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Berlin: Vaterlaendischer Verlag C. A. Weller, 1922. Decorative Cloth. Good Copy First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Gilt stamped cloth. Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, charicatures, full color plates. 410 pages.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR WORLD WAR I [WWI] MILITARY SERVICE. by Fitzgerald, F. Scott - 1918.
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR WORLD WAR I [WWI] MILITARY SERVICE.
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Princeton:: Princeton University,. 1918.. First edition, only edition. A unique, historic document. Awarded to Fitzgerald in recognition that he left his studies at Princeton to serve in the military during WWI. It states, in Latin: ". . . since it is just and completely in accordance with reason that those students of the arts and sciences deserve recognition from the state and the university who leave our halls in the heat of war to carry out deeds in the name of freedom, worthy of public honor--let it be known to all that we are pleased by the well-deserving youth F. SCOTT FITZGERALD who advanced along the path toward his baccalaureate degree which he would not have left except for the cause of his country. We believe him worthy and do present him with this testimony of our trust and goodwill. God save the Republic. We have given this in the Wassace Hall of Princeton 1918 . . ." Fitzgerald received his commission as a second lieutenant in the Army October 26, 1917, and was assigned to Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama (where he met Zelda in 1918). Before he was deployed overseas, the war ended. He was discharged on February 14, 1919. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: It has long been known that Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton after four years of on-and-off-again study to join the Army. We understand the certificate conferred passing grades in all current classes on the student to whom it was awarded. While it was certainly well deserved, it does bring to light a possible factor in the timing of his decision to join the war effort. PROVENANCE: In the 1930s, F. Scott and Zelda lived in a now-historic area of Baltimore, Maryland -- Bolton Hill -- the last place where they lived together. It was during their stay there that Fitzgerald wrote his last complete novel, TENDER IS THE NIGHT. The owner was their landlord and when she died in 1967, the certificate was discovered among her things. To this day, the building remains a private residence and is marked with a blue plaque in Fitzgerald's honor. PRESERVATION: In order to preserve and protect this historic document, it was professionally removed from the thin board to which it had been glued and minor splits and tears were mended. It is now housed in an archival sleeve and custom folding case. The certificate measures approximately 17 x 14 inches. .
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Hindenberg Denkmal Fuer Das Deutsche Volk; Eine Ehrengabe Zum 75 Geburtstage Des Generalfeldmarschalls
by Paul Lindenberg, Illustrated by Various
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The Red Knight of Germany. The Story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird. with Drawings by Clayton Knight.
by Gibbons, Floyd
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Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1927. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1927. 8vo., 383pp., illustrated with frontis photo of Richthofen and plates of drawings by Clayton Knight. Original black cloth with red titles and designs, top edge tinted red, in original dust jacket. Name on fly leaf, else near fine, in near fine bright dust jacket with slight loss/fray at the extremities. . Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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Cartoons of the Great War. World War One Album of Colorful Cartoons and Caricatures, possibly by a P.O.W.
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1914(?)-1915/6. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 22.5 by 18 cm. 270 pp., almost all with one or more colorfully painted cartoons and caricatures depicting the early part of World War One, beginning in 1914 and possibly all the way through 1915. The album was made with a notebook with ruled lined paper. On most pages, the lines have been covered over, and are at most barely visible. One of the specific events alluded to is the sinking of the Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy by one German submarine, an event which occurred in September, 1914. The sinking of the Lusitania and chemical warfare are alluded to well into the album, which brings the album into the middle of 1915. It is possible the album runs into 1916 but not by much. The jingoistic, and non-subtle analysis manifest in the cartoons, does not give way to a weariness, a questioning, or disillusionment which would certainly have asserted itself later on in the war. The cover has a raised title, not fully legible anymore; from what can be made out,…
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'Plan of Turkish Positions in attack on Serapeum and Toussoum'. A large-scale map ('12 ins = 1 mile') printed on paper and mounted on linen (overall dimensions 1120 × 885 mm), produced by '3rd Field Coy. A.E. 1st Australian Div. 15th Feb. 1915. Reproduced by the Survey Dept. Egypt. (683)'
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A detailed map of the battleground of the failed attempt by Turkish troops to invade Egypt on 3 February 1915. At the head of the map are large sketches of 'Frame of Kerosene Tin Raft in Turkish Attack' and 'Sketch of Turkish Pontoons captured at Toussoum-Serapeum 4.2.1915'. The Australian War Memorial has one of the 24 pontoons used by the 4th Turkish Army in their attempt to cross the Suez Canal in its collection. In fact, the AWM records that 'The action in which it was captured was the first in which a unit of the AIF (3 Field Company Australian Engineers) was engaged, and as such this trophy was the first captured by the army [in the First World War].... by May 1918, the Australian War Records Section was lobbying for an example to be brought back to Australia, noting that while Australian involvement by 3 Field Company Engineers was small, it was important'. Both Charles Bean ('The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18', Volume 1, Chapter VIII: 'The Turkish Expedition against…
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The Forbidden Zone
by BORDEN, Mary
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London: William Heinemann, LTD., 1929. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [x], [199], [1] + illustrated frontis reproducing Percy Smith's drypoint 'Solitude'. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt embossed design echoing the docked solitary tree of 'Solitude' to upper board. Spine baggy, spine ends frayed, extremities bruised and top corner bumped, slight warp and faint bloom to boards, wear to blind-stamped Heinemann device. Grey marbled endpapers tanned. Foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. A robust copy of Borden's celebrated WWI collection. The Chicago-born socialite, suffragette and prolific author, Mary 'May' Borden (1886-1968) used her own private wealth to fund and staff a mobile hospital at the French front, for which she received the Croix de Guerre and was made a member of the Légion d'honneur. The Forbidden Zone is considered "her most enduring work," comprising five stories "written recently from memory" and poems and sketches penned during her four years in France, and…
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Hindenberg Denkmal Fuer Das Deutsche Volk; Eine Ehrengabe Zum 75 Geburtstage Des Generalfeldmarschalls
by Paul Lindenberg, Illustrated by Various
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Berlin: Vaterlaendischer Verlag C. A. Weller, 1922. Decorative Cloth. Good Copy First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Gilt stamped cloth. Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps, charicatures, full color plates. 410 pages.
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The Red Knight of Germany. The Story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird. with Drawings by Clayton Knight.
by Gibbons, Floyd
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Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1927. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1927. 8vo., 383pp., illustrated with frontis photo of Richthofen and plates of drawings by Clayton Knight. Original black cloth with red titles and designs, top edge tinted red, in original dust jacket. Name on fly leaf, else near fine, in near fine bright dust jacket with slight loss/fray at the extremities. . Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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Cartoons of the Great War. World War One Album of Colorful Cartoons and Caricatures, possibly by a P.O.W.
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1914(?)-1915/6. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 22.5 by 18 cm. 270 pp., almost all with one or more colorfully painted cartoons and caricatures depicting the early part of World War One, beginning in 1914 and possibly all the way through 1915. The album was made with a notebook with ruled lined paper. On most pages, the lines have been covered over, and are at most barely visible. One of the specific events alluded to is the sinking of the Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy by one German submarine, an event which occurred in September, 1914. The sinking of the Lusitania and chemical warfare are alluded to well into the album, which brings the album into the middle of 1915. It is possible the album runs into 1916 but not by much. The jingoistic, and non-subtle analysis manifest in the cartoons, does not give way to a weariness, a questioning, or disillusionment which would certainly have asserted itself later on in the war. The cover has a raised title, not fully legible anymore; from what can be made out,…
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'Plan of Turkish Positions in attack on Serapeum and Toussoum'. A large-scale map ('12 ins = 1 mile') printed on paper and mounted on linen (overall dimensions 1120 × 885 mm), produced by '3rd Field Coy. A.E. 1st Australian Div. 15th Feb. 1915. Reproduced by the Survey Dept. Egypt. (683)'
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A detailed map of the battleground of the failed attempt by Turkish troops to invade Egypt on 3 February 1915. At the head of the map are large sketches of 'Frame of Kerosene Tin Raft in Turkish Attack' and 'Sketch of Turkish Pontoons captured at Toussoum-Serapeum 4.2.1915'. The Australian War Memorial has one of the 24 pontoons used by the 4th Turkish Army in their attempt to cross the Suez Canal in its collection. In fact, the AWM records that 'The action in which it was captured was the first in which a unit of the AIF (3 Field Company Australian Engineers) was engaged, and as such this trophy was the first captured by the army [in the First World War].... by May 1918, the Australian War Records Section was lobbying for an example to be brought back to Australia, noting that while Australian involvement by 3 Field Company Engineers was small, it was important'. Both Charles Bean ('The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18', Volume 1, Chapter VIII: 'The Turkish Expedition against…
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The Forbidden Zone
by BORDEN, Mary
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London: William Heinemann, LTD., 1929. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [x], [199], [1] + illustrated frontis reproducing Percy Smith's drypoint 'Solitude'. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt embossed design echoing the docked solitary tree of 'Solitude' to upper board. Spine baggy, spine ends frayed, extremities bruised and top corner bumped, slight warp and faint bloom to boards, wear to blind-stamped Heinemann device. Grey marbled endpapers tanned. Foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. A robust copy of Borden's celebrated WWI collection. The Chicago-born socialite, suffragette and prolific author, Mary 'May' Borden (1886-1968) used her own private wealth to fund and staff a mobile hospital at the French front, for which she received the Croix de Guerre and was made a member of the Légion d'honneur. The Forbidden Zone is considered "her most enduring work," comprising five stories "written recently from memory" and poems and sketches penned during her four years in France, and…
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THE BATTLE OF EASTLEIGH
by Bolle, Frederick N
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Octavo (8 1/2 X 10 1/2 inches) New York: United States Naval Air Force, 1918. First Edition. oblong format, 144 pages illustrated with black and white halftone photographs, and a map, original gray cloth, hardcover, good condition (lower right corner of front cover slightly bumped, minor shelf wear to lower spine, not affecting contents which are clean and complete).This is a unit history, with many photos of the Eastleigh U. S. Navy repair base in England during World War I; its officers and men. There are many photos of early military aircraft, and an essay on "Liberty Twelves" and "DeHavilands."
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
by W. B. Dixon
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
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First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.
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The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Christie, Agatha
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Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."
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Freckles
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Gene Stratton-Porter Freckles. Copyright 1904, by Doubleday, Page & Company. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York. G&D reprint edition. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Green boards. 427 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.
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Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom (Salesman's Dummy)
by P.J. O'Brien
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O'Brien, P.J. Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. With an appreciation by Lowell Thomas. Copyright 1935, P.J. O'Brien. Published by George A. Parker Company, Philadelphia. Illustrated. RARE SALESMAN'S DUMMY WITH SUBSCRIPTION BLANKS. Includes excerpts from 296 page complete book. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ AS ISSUED.
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The FOURTH BATTALION THE KING'S OWN (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and THE GREAT WAR (signed)
by Wadham, Lieut.-Colonel W.F.A., and Captain J. Crossley
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London: Privately Published (printed by Crowther & Goodman) Book. Fair. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. Small octavo. No date, but published in late 1935 or early 1936, since Wadham's contribution (ending at page 19) is dated 13th November, 1935, and Crossley's "Foreword to Part II" is dated December of the same year. Wadham writes, "These notes have been compiled, more or less in the form of a diary, with a view to placing on record the services of those who voluntarily came forward to serve their country in its hour of need." This copy from the library of 2nd Lt. I. (Irvine) B. Rouse of the battalion, who is listed thrice in the appendices, once in "Additional Nominal Roll of Officers who served with the I/4th Battalion The King's Own Royal Regt. (in order of joining)," once in a list of those wounded in action, and lastly in the list of those who received the Military Cross. Wadham has written his inscription ("A…
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A Record of the United Arts Rifles 1914-1919.
by Potton, Edward
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London: Alexander Moring De La More Press, 1920, hardcover. Published 1920. Anecdotes and humor, "not an official history but a collection of articles and photographs" of this Volunteer Corps, the Great War. -- Includes photographs of the personnel, drawings, and a list of the fallen. 92 pages, 9x11 inches. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (binding little weak with one loose plate; cover worn at edges; owner name). -- Very nice item for the World War One collector.
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Soldiering On: Being the Memoirs of General Sir Hubert Gough
by Gough, Gen. Sir Hubert
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London: Arthur Barker Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, jacket rubbed at edges, . with a bookseller label on front jacket flap.. 1954. First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth. Endpaper map, black and white frontispiece photo, black and white photos, appendix, and index. WWI historical autobiography with an introduction by Sir Arthur Bryant. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 260 pages .
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Roster of Vermont Men and Women in the Military and Naval Service of the United States and Allies in the World War 1917-1919 (Three Volumes)
by Johnson, Herbert T
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Adjutant General. Very Good; Covers very lightly scuffed, volume numbers written on front . covers, else a clean, tight set.. 1998. Reprint. Softcover. Printed light blue wraps with black cloth spines. A reprint of this 1927 title. ; 1665 pages .
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Irish Guards in the Great War, The (2 volumes): Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, vol 24 and 25
by Kipling, Rudyard
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The Outward Bound edition.: two volumes As nice a pair of copies as one is likely to see, in the original glassine protective wrappers (no printing on them; some small closed tears, one long closed tear on rear of one volume). Top edges gilt (dusty); original tissue guards present at frontispiece. No markings inside. Clean, bright, tight copies.
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