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20032090202120412032new person oraisha 2003. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 new person oraisha paperback
181955703Tokyo: Kinji Gaho Company Recent Events Graphic Co. Sept. 18th 1905. Folio. 36 pp. Numerous photo illustrations illustrated plates woodcut-block text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers vivid cover art of rioters and burning fires across Tokyo minor chipping & wear to spine rusting to staples at gutter margin minor edgewear still a VG copy. First edition of this special issue of the Senji Gaho Wartime Graphic magazine a lavish and popular Japanese illustrated magazine which captured the violent protests against the peace treaty terms for the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese populace had been fed a steady diet of propagandistic victories celebrating Japan’s newfound military prowess and had expected Russia to pay a large indemnity to recover the tremendous costs imposing rationing and taxes on all manner of goods in Japan at the cost of over 80000 casualties. However due to rising wartime costs Japanese negotiators settled for a free hand in dominating Korea as a protectorate and leasehold in Southern Manchuria. Anti-peace riots broke out after a large rally in Hibiya Park Sept. 5 1905 and quickly spread for three days with 17 killed 311 arrested and 70 percent of Tokyo’s police boxes substations destroyed along with 15 streetcars. Worldcat locates 1 copy Nat. Library Australia; See: Andrew Gordon Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905 Asia Pacific Journal Vol. 12 Issue 29 No. 3 July 20 2014. Kinji Gaho Company [Recent Events Graphic Co.], paperback
1945209335Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. 28 July1945. Colour bird's eye view map 22.4 x 39.3 cms on a newspaper leaf trimmed to a half sheet 29.8 x 41.6 cms including caption slight toning at an old central fold the map in very good condition. <br>Unrelated black and white photographic illustrations on the verso "Pre-flight Trainers used in Chicago to give ground instruction to would-be pilots" and "New rekindled Montauk Light Long Island N.Y." Map published in the Chicago Daily Tribune days before the bombing of Hiroshima on August 61945. <br>"Perspective map of Tokyo bay and contiguous land and sea areas showing Tokyo Yokohama the Yokosuka naval base industrial sections and other features .In this map north is at the right instead of at the top - an expedient adopted to show all of the bay as large as possible in half page space." caption . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
194662526Tokyo Japan: American Forces Pacific General Headquarters United States Army Nippon Map Co. Nihon Chizu Kabushiki Kaisha Feb. 1946. Oblong double atlas folio map printed on recto in 5 colours sized 30.25 x 41.75 in. including margins title panel w pictorial map for when folded showing “Bombed-out Areas†in miniature large regional map printed in green minor age toning some minor thumbing shelfwear rubbing a couple very slight closed tears at fold creases still a VG bright copy. First edition of this startling map prepared from a Japanese Tokyo City map revealing the tremendous extent of damage created during the B-29 bomber bombing campaigns by the Allies in 1945 including Feb. 24-25 when 174 bombers dropped incendiary bombs destroying 1.5 square miles of the city and 28000 buildings; March 9-10 when 279 bombers destroyed 267000 buildings over 41 square miles; as well as the massive air raids of April 26 with 464 B-29 Bombers attacking urban areas south of the Imperial Palace and May 24 when another 520 bombers attacked leaving swathes of the city in ruins. The splashes of yellow-gold vividly portray the bombed portions and green lines the fire breaks created from demolishing swathes of houses office buildings and apartments in the city to stop the fires burning. These maps were released solely for occupation and reconstruction forces of the Allies after Japan’s surrender and were not intended “For sale or distribution.†Worldcat locates 7 copies U of CO U of GA U of Chicago Harvard U of MN U of WI NL Australia. American Forces Pacific, General Headquarters, United States Army, Nippon Map Co. [Nihon Chizu Kabushiki Kaisha], unknown
194260253Portland OR & Vancouver WA: The Bo’s’n’s Whistle Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation Kaiser Co. Inc. 1942-1944. Thirty-one issues. 496 pp issues all separately paginated. With 100’s of photos text illustrations colour printing diagrams illustrations maps double-page spreads. All with self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers minor scuffing some w/ edgewear a couple w/ tears a couple w/ minor closed tears at spines a couple w/ minor tidemarks still a VG- set of magazines. First editions of these scarce thirty-one original issues of the bi-weekly in-house magazine published for all employees of the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation under Kaiser Company during World War II -- famed builder of Liberty & Victory Ships during World War II. These magazines reveal many of the famed production speed aircraft carriers tankers and other vessels produced by the three Portland-Vancouver shipyards resulting in 752 launched ships. The shipyard boom reshaped the social political and economic history of Portland drawing thousands of workers including 15000 African-Americans by 1946 many 1000’s of Native Americans who left the PNW Reservations and large numbers of women who constituted 30% of the wartime workforce. Kaiser built the Kaiser healthcare system a network of onsite nurseries for working mother’s children and built the city of Vanport with 9942 units in segregated housing for 42000 men women and children later destroyed in the 1948 flood. Most institutions only hold minimal or broken runs of these magazines or have access to the microfilm or scanned versions. The Bo’s’n’s Whistle, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Kaiser Co., Inc., paperback
8433997823.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
8467220880.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2006Q-8402420184Ediciones B 2006-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ediciones B paperback
19461011WORLD WAR II - Children <br />Today's Children Tomorrow's Hope The Story of Children in the Occupied Lands. New York: United Nations Information Office circa 1946. Illustrated. 8vo 52pp; photographic pictorial wrappers. Fine copy overall.<br />First edition thus an earlier version with only 40pp appeared about 1945. Promoting children's well-being worldwide UNICEF works in various areas including fighting poverty violence disease and discrimination at the grass-roots as well as through work on policies programmes and advocacy. This program was created in 1946 and became a permanent part of the UN System in 1953. Its headquarters are in New York. Reports on displaced children from Belgium China Czechoslovakia Denmark France Greece Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Philippines Poland USSR and Yugoslavia. United Nations Information Office paperback
19842080202102706329Ishihara Seminar War Battle Record Study Group 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. Page size: 54 pages Size: B5 size Ishihara Seminar War Battle Record Study Group paperback
1847List3243Providence Rhode Island: N.p. 1847. Broadside measuring 18 x 13 inches folded with damage to right margin somewhat stained with a few very small wormholes. Excellent. TO THE MEN OF RHODE-ISLAND! Who love HONESTY and TRUTH written in 1847 by John W. Richmond deals with the repayment of Revolutionary War debt. In 1846 lawyer Wilkins Updike published a book titled History of the Alleged State Debt of Rhode-Island in which he alleged that prominent men of Rhode Island were making essentially fraudulent claims that Rhode Island still owed them money for Revolutionary War loans. The basis of the dispute which was widespread in the postwar US was whether the debts should be repaid in specie or paper money; in 1786 Rhode Island legislators mandated creditors to accept paper money as payment. On Updike’s account the “dead debt was afterwards resuscitated by political legislation†prompting those with financial means to purchase the debt “for comparatively nothing and have and are now endeavouring to defraud the honest yeomanry out of it†by having it repaid in specie.1 In turn Richmond’s broadside accuses Wilkins of corrupt behavior for both denigrating the reputation of these purchasers and for neglecting to mention several settlements for payment of interest on these debts by the government of Rhode Island indicating that the debts were in fact owed and not fraudulent. Richmond who saw Wilkins as calling for a repudiation of the state’s debt calls him a “man so far degraded in his moral sensibilities†“self-disgraced†with his own “evident depravity†“pitiful†“miserable†and “unprincipled†a man “who knows no true open manly and honest course but vainly hopes by his corrupt acts to ride into political power.†<br /> <br /> The severity of this issue for Richmond led him to leave the state in disgust; his headstone in New London Connecticut tells that he was “unwilling that the remains of himself and family should be disgraced by being a part of the common earth of a Repudiating State.†We find eleven copies of TO THE MEN in OCLC.<br /> <br /> 1 Wilkins Updike History of the Alleged State Debt of Rhode-Island N.p. 4. N.p. unknown
2007054544College Station: Texas A&M University Press 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. xiii 248 pages indexed. Hardcover with a grey and black pictorial dust jacket now in mylar. Light wear to the jacket. There is a blue "Signed" strip inside the mylar at the foot of the spine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author on the title page: "With deep appreciation for your selfless devotion to our Corps and country! / Semper Fidelis! / Peter F. Owen / Lt. Col. USMC Ret.". A sound copy and clean within. <br/> <br/> Texas A&M University Press hardcover
199149843Tucson AZ: Westernlore Press 1991. 8vo. xv 3 170 pp. Numerous photo illustrations. Simulated red calf binding gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. minor creasing to spine still NF/VG copy signed & numbered on limitation page. First edition limited & signed No. 449. This gripping memoir relates the battle and fight at Chosin Reservoir in 1950 by Company D 10th Engineer Battalion Combat 3rd Infantry Division a mixed unit composed of castoffs and misfits rejected by other units and their heroism in the Korean War. Westernlore Press, unknown
23798<p>Tucson AZ: Westernlore Press 1991 1st ed. SIGNED on half-title p. by author. 170pp. illus. red cloth 8vo: Fine in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover. A private soldier's memoir of combat at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. This copy is No. 481 of the edition and is also inscribed on the title page by Phillip A. Kulbes who was in command of "Dog Company" at that time.</p> Tucson, AZ: Westernlore Press hardcover
2009012417Lawrence Kansas U.S.A.: University Press of Kansas 2009. 655pp/illus/maps. First volume of new history of Battle of Stalingrad. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University Press of Kansas Hardcover
181734776Warwick: A Citizen 1817. Wraps. Fair. Stitched wraps with title top of page 1. 15 pages 1 page blank. Untrimmed paper is edge creased with small edge tears. Back cover torn chipped creased. Contents lightly toned. <br /> <br /> A political message calling for removal of those that brought the State to ruin during the War of 1812 and the return of Federalist Governor Jones who refused to contribute troops to the general militia during the war. <br /> <br /> AI 42299 Not in Sabin. A Citizen unknown
1861375116Baltimore 1861. 1p. handbill with integral blank. 4to. Folds minor separation at one fold. BOUND INTO: Sammelband of 29 other pamphlets handbills or other printed ephemera relating to the Maryland Diocese between 1850 and 1867 presumably assembled by Bishop Whittingham. Contemporary marbled paper covered boards rebacked with buckram. Manuscript list of titles in the front. Library markings. 1p. handbill with integral blank. 4to. unknown
194584546Prokuplje: Prekomurac Printing House October 1945. 40cm x 30cm. Single sheet of newsprint style paper printed recto only with a printer's error to the bottom right corner where the paper has been folded over as it entered the press so a fragment of the text is printed in error to the verso. Some trifling toning to the edges otherwise a very good example indeed and an almost miraculous survival.<br /> <br /> Simultaneously a call to action a plea for political support and a memorial to the great deeds of the women of the DobriÄ Province during WW2 distributed by the People's Front Party and the Anti-Fascist Women's Front of what would become the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia;<br /> <br /> "Mothers Wives Sisters and the Many Great Sons and Daughters of the Good Men who are Missed!" would be an approximate translation of the sub-heading. <br /> <br /> The main body of text printed in cyrillic goes on to list the wartime exploits of these women and less specifically their men; "We will never forget the sacrifice of the women from Dobrich who went day and night summer and winter throught the mountains and valleys of our region and brought our famous partisans clothes food ammuniotion and information. The ferocious occupier and his informants our home-grown traitors knew of these deeds and that is why they persecuted you women in particular. But neither prisons nor beatings nor camps nor shootings nor the burning of your houses truly swayed you from the right path for the good of The People." <br /> <br /> The text goes on to detail the immmediate post war collective efforts of these women; caring for the wounded adopting orphaned children and helping with the provincial administration both for the living and the dead. These actions it is maintained strengthened the People's Front to the point where it has become the only clear choice for the future of the region; the women of "Fighting DobriÄ" therefore must ensure their vote in the upcoming elections is cast for the People's Front so as to "elect worthy sons of the people as our representatives in the Constituent Assembly."<br /> The dense and rather understandably enthused broadsheet concludes with the patriotic cheer:<br /> <br /> "Long Live The People's Front!<br /> Long Live the First Free Elections in Our Country!<br /> Long Live Women's Rights and Freedoms!<br /> Long Live the Frontline Soldiers of the DobriÄki Section!<br /> Long Live Our Candidates!<br /> Long Live The Anti-Fascist Women's Front of Yugoslavia!"<br /> <br /> A courageous and uncompromising piece of antifascist ephemera from a region that was subject to a brutal Wehrmacht campaign assisted by local Chetnik collaborators and the UstaÅ¡e forces that was rightfully regarded as genocidal ethnic cleansing in post-war analyses. The Yugoslav Partisans however refused to capitulate and supported by an increasingly decimated local population fought relentlessly until the collapse of the Reich before victoriously proclaiming the foundation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. No examples of this piece appear in OCLC and no trace can be found of its distribution in the public record. Prekomurac Printing House unknown
2007052735Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 2007. xii 319 pages b/w ills maps three appendices: Nominal Roll Honours and Awards Casualties index. Pictorial boards in jacket. Near new. This account of the short history of the 39th Battalion which lasted for only 20 months of World War II includes excerpts from the Japanese officers' diaries during the Papuan Campaign. Taken with the extracts from the Australian account a clear picture is given of what it was really like both for aggressor and defender. Second Hardcover Edition . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Australian Military History Publications. Hardcover
194464076Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1944. One atlas folio colour-lithograph poster sized 20 x 28 in. minor age-toning couple very minor closed tears at fold creases still a VG bright copy folded as issued. First edition of this large version of the To Have and to Hold! War Bonds poster issued during the sixth War Loan Campaign which was launched in November 1944 by the US Treasury to raise $ 16 billion dollars. The campaign issued this painting by Vic Guinnell depicting a US soldier unrolling the US flag across the field of the image and blocking out the dark stormy sky behind. The same campaign also issued a much more common poster featuring a cherubic blue-eyed baby girl. Guinnell is perhaps best remembered for his U.S. Marines posters “Smack ‘em Down!†and “Let’s go get’em!†Worldcat locates 2 copies of large version DLC Pritzker Military Lib. U.S. Government Printing Office, unknown
194464075Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1944. One elephant folio colour-lithograph poster sized 28 x 40 in. minor age-toning couple very minor closed tears at fold creases still a VG bright copy folded as issued. First edition of this large version of the To Have and to Hold! War Bonds poster issued during the sixth War Loan Campaign which was launched in November 1944 by the US Treasury to raise $ 16 billion dollars. The campaign issued this painting by Vic Guinnell depicting a US soldier unrolling the US flag across the field of the image and blocking out the dark stormy sky behind. The same campaign also issued a much more common poster featuring a cherubic blue-eyed baby girl. Guinnell is perhaps best remembered for his U.S. Marines posters “Smack ‘em Down!†and “Let’s go get’em!†Worldcat locates 2 copies of large version DLC Pritzker Military Lib. U.S. Government Printing Office, unknown
21595<p>Honolulu: Hawaiian Service. December 1944. 80pp. illus. staple bound paperback 32mo: Very Good. A pocket guide to events aimed at U.S. service members during World War II. issued on Saturday. Includes many interesting period advertisements.</p> Honolulu: Hawaiian Service paperback
198662715New York: Vanguard Press 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine clean and bright in an equally bright pictorial dustjacket. A fine copy. 250pp. Internally clean. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:<br /> "To Phyllis Oct 21st 1986 Ron Martin"<br /> A pretty taut and skilful novel of a soldier determined to escape from the horrors of a VC prison camp written by a marine who served in South East Asia as a direct response to the negative treatment delivered to returning US military personnel. Rather more complex than the general run of novels on this theme dealing heavily with the trauma and psychological damage caused not only by incarceration but by a hostile alienating homecoming. Vanguard Press unknown
3731462<p>Govt. Print. Office May 15 1861. 8½ x 11 inches. Vignette of the American eagle. Paper losses primarily confined to margins although at places affecting one printed word and one handwritten word; usual folds; fair condition.</p> <p>The 1862-dated discharge paper for Edwin A. Collins b.1819 a forty-three year-old shoemaker-turned-musician and native of Salem County New Jersey. Collins was one of eleven musicians all privates who comprised the band for the 5th New Jersey Volunteers. The band was directed by Harry G. Frankenfield. Frankenfield had founded the Salem New Jersey Cornet Band 1860 and by October of 1861 he had raised the Regiment’s band in Trenton. The musical ensemble mustered out in August of 1862. John Hayward </p> <p>Collins’s discharge is autographed by Samuel Henry “Old Paddy†Starr seen here as a Colonel of the 5th Regiment. Starr was a vulgar and highly-volatile old-guard dragoon. A strict disciplinarian he was known among his subordinates as “Old Nose Bag.†If a soldier transgressed Starr had the offender tied and straddled to a fence with his face strapped into a horse’s nose bag. Faded Hoofbeats – Samuel H. “Old Paddy†Starr 6th US Cavalry online</p> <p>Collins was mustered out at Harrison Landing Virginia “Given at Camp near Alexandria†Virginia by Lieutenant S. Lee Perkins and autographed by Perkins and he is described as having light complexion black eyes and black hair. On the verso of Collins’s discharge it is recorded that received $40.66 in pay on October 31 1862.</p> <p>Details of Collins’s civilian life before and after the War have eluded us. We do not find him recorded in state or federal census records.</p> unknown
194361111<p>NY: Whittlesey House. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn. 1943. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Navy cloth binding xii 236pp. Foreword by Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk. Many photos. An account of the Allied invasion of Sicily in the summer of 1943 which led to the downfall of Mussolini. Brown was a drama critic and author but also served as a journalist on one of the American ships which carried infantry troops to lead the invasion. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .</p> Whittlesey House hardcover