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AGENT 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Agent 110 was Allen Dulles, a new spy from an eminent family. From his townhouse in Bern, and in clandestine meetings in restaurants, he "met with and facilitated the plots of Germans who were trying to destroy the countrys leadership. Their underground network exposed Dulles to the political maneuverings of the Soviets, who were already competing for domination of Germany, and all of Europe, in the post-war period." While his negotiations fell short during the war, in the 1950s he was placed in charge of the CIA. Photographs. Notes, index. xxii, 342 pp. ISBN: 978-1451693386.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, toning to edges of textblock.
Book ID: 85859More details Price: $16.50 -
ROMMEL'S DESERT WAR: The Life and Death of The Afrika Korps.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Stein & Day, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of this decisive World War II campaign, waged in North Africa in 1941-1942, based on Rommel's letters and papers and accounts of his subordinates. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-8128-27848.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (some edgewear to dj, sunning to spine).
Book ID: 43273More details Price: $15.00 -
IN THE LABYRINTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, based on hours of interviews with "Joseph Pallehner" (the fictitious name of a real person) which begins shortly after World War II, when Pallehner, a Czech-German prisoner, is sent to Prague's Leopoldov prison through bureaucratic error. Convicted of collaboration with the enemy during World War II, Pallehner is sentenced to six years in prison. It is also the story of other prisoners caught up in the labyrinth - the bureaucratic and political maze of post World War II Eastern Europe - and is a testimony to the crimes of nations against individuals - and reminder of a human being's ability to triumph over any conditions. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-87113070X.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing to the edges of the black dj).
Book ID: 84062More details Price: $18.50 -
SNOW ON WILLOW: A Nisei Memoir.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86275More details Price: $21.50 -
ETHEL: The Fictional Autobiography.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of Ethel Roseberg the woman convicted and put to death in 1953 on charges of being a spy for Russia. ISBN: 0-385-301685.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.(Bottom of spine damaged from water and a little worn)
Book ID: 27381More details Price: $12.50 -
NEWS OF ENGLAND Or, A Country Without A Hero.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical appraisal of his country's devastingly inadequate readiness for the coming war - World War II. viii, 295 pp.
Condition: Near fine in blue cloth in a good only dust jacket (previous owner's name, rubbing to the dj, price-clipped, small peeled spot on spine.)
Book ID: 43112More details Price: $25.00 -
SILENCE MEANS SECURITY.
Edition: First edition, a trade paperback original.
Asheville, NC: Moonshine Cove Publishing, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A story of a young woman's coming of age in the years leading up to World War II, and her years in the WACs, where she wound up in the Philippines in a secret unit of code-breakers. Based on her mother's life, and using actual letters and documents, this is a slightly fictionalized, but thoroughly researched book about a facet of the war that few are familiar with - partly because the emphasis on secrecy during the war itself continued afterwords. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Author's note. 248 pp. . ISBN: 978-1937327767.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy).
Book ID: 65507More details Price: $21.50 -
DIARIES AND LETTERS: 1930 - 1964.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Atheneum, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Considered one of the most remarkable pictures of the period, incredibly detailed and astute, originally published in 3 volumes in 1968. Harold Nicolson was a member of Parliament from 1935 to 1945; a junior minister in Churchill's wartime government; a well-known writer, journalist and broadcaster; and the husband of the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West. While this is a one-volume abridgement, but it also includes additional previously unpublished extracts from his letters and diaries. Index. 436 pp. ISBN: 0-689-110979.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 40076More details Price: $20.00 -
RACE AND RUMORS OF RACE: Challenge to American Crisis.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. A work originally published in 1943, this covers the changes to the American racial situation brought on by World War II, by focusing on the period from July 1942- July 1943. Among the topics covered are the situation in the South, the rumors surrounding Eleanor Roosevelt and the 'Eleanor Clubs' and the Negro in the war services. 245 pages. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine, issued without a dustjacket.
Condition: Very near fine condition.
Book ID: 13039More details Price: $20.00 -
OPERATION NARCISSUS (EYES ONLY)
Edition: First edition.
New York & Los Angeles: Pandick Press, Inc., (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel involving gold smuggling during World War II by a newspaper man and retired Air Force colonel, who was, among other things, an advance man for General Eisenhower, the first newspaperman to become a paratrooper, and a press agent featured twice in Ripley's Believe-it-ot-Not. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1983. 429 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in olive green cloth (corners slightly bumped) in a very good dustjacket. (minor edgewear, slit on spine of dj)
Book ID: 85445More details Price: $25.00 -
PILGRIM AMONG THE SHADOWS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995). First edition - A compelling holocaust memoir - a Slovene from Trieste, Italy, Pahor was a medic/prisoner in several concentration camps, including Belsen and Dachau during the final 14 months of World War II. This memoir, first published in Slovene in 1967 (under the title Nekropola, "graveyard"), describes his 1966 visit to a camp in the Vosges mountains of Eastern France, where he recalls how helpless he felt in his attempts to render medical aid in the face of extreme brutality, the endless procession of the dead and dying, and how it feels to be freezing, starving, and completely dehumanized. Translated from the Slovene by Michael Biggins. 189 pp.
Condition: Fine in light gray printed wrappers.
Book ID: 70292More details Price: $20.00 -
PILGRIM AMONG THE SHADOWS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A compelling holocaust memoir - a Slovene from Trieste, Italy, Pahor was a medic/prisoner in several concentration camps, including Belsen and Dachau during the final 14 months of World War II. This memoir, first published in Slovene in 1967 (under the title Nekropola, "graveyard"), describes his 1966 visit to a camp in the Vosges mountains of Eastern France, where he recalls how helpless he felt in his attempts to render medical aid in the face of extreme brutality, the endless procession of the dead and dying, and how it feels to be freezing, starving, and completely dehumanized. Translated from the Slovene by Michael Biggins. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1719586.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82333More details Price: $18.50 -
THE NAVAJO CODE TALKERS.
Edition: Trade paperback, later printing.
Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing Co, (c 1998). One of the first accounts of this select platoon of Marines known as the Navajo Code Talkers, written almost entirely from primary sources. During World War II, the Navajo Code Talkers employed a secret code using their native tongue, one which the Japanese were not able to break. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-805945903.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75734More details Price: $12.00 -
THE EAGLES OF HEART MOUNTAIN: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Publisher's letter laid in.
Book ID: 84746More details Price: $21.50 -
FREE SPIRIT IN A TROUBLED WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32202More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HIDDEN PASSPORT: My Childhood Journey Through Japanese Concentration Camps in Java.
Edition: Trade paperback original - first printing.
San Diego, CA: By the author, (2009). SIGNED first edition - Phyllis Pilgrim was born in Tampico, Mexico, of an American mother and a Scottish father who worked for the Shell Oil Company. Later transferred to Borneo and Java, this book focuses on describing her experiences from five to nine years old, when she, her mother and brother were interned as prisoners of war in a Japanese camp during World War II in Java. She also tells her father's story, who was held in a different prison, mostly in solitary confinement, and discusses how these early experiences affected her life. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2010. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 180 pp. ISBN: 978-0578030562.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (name on first page, minor wear to covers).
Book ID: 77779More details Price: $18.50 -
THE LAST BATTALION.
Edition: First printing.
Cincinnati: Talaria Publication, 1944. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem about the British evacuation from Dunkirk during World War II. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author opposite the half title page "For my beautiful friend, Frances Howells, who is a poet herself and a charming companion" and dated in the year of publication. 73 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.
Book ID: 40442More details Price: $18.00 -
PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION: The Wartime Experiences of William R. Reynolds.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
By the author, nd (ca 2017). SIGNED first edition - As a young boy, growing up on a farm outside Stockton, California, Bill Reynolds was fascinated by the pilots he saw training there, and, as soon as he could - in 1941 - he enlisted. He went on to be a pilot and served throughout the war. Illustrated with several photographs and maps, some in color, and many black of white photos of the various types of planes he flew, from the Ryan PT 22 to the Curtiss G-46 Commando and many others. SIGNED on the first page by the co-author, James Inman. 122 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77777More details Price: $35.00 -
MY WAR - AND AFTER.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback.
London: Minerva Press, (1996). SIGNED - An account first of all of the author's work - at just 17 - as a volunteer social worker in charge of the evacuees at Pixton Park (the home of Auberon Waugh's grandmother) and also of her work on air radar with the WAAF, the devastation she saw in Germany after the war, and more. SIGNED with the words "with my best wishes" and also inscribed on the first blank page. Illustrated with photographs. 153 pp. ISBN: 1-85863587x.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 71081More details Price: $35.00 -
OLD MAN IN A BASEBALL CAP: A Memoir of World War II.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1999. dj. Hardcover - Written when he was 70, this is his story of being a 19 year old navigator on a B-24 bomber in the Army Air Corps, flying missions over Germany. ISBN: 0-06-019426x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15356More details Price: $16.50 -
OLD MAN IN A BASEBALL CAP: A Memoir of World War II.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Written when he was 70, this is his story of being a 19 year old navigator on a B-24 bomber in the Army Air Corps, flying missions over Germany.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 20003More details Price: $18.00 -
AN UNCOMMON FRIENDSHIP: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. SIGNED - A double memoir: the story of two men who as adults in the US become friends only to find out that during their childhood they were on opposite sides during World War II: one was a prisoner at Auschwitz where his whole family was murdered and the father of the other was a counterintelligence officer in the Germany army. SIGNED on the title page by all three authors. Illustrated with photographs. ISBN: 0-520-236890.
Condition: Fine condition (as new.)
Book ID: 22824More details Price: $18.00 -
AN UNCOMMON FRIENDSHIP: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust.
Edition: Later printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover - A double memoir: the story of two men who, as adults in the US, become friends only to find out that during their childhood they were on opposite sides during World War II: one was a prisoner at Auschwitz where his whole family was murdered and the father of the other was a counterintelligence officer in the Germany army. Illustrated with photographs. Notes. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-520-225317.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37159More details Price: $12.50 -
AN UNCOMMON FRIENDSHIP: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A double memoir: the story of two men who as adults in the US become friends only to find out that during their childhood they were on opposite sides during World War II: one was a prisoner at Auschwitz where his whole family was murdered and the father of the other was a counterintelligence officer in the Germany army. INSCRIBED on the title page by TWO authors: Fred Tubach and Bernat Rosner. Illustrated with photographs. Notes. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-520-225317.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76432More details Price: $24.50 -
BEETHOVEN'S HAIR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 39675More details Price: $12.00 -
IBSEN AND HITLER: The Playwright, the Plagiarist, and the Plot for the Third Reich.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, dj. Hardcover first edition - A new look at Adolf Hitler's master plan for the Third Reich; the first to discern that it was based in part on the plays by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Over decades, Hitler cribbed Ibsen's phrases, metaphors and themes for his own writings and soliloquies. Sources, notes, index. Photographs. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-786717130.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45074More details Price: $15.00 -
PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - How the WWII bond drive (called the most successful marketing operation in history) emphasized the participation of U.S. ethnic groups in the war effort - including African Americans, Euro-Americans and labor union members - with the hope that victory over racism abroad would lead to victory over racism at home. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, index. xxii, 249 pp. ISBN: 1-560987073.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 79417More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WAR DIARIES OF JEAN-PAUL SARTRE: November 1939 - March 1940.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Notebooks kept by a young Jean-Paul Sartre when he was a mobilized reservist in Alsace, during the so-called Phoney War, and only discovered forty years later. Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, writer and activist, who refused the Nobel Prize in literature he was awarded in 1964. Translated from the French and with an introduction by Quintin Hoare.Index. xix, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-394538137.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 69070More details Price: $30.00 -
RECUEIL DES PUBLICATIONS SCIENTIFIQUES.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fair condition only in the original wrappers (rear cover missing, front cover detached but present, beginning to separate at signatures, stamp of previous owner and underlining on a few pages.)
Book ID: 59303More details Price: $750.00 -
THE WHEREWITHAL: A Novel in Verse.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2014). First edition - A novel in verse by this Pulitzer prize winning poet. It tells the story of "a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mothers diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941.. . it is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war." 177 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 78029More details Price: $21.50