W Y Wilson Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.149; [3]. Publisher's white cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of eight shillings and sixpence net to upper. Edges toned, top edge a little dusty, offset toning to endpapers. Dust-jacket a little worn to extremities, some closed tears and chips, splash mark to upper. Very good. A Miscellany. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket, probably as issued. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed. Da Nang, Vietnam: U.S. Naval Support Activity/Facility Da Nang, 1970. We have only this one copy, but it is available now and ready to ship today from Henderson, Nevada. Very Good condition. Square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. A lavishly photo illustrated 5-year history of the U.S. Naval Support Activity/Facility, Da Nang (1965 - 1970). Includes Vietnam era military and civilian photos on nearly every page (b/w and full color) and a map. W. Y. Wilson (producer). Jim Dewater (text and editing); Herrick Donhauser (photographs & layout). Dedication by R. E. Adamson Jr., Rear Admiral United Stated Navy. The NSA's mission included small craft repair and training of Vietnamese Navymen to take over naval operations in I Corps. The book has a section on the NSA's four detachments ranging from Cua Viet/Dong Ha in the north near the Demilitarized Zone, to Sa Huynh near the southern boundry of I Corps. Bound in the original gilt-stamped green textured cloth. Oversize Hardcover. 9" wide by 12.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require SUBSTANTIAL postage at our cost for International shipments [up to $100 or more], but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket, probably as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Not page numbered. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator).…

Eighteen vols. xxxix, [1], 458; xxxiii, [1], 399, [1]; xxv, [1], 479, [1]; xxv, [1], 520; xxv, [1], 458; xxiv, [2], 492; xxiv, 588; xxiii, [1], 609, [1]; xxiv, 700; xxv, [1], 618; xxvi, 497, [1]; xxv, [1], 520; xxvi, 599, [1]; xxvi, 548; xxv, [1], 691, [1]; xxvi, 635, [1]; xxiii, [1], 663, [1]; xxiii, [1], 661, [1]; xxiv, 651, [1] pp. With frontispiece's, photo illustrations, facsimiles of letters, maps. Uniformly bound in brick-red publisher's cloth, black & gilt spine labels (minor bumping to upper right corner vol. 1), w/ d.j.'s, from the Clark County Historical Society, deaccessioning material. First editions of the first 18 volumes in this massive project encompassing Ulysses Grant's letters, and correspondence from his Prewar career through Reconstruction. Beginning with his 17-year-old cadet letters home at West Point, and then service in Louisiana, Texas, the Mexican War, and at Fort Vancouver, entry into the Civil War, the early campaigns of Fort Donelson, Battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, ascension to Lieutenant General, the battles of Petersburg, Cold Harbor & the Wilderness, General Sherman's March, Appomattox, assassination of President Lincoln, the capture of Jefferson Davis, and finally the disbanding of the immense Union Army. Simon (d. 2008) drew upon a vast number of previously unpublished, or unknown, letters, memorandum, and writings of Grant, and together with extensive notes and analysis offered an essential research tool for the study of American History, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the steps to the Grant Presidency. The set continues in production, and Simon himself oversaw the first 31 annotated volumes. He also edited the memoirs of Julia Dent Grant. …