‎Guerre‎

‎PICKNETT, Lynn‎

‎Double Standards. The Rudolf Hess Cover-Up. With additional Research by Robert Brydon. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY ALL FOUR AUTHORS‎

‎Little Brown 2001. 8vo. First Edition with 37 plates on 16; red cloth gilt back black endpapers a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY WITH PRIOR'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION 'TO KAREN AND JON WITH MANY THANKS AND MUCH AFFECTION' AND SIGNED BY ALL FOUR AUTHORS ON HALF-TITLE. Little Brown, hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 12114

‎DALTON] [Hugh‎

‎Photographic print. OUTSTANDING SIGNED PORTRAIT OF THE FOUNDER OF SOE‎

‎n.d. 1930s. measuring 8.5 x 6.25 ins. approx. 21.5 x 16.0 cms printed in sepia and mounted in studio's presentation gatefold wallet with original tissue guard intact; in near fine state. SIGNED BY DALTON WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE ACROSS LOWER RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF PORTRAIT AND MOUNT. The portrait was taken in the studio of Andrew Paterson of Inverness. Paterson was a highly successful artist-photographer whose services were sought over several decades by many leading political and commercial figures of the day. The Rt. Hon. Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton later Baron Dalton 1887-1962 Labour politician and close friend of Winston Churchill occupied several senior offices of state throughout his long career. During WWII he served as Minister of Economic Warfare and President of the Board of Trade from 1945-47 as Chancellor of the Exchequer when he nationalised the Bank of England and from 1948-50 as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Dalton was born in Wales and educated at Eton King's College Cambridge the London School of Economics LSE and the University of London. During WWI he served as a lieutenant in France and Italy compiling 'With British Guns in Italy' as a record of his experiences. Although a staunch Labour party member he was nevertheless a fervent supporter of Churchill during the crisis of 1940 and strongly opposed to any compromise peace as urged by Halifax and other conservatives. In his wartime coalition Churchill appointed Dalton Minister of Economic Warfare. Following Churchill's well-known instruction 'to set Europe ablaze' Dalton founded the Special Operations Executive SOE and was subsequently a co-founder of the Political Warfare Executive PWE. After the surprise Labour victory in 1945 Dalton was seen alongside Attlee Bevin Morrison and Cripps as one of the 'big five' of the new administration. In 1948 he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and in 1950 Minister of Town and Country Planning. He retired from government after the general election of 1951 and was created a life peer as Baron Dalton on 1960. Items signed by Dalton are now very rare. His papers and diaries are held at the London School of Economics. A SCARCE AND SPLENDID SIGNED PORTRAIT IDEAL FOR PRESENTATION unknown‎

Référence libraire : 12171

‎DIMBLEBY Richard‎

‎The Frontiers are Green. A Story of the Men who fought their way to Europe through Deserts the Mountains and the Valleys of ten Countries. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎Hodder & Stoughton 1943. 8vo. First Edition with endpaper maps; cloth a very good bright clean copy in dustwrapper. The famous broadcaster's account of his service as war correspondent. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p.273. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 12368

‎LE TISSIER Tony‎

‎The Third Reich Then and Now. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎After the Battle 2005. 4to. First Edition with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial boards a near fine copy. After the Battle, hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 12535

‎DAVIS TB T B‎

‎The Story of 98th Field Regiment Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry Q.M.R RA TA and 144th Field Regiment Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry RA TA 1939-1946. With Maps drawn by John Flower. Preface by C.G. Cubitt. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY‎

‎Ditchling Press Hassocks 1980. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece8 full-page maps 13 large folding maps and pictorial endpapers; original regimental cloth badges blocked in gilt on upper board gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter with one small nick at front panel and unevenly faded at rear panel. A presentation copy from the author with his long signed holograph inscription on front free endpaper verso. The 98th served in France North Africa Sicily Italy and Holland; the 144th served in Africa Sudan Abyssinia Eritrea Egypt Libya Cyrenaica Persia Iraq Syria and Lebanon. Notable actions include Alamein the Sangro Cassino Gothic Line Keren Tobruk CRUSADER and Gazala. Includes ROH honours and awards glossary and bibliography. Scarce especially in this condition. Not recorded by Enser. [Ditchling Press, Hassocks, hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 12764

‎WORLD WAR II IN ASIA‎

‎A Tiger Booklet: Okinawa.‎

‎No place or publisher: 1945. First edition first printing of this guide issued to members of the RAF's heavy bomber Tiger Force during the preparations for Operation Downfall. Of the 5500 copies originally printed none are now found in institutional collections. Victory in the Battle of Okinawa gave the Allies a foothold in the Pacific from which they could mount offensives against the last surviving Axis combatant. For the planners of Operation Downfall air superiority was a key tactical advantage. In early July 3000 personnel were therefore reassigned from RAF Bomber Command Europe to the newly formed Tiger Force ready to conduct sorties into Japan's Asian possessions and support an offensive push on the ground. Preparations for Downfall occurred alongside planning for a nuclear attack and after Japan's unconditional surrender in August Tiger Force was wound down. The booklet provides an overview of Okinawa's history populations climate and culture. Personnel are given advice on disease prevention personal hygiene and options for recreation. As the final page notes "you will no doubt have gathered by now that Okinawa Jima is not altogether an earthly paradise. On the other hand it might be vastly worse and it is a great deal better than the jungles of Burma and New Guinea" p. 6. Square octavo pp. 6. Folding map of Okinawa map in text. Original pink wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in black with tiger vignette. Faint contemporary ownership inscription on front cover. Two old horizontal folds throughout wrappers a little toned occasional foxing internally folding map bright with horizontal fold to upper part. A very good copy. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 165899

‎[VIETNAM WAR] AARON, Chester‎

‎Hello to Bodega‎

‎New York: Atheneum 1976. First Edition. First printing. Russet cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 183pp. Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $6.95 on front flap faint toning visible at extremities else Fine. Lovely copy of the author's uncommon second young-adult novel set on a commune in rural Sonoma County in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Aaron 1923-2019 was a long-tenured professor of English at St. Mary's College in Moraga California; he is best-known as an author of books for young readers of which he published more than twenty titles over a five-decade career. Atheneum unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62785

‎[VIETNAM WAR] DUNCAN, Donald‎

‎The New Legions‎

‎New York: Random House 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's green cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in silver gilt red and green to spine and front board. Clean and bright in a strong handsome photographic dustjacket with some very light edgewear and scuffing a near fine copy. 275pp. Internally clean. Top edge stained yellow. A review copy with the Random House slip laid in at the front. A pretty searing indictment of the tactics and methods of the US military machine in Vietnam as described by a Special Forces veteran who served on Project Delta and in the An Lao Valley before famously quitting in disgust and becoming something of a celebrity amongst journalists and organisations campaigning for an end to the hostilities. Random House unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62756

‎[VIETNAM WAR] SHEEHAN, Neil et al‎

‎The Air War in Indochina‎

‎Boston: Beacon Press 1972. First Revised Edition. 4to. 28cm x 22cm. Publisher's red pictorial card covers. Minor creasing and soiling most visibly to the lower corner of the front cover price discreetly excised with a hole punch to the upper front corner. Clean and sharp a very good copy. 289pp. Internally clean. A very highly detailed and in-depth assessment of the resources manpower and costs in play during the air war component of the war in Vietnam with a particular focus upon the intangible nature of that conflict to the average American. An air war is distant and notionally inaccessible to the general public is the general argument of the work which was compiled initially in a smaller report in November 1971 then expanded upon by the Anti-War Study group at Cornell University and a wider body of contributors including Rapahel Littauer Saha Amarasingham Chandler Morse Norman Uphoff and Carl Sagan amongst a number of others assessing the impact upon economies ecologies diverse human populations neighbouring nations and the potential continuing and more widespread effects that would be expected to spiral outwards should the aerial campaign continue at contemporary levels. One of the primary thrusts of the research is that Nixon's government used the execution of a massive and sustained aerial campaign to push forward initiatives they would not otherwise have been permitted to pursue for various physical economic and humanitarian reasons. One of many sobering points put across throughout the course of the study is that by the time of publication the US had dropped more bombs on Vietname than were dropped on Europe during the entirety of WW2. Beacon Press unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62808

‎[VIETNAM WAR] WATERHOUSE, Charles‎

‎Vietnam War Sketches‎

‎Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1970. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 21cm x 15cm. Publisher's orange illustrated card covers lightly faded to the spine clean bright and attractive. A very good copy. 127pp. Internally clean. A follow on publication from Waterhouse's very popular first "Vietnam Sketchbook; Drawings from Delta to DMZ". Colonel Charles H. Waterhouse USMC Ret. who fought and was wounded at Iwo Jima became an official civilian War Combat Artist for the US Navy in Vietnam before going on to become the US marine Corps first Artist in Residence until the 1990's. His candid on the ground and occasionally in the air portraits of of Navy and USMC personnel going about their duties amidst the civilian population were very popular and seem to have partly contributed to a definitive artisitic "Aesthetic of Vietnam" an instantly recognisable style of war art that is all but accompanied by a smell and a soundtrack. Charles E. Tuttle Company unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62822

‎[VIETNAM WAR] KRUEGER, Carl‎

‎Wings of The Tiger‎

‎New York: Frederick Fell 1966. First Edition. First Printing. Special Limited Edition number of copies unknown. 8vo. 21cm x 14cm. Publisher's full black leather titled in gilt to spine with decorative gilt ruling to the front board. Clean and handsome. In a black cloth slipcase duplicating the design of the dustjacket for the trade edition. Inscribed on an inserted handmade paper limitation page with some a rather lavish gold ink limitation statement by the author and his wife:<br /> "Mimi and Marguerite with the deep love and affection of The Kruegers Dec. 4 1966 Carl Krueger Ida Krueger"<br /> Billed as "The First Novel of The Vietnam War" and definitely early although according to Newman's bibliographical survey of Vietnam War fiction this rather showy and gung ho novel ranks as the 12th published novel although only 3 novels were published in 1965 whilst the next 25 or so all made na appearance in 1966. This limited presentation issue of the first edition seems completely unknown. Krueger was a decidedly old school author and screenwriter from the post WW2 adventure cinema genre he has writing credits on "Comanche" and "Sabre Jet" both scorching technicolour action movies. He produced the Wyler/Sturges wartime propaganda documentary "Thunderbolt" in 1944 and seems to have had a leaning towards spectacular aircraft movies where the machines occupied as much if not more screen time as the human actors. That certainly seems to have been the intention here it's very aircraft heavyobsessed with the Phantom II and the Vietnamese characters are portrayed as either Machiavellian or offensively stupid. The trade edition dustwrapper bears the statement: "Mr Krueger will personally produce Wings of The Tiger as the greatest air spectacle ever filmed." As far as can be established Mr. Krueger did not. Regardless of anything else it's an interesting illustration of the fact that going into Vietnam with a WW2 mindset was not something exclusively limited to armchair strategists and DC pundits it was also prevalent among those writing and filming accounts of the conflict. Frederick Fell unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62733

‎[VIETNAM WAR] TRINIDAD, Corky‎

‎Nguyen Charlie with Sorry 'bout that Sarge‎

‎Tokyo: Stars and Stripes 1969 1970. First Edition. Two volumes 17.5cm x 13.5cm. Publisher's illustrated card covers strong and clean with light edgewear and a little soiling here and there to the predominantly white covers. Very good copies. 40pp;40pp. Internally clean a little staple related rust here and there but otherwise very presentable. Originally published in Stars and Stripes and extremely popular with the men on the ground the Nguyen Charlie strip became much needed relief from painful nature of the conflict it so satirically illustrated. Francisco Flores "Corky" Trinidad was a Filipino-American journalist and cartoonist who fled the Phillipines during the Marcos dictatorship and whose work was internationally syndicated throughout the 1970's and 80's he was in fact the first Asian editorial cartoonist to be syndicated within the US and the only Asian-American cartoonist working at a major US newspaper. The Nguyen Charlie cartoon books are rather ephemeral little volumes and presentable copies are quite rare. Stars and Stripes unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62758

‎[VIETNAM WAR] SOLIS, Lieutenent Colonel Gary D USMC‎

‎Marines and Military Law In Vietnam: Trial By Fire‎

‎Washington D.C.: History and Museums Division 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 4to. 27cm x 21cm. Publisher's green cloth. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated to spine and front board with the USMC globe and anchor in gilt. Pictorial dustjacket bright and clean with some marginal wear and chipping most visibly to spine ends and the lower edge of the rear panel which has a fingernail sized triangle of loss and a small closed tear. A very good strong copy. 295pp. Internally clean. A candid record of the challenges and unprecedented cirumstances the USMC legal department in Vietnam had to deal with. Fragging of unpopular officers casual murder of Vietnamese civilians sexual assault massive amounts of theft and graft and a drug problem that obviously gives rise to a flourishing drugs trade that was so widespread and serious that it threatened to destabilise the entire system of military law were all handled by somewhere in the region of 500 men and women of the Navy and Marines legal teams between 1965 and 1973. Many of the lawyers involved in cases in Vietnam were also combat personnel fighting on the ground and practising military law in addition to their regular duties meaning that they were probably more qualified to defend and prosecute the men under their charge than just about any body of lawyers in history. History and Museums Division unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62849

‎[Vietnam War] McJUNKIN, James N [with] Crace, Max D‎

‎Visions of Vietnam‎

‎Novato CA: Presidio Press 1983. First Edition. 4to. 28.5cm x 22cm. Publisher's original black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver to spine strong and handsome in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. Internally clean. A collection of large format sketches and photographs by Crace and McJunkin depicting among other things the often jarring contrast between daily life and military duty in Vietnam during the war. Presidio Press unknown‎

Référence libraire : 63296

‎Guerra, Sandra‎

‎The Black Box of Governance: Boards of Directors Revealed by Those Who Inhabit Them‎

‎Routledge 2021. Paperback. New. 336 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.59 inches. Routledge paperback‎

Référence libraire : x-1032052244 ISBN : 1032052244 9781032052243

‎[CIVIL WAR] DAVIS, William WH W H‎

‎The Campaign of 1861 in the Shenandoah Valley. A Paper read before the Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States May 5 1893‎

‎Doylestown PA: Doylestown Publishing Company 1893. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet sewn. Printed laid-paper wrappers; 18;7pp. Wraps present but chipped with losses at margins not affecting printed text; mild soil and creasing; a complete sound and Good copy. <br /> <br /> A defense by one of his field officers of Major-General Robert Patterson who had been heavily criticized for his failure to engage Confederate forces prior to the disastrous Battle of Bull Run. Following the text of Davis' address are seven further pages of testimonials to the character of Gen. Patterson from Col. George W. Cullum; W.T. Sherman; Winfield Scott Hancock and George G. Meade. William Watts Hart Davis 1820-1910 achieved the rank of Colonel in the Pennsylvania Volunteers; according to Nevins he had "entered the Civil War with the intention of writing his unit's history" which he did publishing the generally praiseworthy History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment in 1866. The current work though present in institutional collections appears to be historically scarce in commerce; not noted at auction; not in Nevins or Dornbusch and not noted by Broadfoot. Doylestown Publishing Company unknown‎

Référence libraire : 63674

‎PENINSULAR WAR - BINGHAM, Sir George Ridout‎

‎A detailed and important epistolary account of the Peninsular War between April 1809 and March 1810.‎

‎1820-21. Vibrant immediate and honest An outstanding series of 37 vivid candid letters by Major-General Sir George Ridout Bingham 1777-1833 transcribed by him from his original correspondence home and spanning April 1809 to January 1814 including the campaign of Talavera. They constitute a major primary source for campaigning in the Peninsula. In a reflective foreword written at Dean's Leaze in 1820-21 Bingham explains that he found his mother's preserved cache of letters on his return to England and copied them out verbatim omitting only personal matters. He stresses that he made no revisions leaving his early impressions misjudged predictions and evolving opinions intact and notes the gradual growth of his confidence in Wellington. An index closes the volume. A letter of 29 July 1809 from the field near Talavera captures the collection's immediacy: Bingham reports the ferocity of the action the heavy British casualties borne without Spanish support the army's acute want of provisions the deaths and wounds among senior officers his own collapse from exhaustion and the Spaniards' killing of wounded Frenchmen. Such unvarnished observations typify the set. The foreword and letters are printed in Gareth Glover's Wellington's Lieutenant Napoleon's Gaoler 2005. Glover notes that all surviving transcripts - including those at the National Army Museum typescript copies presented to the United Services Institute in 1923 - derive from lost originals. He characterizes the letters as frank immediate and rich in operational detail free from retrospective shaping and attentive to landscape people officers daily routines and the brutal conduct of war. Bingham from a long-established Dorset family rose rapidly: ensign in the 69th 1793 major in the 82nd 1801 and in 1805 lieutenant-colonel of the newly raised 2/53rd. He led the battalion throughout its distinguished Peninsula service Porto to Burgos later commanding a provisional battalion through Vitoria the Pyrenees and the Nivelle. Decorated with the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword and made KCB he escorted Napoleon to St Helena and commanded there until 1819 later serving on the Irish staff during a turbulent period. He was widely regarded as a considerate and able officer. Provenance: pencilled ownership of Col. John Delalynde Mansel 1850-1915 Rifle Brigade whose grandfather Lieut.-Col. John Mansel served as Bingham's second-in-command in the Peninsula. Subsequent family marriages united the Mansel Bingham and Pleydell lines. Small quarto 230 x 185 mm. Contemporary red half roan smooth spine divided by seven pairs of gilt fillets gilt lettered "MSS. Letters from the Peninsula" sides and corners trimmed with paired gilt fillets red paper sides. 163 pages running to about 32000 words written in a neat hand. Binding professionally refurbished slight cockling to first few leaves otherwise clean and presenting smartly. Gareth Glover Wellington's Lieutenant Napoleon's Gaoler: The Peninsula Letters & St Helena Diaries of Sir George Ridout Bingham 2005; T. H. McGuffie ed. "The Bingham Manuscripts: 2nd/53rd in the Peninsular War 1809-10 and 1812-13" JSAHR Vol. 26 No 107 Autumn 1948. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 154175

‎[South Carolina] [Civil War] Sears, Jos H‎

‎The New South. Vol. 2. No. 32. Port Royal S.C. Saturday April 16 1864. Whole No. 84‎

‎Port Royal S.C.: Jos. H. Sears 1864. First edition. Self wrappers. About very good copy loss of a few words at a small hole caused by an abrasion wax seal owners name and small tear on top margin. 4 pp. Folio. 13 x 9 1/2 inches. Articles on the New Banking System; Fort Pulaski; Lists of Prisoners; Affairs in Florida; Excitement about Torpedoes; advertisements.<br /> <br /> As Chronicling America Library of Congress & University of South Carolina note:<br /> "The Port Royal New South 1862-67 holds the distinction of being one of the first occupation newspapers published in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Unlike many of its successors however the New South not only outlasted the war but served as a witness to the political and social changes transforming Beaufort County South Carolina in its aftermath.<br /> <br /> Union Army postmaster Joseph Henry Sears launched the New South on March 15 1862. Recognizing the historical importance of his endeavor he remarked "Not often has a newspaper occupied so singular a position as that filled to-day . Issued in a military command addressed mostly to soldiers at the seat of war its audience is yet not purely military." Within two weeks' time Sears was forced to suspend publication as a concession to the supply needs of Union Army troops under the command of General David Hunter. The New South returned on August 23 1862 and it remained a reliable news source for the duration of the war. Newspapers as far-flung as the Daily Evansville Indiana Journal Daily Green Mountain Freeman Montpelier Vermont and Brownville Nebraska Advertiser picked up and carried its reports on the whereabouts of military companies and ships. By September 1863 circulation rates for the New South approached 10000 copies.<br /> <br /> Several of the men who worked for the New South went on to distinguished careers. In addition to serving as editor Union Army General Adam Badeau also served on General William T. Sherman's staff. He later published a number of historical works including Military History of Ulysses S. Grant 1881 and Grant in Peace 1887. Badeau's successor Henry Jacob Winser went on to serve as United States Consul General at the Court of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1869-81 chief of the information bureau of the Northern Pacific Railway Company assistant editor for the New-York Commercial Advertiser and managing editor for the Newark New Jersey Daily Advertiser.<br /> <br /> The details on the final days of the New South are scarce and contradictory due to gaps in the newspaper record. The newspaper apparently changed hands sometime in 1865 the same year it was moved from Port Royal to Beaufort. As late as August 1866 the Charleston South Carolina Daily News named Joseph Sears as an agent for the New South but the few surviving issues from that period only identify Lewis Thompson the former publisher for the Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia as proprietor. Contemporary scholarly sources have since surmised that the New South ceased in 1866 but an account of a destructive fire in Beaufort appearing in the Columbia South Carolina Daily Phoenix on March 9 1867 indicates the New South was still a viable concern. The latest issue known to exist is dated September 29 1866." Jos. H. Sears unknown‎

Référence libraire : 46310

‎(The Secretary of War).‎

‎Reports on The Control of Floods in the Rivers Systems of The Sacramento Valley and The Adjacent San Joaquin Valley Cal. Flood Control - Sacramento and San Joaquin River Systems California.‎

‎Washington.: Government Printing Office. 1911. First edition. . Soft cover. . Very good copy light shelf wear extensive notes on preliminary pages. 4to. 10 large folding maps. Scarce. Government Printing Office. paperback‎

Référence libraire : 227991

‎WAR TIME -‎

‎Men Only. A Man's Magazine 16 Issues.‎

‎London C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. Blue Active Media Ltd Between 1939 - 1945. Original publisher's sewn paperback pictorial frontcover advertisement backcover 12mo: rach volume ca. 150 pages with illustrations - articles - illustrated advertisements. Fine copies. Volumes Men Only: 49 - 50 - 51 - 52 - 53 - 61 - 73 - 78 - 84 - 86 - 87 - 88 - 101 - 103 - 109 - 111. London, [C. Arthur Pearson Ltd]. Blue Active Media Ltd Between 1939 - 1945 paperback‎

Référence libraire : 168093

‎[VIETNAM WAR] MARTIN, Ron‎

‎To Be Free!‎

‎New York: Vanguard Press 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine clean and bright in an equally bright pictorial dustjacket. A fine copy. 250pp. Internally clean. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:<br /> "To Phyllis Oct 21st 1986 Ron Martin"<br /> A pretty taut and skilful novel of a soldier determined to escape from the horrors of a VC prison camp written by a marine who served in South East Asia as a direct response to the negative treatment delivered to returning US military personnel. Rather more complex than the general run of novels on this theme dealing heavily with the trauma and psychological damage caused not only by incarceration but by a hostile alienating homecoming. Vanguard Press unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62715

‎[VIETNAM WAR] MOORE, Gene D‎

‎The Killing at Ngo Tho‎

‎New York: W.W. Norton & Co 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm. x 15cm. Publisher's green cloth spine over black paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in red and black to spine light rubbing and edgewear some inoffensive discoloration to the cloth in a strong priceclipped example of the dustjacket light shelfwear and creasing with some sunning to the spine panel. A very good strong copy. Internally clean fore-edge untrimmed. <br /> <br /> An early novel about Vietnam; written by a serving soldier dealing with the conflict that exists between decisive military action and the common civilian understanding of what that entails and the nature of its consequences. W.W. Norton & Co unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62705

‎[VIETNAM WAR] KOLPACOFF, Victor‎

‎The Prisoners of Quai Dong‎

‎New York: New American Library 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver gilt to spine clean and sharp in a strong and bright example of the dustjacket slight scuffing and edgewear. A near fine copy. 214pp. Internally clean. Highly controversial upon its publication and asking a number of questions that its 1967 readers clearly weren't comfortable discovering the answers to Kolpacoff's novel deals with a nightmarish situation in which a disgraced US soldier's refusal to fight lands him in a brutal prison camp. He is offered reinstatement if he participates in the interrogation and torture of a 17 year old Vietcong prisoner in a claustrophobic jungle hut with four other men all of whom possess varying reasons and motivations for being there but who are all simply through association equally damned. Kolpacoff was never in Vietnam which seems immaterial to the main question posed by this his first novel; it is not so much what we are doing to our enemies but what are we doing to ourselves New American Library unknown‎

Référence libraire : 62710

‎AFRICA - ANGLO-ZULU WAR‎

‎Confidential Notes regarding Zulu Headmen.‎

‎Pietermaritzburg: Printed by P. Davis & Sons 1879. Detailed intelligence issued shortly before Isandlwana First and only edition unrecorded institutionally this the only copy known. "This small pamphlet contains considerable detail on its subject: 'Compiled from information obtained from the most reliable sources and published by direction of the Lieut.-General Commanding Lord Chelmsford for the information of those under his command'" Raugh. The brief but informative notes are followed by a tabulation of the headmen detailing their father age regiment tribe principal residence and finally remarks expanding on the notes as to the number of men they command their relationships to Cetewayo and status within the Zulu political and military structure. Provenance: Pencilled inscription to the front panel of the wrappers of "Major Grenfell Deputy Assistant Adjutant General 14.1.79" this was Francis Wallace Grenfell 1841-1925 60th Rifles later field-marshal lord Grenfell and commander at Suakin and Toski in the Mahdist War. Grenfell had gone out to South Africa in 1874 and was aide-de-camp to Sir Arthur Cunnynghame commander-in-chief; he saw action at Quntana in the Xhosa War of 1878 and in the Anglo-Zulu War at Ulundi having witnessed the aftermath of the debacle at Isandlwana remarking that "officers and men behaved splendidly - dying back to back - and at the last rallying round the colours not a man of the regulars attempted to escape till all was lost" Emery p. 106. Part of lot 421 Quentin Keynes Sale Christie's 8 April 2004. Octavo pp. 6; 4 double-page tables on 5 leaves. Sewn in original printed pink paper wrappers. Some "service wear" wrappers soiled and rubbed mildly damp cockled back panel with vertical crease where once folded back and consequent soiling to the last blank page contents with pale toning and lightly rippled at the edges from atmospheric damp overall very good. Raugh 575. Frank Emery The Red Soldier: Letters from the Zulu War 1879 1977. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 167372

‎[Civil War]‎

‎THE HERCULES OF THE UNION SLAYING THE GREAT DRAGON OF SECESSION‎

‎New York: Currier & Ives 1861. Lithograph 12" x 17". Light lower margin wear. This imprint does not have "General Scott" directly beneath the picture and preceding the caption as an almost identical version does. Very Good.<br /> <br /> "A tribute to commander of the Union forces Gen. Winfield Scott shown as the mythical Hercules slaying the many-headed dragon or hydra here symbolizing the secession of the Confederate states. At left stands Scott wielding a great club 'Liberty and Union' about to strike the beast. The hydra has seven heads each representing a prominent Southern leader. The neck of each Southerner depicted is labeled with a vice or crime associated with him" Reilly. <br /> The Southerners are Toombs Stephens Davis Beauregard Twiggs Pickens and Floyd labeled variously as Hatred and Blasphemy Lying Piracy Perjury Treason Extortion Robbery. <br /> This is the variant noted by Weitenkampf omitting the name of Scott in the title.<br /> Reilly 1861-35. Weitenkampf 131. OCLC 191119921 2- Peabody Essex Boston Athenaeum as of November 2023. Not at the AAS online site. Currier & Ives? unknown‎

Référence libraire : 39672