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Collection of a Women’s Army Corps Technician Concerning VE Day, Reassignment to the Pacific Theater, and Processions for Roosevelt and Eisenhower, with Lyrical Descriptions of Paris on V-E Day

Collection of a Women’s Army Corps Technician Concerning VE Day, Reassignment to the Pacific Theater, and Processions for Roosevelt and Eisenhower, with Lyrical Descriptions of Paris on V-E Day by [Women's History - World War II – Women’s Army Corps – VE Day – Pacific Theater] Bremer, Mary J.; Miller, June; Melotte, John

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Title
Collection of a Women’s Army Corps Technician Concerning VE Day, Reassignment to the Pacific Theater, and Processions for Roosevelt and Eisenhower, with Lyrical Descriptions of Paris on V-E Day
Author
[Women's History - World War II – Women’s Army Corps – VE Day – Pacific Theater] Bremer, Mary J.; Miller, June; Melotte, John
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Of the printed matter, most is affixed to paper, some small tears and folds; overall excellent; photographs near fine
Description
Paris, France; and Washington, D.C., 1945. Six 8 x 10 inch and smaller typed pages; one 4 x 5 inch card with two tickets; one twenty-six page 4 x 5.5 inch pamphlet; one six page 6 x 8.5 inch pamphlet; six 2.5 x 3.5 photographs and two 3 x 4.5 inch photographs. Of the printed matter, most is affixed to paper, some small tears and folds; overall excellent; photographs near fine. Mary J. Bremer (1917–2019) was a Technician fourth grade from Grant Township, Nebraska. Her correspondents here include June Miller (1920–deceased), an aviation cadet from Michigan, and John Melotte (1919–deceased), an artilleryman from Philadelphia. Bremer and Miller were members of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC). Established in May of 1942 as the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, the WAC converted to active duty in July of 1943. The women of WAC, known as Wacs, served in noncombatant roles across the various theaters of World War II. Offered here is a small archive of Bremer’s documents and photographs relating to WAC: a few letters, including a description of Paris the day after the Nazi surrender; two pamphlets, including the War Department pamphlet Two down and One to go –; and a collection of photographs of Eisenhower’s victory parade and Roosevelt’s funeral procession. On April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt died of a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia. His body was returned to Washington two days later, and a military procession escorted it from the train station to the White House. Two photographs of the funeral procession are included in the archive. One, showing a woman at the start of a section of the parade, is identified verso as “WACs led by Capt. Machen”. The following month, the Nazis surrendered. Bremer’s friend June Miller was stationed in Paris at the time. She wrote to Bremer the next day, describing the celebration: “It began the night before when we stood on the roof and watched the flares go off all over the city--just like the 4th of July; the Sacred Couer was blazing with lights and it looked like a miniature fairy-land. Last night all the famous old buildings, including the Arc d’Triumph, was all lit up, the fountains in the parks, at Concord, in front of the Trocadero--they were all going, and the kids were wading and splashing around, having the time of their life. It was really something to see--something the French had been waiting a long time for. “Fini le guerre”, they kept saying--the end of the war!” Miller also claims to have witnessed a bomber flying a celebratory loop through the Eiffel Tower: “When we came out of the [Trocadéro], the fountains were on, and what a sight that is. Looking down over the water that looks like a miniature waterfall to the Eiffel Tower at the bottom of a small hill. And if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that I saw a small bomber come through the bottom, but that’s just what it did--and just did clear it, too. The planes seemed to be going as wild as the people on the ground--[they] were so thick up there that pretty soon we thought surely something would happen.” In June, Dwight Eisenhower returned from Europe and a homecoming parade was held for him in Washington, D.C. Six photographs of this parade are included in the archive, including a shot of his plane arriving at the airport and one where he is visible standing in the back of a Jeep. Miller notes in her letter from Paris that “you wondered what was coming next; where we would go from here, ‘cause in a sense, there is still a war very definitely going on”. In fact, John Melotte, who seems to be Miller’s partner, writes to Bremer that he “May be slated for that place they call the CBI, but don’t tell June please. She does not want me to even mention the place in my letters so I let well enough alone” (July 15, 1945). Hostilities would continue in the CBI—the China-Burma-India theater—until September of that year. The process by which soldiers were selected to be sent to the Asia-Pacific theater is laid out in the War Department pamphlet Two down and One to go –. The pamphlet reminds them that there are still “a couple of big jobs ahead”, the primary one being to “crush” or “smash” the “Japs”, and the second one being to occupy and police “conquered lands [...] until the peril of future aggression is gone.” It is a visually striking piece, with illustrations in a bold black and red color palette; its cover is a reproduction of a caricature of Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito by Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk. Also included in the archive are a card from a friend with tickets to an American League baseball game; a humorous poem congratulating Wacs Ruth O.B. and Lenore I. Nier on new work assignments; and a Christmas 1945 WAC pamphlet with a dinner menu and list of WAC officers. The pamphlet assures the Wacs, with a note from Colonel Kenton Cooley, “Before another Christmas you all will have returned to civilian life and each of you will take with you my appreciation and my sincere admiration for a great job well done.” Of interest to scholars of women’s history, especially in the military; and of the events leading up to the end of the Second World War.
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Treaty Between the United States of America and the Kickapoo Indians. by [Indian Treaty].

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Treaty Between the United States of America and the Kickapoo Indians.
Author
[Indian Treaty].
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description
Pamphlet folio, disbound, light blue paper, 6 pp. Disbound, some darkening at edges, a little foxing; otherwise very good. This treaty is between the U.S. and the Kickapoo tribe of Missouri, concluded and issued under order of President Franklin Pierce. Several Kickapoo chiefs left their mark, and along with President Franklin Pierce signature in print is that of Secretary of State W.L. Marcy.
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The Natural History of Smithtown: A Monograph on the Zoology & Botany of the Township of Smithtown. by Turrell, Loring W.

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The Natural History of Smithtown: A Monograph on the Zoology & Botany of the Township of Smithtown.
Author
Turrell, Loring W.
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description
8vo, black cloth, silver title label on top cover, errata slip tipped in, illustrated, 89 pp. Slight shelf wear; otherwise near fine. This privately printed title (No. 67 of 200 copies) was originally going to focus on ornithology. However, while all the black and white woodcuts are of birds, the author indicates discussion would also cover bird habitat, and topographical and floral characteristics too. In addition to the bird illustrations, there are three folding maps at the back of the book showing the Smithtown Area, the geological considerations, and the habitat of the area. # 104182 $250
Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence.

Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence. by Unger, Harlow Giles.

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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence.
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Unger, Harlow Giles.
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
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8vo, hardcover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket, illustrated, 315 pp. Very slight edgewear to dj, close to excellenat condition, contents near fine. Considered an excellent biography of Paine.
THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY

THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY by WILLDENOW, D. C.

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THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY
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WILLDENOW, D. C.
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Boston Book Company (United States)
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1811. WILLDENOW, D.C. [Actually Willdenow, Karl Ludwig]. THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY. Translated from the German. A New [Second] Edition, Greatly Enlarged by the Author. Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1811. Octavo. [4] ff., iv, 544 pp. + 11 ff. plates, one hand-colored. Willdenow was the Director of the Berlin Botanical Garden from 1801 until his death in 1812. His greatest contributions were, in an age of exploration, to the creation of the study of the geographical distribution of plants (phytogeography). This is based upon the second edition of his Grundrisse der Kreuterkunde (Berlin, 1792 and 1798). The English edition first appeared in Edinburgh in 1805. Leather, worn, with hinges split and starting, foxing to plates. Library stamps to endpaper and reverse of title.
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Notice. U. S. Internal Revenue Special Taxes, May 1, 1877, to April 30, 1878 [An Early IRS Broadside] by Raum, Green B.

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Notice. U. S. Internal Revenue Special Taxes, May 1, 1877, to April 30, 1878 [An Early IRS Broadside]
Author
Raum, Green B.
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Washington DC: Office of Internal Revenue, 1877. Very good. Broadside; 18 1/2 x 12; beige stock, printed in black in various fonts, with several lines filled in manuscript; several punctures along margins from being afixed to a surface (wall [?]); a bit of age-toning and minor spotting; in good to very good condition. The ultimate buzzkill, the special taxes covered every vice one could think of, including alcohol, leaf tobacco, retail liquor, stills, cigars, and various classes of peddlers of tobacco - on foot, or on horses and other animals. The broadsides were intended to be displayed at Post Offices and, presumably, businesses - ordering the establishments to procure a special-tax stamp, denoting the payment of said tax. Green B. Raum (1829 - 1909), who had compiled the text, was a lawyer, author, Brigadier General in the Union Army, and a commissioner of the IRS.
Such a Long Journey

Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry

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Such a Long Journey
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Rohinton Mistry
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780571161478
Condition
Near Fine
Description
First UK Edition with the statement "First Published in 1991" on copyright page; A near fine book in a fine dust jacket. An outstanding copy of this multiple award winning author's 1st book. This near fine book is clean and tight and shows only some minor crimping to the lower spine end and some mild foxing to the exterior text block and page edges. Housed in a fine dust jacket that shows only trivial shelf wear to the spine ends and edges. Not remaindered, not price clipped (13.99 net intact), not ex-library. In archival protection and shipped in a sturdy box.
Crooked Little Vein A Novel

Crooked Little Vein A Novel by Warren Ellis

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Crooked Little Vein A Novel
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Warren Ellis
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
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9780060723934
Condition
Fine
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Stated First Edition/ First printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. Looks to be never read. Not remaindered, not price clipped, and not ex-library. In archival protection.
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NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA by Wiggin, Kate Douglas & Edith Taliaferro

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NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas & Edith Taliaferro
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
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NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA, Grosset & Dunlap, (1907), some light wear to the fore edge corner tips and spine extremities, some soiling to the covers and spine, else a good collectable copy. Inscribed by the author on the f.e.p. with an autographed photo of Edith Taliaferro, who first played the lead of Rebecca on Broadust-wrapper ay, on the f.p.d. A scarce pairing.
T-34/76: Medium Tank 1941-45

T-34/76: Medium Tank 1941-45 by ZALOGA, Steven

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T-34/76: Medium Tank 1941-45
Author
ZALOGA, Steven
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781855323827
Condition
Fine
Description
(London: Reed Consumer Books Ltd, 1997. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint. Color plates by Peter Sarson . Small quarto. 49pp. Profusely illustrated in both color and black and white, including a laid in fold-out color poster measuring 18"x13". Fine, in glazed pictorial boards.
Without Prejudice

Without Prejudice by ZANGWILL, I.

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Without Prejudice
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ZANGWILL, I.
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
Description
New York: Century Co, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Beige cloth decorated in gilt and green stamping. Small chip on spine head, spine a bit darkened, top page edges unopened, else very good.
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Why Your House May Endanger Your Health by ZAMM, Alfred V. and Robert Gannon

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Why Your House May Endanger Your Health
Author
ZAMM, Alfred V. and Robert Gannon
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Third edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dust jacket. Book has remainder mark on bottom foredge, former owner's name on front endpaper. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, white portions slightly soiled.
Ladies in the Parlor

Ladies in the Parlor by Tully, Jim

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Ladies in the Parlor
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Tully, Jim
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ReadInk (United States)
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New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Poor. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. a Tully's unsentimentalized tale of a young woman who escapes small-town poverty (and various abusive and sexually aggressive men) by going to work in a high-class and politically well-connected Chicago brothel was beset by serious censorship trouble. Banned outright in Canada, it was one of eight American-authored books that were the subject of obscenity prosecutions in the U.S. between 1934 and 1944 (Sova, "Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds," pp.98-100). It was declared obscene by a New York court in November 1935; authorities there and elsewhere responded by confiscating and burning many copies. Although fined only a measly $50, the publishers nonetheless abandoned the book in the face of the many prohibitions against its distribution and sale. H.L. Mencken considered it one of Tully's best works. .
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FRANZ VON ASSISI UND DIE ANFANGE DER KUNST DER RENAISSANCE IN ITALIEN by THODE, Henry

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FRANZ VON ASSISI UND DIE ANFANGE DER KUNST DER RENAISSANCE IN ITALIEN
Author
THODE, Henry
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
(ASSISI) THODE, Henry. FRANZ VON ASSISI UND DIE ANFANGE DER KUNST DER RENAISSANCE IN ITALIEN. Berlin: G. Grotes'che Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1885. 8vo. Wrappers. xii, 573, (3 pages. First edition. This illustrated art reference book is partly unopened. Edges very chipped, covers detached.

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