Copies Found Worldcat (23 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. (Archiecture and City Planning) ) "Post-war Cities, a proposal advanced for discussion by the National association of real estate boards" (1944), published by the National Association of Real Estate Boards. 20pp, 11x8", original wrappers. Small illustrations sprinkled liberally throughout the publication, like salt. Provenance: Federal Housing Administration, and then the Library of Congress, with their two small rubber stamps on the cover and one LC surplus stamp on the rear cover. This isn't so much a work on restoring war-time bombed-out losses it uses the war losses as metaphor for blighted and challenged areas and makes suggestions for the future.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Great Depression. Progressive Education Association. Study Guide to Wild Boys of the Road. Human relations Series of Films excepted from photoplays, Commission on Human Relations, NYC. 1939. 7"x 5", 27pp. With synopsis of film, plus suggested question for discussion (16pp long with a review of each work), plus bibliography. Original wrappers. Provenance: Library of Congress, with two small stamps on front cover, a pencil notation, and a surplus stamp on rear cover. VG condition. Scarce. [++] This is a guide for discussions on "One of the most unrelenting and bleakly desperate of American films made in the 1930s, William Wellman's "Wild Boys of the Road" chronicles the hard-luck life of the road of literally hundreds of thousands of teenagers boys and girls alike who were forced out into the world at large when their family life at home collapsed. Literally torn from the headlines, "Wild Boys of the Road" was based on a story by Daniel Ahern, "Desperate Youth," which unflinchingly documented this unparalleled phenomenon, as written for the screen by Earl Baldwin.Of all the films made during the Depression, "Wild Boys of the Road" is perhaps the most realistic and unsparing, due in no small part to Wellman's penchant for unvarnished realism."--"Wild Boys of the Road" by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster at the LOC site on film history.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. After an Air Raid, an A.B.C. Of Information. Published by the Bute County Council, at the Rothesy Express office (Scotland). 6"x4", 8pp. Original wrappers. VG Provenance: very lightly stamped from the Library of Congress. There are NO copies found in WorldCat. This seems to be 1940-1945, though it has a feel to it of WWI.I'm positive though that this must be WWII. Scarce!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. The Lake George Gold Cup Regatta Program. 1934. 12"x 9", 40pp, photo illustrated throughout, featuring places to stay, stories of the boats, great ads (!), and even a bird's-eye view of Lake George. The pamphlet is near-FINEthe glassine dustjacket (made of about the flimsiest dj material on Earth) is a little tatty and torn here and there. And is at best Fair/Good. It does however have the title of the work imprinted in gold on it. There is no indication of the printer or place of publication though I suspect the whole thing was done by Chris-Craft, given the placement of its ads and their frequency. Surprisingly I can find NO copies of this in WorldCat.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paolo Tedeschi, I communisti otaliani, l'unita nazionale contro l'invasore. Edizioni della Federazione campana del Partito Cinnunista Italiano, Naples. (Dated on the last page of text for Naples, November 1943.) 6"x4.25". 15 leaves. Provenance: Library of Congress, rubber stamped on the rear of the title page 2 March 1945, also with the LC surplus stamp on the rear wrapper. Wrappers. [++] This is an odd printing of this document it seems to be stapled leaves of photographic paper of the original document and is printed no later than March 1945. [++] NO COPIES are found in WorldCat. [++]"Paolo Tedeschi was an Italian partisan during World War II, known for his involvement in the resistance against Fascist forces. He became notable for his efforts in fighting against the Nazi occupation and the Italian Fascist regime. Tedeschi's experiences during the war influenced his later philosophical and social work, particularly in advocating for community support and rehabilitation."--POE AI He also served at least in 1944 as the leader of the Communist Party in Italy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bud Colegrove. A Dictator's Last Lie. "Profusely Illustrated with Authemtic Pictures of the Srnsational Execution of Mussolini and his Mistress." Houston,Texas, Stricland Publishing Co., 1946. 9x6", 8pp, 8 in-text photos of the assassinated Mussolini and Ms. Petucci (and yes they're pretty graphic, especially for the times). Provenance: Library of Congress, eith a small stamp on the cover and larger s=rubber stamp on the cover's reverse. VG, solid copy. It didn't seem likely but it turns out there are NO COPIES of this publication listed in WorldCat and is equally unknown to Google.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Brains to Win.[++] No place or date of publication, though not after May 1942. 238x175mm, 32pp, il-lustrated throughout. Original wrappers. GOOD copy. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their rubber stamp inside front cover with a penciled note stating the date of receipt ("My 29 1942). This seems as though it was a handout and should be relatively easy to find it is not. Somehow there are no copies in WorldCat, and lots of other places. I dunno. [++] Wonderful publication.[++] Nothing quite exceeds like excess said Mr. Wilde (and others) , and he/they could be no more correct when looking at this picture of a Movable Maginot Line [see the FIFTH PIC] it is a mobile fort, complete with plane launching capacity, two dozen long canons, a crane, and a host of other stuff. [++]It looks as though it has ample room for all sorts of materiel though leaving little room for, perhaps, an engine. I just can t see where it might beperhaps it is near the not-room-enough-for-it-either ammunition compartment. Maybe they were in a smaller armed cart being pulled by the mothership? I reckon that this beast was 66 feet high, 100 feet long and 60 feet wide, which is a very big, heavy near-cube. Good luck with driving the thing in any-thing that was less than perfect conditions. A big profile like this, filled with guns and canons or not, also makes for a big target profile a tall, broad target with flat/non-inclined sides. ( I should also point out that there are two 10 loudspeakers mounted on the front of the fort to instill fear in the people that the thing was approaching with loud noise. The author points out that the Nazis used noise against the French with their screaming dive bombers , and so the fort would use the same tactics against the Nazis in the movable fort not that the sound of the engines and the attendant noise wouldn t ve been enough of a fear factor in themselves) [++] But the image of such a monster, sensical or not, was enough for the purposes of the pamphlet in which it appeared. The Brains to Win was a piece of British spirit/hope propaganda issued at about the time of the Battle of Britain in 1940, and it listed the sorts of technological breakthroughs that were going to push the nation over the top to victory. Some of the stuff was real, some not like the moving fort/Howl s Castle above, and the floating fort, below. [++] I m not sure where a floating fort would make sense, especially one of that size. (Iterating the figures on deck into distance, it looks as though the deck on the floating platform was 150 or 200 square. It would ve looked like a big target from above.) Given the time and expense and material needed for such a thing, it seems that it would ve been cheaper to make a moveable fortress not quite so big, with less of a profile, and more mobile I think that this was called a destroyer or battleship . [++] But no matter, I m just poking fun at some of the future vision that became archaic the moment it was drawn, punk retro-future. All the pamphlet was trying to point out in its 32 pages was that overall the Brits were smarter than the Germans and that would be the balance for victory in the war. Hitler will get some very unpleasant surprises before this is over the author very politely pointed out, no doubt with one eyebrow raised. The scientists agreed. And they were right, which is all that matters.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. PFIZER Products for the Pharmaceutical Industry. Vitamins, Antibiotics, Organics, Inorganics. Chas. Pfizer & Co., Brooklyn. 1951. 11"x 8.5", 85pp, photo illustrated. Heavy, slick wrappers and printed on a glossy-ish paper. Plastic comb (GVC) bound. VG copy, fresh and bright. Provenance: Library of Congress, with a few light marks here and there. ++NO COPIES found in WorldCat++.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Impact of War on the Citizen, a Conference Sponsored by the Wellesley College Forum and International Student Service. New York, International Student Service, 1942. 11"x8.5", 15 leaves. Mimeographed. The guest speakers at this conference at Wellesley included Elanor Roosevelt, Talcott Parsons, Quentin Reynolds, Clyde Kluckholm, and others. NO COPIES located by WorldCat. Provenance: Library of Congress, Pamphlet Collection, with a rubber stamp on front cover as well as the 10mm perforated "LC" on front wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Life-Boat Service and the War, a Record of Gallantry and Endurance. 1940. 9.25"x6.25", xxxixpp ads, 39pp text, with lots of photos. Original wrappers. Provenance: Library of Congress, with a few of their rubber stamps here and there. The text block is separated from the covers, though I think a little glue would change that. [++] Wonderful publication on the actions and bravery of the Life-Boat Service and the countless acts of heroism these people performed. The subtitle to this work is accurate. [++] Unexpectedly there are only FOUR copies of this work found in WorldCat: Harvard, NYPL, British Library, and Trinity (Dublin). All of course top-rate. Evidently a scarce work. Even when searching Google under the full title there are almost no hits.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Russian Lady-Committees of the Society for the Aid of Wounded and Sick Soldiers. Printed in St. Petersburg, (March 29) 1876, by the Imperial Academy of Science [translated but accurate]. 10"x 7". Original self-wrappers. Provenance: Free Library of Philadelphia (annotated in pencil on rear of first leaf), and then the Library of Congress (with their 10mm perforated "LC" on cover and rubber stamp on rear cover). Paper is considerably heavier than "usual". Very nice copy of a rare pamphlet (evidently) which is UNLOCATED in WorldCat. Outline of the good works in the relief of soldiers for wartime and in peace, with specifics of who is doing the charitable works, the costs, the physical plants, beneficiaries, and the like.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Des soldats europeens vous parlet de la Russie Sovietique. Printed by "A.T.S.", Paris, February 1943. 9.5"x 6.5", 76pp, with 25 mostly grim photo illustration (10 full-page). Bound in the original wrappers, stapled at the dise. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their small rubber stamped "Pamphlet Collections" on the cover and transfer stamp on the rear of the title page. GOOD copy, though printed on inferior paper. [++] NO COPIES are found in WorldCat and there is nothing at all about this work in a google search. Also for fun I tried some of the AI platforms and they were a whitewash or just simple and without any insight. [++] So I wondered what way this work was going to sawing regarding the Soviets, but a quick look at the table of contents (pictured in two images here) answered that quickly. There are free and abundant uses of "misery" and "barbarous" and "hell(ish)" and that sort. Also at the bottom corner of the last page is the printer slug stating the pamphlet wasprinted in February 1943, hich means if not Vichy then Nazi-directed Vichy or just Nazi propaganda. [++] Also, there is a mostly-faded rubber stamp along the top of the front cover that (with difficulty) reads "Inter-Departmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications" (known as the IDC) which was an operation active during World War II. The IDC's purpose was to collect publications from other countries for distribution to U.S. government and research libraries, a mission that involved intelligence and strategic importance during the war. .

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Sikorski. Three Speeches by General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish Prime Minister and C.-in-C. Of the Polish Forces. (1943?) No place of publication, or publisher/printer, or date is listed but I would guess London 1943. 9.75"x7.25", 6pp. Wrappers. GOOD copy, at best, browned and somewhat brittle around the edges. Also has two small ownership rubber stamps on the front page. [++] Comes with an embossed sheet "with compliments of the Polish Prime Minister". [++] Note: it seemed unlikely but I could find NO listings for this work in WorldCat.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. (Waldorf-Astoria Apartments) Period Homes a la Carte, the Towers, the Waldorf Astoria A Group of Distinguished Apartment Homes Located in the Residential Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria. NYC, The Waldorf Astoria, 1940. 9.25"x 6", 30pp. Photos of the period rooms offered for sale, plus a section of three pages (including 7 plans) of different apartment types available for purchase. Printed on a high-end (probably handmade) paper. Original stiff, superior deckle-edged paper wrappers. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their surplus stamp on the rear wrapper. FINE condition. **Note NO COPIES are located in WorldCat. Rare.**.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Noise Survey and Repair Procedures for Submarine Noise Reduction. This is publication NavShips 250-371, published by the Department of the Navy Bureau of Ships in April 1951. It is 11x8", offset printed, punch bound, and secured with aluminum screws in a decorated USN binding. The publication is only 80 pages long, and starts at the very beginning ("What is sound?") and works it way through the basics in 14pp or so, when we get to "machinery noise" and what can be done about it, as with "Noise Reduction with Isolation Mounts" on pg 17, when things begin to get complicated. Also: there is no record of the book being found in library holdings in WorldCat/OCLC. This is an excellent copy, nearly without blemish. [++] Only four copies located in libraries worldwide: U.S. Naval Academy, US Navy Department Library, SUGPO, and UNM Main. ++NOTE++ There is no discoloration on the blue cloth binding--the cloth just kept catching the light and so came this washed out look. The book in-peron is very sharp and a deep blue.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. **Rare work** William W. Hill and Alfred Coe. **NO COPIES found in WorldCat** "Finger Print Classification. International Laboratories of Forensic Research ("Budd Lake, NJ, PO Box 302"). 1937. 11x8.5",  (i), 32pp, 9 plates (of close-up fingerprint drawings). Mimeographed wirk bound in a three-ring binder. The binder is in FAIR condition (3/10), with the spine backstrip lacking and both boards detached. The text is dusted but crisp.  Text is in GOOD condition (5-6/10), though probably a little better.  __+__ This work states that it is based upon the Henry System (1) of fingerprint classification, which buy this point had been around for more than 50 years. It seems that the addition to the field that this work attempts to make is reordering the way in which fingerprint data is stored. The Henry System evidently used a cabinet drawer divided into 32x32 sections--here the sections are 12x12, though there are subdivisions of type patterns that seem to make the organization more extensive along with an additional numerical system (with arithmetical rules and functions) that I haven't devoted any time to understanding. __+__ This work is unknown to WorldCat/OCLC, and is not  findable via standard means online. For one reason or another, this work received little or no circulation.  __+__ NOTES: (1.) The Henry Classification System is a long-standing method (begun ca. 1877) by which fingerprints are sorted by physiological characteristics for one-to-many searching. Developed by Hem Chandra Bose, Azizul Haque and Sir Edward Henry in the late 19th century for criminal investigations in British India, it was the basis of modern-day AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) classification methods up until the 1990s. .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Julius Nelson, Artyping. Published by Artyping Bureau, Johnstown,Pa. 1939. First edition. 11"z 8.5", 44 leves. Paper wrappers, staple-bound at top with a cloth bookbinding adhesive tape covering that. Very fresh copy! Near-fine condition, Provenance: the Library of Congress, with their 10mm perforated "LC" stamp on the title page and their surplus stamp at rear. Also a tiny rubber stamp "Pamphlet Collection at top right front cover corner. [++] This is a splendid collection by Mr. Nelson, who taught high school secretarial science in Pennsylvania ("Instructor, Secretarial Science, Windber high School, Windber, Pa."), and who provides what is basically a DIY on how to create art with your typewriter. This is no doubt a masterpiece of its type (sorry!), introducing to many the possibilities of creating images with letters and numbers. [++] There are NO COPIES of this work located in WorldCat! [++] Note: there is an interesting article by Alexis Madrigal ("The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art--People will make art with any technology") in "The Atlantic" talking about the history and pre-history of typed art that you should read to further appreciate this pre-computer art application of alpha-numerical typed art. The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art--People will make art with any technology. (Another article on the Nelson book that appears in The Verge "On the ASCII Art of the 1930s".).

No Binding. Condition: Good. Catholic Students' Mission Crusade. Communism a Mission Investigation. Catholic Students' Mission Crusade, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1941. 11x8.5", 19pp. Mimeographed. Staple bound. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their stamps on the front cover. Original wrappers. Good condition. NO copies found in WorldCat.

No Binding. Condition: Good. (State of Oil Production in the USA, 1930 Rare publications) Ralph Arnold and O.I. Deschon (Los Angeles) "Petroleum in the North Rocky Mountain Region, including Wyoming, Montana and Alberta. 5 leaves. R.E. Rettger, "Petroleum Developments in Wet Texas and Southeast New Mexico in 1929", 12 leaves. F.E. Poulsen, "Development in East Texas and Along the Balconies Fault Zone, 1929. 11 leaves. Alfred Bell and Paul F. Simpson. Petroleum developments in Indiana and Illinois. 10 leaves. All published talks give at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, NYC, February 17-21, 1930. All are stapled leaves, mimeographed from typed originals. [++] None of these titles are found as separately printed in WorldCat. GOOD copies, dusty. All are 11"x8.5". Provenance: Library of Congress Pamphlet Collection, though not stamped so.

No Binding. Condition: Good. MUSIC on War Duty. Music for Victory Committee. MMPA, Los Angeles, [1942]. 12"x 9", in quarter folds unfolding to 24"x 18" poster, with printing on both sides. GOOD crisp copy. The detraction is there there are five pinpricks in the upper left corner of the title page of this publication which means that when unfolded those pinholes are right in the center of the poster. This is not horrible by any stretch, but the are there. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their small (10cm) "LC" perforated stamp on cover bottom and surplus stamp on rear (though not appearing when unfolding to the poster).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. "Hibbert Houses are hostels for rest and recreation of Allied troops in the Middle East." 11x8.5", mimeographed sheets (from typed originals), the pamphlet printed in landscape. Staple-bound, 10 leaves (printed one side only). Provenance: stamped "Office of Strategic Services Library" on front leaf and on front cover; from the OSS the book went to the Library of Congress, with their surplus stamp on the back cover. There is also a borrower's card paper-clipped on the first leaf. OSS ex-libris is not common.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Fritz Kramer. Forces of Resistance Inside Germany, an Address given by Fritz Kramer at a members' meeting of the Trade Union Centre for German Workers in Great Britain. 10x8", 25x21cm, 15pp. Printed at the Espedite Duplicating Bureau, London, and printed September 1943. Original wrappers, staple bound. Offset, printed on both sides of each page. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their Surplus/Duplicate stamp on the front cover, as well as a tiny "LC" perforated stamp at the bottom of the front cover. Very Good condition. Only 2 copies located WorldCat/OCLC (National Library Scotland, British Library. __+__ "The Trade Union Centre for German Workers in Great Britain (TUCGWGB) was founded just before the outbreak of the Second World War, but did not begin its work in earnest until the release of many of the German exiles, who were interned at the outbreak of war. The chairman of the TUCGWGB, Hans Gottfurcht, had for many years been an active trade unionist in Germany, where he helped establish a number of illegal trade unions under the Nazis. The establishment of the TUCGWGB was regarded as necessary because of the particular situation brought about by the large influx of refugees and exiles. Whereas it would normally have been expected for these new arrivals to join existing British trade unions (which they did as well), there was always a sense that their stay in Great Britain would only ever be temporary, and that they needed a representative organisation that would reflect their particular interests. After the war and the demise of the TUCGWGB, Hans Gottfurcht went on to become a pivotal figure as liaison between the newly formed Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund and the occupying British authorities."--the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Pierre de Lanux, Notes by Pierre de Lanux, for his Friends, October 1941. The Free French, their Motives, and the Meaning of their Cause. November, 1941. Received by the Library of Congress November 10, 1941. 11 x 8.5", 11 leaves. Mimeographed. Includes the following sections: Those Who Walk by Night; A War of Independence; The F.F.F.(Free French Forces);the Invisible Army; In Terms of History. [++] Provenance: Library of Congress, with a small oval stamp plus three small rubber stamps on front page; LC rubber stamp on rear page. Front page a little dusty but he rest of the text is in Very Good condition. Stapled, with last leaf detached. Very old and nearly gone horizontal fold at center. [++] NO copies located in WorldCat. [++] The Free French, or "France Libre," was a movement during World War II that continued the fight against Nazi Germany after the fall of France in 1940. Led by General Charles de Gaulle, the Free French Forces operated from London and other locations, organizing resistance efforts and rallying support for the liberation of France. "Pierre de Lanux was involved in the French Resistance during World War II. He played an active role in opposing the Nazi occupation of France. His work with the Resistance included helping to forge documents and providing support to those escaping the regime. Lanux's commitment to the cause reflected his dedication to freedom and resistance against tyranny during a tumultuous period in history.".