Germany Surrenders Unconditionally: Facsimiles of the Documents (National Archives Publication No. 46-4)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The National Archives: 1945

Seller ID: 2203504

Condition: Very Good

Spine faded and lightly stained. 1945 Stapled Binding. 41 pp. Facsimiles of the original documents that brought World War II to a close in the European Theater of operations.  KEYWORDS: MILITARY HISTORY WWII GERMANY GERMAN NAZI SURRENDER View more info

Late 19th Century Photo Album

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: 2260190

Condition: Good

Hardcover with clasp. Front hinge split, boards lightly rubbed, three black-and-white images laid in. Unpaginated. Late 19th Century photo album. Hardcover with clasp. View more info

The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263), March 1925 (Serial No. 265), April 1925 (Serial No. 266), September 1925 (Serial No. 271), October 1925 (Serial No. 272) (5-Volume Set)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Crowell Publishing Company: 1925

Seller ID: 2260201

Condition: Very Good

Five-volume set of The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263)--one inch tear along spine-base; March 1925 (Serial No. 265)--spine lightly bumped; April 1925 (Serial No. 266)---light smudge to rear wrapper; September 1925 (Serial No. 271)--quarter-inch tear to top edge of front wrapper, two small surface tears to front wrapper; October 1925 (Serial No. 272)--very good. 64, 74, 62, 66, 72 pp. Five-volume set of The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263): Romance of Rings, by George F. Kunz; Anthony Van Dyck--Painter of Royalty. March 1925 (Serial No. 265): Joseph Conrad, Personal Memories; Old New... View more info

The Columbian Portfolio of Photographs of the Worlds Fair

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The Jones Brothers Publishing Company: 1893

Seller ID: 2262613

Condition: Very Good

23 unbound prints in hardcover portfolio. Pencil note and light stain on front board. Red stain along bottom left edge of photographs, a few light creases and faint spots to some photographs. The Columbian Portfolio of Photographs of the Worlds Fair. Includes 23 black-and-white prints. View more info

Farmer's & Housekeeper's Cyclopaedia, 1888: A Complete Reference Library

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Crossing PRess: 1978

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2275497

Condition: Good

1978 reissue of 1888 original. Spine lightly creased, wrappers lightly rubbed. x, 644 pp. 1978 reissue of 1888 original. Farmer's & Housekeeper's Cyclopaedia. A Complete Ready Reference Library for Farmers, Gardeners, Fruit Growers, Stockmen and Housekeepers, Containing a Large Fund of Useful Information, Facts, Hints and Suggestions, in the Various Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Live Stock Raising, Poultry Keeping, Bee Keeping, Dairy Farming, Fertilizers, Rural Architecture, Farm Implements, Household Management, Domestic Affairs, Cookery, Ladies' Fancy Work, Floriculture, Medical ... View more info

World of Fashion, Vol. I. II. III.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Charles J. Peterson: 1842

Seller ID: 2276008

Condition: Good

Hinges starting, address label on front endpaper, title and index pages missing, rear free endpaper loose but included, a few light stains on some pages. 1842 Large Hardcover. 188; iv, 188; iv, 192 pp. Three volumes in one. The Lady's World of Literature and Fashion, Vol. I. II. III. A collection of women's fashion and literature from the 1800s. View more info

The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates: Their Trials and Executions, Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West Indies and the Expedition of Commodore Porter, Also Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Lyons Press: 2004

Edition: 3rd Printing

Seller ID: 2284759

ISBN: 1592283241

Condition: Near Fine

Third printing. Bottom corner of front wrapper lightly bumped. 2004 Trade Paperback. 295 pp. Prepare yourself for the horror as you enter a world of murderers and thieves armed with swords, knives, and cannons. This book is filled with stories of terror on the high seas. As you turn each page be prepared to be consumed by a society where lying is a way of life and pilfering is a means of survival. These stories depict the lives of history's most noted pirates, from where they grew up, to how they became some of the most nefarious characters to terrorize nations around the world. Every story in... View more info

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VII [7], June to November, 1853

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1853

Seller ID: 2287640

Condition: Good

Board edges rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, ink stamp on Contents page. 1853 Half-Leather. viii, 864 pp. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VII, June to November, 1853. Contents include: Ancient Peru--Its People and Monuments; Arlington House; Ballet Dancer; Bleak House, by Charles Dickens; Charity and Humor--A Lecture, by W.M. Thackeray; Edinburgh Review on the Influence of Novels; Fashions for June to November; Funeral Rites in Ceylon; Ghosts and Sorceresses of India; Growth of Cities in the United States; History and Incidents of the Plague in New Orleans; How Steel Pens ... View more info

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VIII [8], December, 1853, to May, 1854

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1854

Seller ID: 2287641

Condition: Good

Minor loss to spine, some pages lightly foxed. 1854 Half-Leather. viii, 864 pp. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VIII, December, 1853, to May, 1854. Contents include: Aboard a Sperm Whaler; Chapter Upon Snakes; Cotton and Its Cultivation, by T. B. Thrope; Elephant Hunting in Ceylon; Fashions for December to May; Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin; Monthly Records of Current Events; Napoleon Bonaparte, by John S. C. Abbott; Pilgrims to Plymouth, by C. W. Philleo; School-Boy's Story, by Charles Dickens; Stories of the Huguenots; and more. View more info

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXIX [79], June to November 1889

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harper & Borhters: 1889

Seller ID: 2287982

Condition: Good

Some loss to spine and boards, edges heavily rubbed. 1889 Three-Quarter Leather. viii, 972 pp. Topics include: Art; Artists, American, At the Paris Exhibition; Artists, Our, In Europe; Bird Notes; Cathedrals; Chartres, the Cathedral at, the Building of; England; Fairs; Forests of the California Coast Range; France, the Religious Movement In; Germany, the Religious Movement In; Hamlet, a Century of; Irish Rebellion, the, an Incident of; Kremlin and Russia ARt, the; Negro, the, on the Stage; Russia, Social Life In; Surgery, Recent Progress In; Poetry; and more. View more info

University Museum Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 1, November 1937: Sherbro, Gabriel Paul's Treasure, Kourion, Tol-E-Bakun, Ptolemy II

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The University Museum: 1937

Seller ID: 2289271

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers lightly toned. 1937 Stapled Binding. 30 pp. University Museum Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 1, November 1937. A brief catalog of antiquities. View more info

The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania, March 1920, Vol. XI, No. 1 [Volume 11, Number One]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The University Museum: 1920

Seller ID: 2289508

Condition: Very Good

Two one-inch tears along edges of front wrapper. 1920 Soft Cover. 80 pp. The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania, March 1920, Vol. XI, No. 1. For art. For science. For civilization. CONTENTS: Foreword; By Louis Shotridge: Ghost of Courageous Adventurer; By H. U. Hall, Fetish Figures of Equatorial Africa; By Stephen B. Luce, Attic Vases from Orvieto; By Stephen B. Luce: Ancient Helmets from Italy; By Wm. C. Farabee, A Newly Acquired Wampum Belt. View more info

The Marvelous Record of the 19th Century: Its Noted Men and Great Events

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 2292294

Condition: Fair

Lacks title/copyright page and first couple pages of table of contents. Circa late 1800s/early 1900s. 665 pp. Green boards. Includes black-and-white plates. CONTENTS: The Threshold of the Century; Napoleon Bonaparte: The Man of Destiny; Europe in the Grasp of the Iron Hand; The Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire; Nelson and Wellington, the Champions of England; From the Napoleonic Wars to 1830; Bolivar, the Liberator of Spanish America; Great Britain as a World Empire; The Great Reform Bill and the Corn Laws; Turkey, the Sick Man of Europe; The European Revolution of 1848; Louis Napoleon an... View more info

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XXIII [23], June to November 1861

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1861

Seller ID: 2294775

Condition: Good

Binding has been repaired, edges rubbed. 1861 Three-Quarter Leather. viii, 864 pp. A collection of articles appearing in Harper's from June to November, 1861. Topics include fox hunting, Central Park New York, fashions, Charles Dickens, insects destructive to maize, possum hunting, Stratford-Upon-Avon, and more. View more info

Seaplanes and General Aircraft of To-Day [Today]

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Juvenile Productions Ltd.:

Seller ID: 2182156

Condition: Good

Wrappers foxed. 18, [2] pp. Color illustrations and general specifications of nine early 20th century airplanes, including: Short 'Sunderland' Long-Range Reconnaissance Flying-Boat; Short 'Empire' 'C' Class Flying-Boat; Supermarine 'Stranraer' Flying-Boat; Supekrmarine 'Walrus' Amphibian; Airspeed 'Envoy' Passenger or Freight Carrying Monoplane; Avro 'Anson' Reconnaissance Monoplane; Airspeed 'Oxford' Advanced Training Monoplane; Fairey 'Swordfish' Torpedo-Spotter-Reconnaissance Seaplane; De Havilland 'Dragon Rapide' Passenger or Freight Carrying Monoplane. View more info

The R.O.T.C. Manual Infantry: A Text Book for the Reserve Officers Training Corps, 1st Year Basic, Vol. I (20th Edition)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Military Service Publishing Co.: 1938

Seller ID: 2208425

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, front board lightly rubbed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1938 Hard Cover. 398 pp. CONTENTS: National Defense and the Educated Man; The National Defense and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps; The Obligations of American Citizenship; Evolution of the Military Policy of the United States; The National Defense Act; Military Organization; Military Discipline, Courtesies and Customs of the Service; Military Sanitation and First Aid; Map Reading; The Rifle and Rifle Marksmanship; Leadership (Infantry Drill Regulations) Physical Training; Organization of the Infantry. KEYWORDS:... View more info

One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign: Historical Programs and Dedication of Markers along Route of March

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of the State of New York: 1929

Seller ID: 2259845

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers lightly toned. 1929 Stapled Binding. 63 pp. Pageants: Genesee Country, Leicester, September 14, 1929; Finger Lakes Area, Geneva, September, 21, 1929; Newtown Battlefield Area, Elmira, September 28, 1929. Includes black-and-white photographs. View more info

Basic Field Manual: Military Training, July 16, 1941 (FM 21-5)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: United States Government Printing Office: 1941

Seller ID: 2265433

Condition: Very Good

Very minor burn along page edges, light pencil underlining. 1941 Stapled Binding. 76 pp. CONTENTS: General; Training management; Means and scope of training; Training of individuals; Unit training; Instruction; Public speaking; Applicatory tactical exercises; Company training programs and schedules; Appendix I. Training missions; Appendix II. Unit Training Program; Appendix III. Mobilization Training Program for Infantry at Unit Training Centers; Appendix IV. Unit Training Schedule; Index. View more info

Dedication of Monument Erected by the State of New York at Andersonville, Georgia, 1914

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: J.B. Lyon Company: 1916

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2266777

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A few light spots on front board, tissue paper chewed along top edge. 1916 Large Hardcover. 241 pp. Veteran Service Record follows text. A pilgrimage to the shrines of patriotism. Being the report of the Commission to dedicate the monument erected by the state of New York, in Andersonville, Georgia. To commemorate the heroism, sacrifices and patriotism of more than nine thousand of her sons who were confined in that prison, of whom more than two thousand, five hundred perished there, with an account of services on the New York resident surviving Andersonville veterans held thera... View more info

Guide Book to Fort Ticonderoga: Held In Turn by France, Great Britain and the United States

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Stinehour Press:

Seller ID: 2267200

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date. Unpaginated. Topics include the fort at Ticonderoga, the stone fortress, the south wall, the French village, the interior of the fort, the west barracks, the bastions, the view from the ramparts, the canon, the museum collection, the restoration of the fort. Includes black-and-white illustrations. View more info

George Armstrong Custer and His 7th Calvary at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876 (Montana Heritage Series, Number Seven)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press:

Seller ID: 2272307

Condition: Near Fine

Near Fine. 20 pp. Two original essays and a reproduction of one of the greatest of all the battlefield paintings, keyed to actual battlefield episodes. View more info

The R.O.T.C. Manual: Advanced Course for All Arms

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Military Service Publishing Company: 1942

Seller ID: 2278841

Condition: Good

No jacket, pencil note on front paste-down endpaper, ink and pencil underlining throughout first half. 1942 Hard Cover. 349 pp. The R.O.T.C. Manual: Advanced Course for All Arms. CONTENTS: Volume III. Subjects Administration; Leadership III; Defense Against Chemical Warfare; Manual of the Saber; Pistol; Aerial Photograph Reading; Physical Training; Review of Rifle Marksmanship; Interior Guard Duty: Section 1. Interior Guard Duty, Section 2. Guard Mounting; Care and Operation of Motor Vehicles; Combat Training--General, Estimate of the Situation and Combat Orders; Index. Volume IV. Leadership I... View more info

Spot Them in the Air!

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: The Daily Mirror:

Seller ID: 2283076

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date (circa 1940), a few light spots on wrappers, a few faint creases. 32 pp. Foreword by Cassandra. Full-page photographs of aircraft on left-hand page. Description of wartime aircraft type, (British and German) on right-hand page. View more info

V.C. [The Victoria Cross]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd.: 1942

Seller ID: 2283084

Condition: Good

Pages 19-22 loose but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, quarter-inch tear along spine head and spine base, wrappers split along spine base. 1942 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. Here are the stories of the Victoria Cross awards of this war announced up to the end of April, 1942. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which have established their own honou... View more info

Silhouettes of British Aircraft (Prepared by the Air Ministry)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1940

Seller ID: 2283090

Condition: Very Good

Front wrapper creased. 1940 Soft Cover. 143 pp. An identification guide to British aircraft. CONTENTS: National Marking, Royal Air Force Aircraft; Fighters; Bombers; Army Co-operation; Fleet Air Arm; Reconnaissance; Transport, Communication and Training; Experimental; Civil. Includes illustrations. View more info

British German and Italian Aircraft: How to Spot Them

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) LTD.:

Edition: 25th Thousand

Seller ID: 2283094

Condition: Very Good

25th thousand. No publisher date. No jacket, a couple light stains on front board, spine lightly toned. 96 pp. Includes 320 drawings and photographs with descriptions. An identification guide to British, German and Italian aircraft. View more info

The Aeroplane Recognition Tests: What Is It? Part Six [6]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Temple Press, Ltd.: 1942

Seller ID: 2283097

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed. 1942 Stapled Binding. 17 pp. A booklet to test aeroplane recognition. Includes black-and-white photographs. Answers to the Identification Problems set in this booklet will be found on pages 5-12. View more info

The Aeroplane Recognition Tests: What Is It? Part Five [5]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Temple Press, Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 2283098

Condition: Fair

Wrappers unattached from binding but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, pages lightly toned. 1941 Stapled Binding. 17 pp. A booklet to test aeroplane recognition. Includes black-and-white photographs. Answers to the Identification Problems set in this booklet will be found on pages 5-12. View more info

The Aeroplane Recognition Tests: What Is It? Part Four [4]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Temple Press, Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 2283099

Condition: Good

No publisher date (circa 1941), a few light creases to front wrapper, smudges on rear wrapper. 17 pp. A booklet to test aeroplane recognition. Includes black-and-white photographs. Answers to the Identification Problems set in this booklet will be found on pages 5-12. View more info