Search Results: World War II from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

[Bethesda, Maryland: published by the club], printed in Baltimore by Wolk Press, no date [1984]. Tall 4to, 108 pp, profusely illustrated mostly from photographs, many in color. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated with the crest of the club on the upper cover, in printed dust jacket. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with modest edge wear & rubbing Published in conjunction with the club's 60th anniversary & replete with all the information expected in a history of an auspicious country club Additionally includes a fascinating chapter on the period of time between 1943 & 1945 during World War II when club membership was evacuated & the facility became "Area F," the primary training facility for the OSS, predecessor to the CIA.

Miami, Florida: The Morton Company, 1940. Pictorial card stock measuring 5.5 inches by 7 inches folded once vertically as issued. The left side presents "greetings" with a manuscript pencil message & the printed ditty supplied above. The right side features "South Sea Lula," three celluloid pages stapled to the inside of the rear cover, when raised one by one, reveal the lovely lady starting in grass cloth skirt & leis & ending fully nude. Additionally included is the original envelope with 1944 postal cancel & "Passed by Naval Censor" rubber stamp.
Envelope tattered & soiled. Booklet with slight edge wear & soiling, otherwise Fine.
Campy, cute & sexy, the penciled message is apparently from son to father who was stationed on the U.S.S. Gladiator in San Francisco.

New York: NSWC, Group of 5 newsletters: Volume 1, numbers 9 & 10, October & November, 1942; Volume 1, numbers 1, 2, & 4, February, March, & May, 1943 First editions. The 1942 issues are single sheets measuring 8.5" x 16.5" folded twice to form 6 pages. The 1942 issues are single sheets measuring 11" x 17" folded once to form 4 pages.
Old folds, trace edge wear, Near Fine.
The National Security Women's Corps was a volunteer civilian organization founded in 1940 in New York. Their mission was to train female personnel to respond to emergency situations and to serve in auxiliary roles in the war effort. A large number of its members went on to serve as part of the WAVES, WAACS and similar groups. Quite uncommon, this publication is not found in OCLC.

Lompoc, California: Lompoc Chamber of Commerce, no date (circa 1945). Octavo (8.25" by 6.5"), 14 unnumbered pages plus covers, illustrations from photographs throughout. A promotional mailer in pictorial stapled paper wraps, addressed in ink by PFC Coldren on the rear cover, dispatched from Camp Cooke, with cancelled stamp.
Soiled, edge wear including short separation at spine, new staples (leaving small holes where old staples were), some corner creasing, otherwise Good & still quite useful.
"Lompoc became a war-time Boomtown in 1941 when Uncle Sam transformed vast Jesus Maria Rancho into an equally vast Army reservation - Camp Cooke ..." 
~Excerpted from the text.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, (1972). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink in the year of publication at the first blank page by Colonel Booth. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 168 pages. Publisher's black lettered tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Top corners bruised, minor foxing mostly at the edges of the text block, otherwise very good in very good lightly soiled & foxed dust jacket, with brief edge wear including a short closed tear & a couple of nicks.
The author was the commanding officer of the Proust program which sent French military personnel recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the C.I.A.) to France to produce intelligence for the Allied invasion at Normandy. This copy is inscribed "with thanks" to Carroll Godwin who was news director, anchorman and talk show host at WCSC- Channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Mission Marcel Proust "is a story of incredible heroism displayed by patriotic Frenchmen and of their amazing accomplishments.… Read More

Philadelphia, Dorrance & Company, (1972). First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 168 pages. Publisher's black lettered tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Previous owner's name & date at ffep, minor foxing mostly at pastedowns & endpapers, otherwise very good in dust jacket with edge wear including a few short closed tears & tiny losses, soiled, foxed, rubbed, & browned at the spine, with brief ink annotation at the front flap, & an old small tape repair on the verso, still Good or so.
Mission Marcel Proust "is a story of incredible heroism displayed by patriotic Frenchmen and of their amazing accomplishments. Frustrations and difficulties abound and the horrors of war surround them, but they are still capable of the ingenius and daring exploits which the author describes with pride." ~From the dust jacket.

No place [Okinawa ?]: U.S.S Monroe., 1945. Stapled newsletter. Broken run of 5 issues presumably published aboard: June 21, 23, 24, 26, & 27, 1945. Small folios (13" x 8"), each 2 stapled sheets, 4 pp. printed recto & verso in two columns. Includes cartoon appearances by Blondie, Male Call, & others. Not found in OCLC as of 6/8/2020.
Additionally included are two defective issues (June 18 & 22), each lacking a leaf.
Moderate edge wear, age toned, otherwise good or better.
Undoubtedly produced in small numbers, these crudely produced newsletters are replete with dramatic headlines & encouraging news. The June 21 issue was published the day before the end of the 82 day Battle of Okinawa, the rest in the immediate aftermath.
The U.S.S. President Monroe was a President Jackson-class attack transport. Included among her passengers were Lieutenant Junior Grade Richard Nixon who shipped out from San Francisco to the South Pacific in 1943.

Okinawa: NOB, broken run of 4 issues from volume 1; no 27, September 9, 1945; no 32, September 14, 1945; no 48, September 30, 1945; no 50, October 2, 1945. Small folios (13" x 8"), each 2 stapled sheets, 4 pp. printed recto & verso in two or three columns Includes a couple of "Male Call," comic strips by Milton Caniff, which only appeared in US Military publications, & others by Robert Jones, a staff cartoonist. Not currently found via OCLC although a single issue appears to be held at the Dwight D Eisenhower Library
Moderate edge wear (including a two inch tear into text on one issue), age toned, staples replaced, otherwise good or better
Produced in small numbers, these crudely printed newsletters are replete with dramatic headlines & encouraging news. Claiming circulation of 3500, the September 30 issue notes that "We can't supply every man with a paper, so why not post a copy on a bulletin board?"

London: Editions Poetry Limited, (1945). First edition. Duodecimo (7.5: x 5"), 118 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, margins lightly sunned, otherwise very good in good, moderately rubbed & soiled dust jacket with edge wear including small losses & closed tears.
"Personal Landscape was a magazine run in Cairo by Robin Fedden, Lawrence Durrell and Bernard Spencer, and it printed the work of writers, who through the fortunes of war had become "exiles" in Egypt ..." ~From the dust Jacket.
In addition to poetry by Durrell & others, the book includes "acute critical articles on subjects as varied Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and Shakespeare's Dark Lady, and some remarkable translations from the modern Greek of George Seferis and Elie Papadimitriou."

Tokyo: Shinbun Gekkansha, Showa 27 [1952]. First edition. 4to, variously paginated, numerous illustrations from photographs & facsimiles. Publisher's tan cloth backed in gilt-lettered brown pigskin. Text mostly in Japanese.
Small loss at the top of the spine, binding lightly soiled & rubbed, corners bumped, previous owner's name & chop at rear blank page, good or better. A massive volume of over a thousand pages compiled by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs which is a compendium of mostly Japanese documents relating to the Pacific War. Special attention is focused on the final months, focusing on peace feelers in May, 1945 through Moscow, the Battle of Okinawa, the demand for "unconditional surrender," the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the final fateful War Council in the Imperial Presence in which the Emperor spoke for peace, and the decision to have the Emperor announce the surrender on radio to his subjects. The work is organized into 60 sections beginning with war plans and the… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. First edition, review copy with slip & promotional photo laid in. 8vo, viii & 170 pp. plus 8 illustrations from photographs on 4 leaves. Publisher's black-lettered red cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Binding lightly rubbed, text toned, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket with modest edge wear. "Suzy-Q Hardison, wife of Lt Col Felix Hardison, tells the story of her namesake, flagship of the Nineteenth Heavy Bombardment Group." (excerpted from the dust jacket).