Military Books

Hodder, 1991. Soft Cover. Very Good. Inscribed By Author On Bookplate Attached Inside Front Cover...Stated First U.K. Edition, First Printing..Pocket Paperback Original Edition..No Hardcover Edition Printed...Nice Clean Tight Copy..Text Unmarked..Spine Has No Creases..Corners Slightly Bumped...Beautiful Copy..Not Ex-Library..

Victoria: High Flight Enterprises [0-9687817-0-5] [2002], 1st printing. (4to) 754pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Photograph endpapers, profusely illustrated with black and white and color plates, bibliography, list of airshow teams, index. (Military--Canada, Air Shows--Canada, Canadian Air Force, Military Aviation, Military--Canada, Stunt Flying--Canada).

Wien: S. Czeiger. 1895. First Edition. Originally issued in 25 wrappered parts folio size, housed in 2 book folders with decorative front cover boards, containing 870 pages with 102 full page colour plates by Rudolph von Ottenfeld of soldiers in uniform, uniforms and weapons of the Austrian Army covering the period 1700 to 1867, plus many other illustrations in the text. THIS SET IS LACKING PART 13 consisting of pages 403 to 442 and 5 plates leaving a total of 98 plates. The plates and text are in near fine condition, the book folders the folio's are housed in have some marks especially the rear board of folder 1. The work of Rudolph von Ottenfeld is considered to be the most accurate depiction of the Austrian Armies of the 18th and 19th Centuries and stands amongst the top ten of Uniform books and is without a doubt the definitive study of the Austrian Army. Very heavy set, please ask for postage quote. Digital images supplied on request. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1988. Very Good condition. Covers only lightly rubbed. Old price on back. SEE PHOTOS. A tight copy. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Softcover. 6" wide by 9" tall. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Photo illustrated. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original green pictorial wraps.. First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. xviii, 284pp.

Paris: Le Livre Chez Vous, 2009. Book. Illus. by Charles Brun & Henry Boisselier. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 696pp; hundreds of b/w & col. illustrations. In an excellent slip box. Text in French. Bookplate of a former owner on the (blank) free front endpaper, otherwise as new. (Due to the size/weight of this book (5 kg/11.1 lb), an extra shipping charge will apply.).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. Very Good. First editions. Complete in 12 volumes. 'Illustrated by a Series of Historical and Explanatory Notes, which will be found to contain an Account of all the Naval Actions and other Important Events, from the Commencement of the Late Reign, in 1760, to the Present Period. With Copious Addenda'. 8vo, library rebound in half leather with blue cloth boards. Titles in gilt on spine & library name on cover.

London: John Murray, 1847. Octavo (183 x 115 mm). Contemporary prize binding of green morocco, spine gilt in compartments, title, single-line rules, elaborate crests to boards, acorn and oak leaf roll to turn-ins, and all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 5 folding plates on tissue, diagrams within the text. Prize and ownership bookplates to the front endpapers. Binding lightly rubbed with a few mild scuffs and some light wear at the extremities, a little faint spotting to the folding plates. Very good condition. Second edition with additions, first published in 1839. An attractively bound prize copy awarded by the Royal Military College at Sandhurst to Henry George White for "attention to, and progress in, military drawing". With White's later bookplate giving his rank as Major General. Author George Dominicus Burr (d. 1855), was for forty years an esteemed professor of military surveying at the Royal Military College, and it is presumably he himself who presented this prize volume. The contents cover… Read More

Offene Worte, 1932. Pre-ISBN. Paperback. Used- Good condition. Contains 4 volumes in a slipcase. German edition. Books show some shelf wear. Slipcase has scuffing along edges and corners, but is still intact. All books have two "B's" written on the spine in pen. Book A has small fold on the top right corner on the front cover. Spine has some creases. Two spots of discoloration on the right side on the title page. Book B has a crease on the bottom right corner on the front cover. Spine has some creases. Book C has small crease on the bottom right corner on the front cover. Pg. 1-31 has some discoloration along the right edge. Book D has a small fold on the upper right corner on the front cover. Some creasing on the spine. Pg. 1-8 has some discoloration along the right edge. None of the books have writing on the inside. Books have a slight musky scent.Photos are of the books we have here at Barbed Wire Books.Written in the German language. 4 volumes in a slipcase. Summary: Issue A: military system,… Read More

First thus : Hamburg: Hofmann, 1805, 1805. Second edition expanded and improved. Very good.
365 pages, 58 line drawings in the text. Moderately browned. Very good condition.
Book is more than 200 years old and text block in outstanding condition. Previous owner's signature on title page is that of Louis Tronchin, colonel in the Swiss Federal Army.

London, 1734. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "Printed for Sam. Buckley; and Sold by James, John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street; Dan. Midwinter, in St. Paul's Church-yard; and John Osborn and Tho. Longman in Pater-Noster-Row." Title page; (1); To The King (2p); Preface (4p); Contents (22pp; (1), p2 - 360. Contemporary calf binding, rebacked with the original spine label afixed, new endpapers. All illustrations/plans present, most restored/re-backed. An excellent copy..

EASTERN APPROACHES: FITZROY MACLEAN. HB+WRAPPER. 1949 1st Cape/ Book Society. Good++ Book .with wrapper. no inscriptions. First Printing of this edition. A first edition of the Cape edition in association with The Book Society in 194914 photogr. plates + 3 folding maps (Central Asia, the Western Desert, Jugoslavia). 543 pages.Please See Photos for ConditionB4

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn Copyright 1936, states 1937 on the title page. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne du Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which characterizes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat"

The Easton Press, The Library of the Presidents, 1988. Collector's Edition. Signed by Richard Nixon. Issued w/o dj. Used - Fine, "Like New" / unread condition. bottom of gilt fore-edge slightly rubbed. Binding and text block are otherwise tight, bright, crisp, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound In full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints and permanent satin ribbon marker. "A Special Introduction by Raymond K. Price, Jr." laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

The Easton Press, 1992. 2 vols. The Leather-Bound Library of American History. First thus; Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "as new" condition. Front lower edge of volume I shows very slight bump. Bindings and text blocks are otherwise tight, bright, crisp, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Appear unopened / unread. Bound in full (genuine) blue leather with hubbed spines. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spines and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. All edges gilt. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes from History sheet laid in. Photo is of the set we have at Barbed Wire Books. A beautiful gift!

Signed Copy - Out of Print
Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events.In The Bear and the Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR -- the former KGB -- with a tocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here?Ryan is right. For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops… Read More