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9008During 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 42 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 42 letters are from Capt. W.H. Minnich in original transmittal envelope with post marked date. Mostly personal correspondence to family but some interesting comments: dated May 21 1945 ".All I want now is for the war to end and then an early return home. I hope to do that in another year after all these Germans and Japs can't fight forever. unknown books
1931WRCLIT75924London: Heinemann 1931. Large octavo. Gilt polished buckram t.e.g. Illustrations. Fine in glassine wrapper with paper flaps and somewhat rubbed and dust- soiled slipcase. First edition limited issue. Illustrated by H. Charles Tomlinson. One of only two hundred and seventy-five numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the author and artist the latter beneath the frontispiece. Includes "A Footnote to the War Books." Heinemann hardcover books
1916WRCLIT75629Cambridge: At the University Press 1916. Gilt cloth t.e.g. Portrait. Spine extremities worn a bit of foxing but a good sound copy. Third expanded edition. This edition includes for the first time the section of "Illustrations in Prose" pp. 111-144. The Preface by W. R. Sorley is accordingly revised. The first edition appeared in January a second slightly enlarged edition appeared in February and was reprinted three times and this edition was published in October. Sorley was killed at the Battle of Loos in October of 1915. In its expanding iterations one of the most important volumes of verse of its generation. REILLY WWI p.299. At the University Press hardcover books
191820862War Council of the American Red Cross 1918. 13.75 x 20.75 inches printed in black and red. Creasing and general handling wear edges reinforced with paper tape on the verso. Good. Prior to World War I the American Red Cross was a small organization still in the process of developing its programs and identity. The War spurred a significant period of growth for the organization transforming it into a major national humanitarian organization by the end of 1918. This poster was published in 1918 by the War Council of the Red Cross a short-lived special unit created by President Wilson in 1917 for the specific purpose of directing the organization's war effort. It provided the American public with detailed information regarding the extent and cost of various Red Cross programs in France aimed at refugee relief rebuilding and hospital construction for the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. We found no listing for an original of this poster in OCLC and none in commerce but note copies at the Smithsonian Metropolitan Museum of Art National World War I Museum Hoover Institution and Imperial War Museum. War Council of the American Red Cross unknown books
1932WRCLIT70111New York: Scribner 1932. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Photographs and illustrations. Some tanning light foxing and a couple of spots to endsheets cloth a bit dusty but a very good copy in a bright fresh example of the geometrically decorated jacket by Nickelsen. First edition. Inscribed by the author to critic Henry S. Canby in the year of publication. The fourth volume of this eventual six volume series 1926 - 1936 treating the last years of relative innocence and isolationist optimism. Scribner hardcover books
1916WRCLIT79120Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin 1916. xix33444pp. Large thick octavo. Gilt decorated boards gilt leather spine label fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Photographs plates and illustrations. A few stray marks to boards four patches of surface wear to lower joint ink name on endsheet trace of foxing to edges; a very good copy. First edition limited issue. One of 550 copies printed on large untrimmed handmade paper. Introduction by A. Piatt Andrew. Includes a roster of the earliest waves of members to serve photos of and commentary on members who have distinguished themselves and chapters contributed by some of their number including Hemingway's friend painter Waldo Pierce. The precursor to the much enlarged three volume work of 1920. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
194215847Fort Belvoir VA: The Engineer Board 1942. Red cloth spine with printed buff wrappers stapled. VG minor wear. 53 leaves. Text printed on versos only. Profusely illustrated with diagrams schematics & from photographs. Royal 8vo. <br/><br/> The Engineer Board hardcover books
9529First Official Govt. Printing of surrender documents of the Axis. Titled "The Axis In Defeat - A Collection of Documents on American Policy Toward Germany and Japan". year 1946. Printed by the US Dept. of State . 118 pages. Text of the surrender documents signed by the Germans and also the Japanese surrender document the authority of Gen. Mac Arthur as SCAP the official Declaration regarding the Defeat of Germany. Covers aged two pages creased otherwise good. unknown books
1943106046<p>Wartime poster 20" x 27 3/4" color print and some illustration. Slight edgewear creases at folds normal aging; overall very good plus. Issued by the Office of Civil Defense OCD on February 17 1943 OCD Publication 7015 to explain the new air raid warning system. The "Blue Warning" which is a steady blast from the air raid siren tells us enemy plans are coming and what to do. The "Red Danger" indicates that bombs are expected to fall with a series of short blasts from the sirens. The "All Clear" notice appears to be done by radio announcement. A scary reminder from the not too distant past. </p> U.S. Government Printing Office, books
1908WRCAM18482Raleigh 1908. 62pp. Original printed wrappers. Edges a trifle sunned. Otherwise very good. An account of the ill-fated Henry Wirz a Confederate soldier tried and hanged for conspiring with Jefferson Davis to torture and murder Union prisoners at Andersonville. Criticizes the mockery of a trial which sent Wirz to his death. Dedicated to the Ladies' Memorial Association and the Daughters of the Confederacy. Not in Nevins. unknown books
188638609New York: F. M. Lupton 1886. Early printing with the rear wrapper advert listing through No. 123 in the series. OCLC records two holding institutions: Yale & the Huntington. Printed self wrappers sewn. Age toning to paper. Two stab holes in margin along spine. A VG copy of this rare title. 16 pp text double column. Ornamental masthead. Folio. 11-5/8" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> F. M. Lupton unknown books
186232747New Haven: Babcock & Sizer State Printers 1862. 1st edition. Printed yellow wrappers. Minor wear & dust soiling. A VG copy. 44 4 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>OCLC shows 10 institutional holdings. Babcock & Sizer, State Printers unknown books
192234575New York: Published by The Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital 1922. 1st edition. Maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Gilt stamped Hospital medallion to front board. Spine a bit dull. Hinges restored. A VG - VG copy. 285 3 pp. Illustrated with inserted plates. 8vo. <br/><br/> Published by The Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital hardcover books
197059774Boston: Beacon Press 1970. First edition. 8vo pp. 123. A very good copy in price clipped little worn dj bookplate. A very good copy. Scarce early book of war resistance. Berrigan served eighteen months in Danbury prison for his activities in resisting the Vietman War. He and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for involvement in antiwar protests during the Vietnam war and committing acts of vandalism including destroying government property in recruiting offices. Berrigan won the Lamont Prize for his book of poems Time Without Number. He manufactured homemade napalm and with eight other Catholic protesters used it to destroy 378 draft files in the parking lot of the Catonsville Maryland draft board on May 17 1968. This group came to be known as the Catonsville Nine. Berrigan was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison but went into hiding with the help of fellow radicals prior to imprisonment. While on the run Berrigan was interviewed for Lee Lockwood's documentary The Holy Outlaw. The FBI apprehended him at the home of William Stringfellow and sent him to prison. He was released in 1972. Beacon Press unknown books
186612424Boston: Published at the Office of "Littell's Living Age" 1866. Disbound. Abt VG soiling to outer leaves/lower corner missing affects the 'N' in 'Boston'. Ex-Lib with stamp on title page & pg 86. 86 pp. Illustrated with 4 plates & 1 plan. 8vo. <br/><br/>The prior owner no doubt a sympathizer with the Southern cause for he has lined through 'United States' in the title and written above "Yankee" as well as blanked out "Rebel" and substituted "Confederate". At the bottom where "Price Twenty Cents" appears to the right is written "worth 1/4¢". Published at the Office of "Littell's Living Age" unknown books
189840039Mexico Mo: Head Bros 1898. 1st printing. White paper wrappers printed in red & blue stapled. Age toning to paper. Staples a bit rusted. A VG copy. Unpaginated though 40 pp. Roster last 4 pages. Profusely illustrated with 65 b&w captioned photographic images. Oblong format: 5-7/8" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/>From the rear cover: "To the Officers and Members of this Regiment. . this book is presented to you as a souvenir of your camp life in the Spanish-American War. The idea is to show by photographs a practical army life ." Head Bros unknown books
007908New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -" To James Armey with best wishes Frank Howley". James W. Armsey 1918-2008 was the Ford Foundation executive who oversaw grants to universities and colleges in the 1960s with the only requirement that they had to raise matching funds from other sources. At his urging the Foundation added the requirement that colleges and universities could not bar black students. This change caused a number of them including Duke University Vanderbilt University Emory University Tulane University and several major private colleges to admit black students for the first time. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket spine sunned completely small chips rear panel and spine ends. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
2224L. 1pg. 7 ½†x 9 ¾â€. March 7 1862. Washington D.C. A letter from the Bell and Green National Claim Office about missing Civil War soldiers. The company wrote on their letterhead to Alexander Gardiner of Claremont New Hampshire: “…The list of prisoners taken has not yet been received from the South and until it is obtained no complete rolls authoritative exist in the Department. When it is received those unaccounted for will be presumed to be dead. You can send the claim however accompanied by the best evidence of his Straw’s death procurable say the affidavit of John Rice properly authenticated and we think we can get the claim through.†The letter is in fine condition. It appears that the recipient of the letter Alexander Gardiner was killed a few months later at Winchester. The condition is very fine with the usual mailing folds. unknown books
18642828001864. unbound. very good. Autograph Letter Signed. 8vo. 2 pages Caledonia Wisconsin December 24th 1864 to A.B. Jackson Registrar at Menasha in part: "I received your letter enclosing one from Mr. Edwards stating as I understood it that there was some fraud about the warrant paid by my father James Wright for the West ½ of the South West Lot of Sec. 14. In reply I have to state that the said James Wright is now in the Government Service at last accounts was at Duvall's Bluff Arkansas. I will write at once to him but it is very doubtful if my letter reaches him as the mail to that place is very irregular. If it does not reach him he will give immediate attention to the subject when he returns in February - which is I think the best that can be done under the circumstances." Three tiny stain marks at the top otherwise in very good condition.<br/><br/> A Wisconsin Military Officer is suspected of Fraud in regards to his Land Grant Application.<br/><br/> unknown books
148392First Edition. hardcover. liii 214pp. 12mo orig. cloth; spine worn and repaired edges of corners worn light foxing to some margins. Washington: GPO 1864.<br/><br/> unknown books
1900WRCAM26249London: Harrison and Sons 1900. 69pp. Stitched. Titlepage loose. Else very good clean. A lawsuit over blockade running carries on for 35 years. The SPRINGBOK was originially seized by the United States because it was carrying "contraband of war." The subsequent legal struggles for compensation and discussions of the legality of such a move are discussed in these documents. The PETERHOFF also was transporting contraband and had false papers and the British government refused to "find ground to interefere." The 5 documents relating to this ship deal with the subsequent conflict between the United States and Britain. Harrison and Sons unknown books
18652739421865. unbound. On the day the war ends a volunteer enlists in the Union Army and collects his $300 bounty! 1 page 6.75 x 8.5 inches -- a Statement of Recruitment whereby Freuter a New York City druggist age 30 is allowed to join the Union Army and receive his $300 bounty on the very day the war has ended April 10 1865. Also signed by the Mustering Officer Captain S. C. Wagner. Note: in the very last days of the war it was not uncommon for deceitful Mustering Officers to allow a bounty to be paid and then splitting the money with the Recruit. Very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
1861WRCAM14340London 1861. 5-19pp. Dbd. minor indentation where folded else fine. Relates the arrests and confinement of prisoners at Forts Lafayette and Munroe during the early days of the Civil War without charges having been brought against the prisoners. unknown books
186310682New York: Sinclair Tousey 1863. Original printed glossy blue wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Disbound rubberstamps else a clean text and Very Good. 28pp. This poem is dedicated to all "who believe that all mankind are created with equal rights; that God is the common father and holds men and nations responsible for their acts; and that oppression in the long-account is worse for the oppressor than the oppressed." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 68327. 483 NUC 0093794 5. Not in Nevins Eberstadt Decker Nicholson Blockson. Sinclair Tousey unknown books
1865WRCAM22890Brooklyn 1865. 1722pp. plus illus. Frontis. Original green cloth. Very good. Describes the journey the condition of the city upon arrival and the ceremony to which they travelled: the raising of the flag of the United States over Fort Sumter to commemorate the close of the Civil War. Not in Nevins. SABIN 25863. hardcover books
