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1978247119Chicago: VVAW 1978. 8p. 7x8.5 inch pamphlet minor foxing. Interview with Mzonke Xusa from January 1978 with a bit of additional material. The back cover includes an appeal for used fatigues that can be donated. VVAW unknown books
189236274Wayland NY 1892. Small 3-5/8" x 5". 4 pp folded. An attractively illustrated and printed Invitation. Front of invitation is a full color illustration of a soldier holding a bayonet soldiers standing near tents in the background a drum and American flags to the side. The last page is a full color illustration of a Sons of Veterans medal. The wording of the invitation is printed with several elegant fonts with members of Reception Committee Floor Committee and Honorary Committee and location of the reception. Very Good. <br/><br/> Wayland is a little town about 80 miles east of Buffalo and 60 miles south of Rochester. The Sons of Veterans of the United States of America was founded by August Plummer Davis in Pittsburgh in 1881. It was formed to preserve the work of the Grand Army of the Republic a fraternal organization of Union Civil War veterans. There had been several independent Sons of Veterans groups in states such as Pennsylvania Missouri and New York but they all eventually became part of the Sons of Veterans U.S.A. The name was later changed to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in 1925. <br/> Hon. John F. Little 1839-1913 of Bath New York after whom this camp was named was a private in the 161st New York Infantry participating in the Gult and Red River Campaigns and the siege of Mobile. He received the rank of Captain after his service at Mobile and was discharged after three years as Brevet Major. Little was a prominent attorney for many years. He was also an Assemblyman from Steuben County Supervisor of the town of Bath Surrogate and Acting County Judge and a trustee of the New York State Soldiers' Home. "Captain Little Has Succumbed" ELMIRA STAR GAZETTE Tuesday May 13 1913 p.13. unknown books
1991238958Portland ME: V eterans for Peace 1991. Six issues of the staplebound journal 8.5x11 inches mailing labels on rear covers one with pen notes on the front cover. Issues present are 12 14-18. Also included are Spring and Summer 2011 newsletters and an Earth Day booklet from 1990 with some laudatory inscriptions to the recipient. V eterans for Peace unknown books
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
1993Embry 111074Curtis Media Corporation 1993. First edition first printing. Fine. B&W photos Light gray leatherette. Curtis Media Corporation, 1993. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
19392456Boston: The Veterans of Foreign Wars 1939. Cards. Cream illustrated cards. Good. 23 x 15.5 cm. Folding cream card menu featuring photo illustrations of Eugene I. Van Antwerp Commander-in-Chief and Anna Mae Lockner National Auxiliary President. Cover: Reception and Banquet Tendered by the 1939 National Encampment Corp. - HOTEL SOMERSET Boston Mass. Wednesday Evening Feb. 15 1939 in conduction with 40th National V.F.W. Encampment. <br /> <br />The Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW - an organization of U.S. war veterans who as military service members fought in wars campaigns and expeditions on foreign land waters or airspace - held conventions yearly VFW National Conventions used to be called encampments. This menu for the reception and banquet was held at the beginning of 1939 while tensions escalated overseas and the U.S sentiment was anti-interventionist. <br /> <br />Guests include: Bennett Champ Clark - U.S. Senator Missouri Leverett Saltonstall - Governor of Massachusetts Maurice J. Tobin - Mayor of Boston and many more. Dinner featured Filet Mingon Delmonico Potatoes dessert. Some foxing and stains with previous fold mark throughout the middle. <br/><br/> The Veterans of Foreign Wars unknown books
194640620New York: Communist Party USA 1946. 112p. staplebound pamphlet 5.25 x 7.75 inches; minor uneven toning. "Booklet for returning communist servicemen to acquaint them with the struggle inside the Communist Party against Browderism. Besides the article by Jacques Duclos the French communist leader which announced the Comintern's condemnation of Browderism the booklet includes articles and letters by William Z. foster Eugene Dennis and John Williamson the preamble to the Party's constitution and the resolution adopted by the Party's national convention on July 28 1945." Seidman C525. Communist Party, USA unknown books
1977237173Oakland: VVAW 1977. 8.5x11 inch handbill printed both sides very good. Updates on VVAW activism; notes that over 100 marched in the Fighting Vets Contingent in San Francisco. Much on anti-krugerand activism which was pursued by RCP activists within the group but criticized as tangential to the VVAW's mission by internal critics. VVAW unknown books
196613101New York: Veterans Reservists To End The War In Vietnam 1966. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine copy of this 60's war protest poster. Measures 14 x 8.5" wide. Advertises a peace demonstration walk featuring such 60's luminaries as The Fugs Allen Ginsberg Denise Levertov Paul Krassner Jackson MacLow Gilbert Sorrentino Phil Corner The Hare Krishna Chanters and more. No date but from 1966. Scarce ephemera. <br/><br/> Veterans + Reservists To End The War In Vietnam paperback books
1973119271Chicago: Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier Organization 1973. 12p. 5.5x8.5 inches uneven trim in original stapled pictorial wraps. Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier Organization unknown books
187515954New York 1875. 4pp. Tanned chipped at blank edges. Good only. Anti-Tammany. unknown books
1979235787Washington DC: Veterans Administration 1979. 21p. 8.5x11 inches tables of job opportunities with the VA around the country some with hourly wage listed $8.80 for an air conditioning mechanic in Chicago very good booklet in stapled gray wraps. Veterans Administration unknown books
1993288004Richmond Virginia 1993. Very Good binding. Folded pamphlet for the rededication of Libby Prison in Richmond Virginia. Horizontal crease near the middle. Letting and illustration printed in blue. Very Good binding. unknown books
2002227010Oakland: n.p. 2002. Pamphlet. 15p. illustrated with photos ads very good program in wraps. n.p. 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
1883290960Boston Mass 1883. First Edition. Soft Cover. Poor binding. SOLD AS IS. First Edition of the first number of Sheridan's Veterans; the second number was published three years later. With frontispiece and numerous portrait plates throughout. Frontispiece and front endpaper detached with loss to the corners of the frontispiece. Lacking the front cover. Contemporary quarter cloth with red paper covers. Not found in Nevins or Eicher. Poor binding. unknown books
1980187713Washington DC: Veterans Administration Office of Planning and Program Evaluation Studies and Analysis Service 1980. iii 181p. wraps doodle on back cover otherwise very good. Discusses the experiences and special needs of former POWs from WW II Korea and Vietnam. Veterans Administration, Office of Planning and Program Evaluation, Studies and Analysis Service unknown books
195593132Washington: the Board 1955. 123p. iv 8.5x11 inches wraps very good condition. Testimony mostly by SACB witnesses - including a number of former ALB members as well as Louis Budenz Herb Romerstein and Harvey Matusow with Jose Asensio and Milt Wolff among others testiying for VALB. Shockingly the SACB found VALB to be a commie front. the Board unknown books
20122265677Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Inc 2012. First Edition. Large Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Three small spots on front wrapper. 2012 Large Softcover. 206 pp. Stories from the Members of the Genesee Valley Chapter of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. Illustrated with World War II era black-and-white photographs as well as modern color photos. Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, Inc paperback books
1978237302Chicago: VVAW 1978. 6p 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheets stapled at corner; address label and stamp on rear cover otherwise very good. Includes coverage of Agent Orange activism. VVAW unknown books
1971278Collier 1971. 1st. Soft Cover. 1st paperback ed. 1971. Tall thin 4to. 174 pgs. A VG copy. <br/><br/> Collier paperback books
1971Embry 196971Collier Books 1971. First edition first printing. Owner's inked name minor wear near fine to fine. B&W photos Oversized paperback. Non-personally inscribed by the author "In Peace John Kerry." Collier Books, 1971. First edition, first printing. paperback 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
1976259346Chicago: VVAW 1976. 16p. tabloid newspaper horizontal fold evenly toned otherwise very good. From the period of Revolutionary Communist Party dominance over the group. VVAW unknown books
1978247310Chicago: VVAW 1978. 16p. tabloid newspaper horizontal fold evenly toned otherwise very good. Cover story on a vet dying of complications from Agent Orange exposure; top headline is on Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia. VVAW supported the Khmer Rouge in this conflict accusing Vietnam of becoming an aggressor and tool of Soviet social imperialism; small photo of Cambodian troops is captioned "Cambodian freedom fighters must now fight again. VVAW unknown books
