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Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, (1972). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink in the year of publication at the first blank page by Colonel Booth. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 168 pages. Publisher's black lettered tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Top corners bruised, minor foxing mostly at the edges of the text block, otherwise very good in very good lightly soiled & foxed dust jacket, with brief edge wear including a short closed tear & a couple of nicks.
The author was the commanding officer of the Proust program which sent French military personnel recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the C.I.A.) to France to produce intelligence for the Allied invasion at Normandy. This copy is inscribed "with thanks" to Carroll Godwin who was news director, anchorman and talk show host at WCSC- Channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Mission Marcel Proust "is a story of incredible heroism displayed by patriotic Frenchmen and of their amazing accomplishments.… Leer más

No place [Okinawa ?]: U.S.S Monroe., 1945. Stapled newsletter. Broken run of 5 issues presumably published aboard: June 21, 23, 24, 26, & 27, 1945. Small folios (13" x 8"), each 2 stapled sheets, 4 pp. printed recto & verso in two columns. Includes cartoon appearances by Blondie, Male Call, & others. Not found in OCLC as of 6/8/2020.
Additionally included are two defective issues (June 18 & 22), each lacking a leaf.
Moderate edge wear, age toned, otherwise good or better.
Undoubtedly produced in small numbers, these crudely produced newsletters are replete with dramatic headlines & encouraging news. The June 21 issue was published the day before the end of the 82 day Battle of Okinawa, the rest in the immediate aftermath.
The U.S.S. President Monroe was a President Jackson-class attack transport. Included among her passengers were Lieutenant Junior Grade Richard Nixon who shipped out from San Francisco to the South Pacific in 1943.

Ft. Ord, California, December, 1990. First edition. Original mini comic measuring 11 inches by 7 inches, two illustrated sheets folded & stapled forming 8 pages. Slightly wrinkled, lightly toned, staples rusted, otherwise Very Good.An amusing comic book published just before the aerial and naval bombardment on 17 January 1991 led by the United States in response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. Particularly interesting is a panel depicting President George H.W. Bush with Hussein as a ventriloquist's dummy on his lap:"Mr. Hussein, What will it take for you to withdraw from Kuwait?" ... "Dan Quail's job and a date with Janet Jackson."

Okinawa: NOB, broken run of 4 issues from volume 1; no 27, September 9, 1945; no 32, September 14, 1945; no 48, September 30, 1945; no 50, October 2, 1945. Small folios (13" x 8"), each 2 stapled sheets, 4 pp. printed recto & verso in two or three columns Includes a couple of "Male Call," comic strips by Milton Caniff, which only appeared in US Military publications, & others by Robert Jones, a staff cartoonist. Not currently found via OCLC although a single issue appears to be held at the Dwight D Eisenhower Library
Moderate edge wear (including a two inch tear into text on one issue), age toned, staples replaced, otherwise good or better
Produced in small numbers, these crudely printed newsletters are replete with dramatic headlines & encouraging news. Claiming circulation of 3500, the September 30 issue notes that "We can't supply every man with a paper, so why not post a copy on a bulletin board?"

[New York]: New York Central System, 1943. Original stapled pamphlet measuring 9 inches by 8 inches folding to 9 inches by 4 inches (as issued) with 48 pages plus covers. Includes a double-page map (9 inches by 16 inches) showing the New York Central Water Level Route. Modest soiling & sporadic minor foxing, light edge wear including a tiny loss at the top margin of the back cover, otherwise Very Good. "The New York Central System operates 11,200 mile of railroad in eleven states and Canada in the great commercial and industrial are between the Mississippi Valley and the Atlantic Seaboard, providing the highest type of passenger and freight service." 
~Excerpted from the map legend.

Boston: Printed by Joshua Cushing, 1808. Second edition. 12mo, 44 pp. Printed text only, lacking wraps (if issued).
Soiled & foxed, apparently removed from a larger volume, still good.
The second edition adds 4 pages not found in the first printing comprising "interesting documents, furnished by a gentleman lately from London."

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1962) First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink on the half-title page by the author. 8vo, 191 pp, with 3 maps by Jean Paul Tremblay. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in maroon on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Margins & spine of the covers lightly sunned, trace of foxing at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good in very good lightly soiled dust jacket with a trace of edge wear.Julia Davis also wrote The Shenandoah in the Rivers of America series "An account of the little-known Doniphan's Expedition of the Mexican War Reconstructed from diaries, the adventures and accomplishments of one thousand men from Missouri, The First Missouri are recounted Hunger, thirst, cold, heat and distance were their worst enemies They had no supply line and little communication from their government yet they secured the southwest for their country." ~Abstract, OCLC

Tokyo: Shinbun Gekkansha, Showa 27 [1952]. First edition. 4to, variously paginated, numerous illustrations from photographs & facsimiles. Publisher's tan cloth backed in gilt-lettered brown pigskin. Text mostly in Japanese.
Small loss at the top of the spine, binding lightly soiled & rubbed, corners bumped, previous owner's name & chop at rear blank page, good or better. A massive volume of over a thousand pages compiled by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs which is a compendium of mostly Japanese documents relating to the Pacific War. Special attention is focused on the final months, focusing on peace feelers in May, 1945 through Moscow, the Battle of Okinawa, the demand for "unconditional surrender," the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the final fateful War Council in the Imperial Presence in which the Emperor spoke for peace, and the decision to have the Emperor announce the surrender on radio to his subjects. The work is organized into 60 sections beginning with war plans and the… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. First edition, review copy with slip & promotional photo laid in. 8vo, viii & 170 pp. plus 8 illustrations from photographs on 4 leaves. Publisher's black-lettered red cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Binding lightly rubbed, text toned, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket with modest edge wear. "Suzy-Q Hardison, wife of Lt Col Felix Hardison, tells the story of her namesake, flagship of the Nineteenth Heavy Bombardment Group." (excerpted from the dust jacket).

Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), May 31, 1862. Original manuscript document signed by S.G. Perkins, Captain 1st Vermont Cavalry, measuring 4.25 inches by 7.75 inches, approximately 67 words recorded in ink on laid paper. With brief cryptic annotations & stamped "Received" mark on the verso.
"Rec'd at Martinsburg, Va. May 31, 1862 of John Miller one gray mare five years old for the use in case of great emergency of Co. H 1st Vt. Cavalry by consent of Col. De Forest, 5th New York Cavalry commanding detachment.Lieut. Davids (?), AQM, Cav'y Brigade 
Dep't of Shenandoah will give a final receipt of this.
[Signed] S.G. Perkins, Cap't, 1st Vt. Cavalry."
Old folds, small losses (not affecting text), splits at folds without loss, soiled & foxed, otherwise Good.
With:
Washington, D.C.: January 16th, 1866, Brevet Brigadier General James A. Ekin to John Miller, Esq, at Martinsburgh (sic), Virginia, on partially printed Quartermaster General's Office letterhead completed in manuscript. Approximately… Leer más

Charleston, West Virginia: Education Foundation, Inc, 1963. First edition, this copy Inscribed, Signed & Dated by the author in ink at the first blank page. 8vo, vii, 304 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover without dust jacket (as issued). Promotional pamphlet with order form laid-in. Dornbusch/ Military Bibliography of the Civil War II: 1499B.
Spine & margins a bit sunned, lightly soiled, occasional foxing mostly at the edges of the text block, Very Good.
"The unique position of West Virginia as first to feel the impact of the war, its divided loyalties, its contributions to manpower to both the Federal and Confederate armies, is told at length. Also there are sketches of some unique personalities who operated during the war years." ~Excerpted from the promotional brochure.

[Washington, D.C.]: United States Navy, Bureau of Ships, two volumes 1957 & 1958. "Extensively revised," originally issued in 1945. Quartos, x, 63; xi, 67 pp., illustrated. Original stapled, printed paper wraps. Margins sunned, briefly soiled, otherwise very good. "During World War II and the Korean Action, more than 40,00 wooden ships, boats, and landing craft were added to the fleet. A continuing program of improvement in wood laminating, extreme service adhesives, and development of wood preservatives for protection against marine borers has been largely responsible for the satisfactory performance of these craft ..."~Excerpted from the preface by Rear Admiral A.G. Mumma in volume one.

New York: WJ Widdleton, (1854 copyright but probably later) "New & Revised Edition." 12mo (7.5" x 5.5"), 518 pages, with illustrated half-title & engraved frontis Publisher's original pebbled brownish cloth lettered in gilt with pictorial device of crossed muskets with a drum & flag on the spine, the covers ruled in blind. Blanck/ Bibliography of American Literature 18149 (citing the Redfield edition).
Binding soiled/ stained, edges rubbed, shallow losses at spine extremities, gilt dull, spine cocked, gift inscription in pencil at front free endpaper, illustrations foxed, otherwise Good or so
Originally published in 1852 & titled "The Sword and the Distaff" A useful copy of Simms' tale of South Carolina at the close & just after the American Revolution When discussing American writers of the period, Edgar Alan Poe said of Simms that there is "not one who surpasses him in the higher excellences of fiction"