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New York, NY: Carl Fischer, 1942. Reprint of 1942 . Paperback/Sheet Music. Very Good/None as Issued. 5-page Vintage SHEET MUSIC. Vocal, Piano & Guitar. Strong classical, vintage publication. Score: Clean. Softcover/VG w/light edge & surface wear; short closed tear to spine sealed by archival tape; trace soiling to upper back corner. Official song of the United States Army Air Corps. Creation of Robert MacArthur Crawford (1899 - 1961) who both studied & taught at the Julliard School of Music. Colorful artist, aviator since 1923, he flew to concerts & was introduced as "The Flying Baritone." This march was submitted to the 1938, Liberty magazine sponsored contest --- of 757 entries, Crawford won. The song (1st Line: "Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sun...") was officially introduced at the Cleveland Air Races, Sept. 2, 1939, where Crawford sang its first public rendition!

Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1945. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New. Black linen boards/VG; Strong & sound w/rubs to surfaces & leading edges & light fading to spine. DJ/None. Upper text edge dye red; also showing fading. First published in 1943. A commentary of Chinese philosopher of Christian faith to war. Dedicated to good friends Richard J. Walsh and Pearl S. Buck, Lin Yutang comments on intrigues within the Allied front in the treatment of China --- signifying a problem of moral decay in the 1940s. Strong copy.

Bozeman, Montana: Yellowstone Library & Museum Assn, 1964. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Stapled. Near Fine/None as Issued. Bill Chapman (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1964, First Edition, First Thus. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner from poor shelving. Biography of Chief Joseph (1840 - 1904), the chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce during General Oliver O. Howard's attempt to forcibly remove his people from the Wallows Valley of northwestern Oregon to Idaho. Fine copy.

New York, NY: W W Norton, 1994. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Text/NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Map of Indian Wars, 1866 - 1890, to endpapers. Collaborative work of Native-American novelist & poet James Welch (1940- )(Fools Crow), and documentary filmmaker Paul Stekler (1969 -), who worked together first in the production of the American Experience film "Last Stand at Little Bighorn". An analysis of the 1876 defining battle led by General George Custer enriched with oral accounts & perspectives of Native Americans.

Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press/R.R. Donnelley, 1995. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. 1995, First Edition, First Thus; reprint of a memoir first published 1905. Gilt embossed dark brown linen boards w/gilt to upper text block, Fine. DJ/None as Issued. Frontispiece: The USS Saratoga. Maritime history. Memoir of American sailor, minister & professor John Smith Sewall (1830-1911) aboard warship U.S.Saratoga --- one of the "Black Ships" of Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Squadron to Japan (1853-1854). As a captain's clerk aboard the Saratoga from 1850-1854, Sewall (author of The Invincible Armada to Japan) kept log of the ship's daily activities. This book was written a half century later, and includes Sewall's commentaries as well as references to later incidents. 291 pgs w/maps & archival photos in 9 chapters followed by Editor's Epilogue.

Washington, D.C.: Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1968. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket. Text/Pencil underlining to pg 1 of Introduction, else As New. Blue linen boards/NF w/light edge & surface rubs & fading to spine. DJ/None. Vintage 1968 textbook for the Industrial College of Armed Forces. Historical resouce. This volume examines how the US Dept of Defense conducts its scientific & technological programs. Authors are the seven students of the 1966 - 67 class. 11 chapters are: I, An Overview of Defense R&D Management; II, Organizational Setting & General Concepts; III, The R&D Requirements & Planning Process; IV, Research; V, Exploratory Development; VI, Advanced Development; VII, Contract Definition; VIII, Engineering & Operational Development; IX, Weapons for the Future; X, Cooperation With Allies; and, XI, Hindsight & Forsight. Text supported by charts & diagrams.

Washington, D.C.: Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1970. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/None (As Issued?). Text/BRAND NEW. Silver embossed blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/None (As Issued?). Historial 1970 textbook prepared for the Industrial College of The Armed Forces. Introduction to resource management of the Department of Defense. Emphasis on concepts & practices in the planning, programming, and budgeting system since 1961. The 9 chapters are: Chapter I, The Role of Defense Requirements; II, Planning for Military Requirements; III, Programming; IV, Systems Analysis & Defense Requirements; V, Systems Analysis: Methods & Techniques; VI, The Impact of System Analysis; VII, The Defense Budget; VIII, Defense Resources Management Systems; and, IX, A Decade of Progress. Fine copy.

New York, NY: New American Library, 1988. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Light gray boards w/red spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG; sound w/edge rubs & closed tears. Outstanding 2-Act play of a Jewish family, unfied after years apart by the Holocaust First performed 1985. 94 pgs with b/w photos. One of Barbara Lebow's (1936 -) earliest plays and among the most frequently performed. "A shayna maidel" is a popular Yiddish term meaning "a pretty girl"; note, however, "shayna" also describes that which is dear, good, radiant and kind. Penned with a review from Lily Baxter to ensure the "flair, intonation & quality" of Yiddish terms use in the dialogue were properly employed. Author hopes audience/reader to sense the "endearment, adoration and hope, the precious nature of a child, of feeling for the future" exhibited by all characters, of whom. only Rose speaks in perfect American… Read More

Austin, TX: Univ of Texas Press, 1993. Second Edition, Third Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Lonnie Rees (Illustrator) & photos. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF with trace shelfwear. First published 1935, exactly a century after the Texas Rangers was established, and absorbed into a larger organization, ceased to be. As J. Frank Dobie says in this volume historian Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963) gives "The beginning, middle, and end of the subject." Dobie, here, refers to the entrenched popular fiction's stereotyped portraits of these soldiers naught but "... a pair of swaggering boots, a big hat, and a six shooter moving across the prairies under a cloud of pistol smoke." 584 pgs, foreword from President Lyndon B. Johnson of May,1965, in 23 chapters, places the Texas Ranger as an American fighting force in the Texas frontier when Mexican, Native Indian & westward moving American cultures knew no peace. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Harper & Bros, 1931. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Text/As New.1931 Vintage First Edition. Mauve linen boards/VG; strong showing discoloration. DJ/VG w/short closed edge tears & light soiling; under mylar. Dyed upper text edge. Map to front endpaper. PO name to front cover verso; bookshop sticker to rear cover verso. Historical novel by German writer Richard Friedenthal (1896-1979), recounting the 16th century expedition of Spanish Conquistador Hernando [Hernán] Cortés (1485 - 1547) which not only claimed large portions of Mexico for the Spanish crown, but marked the first step of Spanish colonization of the Americas. In February of 1519, with some 11 ships, 500 men, 13 horses & few cannons, Cortez landed in the Yucatan and claimed the land a month later for the Spanish crown ... a remarkable adventure with colorful protagonists, and, the success of which eradicated military insubordination.