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18446566baWashington D.C.: U. S. Secretary of War 1844. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 34 pages of text. Water transportation; canals Americana; contains 22 folding maps and plans. Dis-bound removed from original binding. Minor bump to lower corner; otherwise excellent condition. U. S. Secretary of War Paperback books
18628311Phildelphia. George W. Childs. 1862. Bound in blind embossed decorative Buckram. 8vo 5.75" x 8.25". Illustrated throughout with charts and tables. This copy has been re-backed with original spine strip laid-on. Corners bumped. Very mild scattered foxing soiling throughout. Fore-edges somewhat abraded. Generally A Very Good tight copy. George W. Childs. hardcover books
182713123Washington: Pr. by Gales & Seaton 1827. 8vo. 142 pp. <br><br>Contents: Letter from the Department of War p. 3 signed in type by James Barbour; a letter from the Board of Officers p. 5 signed in type by Winfield Scott and 7 others including Z. Taylor Wm. H. Sumner and Abrm. Eustis; and A Complete System of Cavalry Tactics pp. 7142. Government document: 19th Congress 2d Session. Doc. No. 57. Ho. of Reps. War Dept. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 31208. Removed from a nonce volume; five holes in inner margin not touching text. Some pages unopened. Ink numeral in outer margin of title-page. Foxing to some leaves. Pr. by Gales & Seaton unknown books
1858WRCAM49772Washington D.C. 1858. 8pp. Folded quarto sheet. Two soft horizontal creases some dust-soiling and edge wear minor fold separations. Good. A decidedly anti-Mormon speech delivered in the midst of the Utah War on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman John Thompson who concludes by arguing the absolute necessity of increasing the size of the army to suppress the Mormon conflict. Thompson is clearly no fan of the Mormons. He presents polygamy as a threat to America and argues for harsh treatment of the Mormons in Utah. Thompson categorizes the founder of Mormonism Joseph Smith as possessing "that singular compound of genius and folly of cunning and absurdity of indolence and energy of craft and earnestness which distinguished him to the end of his career." Thompson accuses Smith of attempting "to introduce communism" through his "spiritual despotism." But he reserves his most vicious rhetoric for Brigham Young and the Mormons currently fighting U.S. forces in Utah: <br> <br> "What will you do with Utah.I would send an army there sufficient to apprehend Young and his co-conspirators against the authority of the General Government - who will be found to include every lord of the seraglio - try them for treason and hang every one without distinction who should be found guilty; excluding every Mormon from any participation in the legal processes of the court." <br> <br> A rare official screed against the Utah Mormons whose ultimate surrender to the U.S. government in mid-1858 resulted in Brigham Young's removal as territorial governor. The conflict and its aftermath left a rift between the Utah Mormons and the U.S. government that delayed Utah statehood for almost forty years. OCLC records only eighteen copies. FLAKE 8939. unknown books
181212948np Boston 1812. Caption title as issued 8pp. Untrimmed and uncut lightly foxed and worn. Very Good. A meeting at Concord Mass. on July 15 1812 protesting "the momentous and calamitous state of our country" and denouncing the national government for having "unnecessarily declared an offensive war." Congress has "trifled away our dearest privileges and annihilated our fondest hopes." President Madison has sought to shore up his "sinking" popularity by a war policy; he and his allies seeking to stigmatize their opponents as "tories" and traitors have "an ambitious design to continue the power in the hands of our present rulers." FIRST EDITION. AI 26074 2. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker. unknown books
18172309011817. unbound. 1 page 10 x 7.75 inches Auditor's Office Treasury Department September 29 1817. Written to a petitioner who has filed a claim for a deceased soldier's back pay in part: " I have to inform you that your claim for the pay of Hiram Pool late a private of Capt. Heslemans Company of Artillery has been taken up for examination but it appears that the pay due him is for services rendered during the Peace Establishment." Two-inch closed tear on the left side small chip near the upper right and staining on the lower right; good condition.<br/><br/> In this particular case Private Pool was killed after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent Dec. 24 1814. The government therefore is attempting to imply that he lost his life during the Peace Establishment and the petitioner is entitled to far less monies than if a determination were made that he died during the war.<br/><br/> unknown books
1815WRCAM37896Washington: Printed by William A. Davis 1815. 60pp. Folio. Dbd. Near fine untrimmed. An extensive set of tables recording imports to the U.S. by kind and quantity during one year of the War of of 1812. The chief exporting countries include Russia China Turkey with Egypt and the Levant and the various nations of western Europe and their New World dependencies. Shaw & Shoemaker locate three copies. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 36310. Printed by William A. Davis unknown books
1814WRCAM9583Washington 1814. 1151114pp. plus folding table. Modern cloth leather label. Tanned else very good. This government document attempts to explain away the reversals in the northern branch of the war. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 33307. HOWES M556. hardcover books
1812WRCAM45164Boston 1812. 32pp. Modern cloth. Light foxing and wear internally. Very good. A protest of the War of 1812 signed by thirty-four members of Congress. One of several printings others appearing the same year in Alexandria Hartford New Haven New York Baltimore etc. HOWES A77. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 24537 26832. hardcover books
166746176Graven-Hage: Tongerloo 1667. good. 4 leaves 94pp. rubricated title 4to stitched. Graven-Hage 1667. Good.<br/><br/> A treatise on the dispute between France and Spain over the inheritance rights of Marie Therese daughter of Philip IV of Spain and wife of Louis XIV of France.<br/><br/> Tongerloo unknown books
2007120736NY: Knopf 2007. First edition first prnt. Signed by Ward and Burns on the dedication page. Introduction by Burns. Illustrated. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Companion book to the Ken Burns & Lynn Novick PBS series of the same title. Uncommon signed by both Ward & Burns. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
186427535Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery Printers 1864. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good or better copy folded. 14 pp. 8vo. A report on the progress of supporting the families of those serving in the Civil War living in Ward Eleven in Boston Massachusetts now the South End. Scarce. OCLC shows a single copy at the Mass. Hist. Soc. Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Printers unknown books
200551938London: Headline 2005. First edition first prnt. Limited issue of 250 numbered copies signed and dated "17/02/05" with the holograph quotation "Fonthill again!" by Wilcox on the title/limitation page as issued. Copy #34. Limitation slip laid in as issued. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. The limited issue was prepared three weeks in advance of the book's trade publication date of March 7 2005. The second novel in Wilcox's Simon Fonthill series. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Headline Hardcover books
1938810Indianapolis 1938. Good. 1132iii1pp. plus two leaves of plates. Two volumes in one paginated continuously. Folio. Original blue card covers printed in gilt linen spine; stapled. Binding detached from text block. Lightly tanned minor wear and soiling. Mimeographed work enumerating Indiana women who served in World War I. Entries are alphabetical listing each woman's name birth date enlistment date and service record. The two leaves of plates at the end printed on both sides contain portraits of 128 servicewomen many of whom were nurses. Though there are twenty copies listed in OCLC all but two are in Indiana libraries Temple Public Library in Texas and the Library of Congress. unknown books
191921532Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 222 pp 7.5 x 5.25 inches in publisher's blue cloth with mounted spine label. Spine toned label rubbed but legible one small stain on front board. Internally clean and sound. No dust jacket. Elizabeth Cabot Putnam was the daughter of Harvard neurologist James Jackson Putnam. She graduated from Radcliffe in 1910 and in 1917 went to Paris where she worked as a secretary for the American Expeditionary Force's Air Service and as a Red Cross volunteer. Her letters home to her family discuss both her work and her general experiences as a young woman in a foreign country at war. Occasionally she comes across as a breezy society girl rather than someone viewing the horrors of war but at other times she is clearly deeply affected. Finally getting to rest after working at a hospital until three AM she looks out a window at the beautiful sky and writes "It was more than one could bear with equanimity -- so heavenly outside and so horrible inside -- all the blood and the hacked-up flesh and the thought of how each one is going to suffer when he gets out of ether." She cared for French soldiers ar the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris and for wounded Marines at a hospital in Neuilly. In mid-1918 she worked as a Red Cross searcher helping to track down missing servicemen. The Riverside Press hardcover books
1926WRCLIT61921Garden City: Doubleday 1926. Quarto. Three quarter burgundy morocco and batik boards t.e.g. spine elaborately gilt extra by Bennett. Color plates. First American edition trade issue. Extremities rubbed but a very good copy. REILLY WWI p.190. RICHARDS A366. STEWART 525n. Doubleday hardcover books
1919WRCLIT71843London: Methuen and Co. 1919. Red cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial vignette on title. Very near fine in faintly soiled dust jacket with minor use at crown of spine. First edition trade issue of one of the key collective volumes of Kipling's war verse. Its popularity was anticipated by the publishers who ordered a printing of 100000 copies according to Richards. RICHARDS A320. STEWART 434. REILLY WWI p. 191. Methuen and Co. hardcover books
1924WRCLIT78310Richmond: William Byrd Press 1924. 352pp. Large thick octavo. Cloth printed spine label. Photographs maps and folding map. Extremities rubbed inner hinges mended the book is printed on heavy stock that stressed the binding chip from fore-edge of front free endsheet; a good sound copy. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Inscribed presentation copy from the local chapter of the Red Cross to a member who served in the unit in Caserne La Marche near Toul. Laid in are some papers and letters from a later owner researching the Unit for a magazine article. William Byrd Press hardcover books
4686WORLD WAR II PATRIOTIC FAN. Fan. No date early 1940s. Madison Wisconsin. A World War II patriotic fan showing the Statue of Library overlooking a ferocious eagle. There is a solo fighter plane and a squadron of planes near the statue. The left panel states “Give us peace and liberty†and the other “Let the land we love be freeâ€. There is light waterstaining to the side of the right panel and it opens easily. It was printed by the Joyce Funeral Home of Madison Wisconsin and this is published on the back. unknown books
1942WRCLIT70812Washington DC: US Government Printing Office / Office of War Information Poster No. 13 1942. Folio photolithographed broadside 40 x 28"; 102 x 72 cm. Folded as issued. Very slight tanning at the folds on the blank verso but a very near fine bright unused example. A powerful WWII homefront poster promoting the achievement of war production. The poster incorporates a photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in an automobile at an inspection site looking at a performance report with military officers. The text below the image states in part: "Having seen the quality of the work and of the workers . and coupling these first-hand observations with the reports of actual performance of our weapons on the fighting fronts -- I can say. that we are getting ahead of our enemies in the battle of production. Franklin D Roosevelt " printed signature in script. US Government Printing Office / Office of War Information Poster No. 13 unknown books
16793Confederate States 5 dollar note 4/6/63 stamped February 1864. When the Civil War broke out the newly-formed Confederate States of America needed to create a monetary system to finance the government and the war effort. The Confederate Treasury printed bank notes The Confederate States dollar was first issued just before the outbreak of the American Civil War by the newly formed Confederacy. It was not backed by hard assets but simply by a promise to pay the bearer after the war on the prospect of Southern victory and independence. As the Civil War progressed and victory of the South seemed less and less likely its value declined. After the Confederacy's defeat its money had no value and most notes were destroyed. Light staining but in very good condition. unknown books
295336New York: Heywood Stasser & Voigt Litho. Co. Original poster mounted on linen. Page measures 30" x 20 1/4"<br/><br/> This World War I poster is part of a series published by the United War Work Campaign or UWWC a coalition of seven service organizations charged with raising $170000000 to help demobilize the army and maintain morale in the final few years of the war. The campaign was a success and was at the time recognized as the largest fundraising event in history. The War Camp Community Service was one of two secular organizations in the campaign. Their work was largely focused on the social and recreational needs of enlisted men in homefront training camps. This poster features the organization's emblem with an illustration of servicemen sharing a home cooked meal. The caption reads 'Home Hospitality'. Poster is in good condition with some wear to upper margin and repairs to right margin. Library notations in ink lower right.<br/><br/> Heywood Stasser & Voigt Litho. Co unknown books
191827182no place : War Department Office of the Surgeon General 1918. First Edition. Staplebound. Very Good. First Edition. XX 169 leaves. 7 3/4 x 10 inches. Printed on recto only. Mimeographed stapled. With buff printed cover. "Capt. Morison" inked at top of front cover. Marked "Not for publication" at top of front wrapper. Staplebound. Bulletin IV as offered was the last of a four bulletin series "Abstracts Translations and Reviews of Recent Literature on the Subject of the Reconstruction and Reeducation of the Disabled Soldier and Sailor:. and was replaced by a printed montly magazine "to be called CARRY ON The Disabled Soldier's and Sailor's Magazine". The Foreword notes that the new name "CARRY ON" was suggested by Mary Roberts Rinehart.<br/><br/>Bulletin IV May 25 1918 is the second part of a detailed report "The Story of the Crippled Soldier's Progress from Disablement to Replacement in Civil Life" and reports on work in Italy Belgium Canada and other Countries. The previous Bulletin No III. April 15 1918 is more commonly seen and is a companion volume to the current offering dealing with the same topic but in only 96 pages and covering the work in France and Great Britain. <br/><br/>The introductory remarks are particulary interesting as they work through the many challenges facing cruppled soldiers as they are treated and released into civilian life. Many of the issues could have come from today's headlines. While medical technology has advanced considerably in 100 years many of the same psychological issues remain. War Department Office of the Surgeon General unknown books
184253697Washington D.C.: G.P.O. 1842. 8vo pp. 4; unbound; lightly spotted. 27th Congress 2nd session. House Doc. no. 286. One hundred six in the Quartermaster General's office including 30 deck hands 13 firemen 7 cooks and 2 carpenters; eight in the Office of Commissary General 3 coopers and 5 laborers; 570 in the Engineer Department 545 slaves 25 "supposed free" - mostly laborers; and 28 in the Ordnance Office all slaves. While this is likely held uncatalogued in many institutions there is only one record of this title in OCLC - at Texas A&M. <br/><br/> G.P.O. unknown books
40031n. p. n. d. 1st printing presumed ca. 1973. Yellow printed paper. Modest wear faint horizontal crease rubbing. A VG example of Anti-War propaganda. Single sheet printed recto only. One printed illustration of a Vietnamese soldier gun raised. 14" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>"Almost all these imperialist tactics are being used in Asia Africa Latin America and the Phillipines. The war was not a tragic mistake. It was a calculated attempt by the US imperialists to exploit the people resources and strategic position of Vietnam. These attempts are being made all over the world and like the Vietnamese the people of the world are FIGHTING BACK! Members of the anti-war movement should all feel proud at the small contribution we have been able to make to the recent victory but the war is not over." No holdings found on OCLC. Rare. unknown books
