Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1951. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 17, [3] pages. Illustrations. Minor cover wear. This is part of a series commemorating Detroit's 250th Birthday festival. Charles Acker (1918-2007) was an Artist and Educator. As a Jr. High School student at Hutchins, he was featured in Detroit Newspapers and termed "The Boy Genius." Charles worked 42 years as an Art Teacher in the Detroit Public School System. He earned his Bachelor's Degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan; subsequently received his Master's Degree in School Administration. Historical illustration is what Charles favored. He illustrated several books during his lifetime. His collection includes many pictures of the military with details of period uniforms, horses, and Native American Indians. The Siege of Detroit, also known as the Surrender of Detroit or the Battle of Fort Detroit, was an early engagement in the British-U.S. War of 1812. A British force under Major General Isaac Brock with Native American allies under Shawnee leader Tecumseh used bluff and deception to intimidate U.S. Brigadier General William Hull into surrendering the fort and town of Detroit, Michigan, along with his dispirited army which actually outnumbered the victorious British and Indians. The British victory reinvigorated the militia and civil authorities of Upper Canada, who had previously been pessimistic and affected by pro-U.S. agitators. Many Indians in the Northwest Territory took up arms against U.S. outposts and settlers. The British held Detroit for more than a year before their fleet was defeated on Lake Erie, which forced them to abandon the western frontier of Upper Canada. More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1899. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 28 pages. Footnotes. Tables. Map. Stamp on front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling, and rear cover has a tear at spine. Minor bookworm damage noted. Sketches from the naval battle of Santiago and occupation of Puerto Rico, by Commander [Hermann] Jacobsen, of the German protected cruiser Grier, given in this number of the War Notes, are a continuation of the Sketches from the Spanish-American War, by the same officer, given in War Notes No III. These sketches were first published in the Marine-Rundschau, January and February, 1899. Admiral Commander Jacobsen later rose to the rank of Admiral and had some service time in German Naval Intelligence. More

New York, N.Y. Printed by Clarke & Way at the Thistle Press, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover in a Slipcase. 106 pages, with text only on one side for most pages. . Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers. The Dedication page reads: Alfred E. Smith will be remembered for many things, but perhaps most of all for his good works and simple words. This compilation, documented from his public life in his own language, is affectionately dedicated to his memory be a family who enjoyed the privilege of knowing him. Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith served in the New York State Assembly from 1904 to 1915 and held the position of Speaker of the Assembly in 1913. Smith also served as sheriff of New York County from 1916 to 1917. He was first elected governor of New York in 1918, and was elected governor again in 1922, 1924, and 1926. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as New York governor in the 1920s. Incumbent Republican Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was aided by national prosperity and the absence of American involvement in war, and he defeated Smith in a landslide in 1928. Smith sought the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination but was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, his successor as Governor of New York. Smith then entered business in New York City, became involved in the construction and promotion of the Empire State Building. More

New York, N.Y. Jointly Published by The Grolier Club and The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing Thus. Hardcover. xxxiii, 432 pages. Footnotes. Introduction, The Publications of Nordon N. Ray, and an Index, as well as chapters on Autobiography; Surveys of the Rare Book World; Collecting and Scholarship; Books and Life; and an Appendix: Four Bookmen. Gordon N. Ray--Professor of English at the University of Illinois from 1946 to 1960 and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1963 to1985--was one of the major book and manuscript collectors of his time. His two great Morgan Library catalogues, on English and French book illustration, are monuments both to his collecting and to his scholarship, which were inseparable aspects of his life. He wrote a number of essays and addresses on book collecting, the book trade, libraries, and the role of books in life. This volume brings together twenty-one. This volume begins with four essays about Gordon Ray's own collection, which constitute kind of autobiography. They are followed by his two celebrated surveys, dating from 1965 and 1974, of the state of the rare-book world (with a further brief account from 1982). Four essays analyzing and demonstrating the role of book collecting in scholarship come next, and then three addresses about the development and significance of research libraries. A concluding group of three essays deals with the importance of books and reading to individual self-understanting, and thus with the place of the humanities in society. An appendix prints Ray's brief assessment of four prominent figures in the book world: Michael Sadleir, Tom Turner, John D. Gordan, and C. Waller Barrett. More

Claymont, DE: Orders and Medals Society of America (OMSA), 1972. Presumed First Edition, First printing --Limited edition of 2000, but this copy unnumbered. Pamphlet. [2], 66, [4] pages. Illustrations. This copy bears the stamp of Todd Wheatley. Laid in is a handwritten note from Todd Wheatley to Harold Langley presenting him this copy. OMSA is devoted to the collection, preservation and dissemination of information on U.S. and foreign orders, decorations and medals. Harold David Langley (15 February 1925 – 29 July 2020) was an American diplomatic and naval historian who served as associate curator of naval history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1969 to 1996. As a naval historian, he was a pioneer in exploring American naval social and medical history. Langley began his professional career at the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, in Washington, D.C., where he served as a manuscripts assistant in 1951-52, while a graduate student. Moving to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was a graduate student, he served as a manuscripts specialist, rare book collection, 1952-54. Returning to the Library of Congress, he was a manuscripts specialist, there in 1954-55. In 1955, Marywood College in Scranton, appointed him assistant professor of history. He remained there until 1957, when he received an appointment as a diplomatic historian in the U.S. Department of State. In 1964, Catholic University of America appointed him associate professor, and in 1968 promoted him to full professor in 1968. In 1969, the Smithsonian Institution, appointed him associate curator of naval history. While holding that position, he was an adjunct professor of American history at the Catholic University of America from 1971 to 2001. More

Washington DC: Public Affairs Press, 1954. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 24 pages. Tabulations. Maps. References. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is one of the Annals of American Research series. This analysis addresses the relationship over time between Abraham Lincoln and members of the Know Nothing movement, including times when Lincoln supported Millard Fillmore and John C. Fremont politically. The author notes: The 1860 campaign is easily summarized. Bell drew votes which Lincoln could not draw, but he received few of the Know Nothing votes in the north. The majority of the new immigrant vote, which was anti-Know Nothing, went to Douglas. Democratic hopes were for an election by the House. A change to Douglas of one vote in twenty-sever in the northwest would have given him the salient states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, but it is clear that the Know Nothing vote had gone Republican in those states. Most of the Know Nothing vote of 1856 was Republican in 1860. Republican gains and Know Nothing losses show remarkable similarities. The Know Nothings were clearly responsible for the election of Lincoln. More

Washington DC: The Catholic University of America, 1943. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. x, 306. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Ink initials on front cover. pencil note on page x. Name of Harold D. Langley on title page. Harold David Langley (15 February 1925 – 29 July 2020) was an American diplomatic and naval historian who served as associate curator of naval history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1969 to 1996. As a naval historian, he was a pioneer in exploring American naval social and medical history. Langley began his professional career at the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, in Washington, D.C., where he served as a manuscripts assistant in 1951-52, while a graduate student. Moving to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was a graduate student, he served as a manuscripts specialist, rare book collection, 1952-54. Returning to the Library of Congress in Washington, he was a manuscripts specialist, there in 1954-55. In 1955, Marywood College in Scranton, Pennsylvania, appointed him assistant professor of history. He remained there until 1957, when he received an appointment as a diplomatic historian in the U.S. Department of State. In 1964, Catholic University of America appointed him associate professor, and in 1968 promoted him to full professor in 1968. In 1969, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., appointed him associate curator of naval history. While holding that position, he was an adjunct professor of American history at the Catholic University of America from 1971 to 2001. He received the 1995 John Lyman Book Awards in the category of Science and Technology for History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy. More

Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1909. Reprint of article. Wraps. Pages 1155-197, [1]. Footnotes. Ex-War Department Library, with usual markings. Cover has wear and soiling, spine tears and loss of corner of back cover.. Decorative cover. Part of cover has been reglued at the spine. Inscribed on the first page ' To Mr. Cheney, with the compliments of the author". Charles Oscar Paullin (20 July 1869 – 1 September 1944) was an important naval historian, who made a significant early contribution to the administrative history of the United States Navy. Following completion of his doctorate, he published a series of articles in the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings between 1905 and 1914 that constituted the first administrative history of the U.S. Navy. They were published posthumously as a book in 1968, twenty-four years after his death. Similarly, a series of articles on American Voyages to the Orient was published in 1971. From 1910 to his retirement in 1936, Paullin served on the research staff of the Carnegie Institution. In 1911, he gave the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History at The Johns Hopkins University, which were published the following year as Diplomatic Negotiations of American Naval Officers. In 1911-1913, Paullin lectured on naval history at the George Washington University. He published his major works on naval history between 1905 and 1918. In 1933, Columbia University awarded Paullin and John Kirtland Wright the Loubat Prize for their Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (1932). More

2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [4], 118 pages, plus 42 page insert of Illustrations/maps (some in color). Inscriptions by both authors on the title page [jointly inscribed copies are rare). Donald Gordon Morrow was best known as a television game show host, announcer and voiceover actor who authored two books with Kevin Moore. He was the nation’s oldest living survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps during World War II. He was also the oldest combat veteran of WWll at the time of his death on August 14, 2011; he would have been 106 on April 26,2011. In 1937, as a dentist with a ten year old practice, a wife and three children, the 32 year old ROTC lieutenant was called up by the army, as America began to prepare for war. After Pearl Harbor, Al Brown and some 90,000 sick and starving American and Filipino troops fought valiantly for four months on the Bataan peninsula until they were surrendered to Japanese forces in April of 1942, food, ammunition and weaponry, virtually gone. After the Death March, four prison camps, a “hell ship” journey to Japan, starvation, torture, a broken back, a broken neck and fifteen major tropical diseases, including blindness, this once strapping, athletic six-footer was down to a starved 95 pounds. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, and three years stateside in a veteran’s hospital, Al Brown went home for the first time in eleven years. In 1950, though no longer able to practice dentistry because of his war wounds, he went to Hollywood, California and started a new life. More

London, England: J. & A. Churchill, 1915. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Format is approximately 425 inches by 6.5 inches (could fit into some uniform pockets). xi, [1], 267, [1] pages. Ink notation inside from board and on fep. Stamp of the Royal Medical Society Edinburgh on title page and elsewhere; we treat as ex-library. Note on fep indicated given to the Society in 1926. Cover has wear and soiling. Frontis fold-out. Contains 39 black and white illustrations. Includes Introduction by Surgeon-General Sir Alfred Keogh, Preface, and Index. Also includes chapters on Physical Fitness for War; Anti-Typhoid Inoculation; The March; Sickness in the Army; The Role of Insects in War; Medical Organization and Administration in the Field; Field Conservancy; and Water and Water Supplies. Col. Lelean's papers reside at the Welcome Library. He served as a Professor of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh after WWI. Among the topics covered are: Physical Fitness for War; Anti-Typhoid Inoculation; The March, Sickness in the Army, The Role of Insects in War, Medical Organization and Administration in the Field, Field Conservancy, and Water and Water-Supplies. There is an index. More

United States Army, Middle Pacific Command, 1945. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. Unpaginated (96 pages plus covers). Map Illustrations. Chronology, Middle Pacific Command Central Pacific Area. Chronology is primarily from February 1941 to July 1945. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is an unofficial account of MidPac at War. [Preface] by Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson, Jr., United States Army, Commanding the Middle Pacific Command and Pacific Ocean Areas. This work was written by enlisted Army correspondents who have been in the places about which they have written and have not forgotten the men about whom they are writing. It appears that this was primarily intended for, and distributed to, those who served in this command. In June 1943, Robert C. Richardson, Jr. was promoted to lieutenant general and assigned as Commanding General of the Hawaiian Department, Military Governor of Hawaii, and all Army personnel in the Pacific Ocean Areas and Mid-Pacific. By mid-1944 he had become commander of U.S. Army Forces, Central Pacific Area. As the administrative commander he oversaw all the Army’s planning, logistical preparation, training, and force deployment efforts as part of the overall U.S. Joint forces island hopping campaign that led to surrender of Japan. His Army ground and air forces fought in all the major central and mid-Pacific battle under the operational command of Admiral Nimitz. Lt. Gen. Richardson stood in the front row of senior leaders who witnessed Japan’s formal surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri. More

New York: L. W. Paine, Printer, 1863. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 4.5 inches by 7.75 inches. [2], 84 pages. Addenda List of Killed and Wounded. Rare surviving copy. Fragile Cover worn, torn (partially separated), soiled and chipped. Some page discoloration and marks. Preface states: "When this journal was commenced, and until within a few days since, no idea of the publication was entertained, and it has been forced into type only by the earnest solicitation of the officers and crew of the noble ship which has been our home for nearly two years. The anxiety of our friends has led us to push the completion of tis little book to as speedy a close as possible; therefore our readers must not look for any display of literary attainments, bur receive ti as a correct epitome of our cruise on the Mississippi. W.C.H." USS Hartford, a sloop-of-war, steamer, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. Hartford served in several prominent campaigns in the American Civil War as the flagship of David G. Farragut, most notably the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. She survived until 1956, when she sank awaiting restoration at Norfolk, Virginia. Bradley Sillick Osbon was an American sailor, US Navy captain, journalist, artist, and author. He was author of Hand Book of the United States Navy: Being a Compilation of All the Principal Events in the History of Every Vessel of the United States Navy; A Sailor of Fortune: Personal Memoirs of Captain B. S. Osbon, and Visitors' Hand Book, Or How to See the Great Eastern. More

Pensacola, FL: Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. List of Illustrations and Maps. Introduction. 12 essays. Index by Poly Coker. Among the essays are: The Legacy of Spain, The Cuban Fishing Ranchos, Anglo-Spanish Commerce in New Orleans, the Creek Confederacy in the American Revolution, Alexander Cameron's Failure at Pensacola. The Anglo-Spanish Contest for the Gulf Coast, Jose de Ezpeleta and the Siege of Pensacola, Jose Solano and the Spanish Navy, French and Spanish Military Units in the 1781 Pensacola Campaign, Loyalist Resistance after Pensacola, The Queen's Redoubt Explosion, and Spanish Historians and the Gulf Coast Campaign. Among the scholars whose work is in here are: A. P. Nasatir, James W. Covington, Robin Fabel, Michael Green, James O'Donnell, Kathryn Holland, Francisco de Borja Medina Rojas, Eric Beerman, Jack Holmes, Gilbert Din, Leitch Wright, Light Cummins. Galvez Day is the celebration of the anniversary of Spanish Gen. Bernardo de Galvez's victory over the British in 1781. Galvez's siege on the Red Coats that year, which is known as the Battle of Pensacola, started March 9. The Siege of Pensacola was a siege fought in 1781, the culmination of Spain's conquest of the British province of West Florida during the Gulf Coast campaign. More