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Exhibition card: Robert Rymann Bei Konrad Fischer (11 November-12 December 1969)

Exhibition card: Robert Rymann Bei Konrad Fischer (11 November-12 December 1969) by (RYMAN, Robert)

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Title
Exhibition card: Robert Rymann Bei Konrad Fischer (11 November-12 December 1969)
Author
(RYMAN, Robert)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Black & white photographic illus. to recto. Large pictorial card. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1969. Exhibition announcement for Ryman’s second show with the gallery. The photograph depicts the artist’s Prototypes (1969). Ryman presented 14 fiberglass paintings for this exhibition. Fine. ❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 27.
THE IRON LUNG IN WW2. U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China

THE IRON LUNG IN WW2. U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China by Anonymous

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THE IRON LUNG IN WW2. U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China
Author
Anonymous
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description
Tsingtao, China, 1947. 1947 ORIGINAL PHOTOS REVEAL CHALLENGES IN TRANSPORTING A US MARINE IN IRON LUNG FROM CHINA TO AMERICA. Archive of photographs documenting U.S. Navy transfer of marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in an iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China, 1947. Included are (3) official 4 X 5-inch sepia-toned photographs, showing Watts in the iron lung prior to transfer from the ship; 2 prints with typescript paper annotations affixed to verso marked "Official U.S. Navy PHOTO", all 3 prints inscribed, "November 1947"; TOGETHER WITH (8) 2 ¾ X 4 ¾-inch photographs with deckled edges, 5 of which are inscribed verso, "USS Repose/ October 1947" including one marked, "Watts", showing the transfer of the patient to a truck on the dock. The month inscribed in one set of prints is presumably incorrect, as all images appear to portray the same event. The remaining 3 prints are inscribed, "Tsingtao, China, January 1948, one of which shows Pier 2 in the snow, and the other 2 showing the air strip. ADDITIONAL (3) 3 ¼ X 4 ½-inch prints marked as follows, "Christmas Day, Tsingtao, China, 1947", "Air Strip, Tsingtao, China, 1948", and "General Mann [troop transport ship], Tsingtao, China, July 1948". All photographs are unmounted and in good condition with light scuffs and occasional edge bumps. This grouping of 14 photographs mostly depicts private, first class, Herbert E. Watts, confined to an iron lung, being hoisted from the deck of a hospital ship to an awaiting truck which would take him to a naval air transport service plane for relocation stateside. Known as "infantile paralysis" at the time and prior to Dr. Jonas Salk's development of a polio vaccine in the 1950s, Watts contracted the disease while stationed in China in Charlie Company, Third Marines. He required the negative pressure ventilator (iron lung) for survival. Watts was born in Alabama in 1929 and died in 1957 at the age of 28. USS REPOSE. With a bed capacity of 750 and a complement of 564, the hospital ship USS Repose departed Norfolk on July 8, 1945 for the Pacific. Serving as a casualty transport from various ports in the Pacific Ocean, the Repose also served as a base hospital ship in Shanghai and later Tsingtao (now known as Qingdao), China, supporting the occupation forces in northern China. The Repose remained in Asian waters, with an occasional return trip to the States until July 1949. After World War II, the Chinese Nationalist Party allowed Qingdao to serve as the headquarters of the Western Pacific Fleet of the US Navy from 1945 through 1948. In 1949, the Red Army entered Qingdao and the city and province have been under control of the People's Republic of China since that time.
That Uncertain Feeling: A Novel

That Uncertain Feeling: A Novel by AMIS, Kingsley

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That Uncertain Feeling: A Novel
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AMIS, Kingsley
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 254pp. Light tanning to spine and board edges, with shelf-soil, trace foxing to edges of textblock and interior, and bookshop sticker and residue to rear pastedown; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 12/6 net), tanned, with shelf-soil, and chips and creases to upper spine panel and extremities; Very Good. Novel follows John Lewis, a young librarian, as he navigates his inadequate salary, unhappy marraige, and deeper desires. [84675].

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