Books on World War II
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    :  Coastal Command The Air Ministry Account Of The Part Played By Coastal Command In The Battle Of The Seas 1939-1942.  London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943. . Very good+ in illustrated, heavy paper wraps over a stapled and adhesive binding. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 7 inches with the spine area reinforced with clear plastic tape and with light wear, rubbing and closed tears around the edges of the front cover. Without a dust jacket. 143 numbered pages of text and illustrated throughout with images from black and white photographs.
    TB31863  $15.00



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    Bartlett, Karen:  Architects Of Death The Family Who Engineered The Death Camps.  New York: St. Martin's Press, (2018). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in white paper covered boards with red text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches with a remainder mark at the top edge of the text block. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with abrasions at the upper fore corner of the front panel and with a 1/8 inch chip at the upper fold to the front flap. 297 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with an 8 page section of images from black and white photographs.
    TB32171  $20.00



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    Baur, Hans:  Hitler At My Side.  Houston, Texas: Eichler Publishing Corporation, (1986). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine with a placeholder ribbon sewn in at the head of the spine. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 7/8 inches with a 1 1/2 inch light brown stain at the rear edge of the tittle page which does not impact on the author's signature or any printed text. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. Translated from the German by Lyndel Butler. 230 pages of text. Illustrated with several pages from black and white photographs. The autobiography of Lieutenant General Hans Baur who was Hitler's chief pilot who spent 10 years in a Soviet prison following the war.
    TB31460  $150.00



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    Birdsall, Steve:  Pride of Seattle The Story of the First 300 B-17Fs.  Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications, (1998). No edition stated. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 112 by 8 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 64 page illustrated throughout from photographs. A fine copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30470  $25.00



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    Bradley, James:  Flyboys A True Story of Courage.  Boston: Little Brown and Company, (2003). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 red paper and black paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/16 by 6 inches with photo printed end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 390 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with two sections of images from black and white photographs. A very clean, tight and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32078  $15.00



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    Brecher, Elinor J.:  Schindler's Legacy True Stories of the List Survivors.  New York: Dutton/Penquin Group, (1994). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black paper and black paper covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 7 1/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 442 pages including a page of photo credits and text. Illustrated throughout with more than 100 images from black and white photographs.
    TB32168  $30.00



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    Committee For The Compilation Of Materials on Damage Caused By The Atomic Bomb:  Hiroshima And Nagasaki The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects Of The Atomic Bombings.  New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1981. First Edition, First printing. Fine in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/4". In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 706 pages including an index, an extensive bibliography, appendices and text. Illustrated with black and white photographs, charts, tables and maps.
    TB23607  $65.00



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    Forman, Samuel A.:  Ill-Fated Frontier Peril And Possibilities In The Early American West.  Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, (2021}. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark blue colored paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 252 pages an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with images from earlier works of art. A very clean, handsome and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. An engaging account of a true overland adventure to move 60 slaves via cart and flat boat from New Jersey in 1789 across Pennsylvania to the Ohio River then down the Ohio and Mississppi to Natchez, Mississippi which at the time was under Spanish control.
    TB32074  $30.00



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    Frenkel, Francoise:  A Bookshop in Belrin.  New York: Atria Books, (2015). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black and gray paper boards with silver colored text on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 269 pages of text. "The rediscovered memoir of one woman's harrowing escape from the Nazis". (from dust jacket)
    TB31201  $30.00



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    Frey, Helen:  M19 A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, (2020}. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold metallic blue colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/8 inches with printed end sheets. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 327 pages an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a section of images from black and white photographs. A very clean, handsome and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32071  $30.00



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    Goodwin, Doris Kearns:  No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.  New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, (1994). 40th Printing. Fine in heavy printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 759 pages including an index, acknowledgments, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated from black and white photographs in two sections within the book. Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995 for this title.
    TB30433  $20.00




  • Guiet, Daniel C. and Timothy K. Smith:  Scholars Of Mayhem My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France.  New York: Penguin Press, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black and light gray paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 5 7/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by Timothy K. Smith on the title page without an inscription or date. 252 pages including an index, chapter notes and text.
    TB31202  $30.00



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    Hastings, Max:  Operation Chastise The RAP's Most Brilliant Attack Of World War II.  New York: Harper and Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, (2020). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold white text stamped on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 364 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with three sections of images from black and white photographs. The story of the RAF's successful bombing of three of Germany's largest dams to disrupt and possibly stop the German war efforts.
    TB32057  $25.00



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    Keneally, Thomas:  Schindler's List.  New York: Touchstone Books, (1993). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in heavy pictorial paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. This is an advance review copy with the publisher's letter laid-in at the front of the book making the announcement that it is the book created to tie-in with the Steven Spielberg's motion picture. 397 pages of text and illustrated with vignettes as chapter headings.
    TB32127  $20.00



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    Keneally, Thomas:  Searching for Schindler.  New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Publishing, (c2007). First Edition, First Printing. Very good in 1/4 black cloth and yellow paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/8 by 5 1/2 inches with a remainder dot on the lower edge of the text block and with the first 58 pages damaged by humidity causing slight wavy feel to the pages, but there is no staining or discoloration. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with very modest soiling to the panels. 272 pages of text and illustrated with 16 pages of plates from color and black and white photographs. The story behind the making of the author's award winning book: Schindler's List.
    TB32160  $15.00



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    Levin, Nora:  The Holocaust The Destruction Of European Jewry 1933-1945.  New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1968). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and red-orange paper covered boards with red text on the spine. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 6 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the end of the spine area, a 1/3 inch closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel, a 1/4 inch chip from the lower edge of the rear panel and small areas of flecking of the colors at the upper edge of the rear panel. 768 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with two sections of images from black and white photographs.
    TB32169  $25.00



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    Ministry of Home Security:  Front Line 1940-1941 The Official Story of the Civil Defence of Britain.  London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1942. . Very good+ in illustrated, heavy paper wraps over a stapled and adhesive binding. An octavo of 9 by 7 inches with the spine area reinforced with clear plastic tape and with light wear, rubbing and closed tears around the edges of the front cover. Without a dust jacket. 157 numbered pages of text and illustrated throughout with images from black and white photographs.
    TB31864  $15.00



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    Nansen , Oddand edited by Timothy J. Boyce:  From Day To Day One Man's Diary Of Survival In Nazi Concentration Camps.  Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, (2016). First Editin, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and black cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches. The contents are bright and clean with no evidence that this copy has been read or marked up with any prior ownership notes or book plates. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. Signed without an inscription by the editor, Timothy J. Boyce, on the title page. 616 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with sketches by Odd Nansen and with a section of black and white images from photographs. The original publication was first published in 1949 by G. P. Putnam's Sons of New York based on a translation from the Norwegian by Katherine John. Although that publication received rave reviews it fell into obscurity rather quickly after the war. The editor, wishing to revive the book, added significantly to this republication with extensive notes, footnotes all gathered from deep research and travel. This publication contains a preface by Thomas Buergenthal who met and was cared for by Nansen in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
    TB33001  $50.00



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    Olson, Lynne:  Last Hope Island Britain, Occupied Europe, And The Brotherhood That Helped Turn The Tide Of War.  New York: Random House, 2017. Second Printing. Near fine in light gray and black paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4 by 6 inches with wear to the paper of the spine at the heel of the spine and front board. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 533 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with black and white photographs scattered throughout the text. At the start of the Second World War Great Britain became the last place of refuge for heads of the governments for those countries overrun and occupied by the Third Reich.
    TB33098  $15.00



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    Olson, Lynne, and Stanley Cloud:  A Question Of Honor The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten heroes Of World War II.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in 1/4 red and black paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with a mild bump to the heel of the spine and what appears to be a faint dampness stain to the lower edge of the spine. If it was dampness there was no impact on the interior of the book. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with modest curling at the lower edge of the spine area. 495 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white images from photographs.
    TB30635  $30.00




  • Price, Alfred:  Luftwaffe Handbook 1939-1945.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. First Reprint of 1978. Fine in gray paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a fine jacket with the price on the front flap. A highly "detailed reference manual on the Luftwaffe at war...." 111 pages of text and many photographs.
    TB14675  $14.00



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    Robbins, Robert Lash:  Combat Insignia Stamps Of the United States Army & Navy Air Corps.  San Antonio, Texas: Hearst Publications, Inc. and The Light Newspaers, (1942). . Very good in printed paper wraps over a stapled binding. A small quarto of 10 1/4 by 7 1/2 inches with curling to the lower fore corner of the front cover and a 1/2 chip to the lower edge of the rear cover. Without a dust jacket as issued. Unpaginated, but containing 14 pages describing 50 combat insignia stamps with the actual stamps attached in the places provide.
    TB31804  $75.00



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    Shakespeare, Nicholas:  Priscilla The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France.  New York: HarperCollins, (2014). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in 1/4 ivory cloth and paper covered boards with black text and borders on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 5 7/8 inches with printed end sheets with a hint of wear to the cloth at the heel of the spine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket 423 pages followed by a list of picture credits. Illustrated from black and white photographs.
    TB30971  $15.00



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    Thomas, Gordon, and Max Morgan Witts:  Enola Gay.  New York: Stein And Day Publishers, (1977). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in 1/4 red cloth and black paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and facsimile signatures of the two authors in gilt on the front borard. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with faint foxing to the edges of the text block. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and light wear to the ends of the spine area and around the edges of the panels. The first free end page is dated in "New York City | 14 Oct. 1982" and inscribed "For Richard P. Hall | with best personal regards | Paul W. Tibbets". Brigadier general Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay in its mission to attack Hiroshima with the first atom bomb used in combat. 327 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and a section of black and white images from photographs.
    TB32402  $200.00



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    Zamperini with Helen Itria, Louis:  Devil At My Heels The Story of Louis Zamperini.  New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., c1956, 1961. Fourth Printing of Nov., 1961. Very good+ in red paper covered boards with black text on the spine and a black and red title block on the front board. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with two very short closed tears to the ends of the spine; a notation in ink on the front paste down and a prior owner's address label on the first free end page and an address correction in pencil. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with small chips from the lower edges of the front panel, a 3/4 inch closed tear at the upper rear corner of the front panel at the fold to the spine area, shallow chipping at the upper edge of the spine area which is also faded. Signed by the author on the first free end page without an inscription or a date. 251 pages of text and with a foreword by Billy Graham. Illustrated with a frontispiece from a black and white photograph of the author standing with Billy Graham and with 14 plates scattered through the text all from photographs and 3 line art images. Louis Zamperini was the subject of Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 book: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival the story of Zamperini's life as the 1936 Olympic winner of the 5,000 meter race and the tragic story of his captivity in a Japanese prison camp during World War II singled out for punishment because of his Olympic win.
    TB32427  $175.00






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