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The Wide World Magazine - May 1953, Australian Edition

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1953 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.50 | ¥23,937)

London: George Newnes Limited, 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Features: Millington's Lesson - Lawlessness in Burma prior to the British withdrawal; Glider Snatching - a story from Burma in World War II; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I of the adventure of an English walker in Fr…

The Victory Campaign - the Operations in North-West Europe 1944-1945, Volume III [3]: Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War

STACEY, COLONEL C.P. · 1960 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$179.95 (€163.26 | £136.21 | ¥28,727)

Ottawa: The Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Bond, Major C.C.J.. xiii, 770 pp. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. Many fold-out colour maps. Colour map endpapers. 25 x 18cm. The third and final volum…

Art and War: Canadian War Memorials - a Selection of the Works Executed for the Canadian War Memorials Fund to Form a Record of Canada's Part in the Great War and a Memorial to Those Canadians Who Have Made the Great Sacrifice

KONODY, P.G. · 1919 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.35 | ¥31,919)

London: Canadian War Records Office/Colour Ltd, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Approximately 120 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1919. Presents forty-eight attractive colour plates (suitable for framing) accompanied by details of their artists and the scenes/personalitie…

The Plans of War the General Staff and British Military Strategy C 1900-1916

John Gooch · 1974 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this comprehensive study on General Staff and the evolution of military strategy prior to the First World War. The first edition of this work. A comprehensive and thorough study cond…

Myth and Reality in German War-Time Broadcasts the Creighton Lecture in History 1969

GOMBRICH, [SIR] E[RNEST] H[ANS] [JOSEPH] · 1970 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$495.00 (€449.10 | £374.67 | ¥79,020)

London: The Athlone Press, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0485141191. "From the age of thirty to the age of thirty-six I was concerned with the body of documents I propose to bring to your attention today. Working at the Listening Post of the B.B.C. I must have heard, rec…

The R.C. A.F. (Royal Canadian Air Force) Overseas - the First Four Years

CANADA. AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS. AIR HISTORICAL SECTION; POWER, C.G. (INTRODUCTION) · 1944 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,093)

Toronto: University of Toronto Press / Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1944. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 418 pages. Numerous black and white photographic plates. Includes list of recipients of Orders, Decorations and Medals. Roll of Honour (new to this revised edition). Glossary. Ind…

Former Naval Person - Churchill And The Wars At Sea

Hough, Richard · 1985 · Eastleach Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, F/F. xii+244pp, 16pp b/w plates, 2 b/w maps, index, a fine copy. An account of Churchill's clash with the Royal Navy in the years prior to the First World War.

(1921) Mary Stuart - First U.S. Edition, Signed; (1921) Oliver Cromwell - First U.S. Edition; (1923) Robert E. Lee - First U.S. Edition, Signed; (1925) Robert Burns - First U.S. Edition.

John Drinkwater · 1921 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921-1925. First edition. Cloth. Smart first-edition collection of the historical plays of John Drinkwater, including two signed copies. Smart quarter-cloth collection of four first U.S. editions of Drinkwater's historical play…

Nazis Against The World - The Counter-Boycott is the Only Defensive Weapon against Hitlerism's World-Threat to Civilization: Selected Speeches from World Leaders of Public Opinion

Samuel Untermyer; The Archbishop of Canterbury; Sir Austen Chamberlain; Sir John Simon; Lady Violet Bonham-Carter; Rev. James N. Gillis; Hon. Samuel Seabury; Prof. Raymond Moley; William Green; Dr. Abba Hillel Silver; et al · 1934 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines, Member of

$1,950.00 (€1,769.19 | £1,475.99 | ¥311,291)

Good No dust jacket as issued Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights First Edition "A collection of addresses by outstanding men and women, leaders in world-affairs, selected from many hundreds of speeches, protests, and denunciations of the atrocities and conti…

A Gloucestershire Lad At Home And Abroad

Harvey, F W · 1917 · Eastleach Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Sidwick & Jackson 1917 3rd impression. Cloth, VG. xvi+64pp, spine grubby, paper label to the upper board in nice condition if just a little grubby, bookplate to the pastedown, ownership inscription dated 1917 to the endpaper, a nice copy. Booksellers ticket of J J Banks, Chelten…

The British Dominions Year Book 1918

Edward Salmon; James Worsfold · 1918 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Eagle, Star, and British Dominions, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce yearbook of the British Empire in 1918 at the end of the First World War, illustrated throughout with folding maps. The first edition of this work. A scarce work. This 1918 y…

A Staff Officer&Apos;S Scrap-Book During the Russo-Japanese War

Sir Ian Hamilton K C B · 1905 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.59 | $396.34 | ¥63,271)

London, Edward Arnold, 1905. Leather. A first-hand account of the Russo-Japanese War, in a charming leather binding. Written by Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, a senior officer in the British Army. H Today, Hamilton is best known for commanding the Mediterranean Expeditionar…

Recollections of a Prisoner of War

PHILLIMORE, LORD · 1930 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.50 | ¥23,937)

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 321 pages plus 16 pages of advertisements. "I hope that this truthful record of one of the by-products of War will show how far human kindness and courage in most depressing circumstances are brought out by the great ap…

The Human Slaughter-House

Wilhelm Lamszus; Oakley Williams [trans.] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Hutchinson & Co. [1913] . Paperback. The first UK paperback edition of this chilling anti-war novel written by Wilhelm Lamszus, translated by Oakley Williams. First UK paperback edition. Published the same year as the US edition. First English translation, based on the G…

A Strange War - Burma, India & Afghanistan 1914 - 1919

MILLS, C. P.; LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU · 1988 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$99.95 (€90.68 | £75.65 | ¥15,956)

Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0862993776. "A handful of British Army battalions were lucky enough to escape the carnage of WWI, being posted off to garrison the Empire. This is the story of three West Countrymen who joined the 2/…

The British Navy in Adversity a Study of the War of American Independence

Captain W. M. James · 1926 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. LTD, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated work on the role of the Royal Navy during the war of American Indepence, written by William James. The first edition of this work. This work is often considered to be Captain J…

The Monster Times - the World's First Newspaper of Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Volume 1, No. 31 - March (Mar. ) 1974 - Ray Bradbury Interview

KANE, JOE (EDITOR); WASSERMAN, JEFF; HAYDOCK, RON; WNOROSKI, JIM; ET AL · 1974 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.50 | ¥23,937)

New York: The Monster Times Publishing Company, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. 32 pages. Features: War of the Worlds - frightening filmbook of the 1953 movie; Martians in the comics; Monster-Maker Paul Blaisdell and how he created menacing martian IT!; Ray Bradbury Writes Again…

Gideon Goes to War - the Story of Major-General Orde C. Wingate

MOSLEY, LEONARD · 1955 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$79.95 (€72.54 | £60.52 | ¥12,763)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. Index. Black and white photos. "Picking his way carefully among fact and legend, idolization and belittlement, Mr. Mosley tells the Wingate story with tact and skill and unrelaxing readability." - dust…

The Death of Abel the Life of Jesus Christ the Holy War, Made by Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; or, the Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul

Salomon Gessner · 1787 · Rooke Books

£500.00 (€599.32 | $660.57 | ¥105,451)

Newcastle, M. Brown, 1787-8. Leather. A collection of three devotional works bound in one, by Salomon Gessner, William Craig, and John Bunyan, illustrated with beautiful frontispieces. Three volumes in one.'The Death of Abel' is the second edition of this work, publis…

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World...

Cooke, Alistair · 2006 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£18.40 (€22.06 | $24.31 | ¥3,881)

Allen Lane. First edition-5th printing. Book. Mint condition.Allen Lane,2006.First edition-5th printing.Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in mint condition.Illustrated with a map inside the front …