New Haven, Ct: 1782. Partially printed document measuring 6.25 x 5.5", completed in manuscript. The document is an order to pay the New Haven Committee of supplies 50 pounds. It is signed crossways by Hezekiah Rogers, a major in the Revolutionary War and later a member of the Connecticut House.....
New Haven, Ct: 1782. Partially printed document measuring 6.25 x 5.5", completed in manuscript. The document is an order to pay the Wethersfield Committee of Supplies. It is signed crossways by Hezekiah Rogers, a major in the Revolutionary War and later a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. It.....
Fort Benning, Georgia: The Infantry School, 1943. Octavo, softcover, blue wrappers, [48] pp, illustrated. World War II era handbook from The Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Offsetting/fading to wrappers, few pencil annotations to text, very good.
Connecticut: 1782. Two items related to the Revolutionary War service of Samuel Pulford, a member of the Continental Army from Fairfield County, Connecticut. Includes a handwritten note, 7.5 x 4", dated 1782, directing a delivery of "the depreciation notes due unto Sam Pulford for his service as a soldier in.....
Shreveport, Louisiana and Los Angeles, California: 1930s to 1950s. Brown faux leather photo album binding, 15.5 x 11.5", string tied, with black and gilt decoration, containing 191 photographs, most cornered in (a few loose), and almost all black and white (a few color). Most of images are snapshots, with five.....
Panama: 1944. String tied brown leatherette photo album binding, 13.5 x 10.5", containing 315 pasted in black and white photographs, with annotations in white ink on many of the pages. A photo album compiled by a woman employee (last name Busch) of the United States Army Air Force, who worked.....
Atlanta: Army Press, 1942. 4to, 134 pp, red leatherette covers lettered in gilt. Illustrated history and yearbook of an all-African American brigade that served in WWII. According to the introduction, "On February 10, 1941, the 46th Field Artillery Brigade (G.H.Q.) came into being as a military unit under the command.....
Chicago: [Committee for the Relief of Belgian Prisoners in Germany], [1918]. 4to, broadside, with cartoon illustration of prisoners of war being horribly mistreated by German guards captioned "This is the Way Belgian Prisoners are Treated in Germany." Text seeks to raise money for feeding and supplying these prisoners by describing.....
Washington DC: Published Monthly by the American Library Association Through the War Service Committee, 1917. Seven issues, plus one supplement issue, of this newsletter issued by the War Service Committee of the American Library Association (ALA) during World War One. Together with a broadside issued by the ALA. The newsletters.....
Philadelphia: Printed by R. Bell, 1778. 8vo, disbound pamphlet, [2], 36 pp (Lacking four leaves at the end, including pages 37 to 42 of the appendix). A rare pamphlet calling for Quakers to support the Continental Congress and pay war taxes. Evans 15843, which notes that "This edition was bought.....
Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1920. 4to, 320 pp, long folding portrait, black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Wear to corners and edges, mild soiling and slight fading to covers, toning and foxing to pages.
Boston: Forbes, 1917. Original World War I poster measuring 40.25 x 30," unbacked. In excellent condition with folding creases present, tiny chip to lower left corner, perhaps a bit of toning, foxing to verso, few tears along edges up to a few inches.
Stamford, CT: The Advocate Print, 1918. First edition, first printing. Small ocatvo, original printed boards, blue cloth spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. A collection of World War I poems. An excellent copy with toning to covers and small stain to rear cover.
New York: The Authors Publishing Company, 1880. First edition. 8vo, 310pp, original brown with with black and gilt decoration/lettering. Rare narrative of the author's experiences being a Union soldier and prisoner of war of the Confederacy. This author was a Captain with the Ninth New Jersey Veteran Volunteers. A bright.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First Edition. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, 220 pp. Account of an American agent's time in China during WWII. Very good with foxing to covers and endpapers, rubbing to jacket at extremities, chip to rear corner of jacket.
New York and Cincinnati: Eaton & Mains/Jennings & Pye, 1902. First Edition. 8vo, red decorative cloth, 248 pp. Front endpaper lacking, mild soiling to covers, sunning to spine, cloth worn at corners and edge with area of loss to upper spine cloth.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896. 8vo, 372pp, original blue cloth with gilt lettering. A Civil War novel by a British author, about a romance between Confederate soldier and a Northern woman. Ernest Baker's 1913 "Guide to the Best Fiction in English" note that this book "contains an admirable.....
New York: The Spanish Child Welfare Association of America, 1938. Wraps. Octavo, original red printed card covers with title and illustration in blue, spiral bound, 72 pp. Published for the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) with profits going to children affected by the war. Contains 60 drawings by schoolchildren collected.....
New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894. Folio, blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration, 551 pp, profusely illustration. A very good, bright copy with wear to corners and edges, mild discoloration to covers, toning to pages.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1955. First edition. Large 8vo, gray cloth, with dust jacket, 768 pp. First edition. Fading/offsetting to covers, mild soiling to covers, offsetting to endpapers, news clipping pasted to front endpaper, owner inscriptions to endpapers, slight page toning, dust jacket rubbed and soiled.....
New York: Random House, 1943. First Edition. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Very good with slight toning to pages, mild foxing to covers, in a good jacket, chipped and faded.
Baltimore: National Advertising Co, 1944. First Edition. Octavo, 8.75 x 5.75", yellow illustrated wrappers, 77, [1] pp, illustrations from drawings. A book written by a former prisoner at Stalag Luft IV in Poland, shortly after his return home to Alexandria, Virginia. The book combines a directory of prisoners with poems.....
N.P. 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, green cloth, 122 pp. Collection of World War I poetry by a Huron, Ohio doctor and veteran. Very good with foxing to pages.
Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Publishing Company, 1949. 9 x 6", stapled booklet with cream covers and black lettering, 68 pp. A first-person account of a family of six as they toured around Europe shortly after the end of World War II. According to her obituary, Noland would have been 24 when.....
New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1891. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth, blue and gilt titling to illustrated cover and spine, 496 pp, illustrated. Civil War volume presenting first person accounts and biographical sketches of Union soldiers who won the medal of honor. Front hinge cracked, staining to text block edges.....