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The Last Nazi: the Life and Times of Dr. Joseph Mengele

Astor, Gerald · 1985 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Donald Fine, 1985. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean fine trade hard cover book/ edgewear & lightly rubbed otherwise good+ dust jacket., Astor argues that Mengele reflected the mainstream of his nation and its prevailing moods, attitudes and even scientific philosophy,...

Churchill and Hitler in Victory and Defeat

Strawson, John · 1998 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.50 (€4.08 | £3.41 | ¥719)

NY: Fromm, 1998. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Ink notation by previous owner on title page and page xvii otherwise a sound clean, unmarked, complete reading copy hard cover book in fine dust jacket., A study of the contrasts between the two great leaders. Churchill probabl...

Lone Patriot: the Short Career of an American Minuteman

Kramer, Jane · 2002 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Pantheon, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., An account of the movement based on interviews with John Pitner and the Alpha One squad of Whatcom county, Washington.

Home Front

Elliott, Peter With An Introduction By Julia Reed · 2002 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket (in original shrinkwrap).

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Lawson, Capt Ted W Edited By Bob Considine · 1953 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY: Random House/Landmark, 1953. 5th printing., Slight shelfwear otherwise near fine dust jacket. / edgewear & closed tears otherwise good dust jacket., Landmark Young Reader Series #35. Lawson participated in Doolittle's daring raid over Tokyo on April 18, 1942.

The Academy: Five Centuries of Grandeur and Misery, From the Carracci to Mao Tse-Tung

Hess, Thomas B & John Ashbery Editors · 1967 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$4.50 (€4.08 | £3.41 | ¥719)

NY: ArtNews, 1967. Previous owner's sticker on front end paper otherwise fine hard cover book/ edgewear & closed tears on rear dust jacket panel otherwise good dust jacket., ArtNews Annual XXXIII: focuses on the history of tastes and styles, illustrated.

The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: the Men of World War II

Ambrose, Stephen E · 1998 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.50 (€4.99 | £4.16 | ¥878)

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Ambrose's account of the war in Europe from D-Day on June 6, 1944, to the surrender on May 7, 1945, illustrated.

Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity and African-Creole Consciousness: 1570-1640

Bennett, Herman L · 2003 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.12 | ¥14,372)

Bloomington: University of Indianna Press, 2003. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ no dust jacket., In 1640 when Portugal ended its slave trade to Spanish America, the Kingdom of New Spain (Mexico) contained the second largest population of enslaved African b...

For Country, Cause & Leader: the Civil War Journal of Charles B. Haydon

Haydon, Charles B Edited By Stephen W Sears · 1993 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1993. 1st printing of 1st edition., Light foxing along page edges (not effecting text or margins) otherwise very good hard cover book/ slight edgewear otherwise near fine dust jacket., Haydon served during the first three years of the Civil War and fought...

L'Oeuvre Ultime De Cezanne a Dubuffet

Fondation Maeght With A Preface By Jean-Louis Prat · 1989 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Saint Paul: Fondation Maeght, 1989. Fine paperback exhibition catalog in decorative wrappers (soft cover book in original shrinkwrap)/ no dust jacket., 269 pages, illustrated. Text in French.

The Book of War: 25 Centuries of Great War Writing

Keegan, John · 1999 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Viking, 1999. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean A clean fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Beginning with Thucydides and his description of the formidable Greek phalanx and continuing up to the Iraqi war, Keegan describes breakthroughs in the art of makin...

Victorian Houses: a Treasury of Lesser-Known Examples

Gillon, Edmund V Jr & Clay Lancaster · 1973 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$6.50 (€5.90 | £4.92 | ¥1,038)

NY: Dover Publications, 1973. edgewear & a light stain on rear end paper otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete good paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

Friedman, Thomas L · 2005 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The world did not become flat with the dawning of the 21st Century; instead, many changes which had been underway became prevalent and more noticeable which made national b...

Modern Prints & Drawings: a Guide to the Better Understanding of Modern Daughtsmanship

Sachs, Paul J · 1954 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Knopf, 1954. book club edition., Wear at extremities & previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover otherwise good/ no dust jacket.

The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightment

Douthwaite, Julia V · 2002 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ no dust jacket, as issued (in original shrinkwrap).

The Creators: a History of Heroes of the Imagination

Boorstin, Daniel J · 1992 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY: RH, 1992. 1st printing of 1st edition., Slight foxing on end papers otherwise very good/ light edgewear otherwise very good+ dust jacket., A companion volume to The Discoverers, The Creators outlines three thousand years of achievements in the arts.

Object, Image, Inquiry: the Art Historian at Work

Bakewell, Elizabeth, William O Beeman & Carol McMichael Reese · 1988 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Santa Monica: Getty, 1988. Light edgewear otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good+ paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Report on the collaborative study by the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP) and the Institute for Research in Informat...

Infantry Regiments of the United States Army: a Complete Guide to the History, Decorations, Honors and Colors of Each Infantry Regiment in the Regular Army

Gallagher, Kenneth S & Robert L Pigeon Editors · 1986 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY: Military Press/ Crown Books, 1986. A previous owner's ink address stamp on front end paper otherwise a clean fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket., A comprehensive historical lineage of each infantry regiment of the U.S. Army, illustrated.

Ceri Richards & Dylan Thomas: Keys to Transformation

Burns, Richard · 1981 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

London: The Enitharmon Press, 1981. Fine trade paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., In November 1953, a few hours before the death of Dylan Thomas in New York, Ceri Richrads made a series of forty drawing in a copy of Thomas' Collectied Poems 1934-1952 whi...

Four Americans in Paris: the Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family

Stein, Getrude · 1970 · Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

$5.50 (€4.99 | £4.16 | ¥878)

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1970. Light dampstain on front end paper otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., 173 pages, illustrated.