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Fight Talk
by General Cable Corporation
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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New York: General Cable Corporation, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A survey of the propaganda and motivational posters designed and published by the General Cable Corporation during the Second World War. The posters are documented with 33 high quality full-page reproductions printed with spot colors (rather than four-color CMYK separations). On the page facing each poster is… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Blue Danube
by Bemelmans, Ludwig
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- Used - Very good
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- Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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New York: Viking Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The Blue Danube can best be described as a gentle satire of Nazi Germany, belonging somewhere on the continuum of works about the Second World War with Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5 and Mel Brooks' The Producers. He treats the horrors in a completely deadpan fashion. Residents are sent… Read more about this item Item Price
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![[California and the Japanese] Kariforunia to nihonjin](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/942/712/1571712942.0.m.jpg)
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[California and the Japanese] Kariforunia to nihonjin
by Ebina, Kazuo
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1943
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- Trade paperback
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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NZ$3,756.24
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Tokyo: Rokko Shuppanbu, 1943. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. A very scarce wartime history of the Japanese in California that argues that the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans was a symptom of the same pervasive anti-Japanese attitudes among Americans that had contributed to the Second World War.
The author, according to Yuji Ichioka writing in… Read more about this item Item Price
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WRA: A Story of Human Conservation
by War Relocation Authority, United States Department of the Interior
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- First Edition
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- 1946
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- Trade paperback
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NZ$1,522.80
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Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. The final report on the relocation, internment, and incarceration of Japanese immigrants and of Japanese Americans following the Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
While the book's chronology begins in January 1942, the chapter called "The Price of Prejudice"… Read more about this item Item Price
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![[Breathing in America During Wartime] Senjika amerika ni kokyusuru](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/887/712/1571712887.0.m.jpg)
[Breathing in America During Wartime] Senjika amerika ni kokyusuru
by Taguchi, Shuji
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- First Edition
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- 1942
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- Trade paperback
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NZ$7,106.40
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Tokyo: Showatosho, 1942. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. In all likelihood, this is the first published book to describe the internment of the Japanese in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Taguchi (1905-1956), a Japanese documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, had been in the United States for several years making newsreels for American studios; he… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Burning Building in a Seaside Village]
by Williams, Garth
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- 1945
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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1945. Ephemera. Fine. Original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing of a seaside village, surrounded by mountains, with smoke rising from the center of the town.
Sheet roughly 8 by 6 inches, drawing 5-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches.
Probably from 1943-1946, when Williams was a staff illustrator for the New Yorker magazine. Only seven of his drawings ever appeared in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Japanese Americans in Hawaii: The Story Behind the Nisei Combat Teams
by Coggins, Cecil Hengy
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1943
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- Pamphlet
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Pasadena, CA: Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, Pasadena Chapter, 1943. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. A reprint of an article from Harper's Magazine by a Navy doctor stationed in Hawaii who describes the response of the Japanese-American community to the attack on Pearl Harbor and to the internment of Japanese Americans on the West… Read more about this item Item Price
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![[Japan and the United States: Young Warriors] Nichibei moshi tatakawaba](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/843/708/1513708843.0.m.jpg)
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[Japan and the United States: Young Warriors] Nichibei moshi tatakawaba
by Tamura, Shoichiro
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- 1929
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Kyoto: Bunsen Shoin, 1929. A book tracing the history of US-Japanese relations focusing on the growth of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and the legal and diplomatic efforts to exclude and discriminate against Japanese immigrants. The author then turns to the growing possibility of a war in the Pacific between the two countries.
The book fits into… Read more about this item Item Price
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Will Japan Fight with America? Nichibei issen ron: Ichimei mushiki no kyofu
by Kawashima, Seijiro
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- First Edition
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- 1925
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- Trade paperback
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Tokyo: Keibunkan, 1925. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. An examination of the likelihood and potential shape of a war in the Pacific between Japan and the United States, with an emphasis on naval and aerial battles. Kawashima focuses more on the Philippines and Guam and less over Hawaii than some writers on the subject. He also considers… Read more about this item Item Price
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South Pacific [Signed, Numbered]
by Michener, James and Michael Hague
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- First Edition
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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NZ$406.08
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A retelling, by Michener, of scenes from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which was based on Michener's book Tales of the South Pacific. Really, for a kids book, that's a bit meta, don't you think? Illustrated in full color by Michael Hague.
This is… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Journey [Signed, Numbered]
by Dunsany, Lord (Edward Plunkett)
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1944
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- Leather bound
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London: MacDonald & Co. Ltd, 1944. First Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Long poems about the Second World War: The Battle of Britain, The Battle of Greece, The Battle of the Mediterranean, Battles Long Ago, and The Battle of the Atlantic.
This is one of 250 specially-bound initialed and numbered copies issued in dark blue pebbled morocco stamped… Read more about this item Item Price
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![OPA Top Legal Prices for the Richmond Area, Effective July 4, 1943 through August 1, 1943 [Poster]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/939/305/1473305939.0.m.jpg)
OPA Top Legal Prices for the Richmond Area, Effective July 4, 1943 through August 1, 1943 [Poster]
by Office of Price Administration
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- 1943
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- Ephemera
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[Washington, DC]: United States Office of Price Administration, 1943. Ephemera. Very good. During the Second World War, posters like this one hung in most of the grocery stores in the United States, but few of them have survived. A key homefront concern of the federal government was runaway inflation, which had posed a significant economic problem during World… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Our Ceiling Prices / To the Proprietor: You May Not Use This Poster... [Poster]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/938/305/1473305938.0.m.jpg)
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Our Ceiling Prices / To the Proprietor: You May Not Use This Poster... [Poster]
by United States of America, Office of Price Administration
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Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Near fine. A blank poster for menus or price lists for price controls during the Second World War. The poster, folded to make four pages, as issued, includes a page of instructions to merchants and restaurant owners; the interior spread provides forty lines for filling out price information. An interesting piece of… Read more about this item Item Price
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![A Message to Our Tenants from the Government: Help Stop Fuel Waste [Poster]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/305/1473305936.0.m.jpg)
A Message to Our Tenants from the Government: Help Stop Fuel Waste [Poster]
by Office of War Information
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- 1943
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- Ephemera
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Washington DC: Office of War Information, 1943. Ephemera. Near fine. OWI poster 12. A poster to encourage apartment-dwellers to conserve energy during the Second World War. Among the exhortations is "Don't demand heat 24 hours a day." The poster aims to reduce homefront petroleum consumption because "Saving fuel saves transportation for America's war effort."
14 by 20… Read more about this item Item Price
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Here's a War Job All America May Be Proud Of
by Cooper, Fred G.
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- Used - Very good
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- 1944
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Washington DC: United States Office of Price Administration, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944. Ephemera. Very good. A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in price-control efforts in order to keep inflation under control. The main graphic shows two women reaching for their baskets of groceries. The woman from 1918-the First World War-finds the basket out… Read more about this item Item Price
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Last Year We Used About 22,000,000 Gallons of Gasoline a Day...
by Office of Price Administration
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- 1943
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- Ephemera
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[Washington, DC]: Office of Price Administration, 1943. Ephemera. Near fine. A homefront poster from the middle of the Second World War explaining the need for gasoline rationing on the East Coast. It reads (ellipses or ... in the original),
"Last year... we used about 22,000,000 gallons of gasoline a day in the gasoline rationed Eastern States alone.… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Rationing Is Sharing with Our Fighters and Neighbors [Poster]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/933/305/1473305933.0.m.jpg)
Rationing Is Sharing with Our Fighters and Neighbors [Poster]
by [Office of Price Administration (OPA)]
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- 1943
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- Ephemera
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1943. Ephemera. Near fine. A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in the federal efforts to ration scarce foodstuffs and goods. The text is presented in fields of red, white, and blue.
22 by 28 inches. O.P.A. Poster 1943-O-518863. A near fine copy, folded as issued. Minor splits at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Gasoline and Tires Are Fighting ... with Them! Share Your Car
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Ephemera. Near fine. A small homefront poster from the Second World War promoting ride sharing and, by extension, conserving gasoline and rubber, the natural supplies of which had mostly been seized by the Japanese army.
8-3/8 by 10-15/16 inches. Near fine to fine. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction. Item Price
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New Air Raid Warning System
by Office of Civilian Defense
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- Used - Very good
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- 1943
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Ephemera. Very good. A homefront poster for the East Coast of the United States during the Second World War. The poster explains three types of air raid warnings, plus the all-clear signal. The system alerts residents if enemy bombers are approaching, if bombing is immenent, and when enemy planes have left… Read more about this item Item Price
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Official Notice to Gasoline Consumers: When You Purchase Gasoline the Service Station Attendant Must..
by Office of Price Administration
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- 1943
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Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. A homefront poster from the Second World War, issued as part of a government effort to eliminate the black market for gasoline. The poster, printed in red and blue on off-white paper, lists eight actions a gas station attendant must take to ensure that the customer's ration card is valid and used… Read more about this item Item Price
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