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185055632N.p.: publisher not identified 1850. First edition 8vo pp. 20; removed from binding wanting wrappers; very good. "Among the people of this country - on the floor of Congress and to some extent in the Navy itself there is a prevailing sentiment that our naval organization does not come up to the state of the times to the progress of the age or to the requirements of the country; does not for its millions of expenditure return a fair equivalent of practical efficiency or even of honorable reputation" p. 3. Sabin 93477. <br/><br/> [publisher not identified] unknown books
2008184200Quantico VA: United States Marine Corps 2008. Paperback. viii 74 2p. plentiful color photos line map in colors; softbound in 7x5 inch colorphoto wraps entirely clean and sound a very good copy. "Designed to provide deploying military personnel an overview of Sudan's cultural terrain. synopsized to capture the more significant aspects of the Sudan culture.contains practical sections on lifestyle customs and habits." Also the tendency of the Sudan military to torture and summarily execute prisoners of war. DSN : 278-6167 DOD-2634-SDN-005-09. Unclassified but: "the use of this publication is restricted to authorized U.S. and coalition military and government personnel. Further dissemination is strictly prohibited;" this prohibition reflects a fairly uninhibited critique of ruling praxis and the inhuman military training of government recruits. United States Marine Corps paperback books
1943012106Washington DC: GPO 1943. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good . Blue polished paper covers spine dulled firm binding solid copy. Some pages toned others not - differentr quality paper stock used in prionting some inferior it being wartime. ix 316 pages. No previous names. GPO unknown books
199747960Washington:: National Academy Press. Fine. 1997. Hardcover. 0309063698 . First edition. Fine in glossy pictorial boards. No dust jacket as issued. . National Academy Press, hardcover books
190959333New York: The Macmillan Company 1909. First edition. viii 153; vi 487 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Blue cloth. Discreet blind stamp on title pages bookplate on pastedown abrasion on fore-edge of Volume Two else fine. First edition. viii 153; vi 487 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Volume One is Bibliography printed only on rectos. The Macmillan Company unknown books
2004240591Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Illus. 8vo green cloth d.w. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004. Fine<br/><br/> Johns Hopkins University Press unknown books
1945342Papua New Guinea 1945. Very good. 24pp. Folio. Original printed pictorial card covers stapled. Printed in multiple colors throughout. Some light wear corners bumped. Rare commemorative brochure for the first year anniversary of Base Hospital Fifteen an American naval hospital in Papua New Guinea in the Admiralty Islands during World War II. The hospital served as a staging point for Allied casualties during the Philippines Campaign of 1944-1945. "Our first year has been an eventful one. The wounded of battles fought all the way from New Guinea to Okinawa have passed through here in large numbers. Hospital ships have been frequent visitors and planes have brought us many human cargoes. Australians English and others of our allies have been treated here as well as some of the natives." The souvenir contains numerous images of life at the base including the wards the laboratory storehouses kitchens library and recreation areas and the soldiers' quarters. It also includes a list of officers who have been stationed there as well as the enlisted men. It is a wonderful snapshot of this base hospital and its operations. OCLC locates one institutional copy at the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park. unknown books
194875258Columbus Ohio: Ohio State University. Fine. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches bound in original printed wrappers. Complete in 139 pages with photo illustrations. Rear wrapper printed with map illustration of the archipelago. Fine condition. . Ohio State University paperback books
1993008069Washington: Brookings Institution 1993. xi 250p. dj. Brookings Institution unknown books
2012RUNISMA00EFFirearms Classics Library 2012. Fine. United States Marine Corps. Small Wars Manual: 2 Volumes. Birmingham Alabama: Firearms Classics Library 2012. 8vo. Book condition: Near fine. Firearms Classics Library unknown books
192861712bdNew York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons 1928. First Edition. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters map illus. endpapers photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author uncut top edge blue xiii 359 pp. Very Good with sunned spine bookplate and light soiling to edges. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928. First Edition. hardcover books
1907155751907. 39pp. disbound. Very Good. unknown books
LD16849Very Good. Portrait of British captain Henry Whitby whose ship fired a shot which infamously killed an American seaman in 1806. Silhouette reverse portrait on glass 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches to sight captioned "Cpt. Henry Whitby R.N." in image; not examined outside of frame. Np early 19th century. <br/><br/>In the years leading up to the War of 1812 the British Navy made a practice of checking American merchant ships to ascertain whether embargoed French cargo was aboard. In April 1806 off New York the American merchant ship Richard refused to stop when commanded by Captain Henry Whitby's HMS Leander. A warning shot was fired in what proved to be American territorial waters. The shot was poorly aimed and splintered a railing; a shard killed an American sailor named John Pierce. This triggered an international incident with President Jefferson calling for Whitby's arrest. Whitby was cleared in a British court-martial which only increased tensions. We don't know when this portrait of Whitby was created but he was promoted to captain in 1801 and died in 1812. unknown books
200136535NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2001. 4to pp. 340. Chronology bibliography index. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan as well as other venues in 2001. Illustrated wtih 223 color plates and 92 in black-and-white. Fine in very slightly scuffed dj. Signac was a Neo-Impressionist and had been Seurat's closest associate during the development of the movement. Metropolitan Museum of Art unknown books
2013136308Paris: Editions Gallimard 2013. Softcover. VG Like New. Navy blue & illus. wraps French flaps 235 pp. many color & BW illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with 2013 exhibitions in Giverny and Montpellier featuring "the color of water" in the paintings of French Neo-impressionist painter Paul Signac 1863-1935. Accompanied by essays by Marina Ferretti Bocquillon George Roque Marie Lozon dew Cantelmi and Monique Nonne. Includes a series of correspondence between Paul Signac and art critic George Besson. A beautiful book. Editions Gallimard paperback books
20009016648New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 352 pages 315 illustrations including 223 colorplates and 92 black & white illustrations. <br/><br/> Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press hardcover books
200143580New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press 2001. First Edition. Quarto 31.5cm x 23.5cm. Maroon cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in gold on spinel pictorial dustjacket; 352 pp; illus. Near Fine; slightest shelf wear to extremities else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities; else new. A re-examination of the work of French Neo-Impressonist painter Paul Signac from multiple scholarly perspectives. This catalogue issued in conjunction with the exhibition "Signac 1863-1935" held at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris February 27-May 28 2001; the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam June 156-September 9 2001; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York October 9-December 30 2001. Essays by: Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon Anne Distel John Leighton & Susan Alyson Stein with contributions by Kathryn Calley Galitz and Sjraar van Heugten. 315 illustrations including 223 colorplates and 92 b&w illustrations. The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press unknown books
199328670Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0824815629 . Illustrated. First edition. Remainder dot on spine else fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Hawaii Press hardcover books
1976267108Boston: Second Marine Division Association 1976. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. Very Good binding. Second Marine Division Association unknown books
192812434NY: American Merchant Marine Library Assoc 1928. Third edn. 12mo pp. 22p. Little rubbed and worn cloth a good tight copy. A listing of facilities available for sailors in the ports around the world. American Merchant Marine Library Assoc unknown books
196336865Westbury NY: Howard Wohl Associates 1963. 1st printing. Blue cloth binding with photographic image of the ship to front board. Clear acetate wrapper with red & gold outline lettering. A VG copy in a VG wrapper. 330 2 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic images some in color. 12-1/4" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>The first nuclear-powered carrier and eighth vessel to carry the name Enterprise she was commissioned in 1961; for this 1963 cruise her second she deployed with the US 6th Fleet arriving in the Mediterranean in February. Scarce: OCLC records 5 institutional holdings all East of the Appalachians. Howard Wohl Associates hardcover books
20041328219Milan: Electa 2004. Softcover. Octavo; First edition 1999 Reprint 2004; VG; Paperback; Spine black with white print; Cover has slight edgewear but is clean and bright; Text block has name in ink on half-title page else clean and tight; 117 pages illustrated color. Shelf: Ancient & Classical Art. 1328219. FP New Rockville Stock. Electa unknown books
1987185763Berkeley: University of California Press 1987. Hardcover. VG/VG Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine inside front and rear covers ffep and block. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; white dj bw illustrated mylar cover; xii 334 pp. Translated from the Russian by Nicolas Slonimsky ; with introductory essays by Marina Scriabine. "An intellectual biography in which chronology serves only as a guiding line to trace the subject's spiritual and artistic development. Schloezer presents many poignant vignettes of the mystic composer."-dj. University of California Press hardcover books
44154various various. Ca. 1918 - 1936. Most items loose disbound. PARTIAL COLLECTION with at least one element a 1919 diary known to be elsewhere. Two letters quite toned and brittle; evidence of photo album removal to verso of postcards and occasional other items including 6 RPPCs affixed to full leaf; slight mustiness. Some photographs poorly developed and/or lightly soiled. Overall text is clean legible and images are sharp. About Very Good. Total of 83 manuscript and 2 typescript letters plus 1 V-mail comprising 250 pp; of these 54 are from Arthur to various friends etc. 155 pp and 29 are from Arthur's parents and 3 are from others 97 pp. "Notes" folder: 64 ruled leaves 1 blank manuscript text to recto only. Scrapbook album: 46 tan construction paper leaves several blank and/or noticeably missing items. Numerous loose ephemera. Over 250 b/w photographs ranging in size from ~2-1/4" x 1-1/4" to 8" x 10" including many official Navy photos. Also 8 b/w RPPCs 2 half-tones and various negatives color printed certificates postcards etc. Most text on 10-1/2" x 8" leaves. <br/><br/>A collection of material detailing career sailor and struggling writer Arthur Gordon’s attempts to find work in the Merchant Marine during the height of the Great Depression as well as his considerable efforts to set aside time for writing and honing his craft. Gordon served as a lieutenant in the Navy during WWI as Chief Writer on the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Oceanographer during the early 1930s and again as an officer in the U.S. Navy during WWII eventually attaining the rank of commander; his stories of sea life were published in various popular magazines primarily during the 1940s. Gordon is an introspective writer with a good if sometimes uneven sense of how to turn his experiences and thoughts into an often humorous and lightly self-mocking story particularly in "Notes upon leaving the Coast Survey and looking for employment as a Merchant Mate Jan 5 - June 14 1935" a 63 pp autobiography of these experiences written in the third person. "Notes" offers a highly detailed account of Gordon's experiences as an unemployed seaman during the Depression and life aboard an oil tanker when his attempt to gain a position as a 3rd Mate didn't work out: "Las Piedras is an oil tank town with a single narrow dock extending from the shore providing bollards for tying up the ships and supports for the pipe lines. The town is small and I think exists only because of the oil tanks for the location has no charm otherwise. The white oil men live as colonials in an impoverished outpost. They take what stores they need from the steward's supplies aboard ship. Loading is done by gravity since the storage tanks ashore are on the cliff." The letters roughly divided between copies of correspondence sent from Arthur to his friends and letters sent to Arthur from his parents show Gordon to be an enthusiastic and encouraging friend to multiple young men and a few women as well as a dutiful son whose unemployed parents relied heavily on his earnings. Of some note as well are a handful of thoughtful if conflicted references to homosexuality with at least one of Gordon's male friends appearing to have a crush on him and hints that Gordon may have been in gay relationships himself and/or struggled with his sexuality: "…. I quite fully agree with you concerning the chemical make-up of man and the push and pull of attraction or dislike. I have had occasion to study what it is that draws me to which I react most noticeably and I am continually dismayed that usually it is the ‘wrong’ thing. . I’m skeptical of any kind of relation that presupposes permanency. Knowing myself I feel that ‘vows’ would soon be broken. I cannot stand constant association. Routine maddens me. The merest suggestion of ‘chain’ of compulsory anything and I’m off. I don’t think hetero marriages are particularly successful and I don’t think homo are either for almost the same reasons. I don’t mind the companionate idea with women. With men I fight shy. I am getting to the age where in others I condemn homo as degeneracy. I mean that among young people it seems almost natural as a manifestation of excess love as an overflow which can be handled without social consequences. At 45 it’s greasy and quite awful. Consider the advanced homos you know . . . Am I right I am not dictating here; nor dogmatizing. I hope to start a discussion. Homos are interesting to me because I find that along with it is usually an unidentified awareness and an understanding of life unequalled in the stolid conventionites. I do not think they are God’s elected but I don’t think that about any one….” All-in-all in interesting multilayered primary source account of one man's experiences at sea during the Depression and his deep engagement with his correspondents with heavy overtones of a writer's bildungsroman traveling seeking new experiences etc. unknown books
1989022355Heidelberg: Edition Braus 1989. 1. Auflage. Photographie Hans Siwik. 88 8p. colored plates original stiff printed boards. Edition Braus unknown books
