Archive: Wake Island Raid maps, photographs and documents
Intelligence Center Pacific Ocean Areas, October 5-6, 1943
Superb archive of rarely seen map and photographs used in planning and documenting the October 5, 1943 raid on Wake Island, which was taken by the Japanese only weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack. $9500. | More...
The Second World War
Winston Churchill
First English editions of Churchill’s WWII masterpiece, part history and part memoir, written after he lost reelection as Prime Minister, handsomely bound. $3500. | More...
The Flying Tigers
With bookplate signed by 16 members of the Flying Tigers
First edition of this history of the famed volunteer squadron "The Flying Tigers," fighting under Chinese colors before joining the U.S. Army Air Force in 1942, signed by 16 of its members—including eight pilots, six of them aces—and enlisted AVG support personnel. $850. | More...
Caught
Henry Green
First edition of the mercurial English writer's fourth novel, "a virtual life feed" of London as England and the world erupted in WWII, published by the Woolfs' Hogarth Press, in original dust jacket designed by respected artist Leonard Rosoman. $1200. | More...
Undercover Girl
Elizabeth P. MacDonald
First edition of MacDonald’s "fast-paced" account of her pioneering career as one of the "morally tough, physically attractive spies" of the OSS in WWII, with Introduction by legendary OSS Director William Donovan, a splendid copy in the original dust jacket. $1750. | More...
Leyte Historical Report
of the 24th Infantry Division Landing Team
67th Engineer Topographic Company, 1945
First edition of the detailed and extensively illustrated official report—stamped "Restricted"—of the 24th Infantry Division's important role in the campaign to retake the Philippines, from October 20, 1944 to December 25, 1944, with 27 maps and plates, many folding. $5500. | More...
Poster: Lend to Defend
the Right to Be Free.
Buy Defence Bonds
London: H.M. Stationery Office, ca. 1940
Powerful original World War II poster depicting a woman factory worker with the shadow of a Red Cross nurse behind her, accompanied by the words: "Lend to Defend the Right to Be Free. Buy Defence Bonds." $4000. | More...
Step By Step: 1936-1939
Winston Churchill
First edition of this collection of Churchill’s newspaper coverage of the events leading up to the Second World War, with one folding map, handsomely bound. $1100. | More...
