BROTHERS IN ARMS: A Journey From War to Peace.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. INSCRIBED on front endpaper. Fine in dust jacket. Item #51177 More
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AN ERNIE PYLE ALBUM: Indiana to Ie Shima.
New York: William Sloane Associates, (1946). First edition. Near fine with lightly bumped spine ends. In a near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled and shows a few rub marks, several closed tears along the top and two tiny chips to the top of the spine. Item #51597 More
FIELD-MARSHALL COUNT HELMUTH VON MOLTKE AS A CORRESPONDENT: Letters from the Field Marshall.
New York: Harper & Bros. 1893. First American edition. Translated by Mary Herms. Von Moltke was a German Field Marshall who, in 1857, was given the position Chief of the Prussian General Staff, a position he held for the next 30 years. He made changes to the strategic and tactical..... Item #49729 More
FIFE, DRUM & BUGLE.
Ernest L. Reedstrom. (Ft. Collins: The Old Army Press, 1971). First edition. Number 27 of 50 leather-bound copies SIGNED by both Downey and the illustrator, Ernest L. Reedstrom, with an original pen-and-ink drawing by Reedstrom bound-in opposite the colophon page. Introduction by Harold L. Peterson. A collection of stories of..... Item #49236 More
LETTER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: In Answer to a Resolution of the Senate of the 18th Instant, in Relation to the Contracts Made With Robert L. Stevens for the Construction of a Steam Floating Battery.
[Washington, DC: Government Printing Office], 1862. First edition. 37th Congress, 2nd Session, Ex. Doc. No. 34. The Senate. March 24, 1862. Near fine, disbound. Item #51398 More
LIFE OF LIEUT. COL. BLACKADER: Born 1664--Died 1729.
[Philadelphia]: Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1840. First U.S. edition. A lively account of the Duke of Marlborough's campaigns by a senior Scottish soldier who was wounded at Blenheim. Compiled from letters and journals written from the field. Quarter leather binding somewhat rubbed, particularly at the spine ends, cloth boards also..... Item #51638 More
THE MAGNETISM OF SHIPS, AND THE DEVIATIONS OF THE COMPASS. A Series of Papers from the Transactions of Foreign Societies.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. Reprinted, by order of The Secretary of the Navy. Papers and documents by Poisson, G. B. Airy, Archibald Smith, Frederick John Evans and W. W. Rundell. Illustrated with charts and diagrams, some folding. Half brown leather over marbled boards, raised bands, six spine compartments stamped..... Item #52632 More
THE PHILANTHROPIC RESULTS OF THE [CIVIL] WAR IN AMERICA: Collected From Official and Other Authentic Sources, By An American Citizen.
New York: Sheldon & Co., 1864. First edition thus, expanded from the 59-page book of the same name published in New York in 1863 by Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas. Recounts and charts the needs of the nation during the Civil War and the ways in which various peoples and organizations..... Item #51547 More
A SAILOR'S LOG: Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life; [Inscribed from the American Admiral to his British Counterpart and with the first appearance of the poem written for Evans by Rudyard Kipling on p.402].
New York: D. Appleton, 1908. Later printing INSCRIBED BY EVANS on title page, "For Captain Keyes with my best wishes, R. D. Evans." Robley Dunglison Evans (1846-1912) was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, serving from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War. Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945), was..... Item #54171 More
SOLDIERS THREE, A COLLECTION OF STORIES Setting forth certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd.
Allahabad: Printed at the "Pioneer" Press, 1888. First edition. First issue without hashmarks on doors or periods in circle on front cover. Includes seven stories by Kipling, six of which were reprinted from the "Week's News." First appearance of "Black Jack." [Richards A14}. Light green paperwraps printed in black on..... Item #54293 More
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