Eastville, Virginia: Hickory House, 1996. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 25 pages, several black and white illustrations by Patrice Mason. Signed by the author on the title page: Enjoy! Emilee D. Mason. Slight soiling and sticker residue on rear cover. Emilee Doub Mason's family moved from Toano to Onancock, Virginia when Emilee was five. After graduating from Onancock High School, where she was Salutatorian of her class, Emilee attended Farmville State Teachers College (now Longwood University) for a year before returning to Onancock where, in addition to working, she acted in several plays. She was a finalist in the 1952 Miss Virginia contest. In the late 1980s Emilee began writing published stories. Patrice Mason is a free-lance artist and illustrator associated with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 390 pages. Signed by the author, Robert St. John, in the front free endpaper. Includes a preliminary note to the reader, acknowledgments, Sources and Suggested Reading, and an index. Ex-library with usual markings. Some ink marks noted. Robert William St. John (March 9, 1902 – February 6, 2003) was an American author, broadcaster, and journalist. St. John, at age 16, lied about his age to enlist in the Navy during World War I. In 1939, St. John moved to Europe to report on the imminent war for the Associated Press. St. John reported from the Balkans. The persecution of Jews that he witnessed during that period helped instill in him a deep and enduring interest in Israel, Jewish issues and anti-Semitism. Covering the January 1941 pogrom in Bucharest, when Romanian fascists tortured and killed about 170 Jews, marked a watershed for him. He returned to New York City, where he wrote "what I saw and smelled and heard." The resulting book, From the Land of Silent People, was his first, and a bestseller. More

New York, NY: Broadway Paperbacks, 2012. First Paperback Edition (stated). First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 352 pages. Footnotes. Author's Note. Index. Minor scuff to rear cover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Sticker inside front cover. Inscription reads: To Len & Janice--I hope you enjoy the investigative reporting in this. With Admiration, Best, Guy Lawson. Guy Lawson (born 1963) is a Canadian American journalist and true crime writer who has been published in GQ, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. Lawson's first journalism job came in the field of politics, when he was assigned to cover the Quebec referendum. Lawson had a breakthrough cover story for Harper's about small-town Canadian hockey players. He later moved onto the Canadian broadcast television. Lawson has been published in numerous major publications throughout his career. In addition to War Dogs, several of his other works have been optioned, including Octopus (about hedge fund and Ponzi scammer Sam Israel), by HBO. More

New York, N.Y. Hill and Wang, 1994. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. ix, [3], 259, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: Steve- Thank you for a wonderful hour together on radio. Some underlining noted. Dr. Hilfiker became Finance Director for Joseph's House. He was a family practitioner who spent 7 years practicing in rural Minnesota and 10 years in the inner city of Washington, DC. He began working at Community of Hope in 1983 in Washington, and then helped found Christ House. a 34-bed medical recovery shelter for homeless men, and for 3 years at Joseph's House, which he founded. The experience changed him in a profound way: "When you put yourself in a relationship with the poor, you begin to see the world in a very, very different way," he stated. He is also critical of our health care system, which privileges the middle class and marginalizes the poor. He is the author of Healing the Wounds and Not All of Us Are Saints as well as articles, most dealing with the medical care of the poor. More

Arlington, Virginia: Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, 2001. Presumed First Trade Paperback Edition and presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xxi, [1], 146 pages. The memoirs of Former FCC Chairman/Commissioner James H. Quello is the extraordinarily human story of a soldier, a broadcaster, and a public servant who became a legend on his own time--and on his own terms. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads, To Brindt, A distinguished communication lawyer and valued friendship. Best, Jim. Includes Forewords by Congressman John Dingell and others. Also includes chapters on Hectic Early Years; General Patton and the African Campaign; Campaign in Sicily and Italy; France, Germany and Dachau; Historic Assault on SS College; Post-War Relaxation?; Home at Last; WJR and the G.A. Richards Era; An FCC Commission At Last; The Revolutionary Communications Years; The FCC--From Crisis to Crisis; Howard Stern; Demagoguery in the Children's Television Act; Purely Anecdotal; and Finale: All's Well that Ends Well. More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. Presumed First Paperback Edition and presumed first printing. Trade paperback. Includes Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson, Introduction, Appendix (which lists the scientific names of the flora and fauna mentioned in the text), Bibliography, and Index Includes illustrations by Sandy Glover. Signed on the Pitt Series in Nature and Natural History page. Jack Wennerstrom, a writer, teacher, and naturalist, was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1948 and died in 2013. He received a B.A. in 1970, taught high-school English, Humanities, and World Literature, and wrote his first novel, THE WAYSIDE OF DREAMS, in 1978. In the ‘80s he re-embraced his love of nature and began writing for outdoor and nature magazines, including Bird-Watcher’s Digest, where he became a Contributing Editor in 1990. His first book, SOLDIERS DELIGHT JOURNAL, about a globally-rare prairie ecosystem near his home outside Baltimore, was published in 1995. He was President of BioTrek Naturalists from 2002 to 2006. More

Rockville, Maryland: Schreiber Publishing, Inc., 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xv,[1], 319, [1] pages. Illustrations. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: To Rene, With all good wishes, Margit Meissner, May 2011. Meissner was born in Austria in 1922. She spent most of her childhood in Prague, Czechoslovakia. But In 1938, when an expansionist Nazi Germany annexed western Czechoslovakia, Meissner’s mother sent her to live and study in Paris out of concern for her safety. When World War II broke out the next, her family spread out across the globe. Meissner’s mother was interned in France. In 1940, Meissner escaped Paris on a bicycle, riding for 20 miles, narrowly avoiding invading German troops. She reunited with her mother and, eventually, the two made it to America. After the war, they attended the Nuremburg trials. Meissner was a volunteer with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she was a tour guide, translator and speaker. More

New York: St. Martin's Press, June 2009. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 268, [2] pages, Acknowledgments, Preface, Introduction, Bibliography, and Index. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Inscription reads: To Lindsey, Best Wishes! Bryon l. Dorgan, U.S.S. This book includes Acknowledgments, Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1: The Good Old Days: I Remember When...; Chapter 2: a Financial House of Cards; Chapter 3: Addicted to Debt; Chapter 4: Shining a Light on Dark Money; Chapter 5: Tax That Guy Behind the Tree!; Chapter 6: Incomes from Outer Space; Chapter 7: The Price of War; Chapter 8: The Profits of War; Chapter 9: Drill, Baby, Drill? Chapter 10: Health Care: A Leading Cause of Stress; Chapter 11: Cheap Labor; and Chapter 12: Hope. Also includes a Bibliography and an Index. Senator Dorgan has represented North Dakota in the U.S. Senate beginning in December 1992. In 1998, he was named the chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. From 1995 to 1998, he served in the Democratic leadership as Assistant Floor Leader. More

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2016. Signed Limited First Edition. Leather bound. [14], 369, [3] pages. Signed by the author on a special signature page. Includes a ribbon placemark, a Note about The Man Without A Shadow and the author Joyce Carol Oates by the Easton Press, and a certificate of authenticity from the Easton Press (signed by the author, and by Jeffrey Kornblum, the publisher of the Easton Press), attesting that this edition was strictly limited to a press run of 600 individually numbered copies. This copy is number 579 of 600. Decorated cover. Decorated cloth endpapers. This novel explores the mysteries of memory, identity, and personality in a vivid portrayal of a forbidden relationship never to be publicly revealed. Neuroscientist Margo Sharpe is studying the charismatic Elihu Hoopes--the man without a shadow, who suffers from a disease that clouds memories beyond the last 70 seconds. She inadvertently falls in love with this ultimate amnesiac, as she attempts to unlock his shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her sense of self in the process. More

Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 258, [2] pages. Includes Full Page Map of Downtown New Orleans, Photographs, Sketches, Preface, Definition of Terms, Introduction, Conclusion, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by author sticker on front of DJ. Carolyn Morrow Long began visiting New Orleans in 1978, when she became fascinated by the city’s history and culture. She is the author of Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau, Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House, and Famille Vve Paris née Laveau: The Tomb of Marie Laveau in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Now retired from the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History, she writes articles and gives presentations about New Orleans Afro-Catholic spiritual practices and Creole families. Also an artist, Long created the cover illustrations for the Laveau and Lalaurie books. More

Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2013. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 287, [5] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Notes, and Index. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper: Best--Marvin Kalb. Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. Kalb was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University. He is currently a James Clark Welling Fellow at George Washington University and a member of the Atlantic Community Advisory Board. Kalb hosts The Kalb Report, a discussion of media ethics and responsibility at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. sponsored by George Washington University. He is currently a senior adviser at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The Road to War was a 2013 Foreword Reviews honorable mention in the subject of War & Military. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 618, [4] pages. Endpaper maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Small clip on the top corner of the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Bruce Hoffman (born 1954) is a political analyst specializing in terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counter-insurgency. He is a tenured professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where between 2010 and 2017 he was the director of the Center for Security Studies. This landmark history, based on newly available documents, covers the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of Israel. Contains previously unknown detail of how Britain struggled and ultimately failed to reconcile competing Arab and Jewish demands and uprisings. The author, a leading expert on terrorism, shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. More

New York, N.Y. Basic Books, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 296 pages. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Notes, Appendix A, Appendix B, and Index. Inscribed by the author on fep. Inscription reads: For Shibly, May the truth make us free. Deborah Nelson. Deborah Nelson is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and the Associate Professor of Investigative Reporting at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, she was the Washington investigations editor for the Los Angeles Times, a reporter for The Washington Post and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1997, Nelson won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for her work, exposing “widespread corruption and inequities in the federally-sponsored housing program for Native Americans, which inspired reforms.” She received acclaim for her book, The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes, which investigates declassified Army papers on Vietnam-era war crimes and uncovers the lives of soldiers who were witness to the crimes. More