viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1945

Ronald Reagan
        Scarce World War II document signed by Capt. Ronald Reagan as a member of the First Motion Picture Unit of the Air Force
      Manuscript Document Signed ?Ronald Reagan Capt. AC? and by over 300 others, 1p, 33? x 17.5?, folded to 16.5? x 17.5? with ?Lt. Owen E. Crump? calligraphed on the front. [Culver City, California], c. 1945. On parchment-like paper. Minor tears at mid-vertical fold reinforced on verso with archival tape. Fine condition.Headed in calligraphy in red: ?This Testament from the Officers and Men of the Army Air Forces 18th Base Unit (Motion Picture Unit) to Lt. Colonel Owen E. Crump, is signed with the deepest pride ?" / We inscribe our names with gratitude and affection for his camaraderie and leadership in the past and with sincerest wishes for an association continued into the future ?" ?After Pearl Harbor, Jack Warner, commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, and his writer, Capt. Owen E. Crump, organized the First Motion Picture Unit of the Air Force. After filming at Warner Bros., the unit moved to Vitagraph Studios which did not have required facilities. When th

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Harry S. Truman
        Framed display! <i>?The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God?s help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender ? The victory won in the West must now be won in the East. The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed ??</i>
      Document Signed ?Harry S Truman? as President, one page, 12.5" x 19.5" visible, beautifully matted and framed to 16" x 22.5". Washington, DC, May 8, 1945. Particularly bold signature. Fine condition.In full: ?The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God?s help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of free-born men. They have violated their churches, destroyed their homes, corrupted their children, and murdered their loved ones. Our Armies of Liberation have restored freedom to these suffering peoples, whose spirit and will the oppressors could never enslave. Much remains to be done. The victory won in the West must now be won in the East. The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed. United, the peace-loving nations have dem

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Jean Théodoridès
        Pièces manuscrites de jeunesse (inédites)
      1945 - Emballés dans un papier imprimé de Noël du Bon marché, des notes scolaires manuscrites, 4 manuscrits et 1 tapuscrit corrigé de pièces de théâtre rédigées par Jean Théodoridès. Théodoridès (1926-1999) est un historien des sciences biologiques et médicales, parasitologiste éminent entré au CNRS en 1949 où il effectue la majeure partie de sa carrière au laboratoire dévolution des êtres animés. Il devient le spécialiste mondial des protozoaires parasites. En 1950, il soutient une thèse de Doctorat ès-Sciences sur les parasites et phorétiques de coléoptères. Egalement docteur en lettres, il participe à de nombreuses sociétés savantes et littéraires (cest un stendhalien acharné). Cet ensemble témoigne de son goût précoce pour les lettres (textes datés de 1945), dune envie décriture (quil concrétisa seulement à travers plus dune centaine de publications sur la protozoologie, des articles savants, des compte-rendu douvrages) et dune fantaisie certaine. Lensemble se compose de : 1) COUPS DE BAMBOU, pièce en 2 actes et un prologue, 54 ff. dun cahier à petits carreaux, 15,5 x 21,5 cm, rédigés à lencre bleue + en tête-bêche, à la suite de notes de géographie, LA FAMILLE DISPERSEE, pièce en 1 acte, 22 feuillets rédigés au crayon et à lencre bleue. « Coups de bambou » débute dans le décor pittoresque dun laboratoire « genre Faust, cornues, toiles daraignées » et se poursuit à lacte II au cur de la jungle, dans la chambre à coucher dune station de dépistage de la maladie du sommeil. --- 2) ON A VOLE LE GRASSITERMES, 17 ff. 20 x 29 cm, rédigés en noir et bleu : le personnage principal porte le nom du zoologiste Pierre-Paul Grassé (en seigneur de Montbard) ; le grassitermes est un termite qui a muté. --- 3) QUAND LE MYSTIQUE DANSE comédie en 3 actes en prose (1945 selon une note glissée dans le cahier, la pièce se déroule en 1944), 124 ff. dun cahier décole, 15,5 x 21,5 cm, rédigés à lencre bleue. --- 4) ON A PERDU RAOUL, « drame embryologique en 3 actes et 6 tableaux, par moi-même, Raoul MAY, néophyte pédagogique pour embryologistes » : tapuscrit daté du 6 octobre 1945 et dédié « à mes vieux copains de Fac », 17 ff. reliés à un trombone, 22 x 28 cm, avec quelques corrections manuscrites. Le personnage de Raoul May intervenait déjà, comme « détective américain » dans « On a volé le grassitermes » ; fantaisie échevelée se déroulant dans la pampa de Patagonie, un laboratoire de la Sorbonne, une boîte de nuit à New-York, le pont du « Nauplius », le pont du Normandie et une cabine télégraphique. Largument : Raoul May et son comparse Pacaud sont partis dans la pampa à la recherche de tardigrades et de rares cladocères. A lannonce de leur disparition, le professeur Teissier part à leur recherche. Parmi les personnages, dans leurs disciplines, on note de véritables savants comme Georges Teissier, zoologiste et généticien, « Gaston Mangenot, botaniste » (qui est Georges Mangenot), le botaniste Louis Blaringhem, la biologiste Germaine Hurel-Py. Raoul May, embryologiste chantant (Théodoridès avait une voix de basse quil déploya dans les curs liturgiques orthodoxes), est certainement une projection du jeune Théodoridès qui fait preuve dune amusante autodérision. Ainsi, à la vue dune nuée obscure dans le ciel, il sécrit : « Quest-ce que cest ? Des Tardigrades aériens ? » ; à propos du canasson sur lequel il traverse la pampa : « Notre monture est fatiguée et commence à souffrir au niveau de lhypoglosse. » Teissier, dans son labo de la Sorbonne, subit les assauts de sa maîtresse qui sexclame « Oh Georges ! Tu es mon grand Isopode échevelé ! » Mangenot fait une apparition hallucinée : « Je cherche à réaliser discrètement la photosynthèse des plantes à lobscurité. Alors je me promène dans les couloirs de la Sorbonne avec, à la main, le genre Papaver, famille des Papavéracées, graine succulente à albumen quadriruminé et huileux » --- 5) une dizaine de ff. de poésies, parmi des formules chimiques. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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Rouault, Georges, peintre et graveur francais (1871-1958).
        Ensemble de 5 lettres autographes signees et 2 lettres tapuscrites signees (dont une avec de multiples corrections autographes) a Charles Bischoff.
      S. l., "Novembre 1945", 16 mars 1950, "mi-Juillet 1952" et s. d.. En tout 16 pages, in-8 et in-4 autographe, et 19 pages in-4 tapuscrites. Avec des brouillons de 15 lettres de Bischoff a Rouault, 1943-1952.. Une correspondance melant tous les themes chers a Rouault: des plaintes de son etat physique et moral, des prieres et reflexions, et des commentaires sur la peinture ("cet affreux metier [...] cette vie en enfer"), les peintres (entre autres, Corot, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas), le proces que lui ont fait les heritiers d'Ambroise Vollard ("les demeles avec ces affreux bougres ... m'ont degoute de la peinture", Novembre 1945): "Je vois que vs ne vs rendez pas bien compte de ma situation presente isole impossible de plus en plus tout a fait - impossible ... Aussi je suis tirbouchonne de bonne maniere"; " Alleluia priez plus pour cet art bien aime et redoutable [...] la meilleure grace qui me fut faite ce sera d'avoir parfois prie en peignant avec quelque bonheur ... Mon Dieu ayez pitie du pauvre emigre ... 1871 - 1914 - 1937 ... cela gens de peu de foi suffit il pas [...] ne parlons pas peinture on en parle trop facilement". A la lettre tapuscrite du 16 mars 1950 est joint un poeme de quatre pages, avec le titre "Poemes d'Ariel Testament spirituel A Bischoff pour lui porter bonheur en ces temps de hargnes picturales". [On joint:] -- 7 lettres autographes signees a Charles et Renee Bischoff par Marthe Rouault, 5 par Isabelle et une par Genevieve Rouault, une carte de voeux signee par Georges, Marthe et Isabelle, et deux imprimes; et une piece signee par Amelie Matisse.

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Harry S. Truman
        Exactly two weeks after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima! Photograph signed by President Truman and members of the Advisory Board of the Office of War Mobilization and Conversion including President William Green of the AFL and Philip Murray of the CIO
      Photograph Signed ?Harry S. Truman? as President, ?O. Max Gardner,? ?A.F. Goss,? ?G.H. Mead,? ?Jim Patton,? ?Nathaniel Dyke Jr,? ?Edw. A. O?Neal,? ?Anna M. Rosenberg,? ?T.C. Cashen,? ?Holt McPherson,? ?Wm Green,? ?William H. Davis,? ?Philip Murray,? and ?William R. Davlin.? Black & white, 13? x 8.25? image, overall 13.5? x 10?. All those pictured, except for John W. Snyder, have signed in the wide margin on the photographic surface beneath the image. Snyder was Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Conversion; this signed Harris & Ewing photograph came from his estate. Small tear at right margin, else fine condition.According to President Truman?s Appointments Calendar for Monday, August 20, 1945, the Advisory Committee [Board] of the Office of War Mobilization and Conversion met with the President at 12:45 PM. Gardner (former Governor of North Carolina) was Chairman of the Advisory Board, Go

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McCallion, Barry. Thomas, Dylan
        Fern Hill. Original paintings by Barry McCallion
      East Hampton, NY. 2013. Unique artist's book, on Arches watercolor paper, signed and dated in black ink by the artist, Barry McCallion, on the last page. Page size: 6- 3/8 x 4-7/8 inches; 64pp. Bound: fascicles loose in green board wrappers with gold gilt spine, title printed in brown on yellow label on spine accomplished by the artist, custom-made green silk cloth over boards clamshell box lined with darker green silk, copy of titlepage painting by Barry McCallion on front cover of box, title printed in brown on yellow label and inset on spine, label signed by the artist, box by Joelle Webber, at the Mermaid Bindery.& Dylan Thomas' poem was first published in 1945 in Horizon Magazine and later in Thomas' book, DEATHS AND ENTRANCES. The verse starts as a paean to his youth, in particular the summer holidays spent at his aunt's farm in Carmarthenshire. The opening verse, "Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs..." is printed on yellow paper collaged onto an original painting by Barry McCallion, mostly abstract, in India ink, acrylic and metal inks, a green and yellow ground with a silver gilt branch of an apple tree with red "apples" on the branches as well as falling from them. Each page spread is similarly designed with an element of the verse placed in the abstract painting onto which the verse is collaged. The silver gilt tree branch moves to the bottom of the second page and continues as if a river on each page, weaving through the book. The red of the apples is expanded becoming another "ribbon" or river weaving through the book. Of course, both the red and silver gilt "ribbons" weave together on the last page, with the text, "Time held me green and dying though I sang in my chains like the sea."& The verse exploration of idyllic youth in an Eden-like setting is capped by a change in tone, becoming a lament for aging and the passage of time. Barry McCallion's art captures this "past haunting the present" with the entwining of an amorphous figure with the silver gilt and red ribbons from the opening page spread. A contemporary illuminated manuscript perfectly suiting the well-known, well-loved verse of Dylan Thomas. <br>See an <A HREF= http://www.bookrouter.com/im/juvelisbks/10807.jpg >Image.</A><br>

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Harry S. Truman
        Written by President Truman on his first day in the Oval Office, a day after FDR died
      Typed Letter Signed ?Harry S. Truman? as President, one page, 7? x 9?. The White House, Washington, April 13, 1945. On pale green White House stationery. To Colonel Francis V. Keesling, Jr., Selective Service System, Washington. Fine condition.At 3:35 PM, April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 7:09 PM, Vice President Harry S. Truman was sworn in as President of the United States in the Cabinet Room of the White House. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone. The President issued a one-sentence statement: ?The world may be sure that we will prosecute the war on both fronts, east and west, with all the vigor we possess to a successful conclusion.? President Truman also announced, through an assistant, that the United Nations Conference would be held in San Francisco on April 25th as President Roosevelt had directed. The President then left the White House and spent the night in his five-room apartment on Connecticut Avenue; no lette

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        Rudolph, Wilhelm. - "Pferd an der Elbe".
      . Holzschnitt, auf BÃ¼ttenpapier, nach 1945. Von Wilhelm Rudolph. 52,0 x 78,0 cm (Darstellung) / 58 x 80 cm (Blatt). Rechts unter der Darstellung in Bleistift signiert. Links bezeichnet: "Handdruck". - EigenhÃ¤ndiger Abzug bzw. Abrieb des KÃ¼nstlers. - Dieses Blatt aufgefÃ¼hrt in der Monografie der Galerie DÃ¶bele (Wilhelm Rudolph. 1889-1982. Aquarelle Zeichnungen Holzschnitte vor und nach 1945.Ravensburg 1988, S. 53, Abb. 102). - Hauptwerk des KÃ¼nstlers! - Blattrand etwas wellig und minimal angecshmutzt. Verso Reste einer ehemaligen Montierung. Insgesamt ein gut erhaltenes Blatt. Wilhelm Rudolph (1889 Chemnitz - 1982 Dresden). Dresdner Maler und Grafiker. 1906-08 Lithografenlehre. 1908-14 Studium an der Akademie der KÃ¼nste in Dresden bei Robert Sterl, MeisterschÃ¼ler von Carl Bantzer. 1914-18 Soldat im Ersten Weltkrieg. Ab 1920 freischaffend in Dresden tÃ¤tig. Mitglied der "KÃ¼nstlervereinigung Dresden". 1932 Aufnahme der LehrtÃ¤tigkeit an der Dresdner Akademie der KÃ¼nste, 1935 Professur. 1938 Entlassung und Ausstellungsverbot. 1945 Verlust des fast gesamten kÃ¼nstlerischen Werks durch die Bombenangriffe auf Dresden. 1946-49 erneute LehrtÃ¤tigkeit an der HfBK Dresden. 1961 Nationalpreis der DDR, Martin-Andersen-NexÃ¶-Preis der Stadt Dresden, Kunstpreis des FDGB. 1979 EhrenbÃ¼rger der Stadt Dresden. 1980 Nationalpreis der DDR..

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Iwo Jima
        Set of Historic Signed Photographs of all three survivors of the Iwo Jima flag-raising immortalized in Joe Rosenthal?s photograph, each holding the flag he helped raise atop Mount Suribachi
      Rare Set of three photographs, each signed by the soldier depicted: ?Ira H. Hayes / Pfc., U.S.M.C.,? ?John H. Bradley Ph.M 2/C,? and ?Pfc. R.A. Gagnon.? Black & white, 8? x 10?. Each soldier is pictured holding the flag he helped raise atop Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Slight rippling at upper and lower edges can be eliminated by framing. Fine condition.On Feb. 23, 1945, atop Mt. Suribachi on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, six American soldiers ?" five Marines and one Navy corpsman ?" planted the American flag. Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press was awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize in Photography ?for his photograph of the Marines planting the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.? After President Franklin D. Roosevelt continued to see the AP photograph in newspapers across the country, he issued a Presidential Order: ?Transfer immediately by air to Washington, D.C. the 6 men who appear in the Rosenthal photograph of flag raising at Mt. Suribachi.? What he didn?t know was tha

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OLIVE HAWKS. [Henry Williamson].
        What Hope for Green Street? (SIGNED)
      Jarrolds [1945]. - First edition of Hawk's debut novel, written during her internment at Holloway Prison. This copy signed by the author on the title page and dated the year after publication. 8vo. 128pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at spine. Cloth just a little marked in places, and lightly chafed at several extremities. A single short repaired tear to the margin of one leaf. A very good, bright copy, albeit printed on cheap wartime paper-stock. No dust wrapper. Hawks' novel was anonymously re-written prior to publication by Henry Williamson (in a letter dated 26th August 1945 to his long-time friend and subsequent biographer Lois Lamplugh, Williamson states "I rewrote a book for someone recently, it comes out soon with Jarrolds, called 'What Hope for Green Street?' After that, the first-author (whose work was jejune and only partly readable) must dree her own weird. I'll give no more advice.") The full extent of Williamson's rewrite is not possible to determine. The dust wrapper for Hawks' fourth novel, 'A Sparrow for a Farthing' (1950), notes that Hawks' debut "was discovered and launched by Henry Williamson" and Hawks was clearly thankful for his assistance, dedicating her second novel, 'Time is my Debtor' (1947), "Gratefully to Henry Williamson". Despite this we have found no evidence that the two knew each other or ever met, despite both being born and brought up in the same area of South East London, and both being members of the British Union of Fascists. An exceptionally scarce book (we have only ever handled a single copy previously), and even more so with the author's signature. Olive Hawks (1917-1992) was a leading female member of the British Union of Fascists. She became the party's Women's Organiser in Lewisham in 1934, appointed the prospective parliamentary candidate for Camberwell in 1937 and its national Chief Woman's Organiser by 1940. She was interned for four years as a Nazi sympathiser in 1940 and it was during this period that she wrote her first novel. It appears that she abandoned her Fascist sympathies after the war, publishing three further novels and a play before emigrating with her second husband and two sons. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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World War II
        Produced just after the surrender, Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes? unique hand-colored and annotated map outlining the division of Germany per the Berlin Declaration, along with 25 contemporary letters of Keyes discussing events of these historic times
      Color map, 22? x 29?. Administrative Map of Western-Germany, June 4, 1945. One mid-horizontal fold, one mid-vertical fold. Pinholes at corners from posting it on a wall or bulletin board. Fine condition.Titled ?Administrative Map / Western-Germany,? dated ?4 June 1945,? printed by the 649th Engineer Topographic Battalion (?649th Engr. Top. Bn 1945?) in Waiblingen-bei-Stuttgart. The landkreise (rural district), stadtkreis (urban district within landkreis), and land boundaries (made up of adjoining stadtkreis) are noted. Identified with flags, there are three Region Headquarters (Darmstadt, Marburg, Stuttgart) and five R.B. Headquarters (Frankfurt, Kassel, Wiesbaden, Mannheim, Karlsruhe).It was agreed at the Yalta Conference, held in Crimea, February 4-11, 1945, that after the war, Germany would be split into four occupied zones: American, British, French, and Russian. On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France,

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Stahl, John M. (director)
        LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)
      20th Century Fox 1945 - Vintage original 14 x 36" (35 x 92 cm.) insert poster, USA. Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Phillips, dir: John M. Stahl; Twentieth Century Fox. The popular Ben Ames Williams novel (published in 1944 and immediately bought by Fox) was given what is now called a "film noir" presentation. It is one of the few of this genre made in brilliant Technicolor and won the Academy Award for Color Photography. A writer meets a socialite on a train and falls in love with her. She proves to be unreasonably possessive and obsessive over him, so much so that it ruins her relationship with him and with everyone in her life. Tierney was never more stunningly photographed, and her seemingly sweet (yet cold), cunning and manipulative characterization (perhaps one of the finest "femme fatale" characters of all time) of Ellen Berent Harland won her an Academy Award nomination. The title was a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet and the film was one of Twentieth Century Fox's biggest moneymakers of the 1940s. Twice-folded, unrestored poster, scattered pinholes and minor edge wear, NEAR FINE.

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        CANDIDO settimanale diretto ed animato da Giovannino Guareschi - 1945 - 1961 - CONSISTENTE PARTE DI TUTTO IL PUBBLICATO (offriamo 500 numeri su 828 usciti), Milano, Rizzoli, 1945
      Famoso periodico politico satirico magistralmente diretto da Giovannino Guareschi. La vita del giornale attraversa anni cruciali della storia italiana. .La ricostruzione dopo la guerra, le elezioni del 1946 e 1948, la guerra fredda e la situazione politica italiana, con la contrapposizione DC e PCI. Sono anche gli anni dei racconti (molto saggi) con Don Camillo e Peppone, che ebbero e che hanno tuttora un seguito incredibilmente ampio in ogni strato sociale, le vicissitudini di Guareschi ed i processi in tribunale con Luigi Einaudi (articoli sul vino prodotto a Dogliani) e De Gasperi (presunte complicitÃ per bombardamenti su Roma) , che lo portarono in carcere. Ogni numero di Candido Ã¨ sempre arricchito dalle caricature pungenti di Guareschi (spesso da sole valgono un editoriale o un articolo di fondo) e di Walter Molino, Mosca, Palermo, Angoletta, Giaci Mondaini, Carlo Manzoni ed altri; inoltre sono assai interessanti tante inchieste sociali e politiche, sempre condotte con grande rigore da G.G. Formati dal 1945 al 1951 pp. 4 - 8 e cn, 41 x 57 Dal 1952 al 1959 pp. 32 e cm. 28 x 38 Dal 1960 al 1961 pp. 16 e cm. 34 x 50 Questo lotto, in buone condizioni e a fascicoli sciolti, Ã¨ destinato ad un appassionato Guareschiano che voglia indagare, divertendosi, e poi completare la collezione. Il prezzo che offriamo oggi lo puÃ² permettere.

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        Rudolph, Wilhelm. - Das zerstÃ¶rte Dresden. - "Das Ende".
      . Holzschnitt, 1945/1946. Von Wilhelm Rudolph. 24,3 x 39,8 cm (Darstellung / Druckstock) / 37,5 x 50 cm (Blatt). Rechts unter der Darstellung in schwarzer Feder signiert. - EigenhÃ¤ndiger Abzug bzw. Abrieb des KÃ¼nstlers. - Umlaufend breiter Rand. Sehr guter Zustand. Wilhelm Rudolph (1889 Chemnitz - 1982 Dresden). Dresdner Maler und Grafiker. 1906-08 Lithografenlehre. 1908-14 Studium an der Akademie der KÃ¼nste in Dresden bei Robert Sterl, MeisterschÃ¼ler von Carl Bantzer. 1914-18 Soldat im Ersten Weltkrieg. Ab 1920 freischaffend in Dresden tÃ¤tig. Mitglied der "KÃ¼nstlervereinigung Dresden". 1932 Aufnahme der LehrtÃ¤tigkeit an der Dresdner Akademie der KÃ¼nste, 1935 Professur. 1938 Entlassung und Ausstellungsverbot. 1945 Verlust des fast gesamten kÃ¼nstlerischen Werks durch die Bombenangriffe auf Dresden. 1946-49 erneute LehrtÃ¤tigkeit an der HfBK Dresden. 1961 Nationalpreis der DDR, Martin-Andersen-NexÃ¶-Preis der Stadt Dresden, Kunstpreis des FDGB. 1979 EhrenbÃ¼rger der Stadt Dresden. 1980 Nationalpreis der DDR..

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JARRELL, Randall
        LITTLE FRIEND, LITTLE FRIEND with his most famous poem in his hand
      New York: Dial Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight uneven sunning to the boards from the missing sections of the dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Fair dustwrapper lacking most of the spine and with a few small tears and chips. His second book published in an edition of 2000 copies. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper for Dorothea Garritson and SIGNED by the poet below Jarrell's handwritten poem, the last poem of the book and perhaps his best known, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," with its famous last line: "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. In his review of this book Robert Lowell said it "contains some of the best poems on modern war, better, I think, and far more professional than those of Wilfred Owen, which, though they seem pathetically eternal to us now, are sometimes amateurish and unfinished. The determined, passive, sacrificial lives of the pilots, inwardly so harmless and outwardly so destructive, are ideal subjects for Jarrell" ("With Wild Dogmatism," NEW YORK TIMES, 7 October 1951).

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Chaim Weizmann
        Chaim Weizmann writes to Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin, a future member of the First Cabinet of Israel
      Typed letter signed "Chaim Weizmann", 1 page, 5" x 7", on The Jewish Agency for Palestine letterhead, in Hebrew, Jerusalem, January 12, 1945. Weizmann (1874-1952), the first president of the State of Israel, writes to Israel Declaration of Independence signer Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin concerning a meeting.In full: "The Honorable Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin, International Order of Agudath Yisrael, P. O. Box 326, Jerusalem 12 Jan 1945 - Greatly Honored Rabbi, I herewith acknowledge with thanks receipt of your letter of 22 Teveth 5705 [January 7, 1945] which was included The Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. I will be happy to meet with you and to converse/discuss, but I am in Rehovot practically all the time and I don't want to trouble you to come to Rehovot. I propose, therefore, that we meet during the time of my upcoming visit to Jerusalem and I will let you know in advance in order to set a time that's convenient for his honor. With blessings (signed) Chaim Weizmann". Following the est

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First Edition
        Lovinger, Jay
      LIFE Celebrates: 1945 The Old Order Dies, A New America Is Born: Special CollectorÃ•s Edition June 5 1995. Time Incorporated, New York. 152 Pages. Full of large fabulous colour and black/white photos - very nostalgic. Two page colour spread of all covers of 1945. Articles Include: 1945, January 1 - May 8 1945, Into The Future: Social Revolution, May 9 - September 2, 1945, Into The Future: Suburbanization, September 3 - December 31 1945, Into The Future: World Order, Voices of 1945, Faces of 1945, Life Goes On./Softcover. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book Interior AS NEW/ Covers As New. Book Never Opened GIFT QUALITY. Book-type glued binding, not side stapled. A lovely edition. Coated stock. Front cover is grey with 1945 in gold and LIFE title block in red/blue, lettering white/black, 4 black/white photos on front, colour ad on back. Covers and spine are flat, clean, bright, no rips, no bent corners, no spine creases, no stains, no subscription label, no edge wear. Inside of book is tight, clean, clear, bright, flat. . Vintage

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George S. Patton Jr
        Eight signed Patton letters - seven are war-dated - his Third U.S. Army cloth patch, and a scrapbook owned by Miss Mary Jane Krieger to whom Gen. Patton corresponded with until the day before his fatal car accident
      Miss Mary Jane Krieger?s scrapbook, 12.5? x 15.5?, 45 sheets of manila paper with 1945-1947 newspaper clippings and photographs about Patton affixed onto the pages with now yellowed plastic tape. She undoubtedly sent her earlier clippings to Gen. Patton as mentioned in ?The Patton Papers.? Many of the sheets are chipped at the outside edges; some sheets are loose.?The Patton Papers: 1940-1945? (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972) was compiled, edited, and annotated by Martin Blumenson who served on Patton's Third Army headquarters staff. Blumenson writes, in part, ?On December 8 [1945], Patton wrote his last letters ?" to Mrs. Coughlin of Brewer, Maine, and Miss Mary Jane Krieger of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, thanking them for their ?constant support,? clippings, and Christmas boxes ... to Ed Fansler ... and to Emil Ludwig...?On the first sheet of her scrapbook, Miss Krieger has written ?Property of? and penned her name and address in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On the second sheet is affixe

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Woody Guthrie
        Woody Guthrie writes Moe Asch and several other about his duties while stationed at Scott Field
      Autograph Letter Signed ?Woody Guthrie? 7.5? x 9.5?, 2 p to Moe Asch & others, October 8, 1945, Scott Field, Illinios. Very Fine.Fantastic ALS to Asch from Scott Field where Woody was stationed on October 8, 1945 reads, "Dear Moe, Marion, Herb, Harris, Pop and Union Square in general, I know how it is to have north wind blow cold and pile snow in under your door. I never had a door that didn't leak snow. The air strip here is on the north from up where the wind is born and it hits my barracks and my bed first of all the other ones down here. Marjorie says she has dropped in on you a few times. I'm glad, she said that she got a look at the cover of American Document # One. She said that she likes it. I thought I would get a two week furlough before I get sent on to my next job for the army. Instead I'm getting out on account of so many wives and kids. Some time around December. (then I can hit you up for work. I'll be a real genuine legal World War Two veteran.)

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Walt Disney
        Signed Disney Courvoisier color cel set-up from the beloved 1945 feature ?Three Caballeros?
      Original Courvoisier color cel set-up, 8.5? x 7.5?, prepared by the Walt Disney studio, matted to 14.5? x 14?. Boldly signed on the lower right of the matte in blue crayon, ?To Donna Jane / Best Wishes / Walt Disney.? Plastic tape on verso attaching cel set-up to matte. Written on the matte in another hand at lower left edge beneath image, now virtually indiscernible, is ?From Three Caballeros.? Between the actual cel and Disney?s signed inscription are clearly, but faintly written, in an unknown hand, ?original? and, within a small circle, ?WD / P? (Walt Disney Productions). Matte is browned at edges. Disney?s handwriting is dark. Fine condition.A cel from ?The Cold-Blooded Penguin? segment of ?The Three Caballeros,? released on February 3, 1945. In this seven minute short, the narrator (Sterling Holloway) tells Donald Duck the story of Pablo, a penguin who decides to leave the South Pole and head north towards South America to a warmer climate.The cel here offere

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Mossen Jacint Verdaguer; Alexandre Coll
        QUE DIUEN ELS OCELLS (LITOGRAFIES ACOLORIDES A MA)
      . Zustand: Excelente Einband: Encuadernacion de tapa dura. Sabadell. 1945. Cartone. Bibliofil. 163Pag+9f (index). 32x26. Aquest exemplar, estampat sobre paper de fil Guarro es de tirada curta de 360 examplars (nÂ°313). Litografies D'Alexandre Coll magnificament acolorides a ma. Alfred Gallard es feu carrec de la revisio d'aquesta gran obra de bibliofil amb 16 litografies, publicada en commemoracio del centenari del neixament del poeta. L'Obra son Interpretacions a diverses comarques dels paisos catalans del cant de l'oreneta, la mallarenga, la calandria, la merla, el teuladi, el mussol, l'oriol, el gaig i molts mes. Les expressions corresponent principalment al mon rural, fenomens de la natura, i traspassen valors morals o religiosos. Ref 1.6 Biblioteca D.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
        The Crack-up
      New York: New Directions, 1945-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. New York: New Directions, 1945. 233 pp. First edition, first printing, first issue. (Title page in reddish brown and black with colophon at pg. 348. Publisher's first issue binding, salmon pink cloth-backed boards with pink spine label, and pink top-stain.) Very Good condition hardcover in Good condition original jacket. Clean pages and sturdy binding; Cover worn away in a few small spots. No plates or inscriptions. Jacket is a little shorter than book (must have been trimmed) with chipping at head and wear at tips. Original price intact ($3.50). Jacket is mylar-protected.One of only 2,520 copies of the first printing of Fitzgerald's essays, edited by Edmund Wilson.

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Alexy Brodovitch
        Ballet (Unique Binding and Display Box)
      New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. This is a first edition, first printing of the critically acclaimed photobook, Ballet published by J.J. Augustin, New York in 1945 with a limitation of 500 copies. The book has been rebound by artist Richard Tuttle in an incredible binding of lamb skin over sculpted boards that capture the movement of dance contained in Brodovitch\'s remarkable photography. The book is housed in a custom made walnut presentation box with etched glass featuring ballerinas in various poses with the title etched in the same font as the original front cover. Included with the book is a signed artist statement by Richard Tuttle on the making of Ballet. The book, binding, and presentation box are in FINE condition.

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DARWIN] COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
        Commission of Inquiry concerning the circumstances connected with the attack made by Japanese Aircraft at Darwin on 19th February, 1942
      L.F. Johnston, Government Printer, Canberra 1945 - Foolscap folio, 44 pp. (last blank), quarter crimson crushed morocco by Sangorski with gilt spine lettering. The bombing of Darwin. Official report on the Darwin bombings, here preserved in a fine binding from the collection of Dr. Robert Edwards. The brief for this report was exhaustive, and encompasses the army, navy, air force and civil authorities. Sections include: the degree of preparation for aerial attack; damage and casualties sustained; the degree of co-ordination between existing services in the aftermath; efforts taken to repulse the attack; failure of command; and lessons to be learned for future defence of the nation. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Hordern House Rare Books]

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Bacon, G W
        Commercial and Library Atlas of the World. Containing One Hundred Double Page Maps and One Hundred Inset Maps
      G W Bacon & Co. Hardcover. This is a large and scarce volume, it warrants a full and detailed description, please read all of it to be fully informed. The book has been photographically documented with all 100 maps present and photographed, also the exterior, internals and any damage mentioned has also been photographically recorded and is available at request. Starting with the exterior, the base level corners are buckled, all edges are rubbed heavily with splits to both the cloth of the open edges and the leather of the corner caps. The spine has been re-wrapped with a leather reinforcement - this has worn fairly heavily and is rippled on the front edge where is is partially unstuck. It does however remain very strong. The spine reinforcement has caused the initial pages to be slightly mis-aligned without significant effect other than making opening the volume initially uneven. As a general description of the interior, there are no structural issues, the outer gilt edging is a little tarnished and the pages are clean with a light edge tone, all indexing tabs are present and age-soiled. There is no owner's mark, but this volume is believed to have belonged to a Member of the British 8th Army during the Second World War, there are 9 maps through the volume (which will be mentioned in detail) that have had some military information added to them including dates, troop movements, battle lines and where leave was taken, through France and Italy. Should you wish to see any of the pictures or ask any further questions about this doubly collectable piece, please do not hesitate to ask. Additional detailed information - (maps not mentioned can be considered to meet the general description): Map 9 - Slight tear at the index tab. Map 10 - Slight tear at the index tab. Map 11 - Slight tear at the index tab. Map 12 - Very slight tear at the index tab. Map 13 - Very slight tear at the index tab. Map 14 - Very slight tear at the index tab. Map 15 - There is a clean and closed tear running halfway across the right hand page originating from the index tab. Map 16 - Some light red ink markings made, circling of place names etc noting advances from the French Coast. Map 17 - Red ink marks and one ink spot showing movement towards Germany dated March 1945, slight tear at the index tab. Map 22 - Several place names on the Norwegian Coast have been underlined in black. Map 24 - Has a small tear to the upper right hand corner and both base edges have mirrored tears. Map 28 - Small tears to base edges. Map 29 - Small tears to base edges. Map 33 - Red underlining and arrows showing troop advances towards Paris from the West. Map 35 - Red underlining and arrows showing troop advances towards Paris from the South-West. Map 45 - Has several underlined place names. Map 53 - A number of cities are boxed in blue ink and the "Senio Line" is marked and noted, as is "Leave here" showing the advancing engagements of the 8th Army through Italy. Map 54 - Notations and underlined place names, "Airfields" noted and other military movements. Map 55 - Several ringed place names and notation of "train journey". Map 77 - Has a slight shift from small area of loosening in the tabs holding the map. Map 84 - Has detached from the tab holding the map, it has done so without damage and can be easily re-attached, it has developed some edgewear and a small tear at the base edge from being mobile. Map 94 - Small tear at the base edge. . Good. 1893.

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Nin, Anais
        This Hunger (limited edition of 50)
      New York: Gemor Press, 1945 New York: Gemor Press, 1945. First Edition. Signed by Nin and by illustrator "Ian Hugo", that being also her first husband, Hugh Parker Guiller. #28 of the very short limited edition of 50 (not the simultaneous edition of 1,000 copies) with color wood block prints, uncut etruria paper, and numbering-with-signature by Nin. Octavo, 185 pp. through the last wood block print, followed by the limitation page and endpapers. Some soiling to covers (cleanable, but I won't do that), light toning to the interior, some foxing opposite the hand-executed color wood block prints. In addition to being one of fifty now-apparently quite-rare copies of the shorter limited run, this copy was signed and inscribed by Hugo on the ffep, "To Leo Katz, with the admiration and appreciation of Ian Hugo", in hand print, not script (see scans). Depending on which Leo Katz that may have been - presumably the one who wrote the foreword to Hugo's "New Eyes On The Art Of Engraving", in which case affording some association status as well. Verso of the ffep has the penned words, "Leo Katz Art Library / August 1953". Presumably also deaccessioned from the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, those words appearing on the title page. I haven't read The Hunger, but it concerns several adventurous women; and it might - I don't know - stem from Nin's noted diary statement:"Oh, God, I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. I swim in the sky; I float; my body is full of flowers, flowers with fingers giving me acute, acute caresses, sparks, jewels, quivers of joy, dizziness, such dizziness. Music inside of one, drunkenness. Only closing the eyes and remembering, and the hunger, the hunger for more, more, the great hunger, the voracious hunger, and thirst." All in all, about as collectible a Nin piece as one could seek. L17

      [Bookseller: Singularity Rare & Fine]

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(MILITARY)
        Engineer History - Fifth Army - Mediterranean Theater
      [Germany:] Printed for Engineer Section Headquarters, Fifth Army,, [1945]. 3 volumes, quarto. Volumes I and II, plus Appendices. Original pictorial card wraps. Numerous maps, some coloured, text profusely illustrated from photographs. Errata slip loosely inserted. Wraps a little tanned, else very good. First edition, designated "Confidential." Minutely detailed internal history of the US Army Engineers' operations in Italy; "No campaign in military history has presented more engineering problems than the battle of Italy. No one contributed more to the successful conclusion of this campaign than the Fifth Army Engineers. I am proud of them; their country is proud of them; they should be proud of themselves." Frank O. Bowman, Brig. Gen. Us Army, Army Engineer. Uncommon, OCLC lists no copies outside of the US apart from that in the US Army European Library, IWM appears to have Volume I and Appendices only.

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POPPER, K. R
        The Open Society and its Enemies
      London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd,, 1945. Volume I The Spell of Plato. [Volume II The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath]. 2 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spines gilt. With the dust jackets. Extremities a little rubbed, a couple of minor bumps and nicks to top edges of boards, short split to head of rear joint of Volume II. An excellent, bright, set in chipped and tanned jackets, Volume I with tape repairs to the verso. First edition, first impression, of the author's influential first book. Popper's classic debut contains within its analysis the seeds of his groundbreaking, if somewhat idiosyncratic, new methodology of inductive reasoning. In The Open Society and Its Enemies he traces, analyses, and refutes theories of historicism, or the idea that history progresses inexorably according to a series of laws. Beginning with Plato, he proceeds to Hegel and Marx, ultimately arguing that historicism is founded on a misunderstanding of scientific principles and that it usually forms the philosophical foundations of totalitarian regimes. Scarce in this condition.

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NORTON, Mary
        The Magic Bed-Knob
      London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.,, 1945. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Octavo. Original white cloth with title and colour pictorial design to spine and upper board. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and illustrations in the text throughout, some full page and in colour. Covers rubbed and marked, but entirely sound, a very good copy in the faintly marked jacket. First UK edition (following the 1943 US edition published under the title The Magic Bed-Knob, or How to Becomes a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons), first impression, of the author's first book. This copy inscribed on the dedication page under the printed dedication of Robin and Chick, "with more love than she can tell you, from Mary". The book was the basis for the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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        Identity documents and ephemera of Sgt. Gerald McDowell, U.S.A.F. as prisoner of war in Stammlager XVII B [Stalag 17B], Krems, Austria, 1943- 1945
      [Krems, Austria, 1943-1945] - Identity documents and ephemera of American Air Force tail gunner Sgt. Gerald McDowell (1923-2002). McDowell and the flight crew of the B17 nicknamed Hell's Belle survived being shot down over Germany in 1943 and were interned at Stalag 17B in Austria. At the war's end, the camp guards marched American prisoners west to meet the U.S. Armored Division at Braunau and avoid the Soviet troops occupying eastern Austria. McDowell wrote a memoir of his war experiences, A Tail Gunner's Tale (1991). Stalag 17 gained notoriety from the 1953 Hollywood film of the same name staring William Holden. Comprising: 1. Camp identification document for Gerald McDowell, no. 100478, with two photographs (side and profile, with chalk board identity number). Old fold (splt repaired on verso). With corresponding stamped metal badge. Illustrated at p. 114 of his book 2. [Broadside:] Kgf.-M.-Stammlager XVII B. Teillager der Luftwaffe. Lagerführung. Gneixendorf, June 11th 1944. Warning ! 1.) Any P.o.W. touching or crossing warning wire during day-time will be fired upon immediately. [-] Stencil printed, signed in ink by "E-" above stencil legend: Hauptmann and 1st Lageroffizier. Old folds. Tipped onto card. Illustrated at p. 90 of his book. Of extreme rarity. 3. BATCH, D.B. [Pencil portrait of Gerald McDowell] Signed and dated lower right, D.B. Batch, P.O.W., 13/1/45, Krems, Austria. 9 x 6 inches. Tipped onto card. Framed. 4. Recipes for "D-Bar Spread", "Chocolate Cream Pudding", "Gallop", and other P.O.W. dishes, using D-Bars, C-Rations, "Jerry" sugar, etc. 5 small cards, closely written on versos of typed prisoner ID fiches (4 x 2 inches). Tipped onto card. Toned. [with:] 5. PHELPER, Ben H. Kriegie Memories [title from cover]. Photographs and handwritten text. [64] pp. [Aurora, Illinois: Printed by Barker printing Co., 1946]. Blue leather grained cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. OCLC: 85169189 (4 copies). Inscribed by the author on the first blank, "Jerry: May you always be free and happy. Good luck, Ben". Rare privately printed account of experiences inside Stalag 17B, by "Luftgangster No. 113204," with photographs of camp life and of the march towards liberation in May 1945. With a dozen annotations by McDowell, usually in red ink, indicating himself or other fellow inmates in the photographs, including a picture in the "Cardboard Playhouse" of McDowell in a dress, captioned in the text "a glamour shot of one of our boy actors - Some of the lads sure did look good when they made up as a girl." Presentation copy of an astonishing illustrated narrative 6. MCDOWELL, Gerald. E. A Tail Gunner's Tale. [Vantage Press, 1991]. Review copy, as new (WORLD WAR II) 4to and smaller. . Some toning, overall very good [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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