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

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press - Harvard, 1971. 519pp/illus. Heavily illustrated with B/W photographs... Endpapers illustrated with old-time advertisements for the shipping and sailing industry. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Glendale, CA: Interurban Press, 1981. 250 pages, including 2 fold-outs at end of book and large supplement in envelope pasted inside back cover. Photographs, schematics, detailed lists of components and changes over time, American and European cities that used the PCC--a comprehensive history of a transporation icon. Light wear to dj. Text clean. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Univ of Virginia Pr, 1963. 399pp/frontis. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: MacMillan, 1906. Part 1 London 1906, Macmillan first UK edition, Part 2 London 1915 second ed, original red cloth VG- condition( spine sunning, some cover wear. Vol. 1 - 51pp contents & 598 pages, .vol. 2 - xviii, 369 pages, index. map case has 27 fold-out color maps. . Vol. IV Part I deals with the French Revolutionary wars from 1789 to the Treaty of Amiens in 1798 which provided a brief breathing space of one year for both sides in the continuous warring between Britain and France which raged until Waterloo in 1815. It includes British operations in the Netherlands, the West Indies, South Africa and Ireland. Vol. IV Part 2 - goes up to 1801. The examination of the British Army is also expanded, and an important appendix gives exact details of British Army pay. Maps and plans complete. All volumes clean. Part 2 is sunned on spine.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: MacMillan, 1910. xiii, 437 pages. 17 color fold out maps, index. Vol. V - the period 1803 to 1807. Detailed treatment of the situation and operations in the East Indies , India and Ceylon, the West Indies, Europe and the Mediterranean. Has British Staff College Library stamp on half-title and end-paper, Otherwise clean with no markings.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

London: MacMillan, 1910. Complete 20 volume set. 1910 and later (14 text with 6 map volumes) All maps (most color folding maps) present and in vg condition. Red cloth. Some spines faded. Text clean and unmarked.. 1st American Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: MacMillan, 1917. 688pp. Vol. VIII - 1811-1812. covers two more years of the slogging war in the Peninsula, together with the 1812 War with the United States in which British troops burned the White House. There are details of many battles in Spain, including Barrosa, Badajoz, Fuentes de Onoro, Albuera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca and others of fame during the Peninsula War. Has library bookplate inside front cover and markings on title and copyright pages. Otherwise clean and unmatked.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. 2 Vols - 294pp/illus and 352pp/illus. #313 of 1,000. "The novellino is a collection of fifty stories, each one told by the writer separately, without any striving after continuity. Masuccio does not trouble himself like certain others of the Novellieri, to construct a setting for his work, and to feign that the tales are told in turn by the work, and to feign that the tales are told in turn by the various members of a gentle company brought together by hazard. He tells us that all his novels are true, and that in many cases he is only setting down what he has learnt by the evidence of his senses.." . First Edition. Vellum. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Numbered Copy.

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Limited, 2008. 192pp/illus. Through images on over 475 postcards produced between 1900 and 1930, also the golden age of picture postcards, this book lets you see what the Academy and life there were like when midshipmen with names like Nimitz, Halsey, King, Spruance, Mitscher and Burke were among its residents. postcard values. Clean no marks.. 1st Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong).

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. 193pp. 100 b/w illus, 11 maps & 3 figures. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. 328pp/illus. Traces the transmutations of Edison's image in the eyes of his countrymen as the ideal embodiment of American values and virtues. DJ has several small tears at top. Text clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 865pp/illus/maps. The award-winning author of Hitler's Prisons presents an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise in the spring of 1945. Clean No marks. 1st Printing. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. 381pp/337p maps. Sold as set of 2 volumes. The discovery of Parkman's journals in a Boston attic where they had lain for nearly 50 years was one of the most dramatic incidents in the annals of American scholarship. They were the basis of his book "The Oregon Trail". Set comes in box that has some wear.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Univ of California Pr, 1994. 299 pp/illus. Study of social change in Indian village over the course of several generations. Clean. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Osnabruck, Germany: Munin Verlag, 1985. 560pp + index, appendices, and color section with uniforms and maps. Illustrated history of the Waffen SS in WWII. Hundreds of black and white photographs, often action shots of Waffen SS soldiers during World War II. Text is in German and English. Clean. 4th Revised Ed. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1973. 440pp with photos and maps. The official history of the Red Air Force originally published by the USSR Ministry of Defense.. 1st American Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good(-). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1967. 276; frontis. photo, several plates of photos, illus. in the text, 5 maps, glossary, bibliography and index. The first full-length study of a little-known mountain people of New Guinea. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Praeger, 1971. 248pp. The author delves into all these questions- and more, besides. She writes about the tobacco-user's renewed interestin chewing tobacco and snuff- and devotes a chapter to the plight of tobacco farmers.". Susan Wagner's account of this wondrous land and of tobacco's place in American history and politics is instructive and ironic. 'Such is the stuff of the nicotian apocrypha,' she writes, that in the story of tobacco 'it is not always easy to distinguish between fact and fiction.' But she succeeds. Pulled together in this book are little-known facts about pre-Columbian tobacco use, an account of tobacco-growing in Virginia in 1784, and stories behind the nostalgic slogans of the 1920's, '30's, and '40's. A sharp, detailed analysis of the political battles of the 1960's and 1970's begins with the bombshell report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health and goes through the ban on cigarette advertising on TV that took effect in… Read More

New Haven: Yale Univ Pr, 2004. 416pp/illus. Argues that toward the end of the 18th century there was a radical change in notions of self and personal identity - a sudden transformation that was a revolution in the understanding of selfhood and of identity categories including race, gender, and class. Like new - clean. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1996. 332pp/illus. This comprehensive introduction to Islam is divided into three sections; the first two parts present the foundations, the fundamental teachings and practices of Muslims which were elaborated during the community's formative period; the third part deals with the community's progress through the long transition over the past two centuries to the present; includes map and photographs. Clean. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.