March, Francis a and Richard J Beamish (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. March, Francis A., with Richard J. Beamish; Introduction by Chief of Staff General Peyton C. March. HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR ANAUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WAR. Philadelphia etc., 1919. Illustrated with US, British and French officialgovernment photographs, 736pp with index, 8vo, gilt lettering and decoration, black cloth (hardcover). Photos reproduced on glossy paper. Toned,hinges (inside) reinforced at endpaper gutters, rear endpaper wrinkled, complete, generally about good. (JO-F). …

Condition: Good. Good condition. (World War 1) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Volume III only. Introduction by General Peyton C. March. 228pp. Illustrated from photographs and maps. A few pages with a creased tear at top (not affecting text), front endpapers with a few small spots, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, covers lightly soiled, very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Hardcover is well worn. Rubbed and frayed along corners and edges. Spine is rubbed along edges and frayed at ends. Cracked front and back hinges. Pages yellowed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Volume V only. Introduction by General Peyton C. March. 228pp. Illustrated from photographs and maps. A few pages with a small nick or crease at foredge (not affecting text), upper hinge cracked but holding, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Brown boards, embossed with an eagle on the front board and printed in gold. Very tight and totally clean within, just some mild age-yellowing and a tiny hole in the front endpaper. No dust jacket. "The record of the mobilization and triumph of the military, naval, industrial and civilian resources of the United States." Introduction by General John J. Pershing. Illustrated with Official Photographs 3.…

Hardcover. Complete Edition. 6 vols. Light brown cloth, black title blocks on spines; various paginations, BW illus. The complete 6-volume set of this World War I history. Includes illustrations and maps. Uncommon. G- (Some light soiling to some binding edges; vol. 1 has narrow damp staining along bottom edge of pages; of average age inside; text and illus. are clear.).…

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. 3 p., ix-xvi, [2], 19-608 p. incl. illus., plates, ports., maps, facsim., diagrs. col. front., 3 col. pl. 24 cm. Chronology. Record of the Divisions Brief Introduction by General Pershing. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear (especially top and bottom of spine) and soiling. Slight page soiling/discoloration.…

Condition: Very Good. Five volumes of a six-volume set: Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III, Vol. V, Vol. VI--the missing Vol. IV presents the "Summarized Chronology of War;" the other volumes cover the entire war, ending in Vol. VI with biographies of the great generals; all pages clean and unmarked, without signatures of former owners or ex-lib. labels; bindings firm; boards beige with black labels on spines with untarnished gilt lettering; Vol. VI is the only to have a stain on the front board; little shelf wear on any--a bit of rubbing at crown and foot of spines; generously illustrated with "Exclusive Photographs by James H. Hare and Donald Thompson World-Famed War Photographers and with Reproductions from the Official Photographs of the United States, Canadian, British, French and Italian Governments;" introd.by General Peyton C. March.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Philadelphia: Universal Book and Bible House, 1919. This is a Very Good copy of a Salesman Sample. Red decorative cloth binding, featuring a triumphant American eagle astride two globes of the earth. Many illustrations, which the publisher points out, "should be read with care." Mildly bumped corners. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. RARE surviving specimen book! Cover worn and soiled. Minor page discoloration. Four page "Representatives' Instructions, How to Sell History of the World War pasted in at fep. Variously paginations due to contents being extractions from complete work. Contains some illustrations and maps. Illustrated with Reproductions from the Official Photographs of the United States, British and French Governments. The Introduction was by General Peyton C. Marsh. Mailing label of previous owner on first page. Richard Joseph Beamish (November 6, 1869 October 1, 1945) was a Pennsylvania lawyer and journalist. He served a term as the state's Secretary of the Commonwealth, and served on the state's Public Utilities Commission. General Peyton Conway March (December 27, 1864 April 13, 1955) was a senior officer of the United States Army. He served in the Philippines, on the Mexican border, and World War I. March was the ninth Chief of Staff from 1918 to 1921, accomplishing centralized control over supply, the creation of the Air Service, Tank Corps, and Chemical Warfare Service. While Francis A. March was a noted author and authority little can be found on the internet about him. He shares the name with a noted polymath who lived from 1825 to 1911 and whose information dominates such name searches. From the American Antiquarian Society: The Society holds a strong collection of salesman's samples or dummy books, which have also been called "blads." These specimen books were used by the itinerant agents of subscription publishers to entice customers to agree to purchase a copy of a work in advance of delivery. This form of marketing was common in America during the years just before and after the Civil War. A typical specimen book of the nineteenth century consists of sample sheets in a sample binding. Sometimes these sheets are in a prepublication state and thus may have bibliographic interest. A customer could choose among alternative styles of binding, and a sample book usually includes the spines of available styles mounted inside the covers. The sample book might also include a printed prospectus describing the virtues of the work or edition with recommendations from well-known persons. Most specimen books also include blank forms on which the salesman entered the names, addresses, sometimes occupations, and the number of copies his subscribers agreed to purchase. Subscription forms can provide demographic information on book ownership, if not on actual readership. The Society holds over 750 salesman's sample books issued before 1900; about 350 of these were issued before 1877. Most of the early ones date from the 1860s and 1870s. Closely related to the salesman's dummies are prospectuses, pre-publication descriptions of books, newspapers and magazines, which list the title of the item, the publishers, and the terms of publication. Sometimes they are also subscription papers, but more often they are only announcements of forthcoming publications. Complementing this collection are collateral materials on the subscription business, including several agents' manuals that give explicit instructions on sales methods. Subscriber Salesman's Specimen sample [Promotional Example].…