Major General Specht (11 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

(Subject: History & Development of Warfare - General) An illustrated study of the Imperial German Army and Navy in action, training and on manoeuvres. With illustrations of uniforms and equipment and chapters on historical background, organization, recruitment, the Army in peace and war, the Cavalry, Infantry, Artillery, Engineers, Colonial Forces, Imperial GHQ, and the General Staff. The majority of the plates illustrate the uniforms of the period. First published in 1900 in a bilingual English/German edition. (Published: 1989) (Publisher: Bracken Books) (ISBN: 1851703284) (Pagination: 136pp, 40 col plates with 120 col illustrations. Large format.) (Condition: vg in dw) UL-XXXXXX.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st thus. Facsimile reprint of 1900. Original title "Germany's Army and Navy". 136p. Full page Color illustrations. Oversize. Remainder mark. Fine/Fine Copy.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Condition Notes: A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which is sunned at the spine. Text complete, clean and tight; Hardback. Dust wrapper over bllue boards with silver titles to the spine; Measures 13¼" x 9¼" (1.5 kg); pp 136; Parallel German & English texts. Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #177393 ||.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy folio 136pp., colour frontis., colour plates, Originally published in 1900 by the Werner Company, Chicago. Dust jacket 'protected' by contact o/w a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. In German and English in parallel columns. Hard cover published by Werner Co. in 1900. No dust jacket. Comes in a clamshell box. Folio size, measures 18 x 13.5 x 1.3 inches. Black pebbled covers with gilt lettering on front. Upper back corner is bumped some and spine has an indentation along front edge near top. Pages have had water damage across top. Some pages in front of book are creased lengthwise. Some pages have foxing or spotting. Book is in fair condition. Clamshell box has a corner bumped and creased, and spine is torn along front edge for several inches. Book has been rebound, and the original hard covers are included. 12.8 lb.; Folio 13" - 23" tall.

Hardcover. First edition. 181pages. Folio, 45 x 35 cm. 41 full page chromolithographs with lettered tissue guards and printed recto only. Text in German and English. Title page printed in red and black. Clean, very fresh copy with wide text margins. Orig. black leatherette front cover decorated in gilt and colors. Aeg. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Text in German and English, with one column on each page devoted to each. Original pictorial cloth. 17.5 by 13.5 inches (44 by 35 cm); [8], 181 pp., with 42 fine, bright chromolithographic plates of military costume, ships, and troops on parade, drilling, on horseback, reconnoitering and scouting, bivouacking, in the field and barracks, engineering -- in short, these are far more than static costume illustrations but rather ones that depict action scenes. Published by Werner, which was a leading German American publisher in the late nineteenth century that began by publishing a German newspaper in the U.S. This, being a bilngual publication, was perhaps the company's most opulent book that clearly was aimed at appealing to Teutonic patriotism of the immigrant community well before the First World War squelched this type of fervor. Similar chromolithography "Wort und Bild" books were also being published in Germany itself, such as ones celebrating the Franco-Prussian War,yet this particular title is artistically superior to much of the genre. It might also be observed that the genre was not unique to German culture. (I.e. Ogden's Uniforms of the Army, depicting American army costume throughout the nineteenth century, published just a few years earlier.) Again, for dynamism and beauty of the image, this title is hard to beat. Some binding wear, and joints repaired at extremities. Interior is tight and extraordinarily clean. Plates are pristine, and even the tissue guards may be described so.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. With 41 chromolithographs. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with the front cover stamped in gilt. All edges marbled. Chips to the corners; chips and closed tears to the heads and the heel of the spine. Scuffing to the covers. Internally clean and bright. Folio measures 17 5/8 by 12 5/8 inches.

First edition, folio, pp. [6], 181; text in German and English in parallel columns; original pictorial blue cloth, stamped in gilt, red, blue, white, and black showing a German soldier and sailor flanking the German seal, a.e.g.; with 41 brilliant, large chromolithographs after G. Arnould, in-house Werner artists, and others; very nice copy with pictorial cloth virtually unrubbed; small short and inconsequential split at the bottom of the upper joint. Lovely copy.