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1985152 page paperback book. Footnotes. Roll of honour. Honours and Awards. Bibliography. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Author wrote this book documenting the contributions of Canada's native people in both world wars because no book had previously been written on the topic. "The long list of those who gave their lives bears testimony to war's consequences. Nevertheless, in the midst of battle, qualities such as bravery and self-sacrifice make their appearance and it is these qualities that are recognized." - from Preface. Text divided into four parts: The First World War; Between the Wars; The Second World War; A Comparison with Native Peoples in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this important reference. Book
1961128 pages. Features: Civil Defense Needs the Veterans; The Fulbright Memorandum - a shocking document that attacks military leaders for their efforts to enlighten their personnel and the public about Communism; He Makes the Reds Look Ridiculous - West German publisher Heinrich Baer jabs the Commies with cartoons; Sarah Hale and Thanskgiving; U.S. Taxpayers Financing Communism - money poured into Red Poland being used to bolster Red Cuba; A Creed for Conservaties; American speech - Its Color and variety; The Care and Feeding of Intellectuals - a look at a hothouse species spawned by higher education in the semantics of dialectic materialism; The American guilt Complex - are we being pressured into spending millions on 'conscience' money?; British Guiana - New Red Beachhead after the election of Jagan's Communist oriented P.P.P. to power; The case for Saying No; The Kremlin's Cultural Exchange Fraud - a counterspy views Communist subversion; New York's Role in the Civil War; Seattle World's Fair; Higher Auto Insurance Rates; Country Living for the Younger Set - Kiddies Country Club (KCC); Prophet of the Ozarks - W.H. "Coin" Harvey predicted world disaster... in 1910; Stop the Free Delivery of Communist Propaganda inflow of Communist mail involving the Universal Postal Union; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1949200 pages. Features: Easing the farmer's oldest pain - rheumatism; The Newtons of Pleasant Hill Farm - nice color photos with article about the Park and Ruth Newton family farm near St. Albans, Vermont; Housing for big litters; Less feed, more chicken; Young settlers on the plains - eager veterans have begun farming at Mirage Flats in northwestern Nebraska; What is a good Angus?; Better plant a few nut trees; Mountain school that trains leaders - School of the Ozarks; Wagon ideas to save work; The war against Aftosa; Managing farm finances; Little Johnny Appleseed - Bob Anderson of Van Buren County, Michigan; Shell agricultural laboratory near Modesto, CA; You can help with the mail; Rural art center with over 400 members at Cheltenham Township, PA; and more. Ads: Texaco ad includes Mr. James West of Pomona, CA and his innovative orchard sprayer; B.F. Goodrich ad with large photo at the John and Joseph Mueller farm northeast of Belleville, IL; G.E. radios; Oldsmobile; Kaiser cars (color); Jeep; Chevrolet cars; Gibson Model "E" tractor; New Holland hay equipment (2 pages with photo of Irvin R. Yoder, Belleville, PA); Ford truck ad features Douglas Burden and Florida's Sea World; New York Stock Exchange one-page photo ad features the Louis B. Eckelkamp family of Villa Ridge, MO; Case tractors; Hudson cars (nice 2-page color ad); Hedy Lamarr in Auto-Lite ad; Nice color-photo 1-page John Deere tractor ad; Buick (2 pgs); Ford Tractor (2 pgs); Massey-Harris tractors; Life Insurance ad features the Hinton family of East Peoria, IL, with parents Don and Pauline; Allis-Chalmers Roto-Baler; Minneapolis-Moline Model "Z" tractor; Small photo ad for Harley-Davidson with the Hydra-Glide fork; 1949 Studebaker cars (color photos); Color-photo Camel cigaratte ad on back cover says "More doctors smoke Camel than any other cigarette". Unmarked with average wear. Several middle pages loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
194650 pages. Features: Silent Cities - Photo-illustrated article on Canadian military cemeteries abroad; Our Air Heroes - excerpt from play "Target for Peace" which was broadcast on the CBC; Photo of the 48th Highlanders of Canada pipe band playing in Italy; Top Priority on Homes for Heroes is Legion Demand; How the Town of Renfrew Solved its Housing Problem - article with photo; Education for Citizenship - Lieut. - Col. the Hon. Wilfred Bovey flays those who would throw away Canadian democracy for the way of the Russians; Photo and brief write-up of 93-year-old Sgt. Daniel Byrd Hoskins Power of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston, who explains the secret to his long life; Canada's Veterans in the U.S.A.; The Second V.C. of the R.C.A.F. - The Late Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski; Photo of Bailey Bridge inventor Sir Donald Bailey in Ottawa; Update Colonel Percy J. Philpott, Adviser to the Deputy Minister concerning Veterans of both wars; Review of book "Detour" which describes the life of Prisoners-of-war in Germany; Article on Legion Policies and Activities; Monthly notes on the great humanitarian work of the Dominion Service Bureau of the Canadian Legion; The World in Review - Part 12 - September 11 to October 10, 1946; The Small Holdings Plan; Photo of Victoria Legion's undefeated lacrosse team; Photo of the Jewish legionaires' basketball team of the Fredric Kisch Branch in Montreal; The Canadian Army at War - The Canadians in Britain, 1939-1944, 3rd part; Nice one-page cartoon-illustrated ad for Dawes Black Horse Brewery features hunter being chased by bear; Nostalgic colour ad inside back cover for Blue Top Brewing of Kitchener, Ontario features illustration and floor-plan diagram of an economical home. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Front cover partially faded with mild undulations. Contents moderately toned with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
2002Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 414 pages. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos and documents. A highly-informative history of this Northern Ontario Church and its members. Chapters include: The Rectors, Worship, Ecumenical Worship, Who is My Neighbour?, Youth Activities, Choirs, Women's Activities, Younger Women's Groups Through the Years, Confirmations, Nonagenarians, Some Snapshots, Remembering Pioneer Parishioners, Memories, WWI Veterans, and more. A helpful local history reference for the Dryden area. Attractive forest green boards adorned with gilt lettering. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
197330 pages. Features: VVAW [Vietnam Veterans Against the War] - Government Conspiracy; The Odyssey of Alton Foss; The Peace Movement - putting down roots; God Wrestling - encounter with Yiddishkeit; The New Anarchism; Fasting; Prison Notes - Vietnam; Radio Free America - shortwave's free language schools; The Greening of Norway; B-52 Pilot Michael Heck refuses mission; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
194548 pages. Features: Rheingold lager beer ad features color photos of Jean Welch, Jill Darnley, Maggie Long, Helen Riickert, Dorothy Hart and Rita Daigle, the Miss Rheingold 1946 candidates; Illustrated ad for the Fairchild "Flying Boxcar"; We Enter the Atomic Age - the momentous story of the atom whose energy science has now unleashed; Two pages of fantastic photos illustrating the dramatic story of the atom - from radium to the atomic bomb, including the Curies, Einstein, Niels Bohr, Dr. E.O. Lawrence with a cyclotron, and the great factory at Oak Ridge, TN; Ernest Bevin - a new kind of statesman; When do we abolish (wartime) business controls: Germany is Not Yet Defeated - Senator Harley M. Kilgore argues her industrial power must be destroyed; China - Unless we preserve her full integrity we shall face still another war - Nathaniel Peffer's formula for peace in the Far East; One-page ad for Drene shampoo features three color photos of beautiful Bettina Bolegard, New York fashion model; Veterans storm the academic beachhead; Our music-loving Presidents; Benjamin ('Ben') Victor Cohen is expected to be a bridge from the President to Byrnes and Vinson; Jones & Laughline Steel ad includes sketches of Donald Gortner and Ralph Ardary; Vice Admiral Ben Moreell of the Seabees looks forward to moving his bulldozers into Japan; Boom in New Yorkers studying foreign languages; Interesting half-page ad for The American Mercury features heading "Can We Do Business With Stalin", with illustration of Stalin; Nice one-page Chicken of the Sea and White Star tuna ad; Two pages of photos of ladies in fashionable coats; and more. Average external soiling and wear. Unmarked. Opening to central portion of front cover mended with archival tape. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII issue. Book
1989310 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
1975232 p. ; 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1996xvii, 626 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Best.-Nr. 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 books
1920Best.-Nr. 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 books
1973Best.-Nr. 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 books
1971Best.-Nr. 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 books
1971Best.-Nr. 278Collier 1971. 1st. Soft Cover. 1st paperback ed. 1971. Tall thin 4to. 174 pgs. A VG copy. Collier unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 233301935. Law and PolicyIndianaSpanish-American War U.S. Congress and local government document archive of five pieces concerning Indiana politics in 1935 on veterans' care social welfare legislation and the domestic aftermath of U.S. colonization in the Caribbean. The archive centers on a March 25 1935 bill proposing pensions for veterans of the Spanish-American War including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection their widows and dependents and the accompanying House report dated May 22 1935 extending that claim into committee language cost projections and Veterans' Administration statistics. The documents connect federal pension policy to state electoral geography through August G. Mueller's Indiana congressional apportionment map and to campaign messaging through tabulated votes on the AAA TVA Gold Bill Silver Bill Securities Exchange Act Norris-HOLC Amendment Navy Construction Act Housing Bill and Labor Disputes Bill. Five documents stapled at top left corner. 1935 chiefly Indiana with federal legislative and campaign material extending to Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Oklahoma Oregon and Pennsylvania. 16 pages in total. Documents comprised of one official House bill one official House committee report one Indiana congressional district map one Indiana newspaper clipping of candidates by district and one multi-page ballot-style voting-record leaflet. 1 Mueller August G. Gus. Indiana Congressional Apportionment Map. Indiana ca. 1935. One page. Large printed map headed "August G. Gus Mueller / Secretary of State" showing Indiana's twelve congressional districts with county boundaries and population figures. Lower text notes the "Apportionment of 1931 based on the census of 1930" applicable to elections beginning in 1932 and specifically identifies the portion of Marion County in the 11th District tying the archive's pension and campaign material to the district structure within which Indiana candidates were contesting office. 2 United States House of Representatives. H.R. 6995. In the House of Representatives March 25 1935. One sheet two pages. Official printed bill for the 74th Congress 1st Session titled "A Bill Granting pensions to veterans of the Spanish-American War including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection their widows and dependents and for other purposes." The bill states that laws in effect on March 19 1933 granting such pensions were to be reenacted making the document a direct record of New Deal era restoration and enlargement of benefits for aging veterans of the 1898 war and subsequent U.S. campaigns in China and the Philippines. 3 Newspaper clipping. Indiana candidates by congressional district ca. 1935. Narrow printed clipping listing Indiana candidates district by district including names such as Andrew J. Hickey in the Third District David Hogg in the Fourth Gerald W. Landis in the Seventh Charles F. Werner in the Eighth Chester A. Davis in the Ninth Clarence M. Brown in the Tenth Don Roberts in the Eleventh and Homer Elliott in the Twelfth. In this file the clipping functions as the electoral counterpart to the pension and voting documents showing the candidate field to which these legislative issues were being attached. 4 United States House of Representatives. Report No. 974 To Accompany H.R. 6995. Washington D.C. May 22 1935. Four pages on one sheet bifolded. House report submitted by Mr. Smith of Washington from the Committee on Pensions recommending passage of the bill and giving the most detailed policy language in the archive. Its "General Statement" specifies that the bill would extend benefits to those who served between April 21 1898 and July 4 1902 gives the average monthly payment then being received as $32.17 proposes an average monthly pension award of $42.85 states the average age of such veterans as "61 years and 8 months" and includes a May 9 1935 letter from Frank T. Hines to Allard H. Gasque discussing the estimated surviving veteran population and projected fiscal effect. 5 Voting-record leaflet ca. 1935. Eight page ballot-style political leaflet tabulating senators' and representatives' votes across several states with photographed sections for Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Oklahoma Oregon and Pennsylvania. The tables reduce congressional politics to a usable campaign matrix marking "Y" "N" "NR" and "PF" across measures including the Emergency Banking Act National Economy Act 1933 Independent Offices Bill Beer AAA TVA 1933 Gold Bill CWA continuance 1934 Revenue Bill Veterans' Compensation Bill Bill to Reduce Tariff Securities Exchange Act Norris HOLC Amendment Navy Construction Act Housing Bill and Labor Disputes Bill; accompanying text summarizes selected measures such as the Civil Works Administration continuance Cotton Control Bill Silver Purchase Act and Tariff Act of 1934. The two federal pension papers form the archive's documentary center because they preserve the precise legislative language by which Congress revisited the status of veterans of the Spanish-American War the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection in 1935 decades after those campaigns had extended U.S. power into the Caribbean and Pacific. The supporting Indiana documents show how that policy landscape was translated into district-based electoral work while the voting leaflet widens the view to a national New Deal contest over social provision public spending agriculture currency housing labor and veterans' compensation. Folded and stapled as assembled with pronounced creasing moderate toning and scattered staining to edges; complete and legible. Overall good condition. A snapshot of U.S. policy in the Midwest in 1935 preserving legislation on veteran's pensions New Deal vote-tracking and Indiana electoral geography. unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 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 books
1950Best.-Nr. 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 books
Best.-Nr. 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 books
1971Best.-Nr. 352118New York: Macmillan 1971. First Edition. Illus. 174pp. 4to. Black cloth. Fine in near fine clippwed dj. First Edition. Illus. 174pp. 4to. Macmillan unknown books
1915Best.-Nr. 40978New Orleans 1915. Three printed broadside letters each signed in facsimile by Wm. E. Mickle Adjutant General and Chief of Staff dated 27 February 1904; 17 June 1912; and 1 Nov. 1915. First letter signed in type by Stephen D. Lee Lieutenant General Commanding; the others signed in type by Bennett H. Young General Commanding. Light edge wear else Very Good. Fifty-two delegates representing nine Confederate veterans' organizations elected General John B. Gordon of Georgia as their first commander in chief a position that he held until his death in 1904" "United Confederate Veterans ." Dictionary of American History. . Encyclopedia website 15 May. 2026. The 1912 Letter General Orders No. 4 announces "the following resolution adopted at the Reunion held in Macon Ga. That we hereby most heartily commend to the favorable consideration of the reading public the book written by Hon. Hillary A. Herbert titled 'The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences.' The book is especially adapted for use in the public and other schools; and the school authorities would do well to make it one of their books of history.". unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 90918Moscow: Progress Publishers 1975. Paperback. 390p. paperback color fold-out map; very good. Progress Publishers paperback books
2012Best.-Nr. 2352663Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Inc 2012. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 2012 Large Softcover. 206 pp. Stories from the Members of the Genesee Valley Chapter of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. Illustrated with World War II era black-and-white photographs as well as modern color photos. Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, Inc paperback books
2012Best.-Nr. 2352662Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Inc 2012. Large Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor wear to corners owner address label inside front wrapper. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 2012 Large Softcover. 206 pp. Stories from the Members of the Genesee Valley Chapter of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. Illustrated with World War II era black-and-white photographs as well as modern color photos. Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, Inc paperback books
2012Best.-Nr. 2352664Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Inc 2012. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 2012 Large Softcover. 206 pp. Stories from the Members of the Genesee Valley Chapter of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. Illustrated with World War II era black-and-white photographs as well as modern color photos. Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, Inc paperback books
