Max Gissen (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. Second. A nice copy with a tight and square binding. Front and back cover are good. Text is clean. Edges are lightly yellowed. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. Light brown (acidic paper reaction) & soiling upper text block. First published 1949; this is the 1964 Special Edition of the Time Reading Program. Laid-in: publisher's bookmark. Memoir of early career days of Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1911 - 1996) while w/the British diplomatic corps in Russia. An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour & surprising incidents of a junior diplomat in Moscow. Account of travels in the USSR, particularly to forbidden zones of Central Asia; exploits in the British Army & SAS in the North Africa theatre of war; and time spent in Yugoslavia with Josip Broz Tito & the Partisans. 561 pgs w/archival photos, 37 chapters divided in 3 parts: 1, Golden Road; 2, Orient Sand; and 3, Balkan War. Later in his career, Sir Fitzroy was a Parliament member, and served as Under-Secretary for War to both the Churchill and the Eden governments. The American edition, published a year later in 1950, was titled Escape To Adventure. Small wonder Sir Fitzroy is thought by many to be upon whom Ian Fleming's James Bond is based. Archival Photographs (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Time Reading Program, 1964 SPECIAL EDITION w/ publisher's bookmark laid-in. Softcover/Fine. DJ/None as Issued. Light brown (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block. Frontispiece: Edward Winslow portrait of 1651. First published 1945. Scholarly historical narrative by George Findley Willison (1896-1972), writer & editor who specialized in American history. Its lengthy full title --- Saints and Strangers - Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers & Their Families, with Their Friends & Foes: & and Account of Their Posthumous Wanderings in Limbo, Their Final Resurrection & Rise to Glory, & the Strange Pilgrimages of Plymouth Rock --- well describes the contents of the volume. 565 pgs, w/maps to front & rear, in 24 chapters followed by 2 appendices.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. N.P.: 104th Infantry, United States Army, 1945. First edition, undated [late 1945], signed by Commanding Officer Ralph W. Palladino on the introductory page. History of this venerable US Army Regiment from its roots as a militia unit in the American Revolution, up through the end of World War II, the period on which this book focuses. Includes maps, other black and white illustrations from photographs, list those killed or missing in action, battle statistics, etc. Light blue cloth printed in black, Route of Advance map on endpapers, book about 7.5 inches tall, 153 pages, no dustjacket, likely issued without. Some soil to covers, good hinges, sound text block, age-browning to the war-era paper used for the pages, no other names or markings. Signed by the Commanding Officer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…