Throughout his life Billy Bishop was something of an eccentric--a man of ebullient high spirits and feverish enthusiasms. As a boy in Owen Sound, Ontario, he was no prodigy for learning. His three years at the Royal Military College were disastrous--an epic of rules broken and discipline scorned. He often admitted that his special method of landing wrecked more planes than he shot down. Previous owner's name; scuff on DJ spine, light edgewear to DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 211 pages; 26868 View More...
Occasional dog-ears, pencil marginalia. Minor edgewear and spine crease. Stamp on bottom of book notes it as a damaged book. Still bound properly, good reading copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 441 pages; 25656 View More...
Special edition published exclusively for members of the People's Book Club. A wartime book. Wear at head of spine. Previous owner's name and address from 1944 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 259 pages; 28317 View More...
Although only the oldest c. An now directly remember World War I in the popular memory the war is still associated with a very clear and dramatic set of images of mud, machine guns, trench warfare, tanks lumbering across shell-blasted wastelands, bipanes dogfightint over the Western Front, and dreadnoughts plowing through rough seas. Small closed tear bottom edge of front panel of DJ. Previous owner's cataloging label neatly taped to spine of DJ. ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 304 pages; 24433 View More...
Life in a German prison-of-war camp in 1943 was not one of unparalleled comfort and ease. If, therefore, a sinister German officer came round, picked you out from your fellow men, and suggested that you went back to England and spied for them, , you thought twice about it. And the second thought was that once you got there you could give yourself up to the nearest familiar old British copper, couldn't you? What a perfect way to get back to the family. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages; 25431 View More...
Into an intense community of radio artists and technicians in Regina Beach, New Jersey, come Jack Dulaney and Holly Carnahan. They are determined to find Holly's missing father, whose last desperate word came from this noisy seaside town. A nostalgic look at the world during World War II. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 478 pages; 23079 View More...
Ludendorff's Colossal Drive in the West, and Foch's First Victories March 21, 1918-September 20, 1918. Blue cloth boards, gilt spine titling still brilliant. Map endpapers. ; Vol. 5; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 28666 View More...
Blue cloth boards, gilt spine titling still brilliant. Map endpapers, the Battleground in Belgium, France and Alsace Lorraine. ; Vol. 6; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 407 pages; 28667 View More...
Previous owner's label on spine. No creases, writing or dog-ears. One closed tear lower front corner. Light tanning to inside front cover. ; Cover Art; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 312 pages; 27665 View More...
Describes the years leading up to 1914, the Kaiser's burning resentment of Britain's unchallenged supremacy at sea, and the headlong race to war, accelerated by the construction of the "Dreadnought", the biggest, fastest, and most heavily gunned battleship in the world. A miscellany of words and numbers cover the rear free endpaper keeps this book from being like new. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 353 pages; 30585 View More...
With 32 sketch maps and 89 photographs from Official and unofficial sources. The jacket illustration was taken for the film "Patton" and in fact shows an American M-48 tank, camouflaged to represent a German Panzer of World War 2 in North Africa. Edgewear, chipped DJ in mylar. ; B/w photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 365 pages; 30587 View More...
Dust jackets are rubbed and edgeworn with a closed finger-sized tear at fore edge of rear panel of volume 1. DJ spines are sunned. Both volumes have what appears to be yellow hiliter marks on bottom page edges. Although this is a set of both volumes, volumes 1 and 2 are also available. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1062 pages; 26956 View More...