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19931100145np: Ohio State Univ Press 1993. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies signed by O'Brien. Copy #221. Approx 17 X 12 inches. Printed from Janson types on Rives Heavyweight paper at the Logan Elm Press. Color illustration by Jack Shifman. Distrubuted on the occasion of a reading for the Creative Writing Program at the Ohio State Univ. in the Fall of 1993. "Style" is an excerpt from O'Brien's third Vietnam War book The Things They Carried. Fine condition. The limitation statement & signature at the bottom edge does not appear in this scan. Signed by Author. First Edition. Unbound. Fine/Not Issued. Illus. by Jack Shifman. Broadside. Ohio State Univ Press Paperback books
194325229Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1943. Original photo-illustrated poster lithographed in colors and measuring 56.5cm x 71cm 22.25 x 28". Professionally linen-backed with old fold lines faintly visible; a few small spots expertly retouched at folds closest to the edges; Near Fine. A-. OWI Poster No.37 featured the image of a cheerful G.I. drinking coffee from a tin container with the intention of encouraging adherence to rationing on the homefront as well as appealing to families with boys overseas. The man in the photo is Thomas J. Murray d.October 16 2002 who from 1943-1945 served as the face of rationing for the OWI; his portrayal of "GI Joe in the foxhole" contributed greatly towards the homefront rationing effort and gaining support for the war. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
194225224Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1942. Original offset-lithographed poster in colors printed on off-white stock and measuring 51.5cm x 72.3cm ca 20" x 28" - the smallest of three formats. Professionally linen-backed with old fold lines faintly visible; expert conservation to upper edges of blue portion on the flag with 2cm infilling and professional re-touching to upper left corner; Near Fine. A-. A simply-designed poster unsigned but credited to artist Charles Coiner. Among the earliest posters produced by the Office of War Information OWI Poster No.9 unmistakably patriotic with the "Give It Your Best" slogan meant to inspire increased production in the nation's factories during wartime. A well-preserved example of one of the iconic propaganda posters of the Second World War. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
19969006462New York: McGraw-Hill 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the spine stamped in silver. <br/><br/> McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1945011277Okinawa: Headquarters Special Troops US Army 1945. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to self-wrappers illustrated pp 20. First edition of a souvenir compiled by Headquarters Special Troops and reproduced by 3020th Engr. Top. Co. Corp. An account of the surrender of the Ryukus islands to General Joe Stillwell. Mimeographed four photos two maps a list of the 10th Army Staff etc. Wrappers a tad browned. else near fine. Headquarters Special Troops US Army unknown books
1919WRCAM55818France 1919. Three photograph albums one small framed photograph one small portfolio one book. 1115 photographs most mounted in albums ranging from 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 to 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 162 pieces of ephemera most mounted in albums. Two photograph albums: Folio. Olive green buckram both with burgundy morocco labels on front board and spine with gilt initials "WBO JR" and volume number. Minor wear to extremities some leaves slightly cockled due to photo mounting small chips and closed tears to margins of leaves. Third photograph album: Oblong octavo. Black limp cloth boards with black cord binding. Some wear to extremities some closed tears to leaves a few photographs cut out. Framed photograph: Glass cracked some tarnishing to frame. Portfolio: Tan leather with a snap clasp. Pocket partially torn well worn. Book: Publisher's half red cloth with illustrated paper boards inscription on front free endpaper. Front board and spine starting to detach from text block first few leaves detached but present. The archive in very good condition overall. An engaging and carefully assembled collection of photographs recounting the World War I service of 1st Lt. William B. Olmsted Jr. along with a substantial collection of ephemera and letters described below. The photographs document all aspects of his war service showing the aftermath of important battles American soldiers French soldiers and civilians scenes of the countryside and devastated towns and villages moments of calm and recreation and images in France from the period of the Armistice and in the months after. The ephemera provides a detailed paper record of Olmsted's service in France. <br> <br> William Olmsted Jr. 1893-1948 was born in Southboro Massachusetts. His father the Rev. William B. Olmsted was the Headmaster of Pomfret School in Connecticut. Olmsted was Yale Class of 1915 and also did graduate work at Trinity College. After the war he joined the staff of American Viscose Corporation and was Vice-President in Charge of Sales and a director at the time he died. Olmsted volunteered for the American Field Service formerly the American Ambulance Field Service in France in June 1917 and then enlisted in the American Expeditionary Forces later that year. He attended French Officers' School at Meaux and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in February 1918. Olmsted served in the Réserve Mallet a French army unit made up of American volunteers who transported ammunition and trench equipment and anything else that needed transporting wherever it was most needed. <br> <br> The first olive green album begins with a large page in manuscript recording Olmsted's service in France. The next page has "Volume 1 1917-1919" in manuscript and Olmsted's Registration Certificate i.e. draft card June 1917 affixed below. Photos begin on the following page starting with "Chevigny Farm" in August 1917. Olmsted annotates some photos individually but there are also titles and dates for each section which are grouped geographically but not chronologically. The subjects are wide- ranging - Olmsted's photos feature fellow American and French soldiers including the Army of Africa French civilians scenes of the countryside as well as ruined buildings and landscapes military encampments and cemeteries. There are also photos of airplanes both ready to fly and shot down a gas alarm and a Fourth of July gathering. <br> <br> Many of Olmsted's photos are candid and some can be haunting as well. One set chronicles the devastation following the Battle of Montdidier. Part of the second phase of the larger Battle of Amiens the conclusion of this offensive was later known as "the black day of the German Army" and was a major turning point in the war. Nevertheless hardly a structure is left standing in Olmsted's photos. Happier scenes are featured at La Capelle for the Armistice on November 11 1918 including cars that ferried German delegates there to negotiate the peace. The photos feature German as well as French and American troops. Even after the peace was signed however Olmsted still has much devastation to document. He also includes a series of photos he acquired from German soldiers depicting a funeral for a fallen aviator and German soldiers "at play." At this point Olmsted's combat travels take him to Paris and then this sequence ends. <br> <br> The next series of photos begins with the heading "Trip in Ford. 16 days - Cost of car rent gas oil $137.50." Accompanied by his wife Margaret this is clearly a tourist trip albeit a somber one beginning in Soissons and ending in Argentan. Olmsted includes photos of cathedrals and repairs to cathedrals cafés the American cemetery at Belleau Woods as well as French and German graveyards shots of trenches and forts near Rheims and friends and families he meets along the way. This sequence ends with scenes aboard a ship. <br> <br> The second olive green album "Volume 2 1917-1919" begins with "French Tanks Going into Action." Photos in this album are often annotated but there are fewer locations noted. There are some apparent combat scenes in this album as well as more devastation from shelling and bombing and a short sequence of airplanes including a downed German fighter. A sequence titled "Pictures taken by Capt. F.O. Robinson" finishes the photo section. Robinson's pictures do not vary substantially in form or content but add areas not covered by Olmsted particularly in and around Bazoches. <br> <br> The last two-thirds of this album is titled "Volume 3 1917-1919" and consists of ephemera and letters. It begins with a comic sketch of Olmsted and a cloth insignia of his unit the Réserve Mallet. Then follows all of the official documentation of Olmsted's military service including his commission and promotion and ultimately his discharge papers. Also included are Olmsted's folio sheet-size passport with photograph and a substantial collection of orders leave permissions and other administrative documentation from both French and American forces issued to Olmsted. In the midst of these materials he has mounted his American Field Service Medal and Victory Medal with battle clasps: Somme-Defensive Aisne Montdidier-Noyon Aisne-Marne Somme- Offensive Oise-Aisne Defensive Sector along with an envelope labeled "From Cathedral at Rheims" holding pieces of broken blue glass and a small card wishing him happy new year from the superior and sisters at Crecy-en-Brie. Olmsted also preserved a few watercolors one depicting a soldier possibly Olmsted himself with the sisters at Crecy-en-Brie another of a man in a horse-drawn carriage and a larger one of Olmsted standing next to a monument displaying an American eagle and shield and with a truck in the background. There are several sketches by the same artist included as well. Towards the end Olmsted has mounted his dog tags and two pamphlets about the Réserve Mallet. <br> <br> The smaller black photo album seems to overlap somewhat timewise but features photos primarily in the United States many of which are annotated in white pencil in a hand different from that of Olmsted. It may have been created by his wife Margaret. There are several photos taken in the Bay Area of northern California including the campus of the University of California and Golden Gate Park. Interspersed are photos from an apparent road trip including "Dallas" "New Orleans Docks" "Camp Sheridan" Nebraska and "Montgomery" Alabama. <br> <br> Final material relating to Olmsted's life include a small leather portfolio of clippings of his obituary printed in papers around the country and other ephemera. Among this material is an envelope labeled "Bearers at my funeral." with notes inside from Olmsted on whom he wants to conduct his funeral hymns to be included and so forth; an enveloped labeled "Lily from my Wedding bouquet June 23 1917" and a condolence letter to his widow Margaret. Included loose are a menu from a restaurant in Paris 1917 a portion of a letter on teaching military strategy that begins in code and two documents related to Margaret being named a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur by the French government for her work directing overseas activities of the American Aid to France foundation during World War II. Finally there is a well-worn dedication copy of "I WAS THERE": WITH THE YANKS ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1917-1919 by C. Leroy Baldridge New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1919 given to the Olmsteds by the commandant of the Réserve Mallet. <br> <br> A truly impressive collection chronicling an American's service in France. hardcover books
1956303506Washington D.C. Academy of American Franciscan History 1956. 1956. First edition thus. Tall 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Ord and 4 b/w illustrations from photographs. 1 page introduction by Thomas Savage. Translated and edited by Francis Price and William H. Ellison. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine and a gilt vignette of the American Franciscan History Washington on the upper front cover; pictorial endpapers from an etching by Edward Borein. Fine. 98 pages. No dust jacket. Gift inscription not author's on the first preliminary page: "For Rosario with warm regards Pancho." Provenance: from the collection of Rosario Curletti. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Washington, D.C., Academy of American Franciscan History, 1956. hardcover books
157128345Nuremberg 1571. Engraving printed on two sheets of laid paper joined. Engraver's monogram at the lower left. Early manuscript caption in English in the lower margin. Plate mark: 11 x 16 inches. Sheet size: 14 5/8 x 18 3/8 inches. Tear extending from the right margin closed with small void in excellent facsimile small worm hole within the image. Very rare German news-sheet map depicting the Turkish fleet invasion of Cyprus in 1570.<br/> <br/>Exceptionally scarce engraved German broadside map depicting the Ottoman fleet sailing to Venetian-controlled Cyprus in 1570. The early English manuscript caption in ink just below image reads: "The representation of the Turkish Navall Army in ye year 1570 going forth to meet the Venetian fleet." Cyprus then under Venetian rule was a strategic point for controlling shipping and trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Ottomans ruled by Sultan Selim II had long desired the island. Following a series of warnings and demands the Ottoman fleet commanded by Müezzinzade Ali Pasha and Lala Mustafa Pasha sailed for Cyprus in late June 1570. Depicted here the Turkish fleet was composed of an estimated 350-400 ships and upwards of 100000 men. Following sieges and massacres at Nicosia Kyrenia and Famagusta the island was taken by August 1571. Although the invasion was long-heralded the Venetian fleet failed to prevent the invasion or the subsequent fall of Cyprus to the Turks. However they subsequently raised the support of the "Holy League" of the Catholic maritime states in the Mediterranean and defeated the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571 off the western coast of Greece. The victory of the Holy League prevented the Ottoman Empire expanding further along the European side of the Mediterranean though did not end their possession of Cyprus. Jenichen who signed the map with his monogram 'BI' was the leading German publisher of news-sheet maps. Jenichen and compatriot Matthias Zündt took particular interest in the conflict and produced views and maps of it that equaled and surpassed those of their Italian counterparts. Given their ephemeral nature all are rare and desirable. We can locate only one other example of this engraving appearing at auction in recent times Sotheby's London 29 April 2014 lot 157 £60000.<br/> <br/>Hollstein XL B 128; G.K. Nagler Die Monogrammisten v. 1 p. 818-819; Andresen II Nr. 276; Drugulin II 364; s.a. Meurer Jenichen S. 50. unknown books
193031580New York: Macmillan Company 1930. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by "Bell"; xxix5433pp. General edge wear to jacket and cloth extremities including a few tiny chips and brief splitting at top inch of upper flap fold jacket spine a bit sunned cloth spine gilt dulled else Very Good and sound. Editor's inscription on front free endpaper: "May 12 1959 / For Margaret S. Moyer / President of the Allentown Garden Club / With warmest friendship / Vincent Godfrey Burns." Anthology of anti-war poetry chiefly composed during the Great War and organized by subject: "The Trenches" "Spring in War Time" "Women and War" "Armistice" "The Unknown Soldier" etc. Includes contributions by Conrad Aiken Witter Bynner Siegfried Sassoon Wilfred Owen Stephen Crane Rose Macaulay and many others. Macmillan Company unknown books
1990191933Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1990. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Contents clean and tight; DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. University of Illinois Press unknown books
4739saNicosia Cyprus: The Pancyprian Committee of Parents and Relatives of Undeclared Prisoners of War and Missing Persons. Tall octavo stapled illus. wrappers 38 pp. Very Good with slight rubbing to covers. Enclosed: The Irish Times Monday June 6 1977: The Rape of Cyprus. From introduction: ‘In the summer of 1974 Turkish troops invaded and occupied over a third of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus. Over the years those who lost their loved ones their homes and their livelihoods have begun the painful process of rebuilding their shattered lives. But for us the fathers the mothers the brothers the sisters and the children of the ‘missing’ the passage of time has deepened rather than healed the wounds inflicted by the Turkish invasion. There are 1619 ‘missing’ persons our relatives. This number includes women young children other civilians and soldiers who ‘disappeared’ consequent to the Turkish invasion of Cyrus in 1974.’ The Pancyprian Committee of Parents and Relatives of Undeclared Prisoners of War and Missing Persons. unknown books
1973244037New York: Park Slope People Against the War 1973. Two issues of the newsletter 3 and 4 pages respectively 8.5x14 inch sheets stapled together at corner; front page of first issue is heavily toned. Includes discussion of plans to protest Thieu's visit. Park Slope People Against the War unknown books
183880037México November 30 1838. 1 lv 1 broadside A declaration by the president of the Mexican Republic Anastasio Bustamante of the cessation of friendly relations with France and the refusal to give into the ultimatum issued by France to Mexico; he further calls on the citizenry to sacrifice and to show their patriotism in the face of French hostilities. No copies show in OCLC or Bancroft unknown books
19442194628Essential Books Inc 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips jacket toned. Essential Books Inc hardcover books
186480068México: Palacio Imperial de México 20 Mayo 1864. Secretaría de Guerra y Marina Letterhead form signed 2p Military award of merit signed on front by Juan de Dios Peza and on verso by Tomas Gomez Joaquin Sorrano and Rafael Laranga with three governmental seals. Platon Roa would become ambassador to Guatemala in 1888 Palacio Imperial de México unknown books
2005188013Ampersand Publishing 2005-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Ampersand Publishing paperback books
187023748New York NY: Sarony 1870. Carte-de-Visite Photograph Portrait of John Adams Dix 1798 - 1879 Union Civil War general & New York governor who famously as the war between the states began ".galvanized northern opinion by ordering New Orleans officials to instantly shoot anyone lowering the American flag.a War Democrat Dix stood between traditional Democrats and Republicans a valuable symbol for those on either side trying to broaden their parties' support at election time." Phyllis F. Field in the ANB; with the Sarony studio imprint on front of mount card; no date circa 1870; approx. 2 1/2" x 4" size; light wear to mount; in very good condition. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Sarony Paperback books
192024569Germany Europe: Keystone View Co. 1920. Black and white glass plate negative approx. 6 1/2" x 7" size. Not dated circa 1920. Remains of old paper envelope with penciled identification "Conditions in Germany Eight Children of Berlin Germany sleeping in one room on a bed made of a broken bedstead a mattress a stool and a chair. This is typical of the present conditions existing in Germany." With the remains of the original Keystone paper mailing envelope. Plate broken with about 20% chipped away and lost at right margin. We have photographed this using a light-box and then inverted the image to give a positive. In fair condition. Photograph. Not Bound. Fair. Keystone View Co. Paperback books
197019694Dau Tieng ca. 1970. Very good. 12mo. Commercial album; turquoise faux-leather boards. 46 gelatin-silver B&W prints most 4.5" by 3.5"; 13 color prints; 3 pieces of various ephemera including an Army library card dated 1970; plus 4 photos apparently sent from home. Very good. Mild exterior wear; light soil to plastic sleeves throughout; but photos remain clean and bright. <br/><br/>Striking collection of photographs showing many carefree recreational moments of wartime: soldiers sitting around at the barracks reading and smoking; many photos of smiling Vietnamese women including girls at the base library. Notably includes two photographs of a Vietnamese all-female rock band performing and three of an African-American soldier rock band likely USO. Plus several exterior shots of the military base one sign noting the headquarters of the 2/28 Infantry the Black Lions. A moving portait particularly of what appear to be at least momentarily jovial relationships between soldiers and local Vietnamese. hardcover books
194736860Okinawa 1947. 1st printing. Off-white paper wrappers printed in dark blue stapled. Drawing by 'Lapan' to front wrapper. Modest wear & soiling to wrappers. Age toning to paper. A VG copy. 68 pp. Filled with b/w photographic images typically 3-4 per page of Okinawa its people & divers aspects of the 1st Air Division. Line drawings by McFadden. 2 page map at center. Oblong format: 8-1/4" x 11" <br/><br/> unknown books
195082821Budapest: The Hungarian State Publishing House 1950. Paperback. 309p. a few inserted plates fuzzy courtroom pix paperstock is uniformly browned and tending towards the fragile wraps with tears at spine ends. Materials "from the office of the state prosecutor in Budapest." Title reflects a presumed English-speaking audience-interest as regards this translation; there were half a dozen accused from various European backgrounds Vogeler and Sanders were the only ones trained on British or American turf. All are participants in a plot to retard Hungarian economic growth as this cataloguer understands the charges. Vogeler and Sanders in particular were directed by a number of agencies amongst which no CIA but searching at random US Army intelligence aka CIC aka ODI last-named organization being an "extended and strengthened" version of CIC based in Vienna see p.235. Vogeler is said to be "a schooled and trained spy of the United States. He was trained for his work not only at the U.S. Naval Academy but in 1942 he attended the school for spies established by the Federal Bureau of Investigation" --here follow excerpts from Vogeler's confession. Sanders see pp.237ff "was a spy of the British as well as of the Americans" who "trained in England and later in Helouan near Cairo" and his early activities were in Egypt --details follow. The Hungarian State Publishing House paperback books
19439070Cambridge MA: Post-War Services Committee 1943. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 16pp. Pencil to creased cover foxed along edges stain to rear cover wear to corners else a clean and sound copy. On the treatment of defeated enemy countries with particular attention to the drawing of international boundaries in Eastern Europe. Post-War Services Committee unknown books
1945190927New York: Post War World Council 1945. Three 8.5x11 inch handbills a four-panel brochure and a cover letter for the group folded to fit into standard envelope one of the handbills rather toned and browning the front panel of the brochure. "The Council is fighting the war we must win here at home against all discrimination - social political and economic - for the universal abolition of military conscription and against the permanent militarization of our country." Chairman was Norman Thomas; treasurer was Oswald Garrison Villard. Post War World Council unknown books
33514n. p. n. d. Ca 1906 - 1910. Custom full-black leather with elaborate gilt stamping with the UK's Royal Coat of Arms gilt stamped to the front board & the Admiralty Seal device gilt stamped to the rear board. Gilt dentelles with silk moire eps. AEG. Modest extremity wear. Spine leather a bit dull and the boards splay slightly. Gutter break prior to last leaf. Still a VG copy of an uncommon item. 17 leaves: 5 of text printed recto only. 12 leaves with tipped-in images 8 photographs & 5 color postcard-type images. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>The volume segregated into 4 sections: The "Dreadnaught" 2 text pages & 1 photographic image Submarines 1 text page & 5 photographic images Torpedo Boat Destroyers 1 text page & 2 photographic images & The Fleet / Dreadnaught Types 1 text page summarizing the fleet strength including ship types/numbers & 5 color postcard-type images of divers dreadnaught types. In short a custom 'primer' for the Royal English Navy ca 1910 with all indications the book created for the use of a senior Naval official or senior political figure associated with the Royal Navy. hardcover books
1944RPREWAR00fpThe Infantry Journal 1944. Very Good. Prepared by the War Department. The War in Outline: Second Edition The War to March 31 1944. Washington D.C.: The Infantry Journal 1944. 228pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 16mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed Faint crease on lower back corner. Staining to back cover. The Infantry Journal paperback books
