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(army). "AS YOU WERE" - 4th COMPANY C.O.T.S. CAMP LEE, VA. 1918
1918 first edition. U.S. Army Central Officers' Training School. 4th Company C.O.T.S. Camp Lee, Virginia. Hardcover 4to., 86pp. plus local advertisements, photos. Laid in are 7 typed pages listing men and their addresses. Also laid in are 5 typed pages of humorous material (including Bed Bugs Evening Hymn and By Laws of The Society for the Prevention of Gold Teeth in Chorus Girls), all related to Dental Corps, U.S. Army and presumably to the Camp Lee Base. Good plus (owner bookplate of John Bakless; light wear on cover extreme tips; binding secure). Lot: (a3645)
$95.00Trumbull, Walter. LIFE IN THE US ARMY
NY no date (c. 1932) Workers Library. Satirical criticism of U.S. Army (The Imperialist Army of the United States, p. 3) by Communist Party. 12mo., about 30pp., iIllustrated with 6 humorous political cartoons, wraps. Good, light cover wear and soiling. Funny 3/4 page cartoon on front cover showing "A Perfect Soldier" who is all brawn with no head at all. (a40219)
$44.00 Wiltse, Charles M. (editor) . MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, UNITED STATES ARMY. ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II
Washington 1963. Hardcover. Large octavo, 613pp., photo illustrations, index, original printed cloth. Institution stamp on fore-edges, one number stamp on lower margin of one leaf, residue of label at heel of spine, bookplate, pocket. VG, no DJ. (a55885)
$35.00 Hartzell, Capt. A. E., Inf. U.S.A. . MEUSE-ARGONNE BATTLE SEPT. 26 - NOV. 11 1918
1919. Author was Army Captain in General Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces Second Section, General Staff. Detailed article on the battle with charts on casualties, airplanes, balloons, etc. Multigraph copy of typescript, dated March 24,1919. Headed Confidential - for the Confidential Use of Press Correspondents and Magazine Writers. Hartzell published an article on this battle in the U.S. Army Signal Corps Official Photographic History. 4to., 47 leaves (on rectos only, stapled. Good, title page browned and a bit soiled with top corner torn off (no loss of text.) In professionally made custom-made hardcover folding slip case covered in red cloth with gilt spine lettering. VG plus to Near Fine. (a59794)
$950.00 Smith, J. Thorne Jr. . BILTMORE OSWALD THE DIARY OF A HAPLESS RECRUIT
NY 1918 1st Stokes. 12mo., 87pp., 31 monochrome illustrations by Richard Dorgan, original illustrated hardcover (colored cartoon-like picture on front board of seaman swabbing the deck of a ship). Owner signed (Lincoln S. Jones, USN, 1918). VG, cover lightly browned and slightly worn. (a63386)
$35.00 Smith, T. Arthur (editor) . ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND MILITARY RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Washington 1968 Comptroller of the Army. Octavo, 182pp., wraps. A few Depository library stamps and numbers. VG. (a71934)
$25.00Hennessy, Juliette A.. THE UNITED STATES ARMY AIR ARM APRIL 1861 TO APRIL 1917
1958. U.S.A.F. Historical Studies No. 98. 4to., 260pp., photo illustrations, original printed wraps. Personal spine label and rear bookplate removed. A few numbers on front but no other ownership marks. Good plus. Scarce as first printing. (a71958)
$45.00Hubbard, Leverett Marsden Jr.. OVERSEAS EXPERIENCES OF A GI ABROAD
New Haven 1947 1st Privately Printed at Yale University Press. Limited to 150 copies. Hardcover. Large octavo, 51pp., photo illustrations, cloth. Top edge gilt. VG plus, faint browning on end paper, no dj. (a72271)
$38.00 Steele, Matthew Forney . AMERICAN CAMPAIGNS TWO VOLUMES
Washington 1922 1st U.S. Infantry Association. War Department Document #324. 2 volumes. 8vo., 731pp. (text), index; 311pp (maps), hardcovers. Good, inner hinges cracked; text clean, no DJs. 2 volume set. (a7444)
$44.00 Kendall, Park and Johnny Viney (comp) . A DICTIONARY OF ARMY AND NAVY SLANG
NY 1941 1st Mill. Hardcover. 12mo., about 30pp., red cloth. Near Fine in VG DJ. (a75149)
$95.00McClure, John and Raymond, Lieut. Colonel C. W.. ANALYTICAL AND TOPICAL INDEX TO REPORTS OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS AND OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY 1866-1900 - VOLUME III: FORTIFICATIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS TOPICAL INDEX
Washington 1903 1st GPO. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. 1373-1788, cloth. Tiny documents library stamp on title page - no other library marks at all. Good. Binding secure; spine ends frayed. inner hinges cracked; text binding secure. Original book not modern remake. (a75450)
$35.00McClure, John and Raymond, Lieut. Colonel C. W.. ANALYTICAL AND TOPICAL INDEX TO REPORTS OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS AND OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY 1866-1900 - VOLUME I: RIVERS AND HARBORS
Washington 1902 1st GPO. Hardcover. Octavo, 638pp., cloth.Tiny Documents library stamp on end paper and on title page - no other library marks at all. Good, somewhat worn; binding secure. (a75451)
$35.00Vuono, Carl E; Douglas D. Brisson (editor). A TRAINED AND READY ARMY THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THE THIRTY-FIRST CHIEF OF STAFF, UNITED STATES ARMY CARL E. VUONO, GENERAL
1994 GPO. 4to., 475pp., color frontis portrait of Vuono, original printed wraps. All his writings including several pages of his jokes. Light Depository Library markings, no spine number, no pocket. VG (a75630)
$85.00 Weinert, Richard P. Jr . A HISTORY OF ARMY AVIATION - 1950 - 1962
Fort Monroe 1991 Office of the Command Historian. Edited by Susan Canedy. Sm.4to., 318pp., photo illustrations, original wraps. Depository library name and numbers on front, no other library marks, no spine numbers, no pocket, no bookplate. VG plus. (a75646)
$49.00Butler, Benjamin F.. THE MILITARY PROFESSION IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE MEANS OF PROMOTING ITS USEFULNESS AND HONOUR; AN ADDRESS....AT WESTPOINT
New York 1839 first edition. Samuel Colman. Octavo, 46pp., rebound in later wraps. Original half title and final blank are present. Good plus, lightly foxed throughout. No Owner marks. (a75995)
$69.00 (military) . BIENNIAL REPORTS OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR 1 JULY 1939-30 JUNE 1945
Washington 1996. Hardcover. 4to., 214pp., illustrations, maps, original gilt stamped black buckram. Depository Library stmp on front free blank, no other markings, no label, no pocket. Near Fine, (a76084)
$145.00 (Clarke, F. J. Chief of Engineers) . IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS - LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
Washington 1872 GPO. Hardcover. Octavo, 516pp., tan buckram. Near Fine, faint cover soiling. (a76146)
$55.00 (flooding) . AFTER ACTION REPORT OPERATION FORESIGHT GREAT LAKES EXCLUSIVE OF LAKE SUPERIOR 1973 - 1974
Detroit 1977 U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. During these years, anticipated flood levels were reached and severe conditions were experienced along many portions of the Great Lakes shoreline. Operation foresight protective works were effective in preventing approximately $132,000,000 in damage. Thick 4to., plastic spiral binding. Library name and numbers on front cover - no other ownership marks. VG plus. (a76159)
$170.00 Finnegan, John P. . THE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE STORY A PHOTO HISTORY
Fort Belvoir 1994 1st U.S. Army Intelligence. Hardcove. 4to., 155pp., monochrome photo illustrations, cloth. Light non-circulating library marks, no spine numbers, no pocket, no bookplate. Near Fine. (a76191)
$34.00 Hilkert, David E. . CHIEFS OF THE ARMY RESERVE: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY RESERVE'S SENIOR OFFICERS
Fort McPherson 2004 1st Office of Army Reserve History. 4to., 320pp., color and monochrome photo illustrations, original wraps. Light non-circulating library marks. VG, a few pages creased at corners. (a76237)
$75.00 Leighton, Richard M. and Robert W. Coakley . UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: THE WAR DEPARTMENT GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND STRATEGY 1940-1943
Washington 1955 1st ed. Center of Military History U.S. Army. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 780pp., photo illustrations, maps, green cloth. A few institution stamps or markings, no spine label but shellac marks where label once affixed. VG, no DJ. (a76357)
$79.00 Leighton, Richard M. and Robert W. Coakley . UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: THE WAR DEPARTMENT GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND STRATEGY 1940-1943
Washington 1995 Center of Military History. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 780pp., photo illustrations, green cloth. Fine, no DJ. As new. (a76378)
$75.00 Durfee, Lieutenant Colonel D. L. (editor) . MILITARY REVIEW - 19 ISSUES 1953- 1954
Nineteen issues of this monthly journal of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Almost every issue from January 1953 thru December 1954, lacking just a few months. Square octavo, about 100pp., per issue, photo illustrations, original wraps. Good, light wear. 19 issues. (a76484)
$75.00 Kirkpatrick, Charles E. . RUCK IT UP! THE POST-COLD WAR TRANSFORMATION OF V CORPS, 1990 - 2001
Washington 2006 1st Department of Army. Sm.4to., 657pp., wraps. Non-circlulating depository stamps on front half title- no other library or ownership marks. Near Fine. (a76513)
$35.00 (military) . MARGINAL MAN AND MILITARY SERVICE A REVIEW
1965 Department of Army. Hardcover. Octavo, 269pp., green buckram with gilt lettering and design. A few institution markings. VG. (a76523)
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