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..."
TOM AND DICK WITH THE PARACHUTES.
NP, nd, [c. 1940s]. Small octavo, pp. [1-12], pictorial self wrappers. Five illustrations with text. For young boys about what parachutes and paratroopers do.
WORK AND PLAY IN AN ARMY CAMP.
NP, nd, [c. 1940s]. Small octavo, pp. [1-12], pictorial self wrappers. Five illustrations with text. Group of boys visit and Army camp. Seems like a booklet prepared for juveniles to let them see that an Army camp is not a scary thing.
KING RAT.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first book.
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.
TRUE TALES OF THE D.C.I.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 13-343 [344-352: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in yellow. First edition. The author was an infantry Captain with the A.E.F. and the commanding officer of the Division of Criminal Investigation. From the jacket copy: "Desertions and crimes fill the pages; fascinating horrors tinge the stories. Women and liquor, petty thefts and big burglaries, murder suffered and inflicted, disguises, evil ingenuity, these are the forces encountered. Criminals with shoulder straps and without do their stuff and the Division of Criminal Investigation goes them one better."
THE NIGHTMARE.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection based on events and aftermath of Nazi Germany. The final story, "The Wandering Gentile," is a fantasy about Hitler and his lover Eva Braun hitchhiking in California, doomed to wander the Earth forever. "The nightmare set in motion by Germany must not be forgotten. It is this Forester seems to be seeing in a collection of stories that might have happened, tales based on facts elicited from the Nuremberg and Belsen trials. They have their sense of authenticity, as they unfold the horrors of unfettered power. It happened less than a decade ago. People like these people did things that- read in cold blood- seem debased, or horrifying, or so inhuman as to be incredible. There is what might have been the story of the men framed for the Polish attack on the radio station; there are stories of fear at all levels; stories of base betrayal; there is vivid capturing of the uncertainties reflected through the period when the army plotted Hitler's death and overthrow; there are the horrors of the camps- of the refugees- of the gas chambers. One senses the disillusionment in some, the hatred and fear in others- and the unbroken arrogance and blindness in still more. The final story alone seems wholly imaginary, as the author finds himself driving a madman named Adolf, and a tender woman named Eva, up the highway towards San Francisco. A born tale spinner uses novel material." - Kirkus Reviews, 14 July, 1954.
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." 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." 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." 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." 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." 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." 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. 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." 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." Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255.
G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frederick Blakeslee, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Green Scourge of the Sky Raiders." 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." 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.
WIJ WAREN GETUIGEN.
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Vrij Nederland, 1946. Large octavo, pp. [1-72], illustrations by Piet Klaasse, cloth backed boards. First edition. Title translates as WE WERE WITNESSES. Illustrations by Piet Klaasse, poetry text by Van Theun De Vries. Introduction by Jan H. De Groot. 30 dramatic illustrations by Klaasse with poetry by De Vries on the facing page. Klasse's illustrations reflect the War in Holland 1940-45.
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.
SAN ANDREAS.
London: Collins, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. WW II sea adventure novel.