New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1988. 11th Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [12], 659, [1] pages. DJ is price clipped. Signed by the author on the front end paper. Clipping from signing event laid in. Contains Prologue and Epilogue, as well as chapters on The Master of the Universe; Gibraltar; From the Fiftieth Floor; King of the Jungle; The Girl with Brown Lipstick; A Leader of the People; Catching the Fish; The Case; Some Brit Named Fallow; Saturday's Saturnine Lunchtime; The Words on the Floor; The Last of the Great Smokers; The Day-Glo Eel; I Don't know How to Lie; The Masque of the Red Death; Tawkin Irish; The Favor Bank; Shuhmun; Donkey Loyalty; Calls from Above; The Fabulous Koala; Styrofoam Peanuts; Inside the Cavity; The Informants; We the Jury; Death New York Style; Hero of the Hive; Off to a Better Place; The Rendezvous; An Able Pupil; Into the Solar Plexus; and Epilogue/ Financier Is Arraigned. Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment Banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy of New York, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's gallery ranges from Wall Street, where people in their thirties feel like small-fry if they're not yet making a million per, to the real streets, where the aim is lower but the itch is just as virulent. More

New York, N.Y. Random House, 1994. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. xi, [1], 592, [4] pages. Selective Glossary. Inscribed For Jim Trefil, phisicist, from V. A., lyricist; my best wishes. V. Aksyonov. Chapters are Scythian Helmets; The Kremlin and Its Neighborhood; First Intermission; Second Intermission; The Chopin Cure; The General Line; The Theatrical Avant-Garde; Trotsky's on the Wall; Third Intermission; Fourth Intermission; The Village of Gorelovo and the Luch Collective Farm; Bags of Oxygen; Keen Eyes, Doves, and Little Stars; Tennis, Surgery, and Defensive Measures; The Charlatan Organ Grinder; Life-Giving Bacilli; Firth Intermission, Sixth Intermission; Count Olsufiev's Mansion; Indestructible and Legendary; Come on, Girls, Lend a Hand, Beauties! Above the Eternal Rest; I Recommend That You Not Cry! "I Dream of Hunchbacked Tiflis"; Marble Steps; Seventh Intermission; and Eighth Intermission; Listen--the Thump of Boots; Fireworks by Night; Underground Bivouac, First Intermission, Second Intermission, Dry Rations, Le Bemol; The Poor Boys; The Special Strike Force, Third Intermission, Fourth Intermission; Professor and Student; Clouds in Blue; Guest of the Kremlin; The Master of the Kremlin; Firth Intermission; Sixth Intermission; Professor and Student; Clouds in Blue; Guest of the Kremlin; The Master of the Kremlin; Firth Intermission; Sixth Intermission; Summer, Youth; A Sentimental Direction; We'll Waltz in the Kremlin; Officers' Candidate School; Seventh Intermission; Eighth Intermission; A Concert for the Front; Vertuti Militari; Temptation by Word; The Ozone Layer; The Path of October; Ninth Intermission; and Tenth Intermission. More

Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1944. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7.375 inches. [14], 224 pages. Frontis illustration. Glossary. Bookplate on fep. Rare bookplate of Doris Allden! [This bookplate can also be found in the Neil Swift collection of Australian and New Zealand booksellers tickets, plus various bookplates, at Monash Collection online]. DJ is worn, torn (front flap nearly separated), soiled and chipped. Endpapers discolored. Minor page wear, soiling, and discoloration. Includes Foreword and Preface, as well as chapters on Good-Bye Australia; We Meet Italian Destroyers; Fuzzy-Wuzzy Town; Ashore at Bombay; Iraq--Abadan; A Short Spell--Ashar; Iran--Khorramshahr; Tale of the ITI M.V. HILDA; Bombay Again, Refitting; To the Mediterranean; Tobruk Convoys; Towards Home; Between Australia and the Japs; and Seven Against One. Also includes Glossary. This intimate story of H.M.A.S. Yarra, by one who served in her and loved her, should make all Australians who read it proud of the ship, her Captain, and her crew. It was Yarra's good fortune that in her nineteen months overseas she was called upon to perform many difficult and dangerous tasks, all of which she carried out with success and distinction. Into that time she crammed more adventure than would ordinarily be spread over half a dozen ships. This is the story of an Australian ship which for two and a half years endured the dullness, the discomforts, and sometimes the dangers, associated with war. More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1944. Presumed later printing [copyright is 1943 but 1944 is on title page]. Hardcover. ix, [5], 389, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. DJ is torn at spine and back side with flap separated. Front flap nearly separated. DJ is also worn, soiled and chipped. Includes Prologue, Cast of Characters, Epilogue, Source Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover The Press Pass; Three Time Losers!; "Judge Not!"; Generals Die in the Army; Heroes Stand Alone; Main Chance Politicos; "Governors, Pardon!"; and Honest Wall Street Lawyers. Also includes illustrations of Horace Greeley, James Middleton Cox, Henry Clay, William Jennings Bryan; Alton B. Parker; Charles Evans Hughes; Winfield Scott; John Charles Fremont; George B. McClellan; Winfield Scott Hancock; Samuel J. Tilden; Stephen A. Douglas; James G. Blaine; Lewis Cass; Horatio Seymour; Alfred E. Smith; Alfred M. Landon; John W. Davis; and Wendell L. Willkie. All source notes, quotations and references are credited at the back of the book, and may easily be found by chapter and page citation. This is the story of the nineteen men who enjoyed, or suffered, an identical fate; they were all defeated for the presidency of the United States. These stories are not told in their chronological order, but are grouped according to those analogies which give history a fascinating plot structure. Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians and intellectuals. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo. More

New York, N.Y. Peter Smith, 1950. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 450 pages. Some cover wear and soiling noted. Includes Preface, as well as Part 1, The Settler Breaks the Way; Part 2, The West Welcomes the Corporation; Part 3, The Corporation Triumphs; Part 4, The Government Forces Conservation. Also includes 12 black and white illustrations/maps, Selective Bibliography, and an Index. This is a valuable book... It tells for the first time with any completeness the history of the disposal of our public land. It brings to our attention many fresh facts, presents many new interpretations. It is, on the whole, vigorous and interesting. Among the grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence was the complaint that the King of Great Britain endeavored to "prevent the population of these States" by "obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their emigrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands." For over one hundred and fifty years the colonies had enjoyed the privilege of molding their own land systems, but the Proclamation of 1763, and subsequent Orders in Council leading up to the Quebec Act of 1774, served notice to Americans that frontier policy was no longer a matter for colonial initiative but had become an imperial problem of first order. This interference with the free movement of colonists into the country west of the Appalachians was resented by southern and New England colonies alike, and constituted one of the major causes of the American Revolution. More

New York, N.Y. H. Wolff, 1963. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 333, [1] pages. Some DJ wear. Includes Foreword, Acknowledgments, Notes, Appendix: The Documentary Structure of Leviathan, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters on The Need for Leviathan; Drawing Leviathan's English Pattern; Drafting American Specifications; Operation Adjustments; Increasing Friction; Approach of Terror; Disintegration; Constructing the Confederate Leviathan; The Reason for Two Leviathans; Operation under Disadvantages; The Confederate Leviathan Collapses; A New Leviathan; and Perfecting Leviathan's New Design. An historical account of how & why the machinery of American Democracy, despite its expert design and specifications, broke down a century ago and made necessary some new blueprints [from the front of the dust jacket]. This new interpretation of American democracy by fills a real gap. Historians, Mr. Nichols points out, have a way of writing about events and personalities without concerning themselves with the underlying and the significant, the less obvious operations which are the reason for things. In American history, there has been the steady evolution, over a thousand years of English and American experience, of the American knack for maintaining self-government and liberty, the invention of the American mechanism, operated by the people themselves, for securing social order and attaining greatness. For the purpose of adjusting and eliminating the inevitable conflicts of will and interest, they have negotiated and recorded agreement, they have substituted legislation for bloodshed, and they have reached for the pen rather than for the sword. More

London, England: Oxford University Press, 1916. Second Edition, revised. Wraps. 100 pages. Worn. Black and white maps/battle plans, small diagrams showing positions/directions of ships. Includes Introductory Note, Sir John Jellicoe's Dispatch, June 24, 1916; Sir David Beatty's Report, June 19, 1916; The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Sir John Jellicoe, July 4, 1916; and an Index. Also includes Diagrams of The Scene of the Battle, and The Chart of the Battle. Also includes a map of the British Battle Fleet, as well as introductory notes, The Battle of Jutland Bank, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe's Dispatch, and Sir David Beatty's Report. Also includes an index. Charles Sanford Terry (24 October 1864, Newport Pagnell – 5 November 1936, Aberdeen) was an English historian and musicologist who published extensively on Scottish and European history as well as the life and works of J. S. Bach. He was appointed Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History and Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen from 1903 until his retirement in 1930. He served as president of the Association of Scottish History. "On May 31, 1916, the German High Sea Fleet was brought to an engagement off Jutland Bank, on the coast of Denmark. Earlier Admirals von Scheer and Hipper had put out from their bases upon 'an enterprise directed northward', in the language of the German Admiralty. The phrase certainly connotes an enterprise other than the engagement of May 31, though the semi-official narrative of the battle, published on June 5, announced Admiral von Scheer to have left port 'to engage portions of the British Fleet, which were repeatedly reported recently to be off the coast of Norway'.[Introductory Note.]. More

New York: Hearst International Library Co., 1916. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.5 inches. xii, 247, [1] pages. Decorated front cover. Frontis illustration. Name of previous owner [John Lyman!!!] stamped inside front cover. Includes Introduction, as well as chapters on How Germany Got the U-Deutschland, and How the U-Deutschland Got Me; Trial Trip and Outward bound; The First Day at Sea; The U-Boat Trap; Head downward in the North Sea; Westward Ho!; In the Atlantic; Hell With the Lid on; America; Baltimore; Farewell to Baltimore; Breaking Through; Homeward Bound; Home Again; and How Germany Welcomed Us Back. Also includes 32 black and white illustrations. Paul Liebrecht König (March 20, 1867 – September 9, 1933) was a sailor and business executive. He is most known for two visits he made to the United States in 1916 as captain of the merchant submarine U-Deutschland. König was a captain in the German merchant navy. In 1916 during World War I, he became a reserve Kapitänleutnant in the Imperial German Navy. Later in 1916, König became commanding officer of the merchant submarine Deutschland. He took it on two patrols to the United States for commercial purposes. He arrived at Baltimore on July 10, 1916, with a cargo of dyestuffs. He later made a second voyage and putting in at New London, Connecticut. He received the Iron Cross 1st class the same year. König wrote a book called Voyage of the Deutschland, which was heavily publicized. König then became commanding officer of a Sperrbrechergruppe (group of blockade runners; 1917), and later was an executive at Norddeutscher Lloyd (1919–1931). More

New York, N.Y. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. [10], 276, [2] pages. DJ has slight wear, soiling, and flap creases. This story encompasses California theatre in its heyday, the movies in the silent days and now, the San Francisco earthquake and fire, as well as both world wars. As the journal entries continue to the present, the drama builds to its powerful climax. Only a man who has conducted a shameless, passionate, brazen, lifetime love affair with the theatre and the movies could have produced this spellbinding, glamorous, tantalizing, enthralling, human story. The portrait is complete. John J. Tumulty stands revealed in all his fascinating complexity. One Hell of an Actor is a triumphant blend of fine storytelling, outsize characters, suspense, and a technique that reminds us fiction is still a fluid form. Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films. Garson Kanin began his show-business career as a jazz musician, burlesque comedian, and actor. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and made his Broadway debut in Little Ol' Boy (1933). In 1935, Kanin was cast in a George Abbott play and soon became Abbott's assistant. Kanin made his Broadway debut as a director in 1936, at the age of 24, with Hitch Your Wagon. Kanin's best-selling novel Smash (1980), about the pre-Broadway tryout of a musical comedy, was inspired by his experience directing the 1964 musical Funny Girl and was adapted into the 2012 television series Smash. In 1985, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1941. Later printing, possibly book club. Hardcover. 304 pages. DJ is worn, torn, chipped, soiled, and is price clipped. Endpapers discolored. Some page discoloration. Includes Preface, as well as probably the most expert stories of espionage ever written, based on Mr. Maugham's own experiences as a British agent during the First World War. This fascinating book, first published in 1928, is now officially required reading for persons entering the British Secret Service, and is accepted as literal fact by Dr. Goebbels. It contains probably the most expert stories of espionage ever written. They are based, of course, on Mr. Maugham's own experiences as a British agent during the First World War, but they were written, the author emphasizes in a preface especially written for this edition, purely as entertainment. They make wonderfully exciting reading, freshly significant in these times. William Somerset Maugham CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. Orphaned, he was raised by a paternal uncle. He did not want to become a lawyer like other men in his family, so he trained and qualified as a physician. His first novel Liza of Lambeth (1897) sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time. During the First World War, he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps before being recruited in 1916 into the British Secret Intelligence Service. He worked for the service in Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917 in the Russian Empire. More

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. [8], 119 pages. Signed by the author, Tom Wolfe, on the front free endpaper. DJ has wear, tears, soiling, and chips. Includes chapters on Stiffened Giblets; Entr'actes and Canapes; In Our Time; The Man Who Always Peaked Too Soon; Portraits; The World of Art; The Bohemian Hedge, California, England, and New York. Special thanks were given to Harper's where the feature called "In Our Time" originates, and where the drawings on pages 2, 6, 12, 24-54, and 70 first appeared. Tom Wolfe introduces us to the inhabitants of this cockeyed landscape--The New Cookie, ''the girl in her twenties for whom the American male now customarily shucks his wife of two to four decades when the electrolysis gullies appear above her upper lip"; The Modern Mother, who is more childish than her children; The Fondly Trusting Father as he first opens the door to his daughter's coed dorm room. Most of the drawings in this volume were done over the past three years, but the book also provides a retrospective of Wolfe's twenty-three years as a graphic artist. In 1980, Tom Wolfe received the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for achievement in prose style; the Columbia Journalism Award, which is the Columbia School of Journalism's highest honor; and the National Sculpture Society's special citation for art history. In this work, Wolfe focuses on the changing mores and social landscape of the 1980s, with drawings from two decades as a graphic artist. More

Bantam Edition: Bantam Books, 1978. Presumed First Bantam Edition. Specially Illustrated Edition. Mass market paperback. [8], 338, [6] pages. Fold-out color illustration inside the front cover. Illustrations. Maps. This is one of the Bantam War Book Series. Several black "X"s on bottom edge. The story of Douglas Bader is one of the most extraordinary personal sagas of World War II or indeed of any war. This is the true story of a world-famous fighter pilot, who lost both legs in an air crash. After his accident, Douglas Bader vowed to come back, to fly again. He did. The fighter tactics he evolved helped to win the Battle of Britain. Downed over France, trapped in his burning Spitfire, he escaped only because one of his artificial legs was sheared off. Twice captured, he twice escaped before being captured again for the duration. He shot down 22 enemy planes. Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 1916 – 23 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war, and author who wrote The Great Escape, The Dam Busters, and Reach for the Sky. Brickhill had been approached by John Pudney with a proposal to write a book on the Stalag Luft 3 mass escape. This was eventually to be published as The Great Escape. Once in England Brickhill asked the RAF about the status of a proposed history of 617 squadron, offering his services. As the RAF had made no progress in finding an author, his offer was accepted. The Great Escape was published in 1950 and brought the incident to wide public attention. The history of 617 Squadron and in particular its involvement in Operation Chastise and the destruction of dams in the Ruhr valley was published in 1951 as The Dam Busters, which sold over one million copies. More

New York: Vintage International, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 2001. First Vintage International Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [8], 311, [1] pages. Autographed copy sticker on front cover. Signed by the other on the title page. Minor wear and soiling noted. With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil's Ghost is a fictional work set during this political time and historical moment. And while there existed organizations similar to those in this story, and similar events took place, the characters and incidents in the novel are invented. Today the war in Sri Lanka continues in a different form. Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the modern world by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past--a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder--Michael Ondaatje's most powerful novel yet. More