Search Results: War from Minotavros Books

Don Mills, ON: Collier Macmillan Canada, Inc, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 10" x 10" Presentation copy from Korean War Veteran Brigadier General John C. Hayter of the RCR to title page. Blue leather boards. 184 pp. Fully illustrated. Scuffing to leather, chafing to extremities. In paper bound slipcase, with some bumping to extremities. Near fine.

New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo (imperial). Orig. russet cloth. 128 pp. Fully illustrated in B&W. Spine slightly tilted, lightly chafed to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned, rubbed to rear cover, chipped to spine head.

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full brown cloth. Top edge green. 268 pp. Small white scuffs to front board. Dust jacket is price clipped. Here are the two war novels by the distinguished German author Heinrich Boll.

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Princeton Modern Greek Studies series. Soft cover. Full number line, xi, [2 p.p. B&W maps], 312 p.p. B&W photos in-text. Crease to p. 3. Near fine condition. This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in teh 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled bloodily with foreign occupation and intense civil conflict.

London: His Majesty's Stationary Office at Oxford University Press, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Blue wrappers, 126pp. Illustrated with 15pp photographic plates and 2 color foldout maps. Boards a bit faded, worn but in fact near fine. Discusses the joint Anglo-American effort in 1942 to supply countries in the Middle East with essential items needed for their livelihood to survive during war time.

New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1976. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 200 pp. Numerous colour illustrations. Covers age toned, spine cocked.

Toronto: Mclleland & Stewart Limited, 1940. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Thomas Dick. 16mo. Orig. blue cloth with illustration on upper front cover, 27pp. Illustrated. Light wear on spine and edges, o/w near fine in chipped d/w. Originally published in The Times on June 18, 1940 and first published in book form August, 1940. A young airman's letter to his mother, to be delivered upon the event of his death.

Amsterdam: Joannes Oosterwyk, 1722. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to (10" x 16"). ...En zyne beschryvinge van de Marteldoodt der Machabeen. Waarby komt Het Gezantschap van Philo aan den Keizer Kaligula. Alles volgens de Overzettinge van den Heere D'Andilly in't Nederduitsch overgebragt door W. Sewel. Nogh zyn daarby gevoegt De Vyf Boeken Van Egesippus Van de Joodsche Oorlogen, en den Verwoestinge van Jerusalem. In three volumes. Bound as 4to. Dutch. Half bound calf over yellow marbled boards. Title and volume number on red and black leather spine labels. Continuously paginated. Volume I: [34], 482, [8], 489-782, [30], 113, [17]. Thirteen engravings + eleven fold-out engravings. Volume II: [45], 658, [8]. Four charts, one engraving + one fold-out engraving. Volume III: [6], 659-1940 p.p. One engraving. Wear to edges and corners of all volumes, chafing to boards, minor rubbing to calf. Several large tears and chips, most repaired with paper and/or tape, some loss to text and images. A few long tears remain… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First soft cover edition. xi, 243 pp. Stamp to tail edge of text block. Slight bumping to corners. About fine.

Reading, Berkshire: Osprey Publishing, 1983. Soft cover. Near Fine. Embleton, G.A.. 8vo (royal). Osprey Men-At-Arms Series. 40 pp. Eight colour plates. B&W photos in text. Apparently has incorrect covers citing The Wars of the Roses by Terence Wise, but interior contents indicate Armies of Medieval Burgundy. Covers slightly age toned. About fine.

London: Ward Lock Limited, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Red paper boards. Pictorial endpapers.156 pp. Spine tilted. Rubbing to head of ffep from eraser. Slight edge toning to interior. Dust jacket is price clipped, some bumping and creasing to edges, short tear to spine foot.

London: Ward Lock Limited, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Blue paper boards. Pictorial endpapers.156 pp. each. Aout fine with some general shelf wear.

Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. McGregor, Malcolm. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Blandford Colour Series. Full tan paper boards. 183 pp. Colour illustrations. Light bruising to spine ends, light wear to corners. Dust jacket is age toned, lightly bumped to extremities, foxed to reverse.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full blue cloth. xvii, 187 pp. [6] double-sided B&W plates + B&W frontis. Rubbing to extremities of boards. Ex libris stamp to front pastedown. Dust jacket is damp stained, edge worn with large chips to extremities, worst at spine foot with loss.

St. Catharines, ON: Vanwell Publishing Limited, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Vanwell Voices of War. Soft cover. 224 pp. B&W photos in text. Light bumping and bubbling to lamination at edges. Remainder mark to tail edge. Interior age toned.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [i] 304 p.p. [x]. Original green cloth boards, title and device stamped on front and spine in orange. Water staining to head of front board, abraiding to spine ends, edges, and corners. Light rubbing to joints. Tanning and foxing to edges. Paged browned, light intermittent staining. Text unmarked. No jacket. Ownership inscription in water-stained green ink on FFEP. Maugham's book is based on firsthand knowledge of the world of espionage as he was a British agent during World War I.

Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two volumes. Grey paper boards. 599; 727 pp. B&W photos and maps in text. Spine tilted and bumping to upper corner of text block of volume two. About fine overall.

New York: Pocket Books, 1945. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Soft cover. A.E.R. 252 pp. B&W illustration in text. Covers warped, soiled and rubbed. Cracked to inner hinge at title page.

London: Arms and Armour Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 18mo. Soft cover. 64 pp. Over 350 illustrations. Covers toned and soiled, a few stains. A comprehensive guide to the badges and emblems worn at the outbreak of WWII by the British Navy, Army, Air Force, Civil Defence, Welfare, Nursing Units and Auxiliary Services, which includes selections from the armed forces of India, Canada and South Africa.

London: George Philip & Son. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 18mo. N.d., [ca. 1916?]. Soft cover. 48 pp. Over 300 illustrations. Covers toned and soiled, a few stains. 0.