Published by [War Manpower Commission], Portland, OR, 1940
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
22.5" x 48" poster lettered in red and blue. Near Mint. Bright with very little wear, stored rolled-up by an Americana collector. Tiny sticker on verso has been removed with a little loss. A WWII propaganda poster notifying pulp and paper mill workers in the Pacific Northwest that their industry is considered an Essential War Industry. Red, white and blue design.
Seller Inventory # 140942362
Published by US or British Army, [no place], 1943
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Single Sheet. Condition: Fine. Single sheet; 4 x 5 inch leaflet; Text in Italian, printed in red and black on the recto, and black only on verso. Fine. A propaganda leaflet warning Italian factory workers not to go to work, as bombing raids are planned. Translated from Italian into English, the flier reads "Stay away from Factories. Anglo-American bombers are going to pulverize them. In Italy factories, ports and railways serve the German war and are military targets. [Verso] In 1940 'I asked for and received from the Fuehrer direct participation against Britain with aircraft' [-]Moussolini. / The result.In 1940-41 100,000 men, women and children die or are seriously wounded - and houses are destroyed - in England. / In 1943 Every Factory, and those who work for the German war effort - Every military target - is in the process of being pulverized in Italy. / Was this worth asking the Fuehrer for permission?".
Seller Inventory # 140939184
Published by The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1975
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. xxx, 360 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with rubbing along bottom edge, cloth worn at head, former owner's inkless emboss on half title page, in Very Good dust jacket, worn along top edge. An important history of Japanese internment in the US during WWII, written by the former head of the War Relocation Authority, the agency tasked with supervising Japanese internment during WWII.
Seller Inventory # 140941927
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1930
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. xi, 236 pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with tear and chip at head, price-clipped, lightly edge-worn. A biography of the Greek philosopher/soldier, uncommon in jacket.
Seller Inventory # 140939218
Published by [No Publisher], [No Place], 1944
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Single thin sheet; 4.8" x 7" leaflet printed in red and black. Verso numbered S W 3. Text in English. Very Good, folded in fours, tiny tear in top edge at fold. An illustrated WWII psychological warfare pamphlet from the Nazi German government, aimed at American soldiers in a slightly warped attempt at vernacular English. The recto features an illustration of city life in America, a man and a women merrily strolling through a city past one of the ubiquitous "Uncle Sam Wants You" American propaganda posters of the time, with a caption and verso that are meant to appeal to US soldiers' political cynicism and skepticism about American elites' motives. The strolling couple are meant to be some of the "Friendly Folks back home, those who stimulated the big war boom[,] eager to collect the prosperous profits." The reader is informed, "Your job is easy; You just got to die to fill their pockets." The stilted attempts at slang, coupled with the irony of the Nazi government attempting to appeal to Americans' pacifism and anti-elitism, make this an entertaining psywar pamphlet that showcases various difficulties of getting inside one's enemies' heads and amplifying their doubts.
Seller Inventory # 140939216
Published by Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1987
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by the author, inscribed to the son of OSS and CIA chief William "Wild Bill" Donovan, "For David Donovan, a good friend over many years for the biography of your father's colleague! All the best, [signed] Tony Brown, January 1988." Brown wrote a bio of Donovan. [xiv], 830 pp. with photos. Publisher's boards with black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a Near Fine lightly worn dust jacket. A bio of a British spymaster in WWII and the early Cold War.
Seller Inventory # 140940618
Published by [No Publisher], np, 1945
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Small collection of union documents from a welder during WWII, housed in leather pocket folder. The owner, one Victoria Brown of San Francisco, attended the War Production Training School in Seattle, where she learned to weld, and then at age 23 joined the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America as an apprentice welder. During the war the union's ranks swelled to approximately 350,000. She found work at the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. for a few months. This small collection includes her union member's pocket folder, dues receipts, a promotion card, the backing paper of an Army-Navy Production Award emblem with a message from President Roosevelt and his facsimile signature, and her termination notice-- the reason given: "Going back to San Francisco." Apparently she did just that. Very Good overall with folding and light wear to documents. Leather pocket folder could be used again with ease-- hardly worn at all.
Seller Inventory # 140941626
Published by Students for a Democratic Society, Chicago, 1966
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. [ca. 1966]. 12 pp. Publisher's pale blue stapled wraps printed in black. Very good with light shelf wear and light biopredation to covers. Pages lightly thumbed and lightly toned. A short pamphlet written mostly by an older SDS member, Paul Lauter, less about how to be a conscientious objector, and more about how to start to think about becoming one.
Seller Inventory # 140938928
Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1959
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition. Signed by Boyd Cochrell on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner in the year of publication. [iv], 379 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with white and red spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket with a hint of shelf wear. A World War II two novel of the Marines in the South Pacific, rare signed. The author's debut novel. He also wrote the paperback original Rage in the Wind.
Seller Inventory # 140945287
Published by Random House, New York, 1986
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. First edition. Signed by Charles Willeford on the front free endpaper. [xii], 255, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth and paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. No remainder marks. An excellent copy of the crime writer's autobiography of his time in the military on the eve of WWII.
Seller Inventory # 140942553
Published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1953
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Signed by Edward Hunter on the paste down, inscribed to Harlan A. Westrell, likely CIA chief of counterintelligence in the Office of Security and friend of Watergate burglar James McCord, in Washington D.C., August 1, 1957. viii, 341 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with red and silver lettering. Fourth printing of the new and enlarged edition. Very Good+, lacking dust jacket. An interesting association.An extremely influential text that examined propaganda and indoctrination techniques in Maoist China, inspiring the novel/film The Manchurian Candidate, generations of American Cold Warriors, and even American interrogators in the War on Terror.
Seller Inventory # 140945038
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1901
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. xiii, [iii], 388, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black, pink, and green stamping. Near Fine, with glue from now-gone bookplate on paste down, name written on front free endpaper, old photo of Manila Railroad Station mounted to page at front, lacking dust jacket. Rare. An American's memoir of his captivity in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.
Seller Inventory # 140945669
Published by Np, Portland, OR, 1942
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Original 10 3/4" x 14" poster printed in orange and black on cardboard with a racist caricature of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo stabbing a salmon. Text reads in its entirety: "The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry / vote 311 X no against this infamous proposition / closing Oregon's coastal streams will kill Oregon's salmon industry / our boys in service need every case of salmon Oregon can produce!" Good with five small holes and a creased scrape, crease down middle from being mounted on a stick either for picketing or as a yard sign, verso toned and soiled. Colors still very bright. A rare political sign opposed to The Oregon Prohibition of Net Fishing on Coastal Waters Bill, also known as Measure 6, with striking graphics, typically anti-Japanese in the wake of Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WWII; although a cursory contemporary glance at the bill makes any connection to Japan highly dubious. "The measure would have prohibited all net fishing in coastal streams and bays, except those exempted," according to Ballotpedia. It was soundly defeated.
Seller Inventory # 140941284
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1955
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) [vi], 245, [3] pp.Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with green cloth backstrip lettered in black. Very Good with bumped corners, rubbing along edges, in a rubbed dust jacket with tiny closed tears along bottom edge of front panel, worn at extremities, unclipped ($3.50) A Holocaust novel by a survivor of Auschwitz featuring the now-infamous "Joy Divisions" (where the British postpunk band got their name), Jewish women who were kept for sexual use by German soldiers during WWII. It was first published in Hebrew in 1953 and became worldwide sensation, due in no small part to its sensationalism and luridness.
Seller Inventory # 140944714
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1935
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition in first issue jacket with no reviews and blank verso. [iv], 265 pp. Two-toned cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with rubbed gilt, small stain to back board, bookplate on paste down, pages toned with age. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine panel, small tear near head, some light wear to edges, small faint dampstain to verso at foot. The author's only book, anti-war novel later finding fame with director Stanley Kubrick's film adaption, which was written by pulp legend Jim Thompson, forgotten great Calder Willingham, and the director himself (although who wrote what and how-much is still disputed to this day).
Seller Inventory # 140940063
Published by Verso, New York, 2001
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition. Signed by Christopher Hitchens on the title page in black ink, additionally inscribed by him in blue ink to former owners and dated "10/IX/2001." xii, 159 pp. Bound in publisher's boards with dark gray cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver. Former owners' bookplate on front free endpaper, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. The famous contrarian takes on German-American diplomat and political operative Henry Kissinger.
Seller Inventory # 140945341
Published by MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1960
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First British edition, first printing. 139 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black lettering. Near Fine with foxing to all edges; small imperfection to bottom edge of front free endpaper else fine. In Very Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn, spine and back panel lightly toned with foxing; staining to "N" in Night on front cover. The acclaimed Holocaust memoir.
Seller Inventory # 140946053
Published by Calder & Boyars, London, 1973
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First British edition. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Tim O'Brien on the title page. [viii], 199 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Cloth slightly sunned along top edge and spine, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, red in spine panel sunned, unclipped. A nice copy of the author's first published work, a memoir of the Vietnam War. Published in the UK the same year as the American first.
Seller Inventory # 140945037
Published by J. B. Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia, 1880
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Second edition, revised. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth decorated in black with titles stamped in gilt. Very Good. Cloth rubbed, worn at spine ends and corners softened. Two previous owner bookplates to front endsheet, previous owner address to first blank, bookseller ticket to rear paste down. A lovely copy of this scarce rifle training manual, written by Theodore Thaddeus Sobieski Laidley, a Civil War veteran, serving post-war as the Colonel of Ordnance at the Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts.
Seller Inventory # 140938137
Published by The Oregonian, Portland, OR, 1941
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Original silver gelatin press image, 9.25" x 7. A very early image of Japanese Americans responding to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the rising anti-Japanese sentiment in the Untied States, with the date of "Dec 15 1941" rubber-stamped to verso. In the days immediately after Japan's December 7, 1941 attack, local defense councils on the West Coast implemented new identification paper requirements for Japanese Americans. Clipping glues to verso of image reads" Anxious to establish their status as United States citizens and escape the laws restricting Japanese nationals, many American-born Japanese Sunday flocked to the Multnomah County courthouse, there they received special identification papers. A portion of the crowd which applied for recognition is shown above answering questions and being fingerprinted by the city and county officers. County officials estimated that 1000 were eligible for papers in Portland." Very Good.
Seller Inventory # 140942902
Published by Acme Newspictures, 1942
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Original silver gelatin press photograph. 7"x9". Captioned on back on mounted label, "Parkville, Mo., American-born Japanese students at Park College, Parkville, Mo., take part in flag-raising ceremony and calmly continue studies there despite protests of citizens of Platte County, Mo., who believe they should be interned. [.]" The college president is shown raising the flag as six students named on the back look on. Very Good with a small amount of label adhesion to the bottom the image.
Seller Inventory # 140942904
Published by War Relocation Authority, Washington, D. C., 1943
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. iv, 16pp. Bound in original stapled wraps. A pamphlet issued by the WRA detailing logistics of the relocation program for internees such as those pertaining to lodging, food, employment, tax liability and health services, etc. Very Good with toning and light creasing, small corner loss to bottom of front cover.
Seller Inventory # 140942905
Published by Orbis, Prague, 1948
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. First edition. Signed by Jan Hajsman on title page in green ink, inscribed in Czech in the year of publication to former owner. 213, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps.Very Good, wraps worn along edges, slight crease to front wrap, small tidemark to rear colophon. A history of the German occupation of Europe during WWII by a Czech journalist and resistance fighter who spent nearly six years in Buchenwald concentration camp (Sept 1939-April 1945). This work and his earlier book Buchenwald were some of the earliest writing about German concentration camps. Scarce signed.
Seller Inventory # 140943669
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1941
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition. Signed by Margery Allingham in ink on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner and dated 1956. 276 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with silver lettering. Very Good, spine lean,a little dust-soil and two small stains to back board, lacking dust jacket. An uncommon signed nonfiction book from the British detective novelist, often referred to as one of the four Queens of Crime. It describes the WWII preparation of Essex for a German invasion.
Seller Inventory # 140946145
Published by D. Appleton-Century Company, New York and London, 1935
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. [vi], 282 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with trivial wear at extremities. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown with slight offsetting at endsheets. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with "39" drawn in blind at center of spine, light chipping to crown; light rubbing to panels with closed, small tears to edges. Offsetting at verso with small tape repair. Jacket presents well. A satirical espionage novel set during WWI. A fast-paced military adventure that follows special agent as he infiltrates the German military at the highest level on behalf of the UK. The author drew on his experiences in France during WWI working in counterintelligence. During the interwar period he wrote prolificly, lectured, and became known as an authority on espionage, even meeting Adolf Hitler at one point. After WWII his novel The Flying Saucer would be the first to use the phrase "flying saucer" in a title; it also predicted the use of a faked "alien invasion" as a government psyop.
Seller Inventory # 140946466
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, 1988
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition. Signed by Christopher Simpson on the half title, inscribed to the former owner on behalf of a third party. xviii, 398 pp. with 16 pages of b/w photos. Bound in publisher's boards with dark navy cloth backstrip lettered in silver. Near Fine with a little offsetting to front board, pages toned with age, in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket, tiny stain on front panel. Quite rare signed. One of the major critical works of American intelligence's deeds during the Cold War, specifically the use of fascists from Germany against the USSR and the Left in Europe. Simpson would win the National Jewish Book Award for this work in 1989.
Seller Inventory # 140945719
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1955
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition, first printing. xii, 346 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red spine lettering. Very Good, wear at tips, former owner's name on title page, a few small stains in text. The rare first impression of a classic account of what happened psychologically, culturally, and emotionally to Germans in the Nazi Party in the lead up to WWII until the war's end. A finalist for the National Book Award of 1956, and often referenced for its revealing portrait of the totalitarian mindset. Still in print from the same publisher, who summarizes it thusly: " Mayer, an American journalist of German descent, traveled to Germany in 1935 in attempt to secure an interview with Hitler. He failed, but what he saw in Berlin chilled him. He quickly determined that Hitler wasn't the person he needed to talk to after all. Nazism, he realized, truly was a mass movement; he needed to talk with the average German. He found ten, and his discussions with them of Nazism, the rise of the Reich, and mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book, an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment, our society, our country are fundamentally immune.".
Seller Inventory # 140943755
Published by James T. Lloyd, New York, 1865
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Third edition. Large lithographed map, hand-colored, folded and bound into brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board. Very Good+ with wear along bottom edges at folds with tiny areas of loss, but generally bright and complete. Paper backing to verso of spine mostly gone, some staining and sunning to cloth. An uncommon large post-Civil War map covering the United States west to the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Indian Territory and East Texas. It is very detailed and filled with information including state and county boundaries, state capitals, wagon roads, turnpikes, railroads, forts, post offices, court houses, and light houses. Warren Heckrotte thinks that though dated 1864, the map "was probably published in 1865 after the Civil War for there is no reference to war such as is found on second edition." Not in Stephenson's Civil War Maps.
Seller Inventory # 140946321
Published by D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1861
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Good. First edition. Bound in red cloth decorated in blind over leather spine stamped in gilt and blind; all edges marbled. Previous owner name stamped in gilt on front cover, in black on text block edge, and written on title page, with another owner's bookplate to front paste down. Good. Rubbing to cloth, wear to leather spine with large chip missing at the head. A scarce instruction course in ordnance and gunnery prepared for cadets of the Untied States Military Academy.
Seller Inventory # 140938209
Published by Acme Newspictures, Los Angeles, 1942
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Original silver gelatin press photograph. 8.5" x 6.75". Among the most chilling images of propaganda, casting the forced detention and relocation of Japanese Americans as a fun trip to summer camp. Press caption on reverse reading "These young Japanese are ready to leave homes in Los Angeles for new homes and new adventure in Manzanar Alien Reception Center, Owens Valley, California. Here the government is providing farm land and living quarters for those having to evacuate strategic defense areas in and near Los Angeles. These young folks will help make way for the thousands that will follow in the next few months." Very Good with some waviness to the image from the caption label glued to the rear, light general wear.
Seller Inventory # 140942901