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1943100607<p>Wartime poster 27 ¾ x19 ¾ large eagle engraving at the top of the poster printed in red and black. Creases where folded. This rare U.S. Government wartime poster attempts to promote equality by reminding Americans that race and ancestry shouldn’t matter in our country. It reminds us that every American "should be given the opportunity to serve the country" and help the war effort. While this was certainly a noble goal this poster was printed at a time when our armed forces were still largely segregated.</p> U.S. Government Printing Office: books
1970148876Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Daria Halprin seemingly trapped in the middle of a mid-century modern glass vestibule from the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso.<br/><br/>Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970144408Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and members of the cast and crew on location in the Mojave Desert shooting the 1970 film. Shot by noted photographer Bruce Davidson. With holograph annotations in pencil and blue pen on the verso.<br/><br/>Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970144970Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970135920New York: Youth Against War and Fascism 1970. Legal size sheet printed on one side single horizontal fold else very good condition. Argues that the ruling class has brought upon itself the bombings by radical domestic groups. "You murdered Fred Hampton. You committed the My Lai massacre. Retaliation is inevitable. Your vaults are filled with stolen loot. You brought it upon yourself. Youth Against War and Fascism unknown books
1966249220New York: YAWF 1966. Two issues of the single-sheet newsletter 8.5x14 and 8.5x11 inches respectively horizontal fold to number 2. Contents mostly focus on opposition to the Vietnam War. YAWF unknown books
1918140941439Washington D.C.: Committee on Public Information Division of Women's War Work 1918. Approximately 450 mostly mimeographed press releases spanning from February 1918 until July that same year many of which are 8.5" x 11" or 14" others of which are newspaper column-size 3" x 21" or varying lengths. Three groupings of the releases are claspbound the rest are loose. Includes Bulletins Nos. 1 & 2 both printed in January 1918 by the Government Printing Office folded in half vertically with reply card. Includes a TLS from Guy Stanton Ford Director of Civic and Educational Publications later President of the University of Minnesota to the President of Rice University. Very Good overall lightly toned with age a little chipped along edges folded horizontally two or three sheets torn in half.<br /> <br /> <p>A collection of pieces attempting to mobilize domestic support for the US in World War I issued by the women's division of the Creel Committee an independent agency in the Wilson administration. The Creel Committee attempted an unprecedented full court press of propaganda aiming to reach every stratum of American society. Many a budding public relations figure cut his teeth in the agency including Edward Bernays and Carl R. Byoir. The particular division from which all these pieces were issued focused on American women: variously promoting the work of journalist Ida Tarbell and the YWCA soliciting women to become Morse code telegraphers spreading anti-German and pro-Ally stories trying to get women of any number of religious denominations or ethnic groups to directly contribute to the war effort. This archive illuminates how American war propagandists saw women at the twilight of WWI. Specifically it reveals how civic participation technology military service and information theory were gendered in mass society-- or at least as observed and molded in that society by a particular body of elites. Committee on Public Information, Division of Women's War Work unknown books
197541713NY: Grosset & Dunlap 1975. First edition first prnt. Inscribed by Jones on the title page. "To Burt Britton From his old buddy James Jones." Full cloth with gilt spine lettering. Graphics direction by Art Weithas. Color and black and white illustrations maps foldout pages. Credits Index. Spine edge cloth minimally rubbed corners slightly bumped; dustjacket with shelfwear and slight chipping at spine ends short tear on front flap bottom edge fold. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very good dustjacket with an archival cover. The inscriptee Burt Britton operated NYC's Books and Company bookstore and was the author of "Self-Portraits: Book People Picture Themselves" compiled from his collection of impromptu self-caracatures he sought from writers many done at readings in his shop. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Association Copy. Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover books
199831683Westport: Greenwood Press. As New. 1998. Hardcover. 0313293260 . First printing. As new in burgundy cloth. No dust jacket as issued. . Greenwood Press hardcover books
1948WRCAM54508Various places including North Carolina San Francisco but mostly Hawaii 1948. 225 photographs; thirteen photographic negatives; six letters and telegrams; two folders of Brotherton's military paperwork; three original pencil sketches; eight large- format ink and pencil captioned cartoons of the 551st Ordnance H.M. Co.; Brotherton's wife's identification card for Fort McPherson Georgia; a small nameplate for "Lt. Henry Brotherton"; and a Nov. 27 1948 issue of the ARMY TIMES newspaper listing Brotherton as a major under the "Warrant List." Some insect damage to the pencil sketches and one cartoon otherwise generally very good or better condition. A nice collection of material on the wartime experiences of Maj. Henry Alton Brotherton 1920-86 a Warrant Officer from Iredell North Carolina. The numerous photographs feature a variety of settings and subjects. The majority of the photographs emanate from Hawaii showing Brotherton and his wife who apparently joined him at some point after his assignment there either to live for a while or visit other officers and soldiers at work and play studio portraits of Brotherton a handful of 8 x 10-inch press photos and a 4 x 10-inch panorama of the 551th Ordnance Company. Over thirty of the photographs are annotated mostly identifying Brotherton his wife or military subjects in Hawaii in 1945 with three photographs showing the 551st at a "Beer Party." <br> <br> Among the letters and telegrams are a small handwritten note by Brotherton to his wife in North Carolina wishing her congratulations on their wedding anniversary and a Western Union telegram wishing the same dated a day apart from each other; a Dec. 31 1945 telegram from Brotherton to his wife saying that he expects to "be home soon." <br> <br> A Dec. 22 1944 five-page letter from Brotherton's wife Polly includes extremely romantic and borderline racy content from a homefront wife to her husband while he was in training in San Francisco: "My Darling Husband I'm wanting you so terribly much tonight I hardly know how to begin my letter.If I dared put all my emotions on paper this letter would be scorched with passion Brother. I love you I love you I love you!!" <br> <br> The folders of documents include official army service forms rosters reports etc. Notable among the papers are a packet of documents relating to the visit of the President of Mexico to Kansas City in 1947 which Brotherton was tasked with coordinating; a certificate of training for "Mess Management;" a 1946 application for commission in the regular army as well as one for extended active duty; a list of Brotherton's ordnance depot bowling league in which Brotherton is listed near the top with a 163.1 average; and a snarky letter from Brotherton's superior commenting on a traffic citation received by Brotherton: "If all officers had the same attitude as Lt. Brotherton toward parking rules this post would have to have an M.P. on every street and intersection which is neither feasible nor desirable." <br> <br> Perhaps the most notable portion of the archive lies in the nine large black-and- white ink and pencil cartoons on eight sheets. They depict soldiers performing various ordnance tasks on a base presumably somewhere in the central Pacific accompanied by humorous commentary. Six of the cartoons directly reference either the Pacific or California. One cartoon pictures "the men most commonly called as the Bull Gangers who work on the big weapons which give Japs lead poisoning." A few cartoons picture palm trees or reference pineapples. Another cartoon shows two soldiers in conversation with a thought bubble above them showing the Golden Gate Bridge; the caption reads: "I figure that my new tool will speed this war up so fast that we will see the Golden Gate in forty eight." One of the cartoons includes a sign reading: "551st Ord. H. M. Co" Heavy Maintenance Company. These pieces are unsigned so it is unclear if they are Brotherton's work but some of the soldiers depicted are named e.g. Eddie Blackford Mullins and "Big Joe" Galecki. <br> <br> An unusually dense and diverse World War II archive with photographs military documents and original artwork relating to the Pacific Theater of the war. unknown books
19452479South Pacific Theater: Armed Forces 1945. First Edition. Paper Documents. Near fine. A collection of military newspapers magazines clippings and maps from a member of the Australian Military Forces Abroad. Includes the following items: Table Tops Magazine Final Edition - 10 September 1945; Moro'tiser Magazine by Captain James Paterson September 1945; XIV Corps Liberators of Manila broadside; Moro'tiser: Magazine Of 13 Aust Advanced Workshop 1945; Japan's Shipwreck Alley - United States Air Force 1944; Liberty Magazine Jan. 27 1945; Various newspaper clippings. A unique collection of World War II ephemera. [Armed Forces] unknown books
1967WRCLIT78487Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 1967. Large octavo. Cloth. Bibliography. First edition. Edges dust marked otherwise a good copy in rather dustmarked white jacket. Johns Hopkins hardcover books
1917WRCLIT78591New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1917. xviiii210pp. Decorated cloth. Frontis and plates. Introduction by Herbert C. Hoover. First edition. Foxing to edges and to pages facing plates' a good sound copy. Funk & Wagnalls hardcover books
199648534New York: War Resisters League 1996. First Edition. Octavo. Spiral-bound desk calendar and appointment book. Unused; Near Fine. Illustrated from photographs. War Resisters League unknown books
1919WRCLIT78583Honolulu: Star-Bulletin Press 1919. 14 1pp. Pictorial boards. Photographs. Crown of spine has a shallow chip modest wear to extremities slight crack to upper joint toward top; still a near very good copy of a fragile book. First edition. Judd left for France in June 1915 and served for a little over a year with the American Ambulance of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Star-Bulletin Press hardcover books
199448533New York: War Resisters League 1994. First Edition. Octavo. Spiral-bound desk calendar and appointment book. Unused; small scuff to front cover else Near Fine. Illustrated from photographs of anti-nuclear demonstrations across the years. War Resisters League unknown books
195732753London: Robert Hale Limited 1957. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarlet morocco-backed scarlet cloth. A very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. The story of the June 1942 brutal massacre of the Czech village of Lidice by the Nazis following the murder of Reinhard Heydrich the German Deputy Reich protector in Bohemia and Moravia. Robert Hale Limited unknown books
1994220186Kearny New Jersey U.S.A.: Belle Grove Publishing Co 1994. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Signed and numbered by editor; Blue Cloth. Very Good binding. Belle Grove Publishing Co unknown books
19444829bdNew York: The Viking Press 1944. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters gilt illustration to upper cover xiv vi 175 pp. Very Good with sunning to edges and former-owner bookplate; in a Good dust jacket with edgewear with includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The great story of aviation and the direction in which it is going is the story of our future -- a future which will be written in terms of either winged peace or winged death. It’s a story which few men could tell with the authority and conviction of ‘Billy’ Bishop. Bishop learned aviation the hard way. In the cockpit of a World War I flying crate he became the greatest Allied ace by destroying 72 German aircraft. In the years between the wars he remained actively interested in aviation -- both military and commercial -- and kept a wary eye on the growing air might of Germany which he was sure we would have to fight again. When World War II broke Canada became the heart of Britain’s air-training and air-transport system and ‘Billy’ Bishop has played a vital role in this great program. Now at the climax of his career he has undertaken a new job and rendered what may well be his greatest service to aviation. He has poured into an utterly fascinating book the past the present and -- most of all -- the future of flight. He has told the story of aviation from Kitty Hawk to the B-29 Superfortresses much of it in terms of his personal experiences. He shows us how our world has already been changed geographically socially economically politically; how these changes will be either for great good or for desperate evil. He makes us aware of the new world map with its limitless directions and its textbook-shattering implications. He shows us the new routes over which we will either trade or fight find peace or destruction. Through all of Bishop’s stirring account written with burning urgency runs a zeal to make us understand the realities of world aviation today. The proved possibilities of stratospheric flight rocket and jet-propulsion have already rendered every plane now in the air obsolete. New York to London in three hours is assured. Tomorrow’s air age is here! The Viking Press, 1944. hardcover books
1939WRCLIT45568New York: Press of the Woolly Whale 1939. 12mo. Cloth paper label. A fine copy. First edition. Reproductions of a series of postcards issued by the German army for use by their troops on the occasion of their anticipated capture of Paris. One of an unspecified number of copies issued to commemorate Armistice Day. LAWSON & PANKOW 85. Press of the Woolly Whale hardcover books
1916WRCLIT75893London: T. Fisher Unwin 1916. 191pp. Printed wrappers. First separate public edition. Ink name on upper wrapper a bit of foxing otherwise near fine. T. Fisher Unwin unknown books
1986169439New York: US Peace Council 1986. Pamphlet. 24p. wraps very good condition 5.5x8.5 inches. US Peace Council unknown books
1917WRCLIT79151New York: A. J. Stasny Music Co. 1917. 4pp. Folio 35 X 27 cm. Pictorial upper wrapper by Albert Barbelle. Lower fore-corner creased otherwise very good. A small photo vignette of Anna Chandler appears below the main art on the upper wrapper and a promo for "Kiss Me Pretty" is printed on p.4. The song was included in several anthologies; OCLC locates 7 copies of this separate printing. OCLC: 40744596. A. J. Stasny Music Co. unknown books
197544088Osaka: War Resisters International Japan Group 1975. Oblong 12mo. Staple-bound mimeographed wrappers; 42pp. Fine. ".digest of the first part of an article entitled 'A Note on Contemporary Violence' which first appeared in Japanese in the collection Anakizumu to Gendai Anarchism and Our Times. Translation by Wat Tyler of the Libero International Editorial Collective . an English-Language magazine focussing on issues concerning anarchism in Asia also published in Osaka" from inside front cover. OCLC 2 copies Swarthmore IISH. War Resisters International Japan Group unknown books
1918WRCLIT79160New York: McCarthy & Fisher Inc. 1918. 4pp. Folio 302 x 233 mm. Pictorial upper wrapper. Toe of spine chipped modest soiling and creasing; good. A doughboy's love song to a flirtatious French woman. OCLC: 11269785. McCarthy & Fisher, Inc. unknown books
