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19414820Los Angeles Ca: Army and Navy Publishing Company Inc 1941. Very good. 21028pp. Original red cloth decoratively stamped in blind with title stamped in gilt on front cover. Boards soiled and rubbed minor scuffing to edges. Light occasional foxing. A rare yearbook memorializing the first year of training for the 54th Coast Artillery during the early stages of World War II at Camp Davis North Carolina. The 54th Coast Artillery was an important African-American support unit during the war which according to the opening letter here from Major General F.H. Smith was designed "to build up antiaircraft antitank antinaval and balloon barrage units prepared to assist effectively in the defense of our Country its cities airports naval bases and foreign possessions." The majority of the personnel of the 54th Coast Artillery was comprised of enlisted men from Texas Kansas and Missouri. The present yearbook includes photographic portraits of the staff officers and other personnel at Camp Davis scenes around the base action shots of the soldiers in various aspects of training scenes of the soldiers during recreational sports and more.<br /> <br /> Most notably the book includes photographic portraits of hundreds of African American enlisted men who served in the 54th including Private Leo Beasley who is pictured on page 68. The album was given to Beasley in early December 1941 by his commanding officer and then presented by Beasley to his mother. By the time he received the yearbook Beasley had attained the rank of corporal. Interestingly in 2023 the mayor of Pacific Grove California issued a special proclamation recognizing the service of the 54th Coast Artillery in World War II noting that "Despite that these troops were armed and clothed with used weapons and secondhand uniforms dating to World War I they did not complain and served with pride and distinction."<br /> <br /> OCLC records just four copies of this yearbook from the 54th's first year of service at the Pentago Library East Carolina University UNC-Chapel Hill and NYPL listed by either the cover title or the first sectional title page which gives the title as Historical and Pictorial Review Antiaircraft Training Center Camp Davis North Carolina 1941. Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc unknown
1950234631950. Approximately 250 vernacular snap shots of American military life in Korea mostly infantry divisions during the Cold War period in which the Soviet trained North Korean army invaded South Korea. <br /> <br /> There are many snap shot portraits of individual soldiers including one of Korean troops a few with a caption on verso as well as daily life on the base military material tanks airplanes artillery practice and local landscapes and towns. <br /> <br /> Specific sites pictured include the Camp Walker post exchange Second Infantry Division NCO Academy and a sign post in town showing the way to the Taegu Military post. The album closes with shots of the troops on their way home from Korea stopping in Japan.<br /> With a newspaper article tipped in at rear "5th Regimental Combat Team Taegu Korea" on the departure of the 5th RCT from Pusan to the US.<br /> <br /> The 5th RCT deployed to Korea on 25 July 1950 to reinforce the Eighth Army in the shrinking area of United Nations control called the Pusan Perimeter. It reinforced the 25th Infantry Division then the 1st Cavalry Division on the Naktong River line. Later it was attached to the 24th Infantry Division replacing the 34th Infantry Regiment. It remained with the 24th Infantry Division until January 1952 when it officially became a separate RCT once more.<br /> <br /> The 5th RCT notably fought in the Battle of Pusan Perimeter one of the first major battles in the Korean War between United Nations and North Korean forces which brought the southern advance of North Korean troops to a halt. The 5th RCT had 269 killed 574 wounded and four captured during the battle<br /> <br /> Most snap shots measure 4 1/4 x 3 1/4"; some slightly smaller . Approximately 250 in total housed loose in a modern photo album with 3 or 4 plates to a page all in very good condition. Housed in a brown gilt faux leather album 13x10x1.5" hardcover
1868255England London or Liverpool: John Fraser & Co 1868. First Edition. Parchment paper. Fine. Description: 1 January 1868 6 % Bond for US-$ 40.27 Series 4 #B1460 35.2 x 21.2 cm black white browned signed by Theodore D. Wagner and William Trenholm; signed on back by William Trenholm & Jos. Wileman. Issued by John Fraser & Co. the overseas and mainly English banking branch of George Trenholm's financial empire. Scarce signature and bond. George Trenholm was a prominent Confederate States of America financier with major interests in blockade-running. As the Confederacy collapsed he was called upon to become Treasurer in the government of Jefferson Davis between 18 July 1864 and 27 April 1865. His son William was one of his most important surrogates and signed for his extremely busy and often ill father. Most blockade runners of the American Civil War were seagoing steam ships that were used to make their way through the Union blockade that extended some 3500 miles along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines and the lower Mississippi River. By 1860 the company Fraser Trenholm & Company had five seagoing vessels making shipping runs from Liverpool to New York and Charleston and back again. It has been argued that wealthy blockade-runner George Trenholm provided a good deal of the blockade-running background for Margaret Mitchell's famous novel Gone With the Wind. See the episode in which Rhett Butler is kept prisoner in the stable of a Fire Engine House when his Union captors--and soon Scarlett O'Hara--hope to win some of Captain Butler's wealth which he has secreted in Liverpool. In EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION--unfolded--with minimal age-toning and very clear signatures! John Fraser & Co unknown
1946055488Sydney: Jon Sands Pty Ltd 1946. 60pp. Green card with green cloth spine in jacket. 3 x 1cm tears to edge of jacket tiny scuff/hole to rear jacket panel minor area of light toning to rear panel of jacket. A very nice copy. Being a collection of sketches drawings and notes from the 6th Australian Division's last New Guinea campaign - through Aitape Maprik and Wewak 1944-1945. Numerous bw ills. map. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Author. Oblong 4to. Jon Sands Pty Ltd Hardcover
35282n.p.: n.p. n.d. Photograph. Good. Seven photographs measuring approx. 5" x 4". Pictures are mounted on heavy card. Light foxing and spotting to the images. Light edge wear to the photographs. Six of the seven pictures have some writing and identification on the back. Photographer not identified. n.p. unknown
20162082702114902753Kochi Pen Club 2016. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 225 pages Size: 21x15 cm Kochi Pen Club paperback
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44586377-nnew. unknown
1864220485Baltimore Maryland 1864. Lithograph With Vignettes of Fort Henry and Federal Hill. Portraits of 5 officers Surmountd by Eagle Lithographed by H. Schroeder 69 W. Fayette St. Balt Lithograph. printed in colors by G. Sanders & Co.Balimore Maryland. 27-1/2 x 21-1/2 inches. Matted. Generally fine condition. Lithograph With Vignettes of Fort Henry and Federal Hill. Portraits of 5 officers Surmountd by Eagle Lithographed by H. Schroeder 69 W. Fayette St. Balt Lithograph. printed in colors by G. Sanders & Co.Balimore Maryland. 27-1/2 x 21-1/2 inches. "The Regiment was organized as the 129th N.Y. Infantry at Lockport N.Y. and mustered into the U.S. service Aug. 22 1862.was tarnsferred to Heavy Artillery in Dec. 1862 and designated the 8th N.Y. Vol. Artillery. Recruited to the maximum number 1839 men in Feb. 1864. unknown
1919189318Fareham: Henry Coles Printer 1919. First and only contemporary edition privately printed and subsequently rare here in a fine period binding with two original sepia-toned gelatin silver prints mounted on preliminary blanks: one a group portrait of officers and NCOs is reproduced in half-tone in the book; the other shows a gun team limbered up and pulling what appears to be a 60-pounder. Among the first recruits to Kitchener's Army 9 Heavy Battery deployed to France in May 1915 and served on the Western Front until the end of the war. It was at Armentières Arras Somme and Festubert. In the winter of 1916-17 it joined 77th Brigade. Posted to the Chemin des Dames in 1918 it was mauled and overrun during the German Spring Offensive losing its guns but was re-equipped in time to join the Hundred Days Offensive This succinctly comprehensive account includes a "battle log" listing of wagon lines appreciations from High Command honours and awards casualties brief service histories of officers and names and addresses of NCOs and other ranks. We trace just four copies institutionally at the Imperial War Museum Alex Turnbull Library New Zealand US Army War College and Toronto Public Library. Octavo 210 x 125 mm 54 pp. With 5 half-tone photographic plates. Title page within a decorative border. Contemporary reddish brown morocco gilt-lettered spine and front cover the latter with the unit's "lightning bolt" insignia in a gilt-edged dark blue sheep onlay marbled endpapers. Binding slightly bowed a few marks to covers some leaves toned: very good. unknown
1984W1790Lynchburg Virginia: H. E. Howard Inc. 1984. 106 pages. Limited edition: number 790 of 1000 copies signed by the author. The book is clean and tight with some toning of pages. SIGNED. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. H. E. Howard, Inc. Hardcover
20042083002115703386Iwanamishoten 2004. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 449 2p Size: 15cm Number of books: 1 Iwanamishoten paperback
20152083002115701070Kawade Shobo Shinsha 2015. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 159p Size: 22cm Number of books: 1 Kawade Shobo Shinsha paperback
20152083002115701403Kawade Shobo Shinsha 2015. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 159p Size: 22cm Number of books: 1 Kawade Shobo Shinsha paperback
187133942Northumberland August 5 1871. 1871. Good. - Octavo 7-1/8 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Over 300 words penned on all four sides of a folded sheet of creamy white paper with the address embossed in blind at the top of the cover sheet. Replying to a request for his assistance in working out a solution to the strike by engineers in Newcastle seeking that limits be placed on the hours they are required to work each day: "I also yesterday received a letter on the same subject from Mr Lowthian Bell - In answer to his letter I told Mr. Bell that I would be very glad to do anything in my power to assist in bringing the unfortunate strike at Newcastle to a close but that I fear that nothing that I would do would be likely to promote that object & might even tend rather to increase than to diminish the existing irritation between the employers & the employed." Earl Grey asks if the recipient might have some "arrangement to propose for the settlement." which might help him decide if he should get involved in the negotiations. He mentions in closing that he will be traveling over the next several days culminating with his being "compelled to go to London to vote against the ballot bill". Signed "Grey". Folded twice horizontally the letter was once mounted or tipped-in to a book with remnants of paper adhering to the top edge of the last page not affecting the text. There is also a tiny piece of dark paper near the lower center of the last page which does not touch on the text. <p>The "Nine Hours Strike" began in August of 1871 when engineers in Newcastle upon Tyne and adjoining areas requested that working hours be limited to nine hours a day. The bitter strike was prolonged when employers refused to talk and brought in foreign workers in an attempt to break the strike. Though there were a few incidents of violence many of the foreign workers soon realized that they were being used to support a system of industrial slavery and would lose their jobs anyway once the strike was resolved. The strike went on for 14 weeks before employers finally compromised and granted the strikers' request.<p>The Ballot Bill to which Earl Grey refers proposed that parliamentary and local elections in the UK take place by secret ballot. The Bill was passed in 1872.<p>Also known as Viscount Howick the English statesman Henry George Grey 3rd Earl Grey 1802-1894 entered parliament in 1826. His father became Prime Minister when the Whigs came to power in 1830 and Earl Grey then Viscount Howick was made Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. Aligned with colonial reformers he resigned in 1834 when the emancipation of slaves was made to take place gradually instead of immediately. He became Secretary of War when he entered Lord Melbourne's cabinet in 1835 and made significant administrative reforms. He again resigned in dissatisfaction in 1839 and gained a reputation for crotchetiness. He supported free trade and as colonial secretary a post to which he was appointed in 1846 was the first minister to proclaim that the colonies should be governed for their own benefit and not for that of Great Britain & Ireland. As much as possible he accorded them self-governance. He was however soon embroiled in the turmoil and discontent brewing in Ceylon the West Indies and New Zealand. He authored several works on political subjects and policy including an 1888 work on the state of Ireland and one on the United States tariff. Northumberland, August 5, 1871. unknown
1308CM007<p>Instituto Nacional de Estatística. Centro de Estudos Económicos. Por. Tribunal de Contas. Separata Nº 13 da Revista do Centro de Estudos Económicos. Lisboa. 1953.</p>_x000d_<p>De 23x18 cm. Com 29 págs numeradas de 167 a 196. Brochado.</p>_x000d_<p>Exemplar com dedicatória do autor na folha de guarda.</p> I-6-D-53 unknown
1904A47648New York NY: Doubleday Page & Company. 1904. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. There is some light bumping rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is a small white spot of discoloration to the lettering on the title . The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's poem tipped onto the front pastedown page. "Virginia Clay-Clopton 1825–1915 was a political hostess and activist in Alabama and Washington D. C. She was also known as Virginia Tunstall Virginia Clay and Mrs. Clement Claiborne Clay. She took on different responsibilities after the Civil War. As the wife of US Senator Clement Claiborne Clay from Alabama she was part of a group of young southerners who boarded together in the capital in particular hotels. In the immediate postwar period she worked to gain her husband's freedom from imprisonment at Fort Monroe where Jefferson Davis former president of the Confederacy was also held. In the late 19th century Clay-Copton who remarried after her first husband died became an activist in the United Daughters of the Confederacy a group established after the Civil War that was instrumental in shaping public discussions about the war and role of the South. She worked to raise funds for Confederate cemeteries and memorials. She also worked for women's suffrage. Clay-Copton was one of a number of Southern women to publish her memoir at the turn of the 20th century; these women's accounts became part of the public discourse about the war. "from Wikipedia; B&W Illustrations; 386p. pages; Pictured 1/11/24 . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
186413482N.p.: N.p. 1864. Paperback. Small 4to. Self-cover. 2pp single leaf. Good. Dampstaining and some irregular chipped edges. House Bill No. 311 a Confederate motion dated 30 December 1864 providing among other things "That the non-commissioned officers musicians and privates. shall be provided each with one complete set of uniform clothing. as an expression of the gratitude of the nation for their gallantry their sacrifices and their unflinching devotion to the country." PARRISH 762. N.p. paperback
190454037Washington DC: GPO 1904. fair. 51 wraps no cover present tables tears in first page near spine and fore-edge minor ink corrections to text. Subtitled: As Approved by the Secretary of War February 18 1904. Includes a memorandum for the Chief of Staff on the need for additional Colonels and Lieutenant-Colonels in the Medical Corps driven in part by the experiences of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. This report deals with the disposition and distribution of medical officers and contains excerpts from a British Boer War report. GPO paperback
1922LW7928Baltimore: Sun Print 1922. First Edition. HB. Blue cloth gilt lettering and gilt insignia of the 80th Division on front cover 8vo 152 pp frontis photo of Major German Emory killed in action November 1 1918. Personal narrative of the World War I experiences of Lieutenant Edward Lukens of the 320th Infantry 80th Division with an account of the death of Major G. H. H. Emory commander of the 320th Infantry by Lieutenant E. McClure Rouzer also a member of the 320th. No marks in book binding tight. Covers show minor edge wear. Book condition VG-. Sun Print hardcover
1924036088Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1924. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green cloth lettered/illus. in black. Mild binding lean light shelf wear text block edges a bit dulled by age. Firm binding clean interior. Illus. dust jacket chipped with small bits of loss along edges and spine extremities somewhat darkened by age now in mylar. Signed by author on main title full signature no inscription. xi202 pp. illus. No indication of printing thus an early reprint. Houghton Mifflin Co. Hardcover
197226455Paris: Editions Robert Laffont 1972. First Edition #40 of 40 copies printed on velin chiffon. Illustrated. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Bound in full green and black morocco "Reliure mosaique dans la forme & la couleur du Ruban de la croix de la liberation" with a bronze medallion inset in the front cover "une medaule des compagnons de la liberation" a.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. A beautiful binding. First Edition #40 of 40 copies printed on velin chiffon. Illustrated. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Inscribed at the front and with an A.L.S. from the author tipped in at the back. Editions Robert Laffont unknown
1974565Simon & Schuster New York 1974. First. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fine. Book . VG HB in Fine DJ protected by mylar cover. 670 p.: illus.; 23 cm. Black cloth w/bright silver sig on cover/title on spine. DJ appears to have been in a cover from the start protecting the book and jacket. Original mylar was taped to the front covers; replaced with a new cover. Only defects are: 1 P/O's blind stamp on the title page 2 slight shadow from the tape at the bottom of the front cover 3 a slight bump at the bottom of the front cover. A practically "as new" first edition. Size: Octavo 8vo; up to 9 3/4" / 20-25 cm tall. 670 pages. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Military / World War II; Military & Warfare. . ISBN: 0671217925. ISBN/EAN: 9780671217921. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 565. . 9780671217921 Simon & Schuster hardcover
