American author. Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Later printing. NY: Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover, 4.5" x 6.5" inches, 355 pages. Signed and inscribed on the dedication page, “To Helen Mauldin, with very best wishes, Ernest Hemingway.” A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's semi-autobiographical first-person account of American Frederic Henry.....
[World War II] U.S. Navy. Navy Original Cable Dispatch declaring "GERMANY HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES......." U.S.S. Biscayne heading, The cable was sent from the Secretary of Navy ("SECNAV"). 8" x 6.5" inches. Dated "11 Dec 1941". Two punch holes along top edge. In near-fine condition. On December.....
Synopsis: Archive of 25 pieces celebrating the rise of nursing as the first medical profession for women. The first trained nurses entered the field in the 1860s, and their knowledge of antisepsis and hygiene immediately reduced fatalities in hospitals and on the Civil War battlefronts. Amidst their life-saving duties, these.....
This lot of original artwork related to the creation of the Army Parachutist Badge, which was designed in 1941 by Captain (later Lieutenant General) William P. Yarborough and approved by the Department of the Army in March of that year. Features an original sketch by Yarborough of the badge, accomplished.....
Robert Altman & Ring Lardner Jr. Original script of the film dubbed “perfect for the times [...] the cacophony of American culture brilliantly reproduced onscreen.” January 1969. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Original owner’s name on upper wrapper. Wrappers show a faint damp discoloration from the spine.....
On August 6, 1945, the "Enola Gay" dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Completely filled out navigator's log of the Enola Gay. Handwritten by the Navigator of the historic Hiroshima flight Theodore Van Kirk . 3 pages in pencil, (as all 1094's aviation logs), entirely in his hand.....
CESAR, Julius. C. Cesar's Commentaries, 1534. One of the earliest and rarest printed editions of the Caesaris Commentarii. Published by Sebastian Gryphius, Lyon, 1534. Octavo (6" x 4" inches), 592 pages. This edition includes 5 beautiful full-page woodcuts of Roman war machines; a double-page woodcut map showing Gaul, Germania, and.....
Wallenberg, Raoul. Rare Wallenberg Swiss Embassy Protective Document. Single page typed document on letterhead of the Swiss Embassy, Department for Foreign Interests, 8" x 11.5". Represents a piece of official documentation which was from a larger group of Wallenberg Schutz-Pass protective documents. Dated "October 23, 1944" with the official red.....
Wilson, Joseph T. The Black Phalanx, A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1887. First edition with original illustrated cover collage of various images including a musket, drum, and what appears to be a meteor shattering, both meteor and title are gilt.....
[African Americana] [Military] FLIPPER, Henry Ossian. The Colored Cadet at West Point. New York: Homer Lee, 1878. Rare First Edition. 2 portrait plates. Duodecimo, 322 pages, publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth. First edition of Henry Ossian Flipper, who was born into slavery in Georgia and went on to become the.....
Important Anti-Nazi Document Exposing Atrocities in 1936, Issued by Editorial Board of the Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism. "Facts on Nazi Germany". Number Three, October 15, 1936. 63 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The document has some marginalia and some underlined portions in pencil. 11 mimeograph pages, 8.5.....
Description Geographique et Historique de la Moree Reconquise par les Venetiens. Vicenzo Maria Coronelli. Chez Claude Barbin: Paris, 1686-1687. First French edition. Small octavo, two volumes in one. 295 pages. 58 double-page copperplate engravings including a map of the Peloponnese. First French edition of the important contemporary account by Coronelli.....
Photo album containing 148 silver gelatin photos first owned by Thomas Reed Williams, an African American soldier and businessman. 1930s-1950s. String-tied black cloth album measures 11 x 7 inches with the majority of photos measuring 4.5 x 3.5 inches. 26 leaves. Photos are a memorable blend of Williams' military service.....
[African American] [Military] African American naval serviceman documented in family photo album. Kansas City as well as various other places, [1952-53]. Album has 55 photographs laid in to 11 album leaves. 14 of the photographs plus a clipping document the navy service of Lean Dan Jones of Kansas City in.....
Gaspard-Hermann Cotty.{ Essay on the manufacturing of Portable Arms of war] Memoire sur la Fabrication des Armes Portatives de Guerre. Magimel: Paris, 1806. First edition. Octavo. 229 pages. In French, A detailed account of Napoleonic era and American Revolution era weapons manufacturing and use. Including saber, muskets, the muzzle-loaded long.....
Archive of 32 photos of women in the military. C. 1940s-1950s. Silver gelatin photos with 2 in color. Measurements range from 5 x 4 to 4 x 3.5 inches. 14 of the photographs are from the Marine Corps with captions and text "Marine Corps Photo" printed beneath the images. Photos.....
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] [COLORED TROOPS]. Military Special Order. Dated December 15th, 1863. Handwritten and signed on Headquarters letterhead of the Draft Rendezvous, Long Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Measures approximately 9.5" x 7.5". Frederick Douglass argued that the enlistment of Black soldiers would help the North win the war. The first Black.....
Antique original pencil drawing of Joan of Arc being visited by St. Michael the Archangel. 9” x 6.5” inches.. Artist unknown. Text on the drawing states “Va Va Fille De Dieu Delivre La France.” Michael invokes Joan to “Delivre La France”, translating to liberate France. Joan is depicted as a......
Original item from W.W.II Reuters Correspondent David Brown who was attached to Third Fleet Landing Force- Japan. Archive of two items. Not dated but circa August 1945 as it related to the occupation of Tokyo, Declaring the end of the war, 7 pages. Titled "Memorandum To Correspondents- Third Fleet Landing.....
Little Boy was the code name of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945 by the 12-man crew of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay. Here we have a black and white copy of a Blue print showing the first atomic bomb with handwritten explanations of.....
Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam. New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, 1968. A collection of three speeches from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered from April 1967 to February 1968 regarding America’s role in the.....
Salmasius, Claudius. DE RE MILITARI ROMANORUM LIBER Opus Posthumum. Leyden: Johannem Elsevirium. 1657. First edition, 7.5” x 9.5”. Quarter calf leather over boards,with gilt title on spine. 244 pages. Text printed in 1657 with binding circa 1800. This is a first edition of a military history of the Roman empire.....
Archive of 17 silver gelatin photos depicting women's military forces from around the world between 1930's-1950's. Measurements range from 2.25" x 3.25" to 8" x 10.75" each. Many include hand written notes en verso. Photographs depict a variety of female soldiers ranging from grouping in marching formation, portraits, press phorographs.....
[Women Military] Archive of 105 silver gelatin photos of Women’s Auxiliary Corps (WAC) in Frankfurt, Germany and at Camp Lee, a major Army base and German POW camp in WWII. 1946-1952. Most images around 3” x 4” inches. During World War II every major participating nation enlisted women for its.....
Archive of Fifteen original WWII photographs of Iwo Jima Reconaissance Missions for the US Military. Date July 4, 1944. Images mounted on paper with typed descriptions, set includes Photo No. II - XVI (missing photo I). Photos measure 5 x 7” to 6 x 7”, all mounted onto 8 x......