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UNDER THE GYPSY MOON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, set in Paris under the Nazi occupation during World War II. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-385-247060.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60990More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FUGITIVE.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first major novel, written while he was a political prisoner and originally published in Indonesia in 1950. New translation and introductory note by Willem Samuels, Set during World War II on the 16th and 17th of August, 1945 at the end of the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. 171 pp. ISBN: 0-688-086985.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46309More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LANGUAGE OF THREADS
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, a story of the hardships suffered during World War II, set in Hong Kong when it was occupied by the Japanese 276 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203764.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 47941More details Price: $15.00 -
THE STREET OF A THOUSAND BLOSSOMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which opens in 1939 Tokyo where two orphaned brothers are living with their grandparents - but spans 30 years - as they have to put their dreams on hold during the war, and then find their way in a new Japan. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203764.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (some light toning to the pages and edges of the textblock).
Book ID: 70267More details Price: $18.00 -
THE STREET OF A THOUSAND BLOSSOMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which opens in 1939 Tokyo where two orphaned brothers are living with their grandparents - but spans 30 years - as they have to put their dreams on hold during the war, and then find their way in a new Japan. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-312-203764.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (toning to pages, short tear to dj)
Book ID: 78707More details Price: $16.50 -
END OF THE BEGINNING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of alternate history - the Japanese Imperial forces have conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. SIGNED on the title page 440 pp. ISBN: 0-421-218687.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54695More details Price: $28.50 -
COUP D'ETAT: The War That Came Early, #4.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth volume in this alternate history of World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0-345-524652.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (tear at fold of dj on rear cover)
Book ID: 67993More details Price: $28.50 -
WORLDWAR: STRIKING THE BALANCE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The fourth and final book in this alternate history of World War II. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2000. 465 pp. Dust jacket by Stan Watts. ISBN: 0-345405501.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 69038More details Price: $17.50 -
WORLDWAR: TILTING THE BALANCE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Ballantine, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The second book in this alternate history of World War II. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2000. 478 pp. Dust jacket by Stan Watts. ISBN: 0-345389972.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 69039More details Price: $17.50 -
WORLDWAR: IN THE BALANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this alternate history of World War II. - Germany, Russia, France, China and Japan were engaged in a titanic struggle - and then the real enemy came - inhuman invaders with technology far beyond that found on earth. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2000. 488 pp. Dust jacket by Bob Eggleton. ISBN: 0-345382412.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 69040More details Price: $27.50 -
WORLDWAR: UPSETTING THE BALANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in this alternate history of World War II. 481 pp. Dust jacket by Stan Watts. ISBN: 0-345402219.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 84671More details Price: $16.50 -
THE TURKEY WAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this, his third novel (and the one which he described as his favorite), Unger returns to the South Dakota town which was the setting for his first. Set during World War II, this is a tragically ironic story of German prisoners-of-war who initially work to improve production at the Nowell Safebuy turkey processing plant, only to find themselves subject to more drastically worsened and unsafe working conditions. ISBN: 0-06-0159510.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 28942More details Price: $15.00 -
HAMMER ON THE SEA.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - an historical novel that "provides an authentic and vivid portrait of Greece during World War II." Occupied by the Nazis, there was also resistance from guerrilla fighters, which in turn led to reprisal killings by the Germans. 182 pp.
Condition: Near fine in tan boards in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing and minor wear (bookplate on front pastedown)
Book ID: 88206More details Price: $16.50 -
THE GARDENS OF KYOTO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 286 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 62951More details Price: $19.50 -
THE GARDENS OF KYOTO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 286 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 62952More details Price: $16.50 -
THE GARDENS OF KYOTO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2001). First edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78467More details Price: $22.50 -
THE END OF THE BATTLE.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The last novel in Waugh's World War II trilogy, Men at War - opening with Guy Crouchback returning from war to hear the words "Sorry, Uncle, you're too old." His commando training gets him one last assignment - liason work with the partisans in Yugoslavia. Synopsis of the previous volumes. xiv, 319 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, sunning to spine.).
Book ID: 55664More details Price: $50.00 -
CHERRY AMES, ARMY NURSE (#3 in series).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1959, c 1944) dj. Hardcover - Set during World War II. Cherry has just received her R.N. and she, and her entire nursing school class, sign up for the Army Nurse Corps. Plain frontispiece. Bound in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards with light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting on top edge. 214 pp.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, overall edgewear to dj, tear along fold of flap).
Book ID: 71161More details Price: $15.00 -
THE VERY RICH HOURS OF COUNT VON STAUFFENBERG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the 36 hours leading up to the 20 July 1944 attempt of Hitler's life - a book which is a combination of historical fiction, biography, and intellectual history. It is also an exploration of Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenber's complicated life as a charismatic officer, and soldier, badly injured in Tunisia, and as an aristocrat, an amateur cellist, a friend of poet Stefan George and as a man who tried and failed to change history. Includes an introduction in which West explains how he came to write this book, and two appendices with names and places in the book, and maps. xii, 365 pp. ISBN: 0-06014593.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Surprisingly uncommon in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 84690More details Price: $30.00 -
CHEKHOV'S SISTER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Yalta during the World War II, when the Germans were occupying the area, and inspired by the real life dedication and determination of Maria Pavlova Chekhov. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-316-931624.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder line.)
Book ID: 40922More details Price: $16.50 -
CHEKHOV'S SISTER.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1990.) dj. Hardcover - Novel set in Yalta during the World War II, when the Germans were occupying the area, and inspired by the real life dedication and determination of Maria Pavlova Chekhov. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-316-931624.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46463More details Price: $12.50 -
A MIDNIGHT CLEAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel written by this author and artist under this pseudonym. Set during World War II, in the Ardennes Forest in December 1944, this was the basis for the excellent movie of the same name. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-394-519671.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 50192More details Price: $25.00 -
BIRDY.
Edition: Paperback.
UK: Penguin, (1980). An extraordinary first novel, the story of a boy - and later a man's - obsession with flight, an obsession that both liberates him and drives him to madness. Winner of the National Book Award. Basis for the film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-394-425693.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 83168More details Price: $10.00 -
BIRDY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - An extraordinary first novel, the story of a boy - and later a man's - obsession with flight, an obsession that both liberates him and drives him to madness. Winner of the National Book Award. Basis for the film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. 310 pp. Dust jacket by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-394-425693.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (slit to front cover of dj beside the spine).
Book ID: 61247More details Price: $25.00 -
BIRDY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An extraordinary first novel, the story of a boy - and later a man's - obsession with flight, an obsession that both liberates him and drives him to madness. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award. Basis for the film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. 310 pp. Dust jacket by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-394-425693.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (discoloration from glue to endpapers and underneath dj flaps, remainder line, hint of spine slant, etc. Original price of 8.95 on dj flap)
Book ID: 85594More details Price: $85.00 -
THE LONG SUMMER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - When cynical Private Tom Wilkins experiences the harsh reality of D-Day he understands the reasons for the long summer spent training for it. The author was himself a World War II commando. 188 pp. Dust jacket Art By Loretta Trezzo. ISBN: 0-151530793.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82176More details Price: $21.50 -
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2000). Hardcover first edition - A novel of international intrigue and suspense, which begins in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1944, a city where it is easy to disappear and where secrets are bought and sold. 464 pp. ISBN: 0-151008469.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68689More details Price: $16.50 -
A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON.
Edition: First printing.
London: Harper Collins, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The death of a young girl in modern Portugal is discovered to have its roots in Nazi wartime deals in 1941. A complex mystery, linking past and present, winner of the CWA Golden Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel. 440 pp. ISBN: 0-00232668x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 87682More details Price: $31.50 -
THE WHITE LADY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2023) dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel by the author of the Maisie Dobbs series. Set in post-World War II England, in 1947, where Elinor White, known locally as 'the White lady', is living a solitary, quiet life in a cottage in the Kent countryside, trying to put her experiences in two world wars behind her, until she is drawn into helping a local man who is the son and grandson of the most dangerous crime families in London. Cover praise from Lee Child and Louise Penny who said "Winspear creates in Elinor White, a complex, endearing, achingly flawed hero. This is both fast-paced and thoughtful, bold and nuanced, a thriller that is thrillingly human." 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0062867988.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88409More details Price: $21.50 -
JOYCE OF SECRET SQUADRON: A Captain Midnight Adventure.
Edition: First edition.
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1942) dj. Hardcover first edition - World War II adventure novel for young adults, set on a hidden air force base in teh South Pacific. Authorized Edition, Based on the Famous Radio Series "Captain Midnight". Eighteen black and white illustrations by Erwin L. Darwin. 251 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Good in a good+ dust jacket (usual rather severe toning to the pages).
Book ID: 74333More details Price: $15.00