Columbia, S.C. Charles A. Calvo, Jr., State Printer, 1886. 8vo, 34pp, original yellow printed wrappers. Chipping & soiling to front wrapper, creasing, closed tears, and a few chips to margins of pp 1-16 (no loss to text), lacking yellow paper spine covering, good.
1960s. 4to, 18pp, stapled. A summary of the judgement in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, by Hardy Dillard, then a professor at the University of Virginia school of law, later a member of the International Court of Justice. "These excerpts are taken from the opinion and judgment of the 3.....
Leipzig: J.W. Grunow & Corp, 1850. 8vo, 250, 224 pp, marbled boards with leather spine, folding plan of a fortress in back. Two volumes in one. Scarce first edition of an anonymous two volume work on the Hungarian Revolution. Includes the first book appearance of "Kossuth and the Rabbi" a......
Circa 1860s. Original Photographs measuring 4 x 2.75", showing the General in uniform. Toning and foxing to image and mount.
1863-65. Five pieces total, including a circular, an inviation, and five telegrams. The latter were handwritten on printed stationery headed "U.S. Military Telegraph" on the receiving end and given to Batchelder to read. At this time Batchelder was the Chief Quartermaster of the entire Army of the Potomac. The telegrams.....
Various Places: 1947-1982. Collection of photos, letters and ephemera belonging to Air Captain J. Gen Genovese, author of "We Flew Without Guns," a popular account about his aviation career which included pioneering the route over the Himalayas between China and India after being hired by General Chiang Kai Shek. These.....
Kansas: [1915]. Seven real photo postcards, each measuring 6 x 3.5", all captioned in pencil on the backs. The captions read: “guard at prison”, “kitchen at prison”, “prisoner at drill”, “prison [exterior shot]”, “prison [exterior shot]”, “prison bathroom” and “prison entrance”. The entrance depicted is that of the United States.....
[Boston]: [1822]. 14 x 7.75”, minor creasing, small area of dampstain along one margin. Very Good+. A broadside relating to court martials in the Massachusetts militia, signed in type by general William H. Sumner. A list of individuals court martialed, describing their crimes as well as the punishment given. “The.....
Delaware County, New York: 1863. 4pp handwritten letter sent by Daniel Wilson to his cousin Hiram, dated March 16, 1863 at Trout Creek, Delaware County, NY. Hiram, likely returned home from fighting in the Civil War, writes about how good the sleighing was in Trout Creek: "Samuel Jackson went by.....
New York City: The Golden Rule Foundation, 1940s. World War II era poster measuring 22 x 17", promoting "Loyalty Days" an occasion of public worship in support of religious freedom and the American war effort. Prints an address by President Roosevenlt in support of the event. Toning, offsetting, and folding.....
1890. A collection of eighteen albumen photographs and CDVs, circa 1890, pasted to album leaves. Subject matter includes landmarks mostly in Pakistan (cities of Quetta, Karachi, Abbottabad, Jacobabad) while two photographs depict the well at Cawnpore, India. The album probably belonged to the military officer depicted in the cdvs in.....
Various Places: 1951-1952. String tied album binding measuring 12.5 x 8.75", containing 100 photographs. This album of nicely taken and well captioned photographs documents the Air Force service of J.B. Gray, beginning with 36 photographs of various western training camps including Camp Sheppard in Wichita Falls, Texas (17 images), Reese.....
Japan: 1950s-60s. A collection of 461 photographs, measuring 8 x 10". Around five of the photographs are in color, the rest are in black and white. The color photographs, plus 5-10 more date from the 1970s and 80s, and around 5 miscellaneous family portraits are included as well. These date.....
New Haven: Durrie and Peck, [1850s]. 8vo, 720pp, original speckled calf. Lacks half title page and title page, but a pencil inscription to front pastedown reads "Nov 12th 1865 Our dear Pastor has been called away by death within the last year, as he was acting chaplain of the 7th.....
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.....
New Hampshire: 1863. 4to, circular, 4pp. A scarce Civil War circular issued by the Governor of New Hampshire announcing quotas for volunteers needed to fill the rank of the Army: "The moral effect of such a reinforcement of our armies, following such victories as Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Port Hudson, will.....
US Army Corps of Engineers, 1960s. Large black leatherette binder measuring 12 x 10.5", containing 83 photographs, 75 placed into plastic binder sleeves, eight laid in loose, each measuring 8 x 10", belonging to Doug Esten of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Geodesy Intelligence & Mapping Research and Development.....
Chattanooga, TN: Mac Gowan Cooke, Ca 1918. 5 x 4" stapled booklet, [14] pp. A compilation of patriotic and battle songs published for American soldiers at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia towards the end of WWI. Lower corner of rear wrapper chipped, spotting to covers, toning, very good.
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.....
Published Monthly on Board the U.S.S. Yankee, by Carter & Moon, 1904. 4to, 8pp, grey pictorial wrappers. Scarce shipboard periodical printed on the U.S.S. Yankee, while moored off of League Island in the Delaware River. This issue prints stories, songs, anecdotes, and a page of "Baseball News" with reports on.....
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.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1908. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt, 387 pp. Illustrated with many photographic plates. Fading and discoloration to covers, spine lettering faded, spine toned, light toning to pages.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915 and 1916. 8vo, tan boards with brown cloth spine, 155 pp. This copy signed by Buswell on the front endpaper, dated November, 1917. Additional inscription by G.K. Crockett, 2nd Lieutenant 7th M.Q. Battalion, Company D at Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina. The.....
Guthrie, OK: State Capital Printing Company, 1893. First Edition. Octavo, original green gilt decorated cloth, 495 pp, numerous illustration plates. First edition of this important Confederate Civil War memoir. Augusta, Georgia owner inscription to front endpaper. In fair condition with binding loose, pencil doodles and sketches to some blank pages.....