The No Plays of Japan. With Letters By Oswald Sickert

by Waley, Arthur

Description: 8vo. 319, [1] pp. Colour-illust. softcvrs (mnr shlfwr), VG. Early softcover edition of this work on the Noh theatre of Japan. Read More

The Vacant Chair. the Northern Soldier Leaves Home

by Mitchell, Reid

Description: 8vo. xiv, 201, [1] pp. Frntsp., numerous photos, illusts. Half-blue over gray boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition. Read More

The Raw Pearl

by Bailey, Pearl

Description: 8vo. [16], 206 pp. Numerous photo illusts. Red cloth, blk lettrng (ex-lib mrkngs on endpapers & title), w/ d.j. (ex-lib spine labl, creasng, edgewear), Ex-lib, G-/G-. First edition of this revealing autobiography. Read More

Pt 109. John F. Kennedy in World War II

by [Kennedy]. Donovan, Robert J.

Description: 8vo. 220 pp. Numerous photos, maps on endpapers. Blue boards, w/ d.j. (mnr edgewear), VG/VG. B.C. edition. Read More

The Last Campaign. Grant Saves the Union. Illustrated With Maps

by Miers, Earl Schenck

Description: 8vo. 213, [1] pp. Maps. Blue cloth, silver & gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght scuffng), NF/VG. First edition, 2nd printing of this installment in the Great Battles of History, about the final campaigns of the Civil War. Read More

Fire and Water. a Life of Peter the Great

by [Peter The Great]. De Jonge, Alex

Description: 8vo. 278, [2] pp. Numerous illusts. Black cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr bmpng to couple crnrs), w/ d.j. VG-/VG-. First edition. Read More

The War Lords. Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century

by Carver, Field Marshal Sir Michael

Description: Thick 8vo. xvi, 624 pp. Numerous photo illusts. Black cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (sml tear hd of spine, edgewear, creasng, couple sml clsd tears), VG/G. First edition of this excellent anthology containing biographies of such military figures as Joffre, Haig, Hindenburg, Petain, Kemal, Von Falkenhayn, Allenby, Pershing, Zhukov, Guderian, Stilwell, Mountbatten, Yamamoto, Nimitz, Bradley, Patton, Spaatz, and others. Read More

The Iron Will of Jefferson Davis

by [Davis]. Canfield, Cass

Description: 8vo. 146 pp. Photo frntsp., illusts. Black boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght edgewear & creasng), NF/VG. Reprint edition. Read More

Lee Considered. General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History

by [Lee]. Nolan, Alan T.

Description: 8vo. xii, 251, [1] pp. Frntsp. Black cloth, silver lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/Nf. First BC edition of this critical analysis of Robert E. Lee. Read More

American Caesar. Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964

by [Macarthur]. Manchester, William

Description: Thick 8vo. xvii, [1], 793, [1] pp. Numerous photo illust. & maps. Black cloth, w/ d.j. (edgewear, creasng), VG/VG-. Early printing. Read More

Medieval History. the Life and Death of a Civilization

by Cantor, Norman F.

Description: 8vo. xvi, 584 pp. Numerous photos, plates, illusts. Red cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght drkng to cvrs), NF/VG. Second edition, 1st printing of this expansive history of the Middle Ages, revised with additional illustrations and bibliography. Read More

Only in Alaska

by Thomas, Tay

Description: 8vo. [8], 252 pp. Numerou photo illusts., maps on endpapers. Blue cloth, silver lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this memoir of the adventures of a young family in Alaska, while Lowell Thomas, Jr. was a state senator. Read More

The Trials of Anthony Burns. Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston

by [Slavery]. Von Frank, Albert J.

Description: 8vo. 409, [1] pp. Frntsp., plates. Half-blk cloth over blue boards, blue & gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition. Read More

Little Stories of Famous Explorers....

by Large, Laura Antoinette

Description: 8vo. 206 pp. Frntsp., numerous plates. Red cloth, blk lettrng (slght bmpng crnrs), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd of spine, slght scuffng), VG/VG-. Early printing of this anthology of biographies about Christopher Columbus, Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Winfred Grenfell, David Livingstone, and others. Read More

Grant Moves South

by Catton, Bruce

Description: 8vo. x, [2], 564 pp. Photo frntsp., 9 maps. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr bmpng to couple crnrs), w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr, slght chppng hd of spine, edgewear), VG/VG-. Early printing. Read More

The Goldsmith's Wife

by Plaidy, Jean. [Pseud. Hibbert, Eleanor Alice].

Description: 8vo. 318 pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr rubbng, slghtly shkn, rmvd bkplate on ffep), w/ d.j. VG-/NF. First American edition of this historical fiction set against the backdrop of the affair between Edward IV and Jane Shore. Read More

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson in Which is Told the Part Taken By the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia. With Introductions By Capt. Robert E. Lee, Jr. & Hon. Henry St. George Tucker....

by [Jackson]. Moore, Edward A.

Description: 8vo. 315, [1] pp. Frntsp., plates. Blue embssd simulated leather, gilt lettrng on frnt cvr & spine, raised bands, a.e.g., still VG copy, w/ prmotional ads laid-in. First Time-Life edition of this excellent Confederate memoir. Read More

Lafayette in the French Revolution. From the October Days Through the Federation

by [Lafayette]. Gottschalk, Louis & Maddox, Margaret

Description: 8vo. xi, [1], 586, [2] pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, NF. First edition. Read More

Confessions of an Igloo Dweller

by Houston, James

Description: 8vo. [10], 320, [8] pp. Numerous illusts. Quarter-brwn cloth over beige boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/Nf. First edition of this autobiographical memoir of Houston's life amongst the Inuit on West Baffin Island. Read More

Witness to Our Time. Foreword By Henry R. Luce....

by Eisenstaedt, Alfred

Description: Folio. 348, [2] pp. 100s of photos, some full page. Photo-illust. softcovers (mnr shlfwr), VG. Revised edition of this photohistory of the brilliant photojournalist. Read More

Odori (Japanese Dance).

by Matida, Kasyo

Description: 12mo. 70, [2] pp. Colour frntsp., numerous blk & wht photos, text illusts. Cream-coloured textured softcvrs, colour plate mntd frnt cvr (mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng), w/ original glassine wrapper (minor edgewear), VG/VG copy. First edition of No. 22 in the Japan Railways Tourist Library series, listing to this title on ads. Read More

Big Sam

by Churchill, Sam

Description: 8vo. [6], 184 pp. Numerous photo illusts. Black cloth, silver lettrng, w/ d.j. (price-clppd), NF/VG, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. Early printing of this true story of a logger and his family in the heyday of Northwest logging. Read More

The Convenient Coward

by [Custer]. Shiflet, Kenneth E.

Description: 8vo. [12], 308 pp. Illust. title, numerous illusts., decrtns, maps. Blue tweed boards, blue lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr edgewear, rubbng), VG/VG. First edition of this historical biography of Marcus A. Reno, who was treated as a scapegoat for the Custer massacre. Read More

Fighter for Independence. Jawaharlal Nehru

by [Nehru]. Apsler, Alfred

Description: 8vo. 191, [1] pp. Brown cloth, blk lettrng & decrtn, w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr, rubbng), NF/VG, inscribed by author on verso of half-title. First edition of this biography of the first and longest-serving Prime Minister of post-independence India, by the noted Professor of Clark College, Vancouver, Washington. Read More

Who Lies Here? a New Inquiry Into Napoleon's Last Years

by [Napoleon]. Wheeler, Thomas G.

Description: 8vo. [8], 210 pp. Frntsp. Orange cloth, blue lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr clsd tear at ft of spine, creasng, mnr edgewear), NF/VG-. First edition of this work examining the death of Napoleon and positing the theory that he did not die on the island of St. Helena. Read More