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[NUCLEAR WAR -- COLD WAR].
Exercise Sage Brush 1955.
Baton Rouge LA: Army & Navy Publishing Inc. 1956. 8vo. 80 pp unpaginated. Photo-illustrated throughout many colour plates text & captions printed in blue & red black white photo illustrations colour borders. Colour-illustrated softcovers red plastic comb binding as issued minor soiling front cover minor shelfwear still VG- copy. First edition of this souvenir yearbook detailing the largest field trials held in the United States following World War II testing Army and Air Force personnel under conditions of simulated nuclear war even including the faked dropping of an atomic bomb. A number of experimental groups were introduced including a Sky Cavalry which combined the 82nd Airborne with a helicopter unit although there was controversy following the exercises with Armor wanting helicopters attached to mechanized cavalry units and Intelligence wanting aircraft with radar and infrared sensors. Unfortunately the massive maneuvers covering 45 days resulted in massive traffic jams with mechanized units trying to attack during torrential downpours and other logistics issues emerged which the US military attempted to correct when they later applied many of the results to new tactics during the Vietnam War. Worldcat locates 3 copies Filson Historical Society US Army War College Artillery School only copy dated correctly; Rickey Robertson Exercise Sage Brush 1955 Stephen F. Austin State University January 2013. Army & Navy Publishing, Inc., paperback
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[WORLD WAR II]. GILCHRIST, Derek C
Blue hell. Illustrations by H.L. Gate.
London: Heath Cranton Ltd. 1943. 8vo. 126 pp. Photo frontisp. plates. Blue cloth gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art by Gate minor chipping head of spine small tear upper right corner still NF/VG copy. First edition stated of this memoir recounting the sinking of the City of Shanghai during World War II by the German U-boat No. 103 and the subsequent survival in a lifeboat for 30 days before being picked up by the Dutch Merchant Stad Arnhem and landed at Freetown. Heath Cranton, Ltd., hardcover
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[WORLD WAR II -- AVIATION]. [PROPER, Colonel Louis W (Commanding Officer) & FAUSSET, Jr, Private GF (Editor)]. G F
Bee Tee 44-E. Army Air Forces Pilot School Basic. Gardner Field. . . .
Gardner Field CA: Army Air Forces March 1944. 4to. 44 pp unpaginated. title in blue & black photo illustrations throughout double-page colour photo centerfold. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of Army Air Force trainers on the field minor edgewear creasing still VG copy. First edition of this scarce souvenir book for the 44-E training squadrons at Gardner Field in March 1944. The field located 9 miles East of Taft CA trained cadets in Link Trainers and single engine Vultee BT-13A aircraft operated for 46 months and managed to graduate 8916 pilots during World War II. Worldcat locates 2 copies Brown Mid-Continent Pub. Lib. [Army Air Forces], paperback
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[WORLD WAR II -- ADJUTANT GENERALS DEPARTMENT].
This is the story of Company G. The story of the members of the last class of the Adjutant General’s Officer Candidate School. . . .
Fort Washington MD: Adjutant General’s Department Officer Candidate School 1944. 8vo. 120 pp unpaginated. illustrated throughout in photos & text illustrations. Colour-printed flexible covers in Army green & black white lettering & badge for OCS on front cover for Class 29 minor rubbing edgewear rubbing to spine still VG copy. First edition of this remarkably scarce souvenir yearbook for Company G which was Class 29 and the last class to complete Officer’s Candidate School for the Adjutant General’s Office in 1944. Officer’s Candidate School’s had been proposed originally in 1938 by Brigadier General Singleton to train officers for the coming conflict but were not established until July 1941 with the first classes graduating in Sept. 1941. General Omar Bradley instituted strict discipline code of honor and rigorous training to create officers and 1000’s took part with about 67% graduating. The Adjutant General’s Office trained officers for Army administration how to negotiate supply problems understanding the vast variety of Army regulations and forms and facilitate more rapid deployment of troops and material. As seen in the photographs here their training was carried out in conjunction with WAAC training for women who shared Fort Washington facilities as well as WAAC detachments carrying out the grueling administration communication and transportation functions for men trainees freeing personnel for overseas deployments. No copies located in Worldcat; See: 67th Women’s Army Auxilliary Corps Women in the Military Fort Washington Park Maryland 2020; Higher Education and the War Officer Candidate School Program Reduced Education for Victory June 3 1944 p. 17. Adjutant General’s Department, Officer Candidate School, unknown
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[WORLD WAR I -- ORDINANCE PHOTOGRAPH]. [HEATH, Charles D (Photographer).]
Silver gelatin photo of gun crew standing on the 16-inch M1895 at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground New Jersey.
Sandy Hook NJ: Charles D. Heath Landscape Photographer Ordinance Detachment Jan. 1 1915. One tinted silver gelatin photo sized 4.6 x 7.5 in. mounted on gray studio board sized 6.5 x 8.5 in. w/ printed text & photogapher’s stamp on verso minor wear & chipping to corners of studio board minor soiling still a VG image retaining good contrast. First edition of this scarce image shot by Corporal Heath of the famed M1895 16-inch defense gun while it was tested at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground on a barbette carriage depicting 36 US Army soldiers standing atop the massive artillery piece. Designed and built at Watervliet Arsenal only one was ever built and after testing was later installed in Fort Grant on the Pacific Side of the Panama Canal Zone and operated by the US Army Coast Artillery Corps. The gun itself weighted 130 tons fired a 2400 pound shell with 650 pounds of powder and a range of 21 miles. A manuscript note on the text notes that if the gun had been converted into wire of ordinary fineness the strand would stretch 709 miles. Heath b. 1869 was a Massachusetts photographer who served with the Coast Artillery Corps. Sandy Hook Proving Grounds from 1899 through World War I. Charles D. Heath, Landscape Photographer, Ordinance Detachment, unknown
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WAR OFFICE ARMY LIST
A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines; with an Index: A List of the Officers on Half-Pay and a Succession of Colonels.
Addenda slip bound between pp 308-9 some mis-pagination; ii384pp. 8vo contemp. cat's paw calf spine gilt slightly rubbed chipped at head of spine red leather spine label minor worming near label ESTC N43035 citing only the National Archives copy in Great Britain and Boston and Princeton in North America. hardcover
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[World War I Literature] Fussell, Paul
The Great War and Modern Memory: The Illustrated Edition.
New York:: Sterling 2000. Second Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket . This is one of seminal books examining the shattering effects of the First World War on the English soldiers that took part in the slaughter fields of France. Fussell traces the changes in attitudes and the shattered idealism that marked the Lost Generation forever following the armistice. The effects of the carnage inflicted by the war changed the attitudes of the writers involved and created a new more "modern" artistic temperment and forced new images of violence into their language and art which infused the collective consciousness of their generation and those that followed. This edition is especially illustrated with pertinent photographs and images of the whole war experience. Sterling, unknown
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[JAPAN -- WORLD WAR II]. TERASAKI, Gwen
Bridge to the sun.
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press 1957. 8vo. ix 3 260 pp. Red cloth black lettering w/ d.j. cover art by Madia slight shelfwear very small closed tear front cover still NF/VG copy. First edition 3rd printing of this memoir of a Tennessee woman marrying a Japanese diplomat before World War II interned at Hot Springs and White Sulphur Springs with the Japanese diplomatic corps the horror and deprivation of living through the War in Japan and finally returning to Tennessee afterwards. This memoir was later made into the 1961 MGM film Bridge to the Sun starring Carroll Baker James Shigeta James Yagi Tetsuro Tamba and Sean Garrison. Their daughter Mariko Terasaki Miller would go on to become an advocate for civil rights internationalism and was appointed Honorary Consul-General of Japan. Univ. of North Carolina Press, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR I -- PHOTOGRAPH].
Belgian armored train in action! The armored train used by the Belgians is seen in action near Antwerp. . . advertising press photo for image used by the Christian Advocate and the New York Times October 23 1914.
New York: Photograph by Underwood & Underwood Elliott Service Co. 110-112 West 40th St. Oct. 22 1914. One large silver gelatin photo 11 x 14 in. w/ printed text attached below sized 5.5 x 14 in. minor creasing edgewear 1 very small chip at left white margin of photo still a VG exemplar. Original press photo news advertisement for promoting stories detailing the use of armored trains by Belgium in 1914 as they fought against the Germans. The image shows the armored train shrouded in smoke from the artillery firing with a spotter at the top of a telegraph tower directing the fire of the armored train. Smaller images were later used in Real Photo Postcards and souvenir photos of the War which were severely cropped cutting off most of the right hand perspective as seen in this larger image. See: The Christian Advocate Vol. 89 Oct. 29 1914 p. 1509; New York Times Current History: The European War February 1915. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, Elliott Service Co., 110-112 West 40th St., unknown
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[WORLD WAR II -- WOMEN]. ZIEMER, Patsy [Patricia Erika, ZIEMER, Gregor].
Two thousand and ten days of Hitler.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1940. 8vo. 312 2 pp. Title in red & blk. Beige cloth red lettering w/ d.j. stark red & black cover art minor chipping head of spine very minor edgewear NF/VG copy. First edition of this very scarce memoir by a 12-year-old American girl who lived in Berlin during the bitterest of the Jewish holocaust finally escaping by a bare margin to the U.S. with her father Gregor Ziemer who had been the headmaster of the American School in Berlin. This memoir offers a chilling account of the Hitler youth the attacks after Hitler became Chancellor and much more. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus); WORLD WAR I: Belgium
King Albert's Book.
London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch The Glasgow Herald and Hodder and Stoughton 1914. Deluxe Edition. Not recorded in either of the bibliographies. The book was published in aid of the Belgium fund. Quarto. Frontispiece and 16 coloured plates one of which is by Arthur Rackham. Original vellum covers titles and design to spine and front cover blocked in gilt plain endpapers all edges gilt. Occasional spotting offsetting to endpapers covers bowed toning to covers. A very good copy. Latimore & Haskell pp. 42-43; Riall p. 121. hardcover
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[WOBBLIES -- WORLD WAR I, WASHINGTON STATE].
In the service: the Great World War honor roll Southwest Washington.
Centralia WA: Published by F.H. Cole Printing Co. 1920. Tall 8vo. 216 pp. plus 18 pp. illustrated sponsor’s advertisements. Illustrated title with American eagle holding red white & blue flag in one claw with numerous photographic collage plates plates 1 large folding plate of Lewis County Company M. Illustrated dark khaki-coloured softcovers yapp edges gilt lettering on front cover illust. of American eagle holding flag minor edgewear rubbing still a NF copy w/ 5 photos of Sergeant Roy Strom 1897-1981 longtime salesman for Tidwater Oil Company in Tumwater WA and his buddies in France laid-in 1 of them a Real Photo Postcard w/ annotations on back identifying all of the soldiers. First edition of this exceedingly scarce history of the Southwest Washington doughboys in World War I with emphasis on Company M from the 161st Infantry. Of particular interest is the dramatic account of the fierce episode which amounted to a war of extermination of the IWW--the Centralia case. By slaying some members of Centralia Washington Legionnaires on parade on Armistice Day 1919 the Wobbly loggers managed to ignite a firestorm which destroyed the IWW as a Union. The community backlash resulted in the lynching of Wesley Everest a Wobbly organizer as well as a drive by the American Legion to raise funds by for the killed soldiers and for the Legion by publishing this Unit History and furthermore hiring Lampman -- a Portland Oregonian reporter -- to write the famed anti-IWW polemic Centralia tragedy and trial. In addition this World War I local Unit history includes an extensive section on the American Red Cross and the nurses from Centralia & Chehalis who served in France with the American Expeditionary Force. See: Copeland The Centralia Tragedy of 1919: Elmer Smith and the Wobblies pp. 88-99. Published by F.H. Cole Printing Co., paperback
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[CIVIL WAR -- PHOTOGRAPH]. ANDERSON, D[avid] H (Photographer).
Mammoth plate albumen photograph of General Phil Sheridan portraying himself dressed in uniform mounted on a horse charging in an artful yet artificial backdrop.
New York: D.H. Anderson 1893. One large original albumen photograph sized 17.5 x 21 in. mounted on 21 x 25 in. board minor chipping & damage to fore-edges of board some very minor staining still a VG image. First edition of this very scarce and early attempt at art photography of the patriotic sort and often referred to as reenactment photography. While the image of Sheridan is indeed from a photographic negative the backdrop of galloping horse and battlefield have all been supplied via lithography. This was an unusual and labor-intensive special effects process of which Anderson developed most of his skills during the Civil War in the Richmond VA area. Anderson 1827-1905 began his career as a daguerreotype photographer in Paducah KY in 1855 and moved throughout the South and Midwest before landing in Richmond during the Civil War. In 1879 he sold his business there to George Cook and purchased and refitted Mathew Brady’s historic studio at 785 Broadway in New York adorning the walls with life-sized crayon drawings and pastels a la Sarony and was one of the first adopters of Charles Bennet’s gelatin dry plate process requiring very little exposure time for excellent photographic images. He would often engage the original participants to reenact their historical actions and events which may have inspired the very popular Wild West shows at the time reenacting recent events in the Indian Wars using the actual participants in their performances. He specialized in mammoth and gargantuan photographic prints. No copies located in Worldcat: See: David H. Shields David H. Anderson Time Period 1855-1905 Broadway Photographs 2013. D.H. Anderson, unknown
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Stolen childhood: A saga of Polish war children Lucjan Krolikowski Krolikowski
Stolen childhood: A saga of Polish war children Lucjan
Fine. sign by author like new unknown
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[CRIMEAN WAR]. HENTY, G[eorge] A[fred].
Jack Archer: a tale of the Crimea. . . .
London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington St. Dunstan’s House 1895. 12mo. 2 vi 2 302 pp. Frontisp. 7 plates 5 large folding maps. Gray pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art of hunters on a horse-drawn sledge in the snow shooting at wolves in black & white decorated in black gilt lettering front cover & spine decorated endpapers very minor rubbing slight darkening to spine some interior toning still VG copy w/ bookseller’s label on lower front pstedown of F. Quaintance Bookseller Stationer and Printer Leamington. Early Sampson Low cheaper edition of this rousing tale of a young Royal Navy Midshipman and his experiences in the events of the Crimean War including being taken prisoner escaping the Battles of Alma Balaklava Inkerman Tschernaya and the siege of Sebastapol. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, St. Dunstan’s House, hardcover
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[AFRICA -- THIRD ANGLO-ASHANTI WAR]. HENTY, G[eorge] A[lfred].
By sheer pluck: a tale of the Ashanti War. . . illustrations by Gordon Browne.
London & New York: Blackie & Son Ltd.; Charles Scribner’s Sons c. 1883 1895. 12mo. 352 pp. plus 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Frontisp. 7 plates. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth illustration on front cover in gilt brown green & blue gilt & blue lettering front cover & spine very slight shelfwear very minor rubbing faint offsetting on endpapers from binder’s glue still NF copy w/ former ownership signature dated 1895 on ffep. Early Blackie printing of this historical adventure of a young sea captain’s son fighting with General Wolseley in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War detailing the British advance the attack on Elmina the British victory at the Battle of Amoaful and the capture of the Ashanti capital city Kumasi. Blackie & Son, Ltd.; Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
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[RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR -- TOGO HEIHACHIRO, Marshall-Admiral Marquis]. LLOYD, Arthur
Admiral Togo. . . .
Tokyo & London: The Kinkodo Publishing Co.; The Probsthain & Co. 1905. 12mo. 160 2 pp. Frontisp. portrait w/ colour border plates. Limp red publisher’s silk gilt ornament & illustration on front cover gilt lettering rounded corners minor dustsoiling to spine creasing very minor closed tear to ffep still a VG copy. First edition of this scarce and well-written biography of the Admiral nicknamed “The Nelson of the East†who commanded the fleets which destroyed the Russian Navy’s Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905 effectively ending the Russo-Japanese War which contributed to the Russian Revolution of 1905. The Kinkodo Publishing Co.; The Probsthain & Co., unknown
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[WORLD WAR II -- BATTLE OF THE BULGE]. GILES, Janice Holt
The damned engineers. Illustrated. . . .
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1970. Thick 8vo. xxi 1 409 1 pp. Numerous photo plates maps map endpapers. Green cloth gilt & black lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. small tear at foot of spine F/VG- copy. First edition 3rd printing of how the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion stalled Jochen Peiper’s Sixth Panzer Army during the Battle of the Bulge contributing largely to the dying effort of the German Army. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover
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[SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR]. HART, E[dward] H (Photographer).
The authentic photographic views of the United States navy and scenes of the ill-fated Maine before and after the explosion group pictures of Army and Navy officers. . . photographs of the leading Spanish Men-of-War. Vol. 5 No. 6 Franklin Series.
Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co. 1898. Oblong 8vo. 191 1 pp. Cancel title page. Over 200 photo illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers in red white & blue cover art of flags and U.S. battleship on front cover minor scuffing creasing scuffing with minor loss to back cover still a VG- copy stapled as issued. First edition of this invaluable illustrated history of the Naval forces during the Spanish-American War including detailed information concerning the type grade cost displacement dimensions when commissioned and individual characteristics; leading Spanish Men-o-War; views of harbors and places where naval engagements have taken place group pictures of the President’s cabinet army and Navy officers and equipment. W.B. Conkey Co., paperback
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[PACIFIC COAST -- WORLD WAR II PHOTO ALBUMS ARCHIVE]. YADEN, Col Lynn Boyd & YADEN, Myrtle A "Madison".
This extraordinary archive of eight photo albums filled with over 1700 photographs documents the engineering and military career of Col. Boyd Yaden. The albums begin with his service in the 55th Coastal Artillery in Hawaii from 1926-1928 followed by his work as an engineer for the Federal Public Works Administration in Wrangell Petersburg Sitka Juneau Anchorage and Seward Alaska on construction projects in the 1930s including laying public sewers building power plants railroad trestles and logging camps. Two of the most significant albums document his Executive Officer Commands and post as Division Engineer for the Air Transport Command while building and surveying airfields in California Canada and Alaska during World War II filled with 100s of well-documented construction and aerial photographs. In addition Yaden prepared a career resume album filled with commendation documents work reference information and photographs documenting his many projects.
Klamath Falls OR: Colonel Boyd Yaden & Myrtle Madison Yaden Public Works Administration United States Army Corps of Engineers ca. 1920-1960. Eight albums. 1st - Oblong 14 x 9.25 in. 80 pp unpaginated. With 244 photos sized from 1 x 1 in. up to 7 x 10 in. many hand-coloured as well as a few Real Photo Postcards. Limp calf stamped & decorated in colour on front & back covers sewn w/ rawhide tie at gutter margin; 2nd - Oblong 4to. 11.25 x 7.25 in. 100 pp unpaginated. With 249 original photos many w/ annotations some w/ markings within the negative sized 2.75 x 3.5 in. up to 6.75 x 10 in. Limp black simulated leather post-binder sewn at gutter margin w/ black silk braid silver lettering stamped on front cover. 3rd - 4to. 96 pp unpaginated on thick toned paper stock w/ 154 original photos tipped-in taped and mounted with corners into album some with ink annotations below or beside images. Black boards post-binder sewn at gutter margin w/ black silk braid scuffing edgwear some rubbing occasional tears. 4th - Thick folio. 12.25 x 14.25 in. 70 pp unpaginated. on thick toned paper stock. With 104 photos sized from 4 x5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. most 7 x 10 in. nearly all with text in lower fore-edge of negative or printed in blank below image on lower fore-edge all mounted either with tape or glue. Tan padded boards post-binder sewn at gutter margin w/ brown silk braid some scuffing edgewear rubbing. 5th - Thick folio. 154 pp unpaginated. With 239 photographs sized 3.75 x 5.75 up to 8 x 10 in. many of them are 9 x 9 in. most with text in lower fore-edge of negative or printed in blank below lower fore-edge all mounted either with tape or glue. Embossed & decorated padded dark brown boards post-binder nickel-plated screwposts rear hinge repaired in black tape scuffing rubbing. 6th - 4to. 32 pp unpaginated. typed sheets attached to portfolio leaves with 17 original photos mounted 1 large folding colour map 4 pp. TLS signed by Governor Paul Fannin on Arizona State letterhead 2 TLS from Harry Wildnauer Federal Works Agency and Guy Kirksey Air Corps tipped-in. contained with padded leather portfolio gilt decorations silk endpapers minor scuffing. 7th - Oblong 4to. 12 x 7.5 in. 96 pp unpaginated. thick black paper stock. With 228 original photos sized 7 x 11 in. with two 4 pp. programs for Pig’n Whistle Evening Concerts in Seattle WA. Limp embossed Arts & Crafts brown cloth post-binder black silk braid rounded corners front inner hinge starting. 8th - Oblong folio. 13 x 10.5 in. 100 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 484 original photographs many with annotations on versos some mounted with glue others with corners some loose a few missing sized from 1 x 2 in. up to 8 x 10 in. Limp textured brown calf post-binder rounded corners sewn at gutter margin with brown silk braid some edgewear rubbing weakening to many leaves at gutter margin an excellent archive filled with bright images strong contrast. This immense photo album archive assembled by Lt. Colonel Boyd Yaden 1906-1980 incorporates eight albums. The first of these albums document his career serving with the Provisional Co. No. 2 1st Battalion 55th Coastal Artillery of the U.S. Army serving the batteries at Fort Kamehameha Fort Kam. The 55th CA was equipped with 155 mm. Grande Puissance Filloux guns typically mounted atop concrete Panama Mounts which enabled the pieces to traverse 360 degrees as well as 75 mm. field pieces. These remarkable images show the artillery gun crews test firing the 155 mm. guns loading shells night firing camp drills inspections athletics expanding the tracks for the 41st Coast Artillery Locomotive at Fort Kamehameha and more. Of special interest are three photos documenting the first Navy Pacific Flight by Commander John Rodgers in the PN-9 Seaplane from San Pablo CA non-stop to Honolulu HI which ran out of gas and landed in the Pacific Ocean. The crew fashioned sails from wing fabric and later leeboards to steer the flying boat and finally came within 15 miles of Kauai where it was discovered by the USS R-4 submarine. The second & third albums chronicle Boyd Yaden’s life with his wife Myrtle Yaden 1901-1988 moving from Klamath Falls OR to Alaskan Resident Engineer and Inspector for the Public Works Administration overseeing the installation of the sewer system in Petersburg Alaska with several photos showing street scenes digging up of streets to lay pipe earthmoving equipment steam shovels and finally the finished streets with bustling economic activity. In addition there are photos of building railroad trestles bridges and logging operations on Wrangell Island Alaska with photos showing the construction logging sites totem poles and then his work as supervising engineer for the Public Works Administration during the Depression building a power plant near Anchorage AK followed by the project of rebuilding the power plant in Seward AK with photos showing the phases of construction. The third album includes photos of the couple on the steamship SS Hazel B No. 2 hunting & fishing in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest the Pioneers Home in Sitka as well as documenting trips to visit relatives in Seattle North Dakota and New York. Two very large photo albums are devoted to Colonel Yaden’s activities as Division Engineer for United States Army Corps of Engineers and later for the Air Transport Command in Alaska and Western Canada. The albums open with an extensive group of photos of Hammer Field near Fresno California now Fresno Yosemite International Airport with images showing the laying of foundations training crash of a B-24 Bomber June 27 1942 the theaters bowling alley Sub Exchange NCO Club tennis courts recreational facilities swimming pool sandstorms and more. In addition Yaden oversaw the mineral and strategic materials facilities in Trona CA with images of the nearby Ruth Mine loading operations onto trucks and railcars. In 1943 Yaden began an engineering and photographic survey of the Western Canadian air bases for the ATC and has included large photos of Calgary Air Base aerial views of Edmonton Air Base and the Edmonton Air Base Edmonton Airport Wing Hangars under construction the Edmonton Satellite Airport aerial views and detailed photos of the Namao Airbase Alberta along with others such as the Grand Prairie Airbase Dawson Creek Fort Neslon Airbase Watson Lake Y.T. Whitehorse Y.T. and the ATC engineering post including the sawmill lumber racks and construction equipment in Canada. The last half of the fifth album is devoted to airfields and airbases in Alaska including the Northway Airfield showing aircraft landing hangars under construction engineering and structural detail photos Tanacross Airport AK Ladd Field and a whole series of large aerial views of the Galena Flood. Yaden also oversaw Airfield site surveys in Port Clarence Nome Point Spencer Imuruk Basin even including a dog sled team and Native American guide in the depths of winter. In addition The final two albums are devoted to the life and activities of Myrtle A. “Madison†Yaden 1901-1988 who taught school in Whitefish Montana then moved to Mullan Idaho the Puget Sound region during the 1920s and later Klamath Falls where she would meet Boyd Yaden. This album includes photos of the gold dredges in Mullan Idaho near Wallace North Dakota Agricultural College band members Montana High School basketball champions football teams hijinks with fellow students and teachers the YWCA Camp on Bainbridge Island treks to Seattle Poulsbo and other areas around the Sound. Boyd Yaden was the nephew of Oregon Pioneer George Nurse who founded Linkville attended the Univ. of Oregon served with the 55th Coast Artillery in Hawaii joined Battery D 249th Coast Artillery of the Oregon National Guard was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant became a licensed civil engineer in Klamath Falls worked in Alaska Canada California and Oregon where he became an engineering expert on building and working on permafrost in the Arctic and later worked with the Flood Control Agency in Phoenix AZ before returning to Klamath Falls OR as basin engineer. See: Laisa Leao Remembering Hammer Field U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2015; William Gaines Coast Artillery Organizational History 1917-1950. Part I Coast Artillery Regiments The Coast Defense Journal Vol. 23 Issue 2 pp. 29-31; Siemon Muller Frozen in Time: Permafrost and Engineering Problems 2008. Colonel Boyd Yaden & Myrtle Madison Yaden, Public Works Administration, United States Army Corps of Engineers, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR I].
Defending the flag. Linen. No. 445.
New York: Sam’l Gabriel Sons & Co. 1918. 4to. 12 pp unpaginated. varnished on linen with 6 colour chromolith plates including front & back self-printed covers minor creasing edgewear very minor soiling still a VG copy. First edition thus of this wonderfully illustrated chromolith linen picture book featuring patriotic illustrations of sailors submarines torpedo boats Zeppelins biplanes Bleriot monoplane battleships and drummer boy and flag. Sam’l Gabriel Sons & Co., unknown
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[Civil War Memoir] Sheridan, Philip H
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan.
New York:: Charles L. Webster & Company 1888. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine bright and tight set in fresh mylar protective jackets. The gilt lettering and cover decorations are bright. Philip Sheridan was a Union general in the Civil War and his career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Grant transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864 he defeated Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley called "The Burning" by residents was one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the war. In 1865 his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox. Sheridan prosecuted the later years of the Indian Wars of the Great Plains. Both as a soldier and private citizen he was instrumental in the development and protection of Yellowstone National Park. The general suffered a series of massive heart attacks two months after sending these memoirs to the publisher. Charles L. Webster & Company, unknown
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[KOREAN WAR -- SEABEES ON GUAM]. [BENNETT, Chief William E]
Photo album with 19 photographs and scrapbook documenting the work of Chief William Bennett in the 103rd U.S. Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 10 on Guam from 1951 to 1953 including 26 issues of the very scarce in-house news journal The Beehive Vol. I No. 1 6-24 28 together with blueprints movement orders and more.
San Francisco CA & Guam M.I.: 103rd Naval Construction Battalion/US Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 10 1951-1953. 4to. 60 pp unpaginated. thick paper stock w/ 19 photographs sized from 3 x 5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. many w/ photographer’s stamps on versos 1 w/ lengthy manuscript annotation; 40 tipped-in mimeograph and printed/typed sheets of orders movement orders transfer orders U.S. Navy Hospital Bulletins and more; together with 26 issues of the Beehive each 4-8 pp. separately paginated from 4to. to Folio format many folded some w/ minor tears creasing often w/ mailing information on back cover 3 tipped-in to scrapbook 23 loose separate issues 2 duplicates w/ numerous photo illustrations text illustrations comic strips and more. Simulated wood grain boards souvenir scrapbook from the Oregon Journal comb-bound as issued some minor soiling edgewear occasional offsetting to some of the tipped-in pieces from glue still a VG exemplar. This photo album/scrapbook documents the career of Chief William Bennett 1906-1986 a welding specialist with Willamette Iron & Steel who had been recalled in 1951 during the Korean War to serve with the Seabees on Guam. He had supervised the welding crews on the giant USS Artisan ABSD-1 -- later redesignated as the AFDB-1 the world’s largest auxiliary floating drydock. Bennett served on her when she was towed in sections to Guam from Pearl Harbor through 1951 and reconstituted to serve as a mobile ship repair and shipbuilding drydock facility. When Chief Bennett was assigned to the 103rd Seabees they were the longest continually operating Naval Construction Battalion building from World War II up to the Korean War Quonset huts for Naval Personnel and offices a movie theatre the old mess hall built weather stations housing for Guam locals generating plants and more. The photographs include an image of the sidewall of the USS Artisan Chief Bennett’s offices aerial photos of airfields and other projects under construction by the Seabees and more. The Beehive’s first issue is launched 6 June 1952 with a blank banner heading and contest for suggested names of the newspaper followed by several articles about Seabee construction by the 103rd NCB. The issues feature local news Mobile Construction Battalion history commentaries photos illustrations blueprints and diagrams showing construction projects progress sports news and comic strips by R.E. Hakanson Hudson and others. Bennett would return to live in Portland and work for Willamette Iron & Steel in the shipbuilding yards in 1953 and later was self-employed selling decorative agate tables and clocks with his wife Ramona Angus Bennett 1924-2017. No copies of The Seabee located in Worldcat; Battalion History MCB Ten Seabees 1943-1976; U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Archives. 103rd Naval Construction Battalion/US Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 10, hardcover
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[CIVIL WAR -- WISCONSIN]. RUSK, Jeremiah M & CHAPMAN, Chandler P
Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers War of the Rebellion 1861-1865. Volume I. Cavalry Artillery 1st to 15th Regiments. Infantry; Volume II. 16th to 53rd Regiments Infantry. Miscellaneous.
Madison WI: Democrat Printing Co. State Printers 1883-1886. Two vols. Thick 8vo. vii 1 829 1; 979 1 pp. Uniformly bound in publisher’s brown half-calf over pebbled black cloth decorated endpapers gilt decorated spines minor rubbing edgewear minor scuffing to corners vol. II rebacked w/ original spine laid down still VG- set w/ typed Honor Roll Lists for the Spanish-American War Veterans from Vernon County WI World War I Veterans as well as Deceased Civil War Veterans from the Grand Army of the Republic Alex Lowrie Post No. 36 Viroqua WI from library of Ramona Angus Bennett 1924-2017. First edition of these invaluable reference works for Wisconsin soldiers in the Civil War with lists by Regiment Company Home Residence Date entered Service Discharge Dates and more. Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR II -- HOMEFRONT WOMEN]. [PALMER, Mabel Evelyn].
Memory book. Fascinating scrapbook filled with clippings menus invitations letters thank you notes itineraries mimeograph publications and more. compiled by the Vice President and then President of the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs by a Eugene Oregon beauty and fashion shop owner during World War II.
Eugene OR: Mabel Evelyn Palmer Business and Professional Women’s Clubs 1940-1946. Oblong 4to. 13.25 x 9.75 in. 56 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 140 pieces of ephemera tipped-in including 12 printed & dittoed conference booklets w/ itineraries & menus schedules of events and participants 12 issues of the B.P.W. News magazine numerous TLS & ALS notes some on letterhead many on decorative cards Homefront Wartime fundraiser events and more. Half-black cloth over pinkish boards sewn at gutter margin through nickel-plated rivets w/ black lace occasional loose pieces toning to clippings still a NF exemplar. This remarkable scrapbook preserves and documents the many different activities meetings conferences banquets and programs by Vice President and President Mabel Palmer for the Eugene Professional and Business Women’s Club. Established initially during World War I the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs helped to organize and direct the resources of professional American women and were the first organization to focus on working women’s issues and repeal and prohibit legislation across America denying jobs to married women and end the legality of favoring young unmarried women for cheap labor. Palmer 1906-1983 during her tenure from 1941-1942 helped the Eugene BPW the largest in Oregon to focus on defense and home front war activities. As evidenced by the many clippings printed programs and in-house journal publications within the scrapbook the Eugene club donated money to the Salvation Army raised funds for the benefit of Chinese Nurses sponsored lectures on promoting American Democracy and protecting against Nazi sympathizers raised funds for War Bonds and the Red Cross and even organized fashion show fundraisers. There are menus and souvenir brochures from the BPW conference at Eugene in 1941 the Timberline Conference held in Sept. 1940 sponsored programs such as “Strengthen Democracy in our Town†“Our Country in a War Torn World†“Training for Defense†and many others. Mabel Evelyn Palmer, Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR II HOME FRONT -- PORTLAND, OREGON/WOMEN].
Charming photo album and scrapbook documenting the Kindergarten and Preschool activities of St. Mary’s Academy in Portland Oregon including photographs of children playing parties field trips as well as a reply letter from President Roosevelt signed by his private secretary Grace Tully.
Portland OR: St. Mary’s Academy Preschool and Kindergarten 1608 SW Fifth Ave. 1945. Folio. 11.5 x 14.5 in. 16 pp unpaginated. thick light-gray coloured leaves each w/ tissue guards w/ 9 silver gelatin photos sized from 4 x 6 in. up to 8 x 10 in. all w/ pen & ink annotations above or below the image 3 printed photos 1 TLS on White House letterhead 2 typed sheets of enrolled students’ names and 1 tipped-in newspaper clipping glue residue on rear pastedown from removed item. Contemporary embossed black cloth post-binder raised gilt lettering on front cover decoration in blind sewn at gutter margin w/ black silk braid very minor shelfwear slight scuffing VG exemplar. An engaging photo album depicting the Home Front activities of the young students enrolled in the St. Mary’s Academy Preschool and Kindergarten during the depths of World War II. Printed photos show the ivy-covered building in downtown Portland followed by photos of children in the Baby Buggy brigade Preschool class on the playground a field trip to the fire station birthday party playing with blocks tea party and prayers. Of special interest is the TLS on White House letterhead dated Dec. 4 1944 soon after President Roosevelt had won the election for a fourth term from his private secretary Grace G. Tully 1900-1984 thanking the children for their prayers and nice letter with best wishes from the President. Tully had originally assisted Eleanor Roosevelt and then become private secretary to President Roosevelt after Missy LeHand’s stroke in 1941. She later published her memoir as FDR: My Boss in 1949. St. Mary’s Academy is Oregon’s oldest continually operating secondary school founded in 1858 and while it maintained a co-educational preschool and kindergarten program during World War II it was strictly a single-gender school for 1st grade through high school. St. Mary’s Academy, Preschool and Kindergarten, 1608 SW Fifth Ave., hardcover
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[WOMEN -- WORLD WAR I]. McKENNA, Marthe [Mathilde Cnockaert].
Spies I knew.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. 1934. 8vo. xx 21-266 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates illustrations. Orange cloth silver lettering w/ d.j. photo cover art of images from World War I minor chipping head & foot of spine dustsoiling still NF/VG- copy. Second edition of this rousing sequel to “I was a spy†recounting the World War I espionage adventures of the six spies the author mostly closely interacted with while working as a nurse for the Germans and passing on information to British Intelligence during the war. Robert M. McBride & Co., hardcover
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[WOMEN -- WORLD WAR I]. McKENNA, Marthe [Mathilde Cnockaert].
I was a spy!
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. 1933. 8vo. 288 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates illustrations. Quarter-black cloth over photo-pictorial boards cover art images of WWI rubbing & wear to lower fore-edge very minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. photo cover art of images from World War I minor edgewear creasing VG-/VG copy. Second printing of this remarkable memoir recounting the World War I espionage adventures of this Belgian nurse working at a German military hospital in Roulers and passing on information to British Intelligence during the war. She was eventually captured after a sabotage bombing of an ammunition depot and served two years as a prisoner-of-war rather than being executed due to having received prior the Iron Cross from the German Army. Robert M. McBride & Co., hardcover
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Kelly, Robert H
Allied Air Transport Operations South West Pacific Area in WWII Volume Four : 1944 - Supporting the Allied Bases
Buderim QLD Australia: Self Published 2013. Illustrated laminated boards. 555 pages with b/w illustrations. This volume covers the movement of air transport following the Allied advances. . Hard Back. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Self Published hardcover
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[CIVIL WAR -- MEDICINE]. [OTIS, George Alexander, Asst Surgeon & Brevet Lieut-Col].
A report on excisions of the head of the femur for gunshot injury. Circular No. 2. War Department Surgeon General’s Office. . . .
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1869. 4to. 9.75 x 11.25 in. 141 3 pp. With table of contents printed on verso of last leaf tipped-in errata slip. With 3 lithograph engravings taken from photographs by E.J. Ward and William Bell lithographed by Julius Bien 71 text engravings. Original printed softcovers very minor chipping head & foot of spine couple minor closed tears dustsoiling w/o rear wrapper still a G mostly uncut & unopened copy. First edition of this in-depth report on surgeries carried out during the Civil War on 270 Union and Confederate soldiers detailing the data and case histories collected by him while detailing the primary intermediate and secondary excisions. The two appendices include tables which summarize the various excisions by Otis as well as providing an extensive bibliography of similar hip surgeries. E.J. Ward and William Bell were photographers at the Army Medical Museum charged with documenting the injuries and results of surgeries by military personnel until 1869. This work is among the earliest examples of engravings taken directly from photographs in a surgical text. Bien 1826-1909 was an outstanding lithographer and cartographer responsible for 1000s of maps issued during the 19th-century as well as a pioneer in chromolithography. Rutkow History of Surgery in the United States Vol. I OR23; Treadwell & Darrah Photographers of the United States of America 2003. Government Printing Office, paperback
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[WORLD WAR I -- ELLSWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS]. ROBBINS, F C (Compil).
History of the soldiers and sailors of Ellsworth County in the Great World War 1917-1918. . . .
Ellsworth KS: Ellsworth Reporter October 1919. 8vo. 39 1 pp. Blue-printed softcovers edgewear rubbing minor creasing to corners uniform interior toning still VG- copy from the library of former Sergeant Errol George Sinclair 1895-1971 enlisted in 1917 trained with the Machine Gun Company at Fort Logan CO and Fort Douglas UT and then transferred in 1918 to the 10th Division at Camp Funston Fort Riley KS. First edition of this very scarce original printing of all of the World War I veterans from Ellsworth County KS who served during the War with special mention of the Liberty Loan Drives as well as those killed in action. Worldcat locates 1 original copy Univ. of Kansas -- issued reprint in 1986. Ellsworth Reporter, paperback
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[WORLD WAR I]. WALDRON, Captain William H
Scouting and patrolling. . . .
Washington D.C.: United States Infantry Association 1916. 12mo. 156 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Many diagrams text illustrations several large folding plates. Olive-green publisher’s cloth black lettering on front cover minor wear rubbing some soiling front cover slightly shaken still VG- copy from the library of former Sergeant Errol George Sinclair 1895-1971 enlisted in 1917 trained with the Machine Gun Company at Fort Logan CO and Fort Douglas UT and then transferred in 1918 to the 10th Division at Camp Funston Fort Riley KS together with Sinclair’s Sergeant’s stripes and Registration Certificate June 1917. Third edition of this volume in the “Waldron Books†series which proved to be vital training handbooks with this title focusing on scouting concealment patrols reconnaissance messages and more. Waldron 1877-1947 fought in the Philippines during the Philippine Insurrection and in China with the 9th Infantry and was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1922. United States Infantry Association, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR I -- MACHINE GUNS].
Confidential handbook of the Browning Automatic Rifle Model 1918 Air Cooled. . . War Department Document No. 845.
Washington D.C.: War Plans Division Office of the Adjutant General August 1918. 12mo. 40 pp. With 9 plates couple photographic 1 large folding. Light tan printed softcovers minor edgewear still NF copy from the library of former Sergeant Errol George Sinclair 1895-1971 enlisted in 1917 trained with the Machine Gun Company at Fort Logan CO and Fort Douglas UT and then transferred in 1918 to the 10th Division at Camp Funston Fort Riley KS. First edition of this very scarce United States Army manual on the famed Browning Automatic Rifle BAR and the M1918 version was chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the AEF. Although designed to be used firing from the hip with a sling over the shoulder in practice this light machine gun was often fired from a bipod and eventually became standard issue in the US Army in 1938 used extensively through World War II and the Korean War. Worldcat locates 6 copies Connecticut State Library Hagley US Army Combined Arms War College Western Reserve Wisconsin Vet Museum. War Plans Division, Office of the Adjutant General, paperback
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[WORLD WAR I -- MACHINE GUNS].
Handbook of the Marlin Aircraft Machine Gun Model of 1917. No. 1933. . . .
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1918. 12mo. 72 pp. With 9 plates a couple photographic 2 large folding. Light blue printed softcovers minor edgewear dustsoiling very minor creasing to corners still VG copy from the library of former Sergeant Errol George Sinclair 1895-1971 enlisted in 1917 trained with the Machine Gun Company at Fort Logan CO and Fort Douglas UT and then transferred in 1918 to the 10th Division at Camp Funston Fort Riley KS. First edition of this very scarce and excellent United States Army manual on the updated M1917 Machine Gun developed by Carl Swebilius a longtime Swedish-American Marlin gunsmith and engineer which was sold originally to the Army as a machine gun for tanks. This improved version was designed for use in Army Air Corps airplanes with many aluminum parts to conserve weight using Constantinesco-Colley synchronizing gear firing through the plane’s spinning propellers and were well received as they did not have the problems of freezing experienced by the Lewis machine guns. Twenty-two squadrons of the US Army Air Corps in France weresupplied with Marlin Machine guns and more than 1500 were sent to the AEF who held them in front line service until 1925. Worldcat locates 4 copies Yale Hagley Cleveland US Army War College. Government Printing Office, paperback
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[WORLD WAR I].
Drill regulations for cavalry United States Army. Amended 1909 Corrected to January 1 1911. War Department Document No. 340.
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1911. Thick 16mo. 514 pp. With 100s of text illustrations diagrams music bars. Tan publisher’s cloth gilt lettering stamped on front cover minor bumping wear rubbing slightly shaken still VG- copy from the library of former Sergeant Errol George Sinclair 1895-1971 enlisted in 1917 trained with the Machine Gun Company at Fort Logan CO and Fort Douglas UT and then transferred in 1918 to the 10th Division at Camp Funston Fort Riley KS. Revised & expanded edition of this scarce manual including sections on training and signals for the soldier the cavalry trooper troop squadron regiment brigade division and corps. Extended sections detail movements and actions governing the deployment of cavalry marches camping ceremonies cavalry horses shoeing stables packing and trumpet calls. Government Printing Office, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR I -- RANGE-FINDERS].
Handbook of range-finders 70 cm. and 80 cm. base for use of infantry and cavalry with description and instructions for their care and use. . . No. 1797.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1917. 8vo. 25 1 pp. With 12 plates most photographic. Tan printed softcovers minor dustsoiling edgewear minor creasing to couple corners still VG copy from the library of former Sergeant Errol George Sinclair 1895-1971 enlisted in 1917 trained with the Machine Gun Company at Fort Logan CO and Fort Douglas UT and then transferred in 1918 to the 10th Division at Camp Funston Fort Riley KS. Revised edition of this work on using telescopic coincidence rangefinders which used parallax to calculate the range by adjusting the two separate images until they were aligned and then the range could be calculated. Government Printing Office, paperback
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CRIMEAN WAR
Théâtre Complet de la Guerre en Europe 1855.
Paris: Danlos 1855. Apparently first and only edition no other copy traced. Visually highly appealing map produced for the interpretation of events unfolding during the Crimean War. Folding lithographically printed map opening 820 x 1180 mm dissected into 40 panels and mounted on linen. Map of Europe outline colour inset city maps of London Paris Vienna St. Petersburg Constantinople Rome Naples Madrid Lisbon Berlin Stockholm and Copenhagen two attractive hand-coloured trophies; one featuring the flags of the Allies France Turkey and England above that of Russia the other a trophy of arms with the French flag and a banner reading "Union et Force". Some panels beginning to lift at the edges some creases but no loss a little browned but overall very good. unknown
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[WORLD WAR II -- MARINES]. [WENGERT, Leo L & ERKE, Herman E]
Pictorial arrowhead. Occupation of Japan by Second Marine Division.
Nagasaki Kyushu Japan: 2nd Marine Division Division Special Services Section Division Photographic and Reproduction Sections 1946. Oblong folio. 82 pp unpaginated. Over 250 photo illustrations tinted blue 1 large map all with identifying text. Illustrated printed softcovers showing the devastation of Nagasaki cover art by Wengert punch sewn at gutter margin with brown silk ribbon as issued minor shelfwear minor bumping to corners slight creasing still VG copy. First edition of this photo-illustrated work chronicling the movements of the 2nd Marine division commanded by Major General LeRoy Hunt in occupying Japan between Sept. 23 1945 and July 1 1946. The 2nd Marine Division was composed of the 2nd 6th and 8th Regimental Combat Teams along with an Artillery group of the 10th Marine Regiment as well as a Headquarters Battalion Service Troops an Engineer Group a Tank Battalion and other smaller organizations. The images show troops bedding down in a ruined Mistubishi Factory inventorying Japanese war materials and subsequent destruction before and after pictures recording the devastation from the Atomic Bomb the troops interacting with the Japanese survivors along with numerous scenes of life in Japan after the War. 2nd Marine Division, Division Special Services Section, Division Photographic and Reproduction Sections, paperback
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[World War I] Fussell, Paul
The Great War and Modern Memory.
New York:: Oxford University Press 1975. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy with a discreet owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear. This is one of seminal books examining the shattering effects of the First World War on the English soldiers that took part in the slaughter fields of France. Fussell traces the changes in attitudes and the shattered idealism that marked the Lost Generation forever following the armistice. The effects of the carnage inflicted by the war changed the attitudes of the writers involved and created a new more "modern" artistic temperment and forced new images of violence into their language and art which infused the collective consciousness of their generation and those that followed. Oxford University Press, unknown
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[KOREAN WAR -- UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS]. [ELLIS, Eugene Roger].
This well-documented photo album and scrapbook log the career of U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Ellis from 1947 through 1953 chronicling his time as a Reserve while a student at Lewis & Clark College in Portland and then Washington State University in Pullman who becomes Staff Sergeant while serving on the USS Philippine Sea is involved in operations in Korea visits Japan and finally is stationed at Cherry Point North Carolina.
Portland OR: Eugene R. Ellis 1947-1953. Oblong folio. 14.5 x 11 in. 84 pp unpaginated. With 381 tipped-in original photos most snapshots but many Navy and Studio photographs as well 9 in colour ranging in size from 2 x 2 in to 10 x 12.5 in. currency Reserve cards Marine Corps certificates & official orders clippings notes business cards beer bottle labels and more all tipped-in most with descriptive captions in white lettering below the images and as headings on the pages. Beige-coloured padded cloth post-binder brass post screws occasional rubbing some creasing to occasional photos some removed minor wear & rubbing still a VG- exemplar. This photo album supplies an excellent visual and historical record for the career of a young Marine Corps Sergeant during the Korean War era. The images encompass his time at Camp Pendleton on leave at Knotts Berry Farm in 1950 training at Parris Island SC on liberty in New Orleans in 1951 with numerous shots of the camp the city of New Orleans beach antics while on liberty and then sea duty on USS Philippine Sea from 1951 through 1952. The USS Philippine Sea was an Essex Class Carrier who flew squadrons of SB2C-5 Helldivers P9F Panther jet fighters and AD-4 Skyraiders. The photos contained in the album include pictures of the Carrier the Panther jet aircraft many of the squadrons preparing for flight operations while she was providing support operations attacking Sui-ho Dam and sending aircraft against targets in Pyongyang. The snapshot images include pictures of her time while stopping over in Pearl Harbor before her second tour in Korea her stopover in Yokosuka Japan with many images of Japanese people and life in the cities and countryside along with Marines standing in Review and more. A shot of the the USS Philippine Sea fighting through heavy snow and icy weather in Jan 1952 is particularly nice. He was then promoted and assigned to the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 at Cherry Point NC which provided helicopter support of the Fleet Marine Force Units on the East Coast during the War. There are many images of the choppers personnel his family life while stationed there leave activities and more. Ellis 1929-1984 married Virginia Brittan in 1948 attended Lewis & Clark College and then WSU in Pullman before being activated for duty during Korea. Eugene R. Ellis, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR II -- SPORTS FACILITIES].
Typical layout -- diagrams & construction details for recreation facilities. Approved for Camp Athletic Facilities War Department The Special Services Branch. 614-225.
Washington DC: Construction Division Office of the Chief of Engineers War Department 1942. Oblong elephant folio. 20 x 14 in. 19 leaves including 18 plans. Printed softcovers black & red lettering on front cover minor chipping edgewear minor toning to fore-edges still VG- copy stapled as issued. Second edition revised of this set of plans for the Special Services Branch during World War II which had been set up in 1941 to direct morale recreational and welfare functions for soldiers. These plans include sports and recreation facilities including Baseball fields Basketball courts Boxing rings Golf courses Ice Hockey Rinks Football fields and more. They detail the sizes necessary equipment grading instructions types of drainage fields needed and many other details. Worldcat locates No Copies 5 copies of 1941 edition. Construction Division, Office of the Chief of Engineers, War Department], paperback
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[WORLD WAR II]. GRANT, Howard Lyle
Shot down but not defeated. . . .
Thatcher AZ: Howard Lyle Grant 2000. 4to. 158 2 pp. Numerous photos illustrations maps. Colour-illustrated softcovers colour front cover art of flyer parachuting photo on rear cover very minor shelfwear VG copy signed by author on cover. Second printing signed of this memoir by Sergeant Grant a ball turret gunner on a B-17G 833rd Squadron 486th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force shot down on Oct. 5 1944 and was POW until April 25 1945 and managed to survive the Black Hunger March across Germany. Howard Lyle Grant, paperback
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[WORLD WAR I]. SCHREINER, George Abel
The craft sinister. A diplomatico-political history of the Great War and its causes -- Diplomacy and international politics and diplomatists as seen at close range by an American newspaperman who served in Central Europe as war and political correspondent. . . .
New York: G. Albert Geyer 1920. Tall 8vo. xxvi 2 422 pp. Blue cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. fantastic cover art of diplomat clutching a globe on blue background slight shelfwear rubbing NF/NF copy. First edition of this rare and hard-hitting expose of the diplomatic blunders and mistakes that led to World War I drew out its trauma and casualties and in the aftermath caused the catastrophic failure of the German State. He lays this at the feet of the myopic and nationalist views pushed by the French & English victors and the amateur diplomacy of those appointed by Wilson to negotiate the peace after World War I who demanded the complete removal of the monarchy. Sadly he was very prescient in forseeing the elements which contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party and World War II but to the failures of American State building in Iraq and the Middle East after 9/11. Schreiner 1875-1942 was a noted war correspondent during World War I for the Associated Press who reported from many of the battlefields behind enemy lines. G. Albert Geyer, hardcover
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[WORLD WAR I -- PRISONERS OF WAR].
German prisoners in Great Britain.
Bolton & London: Tillotson & Son Ltd. Printers 1916. 4to. 62 pp. Decorated title sepia-tinted photogravure frontisp. numerous photo illustrations throughout. Beige softcovers brown lettering on front cover minor creasing to spine minor bumping to corners w/ d.j. minor chipping head & foot of spine edgewear soiling to upper fore-edge still VG/G- copy. First edition of this series of photographs taken of German POWs in England during World War I at the request of United States Ambassador James Gerard in order to encourage proper treatment of British POWs in Germany. These photos illustrated the largest Prisoners of War camps in Great Britain -- Donington Hall Alexandra Palace Corchester Handforth Lofthouse Park and Eastcote. Tillotson & Son, Ltd., Printers, paperback
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[BOER WAR]. DAVITT, Michael
The Boer fight for freedom. From the beginning of hostilities to the Peace of Pretoria. . . .
New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls Co. 1902. Tall thick 8vo. xii 607 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo illustrations plates maps. Orange cloth gilt lettering & ruling on front cover embossed lozenge illustration in gilt red white blue & green gilt lettering w/ flag on spine some minor soiling edgewear minor bumping to corners inner hinge starting still VG- copy w/ erotic bookplate for library of William Rankin. Third edition revised & expanded of this account of the Boer Wars by the Irish Republican nationalist agrarian reformer and labor leader. Funk & Wagnalls Co., hardcover
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[AVIATION -- KOREAN WAR].
Flight handbook. USAF series F-86A aircraft. Security information -- restricted. T.O. No. 1F-86A-1 Formerly AN 01-60JLA0-1. . . ; Safety of flight supplement. Flight handbook USAF Series F-86A aircraft Feb. -- May 1955.
n.p.: United States Air Force United States Navy December 5 1953 - May 13 1955. 4to. 192; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2 pp. 100s of illustrations diagrams colour diagrams charts some leaves printed in red & black. Bound in split-ring clasp binder holes punched at gutter margin as issued metal clasp black lettering on front sover rounded corners minor shelfwear soiling still a VG- copy w/ contents in excellent condition. First edition of this exceedingly scarce flight handbook for the famed North Americaqn F-86A Sabrejet swept wing fighter jet. This jet fought continual high-speed dogfights over Korea with similar swept-wing Soviet MiG-15 jet fighters and was considered the best fighter aicraft in the war. It experienced an extended production run of over 7800 aircraft through 1956 and was used in Air Forces around the world until 1994. This handbook details the capabilities for the aircraft armed with .50-caliber machine guns carrying bombs rockets or chemical tanks powered by the J47 turbojet engine operating limitations flight characteristics systems operation crew duties and all-weather operations. Many of the American pilots flying the Sabrejets during the Korean War were experienced World War II veterans. However as the war progressed increasing numbers of pilots were being trained at Nellis Air Force Base and the casualty rate for the fighters were quite high. The American pilots succeeded in downing 792 MiG fighters during the War. No copies located in Worldcat. United States Air Force, United States Navy], unknown
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WORLD WAR II; JAPAN
Photograph album: "Thoughts on Military Life" title in Japanese.
Japan: 1940. Superb personal photo album portraying the training of a Japanese infantry officer cadet at the junior division of the Rikugun Yonen Gakko - Imperial Japanese Army Academy - at Asaka in Saitama province at the outset of World War II. Images show his family and friends; his well-appointed room with stacked arms; group portraits of cadets; the buildings on campus and locally interiors of a mess hall lecture theatre and of a barrack-room; parades and drill on the drill square; training exercises with firehoses and with howitzers and attack training under live fire with smoke drifting across the parade ground; jukenjitsu or kendo-style bayonet training; sumo wrestling and a traditional dance performance. A highly evocative visual document which is further enhanced by the fact that is has the marks of having been captured and passed as legitimate "loot" with the ink-stamp "Examined in the field. passed by Joint Intelligence". It was taken by U.S. Marine Sergeant Michael Kolesar of Ironwood Michigan serving with A Co. 6th Tank Battalion 6th Marine Division and has his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper datelined Okinawa April 1945. The 6th Marine Division was the only U.S. Marine Division formed and disbanded overseas never setting foot as a Division in the United States. It was formed on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in September 1944 composed of the 4th 22nd and 29th Marines and assorted Engineering Medical Tank Headquarters and service battalions. They landed on Okinawa 1 April 1945 as part of III Amphibious Corps swept through the northern Ishikawa Isthmus and then engaged in heavy fighting against the Shuri Line located in hills honeycombed with caves and passages across the southern Coastline fighting for over a week and then advanced through Naha. Kolesar's tank battalion was involved in the campaign through Naha and then the Oroku peninsula sustaining heavy losses. For its part in an operation which came to be known as the "Typhoon of Steel" for the sheer intensity of the fighting the 6th received a Presidential Unit Citation for "extraordinary heroism in action". The Division was prepared for the invasion of Japan which never took place so they were sent to Tsingtao China in October 1945 disbanding in April 1946. Kolesar was evidently back home before the unit reached China the Ironwood Daily Globe of 24 October 1945 recording his presentation of a Japanese rifle that he had brought back as a trophy to the local Conservation Club he evidently retained possession of this attractive and fascinating album. Landscape quarto 215 x 282 mm. Title page with "calligraphic inscription" extolling the five codes of the Imperial Precepts to Soldiers and Sailors - Loyalty Propriety Valour Fai8thfulness and Righteousness and Valour - 75 original photographs of various formats - ranging from 100 x 70 mm to 115 x 155 mm - neatly mounted on 48 black card leaves tissue-guards remaining intact and to verso of the free endpapers some with carefully written captions in Japanese on shaped paper labels beneath. Original silk cord-backed album of black half morocco-grain cloth bottle green velvet boards the front deeply stamped with title in gilt together with Japanese Army Cadet insignia of a star within wreath and motif of a steel helmet in red with gilt katana in a flurry of cherry blossom petals. A little rubbed at the extremities but overall very good. hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 98081
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[KOREAN WAR]. KESTNER, Major Franklin D & LIVINGSTON, James
To the last man! Kulbes’ mongrels at the Chosin Reservoir Korea 1950. Forewords by Frank Kerr Rick Seward Gordon Green and Phillip A. Kulbes.
Tucson AZ: Westernlore Press 1991. 8vo. xv 3 170 pp. Numerous photo illustrations. Simulated red calf binding gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. minor creasing to spine still NF/VG copy signed & numbered on limitation page. First edition limited & signed No. 449. This gripping memoir relates the battle and fight at Chosin Reservoir in 1950 by Company D 10th Engineer Battalion Combat 3rd Infantry Division a mixed unit composed of castoffs and misfits rejected by other units and their heroism in the Korean War. Westernlore Press, unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 49843
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[KOREAN WAR]. CONNOR, John W
Let slip the dogs of war. A memoir of the GHQ 1st Raider Company 8245th Army Unit a.k.a. Special Operations Company Korea 1950-51.
Bennington VT: Merriam Press 2008. 8vo. 233 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations. Black cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. NF/NF copy inscribed by author on ffep. First edition inscribed. Merriam Press, hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 49831 ISBN : 1435717414 9781435717411
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[WORLD WAR II -- HOME FRONT SCRAPBOOK & PHOTO ALBUM/WOMEN]. [OTIS, Patricia Eileen].
Junior Jive. . . A fascinating photo album and scrapbook filled with 100s of cards souvenirs drawings school schedules newspaper clippings rodeo programs theater programs pressed corsages 17 tipped-in original photos and Real Photo Postcards recording documenting the life and experiences of this young woman who serves as Student Body President for Newberg Union High School cheerleader reporter Miss Columbia actress artist and later her life on the World War II home front as a Willamette University Student.
Newberg & Springbrook OR: Patricia Eileen Otis 1941-1944. Thick 4to. 116 pp unpaginated comprised of thick beige leaves 100s of newspaper clippings ditto copies printed packets menus theatre programs announcements permission forms documents 17 tipped-in original photographs drawings in pencil coloured pencil paint corsages 1 orchid a couple carnations and much more. Contemporary embossed post binder brown boards gilt raised lettering on front cover bound at gutter margin w/ brown silk braid some toning fraying to some samples minor tears still a VG piece. This outstanding World War II-era home front scrapbook chronicles the high school and college career of young Patricia Otis b. 1925 providing an excellent historical document of life in the Pacific Northwest during the 1940s. Patricia Otis appears to have been a remarkable young woman heavily involved in just about every high school activity running for Student Body President cheerleading drama school newspaper & yearbook staff and much more. She includes souvenirs of participation in the Music for America Operetta a patriotic piece held in Newberg in March 1942 set just after the events of Pearl Harbor; clipping and drawings of Newberg students filling trucks with sand to put out incendiary bombs should be dropped on the Pacific Northwest; War Bond drives held by the Disabled American Veterans in conjunction with the High School and election of Miss Columbia; photos of the Newberg Union football team nicknamed the Douglas Dive-Bombers; clippings about Patricia as Miss Columbia at Veterans ceremony honoring Henry Hopkins who in 1943 was one of the oldest living Civil War Veterans; a list of service men in South Pacific who had been classmates; describes the shortages of photographic paper due to wartime rationing as well as clippings announcing the christening of the Liberty ship John W. Troy launched at the Oregon Shipyards in 1944 by her roommate Nancy Merki. In addition there are 100s of notes drawings school souvenirs dance cards and much more recording everyday high school and college life. The Romig and Otis family had many military veterans including Patricia Otis’ grandfather Dr. Edward A. Romig 1852-1939 Army Surgeon for the 40th Infantry during the Philippine Insurrection who settled in Newberg OR following his discharge from the Army in 1903; and her father Ralph Grey Otis 1891-1959 served from 1918-1919 as a Corporal in the US Army Battery D 27th Artillery and later operated the family farm in Rex OR for many decades. See: The Community of Rex Oregon In: The West Side Feb. 2009 pp. 6-8. Patricia Eileen Otis, hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 49953
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