Naval
Ships of the American Revolution
Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon Books, 1988. 48, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers. More
I'm Sure We've Met Before: The Navy in Korea
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition. 191, illus., slight foxing inside boards, DJ worn: small tears, small pieces missing. More
The Splinter Fleet of the Otranto Barrage
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1936. First Edition. 307, illus., endpaper maps, appendices, some soiling & foxing to a few pgs, DJ worn & soiled: tears, small pieces missing. More
The Splinter Fleet of the Otranto Barrage
Place_Pub: Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1936. First Edition. 307, illus., endpaper maps, appendices, text somewhat darkened, ink name inside front flyleaf, boards scuffed and worn. More
American Military Thought
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1966. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. liii, [1], 554 pages. Occasional footnotes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. This is a volume in The American Heritage series. Walter Millis (March 16, 1899 – March 17, 1968) was an editorial and staff writer for the New York Herald Tribune from 1924 to 1954. Millis was a staff member of the Fund for the Republic from 1954 to 1968. He later became the director of the Fund for the Republic's study of demilitarization in 1954. Millis, widely recognized as a historical writer, wrote eight books including: Road to War: America 1914-1917, This is Pearl! The United States and Japan—1941, Why Europe Fights, Viewed Without Alarm: Europe Today, Arms and Men: A Study of American Military History, The Martial Spirit: A Study of Our War with Spain, and An End to Arms. He also edited The Forrestal Diaries and American Military Thought. Among the 47 extracts of documents in this volume are Elihu Root's Annual Reports of the Secretary of War, 1899-1903; Theodore Roosevelt's First Annual Message, 1901; and Leonard Wood's Our Military History, 1916. More
History of the Modern American Navy, From 1883 through Pearl Harbor
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition. 502, illus., maps, source notes, appendix, bibliography, index, slight discolor ins bds, DJ worn & foxed: tears, pieces missing. More
Operaciones Anfibias: Bibliografia Comentada
n.p. Ministerio de Marina, 1954. Quarto, 434, wraps tied with string, annotated bibliography in Spanish, index, covers soiled and somewhat worn. More
The Cruel Sea
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. Book Club Edition. 510, discoloration inside front board, stains on fore-edge, boards scuffed and stained, board corners worn, small tears at spine. More
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Volume I--Part A: Historical Sketches--Letter A
Washington, DC: U. S. Department of the Navy, Navy Historical Center, 1991. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxi, [1] , 520, [6] pages. Volume I, Part A Historical Sketches--Letter A. ONLY, Illustrated endpapers. Abbreviations and Symbols. Illustrations. Maps. Compliments card from Dean C. Allard, Director of Naval History laid in. Foreword by Admiral Arleigh Burke. This revised edition depicts each ship in its historical setting; the original edition was published in 1959. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) is the official reference work for the basic facts about ships used by the United States Navy. When the writing project was developed the parameters for this series were designed to cover only commissioned US Navy ships with assigned names. If the ship was not assigned a name it was not included in the histories written for the series. In addition to the ship entries, DANFS and the online links have been expanded to include appendices on small craft, histories of Confederate Navy ships, and various essays related to naval ships. More
Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams
Place_Pub: New York: Savas Beatie, 2006. 301, illus., small tear and some creasing to bottom of DJ spine. Foreword by Jim Morris. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1985-85; Jane's Yearbooks
London: Jane's Publishing Company, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Hardcover. Quarto/Format is approximately 9 inches by 12.5 inches. 207, [1], 792 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Glossary. Index. Cover and pages have some wear and soiling. Spine lettering faded. Red mark on bottom edge. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1986-87
London: Jane's Publishing Company, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Hardcover. Quarto/Format is approximately 9 inches by 12.5 inches. 838, [2] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Glossary. Index. Cover and pages have some wear and soiling. Spine lettering faded. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1979-80; Jane's Yearbooks
New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1979. First American Edition, presumed first printing this issue. Hardcover. Quarto/Format is approximately 9 inches by 12.5 inches. [159], [1], 836 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Glossary. Index. DJ is price clipped This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1975-76; Jane's Yearbooks
London: Jane's Yearbooks, 1975. First Edition, Presumed First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 108, 688, [ii] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Tables. Index. Quick reference index laid in (had been pasted inside front board). Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. This book covers 15,000 ships in more than 110 countries. Includes 3,000 photographs, plans, silhouettes and line drawings. This is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1976-77; Jane's Yearbooks
New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1976. First American Publication/Edition, Presumed First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 108, [4], 831, [3] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Tables. Index. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1977-78; Jane's Yearbooks
New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1977. First American Publication/Edition, Presumed First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 829, [3] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Silhouettes. Tables. Addenda. Index on Named Ships. Index of Classes. Title page and several other pages creased. Some cover wear and soiling. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1973-74
New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1974. Quarto, 670, illus., tables, index, some soiling to fore-edge and inside boards, DJ scuffed and worn, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1974-75
New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1975. Quarto, 670, illus., tables, index, damp stains pp. 639-670 (upper corners stuck), DJ scuffed and in plastic sleeve. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1974-75
New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1975. Quarto, 670, illus., tables, index, boards somewhat scuffed. More
Jane's Naval Review, Fourth Year of Issue, 1985
London: Jane's Publishing Company, 1985. Fourth Edition. First? Printing. 175, illus., corner of front endpaper clipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper, sticker residue front board, rear bd scratched. More
The Soviet Navy Today
New York: Stein and Day, 1976. 26 cm, 266, illus., red ink stamp on flyleaf. More
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1983-84
London: Jane's Publishing Company, 1983. Quarto, 779, illus. (some in color), tables, glossary, index, usual library markings, boards weak, scuffed, and small white marks. More
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First Edition. 680, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, boards scuffed, spine discolored, front board weak. More