Skip to content

Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Subtotal: $1,437.50
Shipping: $23.99
$0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $1,461.49
2 - 6 days
2 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • Paypal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Please select your payment method from the following list:
Click the button to checkout with PayPal.
You will be charged $1,461.49 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal: $1,437.50
Shipping: $23.99
: $0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $1,461.49

You are about to purchase:

No image available

Spanish Manuscript: Mathematics of Artillery by [manuscript exercise book; mathematics; Barcelona]

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $3.99
Details
$950.00
( US$)
Seller: Sanctuary Books
Title
Spanish Manuscript: Mathematics of Artillery
Author
[manuscript exercise book; mathematics; Barcelona]
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Description
Barcelona, 1759. Manuscript exercise book on the mathematics of artillery of Fernando Seilde ("Dn Fernando Seilde"), Lieutenant in the Wallon Infantry Regiemtn of Flanders, in period full vellum, ties missing, Barcelona, January 16, 1759. Kept in a regular and elegant hand, this volume is the fifth treatise (artillery) of the eight-part official course in Mathematics taught at the Royal Military Academy of Barcelona for over half a century. Numerous finely drawn illustrations.
Operation Bughouse

Operation Bughouse by Bowie, Beverley

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: FREE
Details
$300.00
( US$)
Seller: ReadInk
Title
Operation Bughouse
Author
Bowie, Beverley
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good+ in Good dj
Description
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, lower front corner bumped, minor white stain at bottom of front cover; the jacket is well-worn, somewhat scraped and scuffed, with an M-shaped chip at the bottom of the front panel, some mostly-internal dampstaining surrounding the base of the spine, and a number of small chips and nicks along the top edge]. A "fast-moving, hilarious satire of the cloak-and-dagger business," set in the late stages of World War II, involving one Lt. Holliday "of America's oh-so-secret Force 99," who is dispatched to the fictional Russian-occupied Balkan nation of "Carpathia," where he is charged with ferreting out a document "vital to the Joint Chiefs of Staff" and finds himself getting entangled with a sexy Baroness, among other wacky adventures. The author certainly knew the territory: from 1942 he served in the O.S.S. under the legendary "Wild Bill" Donovan; per his NYT obituary, "he was the first United States soldier to enter Rumania in the closing days of World War II, [parachuting] into Bucharest several days before the [Russian] troops arrived." The jacket blurb further elaborates on this exploit, which (despite its deadly serious nature) clearly provided much of the inspiration for his novel: "He flew into the Balkans in August, 1944, the day the Russians marched in, and there combed P.W. camps, blew safes, hunted holed-up Germans and interrogated internees," all of which earned him a decoration from Col. Donovan. His only novel, this might well be the earliest example of a satirical take on World War II espionage activities (one has to wonder what Donovan thought of it!); its farcical tone qualifies it (in my opinion) as a kind of spiritual precursor to Heller's "Catch-22," and its scarcity today suggests that it may have a bit of an underground reputation amongst spy-fans. Following the war, Bowie worked in various capacities in the federal government (as he had before his wartime service), and in 1951 became an editor at National Geographic Magazine, a position he still held at the time of his death in 1958 at age 44. .
No image available

The Manual of the Seventh Regiment, National Guard, S. N. Y. by (Union Army, Civil War)

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $5.00
Details
$85.50
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
Title
The Manual of the Seventh Regiment, National Guard, S. N. Y.
Author
(Union Army, Civil War)
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG
Description
New York: Seventh Regiment Board of Officers, 1868. First Edition. Pebbled Cloth. VG/No Dj. Gilt emblem stamped on pub brown pebbeled cloth front cover, blind-stamped rulings, beveled edges. Some wear at top of spine. Some spotting to cloth rear cover. Signed in pencil by previous owner, a descendant of one of the members of the Second "B" Company. A few pages have guardsmen's names checked off, or the word "dead" lightly penciled next to them. A very interesting and historical book.
A Fine Madness

A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker

2 to 8 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $4.50
Details
$60.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Title
A Fine Madness
Author
Elliott Baker
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First Edition. Octavo; 319pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; book in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket is worn and toned along edges, with a few small, closed tears (repaired internally with tape), bumping to spine ends, and some smudging to back. Vertical creases to front and back flaps. Boards are square with some fading along top edge. Gilt lettering to spine mostly faded to black. Book opens easily between gatherings, but binding is holding soundly. Pages unmarked. Basis for the 1966 Irvin Kershner film starring a Bond-era Sean Connery as the hapless poet protagonist.
No image available

"A" 22 & 23 by Zukofsky, Louis

7 to 10 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $6.50
Details
$24.50
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Hoffman Books
Title
"A" 22 & 23
Author
Zukofsky, Louis
Seller
Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
(London): Trigram Press. Very Good. 1977. Paperback. 77 pages, brown soft covers, Very Good condition. .
No image available

OUTLINE OF GROUND-WATER HYDROLOGY WITH DEFINITIONS by WSP 494 -- Meinzer, Oscar E.

7 to 10 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $4.00
Details
$17.50
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Hoffman Books
Title
OUTLINE OF GROUND-WATER HYDROLOGY WITH DEFINITIONS
Author
WSP 494 -- Meinzer, Oscar E.
Seller
Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Washington, D.C.: GPO. Very Good. 1923. Softcover. USGS, 1923. Wrappers, very good condition. .

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.