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1968. Photo. Illus. by Ugo Mulas. Très bon. Aucune reliure. 9 tirages gélatino-argentiques d'époque. Feuilles : 37,5 x 28,5 cm (environ), images : 34 x 24 cm (environ). Tous les tirages comportent au verso le tampon d'Ugo Mulas ainsi que diverses annotations. Huit d'entre eux comportent dans les angles des tirages des repères tracés à l'encre visant à les caler lors de leur reproduction et au verso, l'annotation "tel" : ce sont ces tirages qui ont été reproduits, exactement au même format, dans le catalogue de la Galerie de France (pp. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 et 13). Le dernier tirage, représentant trois dessins de Folon posés sur sa table de travail, ne figure pas dans le catalogue : il est inédit. Très rare ensemble de huit des quatorze photographies d'Ugo Mulas (et d'une photographie non retenue) pour le catalogue de la deuxième exposition personnelle de…
Read More 1943-1945 Original Photograph Album with Incredible Archive of Medals, (Including Bronze Star and Purple Heart), Documents, and Patches, of a US Army Combat Photographer Serving in Burma and China with the British Army by Ahbe, Edwin Oscar (1916-1995) - 1943
by Ahbe, Edwin Oscar (1916-1995)
1943-1945 Original Photograph Album with Incredible Archive of Medals, (Including Bronze Star and Purple Heart), Documents, and Patches, of a US Army Combat Photographer Serving in Burma and China with the British Army
by Ahbe, Edwin Oscar (1916-1995)
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Pacific Theater, World War II: Self-published, 1943. A superb World War II archive featuring a significant manuscript photograph album (oblong 17" x 12") containing 147 photographs on 46 pages (17 pages blank at rear), service records, citations, orders, medals, patches, bars, newspaper clippings, ID card, dog tags, and additional loose photographs and negatives, all belonging to Edwin Oscar Ahbe (1916-1995) . Ahbe was inducted on Dec. 1, 1943, reporting to Camp Peekskill, NY and serving as a Cameraman Motion Picture 043 and Combat Photographer in the 3374th Signal Photographic Service Company. After stops at Fort Sheridan and Camps Smith and Crowder, his first overseas photographs in the album begin in Ceylon. A small manuscript list shows he left NY early on Oct. 20, 1944 and records him being in Newfoundland, Azores, Cashblanca (sic), Tripoli, Cairo, Aboudan Iran, Karachi India, Kandy Ceylon, Burma, and China. His citation for the Bronze Star for meritorious service, 16 Jan 1945 to 10 June 1945 as a combat motion picture cameraman 5322nd US Army Section (Prov.) SE Asia Command attached to British 14th Army in Central Burma reads "During this period Tech. 5th Grade Ahbe, under arduous combat conditions, photographed several phases of battle preceeding the fall of Mandalay, an assault crossing of the Irrawaddy River at Mitchie, Burma and complete and excellent coverage of the Battle at Meiktila ... he carried out his duties under the throes of a severe case of dysentery and living under bitter field conditions". He received his Purple Heart "for wounds received on 9 May 1945 from enemy action near Meiktila, Burma". On 20 Sept 1945 Ahbe received orders authorizing him to take photos of Japanese and American installations in Canton, China. Ahbe was an excellent cameraman, and the photos in the album bear captions from Kandy Ceylon, Imphal, Shweba Burma, Meiktila, Mongwa, Toungoo ( a gruesome photo of a dead Japanese pilot next to his crashed plane), Rangoon, Calcutta, HQ Ceylon, Kunming China, Nanning, Kaliakunda, Canton, and Kanehrapara India. They vary in size from, 2 1/2" x 3", 3" x 4", 3 1/2" x 4 1/2", up to 5 1/2" x 7", 6 3/4" x 8", 7 1/2" x 9 1/2", and 8" x10". His Honorable Discharge Cert. dated 17 Jan 1946 lists two Overseas Service Bars, Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon with three Bronze Battle Stars, Good Conduct Medal, Purple Heart, WWII Victory Medal, and China War Memorial Badge, all of which are included. The photo album Very Good, a few pages and a few pictures loose. An extensive collection detailing the service record of a true American hero and an excellent combat photographer. . Ring Bound. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.
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[Photographie originale] Neuf tirages photographiques autour de Jean-Michel Folon pour son exposition à la Galerie de France, 1968
by Mulas, Ugo (1928-1973) - [Folon, Jean-Michel]
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Legendary and extremely scarce portrait of the author of Crime and Punishment: This portrait, which remained famous in the iconography of the writer, shows Dostoevsky with an intense gaze and a slight smile
by Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY
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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881)Period albumen portrait by Vezenberg & CoSaint Petersburg [1879], cdv formatMounted on thin cardboard in the photorapher's creditSome superficial stains and flaws (see scan)
Very scarce portrait of the author of Crime and Punishment
This portrait, which has remained famous in the writer's iconography, shows Dostoevsky with a piercing gaze and a slight smile.
Good condition throughout.
Iconography:Album Dostoïevski, éd. G. Aucouturier et C. Menuet, Pléiade, p. 333, n°531
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Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes a Feu, Liege-Belgique
by Manufacture Liegeoise
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Belgium: Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes A Feu. Very Good. Leather Flexi-board. Black pebbled leather album 7" x 11" with gilt title on cover and spine. Wear to edges, binding pulling from spine but all pages holding tight. Marbled endpapers. Leaves show light foxing to edges plus definite wear from use. Most pages are linen backed with photo images securely mounted to either album leaf or thinner note paper bound in. Images generally are 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". Album contains 145 photographs plus several pages tipped in from printed trade catalogs. In addition, 6 pages of ledger sheets are tipped in at back of album. This remarkable in-house catalog contains photographs of shot guns, pistols, and revolvers which Manufacture Liegeoise produced for hunting, military and personal use. All photographs are stamped "ML" (Manufacture Liegeoise) or "Cockerill", the English steel supplier and founder of Manufacture Liegeoise (1866). The company continued…
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Het Achterhuis.(The Diary of Anne Frank). [First Edition, First Print].: Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944.
by Anne Frank
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Amsterdam: Uitgeveij Contact, 25 juni 1947. Anne.Frank; 'Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven van 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944'. Hard cover, pp 253. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINT, no dust jacket. First edition of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch language. Small Octavo. One of 3000 booklets printed 75 YEARS AGO ON JUNE 25th 1947. Original white and red paper-covered boards. Illustration with 3 photo's of the hiding place ('Het Achterhuis'), 1 groundfloor-plan and 2 examples (facsimile) of the handwriting of Anne Frank. Introduction by Annie Romein-Verschoor.Title on the front board and the spine. A very good copy, some wear to the frontboard. Pages are slightly tanned after 75 years. No inscriptions.Anne began her diary on her 13th birthday, 12 June 1942 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary was found in the hiding place by Miep Gies, after Anne Frank, her Jewish family and other Jews were taken away to the concentration-camps. Miep Gies was one of the helpers during their time…
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[An extraordinary souvenir album featuring 57 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs vividly documenting the first industrial Electrical Exposition held in Reading, Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Metropolitan Edison Company. Thousands of attendees flocked to the event held Nov. 14 to 21, 1925, to ogle and experience the latest in electrical gadgets and lighting fixtures when nearly half of local households had been electrified].
by [ELECTRICAL EXPOSITION -- READING, PENNSYLVANIA].
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[Reading, PA: Metropolitan Edison Co., 1925]. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 8.25 in. 57 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs, nearly all w/ typed captions on versos, linen hinges & stubs at gutter margin, bound w/ two brass screw-posts at gutter margin, recent flexible mylar cover as protection secured w/ screw-posts (slight curling at fore-edges), still all photos w/ bright strong contrast. This remarkable series of undocumented photographs visually produces the efforts of Metropolitan Edison to further expand their footprint in the Pennsylvania market after electrifying over 35,000 customers by 1925. As they accelerated their push to introduce additional electrical appliances following World War I, they sponsored trade shows and expositions to advertise the latest available products, and even commissioned their employees to regularly make house calls after hours with electrical toasters, and lamps with prizes awarded for the most sales. Met-Ed customers could pay for the latest appliances with…
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[Photographie originale] Neuf tirages photographiques autour de Jean-Michel Folon pour son exposition à la Galerie de France, 1968
by Mulas, Ugo (1928-1973) - [Folon, Jean-Michel]
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1968. Photo. Illus. by Ugo Mulas. Très bon. Aucune reliure. 9 tirages gélatino-argentiques d'époque. Feuilles : 37,5 x 28,5 cm (environ), images : 34 x 24 cm (environ). Tous les tirages comportent au verso le tampon d'Ugo Mulas ainsi que diverses annotations. Huit d'entre eux comportent dans les angles des tirages des repères tracés à l'encre visant à les caler lors de leur reproduction et au verso, l'annotation "tel" : ce sont ces tirages qui ont été reproduits, exactement au même format, dans le catalogue de la Galerie de France (pp. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 et 13). Le dernier tirage, représentant trois dessins de Folon posés sur sa table de travail, ne figure pas dans le catalogue : il est inédit. Très rare ensemble de huit des quatorze photographies d'Ugo Mulas (et d'une photographie non retenue) pour le catalogue de la deuxième exposition personnelle de…
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf - A Gathering of Original Combat Despatches and Various Original Ephemera From History's Greatest Naval Battle.
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16 Radio Telegrams including detailed Action Reports, Tactical Operation Commands, Battle Assessments, Damage Reports, etc. spanning the full duration of The Battle of Leyte Gulf, 24 October - 28 October 1944. Imprinted upon wartime, U.S. Communication Service (USS Hector - 20M Sets) yellow onionskin paper. 8" x 6.5". 7 designated "Secret- Urgent", 4 designated "Operational Priority-Secret", 2 designated "Priority-Secret", 1 designated "Top Secret-Operational Priority", 1 designated "Secret-Op-Op-Op",1 designated "Routine-Confidential". TRANSCRIBED DESPATCHES#24031510/24/44 06;14From: CTF 77-(Vice-Admiral Kinkaid--7th Fleet - King II Attack Force)Action: CTG 77.2 - (Rear-Admiral Olendorf - Bombardment & Fire Support Group)CTF 78 - (Rear Admiral Barbey - Northern Attack Force)CTF 79 - (Vice-Admiral Wilkinson - Southern Attack Force)CTG 77.3…
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Legendary and extremely scarce portrait of the author of Crime and Punishment: This portrait, which remained famous in the iconography of the writer, shows Dostoevsky with an intense gaze and a slight smile
by Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY
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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881)Period albumen portrait by Vezenberg & CoSaint Petersburg [1879], cdv formatMounted on thin cardboard in the photorapher's creditSome superficial stains and flaws (see scan)
Very scarce portrait of the author of Crime and Punishment
This portrait, which has remained famous in the writer's iconography, shows Dostoevsky with a piercing gaze and a slight smile.
Good condition throughout.
Iconography:Album Dostoïevski, éd. G. Aucouturier et C. Menuet, Pléiade, p. 333, n°531
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Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes a Feu, Liege-Belgique
by Manufacture Liegeoise
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Belgium: Manufacture Liegeoise D'Armes A Feu. Very Good. Leather Flexi-board. Black pebbled leather album 7" x 11" with gilt title on cover and spine. Wear to edges, binding pulling from spine but all pages holding tight. Marbled endpapers. Leaves show light foxing to edges plus definite wear from use. Most pages are linen backed with photo images securely mounted to either album leaf or thinner note paper bound in. Images generally are 4 1/2" x 7 1/2". Album contains 145 photographs plus several pages tipped in from printed trade catalogs. In addition, 6 pages of ledger sheets are tipped in at back of album. This remarkable in-house catalog contains photographs of shot guns, pistols, and revolvers which Manufacture Liegeoise produced for hunting, military and personal use. All photographs are stamped "ML" (Manufacture Liegeoise) or "Cockerill", the English steel supplier and founder of Manufacture Liegeoise (1866). The company continued…
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Het Achterhuis.(The Diary of Anne Frank). [First Edition, First Print].: Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944.
by Anne Frank
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Amsterdam: Uitgeveij Contact, 25 juni 1947. Anne.Frank; 'Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven van 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944'. Hard cover, pp 253. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINT, no dust jacket. First edition of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch language. Small Octavo. One of 3000 booklets printed 75 YEARS AGO ON JUNE 25th 1947. Original white and red paper-covered boards. Illustration with 3 photo's of the hiding place ('Het Achterhuis'), 1 groundfloor-plan and 2 examples (facsimile) of the handwriting of Anne Frank. Introduction by Annie Romein-Verschoor.Title on the front board and the spine. A very good copy, some wear to the frontboard. Pages are slightly tanned after 75 years. No inscriptions.Anne began her diary on her 13th birthday, 12 June 1942 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary was found in the hiding place by Miep Gies, after Anne Frank, her Jewish family and other Jews were taken away to the concentration-camps. Miep Gies was one of the helpers during their time…
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Hasen
by Bercovitch, Reuben
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New York: Knopf, 1978. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jacket woodcut from Rockwell Kent Legacies, cover design by Lidia Ferrera.. This First Edition title translates to "Hare", a story of two young boys surviving in the wild near a concentration camp, and the day everything changes. "As simply and beguilingly told as a fairy tale, this is a novel whose terror belongs to reality-a novel that evokes with extraordinary power the essence, the beauty, of loyalty and commitment tested to the utmost." (from DJ). 5½ x 8". Original black boards over cloth, silver letters to spine, black top edge. Bottom spine slightly bumped, DJ has tiny chips at top & bottom spine and light wear to back, else a near fine dustjacket over a near fine book with Kent's striking woodcut on cover.
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THE ASIATICS
by Prokosch, Frederic
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New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., 1945. 348 pages, Armed Service edition #764, published in July 1945. During World War II more than seventy American publishers cooperated with the Council on Books in Wartime to distribute books free of charge to American servicemen. The flat oblong paperback books were designed to be easily carried into battle in soldiers' pockets. From September 1943 through June 1947, there were 1,322 titles published in Armed Services Editions. The book offered here is in very good condition: clean and tight, with minor edgewear.. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong 32mo - over 4" - 5" Tall. Book.
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Orlando King
by Colegate, Isabel
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London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, spine a bit cocked, front endpaper corner-clipped, small spots to front board. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, rubs, light scratches, short edge tears carefully repaired on the interior side with archival quality tape, very faint stains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author's first book in the Orlando Trilogy followed by Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha. A modern classic. ISBN 9780370006529
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Very Ordinary Seaman
by Mallalieu, J.P.W
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. One illustration, small 8vo, pp 278, very age-toned, a few creased corners, a small signature on the front endpaper, green cloth, dull and slightly worn, spine a little spotted, binding leaning slightly. [First edition, first impression of what is generally considered one of the finest accounts of life at sea in the Second World War. A fictionalised but accurate account, based on the author's experiences in a destroyer on the Murmansk run.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.
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Yank, The Army Weekly; World War II from the guys who brought you victory
by Steve Kluger
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Arms and Armour, 1991. Hardback. good/good, faded spine (red spine). with Dw, slightly faded on the spine, slightly foxed and tanned on the page edges otherwise very good
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
by W. B. Dixon
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
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Publishers Press / Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.
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Santa Barbara Photographs
by Bill Zeldis; Editor-Zeldis; Illustrator-Zeldis
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Santa Barbera: Zeldis Publishing, 7-04. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Large format hardback with dust jacket which is has minor wear, Signed by Photgrapher Bill Zeldis
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50 Years Later: Remains of the Battle of the Bulge
by Emonts-Pohl, Joseph; Schuren, Hermann-Josef
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Grenz-Echo Verlag. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. Hardcover. 9054330414 . A photoessay on the tank memorials and other military remains of the Battle of the Bulge along the Luxembourg-Belgium border. Many color photos. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages .
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Die Befreiung 1813 - 1814 - 1815 : Urkunden - Berichte - Briefe mit geschichtlichen Verbindungen
by Klein, Tim
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A 1st ed. good paperback, soiling & other signs of wear on covs. & spine as in image, with stamp fr. end p. & inside of cov. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1941 Gau Danzig" also FON pasted label. 520p. 19x13cm. 500gr. "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen.Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte… Read More
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BLOODY BURON NORMANDY - 08JULY 1944
by SNOWIE, Capt. J. ALLAN
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Erin, ON: The Boston Mills Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [1-8]9-120. FIRST EDITION. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth boards, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece photograph, photos, maps, glossary, nominal roll for D-Day. A history of the actions of the Highland Light Infantry of Canada near the village of Buron during the month following the D-Day landings. They faced the 12th SS (Hitler Youth) exchanging artillery barrages and fighting patrols. On the 8th July, 1944 the regiment executed a plan to capture the village which is described in this book. The unusual aspect of the fighting was the ferocity with which it was carried out on both sides. The text includes many full page photographs. The soldiers in most of the photos are identified by name and rank. The appendices include; a list of participants in the battle taken from The Highland Light Infantry of Canada with a determination of killed or wounded.…
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