Military History
World War II, WWII, Japan, China, Pacific Theater, Qingdao, Tsingtao), Ch'ing-Tao, target, bomb
Qingdao (Tsingtao), China: [1944]. World War II, WWII, Japan, China, Pacific Theater, Qingdao, Tsingtao), Ch'ing-Tao, target, bomb A World War II allied map depicting strike targets in the Chinese city of Qingdao, located in the Shantung Providence, also called either Tsingtao or Ch'ing-Tao. The city was occupied by the Japanese.....
Price: $550.00
Children, Illustrated Children's Books
New York and Philadelphia: Turner & Fisher, 1840s. Sole edition of a charming, hand-colored illustrated children's book published by Turner & Fisher as a part of their "Brilliant Colored Toy Books" series. 16mo (4.75" by 3"), pp. 8, with hand-colored illustrations. Sewn in original illustrated wrappers, with upper wrapper serving.....
Price: $125.00
weather, government, military history, science & technology, war department, agriculture
Washington DC: War Department, Office of the Chief Signal Office, December 27, 1877. A weather bulletin for December 27, 1877 put out by US War Department, the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, a Division of the Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce and Agriculture. Although this bulletin.....
Price: $75.00
Communism,antifascism,Anti-Semitism,Jewish Policy,1948 Elections,Palestine,Jewish-American Life
New York, New York: New Century Publishers, 1948. A passionate polemic elucidating the Communist position on Jewish rights, Palestine, Birobidjan, and Zionism. Includes a chapter titled "Some Current Cultural Problems" which addresses issues such as "the cultural problems springing from the bilingual character of the American Jewish national group", and.....
Price: $325.00
Politics,Baseball,Spanish-American War
Washington, D.C. 30 April, 1898. Typewritten letter on official United States Senate letterhead signed by Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland, responding to a query from 1st Lieut. Owen Norris of Easton, Maryland. Norris had requested Gorman's assistance raising a unit of volunteers to serve in the Spanish-American War. Gorman.....
Price: $125.00
Social History, Popular Culture, WW2, SPARS, WACS, WAVES, fashion, historical fashion, costume
1987-2011. This collection of 28 paper dolls by the Jones Sisters, a pair of women, named Barbara Plummer and Barbara Barnett, who designed paper dolls. The majority of the collection are limited edition runs that were sold at the yearly Paper Doll Convention. The collection date from 1987-2011, with the.....
Price: $650.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, USAF,Camouflage and Concealment,WWII
Tampa, Florida: Third Air Force, c.1945. A darkly humorous cartoon titled "Booby the Bear", published to remind members of the Air Force to "Obey Camouflage Discipline" and observe "the rules of protective concealment". The story itself follows Booby, a foolish polar bear who does not bother to conceal himself from.....
Price: $350.00
Prostitution, Public health, sex education, sexually transmitted diseases and infections, World War I, venereal diseases, sex and gender, misogyny, stereotypes
YMCA, 1918. An informational pamphlet discouraging servicemen from having sex with prostitutes, published towards the end of the war for the Sex Education Bureau of the National War Work Council of the YMCA. It begins by asserting that "Nearly every prostitute is diseased" (p. 1), and that, given the consequences.....
Price: $125.00
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. 273 pp. Blind stamped cover and spine with gold stamped title, nine (9) illustrated maps -four (4) are fold out, included appendix and index. Part II of The Naval in the Civil War, other books are Part I. The Blockade and the Cruisers and.....
Price: $65.00
Airplanes, Anthropomorphic
Akron: Saafield Publishing Company, 1938. An unnumbered 12 page illustrated story book (including covers). The book was published by Saafiled, and has #2207 printed on the cover. The book uses several caricatures of airplanes to illustrate aviation topics such as "Ground School," "Take Off," "Nasty Storm," "Parachute," "Forced Landing," "Formation.....
Price: $255.00
Song Lyrics, Song Sheets, Ballads, Broadside Ballads, Love, Mourning , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Lowell, Massachusetts: J.H. Welton, c.1849. Printed song sheet for "The Silver Moon", a song about love and mourning between a soldier and his lover. Song in five stanzas with wood-engraved illustration of the male lover on the left-hand side. Also sometimes appears as "Roll on silver moon" in other printings.....
Price: $325.00
World War II, currency, juvenile savings
ca. 1940's. unpaginated. Printed board cover with metal spiral, double board pages with slots for coins, color illustrations throughout by Thomas J. Morrison Jr. Verse written by Genevieve Burke. A savings books with verse about helping the defense program by saving coins. Describes coins and how they add up, for.....
Price: $35.00
civil war, union, union soldier, battle, death, grief, frienship
Falmouth, VA: c1865. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" manuscript license to preach. At a meeting of the association of Tolland County convened at Tolland Dec. 28, 1835, the bearer, John Haven, a member of the Theological Institute of Connecticut was examined as to his doctrinal & experimental knowledge of the.....
Price: $175.00
correspondence, military history, WWI, France, Naval Plane Repairman
Juniata, PA: February - November 1918. A collection of eight (8) letters written by Pvt. Glenn H. Jones (1890-1921) to his mother, Ida, and sisters Jennie and Amelia "May", who were living in Juniata, PA. The letters date from February 1918 to November 1918. During the first few letters he.....
Price: $125.00
Confederacy Song Sheet,Civil War
Sheffield Ala. A 10" x 5 1/2" printed song sheet presumably written for reunions of the Confederacy about fighting to free the Southland. It begins "Once more we meet, old comrades, To recount the deeds of the past, We may not, comrades, meet again, For our ranks are thinning fast".....
Price: $250.00
civil war, union soldier, president Lincoln, mourning dress, soldiers coming home
Waterloo, Iowa: May 2, 1865. Waterloo, Iowa. May 2, 1865. A heartfelt letter from a young woman reflecting the sentiment from the homefront at the end of the war; surviving emotionally on roamers and hearsay. It expresses the understanding of the need for the war but the ambivalence associated with.....
Price: $500.00
Cold War,Soviet Union,International Friendship and Relations
New York, New York: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1948. A rather confident booklet purporting to know "How to End the Cold War and Build the Peace" between the United States and the Soviet Union, featuring illustrations by the American artist Lynd Ward. The booklet is addressed to the American.....
Price: $225.00
general putnam, Connecticut, military, revolutionary war, French and Indian War, Uncle Sam's Big Picture Series
New York: McLoughin Brothers, 1873. 24 pp (including wrappers) The title page states The Life of General Putnam'. "The book tells the embellished story of the life of General Israel Putnam, starting as a young boy who slaughters a wolf, and his time in service during the French and Indian.....
Price: $110.00
confederate, south, american civil war, military
Richmond, VA: May 1876. The Southern Historical Society was founded in 1868-1869 by Confederate Major General Dabney Herndon Maury as a means of documenting Southern military and civilian viewpoints of the American Civil War. It consisted of articles written by Southern Soldiers, officers, politicians and civilians. In the late 1800s.....
Price: $85.00
speech, Bowdoin Street Young Men's Peace Society, pacifism, classes and movements, military history, military ethics
Boston, MA: William Peirce, 1936. The item is a copy of an address given by Rev. Rufus P. Stebbins, (1810-1885), a member of Harvard Divinity School on the society's first anniversary in 1836. His speech was considered to be an attack against the concept of a "defensive war". That term.....
Price: $100.00
WWI, military, US Army, government, home front, soldiers
New York: McConnell Printing Company, [1918-1919]. 15pp. Illustrated wraps.Camp Merritt was an army base that was activated for use during WWI located in Dumont and Cresskill, NY. The booklet features information and images from photographs of the camp buildings, various administrative offices, money and post exchange, tailor shops, hospital, enlisted.....
Price: $125.00
Cold War,Stockpiling and Rationing,Supply Chain,Civil Defense
Sacramento, California: Office of Civil Defense, c.1952. A Cold War-era publication from the State of California Office of Civil Defense, guiding residents in how to stockpile and ration food in the event of a nuclear attack: "If there is an atomic attack on our cities there will be immediate disruption.....
Price: $175.00
Historical Memorabilia, Civil War,
Cincinnati, Oh: Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. Lith. 1862. This discharge paper was given to George Eagg for his service as a "Squirrel Hunter". Also signed by Malcolm McDonnell and Major A. D. C. Vignettes of General and Govenor at top and a frail gent with a musket at his side.....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Second World War,Trade Unions,Unionizing and Worker's Rights,Communism,American Labor Movement
New York, New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1942. A brief meditation on the importance of labor, worker's rights, and national unity during the early days of the Second World War, by an important twentieth century American labor organizer. Addresses the subjects of mobilization of labor, production, adequate wartime wages.....
Price: $275.00