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Unity in Dispersion - a History of the World Jewish Congress

KUBOWITZKI, A. LEON · 1948 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$2,500.00 (€2,268.19 | £1,892.30 | ¥399,091)

New York: World Jewish Congress, 1948. First Edition. Paperback. "This survey seeks to render an account of what the Congress has labored to achieve in the twelve years since its constituent meeting. The realities of Jewish life are rapidly shifting before our very eyes, and soo…

A Revision of the Treaty Being a Sequel to the Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes · 1922 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.02 | $2,906.52 | ¥463,986)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very smart copy of John Maynard Keynes' economic treatise. This work follows directly from his 'Economic Consequences of the Peace&apos. Prior owner's inscription, 'A Lyles' to the front pastedown. …

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years -and- Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; (Six Volume Complete Set)

SANDBURG, CARL · 1926 · Bluebird Books

$137.00 (€124.30 | £103.70 | ¥21,870)

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1926, 1939. BCE. Hardcover. Full-sized book club editions. A six-volume set detailing the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln prior to, and during the course the American Civil War. The first two volumes, "Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Y…

Mobilizing Canada's Resources for War *with Interesting Insert*

PLUMPTRE, A.F.W. · 1941 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$129.95 (€117.90 | £98.36 | ¥20,745)

Canada: MacMillan, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Please note: Laid in is a contemporary copy of a four-page House of Commons speech by Harry R. Jackman, M.P. Toronto-Rosedale, entitled "The Billion Dollar Gift to the United Kingdom", delivered March 19, 1942. The original owne…

The War History of the Radio Branch - Report No. Era - 141, Unclassified [the National Research Council of Canada - Radio Branch]

THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA - RADIO BRANCH · 1948 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)

Ottawa, Ontario: The National Research Council of Canada - Radio Branch, 1948. First Edition. Paperback. "Recounts the Radio Branch's role in developing radar and other technologies for the Canadian armed services in World War II. The branch was established in 1931 and, by the s…

Minotaure. Revue Artistique Et Littéraire. . No. 10. First Edition

Skira, Albert, editor. Cover by René Magritte · 1937 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,000.00 (€907.28 | £756.92 | ¥159,636)

Paris: Albert Skira, 1937. 4to. 32 x 25cm. Original wraps. Bookblock unglued from spine. Very good..Minotaure, published in Paris between 1933-39, was a Surrealist-oriented publication founded by Albert Skira with editors André Breton and Pierre Mabille. Prior to serving as a Mi…

The Dragon Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story (True First Edition in Facsimile of the Original Dust Jacket)

VAN DINE, S. S. · 1933 · Bluebird Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of S. S. Van Dine's murder mystery, the seventh in a series featuring the author's sophisticated Manhattan-based Philo Vance character. In this story, a man goes missing during a swimming party at…

The End of His Tether

John Martin-Fehr · 1972 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Chichester, Janay Publishing, 1972 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this post apocalyptic science fiction novel, in the publisher's original dust wrapper. The scarce first edition, first impression of this work.In the publisher's original price clipp…

Minotaure. Revue Artistique Et Littéraire. . No. 7. First Edition

Skira, Albert, editor. Cover by Joan Miró · 1935 · Wittenborn Art Books

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.61 | ¥71,836)

Paris: Albert Skira, 1935. 4to. 32 x 25cm. Original wraps. Bookblock unglued from spine. Small creases on cover. Very good. Photographs by de Man Ray y& Brassai. Art by Hans Bellmer, Anduve Beaudin, Balthus. Textos de Tériade, Roger Callois, Henri Michaux, Paul Eluard, Maurice R…

Battery Flashes

Wagger [Cecil William Longley] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, John Murray, 1916 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this first hand account from the First World War. First edition of Battery Flashes in the original publisher's cloth binding. By Wagger, the pen-name for Cecil William Longley. A scarce work wit…

Canada at War, No. 42, November - December 1944

WARTIME INFORMATION BOARD, GOVERNMENT OF CANADA · 1944 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$99.95 (€90.68 | £75.65 | ¥15,956)

Ottawa: Wartime Information Board, Government of Canada, 1944. First Edition. Paperback. 63 pages. Numerous monotone reproductions of photos in text. "A factual, monthly reference booklet of basic information on Canadian war activities." - from inside front cover. Contents: Cove…

Psychology And Other Essays

Rivers, W H R [ William Halse Rivers ] & Smith, G Elliot [editor] · 1923 · Eastleach Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Kegan Paul, trench, Trubner & Co Ltd 1923 1st edition. Cloth, VG. viii+181pp+10pp publishers adverts, hinges repaired at some time with archival tape ( prior to the book being for sale at Parker's Oxford as their booksellers ticket overlays the tape ), cloth marked, endpapers fo…

Journey&Apos;S End

R. C. Sherriff; Vernon Barlett · 1930 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.42 | $561.49 | ¥89,634)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1930. Vellum. A signed limited edition novel by R. C. Sherriff and Vernon Bartlett, set during the end of the First World War. A limited edition work, limited to six-hundred copies, of which this is numbered five-hundred and twenty-five.Signed by bot…

Hiroshima. Central Japan. August 1945 Map

No author given · 1945 · Mare Booksellers

$135.00 (€122.48 | £102.18 | ¥21,551)

No Place, US Sixth Army, AFPAC, 650th Engineer Top, Bn. Preparer, 1945. Unbound. First edition, stated. Single sheet, about 20 by 23 inches. Printed on a single side only. A color map of Central Japan, depicting Hiroshima and other cities, as well as the Sea of Japan, highways, …

Crowns in a Changing World: British and European Monarchies 1901-36

VAN DER KISTE, JOHN · 1996 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

London, Grange Books Ltd. 1996, Reprint. (ISBN: 1856279103) Hardcover. Book, At the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, almost every European nation was a monarchy, most linked by close family ties to her and Edward VII, the "uncle of Europe". Prior to the outbreak of World War I, …

1918-1919 Daily Diary of a Nebraska Farmer Who Sails to Europe and Serves in World War 1 As a Corporal in the 314th Supply Train, 89th Division

WALTER JOHN SMITH · 1891 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,855.99 (€1,683.90 | £1,404.83 | ¥296,283)

Nebraska, France. Softcover. On offer is a superb diary of a 27-year-old farmer from Nebraska, serving in Europe during WWI as the war came to its end. The author of the diary is Walter John Smith (1891-1950) of Holdrege, Nebraska. He worked his entire adult life at his own farm…

Invasion: Being an Eyewitness Account of the Nazi Invasion of America

Hendrik Willem van Loon · 1940 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.93 | ¥24,254)

London, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1940 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of Hendrik Willem van Loon's depiction of a Nazi invasion of 1960s America. The first edition, first printing, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Published prior to t…

The Nightmare

C. S. Forester · 1954 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

London, Michael Joseph, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of C. S. Forester's novel about the end of Nazi Germany, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. In the original price-clipped dustwrapper. 'The Nightmare' is …

Images of War: United States Navy Destroyers: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Michael Green · 2020 · Winkles Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Book New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Maritime Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall This classic Images of War book traces the key role played by destroyers of the United States Navy since the first order for 16 in 1898. Prior to the USA's entry into the First World War a further 63 de…

The Supranational Politics of Jean Monnet: Ideas and Origins of the European Community (Contributions to the Study of World History).

Fransen, Frederic J. · 2001 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,399)

Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. Hardcover. 184 pp.- Although previous advocates of European Unity proposed the replacement of the balance of power model of international relations, Jean Monnet was the first to try to do so along Franco-German rather than Franco-British lines. He co…