Search Results: WORLD WAR II from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Mannheim: Pichler & Casse, 1946. Wraps. Good. Unpaginated (approx. 94) Marginalia on two pages, scrapes and blind stamp on title page, gift note on verso to title page, wrap edges creased and chipped with tear at top of spine. Pictorial work with the first section showing Mannheim before World War II with the second section showing the city after the war. Photo captions in English and German. B&w photographs. (8"x8-1/2")

[Los Angeles]: Nisei Veterans' Reunion Committee, 1970. Softcover. Good +. 128p. Pages 33-48 bound in upside down, cover creased and damp stain on bottom front at spine. Created as a souvenir for the reunion with activities, advertisements for local businesses, articles about Japanese American veteran groups, and tributes from politicians and other dignitaries. The book also presents the history of Japanese American men and women's contribution to the military services from World War I to Vietnam, highlighting the 442nd "Go for Broke" Regimental Combat Team. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/good. 276p. Back pages fore edges uncut, endpapers lightly toned, jacket has chips to top of spine and smaller chips and tears to edges. Journalist MacNeil advocates for the United States to take leadership at the end of World War II and details the steps to achieve a lasting peace. (7-7/8"x5-1/2")

New York: Edward B. Marks Music Corp., 1942. Stapled wraps. Very good. 56p. Marks on the table of contents next to the countries of Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico, wraps rubbed with stains. (10-1/2"x7-5/8")

New York: Carnegie Center for International Peace, 1943. Stapled wraps. Very good. [28p.] From the preface: "Vital problems of the postwar settlement and possible solutions of these problems are discussed in the article which follows...a useful contribution on the subject of the political and economic reorganization of the world at the conclusion of the present war." (7-3/4"x5-1/8")

Washington DC: American Association of University Women, 1942. Stapled wraps. Very good. 8p. Includes references. One of a series of periodicals discussing international world events and politics. (8-5/8"x5-5/8")

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1976. First Edition. Cloth w/paper label. Very good/good. Sumrall, Robert F.. [xii], 267p. A few white spots on back cover, jacket corners worn with creased tears to edges. Includes bibliography. B&w line drawings and photographs. (11-1/4"x9-3/8")

New York: International Publishers, 1943. Wraps with stapled text block. Good+. 64p. Former owner's blind stamp on half title page, spine and cover edges sunned, front cover stained. (7-5/8"x5-1/4")

Camp Swift, Texas: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., [1942?]. Stapled wraps. Very good. 16p. Wrap corners lightly worn. Scarce pamphlet containing a brief history and guide to the facilities at Camp Swift located 38 miles from Austin, Texas, with a particular focus on the telephone services offered. Blue-toned illustrations and photographs. (6"x4-1/2")

Washington DC: Marine Corps Historical Center, 1994. Stapled wraps. Good +. [33p.] Name on front, wraps rubbed with spine creased and scraped and corners worn and bottom corner creased. Details of the 1st Marine Division's participation in the Battle of Cape Gloucester, which "was fought in the Pacific theater of World War II between Japanese and Allied Forces on the island of New Britain, Territory of New Guinea, between 26 December 1943 and 16 January 1944." B&w illustrations and photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Miami: U.S. Naval Training Center, 1944-1945. Good +. Weekly periodical published for the personnel stationed at the United States Training Center at Miami, Florida, with information about activities and entertainment, religious services, personal news, anecdotes, and announcements. Issues include: December 1, 1944, Vol. VII, No. 10, stapled sheets with edges chipped and last page detached from staples (10-1/2"x8"); January 3, 1945, Vol. VII, No. 15, stapled sheets with top edge of back sunned (10-1/2"x8"); March 16, 1945, Vol. VII, No. 25, stapled wraps (9"x7")

Tucson, Arizona: Western Archeological & Conservation Center, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1999. Softcover. Very good. xx, 450p. Reprinted with minor corrections, May 2000. Light creasing on bottom front corner. Provides the historical background the forced removal of those with Japanese ancestry during World War II with extensive information on the physical features of all the facilities used by the United States government. The facilities include: the relocation centers of Gila River, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Poston, Rohwer, Topaz, and Tule Lake; the Moab, Utah, and Leupp, Arizona citizen isolations centers; the war relocation authority facilities of Antelope Springs, Utah; and Cow Creek, Death Valley, and Tulelake, California; and the assembly centers in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington states. Includes references cited. B&w illustrations, maps by Ronald J. Beckwith, and photographs. (8-1/2"x11")

S.l.: S.n., [1984]. Softcover. Very good. 48p. Cover edges lightly worn. Souvenir book of the Allied invasion of Normandy at Utah Beach during World War II. B&w photographs and 6 color plates. (9-1/2"x6-3/8")

Washington DC: War Department, 1943. Stapled wraps. Very good. [88p.] Wrap corners chipped. An introductory language course with helpful phases and terms for use by the United States armed forces in Denmark during and following World War II. B&w illustrations. (5-1/4"x4-1/4")

Sydney: Currawong Publishing Co., 1942. Softcover. Very good. Percival, C.H.. 56p. Pages toned, cover corners worn with spine folds scraped. Poems of World War II battles and Kelaher's home country. Australian solder Kelaher was killed in action in 1942 at El Almein, Libya. B&w illustrations. (8-1/4"x5-1/2")

Washington DC: War Department, 1945. Stapled wraps. Good +. 73p. Holes punched on left side to enable placing in a binder, wraps sunned and paint stains on back. Illustrated instructions on electrical wiring. On p.73 - U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. B&w illustrations. (10-1/4"x8")

New York: Carnegie Center for International Peace, 1943. Stapled wraps. Very good. [34p.] From the preface: A reprint of an essay written in 1693 by Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, in which he "proposed the establishment by the European nations of a general diet or parliament and a code of justice to govern the relations of the member States and thus bring about peace." A "seven-point 'declaration of world peace' made public on October 7, 1943," with "three separate preambles describing the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant approaches to the problem and by the list of those who signed the declaration." (7-3/4"x5-1/8")

Yonkers, New York: Eteenpain, [1942]. Stapled Wraps. Good+. 15p. Blind stamp on front, pages and cover edges toned, tear on top of spine fold. Booklet. (7"x5")

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First American Edition. Cloth. Good/good. [323p.] Endpapers toned near hinges, joints have brown spots, jacket edges have chips and tears to edges with 2-1" tears on top back and bottom front edges and spine sunned. Reports on "how the Nazi leaders and the German people facing up to approaching defeat" beginning with the United States entry into the war up to summer 1943, when Pihl was expelled from Berlin. Jacket design by Jean Carlu. (8-1/2"x5-7/8")

Detroit: Kelvinator, [1943?]. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unnumbered (approx. 16p.) Pages toned and corners lightly worn. Collection of 40 prize-winning tips submitted by home economists in a national contest sponsored by Nash-Kelvinator for getting the most out of the ingredients available during the Second World War rationing. Black & brown illustrations. (8"x5-1/2")