This three volume set on World War II German swords by LTC (Ret.) Thomas M. Johnson, a leading collector and authoritative researcher, is a follow-up to his successful and highly acclaimed four volume series on World War II German daggers by Schiffer Publishing (1995). Johnson is the author of some twenty-six reference books on the subject of German edged weaponry. This sword series has been designed to aid not only the beginning collector, but also the seasoned advanced collector and specialist. These volumes are the result of many years of arduous research conducted on both sides of the Atlantic, and are a scholarly study that is more than a perfunctory annotation and illustration of the known basis patterns. Also, the series is a study of a culture and the crafts that actually produced the blades, as well as being a manual in the art of collecting them. The embracing scope is both educational and recreational, and adds a whole new dimension to this popular collecting subject as a whole. Within these books one finds the historical background, the manufacturing techniques, constructional information, the actual basic patterns, variations and rarities, and a whole host of salient facts of absorbing interest.

This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature. Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumous published collections -- some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems -- did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson's extraordinary poetic genius. This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote. "With its chronological arrangement of the poems, this volume becomes more than just a collection; it is at the same time a poetic biography of the thoughts and feelings of a woman whose beauty was deep and lasting." --San Francisco Chronicle

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1888 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1887 Edition.

The Definition Of Madness is a look into the mind when it is at it's most fragile. Written during a bout of extreme insomnia and depression, it glimpses at the thoughts and images created by a mind teetering on insanity. When the human brain can't find a healthy medium, madness ensues. Welcome to it.

This book contains the monthly editions of The Platonist Magazine for January through June 1887. The Editor endeavored to make this magazine interesting and valuable alike to the thinker, the scholar and the philosopher. This volume is offered to those who are desirous to become more familiar with philosophic and mystical literature. The scope of the journal will include not only the Wisdom Religion of the archaic period, Oriental as well as Occidental philosophy, but philological investigations, translations and interpretations of the later writers, the various utterances of gifted and enlightened individuals, and in short, every variety of inquiry and speculation relating to the interior life. Sample contents: Hall of Seb; Letters of Paul; Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures; The Taro; The Atom and the Universe; Celestial Desatir; and much more.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

This book contains the monthly editions of The Platonist Magazine for January through June 1887. The Editor endeavored to make this magazine interesting and valuable alike to the thinker, the scholar and the philosopher. This volume is offered to those who are desirous to become more familiar with philosophic and mystical literature. The scope of the journal will include not only the Wisdom Religion of the archaic period, Oriental as well as Occidental philosophy, but philological investigations, translations and interpretations of the later writers, the various utterances of gifted and enlightened individuals, and in short, every variety of inquiry and speculation relating to the interior life. Sample contents: Hall of Seb; Letters of Paul; Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures; The Taro; The Atom and the Universe; Celestial Desatir; and much more.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

1887. This book contains the monthly editions of The Platonist Magazine for January through December 1887. The Editor endeavored to make this magazine interesting and valuable alike to the thinker, the scholar and the philosopher. This volume is offered to those who are desirous to become more familiar with philosophic and mystical literature. The scope of the journal will include not only the Wisdom Religion of the archaic period, Oriental as well as Occidental philosophy, but philological investigations, translations and interpretations of the later writers, the various utterances of gifted and enlightened individuals, and in short, every variety of inquiry and speculation relating to the interior life. Sample contents: Commentary on Proklos on the First Alkibiades of Platon; Iamblichos; Notes on the Kabbalah; Hymns of Synesios; Etruscan Notes; On the Artificer of the Universe; and much more.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

This work was compiled as an answer to two pamphlets. The one entitled: the true foundation of natural and revealed religion asserted, being a reply to the supplement to the treatise on the Christian sacraments, and the other: some reflections upon the comparative excellency and usefulness of moral and positive duties. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.

This new illustrated book by noted Third Reich edged weapon author, collector, and dealer Thomas Johnson explores the vast array of militaria liberated from Germany by U.S. soldiers during the Second World War. The book contains over 580 beautiful full-color, large-format photographs of German daggers, swords, helmets, uniforms, insignia, award documents, weapons, and many other rare and unusual items. Also included is a generous selection of World War II era photographs showing many items in the act of being liberated.

For a generation the Lost Battalion exemplified the best of America's involvement in World War I. Until World War II pushed the Lost Battalion out of the national memory with its own scenes of horror and heroism, mention of the unit's name summoned up what America admired in its soldiers: unpretentious courage, dogged resistance, and good cheer and adaptation under adversity. Thomas M. Johnson was a newspaperman and author who covered World War I. Fletcher Pratt was a historian and prolific author. Edward M. Coffman is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of several books, including The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I.