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.....
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.....
19th century Hand colored Japanese woodblock print on thick tea paper. Measures about 11.5" x 9". and depicts two Japanese samurais. A Japanese woman wearing a colorful kimono in the foreground, and a samurai fighting with a bamboo stick and his katana still sheathed in the background. Kendo is a......
Archive consisting of a collection of three photos of the Katyn massacre, two printed reports, and an early book about the massacre. General Wladislaw Anders. Katyn. Editions France-Empire, 1949. Softcovers. 345 pages. This work on the Katyn Forest Massacre was written by Wladislaw Anders, the Polish general tasked with organizing.....
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.....
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......
Book of Japanese woodblock prints showing samurai in battle and other scenes. 1852. Measures 5 x 7 inches. Bound in soft brown leather wrappers with red string binding. 50 pages. Book includes pages of characters in column form but is predominately woodblock illustrations. The woodblocks are meticulously illustrated scenes depicting.....
Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands. German Social Democratic Party Newsletter: London,1939-1946. Consist of 34 original war date issues of the Anti Hitler and Anti Nazi mimeographed newsletter, Beneath the text title of each issue reads, "This news-letter is published for the information of Social Democratic refugees from Germany who are opposing dictatorship.....
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.....
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.....
Large Archive including a photo album with 154 black and white silver gelatin photos, and 66 letters and postcards, several official Navy documents commending the subject, Mrs. Dorothy Scholten (nee McCarthy), for her service in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) unit and granting her honorable discharge, and.....
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.....
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......
Archive of 64 black and white silver gelatin photo archive of post WWI American soldiers in France and one German calendar dating "December and November 1919" inscribed with personal handwriting of American names and addresses. Most photos measure 2.5" x 3". Stored in unoriginal album with protective plastic inserts. The.....
This WWII archive consists of a large USS WASP scrapbook of about 70 original documents and 22 original photos, as well as a WWII Scrapbook consisting of more than one hundred pages of clippings from newspapers such as Time, Life, and many others The USS WASP scrapbook measures 14" x......
Collection on militant Jewish activism during World War II. All in good to very good condition. Includes a recruiting pamphlet for the Jewish Brigade, a photograph showing the Jewish Brigade in military uniform, including both men and women, and a pamphlet in polish on the Warsaw Uprising from 1944: Jewish.....
Grant, Lewis. Future Union General & Metal of Honor Winner Lewis A. Grant asked that his Promotion to Brigadier General of Volunteers be made final. War date Autograph Letter Signed. 4 pages entirely on his hand, November 23, 1863. After having performed beyond his rank for over 17 months in.....
Historical Record Of The Life Guards: Containing An Account Of The Formation Of The Corps In The Year 1660, And Of Its Subsequent Services To 1835. Prepared For Publication Under Direction Of The Adjutant General. London: William Clowes & Sons, 1835. First state of the first edition. 8.75" x 5.75".....