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By: Biggins, John
Price: $29.95
Publisher: New York, St Martins Press: 1996
Edition: First US Edition
Seller ID: 18622
Light shelfwear, a couple of short tears on DJ.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Otto Prohaska #3; 8.30 X 5.60 X 1.40 inches; 367 pages; Otto Prohaska, a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian navy during World War I, is temporarily assigned to the Flying Service as an officer observer. Working under an incompetent commanding officer who is afraid to fly, Prohaska risks his life to increase his squadron's "miles flown" statistics and deliver a... View more info
By: Cleary, Jon
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Collins: 1980
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: 16180
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; This is a fictionalized representation of the activities of the Coastwatchers who were active during World War II, keeping an eye on the Japanese movements and feeding the information to the Allied forces in the Pacific theater. View more info
Price: $24.50
Publisher: London, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd: 2004
Edition: 1st; First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17998
Signed by Author; Only slight wear.; Inscribed by the author on the title page. A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 7.95 X 5.35 X 1.26 inches; 351 pages; "The twentieth instalment in the bestselling Sharpe series. Sharpe's Escape takes place in the summer of 1810, once again in the Peninsular War. The French are mounting their third and most dangerous invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe with his company of redcoats and riflemen meets t... View more info
By: Dunmore, Spencer
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1991
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 15353
Light edge wear, light crease front flap ; A bright, solid book DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 330 pages; Spencer Dunmore’s first foray into non-fiction writing, in 1991, resulted in the critically acclaimed bestseller Reap the Whirlwind: The Untold Story of 6 Group, Canada’s Bomber Force of World War II, which he co-wrote with William Carter, Ph.D. This was followed in 1994 by the equally successful Wings for Victory: The Remarkable Story of the Britis... View more info
By: Findley, Timothy
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Don Mills, ON, Irwin Publishing: 1989
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 16721
Only light wear to price clipped DJ. Remainder mark on top of page edges. ; A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 226 pages; A reprint of the 1977 edition. "The year is 1915. Robert Ross, a young Canadian, enlists as an officer. He is not yet twenty as we follow him from his cloistered home in Toronto across the Atlantic to Ypres and the horrors of the battlefield. He finds himself in a nightmare world of trench w... View more info
Price: $13.50
Publisher: London, Harper Collins: 1999
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 14610
Closed tear bottom fore edge, some wear top spine ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; 1.4 x 8.6 x 5.6 Inches; 319 pages; "Now in addition to the other famous adventures of Flash Harry, come three new episodes in the career of this eminent if disreputable adventurer." View more info
By: Ganpat (Martin Louis Gompertz)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1933
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 3225
Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; Blue cloth boards have some soiling, wear to bottom edges and corners, corners bumped. PON on blank page facing half title. Stamp of the library of Canadian Knights of Columbus War Service. A sticker has been pulled from the front pastedown with resulting damage to the map end paper. The author has fictionalized an account of his own experiences of as a soldier, born in India, who served in northern India on the border with Afghanistan. View more info
By: Gibbs, Philip
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1945
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 18566
Blue cloth boards have some shelf wear.; A tight solid book, titles in yellow front and spine. Hinges intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages; "Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs (1 May 1877 – 10 March 1962) was an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War." He also served as a war correspondent during WWII. Because of this experience his wartime novels are particularly r... View more info
By: Harris, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1983
Edition: 1st UK
Seller ID: 11931
Light chipping of extremities; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages; WWII Africa is the site of this action packed novel. An explosive action-packed war drama: four British soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in British Somaliland and when they decide to utilise a secret arms dump in the Bur Yi hills and fight a rearguard action, an unlikely alliance is sought between two local warring tribes. What fol... View more info
By: Heym, Stefan
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Garden City, Sun Dial Press: 1943
Edition: PhotoPlay Edition
Seller ID: 17248
Green cloth boards show light edge wear, DJ is creased, scuffed, chipped with tape repair at bottom fore edge. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Front cover shows a movie still of Luise Rainer and Paul Lukas from the movie of the same name. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 362 pages; This novel was written by the author in 1942, after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis. It was quickly transformed into a screenplay and filmed by Paramou... View more info
By: Jack, Donald
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Quartet Books: 1984
Edition: 1st UK
Seller ID: 14364
DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; Bandy Papers #5; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pages; This fifth book in the Bandy series followed the Canadian first by a year. "After his post-war adventures in movies in New York (see Me Bandy, You Cissie) our hero returns to his Ottawa Valley home in 1923. Through a series of misunderstandings Bandy becomes the official Liberal candidate in a by-election and to the horror of the Liberal Party lead... View more info
By: Jack, Donald
Price: $14.50
Publisher: Toronto, Doubleday: 1989
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 18221
Dust jacket a little worn at extremities,book a little worn base of spine, remainder mark bottom page edges . ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; The Bandy Papers, Vol. 7; 9 X 6.20 X 1.50 inches; 346 pages; "With this volume, Canadian novelist Jack wraps up the humorous fictional memoirs of Bartholomew Bandy, whose madcap adventures cover the decade between 1916 and 1926. Here Bandy is off to India to establish an air force for the Mah... View more info
By: Kessler, Leo
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Century: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18011
DJ shows very light shelf wear, tanning of pages.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Wotan #5; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; A fictional account of what may have happened when Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland supposedly to arrange a peace between Britain and Nazi Germany. View more info
By: Knight, Eric
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Toronto, ON, Musson: 1941
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 12203
DJ is missing top third of front panel, heavily chipped elswhere, worn, creased, tear top back panel. Previous owner's name on front free end paper ; A tight solid book. DJ stabilized in Mylar, fore & bottom edges untrimmed ; An inspirational novel set after Dunkirk during WWII View more info
By: Laar, Clemens
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Kornett Verlag: 1954
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 18290
Beige dust jacket shows light chipping head and tail of spine, pages browned. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt design on front and gilt titles on spine. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Text in German. Only date seen is 1952 but pencilled notation of a price and 54 on back pastedown. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 236 pages; The first edition appeared of this appeared under the title 'Der Funfte Reiter' or 'The Fifth Rider'. Laars describes in this book the eve... View more info