The Wild Muse

The Kingdom of Swing

GOODMAN BENNY AND IRVING KOLODIN {SIGNED} · 1961

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

NY: Frederick Ungar, 1961. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Signed Second edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Frederick Ungar, 1961. 8vo, 263pp, illustrated frontis and b/w photos. Brown leatherette with gilt spine titles, brown linen endpapers. Signed by Goodman on free endpaper. ...

The Reluctant Art: The Growth of Jazz

GREEN, BENNY · 1963

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Horizon Press, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First U.S. edition, first printing. Har docver in dust jacket. Published NY: Horizon Press, 1963. 8vo, 191pp. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Light foxing along top edge, rear endpaper/pastedown and perimeter of dust jacket...

Giants of Jazz

TERKEL, STUDS · 1957

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Author's first book. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957. 8vo, 216pp, illustrated with iconic sketches of musicians by Robert Galster. Orange cloth with black spine...

The Jazz Makers

SHAPIRO, NAT AND HENTOFF, NAT (EDS) · 1957

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

NY: Rinehart, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Rinehart, 1957. 8vo, xiii+368pp, illustrated with b/w photos. Purple cloth with white titles. Very good in very good dust jacket.. Very Good .

The Bridge over the River Kwai

BOULLE, PIERRE · 1957

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1957. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 1957 David Lean film tie-in edition, with pictorial art from the film poster used for the dust jacket. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1957. 8vo, 224pp. Gray paper covered boards with burgu...

Forts and Firesides of the Mohawk Country, New York : Stories and Pictures of Landmarks of the Pre-Revolutionary War Period Throughout the Mohawk Valley and Surrounding Countryside Including Some Historical and Genealogical Mention During the Post-War Period {Signed}

VROOMAN, JOHN J. · 1943

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.31 | ¥35,930)

Philadelphia: Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed, limited first edition. Copy number 845, signed by author on title page. Published Philadelphia: Elijah Ellsworth Brownell, 1942. 4to, 8 1/2" x 10 3/4", xii+266pp, illustrated with drawings and ...

El Alamein to the River Sangro. First Edition for Private Circulation Only, 1946

MONTGOMERY, FIELD MARSHAL · 1946

$1,250.00 (€1,134.11 | £946.15 | ¥199,609)

Germany: The Rhine: Published for private circulation in the British Army of the Rhine, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Lieut-General Sir A.F. Smith's copy, with his signature. Rare, true, privately printed first edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published The Rhine, Ger...

Saco - the Rice Paddy Navy {Signed}

STRATTON, ROY OLIN (COMMANDER USN) · 1950

$650.00 (€589.74 | £492.00 | ¥103,797)

Pleasantville, NY: C. S. Palmer, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Signed first edition, first printing. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Pleasantville, NY: C. S. Palmer, 1950. 8vo, xvi+408pp, illustrated with numerous b/w plates, map endpapers. Foreword by rear admira...

A Full Life {Signed}

HORROCKS LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BRIAN · 1960

$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,108)

London: Collins, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Signed first edition, first printing. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published London: Collins, 1960. 8vo, 320pp, illustrated frontis and many b/w plates, maps. Black cloth with bronze titles. Near fine in very...

From the Danube to the Yalu {Signed}

CLARK, GENERAL MARK W. · 1954

$650.00 (€589.74 | £492.00 | ¥103,797)

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Signed first edition, first printing. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1954. 8vo, x+369pp, illustrated frontis, many b/w plates and a folding map of Korea. Inscribed by Clar...

The Life and Times of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, by the Late William L. Stone, with a Memoir of the Author, by His Son {Signed}

STONE, WILLIAM L. · 1866

$525.00 (€476.33 | £397.38 | ¥83,836)

Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1866. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Second edition. Presentation copy by the author to historian Francis Parkman. Full red morocco leather with raised bands, gilt tiles, marbled endpapers and bound-in ribbon marker. Notation of 1894 bequest of Parkman to...

Histories of American Army Units, World Wars I and II and Korean Conflict, with Some Earlier Histories {Signed}

DORNBUSCH, C. E. (COMPILER) · 1956

$275.00 (€249.51 | £208.15 | ¥43,914)

Washington DC: Department of the Army, Office of the Adjutant General, Special Services Division, Library and Service Club Branch, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed First edition. Original 1956 wrappers bound into hardcover with a custom vinyl protected dust jacket. 19...

Lee: An Abridgment in One Volume of the Four-Volume R.E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman

FREEMAN, DOUGLAS SOUTHALL (RICHARD B. HARWELL, EDITOR) · 1961

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition, first printing, Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961. 8vo, xvii+601pp, illustrated with frontis, b/w plates and maps. Black cloth with gilt stamped spine and cover ...

The CIVIL War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox (3 Volume Set)

FOOTE, SHELBY · 1958

$875.00 (€793.88 | £662.31 | ¥139,726)

NY: Random House, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 3 Volume Set. Fine Hard covers in dust jackets. Volumes 2 and 3 are first edition, first printings, volume 1 is a sixth printing. All in matching gray cloth, same size and format. Fort Sumter to Perryville, published 1958; F...

Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (3 Volume Set)

FREEMAN, DOUGLAS SOUTHALL · 1946

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Hardcover. 3 Volume set printed in 1946. Hard covers in original cloth. I: Manassas to Malvern Hill; II: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville; III: Gettysburg to Appomattox. Published NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. 8vo, illustrated with b/w...

Grant and Lee : A Study in Personality and Generalship

FULLER, MAJ GEN. J. F. C. · 1969

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Hard cover. Published Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957, seventh printing (1969). 8vo, 323pp, plus 11pp. maps, illus. sketches within the text. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Near fine.. Near Fine .

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

LAWRENCE, T. E. · 1935

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. First U.S. trade edition after the printing of a limited edition of 750 copies. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1935. 4to, 8" x 10", 672pp, illustrated with...

Young Winston's Wars: The Original Despatches of Winston S. Churchill War Correspondent, 1897-1900

WOODS, FREDERICK (ED.) · 1973

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY: The Viking Press, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1973. 8vo, xxviii+350pp, illus. frontis, b/w plates, maps. Green cloth with bronze and green spine titles. Near fine in near fine dust ...

Frontiers and Wars. His Four Early Books Covering His Life As a Soldier and War Correspondent Edited Into One Volume

CHURCHILL WINSTON S. · 1962

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First U.S. edition, first printing. "Printed in Great Britain" stated. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962. 8vo, 568pp, illustrated frontis, b/w plates, maps and drawings. Black ...

A Field- Marshal in the Family

MONTGOMERY, BRIAN · 1973

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

London: Constable, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition, second printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Constable, 1973. 8vo, xii+372pp, illus. frontis and b/w plates. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. Near Fine .