Warfare, war
Pigs for the Ancestors; Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. Hardcover. xx, 311p., illustrated with b&w photos and a few line maps, first edition hardbound in orange cloth covers and enclosed in the price clipped dust jacket. Aside from a blotchy textblock edge blotchy with foxing, item is fine: quite sound, otherwise clean, and..... More
Cat.No: 297664
La Guerra del Año Nuevo --Crónicas de Chiapas y México 1994--
no place: no publisher, no date [1994]. Spiral_bound. 245p., keyboard-set texts throughout printed rectos only, copyshop-fastened 11x8.5 inch leaves in flexible cardstock cover sheets with broad black plastic comb spine. No external titling or decoration. Appears to be summations of press and government coverage around the world; no facsimile reproductions..... More
Cat.No: 217719
Power to save freedom; the case for nuclear testing
New York: npub, [c1961]. 11p., 6x9 inches; slight rust on staples, first pages contain some pen underlining and debate annotations, else good. Speech given by the Governor of New York at the Sigma Delta Chi honorary journalism fraternity in Miami in 1961. Argument that it's God's will for the U.S...... More
Cat.No: 307949
Gypsy Table: 8 Poets Without an Editor
San Francisco: Mother's Hen, 1972. Pamphlet. 32p., centerfold and cover drawings, softbound, copyshop zine-format in untrimmed 8x7 inch stapled yellow wraps., some dust and handling soil to covers, back wrap missing a huge torn-off corner, untrimmed edges and title page soiled. Texts are complete, a good reading copy. Contributor Ross..... More
Cat.No: 239553
The Last Florentine Republic
New York: Russell & Russell, 1968. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries (including a short bibliography), 388p., hardbound in green cloth boards and brodart-protected dust jacket. Evidently photo-reproduced, particularly nice work that one could assume to be original presswork; were unbound texts in storage awaiting attention? At any rate, clean, sound and unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 227658
Hurricane Alice: a feminist quarterly; vol. 5, #4, Fall-Winter 1988. In this issue: Women and War
Minneapolis: Hurricane Alice Foundation, 1988. Newspaper. 11p. folded tabloid newspaper, stories, articles, opinion, illustrations, ads, services and resources, evenly toned, else very good on newsprint. Includes an article on the holocaust, a first person account of being a lesbian in the military, a review of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,"..... More
Cat.No: 294821
Groyse gesheenishn: fun farsheydene tsaytn un felker, di groyse milhomes un der kamf antkegn milhomeh
Vilnius, Lithuania: B.A. Kletskin, 1923. 205p., blue boards, pages browned, minor chip to first two pages, otherwise slightly fragile but intact and clean. Yiddish translation of Rasskazy o velikikh sobytiiakh raznykh vremen i raznykh narodov. More
Cat.No: 158233
Has Man a Future?
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1961. Hardcover. 136p., first edition in black papered boards lettered silverfoil and enclosed in the dust jacket, top edge tinted dark grey. Find a simple errata slip tipped in at pp.6/7. Aside from mild rubbing of the interesting dust jacket, a fine copy. FYI..... More
Cat.No: 316974
Human Society in Ethics and Politics
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1963. Hardcover. 239p., later printing of the 1954 first issue, hardbound in openweave grass-green cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Corner-tips are faintly turned, dust jacket similarly, else we see no flaws: item is generally quite sound and entirely clean and..... More
Cat.No: 315247
La guerra sucia llega al ecuador; los documentos secretos de Manta
Quito: Ediciones La Tierra, 2000. Paperback. 93p., first edition, 5.5x8 inch wraps; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 301369
Battle of San Jacinto: reprinted from the "American Heritage", a brief account which also summarizes this museum's role
San Jacinto: the Association, 1955. 8p., 6x9 inches, third printing, stapled pictorial wraps split at top to first staple. More
Cat.No: 22821
A Knight of the Renaissance: D. Joao de Castro; Soldier, Sailor, Scientist, and Viceroy of India, 1500-1548. With 8 Illustrations.
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, ca.1960. Hardcover. 235p., illustrated with a few scattered period images (site & portrait) and duplicate endsheet maps, hardbound in 9x6 inch red cloth boards spine-titled gilt. A remnant significantly trimmed dust jacket with flap text is laid in, to keep or throw. External titling..... More
Cat.No: 265905
Guerra y Política en la Sociedad Colombiana
Bogota: El Ancora Editores, 1991. Paperback. 228p., wraps, 5.25 x 8.5 inches, wraps slightly worn else very good condition. Text in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 234698
An Account of the Conquest of Peru - Written by Pedro Sancho, secretary to Pizarro and scrivener to his army. Translated into English and Annotated by Philip Ainsworth Means
New York: The Cortes Society, 1917. Hardcover. First issue of this translation, a handsome small hardbound, buff boards bearing two-color title-label under brown buckram backstrip, also has a [spine]-title label. Find a small but very bad impact dent to tail of rear cover, causing a deep fissure in the buckram'd..... More
Cat.No: 279176
La morte dell'Aquila: Dramma lirico in quattro atti [with] Tutto per l'Amore: Dramma in 5 atti. Con Introduzione su la Guerra e la Civiltà.
Milan: Tip. Moderna de Ciro Baraldi, [c1910s]. Paperback. 159p., wraps, 5x7.5 inches, wraps worn, soiled, and detached from pages, spine chipped at head and tail, first and last pages lightly foxed else good condition. Text in Italian. Only two copies found in OCLC as of 12/2020. Two plays and an..... More
Cat.No: 260509
La morte dell'Aquila: Dramma lirico in quattro atti [with] Tutto per l'Amore: Dramma in 5 atti. Con Introduzione su la Guerra e la Civiltà.
Milan: Tip. Moderna de Ciro Baraldi, [c1910s]. Paperback. 159p., wraps, 5x7.5 inches, wraps worn and soiled and beginning to detach, spine chipped at head and tail, first and last pages lightly foxed, pages evenly toned else good condition. Text in Italian. Only two copies found in OCLC as of 12/2020..... More
Cat.No: 263688
The Second Indochina War: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Arlie, Virginia, 7-9 November 1984
Washington DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1986. Paperback. vi, 276p., wraps, spine sunned, ownership label of an ROTC chapter on rear wrap, else good condition. Cover title: "Second Indochina War Symposium: Papers and Commentary." More
Cat.No: 315636
The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava
Oakland: PM Press, 2019. Paperback. xviii + 146p., trade paperback, illus., New. More
Cat.No: 235110
Kosova: prejardhja e nji lufte
Prishtine: Rrokullia, 2005. Paperback. iv, 227p., wraps, very good condition. Text in Albanian. Translation of Schwartz's "Kosovo: Background to a War" More
Cat.No: 229479
South Vietnam; nation under stress
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. Paperback. 237p., 5x7 inch wraps, originally published in 1963; frontis. map; minor shelfwear, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 315721
A Man's Place. Translated by Oliver La Farge.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. Hardcover. First American edition of this literary philosophical novel of an older, rural Spain, about 1910. The Spanish Civil War does not figure in the storyline (but of course, hovers). 280p., hardbound in 8x5.5 inch maroon cloth boards with spine-label gilt and enclosed..... More
Cat.No: 295240
Capitales oubliees Sarajevo; Photographies Zoran Filipovic, Guy Foulon, Gerard Rondeau, Pierre Vallet, Agence Roger-Viollet, Agence Vu
Milan: Editions du Demi-Cercle, 1994. 90p., sewn fascicles of glossy coated paperstock, profuse captioned b&w site and portrait photography with some brief introductory material. Hardbound in 11x8.5 inch blue cloth boards with titling gilt and a 5x3 inch photo affixed to front cover. Cloth carries a faint touch of handling..... More
Cat.No: 228146
From our own backyard. Old wars never fade away
East Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Studies Center, 1972. 8p., 8.5x11 inches, on evenly toned newsprint. On the use of electronic warfare in Southeast Asia and Stanford University's ties to the military-industrial complex. More
Cat.No: 128629
Catalogue Seven - Americana & a Selection of Books & Manuscripts from a Variety of Fields
Austin TX: Dorothy Sloan - Books, 1990. Paperback. Unpaginated, quite a substantial item listing 533 books &c for sale, thoroughly catalogued by one of the bookdealers other bookdealers talk about, who got her start in San Francisco and deployed her strengths in Austin. Softbound in 10.5x7 inch decorated dove-grey wraps..... More
Cat.No: 282612