New York: Robbins Music Corporation, 1938. Presumed First Edition, First printing Thus. Sheet Music, stapled at left side. 6 pages. Format is approximately 9 inches by 12 inches. Bottom edge has a tear and chipping near the center of the sheets. Stained. Illustrated front cover. It appears to have become disbound and was stapled twice on the left side to hold it together. Front cover has a large black and white photograph of Al Donahue next to a drawing of a person in a feathered cap with a basket. Second page and read cover each have snippets of three songs with commentary. Pages 3-5 present the words and music of the Fitzgerald-Freeman classic. It was her 1938 version of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", a song she co-wrote, that brought her public acclaim. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" became a major hit on the radio and was also one of the biggest-selling records of the decade. "A Tisket A Tasket" is a nursery rhyme first recorded in America in the late nineteenth century. It was used as the basis for a very successful and highly regarded 1938 recording by Ella Fitzgerald, composed by Fitzgerald in conjunction with Al Feldman (later known as Van Alexander). It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13188. Van Alexander (May 2, 1915 – July 19, 2015) was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer. Van Alexander was born Alexander Van Vliet Feldman. He landed a job selling arrangements to Chick Webb in the middle of the 1930s. A-Tisket, A-Tasket" became a hit for Webb and Ella Fitzgerald. Alexander arranged other nursery rhymes for jazz, such as "Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" He worked in Hollywood extensively as a composer, arranger, and conductor for film scores. More

New York: Century Music Publishing Company, c1905. Conservatory Publication Society, Conservatory Edition. Sheet Music. 6 pages. Format is approximately 10.5 inches by 14 inches. Decorative front cover, Cover is separated. In addition to Massa's in de Cold Cold Ground (pages 3-5), page 2 contains Up In A Swing by R. A. Montaine (A Sweet Swing Melody full of Rhythm and Expression.) [Copyright 1902] Page 6 contains Flowers and Ferns by R. A. Keiser (A Charming, expressive and interesting Tone Poem.) [Copyright 1905]. This song is by Stephen Foster. The three pieces are music only, with no lyrics provided. Massa's was one of Foster’s most popular songs when it was first published, it is now considered an embarrassment to his legacy, since it is cast as a lament by African slaves for their dead white master. While Foster did draw musical inspiration from spirituals that he heard and sympathized with the North during the Civil War, we can safely say that this song presents a highly sentimentalized portrait of slavery. That did not stop the song from being used in numerous stage productions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the mid-19th century. Originally titled with only Cold used once, sometimes the title is said with the word “cold” repeated, as it was often referred to after the Civil War. This song war reportedly first sung by the Christie Minstrels in 1852. More

New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & CO., Inc., 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing Thus. Sheet Music. 6 pages. Small portion of top center of pages torn/chipped. Item has wear/soiling. Front is Silver and Black with mostly white lettering, except for the some title, composers and lyricists, and publisher's information). Front cover contains: "Lew Leslie's Rhapsody in Black: A Symphony of Blue Notes and Black Rhythm Starring Ethel Waters. Entire production conceived and staged by Lew Leslie. Songs by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh and Mann Holiner & Alberta Nichols." Striking art-deco cover graphics design in black, white and silver done by Barbelle. Albert Wilfred Barbelle (1887–1957) was an American artist known well for his work in advertising, particularly cover art for sheet music of Tin Pan Alley. The second song in this item is Rocky Mountain Lullaby with word by Marvin Lee and Music By Robert A. King. The music for this is on page 2. Pages 3-5 have You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You. Page 6 has snippets of six songs with brief commentary and photos of the sheet music covers. While the cover mentions Fields and McHugh, who apparently contributed to Leslie's Rhapsody in Black, neither of the two songs includes were by them. Alberta Nichols (December 3, 1898 – February 4, 1957) was a popular songwriter of the 1930s and 1940s. Together with her husband, lyricist Mann Holiner, they composed over 100 songs, of which their most famous was "A Love Like Ours". Her career spanned writing for vaudeville, radio, musical theater and the movies. In 1931 Nichols and Holiner collaborated with Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin and L.E. Freeman for the Broadway show "Rhapsody in Black" More

New York: Bantam Books, 1970. Fifth printing stated. Mass market paperback. [6], 250 pages. Cover worn, torn, taped, creased, soiled and chipped. Some page discoloration. Introduction by Jean Genet. Jean Genet (19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an American author, activist, and convicted criminal. While serving a sentence for armed robbery in 1961, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity and co-founded the Marxist–Leninist Black Guerrilla Family. In 1961, he was convicted of armed robbery (stealing $70 at gunpoint from a gas station) and sentenced to one year to life in prison. During his first years at San Quentin State Prison, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity. He was described by prison officials as egocentric and anti-social.[5] In 1966, Jackson met and befriended W.L. Nolen, who introduced him to Marxist and Maoist ideology. The two founded the Black Guerrilla Family in 1966 based on Marxist and Maoist political thought. In speaking of his ideological transformation, Jackson remarked "I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels, and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me." In 1970, he was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of Correctional Officer John Vincent Mills. The same year, he published Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to an African American audience. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame. Jackson was killed during an attempted prison escape in 1971. More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 186 pages. Bookplate signed by the author with a sentiment on fep. Notes in ink on rep. Some pencil marks to text noted. Preface, Notes, and Index. The chapters are: The Imperative of Triage; Perceptions of the Terrorist Threat; Measuring the Terrorist Threat: What is the Evidence?; The Cabal, The Invasion of Iraq, and the Origins of the War on Terror; The War on Terror Whirlwind; and Freeing America From the War on Terror. Ian Steven Lustick (born 1949) is an American political scientist and specialist on the modern history and politics of the Middle East. He held the Bess W. Heyman Chair in the department of Political Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 with a dissertation titled Arabs in the Jewish State, later adapted for a book of that title. He spent 1979-1980 as an analyst for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State. He was subsequently a professor at Dartmouth College, where he taught for 15 years. Lustick became more broadly known with the publication of his book Trapped in the War on Terror in which he argues that the War on Terrorism is an irrational policy for fighting America's enemies. He argues that this policy was initially conceived of by a neo-conservative cabal at the Project for a New American Century who were determined to shift the direction of U.S. foreign policy towards unilateralism. Given a number of political features unique to the US system, Lustick concluded, the War on Terror has ultimately turned into something beyond anyone's control. More

Sandia Base, Albuquerque: Headquarters, Field Command Defense Atomic Support Agency, 1960. Defense Technical Information Center reprint 2004. Wraps with two staples on the left side. 50 pages per notation on report cover. DTIC page count is 53, plus covers. Red Lettering on spine. This report was classified as CONFIDENTIAL but later downgraded to UNCLASSIFIED. The authors were with the Naval Material Laboratory located as the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn, NY. The Contents include: Part 1: Evaluation of Laboratory Methods for Determining Thermal Protection of Uniforms, with chapters on Introduction, Procedure, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions and Recommendations. This is followed by Part 2: Effects of Thermal Radiation on a Standard-Refenence Material, which chapters on Introduction, Procedure, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions and Recommendations. There is an Appendix on Basic Thermal Measurements and References. There are numerous Figures and Tables listed. The purpose of Project 8.2, Operation Plumbbob, was to determine the adequacy of the laboratory methods employed in the study of the effects of intense thermal radiation on materials. The primary objectives wee to determine the adequacy of physical methods for studying thermal damage to materials and for evaluating, by means of a physical skin simulant, the protection afforded by clothing to personnel against intense thermal radiation. A secondary objective of the project was to compare the burns predicted from the temperatures of the skin simulant behind an irradiated fabric assembly and the burns obtained on animals under identical exposure configurations. Measurements of thermal radiation were made successfully, and showed reasonable agreement with the generalized pulse. More

White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications [A Division of Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited], 1988. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 278 pages. Notes. Contains articles on The Economics of the Final Solution: A Case Study from the General Government; Non-Jewish Children in the Camps; Traditional Antisemitism and the Holocaust: The Case of the German Diplomat Curt Prufer; Three Generations remember the Holocaust: Hilsenrath, Becker, and Seelich; Out of the Months of Monsters: Perspectives on Nazism in Grass and Tournier; Concentration Camps in Exile Literature, The Case of Osthofen: Attempts to Settle Jewish Refugees in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1934-1939; and American Radio Coverage of the Holocaust. Also contains several reviews. The Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual is the first serial publication in the United States focusing on the scholarly study of the Holocaust. Its definition of the Holocaust in its widest context includes: Nazi German and the Final Solution, 1933-1945; European Jewry during World War II; Refugees, Rescue, and Immigration; Displaced Persons and postwar trials, and modern antisemitism. More

Washington DC: Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1953. Defense Technical Information Center reprint 2004. Wraps with two staples on left side. [3], 66, [3] pages, plus covers. Red lettering on spine. Mailing label on back cover. Contents include Introduction, Test Results, Discussion, Appendix A: Specifications, and Appendix B: Drawings. Contains numerous illustrations. Two typical two-story frame houses, without utilities, were located at 7500 and 3500 ft from Ground Zero for a 16.4-kt bomb exploded at 300 ft. above the ground. Exposure of the houses was for public demonstration purposes and to study the gamma-radiation scatter and the effects of thermal radiation and blast on each house. Both houses were furnished, and , in each, department-sore mannequins were placed in the dining and living rooms. Damage to mannequins indicates that human beings without shelter in the same locations would have been injured in the far-range house and either killed or seriously injured in the near house by the effects of blast. Conventional methods of wood-frame house construction, even with the best of materials and workmanship, cannot provide sufficient strength to resist pressures such as existed at the near range. New designs would have to be prepared in order to provide a house to resist these pressures. More

Boulder, CO: The Golem Press, 1977. Third Printing [stated]. rade paperback. 190, [4] pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Contents are: The nuclear monologue, Some basics, Major accidents, Waste disposal, Routine emissions, Environmental impact, Terrorism and sabotage, Reliability, economy, conservation, Why?, Notes, and Index. Petr Beckmann (November 13, 1924 – August 3, 1993) was a professor of electrical engineering who became a well-known advocate of nuclear power. In 1939, his family fled Czechoslovakia to escape the Nazis. From 1942 to 1945, he served in a Czech squadron of the Royal Air Force. He worked as a radar mechanic on the newly invented radar systems. He received a B.Sc. in 1949, a Ph.D. in 1955, and a D.Sc. in 1962, all from Prague's Czech Academy of Sciences in electrical engineering. He defected to the United States in 1963 and became a Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado. Beckmann wrote several electrical engineering textbooks and non-technical works. By 1968 he had founded Golem Press, which published most of his books, including The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear (1976), which argued in favor of nuclear power during the height of the anti-nuclear movement by contrasting the cost, in human terms, with the equivalent costs of the alternatives available. Beckmann also wrote A History of , documenting the history of the calculation of . In 1981, he took early retirement with Emeritus status, in order to devote himself fully to what he saw as the defense of science, technology and free enterprise. He wrote some 60 scientific papers and eight technical books. More

New York: The Viking Press, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiv, 15-154 pages. Pencil marks and comments noted. Includes: Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapters on: The Nuclear Arsenal; Nuclear Destruction; Deterrent Strategies, Fighting with Nuclear Weapons, Independence, The Arms Race, The Advice of Scientists, and What's Next? The chapters are followed by References, Glossary and Index. DJ has some wear and soiling and is taped to boards. Solomon "Solly" Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman OM KCB FRS (30 May 1904 – 1 April 1993) was a British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer. He is best remembered as a scientific advisor to the Allies on bombing strategy in the Second World War, for his work to advance the cause of nuclear non-proliferation, and for his role in bringing attention to global economic issues. During the Second World War, Zuckerman worked on several research projects for the British Government, including measuring the effect of bombing on people and buildings and an assessment of the bombardment (Operation Corkscrew) of an Italian island in 1943. He was thus one of the pioneers of the science of operational research. He was chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence from 1960 to 1966, and the first chief scientific adviser to the British Government from 1964 to 1971. He published Scientists and War in 1966. Zuckerman wrote two volumes of autobiography: From Apes to Warlords and Monkeys Men and Missiles. More

Sandia Base, Albuquerque, NM: Headquarters Field Command Defense Atomic Support Agency, 1960. Defense Technical Information Center reprint 2004. Wraps with two staples on the left side. [4], 78, [2] pages, plus covers. Red lettering on spine. This has been downgraded from CONFIDENTIAL to UNCLASSIFIED. Includes Introduction, Procedure, Results, Discussion, Appendix A: Methods of Predicting Weapon-Effect Imput Levels; Appendix V Overpressure Measurements; Appendix C Transmission of Air-Blast Shock Into an Airship Envelop, Appendix D Suspension System Analysis, and References. Includes figures and tables. Four airships, U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics Nos. 40, 46, 77, and 92, participated during Operation Plumbbob to determine the response characteristics of the Model ZSG-3 airship when subjected to a nuclear detonation in order to establish criteria for safe escape distances for airship delivery of antisubmarine warfare special weapons. Restrained response data for 0.40-psi overpressure input were obtained during Shot Franklin with the airship moored tail to the blast. Unrestrained response data for 0.75-psi overpressure input were obtained during Shot Stokes with the airship free ballooned, tail to the blast, 300 feet above ground. The first airship exposed to overpressure experienced a structural failure of the nose cone when it was rammed into the mooring mast, together with a tear of the forward ballonet which necessitated deflation of the envelope. The second airship broke in half and crashed following a circumferential failure of the envelope originating at the bottom of the envelope, forward of the car. The test results were considered to be a suitable basis for further analytical studies of airship response to nuclear blast effects beyond the scope of this report. More

Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 260, [4] pages. Index. About the Contributors. About the Editors. DJ is taped to the boards, otherwise has little wear and soiling. William V. O'Brien was a Georgetown University professor emeritus of government who served on the faculty from 1950 to 1993. He graduated from Georgetown, where he also received a master's degree and a doctorate in government. Dr. O'Brien specialized in international law and ethics and was an authority on just war doctrine. His books included "The Nuclear Dilemma and the Just War Tradition", "The Conduct of Just and Limited War," "Law and Morality in Israel's War with the PLO," "Nuclear War, Deterrence, and Morality" and "War And/Or Survival." During his years on the Georgetown faculty, Dr. O'Brien twice served as chairman of the government department. He was chairman of the Institute of World Policy, and he helped establish the Goldman visiting Israeli professorship. In his honor in 1993, the university established the William V. O'Brien Lecture in International Law and Morality. Rev. John Patrick Langan, SJ, attained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He was ordained a priest on June 10, 1972. Fr. Langan joined the staff of the newly formed Woodstock Theological Center in Maryland, and from 1981 to 1986 taught philosophy first at Georgetown University and then at Yale Divinity School. In 1987, Fr. Langan began what would become a nearly 30-year tenure at Georgetown University, as a professor of philosophy and Christian ethics and later as the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Professor of Catholic Social Thought. More