Search Results: Military History from THE BOOK VAULT

Public Relations Office 32d Inf Division, 1945. 10.625" X 8" in paper covers. Battle scene with soldier using a flame thrower on covers. Moderately soiled. Scuffed. Chipped along lower fore edge of front cover. Staples holding pages to cover have given way, but everything is still there: GOOD MINUS. 30pp, not counting covers.Nice campaign map inside front and back covers.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

Lang Graphics, Delafield, WI, 1997. 12" X 13.5" [oblong]. LIKE NEW condition in its original mailing envelope [GOOD PLUS condition]. This is a 1998 calendar illustrated throughout with Civil War Scenes painted by Mort Kunstler. Each day has notations of famous civil war events that occurred on that day. Nice metal grommet to facilitate hanging.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New/Good.

Lang Graphics, Delafield, WI, 1998. 12" X 13.5" [oblong]. LIKE NEW condition in its original mailing envelope [VERY GOOD condition]. This is a 1999 calendar illustrated throughout with Civil War Scenes painted by Mort Kunstler. Each day has notations of famous civil war events that occurred on that day. Nice metal grommet to facilitate hanging.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New/Very Good.

Schiffer, 1997. 10.875" X 8.25" in spiffy light blue cloth with black titles. Marbled endpapers. Clean, tight, unmarked: LIKE NEW in a LIKE NEW jacket. 120pp. [CA006] FIRST EDITION. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New.

Turner, 1995. 11.25" X 8.75" in white covers with black titles. Clean, tight, unmarked: LIKE NEW inside and out. 96pp. Photos nearly every page.. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket.

Department of the Air Force, 1951. 11" X 8.5" in dark blue leather-like material bound together with bolts. Silver titles and cover decoration. There is some wear, but overall - clean, tight, unmarked: VERY GOOD condition. Marked "RESTRICTED." 558pp. Illustrated throughout. [CB060] FIRST EDITION. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1944. 11.25" X 8.375" in dark blue cloth. Tight, clean, unmarked. This book had a clear plastic book jacket for years. It slightly discolored the blue cloth in places; slight wear at foot of spine: VERY GOOD or better. 147pp. Nifty drawn illustrations.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York, 1943. 11.25" X 8.375" in blue cloth. Tight, clean, unmarked. This book had a clear plastic book jacket for years. It slightly discolored the blue cloth in places; slight wear at foot of spine: VERY GOOD or better. 81pp. Nifty drawn illustrations.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1916, 1916. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Not Signed. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 6.5 X 4.5" in hard covers with illustration of a partly destroyed artillery piece on front cover. Condition: excellent inside and out except for a 1" stain of some sort at the top if the spine. The publication of this book was an effort by the author/editor to raise money to support the penniless family of a young French officer killed in WWI in 1916. Great condition. Illustrated with photos.. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Not Signed. F. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.

Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D.C., 1947. 9.75" X 7.625" in illustrated paper covers with staple binding. Longitudinal crease front cover; fairly heavy wear along ridge of spine. Otherwise, clean, tight, unmarked: VERY GOOD MINUS condition. 64pp.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Excalibur Hobbies, Arlington, MA, 1978. 8.25" X 6" in illustrated very heavy paper covers with a plastic "pinch style" binding. Shelf wear; a bit dulled from age and handling; price lists bound in extend above the top edge of the covers. Catalog pages are crisp, clean, and unmarked. Unpaginated.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

Dek Military Models, Leicester, England 8.25" X 6" in illustrated heavy paper covers with hard plastic spine. Light soil, but contents clean, tight, unmarked: VERY GOOD. Unpaginated. Marvelously detailed military models pictured almost every page.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Museum Restoration Service, Alexandria Bay, NY, 1991. 10" X 6.875" in illustrated paper covers.Tiny crease near front bottom edge - otherwise, like new: FINE. This is a reprint of a WW I aircraft ID book. Full of illustrations of war planes from different angles along with some specs. 36pp. [BB082]. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket.

Self Published, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1918. 8" X 5.375" in blue heavy paper covers with blue cloth spine. Top edge dusty; wear particularly at bottom edge front cover - 1/8" tear there; small water stain about half the size of a quarter - fore edge margin of first 3 leaves; light foxing on title page. This little book has a few minor cosmetic issues, but is basically nice throughout: about VERY GOOD. Scarcely seems to have been opened. Binding is very tight for a paperback of this age. Nice color Frontis, Other photo-style illustrations. Self-published account of life on the western front during world war I. Nifty - and RARE. 109pp.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

MINIATURAS ANDREA, Madrid, Spain, 2000. 11.75" X 8.375" in colorfully illustrated heavy paper covers. Minor wear: NEAR FINE Condition. 152pp. [BD032] Catalog of wonderful military miniatures from various historical eras shown completed by expert painters. Great photos.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

Senior Class of the Elmira Free Academy, Elmira, NY, 1923. 10.625" X 7.875" in black leather-like material with flexible boards. Wear and some soil, including paint speckles on front cover, front hinge starting to crack: GOOD MINUS condition. 180pp. This high school yearbook is nearly 100 years old. Typical writing on many of the pages. "Base Ball" and "Basket Ball" teams, etc. This yearbook staff had the benefit of a talented cartoonist, Bo Shafer. Several of his excellent cartoons are to be found in this book.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1959, 1st printing 8.5 X 6" in red cloth. Book: VG except V slight rubbing at base of spine, bookkplate, old price erasure and date. Jacket soiled, chipped, a few small tears: just fair. 443pp. notes and index. Comprehensive and thorough.. F. Hardcover.

Levy Fils, Paris 3 1/2" X 6 1/8" (oblong) book of 24 black and white postcards showing the devastation following a WW I (probably artillery) bombardment of the city of Arras, in Northern France France. Cover is heavy grwey paper with fancy gilt letters. 1" tear in fore edge of front cover, but otherwise excellent.. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Osprey Publishing, 2011. 9.75" X 7.25" in glossy illustrated heavy paper covers. Minor shelf wear, but clean, tight, unmarked: NEAR FINE condition. Wonderful period photos plus illustrations of various types of aircraft. 112pp. FIRST EDITION. [CB019]. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Doubleday Doran, Garden City, NY. 1942 (later ed.) 8vo in rust-colored cl., VG in a G+ D/J. D/J rubbed, chipped around edges, a little smudged. Book a little dusty T.E. Perspective of the early days of the war when the situation was desperate, but Allied propaganda refused to admit it. Author, on the REPULSE when it was sunk, and present at the fall of Singapore, tells it "like it is".. Hardcover.