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AC8.H7317, Before the Sabbath, Eric Hoffer, Harper & Row, NY, 1979 // Foreign Service Institute Library, Department of State.
DS49.G7I81936, Japan Must Fight Britain, Lt.-Comdr. T?ta Ishimoru, I.J.P. (Imperial Japanese Navy), Hurst & Blackett, Ltd, London, 1936 // Front cover verso bookplate of a sailing ship and Ex Libris, John F. Mangels. Figure DS49.G7I81936. Cursive on first free endpaper, Chen Chu Pei, Two months after the liberation of Manila, the world famous metripalis (sic) in the East, 20 April 1945. So far, Chen Chu Pei is the only person who has provided such wonderful narrative about the books in his hands. Note the title and date, five years before Japan attacked the United States to start World War II.
DS740.N6, Chinese Communism, Robert C. North, McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 1966 // First free endpaper and last endpaper verso stamp, Naval Station Library, Guam, Marianas.
CT275.V234V3, Queen of the Golden Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY // Bottom of first free endpaper, Library U.S. Naval Station, Argentia, Newfoundland. This is a little town in Placentia Bay in southeast Newfoundland.
DA28.1.B451954, The Royal Family, Pierre Berton, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1955 // Stamped on title page verso, Property of AFL 5518 Base Library, 7513th Air Base Group, RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk (England) Royal Air Force Base Mildenhall is about 70 miles north of London. It was and still remains the principal base utilized by the U.S. Air Force for flights from and to the United States and Europe.
E178.C3, The Seafarers, Robert Carse, Harper & Row, NY, 1964 // First free endpaper stamp, Library, USS Bennington, CVS 20, FPO San Francisco, Calif. 96681. The Bennington was an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1944.
E178.C3, The Seafarers, Robert Carse, Harper & Row, NY, 1964 // First free endpaper stamp, Library, USS Bennington, CVS 20, FPO San Francisco, Calif. 96681. The Bennington was an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1944.
HD31.M31934c, Prohibiting Poverty, Farrar & Rinehart, NY, 1934 // Front cover verso bookplate, Ex Libris, Henry R. Luce (blacked out) and first free endpaper embossed stamp, Ex Libris, Clare Boothe Luce, with a crest and two lions on their hind legs.
HE356.A4R45, Crooked Road, David A. Remley, McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 1976 // First free endpaper stamp, Sellenkirchen International Library and title page stamp, US Army Library, Baumholder Military Community, APO NY 09034. Baumholder is an American base in the western part of Germany.
HJ2377.G74, Production, Jobs and Taxes, Harold M. Groves, McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 1944 // First free endpaper cursive, Dennis Chavez, July 5, 1944, U.S. Senate and stamp, Library, Senator Dennis Chavez, New Mexico. Chavez served as a U.S. Senator from 1935 until his death in November 1962.
HK21.P871930, Psychologies of 1930, Carl Murchison, Clark University Press, Worcester, MA // Front cover verso cursive, K.E. Coffield and first free endpaper cursive, Theodore E. Frank, Cairo, Nov. 20, 1920. There is a little town of Cairo in the southern most tip of Illinois, but we feel safe in placing this Cairo in Egypt, but based on absolutely no evidence.
HV687.D8, An Approach to Social Medicine, Francis Lee Dunham, The Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore, MD, 1925 // Front cover verso stamp, Northern Wisconsin Colony and Training School, Professional Library. This school is in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and serves as a facility for helping mongoloids.
PC5327.L51942, Pequeno dicionario brasileiro da lingua portuguesa, Editora Civilizacao Brasileira S/N, Rio De Janiero, 1942 First Free endpaper stamps, Ministrio da Educaao E Saude, Institututo Nacional Do Livro, End.Avenida Rio Branco no. 219/39, Edifico da Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro and Property of University of Georgia, The Romance Language Department.
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