"ANY BONDS TODAY?"
Sheet music 5pp, with Uncle Sam on cover and reprinted by Cunningham Drug Stores, Detroit (1941). 11 x 8.5", staple holes in left margin, some soil else good. Theme song of the National Defense Savings Program. More
WORLD WAR I & II
"DON'T FALL FOR ENEMY PROPAGANDA...Remember Hitler and the Japs are trying to get us fighting among ourselves"
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: np, nd (c. WWII). Paperback. 21.5 x 17", color poster by Jack Betts who has drawn the face of an ordinary man with Hitler and Hirohito(?) whispering in each ear. A bit worn with beginning splits at folds. Mentions Catholics, Jews and..... More
DER KANONIER, FAHER UND GESCHUTZFUHER DER FUSSARTILLERIE.
Berlin 1906. Illus, 8.5 x 5.5", wraps, 186 + ads, paper brittle, minor staining, covers & end papers detached and lacking large chunks. Though title lists 1906 as printing date, the detached spine piece has 1914. SWAF. More
THE JOLLY ROGERS, The Story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17
Orion Books: NY, (1989). Hardcover. 9 x 6", cloth backed boards, 270pp with index, spine ends a little bumped else a nice copy in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIMITED TO 400 NUMBERED (this one #11) COPIES, SIGNED BOOKPLATES AFFIXED TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. This bookplate is..... More
AMIENS: 1918.
Frederick Muller, 1968. Illus, 8.5 x 5.5, boards, 274 w/index, good in price clipped, soiled, edge frayed dw. FIRST ED. More
FOURTH INDIAN REFLECTIONS, Memoirs of a Great Company
Privately Printed: (UK), 1987. Paperback. 8 x 5.75", pict wraps, 69pp, covers a little soiled else a nice, fresh copy. SCARCE. More
FALL IN, GHOSTS: An Essay on a Battalion Reunion.
The White Owl Press: London, 1932. 7.5 x 5, printed yellow string-tied wraps, 30 pp, covers badly soiled and torn, contents soiled and worn. SWAF. Contemporary Essays No. 1, Edited by Sylva Norman. More
BEKENNTNISSE EINES JUNGEN DEUTSCHEN.
Zentralverlag der NSDAP: Munich, nd. 8 x 5.5, softcover, 72 pp, shield and lightning bold device to front wrapper, wrappers soiled. Early printing. More
MiGs OVER NORTH VIETNAM, The Vietnamese People's Air Force in Combat: 1965-1975
Hikoki Publications: (Manchester, UK), 2008. Hardcover. Photos, 12 x 8.5", boards, 176pp, a nice, clean, fresh copy in a like dustjacket. FIRST EDITION (NAP). SCARCE in hardcover. More
THE 8TH SEES ENGLAND.
(Lost Angeles 1946). Photos, 10.5 x 8", stapled wraps, unpaged, covers heavily soiled. More
THE POLITICS OF GENOCIDE, The Holocaust in Hungary.
2 Vols. Columbia Univ. Press: NY 1981. Illus, 9 x 6", cloth, 1269 w/index, sm. snag in front cover foredge else vg in dge-torn & frayed dws. More
CRUISE OF THE RAIDER HK-33.
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.: NY, 1954. Photos, 8.25 x 5.5, black clothlike boards, 241 pp, covers a bit worn, hinges loose, old ink name inside front cover, ink initials on title page else a nice copy in edgeworn but complete dust jacket. More
BLACK HAWKS OVER THE DANUBE, The History of the 86th Infantry Division in World War II.
Printed by the Western Recorder: Louisville, KY, 1954. 9 x 6, gilt lettered red buckram, 127 pp, covers very nice and sharp, contents good despite an old paper price sticker and a "Library of Congress Duplicate" ink stamp, both on ffep. Probably a recent reprint: the binding and pages look..... More
ENGLAND, A DYING OLIGARCHY
Harper & Bros.: NY, 1939. Paperback. 7 x 5", printed stapled wraps, 32pp, covers worn, discolored and with an old coffee mug stain on front cover and a coffee drip on rear cover, finger soiling; a rather well loved copy, but a FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "For Veronica, wish friendship and..... More
SILENTLY INTO THE MIDST OF THINGS: 177 Squadron Royal Air Force in Burma, 1943-1945, History and Personal Narratives
Book Guild: Sussex, England 1977. 9.5 x 6.5", cloth, 243pp, illus, appendices, index, ink gift inscription to front free end paper else near fine in near fine dw. First edition. More
THE ROYAL WORKS, A Souvenir of the Neptune Party Held 20 May, 1936 I The United States Ship Lexington...
(Quality Press: Long Beach, CA), 1936. Paperback. Photos; illus., 10.5 x 8", pict stiff wraps, 72pp, covers rubbed, unevenly toned, with a couple edge tears and bumped extremities, contents nice, with three die-cut blue "wave" pages. The Lexington would be sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea almost exactly..... More
ARMY LAUGHS, A Pocketful of Fun, vol. 1, No. 12, February 1942.
Crestwood Publ. Co: Buffalo, NY, 1942. Cartoons, 7.5 x 5.5, color pict stapled wraps, unpag, covers worn, edges chipped and torn, soiled, contents toned and thumbed, crossword puzzle and another game penciled-in. Mostly recruiting and army life humor, none directed at the enemy, but lots of pretty girls. More
HITLER'S SHORT DAY And Other Revealing Messages on World Events
Zondervan Publishing: Grand Rapids, MI, (1943). 7.75 x 5.25", gilt-lettered cloth, 113pp, covers a little rubbed, spine sunned, extremities a bit bumped, hinges loose, bookplate of former owner inside front cover, book ticket from "Fresno Bible House" inside rear cover, pp a little toned, green mark on ffep, but still..... More
IM KAMPF WIDER KOKARDE UND WEISSEN ADLER: Jagdfluge des Leutnants der Reserve. [In Battle Against Cockade and White Eagle: Hunting Flights of a Reserve Lieutenant.]
Germanen Verlag: Berlin. 1925. 8.5 x 6, cloth, 139 pp, 22 plates, hinges cracked, upper fore corner bumped, good, no jacket, scarce. Memoirs of a German ace during World War I and just after the war. FIRST ED. More
JAPANESE CODE NAMES.
West Roxbury, MA (1966). Photos, 10 x 7", stapled pict. wraps, 24 pp, minor cover staining. Vol. 1, No. 4. More
SPECIALLY SIGNED FLOWN PHILATELIC CACHET COVER HONORING THIS ENGLISH AIRMAN AND HIS SINKING OF THE U597 ON OCT. 12, 1942.
Postmarked Keflavik, Iceland, Jan. 10, 1978., 1978. V.g. This was flown from Royal Air Force Kinloss to U.S. Naval Station, Keflavik to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the formation of No. 120 Squadron. Total of 1366 pieces were issued. More
DUSTY MEMORIES.
Bob Stovall Printing: Muleshoe, TX, 1987. 8 x 5.25, pict wraps, 100 pp, covers a little worn and soiled but still a nice, fresh copy with author's ink stamped "Will autograph -- send to. . . " message twice inside book. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HIS PORTRAIT. Poems..... More
"REG'LAR FELLERS" IN THE ARMY.
Brockway Co.: NY (1943). Photos; drawings, 11 x 8.5", pict. boards, 95pp, ink inscription, spine beat-up & glued, covers well worn & spotted. More
BATTLE CRUISERS, WARSHIP SPECIAL 1.
Conway Maritime Press: London, 1978. 9.5 x 7, softcover, 72 pp, well illustr, 0851771300, wrappers rubbed and moderately soiled, foot of spine bumped, good, FIRST ED. More
MALE CALL, 1942-1946 Featuring Miss Lace
Kitchen Sink Press: Princeton, WI, (1987). Hardcover. Illus. by Milton Caniff, oblong 8.75 x 11", glossy pict boards, 119pp, covers a bit rubbed, ink name of former owner at top of front fly, textblock edges and last couple of pp damp spotted, but still a decent copy. LIMITED TO 1000..... More