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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 627pp. Excellent condition. A bookplate has been removed from the front end paper, there is a booksellers note from 1939 on the back inside cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. P2.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 28 pages, stapled original document. A clean and unmarked copy. Jeffrey Hunter on cover. The Film Guide only from this Con. Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller films cast and creator lists and reviews that are particular to this document of films (most of which will be known to you) that were screened at this gathering. Titles from Magic Christian, to Mothra, House of Usher, to Silent Running, to Horsefeathers (how did THAT get in there?).…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 288 pages. 8.90x6.00x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.32 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. original edition. 304 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.32 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 351 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 368 pages. 9.20x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 258 pages. 6.00x0.63x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 4th printing edition. 408 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 512 pp. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. Very Good. First Edition.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 544 pp. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. Very Good. Previous owner's initials inked on front end page. First Edition.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 568 pp. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. Very Good. Previous owner's initials inked on front end page. Some slight discoloration on the front cover. First Edition.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 424 pp. Hardcover. Good. Previous owner's initials inked on front end page, cover is a little faded. No DJ. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. First Edition.

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxiv, 433, [3] catalogue. 35 illustrations to plates, with tissue-guards, including portrait frontispiece. Publishers' maroon reeded cloth, with bevelled boards, gilt titles to spine and ruing to spine and upper board, and facsimile of Dorland's signature in gilt to upper board. Spine lightly sunned with minor wear at tips; a slightly shaken copy with cracked inner front hinge. Ownership inscription dated in year of publication in ink to first blank and annotation & underlining in pencil to Preface otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy. Biography of the American Quaker missionary and traveller John Trumpour Dorland (1749-1833). Scarce.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 120 pages. 9.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 334 pp. Hardcover. Good: some spotting and discoloration along front cover and spine + inked on front end-page with two previous owner's initials and a library stamp. No DJ. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. First Edition.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 320 pp. Hardcover. Good: previous owner's initials inked on front end page, spine has nearly faded, and a nick to the cloth on the front cover. No DJ. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. First Edition.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 8.98x6.06x0.47 inches. In Stock.

Third edition, 2 vols., 8vo, xxxviii, 675; [4], 670, [2]pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, worn. Provenance: From the library of the Royal College of Surgeon of Ireland, with the usual stamps.

Quarto, c. 1000pp. illustrated, original boards, numerous illustrations, clean and unmarked inside, a very good copy. A wonderful description of everything relating to houses and building in the 1950s.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 528 pp., 527 pp., 496 pp., 512 pp. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. Very Good. Previous owner's initials inked on front end page of a few editions. All First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2 volumes bound as 1 ; 23 cm.; OCLC 1507226 ; LC PR1119 .E5 no. 44-45 ; LCCN 12017832 ; red half-leather with five bands, marbled endpapers ; top edge gilt; contemporary bookplate of The Newberry Library, Chicago ; front and back boards loose, repaired ; "Caxton's " right pleasant and goodly historie of the Four Sons of Aymon " is englisht from the French prose romance " Les Quatre Filz Aymon , " which is a rendering more or less free of an ancient chanson de geste bearing the same name , though more often entitled " Renaud de Montauban . " The earliest extant text of the chanson is a remaniment of the end of the 12th century. The conversion of the poem into prose was not accomplished before the close of the 14th century . None of the prose manuscripts are earlier than the 15th century . Of them the British Museum has three MSS . , all in writing of the 15th century . In one , a large vellum folio , about 1445 A.D. , the story is illustrated by nine miniatures ; in the borders of the first appear the arms of John Talbot , first Earl of Shrewsbury , and those of Henry VI . and his Queen Margaret of Anjou empaled . It is similar to the usual printed edition , from the third chapter of that edition to the end . Another manuscript , a vellum folio of the 15th century , is also a prose version , to which is prefixed a fragment of a metrical version of the story , the text of which closely resembles that published by Bekker in his Introduction to " Fierbras " ; another metrical fragment is added at the conclusion of the prose tale , which contains the adventures of Maugis , how he became Pope under the name of Innocent , hears Charlemagne's confession , and is stifled by the Emperor in a cave near Naples . " ; FAIR. Book.…

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 328 pp., 368 pp., 389 pp., 407 pp., 436 pp., 424 pp. Hardcover. Good. Previous owner's initials inked on front end page of a few editions, the cloth on the 1955 edition's cover is ripped in one spot, some age and discoloration on a few other covers. No DJ. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. All First Edition.…

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 480pp., 506 pp., 518 pp., 528 pp., 527 pp., 496 pp., 512 pp., 516 pp. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. Very Good. Previous owner's initials inked on front end page of a few editions. The 1957 edition's front cover has some spotting. All First Edition.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. 328 pp., 368 pp., 389 pp., 407 pp., 436 pp., 424 pp., 453pp., 480pp. Hardcover. Very Good. Previous owner's initials inked on front end page of a few editions. The 1953 edition's back cover has some spotting. No DJ. Bound in Blue Cloth with Gilt Titles. All First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Illustrated endpapers. Unpaginated (approximately 80 pages. Edge tears to two early pages. Name and serial number written in ink inside front cover. Spine missing. Cover has wear and soiling. Several pages for autographs--all blank. RARE. Published on the last day of June, 1948. This was the second anniversary of the reactivation of their unit. The editors stated "We thought we had better put ourselves in a book so that in future years we would be able to look back on two pleasant years spent in Japan in a grand unit." This unit of African-Americans was led by officers who for the most part were white. The united was reactivated on 30 Jun 1946, with Headquarters at Tsurumi-ku, Japan. During the military occupation of Japan, this unit was required to have trained personnel to perform its combat duties and to furnish protections as security guards for Eighth army installations in the Tokyo-Yokohama area. This segregated unit was deactivated a few days before President Truman issued his order to integrate the military services. The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States and its possessions between 1901 and 1950. The CAC also operated heavy and railway artillery during World War I. In 1905, after the experiences of the Spanish-American War, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed a new board on fortifications, under Secretary of War William Howard Taft. They updated some standards and reviewed the progress of the Endicott board's program. Most of the changes recommended by this board were technical; such as adding more searchlights, electrification (lighting, communications, and projectile handling), and more sophisticated optical aiming techniques. The board also recommended fortifications in territories acquired from Spain: Cuba and the Philippines, as well as Hawaii and a few other sites. Defenses in Panama were authorized by the Spooner Act of 1902. Due to rapid development of the dreadnought battleship type, a new 14-inch (356 mm) gun was introduced in a few locations, including Los Angeles, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Panama. The Japanese were acquiring capital ships with guns of this caliber, beginning with Kong in 1913. The Taft program fortifications differed slightly in battery construction and had fewer numbers of guns at a given location than those of the Endicott program. By the beginning of World War I, the United States had a coastal defense system that was equal to any other nation. The rapidity of technological advances and changing techniques increasingly separated coastal defenses (heavy) from field artillery (light). Officers were rarely qualified to command both, requiring specialization. As a result, in 1907, Congress split the Field Artillery and Coast Artillery into separate branches, creating a separate Coast Artillery Corps (CAC), and authorizing an increase in the Coast Artillery Corps to 170 numbered companies. National Guard coast artillery units were also formed by the states to attempt to bring the CAC up to strength in wartime. Confusingly, many of these units were designated Coast Artillery Corps of their respective state National Guards. In 1907 the United States Army Field Artillery School at Fort Monroe became the Coast Artillery School, which operated until 1946, and in 1908, the Chief of Artillery became the Chief of Coast Artillery in the rank of major general. In World War II more expansion and reorganization occurred. The Japanese invasion of the Philippines resulted in the surrender of US forces there on 9 April and 6 May 1942, including the 59th CA (HD), 60th CA (AA), 200th CA (AA), 515th CA (AA), 91st CA (HD) (PS), and 92nd CA (TD) (PS). The anti-aircraft regiments were broken up into battalions in 1943-44 and the harbor defense regiments were similarly broken up in late 1944, as part of an Army-wide reorganization that left only the Infantry branch as regiments. The "coast artillery" nomenclature was dropped from the antiaircraft units' designations at this time. As a result of this reorganization (in most cases), 46 anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) brigades, 155 AAA groups, and 13 coast artillery groups were activated, probably controlling task-organized groups of battalions. Over 900 battalions were created. On 1 April 1945 the majority of the remaining coast artillery battalions (other than antiaircraft) were inactivated, with most personnel either transferred to their parent harbor defense commands or used to activate or fill out field artillery units. F. R. Richardson (Photographer) (illustrator). …

Comb binding. Zustand: Very good. [6], 160 pages. Decorative cover. Index. Diary of 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1945. Tabular Data. Appendix covers Pilots, Navigators, Bombardiers, Radar Observers, Ground Officers, Master Sergeants, and Aircraft. There is a Key to Abbreviations. Residue inside the front cover. Russell A Strong served as a navigator with the 306th Bomb Group. He flew in Milton Adam's crew. He also was in Intelligence and Public information for six weeks at Thurleigh [13 Sept 1944 to 1 Nov 1944]. He completed his missions on 26 November 1944. R.A. Strong, became the founder and long-time secretary of the 306th Bomb Group Association and attended the official opening of the American Air Museum at Duxford. This is the second volume in a series of four being issued by the 306th Bomb Group Association to provide its membership with more detailed information about the activities of the four combat squadrons of the 306th Bomb Group. The four diaries were prepared between 1942 and 1945 by the several intelligence officers assigned to the squadrons. In this volume five men actually did the writing at various times. These diaries deal in large measure with the combat phase of squadron life, but include other aspects of events at Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, the home of the 306th Bombardment Group from early September 1942 and continuing until after the end of hostilities as the 306th and 305th Groups were charged with the aerial mapping of Europe and North Africa. Appended are lists that have been compiled in more recent years. These lists previously appeared in 306th Echoes, and have been edited and enhanced. The squadron was first activated as the 367th Bombardment Squadron in the spring of 1942, one of the original four squadrons assigned to the 306th Bombardment Group. After training with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, the squadron moved overseas and participated in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany, earning two Distinguished Unit Citations for its efforts. After the war the 367th remained in Europe with the occupation forces until inactivating in 1946. In April, 1942 its personnel moved to Wendover Field, Utah, where it began training with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers. On 1 August 1942, the squadron's ground echelon began its deployment, spending a week at Richmond Army Air Base, Virginia before moving to Fort Dix, New Jersey at the Port of Embarkation. It sailed on the RMS Queen Elizabeth on 30 August, arriving in Scotland on 5 September 1942. The air echelon departed for Westover Field, Massachusetts, and began ferrying their B-17s to England via the North Atlantic ferrying route. The squadron settled into its combat station, RAF Thurleigh, England, in early September. Although several bomber units arrived in England before the 367th, when these units left England to participate in Operation Torch it became, along with its companion squadrons of the 306th Group, the oldest bombardment squadrons of VIII Bomber Command. It few its first combat mission on 9 October 1942 against a steel factory near Lille, France. This was the first mission on which VIII Bomber Command assembled a strike force of over 100 bombers. The squadron operated primarily against strategic targets, including the locomotive factory at Lille, marshalling yards at Rouen, France, and Stuttgart, Germany. The squadron took part in the first strike into Germany by bombers of Eighth Air Force on 27 January 1943 when it struck U-boat yards at Wilhelmshaven. It struck shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt, the aircraft factory at Leipzig, Germany, and similar facilities. On 11 January 1944, the squadron participated in an attack on an aircraft plant in central Germany, near Brunswick. Extensive cloud cover had resulted in the recall of two of the three bombardment divisions involved in the mission and made the rendezvous of the fighter groups scheduled to provide cover in the target area difficult. In contrast, clear weather to the east of the target permitted the Germans to assemble one of the largest fighter formations since October 1943, with 207 enemy fighters making contact with the strike force. For this mission, the squadron was awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC). The following month the squadron earned a second DUC for its performance during Big Week, an intensive bombing campaign against the German aircraft industry. Despite adverse weather on 22 February that led supporting elements to abandon the mission the squadron and group effectively bombed the aircraft assembly plant at Bernburg, Germany. The squadron also performed in a tactical role, assisting ground forces Operation Cobra, the St Lo breakthrough, Operation Market Garden, the attempt to establish a bridgehead across the Rhine near Arnhem in the Netherlands, stopping German attacking forces in the Battle of the Bulge, and bombing enemy positions during Operation Varsity, the airborne assault across the Rhine in the spring of 1945. After V-E Day, the squadron became part of the occupation forces and participated in Project Casey Jones, the photographic mapping of portions of Europe and North Africa. The 306th Group began to phase out of the project in July. In February 1946, the squadron moved to Istres-Le Tubé Air Base, France, where it absorbed elements of the inactivating 92d and 384th Bombardment Groups, returning to Germany in July. The squadron was inactivated in December 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…