Make-Believe: The Story of Nancy & Ronald Reagan
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. 395, illus., note on sources, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled & some edge wear, rear DJ flap creased. More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. 395, illus., note on sources, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled & some edge wear, rear DJ flap creased. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xiv, [4], 334, [4] pages. Illustrations (all present). Binding worn, soiled, and top of spine is missing. Hinges weak (and restrengthened with glue). Bookplate. Page discoloration on pages 18 and 19. Leary was a member of the "Newspaper Cabinet". Leary discusses many issues and events, revealing inside information. An indispensable piece for a Theodore Roosevelt collector. Bookplate of Geo. R. Beneman. This is believed to be the same individual associated with the Ohio State University Moritz School of Law George R. Beneman Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance in the Moot Court Program – Established June 5, 1964, by Isadore and Ida Topper in memory of their friend George R. Beneman, a Washington, D.C. attorney. More
New York: Random House, c1993. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 214, Inscribed by the author. More
Hoboken, NJ: Melville House Publishing, 2003. First Edition. 454, slight wear to DJ edges. More
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1992. First Carroll & Graf edition ][stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 656 pages. Illustrations (some color). Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Harrison Livingstone, ranks among the world’s most prolific investigative authors on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has been a serious writer for most of his life. An early work, “David Johnson Passed Through Here,” was hailed as a ground-breaking novel about child abuse. Like many of his published books — more than two dozen now — “David Johnson” is at least partially autobiographical. More
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 236, very minor edge soiling. More
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, c1993. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 272, illus., index. More
Philadelphia (Volume I), Hartford (Volumes II and III): George W. Childs (Volume I), T. Belknap (Volumes II and III), 1866 (Volume I), 1868 (Vols. II-III). Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 3-volume set. Decorative cover. Volume I, 608 pages and 406 illustrations. Volume II, 640 pages and 445 illustration., and Volume III, 640 pages and 323 illustrations, including Index. Each volume has footnotes. Covers have some wear, soiling, and scuffing. Front and rear boards of Volume III had some weakness and was restrengthened with glue. This is from bibliographic research and information in the books to be a First Edition set, identically bound, with the first volume printed by Childs in Philadelphia in 1866 and the second two volumes printed in 1868 by Belknap in Hartford. All three spines state Childs as the publisher. The Preface to Volume II states "The peculiar circumstances under which this work has been prepared, caused a much longer interval between the appearance of the first and second volumes that was expected; but the delay has been an advantage to the book, because it has enabled the author to procure and use more authentic and valuable materials than could have been obtained earlier, especially for Confederate sources....The interval between the appearance if the second and third volumes will be much shorter." The preface also explains that the publisher moved from George W. Childs to Thomas Belknap. Previous owner's [Eaton Cromwell] bookplate inside the front cover of all three volumes. Covers have some wear and soiling. Some page foxing and discoloration noted. Gift inscription on the title page of volume I indicates the set was a Christmas present given in 1870. More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1999. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 261, [3] pages. Worried that the biography that Trotsky is writing about him in Mexico will reveal a crime from his past that could topple him from power, Stalin is forced to think back on his own memories of his life and rise to power. Richard Lourie is a historian and American foreign policy expert on Russia–United States relations, on which he consulted for Hillary Clinton in her unsuccessful 2008 presidential run. He served as Gorbachev's translator, has written a fictional autobiography of Joseph Stalin, a biography of Andrei Sakharov, and a prognosticative biography Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash, which explores the education and ascent of Putin during the dissolution of the USSR, and his career as Russia's autocrat, in order to estimate his probable future moves, while diagnosing Russia's spiritual ills and "narcissistic injuries" and "utter dependence on the ongoing will to power." He has translated over 30 books, and published articles and reviews in mainstream US media. More
Mineola, NY: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1992. Sixth Printing. 137, wraps, footnotes, ink underlining and notations to text, lower corner front cover creased. More
London: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2006. First paperback printing [stated]. Mass-market paperback. [8], 535, [1] pages. Cover has some wear and corner creased. Somewhat cocked. More
New York: Fawcett Crest, 1983. First Ballantine Books Edition. Mass-market paperback. 307 p. More
London: L. Drummond, Ltd., [1942]. First? Printing. 22 cm, 117, illus., appendix, errata slip laid in, usual library markings, part of DJ cut off and pasted to front endpaper. More
New York: Random House, 1995. First Trade Edition [stated]. Hardcover. [16], 791, [1], xxxvii, [3] pages. Appendix. Glossary of Names. Notes. Bibliography. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Minor edge and DJ soiling. Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early and wide renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best-selling books in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer. In 1955, Mailer and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper from Greenwich Village. Mailer wrote 12 novels over a 59-year span. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 710, [6] pages. Chronology on front endpapers. Map of the state funeral on rear endpapers. Occasional Footnotes. Glossary. Charts. Diagrams. Appendices. Sources. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears, chips, and front flap creased. Minor edge soiling. 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. His best-selling book, The Death of a President (1967), is a detailed account of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1964, Manchester was commissioned by the Kennedy family to write the book. Manchester, who retraced the movements of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, concluded, based on his study of Oswald's psychology and their similar training as Marine sharpshooters, that Oswald had acted alone. Manchester had the support of Robert and Jacqueline Kennedy, but later had a falling-out with Robert over Manchester's treatment of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Before the book could be published, Jacqueline Kennedy filed a lawsuit to prevent its publication, even though she had previously authorized it. The suit was settled in 1967, reportedly with Manchester's agreeing to drop certain passages dealing with Kennedy's family life. In his collection of essays Controversy (1977), Manchester detailed Kennedy's attempts to suppress the book. More
New York: Penguin, 1977. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xvi, [2], 710, [8] pages. Occasional Footnotes. Glossary. Charts. Diagrams. Appendices. Sources. Index. Some cover wear. Inscribed on first page to Hal Bruno by the author! William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. His best-selling book, The Death of a President , is a detailed account of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1964, Manchester was commissioned by the Kennedy family to write the book. Manchester, who retraced the movements of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, concluded, based on his study of Oswald's psychology and their similar training as Marine sharpshooters, that Oswald had acted alone. Manchester had the support of Robert and Jacqueline Kennedy, but later had a falling-out with Robert over Manchester's treatment of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Before the book could be published, Jacqueline Kennedy filed a lawsuit to prevent its publication, even though she had previously authorized it. The suit was settled in 1967, reportedly with Manchester's agreeing to drop certain passages dealing with Kennedy's family life. In his collection of essays Controversy, Manchester detailed Kennedy's attempts to suppress the book. Harold Robinson "Hal" Bruno, Jr. (1928 – 2011) was a journalist and political analyst, who worked as the political director of ABC News from 1980 to 1999. He was the moderator of the 1992 vice presidential debate between Dan Quayle, Al Gore, and James Stockdale. More
New York: McKay, [1969]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 267, illus., index, few library markings. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1994. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 321, illus., maps, endpaper map of Jerusalem in 1948, references, index, ink number on rear endpaper, DJ somewhat soiled. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1994. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 321, illus., maps, endpaper map of Jerusalem in 1948, references, index. Inscribed by the author to journalist Carl Rowan. More
Washington DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2005. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxvii, [1], 547, [1] pages. Cast of Characters. Illustrations. Notes. Annotated and Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Joan Mellen is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is the author of twenty-four books, ranging from film criticism to fiction, sports, true crime, Latin American studies and biography. Her early work was about the cinema. Her “Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film” published in 1974, was a landmark work in feminist studies. Larry McMurtry pronounced it “brilliant” in his “Washington Post” review. Her study of the image of women in film was followed by the companion study, “Big Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Cinema.” Her book about “The Battle of Algiers,” written in 1972, has been quoted widely in connection with the events of 9/11. In 1972, she was awarded a prize by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper organization in Japan. This led her to write five books about Japan, including “The Waves at Genji’s Door: Japan through Its Cinema,” 1976. Her 1981 novel, “Natural Tendencies,” is set in Japan. More recently, she has written two books about Japanese film for the British Film Institute, “Seven Samurai” (2002) and “In the Realm of the Senses” (2004). She is also a biographer. Both “Kay Boyle: Author of Herself” (1994) and “Hellman and Hammett” (1996) were “New York Times” Notable Books of the year. “Hellman and Hammett” was also a finalist for the “Los Angeles Times” book prize. More
New York: Adama Books, 1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 215, illus., footnotes, appendices, bibliography, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Human Rights Watch, 1992. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. iii, 117, [1] p. Footnotes. Map. More
New York: Twelve, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 371, [3] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Bill Minutaglio (born Brooklyn, 1955) is a journalist, author or co-author of 8 books, and has served as a professor at The University of Texas at Austin. The Austin American-Statesman recognized Minutaglio's work, saying: "Minutaglio has long been regarded as one of the great writers in Texas journalism. A recipient of many regional and national awards, his books have been excerpted or published in various languages and nations, including China. His book (with Steven L. Davis) "Dallas 1963" was given the PEN CENTER USA research nonfiction prize for 2014. It was considered among the best books of the year by The New Republic, Kirkus Reviews, Seattle Times, Kansas City Star, Oklahoman and The Washington Post's "The Fix." With books by Norman Mailer, William Manchester, Gerald Posner and Don DeLillo, it was lauded by The Daily Beast as one of the 5 most important works ever written about the killing of President John F. Kennedy. Steven L. Davis is a PEN USA award-winning author and editor of several books. His writing has been described as "lively," "groundbreaking," and "illuminating." Davis is the current President of the Texas Institute of Letters, a literary honor society founded in 1936 with an elected membership consisting of the state’s most respected writers. He is a longtime curator at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, c1998. First Printing. 24 cm, 210, appendix on "A Chronicle of Terrorism in the United States. " Foreword by James Grady. More
New York: Manor Books, Inc., 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Mass market paperback. 299, [5] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Index. Cover has some creases, wear and soiling. Some page discoloration. Introduction by Congressman Thomas N. Downing. F. Peter Model was a business magazine journalist, author, and editorial consultant. A 1952 graduate of Syracuse University, he was on staff of, or contributor to, many business, trade and consumer magazines. He also was an author of several books, including JFK: The Case for Conspiracy, The Company Image (with Joseph Selame), From the Desk of: (with Sid Lerner and Hal Drucker), Play Money (with Laura Pedersen). Robert J. Groden (born November 22, 1945) is an American author who has written extensively about conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. His books include The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination, the Conspiracy, and the Cover-up; The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: A Comprehensive Photographic Record; and JFK: The Case for Conspiracy (shorter version than his 1975 co-authored book). Groden is a photo-optics technician who served as a photographic consultant for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. A harsh critic of the Warren Commission, he also testified at the 1975 United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States (sometimes referred to as the Rockefeller Commission). More