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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

[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