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, 1909. Hard Cover. 1909-1910. Landscape quarto, 28 thick card leaves. 211 black-and-white images mounted recto and verso. The majority of the images measure 3" x 4", with 2 large mountain scenes (approx 10"x8" and 9"x6" respectively) and 3 folding panorama postcards. Black half calf with gilt ruling to spine and edges; midnight blue cloth boards. A substantial family album of holiday snapshots documenting the leisure time and holidays of three generations of the descendants of William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister and Statesman. Most of the subjects are identified only by their initials, but a caption below a photograph of a young man firing a shotgun in a winter scene identifies "Will Gladstone (Killed in the 1st War)". This is William Glynne Charles Gladstone (14th July 1885 -13 April 1915) the Liberal Party politician and the last of four generations of Gladstone's to serve in the House of Commons. Other family members featuring prominently include Prime Minister Gladstone's son The… Read More

First World War, Middle Eastern Theatre. This is an original photographic album of 44 snapshot photographs of the life of an enlisted Australian in Egypt at the beginning of the First World War. Laid in is a 1 February 1916 holograph letter addressed to the owner of the album from a fellow service member aboard a troop ship leaving the Dardanelles. The album is in very good condition. The green buckram binding is square and firm with light wear to extremities. Within, the photos are held in place in 2.25 x 3.125 inch (5.5 x 8 cm) windows with two images on each page. The photos are all in very good condition with some light silvering present on some and four empty windows. A penciled ownership marking on the inside of the front cover identifies the owner as “Mr Thomson | Belvidere Paddocks | Shrewsbury” and a stamp on the rear cover features a possible service number “4633” next to a stamp of the Australian flag with the word “Ensign”. Though we are unable to find any service records for… Read More

1919. Very good. Three months after the armistice, Eleanor Williams sailed from New York aboard the R.M.S. Cornia, arriving in Liverpool on February 9 and proceeding to France. Her duties with the YMCA and the troops of the American Expeditionary Force took her to Paris and various parts of the war-torn French countryside, prior to her return voyage to her home in Brookline, Massachusetts in September. Accompanied by Williams' original red and blue YMCA armband, which she can be seen wearing in several snapshots, this album contains 167 original photographs and 39 postcards. The black-and-white images show volunteers performing Shurtleff relief work, bombed out towns, and various points associated with the war, including The Hindenberg Line, Verdun, The Dariaruat, Soissons, Amiens, Reims, Marne, Fort La Pompelle, Fisyes, Chateau Thierry, and Fort Douaumont. There are also photographs of an American cemetery at Belleau Wood, captured tanks and guns, and two soldiers guarding a prisoner. Also… Read More

[Various locations in Japan: late, 1953. Very good.. [12] leaves, illustrated with thirty-eight photographs, almost all vernacular and all in mounting corners, with the first five leaves covered with manuscript signatures and annotations, plus eight family photographs laid in. Contemporary red cloth, gilt titles on front cover, string tied at top of spine (bottom string tie lacking). Minor wear. A few empty mounts, but the overwhelming majority of the photographs present and in great shape. A unique annotated vernacular photograph album documenting the first visit to Japan by Japanese Canadians following World War II. A newspaper clipping pasted into the album pictures the members of the trip spread out in front a Canadian Pacific airplane, with the caption reading, in part: "ALL SET TO GO, above, are the fifty-seven members of the first postwar JC tourist group to leave for Japan. The party left Vancouver aboard a chartered CPA plane on Dec. 1st, and arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo early Dec.… Read More

[Tokyo?]: N-B-C [publisher in Japanese script], 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small quarto. Measuring 11¼" x 10¼". Printed title page, section of blank leaves at the end with a printed leaf "Personal Memories." Unpaged. Silk string tied patterned silk over boards. 30 gelatin silver photographs (including one folding panorama) affixed to thick card leaves with separate affixed printed captions. Most images are approximately 6" x 4½". Paper over front hinge split, but still tight, fraying at edges of the boards, thus very good; small chips or creases at the the inside corners of a few images internally about fine with very slight wear. The baseball-mad Japanese had made Japan an obvious destination for barnstorming tours of professional baseball teams for the first four decades of the 20th century up until the War. The Japanese were eager to restore the practice and in 1948, the National Baseball Conference under J. G. Taylor Spink, whose 1938 plan to establish non-professional international World… Read More