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7082Good. Please note that the bookseller cataloging these items is not a veteran nor is he particularly knowledgeable about the workings of the US military so the significance of some items is likely to be lost on him.<br /> <br /> This is an archive of books and items related to the US Marine Corps which were issued to a trainee in 1993-94. All items are in Good-Fair condition. They have been used extensively and all contain the previous owner's notes doodles and hand-drawn cartoons. The items were issued at the USMC Recruit Depot in San Diego CA and at Camp Pendleton CA.<br /> This is an interesting collection from what ended up being a short-lived military career. As of 2025 the former recruit works in the entertainment industry. His online profile states under "Unique Traits": "Joined the Marine Corps when I should have joined the Peace Corps."<br /> <br /> The following items are included in this lot:<br /> <br /> Recruit Training Regiment Student Handout. Printed and hand-written pages in 3-ring binder. This textbook contains the most personalization with many pages of notes and drawings. This includes a handwritten page of slang translations he wanted to remember such as "Buttkid" and "Pogey Bait." A letter to the recruit's mother is also bound in.<br /> <br /> 0311 Student Handout. United States Marine Corps School of Infantry. 8vo. Staple-bound wraps. A training manual with many illustrations. Previous owner decorated this book extensively in pen including drawing the logo for alternative rock band 311 over the "0311" marker on cover. <br /> <br /> Guidebook for Marines 16th Revised Edition July 1990. 8vo. Wraps. A paperback handbook with many illustrations and photographs. Significant wear to covers.<br /> <br /> Basic Warrior Training WFTBN Field and Weapons Company. 8vo. Loose pages bound with string. A textbook and field manual with illustrations. Some pages have notes in pencil.<br /> <br /> Miscellaneous items: <br /> -Plastic camouflage pen pouch<br /> -A photograph of the recruit and 2 other men in their uniforms<br /> -Nameplate<br /> -Receipt from Morale Welfare and Recreation. The recruit purchased a yearbook a subscription to Leatherneck Magazine and a few other items. <br /> -Marine Corps camouflage ink pen<br /> -Business card of a Sergeant. On verso is the information of a different soldier which is crossed out and marked "VOID."<br /> -7 numbered yellow tags. paperback
1893V76220Tokyo: T.Hasegawa 2nd edition 1893. Softcover. Fair. Cover Crepe paper double folded at fore-edges 16 colour illustrations stab-sewn silk-thread to hinges of cover illustrations. 17 x 19cm crepe paper covers illustrated with Oyucha San on cover & sprig of flowers on lower cover. quite some cover creases & signs of use Soft Cover & inside cover both illustrated 3 pages of music with words from "Rosalie" 14 further pages Two Lists of books published by Hasegawa on facing pages illustrated lower cover. The covers are both a bit darkened and the inner pages are a bit tanned. The first 3 & last page edges are wavey & a few corners are creased but not interferring with the illustrations. Distributed by Kelly & Walsh Yokohama Meiji 26 1893 Signs of use but still a neat item much sought after. T.Hasegawa 2nd edition paperback
1960Cat357Japan Taiwan Korea and the US 1960. 15 ¼ x 11 inch album with attractive painted cover containing approximately 235 photos mainly 3 ½ x 5 inches and smaller. Contents generally in excellent condition. Excellent. A photo album by an unknown US Marine containing photos from his time in Okinawa Taiwan and Korea in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time—the earliest dated photo in the album is from April 1956—the Vietnam War was in its early days with Eisenhower deploying MAAG to train the ARVN in late 1955. It is not clear what unit the photographer was with as only his training platoon 46 of the Second Recruit Battalion on Parris Island is identified; however this photo’s caption includes “Photo by MAAGâ€.<br /> <br /> The album appears to be divided between the three locations each of which was strategic in the Cold War broadly and for American efforts in Vietnam in particular. It is highlighted by a series of photographs apparently from Taiwan showing agricultural workers planting and posing with their crops and children. In the 1950s under the China Aid Act the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction JCRR had launched a land reform financed by American aid and staffed by ROC scientists. In the 1960s this program expanded to crop diversification and the creation of the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center. These efforts towards agricultural development in Taiwan were like other US efforts in the region intended to contain the spread of Communism.1<br /> <br /> Other photos from Taiwan include shots of the ships; men outside their tents vehicles and straw huts smoking and playing cards; some are city streets but most are of the countryside. Several notable photos show the Marines playing at being POWs: in one a man poses with his hands on his head next to a sign reading “POW AND CAPTURED / EQUIPMENT COMPOUND†and in another one soldier pretends to march his fellow at gunpoint.<br /> <br /> Photos from Okinawa show military vehicles city streets and American and Japanese men—many Okinawans were employed by the US military during its occupation. Many scenes appear to show construction efforts with USMC-marked bulldozers and tractors driving around fields of dirt and rock in the countryside with a few of these showing Okinawa residents as well.<br /> <br /> South Korea also played an active role in the Vietnam War. Photos from Korea show tanks and other vehicles along the coast and being loaded into ships American soldiers driving and posing in the countryside and several of village streets and residents.<br /> <br /> Other subjects include target shooting transit on a ship captioned “WESTWARD HO / FAR EAST BOUND†and some that appear to be family and scenery shots in the US dated April 1961.<br /> <br /> Overall the album provides a look not just at the activities of the Marine Corps in the early US advisory era of the Vietnam War but also the people and places of the US’s strategic activities in East Asia. Of interest to historians of the Vietnam War Cold War and US empire.<br /> <br /> 1 Leo Chu “‘A bloodless social revolution’: Land reform and multiple cropping in Cold War Taiwan 1950–1979†The history of crop science and the future of food 6 no. 5 September 2024 1104–1110. unknown
184024967Havre France: H. Bret Rue de Paris 86 1840. Very good condition. The widow of Captain Latham's printed invitation to "American Officers" stationed in this French port town for the boarding house which she has just opened. Mrs. Latham's new venture is located at No. 44 Rue de Dauphine "where every essential comfort will be provided. Their patronage is most respectfully solicited". <br /> <br /> The officer seems to be Rev. George Latham a US Naval officer who died in January 1847 aged about 40. He is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery in Norfolk Virginia. According to U.S. Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps 1775-1900 he was a chaplain. His wife was Lucy Taylor Mauzy. It is not clear that she ever had ever been in France but through the Ancestry website she is listed as a widow in Virginia in 1850 and 1860. There is no evidence that her husband had any connection to Paris or even that he was involved in any conflict. She could have left the country after the Civil War as her last children would have been grown. Reference provided on request.<br /> <br /> The printer at Havre was H. Bret who obtained 18 March 1839 a license to lithograph printing and was installed at a modest studio at no. 86 rue de la rue de Paris. He printed drawings and caricatures in satirical journals notably in the Courrier d'Ingouville d'Autin. He worked until 1870.<br /> <br /> 5 1/2 x 8 1/4" lithograph printed on one side. H. Bret, Rue de Paris, 86 unknown
19405753n.p.: n.p. 1940. Paperback. A black-and-white composition book tightly bound with a worn strip on rear. 8.25 x 6.75 inches.The book is entirely filled with notes from a Woods Hole summer course 1940. Notes and drawings dated July 1 - July 16 then June 18 - June 29 with 8 leaves from July 24 and 26 laid in. Many lectures on marine microorganisms - Charophyta Chaetophorales green algae Heterokontae Diatoms.Receipts from Woods Hole for Brown's board from June 17 for 2 weeks June 29 for 4 weeks and July 26 for board for guests laid in. Also laid in a clipping from the local newspaper dated June 21 1940 with a list of scientists registered for the M.B.L. for the season including Viktor Hamburger Kenneth Cole etc. including also Dorothy Moody Brown.Brown was widowed at 1922 graduated in 1923 from Mt. Holyoke and got an MA in biology in 1935 from Columbia where she worked as an instructor. n.p. paperback
1917000012500Philadelphia: Bishop White Prayer Book Society 1917. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 16mo. 29 cm x 21 cm. 2 3-192 pp. Blue publisher's cloth with a red border on each board red lettering on the front board flexible boards. There is a pocket on the rear board but nothing is in the pocket. Immediately after the title page the book states the motives and objects of the First World war: "We are glad to fight for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples the German peoples included; for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and obedience . ". It is an excerpt from President Wilson's statement on the United States entering the First World War. An inscription on the free front endpaper reads: "Willis Winfried/Winfreed 506 S. Neil The next line is illegible Illinois 1917 - U.S.A. Great Lakes Illinois". The owner of this prayer book was either trembling while writing his inscription or his ink was exposed to moisture though the paper itself has no dampstain. This book clearly traveled with the naval recruit to Great Lakes the naval training station just north of Chicago. Although we cannot identify exactly who the owner was the item is significant as it is a record of what kind of item was important enough to a Navyman to transport to a war zone based on the book's significant wear and use we believe it traveled to the European theatre after the recruit completed his training at Great Lakes. Significant rubbing to the cloth rear gutter is cracked but the binding is holding. Bishop White Prayer Book Society hardcover
194364074Philadelphia PA: Pennsylvania Railroad 1943. One elephant folio colour-printed poster sized 25 x 40 in. very slight age toning slight creasing shelfwear at fore-edges still a NF copy w/ bright colours. First edition of this exceptional wartime home front Savings Bonds drive poster for the Pennsylvania Railroad featuring the famed Raymond Loewy designed streamliner steam locomotive PRR S1 “The Big Engine†which premiered at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and whose 6-4-4-6 expanded duplex configuration made it the largest passenger locomotive ever built. For a short time the locomotive hauled the Manhattan Limited. Cornwell’s 1892-1960 powerful propaganda posters offered essential visual support for War Bonds fundraising during the War. Pennsylvania Railroad, unknown
194554213Mount Vernon NY: Ward Leonard Electric Co. 1945. 4to. Approx. 250 pp sections & supplements all separately paginated. sections separated by thumb tabs. With 100s of text illustrations diagrams & photo illustrations. Original navy-blue textured cloth post-binder rounded corners brass screw posts at gutter margin gilt lettering & decoration stamped on front cover & spine minor shelfwear dustsoiling minor staining to title printed on thick blue paper stock w/ former ownership markings on front pastedown. First edition of this scarce World War II manual for electric control devices and electronics on Naval ships including sections on controllers accessories resistors rheostats regulators general maintenance and more. Ward Leonard Control systems were pioneering devices and Harry Ward Leonard held over 100 patents on DC motor speed control systems. They were essential equipment not only on Naval ships during World War II but were also used extensively in anti-aircraft radars which required smooth speed control. No copies located in Worldcat. Ward Leonard Electric Co., hardcover
194464073Washington D.C. & Long Island City NY: Incentive Division United States Navy; Einson-Freeman Co. 1944. One elephant folio colour-printed poster sized 30 x 40 in. faint fold creases from original mailing minor age toning expert paper repairs and restoration to right fore-edge still a G copy w/ bright colours. First edition of this original striking poster depicting a US Navy dive-bomber attacking a Japanese aircraft carrier with image of a Navy dispatch from Admiral Ernest J. King superimposed in the right fore-ground. Dating is determined by King instated as Commander in Chief by Roosevelt following the disastrous Pearl Harbor attack under Admiral Stark and he was instrumental in urging the Pacific Campaign offensive against the Japanese Navy through 1942-1943 and was elevated to higher tank at end of 1944. Whitcomb 1906-1988 was noted for his glamour paintings of women for vaudeville posters and later Saturday Evening Post Cosmopolitan and Ladies Home Journal who served in the US Navy during World War II from 1944-1945. Worldcat locates 1 copy Pritzker Military Library; 1 copy also located at Mariners’ Museum & Park Newport News VA. Incentive Division, United States Navy; Einson-Freeman Co., unknown
191981517N.p.: P.G. Yedinak Printer 1919. No statement of printing or edition. 12mo 19cm. Staplebound printed yellow wrappers; 426pp; illus. Mild edgewear and soil; internally fresh and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Frontispiece portrait of Commanding Officer Capt. Edward S. Kellogg; other text illustrations reproducing photographs and line drawings.<br /> <br /> Scarce little keepsake possibly printed shipboard for circulation among officers and crew of the U.S.S. Huntington a first class armored cruiser that saw duty primarily as a convoy escort in WW1. She was named for the city of Huntington West Virginia. From OCLC cataloguing data it appears that an expanded version was printed later in 1919; of this preliminary version OCLC notes two physical locations only. P.G. Yedinak, Printer unknown
1942279571942. Good overall. Map of Togatabu main island of Tonga with manuscript letter written on verso and souvenir illustrated envelope.<br /> <br /> Letter reads "I arrived in Toga Tabu sic on Sept. 6 1942. When I got over on land I rented a horse all day. I went about six miles out met six children playing a ukulaule sic. I stoped sic and talked to them for nearly three hours. There were one or two pretty girls. she just wore a little skirt. I sure enjoyed myself."<br /> <br /> Envelope is illustrated with a grass hut coconut palms sailboat and caption "Souvenir of Tonga Friendly Is." No address stamps affixed but not franked and ink stamp of Togatabu. Map/letter 7 1/2 x 9" envelope 9 x 4". Letter and envelope dusty otherwise good. unknown
194541433np 1945. Very good . Small photograph collection of a Crossing the Line ceremony aboard an unnamed WWII-era US naval ship. A long-established naval tradition dating back at least until the 19th century such "Sons of Neptune" proceedings initiate sailors "Pollywogs" after their first crossing of the equator by their more seasoned shipmates "Shellbacks". Though these ceremonial hazings could be brutal the one here portrayed seems rather tame with most participants seen smiling and initiates confined to activities like scrubbing the deck. One image does picture a "Neptune Crawl" however where Pollywogs crawl along the deck and are "paddled." Collection of 9 loose approximately 6" x 4" black and white photographs one duplicate. Ink stamp of Universal Photo Service of Lacrosse Wisconsin to rear of each. Print edges slightly curled few with corner creases. Overall very good. unknown
190756101New York & Brooklyn NY; Boston MA Wilmington CA San Pedro CA Los Angeles CA: Curtis D. Mabry Lambie & Mabry William Gardner John G. Alden et al 1907-1940. 24 cyanotype blueprints diazo blueprints manuscript blueprints on linen oilskin paper some on glassine sized from 11.5 x 12.5 in. up to 27 x 94 in. w/ several sized primarily between 16 x 27.75 in. to 22 x 48 in. nearly all w/ draftsman specifications w/in the image many w/ pencil or grease pencil annotations and/or markings at margins of blueprints or on versos several signed w/in image and separately by Mabry chipping & edgewear to most the largest piece on glassine diazo paper is quite fragile and chipped w/ minor losses many w/ minor closed tears a couple w/ slight fading still VG- grouping. Eighteen “Specifications & Block Lists†most folio. 11 x 13 in. some typescript others mimeographed and several blueprint w/ nearly all clasped at upper margin: C 14 leaves; 42 leaves; E 38 leaves; 14 1 leaves; 2 8 leaves; 15 leaves unnumbered. - 2 copies; 5 leaves unnumbered.; 5 leaves unnumbered.; 7 2 leaves; 6 leaves unnumbered.; 5 1 leaves; 2 25 4 leaves -- 2 copies; 2 8 leaves; 8 leaves; 10 leaves; 5 leaves nearly all stapled to backing paper as issued. File folder containing over 50 offprint clippings for sail plans newspaper clippings 4 TLS & ALS 2 on letterhead 1 5 x 7 in. photo of Mabry and more. These extraordinary sail plans designs specifications and clippings trace the career arc of a marine architect career with some of the most significant yacht and ship designers in New York and Boston and Southern California. Mabry 1882-1949 launched his career with the storied Gardner & Cox Naval Architects of New York later William Gardner as chief draftsman and later inspector for the firm. He was responsible for designing the earliest version of the Star Class keelboat which produced a large chunk of the top U.S. sailors for years and served as pipeline for training America’s Cup Racers as one of the older one-design classes. His initial design made its regatta debut on Long Island in the Spring of 1907 which was then adapted by storied designer Francis Sweisguth who adapted the size of the hull and sail plan. This archive includes the blueprint Hull Body Plan Lines and Sail Plan for the Cyric a Class “S†32 foot sloop built for Eldon H. Trimingham which raced for the LIpton Cup on Gravesend Bay and later carried the Trimingham colours until the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club brought in a fleet of seven one-design sloops in 1925. It later raced in the 1930 International Yacht Races. Also included are the Block List Body Plan and Lines for Hull No. 254 by Gardner which was a 46 foot Class “S†finished in 1912 originally for Seward Prosser who also owned the yacht Constance. Of additional significance are the Hull Plans and Specifications for the Larchmont “O†Class sloops built in 1917 with six sister ships -- Georgia Varuna Nimbus Grey Dawn Maisie and Betty with all except for the Varuna fitted with Gaff rigs. The Varuna fitted with a groundbreaking Marconi Rig proved to be the fastest design at the close of World War I. The tragic Sea Call one of yachting’s greatest schooners as well as one of its greatest lost opportunities is well represented here including the Main Mast Head Mizzen Mast Head Sail Plan designs together with the typescript Block List. In the design Gardner specified a combination of vanadium steel and monel metal which resulted in violent electrolysis and within three weeks of her first sea trial the decision was made to scrap her. She was designed to hold 10-12 guests with a private owner’s deckhouse. During World War I subsequent to working on the Larchmont “O†Class for Gardner Mabry contracted with J.F. Duthne & Co. in Seattle as chief draftsman and after the War set up in Los Angeles as a Naval Architect. While working for the Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. he drafted the designs and plans for the Steamers “Yale†& “Harvard†which had originally served as coastal steamers for the Admiral Line with the Pacific Steamship Co. and taken into Government Service during World War I and then purchased and rebuilt by Harry & Ralph Chandler forming the LS Steamship Co. and operating subsequently as popular steamships on the Pacific Coast. SS Yale was later scrapped in 1949. Included with this archive is a manuscript Hull Design signed by Mabry. In 1925 he also designs the plan for a Los Angeles Fireboat with manuscript plan and Mabry’s signature included here dated June 13 1925. He then contracts with the famed yacht designer John G. Alden in Boston. Specifications for No. 274 the Waterline Auxiliary Ketch “Danai†which was designed and built in 1926 built by Kenneth McAlpine of Shelbourne N.S. Canada and was later renamed Wawa Valdora Nira and Polaris. Of significance is the specifications for Hull No. 435 “Puritan†designed by Mabry and commissioned by Edward Brown and built as a 126 foot gaff-rigged schooner. The Yacht still serves as a charter vessel with the Classic Yacht Experience after extended refit in 2015. Sometime between 1929 and 1930 Mabry partners with noted Southern California Naval Architect William Lambie and their partnership would last about two years. The pair would design many power yacht designs including a fast 88 foot cruiser a 55 foot schooner a cruiser for N. Paul Whittier of Hollywood CA and 110 foot steel auxiliary schooner for H. Wilhelm Rohl who also owned at the time the famed Te Vega yacht. They may be best remembered for designing the glass bottomed “Phoenix†the popular sightseeing side-wheeler paddle boat for tourists sightseeing over the undersea gardens of Santa Catalina Island. Lambie 1886-1963 was a Scottish-American Southern California naval architect who had worked with Southwestern Shipbuilding then with the Seacraft Corporation and well known as the designer of the popular Lambie propellers whose efficiency was first recognized when installed on the SS Catalina. The letters included in this archive reflect the impact of the Great Depression and the Stock Market Crash on shipbuilding with the owner of the Philadelphia based Tunnel & Mine Machinery Co. lamenting that “It has been pretty stringent this year but some of my things are showing signs of coming back . . . which may enable me to complete Sapphire Seas.†While the letter sent by Lambie to W.F. McMahon in Riverside California explaining how he unwittingly may have offended Mabry his former partner as well as Mr. McMahon over the proposed design and build of a yacht in 1932. Mabry would remain in Los Angeles until the mid-1930s before moving again to the East Coast to work for the Cramp Shipbuilding Co. in Philadelphia and then later the EB Company in New London CT. Worldcat lists no copies or examples of designs by Curtis Darling Mabry or for the firm Lambie & Mabrie; See: The Big White Steamer The Branding Iron Los Angeles Westerners Corral No. 101 1971 pp. 5-7; Martin Cox Los Angeles Steamship Company 2010; Francis Sweisguth William Gardner Yacht Designer; John Valois The Centennial History of the Woods Hole Yacht Club 1996. Curtis D. Mabry, Lambie & Mabry, William Gardner, John G. Alden, et al, unknown
1853AQ29511London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1853. 149 1 32pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed marked and bumped. Early ink gift inscription to FEP early ink ownership inscription of Richard Benyon Croft to head of p.5 very occasional spotting. The sole edition of an anonymous series of fictional sketches 'written for the author's children with a view to direct their young minds to the all- important fact; that Religion is a practical affair of the deepest concern to all'. The six narratives 'from the pen of a sailor' include an account of a ship wrecked on a voyage from Calcutta to England; and 'The Fugitive' the tale of a murderous Englishman who in desperation to avoid capture flees to North America. . First edition. 8vo. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
20192-0244798796lulu.com 2019. Paperback. New. 446 pages. Italian language. 6.88x4.25x1.01 inches. lulu.com paperback
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