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1819réf. 57363Newport R.I.: printed by Wm. & J.H. Barber for the Society 1819. 8vo pp. 24; engraved frontispiece by Fairman of Providence marred by ink stains; full contemporary calf worn; small blank piece lacking from title leaf; stain on early blank leaves. Contains a list of the members from 1752 to 1819. Sectional title page for Laws of the Marine Society at p. 9; with several contemporary ink annotations in the margins including five names added to the membership list at the back. Fairman is not found in Hamilton's Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers. A 1906 Goodspeed catalogue notes of David Fairman 1782-1815 that "this is the only example of the engravers work I have seen. Stauffer says that "none of his work has been found." American Imprints 48586; Hammett p. 90; not found in Bartlett. printed by Wm. & J.H. Barber, for the Society unknown books
1882réf. 56285Washington: Government Printing Office 1882. First edition 8vo pp. 48; 1 large folding plate of the boiler for the vedette boats; original printed blue wrappers; pressure stamp in the front wrapper back wrapper slightly chipped; all else near fine. Government Printing Office unknown books
1850réf. 55632N.p.: publisher not identified 1850. First edition 8vo pp. 20; removed from binding wanting wrappers; very good. "Among the people of this country - on the floor of Congress and to some extent in the Navy itself there is a prevailing sentiment that our naval organization does not come up to the state of the times to the progress of the age or to the requirements of the country; does not for its millions of expenditure return a fair equivalent of practical efficiency or even of honorable reputation" p. 3. Sabin 93477. [publisher not identified] unknown books
1865réf. 52504Washington: Government Printing Office 1865. First edition small 8vo pp. 2 iv 1 344 2; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine; small cracks at extremities light tidemark pervades most of the text in the top outer corners; generally good and sound. Government Printing Office unknown books
1871réf. 48202Washington D.C.: U.S. Navy Dept 1871. A collection of general orders for the US Navy nos. 1-163 along with 9 circulars; the majority bound together in half calf over marbled boards gilt spine in 5 compartments raised bands marbled edges; boards rubbed hinges cracked but sound. Orders 160-163 along with all circulars are laid in. Orders 1-70 are summarized on pages 1-54 with those following as issued generally 2 pages each. Includes an order concerning the death of President Lincoln Order 51 court martials honors the renaming of ships from Native American words to Greek and then back to Native American and so on. From the library of "Rear Admiral M. Smith U.S.N." likely Melancton Smith III who commanded the Massachusetts and Wabash for the Union during the Civil War with his label on upper free endpaper and signature on flyleaf. U.S. Navy Dept unknown books
1961réf. 299468Newport News Virginia: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co 1961. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; stapled pamphlet in stapled cardstock wrappers printed in color; 40 pages; with an invitation to the event laid in "Refreshments will be served on the Hangar Deck".~~The pamphlet was distributed as a program at the Commissioning Ceremony of the world's first nuclear-powered Naval for the Enterprise in November of 1961. The centerpiece is the actual program with photographs of Captain De Poix the Commanding Officer and others. Complete listing of the dignitaries at the occasion as well as the crew list and Marine Detachment list. ~~"The Naval Commissioning Ceremony marks the initiation of a ship into the operating forces of the United States Navy. At the moment of breaking her commission pennant U.S.S. Enterprise CVAN65 then becomes the sole responsibility of her commanding officer Captain Vincent P. de Poix USN who together with the ship's company has the duty of making and keeping her constantly ready for any service demanded by our country"--Page 2 of cover.~~An uncommon memento of an important military occasion. We locate but a single copy in institutional holding Very Good binding. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co unknown books
1976réf. 299630N/A: N/A 1976. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Oblong stapled pamphlet in white card stock printed in blue and gold; 44 pages with illustrations and portrait photographs.~~There are a scant handful of copies in institutional holdings and none in commerce.~. Near Fine binding. N/A unknown books
2012réf. 13316Nashville: First Center for the Visual Arts and Vanderbilt University Press 2012. First Edition. Paperback. Good . First Edition. Paperback. 11" X 9 1/2". xi 119pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers corners and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This catalog explores the psychological and social implications contained in the hybrid creatures and fantastic scenarios created by contemporary artists whose works will appear in the exhibition Fairy Tales Monsters and the Genetic Imagination which opens at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts in February 2012. Curator Mark Scala's introductory essay focuses on anthropomorphism in the mythology folklore and art of many cultures as it contrasts with the dominant Western view of human exceptionalism. Scala also provides an art historical context linking the visual fabulists of today to artists of the Romantic Symbolist and Surrealist periods who sought to transcend oppositions such as rationality and intuition fear and desire the physical and the spiritual. Discussing how artists adapt traditional stories to give mythic form to the very real dilemmas of contemporary life Jack Zipes's "Fairy-Tale Collisions" centers on Paula Rego Kiki Smith and Cindy Sherman. From a generation of women who have attained prominence since the 1980s these artists alter fairy-tale imagery to subvert or rewrite social roles and codes. In "Metamorphosis of the Monstrous" Marina Warner discusses works in the exhibition in the context of historical conceptions of monsters as expressions of alterity bestiality or sinfulness. Her reminder that contemporary monster images offer "a promise and a warning about the variety heterogeneity and possible combinations and recombinations in the order of things" sets the stage for Suzanne Anker's essay punningly titled "The Extant Vamp or the Ire of It All: Fairy Tales and Genetic Engineering." Considering representations of hybrid bodies by Patricia Piccinini Janaina Tschape Saya Woolfalk and others which evoke imagined beings of the past as a way to envision the recombinant creatures that may lie in the future Anker shows how artists explore the social ethical and future implications of biological design and enhanced evolution. Accompanying an exhibition of contemporary art in which depictions of marvelous creatures and fantastic narratives provide both chills and delights the essays in Fairy Tales Monsters and the Genetic Imagination explore the meaning of this fabulist revival through the lenses of social and art history literature feminism animal studies and science.Publisher. First Center for the Visual Arts and Vanderbilt University Press paperback books
1860réf. 269706Washington 1860. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Listing of Officers in the United States Navy on the eve of the Civil War. The wrappers have wear and chipping and an old paper reinforcement to the spine and the verso of the front panel. Good binding. unknown books
1944réf. 190039GPO 1944 1944-01-01. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Minor wear. 138 pages. S.U. GPO, 1944 paperback books
1928réf. 299993US Government Printing Office 1928. Seventh Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 16mo.; in the publisher’s blue buckeram binding with titling in gold to the upper board and the spine; viii followed by plates 2 3-958 pages with many illustrations throughout in color and in black and white a number of which are folding; there is a previous owner name on the pastedown. Very Good binding. US Government Printing Office unknown books
2005réf. 58668London: Penguin/Viking 2005. First UK Edition first printing. Signed by Lewycka on the half-title page. blue boards in dust jacket; 326 pages. Fine in a fine d/j. A nice copy! Penguin/,Viking unknown books
1952réf. 350795Washington DC: Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America CIO 1952. Paperback. 315p. wraps slightly edge worn with a minor chip in the rear wrap otherwise very good condition. Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, CIO paperback books
1940réf. 350457Washington DC: Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America CIO 1940. Paperback. 102p. wraps head and tail of spine chipped spine toned top corner of rear wrap and last few pages dog-eared else in good condition. Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, CIO paperback books
réf. 009935Antarctica: No Publisher 1971. Book. Very Good. Ring Bound. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. No dates circa 1956-1971. No author and no writing of any kind. Archive includes one deck of playing cards titled Operation Deep Freeze Task Force 43 two metal ashtrays one 4 1/2" dia. and the other 7 1/4" dia. both engraved "U.S. Naval Antarctic Support Activities; and an American United Life Annual Report three ring binder containing 24 pp. with 85 black and white photographs three- 8" x 10"; two - 5" x 7" and 80 4 7/8" x 3 1/2" and 6 blank pages. One 8 x 10 photograph features a Lockheed C-121J Willie Victor BuNo 131624 Phoenix 6 aircraft which was retired following "Deep Freeze '71" in March 1971 and which was not listed on the active duty resume for Deep Freeze operations in its early stages in the late 1950s.So likely the photographs were taken on the 1970-71 expeditions. Subjects of the photographs include equipment and aircraft personnel landscapes both on the ground and aerial and a great 8 x 10 of a husky sled dog. A unique slice of Antarctic exploration history. No Publisher Hardcover books
1961réf. 007884Princeton NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Square 8vo. 179pp. Beautiful Stated First Printing. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Perhaps a hint at the heel but quite minor. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket $5.95 has a minute bit rubbing to edges but is fresh and bright with no creases tears or chipping. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price. D. Van Nostrand Company hardcover books
réf. 007847Soviet Union 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 13 1/2" w x 9" h. Dated 1979-1982 a unique and RARE Soviet sailor's photo album 13 1/2" w x 9" h in string-tied brown velvet over heavy cardboard. Containing 40 pp. of thick cardboard with 140 black and white and 4 color photographs pasted in and 4 B & W photos and 1 negative laid in. The album rendered unique and amazing by the addition of 15 exquisitely detailed SIGNED pen and ink tracings of warships 11 modern Soviet Navy warships and 4 tall ships on rice paper with each tracing interspersed between the photography pages. Very Good small tears to the edges of some of the rice paper sheets. RARE Soviet Navy photographs from the height of the Cold War taken by an incredibly talented sailor/ artist. Hardcover books
1990réf. 007852Montigny les Metz: Editions Voix Richard Meier 1990. Book. Near Fine. French Wrappers. Signed by Authors. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. # 21 of an edition of 250 copies SIGNED by poet Marina Temkina and artist Michel Gerard. Near Fine small creases top corners in Very Good French wrappers small top corners creases light foxing. Poetry translation by Alfred Corn. Editions Voix Richard Meier Paperback books
1879réf. TB21310Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1879. First Edition. First printing Good in purple pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is heavily worn and chewed by rodents. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. An octavo measuring just shy of 9" tall by 5 3/4" deep. 23 pages of text and tables followed by 45 fold-out isometric drawings. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1940réf. List3520United States and Japan 1940. Photo album measuring 10 ½ x 13 inches containing approximately 350 photos. With four copies of Jane Whitaker's discharge and immunization papers and the Navy's "Marching to Victory" songbook 13th printing Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School 1943. Album with covers detached and wear to pages; fair. Contents excellent. Overall very good. A photo album belonging to siblings Jane 1924-d. and James 1921-1997 Whitaker of Florida. Both siblings were in the US Navy; the copy of Jane's discharge paper indicates that she enlisted in 1943 and was honorably discharged in 1946. The siblings are descendants of founding Florida figures William Wyatt and Mary Wyatt Whitaker. The album mainly covers their time in Hawai'i and Japan. Alongside eighteen photographs of a large military parade one labeled "V-J Day Honolulu" with floats including the Filipino Federation of America's celebration of General MacArthur and a bilingual float reading "AGGRESSORS GONE FOREVER" and fifteen likely souvenir photos of the Pearl Harbor attack there are approximately 120 candid photographs of the sailors' lives. These include spending time with family and children sitting on a tank on the beach barbecuing at a park fishing and doing laundry outside. Some of these were taken in Hawai'i and others in Japan; a number show a sign for Nimitz Recreation Field which is likely at the US Fleet Activities in Sasebo Nagasaki. Thirty show men not in uniform but also likely sailors mainly during similar recreational activities. Others include photos of military installations and from inside barracks-bunk beds the kitchenette and dining area. Individuals in the photos are occasionally identified verso by first name. The album is uncommon for the candid nature of the personnel photos. Of interest to historians of life in the US Navy in Hawai'i and Japan during WWII. unknown books
1865réf. 31478Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1865. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. A very good copy with wear to extremities owner's name on endpaper Treasury Department stamp on title small hole on first two blanks. 335 pp.; 20 pp. 8vo. Copy of William Mertz a clerk in the Treasury Department. With the military build-up now complete this would be the largest mid-century edition. Government Printing Office hardcover books
2021réf. 34833London: Tor. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket with "Signed Copy" sticker on the front wrap. Signed by the author on a special page: "A Desolation Called Peace signed by the author" with her signature.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 496 pages . 2021. Tor hardcover books
1865réf. 11782Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1865. Very Good -. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1865. First Edition. Octavo 22.5cm.; contemporary bespoke half black morocco over marbled boards gilt spine in six compartments marbled endpapers; 335pp.; tables throughout. Leather a bit dried and scuffed at extremities front free endpaper separated but present rear free endpaper starting to separate contemporary ownership rubber-stamp of a William W. Harrington to title page with his initials embossed in gilt at spine foot. Overall Good to Very Good internally clean and sound. Quite an uncommon roster of Civil War Union officers OCLC locating just three copies as of December 2021 at Ohio U. U. Tennessee and Norwich U. Government Printing Office unknown books
1977réf. 129555San Francisco: Casa Editorial 1977. Paperback. 32p. one of 500 copies wraps spine and edges of rear wrap toned gift inscription on title page else very good condition. Arizona-born Chicana poet. Chapbook #6. Casa Editorial paperback books
1945réf. 6241Little Creek Va 1945. Good plus. 126 issues with varying paginations but totaling almost 2000pp. plus printed ephemera. Numerous issues two-hole punched at gutter for insertion into binder. Earliest mimeographed issues rather brittle with some light chipping at edges. Later issues printed on sturdier stock. Toned throughout. Some contemporary manuscript inscriptions and signatures scattered throughout. A wonderful run of the Gator News the newsletter of the Amphibious Force Base in Virginia published during the Second World War. The 126 issues present here comprise an almost-complete run of the first twelve volumes of the publication that cover the period from late 1942 to the end of the war in August 1945. The Amphibious Force Base in Little Creek Virginia was established in June 1942 by the United States Navy. There they trained Navy Army and Marine personnel in amphibious landing techniques. It remains in use today as Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek. The newsletter boasted of being "Of the Men By the Men and For the Men." Many issues feature original cartoon art in addition to base gossip worldwide military news pinups sports scores and more. This grouping includes the complete run of the first hundred issues beginning with Volume 1 Number 1 on 14 October 1942. The issues have been collected in contemporary cardstock report covers. They continue with a nearly-complete run of thirty-nine unbound issues dating from 14 October 1944 to 21 July 1945. We have traced no other early runs of The Gator News approaching this magnitude. We find holdings of this periodical at four libraries none of them with any pre-1944 issues and with very few of the issues from 1944 or 1945. Also included here are the extensive working papers of the Gator's editor Irving Charlip 1921-2014 of Trenton New Jersey a Navy Specialist Second Class. They cover editorial personnel and technical matters and fill a banker's box. Perhaps most interesting among them is a folder of twenty-four photographs of various sizes up to 8 x 10 inches. Some are stamped as Gator staff photos while others show Charlip and other members of the production team in action. Two show comic actor Red Skelton's visit to the Gator offices and our favorite shows editor Charlip at his desk prepared for an all-nighter with six cups of coffee a pile of sandwiches and his note: "The Gator must be out on time or else." A wonderful run of this newspaper made even more relevant by the addition of the editor's papers. unknown books
