![Item #5137 Il Traditore (The Traitor): Benito Mussolini and His "Conquest" of Power [3 Volumes]....](/pictures/thumb/5137.jpg?v=1562858998)
New York: Il Traditore, 1943. Three of eight installments, comprising pages 1-32, 66-95, and 162-190 of the total run. Side-stapled paper wraps. In English and Italian. Balabanoff met a young Mussolini at one of her lectures in 1904 and became an early mentor, lending him books and introducing him..... More
![Item #14653 Situation Normal... [Signed]. Arthur Miller](/pictures/thumb/14653.jpg?v=1670247897)
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. First Edition. Signed by Arthur Miller at title page without inscription. Octavo. 179 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Yellow boards stamped in black and red. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general soiling and smudging and tape mending to..... More
![Item #11847 One Step Ahead: A Mother of Seven Escaping Hitler's Claws [Signed]. Avraham Azrieli](/pictures/thumb/11847.jpg?v=1640716072)
Scottsdale: Memoir & Biography, LLC, 1999. First Edition, stated. Signed by the author without inscription on fly leaf, with additional signed, handwritten note laid in: "Marcia -- This copy is for your friend who collects first editions. Avi." Octavo; 234pp. Black and white illustrations and photos. Photo-illustrated dust jacket..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 272pp. Very minor spine lean, a hint of shelf wear, else a fresh, Very Good to Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by the author for a private collector laid in. The continued sexual escapes..... More
![Item #25128 Home Front Memo [Signed Bookplate]. Carl Sandburg](/pictures/thumb/25128.jpg?v=1673709433)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Carl Sandburg mounted to half title. Octavo. 310 pp. + b&w photographs. Blue cloth boards stamped in white. No dust jacket. Includes pieces by Sandburg on Lincoln and World War II along with a small section..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. First Edition. Octavo. 320 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Slate boards with spine stamped in black and gilt. General rubbing to dust jacket. Light dust soiling to top edge of boards. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More
![Item #14247 Shadow Over the Land [Inscribed and Twice Signed]. Charles Dwoskin](/pictures/thumb/14247.jpg?v=1664897220)
New York: Beechhurst Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); 285pp. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth extremities including a few shallow chips and closed tears to the former, briefly affecting text at spine ends without loss of meaning, spine cocked and..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; xix + 620pp. Graphic dustjacket. over brown cloth with two-color stamping on spine. Price-clipped dustjacket has two 1" chips missing, one at bottom of spine, the other on front face, along with a couple larger tears at top back and couple smaller..... More
Great Neck, NY: G. Alan Chidsey, November 9, 1940. Octavo (9.5” x 6.25”); [60pp]. Dark gray leather with stamped lettering. Covers a bit toned with any gilt or foil to lettering rubbed away. Spine a bit cocked. A handful of the pasted-in columns have let go from the pages, but..... More
Three original drawings (45x30.5cm) using pencil and red, blue, and black ink on stiff paper stock; all signed and dated by Virginia L. Stowell, 1943. Stock a bit unevenly toned and lightly soiled, small loss to bottom left-hand corner of two images not approaching text or image; overall Very Good..... More
London: Frank Cass, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in red photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiv,337pp.; eight leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, additional maps throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Forms part of the Cass Series of Soviet (Russian) Military Experience. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. First American Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); 320pp. Moderate shelf wear and shallow wrinkling to jacket extremities, rear panel a shade yellowed, spine cloth slightly creased and corners bumped, front hinge a bit creaky, else a...... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Richard Frooman retaining original price ($4.50); xi,[3],274pp. Light chipping to jacket extremities, spine panel a bit toned, corners gently bumped, else Very Good overall. World War II memoir of the future Governor..... More
London: Frederick Muller, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; 279 pp. Photo inserts throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with 12/6 net price intact; book in beige boards with red lettering to spine. Materials obviously in keeping with wartime rationing, as the boards are a bit limp and the paper thin. Jacket shows a...... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; xvi + 693pp, including 27 appendices (on Intelligence structure; U-boats; bombing; air offensive; the Nuremberg raid; etc.) and index. Ten tipped-in fold-out maps or site plans, several in six colors. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
Substantial collection of original amateur artwork and fashion plates dated 1941 to 1945 by a young woman named Gladys Warren (almost all pieces signed "G. Warren," "G.W.," or "Gladys Warren"). The collection consists of nine large format watercolors (56x38cm.); one small format watercolor (32.5x23); four large format pencil sketches (56x38cm.);..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1969. Early Printing. Signed by both authors without inscription on half title. Octavo; xi, 272pp. Map endpapers. Printed dust jacket over red and black boards with silver lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a good-sized dampstain to back panel with some loss to blurb text..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; xii + 490pp, including index. Four maps printed within text. Ocean blue linen with gold lettering on spine and front panel. Spine darkened; some nibbling (?) at spine foot; minimal wear at spine crown. Panel corners and edges politely worn. Textblock unmarred..... More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013. First Edition. Octavo. 390 pp. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in white. A touch of rubbing to edges of dust jacket and boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1945. First Edition. Small slim octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket printed in blue and black; 78pp. Light foxing to jacket extremities and rear panel, else Near Fine. The English novelist's second attempt at drama, this set in the RAF during..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket designed by Warren Chappell; [4],187pp. Some chipping to jacket extremities, including short tear at top margin of upper panel just touching text, spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally clean..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955-1956. First Editions, stated. Volume I signed at half title by Harry Truman at half title with inscription, "To Mr. and Mrs. Simon Pearl. Kind regards from Harry Truman 10/18/58." Two octavo volumes. 596 pp.; 594 pp. Printed dust jackets. Black cloth boards..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 17pp, augmented with two additional inserts of B&W photographs, both of 8pp, for a total of 16 photographic plates. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine, with light edgewear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Octavo. 270 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Beige boards stamped in green and blue. Dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with some moderate general rubbing. Spine toned. Boards bumped at corners with light general..... More