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WWII Pacific Theater U.S. Occupation in the Philippines and Admiralty Islands, 1944-1945 by Pacific Theater

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Title: WWII Pacific Theater U.S. Occupation in the Philippines and Admiralty Islands, 1944-1945
Author: Pacific Theater
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1944. [WWII] [Indigenous Peoples] U.S. soldier photographs recording military occupation, transport, and daily movement across the Admiralty Islands, Samar, and the Philippines during World War II and its immediate aftermath, establishing how American forces operated through island bases, coastal landings, aircraft facilities, and encounters with local indigenous communities. Made and retained by an unidentified American serviceman, the group follows the circulation of personnel through several linked wartime zones rather than a single camp, with local captions on the versos anchoring parts of the sequence to "Admiralty Islands," "Samar Island," and the "Philippines." This archive showcases soldiers posed at encampments and beside aircraft, landing craft and small boats, military vehicles moved through settlements, and photographs of Indigenous and Filipino civilians showing the human landscape through which U.S. forces advanced, occupied, and remained into the surrender period. Photo archive of 45 likely silver gelatin photographs, ranging from 2.5 x 3 to 3.5 x 5.75 inches, Admiralty Islands, Samar, and the Philippines, circa 1944 to 1945. Numerous versos carry manuscript identifications including "on Admiralty Islands," "Natives on admiralty Islands," "Samar Island," "Samar Philippines," "Philippine," and "chapel in philippines," while several prints bear circular "Passed by Naval Censor" stamps and one caption reads "Jap bomber (Betty) Sept. 1945 Samar," fixing at least one portion of the group to the post surrender occupation moment. The images include shirtless American servicemen posed in palm lined camps, group portraits outside Quonset huts or temporary structures, a parked twin engine military aircraft, a beached or near shore vessel, soldiers gathered around tables and equipment, and an Asian soldier who looks to possibly be in Japanese uniform, standing in front a monument. Many photos show the local community with views of thatched buildings, colonial era religious structures, village crowds, market or street scenes, women and children gathered before huts, and several close portraits of Indigenous islanders. The photographs belong to the final phase of the Pacific war, when the Admiralty Islands served as a major Allied base complex after the 1944 campaign and Samar remained part of the wider Philippine theater retaken from Japanese control and held through the end of the war. This on the ground perspective shows how soldiers' photos moved through censorship channels, recorded the built infrastructure of island warfare, and fixed the asymmetrical encounter between U.S. servicemen and local populations. Minor surface and edgewear, album glue residue en verso, images remain clear and writing legible; overall very good condition. The combination of location notes, naval censor stamps, aircraft and coastal transport scenes, and sustained views of local communities offer a raw visual representation of American military presence across the Southwest Pacific.

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

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Title: Manchild in the Promised Land
Author: Claude Brown
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Macmillan, 1965. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine Copy in original Wraps.Must Powerful Book on Race in 6o'sVery Scarce Advance Reading Copy.Published August 18, 1965.Excellent Copy.Rare in this format..

THE SAME DOOR by Updike, John

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Title: THE SAME DOOR
Author: Updike, John
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first prnt. First issue dustjacket with reviews of Updike's first novel on the rear panel. Signed by Updike on the half-title page. Beginning board edge toning and beginning foxing on the rear panel, pastedowns and foreedge; dustjacket with edgewear, mostly at the spine folds and corners, short closed tear with few shallow wrinkles at the rear flap bottom corner with internal tape reinforcement (not apparent on the outside), three small perforations on the front flap fold. Altogether, a tight, clean copy with still bright, intact dustjacket. Very Good condition in about Very Good dustjacket in an archival cover. Updike's first story collection.

Adolf Hitler: Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Fuhrers (IN DUSTJACKET) by -

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Title: Adolf Hitler: Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Fuhrers (IN DUSTJACKET)
Author: -
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Very Good
Description: Hamburg: Herausgegeben Vom Cigaretten/Bilderdienst, 1936. Hardcover. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1936 cigarette card album, published in Hamburg. A tribute to Hitler the young Fuhrer in words and crisp black-and-white photos. IN THE ORIGINAL --AND UNCOMMON-- PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Solid and well-preserved (with bright gilt-lettering to the front panel and spine) in a crisp, VG- dustjacket, with chipping along the tips and panel and spine edges and one 5" section missing along the rear panel's lower left corner and inner flap. Still though, an impressive example of the fragile dustjacket. Tall quarto, 132 pgs. "1601.-1700. tausend" edition.

A SURVEY by BEERBOHM, Max

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Title: A SURVEY
Author: BEERBOHM, Max
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: BEERBOHM, Max. A SURVEY. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. 8vo. Cloth spine, paper over boar Frontispiece, viii pages, 51 plates. First American edition. Beerbohm caricatures Joseph Conrad, Bernard Shaw, Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and others. Clipping attached to slightly chipped front free endpaper, front hinge internally cracked, tips lightly bruised.

VICTORIAN ARTISTS by BELL, Quentin

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Title: VICTORIAN ARTISTS
Author: BELL, Quentin
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: BELL, Quentin. VICTORIAN ARTISTS. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 111 pages, 123 plates. First edition. These essays, focusing on painters of the Victorian era, originated as the Sl Lectures at Oxford. Typed manuscript of review for this book laid-in Endpap foxed, else very good in lightly soiled dust jacket.

MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS by Wilenski, R.H.

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Title: MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS
Author: Wilenski, R.H.
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: Wilenski, R.H. MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, n.d., (1939). 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, xxxii, 424 pages, 96 plates. "This book is an attempt to tell the story of modern French painting as developed by the Impressionists and subsequent adventurers in the last 75 yea in Paris"--preface. Bookplate. Cover worn, minor foxing, else very good.

MAPS AND PRINTS OF PAOLO FORLANI.|THE by Woodward, David

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Title: MAPS AND PRINTS OF PAOLO FORLANI.|THE
Author: Woodward, David
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1990. stiff paper wrappers. Forlani, Paolo. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (xiii), 21 plates, 60 pages. The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography Occasional Publication No. 4. This volume is a descriptive bibliography of the map maker Paolo Forlani, who was active in sixteenth-century Italy. It includes 144 items with 21 black-and-white illustrations, a list of references, an index of persons named and a geographical index. Minor soiling on covers with some dents on covers and wear and small closed tears all over spine.

The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures by UPDIKE, JOHN

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Title: The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures
Author: UPDIKE, JOHN
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo, publisher's ¼ cloth, spine foot bumped; dust jacket, folds rubbed, shallow chipping to head and foot of spine panel; faded inked inscription on front flyleaf. Updike's first book. Signed by him on the title page.

Descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo crónica dialogada de la conmemoración secular de este grandioso descubrimiento by Vidart, Luis

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Title: Descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo crónica dialogada de la conmemoración secular de este grandioso descubrimiento
Author: Vidart, Luis
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: A very good copy, spine browned, thin tears at joint.
Description: Madrid: Imprenta de Enrique Rubiños, 1893. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy, spine browned, thin tears at joint.. 101 pp. 8vo. Luis Vidart Schuch (1833-1897) writer, historian, member of the military, delivered two lectures at the Athenaeum celebrations on the discovery of the new world which sought to diminish Columbus' role in the discovery of America. For more on Vidart see Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano V.22, p. 507-8. OCLC shows only 3 copies. Palau 364050.

A SUMMER IN NORWAY: WITH NOTES ON THE INDUSTRIES, HABITS, CUSTOMS AND PECULIARITIES OF THE PEOPLE, THE HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE COUNTRY, ITS CLIMATE, TOPOGRAPHY AND PRODUCTIONS. ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE RED-DEER, RAINDEER AND ELK by John Dean Caton

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Title: A SUMMER IN NORWAY: WITH NOTES ON THE INDUSTRIES, HABITS, CUSTOMS AND PECULIARITIES OF THE PEOPLE, THE HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE COUNTRY, ITS CLIMATE, TOPOGRAPHY AND PRODUCTIONS. ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE RED-DEER, RAINDEER AND ELK
Author: John Dean Caton
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good+ binding
Description: Chicago: Jansen, McClurg and Company, 1880. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Dark olive green publisher’s cloth, with gilt titling to the front board and the spine. With an engraved frontispiece, and a large folding color map. A bright and tight copy. Very Good+ binding.

[Op. 11]. Quatuor [in E-flat major] pour deux Violons Alto et Violoncelle dédié à Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Prince Louis Ferdinand de Prusse... Oeuv. 11. Prix 16 gr. [Parts] by RODE, Pierre 1774-1830

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Title: [Op. 11]. Quatuor [in E-flat major] pour deux Violons Alto et Violoncelle dédié à Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Prince Louis Ferdinand de Prusse... Oeuv. 11. Prix 16 gr. [Parts]
Author: RODE, Pierre 1774-1830
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Leipsic: Breitkopf et Härtel [PN 332], 1806. Folio. Disbound. Violino primo: [1] (title), [i] (blank), 3-7, [i] (blank) pp.; Violino secondo: 3, [i] (blank) pp.; Viola: 3, [i] (blank) pp.; Violoncello: 3, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Browned; moderately foxed; some lower inner corners dampstained. Rare (no copies in WorldCat, 1copy at Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Strasbourg). The present quartet is not to be confused with the F-major quartet also published under the opus number 11 by Hoffmeister & Kühnel in 1805. "[French] violinist and composer... Rode had a short but brilliant career. As one of the great virtuosos of his time he... was celebrated in all European capitals (except London)... Rode's compositions are almost exclusively devoted to his instrument... As Rode was closely attached to the string quartets of Haydn and Mozart as a... performer, he also practiced the genre as a composer and wrote attractive works, which, however, are clearly in the French tradition of the Quatuor brillant, as the first violin dominates and the other strings only accompany." Manuela Jahrmärker in MGG2.

Address delivered in Easton, Pa. on the occasion of the author's inauguration at President of La Fayette College ... Published by the Board of Trustees by Yeomans, John W.

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Title: Address delivered in Easton, Pa. on the occasion of the author's inauguration at President of La Fayette College ... Published by the Board of Trustees
Author: Yeomans, John W.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Easton: T. M. D. Forsman, printer, 1841. 8vo, pp. 32; removed from binding, wrappers wanting, light spotting; all else very good. American Imprints 41-5662.

ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1968 ALL 12 ISSUES; DRAGONRIDER, THE HORSE BARBARIANS aka DEATH WORLD 3, PEEK! I SEE YOU & SATAN'S WORLD & THE PIRATE, THE ALIEN RULERS, CONQUEST BY DEFAULT, SKYSIGN, EXIT TO HELL, THE TUVELA & THE CUSTODIANS by ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION / John W. Campbell, Anne McCaffrey, Harry Harrison, Ben Bova, Poul Anderson, Piers Anthony, James Tiptree, Vernor Vinge, James Blish, Isaac Asimov,, Bob Shaw, James Schmitz, Frank Kelly Freas

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Title: ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1968 ALL 12 ISSUES; DRAGONRIDER, THE HORSE BARBARIANS aka DEATH WORLD 3, PEEK! I SEE YOU & SATAN'S WORLD & THE PIRATE, THE ALIEN RULERS, CONQUEST BY DEFAULT, SKYSIGN, EXIT TO HELL, THE TUVELA & THE CUSTODIANS
Author: ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION / John W. Campbell, Anne McCaffrey, Harry Harrison, Ben Bova, Poul Anderson, Piers Anthony, James Tiptree, Vernor Vinge, James Blish, Isaac Asimov,, Bob Shaw, James Schmitz, Frank Kelly Freas
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1968 ALL 12 ISSUES, Conde Nast, first edition, fine in full color pictorial wraps with original contributions by: John W. Campbell, Anne McCaffrey (DRAGONRIDER), Ben Bova, Harry Harrison (THE HORSE BARBARIANS aka DEATH WORLD 3), Poul Anderson (PEEK! I SEE YOU & SATAN'S WORLD & THE PIRATE), Piers Anthony (THE ALIEN RULERS), James Tiptree, Vernor Vinge (CONQUEST BY DEFAULT), James Blish (SKYSIGN), Isaac Asimov, (EXIT TO HELL), Bob Shaw, James Schmitz (THE TUVELA & THE CUSTODIANS), Frank Kelly Freas, et.al.

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by ADAMS, Ansel with Mary Street Alinder

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Title: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
Author: ADAMS, Ansel with Mary Street Alinder
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780821215968
Description: Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1985. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 400 pages. An autobiography of the important and influential photographer with 277 illustrations. A near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear.

Captive of the Vision of Paradise: Poems. by ARGÜELLES, Ivan.

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Title: Captive of the Vision of Paradise: Poems.
Author: ARGÜELLES, Ivan.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: Mill Valley: Hartmus Press,, 1982.. First edition.. 75 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Illustrations by Linda Strickland. INSCRIBED by Argüelles, “Leslie, - / from the / heart / Ivan.” His third book of poems.

SEDIMENT MOVEMENT IN AN AREA OF SUBURBAN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION, SCOTT RUN BASIN, FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1961-64 by WSP 1591 - E -- Vice, R.B. et al.

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Title: SEDIMENT MOVEMENT IN AN AREA OF SUBURBAN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION, SCOTT RUN BASIN, FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1961-64
Author: WSP 1591 - E -- Vice, R.B. et al.
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington, D.C.: GPO. Very Good. 1969. Softcover. Hydrologic Effects of Urban Growth. USGS 1969. Wrappers, good condition (rubber stamp on cover). .

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