New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 230 pages. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. The author introduces readers to one of the worst natural disasters in the nation's history--the 1938 Hurricane that struck the coast of New England at 186 miles per hour causing devastation throughout the region--and the personal stories of survivors of the catastrophe. Cherie Burns is author of Diving for Starfish--The Jeweler, The Actress, The Heiress and One of the World's Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelry, published by St. Martin's Press in 2018. Her previous books are the biography, Searching for Beauty—The Life of Millicent Rogers, the American Heiress Who Taught the World About Style published by St. Martin’s Griffin Press in October of 2012, The Great Hurricane: 1938, published by Grove/Atlantic (2005) and Stepmotherhood—How to Survive Without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out or Wicked (Times Books). Cherie Burns’s books are based on relentless reporting combined with a worldly empathy for her subjects. Pursuing the narrative of the Great Hurricane, she interviewed survivors in nursing homes and sifted through accounts that younger residents recalled from their parents. Burns has been a feature journalist since 1975. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, People, Glamour, New York, Sports Illustrated, Constitution and other publications. She now lives primarily in Taos, New Mexico and has spent summer in Nantucket since 1981. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Sixth Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 630, [2] pages. Endpaper illustration. Illustrations. Sources. Notes. Index. Slight wear to DJ edges. This exclusive biography of Steve Jobs--based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--is filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American writer and journalist. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. He has been the chairman and CEO of Cable News Network (CNN) and the Managing Editor of Time. He has written biographies of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger. Steve Jobs, Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple Computer's Jobs, became an international bestseller, breaking all records for sales of a biography. In contrast to Isaacson's previous biographies of Einstein and Franklin, Steve Jobs was written while its subject was still alive, as was the case with his biography of Kissinger. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 194, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has sticker residue at the back. The author was the Jack T. Kvernland Professor of Philosophy and Social Policy at Monmouth College and the author of The Soul of the Salesman and Weber and Rickert. He has published on classical German sociology, especially Georg Simmel and Max Weber, and most recently on the sociology of ethics. More

Pleasant Valley, Jamaica: Bruckings Publishing House Ltd., c1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [8], 50, [2] pages. Illustrations. Comment Lebert Bethune. Inscription on fep signed by the author. Inscription reads To Eloise--with sincerest regards, even after so long a year. Love Ed Nov. 1976. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips. The poet Edward Watson was born in Jamaica and attended school at Kingston College, the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto. He has taught Practical Criticism and Theory at the University of Windsor. His book ‘Out of the Silent Stone and other poems’ was his first collection of poems to be published. Basil Barrington Watson (9 January 1931 – 26 January 2016) was a Jamaican painter. Born in 1931 January 9th in Lucea, Barrington Watson followed his artistic yearnings by enrolling at the Royal College of Art in London. Watson also studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. He traveled widely and then returned to the first Director of Studies at the Jamaica School of Art and co-founded the Contemporary Jamaican Artists' Association (1964–74). He later served as visiting professor at Spelman College, Atlanta. In 1967 he won a prize at the first Spanish Biennale at Barcelona. In 2000 he was awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica. Watson has exhibited throughout Jamaica and internationally. Watson is the subject of Lennie Little-White's 2015 documentary film They Call Me Barrington. He died on 26 January 2016 at the age of 85. More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7 inches by 9.75 inches. xvi, 367, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. This is one of The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature a limited edition collection that was published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to the United Kingdom. The posting influenced the younger man through the experience of wartime diplomacy, and absorption in English culture, especially the works of John Stuart Mill. After the American Civil War, he became a political journalist who entertained America's foremost intellectuals at his homes in Washington and Boston. During his lifetime, he was best known for The History of the United States of America 1801–1817, a nine-volume work, praised for its literary style, command of the documentary evidence, and deep (family) knowledge of the period and its major figures. His posthumously published memoir, The Education of Henry Adams, won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to be named by the Modern Library as the best English-language nonfiction book of the 20th century. As an academic historian, Adams is considered to have been the first (in 1874–1876) to conduct historical seminar work in the United States. Among his students was Henry Cabot Lodge, who worked closely with Adams as a graduate student. More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing [thus]. Hardcover. [14], 379, [1] pages. Color frontis. James Patrick Donleavy (23 April 1926 – 11 September 2017) was an American-Irish novelist, short story writer and playwright. His best-known work is the novel The Ginger Man, which was initially banned for obscenity. He served in the US Navy during World War II. Donleavy's first published work was a short story entitled A Party on Saturday Afternoon, which appeared in the Dublin literary periodical Envoy in 1950. He gained critical acclaim with his first novel, The Ginger Man (1955), which is one of the Modern Library 100 best novels. The novel, of which Donleavy's friend and fellow writer Brendan Behan was the first person to read the completed manuscript, was banned in Ireland and the United States by reason of obscenity. Lead character Sebastian Dangerfield was in part based on Trinity College companion Gainor Crist, an American Navy veteran also studying at Trinity College on the G.I. Bill, whom Donleavy once described in an interview as a "saint", though of a Rabelaisian kind. Correctly or incorrectly, his initial works are sometimes grouped with the kitchen sink artists as well as the "Angry Young Men". Another novel, A Fairy Tale of New York, provided the title of the song "Fairytale of New York". In 2015, Donleavy was the recipient of the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. In 2016, Trinity College Dublin awarded him with an honorary doctorate. More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. [10], 385, [3] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. This is one of The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature, a limited edition collection is published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain, theretofore an unpopular cause. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights. Moncure Daniel Conway's crowning achievement was his biography of fellow transatlantic radical Thomas Paine (1892). In that year Dickinson College awarded him an honorary doctorate of humane letters. Common Sense was a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arguments to encourage people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at meeting places. It had the largest sale and circulation, proportionately, of any book published in American history. More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. [20], 601, [6] pages. Illustrations. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. It includes A Special message to subscribers from Joyce Carol Oates. "Alone among my novels them is prefaced by an Author's Note, terse, equivocal, and possibly helpful--at the very least by directing the reader's attention to the fact, not a negligible one, that the title them refers to certain people and is not a shorthand "poetic" was of alluding to all Americans. Who are these People?--Loretta and her children, Jules and Maureen, and to a lesser extent their father, their stepfather, their uncle Brock, their lost sister Bette, their young brother Randolph? They are Americans--infected in part, by the glamour of America, the adventure of aggressive and futile dreams--but they are not Americans most of us know....Of course, I lived in Detroit at the time of the 1967 riots, and was shaken by the experience...Maurenne Wendall, like Jules, is a composite character...I see shadowy aspects of myself in her, I recognize my voice in hers in a way I would not have admitted when I wrote the novel... Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938) is a writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. She has won awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them, two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize. More

New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1977. First American Publication/Edition, Presumed First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 829, [3] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Silhouettes. Tables. Addenda. Index on Named Ships. Index of Classes. Title page and several other pages creased. Some cover wear and soiling. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1939. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ISSUED November, 1939! Oblong format. 53 pages of advertisements, xx, 543, [1] pages. Illustrations. Tables. General Index. Addenda. Special Late Addenda. Cover has some wear and soiling. Edges and parts of pages soiled and moisture stained. Jane's Fighting Ships by Janes Information Services is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by Fred T. Jane in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 73 [advertisements], 74- 675, [1], xviii pages. Illustrations (some with color). tables. Addenda. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page wear and soiling. Slightly cocked. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. This is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More

London: Jane's Yearbooks, 1975. First Edition, Presumed First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 108, 688, [ii] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Tables. Index. Quick reference index laid in (had been pasted inside front board). Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. This book covers 15,000 ships in more than 110 countries. Includes 3,000 photographs, plans, silhouettes and line drawings. This is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More

New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 432, [2] pages. Figures. Footnotes. Formulas. Tables. Glossary. Name of previous owner on half title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This is a book reporting results from the Cooperative Research Project on Arms Reductions of the Federation of American Scientists and the Committee of Soviet scientists for Peace and Aganinst the Nuclear Threat. This is the first volume of the Science & Global Security Monograph Series from this published. Frank N. von Hippel (born 1937) is an American physicist. He is Professor and Co-Director of Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. In the 1980s, as chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, Von Hippel partnered with Evgenyi Velikhov in advising Mikhail Gorbachev on the technical basis for steps to end the nuclear arms race. Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (born 26 December 1932) is a Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also a science advisor to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Sagdeev graduated from Moscow State University. He is a member of both the Russian Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He has worked at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1989 in the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Sagdeev was the recipient of the 2003 Carl Sagan Memorial Award, and the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics (2001). More