OVERSEAS WITH COLONEL CHARLES W HASH [Screen Title - Original 8mm Footage]

by Hash, Charles W.

Various (Fort Lewis, WA and The Pacific Theatre): n.p., 1944. Very good overall.. Freshly-discovered 8mm color film footage of World War II service - quite possibly the only entirely amateur WWII color footage by an American soldier extant - shot by Montana-native Charles W. Hash of the 41st Infantry Division. Hash (b. 26 May 1910, d. 26 Feb 1998) enlisted in the Army in 1930, served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, earning multiple decorations, including the... Read More

Offered by Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix

Album of letters to Robert McNamara, from American government or world leaders, including Earl Warren, Indira Gandhi, Walter Mondale, Dean Rusk, Henry Ford II, Henry Kissinger, Nelson Rockefeller, Katherine Graham, Coretta Scott King, and more

by (McNamara, Robert (1916-2009))

vp, vd. 8vo & 4to. In blue plastic folder, Generally in fine condition. 8vo & 4to. Including: Walter Mondale. TLS 1 page April 6, 1983. reading in part, "President Reagan's defense buildup is outsized and wasteful by any measure. Leading members of his own party concur on this judgement..." Another Mondale 1 page TLS Januray 1, 1983 on regime change in South Africa reading in part, "The only question is whether it will be evolutionary... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

[College Yearbooks]: Torch 1971 [and] Torch April 71 - March 72. State University of New York

Albany: State University of New York, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine. First and only editions. Folios. 1971 is thick blue buckram illustrated in white; 1972 is beige suede decorated in brown. 1972 is a trifle soiled, else each volume is just about fine. In the annals of college year books these two represent 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... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Robert Kennedy Discourages a Write-In Campaign in 1964

by ROBERT F. KENNEDY

"President Johnson should be free to select his own running mate" ROBERT F. KENNEDY. Typed Document. Draft press release, extensive corrections and addenda in Robert Kennedy's hand. n.d., [ca. March 5, 1964]. 1 page, 8 x 8 5/8 in. Complete Transcript There have been a number of inquiries about the Attorney General's views on the campaign to write in his name for the Office of Vice President in the primary election in New Hampshire next week. ... Read More

Offered by Seth Kaller, Inc.

Cold War Missile Engineering and Rocket Testing Archive Redstone Arsenal and White Sands Missile Range Archive, 1950s-70s

by U.S. Army Missile Testing Redstone Arsenal/ White Sands

1950. This exceptionally dense technical archive documents U.S. Army rocket and missile development during the height of the Cold War and Vietnam War, originating from the estate of a retired aerospace engineer, Thomas T. Howell, affiliated with the U.S. Army Missile Command, with direct work conducted at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The materials capture the applied, test-driven reality of American rocketry at the moment when battlefield rocket systems, solid-fuel propulsion, and rapid-deployment tactical... Read More

Offered by Max Rambod Inc.

Ch’ugye kasŭng 秋溪家乘 [Family Records of Ch’ugye]

by CH’U, Se-mun 秋世文

23, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3, 22, 24, 12; 38, 28, 16; 15, 1, 20, 9 folding leaves. Five full-page woodblock maps. Woodblock-printed. Five kwŏn in three volumes. Small folio (384 x 202 mm.), orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers, with handwritten titles on upper covers, old stitching. Daegu: Inhŭngjaesa, 1869. First edition of this famous biography of the 13th-century Korean scholar Ch’u Chŏk 秋適 (1246-1317), which establishes him as the author of the famous Myŏngsim pogam 明心寶鑑 [Ch.... Read More

Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.

[Photo Album]: North Vietnamese Diplomatic Presentation Album "Doan Dai bieu Chinh Phu nuoc cong hai Tiep Khac" [Delegation from the Government of Czechoslovakia]

by Ho Chi Minh

North Vietnam, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong folio. Measuring 17" x 12". String-tied brown cloth. Contains 58 gelatin silver photographs measuring between 3½" x 4½" and 7" x 9" without captions. Includes tissue guards and waxed-paper title leaf specially printed in gold. Hanoi art studio label affixed on the rear pastedown. Very good album with rubbing and edgewear with near fine photographs. An official presentation photograph album commemorating the state visit of Viliam Siroky (1902-1971), Prime Minister... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

President Lyndon Johnson Explains His Decision to Not Run Again: ""The deep belief that our people will now bind themselves to the nation's interest, setting it above any personal or partisan consideration""

by Lyndon B. Johnson

11/4/68. As 1968 dawned, nobody doubted that Johnson would run for a second term as President, and indeed his name was entered in early primaries with his consent. However, early 1968 was tumultuous and events were fast-moving and unpredictable. On January 30, the North Vietnamese launched the massive Tet Offensive, a surprise attack on South Vietnamese and American forces that reached from every province in Vietnam right into the American embassy itself. Although U.S. and South Vietnamese forces claimed... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

LOST & FOUND

by ELY, TIMOTHY, Binder and Illustrator. BERRIGAN, DANIEL, S. J.

[Montclair, New Jersey]: Caliban Press, 1989. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 125 COPIES SIGNED by Ely and Berrigan. 235 x 160 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). [10] leaves. UNIQUE BLACK MOROCCO BY TIMOTHY ELY, covers with inlaid red morocco frame enclosing a leather panel with a color illustration onlaid onto a metallic black material, the covers accented with geometric figures in colored metallics and blind tooling, smooth spine, black metallic handmade endpapers, top edges a metallic gray. In... Read More

Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts

Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

by Milgram, Stanley

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Association copy signed by Stanley Milgram on the front free endpaper and inscribed to famous jurist and political scientist Hans Morgenthau, "with warm good wishes to a man of profound perception, dazzling intellect, and humane values." xvii, [3], 224 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with very light wear and edge fading to covers and faint staining... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

As We Remember Joe

by KENNEDY John F.

1945. First Edition. Signed. KENNEDY, John F. As We Remember Joe. Cambridge, MA: Privately printed at the University Press, 1945. Octavo, original maroon cloth. $7500.First edition, second issue (of only 250 copies), of this warm tribute to the eldest of the Kennedy brothers, edited by John F. Kennedy, privately printed for family and friends, signed and inscribed by Bobby Kennedy on the front free endpaper to Maxwell Taylor, one of the most important figures in the Vietnam War: “For... Read More

Offered by Bauman Rare Books

[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the 1967 National Conference on New Politics, With Five Unpublished Images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and H. Rap Brown in New Orleans During His Weapons Trial]

by [Civil Rights]: [Photography]: [Martin Luther King, Jr.]

[Chicago and New Orleans]: September, 1967. [21] leaves, illustrated with ninety-nine photographs, mostly black-and-white but some in color. All ninety-nine images with a printed caption in the margin reading, "Sep 67."Square folio. Contemporary red leatherette, stamped in gilt on front cover, string tied. Minor wear, some images loose. Very good. An important photographic record of a notable moment in the interplay between the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, and 1960s white liberalism, documenting the 1967 National Conference... Read More

Offered by The Joe Fay Company

Vice President Richard M. Nixon Is Proud of the “Magnificent” American Efforts “to discharge American responsibility in meeting the needs of the Hungarian refugees” After the Revolution of 1956

by Richard Nixon

3/1/57. On October 23, 1956, a student demonstration against the Soviet-dominated regime in Hungary became the first serious challenge to Communist authority since the Soviet Union drove the Nazis out and occupied Eastern Europe at the end of World War II.  The demonstrators marched to the Parliament building in Budapest, where Hungarian State Security Police detained a group of them who attempted to enter the radio building to broadcast the students_ demands.  The police then fired on a group... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

Dược sư kinh 藥師經 [Skt. Bhaiṣajyaguru Sūtra]

by SCRIPTURE OF THE MEDICINE BUDDHA

1 p.l., 38 folding leaves. 8vo (280 x 174 mm.), orig. wrappers with cover wrappers, old stitching. Thần Xá: An Thái, [French colonial period]. An extremely rare woodcut book, printed by nuns in a rural monastery in northern Vietnam. “An eponymous Mahāyāna sutra that recounts the qualities, vows, and pure land of the buddha Bhaiṣajyaguru — the Master of Healing, also known as the Medicine Buddha, or the Tathāgata of Lapis-Lazuli Light. The scripture was most likely... Read More

Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.

Từ bi đạo tràng mục liên sám pháp 慈悲道場目連懺法 [Penitence at the Compassionate Ritual Grounds of Maudgalyāyana]

by MAUDGALYĀYANA, The Story of

Two full-page frontis. woodcuts, printed on each side of first leaf of Vol. I & one full-page woodcut on final leaf of Vol. II. 61.5; 107 folding leaves. Three parts in two vols. 8vo (287 x 171 mm.), orig. wrappers (Vol. I) & modern wrappers (Vol. II), stitched (orig. stitching in Vol. I). Quần phương hạ xã: Anh quang tự, 1928. First edition of this very rare Vietnamese edition of the story of Maudgalyāyana. The journey of... Read More

Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.

THE REAL WAR Inscribed to Barry Goldwater

by NIXON, Richard

New York: Warner Books, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a closed tear and crease at the rear. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Nixon, as usual for this book, on a tipped-in publisher's bookplate. This copy, however, is INSCRIBED to Barry Goldwater. Barry Goldwater, a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953-1965, 1969-1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election, is the politician most often credited for sparking... Read More

Offered by Charles Agvent

Oz. No. 1 (April 1963) through No. 41 (February 1969) (all published)

A complete run in 41 issues of the irreverent Australian counterculture journal, under the editorial direction of Richard Neville with Peter Grose, Dean Letcher, Martin Sharp, and Richard Walsh, containing stories related to topics including abortion, chastity, censorship, homosexuality, police brutality, organized crime, the Vietnam War, religion, domestic and international politics, film, and literature, together with information on the social scene in Sydney, cultural calendars, letters, cartoons, poetry, crossword puzzles, and satire and humor. Illustrated throughout. Some scattered pen... Read More

Offered by Bernett Rare Books

Le Tonkin: Vues Photographiques (Tokin: Photographic Views) (2 vols.) [CONTAINING 113 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS]

by Hocquard, Charles Edouard (photographer)

Paris: Henry Cremenitz, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. g- to near fine condition. Folios. Red cloth over grey paper portfolios, with black lettering on the front covers. String-tied. 97 loose plates. This remarkable and historically important collection is comprised of 113 original b/w photographs taken between 1883-1886 in the area of Northern Vietnam by French medical doctor, explorer and award-winning photographer Charles-Édouard Hocquard (1853 -1911). Hocquard first volunteered in 1883, as a military medical doctor for the Tonkin Campaign.... Read More

Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Relatione della nuova Missione delli Padri della Compagnia di Giesù, al regno della Cocincina

by VIETNAM. Borri, Cristoforo, S.J. (1583-1632)

Rome: Francesco Corbelletti, 1631. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in early 20th c. stiff parchment, ruled in red, with elegant pen-work in red and black on the spine. A nice copy, perhaps lightly washed. With woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Pope Urban VIII, with the Barberini arms, on p. 3. FIRST EDITION of this important account of Vietnam, the first report on Vietnam written by a European. Written from the author's own experiences during his residence in the... Read More

Offered by Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts

CATCH-22

by HELLER, JOSEPH

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. FIRST EDITION, First Printing. 220 x 150 mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/4"). 443 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, white lettering on smooth spine. In the original illustrated dust jacket. Housed in a modern red morocco-backed clamshell box. Title page SIGNED BY HELLER in ink. A pristine volume in a bright, pleasing dust jacket. (The jacket with one-inch tear to fold at front joint neatly repaired on verso, one other quite small closed... Read More

Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts

President Nixon Appoints Henry Cabot Lodge the Chief American Negotiator to the Paris Peace Talks to End the War in Vietnam

by Richard Nixon

22/01/1969. In February 1953, Henry Cabot Lodge was named U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by President Eisenhower, with his office elevated to Cabinet level rank. The position then was high profile, and Lodge often engaged in debates with the UN representatives of the Soviet Union that were broadcast or covered on television. On the front lines in the Cold War, in 1959 he escorted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on a highly-publicized tour of the United States. Lodge left... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

An Archive of Hand-Decorated Cards, Letters and Envelopes

by BRIGHTMAN, Margaret Stanton (aka Margaret Zenie Stanton Quincy Brightman aka Mrs. Ralph Weston Brightman aka "A" Maggie)

1975. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of approximately 120 large format, handmade and heavily hand-decorated postcards and letters, mostly with envelopes. Various dates from 1967-1975, all by Mrs. Brightman of Akron, Ohio to Ned Osthaus of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The content and accompanying art are highly eccentric, very entertaining, and occasionally slightly addled. Many are patriotic or moralistic in tone. Virtually all of the cards and letters are heavily painted, as are most of the envelopes. Several of the... Read More

Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

Large archive of materials related to CIA front companies Air America, Air Asia, and Civil Air Transport

by Orlowski, Joseph L. [Compiler]; Joseph L. Madison [Nom de guerre]

[Southeast Asia]: [Various], 1975. A substantial, fascinating archive relating to Civil Air Transport and its subsidiaries and spin-offs such as Air America and Air Asia. The airlines were front companies for the American Central Intelligence Agency, infamously involved in covert ops all over Southeast Asia (especially Laos) during the Vietnam War including drug smuggling. Archive includes rare internal company memos, reports, budgets, manuals, some remarkable vernacular photographs, ephemera, and other items such as meticulous designs for uniforms of CAT... Read More

Offered by Burnside Rare Books

In a Back Channel, Secret Communique During the Vietnam War, Senator Robert Kennedy Engages in Diplomacy With the Viet Cong to Free an American Prisoner

by Robert Kennedy

Jun-65. This incredible unpublished letter comes from the estate of the Algerian Ambassador to the United States and has never before been offered for sale1965 marked an escalation in the War in Vietnam. On February 19, 1965, some units of the South Vietnamese Army launched a coup and were able to force a leadership change. In response to this, National Security Council Director McGeorge Bundy and Secretary of State Robert McNamara wrote a memo to President Johnson. They gave... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

Đại bảo tích kinh 大寶積經

by SUTRA OF THE HEAP OF JEWELS

21 vols. (of 24; see below). Small folio (305 x 197 mm.), orig. dark brown wrappers, edges dyed red, lower fore-edges with titles, volume numbers, & number of parts in manuscript, stitched. Hà Nội: Linh Quang Tự (Bà Đá), 1929. A very rare set of the woodblock-printed Sutra of the Heap of Jewels (Skt. Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra, T. 0310) from northern Vietnam, here in 21 volumes (our set lacks Vols. 1, 13, & 20). We identify only one... Read More

Offered by Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.