New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc. [A Laurel Book], 1980. Third printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. 120, [8] pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Previous owner's mailing label on first page. Margaret Craven (March 13, 1901 – July 19, 1980) was an American writer. Margaret went to Stanford University (Palo Alto, California) where she majored in history, Upon her graduation with distinction in 1924, she moved to San Jose, California, where she took a job as secretary to the managing editor of the Mercury Herald. She soon found herself writing the editorials, first over the editor’s initials, then over her own. After the death of the editor, Margaret moved back to Palo Alto and began writing short stories for magazines such as the Delineator. In 1941 the Saturday Evening Post began accepting her stories. She continued contributing stories to the Post for the next 20 years, although seriously hindered by near-blindness caused by a bacterial infection of the eyes. It was largely owing to her vision problem that during this period she did not write novels, but the problem was overcome around 1960. She had learned about the Native-Americans of the northern British Columbia coast. The first result of this was a story for the Post called "Indian Outpost." In 1962, Margaret arranged with the Columbia Coast Mission of the Anglican Church to visit Kingcome and other native Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) villages on the B.C. coast. Out of this experience came her first novel, I Heard the Owl Call My Name, which became a best seller. Margaret published a second novel, Walk Gently This Good Earth (1977), an autobiography, Again Calls the Owl (1980), and a collection of stories, The Home Front (1981). More

New York: Berkley Books, 1983. Berkley Edition [stated] Presumed first printing. Mass market paperback. [8], 243, [5] pages. Cover worn, soiled and creased. Corner of rear cover gone. While on a ship bound for Turkey, an armaments expert discovers that he is the intended victim of a murder plot. Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda. When the Second World War broke out, Ambler entered the army as a private soldier. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1941. He was soon reassigned to photographic units. He ended the war as a lieutenant-colonel and an assistant director of the Army Film and Photographic Unit. After the war, he worked in the civilian film industry as a screenwriter, receiving an Academy Award nomination for his work on the film The Cruel Sea (1953), adapted from the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. He did not resume writing under his own name until 1951, when he entered the second of his two distinct periods in his writing. Five of his six early works are regarded as classic thrillers. He created the 1960 American detective TV series Checkmate. Ambler's best-known works are probably The Mask of Dimitrios (1939), which was made into a film in 1944, and The Light of Day (1962), filmed in 1964 as Topkapi. Other classic movies based on his work include Journey into Fear (1943), starring Joseph Cotten, and an original screenplay, The October Man (1947). More

Secaucus, NY: The Wellfleet Press, 1987. Reprint edition. Presumed First Edition, First printing this publisher. Hardcover. The format is approximately 9.125 inches by 12.25 inches. 319, [1] pages. Illustrations (includes color plates). Bibliography. Index. Ink notation on fep. DJ has wear, small tears and soiling. A visual survey of all forms of propaganda used by Allied and Axis powers immediately before and during World War II. Contents include Foreword by Victor Margolin; The Propagation of the Reich, 1933-1945; Mussolini's New Rome, 1922-1945; Britain Improvises, 1936-1945; United States: Isolation and Intervention, 1932-1945; Rule and Resistance in "The New Order," 1936-1945; The Soviet Union: Propaganda for Peace, 1917-1945; The Rise and Fall of Japan, 1931-1945; Afterword by Daniel Lerner; Essay and Filmography by William Murphy;, and Notes on Color Plates by Victor Margolin. Victor Margolin (1941–2019) was an American design historian, researcher and educator. He was a Professor of design history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he taught from 1982 until 2006. Margolin published widely and was the founding editor and co-editor of the academic design journal, Design Issues. A major work was his comprehensive World History of Design. In 1972, he published his first two books on design history and design theory, American Poster Renaissance: The Great Age of Poster Design, 1890-1900 (1975) and the edited volume, Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion, WWII (1976). Margolin began teaching art and design history in 1982 at the School of Art and Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago, where he was the first design historian they had hired, and taught there until retiring in 2006. More

Kansas City, MO: Veterans of Foreign Wars, 2010. Second Edition [stated] Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. The format is approximately 8.875 inches by 11.25 inches. 134, [2] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Map. Tabular Data. Appendices (include Combat Chronology, Casualties, and a Reading List). The contents were compiled from VFW Magazine's Korean War 50th Anniversary Commemorative Series. The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following years of hostilities between the two countries. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union while South Korea was supported by the United States and allied countries. The fighting ended with an armistice on 27 July 1953. The Korean War was a major conflict of the Cold War and among the most destructive conflicts of the modern era, with approximately 3 million war fatalities and a larger proportional civilian death toll than World War II or the Vietnam War. It resulted in the destruction of virtually all of Korea's major cities, with thousands of massacres committed by both sides—including the mass killing of tens of thousands of suspected communists by the South Korean government, and the torture and starvation of prisoners of war by the North Koreans. North Korea became among the most heavily bombed countries in history. Over the course of the war 1.5 million North Koreans are estimated to have fled North Korea. More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987. Presumed De Luxe version of First Edition, First printing. Leather bound. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 11.75 inches. 484 pages. Decorative endpapers, Profusely illustrated (many color photographs). Bibliography. Index. Leather or leatherlike binding. No dust jacket present. Cover has minor corner rubbing, wear and soiling. Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan (April 22, 1936 – December 15, 2009), better known as C. D. B. Bryan, was an American author and journalist. Bryan earned a Bachelor of Arts at Yale University in 1958. He served in the U.S. Army in South Korea (1958–1960). He was mobilized again (1961–1962) for the Berlin Crisis of 1961. He was an intelligence officer. Bryan sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1961. His first novel, P. S. Wilkinson, won the Harper Prize in 1965. Bryan is best known for his non-fiction book Friendly Fire (1976). It began as an idea he sold to William Shawn for an article in The New Yorker, then grew into a series of articles, and then a book. It describes an Iowa farm family, Gene and Peg Mullen, and their reaction and change of heart after their son's accidental death by friendly fire in the Vietnam War. One of the real-life characters featured in the book was future Operation Desert Storm commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf. It was made into an Emmy-winning 1979 television movie of the same name, for which he shared a Peabody Award. It's also been cited in professional military studies. More

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8.5 inches. xi, [1], 119, [5] pages. Footnotes. Glossary. Maps. Bibliography. Index . DJ is price clipped and in a plastic sleeve. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Contents: 1). The contemporary setting. 2). The Rajput state. 3). The Rajput princes as imperial Mansabdars. 4). The Mansabdari system under Aurangzeb (1615-1678). 5). Marwar and Mewar on the eve of the Rajput rebellion. 6). The Rajput rebellion: Marwar and rhe Rathors. 7). Mewar and the Rathor rebellion. 8). The imperial phase of the Rajput rebellion: prince Abkar's revolt. 9). The aftermath of the rebellion: Mewar and Marwar. 10). Religion as factor in the Rajput rebellion. 11). Conclusion. A Rajput (from Sanskrit raja-putra, 'son of a king') is a member of one of the patrilineal clans of western, central, northern India and some parts of Pakistan. The Rajput rebellion began in 1708, due to the harsh treatment of the Rajput Rajas by the Mughal emperor. It erupted into a two-year rebellion that forced the Mughal emperor to sue for peace, give them gifts, and restore the Rajput holdings which had been annexed by the previous Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. More

New York: McGraw-Hill (An Aviation Week Book), 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.5 inches. xiv, 187, [7] pages. Illustrations. Appendices (including Chronology and World Records). Index. This is one of the Walter J. Boyne Military Aircraft Series. Dennis R. Jenkins has worked as a NASA contractor for the past 33 years, mostly on the Space Shuttle program in a variety of engineering and management roles. He spent 5 years activating the Vandenberg Launch Site in California before the facility was closed following the Challenger accident. Returning to KSC, he supported the recovery of the Shuttle accident and a variety of special projects. During the late 1990s, he was the ground systems lead for the X-33 program. He spent 2003 on the staff of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, 2004 as staff to the President’s commission on the Future of Human Space Flight, and 2005 as the Verville Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum, after which, he returned to KSC. In 2010, he began participating in the Orbiters on Display Working Group that planned the delivery of the Space Shuttle orbiters to their display sites at the NASM; the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum; the California Science Center; and the KSC Visitor Complex. (2011 Biography from NASA publication SP-2011-593. Walter J. Boyne (February 2, 1929 – January 9, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, Command Pilot, combat veteran, aviation historian, and author of more than 50 books and over 1,000 magazine articles. He was a director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution and a Chairman of the National Aeronautic Association. More

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 8.625 inches by 11.25 inches. 314, [6] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (many in color). Appendices. Inscribed by the author the the verso of the fep. Inscription reads To Gene Don Logan July 24, 1998. Don Logan as a result of the revival of the B-1 as the B-1B by the Reagan administration, and the selection of Boeing as the contractor for the avionics integration, based on his previous B-1 experience, Don Logan was made the Lead Editor of the Flight and Weapon Delivery manual written by Boeing. In addition to the B-1, he had also developed the Flight Manual for the E-8A JOINT Stars aircraft, and the Flight/Weapon Delivery manuals for the Boeing Navigation and Weapon Delivery Systems which was installed in the RF-4V and F-4E. He has become one of the notable and prolific aeronautical authors of work on modern high performance military aircraft and their supporting systems and armaments. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 6 inches by 4.25 inches. 192 pages. Illustrations (color). This is one of the National Audubon Society's Pocket Guides. Topics covered include How to Use This Guide, Birdwatching, Identifying Birds, How Birds Are Classified, Attracting Birds to Your Yard, Bird Conservation, and Appendices (including glossary and index). Wayne Petersen is director of the Massachusetts Important Bird Area (IBA) Program for the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Throughout his career, Wayne has lectured extensively and conducted birding workshops across North America. His tour-leading experiences have taken him from arctic Canada to South America, Iceland, Africa, Madagascar, Antarctica, Australia, and New Zealand. Wayne is a New England Regional Editor for North American Birds, a founding member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee, and for twenty years has written an identification column for Bird Observer magazine. His other writing projects include authoring or coauthoring the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Songbirds and Familiar Backyard Birds (East), Birds of Massachusetts, and Birds of New England; co-editing the Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas; and contributing to The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, and Arctic Wings. Wayne is especially interested in seabirds and shorebirds, and he derives great satisfaction from sharing his knowledge of the natural world with others. More

New York: Golden Press, 1957. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 4 inches by 6 inches. 160 pages. 400 Illustrations in cover. Index. Illustrated covers have some wear and soiling. This is one of the Golden Nature Guides. The topics covered include: Introduction, Seeing the Earth and its Rocks, Activities for Amateurs, Identifying Minerals, Metallic Minerals, Nonmetallic minerals, Gem minerals, Rock-forming minerals, Igneous Rocks, Sedimentary Rocks, Metamorphic Rocks, Rocks in Daily Use, and More Information. Herbert Spencer Zim (July 12, 1909 – December 5, 1994) was a naturalist, author, editor and educator known as the founder (1945) and editor-in-chief of the Golden Guides series of nature books. Zim took his degrees (B.S. biologia, M.S. biologia, Ph.D. botanica) at Columbia University. Zim wrote or edited more than one hundred books on science, and in a thirty-year career teaching introduced laboratory instruction into elementary school science. He is best known as the founder in 1945 (and, for twenty-five years, editor in chief) of the Golden Guides, pocket-size introductions to such subjects as fossils, zoology, microscopy, rocks and minerals, trees, wildflowers, dinosaurs, navigation and more. He was the sole or co-author for many of the books, which were valued for their clarity, accuracy and attractive presentation—helped by the illustrations of Zim's friend Raymond Perlman. Paul R. Shaffer contributed to nature guides from Golden Guides and St. Martin's Press. Perlman was Professor Emeritus, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana. His major projects included the illustrations in the Nature Guide Series. More

Wyszkow, Poland: BS Firma Wydawniczo-Handlowa. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 40 pages. Illustrations. 2 black and white tri-fold illustrations (one for Kiji and one for Ardito, and on two panel (one side only) of both ships in color. All Plans of World Warships/Yellow Periscope Series No.5. Bibliography. The Ciclone class were a group of torpedo boats or destroyer escorts built for the Italian Navy which fought in the Second World War. They were modified, slightly heavier, versions of the previous Orsa class, with improved stability and heavier anti-submarine armament. These ships were built as part of the Italian war mobilization program and completed in 1942–43. All units were fitted with a sonar, and also torpedo launchers were present in the same quantity and placement for all units of the class. However, there were three different gun configurations in the class: Ghibli, Impavido, Impetuoso, Indomito were fitted with 3 single 100mm/47 guns, plus 4 dual 20mm/65 machine guns; Aliseo, Ardente, Ciclone, Fortunale, Groppo, Monsone, Tifone, Uragano with 2 single 100mm/47 guns and 8 × 20mm/65 machine guns; and Animoso, Ardito, Ardimentoso, Intrepido with 2 single 100mm/47 guns, while the central mounting was fitted with a quadruple 20mm/65 mounting, for a total of 12 AA machine guns. More

London: Arms and Armour Press, 1997. Later Edition. Hardcover. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11.75 inches. 160 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. DJ has some marks/scratches at the front. George Forty OBE (10 September 1927 – 19 May 2016) was a British Army officer who was chief of staff of the Royal Armoured Corps gunnery school and later director of the Tank Museum, and also author of many books on warfare. Forty was educated at Queen's College, Oxford University. He joined the British Army in 1945, and was part of the first post-war class commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1948. He served in the British Army of the Rhine in the 1st Royal Tank Regiment, in Korea, where he was wounded in the Third Battle of the Hook in May 1953, and in Aden, the Persian Gulf and Borneo in command of an armoured reconnaissance squadron. After attending the Staff College in 1959, he held appointments at the Army Air Corps Centre and the Royal Armoured Corps Tactical, Signals and Gunnery Schools before retiring in 1971. Forty published more than 70 books with a focus on armoured warfare and also on wartime in Dorset. From 1981 until his retirement in 1993 he served as the curator (director) of the Tank Museum. He modernized and greatly expanded it, becoming known as the "father of the Tank Museum". Forty was elected a Fellow of the Museums Association and in 1994 was appointed an OBE. More

Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1965. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 137, [1] pages. Scarce copy of Jameson's Festschrift, with a panoply of academic historians, librarians, geographers, and scholars of the 20th Century. A Chronicle of John Franklin Jameson's Life. Bibliography. Among the topics covered are American Religious History, Doctoral Dissertations in History, The National Historical Publications Commission, Scholar, The Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, The Dictionary of American Biography, The National Archives, and Dr. Jameson as Editor (and otherwise). Among the contributors are. Allan Nevin, David C. Mearns. Boyd Shafer, Fred Shelly, John K. Wright, Verner Clapp, Waldo Gifford Leland and Dumas Malone. More