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1942101550Eight partially used ration coupon books from World War II. Includes stamps and instructions books 1-4 for two people. Includes original envelope some remaining stamps. Envelope with a couple of tears and some staining normal aging and some staining ink identification information on books. Two sets of ration coupon books books I-IV in the original envelope for Basil and Lena Brooks of Binghamton New York. Some of the stamps have been used but many still remain. Government instructions on how to use the stamps is included and warns the recipients "if you don't need it Don't Buy it." Government Printing Office, books
1942209423New York: War Resisters League 1942. 8p. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheets stapled together at upper left corner reinforced by a small piece of brown paper tape front and rear sheets evenly toned else very good condition. Not found in OCLC as of 3/2021. "High points in the addresses at the 18th Anniversary Dinner of the War Resisters League at the Town Hall Club on February 9th 1942. War Resisters League unknown books
9009During WW II V-mail system was adopted by the US Post Office in 1942 to save space. The weight of 150000 letters was reduced from 2575 pounds to a mere 45. V-mail consisted of miniaturized messages reproduced by microphotography. Individual facsimiles were reproduced in the States and then delivered to the addressee. Lot of 12 War & Navy V-Mail from WW II from one officer to his family. All dated between 1943 and 1945 each about 4 x 5" These 12 letters are from Capt. W.H. Minnich in original transmittal envelope with post marked date. Mostly personal correspondence to family but some interesting comments: December 18 1944 ".This war is a terrible thing and I for one shall be glad when its all over." ".It won't be long until it gets cold again and I hope by then the Germans will have enough. unknown books
1930WRCLIT75949London: William Heinemann 1930. Large octavo. Gilt cloth t.e.g. Portrait. A near fine copy in moderately dust-soiled cloth slipcase. First edition limited issue. One of 1025 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the author. It "is a very fine book . Certain of its scenes as that when the principal character drives from G.H.Q. to revisit his old comrades in the trenches are perfection itself" - Falls. FALLS p.299. William Heinemann hardcover books
1929WRCLIT84740London: Peter Davies 1929. Gilt red cloth. Frontis. Endsheet maps. Cloth somewhat hand-dulled edges dusty but good and sound without dust jacket. Second edition in English newly translated by the publisher of MA PIECE first published in France in 1916 and in a slightly expurgated translation in 1917. This edition included in Davies' series of "Soldier's Tales" includes a foreword by Marshal Joffre. The author was killed on the Lorraine Front four days after correcting the proofs for the 1916 edition. From the library of Siegfried Sassoon with the monogram label from the posthumous library dispersal on the verso of the front free endsheet. Falls denotes this "among the finest documents of its kind ever published. He is one of the few writers whose powers of description and of self-analysis are equally great." FALLS pp.212-3. BLUNDEN et al p.7. Peter Davies hardcover books
1929213275Amsterdam: Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund 1929. paperback. poor. Numerous black & white horrendous photographic illustrations of frightful mutilations left by the war. 63 pages slim 8vo black & white wrappers with an illustration by Kathe Kollwitz stained front wrapper detached light water staining throughout on the margins. Amsterdam: Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund 1929. Overall a poor copy of this rather scarce catalog.<br/><br/> Text and captions in six languages. The photographs were collected by Ernst Friedrich director of the Anti-War Museum of Berlin.<br/><br/> Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund unknown books
194430468New York: Harper & Brothers 1944. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
1868006747New York: Seventh Regiment Board of Officers 1868. First Edition. Pebbled Cloth. VG/No Dj. Gilt emblem stamped on pub brown pebbeled cloth front cover blind-stamped rulings beveled edges. Some wear at top of spine. Some spotting to cloth rear cover. Signed in pencil by previous owner a descendant of one of the members of the Second "B" Company. A few pages have guardsmen's names checked off or the word "dead" lightly penciled next to them. A very interesting and historical book. Seventh Regiment Board of Officers unknown books
11115Civil War bullet "Minie Ball". Bullet that was actually fired in the battle of Antietam and was recovered form that battlefield. It is typical of the bullets of the Civil War .31 caliber and many have been fired by either a Confederate or a Union soldier. Sealed and in excellent condition. unknown books
200570710NY: Random House 2005. First edition first prnt. Signed and dated "12/14/05" by Doctorow on the title page. Bottom rear panel corner of dustjacket just touched not immediately apparent; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. . Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
201341958NY: W.W.Norton 2013. First edition first prnt. Accordion-fold 24 foot long black and white illustration of the battle on heavyweight paper. Issued without dustjacket. Illustrated slipcase. Includes 16pp booklet with an essay by Adam Hochschild about the day of battle. In original unopened shrinkwrap with the publisher's bookplate signed by Sacco and Hochschild enclosed in an envelope affixed to the shrinkwrap over the front board as issued. Fine condition. Signed by Author & Contributor. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W.W.Norton Hardcover books
1857TB30780New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1857. First Edition. Very good in its original vertically ribbed dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and elaborate blind embossing on the front and rear boards. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 4 1/2 inches with the cloth worn through at the head and heel of the spine soiling to the upper quarter of the front and rear boards with occasional foxing throughout. Without a dust jacket. 457 pages of text followed by an appendix of 21 pages. The page following the title page states that these regulations have been approved by the President of the United States and is published over the name of "Jefferson Davis Secretary of War". The verso of that page contains errata. At least half of the content contains examples of the forms the Army is to use. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
5174465. and RETURNED PRISONERS Report no. 67. Original cloth a very good copy. 8vo Pp. 12834 illustrations. This is the official report of the April 12 1864 Confederate "massacre" of the 557 mixed white and black Federal troops at Fort Pillow Tenn. 63% of the garrison were killed or wounded by the troops under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. unknown books
186413189.1Washington: Government Printing Office 1864. 1st Edition. Original brown cloth with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Minor extremity wear. Evidence of damping to top corner of text-block. Lacks ffep. Still a VG copy. 242 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
1934191625Rand McNally & Company 1934-01-01. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1935 early printing. Blue boards have moderate fading and discoloration with heavy edgewear including some chipping at spine and bent corners. Pages are foxed throughout some pencil markings including two names on front pastedown. HB HS Rand McNally & Company hardcover books
1915009796Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co/ The Geographical Institute 1915. Hardcover. NF. Rare World War I map undated but circa 1915 showing Italy and Switzerland plus all nations and nation-states in the Balkans before post war treaties: Austria hungary Roumania Russia just the part around Odessa on rthe Black Sea Bulgaria Serbia Montenegro Albania Greece Turkey just the west side of the Bosphorus and Asia Minor what is now Turkey to the west of the Bosphorus. Insets around perimeter of map are the Dardenelles Constantinople Odessa Trieste and the Bosphorus. The cloth /canvasssed-backed map printed in color is in 32 folds unfolded measures 29.5" x 39.5" folds to 5"x 9" tipped onto paper covers. Map is in fine condition. Paper covers are shallowly split at edges with the paper over spine being repaired with archival tape for a short space. Cover verso has pastedown of pictorial description of Bartholomew's half-inch mile map of England and Wales the t verso of the front panel of the folded map a pastedown for Bartholomew's Road Map of England and Wales. Verso of paper cover advertises Bartholomew's Citizen's Atlas of the World described as "an indispensable work of reference during the present crisis John Bartholomew & Co/ The Geographical Institute hardcover books
1927197562New York Minton Balch & Company 1927. 1927. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece halfton photographs. Original black stamped gray cloth. Dust jacket unclipped. Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. Author's first book. Story of Stone Mountain Memorial. F. Hardcover. New York, Minton, Balch & Company, 1927. hardcover books
181037512Washington D.C.: Printed by R.C. Weightman 1810. First edition. Removed. A very good copy light edge wear and fading. 4 pp. 8vo. For land grants petitioned by military people who served in the French and Indian War. Surprisingly scarce. OCLC locates only five printed copies: Yale AAS Cornell Navy Dept. Lib. and Lib & Archives of Canada. American Imprints 21837. Printed by R.C. Weightman unknown books
2007259662Verlag der Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar 2007. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Near Fine binding. Verlag der Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar unknown books
1936WRCLIT83255New York: Dutton 1936. Pictorial cloth. Endsheets darkened at edges modest rubbing to extremities a near very good copy without dust jacket. First US edition of this novel about the political lives of two anarchists in the Spanish Republic. With the author's signed gift inscription: "For Oliver Kenyon Brooks with gratitude from Ralph Bates." With the earlier ink ownership signature of Eleanor S. Brooks wife of Van Wyck Brooks marked through in pencil and signed "O.K. Brooks" Eleanor and Van Wyck Brooks' son. A decent association. Dutton hardcover books
191846413n. p. 1918. 1st printing presumed. In a mailable wallet-style envelope pack. Used addressed stamped Washington 3¢ & mailed with a 1918 Brooklyn NY Upton Branch postmark. Very Good. 22 images 11 per side of one long sheet 36-1/2" x 5-1/2" folded accordion style. All images in color captions. Envelope pack: 3-3/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>Camp Upton located at Yaphank Long Island was named after Emory Upton a Union general of the Civil War. The camp was created in 1917 to house troops as they awaited ships for deployment overseas. The 152nd Depot Brigade was the garrison unit that received new recruits and prepared them for service overseas and then out processed demobilizing soldiers at the end of the war. Irving Berlin the composer and Alvin York the most decorated soldier of the American army in World War I were processed at Camp Upton. The 77th Division was first organized there. During part of the war the 82nd Division was quartered there. At the end of World War I the camp was used to demobilize and inactivate units. This souvenir pack documents the many divers camp activities e.g. "Setting Up Exercise" "Bayonet Exercise" & "Packing Kit". No copies on the market at the time of cataloguing and not recorded by OCLC. Rare. unknown books
191741023n. p. 1917. 1st printing presumed. Color illustrated paper housed within a brown wooden frame. A VG example very light age-toning ink only slightly fading housed in an about VG frame chips to all frame laminante edges. Single sheet housed under glass. Green blue and yellow tinged illustrations of the different roles the infantry carried out fighting cooking marching loading the canons etc surrounding the middle section of names. 22" x 18" including frame which is 3/4" wide on all sides. <br/><br/>Handwritten additions to regiment history in black ink detailing the engagements in which they participated St. Mihiel; Meuse-Moselle; Army of Occupation their encampments Brest; Maron; Toul; Treis; Yuls; Cochem; and their date of discharge Discharged July 9 1919. No holdings located on OCLC. unknown books
41028New York: Liberty Loan Committee n. d. Ca. 1917. Not found in Borkan or Rawls. White paper printed in red and navy ink. Modest wear to paper slight age-toning and scuffing. A VG example. Single sheet printed recto only. Oblong format: 10" x 30" <br/><br/>Only 1 institutional holding located on OCLC LoC. Liberty Loan Committee unknown books
191846445n. p. 1918. 1st printing ca 1918. In a mailable wallet-style envelope pack. Unused i.e. not addressed nor mailed though with modest edgewear. Very Good. 22 images 11 per side of one long sheet 43-3/4" x 6" folded accordion style. All images in color captions. Envelope pack: 4-3/8" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>The cards portray 22 US ships of the era. Side one: Alabama BB-8 Kansas BB-21 Virginia BB-13 Vermont BB-20 Idaho BB-24 Rhode Island BB-17 Missouri BB-11 South Carolina BB-26 Massachusetts BB-2 Indiana BB-1 Connecticut BB-18; Side two: North Dakota BB-29 Mississippi BB-23 Delaware BB-28 Kentucky BB-6 Minnesota BB-22 Michigan BB-27 New Hampshire BB-25 Louisiana BB-19 Oregon BB-3 New Jersey BB-16 Georgia BB-15. No copies on the market at the time of cataloguing and not recorded by OCLC. Rare. unknown books
1815155735Utica: Printed by Merrell and Camp 1815. Octavo pp. 1-3 4-16 disbound. One of many editions printed throughout New England and New York state. The proceedings of a series of secret meetings from 15 December 1814 to 5 January 1815 in Hartford Connecticut of Federalist delegates from Connecticut Rhode Island Massachusetts New Hampshire and Vermont "who were dissatisfied with Pres. James Madison's mercantile policies and the progress of the War of 1812 'Mr. Madison's War' as well as long resentful over the balance of political power that gave the South particularly Virginia effective control of the national government. The more extreme delegates raised the possibility of secession but others sought only to dictate amendments to the Constitution that would protect their interests. Ultimately the convention adopted a strong states' rights position and expressed its grievances in a series of resolutions against military conscription and commercial regulations along with some stringent criticisms of Madison's administration that were agreed to on January 4 1815. Even as the convention finished its business however a British sloop of war was beating its way across the Atlantic with dispatches containing the peace terms that had been agreed to in the Treaty of Ghent ending the war. Moreover as the convention's emissaries approached Washington D. C. they were met by the news of Gen. Andrew Jackson's unexpected victory in the Battle of New Orleans. By the time the emissaries arrived it was no longer possible to serve the kind of ultimatum contained in the convention's report. The war along with the national crisis it had brought about had ended. The secrecy of the Hartford proceedings also contributed to discrediting the convention and its unpopularity was a factor in the demise of the Federalist Party." - Encyclopedia Britannica. Howes H262. Shaw and Shoemaker 34875 NUt. See Sabin 65785 not recording this imprint. Small triangular chip from lower fore-edge margin no text affected top edge trimmed a bit for binding affecting an old signature at the top edge of the title page but not affecting any of the typography a very good copy. This printing is uncommon. #155735 Printed by Merrell and Camp unknown books