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By: "LADY" and MARY
Price: $895.99
Publisher: STATEN ISLAND NEW YORK REIDSVILLE NORTH CAROLINA, 1913
Seller ID: 0001143
On offer is a rather intriguing 1906 manuscript diary handwritten for the most part by 'Lady' [as identified by the other part time writer who is 'Mary']. Lady is a woman of means, having a number of members in her household who tend to and for her. Mary seems to do most of the writing in the first few weeks of the diary and then Lady takes over. It seems Lady is to marry shortly and is all consumed with preparations. Mary writes: 'sat in library and sewed while Estelle ... View more info
By: 'LOU' W. SMITH
Price: $2,255.99
Publisher: ACROSS THE U.S.A AND TO HAWAII AND BACK, 1923
Seller ID: 0009068
On offer is a fascinating, typescript diary of a young woman’s (named Lou W. Smith) trip across the United States, touring the West coast for a few days, and then departing on a steamship and heading for a Hawaiian vacation. The diary consists of 24 typed pages, beginning on Monday, July 16, 1923 “En route Baltimore & Ohio. Washington to Chicago.” and ending August 25th. A letter is also included that is very interesting and shines some light on the diary. It is wr... View more info
By: 2nd LIEUTENANT MARTIN M. GROSS
Price: $3,255.99
Publisher: MANILA HARBOR, PHILIPPINES, 1945
Seller ID: 0009178
On offer is a fascinating, concise and exceptionally detailed history and evaluation of the ‘Reconstruction and Development of Manila Harbor’ following the tremendous destruction and devastation of the population following the Battle of Manila (February 3 - March 3, 1945). The manuscript was created as a request sent by Civil Engineering for an article on the harbor on 5 July 1945. 2nd Lieutenant Martin M. Gross, Corps of Engineers, was the one who answered the call ... View more info
By: A YOUNG VICTORIAN GIRL - JO
Price: $1,285.99
Publisher: On The Road America USA, 1908
Seller ID: 000011b
On offer is a really wonderful diary of a young Victorian woman during the year of 1908 as she travels aboard a train from the West to the East coast and then back to the West coast again. As the diary starts out she is leaving her home in California on January 7th and spends most of 1908 traveling with her three sisters and parents. In fact Jo does most of the writing but there are also many times when her sisters write. Jo gets sick at one point then the sisters take o... View more info
Price: $3,385.99
Publisher: FORT CROWDER, MISSOURI - WINNIPEG, CANADA, 1945
Seller ID: 0008213
On offer is an excellent collection of letters written by a U.S. soldier in WWII to his parents. The collection contains 84 letters. They are in good condition and the handwriting is legible. Arno Edgar Wallace Maurer was 23 years old when he enlisted in the U.S. army. Entering as a Private, he finished the war as a Staff Sergeant. Born in 1921 in Winnipeg, Canada, he lived until 2015, passing away at the age of 94. After the war he received B.A. and M.A. from the Unive... View more info
By: A. PONDS ORLANDO
Price: $1,599.99
Publisher: BERNARDSVILLE NEW JERSEY NJ, 1974
Seller ID: 000942
On offer is an original manuscript by A. Ponds Orlando, personally inscribed to Erwin Richardt [noted anti government activist] in pencil - 'To Erwin, from Ponds'. In 1931 A. Ponds Orlando was an eyewitness to the Charles Cavanaugh murder on Sept 8, 1931, and this work recounts those events in detail, including how the state police chose an innocent scapegoat to pin the crime on, used third-degree tactics to force a false 'confession', fabricated false evidence, paid 'w... View more info
By: A.C. PARKER
Price: $1,955.99
Publisher: FINGAL ONTARIO PATRICIA BAY PORT HARDY KELOWNA BC, 1944
Seller ID: 0001858
On offer is a super, historical manuscript pair [2] of diaries handwritten by A.C. Parker #8 BR Squadron RCAF originally of Toronto. Parker does a super job detailing his service beginning January 1st, 1944 with being trained and educated in the art of aerial warfare putting in hours and hours of flight time and on gunnery firing many 100s of rounds near daily in practice at Fingal Ontario. Flying over Lake Erie is a freezing cold experience he notes without complaining.... View more info
By: A.N. NELSON
Price: $2,455.99
Publisher: SAN DIEGO LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA CA PANAMA CANAL, 1919
Seller ID: 0009029
On offer is a journal and diary of A. N. Nelson, a crew member on the U.S.S. Birmingham, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet’s Destroyer Squadron shortly after the end of World War 1. The diary is entitled above the first entry, “Cruise of U.S.S. Birmingham with Pacific Fleet on West Coast.” This is an accurate description of what takes place in the book. From July 17, 1919 to November 22, 1920, Nelson recounts the passage of the Birmingham as it leaves the Boston Na... View more info
By: A.R. SHOUSE [to Mr. Lawrence Mossby]
Price: $1,255.99
Publisher: FORT SANDERS KNOXVILLE TN TENNESSEE, 1906
Seller ID: 0009042
On offer is a letter from a Mr. A.R. Shouse to a Mr. Lawrence Mossby, concerning the hiring of of Mr. Shouse to charter and pilot a ship to haul cargo for Mr. Mossby. The letter is written from Fort Sanders (spelled ‘Saunders’), in Tennessee, and was written in 1906. The ship appears to be hauling cargo to Port-aux-Basque in Newfoundland. Mr. Shouse answers a number of questions posed by Mr. Mossby in his last letter, giving 9 answers to his questions. It seems Mr. ... View more info
By: AARON GLASSBERG [LATER VOLPE]
Price: $2,485.99
Publisher: TORONTO ONTARIO ON ROSTOV RUSSIA, 1911
Seller ID: 0001116
On offer is a remarkable original 1911 handwritten manuscript diary by a young Jewish boy named Aaron Glassberg [later Aaron Glassberg Volpe] living in Toronto Canada. All the more remarkable is the clear, articulate and fluent manner this 16 year old, who born in Rostov Russia in 1895, writes after having only lived in Canada for 5 years. Our writer is a smart, tough, mannered kid who experiences a young raw Toronto. Anti-semitism is a reality of the time and the city a... View more info
By: ABLE SEAMAN REGINALD SANDS
Price: $8,895.99
Publisher: ASEA ABOARD THE HMS SUFFOLK CHINA STATION JAPAN, 1928
Seller ID: 0001654
On offer is a significant, original 1928 through 1930 manuscript diary and scrapbook created, maintained and handwritten by British seaman Reginald Sands who provides a super almost day-by-day account of the maiden voyage of the storied British warship HMS Suffolk and its critical deployment to the China Station patrol covering the period Feb 7th 1928 to July 19th 1930. Adding tremendous depth to the narrative there are numerous original photographs, newspaper cuttings, ... View more info
Price: $5,255.99
Publisher: ISRAEL, 1950
Seller ID: 0008196
On offer are three [3] manuscript notebooks in Hebrew handwritten in 1950s by Abraham Greenberger with notes on use of various types of weapons used by the fledgling IDF, Israeli Defence Forces. They are regular 24-page school notebooks measuring 8.2' x 6.5', and 100%, 45%, and 12% complete. The pages are yellowed, covers of two notebooks are torn and detached, half of the last page in one of the notebooks is torn out and missing. The handwriting is very legible. It seem... View more info
By: ADELE DE LEEUW
Price: $1,255.99
Publisher: THE NETHERLANDS HOLLAND BELGIUM, 1927
Seller ID: 0002271
On offer is an interesting, original circa 1927 manuscript diary of a research trip to the Netherlands and a 1929 trip to Belgium by children's author, travel writer and biographer [Edith Cavell, Amelia Earhart] Adele de Leeuw who over her career wrote 75 books. The 4 x 6 inch flip style notepad is filled with 55 or so pages the majority about 35 pages regarding Holland include: notes on the sights, culture and history of all the cities and towns she visited. These notes... View more info
By: ADELE RICE [MRS OWEN R. RICE]
Price: $9,885.99
Publisher: MOSCOW USSR RUSSIA OAK PARK ILLINOIS, 1929
Seller ID: 0002430
On offer is a super, historically significant manuscript artifact of early Soviet Russia and American relations being the handwritten journal of Adele Rice [Mrs Owen R. Rice Oak Park Illinois], dated April 10th 1929 titled "Our Trip to Russia"; a member of the American Delegation sent on an educational and fact finding mission to Russia a mere 12 years after the Russian Revolutions. The findings and observations of this group are, research suggests, what the book... View more info
By: ADMIRAL FREDRICK W. RODGERS
Price: $13,855.99
Publisher: ABOARD THE USS NEW YORK, 1902
Seller ID: 0002347
On offer is a superb, fascinating original soft bound 1902 China Station diary and personal log handwritten by Admiral Frederick W. Rodgers (1842 - 1917). Rodgers was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He fought in the American Civil War and ascended to be the last commander of the Asiatic Fleet. He was a grandson of U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry. In May 1901, Rodgers became Senior Squadron Commander within the Asiatic Squadron. On March 1st 1902, he became th... View more info
By: ALAN E. MAURER
Price: $2,245.99
Publisher: ORWIGSBURG PA PENNSYLVANIA, 1930
Seller ID: 000833
On offer is a remarkable archive of twelve [12] handwritten manuscript diaries beginning in 1930 until the author's death in 1941. This archive chronicles the Depression Era and pre- World War Two era in superb fashion - the author Alan E. Maurer [1892-1941 son of William R. and Anna L. Maurer] was a meticulous, near obsessive diarist observing the world from a personal, local and national and international level as if he had a front row seat and never failing to present... View more info
By: ALAN MAURER
Price: $3,255.99
Publisher: ORWIGSBURG, PA, 1923
Seller ID: 0008212
On offer are two, original, small diaries dating from the 1920's. The first diary has 52 pages full of extensive memoranda pages and is 100% complete. The second has 365 pages plus memoranda. It too is 100% complete. The cover and pages of the first diary is in good condition but the cover has separated from the spine. The second diary is in very good condition. The handwriting in both is very very small but very neat. The diaries belong to Alan Maurer of Orwigsburg, PA.... View more info
By: ALBERT E. GEORGE
Price: $1,485.99
Publisher: WELLESLEY MASSACHUSETTS MASS MA BOSTON, 1914
Seller ID: 0001546
On offer is an original 1914 - 1918 manuscript journal handwritten by Albert E. George of Wellesley, Massachusetts. It appears that Mr. George was a clergyman as he writes about many religious topics, mentions giving sermons and speaks of others as "other clergyman". Entries paint a detailed picture of the times as he writes about many topics including the bad economy, poor living conditions, socialism, insane hospitals and he mentions the women in the church bei... View more info
By: ALBERT SHAW
Price: $4,255.99
Publisher: MT BERRY, ROME GEORGIA, 1941
Seller ID: 0002070
On offer is a very interesting, original manuscript diary handwritten by the noted author Albert Shaw, who did the Review of Reviews, and many other works in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Of the 35 pages of entries including his noteworthy trip to visit American educator and the founder of Berry College in Rome, Georgia Martha Berry at her school in Mt Berry, Georgia in 1941 there are a number of pages of literary and scholarly commentary. It says in part: Dated June 1... View more info
Price: $3,055.99
Publisher: Sheridan and Winslow Illinois IL, 1912
Seller ID: 0001987
On offer is a sensational, significant 1912 manuscript diary handwritten by rebel Seventh Day Adventist preacher Edward Ballenger. [While the diary does not have a name inside many other family members' names are mentioned plus there are other innumerable clues confirming ownership.] Edward and his brother Albion are easily found in a number of online websites for their troubles within the Church and authorship of a number of books and mentions in many more books. Bio no... View more info
