[Folk Art]: Wooden Scroll Work Patriotic Picture Frame with Photos of American Servicemen

Unbound. Very Good. Elaborate scrollwork folk art display which houses photographs of seven American serviceman, presumably all members of the same family, who served in the military during World War II or the Vietnam War. While the servicemen are not identified, the dates of their individual service are written in ballpoint ink on the sides of each image (four during WWII and three from the early stages of the Vietnam War, with the last date being 1966). The... Read More

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AIR VIETNAM | COLLECTION OF FORMER PILOT'S WRITING AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE

by Craig, Michael W.

c1968. Group of letters, photographs, and rare firsthand accounts of experiences of Air Vietnam pilot. Michael W. Craig flew with Pan American Airways for 29 years being based in New York; Berlin, Germany; Miami; Hong Kong and Saigon, Vietnam. Under the direction of the State Department, he became a Pan Am pilot volunteer flying for Air Vietnam in 1968. This collection includes the following: 1. Two 3 in. x 6 in. photographs ... Read More

Offered by Second Story Books

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Brown, Dee

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Scarce advance review copy with publisher's slip and 2 page promotional document laid in. xxii, 487 pp. Bound in publisher's orange over black cloth stamped in red gilt and turquoise. Near Fine with light wear to extremities and small stain to front board. Foxing to textblock edges and rear board, the latter scarcely noticeable; a touch of soiling to rear endpapers. In... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

World Outlook: Perspective Mondiale. Un Service de Presse Ouvrier/A Labor Press Service. Vol. I, No. 1 (27 September 1963) through Vol. VI, No. 16 (26 April 1968)

A near-complete run in 187 of a total of 189 published issues (lacking only 2 issues: Vol. I, No. 8 and Vol. II, No. 37) of the international Trotskyist political journal before its name changed to Intercontinental Press, under the editorial direction of Joseph Hansen, Pierre Frank, Livia Maitan, and George Novack, published under the auspices of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International and covering world political struggles and major events including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 1968... Read More

Offered by Bernett Rare Books

[North Vietnamese Propaganda Poster] “Thi ?ua ?ánh M? – USAF” [Compete to fight the Americans!]

1968. Fine. Color stencil poster (17” x 25 ¼”). A striking North Vietnamese wartime poster, hand painted with color stencils, with the artist’s name in the image. Captioned in English in light pencil on verso: “Compete to fight the Americans!” Slight toning at top and bottom edges, fine. The poster likely dates from just prior to the 1968 Tet Offensive, when North Vietnam launched a surprise offensive against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The poster’s caption... Read More

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Archive of Letters & Typescripts: 1965-1977

by CAPUTO, Philip

Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A small correspondence from Philip Caputo, the author of *A Rumor of War* to his friend and financial adviser Gerald Weiner and Weiner’s wife Barbara. The collection consists of two Autograph Letters Signed, one Typed Letter Signed, two Typed Poems Signed, and three pages of photomechanically reproduced financial information. Old folds as mailed, but mostly fine with original envelopes. 1. ALS. Four pages. In the first letter Caputo writes insightfully and in detail... Read More

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[Press Photographs]: Secretary of the Army under Lyndon B. Johnson

by AILES, Stephen

1965. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong quarto measuring 12" x 8.5". Black cloth over boards. Contains 111 black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring 8" x 10" with typed captions on the verso. Album is near fine with some rubbing and fine linen-backed photographs. An extensive collection of press photographs documenting over a year, between 1964 and 1965, in the career of the then Secretary of the Army under Lyndon Johnson, Stephen Ailes. The photographs are housed in... Read More

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U.S. Army Interrogation and Counterintelligence Doctrine Archive, Vietnam and Cold War, 1972-1989

by U.S. Army Interrogation and Counterintelligence

1972. US Army manuals on counterintelligence, interrogation, and combat. FM 30-17 Counterintelligence Operations, FM 30-15 Intelligence Interrogation, FM 30-5 Combat Intelligence, and the Fort Huachuca subcourse Counterintelligence Investigations trace the Army's printed intelligence doctrine from January 1972 to June 1989. The sequence begins after the Army established Military Intelligence as a distinct professional branch in 1962 and after the Military Intelligence Corps relocated its school to Fort Huachuca in 1971. By 1989, the printed curriculum had shifted from broad... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Le Viet-Nam et sa civilisation. [And:] Le Viet-Nam au combat. Nationalisme contre Communisme. [And:] Le Viet-Nam face a son destin. [And:] Le Viet-Nam immortel

by (VIETNAM) Tùng, Tran Van

Paris: Édition de la Belle Page, 1950. First editions, from the limited issues, each inscribed by the author. 4 vols. 8vo. Printed wrappers, some light toning. First editions, from the limited issues, each inscribed by the author. 4 vols. 8vo. Collection of four works interpreting Vietnam for a contemporary French public, written during the First Indochinese War by Tran Van Tùng (1915-post-1964), a France-based Vietnamese author and nationalist who became secretary general of the Democratic Party of Vietnam,... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

Unpublished Vietnam War Photograph Album; With Works from the Australian Army Public Relations Service and the United States Army

by [Vietnam War]

1968. Photograph Album. Hardcover. Very good. Unpublished Vietnam War correspondent photographs, depicting military personnel, prisoners of war, battle zones, and various graphic scenes of Vietnam in the late 1960s.. 123 black and white photographs. Housed in red leatherette three-ring binder with gilt borders and bands, measures 11" x 11" x 2.5". Images affixed to self-adhesive magnetic photo sleeves. Wear and rubbing to binder, secure metal rings. A few loose photos, some mylar peeling on sleeves. Some photographs with... Read More

Offered by The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Cold War Era Archive of U.S. Army Intelligence Manuals on Soviet Army , 1970s-80s

by U.S. Army Intelligence on Soviet Army

1974. [Cold War] [U.S. Defense] Official U.S. Army intelligence and doctrinal publications on Soviet equipment and artillery produced at key Cold War moments when Soviet conventional forces, missile technology, and weapons systems were undergoing rapid modernization. These publications illustrate how American military institutions trained analysts and officers to identify Warsaw Pact weapons systems and to interpret Soviet organizational doctrine at a time when NATO planners were assessing conventional force balances and missile developments across Europe. Archive of 5... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

[Photographs]: Soldier's Candid and Experimental Photographs during the Vietnam War-Era

by Name Withheld

Berlin, Germany, 1970. Unbound. Very Good. A collection of 2075 black and white photographs of a U.S. soldier stationed in Germany during Vietnam along with images from his work as a photo technician with the military contractor Raytheon. The photographs, measuring approximately between 2.5” x 3” and 8.5” x 11”, are very good with dried glue on some of the versos and some rolled, and some with captions. A substantial archive of photographs taken by a skill... Read More

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THE SHORT-TIMERS

by Hasford, Gustav

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Rare inscribed first edition of the ex-Marine's brief and brutal semi-autobiographical novel - basis for Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET. Hasford joined the Marine Corps in 1966, shortly after having "refused to graduate from high school" because he "didn't want to validate what they were doing." Assigned to a North Carolina base as a military journalist, he applied to go to Vietnam -... Read More

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Happy Birthday, Wanda June

by Vonnegut, Kurt

New York: Delacorte Press, 1971 Illustrated with photos by Jill Krementz and Bert Andrews. First edition, first printing. One of 3,000 copies. Inscribed by Vonnegut on half-title page. Publisher's black cloth, with red foil trident to front board, spine lettered in bronze, and orange endpapers; in its original black dust jacket, with red trident to front panel, lettered in white and yellow, and photo of Vonnegut to rear panel taken by Jill Krementz. About fine book, with a tiny hole... Read More

Offered by B & B Rare Books, Ltd.

With the Momentous Tet Offensive Just Hours Away, President Lyndon B. Johnson Thanks a Democratic National Committeewoman for Supporting His Policies on the Vietnam War and Domestically

by Lyndon B. Johnson

29/01/1968. “I take your letter and statement supporting my State of the Union address as evidence of the strength America brings to challenge. Your leadership has seldom been more vital to all our hopes.”By the dawn of 1968, vocal opposition to the Vietnam War in the United States was increasing significantly, and would very soon reach a fever pitch. This would be fueled by the Tet Offensive on January 30, media coverage, and growing casualties. Public approval of President... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

The Pentagon Papers: William Bundy's Annotated Copy

by VIETNAM WAR

William Bundy's 5-volume set of the "Senator Gravel Edition" of the Pentagon Papers, with annotations, marginal notes, and two legal-size pages with handwritten notes arranged chronologically. [VIETNAM WAR]. Books. The Pentagon Papers. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971-1972. First Editions. Five paperback books, volumes I-IV in green printed covers, volume V in orange. 5¾ x 9 inches each. Pages varies by volume. Volume V (Critical Essays, edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn) has a Beacon Press... Read More

Offered by Seth Kaller, Inc.

All Honorable Men

by Martin, James Stewart

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Association copy signed by James Stewart Martin on the half-title and inscribed to Senator Wayne Morse. viii, [2], 326 pp. Bound in publisher's light green cloth stamped in dark red. Near Fine with very light edgewear and edge toning, light cup ring to front board, and small smudge to front free endpaper. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel,... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Arrêtés, décisions et circulaires sur le commerce de l'opium et des eaux-de-vie de riz en Cochinchine

by Dupré, Marie Jules

Saigon: Imprimerie de Gouvernement, 1878. First Edition. 24pp. 4to. Original printed yellow wrappers. Very good condition. First Edition. 24pp. 4to. The French government of French Cochinchina (present-day southern Vietnam) funded its occupation primarily through three state-controlled monopolies: opium, salt, and alcohol. This publication prints several regulations dating from 13 January 1870 to 8 September 1877. The regulation from 5 October 1871 relates to all alcohol made from rice (including sake), is signed by Commander Adimral Dupré and specifies... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought

by Arendt, Hannah

New York: The Viking Press, 1969. Very Good+. Second printing of revised paperback edition. Association copy signed by Hannah Arendt on the first page; Hans Morgenthau's copy from his family estate, although unmarked. [x], 306 pp. Bound in publisher's purple wraps. Very Good+ with moderate wear to covers, light soiling to textblock edges, and light toning to contents; binding firm. A rare signed copy of eight essays by the German-American political theorist and philosopher, from the library... Read More

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U.S. Army Intelligence Training & Soviet Combat Tactics Analysis Archive During Cold War Years: 1956-1984

by U.S. Military Intelligence Analysis

1956. [Cold War] [U.S. Military Intelligence] U.S. Army and Defense Intelligence Agency manuals documenting the evolution of American military intelligence doctrine from the early Cold War through the late détente period, with sustained focus on Soviet military organization, combat intelligence, subversion theory, and battlefield operations under the shadow of nuclear warfare. Produced between 1956 and 1984, the manuals span the formative decades of nuclear strategy, from the post-Korean War consolidation of atomic doctrine, through the Berlin and Cuban Missile... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Robert Kennedy Seeks to Document Camelot: “The years in which John Kennedy was active”

by Robert Kennedy

8/4/65. He writes, as the Kennedy family starts to collect materials for the planned John F. Kennedy Library, “I am confident that these interviews will be an invaluable part of the historical record…”Lewellyn E. Thompson was one of the most important American diplomats of the 20th Century.  He was the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, serving two separate tours in the administrations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy,... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

To Heal and to Build; The Programs of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Edited by James MacGregor Burns

by Johnson, Lyndon B. [Vance, Cyrus]

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/fine. First edition of To Heal and to Build: The Programs of President Lyndon B. Johnson inscribed to future Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance.. Octavo, xiv, 506pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt and red. Stated "first edition" on copyright page, with no later printings noted. Top edge dyed yellow, faint sunning to top quarter of cloth, a near fine example. In the publisher's fine dust... Read More

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[Archive]: Vietnam War Protest Flyers From the First and Second Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam Marches

New York, Baltimore, Washington D.C., 1969. Unbound. Very Good. A collection of 62 flyers measuring between 3" x 3.5" and 8" x 11" and three buttons from Vietnam War protests in 1969 all housed in a contemporary binder with "10/15/69 Vietnam" written in black marker on the spine. All items very good or better with some edgewear, tiny tears, and toning. An archive of flyers, pamphlets, and buttons from Vietnam War protests and anti-war organizations in between... Read More

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Hell No! Nobody Goes!! End the War! [Stop the Draft Week Portfolio Photo Collection]

by Anderson, David; Bagby, Beth; Charyn, Marlese; Hettenbach, Stephen; McChesney, John; Ruffa, Tine; Sharpe, Maitland; Springman, Chris; Warren, William

Palo Alto, CA: Midpeninsula Observer, 1967. Fine. Stop the Draft Week Portfolio Photo Collection. Small folio. Original printed paper wrapper with inner sleeves holding a loose suite of twenty photographs, including three double-page, documenting protestors and police clashing at the "Stop the Draft Week" protests in Oakland on October 16-20, 1967. Monochromatic photographs printed in a variety of colors on variously colored sheets, with images by David Anderson, Beth Bagby, Marlene Charyn, Stephen Hettenbach, John McChesney, Tina Ruffa,... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Torch April 71 - March 72. State University of New York

Albany: State University of New York, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. Beige suede printed in brown. A trifle soiled, very near fine. In the annals of college year books this represents the apex of the art. According to Martin Parr, in an article for *Time* entitled: "The Best Photobooks About America": “One of the unsung achievements of American publishing are the college annuals, especially the ones produced in the 60/70’s. Just recently I found the best... Read More

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