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1950128950East Oakland Post 471 American Legion 1950. Very Good Plus. December 2 Saturday. Original admission ticket for a "follies" style live entertainment showing called "Stag-Revue" held at the Vet. Memorial Building in Oakland California. Cancan dancers are featured on the ticket in line illustration and the ticket stub is intact with numbers 4250 matching. We can surmise the entertainment consisted largely of women dancing and stripping and raucousness abounding. A night meant for mature audiences. Single-weight stock beige printed recto blank verso about 2.5 x 6 inches. Very Good Plus overall even toning and diagonal crease to top light foxing toning crease to stub line. East Oakland Post 471 American Legion unknown
3731812<p>Chicago: Willkie War Veterans National Committee 1940. 16½ x 11½ inches. Half tone illustration. Typographical Union “bug†at lower left. Folds and faint creasing; small tears in margins at one seam line; very good.</p> <p>A 1940 presidential campaign poster for Wendell Willkie the Democrat-turned-Republican activist and lawyer from Indiana. Here American war veteran supporters of Willkie back his European interventionist policies specifically in aid of France which had been invaded and subjugated by Nazi Germany in May and June 1940.</p> <p>The poster depicts a French soldier speaking about the power of voting and its necessity for freedom:</p> <p>“Once I could vote too! Once like you I was a free man! A Frenchman! Politicians made speeches to me too! They spoke about our impregnable democracy. They told me what they were doing to protect my standard of living and my working conditions. They promised my family safety through preparedness. But they weren’t honest with me! They let me down!. I was one of a nation of free men who did not prize freedom—who forgot that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Today I am no longer free.â€</p> <p>The Chicago-based Willkie War Veterans National Committee warns that France’s tragedy can become our own and urges preparedness warning that Democrat incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “administration is failing America as the French politicians failed France.†</p> <p>OCLC records one variant example of this poster printed in New York City “Prepared by St. Georges and Keyes Advertising.â€</p> <p>wq10</p> unknown
197599708Moscow: Progress Publishers 1975. 413p. foldout map scattered illus. wraps wraps worn toned and creased else very good condition. Inscribed boldly in Russian and English to Abraham Lincoln Brigade vet Leonard Levenson presumably by one of the editors on the title page. Progress Publishers unknown books
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194412619New York: American Veterans Society of Artists Inc 1944. Staplebound. Near fine. Small octavo unpaginated 24pp. illustrated. A near fine copy in the publisher's stapled wraps. A smoker's copy with faint tobacco odor. Staples rusted else a sound clean example. SIGNED and generically INSCRIBED by Frederic Allen Williams then President of the organization as well as a contributing artist. A catalogue for the sixth such exhibition this one held during the height of America's involvement in World War II five months after D-Day. There are sixteen halftone illustrations depicting some of the work on display; mostly painting but some sculpture as well. While all of the art is competent some of it is truly impressive and it's clear that while the organization welcomed a range of talent most of the artists had some mastery of their form. Williams in his introduction to the catalogue writes: "The demoralizing influences of war are obvious throughout the country and have made a great impression on creative genius. As the clouds of war pass by art shall bloom again nurtured by the sanity of American Art tradition and fed by the passion of young blood. Stand by and support American Art." Williams was a privileged Bostonian and a veteran of World War I. While he didn't see actual combat there can be no question that the experiences of his comrades left a great impression on him and he became involved with the American Veterans Society of Artists. He was an early member of the artist set in Taos and his work was exhibited in countless mainstream museums during his lifetime. The pamphlet is scarce--in fact we find no holdings of this exact one in OCLC and just a handful of other near-contemporary ones. We also have had toruble finding examples of his signature outside of original artwork. As such a desirably scarce example. American Veterans Society of Artists, Inc unknown
1954181874various: American Veterans Committee 1954. Leaflets and bulletins from the left-wing veterans' group dating to both before and after its 1948 expulsion of communists. Some items lightly worn issue of In Fact evenly toned else generally very good condition. Includes a 1946 leaflet announcing a demonstration against racist speaker Gerald L.K. Smth in Oakland; the second issue of the AVC Newsletter published by the California State Council of the group; a four-page 1949 report by Gil Harrison on the acrimonious end of attempts to unite with Amvets; a one-page press release on the same topic; a fundraising appeal from Bill Maudlin a six-page brochure with black ad white photos from 1954 an 8.5x1 inch brochure from 1954 with a Bill Maudlin cover cartoon and three membership cards and a receipt for dues payment belonging to a Bay Area member. Also included is an issue of In Fact with a short piece on the AVC. American Veterans Committee unknown
1946181871New York: American Veterans Committee 1946. 14 issues of the tabloid-format newspaper published by the left-wing veterans' group; spans the period before and after the AVC's expulsion of communists in 1948. Issues present are vol. 1 no. 17; vol. 2 nos. 5 6 and 8; vol. 5 nos. 1 4-7 12; vol. 6 nos. 3 4 11; and vol. 7 no. 7. Coverage includes much on AVC internal news as well as calls for aid to homeless vets McCarthy impeachment opposition to segregation and more. A failed attempt to merge with Amvets another veterans' organization left a bad taste in both sides' mouths and the later issues contain polemics against Amvets including allegations that it segregated veterans into different posts by race. American Veterans Committee unknown books
1954181874various: American Veterans Committee 1954. Leaflets and bulletins from the left-wing veterans' group dating to both before and after its 1948 expulsion of communists. Some items lightly worn issue of In Fact evenly toned else generally very good condition. Includes a 1946 leaflet announcing a demonstration against racist speaker Gerald L.K. Smth in Oakland; the second issue of the AVC Newsletter published by the California State Council of the group; a four-page 1949 report by Gil Harrison on the acrimonious end of attempts to unite with Amvets; a one-page press release on the same topic; a fundraising appeal from Bill Maudlin a six-page brochure with black ad white photos from 1954 an 8.5x1 inch brochure from 1954 with a Bill Maudlin cover cartoon and three membership cards and a receipt for dues payment belonging to a Bay Area member. Also included is an issue of In Fact with a short piece on the AVC. American Veterans Committee unknown books
1965181875San Francisco: American Veterans Committee 1965. Two items both a single 8.5x14 inch sheet with horizontal fold crease. Single issue of the newsletter published by the left-wing veterans' group faint coffee cup ring penciled notes on back with double-sided leaflet advertising a fundraising BBQ in San Carlos with speakers on Equal Employment Opportunity. American Veterans Committee unknown books
1925ST001100Chicago Illinois: Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States 1925. Hardcover. Good. 12 Volumes Twelve volume set in good condition. Hard covers with green boards. Shelf & edge wear especially at head & heel of spine. Gold gilt decoratives on front board - American Eagle with Capitol Building Seal of the V.F.W border with stars. Spine has Title Volume Dates covered in volume but worn and hard to read. Unknown if originally they were gold gilt. Former owner's name in ink at top of front free end paper in each volume. Contains notice of registration of this edition for named Patrons of Record. Frontispiece protected with tissue guard present in each volume before the Title Page. Contains other plates throughout all volumes. Interior text block clean & tight; mellow age toning to the papers. From the Introduction ""In the present historical series the reader has a whole library of . original sources each document dealing with an outstanding even in the development of America. So far as possible the events are described by the principal person who participated. . . .In the selection of documents their human interest has been one of the principal considerations. So the entire collection arranged in chronological order makes a living breathing story of our country. . . ."" Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States hardcover
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