Search Results: World War II from Pages Past Used and Rare Books

N.p.: N.p., 1951. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Unpaginated. Hardcover bound in white, green, blue and red cloth. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is clean. Illustrated with black and white photos. Undated. Appears to be 1950s. The most recent date in the history section is October, 1951 with Col. Arthur H. Wilson as Commander.

New York: American Heritage Press, 2005. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. 80 pages. Softcover bound in brown pictorial wrappers. A nice, clean copy. Special Issue. Illustrated throughout.

Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 793 pages, indexed. Hardcover in black dust jacket. DJ has moderate wear, including edge-wear and rubbing. Text is clean.

New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1945. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 82 pages. Blue hardcover with a clear mylar cover. Moderate wear to the binding. The lower corner of the binding are bumped. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is clean.

London: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 1992. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 182 pages. Hardcover with a white and grey pictorial dust jacket. A fresh, clean copy. Contains a section of black and white illustrations in the middle.

Winona Lake, Indiana: The Light and Life Press, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 12mo. 181 pages. Soft cover bound in yellow and black wrapper. The binding shows some wear and fading. A sound copy. Prior owner's name is written on the fore edge, but the interior seems unmarked. Illustrated with a few photos.

Raleigh, NC: Edwards, Broughton & Co., Printers and Binders, 1941. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 8 pages. Softcover staple-bound in white paper wrappers. Some pencil marks on front cover. Covers are rubbed, soiled from handling. Text is toned but sound.

N.p.: Tosa, Wien, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Hardcover with a black and taupe pictorial dust jacket. The book is still in shrinkwrap. The shrink wrap shows some wear, but the book is fresh and clean. TEXT IS IN GERMAN.

New York: Penguin Press, 2007. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 624 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a yellow dust jacket. The jacket shows light wear. The book is sound and clean. Book Club Edition.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. John W. Wood. 12mo. 164 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a white pictorial dust jacket. Light to moderate wear to the jacket. A sound copy and clean within.

New York, NY: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to. 384 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a bronze and grey dust jacket. Light wear to the book and jacket. Illustrated throughout.

Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1948. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo. 84 pages. First edition hardcover in white illustrated dust jacket. DJ is rubbed, has some edgewear and a pencilled notation on front cover. Jacket is not price clipped. Pencilled notation on reverse of title page. Stamped number on bottom of dedication page. Text is toned but sound.

London: Frank Cass & Co, 1995. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 366 pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in blue wrappers. Light creasing to the spine; otherwise a fresh, clean copy.

N.P: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 103 pages, indexed. Softcover in colour, glossy wrappers. Light wear to the binding. Text is clean.

Washington DC: National Geographic, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. Hardcover in shrinkwrap. The portion of the shrinkwrap on the rear cover has been split open and there is a 7 inch long cut mark in the rear cover. All edges of the text block are in rose gold gilt.

New York: Duell, Sloan adn Pearce, 1946. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 346 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in grey cloth with spine title on a black field. The binding is rubbed and spotted but sound. Secure inner hinges. Prior owner's 1946 inscription on the front flyleaf. Text is clean. Stated First Printing.

N. P.: Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. , 1945. Soft cover. Fair. Quarto. 50, 75, 28 pages. Softcover in green wrappers. The binding is foxed and toned and has bends at corners and a pencilled notation on front cover. There is a hole in the upper left corner of the binding, where people used to secure the book to a desk with a string or hang it on a nail. The front cover has partially detached from the binding near the headcap. Text is toned but sound. The leaf for pages 29-30 has a jagged tear down the middle about halfway down the page from the top edge. On page 29, this tear runs right down the left side of an advertisement for "Brown's Funeral Directors 'Colored' Serving the Community Faithfully since 1886." This funeral home is still in business at the same address, 918 on East Market St. Contains numerous local advertisements at the rear. A scarce WWII wartime telephone directory. Some of the statements in the advertisements and phone company are… Read More

North Carolina: Privately Published, 1991. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 399 pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth with titles in gilt. Light wear to the binding; the corners are a little bumped. A sound copy with clean text. Contains several illustrations. Appears to have been published without a title page. Inscribed by Virginia Jackson on the title page, "To Martha Stewart, a very special friend- with love, Virginia Jackson." No copyright date, but 1991 is stamped in gilt on the spine along with the title. Henry Tull Jackson (1909-1985) was born in North Carolina. In WWII he was in North Africa, China, Burma, and India. The bulk of the entries are personal letters to his wife. He died in High Point, North Carolina.

Concord, North Carolina: Published by the War Records Collection Committee and Sponsored by Cabarrus County, 1947. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 430, (2) pages. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. Moderate wear to the binding. The edges of the spine show heavier rubbing. A sound copy with secure hinges and clean text. There are some color illustrations of insignia at the front and some black and white photos, mostly portraits of soldiers. This is NOT a textual or narrative history. It is more of a listing of soldiers from Cabarrus County, North Carolina, living and dead, who served in the wars. The most detail is from WWII and WWI, and the bulk of the photos are of soldiers who died in WWII. The details of the soldiers becomes thinner for those in the earlier conflicts.

N. P.: N. P. , 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 86, (20) pages. Hardcover quarter bound in yellow cloth with white paper covered boards. Binding is moderately worn, has smudges, scuffs. Corners are bumped. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. The text has a few markings (brief underlining or marginal check marks). Illustrated with some photos and several folding maps of operations in Germany, highlighted in color. Laid in loosely (and housed in a plastic sleeve) is a newspaper article about Patton.