Colorado Springs, CO: Shelton Enterprise, Inc., 1988. First Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. This book has become extremely rare. Format is approximately 9 inches by 11 inches. Various paginations (approximately 2.5 inches thick). Indexes. References. Appendices. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrations/Figures. Footnotes. Frank H. Shelton graduated from Caltech with a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics. As a nuclear physicist, he was employed at the Sandia Corporation in New Mexico and was involved in nuclear weapons tests in Nevada and the Pacific. Frank was the Deputy Technical Director for the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at the Pentagon. He was a Defense Department atomic expert and was responsible for developing military requirements for atomic weapons and for conducting atomic tests. In Colorado Springs, he was Vice President and Chief Scientist for Kaman Sciences. He was also a consultant for ITT. In 1997, he was awarded the Life Time Achievement Award from the Defense Special Weapons Agency. He was a WWII Veteran. He authored numerous books pertaining to nuclear weapons. The chapters in this memoir are: Manhattan Project, Operation Crossroads, Operation Sandstone, Operation Greenhouse, Operation Ivy, Operation Castle, Operation Redwing, Operation Plumbbob, Operation Hardtack, Testing Moratorium, A Return To Testing, and The Limited Test Ban Treaty. More

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8 inches by 12 inches. Decorative front and back covers. Illustrations (many in/with color). Map. The RCMP Centennial Review was a two hour indoor performance that toured Canada during the centennial year. The program had the following format: The March West; The Signing of the Great Blackfoot Treaty (No. 7); The RCMP Band in Concert; The RCMP Choral Group; Intermission; The Eight Horse Precision Jumping Team; The Drill Team; The RCMP Service Dogs; Mounted Arms Competition; Physical Training and Self-Defence; The RCMP Musical Ride; and Finale. In the event program, there are sections on The First 50 years of the RCMP; The Past 50 years of the RCMP, and the RCMP Today. These three initial section make effective use of historic and contemporary images. The RCMP presented Queen Elizabeth II with a police service horse during our centennial celebrations in 1973. T he Queen chose Jerry, a 3-year-old black gelding, out of a group of 5 horses during her visit to the RCMP stables in Ottawa on August 2, 1973. Jerry stayed in Canada until 1977 to complete his training as a saddle horse and for use in the RCMP Musical Ride. When we presented the horse to Her Majesty at Windsor Castle on May 15, 1977, Jerry's name changed to Centenial (with one "n"). Centenial went to the Mounted Division of the London Metropolitan Police for crowd-orientation training. More

Washington DC: United States, War Department, c1947. Appears to be a reprint without information as to source. Wraps. iii, [1], 104, [4] pages. Illustrations. This manual supersedes TM 9-1275, 6 November 1942, including C 1, 15 May 1943; TB 23-5-6, 5 June 1944; TB ORD 207, 28 September 1944; OFSTB 9-1275-5, 28 June 1943; and so much of TB ORD 272, 26 March 1945, as pertains to materiel covered in this manual. This manual represents the state of knowledge and the standards of practice after consideration of the experience gained during the Second World War. Information on Sniper rifles is extremely scarce. Contents include: Introduction; INspection Prior to Disassembly; Tools, Gages, and Fixtures; General Maintenance; Barrel and Receiver Group; Trigger Housing Group; Stock and Hand Guards; Equipment; Function Firing and Final Inspection; Malfunctions and Corrections; Appendix References; and Index. More

Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1934. Limited Edition, one of only 150 copies of this edition. Hardcover, in slipcase [which has minor wear and soiling]. [12], 50, [6] pages. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7 inches, with the slipcase slightly larger. Composition by Margaret Evans. Presswork by John F. MacNamara. George Meredith OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first his focus was poetry but he gradually established a reputation as a novelist. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) briefly scandalized Victorian literary circles. Of his later novels, the most enduring is The Egoist (1879), though his greatest success was Diana of the Crossways (1885). His novels were innovative in their attention to characters' psychology, and also took interest in social change. His style, in both poetry and prose, was noted for its syntactic complexity. He was an encourager of other novelists, as well as an influence on them; among those were Robert Louis Stevenson and George Gissing. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. Meredith collaborated with Edward Gryffydh Peacock in publishing a privately circulated literary magazine, the Monthly Observer. One of the contributors was Edward Peacock's sister Mary Ellen Nicolls. Mary was the widow of a naval officer, Lieutenant Edward Nicolls, who in 1844 had drowned. In August 1849 Meredith married Mary. At the time of the marriage, Meredith was twenty-one years old; she was twenty-eight and had a daughter by Lieutenant Nicolls (born after his death). The marriage produced one son, and Mary had an illegitimate son by the painter Arthur Wallis. The couple were unreconciled and Meredith did not attend her funeral. More

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. Limited Edition [stated], one of 450 printed. Hardcover. [8], 28, [4] pages. Decorative cover. Minor cover wear noted. Some endpaper discoloration. After page 28 is a listing of the "Writings of Amy Lowell". "With the exception of the four lines of verse all the quotations herein are from John Keats by Amy Lowell (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925), and are copyrighted by Amy Lowell, 1925, by the kind permission of whose literary executors they are here used." George Henry Sargent (1867-1931), American bibliographer and journalist, was associated with the Boston Evening Transcript from 1895 until 1931. He wrote books and articles on bibliography and a column, The Bibliographer, about rare books. In 1887 he left for St. Paul, Minnesota where he was on the staff of the St. Paul Daily Pioneer Press first as a reporter, later as city editor. Sargent returned East in 1895, settled in Boston, and joined the Transcript as a reporter. He began writing his Wednesday rare book column, "The Bibliographer", in 1903. Ill health necessitated Sargent's return to his family's farm in Warner in 1914. From there he continued "The Bibliographer", (his last column appeared on the day of his death), wrote books and articles, on bibliography, and maintained his own book collection. Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which promoted a return to classical values. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Lowell never attended college because her family did not consider it proper for a woman to do so. Typography by Bruce Rogers. More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [A Marian Wood Book], 2005. Uncorrected Proof for Limited Distribution. Trade paperback. [12],354, [2] pages. Slight cover wear noted. After losing his job and the respect of his family, Russian avant-garde artist Anatoly Sukhanov confronts his past in a series of dreams that reveals the sacrifices he has made to gain material wealth in twentieth-century Moscow. Olga Grushin (born June 1971) is a Russian-American novelist. Born in Moscow to the family of Boris Grushin, a prominent Soviet sociologist, Olga Grushin spent most of her childhood in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was educated at Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Moscow State University before receiving a scholarship to Emory University in 1989. She graduated summa cum laude from Emory in 1993. She became a naturalized US citizen in 2002, but retains Russian citizenship. Grushin has worked as an interpreter for Jimmy Carter, as a cocktail waitress in a jazz bar, a translator at the World Bank, a research analyst at a Washington, DC law firm, and, most recently, an editor at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her first novel, The Dream Life of Sukhanov written in English, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2006, won the 2007 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, as well as a Top Ten Books of 2006 choice by the Washington Post. More

New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 147, [5] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. The contents are: A House on the Plains; Baby Wilson; Jolene: A Life; Walter John Harmon; and Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama. They included the award-winning novels Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate (1989), and The March (2005). These, like many of his other works, placed fictional characters in recognizable historical contexts, with known historical figures, and often used different narrative styles. His stories were recognized for their originality and versatility, and Doctorow was praised for his audacity and imagination. A number of Doctorow's novels and short stories were also adapted for the screen, including Welcome to Hard Times (1967) starring Henry Fonda, Daniel (1983) starring Timothy Hutton, Billy Bathgate (1991) starring Dustin Hoffman, and Wakefield (2016) starring Bryan Cranston. His most notable adaptations were for the film Ragtime (1981) and the Broadway musical of the same name (1998), which won four Tony Awards. Doctorow was the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Ragtime, National Book Critics Circle Award for Billy Bathgate, National Book Critics Circle Award for The March, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. Former President Barack Obama called him "one of America's greatest novelists" More

Leningrad: Stroyiznat, 1989. Second Edition, Corrected, 1 of 30,000. Hardcover. Decorative front and back cover. 492, [4] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Footnotes. Text is in Russian, Illustrations need no translation. Includes some 'before and after' images. This discusses the Post-1945 rebuilding of the cultural heritage of Leningrad. The siege had ended, the war was over, but Leningrad was shattered. Thousands of apartments, factories, schools, hospitals, power plants, roads - in short, the city's entire infrastructure - had been destroyed or damaged during almost three years of persistent air raids, shelling, and fires. Over a million civilians had died of starvation, cold, and disease; another million had been evacuated. A motley 600,000 weakened, emaciated people remained to rebuild the ravaged city. Rebuilding included the arduous task of disposing of the bodies of the blockade's many victims. Almost uncountable, about half a million of them were buried in 186 mass graves at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery, which during the war was just an enormous empty pit into which the bodies had been dumped. In the words of the Leningrad poet, Sergei Davydov: "Here lies half the city." More

Florence: Qua d'Arno, 1985. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 9.25 inches by 11 inches. 156, [4] pages. Illustrated cover. Profusely illustrated. Text is in English and Spanish. The Spanish translation was by Amor Gil. Slight cover wear noted. Illustrates and describes numerous torture devices including breast rippers, the ever popular rack and iron maiden, heretics fork and many more. Robert Held is the author or compiler of books such as Arms and Armor Annual Volume 1 - Thirty Outstanding Articles On Weaponry By Leading Arms Armor Historians Of the World. Mr. Held, though having written extensively on firearms, "accepted the task of writing this Guide because his anti- torture and anti- death-penalty views coincide with those of the exhibition's organizers". Torture is the deliberate, state-sponsored infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons such as punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties. Torture has been carried out since ancient times. A variety of methods of torture are used, often in combination; the most common form of physical torture is beatings. Torture aims to break the victim's will and destroy their agency and personality. Torture is one of the most devastating experiences that a person can undergo. Public opinion research has shown general opposition to torture, although a minority of people support the use of torture in certain cases. Opposition to torture stimulated the formation of the human rights movement after World War II, and torture continues to be an important human rights issue. More

Stamford, CT: The Overbrook Press, 1958. Limited Edition of only 200, Illustrations and decorations by T. M. Cleland were printed in each copy of the edition by the hand of the artist. Hardcover, in slipcase. Format of the volume is approximately 9 inches by 12 inches, with the slipcase a bit larger. [14], 204, [12] pages, Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece of the author. Slight wear noted. Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (1 April 1697 – 25 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist. A Note on the manner of its design and printing included. The pictures in this book are not reproductions. There were no colored originals from which they could be reproduced. Each of the two hundred copies of the thirty-odd pictures and decorations is an original. A pattern drawing in black and white was made by the artist and used soley for the correct registration of the various colors. The colored were made and applied by the artist. Photography played no part in this procedure, the silk screen method was used. Thomas Maitland Cleland (August 18, 1880 – November 9, 1964) was an American book designer, painter, illustrator, and type designer. From 1907 to 1908, Cleland was art director of McClure’s Magazine, completely redesigning the periodical during his tenure. In 1929, he was hired on as art director to design Fortune magazine by Henry Luce. He was a member of the Architectural League of New York, the Society of Illustrators and the Century Club, and an honorary member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts and the American Institute of Graphic Arts and was associated with American Type Founders. In 1940, he won the AIGA medal for his work. In 1960, in recognition of his work the New York Public Library held an exhibition for two months. More

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1961. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxiv, 559, [1] pages. Frontispiece. Footnotes. Illustrations. Genealogical Table. Select Bibliography. Index. Inscription signed by Acton on fep. Some wear. Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated. He was born near Florence, Italy, to a prominent Anglo-Italian family. At Eton College, he was a founding member of the Eton Arts Society before going up to Oxford to read Modern Greats at Christ Church. He co-founded the avant garde magazine The Oxford Broom and mixed with many intellectual and literary figures of the age, including Evelyn Waugh, who based the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited partly on him. Between the wars, Acton lived in Paris, London, and Florence, proving most successful as an historian, his magnum opus being a 3-volume study of the Medicis and the Bourbons. After serving as an RAF liaison officer in the Mediterranean, he returned to Florence, restoring his childhood home, Villa La Pietra, to its earlier glory. Acton was knighted in 1974 and died in Florence, leaving La Pietra to New York University. His historical works include The Last Medici, a study of the later Medici Grand Dukes, and two volumes on the House of Bourbon, rulers of the Kingdom of Naples in the 18th and earlier 19th century, which together may be said to constitute his magnum opus. More

Lexington, KY: The University of Kentucky, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 322, [2] pages. No DJ. Sticker inside front cover. Illustrations. Maps. List of Maps. Preface; The USS Wichita: Naval War in the North Atlantic; The USS Mackerel: The Gold Dolphins; The USS Scorpion: Tragedy in the Pacific; The USS Sterlet: Early Command?; The USS Atule: Minesweeper; The Demilitarization and Occupation of Japan; The Sorry Sasori; The USS Burrfish: Fast and Loose; The USS Pickerel: Dipsydoodling on Government Time; War under the United Nations Command; and Index. The author shares his war experiences, his role in the Japanese surrender, and his participation in the setting of a world's record for longest submerged voyage. Schratz, Paul R., Capt., USN (Ret.) (1915–1993) was an officer who distinguished himself as a submariner and as a writer and educator. After graduation from the Naval Academy in 1939, he served until late 1941 in the heavy cruiser USS Wichita (CA-45 in the Atlantic. He served in the submarines USS Mackerel (SS-204), USS Scorpion (SS-278), USS Sterlet (SS-392), and USS Atule (SS-403). He commanded the submarine USS Pickerel (SS-524) during Korean War missions and a long submerged transit from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbor. After duty in the political-military policy division of OpNav in the early 1950s, and was later Commander Submarine Division 52. He had duty from 1962 to 1964 on the Joint Staff, including service as a delegate to the 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva, Switzerland, then served in the Department of Defense. He was on the faculty of the National War College, 1966-68. More

Lahore, Pakistan: Syed Mobin Mahmud and Company, 1988. Third Edition [stated] Popular Edition [stated], presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. x, [2], 431, vii, [4] pages. Cover wear. Illustrations (some color). Maps. The author's title is Major General Dr. Sher Ali Pataudi, H. J. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Hand written and signed note laid in. Major General Nawabzada Sher Ali Khan of Pataudi (13 May 1913 – 29 May 2002) was a Major General in Pakistan. Sher Ali Khan Pataudi is the son of Ibrahim Ali Khan, the 7th Nawab of Pataudi from 1913 to 1917, and Shahar Bano Begum, daughter of Amiruddin Ahmad Khan, the Nawab of Loharu. Through his mother, he is related to the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan. He commanded the 1st battalion of the First Punjab Regiment during the Second World War. After the war, he served as the Defence Attaché of the British Indian Armed Forces in Washington, D.C. He commanded Pakistan's 14 (Parachute) Brigade during the 1947 Kashmir War in which action he was awarded the first Hilal-i-Jurat of Pakistan. He later served as the Chief of General Staff. He was superseded along with Maj. Gen. Adam Khan and the former Commandant Command and Staff College Maj Gen. M.A. Latif Khan when Maj Gen Muhammad Musa and Maj Gen Habibullah Khan Khattak were made C-in-C and COS respectively in October 1958. On retirement from active service, he was appointed Pakistan's High Commissioner to Malaysia and in 1963 as Ambassador to Yugoslavia with concurrent accreditation to Bulgaria and Greece. He served in the cabinet of Yahya Khan as Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting & and National Affairs 1969 – 71. He was the author of several books. More