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Tokyo: Oreste Vaccari, 1946. Sixth Edition [stated]. Unknown printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. xxxiv, [2], 504 pages. Preface by Count Ayske Kabayama. Indexes DJ in a plastic sleeve and has wear, tears, chips & soiling. Inscription from both authors on fep. Inscription reads To His Excellency Etsujiro Uehara, with the compliments of the authors. Oreste and Elisa Vaccari Tokyo, January 30th, 1947. Oreste Vaccari (1886 - 1980) was an Italian Orientalist and linguist. He was a pupil at the Royal Oriental Institute of Naples during the second decade of the 20th century, where his instructors included Afevork Ghevre Jesus, who taught him Amharic and eventually became the chargé d'affaires of the Ethiopian delegation to Rome. After his studies, Vaccari obtained a posting in Japan as a correspondent for The Japan Times and Mail, and also taught foreign languages at the Athénée Français of Tokyo, being fluent in French and English besides his native Italian. In 1935, he married a Japanese woman,… Ler mais

Harlan, IA: Reader's Digest, 2015. Presumed first edition/first printing this issue. Wraps. Very good.. 160 pages. Includes illustrations. The Cover story is Dear America, Our Troops Tell All. Signed by Major Holly Cribb on front cover. From Wikipedia: "Reader's Digest is an American general interest family magazine, published monthly. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace. For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States, The magazine is compact, with its pages roughly half the size of most American magazines'." Cover illustration signed by one of the individuals appearing on the cover.

New York: Doubleday, 2009. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xi, [3], 290 pages. Illustrations. Mike Vaccaro has been the lead sports columnist for The New York Post since November 2002. Previously, he has worked as a columnist at The Star-Ledger, Kansas City Star and Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald-Record. He was also sports editor of the Northwest Arkansas Times, and was appointed to that position in 1991. Vaccaro has won over 50 writing awards since beginning his career in 1989 as a reporter for the Olean Times Herald, where his primary beat was St. Bonaventure University basketball. Vaccaro is a 1989 graduate of St. Bonaventure University. Author of The First Fall Classic, Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred Year Rivalry between the Yankees and Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse. and of 1941: The Greatest Year in Sports. In this wonderful page-turner, veteran sports journalist Mike Vaccaro brings to life a bygone era in… Ler mais

New York: Doubleday, 2005. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xviii, [2], 364 pages. Illustrations. Index. Mike Vaccaro has been the lead sports columnist for The New York Post since November 2002. He has won more than fifty major journalism awards since 1989 and has been cited for distinguished writing by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the New York State Publishers Association, and the Poynter Institute. Previously, he has worked as a columnist at The Star-Ledger, Kansas City Star and Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald-Record. He was also sports editor of the Northwest Arkansas Times, and was appointed to that position in 1991. Vaccaro is a 1989 graduate of St. Bonaventure University. He and his wife, Leigh, live in Hillsdale, New Jersey. Author of Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred Year Rivalry between the Yankees and Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse. and of 1941: The Greatest Year in Sports. For a hundred years, no two… Ler mais

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. William King (Front-of-jacket photograph). [8], 241, [7] pages Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. This is the fourth of Vachss's 'Burke' novels. In attempting to rescue the daughter of his prostitute friend Candy from a shelter for street kids, Burke stumbles upon a soft-spoken cult leader with mafia connections who is using the children for his own hideous purposes. Andrew Henry Vachss (October 19, 1942 - November 23, 2021) was an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths. Andrew Vachss was the author of 33 novels and three collections of short stories, as well as poetry, plays, song lyrics, and graphic novels. As a novelist, he was perhaps best known for his Burke series of hardboiled mysteries; Another Life constituted the finale to the series. Vachss also wrote non-fiction, including numerous… Ler mais

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. William King (Front-of-jacket photograph). [8], 241, [7] pages Boldly signed by the author on the fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling, and a little sticker residue at the back. Andrew Henry Vachss (October 19, 1942 - November 23, 2021) was an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths. Andrew Vachss was the author of 33 novels and three collections of short stories, as well as poetry, plays, song lyrics, and graphic novels. As a novelist, he was perhaps best known for his Burke series of hardboiled mysteries; Another Life constituted the finale to the series. Vachss also wrote non-fiction, including numerous articles and essays on child protection and a book on juvenile criminology. His books have been translated into 20 languages, and his shorter works have appeared in many publications, including Parade,… Ler mais

New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ is in a plastic sleeve.. 447 p. Andrew Vachss, best known for his contemporary noir series featuring the ruthless Burke, retreats to an earlier era with this standalone novel, a tense historical thriller set in 1959. Wheelchair-bound crimelord Royal Beaumont maintains an iron grip on Locke City, a town where vice has replaced the mill as the chief industry. When various organizations--including the IRA, the mob, and the FBI--begin to close in on Beaumont's fiefdom, he calls in Walker Dett, a hit man who excels in mass slaughter, to take care of the situation. And Dett is more than equal to it...that is, until he meets lovely Tussy Chambers, a local waitress.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. First Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. 22 cm, 160 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Bibliography. The cover has some wear and soiling. This is one of Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, Weapons Book No. 6. Introduction by Air Vice-Marshal "Johnnie" Johnson. Studies the development and combat history of the famous R.A.F. fighter that won acclaim in the summer of 1940 during the Battle of Britain. John Vader (1919 - 2005) Australian author, living in the UK in the late 1960s and 1970s, most of whose work has been nonfiction, much of it dealing with military matters. John Vader saw World War II service with 6th AIF in Libya, Greece and Syria. He later transferred to the RAAF and flew Spitfires in the Pacific theater. Vader is reputed to have walked away from two Spitfire crashes, and flown a Wirraway bomber so low the propeller blades were bent. These combined experiences informed his war history writings. In the late sixties Vader went to London to… Ler mais

New York: Simon and Schuster, c1986. First Printing. very good, very good. 25 cm, 328, illus., stamp on bottom edge. Translation of D'une etoile l'autre. The memoirs of the French director and his private lives with three of the most beautiful film actresses.

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1965. First? Edition. First Printing. fair, ex-lib.. 124, illus., maps, charts, bibliography, index, usual library markings, boards worn/soiled, tears at top and bottom of spine. The author was with the United States Weather Bureau.

Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing, 1946. fair to good, ex-lib.. 831, illus., maps, chapter notes, index, library stamps, pocket, due slip, soiled library binding, library call number on spine. Board corners worn, stray pencil marks on spine.

New York: Meridian Books, Inc, 1959. Revised Edition. First Printing. good. 542, notes, bibliography, index, ink & red pencil notation & cross out on half-title, some wear to boards and spine. Survey of the tension between civilian and military conceptions of government from the earliest times, revised with two new chapters on WWII and its aftermath.

Washington DC: Infantry Journal, 1943. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. [8], 245, [3] pages. Illustrations. DJ is worn, torn, soiled, and chipped. Endpapers and pages have some browning/discolorment. Ding to top edge of front board. Includes a Foreword, Introduction, and Chapters on The Nazi Storm Troopers, The Bodyguard Echelons, Hitler's Foreign Legions, The Nazi Motor Transportation Corps, Nazi Air Organizations, Organization Todt of OT, Technical Emergency Corps, The Reich Labor Service, The German Labor Front, National Socialist League of Ex-Service Men, National Socialist People's Welfare, Hitler Youth, and National Socialist Womanhood. This work is a description of Germany's military and semi-miltary organizations, besides the regular Army, that can be expected to fight bitterly as Allied forces penetrate deeper and deeper into Hitler's "Fortress Europa". Alfred Hermann Friedrich Vagts (December 1, 1892 in Basbeck - June 19, 1986 in Cambridge, MA) was a German… Ler mais

New York: Meridian Books, Inc, 1959. Revised Edition. First Printing. good. 542, notes, bibliography, index, some soiling to fore-edge, boards and spine somewhat scuffed and some edge wear. Survey of the tension between civilian and military conceptions of government from the earliest times, revised with two new chapters on WWII and its aftermath.

Washington, DC: Infantry Journal; Penguin Books, 1943. This is "A Fighting Forces--Penguin Special #214". Mass-market paperback. Good. Highlighting/underlining. Cover has wear and soiling, and a small tear/ at spine. Light pencil underlining noted. Ink mark on front cover. Some page browning.. [8], 245, [3] p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. From Wikipedia (translation): "Alfred Hermann Friedrich Vagts (* 1892 in Basbeck ( 1986) were a poet, a historian and an author of military-historical works. In the First World War Vagts company leader was and received the iron cross of first and second class. As a representative of the advice of the officers it participated 1917 in the peace negotiations in Brest Litowsk. After the war Vagts worked as a historian on Institut for foreign policy of the University of Hamburg. After the Nazis came to power, Vagts emigrated, first to Great Britain and then into the USA. Vagts was a sharp critic of the national socialism, expressed itself in… Ler mais

Washington, DC: Infantry Journal, 1943. fair. 245, wraps, illus., page 245/6 separated (advertisement), page browning, covers worn and soiled, part of front endpaper missing. A Fighting Forces--Penguin Special. Explains each of the Nazi Party military and paramilitary forces including the S.A., the S.S., Motor Transportation Corps, Organization Todt, German Labor Front, National Socialist Womanhood, etc.

New York: MacFadden-Bartell Corp, 1962. First Paperbk Edition. good. Pocket paperbk, 144, wraps, appendix, pages have darkened, some wear to cover edges.

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1944]. Book Club Edition. fair, fair. 21 cm, 287, frontis illus., some wear and small tears to DJ, ink notation on flyleaf, DJ taped to book, signs of dampness at edges The story of an American woman and her daughter when the Nazis rolled over France and her French husband became a prisoner of war.

New York: Broadway Books, 1999. First Broadway Books trade paperback edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. ciii, [4], 470, [4] pages. Illustrations. Author's Note. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index Autographed sticker on front cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Cover has minor wear and soiling, including sticker residue at the back cover. Amanda Vaill is an American writer and editor. A graduate of Harvard University, she worked in publishing before becoming a writer full-time in 1992. In the 1970s Vaill was an editor at Viking Press alongside Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In 1995 Vaill published Everybody Was So Young, a biography of Gerald and Sara Murphy, prominent 1920s socialites of the French Riviera. It was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. She also contributed to the catalogue for Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, an exhibition mounted by the Williams College Museum of Art, and also shown… Ler mais

San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 236 pages. References, index. Presentation copy signed by the author.