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[FACSIMILE] Xavier Wulfen's Treatise on Carinthian Lead Spars
by WULFEN, Xavier; Wendell E. WILSON, [ed.]
Tucson: Mineralogical Record, 1997. Limited Edition. No. 33 of 150 copies. Quarto (28cm). Bound in faux black leather, backed in maroon calf, titled in gilt on black spine label; grey endpapers; xliv, [2], [2], 150, [2], 108, [10], 35, [3], 20, [2]pp; 21 color plates. A fresh copy, with very minor dirt to lower edge of text block at front corner, erased pencil mark to flyleaf, else Fine. Facsimile of Wulfen's Abhandlung vom Kärtner Bleispate (Vienna: 1785),... Read More
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Les Humbles. Revue littéraire mensuelle des Primaires. Cahiers no. 8-9, Aout-Sept 1938
by WULLENS, Maurice (ed). Pierre Boujut, Jean Paul Samson, Laure Duga (et al, contribs)
Paris, 1938. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 64pp. Covers slightly browned and foxed; internally clean and unmarked, text unopened; Very Good. Late single issue of this notable anarchist-literary journal, which ran from 1917 to 1939 under the single-handed control of Maurice Wullens, a Flemish-born schoolteacher, anarchist and, later, accidental collaborationist with national socialism. Uncommon.
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THE SEVEN SINS
by Wurdemann, Audrey
New York: Harper & Bros, 1935. First Edition. Signed on the ffep by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet of 1934. First printing. 58 pp. Her third book. Very light shelfwear, else fine copy in a chipped and worn at edges dust jacket. The glossy blood red cover is spine-faded. Scarce signed.
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The House of Silk
by WURDEMANN, Audrey
New York: Howard Vinal, 1927. First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in printed dust jacket; 85pp. Slight dusting and small chips to jacket at bottom of front and rear panels, else a bright, near fine copy. The author's uncommon first book, published at the age of fifteen. Wurdemann's second book, Bright Ambush, published eight years later, won the Pulitzer Prize, making her (at 24) the youngest-ever recipient of that award.
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SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS
by Wurdemann, Audrey
New York: Harper & Bros, 1936. First Edition. First edition. 95 pp. Signed on the ffep by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet of 1934. Her fourth book. Very near fine copy in a chipped, toned and worn at edges dust jacket. NF/VG. Scarce signed.
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The House of Silk
by WURDEMANN, Audrey
New York: Howard Vinal, 1927. First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in printed dust jacket; 85pp. A fine, bright copy in crisp dustwrapper with a brief, closed tear on rear panel, quite Near Fine. The author's uncommon first book, published at the age of fifteen. Wurdemann's second book, Bright Ambush, published eight years later, won the Pulitzer Prize, making her (at 24) the youngest-ever recipient of that award.
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The Saint Adventures of the Virginia Frontier: Southern Outposts of Ephrata
by WUST, Klaus
Edinburg, Virginia: Shenandoah History, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards with titling in white on spine; illustrated map endpapers; [8],9-125,[3]pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. Modest shelf-wear, with rubbing to spine and board edges; Very Good. Focuses on German sectarian movements, and includes examination of Mahanaim on New River, Hermitage on the Cheat, and the Eckerlins. [87828].
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Songs from the Trenches: the Soul of the A.E.F. A Collection of Verses by American Soldiers in France...from Poems Submitted in the Prize Competition of the New York Herald
by [WW1] GIBBONS, Herbert Adams
New York: Harper and Brothers, (1918). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; xvi,207pp. Two ownership signatures to front endpaper, else tight, straight and unmarked; Very Good or better. In the scarce printed dustwrapper, slightly chipped at extremities with a few brief, closed tears; Very Good. Among the hundred or so contributions are two early works, "Chant of the Army Cooks" and "Apres La Guerre," by the noted American writer, editor and bibliophile John T. Winterich, at... Read More
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The German Officer Corps 1890-1914
by [WW1] KITCHEN, Martin
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's navy blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustajacket. [xxix]; 242pp. Clean and strong, very light wear to corners and minor bumping at spine ends; internally clean and fresh; in a bright pink dustjacket with some light sunning to the spine and a little soiling and edgewear. A very good, bright copy. A highly authoritative investigation of the social and military structures at play in Kaiser Wilhem's Germany in... Read More
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The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and His Brothers
by [WW1] LAWRENCE,T.E.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954. First U.K. Edition. Large Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xvi]; 731pp. Light wear and bumping to edges, corners and spine ends; internally clean and fresh, illustrated; in a strong example of the pale grey dustjacket with a closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel and some soiling and general thumbing. A very good clean copy. The preferred edition, with the Blackwells imprint, comprising the... Read More
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The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by [WW1] LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Trade Edition. First Issue (with misattributed pagination for illustrations on page 304-5). Quarto. 26cm. Publisher's polished brown buckram titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 672pp. Strong and handsome, very light wear to corners, light bumping to spine ends, some sunning to spine region, lacks dustjacket; internally clean, bookplate of Nathaniel Tarn to front pastedown, contemporary Jonathan Cape mail order postcard laid in at the front, dark brown topstain, other edges... Read More
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I Remember the Last War
by [WW1 MEMOIR] HOFFMAN, Bob
York, PA: Strength & Health Publishing Co, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Card wrappers; portrait frontispiece; 320pp. Clean, tight, and unfaded - an attractive copy, Near Fine and quite unusual thus. Hoffman (1898-1985) served on the front in France as a lieutenant in Company A of the 111th Infantry; his memoir provides perhaps the best first-hand account of the American engagement at Hill 204 in Chateau Thierry in May, 1918. Hoffman went on to become an... Read More
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I Remember the Last War
by [WW1 MEMOIR] HOFFMAN, Bob
York, PA: Strength & Health Publishing Co, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Card wrappers; portrait frontispiece; 320pp. Covers foxed at spine and margins; a few creases to wrapper edges; Very Good. Hoffman (1898-1985) served on the front in France as a lieutenant in Company A of the 111th Infantry; his memoir provides perhaps the best first-hand account of the American engagement at Hill 204 in Chateau Thierry in May, 1918. Hoffman went on to become an... Read More
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Fighting the Hun on the U.S.S. Huntington. A True Story of Adventures of the U.S.S. Huntington During the War
by [WW1 - NAVY] WINN, H[iram] W.
N.p.: P.G. Yedinak, Printer, 1919. No statement of printing or edition. 12mo (19cm). Staplebound, printed yellow wrappers; 42,(6)pp; illus. Mild edgewear and soil; internally fresh and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Frontispiece portrait of Commanding Officer Capt. Edward S. Kellogg; other text illustrations reproducing photographs and line drawings. Scarce little keepsake, possibly printed shipboard, for circulation among officers and crew of the U.S.S. Huntington, a first class armored cruiser that saw duty primarily as a convoy escort in... Read More
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Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen With Drawings by Ben Shahn
by [WW1] OWEN, Wilfred; Ben Shahn (illus)
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1956. First, Limited Edition. Folio (33cm). Original morocco-backed paper-covered boards in publisher's slipcase; unpaged [28pp]. No. 75 of 365 hand-numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 35 copies with a signed proof). Frontispiece is a portrait of Wilfred Owen, drawn by Shahn and printed from a block by Leonard Baskin; text includes 15 lithographs after original illustrations by Shahn. A very clean copy, about Fine; in the original slipcase, mildly toned and with a... Read More
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Twelfth U.S. Infantry. Its Story - By Its Men 1798-1919
by [WW1 REGIMENTAL HISTORIES] ALOE, Alfred
[New York]: By Members of the Twelfth U.S. Infantry, 1919. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xvi,425pp; illus; frontispiece portrait of Col. Alfred Aloe, Regimental Commander and 13 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) not reckoned in pagination. Mild bumps to board corners and edges, still a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. Includes a brief Foreword by William H. Taft. A nicely-preserved copy of... Read More
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Some Memories of A Soldier
by [WW1] SCOTT, Hugh Lenox
New York: The Century Company, 1928. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine and decorated in blind stamping to the front board. 673pp. A very good, clean and strong copy with some bumping to the corners and spine ends and some small superficial marks to the cloth. Internally clean. Author's signature tipped in on a slip of paper to the front flyleaf. An autobiographical account of Scott's military career, spanning his... Read More
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Gunner's Diary
by [WW2 - AUSTRALIA] FRIEND, Donald
Sydney: Ure Smith, Ltd, 1943. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 56pp; illus. Tight, square copy, Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 7'/6 at base of front flap), lightly rubbed and edgeworn, Verty Good. An attractive copy. Extracts from the field diary of Donald Friend, written while he was a gunner with the Australian Imperial Forces in the south Pacific. Friend went on to become a highly-regarded artist whose late... Read More
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An Archive of Manuscripts, Printed Materials and Ephemera Concerning the Pro-Fascist Anti-War Movement in The United States
by [WW2] [ AMERICAN FAR-RIGHT POPULISM] BEHRENS, Ernest H.
1920's-1940's. 58+ individual pieces of manuscript material by one Ernest H. Behrens, written on a variety of sheets of paper, notes, and envelopes, many running to a number of pages; comprising short letters to publications, letters to Congressmen and Administration Representatives, speeches and addresses, quotations from relevant figures and notes on how these might be incorporated into the main thrust of the material. Behrens was (according to his business card, present here) was a Buyer's Agent and Factory Representative... Read More
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AVVISO [=Notice!]
by [WW2][ANTI-FASCIST]
Zara (Zadar), Croatia: Comitato Iniziatore, 1945. Broadside. 45.5cm x 38cm. A single sheet of paper, printed recto only. Clean and bright with a single old very faint horizontal fold mark, and an old number in ink to the upper right corner, a fine example. A call to the anti-fascists of Zara, now Zadar on the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. At the beginning of WW2 Zara was occupied by the Italian fascist forces, then subsequently by the Nazi... Read More
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Axis in Agony! Presenting a Series of Caricatures from the Brush of Boris Artzybasheff
by [WW2] ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris
New York: Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1944. First Edition. Oblong octavo (14cm x 19cm); black and white printed wrappers, stapled; [48pp]; chiefly illus. A few tiny stains to rear wrapper, else very Near Fine. A corporate paean to the defeat of the Axis powers, reproducing 23 caricatures by Boris Artzybasheff painted expressly for the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, a prominent steel manufacturer during the first half of the 20th century. Artzybasheff cleverly incorporated a different Wickwire Spencer... Read More
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Broken Swastika; The Defeat of The Luftwaffe
by [WW2] BAUMBACH, Werner
London: Robert Hale, 1960. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 224pp. Light wear and bumping to corners and spine ends, with a heavier bump to the tail of the spine; internally clean with bookplate to front pastedown; in a bright, sharp example of the dustjacket, priceclipped, with some light wear to edges and extremities. A very good, clean, copy. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and... Read More
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Don't Let Him Down!
by [WW2] BEALL, Lester
Washington DC: Division of Information / Office For Emergency Management, 1942. Lithographed poster in colors, 101cm x 76.5cm (ca 39-3/4" x 30"). A fine example, professionally mounted on archival canvas. One of the most striking homefront posters of the Second World War. Lester Beall (1903-1969) was a pioneer in the use of photomontage in American graphic design, especially famous for his series of posters for the U.S. Rural Electrification Program in the Thirties.
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...and WE talk about sacrifice - Buy War Bonds.
by [WW2] COUILLARD, R[oger] (artist)
[Washington DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Original illustrated poster, lithographed in colors and measuring 51.5cm x 71cm (20.25" x 28"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; some expert, pinpoint retouching to a few spots along lower edge, else Fine. Treasury Department-issued War Bonds poster, featuring an illustration of a Russian peasant woman weeping in front of the smoking rubble of her home directly beneath the slogan "...and WE talk about sacrifice." Meant to provide... Read More
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The Holocaust Chronicle; A History in Words and Pictures
by [WW2] [ED: ARETHA, David] KUNTZ, Dieter; MICHAEL, Robert Ashley et al.
Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, 2003. First American Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Publisher's glossy paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 768pp. Very light wear and bumping to extremities, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout, bookplate to front pastedown; in a clean, strong and sharp dustjacket. A near fine copy. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and anthropologist, with his bookplate. A large and completist history of the Holocaust, in pictures, with descriptive essays and articles from... Read More
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