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2018rif. 1-1717946259Independently published 2018. Paperback. New. 375 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.85 inches. Independently published paperback
2011rif. 1-0309162475National Academies Press 2011. Paperback. New. 141 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. National Academies Press paperback
2000rif. 1-1565546865Pelican Pub Co Inc 2000. Hardcover. New. 384 pages. 9.25x8.50x1.50 inches. Pelican Pub Co Inc hardcover
2012rif. 1-0811711706Stackpole Books 2012. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 10.00x1.10x8.00 inches. Stackpole Books hardcover
2013rif. 1-0811711714Stackpole Books 2013. Hardcover. New. hardcover edition. 336 pages. 10.00x8.30x1.10 inches. Stackpole Books hardcover
1920rif. 61886n.p.: The Gray Book Committee n.d.; 1920. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Stapled pamphlet in grey paper wrappers printed in black; 531pp. Lightly rubbed with minor external soil and faint sunning along spine pages facing wrappers browned else bright: Very Good. A collection gathered from various sources of Confederate apologetics and "states' rights" pseudohistory published at the height of Lost Cause propaganda as a sort of vade mecum for members of the association. #61886. The Gray Book Committee unknown
2007rif. mon0003035791National Academies Press 2007-08-31. Paperback. Very Good. 0.9000 9.0000 6.0000. National Academies Press paperback
2013rif. SONG1484893581CREATESPACE 2013-05-04. paperback. Used: Good. 8.50x0.39x11.02. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. CREATESPACE paperback
2018rif. __179293047XIndependently published 2018. Paperback. New. 117 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.27 inches. Independently published paperback
1991rif. D1V00280781991. Single Issue Magazine. Good. A nice copy. Text in mint/unmarked condition. Cover has minor wear. Binding is tight. unknown
2002rif. D1U00280772002. Single Issue Magazine. Good. A nice copy. Text in clean/unmarked condition. Cover has minor wear. Binding is tight. unknown
1987rif. ZB622103Chicopee: Civil War Veterans Historical Association 1987-2006. title varies slightly volumes 1-20 lacks vol. 12#3-4 else all complete volumes quartos illustrated in original stapled self wrappers very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Chicopee: Civil War Veterans Historical Association unknown
1944rif. ZB573607Washington: GPO 1944. viii 257 pp. hardcover frontis. ex library overall very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Washington: GPO hardcover
1971rif. 352118New York: Macmillan 1971. First Edition. Illus. 174pp. 4to. Black cloth. Fine in near fine clippwed dj. First Edition. Illus. 174pp. 4to. Macmillan unknown
2003rif. G1930780060I3N00Government Printing Office 2003. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Government Printing Office paperback
1973rif. 41784N.p.: Vietnam Veterans Against the War 1973. First Edition. Original offset lithographed poster in colors 56cm x 43cm 22" x 17". Fine fresh apparently unused example. Poster sold as a fundraiser for the defense of the Gainesville Eight a group of Florida Vietnam veterans who were accused on dubious evidence of conspiracy to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. All eight defendants including the reputed ringleader Scott Camil were eventually acquitted. A rare poster and this is a lovely fresh example. Not catalogued in OCLC; we note only one institutionally-held copy Library of Congress. Vietnam Veterans Against the War unknown
rif. BK0194Newport Rhode Island August 11 181. Manuscript letter one page on a folded sheet signed in Wilcox's name by Thomas Williams as agent. 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches. Old folds light toning and minor marginal wear. Very good. An early appeal under the landmark pension act of March 18 1818 the first federal legislation extending lifetime pensions to needy Revolutionary War veterans who had not been disabled in service. Benjamin Wilcox a former lieutenant in the Rhode Island Continental Line had applied almost immediately after the law's passage submitting his claim before a Newport judge in late March. Nearly five months later having received no response he wrote directly to Secretary of War John C. Calhoun: "To my great disappointment I have heard nothing of it since. If lack of evidence has been the cause I think I should have heard so. But this was deemed hardly possible by my friends after having given in one of two commissions that I have the honour to have held & such other evidence of services poverty & inability to obtain a livelihood from old age & weakness as the law appeared to require." The new program attracted far more applicants than anticipated forcing Congress to tighten eligibility requirements in 1820. Calhoun himself reported to Congress in 1823 that the War Department had not kept count of pension applications until August 1818 the very month Wilcox wrote demanding to know what had become of his claim. . unknown
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1971rif. 110131NY:: Macmillan Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Edited by David Thorne and George Butler. Black and white photographs throughout. Stated first printing. Several pages have creased lower corners else very good in a very good moderate edge wear dust jacket.; 174 pages . 1971. Macmillan Company, hardcover
rif. DADAX0975593005Brand: Kingsbury Books 0000-00-00. hardcover. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Kingsbury Books hardcover
1971rif. 278Collier 1971. 1st. Soft Cover. 1st paperback ed. 1971. Tall thin 4to. 174 pgs. A VG copy. Collier unknown
rif. SONG0975593005Brand: Kingsbury Books 0000-00-00. hardcover. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Kingsbury Books hardcover
1972rif. 592342Boston: Beacon Press 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the tiny price on the front flap inked over. The Winter Soldier Investigation was a controversial meeting of Vietnam veterans who met to testify about American war crimes in Vietnam. Former presidential candidate John Kerry is listed as a participant in the investigation but doesn't seem to be mentioned specifically in the text. Beacon Press hardcover
1950rif. 201161950. Homelessness press photography archive 1951 to 1990s documents displaced people in American cities through images of soup kitchens public sleeping spaces roadside survival emergency shelters and encampments. The archive provides primary visual evidence for the study of urban poverty public welfare veteran reintegration housing insecurity and the changing visibility of homelessness in the second half of the twentieth century. Its strongest historical value lies in the range of settings recorded: postwar charitable food assistance men sleeping in parks and public spaces Vietnam veterans gathered beneath highway infrastructure shelter-based aid and women living in vehicles with personal belongings and pets. The archive consists of eight black-and-white silver gelatin press photographs from the United States dated from 1951 to the 1990s most measuring approximately 7.25 x 9 inches with several retaining original press captions or newspaper clippings mounted on the verso. The earliest image shows a 1951 soup kitchen scene assisting homeless residents. Later photographs show Vietnam veterans beneath an underpass using mattresses and boxes for seating; a Queens New York veterans' shelter where an African American veteran shops for clothing with a staff supervisor; and Gabrielle Mendosa resting on a mattress near the Miami River beside the encampment identified as "Tent City under the Xway." Additional images show men sleeping on park benches or lawns including a scene associated with the Boston Freedom Trail Walk for the Homeless two men attempting to sell recovered household appliances by the roadside and a woman identified as Lynn living in her car with her belongings and dog while seeking assistance. The photographs are significant because they record homelessness not as a single condition but as a set of lived circumstances shaped by food insecurity military afterlives public space shelter access informal economies and the absence of stable housing. The retained press captions and clippings connect the images to their original journalistic use showing how homelessness was presented to newspaper audiences across several decades. Minor edge wear light handling marks and typical press-photo surface wear; verso caption material and clippings present on several photographs; images remain clear and usable; overall very good. Concentrated documentary archive showing American homelessness from institutional relief to street encampment with particular strength in veteran homelessness and urban public visibility. unknown
rif. 10483Walnut Grove Confederate Veterans Association. Constitution undated records the organizational rules of a local Confederate veterans association and its efforts to preserve Confederate memory while maintaining fellowship and mutual assistance among former soldiers. The manuscript defines who could join establishes officers and administrative procedures and makes sickness death and funeral observance formal responsibilities of the organization. Its language documents the practical structure through which former Confederates maintained social ties after the Civil War and converted wartime affiliation into organized commemorative and benevolent activity. Manuscript "Constitution" for a Confederate Veterans Association at Walnut Grove possibly Tennessee undated. 5½ pages folio. Membership was restricted according to military service and discharge status: "All Confederate veterans who was honorable discharged from service is eligible to membership in this Association." The stated objectives combine remembrance fellowship moral conduct and assistance to members calling for "the Conservation of Confederate memories the formation of fellowship and the Cultivation of friendship between the veterans of the late Confederate War" and "the Exhibition of loyal respect to the recollection and Impulses of a Confederate past." The constitution further directs members toward "the Encouragement and practice of manly virtues" and "the Extension of reasonable aid and sympathy to fellow members in time of sickness and distress and in case of death the rendition of suitable funeral honors." It specifies officer titles and duties and establishes an order of business showing how commemorative aims were translated into recurring administrative practice. Particular attention to illness death and funeral honors places mutual aid alongside Confederate commemoration as a central purpose of the association. A few committee members are named on the verso of the final page offering possible evidence for identifying the organization and resolving the uncertain Walnut Grove location through further genealogical or local historical research. The manuscript therefore records not only the association's commemorative language but also membership qualifications governance committee activity and obligations to veterans in distress. Condition has not been independently assessed from the supplied information. The survival of the association's working constitution preserves direct evidence of how a local body of Confederate veterans defined membership organized its affairs and prescribed the remembrance of the Confederate past. unknown
