World War II

Seattle. Boeing Aircraft Corporation. 1944. Bound in pictorial black cloth over limp boards, depicting the Boeing logo flanked by two B-17 aircraft in flight to front cover. 8vo. This manual is Boeing Document number D-4142, stamped issue number 8626 with stamped date of August 1, 1944. Marked restricted throughout. Illustrated with colour and monochrome photographs, diagrams, schematics, etc. Extremely rare manufacturers manual for the most famous bomber aircraft of all time. Exhaustive in both scope and illustration, this manual details every system comprising the B-17 including: Fuselage, engines, electrical systems, armaments, empennage, etc. An impressive piece of military history. Light usual scuffing and rubbing to covers and spine. Original owners ink inscription to front paste down. A small stain appears at the very bottom of some pages throughout (quite innocuous and not intrusive upon contents). Some light soiling to edges. Several pages dog-eared at bottom corner. A Very Good, tight and… Read More

The German Government (no publisher indicated), 1940 (n.d.). English-language edition, only printing. Paperback. This is a rare, extremely well-preserved, and fascinating wartime Nazi propaganda piece ridiculing Churchill's wartime alliance of convenience with Stalin. It was produced by the Germans specifically to help recruit captured British soldiers to the Britisher Freikorps, the SS unit made up of British troops. This English language edition was distributed to British POWs. Versions are known in Croatian, French, German, Norwegian, and Swedish, but by far the most important and scarce is the English language version. The format is newspaper cartoons critical of Stalin on each right hand page with notes and Churchill quotes critical of Stalinist Russia on opposing pages. The effect is a stinging contrast between Churchill's wartime alliance of necessity with his long history of ardent anti-communist sentiment. The book measures 8 5/8 x 6 inches, is 110 pages long, and is bound in… Read More

1940. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of 110 loose black and white and sepia-toned photographs of Nazi soldiers from 1935 until about 1942. The images range in size from 2¼" x 2¼ to 3¾" x 5¼" with some captions on the versos in German. All pictures are near fine or better with some age toning, curling, and remnants from being affixed in a photo album. The photographs depict members of the Wehrmacht engineering corps beginning in the mid-1930s and continuing through World War II. The scenes include soldiers cleaning weapons, marching through fields and town squares, and one captioned "metal working" that shows soldiers fixing bicycles. The young men are pictured celebrating Christmas in 1937, posing at fancy dinners, dancing with children, and playing cards. Swastikas can be seen throughout, along with a photo of one man's closet with a portrait of Adolf Hitler displayed in the center. The assemblage shows the military career of a Nazi soldier through the war covering training, military… Read More

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing of the fourth volume of Churchill's monumental history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end all wars”. The events of these 1916-1918 volumes, of which this is Part II, include Churchill's time at the Front following his political exile and his subsequent return to the Cabinet. hough the U.S. first edition of The World Crisis preceded the British, many consider the British edition aesthetically superior, with its larger volumes and shoulder notes summarizing the subject of each page. Unfortunately, the original dust jackets are quite scarce and the smooth navy cloth of the British first editions proved quite susceptible to wear, the contents prone to spotting and toning. Particularly scarce… Read More

Düsseldorf: Floeder-Verlag, 1934. DeLuxe first edition. Bound in red paneled leather with gilt spine and cover titles in Fraktur, top edge gilting. Published Düsseldorf: Floeder-Verlag, 1934. 4to., 8 1/4" x 11", 319pp., illustrated with full page photo plates, 5-panel fold out panorama attached at rear, frontis portrait. Text in German. Published in the early days of Hitler's rise to power as a "book of honor" to chronicle and commemorate his achievements. Slight rub/scuffing to extremities, else a well preserved example in very good plus condition. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to. DeLuxe Edition.

Hostile Skies: SIGNED by JIMMY DOOLITTLE + signed letter & 10 Other Pilots autographs including WW1 Escadrille!+ archive of letters and Photos
1st Edition Fine Hardcover in Fine Dust Jacket.
Includes:
Signatures of 11 pilots
Jimmy Doolittle - Metal of Honor Recipient and Eponymous commander of the First Raid on Imperial Japan Following Pearl Harbor
5 WW1 Era Pilots Including:
Charles H. Dolan of the Lafayette Escadrille N-124 -- American Pilots who volunteered to fight for France during WW1 before the U.S. joined the War
-- Named for French Officer Lafayette who fought for the American Colonies during the Revolutionary War.
and 4 Members of the A.E. F.
5 other Pilots from Vietnam to the Modern Era -- Not all Confirmed Identified
Also a Letter from Jimmy Doolittle Signed simply "Jim" on Letterhead with Envelope and Business Card (and copy of letter it was in response to)
A Letter from the Author
3 Original Period Photographs of WW1 pilots -- Unidentified, possibly corresponding to the autographs?… Read More

HANDWRITTEN and HANDMADE ALBUM – SCRAPBOOK – DIARY of the German soldier – Prisoner of War 1943-1945 from World War Two at Camp McCain in Mississippi Fort Devens in Massachusetts, and Camp Stark in New Hampshire the United States of America. In the German languageContains (pasted on the album leaves): 1 original Airbrushed title leaf, 12 calligraph and airbrushed leaves with text in the German language, 1 original watercolor, showing Camp Stark, Jun 1944. 1 original tempera, signed and dated 1945, 3 original India ink drawings, one signed, 3 pin-up erotic pencil drawings, 4 prints (magazine clippings), 5 blank leaves. 3 Leaves stamped: CENSORED / FORT DEVENS / MASSAlso contains a photo from 1970 (size: 10,5 x 7,4 cm) – most probable showing the author of this album. Housed in fine leather album with USA coat of arms in multicolored deep relief. An extraordinary and extremely rare piece of history.Condition: The album is in excellent condition. All leaves are clean and fresh.Dimensions: 37 x 21… Read More

[World War II] Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot. Proclamation. Printed broadside. 50.5 x 52 cm. [London?]: [No publication information] 1944. Black printing on white paper. Old fold lines and small marginal tears, otherwise very good. Text repeated in French and Dutch.
Rare. OCLC lists no holdings. There are no copies at the Library of Congress or the Marshall Center, the Eisenhower Library or the National Archives online listings. The Prime Minister invokes the fight to come: "Alongside our Allies, Belgian Air, Land and Sea forces are taking part in the decisive battle for the independence of our country. Soon they will give the hand to the Fighters of the Inner Front and to all those who, braving the inhuman rigors of the occupier, have contributed to the use and destruction of his power." The date 9/44 is in the lower left corner. The liberation of Belgium began in September 1944, when the British Second Army liberated Antwerp, the US First Army liberated the region south of Brussels and… Read More

Illustrated. 8vo. Original blue cloth, faded spine label, in publisher's box, label on front. New York 1949. First Edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies printed on special paper, signed by Eleanor Roosevelt. This is copy # 439. Box faded; top and bottom of box split approximately 1 inch at the four corners of opening; o/w Fine.

Polish Government in Exile The mass extermination of Jews in German occupied Poland. Note addressed to the Governments of the United Nations on December 10th, 1942, and other documents. London: Hutchinson on behalf of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [1943 8vo (216 x 140mm.), title printed in red, 16pp, stapled and without covers as issued, slight rust marks around staples AN EARLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE HORRORS OF THE HOLOCAUST. The Polish government in exile announced to the Allied countries of Europe, together with the USA and Soviet Russia, that Nazi Germany was not only exterminating German Jews but also Jews from across occupied Poland. This pamphlet describes the workings of the Warsaw Ghetto and the targets set by the Nazis for the numbers of Jews to be eliminated, together with the various methods employed for the killing of Jews. It estimates that by December 1942 over one million Polish Jews have already been murdered; by the end of the war, more than three million Polish Jews had died… Read More

This book is in great shape one little spot on front. faded red color on boards. Stamped by library inside covers. 1942 movie Wikipedia says Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther,[3] it shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is affected by World War II. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, its supporting cast includes Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Richard Ney and Henry Wilcoxon.[4]

Stamford Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1943. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This handsome and scarce limited edition of Churchill's 19 May 1943 address to the U.S. Congress was produced for Members of Congress by Frank Altschuls Overbrook Press. This was Churchill's second address to Congress, seventeen long months of war having passed in the interval since his first, just after Pearl Harbor. Churchill's address came days after the Allies' critical victory in North Africa. Condition is very good minus. The black paper-covered boards are only lightly scuffed and blemished. The red front cover label remains bright, clean, and fully intact. The contents show almost no spotting and no previous ownership marks. We note customary transfer browning to the endsheets from the pastedown glue. A faint, unobtrusive moisture stain affects a maximum area of roughly 3 inches wide by .75 inches deep of the upper left margins through p.12. Light spotting appears confined to the inner blank margins at p.12-13… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938. First Edition, only printing. Hardcover. This book is the precursor to Churchill’s great war speeches, the first edition, only printing. This particular copy is increasingly scarce thus, in the first issue dust jacket. This copy is very good in a very good minus dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is beautifully square, clean, bright, and tight with sharp corners and vivid spine gilt. We note only a hint of sunning at the spine tips. The contents retain a crisp, unread feel. Trivial spotting appears confined to the endpapers, half-title, and the blank frontispiece recto. The sole previous ownership markings are initials and a surname, neatly and diminutively inked on the upper right half-title recto. The fore and bottom edges are clean apart from modest age-toning. The blue-stained top edges are uniformly dulled. This copy would merit “very good plus” or better if not for a missing front free endpaper. This has been neatly but fully removed, so that the… Read More

Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54. SIX VOLUMES. FIRST EDITIONS, 1st impressions. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated throughout with maps and plans, many folding. A near fine, bright set of books with some neat annotation to a handful of pages in volume one. Publishers black cloth with gilt lettering to the spines. Top edges dyed deep red, which is still a rich dark colour on all volumes. Patterned grey and white endpapers with rampant lion and Churchill's initials, designed by Lynton Lamb. Previous owner bookplate inside the first four volumes. In the publishers original dustwrappers with the same design background. Fine and clean wrappers with the spine lettering, including the red volume numbers and titles, vibrant and bright on all six volumes. Uncommon in such good condition. The red ink used for the volume numbers and sub titles is particularly prone to fading and copies without fading of the red, like this one, are hard to find. A superior set of first editions of Churchill's monumental… Read More

Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, dec 1947. Anne Frank; 'Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944'. Good condition. Small octavo. Hard cover, pp 253. No dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch language. One of the booklets printed ALMOST 75 YEARS AGO in dec 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 spine. A good copy! Pages are a little bit tanned after all these 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 ( 'Het Achterhuis') 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 of… Read More