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19191717108The Craftsman Press of Syracuse 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Light stain on cover corner does not affect pages page ridge lightly foxed. 1919 Hard Cover. 258 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth gilt titles. Fold-out statistical summary black & white photographs. An account of medical procedures and statistics at these facilities during World War I including surgical dental laboratory x-ray and nursing information as well as mention of the American Red Cross. The Craftsman Press of Syracuse hardcover books
184922543<p><b>DORR WAR.</b>Pamphlet. <i>The Dorr Movement in Ohio; Being an Examination into the Causes Progress and Probable Effects of the Revolutionary Course of Locofocoism in the Organization of the General Assembly of This State for the Session of 1848-49.</i> Columbus Ohio: Legg & Murray Columbus 1849. Disbound. Inscribed in pencil on the title by H.A. Swift the author in presentation. </p><b>Historical Background </b><p>The Locofocos were a faction that split from the New York Democratic party in 1835 after local disagreements with machine politicians and Tammany Hall's support of Andrew Jackson's stance on the national bank. They opposed state banks monopolies exclusive privilege and other antidemocratic measures. They also advocated suspending paper money and legal protection of labor unions. In New York the machine politicians ultimately prevailed by co-opting their principal issues and nominating fusion candidates and reabsorbing the dissidents by 1838.</p><p>The anti-bank anti-corporation and increased democracy movement gained steam in neighboring Ohio throughout the 1840s with many looking to the Dorr movement in Rhode Island as a template for their own acts.</p><p>In 1841 Rhode Island's Thomas W. Dorr had led the effort to change Rhode Island's political system and expand voting rights. After trying to change the system internally he created the People's Party held an extralegal constitutional convention and set up a competing government. The Rhode Island General Assembly drafted a rival constitution and in 1842 both groups voted on their respective Constitutions. Both Dorr and sitting Governor Samuel Ward King were elected governor but King refused to accept the People's Constitution declared martial law and accused Dorr of treason. While he did not attempt to seize the State House or governmental institutions a few armed clashes did occur. Dorr fled the state but returned and was convicted in 1843 but released for health reasons two years later. Ultimately Rhode Island greatly liberalized voting rights in the aftermath of the rebellion.</p><p>NAIP 358662. The American Antiquarian Society lists another edition with slightly different imprint with 1848 date.</p> books
19082882441908. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Appears complete with twenty five folding charts three folding plates two folding diagrams and three photographic plates. House of Representatives document no. 492 on improvements to the Ohio River channel submitted to the 60th Congress 1st session 1907-1908. Brown buckram with a black leather label on the spine. Uneven discoloration to the spine and joints. Very Good binding. unknown books
198511941NY: Knopf 1985. First edition first prnt. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. Signed by Butler on the title page. Slight bump on front board bottom edge; faint beginning toning on dustjacket's white area extremities. Tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Butler's fourth novel. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover 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
186726541Boston: Lea & Shepard 1867. 1st edition Wright II 1006. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. VG sq & tight/some shelfwear/period pos to preliminary front blank/usual light foxing. IX 10 - 333 pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/>A novelistic effort focusing on Col. Garfield's campaign in eastern Kentucky. Lea & Shepard hardcover books
1861WRCAM54027Pottsville Pa 1861. Broadside approximately 24 x 18 inches. Minor separations at crossfolds some edge wear and short closed tears at edges somewhat toned. Good. Framed. A rare Civil War recruitment broadside calling for troops to join the Tower Guards in Pennsylvania during the first year of the conflict. The broadside is illustrated with a large open-winged eagle holding a banner in his beak which reads: "The Union Forever!" The body of the broadside reads in part: <br> <br> "The undersigned desires to have the Company which has been commanded by him for three months past the 'Tower Guards' go again to support the Government and help crush out the great rebellion. He therefore offers A bounty of five hundred and five dollars to one hundred and one picked men." <br> <br> The text explains that the company will be commanded by Henry Pleasants as captain and will be part of a Regiment commanded by Col. James Nagle "Or some other satisfactory Colonel or as an independent company of Rangers." The broadside directs any interested men to call and enroll their names at the Office of Henry Pleasants. Signed in type by "C. Tower Captain." Charlemagne Tower organized a company of Union soldiers from Pottsville in a three-month enlistment during the Civil War. Before the war Tower worked in law specifically moving to Schuylkill County to get involved in claims to large coal and mineral deposits there. Tower was able to build wealth and prominence for himself in the area through his work in land dispute cases most prominently the Munson-Williams case. <br> <br> When the Civil War began at Fort Sumter Tower took notice. Within ten days of that first conflict on April 12 1861 Tower had recruited around 270 men from his county to join the Union Army under a three-month enlistment provision. Tower's unit who became known as the "Tower Guards" entered the Union Army as Company H of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment part of a brigade commanded by Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson. Tower commissioned captain of his unit provided uniforms and arms for his men at his own expense. The unit saw action most famously in the engagement at Falling Waters in July of 1861 a Union victory in name but with its own failings that led to the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. It would seem that Tower's efforts were not exhausted on this first unit because the featured broadside is dated just after his unit mustered out of service and asks for more men to take up the cause and fight for the Union. It would seem that Tower himself funded the bounty offered in the broadside but this is not certain because much less is known about this second attempt to recruit men for the Union Army. <br> <br> After his service in the war Tower was later named U.S. Provost Marshal for Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District from 1863-64 and continued working at his Pottsville practice until moving to Philadelphia in 1875. A master land negotiator Tower held property in North Dakota and Minnesota that would help develop those states and the United States as a whole. His holdings in North Dakota became Tower City a promising town arranged and planned by George Ellisbury in 1879. Tower's land in the Vermilion Range in Minnesota proved to be rich with iron ore necessitating a mine and a direct railroad line both of which contributed to the local state and inter-state economies. <br> <br> Though Tower died on July 25 1889 his legacy was carried on by the towns across state lines that were named after him his son who became the minister to Austria- Hungary under President William McKinley and the unit of "Tower Guards" who fought for the Union Cause in the Civil War. <br> <br> A visually-striking artifact from the early period of the Civil War with no copies recorded in OCLC. unknown books
186437085Pembroke MA 1864. Manuscript Broadside 7-3/4" x 9-3/4." Written in ink on lined paper many words underlined. Old folds a couple of short tears. Docketed on verso "War Meeting Notice." Good.<br/> offered with TWO OTHER MANUSCRIPT BROADSIDES IN SIMILAR CONDITION. One headed "Notice!" and dated June 7 1864; the other headed "Escape the Draft!" and dated July 26 1864. Worn but complete. Good.<br/><br/> These are probably unique survivals of Civil War recruiting efforts in this Massachusetts town. unknown books
189945455Amsterdam: Algemeen Handelsblad 1899. Offprint. 12mo. Printed self-wrappers; 40pp. Slight aging to text else Near Fine; but possibly lacking cover wraps. Attacks British policy in South Africa shortly after the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer Conflict. The author was publisher and editor of the Amsterdam political newspaper "Algemeen Handelsblad" where this essay originally appeared. Algemeen Handelsblad unknown books
1862217811862. No binding. Fine. Broadside. ""The Petition of Certain Non-Conscripts Respectfully Presented to the Confederate States Congress."" Richmond August 8 1862. Signed in print ""The Petitioners By their Counsel John H. Gilmer."" 1 p. 7 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. Petitioning against General Order No. 46 of the Confederate War Department which rescinded the part of the Confederate Conscription Act of April 16 1862 that mandated the discharge of all voluntary enlistees under age 18 or over age 35 in July 1862. ""These were the terms of the law. They were plain unequivocal and mandatory. Common sense - universal public opinion . understood accepted and adopted the law . Shall an army order revoke a solemn act of Congress . Have we a constitutional Government with specific powers granted . or have we an unlimited Government dependent only on Executive will or ministerial caprice Are the People free or is the Executive supreme"" Historical BackgroundPresident Davis Secretary of War George Randolph and the Confederate Congress instituted the first conscription act in American history in April 1862 after early defeats in Tennessee and North Carolina in anticipation of the expiration of one-year enlistments signed at the war's outset. The Conscription Act would cause all males ages 18 to 35 to be drafted into service unless exempted. Those already enlisted would be held to a three year commitment from their date of entry into the service. Conscription raised difficulties for Southern politicians who had argued for most of their careers against the broad construction of federal powers in the United States Constitution. Some believed it violated the cardinal principle of states' rights others such as Georgia Governor Joseph Brown protested its tendency toward centralization and despotism. Common folks complained about the fact that planters who owned 20 or more slaves were exempt as were many overseers and tradesmen and those who could afford to buy ""substitutes.""According to historian James McPherson conscription was ""the most unpopular act of the Confederate government. Yeoman farmers who could not buy their way out of the army voted with their feet and escaped to the woods or swamps. . Armed bands of draft-dodgers and deserters ruled whole counties.""ReferencesParrish & Willingham 5422 locating 5 copies.McPherson James. Battle Cry of Freedom New York 1988 p. 432. unknown books
1832WRCAM28600Washington 1832. Broadside 10 x 8 inches. Folded vertically in half printed on recto of resultant half sheet. Slight dust soiling otherwise very good. The orders of Maj. Gen. John Macomb providing for the protection of Indian agents in service on the frontier. Macomb asserts that without military protection the efforts of the agents to "conciliate" the Indians will fail. Demonstrates the role of the army in U.S.-Indian relations. unknown books
50497in a partly printed document 8 x 5 inches completed in manuscript and signed 31 December 1864 by D.W Dyer a captain in the New York Quartermaster's Office on behalf of Quartermaster General Van Vliet. Passage on the U.S. Transport Arago was to be provided for W.D.N. Barnard. Folded; small chip in lower edge small hole in margin but very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
1847WRCAM42125Monterey Mexico 1847. 1p. plus integral docketing leaf. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old folds. Minor soiling else very fine. A fair copy of orders from U.S. Army Headquarters issued at the command of General Wool ordering that no ordnance be condemned as unusable without proper review first; signed by Irvin McDowell a member of General Wool's staff. The order reads: "It having been reported that serviceable ordnance and ordnance stores are frequently turned over to the Ordnance Depots without sufficient cause in future officers having charge of ordnance supplies which they may deem unserviceable will apply to the commanding officer to have them examined by a Board of Survey. Such as the Board may condemn and no others will be received by the Ordnance Officers. A copy of the proceedings which must specify in all cases the reasons for condemning the stores will be sent to the Officer who is to receive them." unknown books
184637451Lomita California 1846. Single page printed on recto only in ink manuscript. Old folds some foxing and minor discoloration. Blindstamp at top corner of paper. Signature of W.B. Campbell on a slip of paper affixed at end of order. Very Good. <br/><br/> William Bowen Campbell 1807-1867 a Tennessee lawyer was Governor of the State from 1851-1853 District Attorney of the 5th District member of the State House of Representatives member of the 25th-27th U.S. Congresses Captain of the Tennessee Mounted Volunteers in the Seminole War Colonel of the Tennessee Volunteers 1st Regiment during the Mexican War Judge of Tennessee's 4th Judicial District Brigadier General of Volunteers as appointed by President Lincoln June 1862 and Unionist member of the 39th U.S. Congress. Website of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.<br/> Adolphus Heiman 1809-1862 a Prussian-born architect who settled in Nashville in 1837 "returned from the Mexican War as a hero. He had been promoted to the rank of major after surviving a raid on Monterey in which two-thirds of his regiment was killed" TN Encyclopedia. He became a Confederate officer during the Civil War and died of illness in 1862. unknown books
200551916NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 2005. First edition first prnt. Signed by Turow on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Turow's seventh novel. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
186611336Washington: Government Printing Office 1866. 4th edition. Original green half leather binding with cloth boards; front board has Bureau of Ordnance device impressed in gilt. Marbled edges. VG pos & prior owner pencil annotations on blank front leaves/sm dampstain in lower gutter from prelims gradually diminishing gone by page 47/smattering of foxing throughout. Illustrated with wonderfully interesting plates & cuts of mortars howitzers etc. 8vo. <br/><br/>Part I: Preparation of Vessels of War for Battle and to the Duties of Officers and Others When at Quarters. Part II: The Equipment and Manœvre of Boats and Exercise of Howitzers. Part III: Ordnance and Ordnance Stores. Government Printing Office hardcover books
186412510<p><b>CIVIL WAR.</b>Five partly-printed documents for the 102nd New York Regiment Companies D E and F dated between May 15 and September 30 1864. The forms list inventories and expenditures of ammunition and weapons used during the Atlanta Campaign. </p>May 15 ABSTRACT OF MATERIALS &c. expended or consumed in Company <i>F…</i><p>In action at <i>Resaca</i><i>500 </i>Elongated Ball Cartridges<i>…</i></p><p>July 16 Invoice of Ordnance and Ordinance Stores turned over by… <i>Co.</i><i>E…</i></p><p><i>40 Springfield rifled muskets Cal. 58 complete</i></p><p><i>2 Ball screws… 1310 rounds of cartridges Cal 574…</i></p><p>July 20 ABSTRACT OF MATERIALS &c. expended or consumed in Company <i>D…</i></p><p>In action at <i>Near Atlanta Ga</i> <i>400</i> Elongated Ball Cartridges caliber <i>58…</i></p><p>Sept. 30 ABSTRACT OF MATERIALS &c. expended or consumed in Company <i>E…</i></p><p><i>in Packet</i> <i>440</i> Elongated Ball Cartridges.</p><p>Sept. 30 QUARTERLY RETURN OF ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES…Co. E 102 Regiment…</p><p><b>Historical Background </b></p><p>The 102nd New York Regiment was part of the 3rd Brigade 20th Army Corps Army of the Cumberland which participated in the General William T. Sherman's Atlanta campaign. The Army of the Cumberland began the campaign in early May 1864 and units of the 20th Corps entered Atlanta for the first time on September 2. In mid-November the 20th Corps became part of the "Left Wing" in Sherman's "March to the Sea."</p> books
186955186St Louis: Published for the Author at Southwestern Book and Publishing Co 1869. First edition. Illustrated. 100 iv pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. Soiling to boards free endpapers missing. A very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 100 iv pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Published for the Author at Southwestern Book and Publishing Co unknown books
WRCLIT69563Prague nd. Folio pictorial broadsheet 41 x 29cm. Boldly printed in red and black on white stock. Old horizontal fold otherwise near fine. An original promotional poster for distribution in Czechoslovakia of the 1939 130 minute Russian film biography directed by Mikhail Romm et al starring Boris Shchukin as Lenin N.K. Cherkasv as Gorkii and M. Gelovani as Stalin. The script was credited to Aleksei Kapler and Taisiya Zlatogorova. The film was released in the USSR and the US in 1939 and was eventually distributed in Europe and elsewhere in the years following the end of WWII. The Czech release title translates roughly as "Unforgettable Year" and the film was a sequel to the 1937 LENIN IN OCTOBER. unknown books
201722434ELos Angeles: 20th Century-Fox 2017. Original deluxe illustrated souvenir program specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nominations for the film War for the Planet of the Apes. Paperbound 8†x 10â€. Fine. War for the Planet of the Apes was written by Mark Bomback and Matt Reeves directed by Matt Reeves starring Andy Serkis Woody Harrelson Steve Zahn Karin Konoval and Amiah Miller and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. 20th Century-Fox unknown books
41025n. p. n. d. Likely ca. 1918. Image housed within a dark wooden oval frame with bubble glass covering the soldier. Modest wear to image some age-toning and discoloration. A VG example in a VG frame. Single photograph. Black and white image of a serious young soldier with his rings belt and shoes hand-colored. Oval frame: 22" x 16" photograph roughly 15-1/2" x 10" <br/><br/> unknown books
178113905JN.p: 1 page oblong 8vo January 19 1781. Autograph Document Signed of Abraham Hite Assistant Paymaster of the 8th Virginia Regiment. "I do certify that Lieut. Joseph Swearingen of the 8th Virga. Regt. was not included in the Pay Rolls of said Regt. for the Six Months Pay allowed by the Assembly of Virginia he being absent from the Regt. at the time said pay was drawn.". The amount owed Lt. Swearingen was "160 Dolls. 1 page, oblong 8vo unknown books
201522573EBurbank CA: Marvel Studios 2015. Original tech scout location study material for the Marvel Studios Avengers film Captain America: Civil War. With the film’s secret working title ‘Sputnik’ printed on the cover. Spiralbound unpaginated 8 1/2†x 11†printed double-sided - roughly 3/4†thick. Illustrated throughout with technical drawings computer generated images in black & white and color and color photographs. With occasional notations in pencil and with organizational subject tabs at the outer edge. The material belonged to an original crew member of the film’s production unit. Fine condition. Captain America: Civil War written by Christopher Marcus and Stephen McFeely is the sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger and 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the thirteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU. It was directed by Anthony and Joe Russ and stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America alongside an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Falcon Don Cheadle as Lt. James Rhodes / War Machine Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa / Black Panther Paul Bettany as Vision Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man Emily VanCamp Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow / Crossbones William Hurt and Daniel Bruhl as Zemo. The film tells the developing story of international conflict and how the Avengers fractures into opposing factions—one led by Steve Rogers Captain America and the other by Tony Stark Iron Man with Helmut Zemo a Slovakia colonel-turned-terrorist who is obsessed with defeating the Avengers. Marvel Studios unknown books
1937WRCLIT70515London: Paramount 1937. 10pp. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers with upper wrapper bearing Paramount's standard house imagery. Heavily illustrated. About fine. Original campaign pressbook for the British release of this film adaptation of a story by Paul and Elsie Fox with the screenplay by Louis Stevens and Robert Wyler. Directed by James P. Hogan starring Dorothy Lamour Lew Ayers Gilbert Roland Lionel Atwill Anthony Quinn et al. The film is obviously set within the context of the Spanish Civil War and was touted as the "First Spanish War Romance" but the war serves chiefly as a backdrop affording little insight into the causes and events. The publicity paper however offered some dramatic period imagery. Paramount unknown books
1945181104Washington DC: War Dept 1945. Softcover. VG light wear to wraps and light age toning pages are otherwise very clean and clear. Red wraps with off-white lettering 77 pp illustrated throughout in bw and color. War Department Pamphlet No. 21-30 front cover. [War Dept] unknown books
