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Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Indexed. Clean pages with no apparent markings, creasing, or marginalia. 234 pp. Graphite handwriting on the front end-paper. Light spotting on the page edges. Dark navy cloth cover boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. There are a......
Item #067912
![Item #064909 House of Representatives: Official Army Register for 1896 [Documents No. 76 and 77]...](https://shelleyandsonbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/064909.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694202226)
Washington, DC: 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardback. 2 volumes in 1. First Edition. Official Army Register for The House of Representatives, 54th Congress, 1st Session. Army and Navy Registers. Indexed. Decently clean pages with no apparent creasing or marginalia; there is some light browning and marking from age. Document No.....
Item #064909
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. Hardcover. Hardback. Report of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for the House of Representatives, 54th Congress, 1st Session. Document No. 42, Part 1 through 3 and Document No. 288. Decently clean pages with no apparent creasing or marginalia; there is some light.....
Item #064907
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. Hardcover. Hardback. Volume 3 only. Indexed. Appendices. This book contains the Report Of The Chief Of Ordnance with 39 accompanying appendices with information on various guns and weapons. There are an additional 25 foldout plates and black and white illustrations detailing and diagraming such.....
Item #064915
Royal Oak, Michigan: Brian Russell Military Books. Paperback. Paperback. White covers with black lettering. Staple bound. Sales list 85 on military related books. Mark from a staple goes through the book, but is still completely readable. Front cover has a few small stains. Back cover has two addresses printed on.....
Item #066014
London: Thames & Hudson, Inc., 2008. Reprint. Hardcover. 'The first book to examine in detail not just the early imperial army, but the citizen's militia of the Republic and army of later Empire; key Roman battles; daily lives of Roman soldiers including lifestyle, legionary structure (From dust jacket). Over 200.....
Item #066991
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977. Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Bound in cream publisher's cloth, covers are plain with red lettering on the spine. Endpapers are is a two-page spread of Vietnam citizens in black and white. Frontispiece is black and white military image. Contains author's note, major personalities, an.....
Item #067213
Kent, Ohio, and London: The Kent State University Press, 1999. Illustrated. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. FIRST EDITION, 1999. Inscribed "For Shelby | Best wishes, | Al Vernon | December 1999" on the title page. Includes forward written by Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey. Hardcover. Bound in black publisher's cloth and flecked.....
Item #070787
San Antonio, TX: Antarctic Press, 2006-04-04. paperback. Paperback. Contains black and white images of weapons/guns. Each weapon has photos from a bird's eye view, eye level view, and a worm's eye view. Approximately 100 pp. Clean pages with no evident markings, creasing, or marginalia. Green colored matte cover with minor.....
Item #069641
London: Collins, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. An accounting of the battle of Jutland and the damage and losses the British Navy incurred. An extraordinary story of science and technology and the invention of a computerized system of Fire Control that became a national controversy. Contents include diagrams of the Battle.....
Item #067205
Pierron, 1995. Hardcover. FRENCH TEXT. Gift inscription from Pierre Peron, Commander of Combat Force. Blue boards, title in bold white print front and spine. Color photographs front and back of dust jacket. Both jacket and volume in very good condition with minimum shelf wear. Richly illustrated with photographs throughout. A......
Item #066830
New York: Portland House, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. With over 800 full-color and 180 black and white illustrations and photos, this volume collects in one place the most detailed, accurate and highly illustrated descriptions ever produced of a number of the world's most important modern warplanes (From dust jacket). Black.....
Item #066829
Bureau of Naval Personnel. Paperback. Paperback. Stapled booklet. ii, 74pp. No writing in the book. Covers age-toned and lightly soiled. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #030821
Periscope Film, LLC, 2010. Illustrated. First Edition. Paperback. Paperback. Illustrated cover. Photo of Lt. John F. Kennedy and crewmen aboard PT-109 in 1943 (on rear cover). 38pp. Illustrated. No writing in the book. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #028046
Macmillan Audio, 2013. Audio Edition. Audio CD. Audio CD's (8), as new, Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #023530
Montreal & London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1977. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1977. The crucial problem of recruiting with chapters, i.e., Army Recruiting before the Crimean War; The Foreign Enlistment Bill origins; Problems of Foreign Recruiting; Training; Disbandment. [viii], Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index, 197 pp. CONDITION: Hardbound black boards, silver.....
Item #072325
United Kingdom: Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1995. Black and White Photographs. Hardcover. This book looks at all military motorcycles of British origin known to have been tested mainly by the Mechanical Warfare Experimental Establishment/Mechanisation Experimental Establishment. Included is a comprehensive listing of all motorcycle contracts for the period with a......
Item #074286
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1856. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. Hedley Shafto Johnstone Vicars (7 December 1826 – 22 March 1855) was a British Army officer and evangelical who was killed in action during the Crimean War. Hardbound brown publishers cloth, tight binding, covers soiled and.....
Item #070291
Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2000. Howard Gerrard. Reprint. Paperback. REPRINT. Paperback. Beautifully Illustrated cover. Cover is orange and white with white and black lettering. 96 pp. Contains many photographs, full color battle scenes, and both 3D and conventional maps. Pages are crisp and clean. Contains chronology, select bibliography, index, and.....
Item #066599
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. Paul Bacon (jacket design). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. BOOK CLUB EDITION. From the dustjacket: "A history of the character, causes and consequences of military stupidity, from Crassus to Johnson and Westmoreland." Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth. Cover is plain with gilt lettering on the.....
Item #066616
New Jersey: Chas. K. Landis Publishing Co., 1936. Charles K. Landis. First Edition. Paperback. Inscribed by author. Stapled binding. Black and yellow illustrated covers. Sailors of 1812: Life in the Early U.S. Navy is a 1936 paperback book written and illustrated by Charles K. Landis. It's a monograph about the.....
Item #074592
Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993. Reprint. Paperback. Pictorial cover. Illustrated with black and white photography. Indexed, 544 pp. In like new condition. Nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #061303
Edison, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2003. Illustrated. Hardcover. Per the cover, this book is "The ultimate history of maritime warfare". Hardcover. Boards a glossy paper that are boldly illustrated with full color images of warships in blue, gold, red and white color themes. White and red lettering on the.....
Item #067211
New York | London | Toronto | Sydney | New Delhi: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2015. Illustrated with photographs. First Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Pictorial cover. A few B&W photographs. Indexed, 433 pp. Light edge wear, else like new. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #061313
New York: Newcomen Society of North America, 1956. Woodcuts. First Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Slight edge soiling, staples a little rusted. The Newcomen Society of North America was chartered in 1961, following the earlier establishment in 1923 of the Newcomen Society in England. The focus is on "material history, as distinguished.....
Item #057455