Military History from Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. First editions. 3/4 leather. Octavos. xxiv, 423 and xx, 456 pages. Bindings are dark green leather spines and fore corners with marbled paper sides and marbled endpapers. Gilt rules on upper and lower boards, spines have five raised bands, gilt titles and ornamentation in six compartments. Top edges gilt. Spines mildly faded, a… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1936. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 272 pages. Very good in a good plus dust jacket. Spine has a spot through cloth about the size of a watermelon seed near heel. Some light soiling to cloth on rear panel, shallow bumps to spine ends. Jacket has a triangular chip at top of… Read more about this item

[Lakehurst?]: Clements, 1925. Framed. Approximately 10 3/4" x 37 3/4", sight 6 5/8" x 31 1/4. Near fine. Not examined out of frame.. Silver gelatin photograph. Uncommon original silver gelatin panoramic photograph of the Ohio crash of the U. S. Navy's first rigid airship, the USS Shenandoah. The Shenandoah encountered a severe storm over Ohio on the morning… Read more about this item

[Havana}: (S.n.), 1960. Softcover. Oblong duodecimo. 41 unnumbered leaves. Black wrappers printed in green, quite worn with edge chips and rubbed wrinkles. Photographs inside are all in nice condition, with an occasional edge chip to scattered leaves but with no image loss.. Black and white photographs. Album commemorating the 1956 invasion of Cuba by revolutionaries under Fidel Castro… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Signed Limited Edition, #46 of 100 copies. Three quarter leather. Octavo. [xiv], 439 pages. Near fine. Bound in light green marbled boards with black leather spine and fore corners, gilt-stamped spine with four raised bands, gilt ruling to boards, top edge gilt. Light green marbled endpapers. A few light extremity rubs. An… Read more about this item

Richmond: Wm. Ellis Jones' Sons, Inc., Printers, 1915. First Edition. Printed wraps. Octavo. 59 pages. Near fine. Faint browning to edges of covers, some discoloration around binding staples. Overall clean and sound.. A vigorous account of the Chancellorsville Campaign in the spring of 1863. McIntosh had just been promoted to major and was in command of a battalion… Read more about this item

Raleigh: Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office, 1865. Stitched without wrappers. Octavo. 102 pages. Very good with mild uniform toning and some light soil, and minor extremity wear. Top fore corner of first leaf has a neat tape repair from back side. Original stitched binding holding well. A few leaves unopened.. The Grand Lodge met in Raleigh the… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1873. First printing. Cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. xii, 13-521 pages. Extremity rubs with a bit of fraying to corner tips. Binding sound, hinges not cracked. Faint splitting to rear endpaper along inner margin, though not significant. Prior owner name and inscription dated 1902 on preliminary blank leaf. Near fine overall.. John… Read more about this item

Washington: John L. Ginck, 1877. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. 29 pages. Printed salmon-colored wrappers over sewn binding. Some minor surface soil, a tiny chip along top edge of front cover, other minor extremity wear. Binding sound.. Liberia was founded in 1821 by freed American slaves. Commodore Shufeldt describes the Navy's role in the origins and preservation of the… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Magnus, 1864. Single leaf approximately 5" x 8. Fine condition.. Hand-colored lithograph headpiece. A sentimental Union Civil War song sheet with three verses and a chorus. .<br /> <br /> The hand-colored headpiece is a view of the City of Richmond from across the James River, with the Confederate Capitol prominently in the center (Magnus… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, [2], 193 pages [+1 page ad]. Bound in dark blue publisher's cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, dark blue-black coated endpapers. A few shallow bumps to extremities, a few slight rubs, and a small rectangular numeric label at top fore corner… Read more about this item

Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Limited edition, #84 of 250 copies. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall octavo. 111 pages plus 8 pages of publisher ads. Leather spine and fore corners with marbled paper sides, five raised bands. Spine titled and ornamented in gilt, both boards with gilt rules, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. A few tiny rubs… Read more about this item

Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [xii], 153 pages. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. Prior owner name label at top fore corner of front pastedown, with several blind embossed circular seals throughout the text. Clean and sound.. Photographic plates, endpaper maps. This scarce little book is a personal narrative of the… Read more about this item

Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1822. First edition. Paper over boards with leather spine. Duodecimo. 155 pages. Very good. Yellow paper-covered boards with leather spine, which is titled and ruled in gilt. Minor extremity rubs and shallow bumps. Foxing throughout. Binding is sound. Bottom 1" to 1 3/4" of a rear blank leaf is lacking. Overall a very nice copy… Read more about this item

(S.l.): (S.n.), 1920. Cloth over boards with vellum spine and fore corners. Folio. 100 pages [and] 127 pages [and] 113 pages. Fine. bound in green cloth over boards with spine and fore corners in vellum; Gitl-stamped spine label has a patch of wear to lower right quadrant, else book and binding fine.. Diagrams, some tipped in photographic illustrations.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles B. Norton, 1853. First edition. Cloth over boards. Folio. 216, (22 ads) pages. Modern binding blue cloth over boards with spine titled and ruled in gilt. Ex-Mercantile Library, with small oval stamp to title page and most plates. Faint moisture tidemarks in text. Small chips and edge tear to a few scattered leaves. Overall a very… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 261 pages. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled and ornamented in red. Jacket has a 3/4" wide chip angling to a depth of 1/4" at heel of spine, along with other… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Printed by W. M. Innes, 1863. Later card covers. Octavo. 48 pages. Bound in later moire-patterned card covers with type-script label on front cover. Light tanning to pamphlet, with an old pencil note below author's name and a faint water-tide mark at inner margin, and on title page. Very good to near fine overall.. Interesting and uncommon… Read more about this item

[Baton Rouge]: [Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc.], 1941. Hardcover. Folio. [vi], 89, [26] pages. Bound in red cloth over boards with upper board stamped in gilt. Shallow bumps to extremities, a bit of staining to upper board. Hinges sound.. Black and white photographs, one color cartoon. Uncommon book on this California coastal defense regiment during World War… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1917. First edition. Cloth over boards. Duodecimo. xiv, 141 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Some browning to endpapers from dust jacket flaps, along with some light browning to textblock edges. Jacket has minor extremity rubs and a couple of tiny chips at head of spine.. An indictment… Read more about this item