Search Results: Authors starting with I from Chartwell Booksellers

Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1965. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (304 pages; illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings, etc.). This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket which is lightly worn around the edges and has a few chips at the corners; else fine. Contents fine.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1973. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo. “A minute-by-minute account of the secret World War II operation that foreshadowed the Cold War.” A very good copy, spine and corners slightly bumped, dust jacket faded with slightly worn edges, contents clean (265 pages, black and white photographs, Appendix (Eastern Command Fact book), bibliography, index).

Bucharest, Hungary: Meridiane Publishing House, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (328 pages; illustrated with photographs, etc.). This is a good copy, issued without dust jacket. The corners are a bit bowed and worn, and the hinges are splitting at the tail of the spine. A former owner’s name is written in ink on the front end paper; contents fine.

New York: Dutton, 2021. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8v0 (464 pages, illustrated). What kind of a parent was Winston Churchill? This new book by British journalist Josh Ireland wades in where few have tread before, unraveling the wildly conflicted paternal love affair between Winston and Randolph Churchill. In many respects the most complex aspect of Churchill - the man, not the legend - was his manner of parenting. Churchill’s devotion to his children was unquestioned, but the results of that devotion could be devastating.

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1965. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (320 pages; illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings). This is a very good copy of the First American edition without dust jacket. A faded number stamp is on the front free endpaper; contents fine.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (680 pages). A very good copy in a very lightly shelfworn dust jacket. The contents are fine.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1989. First Edition . Softcover in Slipcase. Very Good. 4to (128 pages. illustrated with black & white photographs). A very good copy, in wraps, as issued, and the publisher’s slipcase, which is lightly shlefworn.

Roma: Stabilimento Poligrafico per l’Amministrazione Della Guerra, 1921. First Italian Edition . Softcover. Very Good. 8vo. The Italian victory at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, October 24 to November 3, 1918, helped precipitate the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and ended the war on that front. Scarce in Europe, rare here. A very good copy (especially for an 85 year old paperback), covers somewhat soiled, front hinge splitting & very delicate, label on front cover. (43p., map, notes, errata.)

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. First Thus . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 4to (173 pages, illustrated with 12 full page color plates). A very good copy In the original slipcase, which is considerably worn but remains intact. Number 700 of 1,500 copies signed by the artist, Serge Ivanoff. The book is shelworn and the leather spine label has dryed, with fractional losses at the spine head and tail. The contents are fine.

Great Britain: The History Press, 2008. First English Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). As New. (160 pages, illustrated). Fascinating memoir by the woman who officially monitored and censored Churchill and Roosevelt’s transatlantic hotline telephone conversations throughout the war. A truly new perspective. As new, in dust jacket.