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Post by EXO on Sept 28, 2023 7:35:40 GMT 8
For those eccentric folk who might be interested in the rare and obscure, I have published a book of scans I made of Andrew Lagonick's photo album when I managed to borrow it back in 2013. The book is in Standard portrait format, 8x10 in, 20x25 cm, 56 pages, hard cover, image wrap. US$60. The images aren't new - they were enlarged and enhanced, and feature in the Lost & Found book based on the collections of the Unit Histories of Corregidor. I have set the publisher's preview for the entirety of the book. The link is :NOW RETIRED I don't care if I don't sell any, any more. I've got mine!!
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Post by EXO on Oct 17, 2023 15:45:59 GMT 8
This book is now permalinked at my PX PUBLICATIONS website. A full preview is available.
Andrew Lagonick was posted to the Philippine Islands in the era now known as "pre-war". Of no particular skill or accomplishment, he lived the life of an average member of the Coast Artillery, being posted to batteries at Fort Drum. He collected photos of his experiences, and compiled them in an album. I do not know what happended to Andrew, although the photo album contains images from a visit in China, indicating that he may have been returning to the USA prior to the outbreak of the war.
The album survived, and was loaned to me by Steve & Marcia Kwiecinski, who were residing on Corregidor as "token Americans." The album was loaned to them, and I don't know where it is now. I scanned the album as it was then, so that I could remove the original images and scan them individually at a higher resolution. (I have since used the images, many of which were unique, across a number of books - most notably in the LOST & FOUND - Unit Histories of Corregidor and Manila Bay publication.
The book reproduces the photo album as survived the years, containing neither captions, corrections nor commentary. It is 56 pages, with a hard cover, about sixty bucks in hard cover format. If anyone is wanting a Cheap Charlie Edition ( a softcover) contact me and I will look at doing one with a "special thanks" note to you. That's so that when in decades to come, your heirs are going through your heirlooms and find it, they can say about you, "He truly was a cheap Charlie!" (Not really. Anyone who buys any one of these publications is a truly wonderful person.)
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