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CORNWELL Bernard
Sharpe's Gold
London: Collins 1981 "The second book of Richard Sharpe's adventures follows the actual events of the summer of 1810 which culminated in the appalling carnage of Almeida." near fine in same unclipped DW which may be slightly sunned to spine hard to tell extremely nice but not new copy. Richard Sharpe a Rifleman in the Peninsula War against Napoleon and his allies. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Collins hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 003374 ISBN : 0002221292 9780002221290
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Cudahy, John
Case for the King of the Belgians The
New York: By the Author 1940 34 pages signed on the front free end page: For George DesForges with the war regard of his old friend. John Cudahy Milwaukee November 17 1941. Minor stains to the boards. By the Author hardcover
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DEIGHTON Len
Bomber
London: Cape 1970 near fine book in same DW all corners of the DW flaps are clipped slightly with the Priced corner clipped more heavily small original newsagents paper label at foot of front paste down page an extremely tidy and fresh copy DW may be just slightly rubbed to the corners and spine ends. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Cape hardcover
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KENT Alexander
Midshipman Bolitho and the 'Avenger'
London: Hutchinson 1978 unclipped DW under plastic sleeve plastic sleeve has adhesive strip along top and bottom edges which has bled a small amount onto the top and bottom edges of the DW and also the book boards shows as minor darkening bottom fore edge of boards small amount of insect damage minimal 144pp map endpapers. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Hutchinson hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 003752 ISBN : 0091320402 9780091320409
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Commendations of Second Division and Second Division The American Expeditionary Forces 1917- 1919
Cologne Germany: Second Division Association 1919 61 pages previous owner's signature on cover rear board sunned. also includes this: Second Division The American Expeditionary Forces 1917- 1919 31 pages Forward: "In publishing this collection of general orders orders bulletins and newspaper articles it has been our chief aim to give to the reader the part played by Second Division in the Great World War" Pages 16 and 17 have a paper stain. Second Division Association paperback
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WREN P C
Beau Ideal
London: John Murray 1930 first cheap edition dated January 1930 light wear to edges and joints pen inscription to fep unclipped dust jacket has light edgewear and rubbing spine faded with short splits to ends 348pp Song of the Legion minor age browning to paper stock part of the Bea Geste series. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. John Murray hardcover
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[WORLD WAR II -- SHIPBUILDING].
Son-of-a-gun goes to work; New idea system pays big dividends; Gunderson boats save lives; Linnton goes all-out in production for victory!; Lifeboat cause for celebration; New Gunderson lifeboat gets tough tests; Welding speed record smashed; First lady welder at Front Avenue plant is pretty Virginia Kilgore; More tank lighters leave for all fighting fronts; Keep ‘em surrendering! Back the attack! Buy invasion bonds!; Your name can ride to battle with Uncle Sam; Gunderson’s over the top in fourth War Loan drive; Tough tests survived by new “Porpoise†raft; Covered lighters to be guilt under Navy contract; Gunderson’s set for big year in 1945; Progress noted on tugboat job first to be launched in April; Big new plant at Eugene serves trucks to speed production; Workers needed as plant work increases; Gunderson war record reviewed. . . In: The Gunderson Gunner Published every Second Thursday by and for Employees. . . Vol. 1 No. 1 - Vol. 4 No. 8. . . .
Portland OR: Gunderson Brothers A William F. Selleck & Co. Publication January 28 1943-August 1953. 70 issues. 4to. Approx. 280 pp all paginated separately. With 100’s of photo illustrations text illustrations maps diagrams. All issues w/ self-printed photo-illustrated softcovers each w/ center fold for mailing as issued 3-hole punch at gutter margin for binding some occasional edgewear scuffing slight thumbing to fore-edges still an excellent set preserved within old 3-ring cloth binder entitled “Hull 4 Work Order Log.†First editions of this very scarce run of in-house Wartime publications for the Gunderson Brothers Company during World War II in which the company manufactured thousands of landing craft 3500 life boats & life rafts tank lighters Gunderson truck trailers heavy duty tugboats cargo lighters and scores of other products primarily from the main Linnton plant in Portland the 14th Street Shop and the Eugene OR Truck Center. Chet Gunderson launched the company initially as Wire Wheel Sales and Service Co. and his brother came on in 1923. As evidenced by articles and photographs the company maintained a significant Home Front work force of women welders manufacturers and other specialists during the War with many of the women winning speed welding and safety contests. Forced into bankruptcy at the end of the Great Depression and often staving off financial creditors and forestalling the bank loans the company was able to survive into the War where it quickly expanded. Their 7 War Bond drives raised almost $ 2 million during the War. Later in 1949 the company began producing barges as well as more sophisticated tugboats and landing craft. Later they would expand into railcar underframes and by 2008 were a subsidiary of Greenbriar designs building freight railcars in North America and Europe. No equivalent runs or individual issues listed in Worldcat; Greenbriar-Gunderson maintains an in-house archive of some issues; See: Lundquist Gunderson: A History of an Oregon Company 2000. Gunderson Brothers, [A William F. Selleck & Co., Publication], paperback
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[WORLD WAR II -- SHIPBUILDING].
Toil and sweat steel and whiskers; Mystery ship is launched in 71 1/2 hours; Here’s what Oregon’s 100 Liberty ships mean; The last voyage of the Star of Oregon; Vancouver first of new Libertys launched in 42 days; 1942 at Vancouver; Shipyards in the snow; The battle of supply lines; Mrs. Roosevelt to christen first Vancouver carrier; Handicapped workers aren’t necessarily misfits; in fact they do most jobs better than the average. . .; Vanport City U.S.A.; How they did it before; Two torpedoes couldn’t sink her; Nurseries for the three yards. . . here is the answer to the biggest problem of working mothers. . . ; Every 13 1/4 hours another Kaiser-built ship is delivered; Shipyard wife; Now it’s dorms for women; While mother’s work; Victory ship. . . the production illustrators saw one in half to show you. . . ; Safety clothes for women. . . In: The Bo’s’n’s Whistle Vol. 2 No. 21 - Vol. 4 No. 4. . . .
Portland OR & Vancouver WA: The Bo’s’n’s Whistle Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation Kaiser Co. Inc. 1942-1944. Thirty-one issues. 496 pp issues all separately paginated. With 100’s of photos text illustrations colour printing diagrams illustrations maps double-page spreads. All with self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers minor scuffing some w/ edgewear a couple w/ tears a couple w/ minor closed tears at spines a couple w/ minor tidemarks still a VG- set of magazines. First editions of these scarce thirty-one original issues of the bi-weekly in-house magazine published for all employees of the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation under Kaiser Company during World War II -- famed builder of Liberty & Victory Ships during World War II. These magazines reveal many of the famed production speed aircraft carriers tankers and other vessels produced by the three Portland-Vancouver shipyards resulting in 752 launched ships. The shipyard boom reshaped the social political and economic history of Portland drawing thousands of workers including 15000 African-Americans by 1946 many 1000’s of Native Americans who left the PNW Reservations and large numbers of women who constituted 30% of the wartime workforce. Kaiser built the Kaiser healthcare system a network of onsite nurseries for working mother’s children and built the city of Vanport with 9942 units in segregated housing for 42000 men women and children later destroyed in the 1948 flood. Most institutions only hold minimal or broken runs of these magazines or have access to the microfilm or scanned versions. The Bo’s’n’s Whistle, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Kaiser Co., Inc., paperback
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[WORLD WAR I -- U-BOATS]. NEUREUTHER, Karl & BERGEN, Claus (Eds)
U-boat stories: narratives of German U-boat sailors. . . illustrations in colour. . . by Claus Bergen. Translated by Eric Sutton.
New York: Richard R. Smith Inc. 1931. 8vo. ix 1 207 1 pp. Colour frontisp. 7 colour plates 34 black & white illustrations. Dark maroon-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art by Bergen slight dustsoiling very minor shelfwear still NF/NF copy w/ German traveler’s advisory mounted on ffep. First American edition stated of this important work on World War I German U-boat warfare drawn from accounts by U-Boat commanders their logs German naval diaries survivors accounts and more. Bergen 1885-1964 was a noted German maritime painter and illustrator who in June-July 1917 joined the crew of the submarine U-53 under Kapitanleutnant Hans Rose in the North Atlantic and executed a number of paintings found within this work. Scarce in original jacket. Richard R. Smith, Inc., hardcover
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[WORLD WAR I -- POW'S].
Escapers all: being the personal narratives of fifteen escapers from War-time prison camps 1914-1918. With an introduction by J.R. Ackerley. . . .
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 1932. 8vo. 302 pp. plus 8 pp. publisher’s ads. With photo plates maps plans. Blue-green publisher’s cloth orange lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear very light foxing fore-edges a few pages w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of men prisoners escaping pictorial map backed in archival paper upper fore-edge restored on back cover still VG/Fair copy. Third printing of this anthology of the World War I prison escape stories first broadcast as interviews on the BBC including Englishmen escaping from Germany & Turkey two by Germans who escaped in England and another German which escaped in the Indian Ocean. John Lane The Bodley Head, Ltd., hardcover
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SECOND OPIUM WAR
Relation de l'Expédition de Chine en 1860 Rédigée au Dépôt de la Guerre
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1862. With the atlas of eight finely engraved maps First edition with the scarce wrappers retained of this official French account of the Franco-British expedition northwards to Beijing together with a well-preserved first edition of the accompanying atlas volume. The detailed narrative encompasses such pivotal moments as the third battle of the Taku Forts the taking of Tianjin the burning of the Summer Palace and the battles of Zhangjiawan and Tongzhou. The finely engraved atlas includes maps of the Chinese coast the December 1857 capture of Canton the occupation of Tianjin by Anglo-French naval forces in May 1859 and the Western camp at Chefoo. Four other maps all folding show the Franco-British landing at Peh-tang the battles of Zhangjiawan and Baliqiao and the route of the Western advance from the mouth of the Peiho to Beijing. These works were produced at the behest of the Dépôt de la Guerre the country's principal military archive and cartographic institution. Between 1852 and 1867 the Dépôt was run by Antoine Lucien Blondel 1801-1883 a major military cartographer. From 1859 Blondel reported to Jacques Louis César Alexandre Randon 1795-1871 a veteran of Napoleon's European campaigns and Marshal of France from 1856. Two works. Atlas comprising 8 maps 4 folding with occasional hand-colouring all engraved by Erhard Schièble. Relation: quarto 281 x 200 mm. Mid-20th-century green boards Claude Honnelaitre brown spine label lettered in gilt original green wrappers tipped-in top and bottom edge trimmed fore edge untrimmed. Atlas: folio. Original green cloth-backed orange boards front cover lettered in black. Wrappers well-preserved with some staining and a few small losses atlas volume with soiling to boards couple of surface losses on rear cover and wear to extremities text and maps clean atlas with just occasional foxing. Very good copies indeed. Cordier 2nd edition 2496. hardcover
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[WORLD WAR II]. [McBRIDE, Major General HL]. H L
Forward 80th: the story of the 80th Infantry Division.
Paris: Printed by Desfosses-neogravure 1945. 16mo. 31 3 pp. Printed in red blue tan & black numerous photo illustrations double-page centerfold pictorial map self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers minor shelfwear rubbing still VG copy. First edition of this title in the series of G.I. stories of the Ground Air and Service Forces in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. This compact regimental history details the history of the “Blue Ridge†Division landing at Utah Beach on August 3 1944 engaging German forces in Argentan fighting in the Saar Region by early December 1944 helped blunt the German advance during the Battle of the Bulge and advanced into Erfurt Weimar and Jena by April 1945. Less than two months later they liberated Ebensee Concentration camp a subcamp of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during the Holocaust. Printed by Desfosses-neogravure, paperback
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[MARITIME - CIVIL WAR].
Manual of the Board of Supervising Inspectors. Acts of Congress relating to steam vessels. Rules and regulations of the Board for the Government of Inspectors. . . revised and adopted October 27 1863.
New York: J.H. Tobitt Printer 1 Franklin Square 1864. 12mo. 147 1 xx pp. with woodcut rule borders throughout. Publisher’s black diced calf overlapping flap at front fore-edge w/ tongue & strap to insert minor rubbing shelfwear closed tear to close flap still VG- copy from the library of Caroline Augusta Gray Kamm 1840-1932 noted socialite and philanthropist in Portland built home for poor women & girls with the YWCA and was daughter of PNW pioneer William H. Gray 1810-1889 who traveled to the Lapwai Mission in Lewiston ID in 1836 where he was the Nez Perce secular agent and she subsequently later married Jacob Kamm 1823-1912 pioneering Oregon steamship builder industrialist and entrepreneur. First edition thus of this Civil War-era manual for inspecting steam vessels was considered a Wartime imperative by Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase who while writing to Baltimore’s Supervising Inspector that “the security of the lives of persons in the public service whether serving in civil or military capacities on board Government transports or other vessels. . . and the protection of the Government property are objects quite as important at the safety of private citizens.†Inspectors were charged with determining seaworthiness condition of boilers materials bonds combustible fluids enforcing regulations pilot rules and much more. If the vessel failed to pass due to negligence it could be seized. Worldcat locates 3 copies US Coast Guard Academy Lib. Smithsonian Cincinnati & Hamilton County Lib. J.H. Tobitt, Printer, 1 Franklin Square, unknown
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PENINSULAR WAR
The Kingdoms of Spain & Portugal.
London: Robert Laurie & James Whittle October 9th. 1811. Charting the seat of war A scarce Peninsular War-era map nicely engraved by John Stephenson fl. 1790-1836 a veteran of the nautical chart trade and cannily utilising the name of the leading Spanish cartographer of the day Vicente Tofiño. An online institutional search shows five copies only: British Library Oxford Cornell Stanford and Chicago. Tofiño produced two excellent atlases covering the Iberian littoral the Derrotero de las costas de España and Atlas Maritimo both published in 1789. A reduced quarto edition of the former was published in 1812 by William Faden the king's geographer as Espana Maritima or Spanish Coasting Pilot and served as the standard onboard rutter for Royal Navy officers. Hand-coloured engraved map 630 x 810 mm linen backed dissected into 20 sections folding down into the original case 210 x 135 mm Spatter pattern marbled paper circular printed label to front priced in a contemporary hand at 12 shillings. Some old stains to verso just showing through in places on the map; a little wear to case yet overall a very good bright example. unknown
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SECOND WORLD WAR
Collection of over 25 Pamphlets and Booklets.
Soft Cover. Illus. orig. wrappers some with frayed wrappers a few covers detached There's Freedom in the Air; Front Line 1940-1941; R.A.F. Middle East; Fleet Air Arm; Air-Sea Rescue; Burma Air Victory; Target- Germany; Coastal Command; Broadcasting in the West; The Battle of Britain; East of Malta West of Suez; Malta Invictus; Hitler Passed This Way; Merchant Airmen; Service Overseas; Bomber Command; Bomber Command Continues; Roof Over Britain; Over to You; Defence of Calais; Combined Operations No Jacket issued paperback
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[WORLD WAR II -- ATOMIC ENERGY]. SMYTH, H[enry] D[eWolf].
A general account of the development of methods of using atomic energy for military purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945. . . .
Washington DC: Adjutant General’s Office in the Pentagon August 12 1945. 4to. 194 pp sections all separately paginated I-XIII A1-A5. w/ first 4 leaves litho-printed on recto only. Cream-coloured litho-printed softcovers w/ “Released for Publication _________†on lower front cover dittoed notice at lower right corner of “Distributed by Technical Information Section of the Bureau of Aeronautics†stapled at gutter margin as issued minor soiling & spotting to front cover minor rust to staples minor bumping to corners light scuff to fore-edge of textblock printed in multiple grades of paper as issued w/ some sections more toned than others still a VG- copy numbered in ink at lower right corner. First lithoprint edition 3rd printing of 6000 total copies prepared by secretly lithoprinting in the Pentagon NOT 1000 copies as previously posited by Coleman & others in sections from modified dittoed versions which had been distributed under General Groves’s orders to correct the master copies with eventually whole paragraphs deleted or added in some chapters. This copy is entirely complete with none of the often missing pages especially p. VI-12 duplicates or misbound signatures which often appear due to the speed and paper requirements and also bears the colophon 25-56388-2M on page A5-1 at the rear indicating this was one of those printed on the high-sulphide paper often bearing signatures of varying toning. As per Arnold Kramish 1923-2010 nuclear physicist who worked Oak Ridge TN on the Manhattan Project and at the behest of Harry Smyth researched the printing history before 1985 of the original report and determined that there were 2000 copies released initially past the dittoed and mimeograph versions to the press and senior lab people. Due to early complaints of lack of access another 2000 were released followed by the much demanded 3rd release all before Princeton University Press released their published print run less than 1 month later in 1945. The famed Smyth report released to the public just after the United States had obliterated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using the first two atomic bombs at the end of World War II -- is “a remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out. . . by the American-directed by internationally recruited team of physicists under the code name of Manhattan District. . . .†The introduction opens with statement that “The purpose of this report is to describe the scientific and technical developments in this country since 1940 directed toward the military use of energy from Atomic nuclei.†As an aside it should be noted that Michael Zinman has the original Arnold Kramish TLS identifying the printing history and an article is being prepared by Brett Tomlinson noted historian of science. See: Printing and Mind of Man 422e; Coleman The Smyth Report: A Descriptive Checklist Princeton University Library Chronicle Vol. 37 No. 3 Spring 1976 No. 3 pp. 206-207; For fuller explication of Linus Pauling’s dittoed version at OSU 1 of 2 known survivor copies see blog by Ann Bahde Serifs and Secrecy: The Smyth Report in SCARC Nov. 2 2021. [Adjutant General’s Office in the Pentagon], paperback
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[WORLD WAR II -- DOOLITTLE RAID]. LAWSON, Captain Ted W
Thirty seconds over Tokyo. Edited by Robert Considine.
New York: Random House c. 1953 1960. 8vo. 4 186 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. With numerous photo plates. Beige-coloured publisher’s cloth decorated & lettered in brown & rust colour-illustrated endpapers w/ d.j. cover art of B-25 Mitchell Bomber dropping bombs on Japanese flag scuffing & edgewear head & foot of spine minor shelfwear still NF/VG copy inscribed to Frank Sutherland by General J.ames H.arold Doolittle on ffep. w/ discrete COA label at lower front corner and laid-in. Fourteenth printing inscribed by Jimmy Doolittle 1896-1993 of Landmark Books No. 35 and listing to “From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa†in ads at rear. Conceived originally in January 1942 just one month after the devastating Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor was quickly organized with tests of B-25 B-26 and B-23 Bombers on the USS Hornet CV-8 and the Mitchell proved it could take off easily but not land. Colonel Jimmy Harold Doolittle who was involved in the original planning agreed to lead the task force launched from about 600 miles East of Tokyo drawing 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers from the USAAF 17th Bombardment Group. The Japanese were taken by surprise with the use of long-range US Army bombers and after dropping their loads of high explosive and incendiaries flew on to ditch and crash in China with 1 landing intact at Vladivostock. The raid although having little actual impact on the Japanese War effort proved decisive in changing the course of World War II and affected Imperial Japanese War planning by encouraging their fateful and decisive loss later at the Battle of Midway. Doolittle received the Congressional Medal of Honor for the raid and was a renowned test pilot flight instructor aided in the development of horizontal and directional gyroscopes and later was commander of the North African Strategic Air Forces the 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean and later the 8th Air Force. Random House, hardcover
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[Civil War Memoir] Sherman, WT W T
Memoirs of W.T. Sherman by himself.
New York:: Charles L. Webster & Company 1890. Fourth Edition. Revised Corrected and Complete. A Very Good plus set in green cloth binding with gilt stamping to the front cover and the spine. Two volumes complete with the fold out maps present. Hailed as a prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism Sherman is the most controversial general of the Civil War. "War is cruelty you cannot refine it" he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges and a fascinating eerie account of the famous march through the Carolinas. Charles L. Webster & Company, hardcover
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[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried.
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by O'Brien. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
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WORLD WAR II
Microfilings: V-mail magazine from the China-Burma-India Theatre.
Calcutta: 5th and 21st V-Mail Detachments 1945. A gathering of issues from Microfilings a morale-boosting and light-hearted periodical edited by US soldiers in India and published monthly for approximately one year towards the end of the Second World War. We have traced no copies institutionally. Copies were circulated using the V-mail process in which images were sent on film and developed for printing at the destination. The condition of the paper suggests these copies were printed in the US. The final instalment dated October 1945 celebrates the Allied victory with a spoof honourable discharge notice for the magazine reproduced on the first page. 6 issues duodecimo each pp. 6-12. Booklets wire-stitched as issued. Light staining only; excellent condition. unknown
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[Civil War] Grant, Ulysses S
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant in 2 Volumes.
New York:: Charles L. Webster & Company 1885 1886. First Printing of the First US Edition. Two Volumes Complete. A Very Good plus tight set in green cloth bindings stamped in gold on the spine and front covers with light wear to the spine edges and slight discoloration to the front board of Volume 1. This set is complete with the facsimile letter of Grant's original terms for Lee's surrender that is often missing. Mark Twain was the publisher of this monumental memoir as well as its editor and proof reader. Twain was extremely fond of and a close friend of Grant and encouraged the President and war hero to write his memoirs. Grant was dying of throat cancer but completed his two volume opus dictating the second volume to a secretary. Twain noted in a letter to his daughter that the manuscript was not even set yet and 20000 sets had been ordered from only two states. "Wait till you hear from the other 37." Grant finished his memoirs on July 18 1885 and died five days later on July 23rd. Following his death advance orders of the memoirs reached 300000 sets realizing close to $450000 for his family which was otherwise penniless. In a 1992 New York Times book review General Schwarzkopf is quoted as using Grant's two-volume work as his model calling it the finest military history of the Civil War. Charles L. Webster & Company, hardcover
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[Civil War] Grant, Ulysses S
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant in 2 Volumes.
New York:: Charles L. Webster & Company 1885 1886. First Printing of the First US Edition. Two Volumes Complete. A Very Good plus tight set in green cloth bindings stamped in gold on the spine and front covers with light wear to the spine edges and slight discoloration to the front board of Volume 1. This set is complete with the facsimile letter of Grant's original terms for Lee's surrender that is often missing. Mark Twain was the publisher of this monumental memoir as well as its editor and proof reader. Twain was extremely fond of and a close friend of Grant and encouraged the President and war hero to write his memoirs. Grant was dying of throat cancer but completed his two volume opus dictating the second volume to a secretary. Twain noted in a letter to his daughter that the manuscript was not even set yet and 20000 sets had been ordered from only two states. "Wait till you hear from the other 37." Grant finished his memoirs on July 18 1885 and died five days later on July 23rd. Following his death advance orders of the memoirs reached 300000 sets realizing close to $450000 for his family which was otherwise penniless. In a 1992 New York Times book review General Schwarzkopf is quoted as using Grant's two-volume work as his model calling it the finest military history of the Civil War. Charles L. Webster & Company, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR I -- 37TH BUCKEYE DIVISION]. COLE, Ralph D & HOWELLS, WC W C
The Thirty-Seventh Division in the World War 1917-1918; Vol. II.
Columbus OH: The Thirty-Seventh Division Veterans Assoc. 1926-1929. Two vols. 8vo. 404; 725 1 pp. Frontisp. photos illustrations both vols. photo illustrations & plates throughout. Cobalt-blue publisher’s cloth Art Deco gilt lettering front covers & spines bullseye Division badge on front covers of both in red & white minor scuffing shelfwear still VG set. First edition of this set detailing the organization and movement of the 37th Buckeye Division assembled in 1917 from the pre-War Ohio National Guard and under the political pressure of Governor Cox as well as the size of the 37th Division they were one of the few National Guard Regiments reorganized into a Federal Division for the American Expeditionary Force. The 37th Division led the AEF in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and then the final Ypres-Lys offensive which forced the German armies back into Germany and American troops were key to the success. The Thirty-Seventh Division Veterans Assoc., hardcover
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[WORLD WAR II -- NAVAL ESPIONAGE]. SHUTE, Nevil
Most secret.
New York: William Morrow & Co. 1945. 8vo. 6 310 pp. Beige-coloured publisher’s cloth red lettering & decoration on spine very slight bumping to couple corners minor shelfwear w/ d.j. slight bumping head of spine very minor dustsoiling still VG/VG bright copy. First American edition of this scarce World War II nautical fiction espionage adventure by Shute originally written in 1942 but suppressed by the censors until published by Heinemann in 1945. The work is set against the backdrop of a converted French fishing vessel manned by four British officers and a crew of Free French ex-fishermen armed with a flame-thrower and small arms infiltrating the French fishing fleet controlled by Nazi Germany off the Atlantic coast. William Morrow & Co., hardcover
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[WORLD WAR I -- RED CROSS DOGS]. SALTEN, Felix
Renni the rescuer: a dog of the battlefield. Translation by Kenneth C. Kaufman. Drawings by Diana Thorne.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1940. 8vo. 326 pp. Frontisp. illust. on title numerous text illustrations some full page. Yellow cloth red lettering & decoration front cover & spine very slight shelfwear w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by Diane Thorne of Renni the German Shepherd minor shelfwear rubbing NF/NF copy. First edition stated of this surprisingly uncommon and well-written dog story about Renni a Red Cross rescue dog during World War I who tracked down wounded soldiers and also carried medial supplies to the wounded amidst incoming fire. German Shepherds were amongst the most common breeds used because of their agility and dark coats and trainable natures. Tens of thousands of dogs served during the War and also served as sentries scouts messengers and mascots. Thorne 1895-1963 was a beloved Ukrainian-Jewish-American artist noted for her many book illustrations and artists’s renderings of dogs and dog breeds as well as commercial artist and contributor to magazines and children’s books. Bobbs-Merrill Co., hardcover
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[PHILIPPINES -- WORLD WAR II]. STEVENS, Fredric H
Santo Tomas Internment Camp. 1942-1945. With a foreword by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
New York: Frederic H. Stevens Stratford House Inc. 1946. 8vo. xiv 569 1 pp. Frontisp. illust. of Santo Tomas Building numerous text illustrations. Beige cloth red & gilt lettering on front cover minor shelfwear & dustsoiling still VG copy from the library of former internee Charles Kurz 1891-1978 a business agent and later accountant for the Pascific Steamship Line World War I veteran and headed the labor safety battalion for American prisoners inside Santo Tomas w/ ownership markings on ffep. and 1950’s passport photo of Kurz laid-in. First edition of this scarce and graphic work chronicling the conditions of one of the largest of Prisoner-of-War Internee camps set up by the Japanese during World War II composed mostly of American civilians. The University of Santo Tomas in Manila was utilized for the camp and housed over 4000 civilians many of whom were near death at the end of the war due to starvation and poor conditions. The 1st Cavalry Division pushed forward in a 100 mile advance to Manila in 66 hours in order to prevent the Japanese from killing all of the internment camp prisoners and subsequently fought the Japanese forces across Manila. Frederic H. Stevens, Stratford House, Inc., hardcover
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[AVIATION -- WORLD WAR I EDUCATION]. VOLPE, Chief Carpenter Aviation Anthony Michael (Compiler).
A remarkable souvenir album documenting the Naval Aviation Training School in Great Lakes IL which trained thousands of US Navy Marine and US Army Air Force pilots and aircraft mechanical specialists during and after World War I.
Great Lakes Chicago & Waukegan IL: Naval Aviation Training School L. Blakemore Isaack Wallenstein & Western Photo Studio Photographers ca. 1919-1921. Oblong atlas folio. 21.5 x 9 in. 43 leaves unnumbered. on thick black paper stock. With 52 original silver gelatin photos tipped-in sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 19 x 8 in. 36 panoramas sized from 18 x 3 in. up to 19 x 18 in. some w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge some captioned all tipped-in. Contemporary Spruce plywood post-binder covers same as wood used for spars and biplane bodies in World War I rounded corners piano hinge front joint gilt decorative lettering & logo on front cover minor scuffing shelfwear still VG exemplar. This outstanding souvenir album depicts the height of the vital Naval Aviation Training School which provided essential technical expertise and training to entire generations of Naval Aviators and Naval aviation mechanics and carpenters through World War I and beyond. Founded originally in 1904 when a board appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt selected two farms of north of Lake Bluff IL as a training station which originally covered 172 acres. By Armistice Day at the end of World War I the facility had expanded to 1200 acres and over 45000 men underwent training. Of particular interest in this album are the 36 panoramic photographs documenting Naval Aviator and Naval Aviation mechanic classes for the 15th Regiment and 1st Battalion 15th Regiment from 1919-1920 as well as class rooms machine shops for aviation mechanics and Naval instructors. Others encompass the cutaway model Aviation engines with instructional charts on the surrounding wals the carpenter’s shop with aviation machinery jigs on work benches and airline bodies under construction. One photo depicts the Motor Laboratory Steam Laboratory and Equipment from the USS Eagle 25 at the Aviation Mechanics’ School a US Navy patrol boat which had sunk in a storm in June 1920 and then been raised and sold off as a hulk by Dec. 1921. Other panoramic photos capture the Riggers’ School classroom at Great lakes with full scale biplanes and seaplanes scale model dirigible the Coppersmith School classroom the Fittings classroom with airplane propellers hanging from the walls dip baths for machined parts and nickel plate coating and several of the Naval Aviation School football baseball and other sporting teams including the largest panorama of the Inter-Training Station Baseball championship team from Great Lakes. Wallenstein 1861-1958 was a longtime Chicago photographer through the first four decades of the 20th Century who operated his studio out of his 3928 N. Kenneth home and specialized in panoramic photographs. Western Photo Studio in Waukegan IL appears to have been short-lived as the Waukegan IL directories from 1918-1921 do not list the business but possibly connected with the Western Union Telegraph offices as the address was interchangeable. Volpe 1885-1950 began working in New York originally as a bookbinder before enlisting as an aviation mechanic with the US Navy in 1910 assigned originally to the newly formed ground school in Pensacola and later became Chief Warrant Officer Pilot Airman and Instructor who oversaw the Naval Aviation Training School from 1918-1921. He was also the assistant Athletic officer for baseball and tennis at the base. Naval Aviation Training School, L. Blakemore, Isaack Wallenstein, & Western Photo Studio (Photographers), unknown
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[CIVIL WAR]. GRANT, U[lysses] S
Personal memoirs. In two volumes.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co. 1885-1886. Two vols. 8vo. 583 1; 647 1 pp. Both volumes w/ steel-engraved frontisp. numerous maps and facsimile documents. Original green embossed cloth gilt medallion on front covers of both volumes gilt lettering very slight rubbing slight bumping to couple corners very light darkening to spines still a VG bright and sound set w/ former ownership markings on 2nd title. First edition of perhaps one of the best memoirs of the experiences during and after the Civil War. Charles L. Webster & Co., hardcover
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WORLD WAR I - AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Notes on The Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs. S.S. 631. IA/42982; together with Illustrations to Accompany Notes on The Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs. Series A. S.S. 631. A. IA/42982. A.
France: General Staff Intelligence General Headquarters. February 1918. Towards "total knowledge of the battlefield and total control" An impressive exposition of the rarified level reached by fixed-wing aerial reconnaissance and photo interpretation by the last year of the war. Third edition considerably expanded of the slight and fragile text pamphlet first published 1916 paired unusually with the impressive plate volume - both are decidedly uncommon. These were produced in France by Army Printing & Stationery Services and classified "For Official Use Only"; despite a stated print run of 4000 few copies of the pamphlet have survived. The first item contains concise but detailed notes on how to identify various battlefield structures and features - trenches and wire dugouts and mine shafts listening and observation posts batteries concrete structures and so forth - followed by a section on rear organizations - railways dumps billets and aerodromes - noting that from the "enemy's means of supply" and the study of aerial photographs more generally "often his intentions may be deduced". The pamphlet concludes with a brief section of technical notes on the uses of different types of photographs oblique stereoscopic stereoscopic oblique and how these may variously offer enhanced potential for interpreting detail. The substantial atlas contains an exceptionally fine range of high quality photos illustrative of the points made in the accompanying notes. Many of the views are accompanied by maps or sketches to clarify interpretation with locations often identified. Just ten years after the Wright Brothers' epoch-making 12-second flight at Kitty Hawk the aeroplane had become a gun platform duelling in the air and the instrument of accurate distant bombardment; and perhaps most influentially the ultimate mode of reconnaissance profoundly altering the nature of engagement. "At the outbreak of the First World War commanders like British Field-Marshal John French believed that no mechanical platform would ever replace cavalry as a means to conduct reconnaissance. Within months however the horse succumbed to industrial warfare as did traditional methods of cavalry generalship. In the place of cavalry arose the modern military intelligence bureaucracy that employed a Fordist system of photo interpretation in an attempt to achieve total knowledge of the battlefield and total control. The power of photo interpreters in the words of Paul Saint-Amour was 'not in the mere ability to command but in the more rarefied capacity of producing the knowledge that would inform the commanders'" Gettinger. Text foolscap folio. First named with double-folding plate of "Shadow Diagrams" at rear; plate vol. containing around 100 illustrations on 60 silver print photographic plates linen stub-bound on heavy card plate of mark-up symbols and a repeat of the folding plate from the text pamphlet. 11 pp Wire-stitched in light greenish blue printed wrappers: plate vol. folio 360 x 310 mm strong blue cloth-backed greyish-yellow paper-covered boards printed paper label to front board. Touch of foxing to wrappers of text pamphlet and just a little rust to staples top corners of plate volume lightly bumped. Both in very good condition. Dan Gettinger "The Ultimate Way of Seeing: Aerial Photography in WWI" 2014 Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College online. hardcover
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[Vietnam War Literature] Moore, Lt Gen Harold G (Ret) and Joseph L Galloway
We Were Soldiers Once.and Young. Ia Drang--The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam.
New York:: Random House 1992. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. On Nov. 14 1965 the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry commanded by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by UPI reporter Galloway helicoptered into Vietnam's remote Ia Drang Valley and found itself surrounded by a numerically superior force of North Vietnamese regulars. Moore and Galloway here offer a detailed account based on interviews with participants and on their own recollections of what happened during the four-day battle. Much more than a conventional battle study the book is a frank record of the emotional reactions of the GIs to the terror and horror of this violent and bloody encounter. Both sides claimed victory the U.S. calling it a validation of the newly developed doctrine of airmobile warfare. Supplemented with maps the memoir is a vivid re-creation of the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War. Photos. Random House, unknown
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[WORLD WAR II -- JAPANESE AVIATION].
The Japanese aircraft industry: the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Aircraft Division 1947.
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Aircraft Division 1947. 4to. 173 1 pp. With numerous photo plates map large folding tables diagrams charts. Printed blue softcovers black lettering front cover minor shelfwear very slight uniform toning minor curving to textblock ink number on front cover still VG- copy from library of Dick Bueschel. First edition of this exceptional post-War report detailing the effects of strategic bombing campaigns against Imperial Japan including atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The work offers specific details on Japanese aircraft types design features materials for construction effectiveness of the bombing and specific propeller designs. Government Printing Office], Aircraft Division, paperback
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[WORLD WAR II -- MACHINE GUNS].
Nomenclature of the Thompson Sub-machine Gun. B-1351.
Fort Lewis WA: United States Army 752nd Tank Battalion Medium 1941. Oblong 4to. 10.5 x 8 in. 64 pp assorted paginations. mimeographed 1 pp. large folding. With photo illustrations and blueprint diagrams for Thompson submachine guns throughout. Front cover w/ mimeograph title stapled at gutter margin as issued B-1351 stamped on 3 different section titles on multi-coloured papers age toning to fore-edges minor scuffing edgewear still VG copy from library of Sergeant Bill Godwin of the 752nd Tank M.edium Battalion stationed in 1941 after being activated in Fort Knox KY at Fort Lewis Washington. First edition of this exceedingly scarce World War II manual for the Thompson Submachine gun which clearly illustrates the disassembly and assembly of the gun; all the parts; blueprints of the gun features; and specific care and cleaning instructions. All of these steps are clearly delineated in large photos with step-by-step descriptions. First conceived and designed in 1918 by John T. Thompson for a high velocity and lightweight weapon for soldiers on the Western Front during World War I the submachine gun did not start rolling off the assembly lines until 1921 and subsequently became known as the ruthless weapon of the mob wars and later soldiers during World War II with monikers of “Chicago Organ Grinder†“Trench Broomâ€and “The Annihilator.†It was initially not issued to police departments around the country due to the fact that the rapid fire of the gun was uncontrollable and could potentially injure or kill an innocent bystander. No copies in Worldcat. United States Army, 752nd Tank Battalion (Medium), unknown
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[WOMEN -- WORLD WAR II AVIATION]. RICKMAN, Sarah Byrn; SCOTT, Dorothy
WASP of the Ferry Command: women pilots uncommon deeds. Foreword by Deborah G. Douglas; Finding Dorothy Scott: letters of a WASP pilot.
Denton & Lubbock TX: Univ. of North Texas; Texas Tech University Press 2016. Two vols. 8vo. xvii 5 440; xxiii 1 245 1 pp. Frontisp. in 2nd vol. with photo illustrations throughout. 1st vol. w/ blue boards black lettering & 2nd w/ half-beige cloth over Army green metallic green lettering both with d.j.’s NF/NF set. First edition 1st printing of both volumes detailing the careers personal lives and extensive training of the over 1100 women aviators flying as WASP ferry pilots during World War II. They delivered over 72 different aircraft logged 115000 flight hours and were crucial in the delivery of P-51 P-47 and P-39 fighter aircraft to the European theatre. Dorothy Scott was one of the pioneering women aviators initially known as WAFS Women’s Auxiliary Ferry Squadron and died in a mid-air crash at the age of 23 in Dec. 1943 over California delivering a P-39 fighter aircraft. Univ. of North Texas; Texas Tech University Press, hardcover
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WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA
Think Before You Speak: Careless Talk Costs Lives.
1941. One of the series of "careless talk" posters produced by the British government during the Second World War. This design was put in public telephone boxes see Hastings and St Leonards Observer 19 July 1941. Offset lithograph 169 x 145 mm. In fine condition. unknown
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WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA
SOS.
London: Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd 1939. One of the series of "careless talk" posters produced by the British government during the Second World War appealing for the public to avoid discussing shipping: "Never in the bar of barber's talk of ships or crews or harbours. Idle words things heard or seen help the lurking submarine". Offset lithograph 298 x 252 mm. Very light rubbing and creasing. An excellent copy. unknown
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WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA
He's in the Silent Service - Are you
Nottingham: Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Stafford & Co. Ltd 1942. One of the series of "careless talk" posters produced by the British government during the Second World War presenting a tight-lipped heroic sailor with the appeal to "never mention arrivals sailings cargoes or destinations to anybody". The British government feared both that enemy agents may hear vital secrets and that rumours may spread and undermine the war effort. Offset lithograph 370 x 249 mm. In fine condition. unknown
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[PHILIPPINES -- WORLD WAR II]. RUTHERFOORD, William de Jarnette
165 days: a story of the 25th Division on Luzon.
Manila P.I.: 25th Infantry Division 1945. Folio. 9 x 13 in. 92 pp unpaginated. consisting of illustrated title introduction leaf and then 176 numbered illustrated panels 2 to a page tracking the campaign. Blue publisher’s cloth colour plate title mounted on front cover w/ 25th Division “Tropic Lightning†badge minor dustsoiling slight fraying a little thumbing still a VG bright copy. First edition of this fascinating and well-illustrated graphic novel regimental history executed by the artist while serving with the 3rd Brigade 25th Infantry Division and filled with drawings depicting the life of a doughboy fighting the Japanese across Luzon. The book covers the 35th “Cacti†27th “Wolfhounds†and 161st Infantry Regiments the famous Battle of Balete Pass offering an essential first-hand visual record while they set the combat record of 165 consecutive days. The record would not be broken until later when the 3rd Brigade of the 25th Division went 235 consecutive days in combat operations during the Vietnam War in 1966. Rutherfoord 1919-2001 was a commercial artist from Roanoke VA who served from 1942-1946 in the 25th Infantry Division and later as commercial artist in New York who also illustrated a number of titles in the popular Little Golden Books series as well as later a successful painting career in and around Roanoke. 25th Infantry Division, hardcover
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SPANISH CIVIL WAR; CONDOR LEGION
Pair of Luftwaffe photograph albums soldbuch pay book and log book belonging to Leutnant Konrad Ellermann.
Spain & northern Europe: 1936-41. Auf-zum! so ging es tagtäglich" "Off we go! That's how it went every day" An exceptional and unusually complete archive documenting the career of Leutnant Konrad Ellermann a decorated airman who served with the Condor Legion in Spain and later in flying-boat operations on the Eismeer Front. Centred on two meticulously compiled photograph albums and augmented by scarce supporting documents it offers a rare coherent visual record of theatres where comprehensive personal archives seldom survive. The first album charts his Condor Legion service beginning with 43 tourist views of Spain and 25 informal images of squadron life followed by sequences showing Heinkel 59 flying boats in preparation and in flight with aerial views of enemy positions and bomb damage. Ellermann dedicates a page to comrades killed in March 1938 almost certainly the crew of the HE 59 downed near Cambrils and records their funerals and repatriation. Additional images include Condor Legion fighters He 51 He 112 Bf 109 long-range raids from Portbou to Oropesa and bombed railway lines. A section headed "Einiges von den Taten!" depicts two merchant vessels sunk by his unit - the British SS Jean Weems and the Danish SS Edith - alongside further action shots. The album closes with off-duty scenes and high-quality aerial photographs of Pollença Tangier and Portbou. The second album covers northern service. It opens with trials of the Dornier Do 26 flying boat in late 1938 with fine airborne views images of the second prototype and photographs of Dornier staff at work. Other aircraft represented include the Blohm & Voss Ha 139 the Latécoère 521 and the Dornier Do 18. Around 20 aerial views of Norway follow including encounters with He 111s and Ellermann's aircraft moored in Rombaken fjord culminating in a medal ceremony featuring Oberleutnant Karl Otto Max Barth. A final section documents his posting with Flussklärungsfliegerstaffel 1/125 in Finland with portraits of his Heinkel HD 114 scenes in Helsinki and Turku maintenance shots and a concluding portrait of Ellermann. Born in Geisingen in 1915 Ellermann began as a funkmeister before becoming an observer in 1938. He received the Iron Cross First and Second Class the Narvikschild the Frontflugspange für Kampfflieger in gold and silver the Luftwaffe Honour Cup and the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold. His service included AS-88 in Spain 1937-38 Sonderstaffel Tr. O 1939-41 Küstenflieger-Staffel 1/406 in Norway 1942-43 and Seeaufklärungsgruppe 131 1943-45. His surviving logbook records 484 flights between October 1937 and March 1944 378 of them operational including 62 Condor Legion sorties on ships and towns such as Barcelona Sagunto and Alicante. Later missions encompassed reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrols over the North Sea and Norwegian coast one section countersigned by Captain Martin Harlinghausen later the Luftwaffe's leading ship-killer of the Second World War. 4 items. Album 1: 245 x 320 mm original pale red and white rough-weave cloth punch holes at spine golden brown fastening cord bookseller's ticket of Otto Memmert Kiel; 222 original photographs on 24 black card leaves mainly deckle-edged snapshot images most 60 x 90 mm some larger up to 110 x 170 mm manuscript "title page" in coloured chalks with crossed Spanish and Nazi flags. Album 2: 250 x 330 mm original dark red faux leather punch holes to spine white coated-wire fastening tape bookseller's ticket of Bohrer & Co Kiel; 171 original photographs 50 x 60 mm to 240 x 180 mm on 24 tan card leaves glassine guards; manuscript "title page" with illustration of Nazi eagle above legend; 2 divisional pages first with watercolour drawing of unit insignia ram's skull above title; second with watercolour drawing of unit insignia penguin wearing clogs and flying over sea above title. Soldbuch: 28 pp 145 x 100 mm original blue card printed wrappers Ellerman's photograph mounted on inside front cover punch holes with metal eyelets to front cover. Log book: 100 x 155 mm pp. 114. Original marbled sides green cloth spine paper label on front cover. Album 1 in very good condition; Album 2 with a little wear to binding shallow indentations to covers leaf loose; Soldbuch: general signs of handling paper sometime taped around spine; Log book with some loss of marbled paper from front cover a little finger soiling. A well-preserved group. Sebastian Cox & Peter Gray eds Air Power History: Turning Points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo 2002. hardcover
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[Civil War Journal] Avery, James Henry
Under Custer's Command. The Civil War Journal of James Henry Avery.
Washington DC:: Brassey's 2000. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. George Armstrong Custer’s fabled Fifth Regiment fought with great distinction throughout the war and suffered the third highest total of men killed in the entire Union cavalry. A twenty-four-year-old farmer and new father from Hopkins Michigan named James Henry Avery was one of Custer’s feared “Wolverines.” Besides eloquently describing his personal experiences Sergeant Avery’s wartime journals and postwar reminiscences provide uniquely detailed descriptions of Civil War cavalry movements and the only known account that addresses the escape of elements of the Fifth Michigan Cavalry on the first day of the Battle of Trevilian Station. Brassey's, unknown
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WORLD WAR I
Four maps of Mesopotamia.
Baghdad: Map Compilation Section General Headquarters 1918. The decisive conclusion to the Mesopotamian campaign A collection charting strategically significant terrain during the closing stage of the war when Allied forces under Sir William Raine Marshall advanced up the Tigris to Mosul and defeated Ottoman forces at Sharqat - the final Allied-Ottoman engagement. The earliest map a May 1918 survey of the Fat-Hah Gorge showing the Turkish concentration on the western elevation anticipates events a few months later in October when Sir William Raine Marshall ordered a successful attack on the Turkish position. Victory at the gorge opened a pathway for the advance on Mosul which fell in at the end of the month; T.C. 250 compiled in readiness one month before incorporates information from captured Turkish and German surveys. Victory in Mesopotamia was also hastened by Allied control of the pass at Ain Nukhaila which allowed Lieutenant-General Alexander Cobbe to outflank the Turkish lines at Sharqat. The final map shows the environs of the historic city of Erbil. The plans of Ain Nukhailah and Fat-Hah are an early demonstration of the benefits of aerial photographic surveying which was introduced in the Middle East in the second half of the war and widely conducted in the 1920s. Four heliozincograph maps printed in black and red c.500 x 600 mm or reverse folded as issued "Erbil" laid down on linen "Fat-Hah Position" 3 inches to 1 mile others 1 inch to 2 miles. Old lead and colour pencil notations on versos. Small loss in one margin not crossing neatline a few small splits at intersection of folds linen foxed: very good bright maps. unknown
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[WORLD WAR II -- MARITIME]. KAISER, [Henry].
The ships we build. . . .
Vancouver WA: Kaiser Company Inc. 1944. Oblong 12mo. 7.75 x 5.25 in. 12 pp unpaginated. colour-illustrated photos throughout. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers w/ original entitled mailing colour-illustrated mailing envelope minor dustsoiling edgewear still NF/VG copy. First edition of this promotional brochure touting the World War II shipbuilding efforts by the storied company which included Liberty Ships EC-2 Cargo Vessels Landing Ships Tank LST’s Escort Aircraft Carriers BB-3’s and Attack Transports AP-5. According to the brochure the lates of the Attack Transports USS Rockbridge was delivered to the US Navy before Christmas 1944 and time from keel laying to delivery was only 77 days. No copies in Worldcat. Kaiser Company, Inc., paperback
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[WORLD WAR II -- SEABEES, GUAM, OKINAWA, IWO JIMA, SAIPAN, HAWAII, et al].
Pictorial record: 301st U.S. Naval Construction Battalion April 1944 to December 1945.
Guam & Pearl Harbor H.T.: 301st U.S. Naval Construction Battalion 1946. Oblong 4to. 12.5 x 9.25 in. 247 1 pp. With 100’s of photo illustrations a colour plate map plates. Navy-blue coloured boards 301st NCB Seabee badge in gilt on front cover gilt title on cover some edgewear scuffing to spine minor rubbing still a VG- copy. First edition of this very scarce souvenir yearbook chronicling the Herculean efforts of the storied 301st U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Seabees affectionately known as the “Harbor Stretchers†as they were specifically activated and formed to expand and deepen vital deep-water harbors at advance bases in the South Pacific during World War II. Activated April 1 1944 in Port Hueneme Advanced Base Depot CA they were dispatched to Guam starting April 21 1944 to begin clearing vast War debris from the defeated Japanese Naval units and were a specialized unit often operating under sustained constant enemy fire during the War. Based out of Guam 12 detachments scattered over the Pacific War zone dredging harbors under adverse conditions at some of the bloodiest island hopping battles such as Kwajalein Saipan Iwo Jima Okinawa Peleliu and Tinian. Dredges included the “Tualatin†moved to Midway in May 1944 the USS City of Dahlart at Pearl Harbor Dredge Indiana at Midway. Many of their salvage operations are depicted here along with an extended photographic synopsis of Guam during World War II. Worldcat locates 5 copies NYPL SF Maritime Nat. Hist. Park Navy Dept. Naval Hist. Lib. Heinz Center WI Vet Mus. Res. Ctr. 301st U.S. Naval Construction Battalion, hardcover
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[AVIATION -- WORLD WAR I]. CLUNE, Frank
D’Air Devil: the story of “Pard†Mustar Australian Air Ace.
Sydney & London: Angus & Robertson Ltd. 1941. 8vo. 8 251 1 pp. Red cloth black lettering on spine half-title list of titles as front pastedown pictorial map at rear of flight from Rabaul to Lae and Wau minor shelfwear rubbing some slight bumping to corners w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of monoplane aerial acrobatics on front & spine minor chipping head & foot of spine minor wear to corners slight scuffing price-clipped a few old tape repairs on verso still G/G copy w/ former ownership stamps on list of titles & upper fore-edge title. First edition of this very scarce biography of the Australian Ace who flew during World War I over Egypt Gallipoli the Sinai Palestine Syria and Arabia for the Allies against the Ottoman Empire and later mapped Lake Eyre and the Great Barrier River. During World War II Ernest Andrew “Pard†Mustar Mustard 1893-1971 would later fly with the Royal Australian Air Force. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Angus & Robertson, Ltd., hardcover
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[CIVIL WAR -- GETTYSBURG]. [SICKLES, Daniel E (Chairman)].
In memoriam: George Sears Greene Brevet Major-General United States Volunteers 1801-1899. . . .
Albany NY: J.B. Lyon State Printers 1909. 4to. 2 106 2 pp. Engraved frontisp. 4 large folding colour battlefield maps numerous plates. Green publisher’s buckram gilt lozenge seal for New York front cover gilt lettering front cover & spine minor scuffing edgewear still VG copy. First edition of this memorial volume dedicated to General George Sears Greene and his New York Troops at the dedication of a monument to their actions at Culp’s Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg. Referred to as “Old Man†or “Pap†Greene as he had re-enlisted at the age of 61 in the Union Army whose troops assaulted and cracked Stonewall Jackson’s defensive lines at the Battle of Antietam near the Dunker Church and his decision to build breastworks atop Culp’s Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg against General Meade’s orders were essential to holding the position. J.B. Lyon, State Printers, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR II -- HASKELL-CLASS ATTACK TRANSPORTS].
Compartment plan for troop transports. Production Planning & Scheduling Dept. . . .
Los Angeles CA: California Shipbuilding Corporation 1944. Oblong folio. 22 x 5.75 in. 14 pp unpaginated. deckplans throughout for compartments. Self-printed softcovers title on front cover center fold for easy storage slight shelfwear still VG bright copy stapled at gutter margin as issued. First edition of this exceedingly scarce shipyard deck plans books for the Haskell-Class Victory ships built by California Shipbuilding Corp. from 1944-1945 with 117 launched. The VC2-S-AP5 ships were designed to transport and assault landing craft of over 1500 troops and their heavy combat with the Haskell’s carrying 25 landing craft right to the beach. Nearly all of the Haskell-class ships were mothballed in 1946 following the War and most scrapped from 1973-75. At its height during World War II CalShip was operating 53 shipyards employing 1000’s of workers but at the end of the War the Maritime Commission shipyards closed down production. No copies in Worldcat. California Shipbuilding Corporation, paperback
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[ALTERNATIVE HISTORICAL SCIENCE FICTION -- WORLD WAR II]. HOGAN, James P
The Proteus operation.
New York: Bantam Books 1985. 8vo. 12 403 1 pp. Half-blue cloth over blue boards gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Jim Warren & Bob Larkin slight toning shelfwear still NF/NF copy signed by the author on title. First edition signed by the author of this ground-breaking alternative historical science fiction adventure with a time traveling team from the 1970’s attempting to alter the years leading to World War II so that Nazi Germany had not acquired atomic weapons and nearly conquered the World. Bantam Books, hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 62181 ISBN : 0553050958 9780553050950
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[CIVIL WAR -- CONFEDERATE]. TAYLOR, Richard
Destruction and Reconstruction: personal experiences of the late war.
New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1879. 8vo. 274 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. Dark brown publisher’s cloth decorative borders in blind on front & back covers gilt lettering on spine minor chipping head & foot of spine minor wear & scuffing to corners still a VG- copy. First edition of this title published as part of the efforts of Taylor Braxton Bragg Dabney Maury and others of the Southern Historical Society to shape memories of the Confederate efforts during the Civil War. Taylor fought with the 9th Louisiana under General Ewell during Stonewall Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley campaign with fights at the Battle of Front Royal Battle of Winchester and later the Battle of Port Republic. Later in the war he defeated General Banks in the Red River Campaign. Although considered one of the most literate firsthand memoirs of the Civil War he bluntly asserts that the Ku Klux Klan was a Northern invention foisted onto weary Southerners and that extending the vote to the freed slaves was destroying the political system in the South. He died just a few weeks after finishing this memoir. Howes T73; Dornbusch II 3120. D. Appleton & Co., hardcover
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FIRST WORLD WAR IN EGYPT
Collection of 23 black and white photographs three of Turkish and Indian wounded at station arriving from Suez canal inscribed on reverse military band army processions one including armoured car operating table wounded in ward and on terrace Maoris performing Haka three of cruisers including two of a French four-funnelled cruiser dhows on canal camels etc.
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WAR POETRY
The Folio Book of War Poetry. Edited by Andrew Motion. Illustrated by Neil Gower and Jonathan Lloyd. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Folio Society 2021. 8vo. with illustrations in the text; patterned cloth backstrip lettered in green on silver green endpapers a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case. Folio Society, hardcover
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[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried.
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 28928 ISBN : 039551598x 9780395515983
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