Some WWII stuff i found - Page 2

MrBlonde7 · #11 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 01:00 PM

What shape is the Hemingway book in? I want it.

And great find, yo. All that stuff is awesome.

andydiesel · #12 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBlonde7

What shape is the Hemingway book in? I want it.

And great find, yo. All that stuff is awesome.

pretty decent shape. you can find them on abebooks.com for about $1500 and up.

MrBlonde7 · #13 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 01:11 PM

I'll give you 5 bucks and a U-District midget.

crosshair · #14 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 02:02 PM

Dang Andy, what a treasure.

Back when we were first looking at the house we now own, I went up in the attic and discovered loads of this stuff... the previous (deceased) owner had been a wwii naval vet.
I found among other things photo albums from his time in the Pacific aboard a cruiser... action shots, kamikaze attacks, crazy stuff like that, that must have been unauthorized to shoot at the time. When we bought the house, his brother (the seller) said, "OK, I'll just go clear out a bunch of junk" and I tried to persuade him, 'No, we'll clean up, don't worry about it..." But he went in and got most of his brothers wwii stuff.
Was good enough to leave me piles of Life, Saturday evening post, and Look! magazines from the era... "Japs Bomb Pearl Harbor" and stuff like that.

Fools Gold · #15 (**permalink**) 07-03-2009, 02:30 PM

Those Insignia/Uniform books are real easy to find. Maybe not that exact format, but in any used bookstore with a decent military section there should be at least one or two.