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THE ARMORED SCHOOL EXTENSION COURSE PROSPECTUS

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: [Fort Knox, Kentucky], [The Armored School]: 1953

Seller ID: P7269

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very good

27p. Name on front. Guide to extension courses designed to "provide an opportunity for all Armor officers and officers serving in armored units to further their military education through home study." Courses offered by The Armored School established in 1940 for the training of United States soldiers, noncommissioned officers, and commissioned officers in "the operation, tactics, and maintenance of Armor forces and equipment." B&w photograph. (9"x5-7/8")
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YOUR ARMY AIR FORCES

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: [s.l.], [s.n.]: 1947

Seller ID: P7742

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very good

Unpaginated (approx. 30p.) Property stamp on front wrap, wrap creased and edges scraped. Recruitment booklet designed to "acquaint the youth of America with the career opportunities available in the Regular Army Air Forces. Black & yellow illustrations. (8-3/4"x5-3/4")
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BLOOD ON THE BORDER: THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND THE MEXICAN IRREGULARS (THE WARS OF THE UNITED STATES)

By: Clendenen, Clarence

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1969

Seller ID: H12753

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

[xx], 390p. 1st printing. Embossed stamp on front endpaper. Includes bibliography. B&w maps and 8 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9-1/2"x6-1/2")
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YANKEE AUTUMN IN ACADIANA: A NARRATIVE OF THE GREAT TEXAS OVERLAND EXPEDITION THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1863

By: Edmonds, David C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Lafayette, Louisiana, Acadiana Press: 1979

Seller ID: H9838

ISBN: 0937614017

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[xii], 495p. 2nd printing (1980) Signed by author on flyleaf. Rubbed jacket has former price tag on front flap with corners worn. Includes bibliography. B&w illustrations, maps, and photographs. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")
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THE NAVY IN REVIEW

By: Erickson, Curtis

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.: 1941

Seller ID: H1886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

212p. Fade spots on cover, corners bumped, chips, tears and creases to jacket, former owner's name on front endpaper. 16 b&w photo plates. From the front flap: "American boys who are thrilled by the stirring newsreel glimpses of the Navy in action in these times, will find in these pages the opportunity to study this great defense weapon at first hand. Tom Hastings and Jerry Radison, the two eighteen-year old lads...go through a mock registration and in this new book - are inducted into the Navy - introduced to naval customs, taboos, the intricacies of a sailor's bag and hammock, uniforms, ran...
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U.S. NAVY COMBAT ART, EXHIBITION CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF DESTROYERS

By: Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego

Price: $12.00

Publisher: San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego: 1962

Seller ID: P7109

Binding: Brochure

Condition: Good +

Glue stain on back, edges have trace of damp stain. Catalog of an exhibition held August 17 to September 2, 1962 featuring U.S. Navy Combat Artists - Dwight C. Shepler, Standish Backus, William E. Draper, Mitchell Jamiseon, Herbert C. Hahn, Hugh Cabot II, and Walter Brightwell. Errata slip laid in. Brochure. B&w photograph. (Folded sheet, 9"x6")
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INSHORE HEROES: THE STORY OF H.M. MOTOR LAUNCHES IN TWO WORLD WARS

By: Granville, Wilfred & Robin A. Kelly

Price: $39.00

Publisher: London, W.H. Allen: 1961

Seller ID: H10513

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

320p. Former price tag on front endpaper, cover corners bumped, price clipped jacket has large chips to top and bottom of spine and holes on spine. A "comprehensive survey of the little ships in two world wars--and in peace" of the British coastal forces. Includes bibliography. Jacket design by Alan Plummer. B&w maps and 6 leaves of b&w photo plates. (8-3/4"x5-3/4")
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SHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND THEIR SPONSORS, 1913-1923

By: Hall, Anne Martin & Edith Wallace Benham; Compiled by

Price: $39.00

Publisher: Norwood, Massachusetts, Privately Printed; The Plimpton Press: 1925

Seller ID: H10953

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xx, 320p. Cover corners lightly worn. "This volume is supplementary of 'Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors, 1797-1913," [...with] all obtainable facts relating to the launching and naming of the fighting craft of our Navy." 49 leaves of b&w photo plates and frontispiece. (9-1/2"x6-1/4")
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CRUISE MANUAL FOR MIDSHIPMEN CRUISES

By: Hill, H.W. & U.S. Naval Academy

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy: 1952

Seller ID: P6682

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Good +

60p. Staples oxidized, back soiled, spine torn and wraps creased. Created for "the information and guidance of personnel concerned while engaged in training cruises for Midshipmen during the summer of 1952." (8-3/8"x5-1/2")
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DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT: ADMIRAL IN THE MAKING

By: Lewis, Charles Lee

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute: 1941

Seller ID: H9660

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xiv, 372p. Former owner's name on front endpaper, pp. 89-90 dog-eared, cover corners lightly worn, top pages edges have pen marks, jacket edges and spine sunned with small tear to top back edge and small chips to corners. Includes bibliography. 16 b&w plates. (9-1/2"x6-3/8")
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DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT: OUR FIRST ADMIRAL

By: Lewis, Charles Lee

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute: 1943

Seller ID: H9661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xiv, 513p. Former owner's name on front endpaper, cover corners lightly worn, bottom back cover edges worn, jacket rubbed with corners and top and bottom of spine chipped and spine sunned. Includes bibliography. 18 b&w plates. (9-1/2"x6-3/8")
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OFFICIAL ROAD MAP: WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, NEW MEXICO

By: Limbaugh Engineering & Aerial Surveys

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Army Corps of Engineers: 1965

Seller ID: MP020

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Very good

General road map of range area, map of post area with housing, public buildings, military facilities, and golf course, and map of military bases near to the White Sands Military Range including Fort Wingate, Blanding, and Green River. (9-1/4"x4-5/8" folded)
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LES AMRICAINS NANTES ET SAINT-NAZAIRE, 1917-1919 (ANNALES LITTRAIRES DE L'UNIVERSIT DE NANTES, FASCICEILE 4)

By: Nouailhat, Yves-Henri; Preface by Paul Bois

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Paris, Les Belles Lettres: 1972

Seller ID: P6548

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

250p. Cover corners worn with bottom front corner torn, pages edges and endpaper have brown spots, light underlining and marks on text, a few pages dog eared. Includes bibliography. Text in French. B&w illustrations and photographs. (9-1/2"x6-1/8")
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The Electronic War in the Middle East, 1968-70.

By: O'Ballance, Edgar

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books, Shoe String Press: 1974

Seller ID: H8447

ISBN: 0208014691

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

148p. Cloth is torn on top edge of front cover, top page edges have brown spots and white spots on top edge of back cover, cover corners and head and foot of spine bumped, jacket has a stain on spine with light edge wear. B&w maps. (8-7/8"x5-5/8")
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GREETINGS! FOR YOUNG MEN ABOUT TO ENTER MILITARY SERVICE

By: O'Donnell, Thomas J.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Washington DC, National Catholic Community Service: 1952

Seller ID: P7552

Binding: Stiff stapled wraps

Condition: Very good

[ii], [52p.] 2nd printing. Wrap corners lightly worn. Booklet with a collection of advice assembled by O'Donnell from visiting military camps and bases and talking to chaplains, inductees, servicemen, and veterans, people who know from firsthand experience what should be said to young Catholic men about to enter military service. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")
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ORDER OF DAEDALIANS, 50TH ANNIVERSARY ROLL CALL, 1934-1984: THE NATIONAL FRATERNITY OF MILITARY PILOTS

By: Order of Daedalians

Price: $29.00

Publisher: San Antonio, Texas, Order of Daedalians: 1984

Seller ID: P6808

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very good

192p. Address label on back cover, cover edges lightly scraped. B&w decorations. (9-1/4"x7-1/2")
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Image for Gunfire in Barbary: Admiral Lord Exmouth's Battle with the Corsairs of Algiers in 1816 the Story of the Suppression of White Christian Slavery

Gunfire in Barbary: Admiral Lord Exmouth's Battle with the Corsairs of Algiers in 1816 the Story of the Suppression of White Christian Slavery

By: Perkins, Roger; K.J. Douglas-Morris

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Havant, Hampshire, UK, Kenneth Mason: 1982

Seller ID: H8203

ISBN: 0859372715

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

200p. Jacket edges lightly worn. Includes bibliography. B&w illustrations and photographs. (8-3/4"x5-3/4")
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REBEL RAIDER: THE LIFE OF GENERAL JOHN HUNT MORGAN

By: Ramage, James A.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky, University Press of Kentucky: 1986

Seller ID: H12396

ISBN: 08131157660

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

[xii], 306p. Signed by author on half title page. Jacket corners bumped. Includes bibliographical notes. 8 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9-1/2"x6-1/2")
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THE BATTLE IN BAYOU COUNTRY

By: Raphael, Morris

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Detroit, Harlo: 1974

Seller ID: H12756

ISBN: 0960886605

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

199p. 4th printing (1990) Jacket has a few tears to edges. Believed "to be the first book which provides a detailed account of the action in the bayou country of Louisiana" during the United States Civil War. Includes bibliographical references. B&w illustrations and photographs. (8-3/4"x5-3/4")
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REMINISCENCES OF AUGUSTA MARINES

By: Rowland, Arthur Ray

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Augusta, Georgia, Richmond County Historical Society: 1985

Seller ID: H12285

ISBN: 0934870144

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

[xii], 246p. Signed by one of the subjects (Bert Gary, Albert von Kamp Gary) on front endpaper. Brown spots on top page edges, endpapers, and jacket, errata has been pasted over the author of the introduction, cover corners bumped, jacket corners worn. Profiles of a selection of Marines stationed in Augusta from World War II veterans to those who served in Vietnam. 6 leaves of b&w photo plates. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")
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