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‘Go For Broke’ / 442nd Combat Team Song by [Japanese-Americana - World War Two - 442nd Infantry Regiment] Hamada, Harry

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Title: ‘Go For Broke’ / 442nd Combat Team Song
Author: [Japanese-Americana - World War Two - 442nd Infantry Regiment] Hamada, Harry
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hattiesburg: Earl M. Finch, 1944. Sheet music measuring 12 x 9 inches, 4 pp. Signature of a Nabuko Hayashida on front cover. Slight tears at fold, some toning, two small pinholes, very good overall, quite attractive. Very Good. In Hawaii in May 1942, a battalion of Nisei volunteers was assembled for service in World War Two, despite earlier failures of efforts to recruit Japanese-Americans due to the Army’s labeling of Nisei recruits as 4-C enemy aliens. Designated as the 100th Infantry Battalion, they were deployed to North Africa in June 1943, integrating with the 34th Division in active combat. Their subsequent deployment to Italy in September 1943 exposed them to intense warfare, earning them the moniker of the "Purple Heart Battalion" due to their notably high casualty rate. In January 1943, the U.S. War Department officially declared the establishment of the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT), which was comprised of Nisei volunteers originating from Hawaii and the mainland. The culmination of this initiative transpired in June 1944 when the 442nd RCT merged forces with the 100th Infantry Battalion in Europe, subsequently absorbing the latter into its structure. The notable achievements of Nisei soldiers in combat operations prompted the reinstatement of the draft in January 1944, specifically targeting Nisei detainees to augment the ranks of the 442nd. Over time, the 442nd RCT expanded to encompass the 2nd, 3rd, and 100th Battalions; the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion; the 232nd Engineering Company; the 206th Army Band; Anti-Tank Company; Cannon Company; and Service Company. Offered here is a very scarce piece of sheet music entitled “Go For Broke,” which was written by the Hawaiian musician Harry Hamada, reflecting the slogan of the 442nd, and performed by Shelby and others during the war as part of efforts to boost morale. Hamada would feature in the 1951 movie “Go For Broke” as Masami alongside several other veterans of the 442nd. This publication of “Go For Broke” is from 1944, seven years before the movie’s release. The piece is dedicated to Colonel C.W. Pence. Hamada was a Hawaiian musician who performed with a band called the Shelby Hawaiians or the Shelby Serenaders. They performed as early as 1943. The Hattiesburg, Mississippi merchant Earl M. Finch, who ran an Army and Navy store close to Camp Shelby, befriended Hamada and other members of the 442nd and acted as a sponsor for the group, and eventually published this version despite his business being a dry goods merchant house and not a publishing house. The group, with the support of Finch, performed throughout the country to lift morale. At some point Hamada penned this composition, likely in 1944, as we find no reference to it in 1943 articles, and Finch published it - Hamada’s composition would become the theme song of the 442nd, and Hamada would perform at the Halloran General Hospital in New York and the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1944, likely performing this composition. Another composition called “Go For Broke” exists as well, and it is unclear to what degree Hamada’s work caught on among the regiment. We find two records of Finch’s published version of the composition, one listed as part of an online remembrance of the 442nd by the Smithsonian Institution (https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/day-remembrance-70-years-after-executive-order-9066), which appears to have been on loan from the National Japanese American Historical Society, and another copy held at Stanford, though not listed in OCLC. Finch’s story is also interesting, and is the subject of a remembrance on a 100th Battalion History page online (https://www.100thbattalion.org/history/stories/earl-finch/). We find no copies listed in OCLC. Overall a very scarce piece of Japanese-American wartime history.

Silence in the Snowy Fields and Other Poems by BLY, Robert

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Title: Silence in the Snowy Fields and Other Poems
Author: BLY, Robert
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine copy. Scarce
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, (1967). First of this new and enlarged edition. Signed by Bly on the title-page. So far as we know there was no equivalent American edition. Fine copy. Scarce. 8vo, original boards, dust jacket. Fine copy. Scarce.

A PASSIONATE PILGRIM, and Other Tales by James, Henry Jr.

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Title: A PASSIONATE PILGRIM, and Other Tales
Author: James, Henry Jr.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1875. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth, beveled. First Edition of Henry James's first book, which consisted of only 1,500 copies. This is a collection of six tales that had appeared in American periodicals (mostly the Atlantic Monthly) over the preceding years. In 1873 James's father wrote him to say that he had had discussions with Osgood about publication of some of the son's tales, but Henry Jr. replied (to his mother, not his father), "I value none of my early tales enough to bring them forth again, and if I did, should absolutely need to give them an amount of verbal retouching...". He added that he wished to issue instead a volume "of tales on the theme of American adventurers in Europe, leading off with the Passionate Pilgrim" [E&L]. There was no equivalent English edition, though half of these tales would appear in the 1879 two-volume London collection titled THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE. This copy is in the first of the four American binding states, with "J.R. Osgood & Co" at the foot of the spine. It is estimated that about 1,100 of the 1,500 copies were either bound in this primary binding, or were sent to England where their title pages received a Trübner ink-stamp. The other 400 were not bound up until 1878 or later, either in the second binding (with Houghton Osgood at the foot of the spine), or in the third binding (with Houghton Mifflin), or in the fourth (Houghton Mifflin but in the decorative binding introduced in 1881 for THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY). This copy is in terra-cotta cloth, one of three colors used without precedence, and is in very good-plus condition, with minor wear at the spine ends but otherwise clean and unworn. Supino 1.3.0; Edel & Laurence A1a.

Constitution of the State of Utah

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Title: Constitution of the State of Utah
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Deseret News, 1882. Good. Constitution of the State of Utah. SLC: Deseret News, 1882. 33pp. 8vo. Orange sewn wraps. Book condition: Good ex-library copy. Fragile wraps and binding. Edges of wraps are chipped with losses from top edge and corners of rear cover. Front cover has small brown stains and contemporary date in ink. Pages are brittle with some corners missing, but not affecting text. Several short, closed tears in edges. Former owner's name in ink on title page. Ink stamps containing John R. Park's name, the first president of the University of Utah, on cover and title page. Text is very clean.

Favorite Poems by [ANTHOLOGY]

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Title: Favorite Poems
Author: [ANTHOLOGY]
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1883. Three-quarter leather bound. Very good. Miss L.B. HUMPHREY. [ANTHOLOGY]. Designs by Miss L.B. Humphrey. [Anthology]: ADAMS, Sarah Flower. Nearer, My God, to Thee. KNOX, William. Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? LYTE, Henry Francis. Abide With Me. TOPLADY, Augustus Montague. Rock of Ages. HEMANS, Felicia. The Breaking Waves Dashed High. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. He Giveth His Beloved Sleep. PAYNE, John Howard. Home Sweet Home. TENNYSON, Alfred. Ring Out, Wild Bells. 8vo; [272]pp; three-quarters bound in brown calf with marbled boards, 4 banded spine with the title "Favorite Poems" gilt-stamped; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; thick creamy stock; lacking a general title page, each poem with its own title page; printed recto only; profusely engraved; rubbing and chipping to board, a few spots, split to paper over hinges but holding; very good. A custom anthology of poetry. Most are well-known hymns, all published by Lee and Shepard, all designs by Miss L.B. Humphrey, and engravings by John and George Andrews of Boston.

Stray Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte M.

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Title: Stray Pearls
Author: Yonge, Charlotte M.
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Description: London: Macmillan, 1883. First Edition. 2 vols. 1st edition. Original cloth. Fine. Stray Pearls is a sequel to The Chaplet of Pearls (1868) and explores 17th-century French nobility during the Fronde rebellions. The novel intertwines family drama with historical events, though Yonge herself admitted its “defective” structure in the prefac.

The Ways of Confucianism; Investigations in Chinese Philosophy by Nivison, David S.; Van Norden, Bryan W. (Editor, Introduction)

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Title: The Ways of Confucianism; Investigations in Chinese Philosophy
Author: Nivison, David S.; Van Norden, Bryan W. (Editor, Introduction)
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. First printing, octavo size, 353 pp. To some a religion, to others a philosophy and ethical system, Confucianism "laid the foundation for much of Chinese culture" (n.b, from the web site of National Geographic Education). In this publication, the work of Professor David Nivison is here presented, some previously unpublished, some substantially revised. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full black cloth over boards with silver lettering on the spine; binding octavo size (9 1/4" by 6 1/4"), pagination: [i-vii] viii-xiv [1] 2-339. In the publisher's dust jacket (not priced) wiht four review blurbs on the two flaps. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, the boards clean, straight corners with minimal rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some light rubbing to the tail of the spine, else fine. The jacket better than very good, clean, with light edgewear and a short closed tear (approx. 1/2 inch) at the top where the front panel meets the front flap. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

聖なるものの形と場 / Figures and places of the sacred by Yoritomi, Motohiro, ed

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Title: 聖なるものの形と場 / Figures and places of the sacred
Author: Yoritomi, Motohiro, ed
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: [Kyoto]: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2003. Large 8vo, pp. [1], 363, [1]; a little under half the papers in English, two in Chinese, and the rest in Japanese, with abstracts in English or Japanese for each paper; text illustrations; printed paper wrappers; a touch of rubbing to wrappers, pencil note on title page, else fine. Papers from the Center's 18th International Symposium.

Lübbes Bach Lexikon by [BACH]. Kolneder, Walter

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Title: Lübbes Bach Lexikon
Author: [BACH]. Kolneder, Walter
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
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Description: Bergisch Gladbach: Gustav Lübbe Verlag, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Small octavo. Boards. 320 pp.

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