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Image for Aberlé Ballet / Fall & Winter / 1942. “Aberlé presents SHEER ENDURING RAYON STOCKINGS/ ALLIED BALLET of COLOR / FALL & WINTER” / “Presentation for a Most Prophetic Season Fall 1942”

Aberlé Ballet / Fall & Winter / 1942. “Aberlé presents SHEER ENDURING RAYON STOCKINGS/ ALLIED BALLET of COLOR / FALL & WINTER” / “Presentation for a Most Prophetic Season Fall 1942”

By: ABERLE BALLET [RAYON STOCKINGS]. WILLARD B. GOLOVIN CO.

Price: $850.00

Publisher: Aberle Inc., Philadelphia, 1942 /Willard B. Golovin [Advertising] Co. NY, : 1942

Seller ID: k190220c

Condition: Fine

4to, heavy card covers with six card leaves [12 pp.]; publisher's coil binding with clear acetate covers. First and only edition, limited to 750 numbered presentation copies, this being no. 36 presented to the M.E. Blatt Co., “Atlantic City’s Greatest Department Store”. World War 2 era manufacturer’s catalog for rayon stockings. The catalog adopts the format of a contemporary Ballet Russes program with the stocking colors inspired by four ballets -- each leaf features a large pochoir colored lithograph by Willard Golovin leaf with smaller color lithographic illustrations on the facing ...
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Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-18 Vol I. Gallipoli, Sinai & Palestine, German New Guinea.

By: Butler, Colonel A. G.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: by Australian War Memorial. Melbourne : 1938

Seller ID: k180620a

2d edition; first published in 1939. 8vo. Vol I only [of 3] Blue cloth; xxvi + 873pp., b/w plates, maps, glossary, appendices., bibliog., indexes. A fine copy. A clean, bright, and tight copy. Some light toning adjacent to gutters of end papers; very light wear to edges; some very minor spotting on fore-edge.
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509th Composite Group, First Atomic Bombardment, 1944 - 1946, 509th Pictorial Album [1st ed.; not reprint]

By: 509th Composite Group

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Tinian: The 509th Composite Group: 1945

Seller ID: k190719e

Condition: Very good-near fine

1st ed., 4to, blue textured boards w/ gold & red decorations and lettering. Color frontispiece; profusely illustrated with b/w photos. Not paginated but approximately 120 pp. The official unit history for the 509th Composite Group -- the atomic bombardment wing responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A very good-near fine copy. Clean and tight with no tears, nicks or markings. Light wear to edges, corners and spine ends; front cover slightly bowed.
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The Tactics of Aelian, comprising the military system of the Grecians; illustrated with notes, explanatory plates.

By: Aelianus (Tacticus)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, E. Kerby: 1814

Seller ID: K102

Edited, and with a preliminary discourse by, Viscount Henry August Dillon. London: Small 4to, quarter leather and black cloth. 268 pp. 1st edition thus, inscribed by the ‘author’ (Dillon). Numerous full-page plates and engravings of military tactics and formations. Aelian's military treatise is a handbook of Greek drill and tactics as practiced by the successors of Alexander the Great. Thought to have been first published in the 2d century, an Arabic translation was made about 1350. It was first translated into Latin about 150 years later and was of great use to the army organizers ...
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Prisoners of War Bulletin - 14 issues 1943-1955

By: American National Red Cross

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., American National Red Cross for the Relatives of American Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees: 1943

Seller ID: k180331c

8-1/2"11", 12-16 pages each. News and information regarding allied prisoners of war, published for families and domestic consumption. Vol 1 No. 1-Vol 2 No. 5 complete [12 issues, July 1943-May 1944 and Vol 2. No. 12 (Dec 1944) and Vol 3. No. 3 March 1945. [Publication ceased in June 1945]. Fine condition; unmarked and no tears.
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Third Reich Daggers, 1933 to 1945

By: Bowman, J.A.

Price: $132.50

Publisher: London, Imperial Publications: 1990

Seller ID: 17061912

ISBN: 1871498023

1st ed., illustrated boards, 8vo. 485 pp..Pristine hardcover edition. A guide to identification and values. New copy; issued without dust jacket. Numbered and signed by both author and illustrator. [edition size unknown but believed to be 500]
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Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861 (With a Full Index) [With Provenance]

By: Cameron, Simon (Secretary of War); United States. War Department

Price: $125.00

Publisher: George W. Childs, Philadelphia: 1861

Seller ID: k200427b

1st ed., 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, blind stamped, gilt titles on spine. Chip, with loss to bottom edge. Hardcover. Stain at bottom edge, stretching up spine. 559 pp. Standard manual used by officers during the war. Covers military discipline, rank and command, succession in command, appointment and promotion, distribution of troops, care of fortifications, deceased officers and soldiers, deserters, discharges, travelling, arrests, forms, etc. Condition: Fair. Interior clean overall; page toning but very little foxing. . Ex-lib Universal Pictures Co., Inc. Research Dept. with the studi...
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Savage Automatic Pistols

By: Carr, James

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Privately Printed: 1969

Seller ID: 111101

1st ed. 8vo, copper cloth, 131 pp. Classic reference work on the 32 Savage automatic pistols [1907-1922]. Pristine copy in a lightly rubbed very good dust jacket. No tears or chips.
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Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War for the Year 1872

By: Chief of Ordnance

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Government Printing Office, Washington: 1872

Seller ID: k200427c

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, brown cloth, gilt titles. 182 pp. plus index; numerous b/w plates including four fold-out diagrams at rear. Containing reports on field, siege, and sea-coast artillery; rifles and small arms. ##### Condition: Good; surface wear to covers with some spotting, chips at spine ends. Interior clean and tight overall, with foxing to end papers and title page. Ex-library Capt. J. J.Brice, with his bookplate dated 1898.
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Personal Photo Album - Oahu 1940-41; on the Eve of World War II. 165 original b/w photos.

By: Drake, Robert L.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Oahu, 1941

Seller ID: k180331d

A wide variety of photos of camp life at Schofield Barracks and activities of the Hawaiian Division Command -- extra-illustrated with original cartoons drawn by one of the soldiers stationed there. Appears to be assembled by Sgt. Robert J. Drake of Columbus Georgia. Camp social life, barracks, scenery. Not much military history, but a great portrait of life on base.
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Image for A History of THE ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL From Its Establishment in 1863 to December, 1876; and of The Island of Rock Island, The Site of The Arsenal, From 1804 to 1863. ORDNANCE MEMORANDA NO. 20.

A History of THE ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL From Its Establishment in 1863 to December, 1876; and of The Island of Rock Island, The Site of The Arsenal, From 1804 to 1863. ORDNANCE MEMORANDA NO. 20.

By: Flagler, Maj. D.W.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1877

Seller ID: 1231

1st ed., 485 pp., plus 13 fold-out plates, one photographic plate, and a fold-out frontispiece. Rebound in maroon cloth. Text block is clean and tight with no foxing. One of the plates is split in half but intact. some of the other plates have small tears or stains, but not affecting image. Frontispiece is detached.
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The Aviator and the Weather Bureau

By: Ford A. Carpenter

Price: $55.00

Publisher: San Diego Chamber of Commerce: 1917

Seller ID: k190121k

Second edition, 16mo, dark olive green boards. 1917. 54 pp. Limited to 5,000 copies. A brief general history of aviation in Southern California, a description of the War Department school of aviation at San Diego, and lessons on applied meteorology for aviators. Illustrated with charts and b/w photographs. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. CONDITION: Very good. Covers: light wear but rubbed at corners and top/bottom of spine. Text block is clean, tight, and bright.
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THE SMOKED YANK. [Inscribed]

By: Grigsby, Melvin.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Dakota Bell Publishing Co: 1888

Seller ID: k200418d

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, tan covers with black decorations, gilt illustration. 227 pgs. Grigsby served in the Second Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War and was a prisoner for six months in the infamous Andersonville Prison. Inscribed by Grigsby on the front free end paper. #### Condition: Good. Moderate wear to covers, especiall at edges and corners. Several small stains on lower edge of front cover, more moderate staining to lower edge of back. Inscribed b Grigsby on ffep; another penciled name is obscured by a vintage lending library label affixed to the page. Text block in good condition with...
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Image for AFFAIRS IN OREGON. Letter from the Secretary of War Communicating.Correspondence with General Harney, Relating to Affairs in the Department of Oregon

AFFAIRS IN OREGON. Letter from the Secretary of War Communicating.Correspondence with General Harney, Relating to Affairs in the Department of Oregon

By: Harney, Brig. General William S.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: House of Represedntatives, HED 65, 36-1: 1860

Seller ID: k200225a

Condition: Fair

8vo, 269 pp. Lacking original wrappers -- but complete. A clean, tight copy with some light toning to the first twenty pages. Practically no foxing. A collection of data and correspondence concerning San Juan Island; details the claims of British subjects and developments in "the war against the Indians of Washington and Oregon territories." Important contemporary material on the territory Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War.
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Irish Guards in the Great War / Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers, Vols 1 & 2 [1st UK]

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $385.00

Publisher: London, MacMillan & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 17092204

Condition: Fine

Irish Guards in the Great War / Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers, Vols 1 & 2 London: MacMillan & Co, 1923. 8vo, red cloth with gilt titles and regimental badge in gold on upper covers, t.e.g. 1st UK ed. The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918. Meticulously researched from primary sources, Kipling undertook this regimental history following the death in action of his son John at the Battle of Loos. 9 maps. Fine, as-new copies in the scarce d/w with light wear at edges; no tears. Original purchase receipts from 1930 laid in. [Livingston 482]
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Irish Guards in the Great War / Edited and Compiled from their Diaries and Papers, Vols 1 & 2 [1st US]

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $200.00

Publisher: NY, Doubleday, Page & Co: 1923

Seller ID: 17092205

Condition: Fine

8vo, black cloth, t.e.g., gilt emblem on front, paper labels. First American edition.The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918. Meticulously researched from primary sources, Kipling undertook this regimental history following the death in action of his son John at the Battle of Loos. A classic work. 9 maps. Fine, as-new copies; vol. 1 in nicked d/w; d/w lacking on Vol 2. [Livingston 483, Richards A341]
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom [Limited edition]

By: Lawrence, T. E.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc: 1935

Seller ID: k200325d

Condition: Good

The limited Issue edition published just before the 1st US trade edition No. 106 of 750 copies. 4to, Custom binding in ¾ leather, green cloth with gilt titles on spine. Very good. Spine rubbed; surface wear to front and back panels. Text block is VG; clean and tight but with a tape repair at top of title page and pp 7-9.
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FATAPOUFS & THINIFERS

By: Maurois , Andre

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, San Francisco: 1940

Seller ID: k190203g

Condition: Fine

1st ed. Small 4to, dye-stamped blue cloth boards, endpapers decorated with armorial bearings of the houses of Thinifers and Fatapoufs. 92pp. The “Thins” and the “Fats” have already had one World War -- can a Second World War be averted? A thinly veiled parable for the European political situation just prior to 1940. Illustrated in bold colors by JEAN BRULLER CONDITION: Fine; scant rubbing to corners and spine ends. Lacking jacket
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A Soldier's Story [Signed copy]

By: Omar N. Bradley; Bill Mauldin [Foreword]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Rand McNally: 1978

Seller ID: k191208a

Condition: Near fine

First Rand McNally edition; originally published in 1951. 8vo, grey cloth. 618 pp. Signed by Omar Bradley on title page with inscription, "Best wishes to a fellow veteran, Colonel Wallace.” A near fine copy in d/w. Some spotty discoloration on the edges from accumulation of shelf-dust; otherwise a virtually pristine copy.
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Original WW2 Mimeographed Military Orders signed by Ronald Reagan

By: Reagan, Ronald

Price: $325.00

Publisher: 1945

Seller ID: k1706304

Original World War 2 mimeographed military orders signed [in the plate] in by Capt. Ronald Reagan - 5 leaves, 8-1/2x11, dated February-April 1945. Reagan served in the 18th Army Air Force Base Unit (the Motion Picture Unit) as Captain and Adjutant. One of his duties was to sign the unit's official orders. These five sheets are all related to duty assignments given to Hollywood producer/director Jack J. Bernhard, another member of the Motion Picture Unit. One sheet is very good - brown-toned with a 3/4" closed tear at left. The other four are in fine condition. All sheets are top-hole punche...
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Category: War / Military History