Comes the Reckoning
London: Putnam, [1947]. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 384, index, usual library markings, boards worn, soiled, and chipped. More
London: Putnam, [1947]. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 384, index, usual library markings, boards worn, soiled, and chipped. More
Chicago, IL: Time, Inc., 1956. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. quarto, 102 pages, plus covers. Wraps, illustrations (some with color) . Some wear to covers. Address sticker on front cover. This issue includes information on Estes Kefauver, Adlai Stevenson, Antarctic, Flower Arranging, Also included an excerpt of Winston Churchill's, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, The Birth of Britain: Part III Barons Against the King, Magna Carta, Fred Allen, Teen-agers, Telephones, Ginny Nyvall, and Charlie Hoag, More
New York: Time, Inc., 1956. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Format is approximately 10.4 inches by 14 inches. 196 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some with color). Civer has some edge wear, soiling creases. Mailing label residue on front cover. Bold, formal portrait of Sir Winston Churchill on the front cover. This issue began the serialization of his "History of the English-Speaking Peoples." Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography. Life was independently published for its first 53 years until 1936 as a general-interest and light entertainment magazine, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the greatest writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time: Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rockwell and Jacob Hartman Jr. Gibson became the editor and owner of the magazine after John Ames Mitchell died in 1918. In 1936, Time publisher Henry Luce bought Life, only wanting its title: he greatly re-made the publication. Life became the first all-photographic American news magazine, and it dominated the market for several decades. Possibly the best-known photograph published in the magazine was Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph of a nurse in a sailor's arms, taken on August 14, 1945, as they celebrated Victory over Japan Day in New York City. The magazine's role in the history of photojournalism is considered its most important contribution to publishing. More
New York: A. A. Knopf, 1928. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 346, usual library markings, some soiling and wear to boards, edges somewhat soiled, pages somewhat discolored. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. Second Printing. 438, illus., color frontis, maps, index, DJ scuffed and several tears, small pieces missing at DJ spine. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980. First Printing. 223, illus., maps, historical notes, bibliography, index, sticker residue on fr DJ, DJ edges worn & small tears, bd corners bumped. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980. Book Club? Edition. 223, illus., maps, historical notes, bibliography, index, a few page corners bent, some DJ soiling, some chips to DJ edges The author concludes that had Operation Sealion (the German plan to invade Great Britain) been launched in July 1940, its success would have been a virtual certainty. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. 623, illus., appendices, index, slight discoloration inside boards, DJ somewhat soiled and several tears and creases. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1975. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 240, illus., notes, DJ edges worn and small tears. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, c1984. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 804, illus., front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First U.S. Edition. 584, illus., appendices, index, p. 5 soiled, p. 551 to end crease in margin, DJ soiled and small tears. More
New York: Scribner, [1968, c1967]. First Edition. 24 cm, 408, index, usual library markings, boards somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. First Edition. 408, footnotes, index, spine somewhat discolored, some wrinkling to cloth on rear board. More
New York: Laurel Trade Paperback [a Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.], 1989. Later printing. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 5.375 inches by 8 inches. xv, [3], 973, [1] pages. Maps. Chronology. Illustrations. Source Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Some cover wear. William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. In 1947, Manchester went to work as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, where he met journalist H. L. Mencken, who became his friend and mentor, and also became the subject of Manchester's master's thesis and first book, Disturber of the Peace. The biography, published in 1951, profiles Mencken, the self-described "conservative anarchist" who made his mark as a writer, editor, and political pundit in the 1920s. Manchester's wartime experiences formed the basis for his very personal account of the Pacific Theater, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. Manchester also wrote of World War II in several other books, including a three-part biography, The Last Lion, of Winston Churchill. Manchester also wrote a biography of General Douglas MacArthur, American Caesar. His best-selling book, The Death of a President (1967), is a detailed account of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, who had been the subject of an earlier book by Manchester. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Book Club Edition. 973, illus., maps, endpaper map & chronology, source notes, bibliography, index, DJ edges worn, small tears, & chips Volume I of Manchester's projected 3-volume biography of Winston Churchill. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Book Club Edition. 973, illus., maps, endpaper map & chronology, source notes, bibliography, index, endpapers wrinkled, tear in rear endpaper boards scuffed, some soiling to fore-edge, large volume somewhat shaken, boards somewhat bowed. Volume I of Manchester's 2-volume biography of Winston Churchill. More
Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxvi, 756, [2] pages. Chronology is printed on the endpapers. Illustrations. Maps. Author's Note. Source Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. This is the second volume in William Manchester's projected three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this book, William Manchester challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors---at one point he had to put up his home for sale---he remained solvent only by writing an extraordinary number of books and magazine articles. He was disowned by his own party, dismissed by the BBC and Fleet Street and the social and political establishments as a warmonger, and twice nearly lost his seat in Parliament. Churchill stood almost alone against Nazi aggression and the British and French pusillanimous policy of appeasement. Despite his personal and political troubles, Churchill managed to assemble a vast, underground intelligence network--both within the British government and on the Continent--which provided him with more complete and accurate information on Germany's rearmament than the government was able to gather. William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages.[3] He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 756 pages, List of Illustrations. Illustrations. List of Maps. Maps. Author's Note. Endpaper chronology. Source Notes. Index. Some wear and small pieces missing to DJ edges. William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. In 1947, Manchester went to work as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. There he met journalist H. L. Mencken, who became his friend and mentor, and also became the subject of Manchester's master's thesis and first book, Disturber of the Peace. The biography, published in 1951, profiles Mencken, the self-described "conservative anarchist" who made his mark as a writer, editor, and political pundit in the 1920s. In 1955, Manchester became an editor for Wesleyan University and the Wesleyan University Press and spent the rest of his career at the university. For the academic year 1959–1960, he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of Wesleyan. He later became an adjunct professor of history, adjunct professor emeritus, and writer-in-residence at the university. His best-selling book, The Death of a President (1967), is a detailed account of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, who had been the subject of an earlier book by Manchester. Manchester retraced the movements of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination and concluded that Oswald had acted alone. More
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1946. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 372, illus., maps, index, usual lib markings, boards worn, top of spine frayed, some page discoloration. Foreword by Rebecca West. More
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, c1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 499, illus., usual library markings, boards soiled and discolored. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1990. First Edition. 25 cm, 425, illus., usual library markings. More
New York, N.Y. Signet [from New American Library], 1970. Tenth Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 384 pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Prologue, Jennie, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Includes 36 black and white photographs. Some wear to cover and discoloration to text. Pencil erasure residue on first page. Ralph G. Martin (March 4, 1920 — January 9, 2013) was an American journalist who authored or co-authored about thirty books, including popular biographies of recent historical figures, among which, Jennie, a two-volume study of Winston Churchill's American mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, became the most prominent bestseller. Other successful tomes focused on British royal romance (Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in 1974, as well as Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1985) and on the Kennedy family. He studied at the University of Missouri from which he graduated in 1941 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. In December, following declaration of war in the aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Martin enlisted in the Army and spent the war as a combat correspondent for the Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes and the Army weekly magazine, Yank. Returning to civilian life in 1945, Martin began working as editor for news and analysis publications Newsweek and The New Republic and became executive editor at decorating and domestic arts magazine House Beautiful. During the months preceding the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections, he served as a member of the campaign staff for the Democratic nominee, Adlai Stevenson. More
New York: New American Library, 1972. First Signet Edition. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 464, wraps, v.2 only, illus., notes, references & bibliography, index, text darkened, foxing ins covers, covers worn & creased. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969-1971. Book Club Edition. Ninth (v.1) Printing. 404 & 498, 2 vols., illus., notes, references & bibliography, index, DJ v.1 quite foxed, both DJ's some wear & small tears to edges. More