Okinawa Photo Album

by [Original Photographic Album]

[N.p.: n.p., 1964–65]. Photographs in uniformly nice condition, internally near fine, album is edgeworn with splits at the plastic covering the spiral binding, else very good in illustrated boards.. Unique photo album from the Vietnam War era, dating between 1964 and 1965, housed in an illustrated Okinawa album. Includes 105 mostly black-and-white prints, measuring approximately 5 1/2 X 2 1/2 inches. Images depict a group of young recruits stationed at a field camp in Okinawa, Japan, with a... Read More

Offered by Harper's Books

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia

by McCoy, Alfred W.; Cathleen B. Read; Leonard P. Adams II

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. First edition. First edition. Signed by Alfred W. McCoy on the half title, inscribed to military historian Shelby Stanton, Sept. 11 1985. Stanton's bookplates on front free endpaper; his stamp on half title as well. xii, [ii], 464 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt and white lettering. Very Good with tape stains to boards, slightly bumped corners, in a dust jacket with strip of offsetting from a jacket protector, otherwise... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

African American Military History Vietnam War Sergeant Howard L Cooper Photographs and Promotion Letter 1970s

by African American Troops in Vietnam

1973. Cooper, Howard L. Vietnam War photographs and promotion letter, circa 1970s, document African American noncommissioned officer service within an integrated U.S. Army and the formal evaluation structures governing advancement during and immediately after the conflict. The material centers on Sergeant Cooper's presence within a deployed unit in Vietnam alongside fellow soldiers and local civilians, and extends into the postwar administrative process through a typed recommendation for promotion dated 1973. Together, the photographs and letter situate the archive within... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Jules Feiffer Large Collection of Satirical Comics on 1960's Politics From Nixon, Vietnam, to Angela Davis c. 1960 to 1973

by Jules Feiffer Satirical Political Comics

1963. Jules Feiffer Satirical political comic strips on Vietnam, Watergate, Black Power, Attica, Angela Davis, and Richard Nixon contained in a large scrapbook. Many clipped newspaper strips carrying pencil dates from the late 1960s into 1973. The selections concentrate on public language under pressure: a Vietnam policy strip warns that China, African, and Latin American policy will follow if public opinion is not contained; a 1968 election strip reduces choice to "Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson"; and a protest... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Korean War 1950 to 1953 U.S. Army and African American Troops Large Format Photographs Frontline Aid and Supply Operations

by African American Korean War

1950. Korean War photographs early 1950s document U.S. Army combat conditions, including the presence of African American soldiers serving in integrated units following the 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, and record frontline medical treatment and logistical coordination during the opening phase of the conflict. Initiated after June 27, 1950, when President Harry S. Truman committed U.S. forces to support South Korea against North Korean invasion, the war produced extensive casualties and established the first major armed confrontation of... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

African American Military History Vietnam War Multiracial U.S. Army Unit Photographs from Sergeant Vandergriff Tour of Duty 1970 to 1971

by African American Troops in Vietnam

1970. Vandergriff, Sergeant. Vietnam War photographs, 1970 to 1971, document integrated U.S. Army service during a period when African American troops were serving in substantial numbers in combat units and negotiating both military duty and racial dynamics within the ranks. The images record a tour of duty from basic training through the final days before return home, placing the archive within the later phase of the Vietnam War when troop morale, racial tension, and antiwar sentiment were all intensifying... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Civil Rights Movement and State Power Illinois National Guard Press Photo Archive Documenting Chicago Unrest and Military Mobilization 1936 to 1984

by Civil Rights Chicago Riots

1936. Illinois National Guard press photograph archive, 1936-1984, documenting the Guard's role as both military reserve force and instrument of state authority across mid twentieth century American conflicts and civil crises. The images place the Guard within major domestic flashpoints in Illinois, including deployment during the 1966 Chicago disturbances, the 1968 unrest following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and security operations during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. These photographs provide direct visual evidence of state military presence... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

African American Military History Integrated U.S. Army 17th Field Artillery Battalion NCO Academy Photographs Featuring Command Sergeant Major Barber ca 1960s to 1970s

by African American Troops in Vietnam

1950. Barber, Command Sergeant Major. U.S. Army 17th Field Artillery Battalion photographs, circa 1960s to 1970s, document integrated military training and the advancement of an African American senior noncommissioned officer within the post-desegregation Army. The images center on activities at a Noncommissioned Officer Academy and within field environments, placing the archive within the period following the formal integration of the U.S. military and during the era of the Vietnam War. The repeated presence of Barber in both instructional and... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

The Movement [35 issues]

San Francisco: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California; later The Movement Press, 1969. Thirty-five issues of the tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, otherwise generally very good condition. Issues present are vol. 1 no. 5 (edgeworn), vol. 2 nos. 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11; vol. 3 nos. 1, 2, 4-8, 10-12; vol. 4 nos. 3-5, 7-12; vol. 5 nos. 1-3, 5-10. A wide-ranging and highly important activist publication of the period, with issues in this group addressing the rise... Read More

Offered by Bolerium Books Inc.

Early Vietnam War Era Indigenous Communities and Street Life in South Vietnam, 1950s-60s

by Vietnam War; Indigenous Peoples

1950. Vietnam photographs of Indigenous highland communities, urban street life, and Western contact, likely made in the 1950s or early 1960s, before the large-scale arrival of American combat troops in 1965. The group belongs most plausibly to the early U.S. advisory period, when American personnel were present in Vietnam from 1950 and increasingly active in South Vietnam after 1955, but still long before the main combat escalation of the war. The juxtaposition of images highlight both upland Indigenous people... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Grandma Wore Combat Boots

by BROWN, Nettie Cardoza

El Centro, California: El Centro Printing Co, 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Staining on the wrappers, slight spotting on the first page, and a stamp on the title page else about very good. Signed by the author. "A look at the Viet-nam War by a woman hometown newspaper editor." According to the introduction Fresno native, Annette "Nettie" Brown, had a decades long career in journalism which included "two weeklies."... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Taurus." Signed Limited Edition.

by [Silkscreen, Mixed Media]. WEEGE, William.

No place [Madison, Wisconsin ?], publshed by the artist, 1969. Original 1969 screenprint/ mixed media on thick paper measuring 38.5 inches by 28 inches depicting a defiant woman (quite likely the artist's first wife) with sword in hand. Pencil signed and dated lower right, titled lower left, number 22 of 35 copies. A Fine example. William Weege (American, 1935 - 2020) got his start in the mid 1960's with posters promoting counterculture & and opposition to the Vietnam... Read More

If I Die in a Combat Zone (First Edition)

by Tim O'Brien

New York: Delacorte, 1973. First Edition. First Edition. Tim O'Brien's first book, a memoir of his experiences as an infantry soldier in Vietnam. Near Fine in a strong Very Good plus dust jacket. Endpapers faintly faded at the edges. Jacket has a shallow chip on the crown, and a few small scuffs on the front and spine panels.

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

U.S. Military History Coons Family WWII and Vietnam Air Force Archive 1942 to 1969 Documenting Generational Service and Cultural Change

by Air Force Father and Son's Military Archive: WWII and Vietnam

1942. Coon, Clarence; Coon, Michael. Coons family Air Force service archive, 1942-1944 and 1968-1969, documents two generations of American military experience across World War II and the Vietnam War, offering direct evidence of shifting military culture, wartime attitudes, and generational identity within a single family. Clarence Coon's New York, World War II service as an engineer gunner in the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy situates the archive within the Allied air campaign over Europe, while his son Michael Coon's... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Report on the War in Vietnam (as of 30 June 1968). Section I: Report on Air and Naval Campaigns against North Vietnam and Pacific Command-Wide Support of the War June 1964-July 1968. By Admiral U. S. G. Sharp, Commander in Chief Pacific. Section II: Report on Operations in South Vietnam January 1964-June 1968 By General W. C. Westmoreland, Commander U. S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam

by (Vietnam)

[Washington]: Government Printing Office, 1968. First edition. Maps (some folding), charts and diagrams, photographs, Index laid in at the back. 1 vols. 4to. Original blue cloth gilt. Some light soiling of cloth, warping of volume and light marginal browning of text, else a very good copy of this work. First edition. Maps (some folding), charts and diagrams, photographs, Index laid in at the back. 1 vols. 4to. INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM WESTMORELAND TO HEDLEY DONOVAN, former editor-in-chief of Time... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

Black U.S. Army Soldier's Vietnam Era Photo Album, 92 Photographs from Virginia and Vietnam, late 1960s to early 1970s

by African American Military ; Vietnam

1960. Black U.S. Army soldier's photo album documenting home and military life between Virginia and Vietnam in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Black servicemen moved through the formally desegregated Army during the first major U.S. war fought after official military integration. Centered a young black enlisted man, the album tracks the life of service through photos at camp, soldiers in formation, military equipment, helicopters, and with portraits alongside other soldiers. Though the Korean War was the first U.S.... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Four More Years? Four More Years

by [VIETNAM] HAEBERLE, Ronald L. (photograph)

N.p.: Artists' and Writers' Protest / Colorcraft, Inc, [1972]. First Edition. Original photographic poster, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring 96.5cm x 63.5cm (ca.38" x 25"). Some minor handling, trivial wear to extremities, else very Near Fine / A (unbacked). One of the most gruesome and effective pieces of propaganda to emerge during the Vietnam War, reproducing a photograph taken during the My Lai Massacre by U.S. Army photographer Sgt. Ronald L. Haeberle. This and other iconic... Read More

Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Alice's Restaurant (Three original photographs from the 1969 film)

by Arlo Guthrie, Michael McLanahan, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick, Pete Seeger (starring); Arthur Penn (director, screenwriter); Venable Herndon (screenwriter)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1969 film. Included are: (1) a shot of Arlo Guthrie on a motorcycle next to Michael McLanahan, (2) a shot of director Arthur Penn, producer Hillard Elkins and another crew member on motorcycles, (3) a shot of McLanahan, Penn, and actress Patricia Quinn working on a scene, (4) Guthrie with Quinn, and (5) Guthrie with a donkey and members of... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Model Shop (Three original photographs, two of Jacques Demy and Anouk Aimee, and one of Demy with a crew member, from the set of the 1969 film)

by Jacques Demy (director, screenwriter); Anouk Aimee, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1969 film. Provenance stamps of film scholar and author J. P. Berthome on versos of all three, and one with a National Film Archive stamp on the verso. Demy's first English language film, recently a subject of renewed interest in two different documentaries about the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late 1960s. A young, discontented man in a dead-end relationship learns his draft... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Twenty-Four Original Photographs of President Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery

by [John F. Kennedy]

[Washington, D.C.]: n.p., 1961. very good +.. Taken Veteran's Day, November 11, 1961, these images document Kennedy's first presidential visit to Arlington National Cemetery. The president was accompanied by Major General Paul A. Gavan, Commanding General of the Military District of Washington, as well as the VA administrator John S. Gleason, and military aides General Chester Clifton, Colonel Godfrey McHugh, Captain Tazewell Shepard, and National Commander of the Legion of Valor Thomas Stirling. These images document the president's... Read More

Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Chicago Antiwar Protest and Police Violence, Photo Archive 1968-69

by Chicago Antiwar Protests

1968. Chicago antiwar protest press archive documenting the city's most volatile Vietnam-era demonstrations, centered on the 1968 Democratic National Convention and its aftermath. Protesters gathered in Grant Park, outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel, and near convention sites to oppose the Vietnam War and challenge the Democratic Party's handling of the conflict. The archive records the street-level confrontation that made Chicago a national symbol of police violence, televised disorder, and generational opposition to the war. Photo archive of 10... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

HAIR. The American Tribal Love Rock Musical by Gerome Ragni and James Rado.

by (BROADWAY MUSICAL)

HAIR. The American Tribal Love Rock Musical by Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Original typescript created prior to off-Broadway production by Studio Duplicating Service Inc (446 West 44th Street, NYC), title gilt-stamped and recessed on upper cover, title-page "copyright 1966" listing contact details for Authors and Producer, collates [i], 1-45, 2-27, bound in teal cartridge wrappers with double-rivets, small tears along outer wrapper edges but no loss. An icon in establishing the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the... Read More

Offered by Battledore Ltd.

Civil Rights Movement and Anti Vietnam War Protest: "Honor His Memory Stop the War Now" Poster Quoting Martin Luther King Jr., 1971

by Anti-War and Civil Rights

1971. Honor His Memory, April 2, 3, 4, Stop the War Now. National Peace Action Coalition. Washington, DC: National Peace Action Coalition, April 2, 1971. Poster invoking the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to mobilize public opposition to the Vietnam War during the period of intensified antiwar demonstrations in the United States. King had become one of the most prominent critics of the war before his assassination in 1968, arguing that the conflict diverted resources from domestic anti... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Bring the War Home! Chicago - Oct. 11 [1969]

by Students for a Democratic Society - DAYS OF RAGE

Chicago: SDS, [Sept./Oct.][1969]. Stapled - as issued.. Very good; some fading to the ink color with occasional spotting.. 4to, 8 stapled sheets (including cover/title); printed recto only; multigraphed in purple ink at the SDS office at 1608 W. Madison in Chicago. It meas. 280 x 217 mm. A year after the infamous Chicago Democratic convention of August 1968 the SDS planned a week long event in Chicago. A "National Action" - street protests in Chicago against the continuing war in... Read More

Offered by Palinurus Antiquarian Books

If I Die in a Combat Zone (First Edition, inscribed)

by Tim O'Brien

New York: Delacorte, 1973. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper: "To Bill Hedeen / Best wishes [and] I hope you like the book / Regards / Tim O'Brien." The author's first book, a memoir of his experiences as an infantry soldier in Vietnam. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket evenly age toned, with a diagonal crease affecting the front flap, and light soil on the spine panel.... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.