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
Cat.No: 122548
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
Cat.No: 207876
Vienna: WORLD COUNCIL OF PEACE, 1963. Magazine. One issue, 9x13 inches printed on very thin paper, illustrated, creasing on rear cover wrap near spine, date stamp on front cover wrap, slight wear showing on wraps, otherwise in good condition. Note: all pages lose in wraps, no binding. The World Council..... More
Cat.No: 262124
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
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
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
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
Cat.No: 218124
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
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
Cat.No: 88873
Evanston: Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, Northwestern University, 1946. 80p., 9x12 inches, photos, very good in blue cloth illustrated with silver foil text and drawings. No internal markings or signatures. Definitely a yearbook in the recognizable format, with this variation: the numerous grads all are captioned at unusual length, about..... More
Cat.No: 139259
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
Cat.No: 234877
Washington: National Council for Prevention of War, [192-]. Small four panel brochure, 4x8 inches, creased. Opposes a proposal for a $2.5 billion plan to expand the Navy under Curtis D. Wilbur, appointed by Calvin Coolidge. More
Cat.No: 250216
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
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
Cat.No: 132941
[Bay Area, CA]: n.pub. [1971]. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, minor toning, date penned in corner. 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..... More
Cat.No: 251332
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
Cat.No: 182527
![Naive drawing of a Zoot Suiter being slugged by a sailor]. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/260994.jpg?v=1609992377)
no place: no publisher, no date. 8.5x11 inch sheet of three-hole-punched ditto paper with a crude pencilled cartoon drawing of a man in a Zoot Suit being slugged by a Navy sailor, with color pencil or crayon additions in red and pale blue, PVD in pencil at bottom-right and the..... More
Cat.No: 260994
New York: Guild Press, 1969. 85p., 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
Cat.No: 76798
no place: Juan Barguño, [194?]. Paperback. Unpaginated. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Text in Spanish. Parts 11 and 12 in a series of coloring booklets on historical topics (separately issued); these each with eight multi-color illustrations of various battleships from the 19th and 20th century (and various countries), with..... More
Cat.No: 206653
Two separate magazines together as a small lot, Feb @ 28p., March @ 32p. Slick magazine format with coated alkaline paper chockablock with journalistic reportage, sportswriting, cartoons, ads and a pin-up, rather like a school yearbook but meatier. Expect mild handling wear, ownership name lightly inked on covers, no markings..... More
Cat.No: 232991
Chicago: Ontario Press, 1972. Hardcover. 256p., very good first edition in white boards and slightly rubbed, unclipped dj with small price tag on front. Literate espionage thriller set in Hawaii with a gay cast of characters. Short story author from LA, his only novel. Young 258* Gunn pages 125-126. From..... More
Cat.No: 13921
![A History of England [general title, consisting in the following]: Peter Hunter Blair,...](/pictures/thumb/247720.jpg?v=1580356223)
London: Folio Society. Consecutive years represented by classics in their specialty, full-length reprints furnished with color plates and hardbound in matching black cloth casebindings, the five supplied with a very sturdy labelled box. Beautifully designed, of course; Folio rarely flubs when it comes to book design. Everything in as-new order..... More
Cat.No: 247720
Heidelberg: [US occupation forces], Mai 1953. Pamphlet. 48p., numerous b&w photoillustrations (nearly every other page) indifferently reproduced, softbound, a stapled pamphlet in 8x6 inch printed wraps. Cover is stamped in red, "Freiexemplar," this accompanied by a handwritten date 5/1953. Extensive toning of acidic cover and textpaper, item remains handleable if..... More
Cat.No: 255431
