First Edition. The title refers to the author's lack of remorse over those men he shot and killed during his law enforcement and military careers. Askins won many shooting contests and hunted big game. And he wrote about it in many books and articles. This is one of 1000 signed.....
Price: $250
A manuscript catalog of a career Mexican military officer's library, totalling more than about 650 works in 600 volumes, numbered and organized by subject. The list includes the title, author, and in some cases observations on each book, along with their series and identification numbers. Not surprisingly, the largest section.....
Price: $500
First Edition. Two bound volumes of the first two years of this scarce Mexican military periodical. According to the masthead, the magazine was published with the approval (aprobación) of the Mexican Secretary of the Army and Navy. According to the introduction, the goal of Mexico Militar was to promote the.....
Price: $1,000
First Edition. A Spanish translation of the "best French chronicle of the Revolution [which is] particularly valuable on naval affairs"—Howes US-iana, L169 (also listing this edition). This edition does not have any maps, but consistent with its focus on naval action, it does include a large fold-out table of ships.....
Price: $750
Two sammelband volumes, in similar bindings, of pamphlets on military subjects, all but one published in Mexico. Three are not recorded in OCLC; a fourth is recorded only in a much later edition; a fifth is only in microfilm. Volume 1: 1. Moral Militar. Libro de los deberes del soldado.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A Spanish translation of Great European Conflict. Franco-Prussian War: Chassepot - Rifle vs. Zundnadelgewehr, or the Needle Gun: Real Cause of the Struggle by a Mexican army general. 208 pages plus four inserted lithographic portraits of the leaders of the conflict (including Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck).....
Price: $400
First Edition. An examination of the likelihood and potential shape of a war in the Pacific between Japan and the United States, with an emphasis on naval and aerial battles. Kawashima focuses more on the Philippines and Guam and less over Hawaii than some writers on the subject. He also.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. Covers SOG, Randall, Gerber, John Ek, and other knives. 139 pages. Full color. First edition (first printing stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150
Later printing. The legendary guide to M16 rifle maintenance published during the Vietnam War and designed and illustrated by cartoonist Will Eisner as part of his work on the Army's Preventive Maintenance Monthly comics magazine. 32 pages. 5 by 7-1/4 inches. DA Pam 750-30, 1 July 1969. First issued in.....
Price: $75
A homefront poster promoting donations to the United Service Organizations, a group that funded and produced entertainment for American soldiers during the Second World War. While movie stars and hot musical acts performed at some USO events, this poster shows a more modest offering—a soldier with a rifle and helmet.....
Price: $200
First Edition. The memoirs of a very active naval officer, engineer, and politician. During his eventful life, the Duke of Montrose was the first person to film a solar eclipse and he invented the aircraft carrier. Like many people who live enventful lives he devotes as much space the events.....
Price: $100
First Edition. By the popular MSNBC host. First edition (first printing, with numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $60
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A gelatin silver print image of women working in a munitions factory assembling aerial bombs. A man, possibly the supervisor, stands on the opposite side of the table. A 48-star American flag hangs above them. Your cataloguer has no expertise in identifying bombs, but these seem somewhat more advanced than.....
Price: $750
First Edition. 302 pages. Folding table at back. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good, spine faded dust jacket with a one-inch triangular chip missing from the bottom edge. Clean inside.
Price: $40
First Edition. Written while the author was in prison, "The Biology of Waropens with a scathing refutation of [the Manifesto of Ninety-Three German Intellectuals], dealing at length with Germany's responsibility for the war, and then proceeds to discuss and analyse every aspect of the war itself, regarded as a factor.....
Price: $125
Second Edition. A second, expanded edition, of this biography of a French First World War general. The first edition was published in Paris by F. Lanore in 1986. 437 pages. Text in French. 8-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. A very good copy in tape-bound wrappers (paper covers), as issued. This copy is.....
Price: $85
First Edition. A guide to help officers combat racial discrimination in the army in the waning years of the Viet Nam war. The authors report that the army had few Black officers, that Black soldiers had a hard time obtaining technical positions, and that Black soldiers were twice as likely.....
Price: $200
First Edition. An appeal to the federal government to attend to the military defense of Florida. The author, Charles Fenton Mercer, was a former member of Congress who left his post for financial reasons and took a job at a bank in Florida, where he was working when he wrote.....
Price: $200
First Edition. A Congressional printing of a typically frank report from General Sherman about what is essentially a state of martial law on the Great Plains. Sherman's boss, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant endorsed the report and forwarded it to the Secretary of War, who conveyed it to the US Congress. Sherman.....
Price: $350
First Edition. A Congressional reprint of three documents related to requests for reimbursement to the Dakotas for the expenses of the Sioux Uprising of 1862, which was still percolating through government channels after a full decade. The document lists some 300 Dakota militia members, most of whom were owed $51.....
Price: $95
First Edition. A short reprinting of documents related to the decommissioning of Fort Steilacoom, in Washington Territory. 3 pages (a single sheet, folded to make 4 pages, the final one blank). 42d Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 202. First edition (first printing). Light discoloration to the first.....
Price: $25
First Edition. A request from the Minnesota legislature to appoint a new commission to award damages to those in the state affected by the war with the Sioux. The legislature states that soldiers fighting in the civil war and refugees currently living in other states were unable to apply for.....
Price: $25
First Edition. A collection of brief reports from federal officials about plans and progess in preparing military defenses for Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; Sandy Hook; Staten Island; and other coastal positions. A single sheet folded to make 8 pages. 27th Congress, 2nd Session. House of Representatives, Document No. 188. First.....
Price: $25
A fifth-grader's "army reports and pictures" documenting German military victories and leaders. Young Ms. Wolter was (apparently) assigned to collect newspaper articles about Adolf Hitler and military victories, which she pasted neatly into a blank school lesson book. The collection begins with a newspaper photograph of Josef Goebbels congratulating the.....
Price: $65
A speech given at the start of Webster's second year in the House as a representative of New Hampshire. He opposes a plan to pay a bounty to men enlisting in the army and to those who convince people to join. His argument is that the United States does not.....
Price: $75
