Greene Colonel (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Dark beige hardback with gold print on spine. Minor shelf wear to boards. Pages tight but book will lay open (pages detached along inside spine/gutter). Pages clean/unmarked with very light browning. 675+ pages. PO's name written in ink on top of ffep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Praeger Paperbacks, 1962, Soft cover. 1965 Fourth Printing Stated Condition: Very Good. Binding square and tight. Some rubbing monor crease to front cover. Light soil. Contents age toned but free from markings. 310 pages, some maps. Front matter includes a reproduction of a letter from President John F. Kennedy complimenting the work.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Infantry Journal, Inc., DC. December 1949 issue of the Infantry Journal. The main article in the issue is a look back at the Battle of the Bulge to include a series of the then and now pictures. Loaded with photographs. Good copy of the first edition magazine. There is wear on both the front and back covers. 56 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good, first edition Hardcover without dust jacket. The book has light rub of spine ends and cover edges. It also has light water stain on bottom foredge and a cracked front hinge. The text is clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 12mo. 494 pages, [1]. Frontispiece steel engraving. Illustrated green cloth hardcover. Cloth is worn, chipped, and fraying at the edges. Hinges cracked. Right front flyleaf and blank front end sheet removed. Half title is page 1. Stamp on the half title page reads "Library and Information Center T E CO A - Cola Company 310 North Avenue, N. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30301." Occasional spotting to the covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Hardcover with poor DJ. Tan cloth over boards with brown stamping. Title and copyright pages dated 1943, stated First Edition. 675 pages, with appendix. In good condition. Inside flaps of DJ have been glued onto attached endpapers. DJ is quite torn and worn, with portions completely missing, and what remains in poor condition. Covers are clean; some bumping to head and foot of spine. SIGNED and inscribed on front free endpaper by author Joseph Greene. Pages toned with age, but free of marks or tears. Binding is stiff. Signed by Author(s).

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue of the wartime Infantry Journal. Volume LII, No 2. Many articles of military interest and of interest to WWII students. [106pp], illustrated, no paid advertising. Additional 10pp of advertising for I.J publications, before and after the regular pages, before the front covers. This copy from the Research Department of Warner Bros studios, but not stamped. Other issues are. Otherwise unmarked. Sound, stapled binding. No wear to spine. Unmarked wrappers. Weight, 260g. Postage for magazines a little more to the USA as they do not qualify for Media Mail. Image with contents available. Size: 8.5" by 11.5". Magazine.

Magazine. Condition: Almost Fine. Single issue of the wartime Infantry Journal. Volume LII, No 1. Many articles of military interest and of interest to WWII students. [106pp], illustrated, no paid advertising. Additional 10pp of advertising for I.J publications, before and after the regular pages, before the front covers. This copy from the Research Department of Warner Bros studios, stamped on the front page. Otherwise unmarked. Sound, stapled binding. No wear to spine. Unmarked wrappers. Weight, 260g. Postage for magazines a little more to the USA as they do not qualify for Media Mail. Image with contents available. Size: 8.5" by 11.5". Magazine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. 248 pp. Original blue cloth covers. Spine a bit sunned. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY M. MARTYN KAFKA ON FRONT BLANK ENDPAPER. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice. Signed & Inscribed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages; 1962 Praeger. Trade size paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Tightly bound, bright and neat; no marks. Trace shelf rubbing to cover edges and expected very mild toning to page stock. Illustrated with some b&w maps. Uncommon Vietnam war era discussion of counter-insurgency and guerilla warfare. VG+.

reprint stiff wrappers Nice Copy 8vo. x + 310pp., maps, plans, bibliog., Selections from the Marine Corps Gazette. Includes German Legionaires in Vietnam.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. There Are No Marks Or Tears Inside The Book. The Binding Is Tight. The Cover Has Very Little Wear.

4th printing dust jacket Nice Copy octavo x + 310pp., maps, reading list, Drawn from articles in the Marine Corps Gazette. The articles put forward various military options for the hopeless task of defeating Communist fighters, but show a complete lack of understanding of the political considerations of imperial warfare. Paper toning & ownership inscription o/w nice copy.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and maps in the text; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. With personal name stamp embossed in blind on front free endpaper. VERY SCARCE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. A new and enlarged edition. No date but the preface is dated May 1890. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with blind embossed titles and camp-fire and sparks and border decoration to spine and front board. Green floral illustrated front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with tissue-guarded colour plates. Profusely illustrated with black and white plates throughout, including steel engraved frontispiece showing: General Ulysses Simpson Grant Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States (from a photograph by Gutekunst). Contemporaneous gift inscription in black fountain pen ink: ' From Cousin John William to Ernest Wigfall' to second front free endpaper. With a detailed index at the front, but no title-page. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Head and tail of spine rubbed, creased and slightly bumped. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Light offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. A very few light spots of foxing to prelims. Interior pages clean. No dustwrapper. ***478 pages including contents. 244mm x 174 mm. Contents include the following: The Battle of Gettysburg: Scene of the Battle; First Day: Opening of the Battle; Driven Back through Gettysburg; Second Day: Position of the Armies; Assault on the Third Corps; Defence of Little Round Top; In Front of the Second Corps; Ewell's Attack on the left; Third Day: The Defence of Culp's Hill; Lee's Supreme Effort; The Artillery duel; Pickett's Rash Charge; At "The Bloody Angle"; Captured by a Louisiana Tiger: In the Tiger's Claws; Choosing Between Life and Death; Gen. Thomas W. Sweeney at Shiloh; Two Marvellous stories; Thrilling Adventure of a Spy; How Jim Lost his Sweetheart; A Prophetic Presentiment; Naval Battle of Memphis; Zagonyi's Famous Calvary Charge; Review of the Armies, May 23-24, 1865; Prison Pens of Dixie: Treatment of Rebel Prisoners in Federal Prisons; A Thrilling Railroad Adventure in West Virginia; Sheridan's First Battle; Cleaning out the Alabama Guerillas; The Battle of Antietam; The Battle of Chickamauga; The Battle of Five Forks; The Battle of Roanoke Island; The Battle of Fredericksburg; Escape from Libbt Prison: Tunneling Under Difficulties; The Battle of Malvern Hill; Morgan's Raid through Ohio; In the Chattanooga Valley; Post-room Recitations. ***1890 enlarged edition of Sparks From the Camp-fire, which was originaly published shortly after the end of the American Civil War. An antiquarian title which is extremely hard to find in the UK. ***Of interest to collectors of antiquarian books on the American Civil War. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.