Search Results: Authors starting with O from DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books

London: Hutchinson & Co. (no date) 132pp. Very good. red boards with gilt lettering with emblem on front cover. Coloured frontispiece map, 17 color maps total (incl. Frontis) - mostly fold-out. This is Montgomery's personal, vivid account of his campaigns from El Alamein, across North Africa to Tunis, and from there to Sicily, and up the mainland of Italy to the River Sangro, with a wealth of maps illuminating the troop movements and the strategies adopted. Light foxing.. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia, PA: Lyon and Armor, 1955. 104p.,frontis. Signed by the author. Limited edition printed by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Clean. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

Novato, CA, U.S.A.: Presidio Press, 1979. Book has 370 pages. DJ has light wear to edge and two small chips to top rear edge. Side edges of pages have a few dirt marks. Previous owner blind library stamp on front endpaper and title page. The simmering hostilities between Arabs and Israelis erupted into open conflict on October 6, 1973, in what has become known as the Yom Kippur War, the fifith clash between those antagonists in less than twenty years. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Crown, 2006. First printing of President Obama's book. Stated First Edition and the numeral "1" present on the number line. Excellent condition. No other marks.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Crown, 2006. Autographed by Pres Obama on Title Page. First Edition - later printing. Comes with COA. Text clean.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Pr, 1995. 272pp/illus. The history of Princeton University's first 250 years, illustrated with over 200 color photographs by J.T. Miller. Inscribed by the author to former CJCS Admiral Crowe and his wife by the author. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Capetown, SA: Rembrandt Van Rijn Foundation for Culture at the request of the National Monuments Council, 1972. 354pp, 20 maps, 12 colour plates, many b/w illustrations, index, dustjacket. Survey of the important historical buildings, sites & localities in South Africa. The book covers archaeological sites, battle sites & buildings of note from the colonial era. The sites are from Early Stone Age in date onwards. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Random House, 1979. 345 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos. This is an unrivialed collection of nearly 500 photographs of a world lost to us from mid-nineteeth century to the revolution. Light wear to dj. Text clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

The Society of Art Collectors, Inc., 1975. Unpaginated (more than 100 pages). Black & white and color reproductions af art work. Black & white photographs of the artist. Pictorial endpapers (Ginzburg drawings). Each painting has name, owner and dimensions, and many have additional comments by the artist.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1947. 380pp/index/frontis. Clean. 3rd Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Notre Dame, IN: Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 2001. 737pp/illus. Biography of Fr. Edward, Sorin, C.S.C., 1814-1893, founder of the University of Notre Dame. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 332pp/illus. An excellent treatise on choosing and using the shotgun, by the former arms and ammunition editor of Outdoor Life magazine. The definitive book on trap, skeet, and wildfowl shooting, along with chapters on gun models, designs, accessories and ballistics.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann Jones, 1966. 309 Pgs/illus/folding map. The materials presented in this book are from family records, military records, old scrapbooks, old histories, personal interviews, the Spanish-Mexican and Texas Archives at the University of Texas Austin and other previously published works. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and drawings. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 332 pages plus index. Includes a 32-page section of photos and numerous line drawings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Annapolis, MD: U. S. Naval Institute , 1969. 148 pp, illustrations, maps, cloth, vg. An anthology of articles by former Officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Air Defense Force, originally published in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: Biblioteca do Exercito, 1998. Three Volume set. vol 1 - Colonial Period, Vol 2 - United Kingdom, Vol 3 - Republic. All clean and near fine. No marks. . 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong).

New Haven and London: Yale University , 1998. 523pp/illus. This study of the rise and fall of the Soviet military, argues that it had a greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. The author describes the state of the Soviet military during the 1980s and then moves to the events that led to its destruction.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Free Press, 2001. 366pp. Here is the first combat history of the war in Europe in the words of the men themselves, and perhaps the most honest and brutal account of combat possible on the printed page. For more than fifty years the individual stories that make up this narrative-shockingly frank reflections of sacrifice and courage-have been bottled up, buried, or circulated privately. Now, nearing the ends of their lives, our W.W.II soldiers have at last unburdened themselves.Beyond Valor recaptures their hidden history. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, D. C: U S Government Printing Office, 1939. 441pp/illus. Marked Restricted - For Official Use Only. Pre-World War II Navy manual. Tight and clean.. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Washington, D.C.: Goverment Printing Office, 1955. 1,032 pages with several fold-out maps. Details diplomatic discussions and documents of the conferences. Clean. 1st Edition. Buckram. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.