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Large archive of materials related to CIA front companies Air America, Air Asia, and Civil Air Transport by Orlowski, Joseph L. [Compiler]; Joseph L. Madison [Nom de guerre]

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Title: Large archive of materials related to CIA front companies Air America, Air Asia, and Civil Air Transport
Author: Orlowski, Joseph L. [Compiler]; Joseph L. Madison [Nom de guerre]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: [Southeast Asia]: [Various], 1975. A substantial, fascinating archive relating to Civil Air Transport and its subsidiaries and spin-offs such as Air America and Air Asia. The airlines were front companies for the American Central Intelligence Agency, infamously involved in covert ops all over Southeast Asia (especially Laos) during the Vietnam War including drug smuggling. Archive includes rare internal company memos, reports, budgets, manuals, some remarkable vernacular photographs, ephemera, and other items such as meticulous designs for uniforms of CAT employees to make it seem like a "real" airline. Spans over 30" of shelf space. Very Good+ condition overall. The archive's compiler, Joseph Louis Orlowski, was an engineer by trade who worked in China before the country's 1949 revolution, leaving for Taiwan, and then rising through the ranks of CAT as it became Air America to become Vice President in the 1960s. He began using his wife's maiden name, Madison, as an alias, eventually legally changing his name to it. His journey through the ranks of these airlines-- with their ever-present need to pretend to be regular airlines while paradoxically carrying out espionage, drug dealing, and acts of outright war-- is chronicled in these stacks of documents, mostly minutiae. His black and white photos, many of which are labeled or housed in envelopes with locations and context, are particularly fascinating, offering a vivid glimpse of wild, dangerous lives belied by all the technical specs and dull documents: landing strips on plateaus in remote jungles, parachuters in mid jump, sacks of what may very well be heroin being loaded into a plane, soldiers in jeeps, Asian peasants, and acrid plumes of black smoke rising above French colonial mansions and palm trees. CONTENTS ARE AS FOLLOWS: BOUND MATERIALS 1. Civil Air Transport, Company Circular Manual No. 68, Traffic Office, Kaitak, HKG. Thick gray binder with gilt lettering to front board. Soiling to binder, some light foxing and marking to contents. Roughly. 400 pages, mostly printed on rectos only. Spans the years 1952-1957 with most docs being from 1954 and 1955. 2. Civil Air Transport, Company Circular Manual No. 75, Office of A/VPAGM. Thick gray binder with gilt lettering to front board. Light soiling to binder. Roughly 250 pages, mostly printed on rectos only. 3. Air America Circular 3. Black leatherette binder with silver lettering. Roughly 150 pages, spanning from the 1960s to the early 1970s. 4. Personnel Manual, Civil Air Transport. Black leatherette brad-bound file, lettered in gilt, Asian patterned endpapers. Roughly 100 pages. Spans the early 1950s, covering procedures for CAT hiring and firing, sick leave, etc. 5. Air America Organization – 1951. Bradbound leatherette with silver lettering. Contains two copies of the company’s organizational chart with some pencil markings. [2], 4, 22, 10 pp. printed on rectos only. 6. Operations Manual No. 115, Operations Division CAT Incorporated. Red leatherette with gilt lettering, title label taped onto front board. Approx. 200 pages. Contents consist of the “Operations Manual,” “Operations Circular,” “Operations Bulletin,” and “Flight Manual.” 7. General Maintenance Manual, Civil Air Transport, General Maintenance Division. Dark green leatherette with gilt lettering. Roughly 150-200 pages. Contents span from the mid ‘50s to the late ‘60s, including a section of Air Asia Maintenance Division info ca. 1968. 8. Tokyo Organization—Personnel Survey and Recommendations to Regional Director J.L. Orlowski, December, 1953. Civil Air Transport Japan-Korea Region. Submitted by Henry T. Samson, Personnel Consultant. [2], 215 pp. printed on rectos only. Bound in black leatherette with spine label. Additional photocopied memos laid in. 9. Sales Manual, Sales Division, Civil Air Transport. Bound in black leatherette with title label. Contents dated from the late ‘50s to 1968. Includes instructions for measuring unspecified “tied packages” weighed in kilos, for freight shipment. 10. Aircraft Accident and Incident Rates, Graphs and Tables from 1960. Black leatherette with gilt lettering to front board. Roughly 100 pp. Contents consist of accident and incident rate tables for Air Asia from 1960 to 1969. 11. Air America Base Manual, Thailand 2. Bound in black leatherette with silver lettering. Mid ‘60s to ‘70s. Primarily a base manual for Udorn, Thailand including emergency procedures for the base, accounting, personnel, etc. with info about Club Rendezvous (a vacation spot for Air America employees) and Bangkok and Chiang Mai bases as well. 12. Air America Base Manual, Laos 42. Bound in black leatherette with silver lettering. Contents generally date from early ‘70s. Roughly 100 pages. 13. Supply Manual, Civil Air Transport. Stringbound with handmade wrappers. Roughly 300 pp. 14. Uniform Manual, Personnel Division, Civil Air Transport, July1, 1956. Bound with sliding metal brads. Roughly 50 pages. Covers the proper uniforms for CAT personnel. 15. Proposal: Technical Services Building – VTE. Company leatherette wraps with silver lettering. Roughly 25 pp. Includes laid in memo from Frank L. Dunn, signed and dated April 8, 1968. 16. Compensation and Rules of Employment for Vietnamese National Pilots of Air America, Inc. January 29, 1973. Brad bound in wraps. [vi], 76 pp. 17. Compensation and Rules of Employment for Philippine National Pilots of Air Asia Company Limited. January 29, 1973. Brad bound in wraps. [vi], 73 pp. 18. Compensation and Rules of Employment for Chinese National Pilots of Air Asia Company Limited. January 29, 1973. Brad bound in wraps. [vi], 75 pp. Stamp to front wrap. 19. Fiscal Reports to Base Managers, March 1970. Stapled wraps. 20. Statistical Reports, Intercompany Contracts: Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited, Air America Inc., October 1970. Prepared by Air Asia Company Ltd. Brad bound. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 21. Cost and Revenue Statement (Intercompany Contracts) September 1970. Prepared by Air Asia Company Limited. Staple bound. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 22. Financial Statements, Intercompany Contracts: Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited, Air America Inc. March 1971. Prepared by Air Asia Company Ltd. Brad bound. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 23. Financial Statements, Intercompany Contracts: Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited, Air America Inc. March 1970. Prepared by Air Asia Company Ltd. Brad bound. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 24. Financial Statements, Intercompany Contracts: Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited, Air America Inc. March 1968. Prepared by Air Asia Company Ltd. Brad bound. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 25. Appropriations Proposed for Six Months, Ended March 31, 1967. Intercompany Contracts: Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited, Air America Inc. Prepared by Air Asia Company Ltd. Brad bound. Front wrap stamped “Confidential.” 26. Statistical Reports, Intercompany Contracts: Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited, Air America Inc., March 1971. Prepared by Air Asia Company Ltd. Brad bound. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 27. Financial Statements, Intercompany Contracts: Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited, Air America Inc. October 1970. Prepared by Air Asia Company Ltd. Brad bound. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 28. Cost and Revenue Statement (Intercompany Contracts) March 1970. Prepared by Air Asia Company Limited. Staple bound. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 29. Fiscal Reports to Base Managers, September 1970. Stapled wraps. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 30. Cash Forecast for Twelve Months Ending March 31, 1967. Intercompany Contracts: Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited, Air America Inc. Book III. Prepared by Air Asia Company Ltd. 2 pp. Brad bound. Front wrap stamped “Confidential.” 31. Fiscal Reports to Base Managers, October 1970. Stapled wraps. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 32. Fiscal Reports to Base Managers, March 1971. Prepared by Treasurer-Controller’s Office. Stapled wraps. Front wrap stamped “Company Confidential.” 33. Pay Standards and Allowances. Brad bound in manila folder with stamped title, tabbed pages. Revised April 1, 1958 according to Table of Contents. 34. Personnel Manual. Brad bound in manila folder with stamped title, tabbed pages. Revised August 12, 1958 according to Table of Contents. 35. Employment. Brad bound collection of documents relating to Orlowski’s career and travels around the world with Civil Air Transport. 36. Proposal for the Administration’s Participation in a Board of Trustees of the Rehabilitation […]. Committee of the Council for the Far East. November 14, 1947. 30 pp. printed on rectos only. Corner stapled sheets. Orlowski’s name written on front wrap. 37. Action of Central Committee at 62nd Meeting re Board of Trustees. Committee of the Council for the Far East. November 19, 1947. 2 pp. printed on rectos only. Corner stapled sheets. Orlowski’s name written on front wrap. 38. Yokota Daily Performance 15 Dec. 1970. Corner stapled sheets.LOOSE DOCUMENTS: 1. Approximately 150-200 vernacular photos, presumably by Orlowski, mostly black and white, housed in envelopes that loosely describe settings and contents: “Destroyed Planes,” “1969 Laos,” “Air America Danang, Vietnam,” “Saigon 1965,” “Air America,” “Air America Laos,” etc. There are some remarkable images in here of combat, Air America’s airplanes, air fields, explosions, parachuting soldiers, and interesting large sacks of some sort of materials being loaded into planes. Generally in Very Good to Near Fine, although a four or five pictures show wear and have paper stuck to them. 2.Collection of General Maintenance Manuals for Civil Air Transport from the 1950s. Roughly 200-250 pp. Unbound, temporarily housed in a vintage Ziploc bag. Contents date to the ‘50s. Includes info on maintaining automobiles as well as a schematics of a barge suggestively named “Buddha” and a seagoing vessel dubbed Narcissus. 3. Small collection of documents relating to the Taiwanese unveiling of a statue for Flying Tigers head and co-founder of Civil Air Transport Claire Chennault including two TLS from his widow, Anna. 4. S.A.M.E. folder. Folder of documents relating to the Society of American Military Engineers, minutes of meeting with handwritten notes, diagrams of airports, two pieces of Asian artwork by an unknown artist. 5. Collection of patterns, mockups, and prototypes for Civil Air Transport uniforms. Approximately 49 items. Includes designs for captain’s wings, stewardesses’ handbags, aircraft maintenance workers’ overalls and more. 6. Two bags of loose document relating to Orlowski’s life and CAT, including signed documents, TLS from various people within organization, materials relating to S.A.M.E. 7. Around six documents relating to the American Association of Shanghai, slightly oversized.

The Life of Samuel Johnson (in 2 vols.) [Bound with] The Principal Corrections and Additions to the first edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson by Boswell, James

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Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson (in 2 vols.) [Bound with] The Principal Corrections and Additions to the first edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson
Author: Boswell, James
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Henry Baldwin, 1793. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with "gve" for "give" in the uncorrected state (line 10 on p. 135 in Volume I) and all of the errata uncorrected. Two quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches; 274 x 216 mm.). vii, [1, blank], [ix-xii], [16, "Table of Contents" and "Corrections and Additions"], 516; [2], 588 [i.e. 586] pp. Engraved frontispiece by James Heath from a portrait of Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds in Volume I, two engraved facsimile plates in Volume II. ("Round Robin..." facing p. 92 and "Fac Similes of Dr. Johnson's hand writing" facing p. 588). Together with [at the end of volume II]: BOSWELL, James. The Principal Corrections and Additions to the first edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. [Title, verso blank], 42 pp. Bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1910 in full mottled calf, covers with triple gilt rules. Spines with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, red and brown morocco labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Expertly rebacked and corners strengthened (over fifty years ago) with original spines laid down. Occasional light foxing or staining to a few leaves, otherwise a fine copy of the first issue with the exceptionally rare Principal Corrections and Additions bound in at the end of volume two. "Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them" (Macauley). Indeed, drawing on his close and longstanding collaboration with Johnson as well as Johnson's own diary, James Boswell released a book that was a popular success and helped to establish the modern genre of biography. Still considered an important resource on the life and times of the famed memoirist and dictionary compiler, Boswell's Life of Johnson breathes vivid life into one of the most important British figures of the century. "We know of him not as he was known to men of his generation, but as he was known to men whose fathers he might have been...and long after his works may be forgotten, he will be remembered through Boswell's Life" (Macauley). This was Boswell's last publication before his death in 1795. "The work [The Principal Corrections and Additions] is now difficult to obtain; when it turns up it is almost invariably bound in with a copy of the first edition of the Life" (Pottle). Regarding the "gve" or "give" question: "gve" is the earlier state. "The first proof shows the word correctly spelled, but the lines are punctuated as follows: "Short, O short! then be thy reign, And give us to the world again." Boswell passed this in the proof, but in the revise (both proof and revise are in the possession of Mr. Adam) he directed the printer to remove the exclamation point in the first line and substitute it for the first period at the end of the second, which is in fact the punctuation of the printed text. When the changes were made the "I" dropped out, and the printer, not noticing what had happened, filled up the line by inserting a space between "gve" and "us". After a considerable part of the edition had been printed, the error was discovered and corrected in the press" (Pottle). The correct first issue as here reads: "Short, O short then be thy reign, And gve us to the world again!" Near Fine. Courtney & Nichol Smith, pp. 172-3. Grolier, 100 English, 65. Pottle 79 & 113. Rothschild 464 & 466. Sterling 71. Tinker 338. Near Fine.

Facts About Unemployment by [WPA] WEBB, John N. and Joseph C. Bevis

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Title: Facts About Unemployment
Author: [WPA] WEBB, John N. and Joseph C. Bevis
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1940. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); original pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 34,[2]pp; illus. Some toning and wear to wrappers, touch of oxidation to staples, but internally fresh and complete; Very Good+. Illustrated post-Depression WPA pamphlet on unemployment - issued as number 4 in the WPA's "Social Problems" series, which began in 1939. 83583.

All Over: A Play [Signed Bookplate Laid-in] by ALBEE, Edward

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Title: All Over: A Play [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
Author: ALBEE, Edward
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Atheneum, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and author's name embossed onto front cover; gray topstain; dustjacket; [xiv],111,[3]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Two dog-eared corners smoothed-out, else Near Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $5.95), with a 1/2" closed tear at lower front flap fold. The production was filmed for television and aired on 28 April 1976 on WNET Channel 13 in New York.

ATOMS, SOUL MUSIC AND OTHER POEMS by Wormser, Baron

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Title: ATOMS, SOUL MUSIC AND OTHER POEMS
Author: Wormser, Baron
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Paris Review Editions, 1989. First edition. 91 pp. An uncorrected proof in gray printed wrappers of the poet's third collection. Publisher material inserted includes ALS from the the editor to a prominent reviewer/poet, and two printed sheets, with advance quotes for this book by Louis Simpson and Hayden Carruth. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise fine in wrappers.

Buddha’s Lions: The Lives of The Eighty-Four Siddhas. by ABHAYADATTA.

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Title: Buddha’s Lions: The Lives of The Eighty-Four Siddhas.
Author: ABHAYADATTA.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, (1979).. Second printing.. xv + 404 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to spine. Translated by James B. Robinson, with his preface. Nathaniel Tarn’s copy, with his bookplate.

The Bach Manuscripts of Johann Peter Kellner and His Circle: A Case Study in Reception History by [BACH]. Stinson, Russell

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Title: The Bach Manuscripts of Johann Peter Kellner and His Circle: A Case Study in Reception History
Author: [BACH]. Stinson, Russell
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Durham, London: Duke University Press, 1989. Octavo. Original publisher's full green cloth with titling gilt to spine. In dustjacket. xvi, 184 pp. Illustrated.

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