The Outlook, Volume 93, Number 9, October 30, 1909
New York: The Outlook Company, 1909. Wraps. wraps, 43 pages plus advertisements, covers soiled, small chips at top and bottom spine edges, small rough spot on front cover. More
New York: The Outlook Company, 1909. Wraps. wraps, 43 pages plus advertisements, covers soiled, small chips at top and bottom spine edges, small rough spot on front cover. More
New York: The Outlook Company, 1910. Wraps. wraps, 45 pages plus advertisements, covers soiled and small edge tears, cover has been reglued. More
Porland, OR: S. C. Miller & Co., 1901. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [6], 413, [1] pages. Poem by Grace Duffie Boylan. Introductory Chapters by General Joseph Wheeler and Opie Read. Front flyleaf is missing. Missing one illustration (Landing at Montauk Point at page 280). Two illustrations had separated and have been reglued. Cover is worn and soiled. Corners rubbed. Boards and hinges weak and restrengthened with glue. Spine worn, chipped, and torn. Title page is nicely illustrated. Some page soiling. Charles Eugene Banks (April 3, 1852 – April 30, 1932) was an American newspaper editor, journalist, author, novelist, poet, playwright, historian, and orator. Banks was born in Clinton County, Iowa. Banks' professional writing career began with submissions to a regionally distributed trade journal. He eventually found writing work in Chicago, where in 1892 he married actress Carrie Wyatt Lounsbury. Banks returned to Iowa with his wife and in Davenport he mentored several young writers known as the Davenport group: Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, and Floyd Dell. . In 1932 he was struck by an automobile and died. Close personal friend Clarence Darrow delivered Banks' eulogy and served as executor of his estate. More
Chicago: E. R. DuMont, 1901. Early Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [6], 413, [1] pages. Poem by Grace Duffie Boylan. Introductory Chapters by General Joseph Wheeler and Opie Read. Pencil note inside front cover. Ink stamp on fore-edge. Plain binding. Cover is worn, soiled. and corners rubbed. Front boards and hinge restrengthened with glue. Cover worn, chipped, and torn. Some damp staining. Title page is nicely illustrated. Some page soiling. Charles Eugene Banks (1852 – 1932) was an American newspaper editor, journalist, author, historian, and orator. Banks' professional writing career began with submissions to a regionally distributed trade journal. He eventually found writing work in Chicago, where in 1892 he married actress Carrie Wyatt Lounsbury. Banks returned to Iowa with his wife and in Davenport he mentored several young writers known as the Davenport group: Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, and Floyd Dell. In 1932 he was struck by an automobile and died. Close personal friend Clarence Darrow delivered Banks' eulogy and served as executor of his estate. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 474 pages. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and small chips. Signed by previous owner [Max Holland!]. This is one of the Political Economy of International Change series. William H. Becker has written on business history, business-government relations, and the institutions of the international economy. His books include The Dynamics of Business Government Relations: Industry and Exports, 1893-1921 (1982); Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789 (co-editor, 1984); Bankers with a Mission: The Presidents of the World Bank, 1946-91 (co-author, 1996); Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council (co-author, 2002); and The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000 (co-author, 2003). He was also the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Business History and Biography (9 vols., 1986-1991). Professor Becker is currently writing Shaping Corporate America: Big Business and the Twentieth Century Experience. His media appearances have included National Public Radio and the International Herald Tribune Television. Samuel F. Wells Jr. is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in History and International Relations. At the Wilson Center he founded the International Security Studies Program in 1977 and directed that program until 1985. Since then he has served as Deputy Director of the Center while also serving as Director of West European Studies. More
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007. Later printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 258 pages. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Appendix A: Key Figures after the Panic. Appendix B: Definitions. References. Notes. Index. Robert F. Bruner is University Professor at the University of Virginia, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, and Dean Emeritus of the Darden School of Business. He has won numerous teaching awards. As a financial economist, Bruner is best known for his research on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and financial panics. His books include Deals from Hell, Applied Mergers and Acquisitions and The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm. The last title, co-authored with Sean D.Carr, was published in 2007 and attracted attention for its discussion of the underpinnings of financial crises. Over a dozen index entries under Theodore Roosevelt. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Inst. Press, 2000. First Printing. Hardcover. Oversized, 187 pages. Profusely illus. (many in color), reading list, Presidential chronology, slight scuffing to DJ. More
New York: Grove Press, 2001. First Paperback Edition [Stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. ix, [1], 678 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. James MacGregor Burns (August 3, 1918 – July 15, 2014) was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1971 Burns received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in History and Biography for his work on America's 32nd president, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. Burns shifted the focus of leadership studies from the traits and actions of great men to the interaction of leaders and their constituencies as collaborators working toward mutual benefit. He was best known for his contributions to the transactional, transformational, aspirational, and visionary schools of leadership theory. More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1950. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Volume II ONLY. vii, [1], 608 pages. Frontis. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Some pages have paperclip impressions. Minor edge soiling. Walter McKenzie Clark (August 19, 1846 – May 20, 1924) was a North Carolina politician and attorney who served as an associate justice (1889–1903) and chief justice (1903–1924) of the North Carolina Supreme Court. In April 1885, Governor Alfred M. Scales appointed Clark a judge of the superior court, and in 1889, Gov. Daniel G. Fowle elevated him to the state Supreme Court. He was elected to the Supreme Court in 1890, and in 1894, was re-elected with the support of not only his own Democratic Party, but also that of the Republicans and Populists. Clark was elected chief justice in 1902 and re-elected several times. In 1912, he unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a liberal reformer against fellow Democrat Furnifold Simmons. Clark died in office in 1924. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 432 pages. Notes. Index. Matthew Crenson ’63 began teaching in the Department of Political Science in 1969 and became a professor emeritus in Urban Government and American Political Development, his primary areas of interest, in 2007. Crenson has authored or co-authored several books including Downsizing Democracy, Building the Invisible Orphanage, and Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced. Benjamin Ginsberg (born 1947) is a libertarian political scientist and professor at Johns Hopkins University who is notable for his criticism of American politics, in which he says that citizens have become "marginalized as political actors" and political parties weakened while state power has grown. His assessment of the futility of voting, along with his notion that the public has an illusion of control over government, has caused controversy, and some of his explanations have been criticized. He is a co-author, with Matthew Crenson, of Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced. More
New York: Wings Books [a division of Random House Value Publishing], 1997. Fifth Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 771, [1] pages. Appendix A; Political Composition of Congress, 1789-1999. Appendix B: Presidential Curiosities. Appendix C: The Ranking of Presidents. Index. William A. DeGregorio was a freelance writer and editor specializing in historical and political subjects and reference works. He wrote hundreds of articles for such authoritative reference works as the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Encyclopedia America. Connie Jo Dickerson is a freelance Writer/Editor/Librarian. The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents contains more in-depth information about every U.S. president to hold office than any other single book. A factual, unbiased look at all of our chief executives, this book chronicles their lives, their administrations, their friends and foes, their successes and failures. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1966]. First Edition. 24 cm, 253, illus., index, DJ edges worn, DJ in plastic sleeve. Inscribed by the co-author (Blochman). More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Printing. 339, illus., bibliography, index, top corner front DJ flap torn off, small edge tears and crease to rear DJ flap, rear DJ scratched. More
New York: Greenwich House, 1984. First Printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto, 160 pages. Illustrations. Recipes. Index. DJ somewhat soiled, small tear to bottom edge rear DJ. Brief anecdotes and information concerning the private lives, habits, and personal likes and dislikes of America's presidents and their families are related. Arden was the author of many books including Wives of the Presidents; A Taste of White House Cooking; Dolley Madison, First Lady; and, with Sid Frank, Presidential Tidbits and Trivia. Before earning her Bachelors degree Arden covered New Jersey state and county government for the Associated Press. In the public sector, as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the administration of Gov. Thomas Kean, Arden spearheaded the indelible “New Jersey and You” campaign. Fittingly, Arden was inducted into the New Jersey Advertising Hall of Fame and served as President of the Advertising Club or New Jersey. More
New York: Beaufort Books, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 253, illus., bibliography, index, some pencil underlining and brief notes, top of rear board dinged, pencil erasure on fr endpaper. More
Place_Pub: Northfield, MN: Norwegian-Amer Hist Assoc, 1995. First? Edition. First? Printing. 420, illus., notes, index. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1924. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Frontis illustration. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Corners bumped. Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. Ink notation on fep. William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry these diseases. At the time, his strategy was greeted with considerable skepticism and opposition to such hygiene measures. However, the measures he put into practice as the head of the Panama Canal Zone Sanitation Commission saved thousands of lives. Gorgas served as president of the American Medical Association in 1909–10. He was appointed as Surgeon General of the Army in 1914. In 1914, Gorgas and George Washington Goethals were awarded the inaugural Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. More
London: M. Joseph, 1984. First Thus? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 192, illus., front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tear, black mark on bottom edge. Preface by Lord Home. More
New York: Abrams Image, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. 167, [1] pages. Decorative cover. No dust jacket present. Illustrated endpapers. Color Frontis. Foreword by Sean G. David. Illustrations (some in color). Appendix: Mechanical Men of History. Time Line. Boilerplate Today. Index. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Meet Boilerplate, the world's first robot soldier not in a present-day military laboratory or a science-fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history. Designed by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations, Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia. Campion and his robot also circled the planet with the U.S. Navy, trekked to the South Pole, made silent movies, and hobnobbed with the likes of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla. You say you've never heard of Boilerplate before? That's because this book is the fanciful creation of a husband-and-wife team who have richly imagined these characters and inserted them into accurate retellings of history. This full-color chronicle is profusely illustrated with graphics mimicking period style, including photos, paintings, posters, cartoons, maps, and even stereoscope cards. Part Jules Verne and part Zelig, it's a great volume for a broad range of fans of science fiction, history, and robots. More
New York: Theodore Roosevelt Assoc. 1958. pocket paperbk, 184, wraps, illus., reading list, chronology, some wear to covers, small spine tear, stamp on front cover, some darkening to text marginal ink underlining on title page. This book was published for the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission. It contains a biographical sketch by Hermann Hagedorn, together with selections from Roosevelt's writings and speeches, views of his contemporaries (including Ralph Bunche, Elihu Root, Booth Tarkington, and Leonard Wood), and cartoons of the period. More
Chicago, IL: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., [1944]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 338, wraps, footnotes, bibliography, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled, usual library markings, cocked. More
New York: Bureau of Nat. Literature, n.d. 476, v.15 only, illus., color frontis illus., endpaper illus. & map, stains in margins of a few pgs, boards & spine scuffed & soiled. More
Naperville, IL: Cumberland House, 2012. First Printing. Wraps. 387 pages. Wraps, illus., bibliographical references, appendices, index. Signed by both co-authors. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [3], 420, [2] pages. List of Illustrations. List of Tables. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Index. Stamp on bottom edge. Depression on front cover and front of DJ. Noel Maurer is an associate professor of International Affairs and International Business at the George Washington University. Maurer earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1997. Between 1998 and 2004 he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at ITAM, a university in Mexico City. Maurer also worked at an NGO dedicated to helping small rural communities in Chiapas find new business opportunities. After a brief unexpected stint as a full-time employee of the federal government in 2002-03, he began work as an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School in 2005. In 2015, he took the opportunity to join the faculty at George Washington University. Maurer’s primary research interest is how private actors defend their property rights under dictatorial governments or political instability. More
New York: Random House, 2002. First Trade Edition. 396, illus. More