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Seversky, Major Alexander P. De.
AIR POWER: KEY TO SURVIVAL.
pp. xxiv, 376 + Plus numerous photographs. Top edge red. Uncut. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, spine faded. Seversky was a Russian born in 1894 and was a air hero in World War I. A protege of General Billy Mitchell in the War Department in the 1920s, he went on to found the Seversky Aircraft Corporation later Republic Aviation. He designed the P47 Thunderbolt, the world's then fastest amphibian plane. WWII 2
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Stuart, Jesse.
TAPS FOR PRIVATE TUSSIE. Illustrated by Thomas Benton.
303p. + Plus frontis. Illustrated with full page color washed cartoons by Thomas Benton. Decorated title page. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly worn. Spine faded. Book of the Month Club. Winner of the 1943 Thomas Jefferson Southern Award. WWII 3
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Shiber, Etta.
PARIS-UNDERGROUND. In Collaboration With Anne and Paul Dupre and Oscar Ray.
pp. vi, 392. 8vo. Original full brown cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly chipped. An American woman and a woman friend operated an "Underground" through which many British soldiers escaped from France. WWII 3
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Snell, Roy J.
WINGS FOR VICTORY.
251p. Inner hinges cracked. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. Original full orange cloth binding, spine faded. WWII 3
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Winterbotham, R. R.
JOYCE OF THE SECRET SQUADRON. Illustrated by Erwin L. Darwin. Authorized Edition Based on the Famous Radio Series "Captain Midnight".
251p. Full page drawings by Erwin L. Darwin. Decorated endpapers. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, lettered in red. Some wear at extremities. WWII 3
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Turner, Richard E.
BIG FRIEND, LITTLE FRIEND. Memoirs of a World War II Fighter Pilot.
176p. + Plus photographs. Inked ownership of Michael Raush, Da Nang, Vietnam, United States Naval Medical Corp. 1969-1970, American Naval Hospital. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly soiled and worn. WWII 2
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United States Naval Institute.
THE BLUEJACKETS' MANUAL. UNITED STATES NAVY. 1943. Eleventh Edition.
pp. xii, 1145 + Plus Index, frontis and color plates of flags. Numerous illustrations. Inked ownership of Ralph C. Gemmill A.S., Co. 366 E-11, U.S.N.T.S., Sampson, NY. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, faded. WWII 3
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Amburgh, F. D. Van.
THE BUCK UP BOOK. Third Edition.
156p. (4)[Publisher's catalogue]. Decoratively framed title page. Text printed in red and black. Uncut. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, worn and stained. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! WWI 4
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Aldrich, Mildred.
ON THE EDGE OF THE WAR ZONE. From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes.
311p. + Plus portrait frontis and photographs. Map endpapers. Small 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold lettered. Slight spotting on rear board. Nice copy. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! WWI 2
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American Association for International Conciliation.
DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EUROPEAN WAR. SERIES NO. VIII. ITALY'S GREEN BOOK. Translation Approved by Royal Italian Embassy, Washington, DC. August, 1915, No. 93. International Conciliation.
94p. 12mo. Original full printed wraps. Rear wrap has small loss and remains of album mountings. Nice example. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 12
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Bairnsfather, Captain Bruce.
BAIRNSFATHER. A Few Fragments from His Life. Collected By a Friend. With some Critical Chapters by Vivian Carter, Editor of `The Bystander'.
96p. + Plus portrait frontis and full page cartoon illustrations. Decorated title page. Tall 8vo. Original full yellow cloth binding, soiled. Bruce Bairnsfeather fought in WWI and his charming cartoon-style sketches were published in a weekly magazine. Soldiers and civilians were both delighted with his humor and insight. The style and tone should stimulate all fans of Bill Mauldin. WWI 1
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Battle of Jutland.
NARRATIVE OF THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND.
pp. iv, 121+ Plus forty-five full page military diagrams of the battle, some folding. Inked ownership. Tall 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, gold lettered. Extremities slightly worn. Some spotting on boards. Nice copy. WWI 8
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Binyon, Laurence.
THE CAUSE. Poems of the War.
115p. Small 8vo. Original full cloth backed paper board binding. Gilt lettered spine. Slight fading. First edition. Quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 2
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Broun, Heywood.
OUR ARMY AT THE FRONT. America In The War.
pp. vi, 332 + Plus frontis. A few pages loose. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, worn. WWI 4
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Campbell, Rev. R. J.
A LETTER TO AN AMERICAN FRIEND.
23p. 12mo. Original full printed wraps. Remains of album mountings on rear wrap. Nice copy. WWI 12
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Current Opinion.
CURRENT OPINION. One issue for the Year 1917. Edited by Edward J. Wheeler.
One issue, July. Numerous advertisements, drawings and photographs. Folio. Original full printed color pictorial wraps. Slight soiling. Wonderful advertisements. A remarkable record from the World War One era. WWI 12
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Dodd, William E.
WOODROW WILSON AND HIS WORK. Fifth Edition. Revised September, 1921.
pp. xiv, 454 + Plus portrait frontis. Illustrated. XLib. Foxed. Uncut. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. WWI 1
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Dunsany, Lord.
TALES OF WAR.
166p. Original bookseller's label. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, gold lettered. Spine faded. Slightly dust spotted. First (American) edition. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays - Wiki. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 2
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Daily Telegraph.
KING ALBERT'S BOOK. A Tribute to the Belgian King and People From Representative Men and Women Throughout the World.
188p. + Plus portrait frontis and numerous tipped in color plates by Rackham, Parrish, Fisher, Nielsen, Dulac, etc. Quite foxed. 4to. Original full linen binding, spine faded, and some soiling. Though the text includes contributions from such luminaries as Claude Monet, John Galsworthy, Lord Balfour, and Winston Churchill - the main fame of this work derives from the exceptional mounted plates by the great illustrators of the era. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 9
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Dunton, James G.
A MAID AND A MILLION MEN. A Candid Confessions of Leona Canwick and Censored Indiscreetly by James G. Dunton.
343p. 8vo. Original full tan cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Very nice example. "the whole army thought she was a man - until a woman fell in love with her! Read this amazing confession of a virgin in khaki." WWI 2
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Durkheim, E.; Denis, E.
WHO WANTED WAR? The Origin of the War According to Diplomatic Documents. Studies and Documents On the War. Translated by A. M. Wilson-Garinei.
62p. (1)[Contents]. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Remains of album mountings on rear wrap. Nice copy. WWI 12
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Eliot, Charles W.
THE ROAD TOWARD PEACE. A Contribution To the Study of the Causes of the European War and of the Means of Preventing War in the Future.
pp. xv, 228. Heavily stamped with ownership of J. Haines Joyce. Bookseller's label of Peter Reilly, Philadelphia. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold stamped. First edition. Nice copy. Very scarce. WWI 5
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Empey, Arthur Guy.
"OVER THE TOP". By An American Soldier Who Went. Together With Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches. 16 Illustrations and Diagrams.
pp. x, 315, (4)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus portrait frontis, photographs and illustrations. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, worn. WWI 2/WWI 4
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Foust, Mrs. Leila Atwood.
WITH GOD AND THE COLORS. Prayers by a Mother for Her Soldier Boy.
64p. Text framed within a typographic border. Bookplate. Endpapers have some smoke damage. Small 8vo. Original full cloth backed pictorial boards of soldier kneeling by flag. First edition. Very scarce. WWI 9
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Fitzsimons, Bernard (Editor).
WARSHIPS & SEA BATTLES OF WORLD WAR I.
160p. Profusely illustrated. Folio. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Nice copy WWI 12
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Fox, Henry L. (Editor).
WHAT THE "BOYS" DID OVERTHERE. By "Themselves".
165p. + Plus frontis and photo portraits. Lacks one illustration. Childish crayoning on endpapers. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold. Slightly worn. WWI 2
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French Army.
1916 DOCUMENTS DE LA SECTION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DE L'ARMEE FRANCAISE.
n.p. Numerous photographs with text printed in English, French, Italian and Spanish. Slight old staining. Oblong 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Small loss to top of front and back wraps. Very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 12
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Frobenius, Colonel H.
GERMANY'S HOUR OF DESTINY. With Preface by William R. Shepherd.
62p. Inked ownership. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Second edition. Remains of album mountings on rear wrap. Spine repaired. WWI 13
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Geraldy, Paul.
THE WAR, MADAME. Translated by Barton Blake.
109p. Ruled title page. 12mo. Original full cloth backed paper binding with spine label. Second printing. Nice copy. Paul Géraldy (actually Paul Le Fèvre) [1885-1983], was a French writer Who debuted as a poet in 1908. This novel 'La Guerre, Madame' came out in 1916. It was World War I's "Red Badge of Courage". WWI 2
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George David Lloyd.
BRITISH WAR AIMS. Statement by the Right Honourable David Lloyd George. January Fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen. Authorized Version as published by The British Government.
15p. 12mo. Original full printed wraps. Very nice copy of a scarce and significant piece. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! WWI 13
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Gerard, James W.
MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY. Illustrated With Numerous Photographic Reproductions of Scenes and Documents.
328p. + Plus frontis and full page illustrations. Inked ownership of Maggie P. Snovel, Reading, Pa. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, slightly worn at extremities. Original dust jacket, chipped with small loss. WWI 5
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Grey, Viscount. (Viscount Grey of Fallodon).
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
15p. 12mo. Original full printed wraps. Remains of album mountings on rear wrap. Nice copy. WWI 12
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Hancock, H. Irving.
DAVE DARRIN AND THE GERMAN SUBMARINES OR MAKING A CLEAN-UP OF THE HUN SEA MONSTERS.
255p. (8)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus frontis. Inner hinges cracked. Bookseller's label. Penciled ownership of George Simon. 8vo. Original full pictorial cloth binding. A Dave Darrin Series. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! WWI 5
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Hall, James Norman.
KITCHENER'S MOB. The Adventures of an American in the British Army.
201p. + Plus portrait frontis. Age stained. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. Canadian first edition. "Iowa born Hall, was on vacation in the UK in the summer of 1914, when World War I began. Posing as a Canadian, he enlisted in the British Army, Serving in the Royal Fusiliers as a machine gunner during the Battle of Loos. He was discharged after his true nationality was discovered, and then returned to the US. This is his first book. Recounting his wartime experiences with vigor. He later returned to France, where he joined the French-American Lafayette Escadrille before the United States officially entered the war. After the war, Hall co-wrote the Bounty Trilogy, including the wonderful 'Mutiny on The Bounty'. " WWI 2
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Hallowell, James Mott.
THE SPIRIT OF LAFAYETTE.
101p. 12mo. Original full cloth binding. Nice little book that commemorates American participation in World War One as paying a debt due Lafayette. WWI 11
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Halsey, Francis Whiting.
THE LITERARY DIGEST HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR. Compiled from Original and Contemporary Sources: American, British, French, German, and Others. In Ten Volumes.
Ten volumes. Numerous photographs. Map endpapers. XLib. 8vo. Original full blue cloth bindings. Some spines spotted. One of the most complete histories of World War One. Ten volumes. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 2
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Hendrick, Burton J.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE. Two Volumes.
Two volumes. Photo illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. Top edge gold. Uncut. Inked ownership of Charlotte Virginia Keesey, 1922. Large 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, spine faded. Walter Hines Page (18551918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! WWI 2
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Hendrick, Burton J.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE. Two Volumes.
Two volumes. Photo illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. Top edge gold. Uncut. Foxed. Large 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, spine faded. WWI 2
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Horne, Charles; Austin, Walter F. (Editors).
THE GREAT EVENTS OF THE GREAT WAR. Seven Volumes.
Seven volumes. Numerous illustrations. Uncut and unopened. Top edge gold. 8vo. Original full green, blue, brown and red faux leather bindings, intricately gold decorated. Authorized facsimile of the original art bindings on the official individual countries' copies of the Versailles Peace Treaty. Some volumes have very slight chipping at top edge of spine. A very handsome set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 3
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Houston, David F.
EIGHT YEARS WITH WILSON'S CABINET 1913 TO 1920. With a Personal Estimate of the President. In Two Volumes.
Two volumes. Title pages printed in red and black. Photographs. Uncut. XLib. Presented to Altland Library by the author. Top edges gold. Large 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding, lettered in gold. Nice set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 10
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Horne, Charles; Austin, Walter F. (Editors).
SOURCE RECORDS OF THE GREAT WAR. Seven Volumes.
Seven volumes. Numerous illustrations. Uncut and unopened. Top edge gold. 8vo. Original full green, blue, brown and red faux leather bindings, intricately gold decorated. Authorized facsimile of the original art bindings on the official individual countries' copies of the Versailles Peace Treaty. Some volumes have very very slight chipping at top edge of spine. An absolutely beautiful set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 3
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Hurley, Edward N.
WHEN COAL OIL JOHNNY GOES TO SEA.
9 leaves. Text printed only on rectos. Photograph of the boiler room of the banana ship "Metapan". 8vo. Lacks front wrap. First page stained. Very scarce piece on the role of diesel engines at war. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 10
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Jackson, Robert.
FIGHTER PILOTS OF WORLD WAR I.
158p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Book Club edition. WWI 2
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World's War Stories.
AMERICANS DEFENDING DEMOCRACY. Our Soldiers' Own Stories. Second Edition.
pp. xx, 340 + Plus frontis and photographs. 8vo. Original full brown cloth binding, gold lettered. (Spine stamped Vol. 1 but no indication of volume count in text) WWI 2
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Leslie's Weekly.
LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. Two Issues: April 5 & April 12, 1917.
Two issues: April 5 & April 12, 1917. Illustrated with numerous photographs, drawings and advertisements. Folio. Original full pictorial printed wraps. Slightly worn. WWI 12
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March, Francis A.; Beamish, Richard J.
HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR. An Authentic Narrative of The World's Greatest War. With an Introduction by General Peyton C. March. Illustrated with Reproductions from the Official Photographs of the United States, British and French Governments.
736p. + Plus frontis. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Large 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, decorated in gold and black. Slightly worn. WWI 7 + WWI 4 = XLib + WWI 6 = Poor copy.
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March, General Peyton C.
THE NATION AT WAR.
pp. viii, 407 + Plus portrait frontis and photographs. Uncut. Top edge red. Stamped ownership L.B.H., 1932. Large 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. First edition. Nice copy. WWI 4
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
TECHNOLOGY'S WAR RECORD. An Interpretation of the Contribution Made By the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Its Staff, Its Former Students and Its Under-Graduates to the Cause of the United States and the Allied Powers in the Great War 1914-1919.
pp. ix, 747 + Plus frontis. Profusely illustrated with photographs. 4to. Original full purple cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold. Nice copy. First edition. Scarce. WWI 8
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McCollum, "Buck Private".
HISTORY AND RHYMES OF THE LOST BATTALION. Sketches by Franklin Sly and Tolman R. Reamer.
140p. Text bordered with sketches. Illustrated with photographs. Slight foxing. Decorated title page. Tipped in presentation from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Scranton Electric City Post No. 1601 Scranton, Pa. to Mrs. W. P. Hayes from the Legion Commander Edwin Harris. 12mo. Original full limp brown printed wraps. First published 1919. Nice copy. WWI 12
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McCollum, "Buck Private".
HISTORY AND RHYMES OF THE LOST BATTALION. Sketches by Franklin Sly and Tolman R. Reamer.
140p. Text bordered with sketches. Illustrated with photographs. Slight foxing. Decorated title page. Tipped in presentation from American Legion York Post No. 127 to Mrs. M. O. Lewis from the Post Commander Louis S. Weaver. 12mo. Original full limp brown printed wraps. First published 1919. Nice copy. WWI 12 x2c
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