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199959005458Ramsey NJ: Huey Co Inc 1999. Bound in tan and blue cloth with matching dust jackets. A superb two volume set both signed by the author and Colonel Kenneth T. Mertel limited to 500 copies in the first edition. 124 pp. / 164 pp.TIght clean "as new" copies. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Huey Co Inc Hardcover
1976012519New York NY U.S.A.: Doubleday 1976. 446 pages with some b&w photographs. Endpaper maps. inscribed by General Westmoreland.".on half-title page. Book has light wear to edge of cover. This is a personal account of a life and career that in the course of almost 40 years of service to include command of US forces in Vietnam. Exceptional memoir by a general who served his country both on and off the battlefield with the highest distinction. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubleday Hardcover
1976007798New York NY U.S.A.: Doubleday 1976. 446 pages with some b&w photographs. Endpaper maps. inscribed by General Westmoreland.".Book has light wear to edge of cover. This is a personal account of a life and career that in the course of almost 40 years of service to include command of US forces in Vietnam. Exceptional memoir by a general who served his country both on and off the battlefield with the highest distinction. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubleday Hardcover
20051092Avocus Publishing 2005. Hardcover. Very good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has light wear. Signed and dated by the author on title page. Avocus Publishing hardcover
19761345Herndon Historical Society 1976. Paperback. Very good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has some wear and a small stain in upper left front. Herndon Historical Society paperback
1965159096China: Xinhua she 1965-1974. An arresting collection of Vietnam war press photographs most dated between May 1965 and December 1967 taken by photographers from the official Chinese and North Vietnamese news agencies. One photograph showing North Vietnamese fishermen drilling with weapons has been annotated by an editor showing how this type of photograph and the accompanying officially approved wording were used by local newspapers to substantiate propaganda copy filed from the front line. Also included are two press dispatches profiling two soldiers commended at the First Awards Ceremony for Heroes of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam each with a portrait photograph. 65 photographic prints each approximately 110 x 150 mm all but one with title and caption serial number and date printed on verso in Chinese. Together with two printed sheets text recto only both 200 x 150 mm and folded horizontally as issued each with c. 120 x 80 mm portrait photograph tipped-in on verso. Housed in grey archival box. Some contemporary red pencil check marks. Photographs bright a few with light staining to white border occasional pinholes and slight creasing lower half of one printed sheet browned. A well-preserved collection. unknown
1950231831950. Vietnam photographs of Indigenous highland communities urban street life and Western contact likely made in the 1950s or early 1960s before the large-scale arrival of American combat troops in 1965. The group belongs most plausibly to the early U.S. advisory period when American personnel were present in Vietnam from 1950 and increasingly active in South Vietnam after 1955 but still long before the main combat escalation of the war. The juxtaposition of images highlight both upland Indigenous people posed in village or forest-edge settings and small urban views of southern Vietnam in which colonial architecture animal-drawn transport fishing labor and everyday street movement remain visible within the late French and early postcolonial landscape.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 11 silver gelatin photographs each 2.25" x 3" Vietnam likely South Vietnam circa 1950s to early 1960s. Several photographs show Indigenous men women and children standing in open grass or along wooded edges wearing wrapped garments bead necklaces and basketry or carrying poles with one image showing women beside woven baskets in shallow water and another showing a figure working in dense vegetation. Exact ethnic identification is not secure from the photographs alone but the upland dress body adornment and basket forms are consistent with communities from Vietnam's Central Highlands or adjacent southern uplands possibly Jarai Ede or Rhade Bahnar Mnong or Stieng all part of the broader grouping often described in French and later English sources as Montagnard or Degar peoples. Other photographs turn to city and urban scenes with one image showing two women fishing another of a man in an ox-drawn carriage a zoo setting with large cats behind fencing and a formal boulevard view centered on a French colonial civic building that is likely the Saigon Municipal Theatre. The city scenes also fit Saigon where the long-established Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens opened to the public in 1869 formed part of the colonial urban core.<br /> <br /> The posed views of Indigenous highland people and the street scenes of fishermen cart drivers and city residents preserve the way local communities entered the visual record of American presence as subjects observed approached and documented by outsiders attached to the expanding U.S. role in South Vietnam during the 1950s and early 1960s. Light surface wear and minor corner and edge wear; overall very good condition. The combination of Saigon views with photographs of Indigenous upland communities gives the group particular force as a compact record of pre-combat American encounter in southern Vietnam. unknown
1959182824Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1959. First edition reproducing the many speeches made by Ho and Sukarno during the historic visit. In the years after the Bandung Conference Sukarno leant increasingly to one side on the Vietnam question and formal diplomatic relations were established with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1964 creating a formidable China-Indonesia-North Vietnam axis of influence. Octavo. Folding colour frontispiece map 32 half-tone plates illustrations in text. Original card wrappers front cover lettered in red. With illustrated dust jacket. First blank with two contemporary ink stamps and recent red ink price inscription Faint browning on rear wrapper and p. 33; jacket flaps without price as issued loss at bottom of spine: a very good copy in like jacket. unknown
162762Washington DC: The White House 25 January 1972. There will be a total withdrawal from South Vietnam of all U.S. forces The White House press release issued to coincide with Nixon's 25 January 1972 address to the nation in which he revealed that Kissinger was negotiating with the North Vietnamese. This copy has the ownership signature of Clark MacGregor 1922-2003 a senior aide in the Nixon White House. Nixon's speech affirmed America's willingness to withdraw all of its forces within six months of any agreement release POWS and not interfere in free and fair elections in South Vietnam. "The President did not mention that he was proposing a cease-fire-in-place that would leave North Vietnamese troops occupying and governing South Vietnamese territory. Nor did he mention what Kissinger had told Chinese premiere Zhou Enlai at their first meeting: 'If the South Vietnamese government is as unpopular as you seem to think then the quicker our forces are withdrawn the quicker it will be overthrown. And if it is overthrown after we withdraw we will not intervene'" Hughes. Before serving in the White House MacGregor spent a decade in Congress. In 1972 he took over from John Mitchell as head of Nixon's re-election campaign. 2 xeroxed leaves 355 x 220 mm each printed one side only. Old horizontal creases light toning: very good. Ken Hughes "Nixon's Telephone Tapes: 1972" Miller Center University of Virginia. unknown
21291<p>William Bundy's 5-volume set of the <i>"Senator Gravel Edition"</i> of the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> with annotations marginal notes and two legal-size pages with handwritten notes arranged chronologically.</p> <b>VIETNAM WAR.</b>Books. <i>The Pentagon Papers</i>. Boston: Beacon Press 1971-1972. First Editions. Five paperback books volumes I-IV in green printed covers volume V in orange. 5¾ x 9 inches each. Pages varies by volume. Volume V <i>Critical Essays</i> edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn has a Beacon Press review copy slip taped to the half-title and an address label paperclipped to the same page. The label is addressed to Bundy as editor of <i>Foreign Affairs</i> and has a handwritten date <i>"9/25/72."</i><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Defense Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned a massive study later called the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> in 1967 and appointed Pentagon arms control director Leslie Gelb as the project's supervisor. Gelb hired 36 military officers civilian policy experts and historians to write the study's monographs. The <i>Pentagon Papers</i>included 4000 pages of actual documents from the years 1945–67. Daniel Ellsberg with the aid of his friend Anthony Russo leaked most of the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> to <i>New York Times</i>reporter Neil Sheehan who began publishing excerpts on June 13 1971. Ellsberg later said that the documents "demonstrated unconstitutional behavior by a succession of presidents the violation of their oath and the violation of the oath of every one of their subordinates." Portions of the "Papers" were subsequently published by Beacon Press. The present copy is William Bundy's set of that edition.</p><p>The <i>Pentagon Papers</i> revealed steps the Johnson and Nixon administrations had taken to escalate the war in Vietnam without informing the public. President Nixon argued that Ellsberg was guilty of felony treason under the 1917 Espionage Act because he had no authority to publish classified documents. Though the <i>Times</i> had been advised not to publish they did so claiming the First Amendment right to publish information essential to citizens' understanding of their government. Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell obtained a federal court injunction forcing the <i>Times</i> to cease publication. After the <i>Times</i> appealed the case reached the Supreme Court. A separate case involving the <i>Washington Post's</i>publication of articles based on Ellsberg's leaks also reached the highest court. In June 1971 the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the injunctions were unconstitutional. As Senator Mike Gravel writes in the introduction "We were told that we had to fight on the continent of Asia so that we would not have to battle on the shores of America. One can accept these arguments only if he has failed to read the Pentagon Papers."</p><p><b>William Putnam Bundy</b> 1917-2000 graduated from Yale University and worked as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s. He had a long distinguished service government in the CIA and in the Defense Department. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in March 1964. His brother McGeorge Bundy was Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Kennedy and Johnson from 1961-1966. Both are considered primary architects of America's involvement in Vietnam. In <i>The Best and the Brightest</i> David Halberstam stated that during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations William Bundy's name "would probably be on more pieces of paper dealing with Vietnam over a seven-year period than anyone else's." The publication of <i>The Pentagon Papers</i> represented something of a personal defeat for Bundy who at the time had a 1100-page unfinished manuscript in which he selectively paraphrased from classified papers in his possession. The manuscript was rendered unpublishable by the appearance of these volumes.</p><p><b>McGeorge Bundy</b> 1919-1996 brother of William Bundy was one of President Kennedy's closest advisors on national security and he continued to fill that role for President Johnson during the period of escalation of the Vietnam War. He left government service in 1966 to head the Ford Foundation and then returned to university teaching and writing in 1979.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Very Good. Some wear to covers.</p> paperback
2011026214Wellington N.Z.: V4 Family Trust 2011. Jacket has general wear to edges. Large gift inscription to first blank page. 335 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. V4 Family Trust Hardcover
1967004089Washington D.C: Advanced Research Projects Agency Office of the Secretary of Defense 1967. Hardcover pages xv 556; fully illustrated with b/w photos maps and line drawings; illustrated hardcover; landscape format; blue covers soiled spine ends frayed finger marks on title page new endpapers and rescrimmed o/wise good condition. Extremely Rare. Text and captions in Vietnamese and English. A survey of coastal vessel types in local use mainly wooden hulled and of trading vessels working Vietnamese waters includes: origin/evolution of South Vietnamese boats religious/folklore influences on fishing techniques and equipment construction methods and materials detection clues for stop and search operation registration/identification of vessels and crew classification of wood-hulled boats index of steel-hulled coastal freighters. Nice clean copy. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall folio. Advanced Research Projects Agency Office of the Secretary of Defense hardcover
A study of airborne warfare analysing significant operations such as the battle for Crete, the allied invasion of Sicily, D-Day and Arnhem, Suez in 1956 and the U.S. Air Mobile Division in Vietnam. With Index and bibliographical references.
xvi, 381 pages. Map. Footnotes. "A very illuminating account of the suffering of one southern Vietnamese among perhaps hundreds of thousands who were confined to 'reeducation' camps by the country's communist authorities after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Unlike other reporters about reeducation camps, Tran Tri Vu's skill and sensitivity make him an extraordinary observer, enabling the reader to sense each numbing day with tangible intensity." - Foreword. Moderate foxing to edges. Date stamped atop half-title page otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy of this important and fascinating chronicle. Book
1967011754Mobile Construction Battalion 6 1967. Approx 150 unnumbered pages. MCB-6 tour in Vietnam and Guantanamo Bay Cuba during 1965-1967. Clean Rare. 1st Edition. Decorative Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mobile Construction Battalion 6 Hardcover
2008010770Minneapolis MN: Zeniith Press 2008. 383pp/illus/maps. Exceptional illustrated history of the Special forces in Vietnam/SE Asia. The maps in the back are superb as well and great overhead pics of base camps including part/full layouts. DJ has light edgewear. Text clean. Scarce. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Zeniith Press Hardcover
1990007071Charlottesville Virginia U.S.A.: Howell Pr 1990. 383pp/illus/maps. Exceptional illustrated history of the Special forces in Vietnam/SE Asia. The maps in the back are superb as well and great overhead pics of base camps including part/full layouts DJ has light edgewear. Text clean. Scarce. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good . Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Howell Pr Hardcover
1981002422New York: U. S. News Books 1981. xvii 396pp. col. & b/w pls. drwgs. diags. appends. index First edition of an important Vietnam Reference. Fine in original leatherette boards. Dustjacket has few small chips A comprehensive reference to U.S. Army and Allied ground forces in Vietnam 1961-1973. The organizaitions commands deployment stations operations weapons equipment casualities strategic maps Medal of Honor recipients and insignia. Profusely illustrated including thirty-two pages in full color with 647 Army Badges and Insignia used in Vietnam. 2nd Printing. Leatherette. Very Good/Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. U. S. News Books hardcover
1986004640New York: Galahad Books 1986. Book has 396 pages with illustrations. DJ has light wear to edge. Marker mark in front endpaper. Covers the entire organization structure and operations of U.S. and Allied ground forces in Vietnam from 1946-1973. A logbook of the movement of over 3.5 million fighting men it documents every major army unit stationed in Vietnam and provides all the critical data about their tour of service including: official unit designation unit function arrival and departure dates unit locations authorized strengths previous station distinctive insignia. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Galahad Books hardcover