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U.S. Army Intelligence Training & Soviet Combat Tactics Analysis Archive During Cold War Years: 1956-1984 by U.S. Military Intelligence Analysis

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Title: U.S. Army Intelligence Training & Soviet Combat Tactics Analysis Archive During Cold War Years: 1956-1984
Author: U.S. Military Intelligence Analysis
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1956. [Cold War] [U.S. Military Intelligence] U.S. Army and Defense Intelligence Agency manuals documenting the evolution of American military intelligence doctrine from the early Cold War through the late détente period, with sustained focus on Soviet military organization, combat intelligence, subversion theory, and battlefield operations under the shadow of nuclear warfare. Produced between 1956 and 1984, the manuals span the formative decades of nuclear strategy, from the post-Korean War consolidation of atomic doctrine, through the Berlin and Cuban Missile Crisis era, and into the late Cold War reassessment of Soviet conventional and nuclear capabilities. Collectively, they illustrate how U.S. intelligence institutions conceptualized the Soviet threat across tactical, operational, psychological, and strategic levels during the nuclear age. Archive of 6 includes: [1] Department of the Army. Combat Intelligence. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army, December 1956. Field Manual FM 30-5. This manual codifies early Cold War U.S. Army doctrine on combat intelligence at a moment when nuclear weapons had become central to battlefield planning. Chapters on reconnaissance, counter-reconnaissance, and intelligence processing reflect lessons drawn from World War II and Korea, while the integration of air reconnaissance and terrain analysis anticipates nuclear-era requirements for target identification and survivability in atomic battlefields. [2] Department of the Army. Combat Intelligence: Battle Group, Combat Command, and Smaller Units. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army, September 1958. Field Manual FM 30-7. Issued during the height of early nuclear brinkmanship following Sputnik (1957), this manual adapts intelligence doctrine to smaller, more mobile units expected to operate in dispersed formations under nuclear threat. Emphasis on rapid intelligence dissemination, decentralized command, and survivability reflects the Army's response to tactical nuclear warfare scenarios envisioned in the late 1950s. [3] United States Army School, Europe, Intelligence Department. Mechanics of Communist Subversion. July 1963. Mimeographed instructional manual. Produced months after the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962), this instructional text situates intelligence work within a "total global conflict" framework, explicitly linking ideological, psychological, political, and military fronts. The manual frames Communist subversion as inseparable from nuclear confrontation, asserting that Soviet strategy integrates military buildup, ideological warfare, and geopolitical pressure to achieve dominance in the nuclear age. [4] Defense Intelligence Agency. Glossary of Soviet Military and Related Abbreviations. Washington, D.C.: Defense Intelligence Agency, 1 September 1965. AP-1-650-3-1-65-INT. Compiled at the height of Cold War escalation during the Vietnam War, this glossary standardizes terminology used in U.S. intelligence assessments of Soviet forces, including missile units, nuclear delivery systems, command structures, and strategic forces. Its production reflects the increasing technical complexity of nuclear and missile intelligence during the mid-1960s arms race. [5] Department of the Army. Combat Intelligence. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army, October 1973. Field Manual FM 30-5. This revised edition supersedes the 1971 version and incorporates NATO standardization agreements (STANAGs), reflecting Cold War alliance integration following the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and the onset of détente. The table of contents explicitly includes reporting enemy nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare; order of battle analysis; counterintelligence; and operational planning within environments shaped by nuclear, chemical, and electronic warfare considerations; issued the same year as the Yom Kippur War and amid renewed nuclear alert concerns. [6] Department of the Army. The Soviet Army: Operations and Tactics. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army, 16 July 1984. Field Manual FM 100-2-1. Produced during the late Cold War re-escalation under the Reagan administration, this manual provides a comprehensive analysis of Soviet operational doctrine, including combined arms maneuver, deep battle concepts, and integration of nuclear, chemical, and conventional forces. Issued shortly after NATO's Able Archer exercises and renewed nuclear tensions in Europe, it reflects U.S. efforts to understand Soviet war-fighting concepts in a potential nuclear-conventional conflict. The manuals are housed in original government-issued paper bindings, including stapled and punched formats typical of field and instructional use. Wear consistent with service handling is present, including edge wear, staple rust, toning, occasional staining, and handwritten annotations on select covers and title pages. Overall very good condition. This archive offers a tightly focused primary-source record of how U.S. military intelligence conceptualized Soviet power, combat intelligence, and nuclear warfare across three decisive Cold War decades, making it a valuable resource for research into nuclear strategy, intelligence doctrine, and U.S.-Soviet military confrontation.

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by CHAUCER, GEOFFREY [URRY, JOHN (ED.)]

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Title: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: CHAUCER, GEOFFREY [URRY, JOHN (ED.)]
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Bernard Lintot, 1721. First edition. Contemporary speckled calf. Very Good. LANDMARK EARLY MODERN EDITION OF CHAUCER'S WORKS. The Canterbury Tales, the most culturally productive of Chaucer's works, has existed in a state of flux since its earliest manuscript traces. No manuscript surviving from the Middle Ages contains all of the known tales, and, in exemplars which do witness the same episodes, the sequence often varies-in addition to containing more commonplace textual variations in language and presentation. Thus, the task of compiling Chaucer's works for print publication, with an increased need for standardisation and an expectation of mass circulation, gives rise to manifold editorial considerations and yields no unprecarious route towards the modern ambition for a definitive volume. These complexities result in a rich and storied editorial history of Chaucer's works, from the fourteenth century to the present day. John Urry was one of those who undertook the herculean task of editing Chaucer. By the eighteenth century, once a medieval text had been set in print, the need to return to manuscript sources was often felt with less imperative. Such was the case with Chaucer, and in post-Reformation Britain an "obvious interest in Chaucer coupled with wide misinformation about his life" contributed to need for substantive critical intervention (Shugrue, p. 229). Indeed, Urry's 1721 edition presented here is primarily noteworthy for being the first new edition of Chaucer's works in over a century to examine Chaucer from the early source texts. "His is the first edition of Chaucer for nearly a hundred and fifty years to consult any manuscripts and is the first since that of William Thynne in 1534 to seek systematically to assemble a substantial number of manuscripts to establish his text,"writes British historian E.I. Carlyle, noting Urry's is "also the first edition to offer descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works" (DNB). Published in 1721-having been completed posthumously by fellow members of Christ Church, Oxford, Thomas Ainsworth and Timothy and William Thomas, following Urry's death in 1715-it is also the first edition of Chaucer to printed in Latin type. While the return to manuscript sources demonstrates an admirable dedication to the task of the editor, Urry's endeavour resulted in a unique compilation of Chaucer's works, in particular, while also including canonical works such as the The Parliament of Fowls and The Romance of the Rose. One of Urry's sources was the late fifteenth-century Northumberland MS 455, the only extant manuscript that contains "The Tale of Beryn". Across the fifteenth century, Chaucerians around Great Britain furnished texts which emulated the works which today are firmly ascribed to Chaucer, namely The Canterbury Tales whose episodic structure lends itself to modes of extra-authorial continuation and expansion. So though "The Tale of Beryn" as well as another romance included by Urry, "The Tale of Gamelyn", are today placed outside of the accepted canon, they are important literary works that inform our understanding of Chaucer's immediate reception context, and which continue to receive scholarly attention and editorial treatment. Urry's inclusion of "The Merchant's Second Tale, or the History of Beryn" and "The Coke's Tale of Gamelyn" thus constitutes the tales' editiones principes, and is a benchmark in the history of how Chaucer has been received by modern audiences. Standing at over fifteen inches, with richly detailed illustrations of each pilgrim of The Canterbury Tales on horseback and portraits of Chaucer and Urry, the present copy would have been a deluxe publication upon its initial release in the first half of the eighteenth century-and still is regarded as one the most exquisite editions of Chaucer. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY; URRY, JOHN (ED.) The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Bernard Lintot, 1721. First edition. Tall folio (245 x 396 mm), [lii], 626, 81, [1] pages; engraved plates and decorations, include full-page portraits Urry and Chaucer. 20th-century full speckled calf in period style, raised bands, red leather spine label. Occasional spots of foxing or toning but generally very clean. A very handsome and exceptionally tall copy. References: DNB "Urry, John (1666-1715)", by E. I. Carlyle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) Shugrue, Michael, "The Urry Chaucer (1721) and the London Uprising of 1384: A Phase in Chaucerian Biography", Journal of English and German Philology 65.2 (1966), 229-37.

Dreams by Austin, Alice

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Title: Dreams
Author: Austin, Alice
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
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Description: Philadelphia: Alice Austin, 2008. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Number 13 of 30 copies, signed by the artist. A book about dreams, memories, the loss of a friend, the loss of the past, and the loss of the possibility of connecting again. It concludes with acceptance and a hopeful look to the future. Bound in painted fushia Tyvek covered boards with navy cloth spine and fushia paper title label. The interior is letterpress printed with hand set type on Zerkall paper. Illustrated with linocuts. [14 pages.] Size: 7 x 8 inches. "My approach to the book is often sculptural: the form presents the idea. Words, when used, reinforce the visual. My knowledge of different book forms has evolved over the years spent as a book conservator and teacher. I see myself as a keeper of craft, using this respect for a beautifully realized book, and combining it with a modern approach, to create a sensual object. In my work I am interested in the textures of different mark making - drawn or printed - the feel of the paper - the sound of the page - as it relates to the entire book" (artist statement). Alice Austin is a printmaker, book artist and painter living and working in Philadelphia. She has been on the faculty at the University of the Arts, teaching book structures, and has also taught workshops at the Center for Book Arts in New York, Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, and other institutions. She earned a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and has been an active member of the Guild of Book Workers since 1998. She worked as a rare book and paper conservator for over 20 years at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Alice has also been awarded several artist residencies in Europe, and her work is widely held in private, public and special collections worldwide. ARTB/030624.

Tod Browning (director), Lon Chaney (actor) THE ROAD TO MANDALAY (1926) Lobby card by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Title: Tod Browning (director), Lon Chaney (actor) THE ROAD TO MANDALAY (1926) Lobby card
Creator: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
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Description: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles]: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1926. Vintage original 11 x 14" (28 x 36 cm) lobby card. Slight spotting in lower blank margin, with modest age toning in margins, near fine. Lon Chaney (as Singapore Joe) in a dramatic scene with Owen Moore (as the Admiral), whom he has shanghaied after learning that the Admiral and his daughter have fallen in love, from MGM's 1926 silent drama The Road to Mandalay. We have provided images of both the front and back of the card.

THE CROXLEY MASTER. A Great Tale of the Prize Ring by Doyle, A. Conan

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Title: THE CROXLEY MASTER. A Great Tale of the Prize Ring
Author: Doyle, A. Conan
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Description: 1907. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1907. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black, white and green. First Separate Edition (being one of the "other stories" that had been published with THE GREEN FLAG in 1900); before that (in October-December 1899), it had appeared in The Strand Magazine with 16 Sidney Paget illustrations. Doyle brought his much-loved sport of boxing into a number of his works, such as his novel RODNEY STONE and this tale. A young Welsh medical student enters the boxing ring, in the hope of winning the funds necessary to establish his own practice. The tale appeared on the screen in 1921, as a British silent film. Included is a color frontispiece of a prizefighter. This is a close-to-fine copy, with no cover soil and with much-less-than-usual flaking of the white cover panel -- both of which are usually major problems with this book. Green & Gibson A31a.

Les Classiques de la Table by Fayot, Charles-Frederic-Alfred

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Title: Les Classiques de la Table
Author: Fayot, Charles-Frederic-Alfred
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Condition: Half bound, marble boards, raised bands. Good
Description: Paris: Bethune et Plon, 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. Half bound, marble boards, raised bands. Good. 609 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Originally published -1843, in sixty parts, presented here complete. A compilation of various culinary texts and works by renown French gastronomes and chefs including: 1. Physiologie du goût by Brillat-Savarin. 2. La Gastronomie by Joseph Berchoux. 3. Calendrier Gastronomique by Grimod de la Reynière by Cussy. 4. L'art de diner en ville by Colnet de Ravel. 5. L'art Culinaire by Cussy. 6. Works on gardening and farming by Lalanne and Fontanes. 7. Les Fleurs by Parny. 8. Excerpts from Joseph Roques' treatise on useful plants. 9. Aphorisms and maxims by Carême. 10. Writings on gastronomy, dinner, and dessert by Neufchâteau. 11. A section on wines by Chaptal. 12. A collection of drinking songs, gastronomic songs, maxims, and precepts. Beautifully illustrated with engraved portraits (with tissue guards). Previous owner's signature on half title page. Subtitle translated: The classics of the table for the use of the practitioners and people of the world, with engraved portraits - De M. Le Prince De Talleyrand, Carle Vernet, Brillat-Savarin, Debucourt, Feu le Docteur Marcel Gaubert, Careme, Appert, M. Jules Janin, M. Grimod de la Reyniere, Berchoux, Marquis de Cussy, Colnet, etc. Lovely portraits combined with narrative. Text in French. Some foxing. From the estate of Dan Samuel, 4th Viscount Samuel (1925-2014), grandson of Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine (1920-1925). [CAGLE 190, third edition] [VICAIRE 178]

Facts About Nudism: The Real Truth About the Nudist Movement by Hugh Morris

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Title: Facts About Nudism: The Real Truth About the Nudist Movement
Author: Hugh Morris
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Condition: Very good. Toned
Description: New York, New York: Padell Book Co, 1935. Very good. Toned. A passionate anti-nudist monograph, stating in its introduction that "on the whole, the people who comprise a majority of the Nudist movement are nothing but sexual perverts, as it shall be proved in the following chapters ... Nudism must be stamped out now, before it takes a canker hold on us" (p. 4). The publication goes on to shame Nudism as exhibitionist, dangerous to children and families, and morally bereft. Includes a chapter titled "Absence of Beauty in Nudism", which paints a graphic picture of a naked woman, using language intended to evoke disgust in the reader for the image. Argues that Nudism is unhealthy because overexposure to sunlight can cause skin cancer. Single vol. (7.25" by 5"), pp. 32, stapled in original illustrated textured green paper wrappers. Sticker advertising Jack's Trick & Joke Shop in Boston pasted to title-page and lower cover recto. Ink stamp with price to upper cover. 11 copies on WorldCat (June 2023). Difficult to assess, but perhaps tongue in cheek.

Culinary Crinkles Cook Book as gathered by the Senior Miriams of the Presbyterian Church Greenwood, S.C.

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Title: Culinary Crinkles Cook Book as gathered by the Senior Miriams of the Presbyterian Church Greenwood, S.C.
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Description: Greenwood , S.C., 1949. Fourth edition. 143 pp. Some wear on cover.

North Edgecomb Maine Church Cook Book

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Title: North Edgecomb Maine Church Cook Book
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Description: Paper wraps. North Edgecomb Cook Book in Aid of Parsonage Fund By Ladies of Congregational Society August 1903. 43 pages some wear else in good condition.

Der Wein [Piano-vocal score] by BERG, Alban 1885-1935

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Title: Der Wein [Piano-vocal score]
Author: BERG, Alban 1885-1935
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Wien: Universal-Edition [PN U.E. 9957], 1930. Small folio. Full green cloth, titling gilt to spine. 2ff. (title, texts, instrumentation), 5-47, [1] (blank) pp. Parallel title and text in German and French. With printed dedication to Ruzena Herlinger, the first intepreter, to head of title. Binding slightly rubbed. Minor browning. First Edition. Redlich XVII. "Der Wein was the stylistic forerunner of Lulu, as, in a more modest way, the second Storm song had been the forerunner of the Lyric Suite. That this kinship with Lulu is more than a conjectural assumption a posteriori is shown by the choice of the text of the Aria, by its basic organization and by its colour and scoring." Redlich: Alban Berg, p. 156. The full score was first published in 1966. Text by Charles Baudelaire in German translation by Stefan George.

The Night Master by Sampson, Robert

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Title: The Night Master
Author: Sampson, Robert
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ISBN: 9780934498081
Condition: Fine
Description: Chicago: Pulp Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second Printing. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($14.95). Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Sampson's book-length study and survey of the pulp hero The Shadow.

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Sagan, Carl

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Title: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Author: Sagan, Carl
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ISBN: 9780394410456
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($8.95), rubbed and bumped at the edges with some small chips and closed tears. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, ownership signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. "In a breathtaking overview from prehistory to the present [Sagan] explains how human beings evolved, genes and brains together; who our ancestors and their competitors were; how our brains and the brains of other animals work; and why other intelligent beings will be sufficiently like us intellectually to permit interstellar communication.

REGIMENT OF WOMEN by BERGER, THOMAS

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Title: REGIMENT OF WOMEN
Author: BERGER, THOMAS
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Description: Eyre Methuen, 1974. BERGER, Thomas. REGIMENT OF WOMEN. London: Eyre Methuen, [1974]. Sm. 8vo., paper-covered boards in dust jacket. First English Edition. Signed by Berger on front endpaper. Fine in d/j. $85.00.

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