Advanced Demolitions Techniques for light infantry leaders
Boulder CO: Paladin Press, 1990. vii, 39p., 5.5x8.5 inches, line illustrations in the text, staplebound plain printed booklet, a fine copy. More
Cat.No: 157479
Weaponry
Att Illustrera - Stormakten. Den svenska Fortifikationens bilder 1654-1719
[Helsinki]: Karolinska Forbundets Arsbok, 1999. Hardcover. 144p., text is Finnish-only; numerous period images, plans and elevations of forts and general military subjects, color wherever called for (beautiful reproductions), hardbound in oblong 9x10.5 inch decorated white boards. The casebinding is a little handled, slightly crimped spine rims and so forth, while..... More
Cat.No: 279818
Die Bundeswehr in der NATO / The Bundeswehr in NATO presseinformation
Bonn: [state press of Germany], 1961. Press packet in 12x8 inch color cardstock folder containing translated-to-English statements in corner-stapled fascicles, some quite substantial, and glossy from-the-negative photos. Find 7 speeches by Franz Josef Strauss FDR minister of defence, 10 military reports, and ten or so 9.5x7 inch photographs. Several reports..... More
Cat.No: 178872
Disarmament. United Nations No. 2 (1956). VERBATIM RECORDS of the Meetings of the Second Session of the Sub-Committee of the United Nations Disarmament Commission held at Lancaster House, London March 22 - April 6, 1955 (31st-40th Meetings) [In continuation of United Nations No. 1 (1956) Cmd. 9648]
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956. Paperback. Pp.153-410, softbound in 9.5x6 inch plain printed grey-blue wraps. Very good copy: entirely sound, clean and unmarked, with just a hint of handling to covers. More
Cat.No: 257842
Here comes the ABM
[New Haven]: Science Action Group, Yale University, [1969]. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, some toning. Opposes development of an antiballistic missile system as increasing the risk of war. More
Cat.No: 250680
Hiroshima Day - ABM Day [handbill]
Voluntown, CT: New England Committee for Nonviolent Action, [1969]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, paper toned. Opposes development of an antiballistic missile system; notes the irony of the ABM vote taking place on August 6th. More
Cat.No: 250681
In South Vietnam, U. S. biggest operation foiled (February - April 1967)
Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1967. 45p., staplebound pamphlet, map, 5x7.5 inches, light handling wear. On the Tayninh operation. More
Cat.No: 161269
In South Vietnam, U. S. biggest operation foiled (February - April 1967)
Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1967. 45p., staplebound pamphlet, map, 5x7.5 inches, toned along edge. On the Tayninh operation. More
Cat.No: 232695
![Cat.No: 53493 In the name of life itself ban the neutron bomb! [title page] Neutron bombs...](/pictures/thumb/53493.jpg?v=1657641850)
In the name of life itself ban the neutron bomb! [title page] Neutron bombs no! [cover]
Helsinki: World Peace Council, 1977. Paperback. 77p., 6.5 x 9 inch wraps, text on newsprint that has begun to brown. Yellow wraps faintly soiled. More
Cat.No: 53493
Ninety-Two Billion Dollars / The B-1 Bomber / Stop the B-1! [leaflet in the style of currency]
New York: Clergy and Laity Concerned, [1976]. Parody banknote depicting a bomber, with text on the back and a mail-in donation form. Mild handling wear. More
Cat.No: 221991
Olympic Arms, Inc.; Safari Arms, Inc.; SGW, Inc. Dealer Catalog. June 1991
Olympia, WA: Olympic Arms, Inc. / Safari Arms, Inc., 1991. 29p., staplebound 8.5x11 inch catalog, mild handling wear, address label on rear cover. Features special commemorative guns to celebrate the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights. More
Cat.No: 260459
Pacific campaign to disarm the seas, status report February 1986
Honolulu: the campaign, 1986. Pamphlet. 46p. plus [3]p. of how-to reach-us stuff, untrimmed 8.5x5.5 inch xerox production is professionally-designed. Knowledgeable former owner's notes on the back blank mailer page, else a very good copy. The chairman's address, prominently displayed, is in Tokyo. More
Cat.No: 149552
The police and violence; [in The annals of the American academy of political and social science] special editor of this volume Lawrence W. Sherman; volume 452 November 1980
Philadelphia: the journal, 1980. vi, 211p., entire text, plain printed orange journal wraps; faintly faded, externally, paperstock very faintly browned. More
Cat.No: 73386
Quiz program for aircraft workers. (Nos. 1-5)
Los Angeles: Communist Party of Los Angeles, [1950]. Five folded brochures, apparently the complete set, very good. The series lays out statistics to argue that the Cold War sucks resources into defense of the capitalist class while leaving social priorities ignored. States that war-related industries can be retooled for peaceful..... More
Cat.No: 262406
Rescue Parties and Clearance of Debris. Issued by the Home Office (Air Raid Precautions Department)
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1936. Pamphlet. 8p., softbound, a pamphlet in 9.5x6 inch plain printed cream wraps. Fair-only copy with badly rusted staples, edgewear, dust and corner-tip bumps. Complete, at best a reading copy, curious mostly as attestation in 1936 that British planners knew Nazis were a-coming overhead in..... More
Cat.No: 260465
School of the Knight and Squad; Excerpt from Drill Regulations of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America
Newton KS: Newton Publishing Co., Inc., [circa 1950]. Pamphlet. 32p., illustrated throughout with a costumed stereotype (line-drawing of a stout white male, cocked hat and uniform) in various poses, usually shown holding a sword. Softbound pamphlet, 5.5x4 inch black wraps titled with white lettering; paperstock is somewhat toned, in all..... More
Cat.No: 235659
Whence the threat to peace STP Supplement: Socialism: Theory and Practice
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1982. Paperback. 78p. originally published in this translation by the Military Publishing House / USSR Ministry of Defense in 1 large size with color plates, this smaller version measuring 8 1/2 inches ta;; by 6 1/2 inches wide has one one color chart and..... More
Cat.No: 215683
Whence the threat to peace translated from the Russian
Moscow: Military Publishing House, USSR Ministry of Defense, 1982. 77p., coated paperstock, color photos, linedrawn maps throughout, 10 x 8 inch wraps; mild edgewear, sticker shadow on flyleaf. Plates reproduced from US sources, fighter planes, a variety of missiles, other weaponry and support vehicles, a handy assemblage. Text charges US..... More
Cat.No: 68037
Wiener Kunst Auktionen. 16 Kunstauktion, 2.Okt.1997: Antiquitaten.
Vienna: Wiener Kunst Auktionen, 1997. Unpaginated, displays items 701-1095 from a multi-day multi-catagory auction. Softbound, 11.5x8.5 inch glossy (super-glossy!) white wraps; slightest edgewear, no markings, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 232123
The technology of political control
London: Penguin Books, 1977. Paperback. 320p., paperstock toning otherwise a very good first edition mass-market paperback in pictorial wraps. General headings from Table of Contents: "Lessons from Northern Ireland; The British Road to the Strong State; The Strong Arm of the Strong State (counter-insurgency; low-intensity ops); The Technology. More
Cat.No: 152357
Special Issue on Automatic Target Recognition The Lincoln Laboratory Journal Spring 1993, Volume 6, Number 1 [entire issue]
Lexington MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. Magazine. 227p., printed on coated paperstock with profuse color and b&w diagrammatic and photographic illustrations, charts with spot-color highlights, mathematical formulae in the text. Softbound magazine, 11x8.5 inches, entirely sound and clean, a near-fine copy. Radar interpretation, mostly air to ground. No mention..... More
Cat.No: 191383
Treasures of the Topkapi Palace Museum Collections: Courts, Gardens and Harem; the Ottoman Treasury; Costumes and Textiles; Sacred Holy Relics; Chinese Porcelains; Islamic Miniatures [constituting volume 31 number 6 of Arts of Asia magazine, Nov-Dec 2001]
Kowloon: the magazine, 2001. Magazine. 145p., super-slick magazine, 12x9 inches, comes with a guide plan to the palace grounds in colors as well as high-tech color photography of sites and exhibits. Item shows slightest edgewear to cover, none to contents: sound, clean, unmarked. More
Cat.No: 277971
Without a trace. Cover art by The angry brigade
Seattle: Partisan Press, 1980. 125p., the last twenty pages of which are an "annotated bibliography" of similarly useful books. Trade paperback, first English-language edition, wraps faintly edgeworn with a little tear at base of spine.. HOWEVER --nota bene-- textblock was sloppily "perfectbound" and is now completely detached from wrapper, block..... More
Cat.No: 101308
Salut a nos blesses, Poesie; dite par M.A. Angeli, blesse militaire, artiste dramatique du Theatre Sarah-Bernardt
Paris: not shown, possibly the Theatre, n.d., circa 1920. Broadside. Bellanger a poet of 19thC military exploits, these verses perhaps composed at the end of his career and read aloud on stage by a wounded vet, Angeli, a poet himself. Item printed letterpress on a 13.5x9 inch sheet of handmade..... More
Cat.No: 287407
Missile Madness: the new weapons systems and how they threaten your life
London: Socialist Workers Party, 1981. 39p., stapled wraps, 5.75x8.25 inches, wraps mildly worn, old price sticker on rear wrap else good second edition. More
Cat.No: 151130