Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Leary & Co., 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 588 pages w/ appendix. Brown leather w/ raised bands on spine, outlined in gilding. Spine cracking and worn. Edge wear. Colorful marbled end pages. Engraving of G. Washington pictured on frontispiece. Inscription in pencil on prelim page dated 1954. Blue design on top/bottom/sides of pages. Corners of boards have gilt design. B/W sketches throughout. Some tissue guards.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings and paintings. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
hardcover. North Digthon MA, JG Press, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs and illustrations by various artists throughout. Includes appendix of pirate terms.
Hardcover. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Remainder dot on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Indicative of the adventurous, carefree, and relatively risk-free period between the world wars was the early career of a young navel office, Dan Gallery. He would eventually achieve the rank of admiral and garner international fame for capturing a German submarine during World War II.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1st us, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Warszawa, Arkady, 1st English, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 477 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.
Warsaw, ARS Print Pub., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Thousands of black & white glossy photos. 638 pages. (Extra postage for priority mailing on this very heavy volume.)
Hardcover. Warsaw, Zaklad Narodwy im. Ossolinskich, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 372 pages. Translated from 1957 edition by Alexander T. Jordan. B/W illustrations. Dust jacket edges soiled. Price sticker on back cover.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 637 pages, black cloth covers with red and gilt design on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 322 pages. No dust jacket issued. The Allied invasion and occupation of North Africa, one of the most important and complex operations in World War II, is described from a unique viewpoint in this volume. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, HarperCollins Publishers, First Edition, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 509 pages. Hardcover. Bright illustrate dust jacket, crisp, clean. Tight binding, clean inside and out with only light marginal wear, 16 pages of illustrations in full color.
Hardcover. London, The Fleetway House, N/A, n/a, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six hardcovers, beige boards, black leather gilt embossed spines, slightly rubbed. A smaller, 'Popular' collection of Hammerton's epic thirteen volume 'History of the Great War'. It consists of six crown octavo size volumes rewritten and re-edited in the '20s to meet the public thirst for knowledge of the war-in a manageable and affordable form. The volumes are entitled: 'The First Phase 1914'(I), 'Extension of the Struggle 1915' (II), 'The Allies at Bay 1916' (III), 'A Year of Attrition 1917' (IV), 'The Year of Victory 1918' (V) and 'The Armistice and After' (VI). Previous owner's stamp, signature on all volumes, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Galley Press, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Transl. from French by Georges Joyaux. 1st pub. in the US in 1959. Ex-lib with envelope in back but very clean, Dj heavily edgeworn and with tape repair.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 343 pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light foxing to top edge. Wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean copy.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Previous owner's stamp in front flyleaf. In good shape, clean inside and out. Just a little bit of age wear to dust jacket, slight foxing to top edge. Review from back cover: "No historian or, indeed, novelist has produced a more authentic and convincing portrayal of how ideas functioned in the lives of ordinary people during the 1860's. The Private Civil War is about as close as we are likely to come to a genuine 'people's history' of the sectional conflict."
Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 253 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. A very clean, tight copy.
N.P., NY State Historical Society, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 423 pages. Much of the material concentrates on Burgnoyne's Saratoga Campaign in the Revolutionary War. Front hinge cracked.
Softcover. Santa Monica, CA, The Rand Corporation, First US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Ivory softcover wraps with heavy toning, darkens to spine edge & navy titles. Light toning to pages throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Illustrated. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt. Very good color pictorial dust jacket.