Free the Seattle Eight: Free Bobby Seale (Original handbill)

by Anonymous

[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1970. 4.25" x 5.5", single-sided handbill flyer. Good, horizontally creased, missing triangular chips at corners, wrinkled, toned. No other copies located in commerce or in institutional collections such as University of Washington's Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection. A scarce piece of propaganda from the American anti-Vietnam War movement, demanding the freeing of the protestors that would become famous as The Seattle Seven. On February 17, 1970 the Seattle Liberation Front organized a protest of about... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

A Group of Four Works; Including: American Express; Long Live Man; Selected Poems; War Poems

by Corso, Gregory

various: various, 1968. 4 volumes. American Express (Paris: Olympia Press, 1961)—first edition, wrappers, fine in fine dust jacket; Long Live Man (New York: New Directions, 1962)—long galley and page proofs, two sets, long sheets folded with single staple in upper right corner, pages browned with few small nicks and one long closed tear to cover sheet, else near fine; page proofs consisting of single sheets with printed rectos only, rare; Selected Poems (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962)—first edition, fine... Read More

Offered by Biblioctopus

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1st edition, 1946; 2nd edition, 1957), Baby and Child Care (3rd edition, 1968; 4th edition, 1976), Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (5th edition, 1985; 6th edition, 1992; 7th edition, 1998)

by Spock, Benjamin

1946-1998. First - 7th editions. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN PEDIATRICS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY AS TOLD BY DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK IN 7 EDITIONS OF BABY AND CHILD CARE. Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care was one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946 and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. As of 2011, the book... Read More

Offered by BioMed Rare Books, LLC

[Screenplay]: MASH

by LARDNER, Ring, Jr.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and Aspen Productions, 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Screenplay. Quarto. 141pp. Brandbound in printed blue studio wrappers marked "Final Screenplay." Title page is present and notes: "Final February 26, 1969." General wear to the extremities, mostly at the yapped foredge which has multiple creases, near fine. The Academy Award-winning screenplay for the black comedy *MASH* written by Ring Lardner, Jr. and based on Richard Hooker's novel of the same name, which followed a group of... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Some/Thing: A Vietnam Assemblage [Volume Two, Number One, Winter 1966; Andy Warhol "Bomb Hanoi" cover]

by Warhol, Andy [Cover]; David Antin; Jerome Rothenberg [Editors]; Charles Bukowski; Allen Ginsberg; Robert Duncan et al.

New York: Jerome Rothenberg & David Antin, 1966. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. The third issue of the literary and arts magazine. [80] pp. Bound in publisher's decorative wraps designed by Andy Warhol consisting of a series of perforated "Bomb Hanoi" stickers, intact. A list of contributors printed on the rear cover includes Margaret Randall added with a rubber-stamp cancel. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to covers, edges faintly toned with small closed tear to... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

[Photographs]: San Francisco in 1966

[San Francisco, 1966. Unbound. Fine. 88 silver gelatin photographs. Measuring 3.5" x 2.75". Overall fine. A collection of image in and around San Francisco during the summer of 1966. A sizable percentage of the photos document the a large downtown parade protesting the growing war in Vietnam with large crowds holding signs condemning the Johnson Administration and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, speakers standing on flatbeds trucks, and police holding protesters back and distributing billy club for crowd... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Dog Soldiers Typescript

by STONE, Robert

[Boston]: [Houghton Mifflin]. [1974]. The photocopied typescript of Stone's second novel, winner of the National Book Award and one of the best novels to link the impact of the Vietnam war on American society in the Sixties to the dark side of that era -- the official corruption and the underside of the drug experiences of a generation. Bearing the [now crossed out] working title: Skydiver Devoured By Starving Birds. The title appears in a scene in the novel; it... Read More

Offered by Ken Lopez - Bookseller

Typed Letter Signed and Book Review [The Launch of a Pulitzer Prize Winning Author]

by BUTLER, Robert Olen; CLARK, Tom

1982. A typed letter signed by Butler to poet Tom Clark, regarding Clark's review of Butler's first book. In 1981, Butler, who would later win the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, published his first book, The Alleys of Eden. It was reviewed by Clark in the February 11, 1982 Los Angeles Times, with the headline "Vietnamization of a Deserter's Mind." On May 12, Butler wrote to Clark, saying, in part: "I have... Read More

Offered by Ken Lopez - Bookseller

President Dwight Eisenhower Thanks Leader Of National Council Of Churches During The Hungary And Suez Canal Crises: You May Be Certain That The United States Government Will Continue Its Efforts, Within The United Nations And In Its Relations With Other Governments, To Further The Deep Desire Of The American People That Conditions Of True And Lasting Peace Be Established In The World

by DWIGHT EISENHOWER

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (1890-1969). The Thirty-Fourth President, Eisenhower was an Allied commander in World War II, and ordered the Normandy invasion. He was elected President in 1952 for two terms.TLS. 1 pg. 8 x 10. November 30, 1956. The White House, Washington. A typed letter signed by Dwight D Eisenhower to Reverend Eugene Carson Blake, D.D.: Thank you very much for the telegram you sent recently on behalf of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the... Read More

Offered by Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.

African American Military History West Point Graduation Week Program 1936 Documenting Cadet Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Before Command of the Tuskegee Airmen

by Benjamin O. Davis Jr. West Point Graduation

1936. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. named in West Point graduation program of 1936, documentary evidence from the United States Military Academy marking the commissioning of the future commander of the Tuskegee Airmen and later United States Air Force general. Davis graduated from West Point in 1936 as only the fourth Black graduate in the academy's history and the first since 1889, completing his training during a period when the United States Army remained rigidly segregated. The program records Davis... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

A President's Country: A Guide to the Hill Country of Texas; Edited by Jack Maguire. With drawings by Mac Tatchell

by Johnson, Lyndon [Bundy, McGeorge]

Austin: The Alcalde Press, 1964. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. The specially bound 1964 Christmas Gift of A President's Country: A Guide to the Hill Country of Texas, inscribed by President Lyndon Johnson to National Security Advisor, McGeorge Bundy.. Twelvemo, 80pp. Full red calf, title stamped in gilt, saddle design on the front cover, gilt dentelles. Stated "First Edition 1964" on copyright page. Illustrated endpapers, appears unread. This work was edited by Jack Maguire with drawings by... Read More

Offered by The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Nhật ký trong tù [= Prison diary]

by Ho Chi Minh

[Hà Nội]: Văn hóa Viện văn học, 1960. First edition, first printing in Vietnamese of Ho's prison meditations kept while in a Chinese prison during World War II; 8vo, pp. 244, [8]; mounted frontispiece portrait of Ho with facsimile signature beneath; one other mounted portrait of Ho, and a mounted facsimile; old ownership stamp on rear flyleaf; original printed wrappers bound in contemporary and likely original three-quarter red cloth and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; text a bit toned and... Read More

Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Corrected typescript draft of his 1966 commencement address delivered at Chatham University

by McNamara, Robert

[Washington, D.C.], 1966. 19pp. Typed, with significant pencil crossouts and additions. 4to. 19pp. Typed, with significant pencil crossouts and additions. 4to. In 1966, the year of his daughter's graduation from Chatham University, Robert McNamara -- then serving as Secretary of Defense in the midst of Vietnam -- was asked to deliver the commencement address. The speech examined the role of protest in history and the effects of technological and social change. Although heavily criticized at the time... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

Tropic Thunder (Original screenplay for the 2008 film)

by Ben Stiller (director, screenwriter, starring); Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen (screenwriters); Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Tom Cruise (starring)

Universal City: Dreamworks, 2007. Revised Draft script for the 2008 film. Rainbow revision copy belonging to production coordinator Eve Honthaner, with her name in manuscript ink on the first leaf of the title page. Included with the script are numerous gatherings of production documents, including shooting schedules, call sheets, maps of filming locations, script supervisor breakdowns, and travel logs, and multiple revisions of the same. A group of narcissistic actors in the process of filming a Vietnam War... Read More

Offered by Royal Books, Inc.

Memoir of a soldier engaged in guerilla warfare in the Philippines

by (Philippines)

np, 1902. 5-[67] manuscript pages on the rectos of unbound sheets. 8 x 5 inches. Lacking the first 4 leaves and an indeterminate number at end, several leaves quite worn, each crudely taped or pasted to modern paper, and then crudely cropped at the top edge without loss of text. 5-[67] manuscript pages on the rectos of unbound sheets. 8 x 5 inches. This account consists of pages five to sixty-seven of what appears to be a diary,... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

[Photo Album]: Jewish Man's Family and Life Photo Album in New York and Virginia After WWII to Vietnam

Beacon, New York / New York City / Virginia, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Oblong octavo measuring 10" x 7". String bound red leather boards. Contains 118 gelatin silver black and white or sepia toned photographs measuring between 3.5" x 2.5" and 8.5" x 6" with captions. Pages chipped with rubbing and light wear to the board ends, near fine with fine photographs. A Jewish man's family photo album from after World War II during 1947... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ASSASSINATION ORIGINAL TELETYPE PAGES

by [KING, Martin Luther, Jr.] [Martin Luther King, Jr.]

5 April 1968. Document. Light, expected wear for these fragile items; paper yellowed. Very Good. Group of original teletype dispatches dated 5 April 1968 covering the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comprised of three pieces. 1. Third World News Roundup (8-1/2" x 28-1/2"). "A stunned nation reacts to the death of Martin Luther King ... President Johnson reacts by calling Negro leaders to the White House ... For the moment, at least, no one is sure... Read More

Offered by Charles Agvent

LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON TESTIMONIAL [Spine Title]

by [JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines] ELLISON, Ralph; McNAMARA, Robert; ROCKEFELLER, Nelson; et. al

New York, 13 January 1969 . First Edition. Hardcover. The first text leaf slightly dust soiled and with a few stray marks, stain to Bundy leaf (for which he apologizes in his letter), some very light other thumbsoiling. Book and chemise about Fine, some rubbing to spine of slipcase which is Near Fine. Folio (10" x 15") in contemporary blue morocco-backed cloth by James MacDonald, housed in cloth chemise and matching blue morocco-backed slipcase. The 1969 date comes... Read More

Offered by Charles Agvent

If I Die in a Combat Zone

by O'BRIEN, Tim

(New York): Delacorte, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny scratch. O'Brien's scarce first book, a classic of the Vietnam War. A beautiful copy.

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Two Contact Sheets from a 1963 John Updike Photo Shoot, printing 60 different photographs of John Updike

by [UPDIKE, John]. Ivan Massar

[Crane Beach, near Ipswich]: (Ivan Massar from Black Star), 1963. Unbound. Fine. Two vintage gelatin silver contact sheets of John Updike photographs, each measuring 8 5/8 by 11 inches. Rubberstamped on blank verso: "Credit: Ivan Massar from Black Star" and with pencil notation stating: "John Updike" and with printed notation in red ink at lower edge: "File: Updike, John" in an unknown hand. A few of the photographic images on this contact sheet were over-exposed where the photographer... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Extraordinary Typed Letter Signed about Edmond Wilson

by BERLIN, Isaiah (1909 - 1997)

Oxford, 1987. unbound. 3 pages (front and back) on "Headington House" stationery, 8.25 x 5.75 inches, Oxford, April 28, 1987. Written to noted Civil Rights attorney Howard N. Meyer, responding to an article that Meyer had written about Wilson and "Patriotic Gore," in small part: "...There was an element of permanent, as it were, un-critical radicalism in Wilson - hatred of establishments, suspicion of the motives of all public men, natural reaction to slogans and clarion calls and eloquence... Read More

Offered by Argosy Book Store

Photo Album Documenting A U.S. Army Tour of Duty in Germany

by [Anonymous]; [Francis C. Welch]

[Schweinfurt, Germany]: n.p., 1959. Contents near fine, housed in very good album.. Affectionate photo album memorializing the mostly harmless exploits of an Army coterie of proto-Beatniks, stationed in peacetime Europe and making the most of it. Photo album of a young man in the most fortunate of midcentury micro-generations, coming of draft age after the war in Korea and before the American war in Vietnam: able to treat their tour of duty as a lark, an adventure; an... Read More

Offered by Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix

Martin Luther King Jr. Speeches in Opposition to the Vietnam War in the Final Year of His Life: "My conscience leaves me no other choice...

by Martin Luther King Jr.

1968. [Civil Rights][MLK Jr.][Vietnam War][Anti-War] King, Martin Luther, Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam (1968) marks a decisive and controversial moment in the Civil Rights Movement when the famed preacher and activist voiced a strong opposition to American military intervention in Vietnam. Delivered between April 1967 and February 1968, these addresses articulate King's moral, theological, and political indictment of the Vietnam War at a moment when such criticism risked alienating... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Radical Berkeley Anti-War Archive: 1964-1970

1970. All materials are very good to near fine. 1964 Student Strikes: Typescript letter to the Regents of the University of California urginga rejection of a proposal by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate; unsigned single leaf [1964] U.S.L.O. Newsletter, no. 3 [University Students for Law and Order, Dec. 17, 1964] [x2] Typescript letter calling for U of C teacher's strike; single leaf of yellow paper "Solution or Diversion?" single typescript leaf [x2]... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

Speeches by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam

by King, Martin Luther, Jr.

New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, 1969. Near Fine. 25 pp., illustrated. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Near Fine with price written at top corner at front wrap, light toning and wear, underlining and a few notations written in pencil throughout, holograph notation inked to rear cover. Three speeches given by King denouncing the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War delivered from April 1967 to February 1968: "Vietnam and the Struggle for Human Rights" (April... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books