Search Results: War from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A dark, satiric comedy, Blinn's first novel features a tactical jet crewman, nicknamed Aardvark, aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier heading to the Persian Gulf War. Aardvark is a virtual warrior in the world's first virtual war, his senses and weapons electronic and digital, his reality surreal and hallucinatory; Remainder mark on top edge of text, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows some minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Arch Cape Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collection of over 250 full color photographs by some of the world's best aviation photographers attempting to capture the components of modern military air power. From the tactical jet fighters and strategic bombers to the spy planes, drones and ground support helicopters, to the tankers, transports and target tugs -- here are the people and technology that combine to create the immense power of a modern air force. Introduction by Walter J. Boyne, the former Director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Simthsonian Institurtion; Oversize 10.25 x 13 inches, 174 pages; boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear, no tears or chippings. Collectable.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. In 1982, Vollman traveled to Afghanistan to see firsthand the war being fought between Soviet occupation troops and Afghan guerrillas. It resulted in Vollman's first non-fiction work, a memoir of a young man coming to terms with his political naivete and confronting his own inadequacy in the face of unlimited suffering. Text shows some slight soiling on top edge, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square, appears unread. Dustjacket appears near perfect, no tears, creasing or chipping, no remainder mark, not price-clipped. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Avon Books, 1970. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Avon V2331; a study of guerrilla warfare around the world between 1945 and mid-1960s, including Greece, Algeria, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cuba, by a noted Newsweek correspondent; First Printing of the First Avon Edition; text is clean, tight, with a slight spine lean in black and red wrappers showing only minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1962. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Good/Good. A history and guide to the tools and weapons used by the North and South in the American Civil War, illustrated with over 500 drawings by the author; 8 1/2 x 11 inches, spine slightly cocked; tape residue has left stain marks on inside covers, pastedowns and end pages; previous owner's bookplate and address sticker on half-title page; price-clipped dustjacket slightly worn at top of spine, small pieces of age-browned tape at corners of both flaps. Not a collectable copy but still fine for reading/reference.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1966. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Vintage Paperback, Pyramid N1497. The classic day-by-day reconstruction of the 1954 battle that resulted in a catastrophic defeat for France, ended 80 years of colonial rule of North Vietnam, and set the stage for American involvement two years later in the vain attempt to prevent a communist takeover in South Vietnam. 413 pages, illustrated with black & white photos, and includes a bibliography and index. Pictorial wrappers show some minor surface and edgewear, no significant tears, chipping or creasing. Text is lighlty age-tanned, o/w clean and unmarked, tight and square.

New York: Avon Books, 1968. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Avon Discus W117; the Pulitzer Prize-winning military editor of 'The New York Times" analyzes eleven crucial battles of World War II; text is clean, tight, square, very lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The twentieth book in O'Brian's highly-praised English naval warfare series set at the beginning of the 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars and featuring British naval officers Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, this time in South America trying to help Chile break free of Spain's colonial rule; boards and text are clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean; the dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear, no tears or chips. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/About Very Good. Schaeffer's eighth novel is the story of three generations of a blue collar Italian family from Brooklyn but especially its third generation son, Pete Bravado, who, desperate to get away from a father and family that lacks understanding, enlists in the Army and is plunged almost immediately into combat in Vietnam. Pete survives and returns home to an equally tough fight to survive post trauma stress disorder, which destroys his marriage, estranges his children and leaves him enraged but afraid of his own anger. The final scenes in this book, as Pete begins an anguished self-examination, are truly memorable. Text edges very slightly soiled, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. There are two tears on the folds of the dustjacket's back panel, with some associated creasing where the dj was damaged at some point by careless handling. The tears have been tape-repaired (on the verso)… Read More

New York: Avon Books, 1956. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Fair To Good. Vintage paperback, Avon 734; one of Cheyney's World War II spy novels, this one featuring a Chicago gangster recruited for a suicide mission in Nazi Germany in 1945; reprints Avon 123; text is clean, tight, square, age-tanned in considerably worn but whole pictorial wrappers showing ballpoint initials "HR" on lower left corner of front cover, creasing, bumped corners and light soiling. More scarce than earlier edition.

New York: Smithmark Publishers, Inc., 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A classic of military history and the American Civil War, originally published in 1910 and titled: "Chancelllorsville: A Strategic and Tactical Study." Developed from Bigelow's extensive and exhaustive research while was a professor of military history at MIT. First Smithmark edition, first printing thus, (with complete numberline). About 7 x 9 1/2 inches, 528 pages including appendices, bibliography and index. Bound in grey paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. The dustjacket's front panel shows b&w head-and-shoulders photos of Lee and Hooker, the commanding generals, against a marbled background with author and title in blue-colored box above photos. Boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked. No significant or noticeable damage or flaws. Dustjacket shows only a touch of wear at spine ends. No creases, tears or surface wear. Not corner-clipped. A collectable copy. Bigelow, an 1877… Read More

New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This book is something of a departure for Mystery Grand Master Block, who has only occasionally collaborated with other authors, but also because it is a spy thriller, set in 1940 with England and Germany at war. It features Ted Campbell, an American pilot and aircraft designer, the pacificst son of a WWI ace, with family in England and plane-building plants in Germany, trying to maintain his neutrality and failing as is he drawn into the shadowy world of espionage. Boards show some minor shelfwear along bottom edges and spine, with a small "shadow" on the inside front cover where a sticker was apparently removed, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; white dustjacket shows minor edgewear and some light soiling on back panel; no significant tears or chipping. A collectable copy of a quite scarce Block.

Greenwich, CN: Brompton Books Corp., 1990. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. The title of this oversized, lavishly-illustrated volume by Welsh, a noted military historian, might better have used "concise" rather than "complete." No single book of 176 pages could hope to be all-inclusive about a four-year war of the magnitude of the U.S. Civil War. That said, Welsh's book does provide a basic overview as well as literally dozens of reproductions of Civil War era photos, maps, drawings, paintings and other illustrations that may well have more value than the text to readers such battle re-enactors searching for accurate descriptions of uniforms, weapons and equipment. 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches, including an index, and an 18 x 21 inch map of major Civil War battlefields laid-in. Black cloth-covered boards show minor wear at the edges, corners and spine ends; the top edge of the text is very lightly foxed, o/w boards and text are clean and… Read More

London: HarperCollins, 1994. First Printing, First UK Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Cornwell's "Starbuck Chronicles," an historical adventure series set during the American Civil War and featuring Nathan Starbuck, a northerner fighting for the South; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: New American Library, 1967. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Signet T3287; The story of the handful of people living on a tiny island off the Irish Coast who give sanctuary to the crew of a disabled German U-boat during WW II only to have their charity betrayed; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; pictorial wrappers are slightly age-tanned with reading crease, lightly dog-earred lower left corner of back cover, other minor surface and edgewear.

New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 2001. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. The author's first novel is a masterful story of military-oriented Science Fiction featuring Marais, a lifelong scholar of the Zor, the alien race constantly at war with humankind; boards and text are clean, tight, with a very slight spine lean, and set of initials and date in ink in upper corner of back end page; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: New American Library, 1965. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Signet D2649; The Hugo Award winner's story of six men who lead a revolution to save a war-ravaged America from annihilation; Third Printing of First Signet Edition; text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers showing chipping at spine ends o/w minimal soiling, creasing, other surface or edgewear.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1962. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine/No Jacket. Vintage Paperback: Fawcett Premier P664. Of the hundreds of books about the U.S. Civil War, this volume by Col. Mitchell most effectively charts the battle-by-battle progress of the war. With its series of 35 maps designed by the author, a reader is able to follow the battles in the East and West simultaneously through the clear, informative accounts of each battle as it unfolds. This is not only a valuable reference tool but also a handy guidebook for visitors to historic battlefields including First and Second Manassas, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Antietam, Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Murfreesboro. Text is lightly age-tanned, o/w clean and unmarked, tight and square. Primarily white pictorial wrappers show some light soiling, minimal surface and edgewear; reading creases on spine but no tears or chipping. A collectable copy.

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. In Weber's first novel, the U.S. and the Soviet Union are on the brink of war when the economically desperate Soviets launch an equally desperate plan resulting in military clashes over Alaska, in the North Atlantic and in space leading inexorably, it seems, to nuclear holocaust; top edge of text shows some light foxing, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows pair of creases on rear flap and minor edgewear; no tears or chipping. Collectable.

Greenwich, CN: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1966. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal d1664; Cameron's novel of tailgunner Sergeant Martin Slade, trapped behind enemy lines when his B-24 is shot down over Germany during WW II; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers with minimal surface and edgewear. Very Scarce.