WW2 from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. First Printing, first state, with extraneous line at the top of p.270 struck-through by Kosinski himself, using the same pen he used to write the inscription. Octavo (21cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and author's name in blind on front panel; brown topstain; dustjacket; [xii],272,[4]pp. Lengthily inscribed by… Read more about this item

[Decatur IL: ca 1944-45]. A compact and substantial archive, comprised of 30 signed original drawings, one printed poster, and a large printed sample-book of wartime production advertisements for the Caterpillar Military Engine Company (a wartime subsidiary of the Caterpillar Tractor Company) of Decatur, Illinois. Drawings are on art board, in pen-and-ink (but one, a pencil sketch) measuring about 13"… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2012-2014. Third (The First World War, 2014) and Second Printings (The Second World War, 2012). Four octavo volumes housed in two slipcases (25cm); green and blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in silver, hunter green, and navy blue on spines and front covers; publisher's original pictorial paper-covered slipcases; xxxviii,345,[1]; xx,[347]-708,[2]; xliv,453,[7]; xxxiv,[455]-972pp;… Read more about this item

New York: Hermitage House, 1954. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's blue cloth spine over yellow cloth covered boards, titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. 206pp. Bumping to spine ends, some light soiling and discoloration of the cloth in some areas and some minor sunning to the spine, in a bright pictorial dustjacket with some marginal wear and creasing… Read more about this item

Fort Barrancas, FL, 1943. Quarto (28cm). Side-stapled, illustrated paper wraps; 10pp. Printed by mimeograph. Clean, complete, and sound - a Very Good or better copy. Single issue of this uncommon post newspaper, published by and for enlisted men at Fort Barrancas, Florida during the Second World War. Features a terrific cover illustration by Cpl. Frank Carrano, of… Read more about this item

New York: New International Publishing Company, 1946. 12mo. Card wrappers; 182pp. Clean, straight and tight - a Near Fine copy. A systematic treatise, directed to a non-theoretical working-class audience, on the principles of Socialism. Essentially issued as a recruiting booklet for Shachtman's third-camp Trotskyist organization, The Workers Party, founded in 1940; but the book turned out to… Read more about this item

Washington DC: For The Author, 1957. First Edition. Quarto. 27cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled and ruled in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 621pp. Very light wear and scuffing to edges of cloth, strong and bright, in a clean example of the dustjacketwith some creasing and wear to extremities, shallow chipping and loss to head of mildly… Read more about this item

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Lacking dustjacket. 367pp. Clean and bright, a little bumped to extremities and creased to the spine, a very good, handsome and durable copy. Internally clean. Map endpapers showing Wake, Midway and The Solomon islands. Inscribed to the half title by… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth covered boards titled in black and red on the spine; dustjacket by Thomas S. Ruzicka; 480pp.; corners and spine ends lightly pushed; minor rubbing to the lower edge of the boards; mild toning inside covers; Very Good+. The dustjacket is price-clipped at the upper and lower front… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: Lino Palacio, 1982. First Edition. First Edition. (28cm.); Foreword by Lino Palacio. Wrappers in pink black and white; unpaginated; This book is in Near Fine condition with a few ink marks on the cover and former owner's inscription on ffep.

Basel: Universum-Buecherei, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 32pp. Publisher's catalog inside rear cover. Front cover illustration by Frans Masereel; rear cover illustratin by Grula Zilzer. Slight soil to wrapper edges and a bit of wear to covers, but generally clean and unmarked; Very Good. or better Scarce volume of anti-Fascist essays by German writers-in-exile including… Read more about this item

Basel: Universum-Buecherei, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 32pp. Publisher's catalog inside rear cover. Front cover illustration by Frans Masereel; rear cover illustratin by Grula Zilzer. Small chips and moderate soil to wrapper edges; slight waviness to text fore edge, but generally clean and unmarked; complete, sound and about Very Good. Scarce volume of anti-Fascist essays… Read more about this item

New York: Workers Library, 1939. First Edition. Slim octavo (19cm); original printed card wrpapers, stapled; 16pp. A Fine copy. "A call for the unity of American labor; for the unity of all progressives in the democratic front for social and national security; and for a united stand by the U.S. and the USSR, the only two democracies that stand… Read more about this item

N.p., n.d. [Buda, IL: Privately Printed, 1946]. Octavo. Original leeather-grained cloth, titled in gilt on cover; 101pp; 6 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Amateur binding has cracked at front joint; moderate wear and soil; complete and Good. Ex-libris Angus MacLean Thuerner, the noted CIA official and long-time resident of Middleburg, Virginia, with his inscription inside front cover: "Presented… Read more about this item

New York: The Greystone Press, 1951. Octavo (21cm). Blue-green cloth stamped in gilt, in yellow pictorial jacket; 320pp; black and white plates. Bookplate and stamp of George and Louise Hawse. Light shelfwear and dust, but generally clean and sound: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $3.50), rubbed and spine-sunned, with small perforation at lower rear spine fold: Very Good. Account… Read more about this item

Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1947. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; 101,[1]pp; frontispiece portrait. Inscribed by the author to Helen Whitaker on front free endpaper. Sound and clean, though with old dampstain to lower left corner: around Very Good. Henry, Jr. was killed in WWII. [63575].

N.p.: Women's Army Corps Veterans Association (WAC Vets), 1983. First Edition. Octavo. Decoratively gilt-stamped green card wrappers (softcover); 288pp. Mild external rubbing, but a well-preserved, Very Good or better copy, free of markings or notable wear. Anecdotes and vignettes by WAC veterans of WW2.

San Antonio: Universal Bookbindery, 2004. Second printing. Octavo (24cm). Grey cloth titled in gilt, in pictorial dust jacket; [ii],[i]-xx 21-322pp; black and white illustrations. Signed "All the best, 'Tex' Hil" on front free endpaper. Lightly tapped at spine ends, else Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, else Near Fine. With a facsimile of the letter Hill was sent by George W.… Read more about this item

Washington DC: U.S. Marine Corps, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (27cm). Green pictorial glazed paper-covered boards; viii,186pp; black and white illustrations, folding maps. Slight wear to extremities, mild foxing to endleaves, else Very Good. [63399].

Washington DC: U.S. Marine Corps, 1954. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Red-orange glazed paper pictorial boards;vi,253,[1]pp; black and white illustrations, color folding maps at rear. Lightly rubbed with mild dustsoil to rear cover and final leaf, else clean and Very Good.