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Souvenir Journal Fourth Annual Dance -the Electro Dynamic Works of the Electric Boat Company, Saturday Evening, February 3rd , 1945 (Featuring the Ed Regna Orchestra)

ELECTRO DYNAMIC WORKS · 1949 · S. Howlett-West Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Bayonne, NJ: The Electric Boat Company, 1949. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a trade sized dance program with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The program is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The program covers have some light …

The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s

HYNES, SAMUEL · 1976 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,519)

London, The Bodley Head. 1976, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (8), 428 pp. Tan cloth boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this seminal work on the literary period of 'Thirties', and specifically the literary generation of you…

The End of Reparations

Schacht, Hjalmar; Gannett, Lewis (Trans.) · 1931 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines, Member of

$4,500.00 (€4,082.75 | £3,406.13 | ¥718,364)

Good in Good dust jacket Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith First American Edition "A history of the evil effects of the reparations system upon the world; includes Dr. Schacht's story of French intrigue, of treachery at home in Germany, of international weakness. Includes many orig…

The Princess of the Roses

Luigi Motta; William Collinge · 1919 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

London, Stanley Paul & Co, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce to see first edition in English of this science fiction novel with predicts World War One. The very scarce first edition in English of this work.Originally published in Italian in 1911 as 'La Principessa…

Sonnets of the Empire

Archibald T. Strong · 1915 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Macmillan, 1915 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed presentation copy of the first edition of Archibald Strong's collection of sonnets regarding the British Empire prior to and during the First World War, in the vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. The scarce first …

Fishing at the Delta (British Columbia): A Transcript from the 'People in Landscape' Series

ORCHARD, IMBERT: PRODUCER · 1975 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$69.95 (€63.46 | £52.95 | ¥11,167)

Victoria, BC: Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. 20 pages. Undated. Possibly circa 1970s. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "Isaac Nelson, Arthur Swenson, Engman Iverson discuss fis…

The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol Written in the Camp

E Bruce Hamley · 1855 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.86 | ¥158,177)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1855. First edition. Fine Binding. A finely bound, first edition copy of this important first hand account of this particular campaign during the Crimean War. With the original colour plates in a bright condition. In a bright and sumptuous hal…

The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, March [Mar. ] 1929, Vol. LXII, No. 371: Peking to London - Mostly by Car

PARSONS, CAPTAIN ANTHONY; CHAMBERS, HERBERT E.; FRANCE, VIVIAN; KOHL, EDITH AMMONS; OAKLEY, S.R.; MCCALLUM, CAPTAIN D.M.; GIBBONS, JOHN; ILES, MAJOR F.W.; PERRING, M.S.; ELLERAY, ERNEST; GALLOWAY, F.W.; WARREN, C.V. · 1929 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,093)

New York: The International News Company, 1929. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Ernest; Vedder, S.H.. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of…

The Naked and the Dead

MAILER, NORMAN · 1948 · Bluebird Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1948. Hard Cover. A reprint edition of author's first, and perhaps most famous work. "The Naked and the Dead" is centered around a group of four U.S. soldiers who were involved in taking a Japanese-held South Pacific island during World War I…

The Colditz Story

REID, P.R. · 1952 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$59.95 (€54.39 | £45.38 | ¥9,570)

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1952. Reprint. Hardcover. Illustrated by Watton, John. 278 pages. Black and white illustrations. The story of Colditz camp for Allied POWs in WWII, as told by a man who was imprisoned there. Above-average wear. Modest lean to spine. Binding intact. …

Khaki and Gown an Autobiography

Lord Birdwood; Winston Churchill · 1942 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1942. Cloth. A nice second impression copy of Lord Birdwood's enlightening travel work on his time with the British Army, complete with colour folding maps. The second impression of this work, printed in February 1942. The first impression …

A History of Naval Tactics from 1530 to 1930 the Evolution of Tactical Maxims.

S. S. Robison; Mary L. Robison · 1942 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

Annapolis, Marland, The United States Naval Institute, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition copy of this fascinating history of naval tactics by the notable United States Navy officer, Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison and his wife, Mary L. Robison (nee Clark).…

Naval Demobilisation

1918 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Ministry of Reconstruction, 1918. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition of this interesting post-First World War pamphlet concerning the issue of naval demobilisation in Britain. A very scarce work.The first edition of this work.An interesting work discus…

De Antiquitatibus Iudaicis Libri XX. Quibus in Fine Loco Appendicis Vita Josephi Per Ipsum Conscripta, Est Adiecta: De Bello Iudaico Libri VII. Ex Collatione Graecorum Codicum Accurate Castigati: Contra Apionem Libri II. Pro Corruptissimis Antea, Iam Ex Graeco Itidem Non Solum Emendati, Sed Etiam Suppleti, Ac Integritati Pristinae Restituti: De Imperio Rationis, Siue de Macchabaeis Liber Unus, Denuo Recognitus; Antehac a Graecae Linguae Peritissimo, Ac Historiarum Studiosissimo Viro in Latinum S

Josephus Flavius · 1580 · Rooke Books

£3,400.00 (€4,075.39 | $4,491.90 | ¥717,070)

[Francoforti]; Frankfurt, Sigismundi Feyerabendt, 1580. Leather. A scarce Latin edition of Josephus' monumental Jewish history, illustrated throughout with engraved plates and in-text engravings. A scarce work. An excellent copy of the first Frankfurt Edition.Illustrated wi…

Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatches from the Dardanelles - a Thrilling and Graphic Story

HAMILTON, SIR IAN · 1915 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$495.00 (€449.10 | £374.67 | ¥79,020)

London: George Newnes Limited, 1915. First Edition. Paperback. 116 pages plus advertisements. Fold-out map of Gallipoli Peninsula. Frontis portrait of author. Additional maps and portraits interspersed throughout. Thrilling World War I history. Above-average wear. Prior owner's …

The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert&Apos;S) 1919-1945

George Molesworth · 1951 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

Somerset, Regimental Committee, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of his interesting volume covering the history of the Somerset Light Infantry between 1919 and 1945. With six plates, and thirty folding maps. A first edition of his interesting volume covering the histo…

The Arrow: Series 77, Model 2

WEIS, BERNARD J. · 1977 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.35 | ¥31,919)

USA: The Pierce-Arrow Society, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Features: photos of the PAS mid-winter Board of Directors; Great photo inside front cover shows many Pierce-Arrow army trucks in Buffalo prior to shipment to World War I; One of a Kind - photos of a regal town car pr…

LIFE BELOW STAIRS IN THE 20TH CENTURY.

Horn, Pamela, · 2003 · A Book for all Reasons

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Sutton, Thrupp, Stroud, 2003, trade paperback, x, 358pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the transformation of domestic service during the 20th century, prior to which it has been the largest single female occupation but which the first …

Ceiling Zero

WARNER BROS. · 1936 · S. Howlett-West Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York, NY: Lynn Publishing Co, 1936. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a Little Big Book (though not labeled as such) This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bri…

Military Power, Conflict and Trade.

GERACE, Michael P. · 2004 · The Book Firm

A$31.00 (€19.06 | $21.00 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Frank Cass, 2004. Paperback. Ex-library, otherwise good (no markings to clean text). Provides "...a study of the relationship between military power and international commerce among the Great Powers prior to the First World War."292pp. ISBN 0714684481.