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... 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.... 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,... 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... 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... 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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The Battle of the Aleutians: A Graphic History 1942-1943
by [WWII] HAMMETT, Dashiell and Robert Colodny
Adak, Alaska: Headquarters, Western Defense Command, 1944. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo; printed card wrappers; [24]pp; illus. Quite fresh copy, with three tiny spots of foxing, corners just touched, overall a tight, Near Fine copy. Illustrations and graphics by Sgt. Harry Fletcher. Ownership signature of a Capt. William W. Hayward to half-title. Written by Hammett (who wrote... Read More
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Without Seeing the Dawn
by [WWII] [PHILIPPINES] JAVELLANA, Stevan [Esteban Javellana]
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); khaki cloth-covered boards, blocked and titled in green and gilt on spine, and decorations embossed to spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xvi],[3],4-359,[1]pp. Pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Very slight waviness to lower edge of textblock; two very small nicks on rear endpaper and rear pastedown; Near Fine.... Read More
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The Guarantee of Victory
by [WWII] [SOVIET UNION] DIMITROFF, Georgi
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1938. Staple-bound pamphlet; illus.; 15pp. Wear and foxing to edges of wrappers, pencil to cover, else a clean and sound copy.
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Soviet Strength and Soviet Strategy
by [WWII] [SOVIET UNION] BYRNE, Norman
Los Angeles: American People's Mobilization, 1941. First edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial wrappers (softcover); (16)p. Light wear and soil; text tanned; pencil annotation to front cover.
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Wyeth at Kuerners
by WYETH, Andrew; Betsy James Wyeth
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First Edition. First printing. Landscape folio (26.7cm). Green cloth stamped in silver, in white pictorial dust jacket; [x],324,[2]pp; color illustrations throughout. Cloth lightly faded along extreme edges, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $60.00), lightly rubbed along edges with a few short marginal tears, fingersoil at upper corners of front and rear panels, Very Good.... Read More
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Christina's World: Paintings and Pre-studies of Andrew Wyeth
by WYETH, Besty James
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. First Edition. First printing. Landscape folio (26.5cm). Gold cloth, with pictorial dust jacket; [vi],[282]pp; color illustrations throughout. Corners lightly bumped, slight marked and dust to top and bottom edges, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $75), lightly rubbed, a few small stains to front panel: Very Good.
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Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer (Inscribed Copy)
by WYETH, James
Rockland, Maine: Farnsworth Art Museum, 2002. First Edition. Quarto. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 91pp; illus. Inscribed and signed by Wyeth on half-title: "For Nancy: May this book evoke memories of your experience with my work and Nureyev's dance!," undated. Fine in a very lightly worn, Near Fine dustwrapper; exhibition announcement laid in.
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The Wyeths: The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945
by WYETH, N. C.; Betsy James Wyeth (ed.)
Boston: Gambit, 1971. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Three-piece binding in off-white cloth, backed in blue, with yellow topstain, in pictorial cream dust jacket; pictorial endpapers; [xvi],858pp; color plates, black and white in-text illustrations. Sound and clean, but with a forward roll: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $17.50 and $22.50) lightly rubbed and generally dustsoiled, around Very Good.... Read More
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Die Welt des Kindes in Seiner Darstellung
by WYLICK, Margret van
Wien: Verlag Josef Eberle, 1936. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's cream printed card wrappers; 57pp.; five leaves of color plates with laid in tissue guards, color graphs in text throughout. Extremities rather toned and spine ends chipped with small loss at foot, else Very Good, internally bright and fine. Academic thesis based on a psychological study of the... Read More
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THE ORPHAN ANGEL [Signed]
by Wylie, Elinor
New York: Knopf, 1926. First edition. One of 190 total copies of this signed limited edition, this being no.36, printed on Borzoi rag. Octavo; green cloth-backed boards. A lovely production typical of this publisher, with marble paper-covered boards. Pages mostly unopened, quite clean and tight. Old bookplate on Fep. The edges worn, the spine quite faded, tipped in label... Read More
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THE VENETIAN GLASS NEPHEW
by Wylie, Elinor
New York: Doran, 1925. First edition. Blue paper over 3/4 cream vellum, leather spine label, t.e.g.; 8vo. Number 167 of 250 copies signed by the author; the large paper issue. Toned at extremities, tips bumped, pages lightly toned, front hinge beginning, about very good; lacking the dustjacket and slipcase. Handsomely produced book. One of the most famous if not... Read More
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Mr. Hodge & Mr. Hazard [Signed]
by WYLIE, Elinor
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. One of 145 copies printed on Borzoi rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which this is no.97. Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; green endpapers; 256pp. Light rubbing to board edges, with pencilled note... Read More
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The Novels of Elinor Wylie
by [WYLIE, Elinor] VECHTEN, Carl van; Carl van Doren; Stephen Vincent Benét; Isabel Paterson (preface)
London: Martin Secker Ltd, [1934]. First Combined Printing of Wylie's four novels. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; 774pp. Modest shelf-wear to crown and corners, with rubbing to spine and board edges, and occasional pencilled marks to interior; Very Good. Dustwrapper (priced 10s. 6d) tanned, with shelf-soil,... Read More
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Fish and Tin Fish: Crunch and Des Strike Back
by WYLIE, Philip
Toronto, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1944]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Edgar Franklin Wittmack; x,[2],300pp.; illustrated endpapers by Franklin Wittmack. Some minor edge wear to jacket extremities, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Third collection in the author's Crunch and Des series of fishing stories. ... Read More
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Blessingway: with the Three Versions of the Myth Recorded and Translated from the Navajo by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M.
by WYMAN, Leland C.
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xxviii,[2],3-660pp; photographic frontispiece portrait, with black-and-white halftones and illustrations throughout. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Modest soil to... Read More
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The Mountainway of the Navajo: with a Myth of the Female Branch Recorded and Translated by Father Berard Haile, OFM
by WYMAN, Leland C.
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); terracotta cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xvi],271,[1]pp; colorful frontispiece with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to board edges with trace foxing to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by Mark Sanders, unclipped (priced $14.50), with light rubbing, and... Read More
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