Unknown Sailor (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tan postcard album measuring 7 1/4" x 5", 32 pristine colour postcards of Canal Zone and 4 from Cuba, circa 1920, 6 b/w photos of the sailor and friends, 7 pages of text in which he dates and lists his postngs--Guantanamo Bay, Canal Zone, etc. Scenes include USS Michigan, the Atlantic flagship USS Arizona (destroyed at Pearl Harbor), Balboa Docks, Hotel Tivoli, community house, church, high school, street scene, destroyers in line, hospital, coaling station, docks, etc. Very rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dated 1979-1982, a unique and RARE Soviet sailor's photo album, 13 1/2" w x 9" h, in string-tied brown velvet over heavy cardboard. Containing 40 pp. of thick cardboard, with 140 black and white and 4 color photographs pasted in, and 4 B & W photos and 1 negative laid in. The album rendered unique and amazing by the addition of 15 exquisitely detailed SIGNED pen and ink tracings of warships, 11 modern Soviet Navy warships and 4 tall ships, on rice paper, with each tracing interspersed between the photography pages. Very Good, small tears to the edges of some of the rice paper sheets. RARE Soviet Navy photographs from the height of the Cold War taken by an incredibly talented sailor/ artist.

Ring Bound. Condition: Very Good. No dates, circa 1956-1971. No author and no writing of any kind. Archive includes one deck of playing cards titled Operation Deep Freeze Task Force 43, two metal ashtrays, one 4 1/2" dia. and the other 7 1/4" dia., both engraved "U.S. Naval Antarctic Support Activities; and an American United Life Annual Report three ring binder containing 24 pp. with 85 black and white photographs, three- 8" x 10"; two - 5" x 7", and 80 4 7/8" x 3 1/2", and 6 blank pages. One 8 x 10 photograph features a Lockheed C-121J Willie Victor (BuNo 131624) Phoenix 6 aircraft, which was retired following "Deep Freeze '71" in March 1971, and which was not listed on the active duty resume for Deep Freeze operations in its early stages in the late 1950s.So likely the photographs were taken on the 1970-71 expeditions. Subjects of the photographs include equipment and aircraft, personnel, landscapes, both on the ground and aerial, and a great 8 x 10 of a husky sled dog. A unique slice of Antarctic exploration history. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. On offer is a handwritten manuscript diary written aboard the USS Monticello AP-61. Very legible in pencil text block has fallen away from the rubber glue top. All 73 sheets are still inside. This comprehensive 5" x 8" Royalmont notebook journal has been well taken care of, as none of the 73 pages exhibit tears, creases, fragility, or foxing. All are completely full of first-hand historical and insider information. The journal is very factual, with only a few entries not pertaining to the ship. The nameless young man from Ohio does talk very fondly about his wife and baby, and about the ship's food. It measures 5" x 8". It begins on July 1, 1944, and ends on November 14 of the same year. Every page is easy to read. The first day of this trip for The USS Monticello, she had a convoy of 30 ships and blimp dirigible escorts. A quote from the first week:"We are going to England. I have heard that the Monticello is the fifth fastest ship, and that this is only the second time that she has been convoyed.It is reported that we have 7M troops aboard". A later entry reads "We are to come across the Northern tip of Ireland, through the Firth of Clyde. This morning we passed quite close to the Isle of Man". In the bay at Liverpool, he states "Our Propaganda Machine is second to none. I would like to tell people how we are all being fooled". The sailor then boarded the former luxury liner, the USS West Point, "A beautiful American, built just prior to the war-not all of the former splendid is gone, but is now a troop ship".