1900 to 1918

Boraston, Lt. Col J. H.,  Edittor - Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches. 2 VOLUMES - op, 1920, 1st Ed., J. M. Dent, London, large 8vo, no dj issued, decorative burgandy cloth, portrait plates, maps, fold-out maps, Volume 2 contains 10 large color folio maps. neat ex. lib., vg.  Front hinge of Vol. 1 reinforces with archival cloth tape, fold line on fold-out map in Volume 1 reinforced with cloth archval tape.   Boraston was Haig's secretary.   $150.00

de Chambrun, Colonel & Captain de Marenches - The American Army in the European Conflict.  op, 1919, 1st Ed., Macmillan, 8vo, no dj issued, burgandy cloth, 436 pages, maps, photos, tables.  vg.   $35

Clendenen, Clarence C. - Blood on the Border, The US Army and the Mexican Irregulars.  op. 1969, stated 1st Ed., Macmillan, 8vo, dj, 390 pages, maps, ep map, photos.  vg/vg.  1/2 inch tear in bottom edge front of dj.  Pancho Villa campaign.  Part of the Macmillan Wars of the US series.   $50

Hargraves, Reginald - Red Sun Rising, The Siege of Port Arthur.  op, 1962, stated 1st Ed.,Lippincott, 8vo, dj, 210 pages, maps, OB's.  vg/vg. minor edge chipping to dj.  part of Great Battles of History Series.  $35

Kipling, Rudyard - The Irish Guards in the Great War. 2 VOLUMES.  op, 1997, reprint of 1923 Ed., Sarpedon, 8vo, dj, 320 &221 pages, ep two color maps, maps, photos, tables.  as new/as new.   detailed regimental WW1 history.  These books served as a eulogy to his only son, an officer in the First Battalion of the IG, lost in the war.   $85

Kuhl, General H. von - The Marne Campaign 1914.  op, 1936, 1st English Ed., the Command and General Staff School Press, Ft. Leavenworth, 8vo, no dj issued, green metallic ink on light pea green cloth, 311 pages, tables, 18 maps and position sketches in rear pocket. vg.  vonKuhl was Chief of Staff of the First Army, 1914.  very detailed and hard-to-find.   $195  

Macdonald, Lyn - 1914, The First Months of Fighting.  op. 1987, Atheneum, 8vo, dj, 446 pages, ep maps, maps, photos.  g/vg.  minor edge soiling, small 1/2 inch tear in dj on bottom front edge.  $22  

Macdonald, Lyn - 1915, The Death of Innocence.  op, 1993, Henry Holt, 8vo, dj, 625 pages, maps, photos. vg/vg. Excellent study.   $25

Michelin & Co. - Verdun, Argonne (1914-1918).  op, 1937, 8vo, dj, 176 pages plus adds.  maps, photos, color map.  vg/vg.  minor fading of dj spine.  Part of the Guides Illustres Michelin des Champs de Bataille (1914-1918) series.   $50

Stallings, Laurence - The Doughboys, The Story of the AEF, 1917-18.  op, 1963, stated 1st Ed., Harper, 8vo, dj, 404 pages, maps, color ep division patches, large fold-out map. vg/vg.   $38

Stone, Norman - The Eastern Front 1914-1917.  op, 1975, Scribners', 8vo, dj, 348 pages, maps, g/vg.  light fore edge bottom stain.  Excellent account of the collapse of the Russian Army in WW1.   $30

Thomason, John W. - Fix Bayonets!. op, 1970, Scribner's, 8vo, dj, 523 pages, Illustrations by the author.  vg/vg.  The US Marines in WW1.   $28

Tuchman, Barbara W. - The Guns of August.  op, 1962, 4th printing, Macmillan, 8vo, dj, 511 pages, maps, photos, ep maps.  vg/vg.  a modern classic about the opening of WW1.    $18

Unger, Frederic William - War Correspondent - Russia and Japan an a Complete History of the War in the Far East.  op, 1904, W. E. Scull, 8vo, no dj issued, decorative color illustrtion on burgandy cloth, maps, illustrations, photos, tables.  vg. cover gilt lettering is rubbed, rear hinge reinforced with archival cloth tape.  wonderful contemporary history of the Russo-Japanese War.   $50  

Vandiver, Frank E. - Black Jack, The Life and Times of John J. Pershing.  2 VOLUMES - op, 1977, 1st. Ed., Texas A & M Press, 8vo, no dj issued, brown cloth, 1178 pages, photos, maps. vg. Pershing from Mexico to Paris.   $75

Walder, David - The Short Victorious War, The Russo-Japanese Conflict 1904-5.  op, 1973, 1st UK Ed., Hutchinson, 8vo, dj, 8vo, 321 pages, maps, photos.  vg/vg.  minor fore edge soiling.   $32

Walder, David - The Short Victorious War, The Russo-Japanese Conflict 1904-5.  op, 1973, stated 1st US Ed., Harper & Row, 8vo, dj, 321 pages, maps, photos.  vg/vg.   $35

Warner, Denis & Peggy - The Tide at Sunrise, A History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.  op, bc Ed., Charterhouse, 8vo, dj, 659 pages, maps, photos. vg/vg.   $32