Search Results: World War I from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Hannover: ICEF / International Federation of Chemical, Energy and General Workers' Unions, 1987. Paperback. 87p., illustrated with photoportraits, documents in facsimile and tables, softbound in glossy 8x6 inch covers decorated with a wraparound photo of the 1907 Congress in Stuttgart; a sound, clean, unmarked copy.

Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, 1916. hardcover. ix., 319p., bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, small rubberstamp on front free endpaper, board corners rubbed, pages evenly toned, else in very good condition.

San Francisco: Daniels & Wilson Incorporated, Music Publishers, 1918. Pamphlet. 3p., 13.5x10.5 inch decorated wraps (blue and yellow Europeans, he in uniform, she in leis and grass skirt), quite edgeworn with several short closed tears. The Wasteland, filtered through American demobilization and Pacific paradise, Sweeney, where are you. Lyric warns against French engtanglement: "So when you see a lit-tle, naugh-ty, French-y maid-en near you, Be sure to look away" --rhymes "cheer you

New York: Macmillan Company, 1933. Hardcover. 558p., first edition, original blue cloth boards with titling in gilt; spine slightly sun-faded, corners a bit bumped, fore-edge has some minor foxing, no dust jacket, some minor wear on back board, else in very good condition.

New York: American Russian Institute, 1939. Paperback. 149p. [1]p., advertisements, paperback journal, 5.5x8.5 inches; small scratch on top edge of front wrapper, else in very good condition.

Cleveland: The City Club of Cleveland, 1917. Pamphlet. 15p., wraps slightly edge worn and browned else very good condition, 5.5x8.5 inches.

Boston: The Association to Abolish War, 1917. Pamphlet. Small four panel promotional brochure, 3.25x5.75 inches, very good condition. Oppose to preparedness. The Association was chaired by Charles F. Dole. at the time a well known Unitarian minister.

Vienna: Der Deutsche Vortrupp-Bund, [191-]. Poster. 12.5x16.5 inch poster, creased from having been folded into quarters, some uneven toning, otherwise very good. Text within the outline of a glass. Year "1914 or 15" penciled in upper left corner, but this could have been a previous owner's guess. In the context of the war, argues that the use of potatoes, grain, and fruit to brew alcoholic drinks is wasteful and can lead to malnutrition, removing food from people's tables and sabotaging the war effort. Contact information for various teetotaling organizations in Austria is provided near the bottom. The Vortrupp-Bund advocated abstinence from alcohol and tobacco even in peacetime, all the more so during the war.

Evanston, IL: the auhtor, 1970. 225, 81p., has a few photographs (author a good-looking, serious chap), copyshop wraps measuring 11x8.5 inches. One encounters an ugly stain on the cover penetrating to the first few pages, backstrip has begun to peel off, a reading copy only. Sections on his time at Harvard, his chess games, and much more; interesting, interested, active man without being a celebrity.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Hardcover. xvi, 335p., illustrated with a period photo section on unglazed stock and many line drawings; first American edition, hardbound in cloth boards and dust jacket. Jacket a little edgeworn, spine panel mildly sunned, a clean, sound, very good copy.

Boston: constructed by the author, 1919. Ephemera. Pp.1-92 are covered with neatly clipped and laid-down news stories from The Boston Traveller daily, in which Brown had a regular column --or plenty of exposure at any rate. Pieces run consecutively January into June. The album is of quality manufacture with a leather spine tooled gilt, alphabetical tabs preceeding the numbered pages (140 all told), and a careful owner with a pot of good glue and considerable dexterity. The backstrip leather is mildly abraded along joints, a handwritten label is taped to cover, and front endsheet is very foxed. A generally sound clean item that could have been put together clumsily. Several columns are devoted to the question of trans-Atlantic flight; "shouldn't be more dangerous than wartime combat" is Brown's summation. Contents a melange of post-war advances in aerial weaponry, grim aerial photos (of damage at Verdun, etc.), increase of speed, passenger carriage, on & on. Transatlantic flight imagined. Aircraft… Read More

Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1943. hardcover. maroon cloth boards stamped in fading gilt, corners bumped, lacking dustjacket, bookplate on paste-down endpapr, boards a tad rubbed, else in very good condition. The music composer and conductor,

New York: George H. Doran, 1917. 12p., 5x7.25 inches, stapled cream wraps with dust and dog-ears. Fair to good copy. Comparison of the diplomatic and military circumstances of Belgium and Greece in the First World War.

Oakland: PM Press, 2014. Paperback. 233p., paperback, as new.

Brooklyn: The Language Printery, 1915. Pamphlet. 36, [i]p., stapled wraps, 4.75x6 inches, wraps worn, soiled, and beginning to come loose from pages else good condition with stamp of Caspar, Kruger, Dory Company booksellers on front wrap. Thaumazo was a pseudonym for Frederick Loevius. On World War I, Russia, and the Balkans.

Brooklyn: The Language Printery, 1915. Pamphlet. 36, [i]p., stapled wraps, 4.75x6 inches, wraps creased with a stain on the rear wrap else good condition. Thaumazo was a pseudonym for Frederick Loevius. On World War I, Russia, and the Balkans.

Bordeaux: Imprimerie G. Delmas [for the Bulletin / M. Fournol], 1914. 16p. each, identical formatting, presswork on coated alkaline paperstock featuring several b&w photoillustrations (destroyed architecture, statuary) and facsimiles with, laid in, a small brochure furnished with a to-be-posted / copied / distributed notice on non-alkaline stock. Numbers 1 and 3 are very well-preserved and bearing a few pencilled dealer's notes, while no.2 (the item with small brochure) is mis-folded, and badly torn and chipped along its spinefold (luckily no loss of text). The three as a small lot.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1972. Hardcover. Second impression: 240p., no illustrations, hardbound in light blue papered boards gilt and dust jacket. The dust jacket bears a tiny (inconspicuous) nick to rear panel, item as a whole is else perfectly sound, clean and unmarked.

San Francisco: the congress, 1975. Pamphlet. 15p., typewritten text under a professionally printed cover-leaf, Jemnitz's presentation of the lecture he gave. The neat typewriting doubtless courtesy of the translator, Paul Felix. Softbound, a pamphlet in 8x5.5 inch wraps, covers foxed/toned with some handling soil and light staining. As is, a serviceable exemplar.

West Point NY: Department of Military Art and Engineering, 1942. Staplebound collection of battle charts under plain printed 9x6 inch grey cover sheets, a teaching aid possibly drawn from larger sources; maps are captioned, no running text, captions both printed and typewritten. Minimalist presentation, titling only, with the author's name per an OCLC holding. Covers a bit foxed and dust-soiled, small splash stain at the heel, staples touched with rust; a good (good-only) copy. Printed recto only with versos blank, Unpaginated, about 25 or 30 maps. The bulk of the troop movement plats concern Napoleonic fighting, with shorter sections on the American Civil War and World War One.