Search Results: Military History from Lux Libri

St. Martin's Press, (1971). 1st American edition. Biography and commentary on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87.) A compilation of historical writings that illustrate shifting interpretations and attitudes toward Mary Stuart and her tumultuous social and religious times. Introductory material and commentary by the author, a lecturer in Scottish history at the University of Glasgow. 225 pages. 8vo hardcover. Near Fine in dust jacket.

South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, (1998.) 1st paperback edition. Signed twice by the author. Signed/inscribed on the half-title in 1999, and also signed on the title page. A personal and military memoir of combat in the jungles of Vietnam. 261 pp. Paperbound 8vo. VG with moderate edge wear. Clean and securely bound.

NY: Viking Press, 1945. 1st edition. An important essay from the dawn of the Atomic Age. First published in shorter form in the Saturday Review in August 1945, just after two A-bombs were dropped on Japan and effectively ended World War II. 59 pp., including an appendix with excerpts from the Federalist papers on the US Constitution. Slender clothbound hardcover. VG overall in the uncommon dust jacket. Sound, tight binding. Jacket is intact with moderate wear and tear. Protected by a new clear, archival cover.

NY: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, (c. 1948.) Book club edition of Mailer's first book, a novel of World War II in the Pacific. Thick 8vo hardcover. 626 pp. VG in VG dust jacket with clear archival cover.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1924. 1st American edition in the uncommon dust jacket. A history of British sea power, from its genesis more than 400 years ago through the World War I era. A superb, scholarly work by Callender, chair of Naval History at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Illustrated by 17 plates and an engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Francis Drake. Map endpapers. ix, 305 pp., index and chronology. Clothbound 8vo. VG/VG in rubbed and lightly worn dust jacket. Small, old bookshop label to front pastedown ("Gray's / Bookstore / Milwaukee.") A book that has evidently seen little use over the years. DJ protected by a clear archival cover.

Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co., 1862. 2nd edition. First published in 1861. An impassioned plea for the abolition of slavery by "a Native of Virginia" [Moncure D. Conway, American clergyman and abolitionist, originally from an old slaveholding family.] This edition published shortly after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and with the worst of the Civil War still ahead. 131 pp. Clothbound hardcover. Good overall. Intact and securely bound, but the textured cloth is worn, faded, creased and spotted. Colored foxing/stains to the endpapers, title and early pages. Text pages generally clean otherwise. A presentable copy in a new, clear archival jacket (not pictured.) Provenance: Inscription in pencil on the first blank page from George O. [Otis] Shattuck to Henry G. [Gardner] Denny. Both were Boston lawyers and abolitionists. Shattuck (1829-1897) was a legal mentor to a young Oliver Wendell Holmes, a future Supreme Court justice. They were later legal partners, and Holmes wrote a… Read More

London: Oxford University Press, 1955. 1st separate printing. An offprint from the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume LXI. Originally delivered as the Albert Beckett Archaeological Lecture. (The author was an Oxford professor of archaeology and a prolific excavator of Romano-British sites.) Illustrated by several plans and diagrams in the text and 5 full-page plates on glossy paper. 20 pp., + the plates. Printed paper wraps. 9.95 x 6.25 inches. VG with minor signs of age, small rust marks to the cover from the stapled binding. Clean and securely bound.

Self-published in Dover, DE, (2016.) 1st edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. A collection of true stories of nine members of the Greatest Generation during WW II. Part of a series of books by the author that pay tribute to America's veterans by preserving their wartime stories. 131 pp. 8vo trade paperback. B&W photos and illustrations. Minor edge wear, but about Near Fine overall.

NY: Arcade Publishing, 2002. 1st American edition. Signed by the author on the title page: "With good wishes / Michael / Newark, March 25, 04." A comprehensive re-assessment of the Vichy government in Nazi-occupied France from 1940-44. 8vo hardcover. xiv, 419 pages. 8 pages b&w photos. VG+ in dust jacket. Clean and securely bound. Jacket protected by a clear archival cover.