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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![Bataille Secrète en France. 167 dessins de l'auteur [TOGETHER WITH] Original pencil and ink cover maquette and one additional pencil and ink illustration, the latter signed](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/279/151/853151279.0.l.jpg)
Bataille Secrète en France. 167 dessins de l'auteur [TOGETHER WITH] Original pencil and ink cover maquette and one additional pencil and ink illustration, the latter signed
by [WW2 - FRENCH RESISTANCE] GIRARD, André
New York: Brentano's, [1944]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black depicting a signed illustration by Girard of a fallen soldier; 292pp.; illus. by the author throughout, including many full-paged. Spine a bit darkened, top textblock edge stained with very shallow bleeding onto leaves. A Very Good and tight copy. Text entirely in French. Extensively illustrated contemporary account of the German occupation in France and the French Resistance. Girard, a French painter and... Read More
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The Flying Camels; The History of No. 45 Sqn, R.A.F.
by [WW2] JEFFORD, Wing Commander C.G.
High Wycombe, UK: For the Author, 1995. First U.K. Edition. Folio. 30cm. Publisher's blue cloth decorated in gilt to front board. Dustjacket. [5]; 536pp. Light cosmetic wear to corners and spine ends, handsome and strong; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to front pastedown, inscribed by author to front flyleaf, printed errata pages laid in at the front; in a bright, strong example of the dustjacket with a little light wear and creasing to corners and spine ends. A near... Read More
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Full Circle; The Story of Air Fighting
by [WW2] JOHNSON, Air Vice Marshall J.E. "Johnnie
London: Chatto and Windus, 1964. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xi]; 290pp. Light wear to extremtiies and spine ends, tight and strong; internally clean, blue topstain, inscribed by the author to the title page, illustrated throughout; in a clean, bright example of the dustjacket with two closed tears at the head of the spine, sunning to the spine panel, and some old tape residue to the verso. A very good,... Read More
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Wingspread"; Peterson Field Colorado Springs, Colo. Two issues of base newspaper; June 17th 1943, July 15th 1943
by [WW2][JOURNALISM]
Colorado Springs, June-July 1943. 32cm. High quality coated paper for the covers, with the internal printed pages on uncoated paper. 8pp. per issue. A little soiling and wear to corners and extremities, otherwise very good, clean examples. Textbook examples of the contrast between military newsletters and bulletins printed in country with official oversight and resources, and the more ad hoc productions from the various theatres of operations, on board ship etc. Wingspread is very clearly a piece of... Read More
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Skyscrapers" The Newsletter of US Naval Air Station, Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY; Three Issues: June 1 1945; August 9 1945; August 16 1945
by [WW2][JOURNALISM]
New York: By and For The Personnel. Three issues, newsletter format on glossy paper. 30cm. 6pp per issue, with the central leaf laid in rather than stapled or bound. Some light toning or soiling to margins, otherwise all issues very good. Produced in house at Bennett Field, but also publishing syndicated Camp Newspaper Service material circulated by the War Department, published throughout the US involvment in the war. June 1 issue commemorates the fourth anniversary of the commission... Read More
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Home Run"; The newspaper of the USS Lejeune. Three issues; November 7th, November 8th, and November 11th 1945
by [WW2][JOURNALISM]
On Board USS Lejeune, 1945. 27cm. Typewritten and mimeo'd on beige newsprint, with a hand-drawn banner for each issue. Staple bound to upper left corner. 4pp. per issue, with the 11th Nov. "Souvenir Edition" running to 6pp. Very light edgewear and a little soiling, all issues very good. Apparently produced on board ship for the journey home to the US from the European Theatre of Operations after the surrender of the Axis powers and the early months... Read More
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One of The Few
by [WW2] KENT, Group Captain J.A.
London: William Kimber, 1971. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 255pp. Strong and tight, very light wear t edges and extremities; internally clean, bookplate to front pastedown; in a bright clean dustjacket with some very light marginal wear and light sunning to the spine panel. A very good copy. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator and bibliophile (with a deep interest in military aviation), with his... Read More
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Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter; The Past Within Me
by [WW2] "KAZIK" [Pseud: ROTEM, Simha]
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. 180pp. Very slight wear to spine ends; internally clean, from the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator and literary figure, with his bookplate; in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. An eyewitness account of the purging of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis.
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Foreign Legions of The Third Reich Volume 3; Albania, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, and Yugoslavia
by [WW2] LITTLEJOHN, David
San Jose, CA: R. James Bender Publishing, 1994. Second Printing. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards. 320pp. Strong and solid; internally clean and fresh. near fine copy. An exhaustive and highly detailed record of the uniforms, badges, equipment, and respective histories of some of Nazi Germany's foreign brigades raised during WW2.
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Squadrons Up! A Firsthand Story of the R.A.F.
by [WW2] MONKS, Noel
New York: Whittlesey House, 1941. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dark red topstain; dustjacket; x,[2],3-260,[2]pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author. Pictorial bookplate of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) mounted on front pastedown. Spine ends very gently nudged, else a clean, Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustjacket, designed by E. McKnight Kauffer; unclipped (priced $2.50), edgeworn, gently spine-sunned and a bit dust-soiled, with several... Read More
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Glasgow's Fighter Squadron
by [WW2] NANCARROW, F.G.
London: Collins, 1942. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's green cloth titled an decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Lacking dustjacket. 96pp. A little bumping to the corners and spine ends, tight and strong, gilt bright, some thumbing and discoloration of the cloth in places; internally clean, bookplate to front flyleaf. A very good copy, produced to wartime economy standards, with some mild cosmetic wear. From the library of nathaniel tarn, noted poet, translator and wartime... Read More
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Barrancas Breeze. Volume 2, no. 44 (April 23, 1943)
by [WW2] [POST NEWSPAPERS] KEYS, Jay (ed)
Fort Barrancas, FL, 1943. Quarto (28cm). Side-stapled, illustrated paper wraps; 10pp. Printed by mimeograph. Clean, complete, and sound - a Very Good or better copy. Single issue of this uncommon post newspaper, published by and for enlisted men at Fort Barrancas, Florida during the Second World War. Features a terrific cover illustration by Cpl. Frank Carrano, of a Bugs Bunny-like figure preparing to drop a bomb on the Axis, with other cartoon illustrations by Carrano and others... Read More
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The Jungleers: a History of the 41st Infantry Division
by [WW2 - REGIMENTAL HISTORIES] McCARTNEY, William F.
Washington DC: Infantry Journal Press, (1948). First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Blue cloth hardcover, xii,208pp; illus. A straight, clean copy, Near Fine, lacking the presumed dustwrapper. A well-illustrated history of the 41st Infantry, with detailed accounts of actions in the South Pacific theatre including in New Guinea, the Southern Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, etc. A particularly fresh copy.
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I'll carry mine too! Trucks and Tires Must Last Till Victory
by [WW2] SARRA, [Valentino] (artist)
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Original photo-illustrated poster, lithographed in colors and measuring 56.5cm x 71cm (22 1/8" x 28"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; some expert, pinpoint retouching to a few small spots at lower fold (center), and at the intersection of several points along center fold; Near Fine. A-. OWI Poster No.28 - jointly-issued by the Office of War Information and the Office of Defense Transportation. A clever homefront propaganda poster geared... Read More
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AMERICA is the loser, too - when avoidable accidents stop production / The U.S. Army says - "Make Haste Safely.
by [WW2] SCHLAIKJER, [Jes Wilhelm] (artist)
[Washington DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. Original illustrated poster, lithographed in colors and measuring 72.25cm x 102.5cm (28 3/8" x 40.25"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; expert infilling and retouching to a few pinpoint areas at the intersection of upper-center folds; very Near Fine. A-. Superb example of this War Department poster created by J.W. Schlaikjer, where viewers are told that industrial accidents hinder America's ability to win the war and demonstrating the importance of... Read More
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Marshal of the Soviet Union: Reminiscences and Reflections (2 vols)
by [WW2 - SOVIET UNION] ZHUKOV, G. [Gyorgy]; Vic Schneierson, transl
Moscow: Progress Publishers, (1985). First English Language Edition. First printing in English. Two octavo volumes (20cm). Green cloth hardcovers; dustjackets; 454+486pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread set in crisp, unworn dustwrappers - near to new. Private memoirs of Gyorgy Zhukov, the Soviet Union's top general in WW2 and later Minister of Defense under Krushchev.
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The Central Blue; Recollections and Reflections
by [WW2] SLESSOR, Sir John
London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1956. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's sky blue buckram titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xiv]; 709pp. Light scuffing to corners, bumping to spine ends, clean and bright; internally clean and fresh, bookplate and old booksellers label (Sotherans) to front pastedown, illustrated throughout with full page black and white photographs; in a bright, strong dustjacket with some sunning and soiling to the spine panel, shallow chipping to the head of spine, and a... Read More
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With Prejudice; The Memoirs of Marshal of The Royal Air Force Lord Tedder GCB
by [WW2] TEDDER, Lord
London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Proof Copy. Publisher's orange card wraps titled in black to front wrap with details of publication. 704pp. Some light soiling to the bright orange card, a little light wear to the spine ends, some minor softening and wear to the corners, strong and tight; internally clean, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, with folding chart. A very good, solid example of the proof copy, with some light wear.... Read More
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Battle Over Britain; A history of the German air assaults on Great Britain, 1917-18, and July-December 1940.
by [WW2][WW1] Mason, Francis K.
St. Albans: Alban Books/McWhirter Twins Ltd, 1969. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's burgundy buckram titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 636pp. Clean, bright and strong with only the lightest wear to the cloth; internally clean and fresh, from the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator and bibliophile, bearing his bookplate to the verso of the front flyleaf; in a clean, strong dustjacket with some light wear and scuffing to the extremities. A... Read More
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Newspaper clipping mounted to onionskin sheet
by [WWI]
[Los Angeles: Illustrated Magazine, 1917]. Quarto (26.5cm.); illustrated newspaper clipping mounted to onionskin sheet, contemporary inscription to sheet providing provenance of the clipping, the June 30, 1917 issue of the Illustrated Magazine. Clipping depicts Columbia students Owen Catell, son of Professor J. McKay Catell, and Charles F. Phillips, both arrested for "anti-draft conspiracy.
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War and Culture
by [WWII] [COMMUNISM] [GREAT BRITAIN] RICKWOOD, Edgell
London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1933. Staple-bound pamphlet; 14pp. Wear, sunning and foxing to edges of wrappers, pencil to cover, pages sunned, else a clean and sound copy.
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The American-Anglo-Soviet Alliance
by [WWII] DAVIS, Joseph (introd)
New York: The American Council on Soviet Relations, (1942). 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial wrappers (softcover); 32p; illus. Pencil annotation to front cover, light foxing.
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