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1W1HB-2. Vimi Ridge 1914-1918 - Ballantine’s Battle Book 26, Illustrated History of the Violent Century, by Kenneth Macksey. 4-3/8-inch wide x 8-1/4-inch high format, color illustrated soft covers, copyright 1972, first printing 1972, 160 black & white photo illustrated pages and text relative to the famous WW1 Battle of Vimy Ridge, which cost the Allies about 250,000 casualties and the Germans 210,000. The book is tight and clean; it exhibits virtually no signs of age or wear. Excellent+ condition. $9.00 PHOTO |
1W1HB-3. The Guns 1914-1918 - Ballantine’s Weapons Book 27, Illustrated History of the Violent Century, by Ian V. Hogg. 4-3/8-inch wide x 8-1/4-inch high format, color illustrated soft covers, copyright 1972, first printing 1972, 160 black & white photo illustrated pages depicting and describing Allied and Axis Artillery pieces and ammunitions of WW1, an excellent reference and research publication. The book is tight and clean; it exhibits virtually no signs of age or wear. Excellent+ condition. $12.00 PHOTO |
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1W1HB-4. Fix Bayonets, (1st Battalion, 5th Regiment, United States Marine Corps, 1918). By John W. Thomas, Jr. Captain U.S. Marine Corps, copyright 1926, second printing, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York – London. Dedicated to the men of the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment, United States Marine Corps, 1918. Approximately 7-1/4-inch wide x 9-1/2-inch high format, hard, illustrated, front cover. 249 pages, many illustrations by the author, as well as a very interesting, and sometimes comical record of the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment, United States Marine Corps in WW1. A light and informative read. Overall the covers are in about Vg condition, they exhibit light to moderate signs of age and soil; the corners and edges are moderately, (heavy in some spots), bumped and worn from handling and storage. The binding is tight; the pages are excellent, exhibiting minor yellowing around the edges from age. About Vg. $24.00 PHOTO |
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1W1HB-5. Medals Of Honor. By James Hopper. Copyright 1929, published by The John Day Company, Inc. 5-1/8-inch wide x 8-1/4-inch high format, hard brown covers with gold lettering, 281 pages, containing black & white illustrations, and accompanying description of the, early life, and, act of heroism of, a random selection of, eleven recipients of the Congressional Medal OF Honor during the “Great War,” (WW1). The book also contains a complete list of those who won the Congressional Medal Of Honor during WW1. A library copy; no library marks on outside covers of the book. Exterior covers lightly aged and worn; the spine is worn and darkened from age and has some ink marks. Thick, pulp-like pages are lightly yellowed and have very light foxing marks. Overall Vg. $15.00 PHOTO |
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1W1HB-6. Under The Red Cross At Home And Abroad. By Mabel T. Boardman, Copyright 1915, published by J. B. Lippincott Company. 5-1/4-inch wide x 8-inch high format, hard red covers with white lettering and illustration of the Red Cross flag. 333 pages, sixteen illustrations and historical text relating the early story of the Red Cross; its origin, development, especially in America, its services for humanity in times of peace and war. Loose binding; exterior covers are lightly faded and aged; lightly bumped and worn corners; very minor soil spots. The spine is worn and completely faded from age. Pulp-like pages are lightly yellowed and have very light foxing marks. Overall Vg. $22.00 PHOTO |
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1W1HB-7. Warfare In England. By Hilaire Belloc, published by Williams & Norgate, London, England; the date is unnoted, however, research supports circa 1912; a Home University Library of Knowledge edition. Approximately 4-1/4-inch wide x 6-3/4-inch high format, hard red covers. 256 pages with several, small, page size maps. A chronicle of warfare on English soil. The book covers English strategical military topography, the Roman Conquest, the Norman Conquest, Medieval Warfare, the Civil Wars and the Scotch Wars. The binding is loose but intact; the exterior covers are aged and light to moderately soiled; the corners are lightly bumped and worn, the spine has darkened from age and handling. The pulp-like pages are lightly yellowed, some pages have small to moderate size foxing spots; a few of the pages are loose. The inside covers and flyleaves have darkened from age; the back flyleaf is present but has become detached from the binding. Overall the book is intact and still quite sturdy. An interesting read and somewhat of a collector’s book. About Vg-. $12.00 PHOTO SOLD |
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1W1HB-8. By Floyd Gibbons; first edition, copyright 1927 by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York. 5-inch x 8-3/8-inch format, hard black & red covers with stylized Iron Cross design. 383 pages, several illustrations, drawings and halftone photos, as well as, a halftone photo of Baron Manfred von Richthofen on one of the inside front flyleaves. The book contains a table of Richthofen’s victories and final defeat. The story of Baron von Richthofen, WW1 Germany’s Great War ace. Light age; minor bumps on corners and along edges, very minor and insignificant exterior wear; the binding is ever so slightly loose, (nothing at all of a serious nature), the front cover is slightly warped from age and storage (nothing at all of a serious nature). The interior pages are near excellent. The front inside flyleaf is inscribed, “To Mr. Low From Mary and Lewis Xmas 1927”. Interesting. $15.00 PHOTO |
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1W1HB-9. Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling The Mobs; Army Boys Series No. 3, By Homer Randall. Copyright in 1920 by George Sully & Company, published by The Saalfield Publishing Co, New York & Akron, Ohio. 5-inch wide x 7-5/8-inch high format, hard covers with beautifully illustrated dust jacket. 214 pages, one illustration. A fiction potboiler adventure novel. The dust jacket the best feature of this book; it depicts advancing WW1 U.S. soldiers and has nice early graphics, which are rendered in sort of a pastel coloring. The dust jacket is in Vg or better condition and exhibits minor surface wear and insignificant soil from very light handling and storage, (nothing at all serious). The corners and edges exhibit some small paper chips, as well as, two very short tears; one on the top and one on the bottom edge, (not serious); the inside corners of the jacket are clipped. The exterior covers are in excellent+ condition and the binding is tight. The interior pulp pages are heavily yellowed; the first two pages have a slight tear on the top edge from turning, and the paper on the back inside cover is coming loose, otherwise the pages are in Vg+ condition. A nice old book with a very nice dust jacket. Overall Vg. $15.00 PHOTO |
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