![Item #5579 Information for Military Personnel and Map of Post [wrapper title]. Alaska, World War II](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5579.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739290135)
Fort Richardson, Ak. March 1, 1945. 8pp. of text folded accordion style, folded out to a full-page map on verso. Light soiling and toning. A seemingly unrecorded guide and map to Fort Richardson, located near Anchorage, Alaska. The fort opened in 1941 as the headquarters for the United States Army..... More
[Antarctica: 1968]. [65]pp. report typed on rectos only, plus [28] leaves, illustrated with eighty-six black-and-white mounted photographs, each approximately 5 x 7 inches, most accompanied by typed paper caption strips, plus three loose photographs. Quarto. Original pressboard wrappers with metal spine fastener, with printed title leaf pasted to front board..... More
Mexico City: 1835. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Small folio. Previously folded; two small stabholes at gutter where formerly stitched. Minor wear and soiling at edges. Light toning. In a quarter calf and pebbled cloth folder. A rare printed address from Mexican president Miguel Barragán to the country's citizens that defends..... More
Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, 1863. 37pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Light chipping and small tears, spine partially perished. Text lightly toned. A report against the Metropolitan Police Force, describing unlawful arrests made by the police in New York City during the Civil War. Among these charges, incidents of which are..... More
[N.p., probably Portland: 1916]. 36pp., plus two multi-panel folding panoramic photographic plates. Original tan wrappers printed in brown, accompanied by original printed mailing envelope reading, "A Souvenir of The Third Oregon Infantry on the Mexican Border." Very light wear. A scarce work featuring the officers, staff, and soldiers of the..... More
New Berne, N.C. 1864. Twenty printed general orders, totaling [24]pp. Original plain or lined paper single or folded sheets. Minor overall wear, some dust-soiling, especially to final order. A collection of twenty Union general orders issued in North Carolina during the penultimate year of the Civil War. The orders run..... More
[Various locations: 1861-1865]. Forty letters, approximately [96]pp. Many with original envelopes. Light wear and soiling, old folds. In a legible hand. Together with twelve additional family letters and two military commissions. A wonderful archive of correspondence written home from the Confederate lines by William Henry Tabb of the 14th Mississippi..... More
Washington DC: 1867. [8],411,[1],[1]pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and brown pebbled cloth, leather label on front cover stamped in gilt. Spine mostly perished, with three portions of original spine (which include the gilt-stamped spine titles) re-attached with cello tape. Corners worn, mild rubbing. Both boards also holding by cello tape. Internally..... More
Bogotá: Imprenta del Neo-Grandina, 1855. 65pp. Large octavo. Original printed wrappers, rear lacking. Final leaf detached; Moderate creasing and wear at edges. Contemporary bookseller's ink stamp inside front wrapper. Light tanning and scattered foxing. In this scarce pamphlet, the suspended governor of Cartagena, Juan Jose Nieto, defends himself against charges..... More
[New York: ca. 1930-1940]. Seven pamphlets, plus two duplicates. Some staples, with minor oxidation. Otherwise minor wear and dustsoiling; a few scattered patched of browning. A group of eight uncommon pamphlets issued by the Committee on Militarism Education to disseminate their arguments against military training in schools. The group was..... More
Middletown, Ct. 1955. 32pp. Spiral bound small folio. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photo reproductions. Minor wear. A remembrance book produced by a group of conscientious objectors (COs) who worked at the Connecticut State Hospital mental hospital instead of joining the armed forces. In the introduction, they wrote: “Though it is..... More
Glendora, Ca. Pacifica Library Associates, 1942. [2],137,[4] leaves. Folio. Reproduced typescript, with "Explanatory Note" taped to inside front cover. Original brad-bound, printed card wrappers. Light wear. Without the five leaves of "Authors cited" at the end, as noted in the OCLC record, but perhaps not present in all copies. A..... More
Havana: 1912. 196pp. Original printed front wrapper bound into 20th-century faux leather, paper boards, spine and front board gilt lettered. Contemporary ownership inscription and bookseller's ink stamp on title page. Lower corners of initial and final leaves repaired with tissue. Even tanning, occasional foxing, heavier to initial leaves. A scarce..... More
Puerto-Principe, Cuba: Imp. el Progreso-Soledad, January 11, 1899. Broadside, 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Old folds, minor chip at top left corner, uniformly tanned and somewhat tender. An unrecorded general order issued in Spanish by the American "Jefe de Estado Mayor" (Chief of Staff) John E. McMahon during the military occupation..... More
Guadalajara: Tip. de Gob., a Cargo de Luis P. Vidaurri, 1859. 84pp. Disbound. Light dust soiling and toning. A stinging, but apparently unrecorded, attack on Santos Degollado, a major leader of the Liberal forces during the Reform War in Mexico. His record in battle was so poor that he became..... More
[Providence: 1853]. 16pp. Original self-wrappers, stitching perished. Old shelf label and erased ownership inscription on front wrap. Scattered underlining and annotation. Some tanning and dust soiling. A lengthy article by famed Rhode Islander Thomas Wilson Dorr on the geography, politics, and history of Russia and Turkey and the causes of..... More
![Item #5401 Stop the U.S. War in El Salvador [caption title]. El Salvador, March 27 Coalition](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5401.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1734108526)
[Washington DC: 1982]. Lithographic poster, 34 x 22.75 inches, printed on cheap paper. A few small chips and closed tears to edges, old folds, some light creasing. A striking poster advertising a "Mass Protest" in Washington, D.C. in support of El Salvador and "against the Reagan Policy of Oppression at..... More
[N.p., likely Springfield, Il. ca. January 8, 1877]. Three long galley leaves, each approximately 6.5 x 19 inches and printed on rectos only, with numerous pencil emendations. Old folds and creases, numerous chips and tears to margins, pervasive wrinkling, making reading a bit challenging at times, but with no loss..... More
Lima: 1824. [4],56pp. Small quarto. Modern paper boards, printed paper spine label. Minor worming to initial leaves, repaired, slightly affecting text. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Scarce royalist account of military operations in Peru during the early 1820s, during which time colonial forces under Viceroy José de la Serna recaptured..... More
Guatemala: 1855. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Small folio. Leaves no longer integral. Heavy chipping and wear at edges, quarter-sized hole through upper center of both leaves, but only a small amount of text actually affected. Moderate tanning and soiling. A scarce 1855 broadside in which Guatemalan caudillo Rafael Carrera addresses..... More
Guatemala: 1867. Broadside, approximately 13 x 8 inches. Trimmed a bit unevenly. Light tanning. An early 1867 broadside in which Vicente Cerna, President of Guatemala, announces that Mariscal de Campo Serapio Cruz has raised a rebellion in the jurisdiction of Sanarate for purely personal reasons and not for any that..... More
[San Antonio?]: Impreso por la Libreria Quiroga, 1915. 96pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor wear and and scattered staining. Moderate, even toning. An unusual "memoir" of Victoriano Huerta -- in fact an anonymous attack on his conduct during the Revolution from his coup against Madero, his presidency, his betrayal of other..... More
![Item #5624 Go for Broke: 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The 442nd Decade [cover title]. Japanese...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5624.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741013066)
[Hawaii: 1953]. [80]pp. Original textured pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor toning, soiling, and rubbing to wrappers. A rare and densely-packed program issued for the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Army's 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the highly-decorated Japanese-American unit which played an important role in World War II. The program contains historical..... More
Fort Riley, Ks. Sixteenth Infantry Print, 1879. Broadsheet, printed on thin coated paper, approximately 14 x 6.5 inches, recto printed in blue ink with ornamental border enclosing the title portion and decorative ornament on other panel of recto, verso printed in black, with signature line at bottom filled in by..... More
Manchester, N.H. Steam Power Press of Abbott, Jenks, and Co., 1854. 23,[1]pp., plus folding map. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear and chipping to wraps, with small cello tape repairs along spine and fore-edge of front wrap. Some dust soiling, toning. A pair of melodramatic lectures in which a Polish exile..... More