Seoul: Diamond Sutra Recitation Group, [post-2005]. 59p., pictorial wraps. Hagiography of the Korean naval official who helped drive back the Japanese during Hideyoshi's Japanese invasion through the use of turtle boats. More about Admiral Yi Sun-Sin, A brief overview of his life and achievements
Cat.No: 122548
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1967. 25p., slender pamphlet, very good. "By a Liberation Army Daily correspondent." On Mai Xiande, injured in a confrontation with a Taiwanese ship. More about Battle hero Mai Hsien-teh
Cat.No: 234717
Washington DC: Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept. [1978]. Paperback. 48p., 9.25x6 inches landscape format, Black history, historical highlights, future trends, education and training, profiles of the fleet, February historical calendar, b&w and color photos, very good first edition booklet in stapled black pictorial wraps. An informational booklet issued by..... More about Black Americans in the Navy
Cat.No: 207876
[Tokyo]: [Ishikawajima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd, ], 1956. 5.5x3.5 inch color postcard mounted in 7.25x5 inch display folder illustrated with line drawing of the ship on an orange, yellow and white field, detailed description of the ship, previous owner's notes in Japanese script on rear otherwise very good. More about Brazilian Navy Ary Parreiras: troop transport/cargo vessel [postcard and folder] Aug. 24th 1956,...
Cat.No: 215048
[Tokyo]: [Ishikawajima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd, ], 1956. 5.5x3.5 inch color postcard mounted in 7.25x5 inch display folder illustrated with line drawing of the ship on an orange, yellow and white field, detailed description of the ship on rear, very good. More about Brazilian Navy Soares Dutra: troop transport/cargo vessel [postcard and folder] Dec. 13th 1956,...
Cat.No: 215033
the newsletter, 1951. Four issues, each mimeographed on 8x13 inch sheets, 4 to 6 pages each, mild handling wear, occasional closed edge tears. Issues present are vol. 25 nos. 4-7 (April 27-30, 1951). Newsletter with world news briefs, especially updates on the Korean War at a time when Chinese troops... More about Brewster Booster [four issues of the mimeographed newsletter published aboard the General A. W....
Cat.No: 204982
Burlingame: W. J. O'Connell & Associates, 1961. 36p. printed recto-only, + 44p report, 2 carbon copy sheets stapled front cover, appendixes, 13 figures and photos, several fold-out, (one appendix packet is missing) slight dampstaining and rippling of paperstock; in generic binder with printed paper label. More about Engineering study and evaluation of air pollution control problems and recommended...
Cat.No: 148769
Mare Island: The Shipyard, 1995. Six-panel folded brochure, 5.75x11 inches, green text and images/map on cream stock, very good. Unfolds to display a map across top third of sheetwith numbers and text below the map, on another panel find the key to the names and positions of the various trees... More about Mare Island Naval Shipyard: Alden Park tree tour [brochure]
Cat.No: 229849
San Francisco: San Francisco Public Library, Reference Department, 1960. 25p., 5.5x8.5 inches,mimeographed pages, some edgewear and toning otherwise very good side-stapled booklet in green pictorial wraps (also mimeographed). More about Maritime Firsts of San Francisco Bay
Cat.No: 230403
San Diego: Naval Air Station, 1942. 18p., wraps slightly edge worn, minor creasing, 9.25x12.25 inches, illustrated with photos of recreational activity and the like, rear is a fullpage drawing of an air battle, front cover a drawing of airplane machine gunner. More about The North Islander. Vol. 1, no. 1, October, 1942. Published monthly in the interests of the...
Cat.No: 139063
New York: American Friends of Greece, 1943. 8p., very good; single issue of the newsletter, 8.5x11 inches. This issue includes the text of a statement by President Roosevelt about the delivery of an "anti-submarine" patrol ship to Greek allies fighting the Nazis. Also includes a substantial piece on the death... More about The Philhellene. Vol. 2 no. 6/7 (June/July 1943)
Cat.No: 218124
Elmhurst: U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II, 1987. 32p., photos, drawings, 8.5x11 inches, magazine format pictorial self-wraps. Light soiling. Vol. 31, No. 4, August. More about Polaris
Cat.No: 88872
Elmhurst: U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II, 1988. 36p., photos, drawings, 8.5x11 inches, magazine format pictorial self-wraps. Vol. 32, No. 1, February. More about Polaris:
Cat.No: 88874
Elmhurst: U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II, 1981. 32p., photos, drawings, 8.5x11 inches, magazine format pictorial self-wraps. Vol. 25, No. 2, April. Includes articles on Fresno and Vallejo chapters as well as an illustrated thumbnail history of the submarine. More about Polaris: 81st Submarine Anniversary issue
Cat.No: 88871
Elmhurst: U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II, 1987. 36p., photos, drawings, 8.5x11 inches, magazine format pictorial self-wraps. Vol. 31, No. 6, December. More about Polaris: Merry Christmas
Cat.No: 88873
shipboard, the North Atlantic: [crew of the Ericsson]], 1946. Newspaper. Newsletter covering the nine-day crossing, ferrying home demobilized US troops. First eight are single leaves, the last a double, all similarly mimeographed recto & verso on 13x8 inch newsprint, the final "souvenir issue" consisting of two such leaves corner-stapled. Find... More about The Seaweed Gazette. Voyage 25 - M.S. John Ericsson - ETO to USA - Monday, January 7, 1946...
Cat.No: 234877
Dalian (Dairen): Amano Manshodo, 1917. Two unused postcards published by a Japanese company in what was later to become part of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. One depicts the Dairen [Dalian] Civil Administration Office, the other depicts the local branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank. Both have a “Welcome”..... More about [Two postcards depicting buildings in Dalian, with rubberstamps commemorating a US naval visit]
Cat.No: 228873
[Bay Area, CA]: n.pub. [1971]. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, minor handling wear. Justification for forming the contingent; organizers not named. Calls for readers to join a rally at the Alameda Naval Station to support sailors on the USS Coral Sea who are trying to prevent the ship... More about Why an anti-imperialist contingent? (handbill)
Cat.No: 132941
San Francisco: Abalone Alliance, 1984. 16p., folded tabloid newspaper, calendar of events, articles, opinion, political cartoons, paper evenly toned, names and phone number penned in margin. Largely devoted to opposition to the Trident missile. More about It's About Times. November-December 1984
Cat.No: 182527
Barcelona: Dopesa, 1971. 163p. + charts and 267 vignette ship photographs (plus some seaplanes), first edition, very good in glossy trade-size wraps. More about Las fuerzas navales en la Guerra Civil Española
Cat.No: 115307
no place: no publisher, no date. A home-made book comprised of glossy photos of pages from an unknown (to this bibliographer!) gay porn "one-hander" made up of drawings of a handsome young sailor dressed in 1930s-1940s sailor outfit stripping naked accompanied by captions interspersed with decorative vinyl samples and Greco-Roman..... More about Sailor Be Bare! nude nautical naked novel
Cat.No: 216632
New York: Guild Press, 1969. 85p., very good in 4x7 inches, very good in original stapled white wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Reprint of Monkey edition of 1969 Black Knight Classics of the Homosexual Underground. Hey Sailor! More about San Diego sailor
Cat.No: 76798
New York: Star Dist. 1988. Paperback. 149p., lightly-worn first edition PBO in original explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. New Male NM-160. "Hey Sailor!" More about Navy studs
Cat.No: 179196
New York: International Publishers, 1969. Paperback. 256p., wraps, very good but for slightly faded spine and checkmark in table of contents. Collection of essays, includes "Slave guerrilla warfare" (pp.11-31). More about To be free; studies in American Negro history
Cat.No: 10893
Needham Heights MA: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1996. Paperback. ix, 56p., perhaps thirty color plates, including sepia sketches, reproduced nicely, each discussed at length (by Schoener) in an appendix, along with other critical apparatus, softbound in 10x7 inch color-decorated wraps. Titlepage is autographed neatly by Arbuthnot, and briefly inscribed... More about An American Artist in World War II; Jason Schoener at Eniwetok Atoll
Cat.No: 230171
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