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1970 Proceedings of WODCON : World Dredging Conference

By: WODCON: World Dredging Conference REIGN, Lewis L.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Xyzyx Information Corporation, Canoga Park, CA, 1971,:

Seller ID: 80611

[WODCON]. 1970 Proceedings of WODCON : World Dredging Conference. Canoga Park, CA : Xyzyx Information Corporation, (1971). Pp [i]-xv,(1),1-506,(6). Illustrated. Maps. 8vo, green cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine. Contents : Tokuji Yagi's “Sedimentation Effects of Soil in Hopper.”; Iwara Hisao's “Research on Dredging Grab-buckets.”; Marcus Valente Nicoletti's “The Copacabana Beach Reclamation Project.”; Tatsuichi Uchibayashi's “On Dredging Hard Soil and Rock by a Cutter Suction Dredger.”; Marquand S. Gordon's “Comparative Full Scale Tests of a Jet Pump on the Suction of...
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A Leader Born : The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander. First Edition in dustjacket

By: McCAIN, John Sidney) GILBERT, Alton Keith.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Casemate, Philadelphia , 1975, ISBN:1932033505: 1975

Seller ID: 84657

ISBN: 1932033505

(McCAIN, John Sidney). GILBERT, Alton Keith. A Leader Born : The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander. Philadelphia : Casemate, (2006). First Printing. Pp [i]-xiii,(1),1-274 + 16 pages of b&w photos. 8vo, dark-grey paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine.

Admiral John Sidney McCain (b. August 9, 1884, Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi – d. September 6, 1945, Coronado, California).

Alton Keith Gilbert (b. ca 1930).

With a Foreword by his grandson, Senator John McCain.

"John S. 'Slew' McCain was an old-scho...
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A Russian Journal. First Edition

By: STEINBECK, John CAPA, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Viking Press, New York, 1948,: 1948

Seller ID: 8864

STEINBECK, John. A Russian Journal. With Pictures by Robert Capa. New York : The Viking Press, 1948. First Edition. Pp (),3-220. With 69 b&w photos by Capa in the text. Large 8vo, (172 x 248 mm), blue grey cloth boards, with tan-grey spine, with dark blue letetring to front & spine.

Goldstone and Payne A33b.

Robert Capa, né Endre Ern? Friedmann (b. October 22, 1913, Budapest – d. May 25, 1954, Vietnam).

Arranged in nine chapters.

Includes a short text "A Legitimate Complaint" by Capa (pp.146-149).

Minor wear, else very good. 25...
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Agreement on the Cessation of Hostlities in Viet-Nam

By: ARNONI, M. S. (ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Minority of One, Passaic, N.J., 1965,:

Seller ID: 107139

ARNONI, M. S. (ed.). Agreement on the Cessation of Hostlities in Viet-Nam. (Passaic, N.J.: The Minority of One, Inc., 1965). Pp 1-24. Slim 8vo [3 by 8inches], illustrated orange stapled card covers, lettered in black. Cover title : The Geneva Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Viet Nam (IC.42/Rev.2.20 July 1954). SHIPING CHARGES MAY BE REDUCED DUE TO ITS LIGHT WEIGHT. Very good. 20.00
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Air Power at Sea 1945 to Today. First Edition in dustjacket

By: WINTON, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson,, London, 1987,:

Seller ID: 25921

WINTON, John. Air Power at Sea 1945 to today. London : Sidgwick & Jackson, (1987). First Printing. Pp (7),8-192. Illustrated. Lg 8vo, blue cloth, giltlettering to spine. John Pratt, pen name John Winton (b May 3, 1931 in Lon don – d. April 27, 2001, London). Contents : After the War Was Over; Into the Cold War; The Rise and Rise of the Helicopter; All Done by Mirrors and Angles; Suez; Into the Sixties; From the Lebanon to Cuba; Confrontation; Vietnam; Into the Seventies; Flying Bedsteads and Ski Jumps; The Falklands; Showing the Flag; Reagan's War. Very good in edge-browned dustjacket. 35.00
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American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research : The Journal of the National Center, Volume 6, Number 1, 1994

By: National Center of American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University Press of Colorado, Niwot, CO, 1994,:

Seller ID: 73426

National Center of American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research : The Journal ofthe National Center, Volume 6, Number 1, 1994 . (Niwot, CO: University of Colorado Press, 1994). Pp. [1]-132. 8vo, printed grey card covers. Contents: Tom Holm's "Warriors All", Steven Silver's "Lessons from Child of Water",Holm's "The National Survey of Indian Vietnam Veterans", Donald Johnson's "Stress, Depression, Substance Abuse, and Racism" and "A Cultural and Community Process", Harold Barse's "Am...
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American Neptune : A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History. Volume 47, No. 3, Summer 1987

By: American Neptune LEWIS, Archibald R. COONEY, Jerry W. SANDS, John O.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem, MA , 1987,:

Seller ID: 81456

(American Neptune). The American Neptune : A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History. Volume XLVII, No. 3, Summer 1987. Salem, MA : Peabody Museum of Salem, 1987. Pp [153]-224. Illustrated. Double Column. 4to, decorated white card covers. Articles : Archibald R. Lewis's “Byzantine and Moslem Shipping in the Mediterranean, 500-1250” (pp. 157-161); Jerry W. Cooney's “Doing Business in the Smuggling Way, Yankee Contraband in the Rio de la Plata” (pp. 162-168); David F. Long's “Mad Jack Percival in Vietnam: First American Hostilities, May 1845” (pp. 169-173); John O. Sands's “The U.S. ...
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Annapolis. First Edition in dustjacket

By: MARTIN, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Warner Books, 1996,: 1996

Seller ID: 32384

ISBN: 0446515116

MARTIN, William. Annapolis. (New York) : Warner Books, (June 1996). First Printing. Pp (6),[vii]-ix,(3),[1]-685,(7). 8vo, paper-covered hardback, tan boards, blue spine, gilt lettering to spine. Family tree to end-papers.

William Martin (b. ca 1951, Boston).

A novel.

"They found the grace of God on the Chesapeake: Catholic, Puritan, and Anglican refugees from an aging world and the tyranny of its king. Among the fishermen and landowners, the crabbers and tobacco farmers, freedmen and slaves were two proud families whose fates intertwined: the Staffords and ...
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Annapolis. 2nd US in dj. inscribed

By: MARTIN, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Warner Books, 1996,:

Seller ID: 25739

MARTIN, William. Annapolis. (N.Y.) : Warner Books, (1996). Second Printing. Pp 685. 8vo, blue cloth spine. A novel. "From blistering sea battles on wooden ships to the first ironclads, from the shores of Cuba and Tripoli to Pearl Harbor and Vietnam, Staffords and Parrishes became midshipmen and commanders, spies, and pilots. And with each generation their covenant grew stronger, old grudges grew deeper, and America's sea power became the most awesome in the world." - from the dj. Vg-fine in dj. Signed presentation copy. 25.00
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Anti-American Generation. signed in dj.

By: FRIEDENBERG, Edgar Z., ed

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Transaction Books, 1971,:

Seller ID: 40348

FRIEDENBERG, Edgar Z., ed. The Anti-American Generation. S.l.: Transaction Books, (1971). Pp 277. 8vo, black cloth. A collection of essays on the 1960s counterculture edited by a Professor at Dalhousie University, Halifax. Vg in rubbed, nicked, spine-sunned dj. Signed by the editor. 35.00
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Arnheiter Affair. 2nd US in dustjacket.

By: SHEEHAN, Neil

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Random House, New York, 1971,:

Seller ID: 27083

SHEEHAN, Neil. The Arnheiter Affair. New York : Random House, (1971). Pp 304. 8 pages of plates. 8vo, black cloth spine with red paper covered boards.Peake, The United States and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975 : A Selected Annot ated Bibliography of English-language Sources, 1110. A journalist's accountof Captain Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter and the U.S.S. Vance. This officer's deportment while deployed off the coast of Vietnam was bizarre and notorious: he inflicted capricious discipline on subordinates while allegedly indulging in cowardly and dishonourable acts himself. The controversy over his be...
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Arnheiter Affair. US book club in dj

By: SHEEHAN, Neil

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Random House, New York, 1971,:

Seller ID: 28616

SHEEHAN, Neil. The Arnheiter Affair. New York : Random House, (1971). Book Club Edition. Pp 279 + 8 pp.photos. 8vo, black cloth spine with red paper covered boards. Peake, The United States and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975 : A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-language Sources, 1110. A journalist's account of Captain Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter and the U.S.S. Vance. This officer's deportment while deployed off the coast of Vietnam was bizarre and notorious: he inflicted capricious discipline on subordinates while allegedly indulging in cowardly and dishonourable acts himself. The controve...
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Art of William S. Phillips : The Glory of Flight. First Edition in dustjacket

By: PARK, Edwards

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Greenwich Workshop Inc., Shelton, CT., 1994, ISBN:0867130229:

Seller ID: 115517

PARK, Edwards. The Art of William S. Phillips : The Glory of Flight. (Shelton, Connecticut) : Greenwich Workshop Inc., (1994). First Printing. Small folo, brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration to front. William S. Phillips (b. 1945). "Phillips became a member of the Air Force Art Program as a young artist, and his work hangs in numerous public and private collections throughout the world. He's logged hours in F106's, F-15's, RF-4's, to name a few, and spent a tour of duty in the Air Force, which includedan assignment at Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam." Edwards 'Ted' Parks (b. Se...
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Bay of Chaleur at War: From Vimy Ridge to Vietnam

By: McCARTHY, A.J

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Nimbus, Halifax, 1998,:

Seller ID: 38469

McCARTHY, A.J. The Bay of Chaleur at War : From Vimy Ridge to Vietnam. (Halifax): Nimbus, (1998). Pp 101. 8vo, ill. card covers. Anecdotes of the twentieth century military history of the North Shore of New Brunswick, including accounts of natives' experiences in both the Merchant Navy amd the RCN. Vg. 10.00
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Blue Mountains of China. First Edition in dustjacket

By: WIEBE, Rudy

Price: $50.00

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1973,:

Seller ID: 101088

WIEBE, Rudy. The Blue Mountains of China. (Toronto) : McClelland and Stewart, (1970). "Copyright 1970 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co." "Printed in the United States of America". First Printing. Pp. (4),5-227,(5). 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spadoni & Donnelly 2232. The third novelby the Saskatchewan-born author. "'a broad sage recounting the flight of t he Mennonites from Russia, and their subsequent wanderings around the world. Spanning nearly a hundred years, The Blue Mountains of China follows the lives of several Mennonite families in their long arduo...
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Boundaries. First Printing in dustjacket

By: LIN, Maya

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000, ISBN:0684834170:

Seller ID: 106818

LIN, Maya. Boundaries. New York : Simon & Schuster, (2000). First Printing.Pp 0:00-0:09,(8), 1:0--1:03,2:00-2:07;3:00-3:15,4:00-4:45;5:00-5:07,6:00-6 :41,7:00-7:03,8:00-8:15,9:00-9:07; 10:00-10:33;11:00-11:03;12:00-12:13. Large 8vo, illustrated grey cloth, silver lettering to spine. "Walking throughthis parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Appr oaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge ...
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Can Bill Riley Make the Shipyards Fly?

By: WATKINS, Lyndon RILEY, Bill. LINDSTROM, Marie. Halifax Magazine 01:11

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 1979,:

Seller ID: 39442

WATKINS, Lyndon. "Can Bill Riley Make the Shipyards Fly?" an article on Halifax Shipyards in Halifax, Vol. 1, No. 11, October 1979, pp 34-38. Also includes Marie Lindstrom's "The Boat People: On a New Course In a New Land". Vg. For the issue. 10.00
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Canadian Army Journal. Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 2007 / Le Journal de l'Armée du Canada. Vol. 10, No. 2, Été 2007

By: TREMBLAY, J.R.A., Col. (ed.) HART, Robert G. PAHLAVI, Pierre Cyril SCHREIBER, Shane B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Canadian Army Journal, Kingston, Ontario , 2007,: 2007

Seller ID: 90223

TREMBLAY, J.R.A., Col. (ed.). The Canadian Army Journal. Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 2007 / Le Journal de l'Armée du Canada. Vol. 10, No. 2, Été 2007. (Kingston, Ontario : Canadian Army Journal, 2007). Pp 1-127,(1),1-139,(1). Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated green card covers.

Contents :

Editorial —There and Back Again (by Major Andrew B. Godefroy);

"Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Canadian Army Journal";

Army News — Combat Identification: It’s All About Combat Efeectiveness" (by Major Robert G. Hart);

The 33-Day War: An Examp...
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Canadian Army Journal. Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2009 / Le Journal de l'Armée du Canada. Vol. 12, No. 1, Printemps 2009

By: GODEFROY, Andrew B., Major (ed.) MANOUKIAN, Chris SULLIVAN, Andrew Brian S JANJUA, Raashid Wali

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Canadian Army Journal, Kingston, Ontario , 2009,:

Seller ID: 95657

GODEFROY, Andrew B., Major (ed.). The Canadian Army Journal. Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2009 / Le Journal de l'Armée du Canada. Vol. 12, No. 1, Printemps 2009. (Kingston, Ontario : Canadian Army Journal, 2009). Pp 1-148,1-162. Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated green card covers. Contents : State Failure in Afghanistan and Security Challenges for Pakistan (by Brigadier Raashid WaliJanjua); The “Operationalization” of Canadian Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century:The Importance of Properly Understanding the Communication Strateg y (by Lieutenant-Colonel Christian Lemay); Rethinking Military Leaders...
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Canadian Army Journal. Vol. 17, No. 1, 1963

By: DePROSE, J.G. (ed.).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Queen's Printer, Ottawa , 1963,:

Seller ID: 90185

DePROSE, J.G. (ed.). Canadian Army Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1963. (Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1963). Pp [1]-140. Illustrated. Double Column. 8vo, ill ustrated black trimmed stapled wrappers. Contents : The Motorized InfantryThreat; A Report on Vietnam; Comptrollership in the Canadian Army; Flashba ck No. 41: Sicilian D Day, 1943; and much more. Rubbed, penned initials, else very good. 15.00
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