ROBBINS, Rex
world war ii
[1939 New York World's Fair / Washington, D.C. Photo Album]
[1939-1940]. Oblong string-tied photo album, 7 x 10 inches approx. Brown textured gilt-stamped boards with minor edgewear. Contains 23 black paper leaves with black and white photos mounted recto only for the first 13 leaves; recto and verso for the last ten. Captions in white ink leave occasional traces on.....
NURNBERG MEMORIES [Cover Title - Photo Album of an African American Soldier Stationed in Germany]
[circa 1950]. Oblong 8vo. string-tied album. Embossed cognac leather over boards. Cover heavily worn along edges, with dry leather chipped and peeling away at corners. 24 leaves with spiderwebbed tissue guards, the first 16 of which have black and white photographs mounted recto and verso. One smaller photograph (2 x......
[Archive of 1100+ Original Photographs of a WWII Soldier's Life in the Pacific Theater]
[Various]: (1927-46). First Edition. Archive of more than 1,100 vernacular photographs from the service of a single soldier before, during, and immediately after World War II. Contained in five albums: (1) Oblong string-tied commercial album measuring approximately 13” x 10.5”. Imitation leather titled “Photographs” with small portrait photo, cut to.....
RAILWAYS AND WAR SINCE 1917
London: Blandford Press, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan boards in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. Perhaps a trace of sunning to jacket spine. Price clipped. Sharp and clean throughout. 127pp. Short illustrated history of military railways beginning with the close of World War I. Railroadiana.....
THE PLEDGE BETRAYED: America and Britain and the Denazification of Postwar Germany
Garden City: Doubleday, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth over red boards, in original printed dust jacket. A very good plus copy in a very good DJ. Mild corner wear, rubbing to jacket. Minimal toning. Hints of soil to page edges, but internally bright and clean overall.....
KRIEGSFIBEL
Berlin: Eulenspiegel, 1955. First Edition. 4to. Black cloth boards, moderately rubbed and bumped, in black and white photographic dust jacket. Some chipping and scuffing to edges and corners of jacket. A little creasing to endpapers; pages lightly toned. Very good overall. In German. "War primer" made up of poems, commentary.....
THE CITY THAT WOULD NOT DIE: The Bombing of London May 10-11, 1941
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black boards in original pictorial dust jacket. Very good in like DJ. Light edgewear, small chips and tears to jacket. Owner's bookplate and signature on front pastedown. Otherwise bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 280pp. Illustrated with photographs.....
PRISON ETIQUETTE: The Convict's Compendium of Useful Information
Bearsville, NY: Retort Press, 1950. First Edition. 8vo. Stiff printed pictorial wraps in original dustjacket. One of 2000 copies, "entirely hand-set, hand-bound, and printed on a footpedal press by the editors." Jacket lightly rubbed with some chipping, esp. to lower spine. Faint staining. Unclipped. Mild wear to yapp edge of.....
TAM TAM SUR LE MEKONG: Avec les guerillas Laotiennes
Saigon: C. Ardin, 1948. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Illustrated tan wraps. Covers toned, with small tears to edges and spine ends; spine sunned and cocked. Partial separation of spine from adhesive; sewn text block is otherwise intact. Light foxing scattered throughout. With fold-out map. Good plus. Memoir of the "drame.....
An Der Seite Meines Manns: Begebenheiten und Bekenntnisse [At My Man's Side: Events and Confessions]
Oldendorf, Germany: Verlag K.W. Schutz KG, (1967). Cloth. 8vo. Jacket lightly edgeworn, else bright. Book has mild foxing to edges, else clean and sound throughout. Very good plus in like DJ. Memoir of Goring's wife. In German. Uncommon. 337pp. with index and numerous B&W photographs. Appears to be 1972 second.....
THE BISMARCK EPISODE
New York: Macmillan, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full navy blue cloth, silver lettering to spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Front interior flap clipped, price ink stamped to lower end. Jacket with substantial foxing to plain underside, mild shelf wear. Spine ends, corners wrinkled, artwork presents well. Interior foxed;.....
GERMAN WAR STORIES Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Reich Sources [Cover Title]
np: [Karl Hammer], 1989. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Very good plus. Mild rubbing, soil to wraps. Owner's embossed-stamp bookplate to flyleaf. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 52pp. Uncommon publication featuring German accounts of WWII. Printed in the U.S. Illustrated.
SS WAR STORIES: Translated from Original SS Publications - Vol. 1 & 2 [Two Vols.]
np: [Karl Hammer], 1988 and 1991. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Very good plus or better. Minimal rubbing to wraps. Owner's embossed-stamp bookplate to flyleaf on both pages. Both vols. internally clean and bright throughout. Good and sound. 48pp (vol. I), 48pp (vol. II). Uncommon publication featuring SS accounts.....
THE CASE AGAINST THE ADMIRALS: Why We Must Have a Unified Command
New York: Dutton, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth in original dust jacket. Very good in like DJ. Rubbing, edgewear and corner chips to jacket. Endpapers a bit soiled, toned. Text block clean throughout. Binding sound. 216pp. Following World War II, an argument for the unification of the military.....
THE DRAWING TEACHER: A Little Folder of Teaching Projects for the Art Teacher
New York: Binney and Smith, [1926-1944]. First Edition. Wraps. 38 16mo pamphlets, each a single sheet or double sheet folded in quarters. All issues lightly and uniformly toned, with occasional pen to covers and light foxing/staining to one corner. Moderate scuffing to corners and crease lines, with occasional tears. Very.....
[1942 Women's Photo Album]
Various [Boston, Nantucket, et al]: [1942-1945. Oblong 4to. Decorative hinged wooden boards with leather tie. Photos mounted rectos only, frequently in tiers of 2-3 photos each. Album leaves lightly chipped at edges; some yellowing to upper edges of photos from tape mounting. Otherwise very good plus. Photo album devoted to.....
AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR II
Washington DC: Office of Air Force History, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue boards with gilt-stamped titles. Very good plus. Mild bump to book at upper left corner. Internally bright, crisp, and clean throughout. Binding tight. 506pp. A look at Army Air Corps and U.S. Air Force combat goups.....
EUROPEAN WITNESS
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Khaki cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. In red and white dust jacket. Spine sunned. Moderate edgewear and scuffing/chipping to spine ends and corners. Rear panel foxed. Boards bumped at corners and spine. Foxing to endpapers and edges of page block. Very good.....
ODD MAN PAYS
Boston: Brown and Company, 1944. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown cloth, red lettering to front, spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped. Moderately edgeworn, chipped at spine. Dampstain to rear, upper corner. Upper cloth corners bumped, dust spotting to top page edge, private library stamp to first endpaper. Sound, unmarked, clean.....
AND WE ARE NOT SAVED
New York: Philosophical Library, 1963. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Original red cloth in printed dust-jacket. Very good overall. Jacket price-clipped with some moderate edge-wear. Some small chips to head and tail of DJ spine. Spot of soil to rear panel. Tape residue (unobtrusive) to front and rear flaps. Book has.....
OVERSEAS WITH COLONEL CHARLES W HASH [Screen Title - Original 8mm Footage]
Various (Fort Lewis, WA and The Pacific Theatre): [ca. 1941-1944]. Four reels of 8mm film stock. Majority color, with some black and white. Approximately 800ft. total. Metal reels in two-piece outer cans. Cans with etched titles and dates and mounted labels. Stock clean, playback clear. Very good overall. A preliminary digitization.....
U.S. NAVY PRIMARY FLIGHT TRAINING MANUAL
Glenview, IL: Naval Air Training Command, 1945. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Illustrated wraps. Contemporary post binding added at left margin. Most paper lost from spine. Wrapper edges worn, chipped. Internally clean, sound. An original illustrated manual issued to WWII Naval flight cadets training at NAS Glenview, dated July 1 1945.....
[Eyewitness Account to Pearl Harbor Day Attack - Autograph Letter Signed with Related Materials]
[Various]: [ca. 1940s]. Thirteen brown paper leaves, loose from a presumably perished scrapbook, holding 57 black and white silver print photographs and dozens of ephemeral articles (clippings, postcards, documents, etc.) tape-mounted to rectos and versos. Prints ranging in size from approximately 1.5” square to approximately 8” x 10” (42 of.....
[Photo Album of the Botched Allied Bombardment of the Bezuidenhout]
[The Hague]: [ca. 1945]. Hardcover. Two oblong 8vo. albums. First album: 11.5" by 9" approx. String-tied faux-alligator boards. 43 gelatin-silver prints (majority 3.75" by 2.5", but many 5.5" by 3.25") mounted to stiff gray leaves with cobweb-patterned tissue guards on each and handwritten captions in Dutch. Apparently complete. Near fine.....
[Diary of a Jewish Chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces]
(Halifax): (1944-1945). Hardcover. 4to. Commercial ruled journal. Textured black leather boards, heavily scuffed, with tears and some loss to spine ends. Backstrip attached but fragile. All edges marbled. Handwriting in pen and some pencil to approximately one half of the pages; 67 closely written pages in total. Approx. 10,000 words.....