More details Price: $21.00 -
CHERRY AMES, PRIVATE DUTY NURSE (# 7).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1950, c 1946.) dj. Hardcover - Lists to #11 on the back cover of the dust jacket, bound in burgundy cloth covered boards, light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting to the top edge. Frontispiece. 216 pp. Yellow spine on dustjacket.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (price-clipped, overall edgewear to dj, but still quite attractive.)
Book ID: 44581More details Price: $24.00 -
THE ROYAL GREEEN JACKETS (Osprey Men-at-Arms series)
Edition: First printing.
London: Osprey Publishing, (1977.). First edition - A study of this British regiment from its service in the French and Indian war in North America through the Napoleonic Wars, the Great War and World War II. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and reproductions of old engravings and drawings, plus a section of eight full color plates by MIchael Roffe. First edition of this early title in the "Men-at-Arms Series" a very high quality, accurate and attractively produced and well-illustrated series of slightly oversized, but slim, trade paperbacks, measuring 7 1/4 inches wide by 9 3/4 inches tall, bound in glossy illustrated white covers (heavy cardstock) and printed on good quality paper. Select bibliography, Notes. 40 pp. Uncommon in the first printing. ISBN: 0-85045249X.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff glossy pictorial wrappers (covers creamy rather than white.)
Book ID: 37730More details Price: $30.00 -
PACIFIC ALAMO: The Battle for Wake Island.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in printed cream wrappers.
Book ID: 32946More details Price: $25.00 -
FROZEN IN TIME: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57529More details Price: $18.00