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Text Box: The Personal Navigator Antique Books, Maps, Papers &c. Text Box: We offer plenty of links to our various categories in our Site Map. If you like handwritten trips into the past, with old postcards, journals, diaries, autograph books and such, visit our American Originals. Be sure to look at our catalogue, NEWSPAPERS IN HISTORY. We have some fascinating papers where you can see perhaps a tiny mention of something that you know turned out to be a major historical event! When you are ready to order, simply call or email us! —The Personal Navigator Our latest acquisitions…. Added Wednesday, February 3, 2010: Spot Cotton and the Eastern Cotton Market: New Bedford Storage Warehouse Company ca. 1920 New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Storage Warehouse Co. Promotional booklet for "The Spot Cotton Center of the East--How up to date shippers use it to great advantage…Sprinklered storage capacity for 100,000 Bales at one time. New Bedford's modern fireproof public warehouses for cotton storage exceed in capacity any other city in New England, capable of accommodating approximately 225,000 bales of cotton at one time. New Bedford has over 3,500,000 cotton spindles, or nearly half the total number of spindles in Bristol County, Massachusetts.” Booklet features photos of men unloading cars and ships at warehouse platform, State Pier. Includes "Aeroplane View of the City of New Bedford" showing location of cotton mills, including Manomet, Nonquitt, Nashewena, Whitman, Fairhaven, Wamsutta, Quissett, Potomska, Acushnet, Passaic, more; also other manufacturing and transportation facilities. 12 pp. 21 x 28 cm. Paper booklet, good. (8002) $31.00. Advertising/Commercial Clubwoman's Diary, 1953 Boston, MA: ephemera. This lady is the ultimate clubwoman-- her diary is a list of meetings of VFW Auxiliary, Navy Mothers, Church groups, A.U.W.(Ass'n of Univ. Women?), Republicans, Parent Teachers, Scouts, and more. Son Don is off to the Navy, and is sailing from Boston, to Able Station, Greenland, other spots. Vacation at Skowhegan. This little diary contains usually short entries in one year of the life of a very busy woman. 7 x 10.6 cm. Small red leather standard diary. Very good. (8006) $20.00. American Originals/Diary Rosanna; or Scenes in Boston by the Author of "Three Experiments in Living", etc. First Edition by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1839 Cambridge, MA: John Owen. Author Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (1780-1865) wrote her first book at age 52, and obtained a fine reputation as a writer of books to guide children morally. In this book, Rosanna McCarty is a young Irish immigrant woman in Boston, and she fits the stereotype of the time: Poor, Catholic, and intemperate. Lee's use of Irish accent and her description of life among these poor folks is colorful and sometimes funny. This book has been reproduced very frequently, but first edition copies are quite scarce. 134 pp. 11 x 17 cm. Brown cloth on board with blindstamped design and gilt title, cover very good, text block soiled at endpapers and foxed. Owner's name "Elizabeth Pettee" written in pencil on front free endpaper. Good. (7997) $75.00. Children's/Religious Nation's Business, Extra Edition, June 5 1926 Self-Government in Business by Hoover, Herbert; Jemison, Robert Jr., et al. 1926 Washington, DC: The Chamber of Commerce of the United States. "We Can Cooperate and Yet Compete" by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce; "Self-Government in Business" by Julius H. Barnes; "Business Can and Must Rule Itself" by Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland; "Washington Can't Do It All" by Ogden L. Mills, Member of Congress, New York; "Sailing Orders for American Business--Resolutions of Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States”; Full-page ads for Pierce-Arrow Six-Cylinder Motor Buses, Addressograph, Richards-Wilcox Mfg. Co. FyeR-Wall Door; Davey Tree Surgeons; Western Electric, General Electric, more. 64 pp. 23 x 30 cm. Periodical, lower right corner pages dogeared, fair. (8000) $15.00. History/Business France, Our Ally: A Brief Account of France, Its People, and Their Part in the War, with special Information for American Soldiers [WITH an American Soldier's mementos included.] by Van Vorst, B. 1918 New York, NY: National War Work Council of YMCA. This is a rich little World War I piece that belonged to Pvt. Thomas Salzillo of Providence, RI, Co. H, 114th Infantry, 29th Division. He has listed what must be the names of his platoon, and in the book are two clippings about the 29th Division in France. One notes that the 114th fought in Haute-Alsace and Meuse-Argonne. Also two tramway tickets and a watchmaker's business card from Bordeaux. Little book explains French customs, currency, urges courtesy, explains French bargaining, and provides a map of France. 44 pp. 9.8 x 15.3 cm. Paper booklet with included clippings, card and tram tickets, fair. (8004) $35.00. World War I/American Originals Army Song Book, U.S.--For free distribution to all Officers and Men in the Army [with World War I Soldier's inscription, giving book to his sister.] 1918 Washington, DC: War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities. World War I Song Book, includes Star-Spangled Banner, America, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, Over There, K-K-K-Katy, The Garibaldi Hymn, La Brabançonne, more. At back of booklet is inscription by Thomas Salzillo, dated May 30, 1919, giving this Song Book to his sister, Margaret. 98 pp. 13.2 x 9.5 cm. Paper booklet, very good. With inscription as noted. (8005) $20.00. World War I/Music "The Warsaw Ghetto no longer exists" [Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohubezirk - in Warschau mehr!] From the Warsaw Ghetto Archivesof Alexander Ben. Bernfes--the story of the Nazis' extermination of the Polish Jews by Bernfes, Alexander Ben. 1973 London, England: Orbis Publishing Ltd. Collection of photos showing how the Nazis steadily squeezed the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, then systematically exterminated them. They were sent to Teblinka, where they used monoxide gas, but then Hoess, commandant at Auschwitz used Zyklon B, crystallized prussic acid, which was "much more efficient." Photos show how Nazis tightened their grip on the Ghetto in Autumn 1941; dehumanizing techniques, baiting of Jews, shooting children who slipped into the Aryan areas to steal food, children branded as human vermin. Making Jews dig graves for themselves. Photos of many corpses, including children. In charge of this: Jürgen Stroop, SS-Brigadeführer and Majorgeneral of Police. He was executed in Warsaw, the site of his greatest crimes, on 8 Sept. 1951. "May this record of infamy perpetrated against my people, portraying with total authenticity the life and annihilation of the Warsaw Ghetto, help to perpetuate their hallowed memory. Gloria Victis."-- Alexander Ben. Bernfes, Jewish Martyrs' Graves Commission. 64 pp. 22 x 29.5 cm. Paper booklet very good. (8003) $20.00. World War II/Holocaust

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