Military Dictionary: Signed (5 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Max B. Garber; Washington, 1936. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by author directly on front free endpaper. A Good, maroon binding with blind stamped lettering on front board, gilt lettering and emblem on spine, binding intact, mild stress crease to spine, some board corner wear, age toning to pages, rubbing along board edges, mild scattered foxing to text block edges and front/back matters, chipped bottom corner first 62 pages, moisture stain bottom fore-edge and bottom text block edge, moisture stain bottom corner of last couple of pages and bottom rear endpaper and pastedown, without Dust wrapper. A good and overall clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 332pp., indexed. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Signed by the author on title page; 7 X 0.75 X 10 inches; 240 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Tall octavo. 367pp. Bookplate of Henry I. Shaw, the first chief historian of the U.S. Marine Corps and the author or editor of several of its official histories. A trifle musty, page edges lightly foxed and endleaves with a tiny bit of soil, a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Nicely Inscribed by Heinl to Shaw: "For Henry I. Shaw, Jr. whose contributions to military history are not small.". Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 332p. SIGNED & inscribed to Col. Llewelyn Oliver. May 1936. Red cloth. Fine Copy. Signed by Author. Book.

Two volumes folio (420 x 280 mm), continuously signed. Titlepages in red and black. Folded engraved frontispiece and 21 engraved plates, eight of them folding. In contemporary speckled calf over boards, double ruled in gilt, spine in seven compartments, title labels missing, volume numbers applied directly in gold, and gilt tool stamped in remaining compartments. Red speckled edges. Binding scuffed and abraded in places, revealing wood substrate; worn at corners, edges, and at spine ends, joints split, boards held on with later adhesive strips applied to hinges. Frontispiece partially split along fold, with some loss. Text block otherwise strong and entire, with plates clean and intact. Reference ESTC T136232, etc. EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES WILL APPLY. The first English encyclopedia, and an undertaking as massive and comprehensive as its subtitle might suggest. The great French Encyclopédie edited by Diderot and d'Alembert originated in a proposal to translate this second edition of Chambers. Indeed, the second edition, published ten years after the first, is copiously enlarged from its original printing, "retouched," Chambers writes in a preface, "and amended in a thousand places." Chambers appears to have been largely self-taught, having apprenticed at a young age to a globe-maker and bookseller. That the Cyclopaedia was the work of a single clerk (albeit one who was ultimately elected to the Royal Society) rather than a committee of doctors makes its scope, detail, and accuracy all the more awesome. The entertainment value of the Cyclopaedia should not be ignored: it has taken us several hours to write this short description, having gotten quite lost in reading the fascinating and lucid articles on, for example, paper and type (a Caslon specimen sheet folds out), on Spinozism, on optics, the Nimethulehites, or on enthusiasm ("a poetic or prophetic rage, or fury, which transports the mind, and raises the imagination, and makes it conceive and express things extraordinary, and surprizing." Text, very good; boards, acceptable The second edition, corrected and amended; with some additions.…