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Armed Services Editions (ASEs) were small paperback books of fiction and nonfiction that were distributed in the American military during World War II. From 1943 to 1947, some 122 million copies of more than 1,300 ASE titles were distributed to service members, with whom they were enormously popular.
This book is aimed at sound recordings collections in libraries, but much of the advice may be of some use to the private collector. Petrusich, Amanda. Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records. New York: Scribner, 2014. Rees, Tony. Vox Record Hunter: A Collector's Guide to Rock and Pop.
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
The Oxford Guide to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press. Gilbert, Martin (1989). The Second World War. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-0534-9. Hanson, Victor Davis (2017). The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. New York: Basic Books. Hastings, Max (2001).
The Daily Mirror and other sources reported a Rare Record Price Guide story in April 2015 that a David A. Stewart 'Test' 78 from 1965 was worth £30,000. A copy of Joseph Beuys' 100-only 'multiple' reel-to-reel edition of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee album from 1969 was valued at over £30,000. [21]
The Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide was mentioned in newspaper reports as a research book used by a real thief in a murder and antiques theft case that made national news. It was also used by a thief in an Elmore Leonard murder mystery, Gold Coast, [ 11 ] and in at least five other murder mysteries.
These glass-fronted shelves are today collectible antiques highly desired by collectors. With regularity, these bookcases appear in auctions and internet sites and, what originally cost $75 or so will now be sold for $900 or more. [1] During World War II 90% of the company's business in the US was converted to produce military equipment.
Scorched Earth (Rosen book) The Second World War (book) Shadow of Suribachi; Shattered Sword; Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine; Soldiers and Slaves; The Splendid and the Vile; Squadron 303 (book) Stalin's Missed Chance; Stalingrad (Beevor book) Stopped at Stalingrad; The Storm of War; Strange Defeat; Suicide (Suvorov ...