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......
Deliverance at Los Banos
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. First Edition/Printing. Hard Cover. 8vo. Jacket lightly edgeworn. Else bright, clean, and unclipped. Book has tiny bump to one corner, else sharp and unmarked throughout with tight binding. A handsome example of a suprisingly uncommon edition. The Dramatic True Story of Survival & Triumph.....
![Archive of 1100+ Original Photographs of a WWII Soldier's Life in the Pacific Theater]. Peter R....](/pictures/thumb/15999.jpg?v=1561471981)
[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.....
AS YOU WERE: A Book Of, By, and For the Women of the 2629 WAC Battalion
[Coserta, Italy]: [circa 1945]. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Black and yellow sewn wraps. Front cover torn at spine, still partially attached to text block; back cover present but detached. Name in pen to front cover. Wear, chipping, and light soil to wraps. Interior pages lightly toned, with occasional ink smudges.....
EMPIRE
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, (1943). First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a like jacket. 8vo. Brown cloth. Ink title lettering to spine. In original printed dust jacket. Unclipped. Jacket toned at spine. Cloth with trace wear at spine ends, corners. Overall sound, sharp, clean. A foreign correspondent's take.....
NO ORDINARY TIME: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine over blue boards, in dust jacket. Moderate edgewear and light scuffing to jacket edges; bumping to spine ends. Faint dampstain to jacket edge verso; fainter spotting to fore-edge. Very good plus in very good jacket. 759pp. Goodwin's.....
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.....
LES GRAFFITI DE LA RUE D'AUXONNE
Dijon: Impremerie Jobard, 1946. First Edition. Wraps. Original 8vo. stapled printed wrappers in (original?) glassine. Near fine. Mild toning to interior. Else clean, sharp, and sound. Text in French. 60pp. Jacques Foucart-Borville (1912-2005) was just a young magistrate when he wrote this slender account of the political graffiti of Resistance.....
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]. Karl HAMMER](/pictures/thumb/19124.jpeg?v=1561472386)
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.]. Karl HAMMER](/pictures/thumb/19125.jpeg?v=1561472387)
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 ROAD TO SERFDOM
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Teal cloth, gilt-stamped spine, in dust jacket. Spine sunned; moderate chipping and scuffing to edges. Light soil to rear panel. Endpapers lightly foxed. Ownership signature to ffep. 248pp. Very good plus in very good minus jacket. Sixth impression of the.....
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]. " "Peggy "Margie, ", "Louise"](/pictures/thumb/24103.jpeg?v=1572369267)
[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.....
PERSONALITIES AND POWERS
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth boards, spine stamped in silver. In blue printed dust jacket. Spine sunned; jacket flap price-clipped. Corners lightly bumped. Light toning to endpapers. Original bookseller label to lower edge of front paste-down. Near fine in very good plus jacket. 157pp. Twelve.....
A PILOT'S JOURNEY: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman: Curtis Christopher Robinson
(Washington, D.C.): Robnor Publishing, (2007). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue boards in photographic dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. SIGNED by both Robinson and Norfleet to title page, with an inscription from Norfleet. Light surface scratches to jacket and trivial edgewear. Interior clean and bright throughout. 286pp. Biography of.....