Supplying Repression: U.S. Support for Authoritarian Regimes Abroad
Washington, DC: Institute for Policy Studies, [1981]. Revised Edition. First Printing. 23 cm, 165, illus., tables, appendices. Foreword by Richard Falk. More
Washington, DC: Institute for Policy Studies, [1981]. Revised Edition. First Printing. 23 cm, 165, illus., tables, appendices. Foreword by Richard Falk. More
New York, New York: Vantage Press, Inc., 1980. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [6], 166, [2] pages. DJ has some wear and soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Inscribed by the author, Al Klement, on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: With best regards, in all humility, to the congregation of Temple Emanuel. Al Klement. This inscription is covered over with clear plastic tape. This is a work of fiction. The names of the people are entirely fictitious, although some come close to being real, and people like them did exist. The place names are real with one or two exceptions, and the names are modern, as some have changed over the years and some are called by more than one name. The author has taken an author's license in order to make a story, but generally, have used true historical facts with regard to ethnic origins and migrations of people. All of the ethnic groups settling in Texas in the 1860s and 1870s and those before had their problems with prejudices, but people working to stay alive and wanting a better life put a bunch of prejudices aside and became neighborly if not always friendly. Of course, there were and always are exceptions. Steeped in historical realism and the vernacular of the West, this is a novel of post-Civil War Texas that tells a gripping story of frontier justice. The men of the Flying Y ranch and of the neighboring township are faced with the menace of a shadowy band of rustlers, masterminded by an insidious boss. How they close ranks and rise to meet the threat is, in miniscule, the story of how the law became a viable force on the frontier. More
New York: Vantage Press, 1980. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 166, [2] pages. Map. Inscribed by the author's daughter on the fep. Inscription reads For Jerry, My father wrote this book. I hope you enjoy it. Carmen Klement. DJ has a tear at mid-spine and some wear and is in a plastic sleeve. A historical novel of frontier justice in post-Civil War Texas dealing with cattle rustlers. Al Klement was a distinguished and award-winning environmental scientist. He was a graduate of West Point, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the University of California at Berkeley. He served in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1957, including service during WWII, and in Korea and Germany. The author stated "While I became an army officer and later a scientist, my experiences kept me ever conscious of the greatness of the West. I have lived in California, Oklahoma, and Nevada which I continued my pursuit of Western lore." The author was born and raised along the Brazos River, about which he writes so eloquently. More
Boston: Butterworths, 1976. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. viii, 157, [3] p. Illustrations. Index. More
Richardson, TX: International Focus Press, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 281, illus., notes, index. More
Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, Inc., 1993. First Edition. First Printing. 287, illus. More
New York, NY: Berkley Books, 1997. First edition. First paperback printing [stated]. Mass-market paperback. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 384 p. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1978. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 339, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper, edges soiled, remainder mark on top edge. More
New York: Viking [Pamela Dorman Books], 2016. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Trade paperback. x, 308, [2] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Slight cover wear. Shari Lapena (born 1960) is a Canadian novelist. She is best known for her 2016 thriller novel The Couple Next Door, which was a bestseller both in Canada and internationally. Lapena, a lawyer and English teacher before beginning her writing career, published her debut novel Things Go Flying in 2008. That novel was a shortlisted Sunburst Award finalist in 2009. Her second novel, Happiness Economics, was a shortlisted Stephen Leacock Award finalist in 2012. Her fourth novel, A Stranger in the House, was published in 2017. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: At the start of Lapena?s suspenseful, heart-wrenching debut, Anne and Marco Conti come home from a party at their neighbors? house to find their front door open and their infant daughter Cora?s crib empty. They left Cora alone after the sitter canceled at the last minute. Not a shred of evidence indicates that anyone entered the house after the Contis left for the party, though the police detectives on the case, Rasbach and Jennings, discover that the motion detector on the back door was disabled, the Contis? garage door was left open, and tire tracks, not from the Contis? car, were in the garage. Could the couple be covering up a kidnapping? Rasbach and Jennings suspect that they?re withholding something, but they sense the Contis? anguish is legitimate. The tension grows as the united front that Anne and Marco have presented crumbles. After numerous twists and turns, just when everything appears to be resolved, Lapena delivers one final, deftly crafted surprise. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994. Hardcover. 263 pages. Appendix, endnotes, index, slight wear, scratching, and soiling to DJ. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994. Fourth Printing. 263, appendix, endnotes, index, some sticker residue on front DJ. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994. Seventh Printing. 263, acid-free paper, appendix, endnotes, index, slight wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. More
Anaheim, CA: Image Comics, 1993. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. Format is approximately 6.75 inches by 10 inches. 32 pages, plus covers. Color illustrations. Erik J. Larsen (born December 8, 1962) is an American comic book artist, writer, and publisher. He currently acts as the chief financial officer of Image Comics. He gained attention in the early 1990s with his art on Spider-Man series for Marvel Comics. In 1992 he was one of several artists who stopped working for Marvel to found Image Comics, where he launched his superhero series Savage Dragon ? one of the longest running creator-owned superhero comics series ? and served for several years as the company's publisher. Savage Dragon was first featured in two issues of Graphic Fantasy, a self-published title with a small print run, published by Larsen and two friends. In this incarnation, the Dragon was a widower and a retired member of a government-sponsored superhero team. Subsequently, the Dragon made another appearance in the third issue of Gary Carlson's Megaton anthology in its Vanguard strip, which Larsen had been drawing. In these appearances, the character of the Dragon remained basically the same as it had been in Graphic Fantasy, with a few details modified (such as the inclusion of his wife, who was dead in his previous incarnation). Both the Graphic Fantasy and Megaton issues featuring the Dragon were later reprinted in high-quality editions. In 2017, he was again nominated and received the 2017 All-in-One Award for his work on Savage Dragon. More
New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing, 2007. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xi, [3], 302, [2] p. Family Preparedness List. Bibliography. Index. More
Baltimore, MD: Trimble & Durst LLC, 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [8], 245, [1] pages. The Table of Contents are: Prologue; Bone-in-Teeth; Pinched; All-a-Taut; Shanghaied; Mayday; Neaped; By Guess and by God; Jolly Roger; Plimsoll Mark; Fly-by-Night; Half Seas Over; Scandalize; Sally; Slipping the Cable; Hove-to; Williamson Turn; Dead Reckoning; Fiddler's Green; and Acknowledgments. Vincent Lash began his career in the jewelry trade in 1980, receiving the Graduate Gemologist designation from the Gemological Institute of America in 1982. He became an independent appraiser of jewelry, silver, and clocks after establishing his company, LASH & CO. in 1986. In addition to appraising throughout the mid-Atlantic region, he writes articles and gives lectures about the jewelry trade. . Insurable Interest is the story of a jewelry appraiser and artisan-with a passion for sailing the Chesapeake Bay--who becomes entangled with an underground investment syndicate, whose profits hinge on murder. More
Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab, 2002. 28 cm, 28, wraps, illus. (some color), mailing label partially removed from rear cover, mail inspected sticker on rear cover. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1984. First Printing. 24 cm, 329, ink name inside front board, pencil erasure on front endpaper, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. First Ballantine Books Domestic Edition [Stated]. First printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. [10], 337, [5] pages. Map. The front cover is creased and has other wear and soiling. Ink notation on title page. With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left. David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré (was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. He is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Le Carré's third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international bestseller, was adapted as an award-winning film and remains one of his best-known works. His novels which have been adapted for film or television include The Looking Glass War (1965), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1979), The Little Drummer Girl (1983), The Night Manager (1993), The Tailor of Panama (1996), The Constant Gardener (2001), A Most Wanted Man (2008), and Our Kind of Traitor (2010). More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 2001. First Edition. First Printing. 401. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 222, [2] pages. Inscribed on the half-title page to Abelsohn [?] & Jackie--All the best, Jim Lehrer. Oklahoma's lieutenant governor, One-Eyed Mack, investigates the disappearance of Luther Wallace, the speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, the primary opponent of Oklahoma Governor Buffalo Joe Hayman's asinine turnpike construction project. James Charles Lehrer (May 19, 1934 – January 23, 2020) was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Lehrer was the executive editor and a news anchor for the PBS NewsHour on PBS and was known for his role as a debate moderator during U.S. presidential election campaigns, moderating twelve presidential debates between 1988 and 2012. He authored numerous fiction and non-fiction books that drew upon his experience as a newsman, along with his interests in history and politics. In 1959, Lehrer began his career in journalism at The Dallas Morning News in Texas. Later, he worked as a reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, where he covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. He was a political columnist there for several years, and in 1968 he became the city editor. In October 1975, Lehrer became the Washington correspondent for The Robert MacNeil Report on Thirteen/WNET New York. Two months later on December 1, 1975, he was promoted to co-anchor, and the program was accordingly renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report. In September 1983, Lehrer and MacNeil relaunched their show as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, which was renamed The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, following MacNeil's departure in 1995. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1975]. First Printing. 22 cm, 278, illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Simon & Schuster [A Touchstone Book], 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 279, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: To JoAnn & Bruce, Thanks for your support! I'm so glad my dad sent you to my signing, Allison Leotta. Allison Leotta is an American novelist, former prosecutor and blogger, best known for her popular legal crime thrillers. Her books have won various awards and have been placed on multiple best-seller lists. She has been dubbed the "female John Grisham" but has stated that she instead wishes John Grisham to be dubbed "the male Allison Leotta". Leotta graduated from Michigan State University and Harvard Law School and worked as a federal prosecutor in Washington D.C. where she specialized in sex crimes, domestic violence and crimes against children. In 2011, she left the Justice Department to become an author full time, writing acclaimed novels such as Law of Attraction, Discretion, Speak of the Devil, A Good Killing, and The Last Good Girl. She currently has TV reviews being carried by the Huffington Post as well running a legal blog known as the Prime-Time Crime Review which the American Bar Association hailed as "one of the best legal blogs in America". Her first novel, Law of Attraction, was published in 2010, and is part of the critically acclaimed series about the fictional sex-crimes prosecutor, Anna Curtis and her dealings with domestic violence cases. This has become a series of five books involving Anna Curtis. Leotta has stated in interviews that she has drawn inspiration from her previous legal experiences to write her novels and attributes their success to her first-hand experience as a prosecutor. More
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1975. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 229 pages. Figures. Tables. Index. DJ somewhat worn and soiled: edge wear and small edge tears. More
New York: Delacorte Press, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 319, illus., glossary. More
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 472 p. Index. More