Anonymous

Chow. " the Salvation Army with the A.E. F.

Paris, Imp. P. Schneider & Cie. 1918. Rea-photo postcard, n. d. (ca 1918); 5 3/4 x 3 1/2; monochrome picture of two women of the Salvation Army, in uniform, holding cooking utensils; captioned below image; small manuscript note above image; manuscript address to verso; minor creasing to corners; in very good condition. A WWI piece of history, the poscard was created in France for the American Expeditionary Forces, the latter working with the Salvation Army. Very good .

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Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Wwi, Americana

Anonymous

See the First Division Circus at Montabaur, Germany. Two Whole Days July 11-12, 1919

Coblenz, Gorres-Druckerei, 1919. Poster; 14 1/2 x 9 1/4; thin, beige stock, printed and illustrated in red and black; small creases to corners; intersecting crease lines with small splits to edges and a tiny puncture at intersection; overall in about very good condition. An unrecorded poster, advertising the First Division Circus performances at Montabaur, it depicted a sinister-looking clown with a smiling pig by his side. If history is to be believed, there has been a peculiar symbiosis between armed forces and circuses consistently through the ages. During WWI, with soldiers facing danger and/or monotony on a daily basis, some apparently held hidden circus talent and would entertain their comrades with full-blown mini-circuses. The culmination of it all would be the American First Division Circus performances during the Occupation of 1919. For two days, the entire town of Montabaur, outside of Coblenz, would be transformed into a circus extravaganza with a street parade with elephants, horses, and floats, three-ring acts, and side-shows. It would also be remembered for a remarkable performance by the First Engineers, who managed to construct a military pontoon bridge across the Rhine in the record time of forty-one minutes and eight seconds. Very good .

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Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Wwi, Circus

Anonymous

Wwi Victory Button Proofs

S. l. By the author, 1918. Artist proof, n. d. (1918); 3 1/4 x 5; glossy, off-white stock with six identical, circular button designs in 2 rows by 3; minor wear - near fine condition. A wonderful design by an anonymous artist, the button depicted the intertwined flags of the war's victors, with "VICTORY" printed below. Near fine .

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Buchzahl: 003444

Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Wwi

Carlyon. T

The Diggers' Book. Anzac Memories

Petersham, Australia, Geo. Nye, 1940. First edition, n. d. (ca 1940); stapled, pictorial wraps; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [15]; mild spotting to wraps; small nicks to corners; creases to lower corner of back wrap; in good or better condition. According to the booklet's foreword, ti was compiled by a soldier of the A.I.F. (Australian Imperial Force), returning from the First World War, and the purchase of each copy was to assist an "Unemployed or Disabled Digger." It contained anecdotes and funny memories, which "the Anzacs have a super-abundance of..and with them the sense of humour is a gift. Good .

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Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Humor, Wwi

Hertz-Barwinski, Henryk Hertz

Woyska Polskiego Konterfektow Gladkich 20 Gwoli Uciechy Komilitonow Swoich... (Twenty Fair Portraits of the Polish Army for the Amusement of Our Brothers in Arms... )

S. l. s. n. 1916. Second Edition. Second edition, n. d. (1916); oblong 8 3/4 x 11 1/4; pp. [40], recto only; beige wraps, illustrated and printed in red and black, tied with a decorative string; 20 lithographs; small chips to corners; a few spots to wraps; wear to spine with a closed cut to head; bookshop label to first leaf; very good- condition. Henryk Barwinski (1877 - 1970) was a Polish actor, director, and cartoonist. He was the Second Lieutenant of the First Infantry Regiment of the First Brigade of the Polish Legions during WWI, where he was credited with organizing the Legion's theater. His current collection depicted caricaturistic portraits of Polish military figures, including Commander-in-Chief of Poland's Armed Forces Edward Rydz-Smigly, General Leon Berbecki, and others. Very good .

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Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Caricatures, Wwi, Poland

Interallied Commission on the Violation of the Hague Convention

Report of the Interallied Commission on the Violation of the Hague Convention and of the Principles of the International Law Committed in 1915-1918 by the Bulgarians in Occupied Serbia

Paris, Yougoslavia, 1919. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/2 x 10 1/2; pp. 32; stapled green wraps; small loss of paper to tips of spine and lower corner; age-darkening to margins of covers with a few small spots of foxing; minor discoloration to fore-edge of first several pages (not affecting text); fading signature to front cover; pages a bit brittle along edges; very good condition. The Hague Conventions, along with the Geneva Conventions, were among the very first formal statements of uniform international laws of war and war crimes. The report, written after WWI, outlined the atrocities committed by the Bulgarians against both prisoners of war and the civilian Serbian population. The crimes included internment, torture, massacre, etc. Ill.: 0. 2.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Wwi 0

Krivtsov, Alexis

Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry Appointed by Command of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia

S. l. s. n. 1916. First edition in English, n. d. (ca 1916); 10 3/4 x 7 1/2; pp. [2], 3-32; stapled, beige self-wraps; illustrated with four plates of photographs (both recto and verso); light dust-dulling to margins of wraps, with a small staples offset to front wrap (stored in a pile of other documents [?]); a few minor spots of foxing; in very good condition. A bit of a publication mystery, the report appeared to have been released, and consequently excised, from a later, much-larger one with the same name. Appointed by Emperor Nicholas I, with Senator Aleksei Krivtsov presiding over it, the commission was tasked with investigating the lives of Russian soldiers in captivity during WWI and the atrocities, perpetrated by the Germans and Austro-Hungarians, in violation of the Geneva Convention of 1906, and with certifying and releasing their findings. This specific report dealt with Russian POW in Austria and was assembled from first-person accounts, "who went through and survived the terrible days of Austrian captivity." The photographs illustrated the terrible and twisted ways prisoners had been cuffed and chained and the people in them were released prisoners, who had volunteered to "give ocular demonstration." Not in OCLC, not in the trade (as of May 2021). Very good .

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Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Wwi, Russia, Pow

Krivtsov, Alexis

The Imperially Instituted and Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry

S. l. s. n. 1916. First edition in English, n. d. (ca 1916); 10 3/4 x 8; pp. [2], 3-24; stapled, beige self-wraps; illustrated with one plate of photographs (both recto and verso); a few minor spots of foxing; small cuts around staples; in very good condition. Also included is a laid-in accompanying notice to the press (single leaf, text to recto only) and a loose leaf with facsimile letters. A bit of a publication mystery, the report appeared to have been released, and consequently excised, from a later, much-larger one with the name: "Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry Appointed by Command of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia." Appointed by Emperor Nicholas I, with Senator Aleksei Krivtsov presiding over it, the commission was tasked with investigating the lives of Russian soldiers in captivity during WWI and the atrocities, perpetrated by the Germans and Austro-Hungarians, in violation of the Geneva Convention of 1906, and with certifying and releasing their findings. This specific report dealt with Russian POW in Germany and was assembled from first-person accounts. The notice to the press, by Aleksei Krivtsov, appealed to the press to give publicity to the fact that two letters had been found among the possessions of dead German soldiers, which stated, in part: "We do not know where to put prisoners. Henceforth every Russian surrendering as a prisoner of war will be turned out in front of the line of our fortified positions to be shot." The press was encouraged to translate the letters and distribute them to "every country in the world." Not in OCLC, not in the trade (as of May 2021). Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003015

Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Wwi, Russia, Pow

Lieutenant Nowosielski, Sophie (Nowosielska, Zofja)

In the Hurricane of War. Memoirs of a Woman Soldier

S. l. (Louisville, Kentucky), By the author, 1929. First Edition. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5; pp. [7]; 10-124; beige pictorial wraps; illustrated from photographs, including frontis; a tiny nick to tail of spine; mild creasing to corners; n about very good condition. An uncommon memoir, it told the story of a young Polish woman, who served during WWI. Sophie was a tomboy from a wealthy, well-educated family, who, inspired by her grandfather's tales of 19th-century Polish heroines and by her father and brother being called to serve in the Austrian Army in 1914, ran away from home to join a Polish legion fighting for the reunification of Poland. She would be promptly send back home to her mother, but would eventually serve in the Polish Women's Voluntary Legion as a Lieutenant. Very good .

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Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Wwi

Robinson, Charles Larned

Don't Take a Chance

S. l. American Defence Society and YMCA, 1918. First Edition. First edition; 5 x 3 3/4; pp. 1-8; lithographed wraps; illustrated with a facsimile letter from Theodore Roosevelt; minor wear to spine and corners; in near fine condition. The pamphlet, written by Hollywood author Charles L. Robinson and published jointly by the YMCA and the American Defence Society (Approved by the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities, Social Hygiene Instruction Division), it instructed American soldiers on the risks of venereal diseases and implored the troops to be faithful to their wives and significant others back home. It also contained a facsimile of a Teddy Rosevelt letter, which thanked the author for his outstanding work. The pamphlet was widely distributed among Americans serving in France during WWI. Near fine .

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Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Venereal Diseases

Zbarazkyi, Semen

Kruty U 40-Richchia Velykoho Chynu 29-Ho Sichnia 1918 - 29-Ho Sichnia 1958 (Kruty, on the 40th Anniversary of the Battle, January 29th, 1918 - January 29th, 1958)

Miunkhen / Niu Iork (Munich / New York), Shliakh molodi, 1958. First Edition. First edition; 7 x 5; pp. 3-104; red wraps, printed in black; a bit of sun-fading to spine and minor wear to edges of wraps; in very good or better condition. Semen Zbaranskyi (pseud.), nee Danylo Chaikovskyi (1909 - 1972) was a Ukrainian journalist, author, and active member of OUN under Stepan Bandera. After spending time in Polish prisons, then Auschwitz and several DP camps, he lived in France, before finally settling in the US in 1957 and working as an editor for the Ukrainian daily "America." His current book told the history of the Battle of Kruty, between Russians and Ukrainians, and the heroism of the young Ukrainian people of the Student Batallion of Sich Riflemen against the invading Bolsheviks. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003225

Katalog: WWI

Sonstige Stichworte: Wwi, Russia, Ukraine