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1942218445Japan. Circa 1942. Colour illustrations 3 origami "balloons" 15 x 7cm very good. The first balloon features bold illustrations of warships soldiers in combat and artillery pieces transforming a simple toy into a celebration of military might. The second displays award-winning slogans from a 1942 national propaganda competition including the infamous "欲しがりません勝つまでは" "We shall not ask for anything until victory is won"—a mantra of homefront sacrifice. Most chilling is the third balloon's juxtaposition: cheerful scenes of children playing with pigeons are undercut by ominous warnings like "spies are on the train and everywhere" revealing how paranoia infiltrated even innocent imagery. . unknown
25566‘Lisbon 16 March 1811’. He receives the briefest of obituaries in the Gentleman's Magazine July 1840: 'May 10. At Exeter aged 81 Col. Thomas Abernethie K.H. on the retired list of the Royal Marines.' 3pp 4to. Bifolium. On aged and discoloured paper with the usual damage to the second leaf from the breaking of the seal. Addressed on reverse of second leaf with postmark to ‘Messrs Cox & Son / 20 Bartletts Buildings / Holborn / London’. Signed ‘Thos. Abernethie’ and docketed ‘Maj: Abernethie / 16 March 1811’. Begins: ‘Gentlemen / I have requested a Cap. Falcon of the Navy to purchase for me a Qr cask of Madeira - should he and to draw upon you per the Amt. which you will please to honor -’. He continues: ‘Lord Wellington is in full pursuit of the French - but I scarcely think he will follow them further than the confines of Portugal - should they escape thither - we have no certain intelligence of the Armies till we receive it in an official shape from England - Cap. Cox is well - we rode together yesterday to see the palace of Queluse sic about 8 miles from Lisbon - a very charming spot -’. ‘Lisbon 16 March 1811’. unknown
24437‘His Majesty’s Ship Arethusa / Corunna 18th. August 1810’. See his entry and that of Stuart in the Oxford DNB. 3pp 4to. On bifolium. Sixty-six lines of neatly-written text signed ‘R Mends’ and addressed ‘To / The Honble Chas. Stuart / His Majestys Envoy / Lisbon’. A vivid and substantial historical document. Of his activities around this time the Oxford DNB writes: ‘In the summer of 1810 in command of a squadron on the coast of Spain Mends destroyed several French batteries for which service in addition to a formal letter of thanks from the junta of Galicia he received the order of the Cross of Victory of the Asturias and the nominal rank of major-general of the Spanish army.’ He begins by osberving that the ‘Correspondence with Biscay has been kept so profoundly abstracted’ from his knowledge that he really knows ‘nothing of the matter beyond having directed every Ship on the Station to attend to it in preference to every other object. ie to receive on board any Agent who might present himself as so employ’d’. He continues with reference to ‘the mode of carrying on this correspondence’ ‘the Deputy Commissary Mr. White’ ‘Arana’ ‘the Blockaded Ports’ ‘the Nimrod cutter’ ‘the House of Mr. Dickinson’ ‘Don Raymond de Castro the late Captain General of Galicia’ ‘the Ifegena’ ‘Santona’ ‘General Renovales’. He concludes: ‘I am now getting under weigh for Bermio sic with a large Quantity of Ammunition on board for Biscay & Navarra and shall immediately return here to conduct the Expedition which I make no doubt will succeed in a very extensive degree - God grant that we may receive such accounts from your side of the Country as we hope soon to send from this’. ‘His Majesty’s Ship Arethusa / Corunna 18th. August 1810’. unknown
2467728 August no year. On embossed letterhead of Les Sapins Boulevard Thiers Fontainebleau S & M’. Macready’s entry in the Oxford DNB states that he destroyed his diary and personal papers after the publication of his memoirs in 1924. If the present gossipy specimen is anything to go by the loss of this material is most regrettable. The ODNB entry for his father notes that he dealt with William Charles Macready's ‘copious and uninhibited diaries’ in similar fashion in 1914 - two years after the appearance of Toynbee’s edition. See also the entry for Millicent Duchess of Sutherland 1867-1955. 2pp 4to. In good condition lightly aged and folded for postage. Signed 'C F N Macready' and addressed to 'My dear Toynbee'. He begins by explaining that he has been confined to his room since ‘a sharp attack of Bronchial Influenza’: ‘The bore of it is that it touches up the lungs & that entails care for some weeks.’ Turning to the English papers he writes: ‘I see by this mornings Daily Mail that Almeric Fitzroy has apparently disturbed the Empire with his book!’ Fitzroy’s memoirs were published in 1925 and quickly went through a further five editions. There follows a long assessment of Millicent Duchess of Sutherland and her three marriages she had divorced the third Col. George Ernest Hawes as a result of his homosexuality earlier in the year prompted by her book ‘That Fool of a Woman and four other Sombre Tales’ 1925 which according to the Oxford DNB revealed ‘much about her marital misadventures’. ‘I saw a notice of Millicent Sutherland’s book but that is all. I knew the lady well. She has traces of great beauty and during the War ran a hospital first at La Panne for the Belges & later as an annexe to one of our hospitals at Calais. She tried to work old Johnnie French to let her & her nurses roam about the battle front and I was called in to anchor her which I did effectually at Calais. Her husband the Duke was much older than her & in love with his library & it is well known that she “kept†the FitzGerald man & gave him a good allowance. No one could understand why she married him on the Duke’s death as he drank like a fish & was a notorious waster. Having divorced him it was equally incomprehensible why she married Hawes. Of course her stock - the Rosslyn - is queer & may account for much! I don’t know Hawes but did hear that he had a tendency towards the Dead Sea fruits.’ He ends by asking Toynbee’s opinion of Sinclair Lewis and by explaining that ‘this grippe of mine will delay my trip to London for a bit. If we get a St. Martin’s summer I may venture’. 28 August [no year]. On embossed letterhead of Les Sapins, Boulevard Thiers, Fontainebleau S & M’. unknown
1944List2436Hattiesburg: Earl M. Finch 1944. Sheet music measuring 12 x 9 inches 4 pp. Signature of a Nabuko Hayashida on front cover. Slight tears at fold some toning two small pinholes very good overall quite attractive. Very Good. In Hawaii in May 1942 a battalion of Nisei volunteers was assembled for service in World War Two despite earlier failures of efforts to recruit Japanese-Americans due to the Army’s labeling of Nisei recruits as 4-C enemy aliens. Designated as the 100th Infantry Battalion they were deployed to North Africa in June 1943 integrating with the 34th Division in active combat. Their subsequent deployment to Italy in September 1943 exposed them to intense warfare earning them the moniker of the "Purple Heart Battalion" due to their notably high casualty rate.<br /> <br /> In January 1943 the U.S. War Department officially declared the establishment of the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team RCT which was comprised of Nisei volunteers originating from Hawaii and the mainland. The culmination of this initiative transpired in June 1944 when the 442nd RCT merged forces with the 100th Infantry Battalion in Europe subsequently absorbing the latter into its structure. The notable achievements of Nisei soldiers in combat operations prompted the reinstatement of the draft in January 1944 specifically targeting Nisei detainees to augment the ranks of the 442nd. Over time the 442nd RCT expanded to encompass the 2nd 3rd and 100th Battalions; the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion; the 232nd Engineering Company; the 206th Army Band; Anti-Tank Company; Cannon Company; and Service Company. <br /> <br /> Offered here is a very scarce piece of sheet music entitled “Go For Broke†which was written by the Hawaiian musician Harry Hamada reflecting the slogan of the 442nd and performed by Shelby and others during the war as part of efforts to boost morale. Hamada would feature in the 1951 movie “Go For Broke†as Masami alongside several other veterans of the 442nd. This publication of “Go For Broke†is from 1944 seven years before the movie’s release. The piece is dedicated to Colonel C.W. Pence. Hamada was a Hawaiian musician who performed with a band called the Shelby Hawaiians or the Shelby Serenaders. They performed as early as 1943. The Hattiesburg Mississippi merchant Earl M. Finch who ran an Army and Navy store close to Camp Shelby befriended Hamada and other members of the 442nd and acted as a sponsor for the group and eventually published this version despite his business being a dry goods merchant house and not a publishing house. The group with the support of Finch performed throughout the country to lift morale. At some point Hamada penned this composition likely in 1944 as we find no reference to it in 1943 articles and Finch published it - Hamada’s composition would become the theme song of the 442nd and Hamada would perform at the Halloran General Hospital in New York and the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C. in 1944 likely performing this composition. Another composition called “Go For Broke†exists as well and it is unclear to what degree Hamada’s work caught on among the regiment. <br /> <br /> We find two records of Finch’s published version of the composition one listed as part of an online remembrance of the 442nd by the Smithsonian Institution https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/day-remembrance-70-years-after-executive-order-9066 which appears to have been on loan from the National Japanese American Historical Society and another copy held at Stanford though not listed in OCLC. Finch’s story is also interesting and is the subject of a remembrance on a 100th Battalion History page online https://www.100thbattalion.org/history/stories/earl-finch/. We find no copies listed in OCLC. Overall a very scarce piece of Japanese-American wartime history. Earl M. Finch unknown
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194248810Tokyo: Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbunsha æ±äº¬æ—¥æ—¥æ–°èžç¤¾ 1942. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. 36 printed double-sided leaves. Housed in a tan cardboard slipcase with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Blue paper boards with embossed silver lettering and geometric decorative designs on the covers. Photo-illustrated title page.<br /> <br /> This scarce work is a striking piece of photographic propaganda displaying the power and glory of the Japanese Imperial Navy during WWII. Illustrated throughout with a total of 74 mostly full-page b/w collotype images including stunning aerial photography.<br /> <br /> The photobook is divided into two parts: the first one is concerned with naval training while the second part deals with the unfolding course of the war being a record of Japanese successes from Pearl Harbor Malaya New Guinea and other parts of South East Asia. <br /> <br /> This is one of the very first publications to have show and extended pictorial account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor including a number powerful and dynamic images two of the images seen to be illustrations. Includes also numerous b/w Soviet-style photographic plates of naval guns battleships submarines and military planes as well as photographs of operations in China Java Borneo Philippines New Guinea and other areas in Southeast Asia. None of the images are credited to a particular photographer but included is work by Matsugi Fujio and possibly Kimura Ihei. The beginning of the section contains a finely detailed illustrated map showing Japanese naval positions and battles across the pacific theater.<br /> <br /> Text and captions throughout in Japanese.<br /> <br /> Slipcase with some light scratches as well as minor age toning and smudges. Corners rubbed and lightly chipped. Binding with minor stains smudges and scratches to the covers. There is a small 1/2" stain on the upper right corner of the front cover. Edges lightly rubbed with the head of the spine lightly chipped. Interior covers and endpaper lightly damp-stained. Gutters of interior covers reinforced. Book block tight. pages throughout very clean. Slipcase in good binding in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Slipcase and binding protected in modern mylar. Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbunsha (æ±äº¬æ—¥æ—¥æ–°èžç¤¾) hardcover
1901List2860Likely San Francisco California 1901. 19 x 24 inch lithograph. Much staining and chipping; folded with tears; several tape repairs verso with some residue visible recto; quite attractive overall good plus. A broadside lithograph commemorating a soldiers’ service in the Philippine-American war. Images of generals are set in a large blue horseshoe and eagle design over a montage of scenes from the war. In the center is a service form and an empty horseshoe in which on examples of similar broadsides the soldiers’ photograph is affixed. The service form certifies that Everett W. Patton enlisted in 1899 and served in the 38th Regiment. Similar broadsides—though with some differences in design—have on the bottom margin a 1901 copyright to Herbert E. Ellsworth and the My Boys Publishing Company and attribute the lithograph to Sanborn Vail & Co. both in San Francisco. This margin is missing from this copy. Overall a vivid and attractive piece. unknown
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:
189959607San Francisco & USFS Olympia: The Bounding Billow Printed by Whittaker & Ray Co. Inc. 1899. Eleven parts in one vol. 4to. 2 138 6 pp. With text photos illustrations 2 colour illustrations map photo plates at rear. Original blue publisher’s cloth embossed gilt lettering & shield on front cover edgewear rubbing wear to corners some spotting & wear a few occasional minor closed tears still a G copy from library of Chief Petty Officer William E. Bates 1871-1941 who served in the U.S. Navy for 30 years beginning with the Asiatic Squadron under Admiral Dewey and later during World War I w/ ownership marking on 2nd flyleaf a couple spelling corrections in manuscript. First edition thus of this “cruise book†for the U.S.S. Olympia which served as Admiral Dewey’s flagship during the Spanish-American War and had served as the flagship from 1895 three years prior as flagship of the Asiatic Squadron. This volume opens with an illustrated account of the USS Olympia’s cruises and experiences visiting China Japan Siberia and The Philippines. Included here as well is a reissue including photos colour illustrations and map Vol. 1 Nos. 1-7 of the shipboard periodical published by the seamen of the USS Olympia with place imprints of Nagasaki Hong Kong and Manila. Incorporated are firsthand accounts of shipboard life battle accounts contemporary photos and map prepared by L.C. Passano using sail needles. Of particular interest is the appendix listing the crews of the U.S. Asiatic Squadron including the USS Olympia USS Raleigh USS Boston USS Baltimore USS Concord USS Petrel USS McCulloch. The Bounding Billow, Printed by Whittaker & Ray Co., Inc.], hardcover
SAL8445137871España: CONSEJERIA DE CULTURA TURISMO Y DEPORTE. RUSTICA. Nuevo/Nuevo. TER CONSEJERIA DE CULTURA, TURISMO Y DEPORTE unknown
186421986.04<p><b>CIVIL WAR.</b>Broadside <i>"The Excursion of the Bought Nominations The Large Balloon 'Union League' Will Start Immediately. The Balloon is managed by the Old Hunkers in the Ring."</i> 1864. 4 ¾ x 8 ½ in. </p><b>Historical Background</b><p>The Union League Club formed in New York in 1863 to support Union troops and cultivate civil devotion. Made up of prominent citizens in New York Philadelphia Brooklyn New Haven and Chicago the clubs raised money to provide for the U.S. Sanitary Commission and establish a group of political elites to sustain Union military efforts. The league favored a strong central government tariff protections and internal improvements.</p><p>The "Old Hunkers" were the conservative branch of the New York state Democratic party in the mid-nineteenth century. They favored the status quo whether in business or on the contentious issue of slavery. The more progressive "Barnburner" faction stood in opposition to the old Hunkers and were against slavery strong state powers expanding the public debt and government subsidizing businesses.</p><p>Though the Old Hunkers shared many similarities in terms of business philosophy with the Union League—especially that of strong central government power and infrastructure improvements—the disconnect between the two groups' stance on slavery makes this cartoon perplexing. Are the Old Hunkers carefully managing the political situation the balloon through the New York political machine note the capital "R" of Ring as in the infamous Tweed Ring Or are they setting the progressive Union Leaguers adrift</p>
1865218141865. No binding. Fine. Archive of materials relating to the administering of loyalty oaths in North Carolina after the Civil War during presidential Reconstruction. 1865-1866. 21814.01. William H. Bagley Autograph Letter Signed as private secretary of Governor William Holden to William Barrow John Odom and others. Raleigh N.C. July 10 1865 1 p. quarto on State of North Carolina Executive Department lettersheet.Excerpt""Your Memorial . has been received at this office and the Governor directs me to say in reply that the matter therein referred to will be attended to at the earliest possible moment. This however cannot be done until the Enrolling Boards shall have accomplished their work in the different counties in administering the oath of amnesty to the people - separating the loyal from the disloyal. In the meantime the preservations of the Public peace will devolve upon the Justices of the Peace in the several counties who have the right on all occasions to control the Local Police and posses the power to increase the same to such a number as they may deem necessary to meet any emergency which may arise in which they may think is likely to arise .""21814.02 W.W. Holden Printed Letter Signed in Type as Provisional Governor to Col. David A. Barnes with matching cover addressed ""To the Clerk of the County Court of Northampton County Jackson N.C."" Entitled ""Directions for Qualifying Magistrates and Organizing the County Courts."" Raleigh N.C. July 8 1865 1 p. quarto on State of North Carolina Executive Department lettersheet.Excerpt"".If necessary you will call on the officers of the Local Police to notify the Justices to meet at the Courthouse on a day to be appointed by you. And said officers are hereby commanded to aid you in notifying the Justices to attend. When the Justices shall have assembled you will administer to them first the oath of amnesty; secondly the oath to be found in the Revised Code chapter 76 page 434 to maintain the Constitution of the State not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States; thirdly the oath of office to be found in Revised Code chapter 76 page 441. No Justice or other officer who is included in any of the fourteen excluded classes of the President's amnesty proclamation will be permitted to take the oaths prescribed or enter on the performance of duty until a pardon shall have been received by him from the President. And the oath of amnesty is not to be administered to any one who is not disposed to take it willingly and cheerfully. If any Justice named in the commission hesitates to take the oath it will be your duty to withhold it from him . The Clerk will make a full and complete record on his books of the proceedings of the Justices a copy of which you will at once transmit to this office.""21814.03 W.W. Holden Printed Letter Signed in Type as Provisional Governor. September 15 1865 1 p. quarto on State of North Carolina Executive Department lettersheet.Excerpt""You are hereby directed to retain the Amnesty Oath books until further orders as they will be kept open to allow the people to take said oath up to the time of voting for Governor members of Congress & c.""21814.04 Manuscript Document Oath. Northampton County N.C. August 15 1865. 1 p.21814.05 Printed Document Oath of Allegiance 1865 unissued. 1 p.21814.06 W.W. Holden Partly Printed Document Signed appointing twenty-two men 2 of whom are identified as dead as Justices of the Peace. Raleigh N.C. June 19 1865. 1 p.Excerpt""WE in order to promote the speedy restoration of CIVIL AUTHORITY in the State of North-Carolina and ensure the perpetuation of a REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT and reposing special trust and confidence in your prudence integrity and zeal for the preservation of peace and good order do hereby appoint you JUSTICES OF THE PEACE for the County of Northampton as long as a Provisional Governor shall conti. See website for full description
19175410Lausanne Payot 1917. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Octavo. Pp. 262. In the original publisher's printed wrappers front detached spine bit worn. In a very good condition. Excellent copy preserved entirely in the original state unopened untrimmed practically unused. ~ FIRST EDITION. Harry Stürmer was correspondent for the "Kölnischen Zeitung" in Turkey from 1915 to 1916. He gathered in this book his eyewitness accounts of the large scale Turkish atrocities against the Armenian people. It could not be published in Germany and therefore was published in Switzerland. It is said that the German Foreign Office directly bought the translation rights in an effort to hinder spreading the information further abroad. However the English translation rights remained in other hands. It was soon translated into English as "Two war years in Constantinople: Sketches of German and young Turkish ethics and Politics" and published simultaneously in London & New York. Much good to the Armenian people's cause it did not do however. I-5 IN <br/> <br/> Lausanne, Payot paperback
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1996009311Paducah KY: Turner Publishing 1996. Glossy blue covers multi-colored cover pictorial different photos on front & rear endsheets 200 pages innumerable b/w photographs & other illustrations throughout music page designed by Nancy Parrish. Author's accounts of her experience as a WASP and her husband's with the Ninth Infantry Division in North Africa and Europe. Clean like new. 1st Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. As New/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Turner Publishing hardcover
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1971006823Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press 1971. 512pp/illus/maps. The author drew upon newly available Russian sources and significant historical and military documents to give a vivid account of the desperate battles of World War II in Russia and he also relates in detail for the first time the story of Marshal Zhukovs post-war career. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover
