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World War I: Cain James M. et al.
AMERICANS VS. GERMANS THE FIRST AEF IN ACTION
New York & Washington: Penguin Books / Infantry Journal 1942. 189pp. Printed stiff wrappers. Corners a bit worn but a very good copy. First edition. An anthology of six first person accounts editors not identified. Includes a reprint of Cain's "The Taking of Mountfacon." Penguin Books / Infantry Journal unknown books
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World War I: Powell E. Alexander
SLANTING LINES OF STEEL
New York: Macmillan 1933. Large octavo. Gilt decorated cloth. Portrait. First edition of these memoirs of the author's experiences at the Front first as a correspondent then as a combatant. Ink name and bookplate on free endsheet with triangular cut from fore-edge otherwise a very good bright copy in highly pictorial dust jacket with two internally mended tears. Macmillan hardcover books
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World War I: Grant Robert
THEIR SPIRIT SOME IMPRESSIONS OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH DURING THE SUMMER OF 1916
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1916. 12mo. Boards paper labels. First edition in book form first published in the BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT. Top edge dusty otherwise fine in very good somewhat dust soiled jacket with a few spots. Houghton Mifflin Co. hardcover books
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World War I Fiction: Quiller Couch A. T.
NICKY-NAN RESERVIST. By "Q."
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons 1915. Red cloth lettered in black. Faint dusting at edges some offset to endsheets from jacket flaps collector's bookplate on pastedown otherwise a very good copy in the uncommon dust jacket which exhibits some small tears and chips around the spine ends with old internal tape mends to two of the same two smaller instances at the lower edge and the publisher's 7/6 price sticker on the spine. First edition. According to a contemporary blurb in BRENTANO'S BOOK-CHAT this is "a whimsical tale in Q's happiest vein of a quaint longshoreman and his struggles to get rich and get into the European war as well." William Blackwood & Sons hardcover books
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World War I Poster: Whitehead Walter 1874 1956
COME ON! BUY MORE LIBERTY BONDS caption title
Philadelphia: Ketterlinus Litho Company 1918. Folio. Original color lithographed poster 19 3/4" x 29 3/4"; 50 x 76 cm. Linen-backed and rolled. Small area of loss at upper right corner a few creases and edge tears flattened when backed but generally a good to very good bright example. One of the iconic Liberty Bond posters depicting a Doughboy with his Springfield '03 with bayonet mounted in an aggressive forward stance astride the body of a dead German soldier. Whitehead was a fairly prolific poster and advertisement artist but little seems available in terms of biographical information and he is not listed in Benezit. Some copies were also produced with the imprint of Strobridge Litho Co. of Cincinnati. Ketterlinus Litho Company unknown books
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World War I
FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR RESPECTING THE TREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR AND INTERNED CIVILIANS IN GERMANY with: CORRESPONDENCE . with: FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE .
London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationary Office 1916. Three volumes. 2202pp; iv642pp. and iv891pp. Folio. Sewn self-wrappers. Slightly dusty but very good or better. First editions published as CD.7961 CD.8108 and CD 8235 presented to Parliament July and December 1915 and May 1916. Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationary Office unknown books
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World War I: Van Schaick John Jr.
THE LITTLE CORNER NEVER CONQUERED THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS WAR WORK FOR BELGIUM
New York: Macmillan 1922. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and black. Frontis and plates. Small surface snag/puncture in spine otherwise very good and bright with the panels of the dust jacket laid in. First edition. An excellent association copy with the author's 1943 presentation inscription to Boswell bibliographer/editor Frederick Pottle who served with Evacuation Hospital 8 and wrote a history of the unit STRETCHERS. Macmillan hardcover books
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World War I Literature: Tomlinson HM. H. M.
OUT OF SOUNDINGS
London: Heinemann 1931. Gilt cloth. Near fine in near very good lightly foxed dust jacket with old shallow internal mends at crown of spine. First edition trade issue. Includes "A Footnote to the War Books." Heinemann hardcover books
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Spanish Civil War: Muste John M.
SAY THAT WE SAW SPAIN DIE LITERARY CONSEQUENCES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Seattle & London: Univ. of Washington Press 1966. Cloth. First edition. Ink name in corner of free endsheet otherwise about fine in price- clipped dust jacket. Univ. of Washington Press hardcover books
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World War I: Masefield John
THE OLD FRONT LINE
New York: Macmillan and Co. 1917. Gilt navy blue cloth. Photographs. Near fine and bright without dust jacket. First edition preceding the UK edition by a month. Publisher's review copy with slip laid in and perforated 'Advance Copy .' stamp in title. ".The chief merit of the book at this date lies in its noble and moving soliloquies and descriptions" - Falls. The UK edition bore an expanded title adding: "The Beginning of the Battle of the Somme." With the bookplate of DIAL principal Scofield Thayer laid in. The number of copies of the UK edition in the first printing exceeded the number of this edition by a factor of 5. SIMMONS 38. FALLS p.57. BLUNDEN et al p.5. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
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World War I Poetry: Kipling Rudyard
THE YEARS BETWEEN
London: Methuen and Co. 1919. Red cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial vignette on title. Very near fine in faintly soiled dust jacket with minor use at crown of spine. First edition trade issue of one of the key collective volumes of Kipling's war verse. Its popularity was anticipated by the publishers who ordered a printing of 100000 copies according to Richards. RICHARDS A320. STEWART 434. REILLY WWI p. 191. Methuen and Co. hardcover books
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World War I Poetry: Kipling Rudyard
THE YEARS BETWEEN
London: Methuen and Co. 1919. Red cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial vignette on title. Some tanning and light foxing to endsheets otherwise very good and bright in lightly worn dust jacket with a few small spots to spine panel. First edition trade issue of one of the key collective volumes of Kipling's war verse. Its popularity was anticipated by the publishers who ordered a printing of 100000 copies according to Richards. RICHARDS A320. STEWART 434. REILLY WWI p. 191. Methuen and Co. hardcover books
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World War II: Koerner Henry artist
Vintage World War II Poster: UNITED WE ARE STRONG / UNITED WE WILL WIN caption title
Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office / Office of War Information Poster 64 1943. Vintage color offset lithographed poster 28 x 20". Previously folded neat pinpricks in each of the top corners one panel on verso dust smudged short split at lower edge of midpoint margin else very good or better. One of the canonical WWII posters presenting a visual metaphor for the Allied nations executed by the Austrian-American artist 1915 - 1991 after his 1938 emigration to the US in the wake of Hitler's annexation of his home country. The image depicts a battery of artillery gun barrels decorated with the flags of the Allies all firing in unison into a tumultuous sky. Koerner later gained wide recognition for his portrait commissions for the covers of TIME magazine. This particular poster was produced in several sizes for different uses. U.S. Government Printing Office / Office of War Information Poster 64 unknown books
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Spanish Civil War: Fox Paul Hervey and Elsie sourcework: Stevens Louis and Robert Wyler screenwriters
Original Studio Publicity Campaign Pressbook for: THE LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID
London: Paramount 1937. 10pp. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers with upper wrapper bearing Paramount's standard house imagery. Heavily illustrated. About fine. Original campaign pressbook for the British release of this film adaptation of a story by Paul and Elsie Fox with the screenplay by Louis Stevens and Robert Wyler. Directed by James P. Hogan starring Dorothy Lamour Lew Ayers Gilbert Roland Lionel Atwill Anthony Quinn et al. The film is obviously set within the context of the Spanish Civil War and was touted as the "First Spanish War Romance" but the war serves chiefly as a backdrop affording little insight into the causes and events. The publicity paper however offered some dramatic period imagery. Paramount unknown books
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World War II Poster:
'HAVING SEEN THE QUALITY OF THE WORK AND OF THE WORKERS ON OUR PRODUCTION LINES . caption text
Washington DC: US Government Printing Office / Office of War Information Poster No. 13 1942. Folio photolithographed broadside 40 x 28"; 102 x 72 cm. Folded as issued. Very slight tanning at the folds on the blank verso but a very near fine bright unused example. A powerful WWII homefront poster promoting the achievement of war production. The poster incorporates a photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in an automobile at an inspection site looking at a performance report with military officers. The text below the image states in part: "Having seen the quality of the work and of the workers . and coupling these first-hand observations with the reports of actual performance of our weapons on the fighting fronts -- I can say. that we are getting ahead of our enemies in the battle of production. Franklin D Roosevelt " printed signature in script. US Government Printing Office / Office of War Information Poster No. 13 unknown books
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World War II
Vintage World War II Poster: MEN WORKING TOGETHER!
Washington DC: Office for Emergency Management / GPO 1942. Oblong folio photolithographed broadside 28 x 40"; 72 x 102 cm. Folded as issued Very slight tanning at the folds on the blank verso a couple of minuscule breaks at junctions of folds but a very near fine bright unused example. A famous WWII home front poster from the Office of Emergency Management promoting the production effort featuring an American worker front and center flanked by a GI and a sailor. An original example of a poster which has been reproduced countless times in various media. Office for Emergency Management / GPO unknown books
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World War I Fiction: Tomlinson HM. H. M.
ILLUSION: 1915
New York: Harper & Brothers 1928. Parchment and boards paper labels. A fine copy in glassine wrapper and original publisher's presentation box a bit tanned two corners have surface chips. First edition in book form specially gotten up as the publisher's Christmas Greeting and preceding the UK edition. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
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World War I Fiction: Tomlinson HM. H. M.
ILLUSION : 1915
London: Heinemann 1929. Cloth and batik boards t.e.g. About fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket with some offsetting to the lower fore-corner of the rear panel. First U.K. edition limited issue. One of 525 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the author. Heinemann hardcover books
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World War I Fiction: Tomlinson HM. H. M.
ILLUSION : 1915
London: Heinemann 1929. Cloth and batik boards t.e.g. About fine in darkened and soiled dust jacket. First U.K. edition limited issue. One of 525 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the author. Heinemann hardcover books
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World War II: Prohaska Ray artist 1901 1981
Vintage World War II Poster: CARELESS TALK GOT THERE FIRST
Washington DC: GPO 1943. Folio color photolithographed broadside 40 x 28"; 102 x 72 cm. Folded as issued. Minuscule breaks at junctions of four folds otherwise a very near fine brilliant unused example. The larger of two formats in which this poster was issued as a forceful reminder about the need for security. The poster is dominated by the image of a serviceman shot in the face during a beach assault dropping his M1 clutching his face with streaming blood trailing to his chest as he falls to his knees. Another design by another artist with the same caption featured a dying paratrooper aloft over land. Prohaska moved in 1908 from his native Yugoslavia to the San Francisco Bay area where he received his formal art education. In 1930 he moved to NYC where he worked as an illustrator for a number of major periodicals and commercial accounts and eventually settled in the east end of Long Island. GPO unknown books
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World War II: Riggs Robert artist
Vintage World War II Poster: SHE'S A SWELL PLANE - GIVE US MORE! MORE PRODUCTION
Washington DC: GPO / War Production Board 1942. Folio photolithographed broadside 40 x 28"; 102 x 72 cm. Folded as issued. Short closed tear at lower edge a few minor wrinkles at edges of folds minor breaks at apexes of a couple of folds with a slight trace of tanning along folds otherwise a near fine fresh unused example. A bold image by Riggs promoting increased homefront production dominated by a large waist-up figure of an American airman raising his goggles with his right hand and gesturing "thumbs up" with his left. Robert Riggs 1896-1970 was in his heyday one of the best- known artists and illustrators in the United States. After studies at the Art Students League and service during World War I Riggs settled in Philadelphia his home base for the rest of his life. In the 1930s and '40s he rose to national prominence as an illustrator lithographer and commercial artist producing well-known images of boxers and circuses two life-long obsessions and of soldiers during World War II. In 1940 around the peak of his career as an illustrator his drawings commanded $750- $1500 each and his name was as well-known in the trade as that of Norman Rockwell. Curiously at a recent auction of African American printed manuscript and visual material an example of this poster was offered quite tenuously making the assertion that the image is of a Tuskegee airman. On the basis of that assertion the example offered there realized $2400. GPO / War Production Board unknown books
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World War II: Sloan Robert Smullyan artist
Vintage World War II Poster: "DOING ALL YOU CAN BROTHER" BUY WAR BONDS
Washington DC: GPO 1943. Folio color photolithographed broadside 40 x 28"; 102 x 72 cm. Folded as issued. A very near fine unused example. The larger of two formats in which this poster was issued. It features a fair-haired US 2nd Lt. with his head bandaged and with some stains to his uniform cast against a backdrop of a desolate battlefield with armaments a shattered tree and barbed wire receding into the distance. Sloan b. 1915 began his career in commercial art in 1940 including commissions for covers and illustrations for such publications as Time Coronet and Collier's. After he was drafted the same year this poster was issued he did illustrative work for military manuals as well as larger commissions such as the 1944 watercolor "Station Hospital." One of his most widely exhibited works is the 1944 "Negro Soldier" now at the Fogg Museum at Harvard. GPO unknown books
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World War II Poster: "Moxon _____" artist
Vintage World War II Poster: HE'S A "FIGHTING FOOL" GIVE HIM THE BEST YOU'VE GOT! MORE PRODUCTION
Washington DC War Production Board / GPO. 1942. Folio color photolithographic broadside 40 x 28" 102 x 72 cm. Folded as issued. Faint tanning to folds on blank verso a bit of foxing to verso a few minuscule breaks at junctions of folds otherwise a very near fine fresh unused copy. One of at least two War Production Board posters captioned thus in this case produced after a drawing by "Moxon" of a helmeted combat soldier leaning forward into the poster from the left with his M1 with bayonet mounted. The original drawing on which it is based appears to have been executed in reddish brown conte crayon. Full identification of the artist seems to have eluded references including OCLC etc. Washington, DC unknown books
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Spanish Civil War: Tucker Alfred G.
SPANISH POLITICAL & RELIGIOUS PRISONERS. IS IT NOTHING TO YOU ALL YE THAT PASS BY wrapper title
London: Friends Service Committee nd. 8pp. Printed wrappers. First edition. Wrappers lightly dust soiled but very good. Friends Service Committee unknown books
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Russian Civil War in Film
Original Czech Film Poster for: NEZAPOMENUTELNY ROK a.k.a. "LENIN v 1918 GODU" or "LENIN IN 1918"
Prague nd. Folio pictorial broadsheet 41 x 29cm. Boldly printed in red and black on white stock. Old horizontal fold otherwise near fine. An original promotional poster for distribution in Czechoslovakia of the 1939 130 minute Russian film biography directed by Mikhail Romm et al starring Boris Shchukin as Lenin N.K. Cherkasv as Gorkii and M. Gelovani as Stalin. The script was credited to Aleksei Kapler and Taisiya Zlatogorova. The film was released in the USSR and the US in 1939 and was eventually distributed in Europe and elsewhere in the years following the end of WWII. The Czech release title translates roughly as "Unforgettable Year" and the film was a sequel to the 1937 LENIN IN OCTOBER. unknown books
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World War I Photoplay Fiction: Fowler Guy
LILAC TIME NOVELIZED FROM THE SCREENPLAY ADAPTED BY WILLIS GOLDBECK FROM THE STAGE PRODUCTION.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Gray cloth lettered in dark blue. Frontis and twelve stills. 1930 ownership inscription on free endsheet light spot on fore-edge else very good or better in lightly edge worn pictorial dust jacket with a few minor nicks. Photoplay edition being an original novelization of the 1928 First National production based on Jane Cowl's play starring Gary Cooper and Colleen Moore. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
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World War I: Carson Sir Edward
THE WAR ON GERMAN SUBMARINES . wrapper title
London: T. Fisher Unwin 1917. Printed self wrappers. First separate edition. Wrappers lightly foxed at edges else very good or better with slightly related flyer laid in. T. Fisher Unwin unknown books
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World War I Poetry: Kipling Rudyard
SEA AND SUSSEX FROM RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE . ILLUSTRATED BY DONALD MAXWELL
Garden City: Doubleday 1926. Large quarto. Parchment and boards t.e.g. Color plates. A few patches of very faint foxing to spine otherwise a fine copy without slipcase. First American edition limited issue. One of 150 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the author. REILLY WWI p.190. RICHARDS A366n. STEWART 525n. Doubleday hardcover books
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World War I Poetry: Kipling Rudyard
SEA AND SUSSEX FROM RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE . ILLUSTRATED BY DONALD MAXWELL
Garden City: Doubleday 1926. Quarto. Three quarter burgundy morocco and batik boards t.e.g. spine elaborately gilt extra by Bennett. Color plates. First American edition trade issue. Extremities rubbed but a very good copy. REILLY WWI p.190. RICHARDS A366. STEWART 525n. Doubleday hardcover books
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Future War Fiction: Montague CE. C. E.
RIGHT OFF THE MAP. A NOVEL
London: Chatto & Windus 1927. Blue cloth. Spine faintly sunned bookplate light discoloration in corner of one leaf. A very nice copy. First edition large paper issue copy #9 of 260 specially printed and bound and signed by the author. The author's most important novel an anti-militarist fantasy set in the Republic of Goya. CLARKE VOICES PROPHESYING WAR p.241. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
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Spanish Civil War: Quintanilla Luis
ALL THE BRAVE . PREFACE BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY
New York: Modern Age Books 1939. Small quarto. Half white calf and blue cloth stamped in gilt. Plates. Some faint dust darkening and light rubbing to the white calf otherwise a fine copy in edgeworn slipcase short breaks at top joints and light foxing to label. First edition deluxe issue. One of 440 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by Quintanilla. This deluxe issue also includes four original lithographs and a loose color print not included in the trade edition. Other than Hemingway's Preface the text is by Elliot Paul and Jay Allen. Modern Age Books hardcover books
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War Songs
WAR SONGS FOR ANNIVERSARIES AND GATHERINGS OF SOLDIERS TO WHICH IS ADDED A SELECTION OF SONGS AND HYMNS FOR MEMORIAL DAY.
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co. 1884. 96pp. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Likely one of a number of printings with music reprinted from a variety of sources. A few pencil notes crack at toe of front inner hinge else very good. Includes works by Root Work Foster and many others. Oliver Ditson & Co. hardcover books
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Civil War Literature
THE HAVERSACK
Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead Book and Job Printer 1864. 60pp. Printed wrappers. Upper wrapper stained at edges as are the fore-edges of the first several leaves otherwise a good copy. First edition of this anthology of poetry and prose largely accounts of battle capture and privation by soldiers in the field and in hospital published under the auspices of the Great Central Fair of the Sanitary Commission. Henry B. Ashmead, Book and Job Printer unknown books
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World War II
WAR PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS.ARMY
London: Oxford University Press 1942. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. The fourth number in the series. Introduction by Colin Coote. Ardizzone Bawden Freedman et al. Slight tanning to spine else near fine. Oxford University Press unknown books
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World War I Literature: Tomlinson HM. H. M.
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
London: William Heinemann 1930. Large octavo. Gilt black cloth. Near fine in good somewhat smudged and lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition trade issue. It "is a very fine book.Certain of its scenes as that when the principal character drives from G.H.Q. to revisit his old comrades in the trenches are perfection itself" - Falls. FALLS p.299. William Heinemann hardcover books
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World War I: Van Dyke Henry
FIGHTING FOR PEACE
New York: Scribner 1917. Gilt blue cloth. First edition. A few small bumps and rubs to edges otherwise very good and bright. Essays on his diplomatic service prior to and during the war. Scribner hardcover books
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Spanish Civil War: Gannes Harry and Theodore Repard
SPAIN IN REVOLT. A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN IN 1936 AND A STUDY OF ITS SOCIAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CAUSES
London: Gollancz 1936. Limp printed cloth wrappers. First Left Book Club edition. Wraps a bit handsoiled but a good copy with ephemera laid in. Gollancz hardcover books
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World War I: Kennan George F.
THE FATEFUL ALLIANCE FRANCE RUSSIA AND THE COMING OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
New York: Pantheon 1984. Large octavo. Gilt cloth and boards. Illustrations. First edition later printing. Very good in dust jacket with a few nicks and short closed tears. Pantheon hardcover books
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World War I: Mee Charles L. Jr.
THE END OF ORDER VERSAILLES 1919
New York: Dutton 1980. Cloth and boards. First edition. About fine in dust jacket. Dutton hardcover books
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World War I Iconography
WILLI'S WISHFUL THINKING
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1939. 12mo. Cloth paper label. A fine copy. First edition. Reproductions of a series of postcards issued by the German army for use by their troops on the occasion of their anticipated capture of Paris. One of an unspecified number of copies issued to commemorate Armistice Day. LAWSON & PANKOW 85. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
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Mexican War McEniry Sister Blanche Marie
AMERICAN CATHOLICS IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO
Wash D.C.: GPO 1937. First Edition. 11 178pp. Original printed wrappers. Tutorow 4168. Not in Garrett. GPO unknown books
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CIVIL WAR. WILLIAM H. NOBLE
Connecticut Civil War Colonel Sketches Jacksonville Florida Headquarters Muses on the Fountain of Youth Supports Freed Slaves Getting Land and Recognizes their Humanity
<p>"<i>Just make up your mind that negro nature & human white nature are very near alike.</i>"</p><p>"<i>Every now & then it is proclaimed with great joy that Mr So & so some northern nabob or speculator has purchased some rebel plantation & prepares to work the same. … It's of more consequence locally & nationally thus the negro should buy & toil as he surely will on his acre of land than that princely men in Illinois should have inserted his loose change in a southern plantation.</i>"</p><p>Connecticut native William H. Noble writing to his wife responds to rumors of the fountain of youth vilifies northerner plantation renters who continued the Southern system as new feudal barons and calls for the redistribution of plantations to former slaves to ensure national stability. Jacksonville Florida was occupied and then abandoned by the Union four times. The result was a broken skeletal city at the Civil War's conclusion.</p><p>Noble reflects on how the African Americans' freedom will change Southern and national life and that regardless of race he believed human nature was the same. Further the former slaves needed an interest in and responsibility for their own advancement. Presaging Booker T. Washington he thinks developing industry more important than carpetbaggers coming south offering education. With a detailed sketch of headquarters in Jacksonville including tents stables and the brigade flagstaff.</p> <b>CIVIL WAR. WILLIAM H. NOBLE.</b>Autograph Letter Signed to his wife Jacksonville Fla. April 8 1864. 16 pp. 8 x 10 in. on 4 folding sheets stitched together.<p><b>Excerpts</b></p><p>"<i>An artillery officer told me yesterday that there is a spot down the coast somewhere at which people never die. I am going to live down there. I want to see how this country I am helping to save and remake gets along and grows & flourishes in the coming years.</i></p><p>"<i>The truth is there are but very few men as old as I really am in point of years in the army and I have no doubt I look old to them. But I am not in point of the elements of youth & age & their manifestations more than half the years…. <b>I think very likely however that the change in the Status of the negro will show that race to occupy the place now accorded to the Irish and push up the Irish girls a peg or two. That is just what the Irish did for the American help. When I was young there were no Irish field or house servitors. All were Yankeys.</b></i></p><p><b><i> Well the irish are dreadfully down on the negroes. American laborers used to be very hard on the Irish. But</i></b><i><b> God works wonders in spite of mans blindness</b> <b>and I have no doubt in more ways than one he will do so with the Negro. But I see but very few contrabands. My Regiment has never yet penetrated into a virgin Ethiopian place. In fact wherever we have been the yanks have one time & another been before us and culled them out for soldiers or Sambo has taken his chance and gone north.</b></i></p><p><i> The fact is the quicker Sambo learns to take care of himself and is made so to do the better. But it wont by apprenticeing him to some one who only cares to get the most possible out of him. Forcing him to work for set wages to remain in a fixed place & to toil for a man who buys of the government his industry is but a mockery of Freedom. Sambo has the same right & must be treated like any other human & not as if his skin hid under its somber hue a different nature or a soul governed by different impulses passions & motives.</i></p><p><i> <b>Who cares whether the world has cotton princes or not. Let the production run out if need be. Don't bother yourself about obtuse fancies on the negro question & his industry. Take no thought about large Estates going to waste & without culture.</b> <b>Have no anxiety but that human nature & niger nature will work out its own salvation if you give it a chance. Sambo wont work if you feed him a plumb pudding and send down a lot of infatuated people who should make little nigs. fully acquainted with general geography the distribution of offices universal History in 24 lessons</b>.</i>"Additional excerpts below</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Jacksonville Florida suffered mightily as it changed hands several times during the Civil War. With the Union Navy blockading the port for most of the war the army alternately occupied and abandoned the city deeming its defense too costly and non-essential. Despite the blockade the city remained a key Confederate supply point becoming the "breadbasket" of the Confederacy and shipping large quantities of pork beef molasses corn potatoes and other supplies to troops via rail. In an attempt to take the railroads and stop the flow of foodstuffs and supplies on February 7 1864 Union soldiers occupied Jacksonville for a fourth time. Politically Lincoln hoped to establish a Unionist government after cutting the Confederate supply lines. He even sent John Hay one of his personal secretaries as his representative. But Union troops suffered a devastating loss 45 miles away at the Battle of Olustee on February 20 and veteran soldiers on both sides remarked that they had never experienced such terrible fighting.</p><p>As the Union forces were still retreating the 54th Massachusetts US Colored Troops USCT was ordered to march back to a broken-down train carrying wounded Union soldiers. When the USCT troops arrived the men attached ropes to the engine and cars and manually pulled the train approximately three miles to camp where horses then helped pull the train the ten miles back to Jacksonville.</p><p><b>Additional Excerpts </b>Full Transcript Available</p><p>"<i>…<b>Just make up your mind that negro nature & human white nature are very near alike.</b> Find out its appetites & fancies & give them play. <b>The negro has toiled as the chattel & possession of some body who </b></i><6><b><i>owned him & his toil & the soil on which he lived. He has never known the manhood & the anchorage which comes of the ownership deep down & high as heaven of a little piece of Gods footstool.</i></b><i>He longs for this purchase next after the freedom for himself & his household. Till he has this he does not feel himself fastened any where but still a moveable whom the whim of the white man may tote about. <b>But once let him have his little fast anchored piece of mother Earth and you will find him planting therein his faith not only in being free but in the reality of that freedom which has no seeming substance for him but in calling a little piece of land his own & the home of him & his.</b> When he has got the time he will toil to get that which he also covets the beasts to help his tillage. The negro saves they are found to get & keep money. At Hilton Head they have more cash than any body else. Let him plant it in a home.</i>"</p><p> "<i>What are you keeping these immense plantations leased out to farmers to whom you have the impudence & effrontery to lease freed men whom you would fasten to the soil. The terrible horror is manifested lest Estates should go uncultivated. <b>Every now & then it is proclaimed with great joy that Mr So & so some northern nabob or speculator has purchased some rebel plantation & prepares to work the same. You had proclaimed a more welcome fact if you could tell me that you had cut up our Rebel hosts plantations & that his chattels had bought it in pieces with cash or with </b></i><b><7><i> the right of prescription which they proposed to make secure & perfect by their toil & its products. </i></b><i><b>It's of more consequence locally & nationally thus the negro should buy & toil as he surely will on his acre of land than that princely men in Illinois should have inserted his loose change in a southern plantation.</b> As an item of national health as an element of Public currency the latter has to my mind much the less significance. <b>Give me the divided & subdivided proprietorship of the soil as the best element of national strength and the surest index of national happiness & prosperity. The small proprietors of the lands make no rebellions they are looking for no exclusive privileges. They have no schemes to enhance the importance & consequence of a big landed aristocracy.</b></i></p><p> "<i>Then <b>cut up their big possessions. Parcel out the sugar & the cotton land into small proprietorships. Let the poor white man or the poor negro have the chance. If they cannot pay to day let them have the chance to earn their living & the money to do so at a more convenient season.</b> Confiscate every rebel Estate down to a certain amount to be reserved for him & his family Declare forfeited the possesses of every one who cant prove his loyalty especially of all who have aided and abetted the Rebellion turning only a small proportional account for the innocent of his own household. <b>Render no man but a willful arrant rebel in arms homeless.</b> But open up his rich possessions to the part of the white & the negro in such limited quantities as the </i><i>population</i> <i>& the desire to purchase seem to demand</i></p><p> "<b><i>The Ethiopian will then see in the ownership of the soil his interest in the government & the reality of freedom which without this is only in airy theory & which this makes solid and practical.</i></b></p><p> "<i>You need not trouble yourself then about what to do with the freedmen. They will take care of themselves exceptions there will be. <b>Poor miserable lazy wretches there will be wearing both white & black skins. These can be taken care of by wise laws if found necessary.</b></i></p><p> "<i>But enough if you will watch you will find among wise men there is a great deal of tomfoolery & very little common sense when you try to render their wisdom practical. Genl </i>George Henry <i>Gordon told me he had known of all men first class legislators & lawyers come out & utterly break down in the care of a Regiment. They were <u>old</u> dogs & could not learn new tricks. They had a great deal of uncommon but a very little common sense</i>."</p><p><b>William H. Noble </b>1813-1894 was born in Connecticut and graduated from Yale University with a law degree in 1836. He established a practice in Bridgeport and helped the city secure its charter. He served as state's attorney in the late 1840s and when his father died he entered into an agreement with P. T. Barnum to develop land in East Bridgeport that Noble had inherited. A conservative Democrat but strong Unionist Noble obtained a commission as colonel of the 17th Connecticut Infantry on July 23 1862. He led his regiment in the Battle of Chancellorsville where his horse was killed under him and he was severely wounded. Before completely recuperating at Bridgeport Noble rejoined his regiment and led it at the Battle of Gettysburg and later in the sieges of Fort Wagner and Fort Sumter. In February 1864 the regiment transferred to Jacksonville Florida where Noble served as commander of the first brigade of Adelbert Ames's division. On December 24 1864 Noble was captured while traveling between Jacksonville and St. Augustine Florida and sent to the prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville Georgia where he was the highest ranking officer. Exchanged early in 1865 he returned to the service before mustering out in July 1865. After the war General Ulysses S. Grant brevetted Noble as a brigadier general. Returning to his law practice Noble lived in Bridgeport until his death. In 1870 his family had an African American domestic servant named Anthony Seymour b. 1835 who was born in South Carolina and had likely been a slave.</p><p><b>Harriet J. Brooks Noble</b> 1818-1901 was born in Bridgeport Connecticut. She married William H. Noble in October 1839. They had five children born between 1840 and 1859.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Fine.</p> books
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SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF WORLD WAR III
PREVENT WORLD WAR III 19 ISSUES
1944. SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF WORLD WAR III. PREVENT WORLD WAR III 19 ISSUES. New York: The Society for the Prevention of World War III a non-profit educational organization 1944-1971. Originally issued monthly but later only twice a year we offer an interrupted run of 19 issues from 1944-1971: nos. 48 2429 33 35 36 38 49 40 45 46 47 48 72 7374 75 77. Some interesting contributors for example in issue numbers. 4 and 8 among others are Rex Stout who served as president of the society Sigrid Undset Stefan Heyn Sumner Welles Booth Tarkington Erika Mann Eugene Tillinger and Darryl Zanuck. A few issues are faded at the top right corner one issue is dampstained and the spine is split otherwise they are all in very good condition. Quite scarce. unknown books
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First World War
SOUVENIR OF THE GREAT WAR
1915. First World War. CHURCHILL Winston et al. "A SOUVENIR OF THE GREAT WAR." Circa 1914-1915. A piece of linen 19 1/2 by 24 1/2 inches printed with 28 portraits of heads-of-state and political and military leaders mostly from England and Commonwealth countries but also including those from allied countries: France Belgium Serbia Russia and Japan. A central motif representing Britain's pact with Belgium wherein Britain promised to aid Belgium if her neutrality was breached is superimposed over flags of the allied nations. "A scrap of paper" the German Chancellor von Bethman-Hollweg's derisive remark about the pact is printed next to the document with an arrow pointing toward it. But arching above and below the document are the phrases "Liberty & Peace" and "Our Word Our Bond." Portraits of Lord Kitchener General Joffre Grand Duke Nicholas and General French the top British French and Russian military leaders are printed above the pact. The remaining portraits form a border around the cloth; moving clockwise from the right corner they are: King of Servia sic Czar of Russia General Botha Gen. Smith Dorrien Gen. D. Henderson Gen. Allenby Col. Sam Hughes King of Belgium General Le Man Lord Landsdowne Rear Admiral Beatty Hon. Winston Churchill Lord Fisher Admiral Jellicoe Gen. Douglas Haig Sir Edward Grey Pres. Poincare Hon. A. Bonar Law Hon. H. H. Asquith Lord Roberts Maharajah of Behar Viceroy of India King George V Mikado. Printed in sepia red blue and yellow and mounted on mat board; the cloth is lightly age-toned and the blue has faded to light grey but very good overall. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR PAPERS
CIVIL WAR PAPERS
1900. CIVIL WAR PAPERS. Read before The Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Military ORder of the Loyal Legion of The United States. Boston: Printed for The Commandery by F.H. Gilson 1900. 2 volumes. 8vo. blue cloth title gilt-stamped to spine t.e.g. Ink ownership to ffep. Some rubbing and edgewear to spine and boards. Clean within. About very good to very good. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR
HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE CIVIL WAR
1868. CIVIL WAR. A HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE CIVIL WAR. By William Schouler. Boston: Vol. I E.P. Dutton 1868; Vol. II published by the author 1871. First editions. 2 vols. 8vo terracotta and green cloth; Vol. I with frontis. Vol. II with folding map. Ex-library some shelfwear minor tear to each title page Vol. I inner hinge starting; text and map are fine. Overall very good. unknown books
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WORLD WAR I.
SECRETS OF THE GERMAN WAR OFFICE
1914. WORLD WAR I. THE SECRETS OF THE GERMAN WAR OFFICE. By Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves. New York: McBride Nast 1914. Ninth printing in year of publication. Some foxing rubbing to extremes. About very good. unknown books
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SKETCHES OF WAR HISTORY
SKETCHES OF WAR HISTORY
1888. SKETCHES OF WAR HISTORY; 1861-1865. Cincinatti: Robert Clarke 1888. Papers read before the Ohio Commandery of the military order of the loyal legion of The United States. Volume 2 1886-1888. Illustrated with maps. 8vo. blue cloth title gilt-stamped to spine t.e.g. Ex-library; bookplate to front pastedown and no other library marks. Ink ownership to fly-leaf. Sunned at spine; spine and boards are rubbed and edgeworn. Clean within. Good plus. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR
CIVIL WAR NAVAL CHRONOLOGY
1966. CIVIL WAR. CIVIL WAR NAVAL CHRONOLOGY 1861-1865. Part VI - Special Studies and Cumulative Index. Washington DC: Governemnt Printing Office 1966. Large 8vo. paperback wrappers illustrated. Some soil and wear to wraps slight bend to lower corner of the pages; very good clean text. unknown books
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SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
PROCLAMATIONS AND DECREES DURING THE WAR WITH SPAIN
1899. SPANISH AMERICAN WAR. PROCLAMATIONS AND DECREES DURING THE WAR WITH SPAIN. Dept. of State Unites States of America. Washington: Government Printing Office 1899. 8vo. original wrappered pamphlet bound in black cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards paper labels to spine; 99 pp. Ex-library. Very good. unknown books
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