Rare, Hard-to-Find Books

A Story of Individual HeroismHardcover in very good condition in very good dust jacket.
Random House
1953
Edition not stated. $2.50 price on jacket flap. Former owner name. Boards clean two-toned blue cloth divided by golden line; spine stamped in silver and gold. In dustjacket by Lawrence Hoffman.  No statement of First Edition on the copyright page, as called for — McBride Points of Issue, Ahearn APG 007b].

“Specifically, it is a story of the men of a naval task force operating in the icy waters off the Korean shore with a vital mission to perform: to destroy with jet bombers the heavily guarded bridges at Toko-ri and thus to stop essential supplies from moving to the Communist front lines.”
One of Michener’s best.

 

$125.00

Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1955. Department of State Publication 6199. “This volume of documents on the conferences at Malta and Yalta is the first to appear in a special series of Foreign Relations volumes on World War II conferences attended by President Roosevelt or President Truman, along with Prime Minister Churchill or Marshall Stalin, or both of the latter.” Chapter titles: Preconference Documents: 1. Arrangements for the Conference 2. Negotiations and Recommendations on Principle Subjects 3. The Stettinius “Record”, December 1, 1944-January 23, 1945. 4. Survey Reports on Soviet Attitudes and Policies. II. The Malta Conference: 5. The President’s Log at Malta 6. Minutes and Related Documents 7. The President’s Log at Yalta 8. Minutes and Related Documents 9. Other Conference Documents 10. Signed Agreements 11. Post-Conference Documents Index. 1032 pages. In very good condition, no jacket as issued.

$75.00

HANS BAUR1986. Eichler Publishing edn, 228pp, English Translation, plates, near fine, plastic covered d/w. The memoirs of Lt Gen Hans Baur, WWI Flying Ace, Hitler’s Chief Test Pilot an d loyal to the end. Traces his exploits in the Great War and his pride in ser ving his Fuhrer particularly against the Communist threat in the East. Describes the last few days within Hitler’s Berlin bunker and his subsequent capture by the advancing Russians.
Details the harshness of his imprisonment until the release in 1955. Long handwritten inscription by the general. ISBN:1930571003 .

Book Number 16204.

$300.00

 

 

Burke Davis

MARINE!, The Life of Chesty Puller

Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1962, 1st (scarce), Hardbound, 8vo/8-9″, VG/VG Chip on heal of spine jacket.

$150.00