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First separate edition. Original printed wrappers. A near fine copy. An interview between Lord Milner and the London correspondent of the New York times published in the New York times, August 22, 1915, under caption: Justifies making cotton contraband.
$ 75.00

164. Ruggles Logan E. (comp). HISTORY OF THE VON STEUBEN AND THE PART SHE PLAYED IN THE GREAT WAR.
Hoboken, N.J.: Ship History Publishing Co., 1919. 71 pp., plates.

Log and notes by Owen W. Norton, U.S. Navy, compiled by Logan E. Ruggles, U.S. Navy. First edition. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. A rare history. Worldcat records only three holdings. This copy comes with a newspaper published aboard ship. Heading reads: The Trident Published daily on board the U.S.S. VON STEUBEN Captain C. R. Miller, U.S.N., Commanding. May 8, 1919 - Vol. 3, No. 3. This two page paper is headlined: MACHINE GUN BATTALION PLAYED BIG PART WITH "LES TERRIBLES." The article begins: "The history of the 120th Machine Gun Battalion now on board is part of the famous Thirty-Second Division called by the French "Les Terribles" which spent six months under shell fire with but ten days in the rest area. With their division they fought on five fronts and in three major offenses..." The HISTORY OF THE VON STEUBEN is nicely illustrated with nine photographic plates. One is captioned: THE U.S.S. VON STEUBEN AT THE TIME SHE WAS CARRYING THREE THOUSAND FIGHTING MEN TO FRANCE, AND ASIDE FROM THIS SHE CARRIED HUNDREDS OF AEROPLANES AND MOTOR TRUCKS. A roster of officers and crew is appended. A nice pair of items; a history of the ship with an issue of a paper printed on board.
$ 250.00

165. PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED U.S.S. Nebraska. U.S.S. NEBRASKA STATION BILLS AND INTERIOR REGULATIONS.
np, 1908. 50 pp.

First edition. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled. A very good copy formerly owned and signed by sailor Alfred B. Roth of New Haven, Connecticut. Roth has also made some pencil notations in the text. A rare glimpse into daily life aboard this WWI era battleship. The USS Nebraska was a 14,948-ton Virginia class battleship built at Seattle, Washington; the last U.S. Navy battleship to be built by a West Coast shipyard for over a decade. It saw duty in World War I and was part of the legendary "Great White Fleet." This United States Navy battle fleet, consisting of four squadrons of four battleships each along with with their escorts, completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 1907-1909, per order of President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military might and blue-water navy capability prior to World War I. The historic fourteen- month long voyage was the first large scale demonstration of American sea power.
$ 275.00

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