War
ONDERGRONDSCHE BORRELINGSKES.
N.p. Kraft Durch Schadenfreude, N.V., 1945. Small octavo, pp. 36, pictorial wrappers. The title translates to: UNDERGROUND BUBBLES/IDEAS. Karel Links did the drawings, text by Cornelis Veth. The idea behind the title and the book, from the Resistance ideas "bubble up" on how to 'handle' the German occupiers. From the colophon in the rear: "...the result [book] is entirely for the benefit of the victims of the current tyranny, whose end is in sight now..."
PETER PT.
[Philadelphia]: David McKay Company, Publisher, 1944]. Octavo, pictures by Annette Byrne, pictorial boards. First edition. Illustrations by Annette Byrne. The story of Peter, the Patrol Torpedo Boat.
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frederick Blakeslee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Headless Staffel." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Vultures of the Purple Death." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Bloody Wings of the Vampire." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frederick Blakeslee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Sqadron of Death Flies High." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frederick Blakeslee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Devil's Sky Trap." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Patrol of the Purple Clan." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frederick Blakeslee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Wings of the Death Tigers." The final issue. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frederick Blakeslee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Patrol of the Phantom." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frederick Blakeslee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Flames of Hell." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Skies of Yellow Death." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frederick Blakeslee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Bombs From the Murder Wolves." Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255.
BOULOGNE. A BASE IN FRANCE. BEING THIRTY-TWO DRAWINGS FROM THE SKETCH BOOK OF CAPT. MARTIN HARDIE.
London: A. & C. Black Limited, [1918]. Octavo, pp. [1-64], original white boards, title with illustration pasted to front cover. First edition. Reproduces 32 illustrations from the originals, 8 in color of various scenes from Boulogne. After the war Captain Hardie worked in the South Kensington Museum (later Victoria and Albert Museum) where he was involved in creating a exhibition of posters from the War in 1920. He later headed departments of painting, engraving, illustration, and design where he helped build a world class graphics collection.
CATCH-22.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Heller's satirical novel of war and military life, it was his first novel. Made into a feature film directed by Mike Nichols.
MOFFENSPIEGEL: EEN BOEKJE OVER ADOLF DE EERSTE (EN DE LAATSTE) EN ZYN TRAWANTEN.
N.p., De Bezige Bij:, 1944. Small octavo, pp. [1-38], illustrated cloth. First edition. Title translates to: A BOOK ABOUT ADOLF THE FIRST AND THE LAST AND HIS HENCHMEN. This is the first Moffenspiegel, published during the Nazi occupation by the underground press (quite illegally). 35 Anti-Nazi cartoons, a number with color, done during the war. This edition published during the war makes no reference to Links. Mof or Moffen was the derogatory word used by the Dutch for the German occupiers. The second edition published in 1945 identified Links as the artist and contained some different material.
SWOLLEN HEADED WILLIAM: PAINFUL STORIES AND FUNNY PICTURES AFTER THE GERMAN.
London: Metheun & Co., Ltd., nd. [1914]. Octavo, cloth. Later printing. Satire of the Germans and the Kaiser at the beginning of WW I. George Morrow was a cartoonist for Punch magazine. A popular book, it went through multiple printings in a two-week period.
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Sequel to the Guns of Navarone. Made into a feature film.
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE.
London: Collins, 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second novel. Basis for the WWII action film with Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn.
SAN ANDREAS.
London: Collins, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. WW II sea adventure novel.
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI.
[New York]: Random House, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first issue with blue endpapers. A novel of Naval pilots during the Korean War assigned to destroy a heavily fortified bridge. "The interlocking of timing, men and machines, the stupendous quality of jet flight and warfare, the human element -- in emergency, danger and personal lives -- are here in a sharp, short, telling tribute." - Kirkus Review, 1 July, 1953. Michener was reporter during that war assigned to U. S. Navy aircraft carriers offshore Korea. The novel was filmed in 1954 featuring William Holden, Mickey Rooney and Fredric March. One of the officers of the Task Force that Michener was with served as technical advisor for the film.
NELLIE'S PRAYER.
London, Paris & New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, nd [c. 1890-93]. Octavo, [1-24], illustrated by J. Willis Grey, cloth backed boards. A wife gets news her husband is killed in action, delays telling her daughter who prays for his safe return, upon finally telling her the child goes and prays again and her father appears at the door, a mistake being made on the battlefield.
HET ABC VAN HET NAZIREGIEM.
Brussel: A.N.U.M. Leuven, nd [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Title translates as: THE ABC OF THE NAZI REGIME. Small booklet published after WW II, anti-Nazi alphabet book in Dutch. Illustrated by Herman Vos.
WITBAARD: DE KONING VAN KABOUTERLAND.
N.p. [Netherlands]. n.d., [c. 1943]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8], stiff pictorial card covers. Anti-Semitic propaganda. Witbaard (White Beard), the King of Kabouterland [Gnome country] arrests Joris, the cheese thief, a large mouse with a big nose, representing the Jews (predating Maus by 40 years). This is an allegorical tale of Jewish persecution, the tale ends with Joris in jail and being told it would be better if he left the land. Scarce, one copy listed in WorldCat.
WIJ MAKEN GESCHIEDENIS.
Amsterdam: Het Hollandsche Uitgevershuis, 1946. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First Dutch edition. Title translates as: WE MAKE HISTORY. Art by Robert Ziller, Dutch text by A.A. van Eijsden, Jr. Portraits of Nazi figures, and other WW II figures and victims. This work was first published in the U.K. in 1940 where he was an expatriate and worked for the British Ministry of Information. Text is largely quotes from many of the illustrated figures. A sobering look.