WWII from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Np [United States?], 1945. Very good overall. ADSEC was the Advance Section, Communications Zone, European Theater of Operations in W.W.I.I. This large broadside seems to be designed as a summary for soldiers who served, the text on one side detailing the planning and a pictorial map showing a trail from London to Bristol, Catz, Le Mans, Etampes, Paris,… Read more about this item

1993. Assorted ephemeral items from the family life and military career of Richard C. Broward (b. 1899). Broward joined the army in 1918 and served until retirement in 1950. His career saw him at army bases in North Carolina, Alabama, Michigan and Texas and travel around the world. In 1951 he worked at Texas Aviation Industries in USAF… Read more about this item

1942. Ephemera. Very good overall. 22 colorful army related greeting cards sent in 1942-3. Most addressed to 'Son", some to Neil, and Sam. Card companies include: Rust Craft, American Greetings, Hallmark, Forget-Me-Not, Quality, Marchant, S'Prise Series (Gibbon), J.P. Some cards have mechanical elements, or pop-up, or 3D decoration (ribbon, pin, beading, foil, stuffing). Several have hand… Read more about this item

Very good condition. Link was born in 1903 in Germany. After the family emigrated, he enlisted in the US Army at 18 1/2 y.o. (farmer) and retired in 1952 with 30 + years service. He spent time in Italy, Korea, Philippines (Manila), Japan (Okinawa). Collection contains multiples of his honorable discharge and reenlistment papers, a photo… Read more about this item

1945. Ephemera. A collection of photographs and ephemera belonging to Lt. Lillian Scher, an Army nurse during W.W.II in the China Theater. The photographs are mostly vernacular (9) of Lillian posing either alone or with other nurses in front of buildings with Chinese signs on them, rickshaws, barracks, some at parties with officers and Chinese women and… Read more about this item

Washington DC: US Treasury, 1946. First printing. Poster. Very good condition. American Second World War poster depicting a family, dog and neighbors welcoming home a soldier to a tenement building. The poster encouraged the purchase of Victory bonds to 'hasten the homecoming'. This poster reproduces the painting on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post of 26 May… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1943. Paperback. Otherwise very good condition. Full set of Series I and II, 4 issues each, in original slipcase. Topics include: War at Sea, Blitz, R.A.F., Army, Women, Production, Soldiers, Air Raids. "What did it look like? they will ask in 1981... Only the artist with his heightened powers of percetption can recognise which… Read more about this item

China, 1945. Very good condition. ALS letter from W.W.II serviceman George Neumann to his girl Dorothy Borchers, while he was stationed in Hankow, China. He writes of the Japanese returning bags of silver, the complete destruction of factories, the German people he has met "Peachy fine people and I'm not just kidding you", and when he hopes to… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, 1940. Paperback. Very good overall. Sears Roebuck & Co. began in 1892. By 1896 Sears launched their own catalog which rivaled Montgomery Ward's sales. Catalogue b&w, with some color pages, protruding tabbed sections complete with order forms. Everything a person could desire in terms of clothing, shoes, houswares, saddlery, paint, batteries, car seat covers, luggage, pens,… Read more about this item

Boston, 1951. Paperback. Very good overall. Sears Roebuck & Co. began in 1892. By 1896 Sears launched their own catalog which rivaled Montgomery Ward's sales. Catalogue b&w, with many color pages, complete with order forms. Everything a person could desire in terms of clothing, shoes, houswares, saddlery, paint, batteries, car seat covers, luggage, pens, rugs, furntiture, glasses,… Read more about this item

New York: Paragraphic Books, 1966. First printing. Paperback. Good + overall. Seymour [1911 - 1956] was a Polish photographer and photojournalist. Text by Henri Cartier-Bresson in English and French recalling his friend, "On the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of David Seymour's death". Introduction by Judith Friedberg. Square 12mo, 23pp text, 48pp, 16pp, [5]. Photographic wrappers.… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1941. Paperback. Good. Sears Roebuck & Co. began in 1892. By 1896 Sears launched their own catalog which rivaled Montgomery Ward's sales. Catalogue b&w, with some color pages, complete with order forms. Everything a person could desire in terms of clothing, shoes, houswares, saddlery, paint, batteries, car seat covers, luggage, trusses, pens,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, 1931. Paperback. Otherwise good condition. Sears Roebuck & Co. began in 1892. By 1896 Sears launched their own catalog which rivaled Montgomery Ward's sales. Catalogue b&w, with many color pages, for everything a person could desire in terms of clothing, shoes, houswares, saddlery, paint, batteries, car seat covers, luggage, pens, rugs, furntiture, glasses, dishes and more.… Read more about this item

Japan: Hokuseido Press, 1936. Very good condition. Advertising flyer for a book of the same title, asking why Japan is fortifying the islands of Micronesia? Are criticisms made by the League of Nations well based? and more about primitive life on Yap. Chapter titles listed, with text translated into Japanese below. 5 5/8 x 8 3/4", 4pp,… Read more about this item

United States Army 64th Engineer Base, Topographic Battalion, 1952. Maps. Very good condition. Yokohama City Map compiled in 1948 from aerial photography by USAF 1947, corrected to August 1952. Key has list of Army Installation and Public Facilities, Dependent Houses. Verso has map of Yamashita Park area map (C5 to G1) and Area 1, 2, X on map… Read more about this item

London: Random House, 1941. First printing. Hardcover. Very good overall. Description, photographs and stories of the resilience of Lambeth and its inhabitants during the London Blitz in 1941. 4to 124pp, gray cloth boards, Iilustrated with b & w photographs by Robert Capa. Spine slt. sunned, o/w clean throughout. OCLC: 1803572.

1945. Good + overall. Map of Allied forces advance in China and the Pacific. These war maps were issued by the US War Department in WWII to the public and to military personnel as visual guides to campaigns, and usually featured the theater of conflict, and often included text descriptions of war related event. 47 x… Read more about this item

London: London County Council, London Fire Brigade, 1938. Fine. The object of this leaflet is to give some idea of the part that women can play in the fire defence of London in the event of war." Women in prewar London asked to join Fire Departments,and could serve as Motor Drivers, Watchroom Staff, and Clerical Workers. … Read more about this item

Albany, NY, 1943. Paperback. Very good condition. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a world-pioneering mail-order business and later also a leading department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. Before the internet, catalogs reigned supreme; this copy shows many war time styles in color. Thick 4to, 1162pp plus order form, mostly color catalog for… Read more about this item

Boston, 1951. Paperback. Very good overall. Sears Roebuck & Co. began in 1892. By 1896 Sears launched their own catalog which rivaled Montgomery Ward's sales. Catalogue b&w, with many color pages, complete with order forms. Everything a person could desire in terms of clothing, shoes, houswares, saddlery, paint, batteries, car seat covers, luggage, pens, rugs, furntiture, glasses,… Read more about this item