Col frank tompkins (3 risultati)

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorColonel Frank Tompkins was born in 1868. Instead of going to West Point like his father and grandfather before him, Tompkins entered the army directly in 1891. He graduated from the Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort .

Hardcover. 8vo. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. This first edition has Yellow textured boards with straight edges, pointed corners and green titling. Spine has a light crack near the head but otherwise is uncreased with green titling. Text block is square with toning edge. Binding is secure. 270p. Matching map end pages remain clean. Includes tipped in page of black and white photograph of Tompkins just before title page. Previous owners name and sticker remain on blank page following front fly leaf. Interior otherwise is unmarked with crisp pages through out. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo (medium). Orange illustrated cloth, lettered in green, pictorial endpapers, xx, 270pp, [16] plates (some double-sided) of photographs, with in-text maps, foxing, light bumping on corners, a small chip at spine head, with bumping, creasing on spine, some smudging on cloth, bump on rear middle board along outer edge. Very Good. The 1916-1917 U.S. Cavalry hunt for Francisco Pancho Villa in response to his attack on Columbus, New Mexico during the Mexican Boarder War. Despite the major US Military operation, they were unable to capture Villa. One of the major faces and forces of the Mexican Revolution, Villa was later assassinated in 1923. …