Marines from Monongahela Books

NEW copy, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrations, Night after night through heavy shellfire, Alpheus Appenheimer, a private with the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, 4th Brigade of Marines, hauled ammunition to front-line positions of his company with a 4-line mule-team and wagon during the fiercest fighting at Belleau Wood. ~~~ For years after the war, Alpheus hoped to return to Belleau… Read more about this item

NEW copy. (Monongahela Books, 2017). Facsimile edition of original edition published in July, 1919 at the 78th Company Headquarters in Neuweid, Germany. ~~~~~ In addition to the actual history of the company (8 pages), there are several photographs, an Honor Roll of the Dead, a list of "Decorations Won by Men of 78th Company" including Croix de Guerres, Citations for… Read more about this item

Very Good +. Hardcover, clean, tight, no chips or edgewear, slight toning to spine. A very nice copy in collectible condition. No dust jacket. ~~~ First Edition, Third Printing (Feb 1933). ~~~ Praised by Grahme Greene, Christopher Morley and Ernest Hemingway as one of the most significant novels of the First World War. ~~~ Innovative in form, it is told… Read more about this item

Very Good-- / Acceptable. Very slight creasing & tiny ding to first three pages. Jacket (in mylar protector) has considerable edgewear and an inch-long tear to front panel. ~~~First Edition. Photographs, maps, glossary, extensive notes, appendices, bibliography, index, 463 pages. ~~~The first history of the U.S. Marines in World War I to cover the entire war, using a wealth of… Read more about this item

Fine/Fine. Hardcover with dust jacket in new condition. Photographs, appendices, extensive notes, bibliography, index, 189 pages.

NEW copy, hardcover in dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Photographs, maps, list of military personnel. Jackson served with 95th Company, 1st Battalion, Sixth Marines, 4th Brigade of Marines, 2d Division (Regular), A.E.F from June 1917 until the end of the war and the German Occupation.

Uncommonly tight, clean copy, with virtually no edgewear. Gift inscription in elegant hand (dated 1920) on front flyleaf. No dust jacket. Illustrated. Scarce title in collectable condition. Included is one letter from Belleau Wood by Capt George Hamilton, (DSC) 49th Co, 5th Marines. Most Marines identified by unit.

NF/VG. A few minor tears to jacket. Biography of writer/artist/Marine officer. Photographs, drawings by Thomason, extensive bibliography, index, 405 pages.

VG/VG. Original "$8.95" price still intact on dust jacket. (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978). One of the Lost American Fiction series edited by Matthew J. Bruccolli. Reprinted from the original Scribners 1923 edition. Unique to this edition: an Afterward by James Dickey. 278 pages. ~~~~~ Through the Wheat was recommended to Scribners by F. Scott Fitzgerald and received… Read more about this item

This is a facsimile of the telephone directory published the 4th Marine Regiment (the legendary "China Marines") in 1938, during their posting in Shanghai, China just prior to the outbreak of World War II. ---- Included are phone numbers and street addresses for the Commanding Officer & Staff, Regimental Headquarters Company, Service Company, Motor Transport Company, Regimental Hospital, First Battalion,… Read more about this item

NEW copy. (Monongahela Books, 2017). Three scarce booklets, published between 1918 and 1923, about the Battle of Belleau Wood, and the creation of the American Aisne-Marne Cemetery. Includes map and numerous period photographs. Printed on heavier 80# paper for higher photo quality. 94 pages. ~~~~~ When the Tide Turned: The American Attack at Chateau Thierry And Belleau Wood in the first… Read more about this item

Reprint edition of "A History of the 20th Company, Fifth Marines," besides containing all the original material of the rare 1919 edition, includes additional map, field messages and operation reports not found in the original, as well as new section introductions and footnotes by military historian BJ Omanson. ~~~ As part of the 4th Brigade of Marines (2d… Read more about this item