World War II

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First Printing, with complete number line A 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 .1. Near Fine, prior owner name and hometown front endpage, same prior owner blindstamp top corner half-title page, small bump top edge of page block. In a Near Fine dustjacket, small 1/16" spot at spine. 1/8" closed tear bottom edge rear panel. The title that launched Furst's excellent series of WWII intrigue novels. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Text is clean & tight & unmarked. Mild to moderate shelf wear with two-inch crease to lateral edge of back cover & slight bumping of corners.

RARE - COLLECTIBLE. A good+ copy with minor faults. With interesting ex library stamps. Front cover end papers "U.S. CENSORSHIP EXAMINED by 421" & "WAR PRISONERS AID WORLD'S COMMITTEE - YMCA - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND". On title page "PW CAMP - CAMP CARSON, COLO - CENSORED" & EICENTRUM der BÜCHEREI - PROPERTY of the LIBRARY - PoW CAMP, CAMP CARSON - No, B/216". Back cover end papers the property stamp a DATE DUE paper glued & the card with the BORROWERS NAMES (13 names) next to the DATE DUE (beginning from 15.5.45). Also in BOOKSTALLblog more books from War Time Libraries

Washington, D.C.: Army and Navy Journal, Inc., 1944. Special edition of this WWII magazine, bound in dark blue cloth and title stamped in gilt front cover. The Presentation Copy of the Honorable Will H. Hays, his name stamped in gilt bottom edge front cover. Hays managed Warren G. Harding's successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position, he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. Book is Very Good, cloth lightly soiled, a few marginal pencil notations by Hays in margins of table of contents page, browning at edges . . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Greek American Bouquet of America. Constas Licourie Editor and Publisher, San Francisco California. 27,5x21 cm.
--- Cloth-bound (publisher's binding), blindstamped cover. Some edgewear and light wear on hinges. Text in english and greek. Richly illustrated. Pages bright and clean.
--- The volume contains a variety of articles, History (of Greece, America, Greece's role in World War II), information about local businesses, travel within the USA, and advertisements, all directed toward the Greek-American community. Articles include: Our Debt to Greece An address from Claude Pepper, Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Line and Column in Greek Tactics (during World War II), The Tragic Chorus in Greek Plays, History of Fresno Historical Sketch of Sheridan, Wyoming A Sketch of Colorado's History, Greek War Orphans' Charity Benefit, Seattle, Washington Missoula, Montana, etc.Richly illustrated with black and white photos of persons and places, some evidently veterans in WWII.

Game Book Marketing Co, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Madeja, W. Victor : The Russo-German War, Summer 1944/Destruction of the Eastern Front. Allentown (PA) : Valor Publishing PB, 1987. First edition. Demy quarto (4to) size, 10 7/8"/28cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy stock wrappers glued to textblock; front cover features color reprod of (undated) German situation map for Army Group Center, approx August 1944. [iv] pp prelim material, 77 numbered pp, plus one - thus total number of leaves/sheets is 41. 22 separate orders of battle for German army groups during the period in question, along with 11 tables/charts, 29 b&w maps, and a table of abbreviations. Condition notes: 16 pages show fairly discreet yellow highlighting of specific unit names; else clean, binding sound. sound. Light wear to cover. An extremely data-rich and interesting volume for those interested in the Russo-German War of 1941-45 (the "Eastern Front" of the European Theater of WWII). Russian units/strengths are treated on maps,… Read More

Poster WWII Can All You Can. It's a Real War Job
Washington, D.C.: Office of War Information, 1943, Poster Collection, Special Collections, Original Poster WWII OWI .C362 E4-O, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Purchased in 1980s Local condition: fragile
Fragile condition
22 height X 15.5 width

London: I.N.G. Publications, 1944. First English Language Edition. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 13/16 inches; 183 x 122 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover).Diary of Erich Weinert, president of the Free Germany National Committee in Moscow. Weinert (1890-1953) was a German Communist poet who spent the war in the Soviet Union and kept a diary during the battle of Stalingrad. The present volume is a translation of an article that first appeared in German in "Internationale Literatur," a magazine published in Moscow. Illustrations on the cover and title page by John Heartfield. Foreword by Major J. Dugdale, M.P. Scarce in commerce. CONDITION: Soiling and mild foxing to wrappers along with a few nicks to the edges. Internally clean and umarked. A Very Good copy.

Belgium: American Battle Monuments Commission, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Contents and portfolio. Fine. 70 pages. 29.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 signed by Christina Kermaire. A listing of every American soldier killed during the Battle of The Bulge during WW II. An alphabetical list noting Name, Rank, Unit, Date of Death and Serial Number buried at the American Military Cemetery and Memorial Henri Chapelle, Belgium. 7080 American soldiers are buried here. Text in English, French and Flemish. Also contains a CD rom, and three glossy photographs. An unusual production, cloth bow beneath a laminated plastic back cover lettered in three languages with green cloth front cover held firm with a black cloth vertical tie.

London: William Collins Sons and Co Ltd, 1985. First UK Edition, SIGNED by Mulisch (1927-2010) in blue ink on title page. Translated from the original Dutch De Aanslag by Claire Nicolas White. Adapted into a film which won the 1986 Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Adapted into a graphic novel by Milan Hulsing in 2015. "A brilliant novel, overflowing with dramatic tension."-La Croix; "A beautiful and powerful work [that] takes its place among the finest European fiction of our time."-Elizabeth Hardwick. 8½ x 5½". 9780002710114. Original black cloth boards, gilt letters to spine. 204 pp. Very slight toning to top & bottom edges, dust jacket has small creases and toning to edges. A scarce SIGNED Near Fine copy in Near Fine Dust Jacket.

London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Laid-in is a typed signed letter on the author's personal letterhead and dated 1986, referencing her 1985 collection of stories A Glimpse of Sion's Glory, and mentioning her current project that would become Deceits of Time (1988), the original Air Mail envelope is also included. To be clear, the book itself is not signed, the laid-in letter is. Straight, tight, and clean with no markings, slight corner and spine-end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, rubs, short closed edge tears, in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author's first book in the Orlando Trilogy followed by Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha. A modern classic. ISBN 9780370006529

This book is in great shape one little spot on front. faded red color on boards. Stamped by library inside covers. 1942 movie Wikipedia says Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther,[3] it shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is affected by World War II. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, its supporting cast includes Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Richard Ney and Henry Wilcoxon.[4]

Buckeye Aviation Book Company, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. ***Signed by the Author*** A very good softcover in printed wraps. 8vo Signed by Paul Tibbets pilot of the Enola Gay on an endpaper with a group photo. Inscription says "In memory of John Elden Findley 9-7-1991."Text is clean and free of marks or underling. Includes b&w photos and an index. 316 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. First hand account from pilot of the bomber Enola Gay and dropping the Atom Bomb.. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance… Read More

Portland, OR: Binfort & Mort Publishing, 1998. First Edition, stated. Paperback. Fine / As New. Old price sticker on back cover. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books. A "day-to-day account of combat in World War II Italy from the viewpoint of an infantryman."

Amsterdam: Uitgeveij Contact, 25 juni 1947. Anne.Frank; 'Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven van 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944'. Hard cover, pp 253. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINT, no dust jacket. First edition of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch language. Small Octavo. One of 3000 booklets printed 75 YEARS AGO ON JUNE 25th 1947. Original white and red paper-covered boards. Illustration with 3 photo's of the hiding place ('Het Achterhuis'), 1 groundfloor-plan and 2 examples (facsimile) of the handwriting of Anne Frank. Introduction by Annie Romein-Verschoor. Title on the front board and the spine. A 'good - 'copy; Some foxing of the boards. The book has had a professional restoration. The incomplete spine has been re-attached to the renewed binding. Pages are slightly tanned after 75 years. No inscriptions.Anne began her diary on her 13th birthday, 12 June 1942 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary was found in the hiding place by Miep Gies, after Anne Frank, her Jewish family… Read More