Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 189, [7] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Foreword by John Y. Simon. Footnotes. Notes. Index. Howard C. Westwood was a partner in the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling and a specialist in airline law as well as a Civil War authority. Mr. Westwood joined Covington & Burling in 1934 and retired in 1979. Since then, he had been of counsel to the firm. His law practice included helping develop government regulation of airlines and the Civil Aeronautics Act, and the representation of clients in the airline industry. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970's, Mr. Westwood also worked on legal aid for indigents. He was a founder of the Legal Aid Society and in 1992 was awarded its "Servant of Justice" award. Mr. Westwood had written more than 30 articles on the Civil War for historical journals and had presented more than 25 papers to Civil War round tables in Washington and elsewhere. His first book, "Black Troops, White Commanders and Freedmen During the Civil War," was published in 1992. He was a board member of the Ulysses S. Grant Association of Carbondale, Illinois. He graduated from Columbia University law school. He was clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan F. Stone for a year before joining Covington & Burling. During World War II, he was a Marine Corps drill instructor at Parris Island, S.C. More

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [1], 286, [2] pages. Some graphics used. Endnotes. Works Cited. Index. Argues that the Civil Rights movement, counter cultures, and radical artistic experimentation began in the fifties, not the sixties. W. T. Lhamon, Jr., is Emeritus Professor of English at Florida State University and Lecturer in American Studies at Smith College. W. T. Lhamon ’s Deliberate Speed is a cultural history of the 1950s in the United States that directly confronts the typical view of this decade as an arid wasteland. By surveying the artistic terrain of the period—examining works by figures as varied as Miles Davis, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Little Richard, Charlie Parker, Jackson Pollock, Thomas Pynchon, and Ludwig Wittgenstein—Lhamon demonstrates how many of the distinctive elements that so many attribute to the revolutionary period of the 1960s had their roots in the fertile soil of the 1950s. Taking his title from Chief Justice Earl Warren’s desegregation decree of 1955, Lhamon shows how this phrase, “deliberate speed,” resonates throughout the culture of the entire decade. The 1950s was a period of transition—a time when the United States began its shift from an industrial society to a postindustrial society, and the era when the first barriers between African-American culture and white culture began to come down. Deliberate Speed is the story of a nation and a culture making the rapid transition to the increasingly complex world that we inhabit today. More

New York: The Viking Press, 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 273, [3] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Questionnaire. Methodology. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Contents include: Introduction, Woodstock Nation, Culture, Heroes, Drugs, Politics, Sex, The Seventies, and Looking Back, Looking Forward. Rex Weiner is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, and reporter on contemporary culture, writing for many publications in the US and Europe. He is also an editor, stage & screen writer, and a co-founder and executive director of the Todos Santos Writers Workshop. Most recent assignment: Inside the Battle for Britney for Los Angeles Magazine, investigative reporting on the world-famous pop star’s legal predicament and the shadowy industry that preys on conservatorships like hers nationwide. He hosts the author interview series I READ YOUR BOOK AND... The Woodstock Census continues to serve as a unique sociological reference, with its findings based on a 1005-person survey conducted in 1977-78 in association with the Yankelovich polling firm. Cited in scholarly studies and often quoted in popular books and articles, the book is recognized as a key text on the politics and culture of the Sixties. Deanne Stillman is a widely published, critically acclaimed writer. Her books of literary nonfiction are place-based stories of war and peace in the modern and historical West. More

London: Faber and Faber, 1999. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxvi, 531, [3] pages. Index of Authors. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. An anthology of schemes, stories and ideas which people have dreamt of as Utopia. Provides a picture of the hopes and desires of the age in which each Utopia was conceived. The anthology encompasses many noble and selfless schemes but also reveals a trail of folly, tyranny and attempts at social control. John Carey, FBA, FRSL (born 5 April 1934) is a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books. He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2004, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He is chief book reviewer for the London Sunday Times and appears in radio and TV programmes including Saturday Review and Newsnight Review. Carey's scholarly work is generally agreed to be of the highest order and greatly influential. Among these productions is his co-edition, with Alastair Fowler, of the Poems of John Milton; John Donne: Life, Mind, and Art, a revolutionary study of Donne's work in the light of his life and family history; and The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens's Imagination. Carey's critical works are all distinguished by his fearless acumen and brilliant wit, which have played their part in evoking a sometimes indignant response from other academics. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expressed for example in his book What Good Are the Arts? More

El Salvador: Majestic, 2008. One of multiple originals. Tee Shirt. This is 2 X-Large illustrated short-sleeve Tee-sheet. It is pre-shrunk and machine washable. Assembled in El Salvador of U.S.A. fabric. Machine dry on low. Do not iron. It is 100% cotton, with black as the primary color. The from has the printing shown in the title and sub-title lines and a large aerial image of Yankee Stadium in the front center portion and another smaller stadium image with the MLB logo below the bottom text. The back of the Tee-shirt has a center image of a third view of Yankee Stadium. The left side is devoted to the American League and presents Starters, Pitchers, and Reserves. The right side is devoted to the National League and presents Starters, Pitchers, and Reserves. The Tee-sheet shows some evidence of wear and soiling. Majestic Athletic is a leader in the production and sale of sports themed clothing and memorabilia. The announcement of Yankee Stadium as the site of the game was made by MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on January 31, 2007, at New York's City Hall. Though it was the fourth game hosted at the Stadium and the eighth held in New York City, it was the first time since 1977 that the game had been played in the city (the last time also at Yankee Stadium). It had been speculated for months that the game would be held in Yankee Stadium, accelerated by the announcement that the 2008 season would be the 84th and final one for the stadium before the team moved into the new Yankee Stadium in 2009. Thus, it was seen as a fitting tribute to the old stadium that it host an All-Star Game in its final season. More

New York: Metro Books, 2001. Metro Edition, Fourth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5 inches by 6.75 inches. 320 pages. Illustrations (in color). Glossary. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Contents include: Introduction; Handguns; Submachine Guns; Machine Guns; Bolt-Action Rifles; Automatic Rifles; Shotguns; and Grenade Launchers. Metro Books by arrangement with Amber Books Ltd. Illustrated dust jacket. Glossy illustrated boards matching the jacket, gray endpapers, 320 pp. A very collectible example of the oddly scarce 2001 Metro/Amber edition (NOT the Barnes & Noble Edition) of Chris McNab's Twentieth-Century Small Arms: Almost 300 of the world's greatest small arms. Lavishly illustrated. Chris McNab is an author and editor specializing in military history and military technology. To date he has published more than 100 books including US Soldier vs German Soldier (2020), Hitler's Tanks (2020), The Great Bear at War (2019), A History of the World in 100 Weapons (2011), Deadly Force (2009) and Tools of Violence (2008). Chris has also written extensively for major encyclopedia series, magazines and newspaper. More

Aldershot: Gale and Polden Limited, 1955. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7.5 inches. xii, 183, [1] pages. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips and is in a plastic sleeve. Some edge soiling. Frontispiece. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield. Illustrations. Appendix One through Four (Appendices include documents, chronology, register of tenders and gunnery firing ships, and list of officers). Index. Inscribed by the author to Admiral R. D. Oliver on the fep stating "Who's work in 1930 made this volume possible in 1955". Also includes a TLS from the author to Admiral Oliver asking permission to quote from the Admiral's work on the H.M.S. Excellent. There is also an ALS from the author to the Admiral with a question about a Commander from the 1830s. There is a final, ALS forwarding this copy of the book and again thanking him for his help. This latter note had been taped to the inside of the front cover (and is now unattached) and there is tape residue there. Vice Admiral Robert Don Oliver CB CBE DSC DL (17 March 1895 – 6 October 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff. Oliver served in WWI taking part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, fighting at Gallipoli and undertaking mine-laying off the German and Belgian coast. He served in WWII and was commanding HMS Devonshire on 21 November 1941 when he was informed that German U-boats were going to be surfacing near him, to refuel from a merchant raider, the cruiser Atlantis. Using the intelligence, Devonshire sunk Atlantis. He later commanded the gunnery school HMS Excellent. He retired in 1948. More

Carrollton TX: squadron/signal publications, 1976. Presumed First English Language Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 11 inches by 8.125 inches. 48, [2] pages, plus covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations (some color). Cover has some wear and soiling. This is publication ARMOR No. 15. Railway guns were large guns and howitzers mounted on and fired from specially constructed railway cars. They have been obsolete since World War II and have been superseded by tactical surface-to-surface missiles, multiple rocket launchers, and bomber aircraft. Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustav) was a German 31.5 in railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupps siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line. The fully assembled gun weighed nearly 1,490 short tons, and could fire shells weighing 7.7 short tons to a range of 29 mi. The gun was designed for the Battle of France, but was not ready when that battle began. Gustav was later deployed in the Soviet Union during the Battle of Sevastopol, part of Operation Barbarossa, where, among other things, it destroyed a munitions depot located roughly 98 ft below ground level. The gun was moved to Leningrad, and was destroyed by the Germans near the end of the war in 1945 to avoid capture by the Soviet Red Army. Schwerer Gustav was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat and, in terms of overall weight, the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built. It fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece. It was surpassed in calibre only by the unused British Mallet's Mortar and the American Little David bomb-testing mortar—both at 36 inches—but was the only one to be used in combat. More

St. Louis: Press of Con. P. Curran Printing Co., 1914. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7.25 inches. [6] 103, [3] pages. Ink notation on fep. Faded stamp on the front cover from Board of Education. Front cover separated but present, Spine has text and is chipped at the top. Before European settlement, the St. Louis area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. St. Louis was founded on February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, who named it for Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain. In 1800, it was retroceded to France, which sold it three years later to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase; the city was then the point of embarkation for the Corps of Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; from 1870 until the 1920 census, it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics. More

Boston, MA: Privately Printed, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.75 inches. Black spine and red boards (with minor wearing/scuff). Gold and black title label on front cover. vi, 21, [3] pages. RARE. This is the product of a project designed and executed at the Typographic Laboratory Boston, Massachusetts by Charles W. Johnson. "As Baskerville's types stimulated interest in good book printing in his day, so the excellent reproduction cut for machine composition will help to lead the modern printer to a better realization of the possibility for improvement today. this book is set in eleven point Linotype Baskerville, cut under the direction of George W. Jones, the eminent English printer. The former is somewhat different from Baskerville's books in order to harmonize with the subject and to illustrate what can be done with modern facilities--C. W. J. Boston, Massachusetts September 1931. Composition was by Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts. Presswork by the Taylor Press. Binding by Robert Burlen & Son, Boston. [Robert Burlen started the company around 1880 in Boston went out of business in the 1970's. The paper is Crown & Sceptre, a handmade laid paper imported from England by the Japan Paper Company. Luck of Roaring Camp was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence. Roaring Camp was a community that arose during the California Gold Rush of 1849. More

New York: Vantage Press, 1974. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xi, [9], 214, [4] pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads: March-1978 With warmest regards to Professor Reynolds--from Cato D. Glover. Adm. Cato D. Glover was a pioneer naval aviator who commanded the aircraft carrier Enterprise in heavy combat in the Pacific in World War II. He won the Navy Cross and Silver Star Medal, among other citations, in action around the Bonin Islands, the Palaus, the Philippines, Taiwan, Okinawa and Leyte. The author wrote in the Preface: The fifty-odd stories in this book are as diverse as the contents of the Reader's Digest. They have, however, also been carefully selected and they span nearly threescore and ten years of my life. Some of the stories have historical significance, some are 'Salty" Navy, others thread through various categories such as human interest, diplomatic, N.A.T.O., baseball, fishing and hunting. They portray, I hope, a very high degree of patriotism, love for: our great Country and Navy, my family, wildlife, and "Sports-Aplenty." More

Colchester, London, and Eton: Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd. printers, 1911. For Private Circulation. Hardcover. viii, 351, [1] pages. Appendices. Some cover wear and page foxing/discoloration. Corners bumped. Inscribed on the fep: R. Durnford from W. Austen Leigh Xmas 1911. William Austen Leigh was Jane Austen's nephew. RARE, and has direct family connection! Mary Augusta Austen-Leigh was born in 1838 in Berkshire, the daughter of James Edward Austen-Leigh. Her great aunt was Jane Austen (1775–1817) and her cousin was novelist Catherine Anne Hubback. Austen-Leigh followed the example of her famous family members by writing the single novel Hurst and Hanger (1886). She spent most of her life living in London with her brother William and sister Emma. Later in life, she wrote a memoir of her father and a biography of her great aunt, Personal Aspects of Jane Austen in 1920. She never married and died in 1922 in London. Inheriting her family views, she firmly believed in protecting Jane Austen's reputation. Almost one hundred years after the death of Jane Austen, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh published "Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters. A Family Record" (1913). The book lovingly details Jane's birth, childhood, adolescence, and maturity; the everyday minutiae of her life, the circumstances in which she wrote her juvenilia and her six novels, and her early death. Using Jane Austen's own letters, additional letters sent between a large & fond family, and family reminiscences, William and Richard Austen-Leigh continued the family tradition of carefully nurturing the literary and personal reputation of a literary icon who happened to be a most beloved aunt.-- Goodreads. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. ix, [1], 278 pages. Illustrations/diagrams (black and white). DJ is in a plastic sleeve. This is a heavy, oversize book that if shipped outside of the United States will require additional shipping reimbursement. Top collegiate coaches offer advice on conditioning, offensive and defensive formations, passing, kicking, player motivation, and safety. Dick Herbert was a sports writer and editor who chronicled the rise of the Atlantic Coast Conference. He was the sports editor of The News & Observer of Raleigh for 29 years until 1971. Herbert was known for his attention to detail and an irascible style. While a journalist, Herbert witnessed the breakup of the Southern Conference, formation of the ACC, the Dixie Basketball Classic scandals and the desegregation of southern college sports. He previously served as secretary of both the American Football Coaches Association and the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association before being inducted into the Duke University and North Carolina Halls of Fame. Herbert was also a past president of the U.S. Football Writers Association. Contributions by Woody Hayes, Lou Holtz, Bo Schembechler, John McKay, Darrell Royal, Bill Walsh, Pepper Rodgers, Esco Sarkkinen, Jerry Sandusky, and Vince Dooley. More