SAND PEBBLES, THE (Nov 1, 1965) Shooting script by Robert Anderson

by Robert Anderson

[Hollywood]: Twentieth Century Fox, November 1, 1965. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), 188 pp., printed wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph. There is much wear and spotting to yapped wrappers, especially at edges and along spine, with blank back wrapper detached although present. This script was heavily used by a crew member from the wardrobe department, with extensive annotations throughout in marker or pen to indicate what the characters were wearing. Also, many pages have... Read More

Offered by Walter Reuben, Inc.

Plows Not Guns for Vietnam: Hand Silkscreened Anti-War Poster

by Newman, Earl (Artist)

No Place: Earl Newman Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 23" x 35". RARE. No place ( Venice, California), no date ( 1963), original and powerful Earl Newman anti-Vietnam War poster. Near Fine, faint creasing, 2' area of discoloration around "G" in Guns. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube..

Offered by Dale Steffey Books

Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy

by McNamara, Robert S.; James G. Blight, Robert K. Brigham, et al.

New York: PublicAffairs, 1999. Near Fine/Fine. First edition, second printing. Association copy signed by Robert S. McNamara on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach "To Lydia and Nick, two of my dearest friends, with immense admiration and great affection," with date 5/22/99. xxiii, [5], 479, [2] pp. Near Fine with light wear and edge toning to covers, slight bumping to corners, and several tiny stains to upper edge of textblock. In Fine... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Two Portraits of Claes Oldenburg, circa 1969

by OLDENBURG, Claes. (Joel Katz, photographer)

[Connecticut, 1969. Near Fine. Two gelatin silver prints (20” x 14 ½”) and (19 ½” x 14”), each Signed by the photographer. A few tiny specks on the image surface of one print, the smaller print is a little unevenly trimmed at the blank margins, near fine. Two large, striking images of the Swedish-born American sculptor Claes Oldenburg, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. The photographs were likely taken... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Cold War Military Technology Photograph Archive Documenting United States Small Arms and Ammunition Development at Lake City, MO Army Ammunition Plant

by Remington; Colt; and Gatling

1969. United States military weapons and ammunition development documented in a group of photographs produced during the Cold War era at or associated with the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Missouri, circa late 1960s to early 1970s. The plant was established in 1941 to manufacture and test small caliber ammunition for the United States Army and remained a central component of the American military supply system throughout World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War.... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

[Original Art]: Six Large Vietnam War-Themed Political Cartoons

by CANFIELD, Bil

[Likely Newark, New Jersey]: The Author / [*Newark News*, 1965. Unbound. Near Fine. Original art. Six ink and crayon drawings of slightly varying sizes—approximately 10" x 11"—on card stock of slightly varying sizes, the largest being 15" x 18". Titles in pencil with some penciled editorial notes, four sheets with the lower right corner clipped, light wear and soil with the blank versos modestly soiled, a near fine collection. Each cartoon is Signed by Canfield in ink. ... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Vietnam War Social History Photo Archive Showing Civilian Displacement, Military Presence, and Rural Life

by War and Vietnamese Civilians

1960. Vietnam War press photographs dating from the 1960s through the 1970s document the impact of prolonged conflict on civilian populations in Vietnam. The war involved sustained military operations by North Vietnamese forces, the South Vietnamese government, and the United States military, producing widespread destruction and displacement throughout the country. Photographs of the period frequently recorded both military activity and the experiences of civilians living amid warfare, including refugees, religious protest movements, and the persistence of daily life within... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr Conscience for Change Massey Lectures 1968 Addressing Vietnam War and Nonviolence

by Martin Luther King Jr.

1968. King Jr., Martin Luther. Conscience for Change published in 1968 presents a series of lectures delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Toronto during the final year of his life. The lectures form part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Massey Lectures series and address several central political and moral questions of the late 1960s including the struggle for civil rights in the United States, the growing opposition to the Vietnam War, the role of youth activism, and... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

[Photo Album]: 73rd Aviation Company Vietnam

Vietnam, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong quarto. Measuring 14" x 10". Spiral bound purple cloth photo album with "Photo Album" in silver on the front board. A collection of 49 black and white or sepia toned photographs affixed to stiff black paper measuring between 2.5" x 3.5" to 9.5" x 9.5" without captions. All photographs are near fine or better in a very good album with worn edges. The photo album of the "Mohawk" helicopter crew members from... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

The Strength of Government; The Godkin Lectures at Harvard University

by Bundy, McGeorge [McNamara, Robert]

Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/near fine. Association copy between the chief architects of the Vietnam War. First edition of The Strength of Government by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, inscribed to the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.. Small octavo, xii, [2], 113pp. White cloth, title stamped in black and red on spine. The first edition, first printing, with no additional printings on the copyright page. Foxing along top edge of... Read More

Offered by The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Walk Me to the Distance [Signed]

by Percival Everett

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped dust jacket; [8],209pp. Moderate wear to jacket and board margins with a few tiny closed tears to the former, brief finger soil to front free endpaper, else a Very Good and sound copy. Signed by the author on title page. The author's second novel, preceded only by "Suder" (1983).... Read More

Offered by Capitol Hill Books

A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers

by Thoreau, Henry David

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. [iv], 286 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in publisher's zigzag textured green cloth. Ex-libris of J.A. Perkins Jr., Montreal. Front inner hinge tender, light rubbing to spine ends. Very good. First edition. [iv], 286 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Includes the first appearance in a volume of Thoreau's writings of "Civil Disodedience," which, "through its impact on Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., the anti-Nazi movement in Europe in the 1940s, and... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

Civil Rights and Peace Activism Martin Luther King Jr. Addresses on Vietnam and American Foreign Policy 1967 to 1968

by Martin Luther King

1968. King, Martin Luther Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam, published 1968, presents a compilation of public addresses delivered during the final year of King's life in which he articulated his opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. King had emerged as the most visible leader of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1960s, and by 1967 he increasingly connected civil rights activism with broader questions... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

The Movement [51 issues]

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

Offered by Bolerium Books Inc.

Coming Home (Original screenplay for the 1978 film)

by Hal Ashby (director); Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones (screenwriters); Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern (starring)

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to Lucile Jones, credited in the film as a "friend who did everything," with her first name in manuscript ink on the title page. Laid in with the screenplay are three photographs from the set of the film: one black-and-white studio still photograph showing actors Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda, and two borderless color reference photographs of director Hal Ashby with an unknown woman (possibly Jones)... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

by Stanford, Frank

Fayetteville, AR: Mill Mountain Press / Lost Roads, No. 7-12, 1977. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of this scarce and important work of modern poetry. Publisher's white pictorial wrappers reproducing a harrowing Vietnam War photograph. Some rubbing to back cover and an ink stain to inside of front cover (not visible from exterior). A very appealing copy of a book that is not often found in this condition. A Southern poet who was prolific... Read More

Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.

Archive of Material from John White, a literary agent who admired Stockdale and worked with him for about a year after Admiral Stockdale's difficult involvement in the the 1992 Presidential Election as Ross Perot's Vice Presidential Running Mate. Some of their interaction dealt with the 7+ years (Sept. 1965 to Feb. 1973) Stockdale spent as an uncooperative POW in North Vietnam

by Stockdale, James Bond ("Jim"), U. S. Navy Vice Admiral and aviator, 1923-2005

Very Good. File folder perhaps 1.5 inches thick. Lots of photocopies and a modest exchange of correspondence.

Offered by McBlain Books

SDS New Left Notes [138 issues]

Chicago: Students for a Democratic Society, 1970. One hundred and thirty-eight issues of the tabloid format newspaper, all with horizontal fold crease; a few with mailing labels (many have address printed instead); first few issues have a stain at right edge, vol. 5 no. 4 has marker doodles. Occasional tears, vol. 4 no. 20 has a paragraph handwritten on the cover, a few have spots of Wite-out, but otherwise generally in very good condition. Issues present are: Vol 1,... Read More

Offered by Bolerium Books Inc.

You Can’t Jail the Revolution. Stop the Trial, Free the Conspiracy 8

by [Chicago 8, or Conspiracy 8, later Chicago 7]

Chicago, 1969. Poster. 24 x 20 inches. Minimal wear, fine condition. Fine. An iconic poster protesting the arrest of the Chicago 8 on conspiracy charges relating to the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention. The group, originally as eight members, consisted of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, founders of the Youth International Party (YIPPIES), Tom Hayden, a co-founder in Students for a Democratic Society, Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale (whose case would be declared a mistrial during the... Read More

Offered by Auger Down Books

TO HEAL AND TO BUILD. THE PROGRAMS OF LYNDON B. JOHNSON

by JOHNSON, Lyndon B

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs. Edited by James MacGregor Burns with commentary by Ralph Ellison, McGeorge Bundy, and others. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the President to Jean and Bob Benjamin on the page before the title page bearing the printed quote beginning "Sometimes I have been called a seeker of 'consensus." Laid in is a small envelope with the imprint "The White... Read More

Offered by Charles Agvent

World War II Letters of Colonel Albert Park Shaw from a Segregated Wartime Unit, Fort Benning Luzon Campaign and Occupation of Hokkaido, 1943 -1945

by Colonel Albert Park Shaw

1943. Shaw, Albert Park, United States Army officer correspondence documenting American ground operations in the Pacific theater during World War II and the occupation of Japan. The letters span the period from March 1943, when Shaw was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, through the final months of the war and the early occupation of Hokkaido. Shaw is in the same company as black troops, but nevertheless they remained socially and operationally segregated. Shaw served with the 6th Infantry Division... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

The 1968 Federal Budget Book Signed By LBJ As President

by LYNDON B. JOHNSON

LYNDON B. JOHNSON (1908-1973). Johnson served as the 36th President. Signed book. 475 pages. 1967. Washington. The 1968 budget signed Lyndon B. Johnson as President. Officially entitled The Budget of the United States Government For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30 1968 and published by the Government Printing Office, the budget is bound in three-quarter green leather with marbled-paper sides. President Johnson signs his name on page 38 at the end of Part 1 The Budget Message of... Read More

Offered by Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.

Civil Rights Movement Leadership: Martin Luther King Jr at Washington National Cathedral Days Before Assassination, 1968

by Martin Luther King Sermon Before Assassination

1968. King, Martin Luther, Jr., original silver gelatin press photograph taken March 31, 1968 in Washington, D.C., documents his appearance at Washington National Cathedral to deliver the sermon "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution," four days before his assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968. The image shows King on the Cathedral grounds with Dean Francis B. Sayre, Jr. and a Capitol Police officer, situating the civil rights leader within a major Episcopal institution at a moment of national... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

The Green Berets

by Moore, Robin

New York: Crown Publishers, 1965. First edition, unclipped dust jacket, 8vo, pp. [10], 341, [1]; very slight wrinkling of the jacket, else fine throughout. Inscribed by the author in green flair: "Robin Moore. This is a rare first edition - full of error & no sweat band shown on the beret on the cover. R. M.

Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

MURDER IN MOUNT HOLLY

by Theroux, Paul

London: Alan Ross, 1969. Fine in near fine jacket.. Uncommonly attractive first edition of Theroux's novel about a worthless young man shipped off to a pointless war, and the elderly sentimentalists who set out to bloodily avenge him. Theroux's third novel is a grouchy Vietnam War-era satire concerning an unwilling draftee who talks himself into a measure of self-sacrifice for the only cause that really means anything: at least, he reasons, "my death will keep that television going."... Read More

Offered by Type Punch Matrix