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First edition, thus. Original paper covered boards with cloth spine. A near fine copy. "Reprinted here are two newspaper accounts of the rebellion [in 1676 and 1677]. The term newspaper is used in a most restricted sense, since the pamphlets involved are far more like seventeenth century books than modern newspapers, and do not fulfill our current expectations of objectivitiy, not to mention accuracy and clarity. But newspapers they were, in a seventeenth-century sense, and the titles STRANGE NEWS FROM VIRGINIA and MORE NEWS FROM VIRGINIA would have indicated immediately to the London citizen eager for news that the latest information was here available."
$ 35.00

108. GANGPLANK NEWS. FINAL EDITION - JUNE 25 - 1919.
Embarkation Camp - St. Nazaire, France, 1919. 95 pp., illus.

Quarto. First edition. Original printed wrappers bound into later cloth. A very good copy. "With this the Souvenir Edition of the Gang-plank News the First real army daily in France goes out of existence." - p.94. This short- lived paper was started on April 2, 1919. "Through the proverbial kindness of soldiers the paper prospered from the first, and soon seven thousand daily copies were being distributed, this number later reaching ten thousand daily." Obviously few were kept. Those that were not read to death probably suffered from the need soldiers have of clean paper. Only 8 institutions own a few of the individual issues of four-pages each ( standard newspaper size). There are no recorded holdings of this final edition which is a 95 page pamphlet filled with news, photographs, and original art. A rare and important compilation of material from the 85 days the paper existed
$ 450.00

109. Rozelle, David. BACK IN ACTION AN AMERICAN SOLDIER'S STORY OF COURAGE, FAITH, AND FORTITUDE.
Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005. 230 pp., plates.

First edition, first printing. Original paper covered boards, large contemporary gift inscription, else a near fine copy without dust jacket. A poignant autobiography of an amputee soldier's return to duty after his wounding in Operation Desert Storm.
$ 15.00

110. United States. President. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE, SHOWING THE HUMBER AND NAMES OF
THE SOLDIERS ENLISTED DURING THE LATE WAR, AND ENTITLED TO BOUNTY LAND. Washington: Blair & Rives, 1841. 34 pp.

First edition. 26th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Doc. No. 50. Original self-wraps, removed from bound volume. A very good copy. Contains lists of warrants and bounty to be paid for service rendered in the War of 1812.
$ 65.00

111. United States. House of Representatives. PAY AND COMMUNICATION FOR FUEL AND QUARTERS TO OFFICERS IN SEMINOLE AND CREEK CAMPAIGNS.
Washington, 1843. 12 pp.

First edition. 27th Congress, 3d Session, House Doc. No. 287. Original self-wraps, removed from bound volume. A very good copy. Includes future Civil War generals such as First Lieutenants W. J. Hardee and H. H. Sibley in the Second Dragoons.
$ 85.00

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