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Abraham Lincoln. Boston: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1926. 24mo. Pictorial wrappers. 16pp. Illustration. Fine. Biographical sketch. Not in Monaghan.
Literary Biography. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951. 8vo. Blue cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. ix, 349pp. Frontispiece. Very good/good plus. Some jacket edgewear and edge chips; address inked on front fyleaf. Handsome and tight "Book Society Choice" edition. YOUNG 3594.
Military History. Illustrations by G. William Breck. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1918. 12mo. Tan pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 61pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Good plus/good plus. Slightly edgeworn. Tenth printing. Humorous volume of a fictional World War I soldier's correspondence. Uncommon in dust jacket.
Description: British Literature. New York: The Viking Press, 1980. 8vo. Black cloth spine and red paper over boards, dust jacket. 296pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome firsts edition. YOUNG 4176. read more
Description: World Literature. Translation by Mervyn Savill. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1961. 8vo. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 217pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear and one edge chip. Tight, nice first edition of this "novel of an arrogant, unreconstructed Nazi. " YOUNG 2169. read more
Description: Military History. St. Louis, MO: N.D. Thomson Publishing Co., 1899. Small 4to. Grey pictorial cloth. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations, decorated endpapers. Good plus. Two cloth samplespines tipped to rear endpapers. Subscription salesman's order book. read more
Description: Military History. Descriptive captions by Clarence Worden. Foreword by Norman T. Kirk. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, 1945. Folio. Tan decorated cloth. xi, 47pp, 102pp. Color frontispiece, numerous color illustrations. Very good. Uncommon first edition. Collection of over 130 paintings depicting the men and women of the Army Medical Department in action during World War II. read more
Description: American Literature. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1983. 8vo. Burgundy clothy spine and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 147pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. read more
Description: Military History. Edited by Werner Hamacher, Neil Hertz and Thomas Keenan. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. ix, 399pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. First edition. Compendium of articles by this Belgian journalist, reproduced in facsimile, in French. read more
Description: American Literature. Edited by Douglas Messerli. College Park, MD: Sun & Moon Press, 1982. Small 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 180pp. Fine/near fine. Third printing of this collection of early short stories. read more
Description: British Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. 8vo. Black cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Near fine/very good. Very minor jacket wear. Handsome first edition. read more
Description: Military History. New York: Arno Press, 1980. Small 4to. Tan cloth, dust jacket. xii, 250pp. Illustrations, maps, diagrams. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket wear. First edition, tight and handsome. read more
World Within World: the Autobiography of Stephen Spender
Dere Mable--Love Letters of a Rookie
