Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Co., 1945. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 181-240 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Some musical notes/scores. Cover worn and soiled. Some page browning. Mailing label on front cover. Etude Magazine was published by Theodore Presser Company between 1883 and 1957. It was a staple for music teachers throughout the country, providing articles related to music history, new developments in music, and practical teaching techniques, as well as musical scores from the classics and new pieces for beginning to advanced students. Begun as an aid for piano teachers, the magazine grew to include information and literature for vocal and instrumental enthusiasts as well. Not only is the series important to the musician, but it provides an insight into the culture itself, including the impact of the development of the car, radio, and television, and expands to world music and the influence of world wars on that culture. Among the topics covered are: Tunes, Music Supervisor, Orchestra, Theater, Accompanist, Conductors, Airways, Nuns' Band, Violinist, Keyboard, FDR's Favorite Song. More

Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Co., 1944. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 133-192 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Some musical notes/scores. Cover worn and soiled. Some page browning. Etude Magazine was published by Theodore Presser Company between 1883 and 1957. It was a staple for music teachers throughout the country, providing articles related to music history, new developments in music, and practical teaching techniques, as well as musical scores from the classics and new pieces for beginning to advanced students. Begun as an aid for piano teachers, the magazine grew to include information and literature for vocal and instrumental enthusiasts as well. Not only is the series important to the musician, but it provides an insight into the culture itself, including the impact of the development of the car, radio, and television, and expands to world music and the influence of world wars on that culture. This issue includes information on young conductors, American Musical Firsts, Toscanini on Records, Bel Canto, Worship Music, Reed Instruments, Kreutzer Studies, and Sir Walter Scott's influence on music. More

Hamburg: Herausgegeben vom Cigarettern/Bilderdienst, 1936. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Text is in German. 132, [4] pages. Color frontis image of the Fuhrer. One full page photograph bound in between pages 86 and 87 and is unpaginated. Pages 37-40 disbound but presents. Illustrated with vintage black and white photographs and some color drawings. All locations have photographs or drawings in provided spaces. Some page browning. Some cover wear. With an introduction by Herman Goring and Foreword by Joseph Goebbels. There are 14 essays in addition to the Foreword from the Table of Contents at the end of the book. Among the essay authors are: Julius Schreck, Otto Dietrich, Joseph Goebbels, Wilhelm Bruckner, Robert Ley, Albert Speer, Fritz Todt, Foertsch, Baldur von Schjirach, Philipp Bouhler, and Julius Schaub. One collected the coupons found in the cigarette packs and then sent away for the pictures to be pasted into the book. The text and pictures present the life of Hitler and his rise to power in the Third Reich. The book has 133+ pages. In this book, every place holder for a photo is filled. Most pages have at least one photo and some have multiple photos. Over 200 fascinating and rare black & white photos and (a few) color drawings of key locations and Adolf Hitler giving speeches, presiding over parades and rallies, as well as candid photos of Hitler on vacation, at home, and with children. The photos are plates issued by the cigarette company and are pasted in at their appropriate location throughout the album. A historical pre-war pictorial record of the rise of Hitler and his Third Reich. More

Bnei-Brak, Israel: Steimatzky, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 10.5 inches by 14.5 inches. 291, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Index. Select Bibliography. This book was published in celebration of Steimatzky's anniversary--70 years of culture. Kochav is an Israeli with a background in both anthropology and sociology, with the fascinating specialty of history of the Anglican church in 19th-century Palestine. The key to this book is the images: sweeping aerial views, finely detailed museum artifacts, antique maps, 19th-century lithographs, plans of ancient buildings, and photographs of contemporary Israeli life. From Library Journal: The subtitle says it all, for this book is indeed splendid. It is also a sumptuous, well-documented, and generally gorgeous quarto-sized coffee-table book of distinction. Kochav is an Israeli with a background in both anthropology and sociology, with the fascinating specialty of history of the Anglican church in 19th-century Palestine. The key to this book is the images: sweeping aerial views, finely detailed museum artifacts, antique maps, 19th-century lithographs, plans of ancient buildings, and photographs of contemporary Israeli life. All are of such outstanding quality that they draw the reader effortlessly into the text. One of the most beautiful is a double-page spread taken at the Wailing Wall. The blurred movements of the worshippers in white prayer shawls evoke the ghosts that must haunt so ancient a location. Kochav is thoroughly successful in displaying an Israel of great beauty and mystery. Recommended. Mary Morgan Smith, Northland P.L., Pittsburgh, Pa. More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. vi, 346 pages. Illustrations. Includes Prelude, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include Alex and Gunther; Julian and Rosemarie; 1933; The Kubu; The Mask; Pathetique; La Vie Boheme; Kurt Singer; A Protest in Paris; Chocolate and Canaries; Two Newspapers; The March; Vaterland and Vaterhaus; "One Slap after the Other''; Prinzenstrsse; Sempre Libera; New World--and Old; Appointment in Quite; Eine Kleine Curfew Music; The Resurrection Symphony; The Inextinguishable Symphony; "Crying Like Dogs"; "It Will Be on Your Conscience"; and Coda. The author, National Public Radio commentator Martin Goldsmith, is the son of Gunther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous Jewish musicians who performed in the Judischer Kulturbund (formed in 1933 in Germany), which permitted Jewish artists to perform for Jewish audiences. Goldsmith's awards include Yale's Cultural Leadership Citation (1998) and, for Performance Today, a George Foster Peabody Award (1998). Goldsmith received a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins. He joined WETA-FM, Washington, DC, in 1975, serving as producer, announcer, music director and, eventually, program director. In 1987 he joined National Public Radio as a music producer for Performance Today. From 1989 to 1999 he was on-air host for that program, becoming senior commentator in 1999. Subsequently, moving to XM Satellite Radio, he now serves as director of classical music programming and is frequently heard on Sirius XM's Symphony Hall channel. His music reviews have appeared in the Washington Post. More

New York, N.Y. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 822 pages. DJ has wear and soiling. Includes Acknowledgments, Illustrations and Index. Chapters cover The Challenge to the Old Order; The Forces are Arrayed; First Blood; Clinton's Strategic Offensive; Hillary Under Siege; A Political Education; Mine Canary; Inside the West Wing; Clinton's Third Way; Seven Days in January; In Starr's Chamber; The Reign of Witches; Show Trial; The Twenty-first Century; A New York State of Mind; The Stolen Succession; The Sands of Time; and The American Conflict. Sidney Stone Blumenthal (born November 6, 1948) is an American journalist and political operative. He is a former aide to President Bill Clinton; a long-time confidant of Hillary Clinton, formerly employed by the Clinton Foundation; and a journalist, particularly known for his writings about American politics and foreign policy. Over time, Blumenthal became increasingly controversial for his partisan brand of journalism, viewed as an archetype of a new type of journalist who have eroded the divide between the fading boundaries between independent journalism and partisan journalism. After the Clinton presidency, Blumenthal's book, The Clinton Wars, was published, historian Robert Dallek praised the book, opining that "Blumenthal's sprawling 800-page memoir of his four years as a presidential assistant" was a "welcome addition to the literature on Bill Clinton's tumultuous second term." Dallek also wrote that "Blumenthal brings a reporter's keen eye for telling detail and a columnist's talent for considered analysis and unmistakable opinion to his reconstruction of what he calls the Clinton wars." More

New York, N.Y. Doubleday, 2001. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 414, [4] pages. Inscribed by the principal author, Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, on the title page. Inscription reads To Anna and Rinaldo, with much love! Alexandra. Book includes Illustrations, Preface, Acknowledgments, Epilogue, Notes, Bibliography, Photo Credits, and Index. Contains chapters on Rebellion; The Sorrows of Young Henry; The Lure of the Law; The Solitary Salesman; Quest for Recognition; The Reporter and the Rail-Splitter; All That Glitters; The Eve of '61; Look Away, Dixieland; First Blood; The Slaughter of the Innocents; Trampling Out the Vintage; Free at Last; Come In and Shut the Door; War Fever; In Sickness and in Health; Working on the Railroad; Upgrade, Downgrade; The Vanity of Human Wishes; and Sleepy Hollow. Alexandra de Borchgrave's and John Cullen's biography of her great-grandfather's rise from penniless and prospectless young German immigrant to prominence and wealth has the fast pace and rich detail of a good novel and the meticulous research of a good history. A Civil War correspondent who invented the news syndicate and knew and was admired by President Lincoln, he then entered the world of finance to tussle with the likes of J. P. Morgan in the building of American railroads and the founding of what became General Electric. Almost ruined in the panic of 1883, he returned to rebuild his empire and regain his place both in business and society. Alexandra decided early on to realize her daring dreams, to capture history through photographs, to co-author a biography of her great grandfather, railroad magnate and financier Henry Villard. More

New York, N.Y. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 319, [1] pages. Illustrations. Slight DJ wear. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Inscription reads: To Julia--My Best. George Burns. Also contains a second inscription on the front endpaper from David Fisher, the co-author, which reads Spring 1989 To Phillip and Dorothy, At least this won't sink. I'm very pleased to be your friend, with best wishes David Fisher. Gracie brings to life the charming woman who was smart enough to become the dumbest woman in show business history. Onstage she was lovable, confusing Gracie, who believed horses must be deaf because she saw so few of them at concerts, and who decided to cut her vacuum cleaner cord in half so she could save on electricity. Offstage she was a devoted wife and the loving mother--and throughout her career in vaudeville, radio, television, and the movies, she managed to hide that her left arm had been scarred in a childhood accident and that she suffered from migraine headaches. Offstage, George explains, she was nothing like the dizzy character she played, "except maybe for the time she backed up into a parked car and managed to convince the driver of that car that he'd hit her." "SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE..." With those now familiar words, George Burns and Gracie Allen bid farewell to devoted audiences at the end of each of their broadcasts throughout the Golden Age of radio and television. George Burns tells the story of his life with Gracie, the dizzy comedienne whose "illogical logic" charmed America. Burns recalls their first meeting, the tours, days in Hollywood, and their lasting friendship with Jack Benny and others. More

New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2],315, [5] pages. Includes Preface and Introduction, as well as Epilogue: A Life in Science; Notes; Glossary; References; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits; and Index. Chapters include Becoming a Scientist; Doing Science; A Political Scientist; Priority Setting; Bad Times and Good Times as NIH Director; Embryos, Cloning, Stem Cells, and the Promise of Reprogramming; Global Science and Global Health; and Science Publishing and Science Libraries in the Internet Age. Also includes Epilogue: A Life in Science, as well as Notes, Glossary, References, Acknowledgments, Illustration Credits, and Index. Beyond the elegant combination of science and biography, this is a book about health issues of truly global importance. Varmus's work on cancer-causing genes foreshadowed the development of the recent targeted therapies for cancer. At the NIH, he not only persuaded Congress to commit record funds to national health programs, but also turned attention to international concerns like worldwide malaria. And, as he discusses in this book, he has long been an enthusiastic yet nuanced supporter of stem cell research. This is a glimpse into the world of high-stakes, big-budget science, narrated by a man intimately acquainted with its everyday applications--an education for people in all walks of life from a scientist whose own research and professional commitments have helped to shape our scientific age. More

New York, N.Y. Newmarket Press, 1981. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 341, [1] pages. Illustrations. Ex-library copy with some of the usual library markings. Includes Introduction, Appendixes, Bibliography, and Index. The narrative is divided into six chronological parts. Also includes 4 maps, and 33 black and white illustrations. Russell Spurr was based in Hong Kong for more than 20 years as the China and Far East correspondent for the London Daily Express and ABC Radio Network, and the chief correspondent and deputy editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He was one of the first Western correspondents to report from Peking after the establishment in 1949 of the People's Republic of China. During World War II Spurr was in the Royal Indian Navy, and served in motor gunboats through most of the Burma campaign. After the Japanese surrender, he was assigned to Kure, Japan, where he first viewed the vacant dock built for the Yamato and began to pursue the story of its demise. Spurr is also the author of the highly acclaimed Enter the Dragon: China's Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea. The author sets the story of the Battleship Yamato against the background of Japanese suicide war tactics. He has recorded eyewitness accounts from the men involved, Japanese and Americans, from top admirals to fighter pilots to junior ships' gunners. He portrays the reaction of the sailors as they receive and carry out the orders to attack--and to die. He probes the politics and mentality of the Japanese leadership and the morale and spirit of the fighting men and the nation. What emerges is more than a story of a sortie or a ship. More

New York, N.Y. The Dial Press, 1975. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 254, [8] pages. Includes more than 30 black and white photographs by Maggi Castelloe. Laid in are two approximately 5 inch by 7.25 inch black and white captioned Maggi Casetlloe photographs from the book, one of Bob Pierpoint at the White House and the other of Eric Severeid and his daughter Christina. Also laid in is a News from The Dial Press release on the book, its author and the photographer, an associated bookmark, and a half-page sheet with a quotation from a New York Times executive praising the book. DJ has some wsear and soiling. In the early seventies, when the press and the president were at war, the journalists became superstars. The cast includes: Joseph Alsop, Stewart Alsop, Jack Anderson, Johnny Paale, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, Art Buchwald, Maxine Cheshire, Roland Evans, Soma Golden, Bernard Kalb, Marvin Kalb, Douglas Kiker, the Reverend Lester Kinsolving, Clark Mollenhoff, Robert Novak, Bob Pierpoint, Sally Quinn, Dan Rather, James Reston, Harry Rosenfield, Carl Rowen, Eric Sevareid, Eileen Shanahan, Lawrence Spivak, Susan Stamberg, Helen Thomas, Sander Vanocur, Mike Waters, Bob Woodward, and others. More

Cookeville, TN: William Bradley Willard, Jr., 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Binding is 'library style" with lettering on the spine. [3], x, 202 pages. Information on one side of sheet only. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Appendix A through J. Vita. It is rare for these bound Thesis documents to reach the open marketplace. The author was an engineering graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and was an engineer in the U.S. Army who served in Vietnam during the war. He attended graduate school following his military service. The bound in Certificate of Approval of Thesis is signed by the Chairman of the Graduate Advisory Committee (R. B. Bustamante), three members (Bromfield. L. Ridley, Albert A. Cannella, and James W. Irvin and also signed by the Dean of the Graduate School. Tennessee Technological University (Tennessee Tech) is a public research university in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States. It was formerly known as Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (1915–1965), and before that as University of Dixie (1909–1915), the name under which it was founded as a private institution. Affiliated with the Tennessee Board of Regents, the university is governed by a board of trustees. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Tennessee Tech places special emphasis on undergraduate education in fields related to engineering, technology, and computer science, although degrees in education, liberal arts, agriculture, nursing, and other fields of study can be pursued as well. Additionally, there are graduate offerings in engineering, education, business, and the liberal arts. More

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 26 cm. [4], 282, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Numerous full-page, double-page & textual illustrations in brown & white by the author. COver has some wear and soiling. Corners rubbed. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. DJ somewhat worn and soiled: minor edge tears/chips. A narrative and pictorial document of Korea and the Far East during the Korean War, written and illustrated by artist-correspondent John Groth. John August Groth. Born Chicago, IL 1908-died New York City 1988. Groth was educated at Chicago's Art Institute & Art Students League; as well as with T. Geller, A. Blanch, and Grosz. Artist-correspondent and first art director of Esquire Magazine (1933-1937) and Parade Publications (1941 - 1944). He vividly captured the combat of five wars, including Vietnam, in his illustrations. He was both fascinated and repelled by war. As a correspondent for The Chicago Sun, he went to Europe during World War II, covering the liberation of Paris after riding on the first jeep to enter the city. He was a frequent contributor to Vogue, Esquire, and Collier's. Groth was widely exhibited at F.A.R. Gallery in New York City; Dayton Art Institute; the National Academy of Design; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Corcoran and the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York. More