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And They Thought This War Was the Last One

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[World War I]. Anonymous.
A WAR NURSE'S DIARY. Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital.
$145

Spanish-American War Fever

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Unidentified Author
1898 – Letter following the explosion of the Battleship Maine from a mother to her daughter reassuring her that if Spaniards come to Philadelphia, “we will give them a warm reception”, List price has been discounted for this show.
$150

Civil War Port Royal

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$100 or less
Alonzo D. Finch
Union Private Writes Brother About Port Royal Aboard U.S. Steamer Dawn
$85

Luzon, Phillippines

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$100 or less
Arthur Bird
American Soldier In Philippines As Part Of Peace Keeping Force, Concerned About Treatment Of Horses
$75
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CIVIL WAR – 1864 STATE OF NEW YORK DRAFT NOTICE
$145

Civil War Memorial

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Clark, Rufus W
The Heroes of Albany, A Memorial of the Patriot-Martyrs of the City and County of Albany, Who Sacrificed Their Lives During the Late War in Defense of Our Nation, 1861-1865
$175
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CABINET CARD  - FITZHUGH LEE – CIVIL WAR AND SPANISH AMERICAN  WAR GENERAL
$275

1890s Sausalito Marin California Military Station

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$100 or less
Military Station
Marin County California Military Photo, San Francisco Bay Sausalito California
$75

Torpedos?

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$100 or less
James Eglinton Montgomery
Our Admiral's Flag Abroad: The Cruise of Admiral D. G. Farragut, Commanding the European Squadron in 1867-68, in the Flag-Ship Franklin
SOLD
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WWII VICTORY Collage w/ African American Seabees Photo
$600

1945 Restricted Report, Japanese in Philippines

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$100 or less
Summary of Interrogations of General Yamashita and Other Responsible Commanders and Staff Officers
SOLD

Devastation in Northern Ireland, 1941

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$100 or less
[BELFAST TELEGRAPH]
Photographs of the Belfast Blitz
$100
c1920 U.S.S. Huron Asiatic Fleet Siberia China Pacific Tour Photo Album
$2500
$100 or less
Mysterious German Memo Book-Diary of Gertrud Spaethe: WWII Era 1943
$65

San Francisco Nathaniel Curry & Bro Sharp's Guns

Gun Dealer Agent for The Sharp's Rifle Co. Bridgeport CT
June 23 1880 To Military Co. E. 3rd Inft 2 Brig, Guns Illustrated billhead Springfield Musket
$200

San Francisco CA Presidio Reservation Tents Photo

W.C. Billington - Photographer
Military Buildings Water Front - Panorama View Looking Toward Marin County - San Francisco Bay, 1890s Boudoir Mount Photo California
$150

NEW MEXICO 1929 YEARBOOK

Kirkpatrick, W. Noble, editor
The Bronco for 1929., The Annual of the Regiment of Cadets of the New Mexico Military Institute
$150
Archive of 18 Original Aviation Drawings of Military Aircraft Modified with Hydro-Lift Skis And Floating Runways
$475

SUKASHI TSUBA

Sasano, Masayuki & Richard L. Gage
Early Japanese Sword Guards, Sukashi Tsuba
$125
$100 or less
3 Cards for plane identification during WWII
$75

Civil War Multi-Color Birds Eye View

$100 or less
Stationer
1860s Columbia College and Carver Barracks Hospitals, Illustrated Military Camp - Wagons - Camp Sites - Soldiers
$75

studio montespecchio

Banned and burnt by the Nazis in the early thirties: Fackelreiter-Verlag - 6 of the 16 titles,
„Frontsoldaten“, „Trommelfeuer. Symphonie der Kriegs-Toten“, „Fronterinnerungen eines Pferdes“, „Vier von der Infanterie. Ihre letzten Tage an der Westfront“, „Wahneuropa 1934“, „Regiment Reichstag“
SOLD

EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE FIRST UK EDITION

Forester, C. S.
A SHIP OF THE LINE.
$3500

Union Prisoners

Narrative of Privations and sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the hands of the Rebel Authorities
$3000

Vietnam Protest

David Douglas Duncan
I Protest!
$125

WW2 Japanese Surrender Atomic Bomb 125 Photo Album

United States Soldier
Mostly Japan with few Philippines Beer Hall, Hiroshima Japan After Atomic Bomb, General Mac Arthur at Atugi, Shigemitsu Surrender & Terms, Start of rehab for Tokyo 5 Large Photo's, Japanese General Yamashita & Staff, President Eisenhower Greet Soldiers ,Lt. Gen. Kawabe comes to seek Peace Photo's
$1100

McCarthyism in the Schools

$100 or less
Colgrove, Kenneth
Democracy versus Communism series, 1961, Second Edition
$50
[WWII] WWII Illustrated Letter Archive Arthur J. Gilmore CARTOONIST Fort Knox PHILLIPINES
$350

Civil War interest

Soldiers' Portable Camp Writing Case advertisment & envelope
SOLD

Album & French Hospital Nurses & Staff WWII France

WWII Photographic Album of French Nurses and Hospital Staff during Alsace Campaign 1944-45
$400

WW2 Navy Doctor's Archive Documants & Photos

Dr William Wellington Stevenson
U S Navy WW II Sailor Archive – Lt Commander Dr William Wellington Stevenson w/ Sec Navy Signed Documents
$350

Revolutionary War Pay

Samuel Stoddard
[War-Date] Revolutionary War Soldier Stoddard, Served In Col. Wyllys Regiment, Seeks Pay For Service
$325

Revolutionary War Provisions For 12th Virginia

William Porter
Revolutionary War Patriot Seeks Provisions From Military Stores Commissary William Porter
$395

Revolutionary War Intelligence Delivered On Horse

General Silliman
Express Rider Trip Ordered By Gen. Silliman, Who Had Been Captured By British
$495

Gettysburg: "Romance In Verse"

Clyde Chester Balston
Early 20th Century Typescript Details Battle Of Gettysburg, Lee's And Hooker's Movements -- Prose And Poetry
$450

Nursing In The Confederacy

Elizabeth Smith Trueheart
Sister Of Confederate Congressman Offers Nursing Services To Alabama Gov. Moore: "Woman's Mission Is To Soothe"
$795

Texas Secession

Trenton A. Patillo
Confederate Newspaper Pioneer Acted As Receiver In Lawsuit Gone Awry Due To Texas Secession Convention
$450

Southern Traitors

Tobias Finkbine
Methodist Minister Compliments Unionist For Significant Civil War Missouri Speech: Southern Traitors Plunged America Into Horrors Of War
$395

Sherman's March

Albert Whitley
Sherman's March From Goldsboro To Raleigh, Capture Of Raleigh, Insane Asylum Filled
$450

Confederacy Georgetown, SC

W.W. SHACKELFORD
Confederate Forage Master Sends Supplies From Georgetown, South Carolina, To Troops; Asks Corn To Be Replaced
$195

Civil War Union Surrender

E.D. Townsend
Colonel Ford's Abandonment Of Maryland Heights Forced Major Union Surrender To Stonewall Jackson's Confederate Troops
$495

CIVIL WAR DISABLED VETERAN FUND-RAISING BROADSIDE

$100 or less
"CRIPPLED SOLDIER'S SONG" - SMALL BROADSIDE USED as a FUND-RAISER for SOLDIERS WOUNDED in the CIVIL WAR
$80

Guns Are Us

Report of the Board of Officers, appointed by Special Orders No. 108, A.G.O., May 31, 1873, on Gatling Guns of Large Caliber for Flank-Defense
$450

Amazing Detail of Real Seagoing Life!

Trip of the S.M.S. Ship Charlotte 1907-1908, Travel Album illustrated with 185 Real Photographs
SOLD
Archive of 80 WWII Photographs in the Pacific Theater: Philippines and New Guinea
SOLD

Not Your Ordinary Seuss

THIS IS ANN Dr. Seuss Comic WWII Malaria Book 1943 True 1st Edition 1st Printing
SOLD
De Re Militari, 1670 Book on Roman Military Warfare by Flavius Vegetius Renatus
SOLD

Civil War Letters with Description of Hospital

Empie, Garret A.
Collection of Eight Manuscript Letters Signed from Union Soldier G. A. Empie
$650

Union Defeat at First Manassas (Bull Run)

John Owen Lashley
1861 – An exceptionally detailed letter from a Confederate soldier regarding the defeat of the Union Army at the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), List price has been discounted for this show.
$1500

Pop-Up Senate Campaign Ad

$100 or less
Colonel Martha McSally
2018 –Senate campaign advertising card in support of the first woman to fly a combat mission for the United States features a pop-up A-10 “Warthog”, List price has been discounted for this show.
$90

Admiral William D. Leahy Correspondence

Admiral William D. Leahy
1943-1945 – Collection of letters documenting the assistance provided by Admiral William D. Leahy, “the second most powerful man in the world,” to boost the career of a long-time journalist friend, List price has been discounted for this show.
$1250

WITH FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF NEWLY-OCCUPIED OKINAWA

[U.S.S. Hyades]
Collection of Publications Printed Aboard the U.S.S. Hyades (AF-28) Pacific Theatre 1944-45
$450

Mexican Punitive Expedition Scrapbook

George E. Westman
1916-1918 – Scrapbook and panoramic unit photo kept by a trooper in the 13th Cavalry after it repulsed Pancho Villa’s murderous surprise attack on Coumbus, New Mexico in the middle of the night, List price has been discounted for this show.
$2100

Civil War Next-of-Kin Letter

Joel F. Crocke
1865 – Letter from a Union soldier to the wife of a friend informing her of the circumstances of her husband’s death, List price has been discounted for this show.
$225

Multi-Color Map Lettersheet

Charles Magnus
Circa 1864– Multi-Color Charles Magnus Bird's-Eye Map Lettersheet with an illustration of the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument, List price has been discounted for this show.
$225

A Militia Unit Enters the Confederate Army

"Willie"
1861 – An early soldier’s letter describing the bittersweet march through his hometown as his unit left to muster into service and the inedibility of bread provided by the camp kitchen, List price has been discounted for this show.
SOLD

Battle of New Orleans Cavalry Report

Major Thomas Hind
1815 – Morning Report for a Cavalry Squadron at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, List price has been discounted for this show.
$1000

CDV - Jefferson Davis Captured in Drag

Francis / Hacker
1865 – A carte-de-visite (cdv) photo of a realistic drawing of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis by the 4th Michigan Cavalry while trying to escape Richmond in women’s clothing, List price has been discounted for this show.
$225

Battle Line Conversations between Enemies

Sergeant Aaron Crouch
1864 – Letter from a Union sergeant on the battle lines near Petersburg describing mortar bombardments how Northern and Southern troops would call cease-fires so they could have friendly conversations, List price has been discounted for this show.
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Two Weeks Destroying Southern Railroads

A. [Aaron] Crouch
1863 – Letter from a New York soldier reporting that he had spent two weeks destroying Virginia railroad tracks and relating a ‘friendly-fire’ incident caused by drunken officers, List price has been discounted for this show.
SOLD

Civil War Kanawah Campaign Letter

S. B. Robinson
1862 – A Union soldier’s letter describing the short and important, but little-remembered, Confederate Kanawha Valley campaign that drove the Northern Army out of western Virginia and into Ohio, List price has been discounted for this show.
$225

Civil War letter

1862 letter regarding officer's baggage
$250
WW I GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR CAMP FOR RUSSIANS – ALBUM - 90 PHOTOGRAPHS
$750

Cavalry Manual

F. de Brack
Pocket Manual for Cavalrymen
$125

Revolutionary War

Mary Louise Cresap Stevenson
Life of Col. Thomas Cresap of Western Maryland
$175
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR ARCHIVE – ELMER GREENLEAF  - CO. H 1ST MONTANA INF
$575

IMPORTANT MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR HISTORY

John Frost
The War and its Warriors; Comprising a Complete History of all the Operations of the American Armies in Mexico, First Edition
$150

World War I Soldier Art

$100 or less
A soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army
Fanciful hand-drawn scene of fighting in the South Tyrol / Alto Adige., Unique.
$85
CABINET CARD – HORATIO COLLINS KING – CIVIL WAR MEDAL OF HONOR
$295
DAGUERREOTYPE – 1/6 PL. ANTEBELLUM MILITIA – SHAKO - RIFLE
$895
Vintage Paper Civil Defense Warning Poster from New Jersey
$187
$100 or less
1951 US Air Force Ground Observers Guide- With Airplane Silhouettes
$55
$100 or less
1942 WWII US Guidebook on Bombs- Bomb Reconnaissance
$72
1944 WWII French Book Titled "Paris Under the Boot of the Nazis" Written In French *
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CDV – CIVIL WAR – SIGNED LT COL GEORGE SPALDING-18th MICH
$750
LOT OF TWO LARGE PANORAMIC PHOTOS  - 1913  TEXAS CITY ARMY CAMP - BORDER WAR RELATED
$450
MEXICAN WAR – FIVE PAGE DETAILED LETTER WITH CONTENT – SALTILLO MEXICO 1847
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LEXINGTON in OLD VIRGINIA - Author Signed

$100 or less
Henry Boley
1936 - Lexington in Old Virginia, Home of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute
$75

Humiston, 'Children of the Battlefield'

Civil War: Sgt. Amos Humiston & 'Children of the Battlefield' CDVs
$400

Life and Career of Pawnee Scout Luther North

North, Luther
[Pawnee Scout] Archive of Captain Luther North Correspondence
$1250

Inventor of Baseball or Pure Mythology?

$100 or less
Townsend, E.D.
[Abner Doubleday][Nathaniel P. Banks] General Orders No. 135--Mustering Out Generals After the Civil War, August 24, 1865
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Edith Wharton, World War I

$100 or less
Edith Wharton
Report of Edith Wharton's War Charities in France
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John Brown's Raid

$100 or less
Lucy Johnston Ambler
When Tidewater Invaded the Valley, A Tribute to the Men of Lower Virginia in the Days of The John Brown Raid
$75

The Musketeers - 29th Inf. Division - World War I

$100 or less
Edley Craighill
The Musketeers, The story of an Infantry Company raised in Lynchburg, Virginia serving through the end of the Great War
$100

Women at War

Garwood, Sylvia (Pte. Auxiliary Territorial Service)
Photograph Album Female Soldier Second World War
$650

Grabhorn Press, Fighting for Democracy

Hu Shih
China, Too, Is Fighting to Defend a Way of Life: An Address by Dr. Hu Shih, Ambassador of the Republic of China to the United States of America
$225
1940- 24 Booklets- Aeronautics A Complete Guide to Civil And Military Flying
$163
1945 WWII Book of WWII Posters Made by General Cable Corp -Numbered Edition
$258

1860 - Edmund Ruffin - Anticipations of the Future

Edmund Ruffin
Anticipations of the Future to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time, In the Form of Extracts of Letters from an English Resident in the United States, to the London Times, from 1864 to 1870.
$750

Revolutionary War

$100 or less
M. H. Volume
The Hessian Prisoners in the American War of Independence and their Life in Captivity
$100

Hoorah!!

[WWII Poster].
BE A MARINE... Free a Marine to Fight. U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve.
$995
Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati
$125
$100 or less
Department of the Army
Personal Conduct for the Soldier
$75

Utah's Role in the Civil War

J.P.Taylor
[Brigham Young] Manuscript Letter from J.P. Taylor, Office Commissary General of Subsistence to Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War Recommending Payments for Utah Militia Feb. 1863
SOLD
$100 or less
1940's WWII Hitler and Mussolini Postcard
$92
Original Large 1943 WWII Poster- Soldier in Tank- Time Saved on Your Job
$500
5 Original Photographs of WWII Airplane Pinup Girl Nose Art
$258
Share 1942 WWII 7th War Loan Trolly Sign- The War is Not Over Until He Says So
$155
1942 WWII US Marines Recruitment Poster- Let's Go Get Em!- Marines in Jungle
$815
$100 or less
1940's WWII Map Titled "Occupation Map of Germany" Very Detailed w/ Diary of the War *
SOLD
$100 or less
1945 WWII US Military Victory Magazine- Lots of Great Photos
$57
Vintage Rare 1940's WWII Factory Safety Poster Skull w/ Pilots Helmet Hidden Dangers
$3750

WORLD WAR II HOSPITAL TRAINING

A. Alfred Solomon, M.D
1942 Correspondence from an Army Doctor in OCS Training to His Wife
$150

Mexican Border War

The Third Oregon Infantry on the Mexican Border, Mobilized Under the President's Call on June 18, 1916
SOLD

1943 - The AMPHIBS - Camp Bradford - Norfolk, VA

$100 or less
Camp Bradford
1943 - The AMPHIBS - Norfolk, VA, Amphibious Training Command United States Atlantic Fleet
$55

Personal Book from a Veteran of Pickett's Charge

$100 or less
Major Robert Stiles
Four Years Under Marse Robert, A Book from the Personal Library of S.W. Paulett of Farmville, Virginia and inscribed by Him a Member of Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment, Hunton's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, A.N.V.
$75

Fort Concho

THE DANCING WAS LIVELY. FORT CONCHO
$125

Early 1960s CIVIL AIR PATROL Scrapbook Norfolk, VA

James A. Hales, C.A.P.
Civil Air Patrol - Norfolk, VA - Scrapbook with Photos of Airplanes, Recruits, Parades, etc. Circa 1961-1965, Compiled by Norfolk, Virginia C.A.P. Commander James A. Hales
$250

1898 Spanish-American War Letter Fairfax, Virginia

$100 or less
Private J.W.T. Woodson - Company M, 3rd Va Inf. Regt. U.S.V.
1898 - Spanish-American War Letter from Camp Alger in Dunn Loring, Fairfax County, Virginia, A Letter Home to his Sweetheart "Ida" in Charlotte County, Virginia that Includes Startling Content.
$95

Indian Hostilities

$100 or less
CLAIMS GROWING OUT OF INDIAN HOSTILITIES IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON.
$65

The 112Th Regiment Of Illinois Volunteer Infantry

History Of The 112Th Regiment Of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, In The Great War Of The Rebellion, 1862-1865
$545

Nelson Miles - Serving The Republic

SERVING THE REPUBLIC. MEMOIRS OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY LIFE OF NELSON A. MILES, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, UNITED STATES ARMY
$275

Connecticut Militia Records - 1835-1846

Connecticut Militia Records - 1835-1846
$1595

The Anglo American

$100 or less
THE ANGLO AMERICAN. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1845
$85

Lieut. Elisha Nye Peirce Civil War Archive

Lieut. Elisha Nye Peirce Civil War Archive
$6895

Daily Richmond Examiner - March 28, 1864

Daily Richmond Examiner - March 28, 1864
$195

The Siege of Fort Erie

The Siege of Fort Erie
$295

1898 Letter to Spanish American War

"Donald" an Alpha Delta Phi fraternity brother
Amhert College news to classmate at war, 1st U.S. Vol. Engineers, Military Camp No. 1, Porto Rico
$125

Partisan Life With Col. John S. Mosby

Partisan Life With Col. John S. Mosby
$445

New York Times - Civil War

New York Times - October 7, 1862 - Second Battle On Hatchie River
$125

Civil War - Tennessee

The Philadelphia Inquirer - February 10, 1862 - The War In Tennessee
$145

The Civil War - 52nd North Carolina

The Civil War - The Fighting Boys - Company "K" of the 52nd NC
$495

Civil War Letter - The 5th Ma.

North Carolina Letter Describing Battles By a Soldier In The 5th MA.
$375

Military fortification and engineering textbook

Text Book of Fortification and Military Engineering, for Use at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Part I.
$250