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{World War I: Kellogg CharlotteABAA

WOMEN OF BELGIUM TURNING TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH

World War One15th Infantry Known as the "Harlem Hellfighters"International Film Service / Underwood and Underwood PhotographerABAA

Two Press Photographs Relating to the 15th Infantry

1919CAT0119New York: Underwood and Underwood 1919. First Edition. Gelatin silver prints 7 Â¾ x 5 Â½ inches each on 11 Â½ x 7 inch black paper mounts captioned with affixed text. Very Good. Two WWI-era press photographs related to the Negro 15th Infantry Division of the New York National Guard a.k.a. the 369th US Infantry Regiment and their white commander Colonel William Hayward. One photograph shows the division on parade in New York following their return from combat duty in France in 1919 the other is a well-known image of Hayward who organized the all-black unit and served as its leader. Fighting for a record-breaking 191 consecutive days alongside French troops in the trenches the regiment became known as the "Harlem Hellfighters." The opportunity for African-Americans to serve in WWI arose from the Selective Service Act of 1917 which drafted all men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty. Special segregated training camps were established and units were formed. The US National Archives states that 200000 African-Americans served in Europe during WWI but only 42000 saw combat. When the 15th Infantry arrived in France in 1918 Hayward was committed to the idea that his unit would fight on the front lines. After General Pershing refused to integrate them with the full US army Hayward pushed for another assignment under French command. Unlike many other segregated divisions in WWI the 15th aka 369th was eventually sent to the trenches. Its members' distinguished service brought honor and fame. Before leaving the US in 1917 the regiment had not been allowed to participate in the New York National Guard's farewell parade. When they returned victorious Hayward ensured they were publicly honored. Both with various press stamps to versos. Small closed tear of about a half inch to upper edge of parade picture good overall. Hayward portrait with some rippling at edges very good overall. Underwood and Underwood unknown books

Auger Down Books · États-Unis800,00 $US≈ 676,88 €

World War One Biddle Capt. NicholasABAA

Autograph letter Signed "Nicholas" to his parents from the front lines of France

1918308587France 1918. 2-1/2 pages pen and ink on paper with original envelope. Old folds else fine. 2-1/2 pages pen and ink on paper with original envelope. AN OFFICER IN THE REMOUNT SERVICE. An animated letter home from an officer serving in a little-known but vital branch of the service during the First World War. Reading in part: "I am now living up at the front with the New England division and a mighty fine one it is. I am attached to Division headquarters as remount officer and am now located part of the time in a huge cave in one of the towns which has been considerably shelled since the first few troubles of the war. As I sit writing the Boche are hurling over high explosives and gas shells which are rather uncomfortably near. They are shooting high however most of the time and going over our heads. We have had a considerable number of casualties of late due to the fact that we have been continually in the front fighting area. The animal situation has become so desperate due to the tremendous losses and lack of supply that a number of divisions have become immobile and this one along with still others threatens to become so. That's why I have been sent here and I am doing everything in my power to save up what animals we have by being continually out among them instructing officers and men in proper care and feeding most of the losses have been due to neglect preventing over loading; and making such suggestions to the General as I see fit. It is interesting but difficult work." Born in Brookline Massachusetts into a prominent and notable American family Brigadier General Nicholas Biddle 1893-1977 was a career officer in the United States Army National Guard who saw action in the Mexican Border 1916 World Wars I and II and was a recipient of the Legion of Merit. Biddle was the son of Edward Biddle 1851-1933 and Lillian Howard Lee Biddle 1862-1946 and great grandson of banker Nicholas Biddle. Biddle married Sarah Lippincott 1894-1962 granddaughter on her father's side of the founder of the J. B. Lippincott Company and granddaughter on her mother's side of Joseph Wharton founder of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. They had one son John Scott Biddle 1925-2008 who was best know as a foremost yachting cinematographer. Known as the "Yankee Division" the 26th Infantry was formed from the Massachusetts National Guard in July 1917. The division was sent to Europe in WWI as part of the American Expeditionary Forces and saw extensive fighting in France. The Remount Service was part of the Quarter Master Corps and worked with the Veterinary Corps to handle the thousands of animals that still played a major role in WWI. As the division's "Remount Officer" Nicholas Biddle would have been in charge of supervising the care and handling of the unit's horses and mules. unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis300,00 $US≈ 253,83 €

World War OneABAA

The Hatchet. Published On the High Seas. Vol. 6. No. 1-9. Last Number without date and located 'somewhere in France

19182117881918. 9 issues single sheet except Number 6 & 7 which are 4pp. Small 4to. Fine. 9 issues single sheet except Number 6 & 7 which are 4pp. Small 4to. 'We Cannot Tell a Lie'. Printed on board the USS George Washington a German ocean liner seized by the US and converted to a troop transport during WWI The Hatchet a reference to the legend about George Washington and the cherry tree was started in February 1918 to as a diversion for the troops and sailors on board who were making the dangerous Trans-Atlantic crossing. A bend of shipboard gossip and news received via the ship's radio the single-sheet paper was written by officers with literary experience and printed by on a small hand-press by men who had worked in the printing and publishing business. With a print run of 7000 the paper whose motto was "We Cannot Tell a Lie" boasted that it had "The Largest Circulation on the Atlantic Ocean." Our collection was presented by the ship's chaplain who also doubled as the newspaper's managing editor to banjo player Joe Lorraine. Lorraine was one of the professional semi-professional and amateur players of the American Stage and Lyceum in WWI that followed the American Army through the war and entertained the troops often in areas close to the frontline. Lorraine entertained more than 2000000 soldiers in 650 appearances over 5 months before being invalided for mustard gas exposure and sent home to recuperate. He returned in 1919 with his famous autographed bull neck banjo which had been signed by more than 700 soldiers from most of the major battles of the war. A pen and ink inscription at the head and tail of Vol. 6 No. 1 reads: "Presented to me by the Chaplain of the George Washington Property of Joe Lorraine. These papers were presented on the transport steamer George Washington during the war with Germany. President Woodrow Wilson sailed to and returned from France on this boat.". unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

World War II: PhotographyABAA

Photo Album of the Botched Allied Bombardment of the Bezuidenhout

194520240The Hague ca. 1945. Hardcover. Near fine. Two oblong 8vo. albums. First album: 11.5" by 9" approx. String-tied faux-alligator boards. 43 gelatin-silver prints majority 3.75" by 2.5" but many 5.5" by 3.25" mounted to stiff gray leaves with cobweb-patterned tissue guards on each and handwritten captions in Dutch. Apparently complete. Near fine with several photos mildly yellowed but majority bright and sharp. Second album: 13'' by 9'' approx. String-tied grey textured paper boards. 91 gelatin-silver prints of various sizes from 3.75'' by 2.5'' to 5.5'' by 3.25'' most of the latter size on stiff blue paper with tissue guards and handwritten captions in Dutch. Also contains an anti-Hitler card affixed to the front paste-down several cards with art and verse and two sepia-toned photographs on the final page. Two 5'' scuff marks to front board album corners and edges worn and bumped otherwise near fine with bright and sharp photographs. A pair of carefully assembled albums possibly compiled for official use. The majority of the photos in both albums record the aftermath of a botched Allied bombardment in the Hague on March 3 1945; the attack claimed the lives of 511 civilians and left over 20000 people homeless. Targeted at a German missile base in the occupied Netherlands bombs deployed by the Royal Air Force landed instead in the adjacent Bezuidenhout neighborhood in the Hague destroying thousands of homes business and public buildings. The photos show several bombed-out churches and many apartment buildings with street names captioned underneath. Near the end of the first album three images show the burning of the Schevenigen Pier near the Hague which the compiler blames on the Germans but whose exact cause has never been established. The album forms a direct account of wartime destruction in the Netherlands. The second album much more extensive includes some of the same material along with many other photographs. Affixed to the front paste-down is a black-bordered satirical memorial card for Hitler reading in Dutch "He came.but not to England / He saw.Moscow / He lost.the war." Beginning with two views of The Hague one in 1930 and one apparently mid-bombardment labeled March 3 1945 it also includes numerous scenes of destroyed buildings and monuments identified by street name. Some of these overlap with images from the first album; many do not. In addition to those showing the aftermath of the bombing several photos show intact monuments and buildings from neighboring cities like Middelburg possibly as a point of comparison with the ones destroyed. A few pages show photographs of various Bailey bridges at unspecified locations and other wartime construction. The final page of uncaptioned photos includes a shot of a pro-Hitler slogan painted in Dutch on a bridge underpass and a photo of several posters including a Dutch advertisement for "De Eeuwige Jood" The Eternal Jew a German propaganda film. A final leaf follows with two pro-R.A.F. cards with verses and drawings and three souvenir cards of Queen Wilhelmina Princess Juliana and her children Beatrix and Irene. The final page has two sepia-toned photos of a parade presumably celebrating the war's end. An important act of witnessing from an unfortunate event. hardcover books

Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix · États-Unis1 750,00 $US≈ 1 480,68 €

World War II: Pearl Harbor. WATKINS Gerald M.ABAA

Eyewitness Account to Pearl Harbor Day Attack - Autograph Letter Signed with Related Materials

194019884Various ca. 1940s. Thirteen brown paper leaves loose from a presumably perished scrapbook holding 57 black and white silver print photographs and dozens of ephemeral articles clippings postcards documents etc. tape-mounted to rectos and versos. Prints ranging in size from approximately 1.5Â” square to approximately 8Â” x 10Â” 42 of the 57 photos approximately 1.5Â” square contact prints. WITH Two ALS totaling approximately 650 words. Letters good to very good. WITH About 35 pieces of loose ephemera: military correspondence personal clippings and photographs etc. Scrapbook pages worn flaking at edges loose contents often with tape remnants or residue from previous mounting. Contents overall about good. Pearl Harbor letter very good with folds from mailing light toning and a small chip from right margin. A small archive of World War II service and personal materials belonging to a Gerald Maynard Watkins of Memphis Tennessee highlighted by a monumental Pearl Harbor eyewitness letter written by Watkins to his mother less than 2 weeks after the Japanese attack.Â Watkins was stationed at the Kanehoe Naval Air Station on the East side of the island of OÂ’ahu site of the first Japanese attack carried out just minutes prior to Pearl Harbor approximately 30 miles to the West. His approximately 575 word letter of December 20 1941 describes the surprise onslaught in vivid and revealing detail exceprt: "Then it happened. Never til my dying day will I forget. Bombers. They came from nowhere Â– Seemed to just be there. I looked up just in time to see them drop their eggs. For one startling second the world stood still as I followed the bombs line of drop with my eyes. I couldnÂ’t help it. Fascinated by it all I watched until thy hit. That broke the spell. Courage Â– Every man there was a hero.Â I rushed over to the hangar after the debris had settled. The first person I saw was Lawrence. He was just lying there kind of white looking and awful still. My throat tightened until it was hard to swallow. I knew he was dead." This remarkable eyewitness account one of the best pieces of World War II correspondence weÂ’ve seen is certainly the highlight of the group and its remaining contents are largely typical of World War II-era scrapbooks and archival material with several dozen photographs of his later service in the War many from Canton Island airfield in the Pacific with the decorated Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-52. The balance of contents consist of personal clippings marriage photographs 3 pages seeming to be the fitful beginnings of an attempt at an early draft of a memoir of his Pearl Harbor Day experience and a second wartime ALS written on Christmas Eve 1941 in which he follows up his December 7 experience with a report on a mild injury he suffered during the attack:Â Â“Now that I am well and health once more I can tell you this. I had a very small piece of shrapnel from one of the bombs that were dropped here hit me in the shoulder. I didnÂ’t even have to go to bed. I feel like a veteran now.Â”Â Watkins left the Navy in 1946 after six years of service and went on to a career as a commercial airline pilot. His 2006 obituary notes he entered the University of Miami Law School at 67 years old passing the Florida Bar at 70 to become a practicing lawyer in retirement.Â A handful of primary written accounts of the Pearl Harbor attack are known notably the diary of George Macartney Hunter whose family privately holds the manuscript but have made it available in multiple venues including for use in the 2003 PBS documentary THE PERILOUS FIGHT. The offering of similar materials in commerce appears to be rare with a significantly less impressive letter by a civilian witness to Pearl Harbor several miles from the battle itself making approximately $1200 nearly tripling its high estimate at a small regional auction in 2011. A rare thoughtful and exceptionally revealing participant account with important supporting documentation lending additional context of arguably the defining event of the 20th century. unknown books

Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix · États-Unis4 000,00 $US≈ 3 384,40 €

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