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Cincinnati, Ohio: Hitchcock & Walden, 1871. First Edition. 6 1/8" x 4 1/8" ; 176pp. Publisher's purple cloth over boards with relief design to upper, lower boards and blind-stamped title to spine. With a discrete gift inscription to first endpage. Slight forward lean to spine. Outer cloth mildly faded, most pronounced at the spine. Stray pencil mark across first page. Overall sound, clean. About very good. An uncommon German-language juvenille religious primer (translates to "God's Blessing") published in Cincinnati in 1871. Scarce. WorldCat notes a single holding, at the NYPL.

[Japan], [ca. 1944]. 16 black and white silver print photographs. Dimensions range from approximately 6 1/2" x 4 1/2" to approximately 5" x 3 3/4." Two with ink notations to versos. All about fine. A remarkable group of original photographs developed from partially burnt negatives confiscated from Japanese forces on Saipan during World War II. These were acquired by us from a dealer in militaria who identifies them as sourced from the estate of an American GI serving with the 881st Bombardment Squadron, 500th Bomb Group which flew missions out of Saipan following its capture by Allied forces in July of 1944. Two prints have neatly printed captions to their versos: "Captured Jap Film: / Army family sent too Siapian [sic] before War. Cheerful looking lot. The black part is where the Japs tried to burn the film." "Jap officers an[d] Geisha girls. Rough customers - / Captured film." The burnt film surrounds often banal, though occasionally menacing images ranging from what appear to be everyday… Read More