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196963304Washington DC: New Mobilization Committee 1969. First Edition. Original illustrated poster offset printed in red and black on white stock measuring 38cm x 59cm ca 15" x 23". Mild handling a few vertical creases smoothed out with a handful of small closed tears to the margins; unbacked; Very Good.<br /> <br /> Poster issued in advance of the New Mobe's November 1969 March on Washington with the illustration printed by permission of the artist. New Mobilization Committee unknown
1674244<p>8 ff. 367 1 pp. Bound in contemporary calf gilt heraldic stamp on covers gilt spine with raised bands worn with joints cracked but sound head foot and corners bumped. Lacking endleaves; illegible ownership inscription on lightly soiled title; very good overall.</p><p>Rare first edition of this account of the state of Christianity in Thailand Cambodia Vietnam by rivals of the Jesuits. The Société des Missions Etrangères a new apostolic missionary group established in Paris in 1660 was as a society of secular priests who devoted their lives to foreign missions but refrained from taking vows. Under the aegis of the Propaganda Fide the Société des Missions soon became embroiled in conflicts over territory with the Jesuits. As a result of the patriotism of its priests the organization's impact extended beyond evangelicalism into the political realm: in addition to facilitating a series of embassies and treaties it also successfully established a more active trade between Indo-China the Indies and France. This Relation brought fresh information about the condition of the mission in different parts of southeastern Asia between 1666 and 1671.</p><p>It consists of four parts the first dealing with the mission in Siam and containing descriptions of amongst others Bourbon Island Madagascar and Mozambique the second treating the situation in Cochin-China the third the mission in Cambodia and the fourth being devoted to Tonkin including an account of the work of bishop Lambert de la Motte. Lambert was a member of the Society's first expedition to the Far East which had left Europe in 1660.</p><p>Fermanel de Favery c. 1632-88 superior and director of the "S'naire pour les Missions Etrangères" signs the dedicatory epistle to Cardinal de Bo' and consequently Streit Lach and Van der Kley ascribe authorship to him. The work was reprinted in 1680 and 1684 and an Italian translation <em>Relatione delle missioni de vescovi vicarii apostolici' alli regni di Siam Cocincina Camboia e Tunkino</em> was published in Rome in 1677 and 1697.</p><p> Cordier I.826 s.v. Evêques Français; Chadenat 1706 1684 ed.; Satow 46; Streit V.1797; Lach III.i.222ff.</p> Pierre Le Petit, Edme Couterot & Charles Angot hardcover
198762539Pompano Beach: Exposition Press 1987. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 116pp. Fine in fine unclipped jacket. Fictionalized memoir of a Vietnam veteran with a Chicago setting. Canadian-American author. Exposition Press unknown
29640San Diego: 1970. Broadside. Single sheet of pale salmon stock 8-1/2" x 6-1/4"; printed recto-only. Fine. Announces establishment by the UCSD Art Department in conjunction with chancellor William McGill of the "George Winne Memorial Shrine.taking George's charred remains as its core the Shrine will seek to involve and encompass the entire campus.Passive Resistance can only have effect under conditions of complete self-sacrifice. In completing his life George followed the dictates of law and order: his refusal to disobey the rule of Chancellor McGill and Governor Reagan allowed George to take full responsibility for his actions by turning himself in in the name of God." Winne 1947-1970 was a UCSD undergraduate who famously committed suicide by self-immolation on a public plaza at the University of California San Diego to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. This memorial broadside not located under title or subject in OCLC. unknown
196938109San Francisco: The Committee for the 27 1969. Broadsheet 28cm x 22cm 11" x 8-1/2". Printed offset on both sides of sheet; recto primarily graphic with text on verso. Mild edgewear and creasing; tack holes and tiny loss at bottom right corner not affecting image or text; Very Good or better. Flyer protesting the draconian sentences meted out in early 1969 to the so-called "Presidio Mutineers" - 27 military prisoners at the Presidio stockade who had staged a peaceful "sit-in" to protest overcrowding and the murder by prison guards of one of their fellow inmates. Recto reproduces two photographs of the protest; verso lays out the details of the case and calls on readers to organize protests and letter-writing campaigns in their communities. The Committee for the 27 unknown
196929025<p>New York:: Cowles 1969. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket with a chip missing from the rear fold. This is Marshall's reenactment of the battle of Dau Tieng which like his other accounts is based on after action reports and battle-site interviews with the survivors. General Marshall is the author of over 30 books related to military topics and in Ambush he focuses on US engagement with Vietcong forces poised to attack an American basecamp in an effort to influence American elections. With his unequaled eye for detail Marshall tells the story rich in drama and excitement.</p> Cowles, hardcover
196726089<p>New York:: Morrow 1967. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with shallow chipping to the spine. General Marshall presents a comprehensive account of three specific battles early during the Vietnam War: the battle of Bn Gia Map Vinh Thanh and Tuomorong with the formal military names of "Austin 6" "Crazy Horse" and "Hawthorne II" Marshall utilizes first hand observations and the accounts of participants involved in the various actions to present a punch by punch account of the battles as they unfolded.</p> Morrow, hardcover
197362827New York: G. P. Putnam & Co 1973. First Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's grey cloth. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board light edgewear and some minor sunning to the spine ends in a clean bright and strong dustjacket with a little corresponding fraying to the head and tail of the spne. A very good clean copy. 445pp. Internally clean. Ostensibly one of a legion of novels that deal with a green young officer finding out he has virtually no margin for error this is one of the distinguished few novels of the era that is approved of by veterans and is widely considered to be one of the very best and most authentic pieces of Vietnam fiction. The authenticity comes as less of surprise when it's considered that Huggett fought with the 3rd Marine Div. in 1968-1969 and later as a Pacification Advisor in the never ending struggle to win hearts and minds. Newman: 131. G. P. Putnam & Co unknown
198826088<p>Annapolis:: Naval Institute Press 1988. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine unread copy with a blank Naval Institute book plater on front fly leaf in a Fine dust jacket This history of U.S. naval involvement in Vietnam features eyewitness accounts combined with official records to document the drama and accomplishments of the brown-water navy activities in Vietnam. The author himself a member of the black berets and a combat veteran has written a definitive account of the pain frustration and acts of courage and valor that a were a significant part of the naval effort in Vietnam.</p> Naval Institute Press, hardcover
199727293<p>London:: Picador 1997. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Michael Herr went to Vietnam in 1967 virtually unknown as a writer but armed with press credentials for Esquire Magazine he quickly rose above the crowd of writers covering the war with his brilliant unorthodox prose. Herr's six extended pieces in this collection capture the war and its participants like no other writer except for Tim O'Brian in his equally masterful "The Things They Carried." Herr was one of the original Gonzo New Journalists in the company of such literary trail-cutters as Hunter S Thompson Tom Wolfe Truman Capote and Gay Talese. Herr when not imbedded on numerous marine and army operations spent many off hours in the company of three other flamboyant correspondents: Tim Page Dana Stone and Sean Flynn Errol Flynn's son. Photographer Page would survive his experience in Vietnam but in 1970 while traveling by motorcycle in Cambodia Flynn and Dana Stone on assignment for Time magazine and CBS News respectively were captured by communist guerrillas at a roadblock on Highway One. They were never heard from again and their remains have never been found. Herr found himself in as much danger as the soldiers he set out to document in a war that was more disillusioning than understandable. He was with the marines during the prolonged siege of Khe Sanh and most effectively captured the hallucinatory madness of the battle. "Dispatches" is as good as war writing gets; Herr puts the reader right where he is so that his experience becomes yours which is about as close as most people would ever want to get to the real thing.</p> Picador, hardcover
197728390New York:: Knopf 1977. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with spots to the margins of three pages in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. A nice copy of this classic of reportage on the war. No names or marks to the book or text. Michael Herr went to Vietnam in 1967 virtually unknown as a writer but armed with press credentials for Esquire Magazine he quickly rose above the crowd of writers covering the war with his brilliant unorthodox prose. Herr's six extended pieces in this collection capture the war and its participants like no other writer except for Tim O'Brian in his equally masterful "The Things They Carried." Herr was one of the original Gonzo New Journalists in the company of such literary trail-cutters as Hunter S Thompson Tom Wolfe Truman Capote and Gay Talese. Herr when not hunkered down in the battle for Khe Sanh spent many off hours in the company of three other flamboyant correspondents: Tim Page Dana Stone and Sean Flynn. Page would survive his experience in Vietnam but Stone and Flynn would disappear their bodies never found. Herr found himself in as much danger as the soldiers he set out to document in a war that was more disillusioning than understandable. "Dispatches" is as good as war writing gets; Herr puts the reader right where he is so that his experience becomes yours which is about as close as most people would ever want to get to the real thing. Knopf, unknown
198484568Kingsport TN: REGS Enterprises 1984. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; red-orange boards titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x1242pp; illus. Signed by the author on the front endpaper dated 4 July 1985. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Collection of poems by a former US Marine who served in Vietnam and who was awarded five Purple Hearts. Illustrated throughout. 84568. REGS Enterprises unknown
1971170893N.p.: N.p. 1971. Collection of five vintage photograph of anti-Vietnam War protests 1968-circa 1971. All five photographs with provenance stamps and annotations on the versos two also with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. <br /> <br /> The five photographs are:<br /> <br /> One photograph of anti-war demonstrators marching down Fifth Avenue in New York to a mass rally in Central Park being heckled and jeered at by passersby on April 27 1968.<br /> <br /> One photograph of students being forcibly removed from a Columbia University building on April 30 1968.<br /> <br /> Two photographs of Harvard University protests in April 1969. One of Harvard students demonstrating to abolish the ROTC program on April 9 1969 and one of Harvard students on strike on April 14 1969. <br /> <br /> And one photograph of an antiwar march in Washington DC circa 1971.<br /> <br /> 1 9 x 7 inches. 4 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown
197662785New York: Atheneum 1976. First Edition. First printing. Russet cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 183pp. Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $6.95 on front flap faint toning visible at extremities else Fine. Lovely copy of the author's uncommon second young-adult novel set on a commune in rural Sonoma County in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Aaron 1923-2019 was a long-tenured professor of English at St. Mary's College in Moraga California; he is best-known as an author of books for young readers of which he published more than twenty titles over a five-decade career. Atheneum unknown
198627848Novato:: Presidio 1986. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This work presents a comprehensive command history clear action and a vivid but humane narrative. The first all-South Vietnamese offensive into Laos in early 1971 produced both an interruption of Northern buildups and a test of Vietnamization of the war but despite a 10-to-1 casualty ratio and tons of captured supplies was seen to be so savage and damaging to the South and to American support forces that much of the military and the press deemed it a defeat. Nolan's arguments that it had positive effects are well presented and convincing. Presidio, unknown
198627907Novato:: Presidio 1986. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in aVery Good plus dust jacket with light sunning to the spine. This work presents a comprehensive command history clear action and a vivid but humane narrative. The first all-South Vietnamese offensive into Laos in early 1971 produced both an interruption of Northern buildups and a test of Vietnamization of the war but despite a 10-to-1 casualty ratio and tons of captured supplies was seen to be so savage and damaging to the South and to American support forces that much of the military and the press deemed it a defeat. Nolan's arguments that it had positive effects are well presented and convincing. Presidio, hardcover
196784029Chicago: March 25th Peace Committee 1967. Bifolium pamphlet 22.75cm; with text and illustrations offset printed in black on white stock; 4pp; illus. Tiny inked date in an early hand at lower edge of rear wrapper else Fine. <br /> <br /> Pamphlet promoting the Chicago Aread Peace Parade and Rally to End the War in Vietnam held Saturday at noon on March 25 1967. Speakers included Martin Luther King Jr. Benjamin Spock Emil Mazey Patricia Griffith and Michael James of SDS. Contents include a series of "Did you know" facts about the Vietnamese conflict and America's involvement in it. "We call upon you who wish to end the war - and particularly you who have not yet spoken out - to join with us in a great Peace Parade and Rally . Isn't it time you joined a peace march" The front wrapper features a brief poem by a 13-year-old American girl with the rear wrapper supplying a list of sponsors. 84029. March 25th Peace Committee unknown
198962849Washington D.C.: History and Museums Division 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 4to. 27cm x 21cm. Publisher's green cloth. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated to spine and front board with the USMC globe and anchor in gilt. Pictorial dustjacket bright and clean with some marginal wear and chipping most visibly to spine ends and the lower edge of the rear panel which has a fingernail sized triangle of loss and a small closed tear. A very good strong copy. 295pp. Internally clean. A candid record of the challenges and unprecedented cirumstances the USMC legal department in Vietnam had to deal with. Fragging of unpopular officers casual murder of Vietnamese civilians sexual assault massive amounts of theft and graft and a drug problem that obviously gives rise to a flourishing drugs trade that was so widespread and serious that it threatened to destabilise the entire system of military law were all handled by somewhere in the region of 500 men and women of the Navy and Marines legal teams between 1965 and 1973. Many of the lawyers involved in cases in Vietnam were also combat personnel fighting on the ground and practising military law in addition to their regular duties meaning that they were probably more qualified to defend and prosecute the men under their charge than just about any body of lawyers in history. History and Museums Division unknown
198262776New York: Crown 1982. First Edition. 8vo. 23.5cm x 16cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over olive green paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine very mnor sheflwear in a clean and bright dustjacket. A fine copy. 274pp. Internally clean. A deftly written thriller produced during the period when Hollywood and the publishing industry caught up to the profit making possibilities of POW-MIA related fiction. Crown unknown
196962758Tokyo: Stars and Stripes 1969 1970. First Edition. Two volumes 17.5cm x 13.5cm. Publisher's illustrated card covers strong and clean with light edgewear and a little soiling here and there to the predominantly white covers. Very good copies. 40pp;40pp. Internally clean a little staple related rust here and there but otherwise very presentable. Originally published in Stars and Stripes and extremely popular with the men on the ground the Nguyen Charlie strip became much needed relief from painful nature of the conflict it so satirically illustrated. Francisco Flores "Corky" Trinidad was a Filipino-American journalist and cartoonist who fled the Phillipines during the Marcos dictatorship and whose work was internationally syndicated throughout the 1970's and 80's he was in fact the first Asian editorial cartoonist to be syndicated within the US and the only Asian-American cartoonist working at a major US newspaper. The Nguyen Charlie cartoon books are rather ephemeral little volumes and presentable copies are quite rare. Stars and Stripes unknown
196782059Beverly Hills: Another Mother For Peace N.d. ca 1967. Original bumper sticker printed in brown and orange 10cm x 50cm approx 4" x 19-1/2". Light soil; old folds; adhesive on verso has dried with protective backing perished; Very Good. <br /> <br /> "Another Mother For Peace" was a California-based pacifist non-profit group founded in 1967 by screenwriter Barbara Avedon and actor Donna Reed. They group is best known for its famous logo designed by Lorraine Schneider depicting a child's drawing of a flower with the text "War Is Not Healthy For Children And Other Living Things." The logo is reproduced here at right border. There was a period between 1967 and 1972 when it was almost impossible to encounter a VW Beetle that did not sport this sticker or some variant of it on its rear bumper. Another Mother For Peace unknown
1966List36100New York: New York Workshop in Nonviolence 1966. Broadside poster printed in red on white stock approximately 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine. A poster announcing the Peace Illumination Walk an anti-Vietnam War demonstration held in New York City on Friday December 23 1966. Participants were instructed to assemble in Washington Square at 6 p.m. and march through Manhattan carrying candles “in sympathy with suffering in Vietnam.†The walk was to conclude about 8 p.m. with a light tableau in Midtown followed at 9 p.m. by a benefit celebration at the Palm Gardens. The event was organized by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence and advertised as a benefit for Vietnamese children. Speakers and performers listed on the poster include poets Allen Ginsberg Denise Levertov and Jackson Mac Low; the satirist Paul Krassner later a founder of the Youth International Party Yippies; novelist Gilbert Sorrentino; and the countercultural rock group The Fugs led by Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg. The program also notes appearances by Swami Bhaktivedanta and members of the Hare Krishna movement.<br /> <br /> The poster’s radiating optical design centers on the word “manifestivity†a term used by anti-war organizers to describe protest events combining demonstration with music and performance. The lower portion includes a mail-in coupon inviting supporters to send contributions to the Veterans and Reservists to End the War in Vietnam through the New York Workshop in Nonviolence at 5 Beekman Street. New York Workshop in Nonviolence unknown
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
197055907Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop 1970. Original illustrated poster silkscreened in blue on repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips measuring 38cm x 56cm 15" x 22". A Fine copy. Attractive poster featuring an altered version of the Great Seal of the United States bearing the slogan "Americans Want Peace." One of some 600 designs created by Berkeley student members of the Political Poster Workshop in 1970; on average fewer than 100 copies of each design were printed for distribution on and around campus. See WILLIAMS 9-10. Berkeley Political Poster Workshop unknown
197462875Berkeley CA: Samisdat Press 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's pale green wraps titled and decorated in black to spine and front board with a reproduction of the author's USMC telegram notifying his parents of him taking a shrapnel wound to the stomach to the rear wrap. A touch of fading here and there with soome very light shelfwear but a very good strong copy. 116pp. Internally clean. Signed by the author to the title page. One peculiarity is that the final leaf of the story "Diehard" has been typed manually and added to the volume at the rear where a printed leaf would belong with no sign of an "original" leaf being missing. Whether this was a later fix from a previous owner or something done in house due to a binding error is difficult to establish especially with "homemade" publishing. This is the first appearance of "A Few Good Men" a series of short vicious little war stories that are amongst the clearest invocations of the prevalent lunacy present in the canon. It was eventually reprinted in a book form in 1978 by Morrow/Avon this first appearance seems elusive especially signed. Samisdat Press unknown
