[Baton Rouge]: [Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc.], 1941. Black and white photographs, one color cartoon. Hardcover. Folio. [vi], 89, [26] pages. Uncommon book on this California coastal defense regiment during World War II. Camp McQuaide was located near Watsonville, California, and the site is now occupied by Monterey Bay..... More
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1869. First Edition. Original wraps. Octavo. 36 pages. Very critical analysis of Reverdy Johnson's arguments and actions regarding the Alabama Claims. The Alabama Claims were a series of demands by the United States against Great Britain for damages caused by Confederate ships which the latter..... More
San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891. First Edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 300 pages. Ambrose Bierce fought at Shiloh and other Civil War battles as a member of the 9th Indiana Infantry, so when he wrote of the battlefield he knew of what he spoke. This..... More
[Philadelphia]: Daily News Job Office, [1861]. Broadside. 8 3/4" x 13 1/8" Story of a vivid dream Gen. George B. McClellan supposedly had within days of taking command of the United States Army in late 1861. In the dream McClellan is visited by the spirit of George Washington, who shows..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 261 pages. Important Christian Pacifist book in the wake of World War I. Reverend Brewster was an Episcopal clergyman in California. More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. First Edition. Fold-out plans, tables, photographs. Original cloth. Octavo. 96 pages. Scarce, Confidential manual on the weaponry associated with U. S. Army aircraft and pilots in World War I. Sections on the Marlin, the Lewis, and the Vickers aircraft machine guns, synchronizing gears, machine gun..... More
Kingsport: Kingsport Press, 1943. Limited edition, one of 400 copies, signed by designer and typographer, Richard Ellis. Softbound. Octavo. 32 pages. Churchill's speech to Parliament on the heels of the defeat of Gen. Rommel at El Alamein. The Prime Minister gives a thorough and frank assessment of the war at..... More
New York: Charles Magnus, [1864?]. Hand-colored lithograph headpiece. Single leaf approximately 5" x 8" A sentimental Union Civil War song sheet with three verses and a chorus. . The hand-colored headpiece is a view of the City of Richmond from across the James River, with the Confederate Capitol prominently..... More
New York: Charles Magnus, 1864. Hand-colored lithograph headpiece. Single leaf approximately 5" x 8" Patriotic Union Civil War song sheet with three verses, beginning: "Draw comrades draw the bright sabre again, Let the crack of rifle for ever be heard..." The hand-colored headpiece is a view of..... More
1865. Single sheet folded in half to 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" Original handwritten letter dated March 27, 1865, from the "Rooms of the Y.M.C.A." in Washington, DC. The letter organizes a "Special Relief Corps" of short term nurse volunteers standing ready to travel from Washington, DC to Annapolis to..... More
[Lowell]: Stone & Huse, Printers, [1861]. First printing. Single sheet. 5" x 8" Rare broadside program for the funerals of the first two Union soldiers killed in action during the Civil War. Addison and Ladd, both of Company D, 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, were killed in mob violence as..... More
Raleigh: Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office, 1865. Stitched without wrappers. Octavo. 102 pages. The Grand Lodge met in Raleigh the first week of December, 1864. In his address herein Grand Master Eli Faucette Watson, alluding to the Civil War and the Confederacy, notes that the ancient fraternity of Free..... More
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[Havana}: (S.n.), [c.1960]. Black and white photographs. Softcover. Oblong duodecimo. 41 unnumbered leaves. Album commemorating the 1956 invasion of Cuba by revolutionaries under Fidel Castro in the yacht Granma. The album consists of individual photographs of the participants in the invasion, opening with the photographs of 27 men who were..... More
Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1822. First edition. Engravings. Paper over boards with leather spine. Duodecimo. 155 pages. This manual is an early attempt to introduce a uniform system cavalry of exercise and movements for the U. S. military. Illustrated with eight copper-plate engravings. Includes significant instruction on swords. More
Washington: Navy Department, 1867. Single sheet. 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" Autograph letter from William Faxon, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1867, to Admiral David Dixon Porter, who was then the Superintendent of United States Naval Academy. Faxon's letter opens by reassuring Porter that one "Commander..... More
Havana: [British Ladies' Committee of Havana], 1941. First Edition. Color frontispiece illustration by Conrado Massaguer. Softcover. Octavo. [1-13] 14-229 [230-246] pages. Rare cookbook produced by the British Ladies' Committee of Havana to raise funds for war relief of air raid victims back in England. The recipes are printed parallel in..... More
Washington: Mathew Brady, [1862-1863]. Black and white photograph. Mounted on a 2" x 4" card. Original albumen photographic profile vignette of a seated General Hooker, facing left. Imprint of Brady Studio, Washington, in bottom margin. Inscribed on back of the mount "Joseph Hooker / Maj. Genl." General Hooker's aggressive..... More
Washington, D. C. Self Published, (1935). First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. [iv], 143 pages. Critical report on the U. S. Military establishment just after World War I in which it is alleged that a "war trust" simultaneously profited from war preparations while inviting war and keeping American military power weak. Isham..... More
[London]: G. W. Bacon & Co., Ltd, 1914. Single sheet. 22" x 30". Folds into paper covers. A rare seriocomic pictorial map of Europe at the outbreak of World War I. Likely designed in September 1914, after the German advance on Paris had been halted with the aid of the..... More
Baltimore: Printed by W. M. Innes, 1863. Later card covers. Octavo. 48 pages. Interesting and uncommon pamphlet published in Baltimore during the Civil War which is highly critical of Abraham Lincoln, New England, and Abolitionists. The author sees disunion and the Civil War as resulting from self-righteous New Englanders too..... More
Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Limited edition, #84 of 250 copies. Black and white frontispiece photo. This copy extra-illustrated. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall octavo. 111 pages plus 8 pages of publisher ads. The period covered in this orderly book of the Maryland Loyalists begins with the evacuation..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. First printing. Cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. xii, 13-521 pages. John R. Kenly had just been admitted to the bar in Baltimore when the War with Mexico broke out. He raised a company of volunteers and led them into battle as a captain..... More
(New York): (F. R. Publishing Corporation), 1944. Magazine. Folio. 72 pages. This is a complete, original issue of "The New Yorker" magazine, containing the first appearance of John Hersey's story of John F. Kennedy and the PT-109 incident. Hersey was a Kennedy family friend, and this article was crucial in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. First editions. Black and white illustrations, plans, maps. 3/4 leather. Octavos. xxiv, 423 and xx, 456 pages. A thorough analysis of the use of navies in the War of 1812, by the most important American naval strategist of the 19th century. This is the..... More
Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, (1995). First Edition. Black and White Photographs. Hardcover. Folio. 112 pages. History of the battleship U. S. S. California and her crew, with focus on operations in World War II. The California was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but was salvaged and..... More