A History of the United States Marine Corps
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 584 pages, illus., maps, index, boards somewhat discolored and edges worn, top and bottom edges of spine worn. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 584 pages, illus., maps, index, boards somewhat discolored and edges worn, top and bottom edges of spine worn. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. 584, illus. (incl. color frontis), maps, index, bds a bit discolored & edges worn, top & bottom edges of spine worn, fore-edge stain. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. 584, illus., maps, index, boards slightly scuffed, top edge of rear board discolored, top and bottom edges of spine worn. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [14], 268, [6] pages. Genealogy chart. Inscribed by the authors on the half-title page. Inscription reads Dear Chris--lunch was fun--as was NAIBA--and talking with you. Here's a sample of what Meyers and Meyers do together. Best--Annette & Marty. The copyright is held by Annette Brafman Meyers and Martin Meyers. Annette Meyers (born Annette Brafman; January 31, 1934) is an American mystery writer. She also writes under the shared pseudonym Maan Meyers with her writing partner and husband, Martin Meyers. Annette Brafman was born in New York City on January 31, 1934. She attended Douglass College, where she earned an A.B. in English 1955. She worked as an assistant for Harold Prince from 1960 to 1976, raising funds to help him produce notable musicals including Fiddler on the Roof, Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music. She married Martin Meyers, a writer an actor. Meyers quit working for Prince in order to focus on her writing career. However, she struggled, so she worked as a recruiter on Wall Street. Then she had the idea to write a mystery that incorporated her theatre and Wall Street careers. The resulting book, The Big Killing, was released in 1989. Meyers is known for her Smith and Wetzon series and Olivia Brown series as well as the Dutchman series she wrote with her husband, Martin Meyers, published under the pseudonym Maan Meyers. Leslie Wetzon is based on Meyers. Olivia Brown was inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Meyers has contributed to various story anthologies. She was once President of Sisters in Crime. More
New York: Golden Press, [1961]. 35 cm, 319, profusely illus. (some color), maps, facsims. (some color), DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Book Club Edition. 332, illus., maps, biblio, notes on sources, index, name stamped on front flylf, DJ somewhat worn: spine discolored & small tears. More
New York: Macmillan, [c1956]. 29 cm, 454, illus., index. More
National Defense University, 2014. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 162, [2] pages. Notes. Color Illustrations. This issue contains an article by Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. PRISM is published by the Center for Complex Operations. PRISM is a security studies journal chartered to inform members of U.S. Federal Agencies, Allies, and other partners on complex and integrated national security operations; reconstruction and nationbuilding; relevant policy and strategy; lessons learned; and developments in training and education to transform America’s security and development apparatus to meet tomorrow’s challenges better while promoting freedom today. To better integrate all the education programs, Congress created the National Defense University in 1976. In 1981, the Joint Forces Staff College was created. The National Defense University (NDU) is an institution of higher education funded by the United States Department of Defense, intended to facilitate high-level training, education, and the development of national security strategy. It is chartered by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with Major General Frederick M. Padilla, USMC, as president. It is located on the grounds of Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C. The university's mission is to support the joint warfighter by providing rigorous Joint Professional Military Education to members of the U.S. Armed Forces and select interagency civilians in order to develop leaders that have the ability to operate and creatively think in an unpredictable and complex world. The school's master's program is a one-year intensive study program. More
New York: Castle Books, 1957. Reprint Edition. Quarto, 358, vol. 10 only, profusely illus., small stain top corner front flyleaf, index, DJ worn, scuffed, & soiled: edge tears/chips. More
Washington, DC: Service Center for Teachers, [1961]. 23 cm, 18, wraps, usual library markings. More
n.p. Tipton & Blocher, 1924. 168, wraps, illus., maps (incl. 1 fold-out), tables, covers stained, small tears at spine, pages somewhat darkened. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. One Hundred Fourth Printing. Hardcover. [6],1037, [11] pages. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, "Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip", which she continued to write until August. Meanwhile, her husband was growing weary of lugging armloads of books home from the library to keep his wife's mind occupied while she hobbled around the house; he emphatically suggested that she write her own book instead. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. Book Club Edition [Verso states Second Printing]. Hardcover. xxxvi, [2], 441, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. Richard (Barksdale) Harwell (1915-88) was Bowdoin College's librarian from 1961-68. Before coming to Bowdoin, Harwell was educated in Atlanta Public schools. Born on June 6, 1915 in Washington, Ga., Harwell furthered his education at Emory University, where he received his Library of Science degree (1938). For the next two years (1938-40), he was assistant to the director of the George Washington Flowers Memorial Collection of Southern Americana at the Duke University Library. He served his country as lieutenant for the U.S. Navy during World War II (1943-46). He returned to his alma mater and was named assistant librarian in 1948. From 1954-56, he was the director of the Southeastern Interlibrary Research Facility; from 1956-57, he was the director of publications for the Virginia State Library. A noted Civil War historian, Harwell was also author of several books, numerous articles and hundreds of reviews. More
Chatham, VA: by the Author at the Sims-Mitchell House Bed and Breakfast, 1991. Revised edition. Wraps. [3], 37 pages, plus covers. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations. Footnotes. This has authentic recipes, commemorative recipes and documented quotations. "This cookbook will explore the transition of the Northern civilian and his normal diet to the role of Union soldier with a rather pedestrian type of 'cuisine. ' Presented herein are documented quotations, historical background information, authentic recipes of the period, and commemorative recipes, to help the reader get a taste of army life." Patricia Mitchell began foodwriting as a contributor to The Community Standard magazine in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the early 1970's. After she and her husband Henry returned to their hometown of Chatham, Virginia, in 1975, Patricia put her writing on the "back burner" while restoring an old home (the Sims-Mitchell House, which the Mitchells operated as a bed and breakfast for over twenty years). In 1986, requests from B&B guests helped motivate Patricia to compile some of her recipes into book form. In a providential turn of events, a visiting museum director asked to purchase some of the little books for resale in his museum's shop. Soon a re-order came, with suggestions for an even greater emphasis on food history. Over a hundred titles later, Patricia and her FoodHistorydotcom enterprise have sold over copies at museums, historic sites, bookstores, and shops throughout the United States and internationally. Poring through diaries, letters, records, and mountains of old books, Patricia spends enjoyable hours in her search for clues to Americans' eating habits and cooking techniques of years gone by. More
Cleveland, OH: Pennington Press, [1959]. First? Printing. 23 cm, 218, illus., DJ somewhat soiled and frayed at edges. More
New York: Arno Press, 1975. 39 cm, 309, all facsims. DJ very worn and torn, pieces missing from DJ, text browning. More
New York: Arno Press, 1975. First Thus? Edition. First? Printing. 39 cm, 309, all facsims., front board weak, ink note on front flyleaf & corner clipped, some page discoloration, DJ worn/soiled/chipped. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.675 inches. Notes. Sources. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Signed bookplate on fep. Portion of DJ pasted over the half-title page and the page facing page x. James Jay Monaghan IV was born on March 19, 1891 and died in 1980. He was known throughout his life as Jay Monaghan, the name under which he published his many works on western United States history, Abraham Lincoln and related subjects on which he was a recognized authority. During his summer breaks in 1908 and 1909, he traveled across the country, spending some of his time working on cattle roundups in Wyoming. The spring of 1911 found Monaghan involved in the Madero revolution in Mexico where he participated in an uprising against Porfirio Díaz, which led to his own arrest. He later interviewed Indians for the Colorado Historical Society. The latter assignment was his first official foray into the world of historical scholarship. Undertaken in 1935, these interviews were a pioneering effort in what today is known as oral history. There followed a number of appointments to the Illinois State Historical Library. Monaghan served first as research editor (1939-1945), and later as State Historian to the Library (1946-1951). He also served as Secretary of the Illinois State Historical Society and editor of its journal. He then served as consultant to the Wyles Collection of Lincolniana at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He aided greatly in the development of the Wyles Collection and the helped enhance its reputation as a collection on Lincoln, the Civil War, and westward expansion. More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1971. 1st Bison Book Edition. First Printing. 471, wraps, illus., maps, notes, sources, index, some wear and soiling to covers, review slip laid in. More
Alexandria, VA: Durant Pub. Co., 1981. Reprint Edition. Second Printing. 22 cm, 104, wraps, illus., notes, index, usual library markings, covers worn, stained, and soiled, pencil erasure on title page. More
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909. 283, front board weak, binding shaken, small tears at spine, some wear to spine edges and board corners. More
Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Pub. c1996. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 340, illus., references, index, some sticker residue and slight soiling to DJ. Foreword by Lynda L. Crist. More
Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, 1990. 1st, Limited Edition. Hardcover. 24 cm, 142 pages. Illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper. Copy #665 of 1, 000, signed by the author. More
Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, [1948-49]. Hardcover. 24 cm, 1489 pages total, 2-vol. set. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. DJ's worn and soiled:,small tears and small pieces missing. Benjamin Moran (b. Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 1820 – d. Braintree, Essex, on 20 June 1886) worked at the United States Legation (later the US Embassy) in London from 1853 to 1874. In 1853, around the time that James Buchanan, who was from the same county in Pennsylvania as Moran, became US ambassador in London, Moran became a temporary clerk at the legation. In 1854, he gained a permanent post and, in 1857, he was appointed Assistant Secretary and the he was promoted to Secretary, serving until 1874. From 1857, he kept a private diary which was subsequently published; the diary is of interest mainly because it documents how the US Civil War was seen in the UK. Buchanan was elected President and George M. Dallas became Ambassador in London, where Moran stayed. Moran became co-owner of the London-based Spectator magazine, which he used to promote Buchanan's views against a generally hostile, anti-slavery British press. They dramatically altered the tone of the magazine and its circulation declined substantially. It was sold in January 1861, by which time Abraham Lincoln had taken over. In 1875, he was made Minister Resident to Portugal and, since this was the first instance of this kind of promotion in US diplomatic history, some regard him as the first American career diplomat. When the office of Minister Resident was discontinued in 1876, Moran was made Chargé d'Affaires at Lisbon, serving until 1882. More