Greensboro, NC: Guilford College, 1953. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 15, [1] pages. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.5 inches. Cover has some wear and soiling. Front cover has corner crease and part of following title page missing part at that corner. Footnotes. Some ink marks to text noted. Includes A Quaker Approach to the Bible. Also includes Suggested Reading, as well as a discussion by Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity in Harvard University, on A Quaker Approach to the Bible. This was the Ward Lecture, 1953, Given at Guilford College on Founders Day, November 9, 1953. Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity in Harvard University, is eminently fitted to discuss "A Quaker Approach to the Bible." His contributions to modern Biblical study are recognized by scholars everywhere, while all Bible readers are indebted to him for his share in the new Revised Standard Version of the New Testament. His contributions to modern Biblical study are recognized by scholars everywhere, wile all Bible readers are indebted to him for his share in the new Revised Standard Version of the New Testament. Guilford College is a small liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Guilford's program offerings include such majors as Peace and Conflict Studies and Community and Justice Studies, both rooted in the college's history as a Quaker institution. More

New York: Bramhall House, 1964. Second Printing (stated on DJ). Hardcover. 270 pages. DJ has some edge wear and soiling. Includes Introduction, as well as Part 1: The Peddlers Take to the Road; Part 2; What the Peddlers Sold: The Origin of Early American Antiques; Part 3: Itinerant Doctors, Preachers, and Judges; Part 4: Peddler's Progress. Also includes Bibliography, Acknowledgments; Part 5: The Stagecoach and Tavern Era; Part 6: Peddlers of Services and Skills; Part 7: Peddlers of Tinware and Other Metal Goods; Part 8: Early American Clocks; Part 9: Where Things Came From; Part 10; Peddlers of Healing; Part 11: Peddlers of Learning, Religion, and Justice; Part 12: The Character of the Yankee Peddler; and Part 13: From Peddler to Big Business Man. Also contains Bibliography, as well as over 100 illustrations. J. R. Dolan, in tracing the progress of the Yankee peddler over three hundred years, gives a fascinating picture of the daily life of early Americans--what they bought from the peddler, what they wore, what they ate and drank, and how they traveled. Here is the history, not merely of a time in our country's development, but of the actual people who made this history. The facts and anecdotes that Mr. Dolan relates make delightful reading for everyone. In addition, the author illuminates the origins of many of our customs and folkways, which the peddlers carried along with their wares to all parts of the country. This lively and informative text and the more than one hundred illustrations make The Yankee Peddlers of Early America a book you are sure to enjoy. More

New York: The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc., 1986. First American Edition [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 195, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Includes Acknowledgments, Why? And Why Now?; Postscript; and Chronology. The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc. Chapters cover The Peaceful Years; Border Street; Behind the Walls; The Walls Tighten Around Us; Beyond the Walls; On the Run; Out of Hiding; and Winter into Spring. Also includes Postscript and Chronology. The coming-of-age of a young girl during World War II. She was born to a wealthy doctor, then she and her family were rounded up and imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto to live a disease-ridden, hand-to-mouth existence, always in the presence of death. The family then escaped to the "Aryan" side where they had to slip from one safe-house to another, in constant fear of discovery and under the constant threat of blackmail. Janina Bauman (née Lewinson; 18 August 1926, in Warsaw – 29 December 2009, in Leeds) was a Polish journalist and writer of Jewish origin. She was the daughter of Szymon Lewinson (1896–1940), a urologist and Polish Army officer murdered in the Katyn massacre. During World War II she was a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto with her mother and sister. They managed to escape and were sheltered by a peasant family in the countryside. After the war she studied journalism at the Warsaw Academy of Political and Social Science, where she met her future husband, Zygmunt Bauman. She subsequently worked in the film industry as a translator, researcher and script editor. She left Poland with her husband in 1968 after the anti-Semitic purges, that followed the March 1968 events. More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1943. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 300, [2] pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Decorative front cover and spine. Foreword by Paul Gallico. Some endpaper discoloration. Some cover wear and soiling. "A model of fencing instruction."—Time Magazine. "A detailed and well-illustrated exposition of the art."—The New York Times Aldo Nadi (29 April 1899 – 10 November 1965) was one of the greatest Italian fencers of all time. Aldo was born into a fencing family in Livorno, Italy, and both Aldo and his brother Nedo Nadi were fencers from a very young age. They were both taught foil and sabre in the classical Italian school of swordsmanship by their father, Beppe Nadi, who believed the épée to be an "undisciplined" weapon and refused to teach it. The brothers therefore practiced épée by themselves. In 1920, at the age of 21, Nadi won gold medals at the Olympics in team foil, team épée, and team sabre. He also won a silver medal in individual sabre, second only to his brother Nedo Nadi. Nadi emigrated to the United States in 1935. He taught fencing in New York City from 1935 to 1943, and in 1943 published a book On Fencing. Also in 1943, he relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he continued to teach fencing in his own school, in addition to occasionally coaching actors for fencing scenes in films. He even made a film appearance himself, as a bodyguard in To Have and Have Not (1944), starring Humphrey Bogart. In 1955, Nadi wrote his autobiography (The Living Sword: A Fencer's Autobiography), which was published 30 years after his death. More

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [3], 224, [6] pages. Endpaper maps. Includes Acknowledgments, Vietnamese Expressions, Historical Note, and Prologue. Chapters cover Send-Off; The Old Man's Trail; Monsoon Strategy; The Treacherous Maze; Opium Trails; Cambodia; Rumors; Enclave; Convoy; Escape; Spectre; Grail; The Golden BB; Hornets' Nest; Bureaucrats; Responsibility; Power; Rewards; "Spend Blood'; and Eulogies. A former U.S. Marine and a veteran of the Vietnam War offers a empathetic, fictional portrait of the Vietcong, tracing the brutal journey of a platoon of teenaged Vietnamese boys down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The enemy is a platoon of fifteen-year-old boys ordered to carry more than a ton of cargo down a primitive network of trails and roads known to the Vietnamese as the Old Man's Trail but called the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the West. This is a tale of courage, motivation, survival, love, teamwork, and one man's determination to survive. For Campbell, Duan is the personification of the Vietnamese patriot and soldier--a soldier first, a nationalist second, a tacit Communist third. And the author believes that it was men like Duan who drove the world's most powerful nation from Vietnam in 1975. Tom Campbell is a retired Marine Colonel who is an award winning senior Lecturer in management and leadership at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. While on active duty he was an advisor... a covan... to the Vietnamese Marines for seventeen months, and commanded two platoons, two companies and two battalions. More

Washington, D.C. U. S. Government Printing Office, 1962. Revised Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Wraps. [4], 48 pages. Map. Illustrations. Decorative cover. Topics covered include Location of the Badlands; History and Prehistory; Age of the Badlands Rocks; Ancient Climates; Local Life of the Oligocene Epoch; Deposition of the Rocks; Formation of the Landscape; Secondary Features; Future of the Badlands; Plants: Trees, Wildflowers, and Grasses; Animals: Birds, Mammals, Reptiles; Present Climate; Establishment of the Monument; How and When to Enjoy the Monument; Related Areas; and Suggested Readings. Also includes Appendix--Common and Scientific Names of Plants. Excerpt from Badlands National Monument, South Dakota. This publication is one of a series of handbooks explaining the natural history of scenic and scientific areas in the National Park System, administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of he Interior. More

Maynard, Massachusetts: Chandler Press, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Unpaginated (36 pages plus covers).Ink mark to front cover. Illustrated cover. Illustrations. Using fine old engravings, this book follows the changes in fire fighting equipment over the years, shows some of the biggest fires of the nineteenth century, and lets you take a look at some of the great oldtime fire-fighters. Topics covered include The Early Days; Old Fire Escapes; Old Fire Extinguishers; The Steam Fire Engine Arrives; Great Fires; Burning of the City of Chicago, The Commercial Metropolis of The Northwest; Chicago Ruins; Chicago In Flames; Other Great Fires; Fire Insurance; and Great Old Firemen. Contains a listing of Great 19th Century American Fires between 1848 and 1816 (when Washington, D.C. was burned by the British, with great devastation.) Using fine old engravings, this book follows the changes in fire fighting equipment over the years, shows some of the biggest fires of the nineteenth century, and lets readers look at some great old-time firefighters. Also includes information on Fire Insurance, as well as Great Old Firemen. Chemical fire extinguishers ejecting water, a saline solution, or carbonic gas, also came into use during the 19th century. The portable type in use by these erstwhile firemen shows a patent of 1868. Extinguishers during this time varied in size from small grenade-like devises to large chemical tanks carried by wagons. More

Plymouth, Vermont (?): Kenneth and Susan Webb. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Bookplate. Approximately 3 inches by 4 inches. Illustration on front of a body of water, a near shoreline and a distant shore, with trees and rocks in the water. Gummed on reverse. This was found inside a Quaker related pamphlet but shows no signs of having been affixed. Susan Howard Webb co-founded the Farm & Wilderness Camps in Plymouth, VT, with her husband, Kenneth Webb in 1939, based on values of simplicity and tolerance. Susan was the director of the girls camp, Indian Brook, for 30 years. She was the pragmatic half of the partnership with her visionary husband, and retained an active interest in the camps after they incorporated the camps in 1972 as the Farm & Wilderness Foundation. Upon retirement, Susan won a seat in the Vermont State Legislature, serving as a Representative from 1973 to 1980, chairing the committees on Health and Welfare and Education. She also served on the boards of many Vermont institutions for children. Susan Webb died on September 9, 2011 at the age of 103. She received her A.B. from the U. of Vermont and a Masters in Classics from Radcliffe. She married Ken in 1932. They lived in Lincoln, MA during the 1950s. Susan mentored or taught numerous Vermont politicians. Susan's husband predeceased her in 1984. This is an opportunity to own a memento of a couple who devoted their lives to service and who established an entity that exists, and thrives, to this day. More

New York, N.Y. The Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1941. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Staplebound. 64 pages plus covers. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page soiling. Minor edge tear to back cover and adjacent pages. Includes Foreword, Principles of a Just and durable Peace Recommended by Responsible Christian Leaders, as well as Proposals of Protestant and Roman Catholic Leaders of England; Religious Leaders Manifesto (Britain) December, 1940; Excerpts from Memorandum prepared by an International Conference of Lay Experts and Ecumenical Leaders convened by the Provisional Committee of the World Council of Churches (1939). Principles of a Just and Durable Peace Recommended by Responsible Christian Leaders. Also contains Memoranda of Study Department, prepared under Auspices of The Provisional Committee of the World Council of Churches (1939-41), as well as Relation of the Christian and the Church to the International Order, as well as Statements by Pope Pius XII (1939-1940), as well as Current Proposals Regarding a New World Order. Also contains Appendix A--Syllabus of Discussion Questions, and Appendix B--Bibliography. The publication of this handbook constituted the first act of the Commission set up by the Federal Council of Churches to work toward the achieved of a just and durable peace. This handbook included a short resume of some concrete proposals for a new world order. The Commission shares the desire, and has the intention, to be practical. John Foster Dulles was Chairman of the Commission. More

Tokyo: Ashai Shimbum Newspaper Publishing Company, 1958. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Trade paperback with associated slipcase/box. Format is 10.25 inches by 13 inches. 419, [1] pages. Illustrated covers. Illustrations (some in color). The cover has some wear and soiling. The text is in English. Spine says This is Japan Number 5 1958. The Slipcase/Box is in good condition with some staining and ink notations on the back. The front has a label that states This is Japan 5. The contents include: The Asahi's Part in the Antarctic Expedition Chronicle 1956-1957, The Influence of "Southern Barbarian" Art in Japan, Japan Discovers the Atom, Self-Defence in Japan, Hokkaido, Japan: A Selected Bibliography, Korin Ogata, Okyo Maruyama, Kimono Miscellany, Behind the Kabuki Curtain, Shippoku Cooking, Nagasaki. Includes an Index of Advertisers. Among the contributors are: Shigeru Yoshida, Ilya Erenburg, Desmon Robins. More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. First U.S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 9.25 inches by 12 inches. 191, [1] pages. DJ has wear, tears and soiling. Foreword by David Chandler. 232 Maps (many with color). Illustrations (some in color). Bibliography. Index. A guide to World War II's major campaigns maps all crucial land, sea, and air confrontations, plotting troop and equipment deployments for each battle and campaign. This book details the crucial land, sea and air confrontations of the Second World War in a series of self-contained full color spreads. The major sections are: War in Europe, The War in North Africa, The War in Italy, The Russian Front, The Allied Invasion of North-West Europe, and The War in the Orient. More

Washington DC: Friends Meeting of Washington, For the Peace Committee, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps, Staplebound. [2], 18 pages plus covers. Illustrated front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. This pamphlet was sponsored by Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace. This pamphlet offers brief selections illustrating the peace testimony of the Religious Society of Friends, from the 17th century onwards. Many of the selections are excerpts from statements on peace made by Quakers at various critical times. Others are arguments used to justify religious pacifism. Also included is a slight sampling of actions by Friends witnessing for peace. This was issued during a critical period in the Vietnam War. This pamphlet may help Friends who wish to review their own attitudes, in a world under threat of nuclear war. These selections may also speak to non-Friends who seek a firm unchanging ground for their commitment to peace. The pamphlet also includes materials for Further Reading. More

Aberdeen Proving Ground: U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, 1989. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11 inches. vii, [1], 27, [1] pages. Tables. Figures. Definitions. Ink notation on page v. The contents include: Preface, Contributors, Introduction, Overview of the Nerve Agent Pretreatment Decision Tree Network, Detailed Description, Rational for Animal Model Selection, and Definitions. This report addresses Decision Tree Networks for Anticonvulsant, Antivesicant, Cholinolytic, Pretreatment, and Reactivator. The objective of the Decision Tree Network development project was to provide a management concept and program strategy that would facilitate the rapid identification of the best candidate compounds. The Summary states: Pretreatments selected using this decision tree network may be used as adjuncts to or replacements for the benchmark pretreatment, pyridostigmine. Compounds that pass all of the tests in this network will be superior to the benchmark pretreatment. This does not imply necessarily that they will be more effecting in promoting survival; rather, the compounds may have higher safety margins, induce a more rapid recovery after agent challenge, or possess similar desirable attributes. The data to be obtained from this decision tree are sufficient to allow selection of pretreatment compounds worthy of further study in the predevelopment phase. More