New York, N.Y. Donald I. Fine Books, 1996. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. viii, 360 pages. Illustrations. Inscribed on the half-title page To "Pam" with all my love & thanks, Ruth Brown. Introduction, Discography, and Index. Chapters include Peppermint and Pickles, "Look What the Mailman Brung!"; Forces' Sweetheart; "The Girl Is Dead"; Ahmet, Herb, and Me; Lighthouse Keeping; With Mr. B and the Count; The "Great" Bundini; Oh, What a Dream; Rock Children; Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean; Mrs. Showbiz; "Nurse Blunt"; Redd Foxx to the Rescue; Bundini Returns; Swanson Too; A Brand-New Bitch; Black and Blue; Howell in Action; On Capitol Hill; motormouth Meets Jesse Jackson; Hall of fame; Skeletons in the Closet; Love of My Life; Atlantic Settles; "Ain't No Band Playin' This Time"; Long Live Royalty Reform; My Way of Evangelizing. Ruth Brown is the recipient of a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Broadway Musical ("Black and Blue"), a Grammy for Best Jazz Album, the NAACP Image Award, and numerous gold records. In 1994 she was inducted into the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame. Andrew Yule is the author of the biographies of Sean Connery: From 007 to Hollywood Icon; Life on the Wire: The Life and Art of Al Pacino; and Richard Lester and the Beatles, all published by Donald I. Fine, Inc. He divides his time between his home in Ayrshire, Scotland, and New York City. Told here in her own words, this is a story of trial and triumph, and of chart-topping success in spite of seemingly impossible odds. Ruth Brown (1928 – 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes known as the "Queen of R&B" More

New York, N.Y. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 240 pages. Illustrations. Some DJ wear and soiling. Some page discoloration. Inscribed by Otis Williams on the half title page. Inscription reads To Andy, Thank You. Otis Temps "88". Includes Acknowledgments, Temptations Singles Discography, Temptations Album Discography,The Temptations with Diana Ross and the Supremes, and Top 10 Otis'isms. In this book, Otis Williams tells about the lean days and the fat, about Berry Gordy's renowned "Motown U." and the colleagues he got to know so intimately: Gladys Knight and the Pips, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and especially The Temptations' sister group, The Primettes--later to be known as The Supremes. Contains 70 black and white photographs of the Supremes and the Temptations. This is the frank, revealing story of Motown's legendary super group, told by the group's founder, Otis Williams. Otis Williams (born Otis Miles Jr.; October 30, 1941) is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed "Big Daddy", he is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer. Williams is the founder and last surviving original member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations, a group in which he continues to perform; he also owns the rights to the Temptations name. In 1989, Otis Williams was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Temptations. Williams received an honorary doctorate from Stillman College in May 2006. More

San Diego, California: The Firefly Press, 1996. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. 277, [3] pages. Inscribed to President and Mrs. Bush by the author, Rolf Benirschke, on the half title page. Inscription reads: President and Mrs. Bush, It has been a real pleasure getting to know you and the family and watching Marvin recover so completely. Thank you for your support of this book and the people who struggle with IBD. I admire you both greatly! Rolf Benirschke. Book includes Dedication, Acknowledgments, Introduction,and Appendix. Chapters cover Redemption; The Early Years; The Next Step; Storm Clouds; Slowly Sinking; Early Call; Lightning Strikes; He Ain't Heavy; One More Time; Return to Sender; Not a Third Time; Home Sweet Home; On Mailbox at a Time; It Takes Little Steps; Larger than Me; Getting the Word Out; Checking It Out; A Surgery to Anticipate; Along Came Mary; Want to Buy a Vowel?; and Two-Minute Warning. Appendix includes Interviews, Questions, Answers, and Information. The first interview is with Marvin Bush. Rolf Benirschke was an up-and-coming placekicker for the San Diego Chargers, earning a reputation as one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history. But then a little-understood intestinal illness turned his life upside down. Despite four major abdominal surgeries that left him near death and wearing an ostomy pouch, he surprised his medical doctors and his Charger teammates by returning to the NFL for seven more seasons. He is the national spokesman for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. In 1996 he published, Alive and Kicking! from which his famous quote "It's not what you become, it's what you overcome" was first observed. More

Rhyl, Clwyd, North Wales: Tideline Books, 1983. Later Edition, Likely first edition and first printing from this Publisher. Hardcover. 192 pages. Illustrations. Ink notation at bottom of DJ front flap. Inscribed by the author inside the front cover. Inscription reads: James & Chris, To thank you for your great hospitality, and many kindnesses, and for the very happy memories of your lovely home, wonderful cooking--and of Doves, Holland & Hollands, Laughter and many other pleasures: soft crab & swordfish stake included! Arthur [Sept 18th/20th 1987]. In the author's hand on the fep is written Author's Copy 15/11/83. This book includes a New Foreword, as well as chapters on Whispering Wings; The Call of the Gun; The End of the Journey; Luck; Greenland Whitefronts; Odd Flights; Shooting Dogs; The Best Dog in the World; Picking Wounded Birds; Fox and Goose; Letters to Fred Clay; Curious Incident; Some Hints, and On Keeping Wildfowl. Arthur Cadman was an expert on British deer and wildfowl, and the author of such books as Tales of a Wildfowler (1957), Shouldergunning for Duck (1963), and Dawn, Dusk and Deer (1966). Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC & Bar, FRS, FZS (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding. He established the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge in 1946 and helped found the World Wide Fund for Nature, the logo of which he designed. He was part of the UK team for the 1936 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the sailing event. More

Niagara Falls: The Clifton House, c1890. Presumed one of a printing of multiple originals. Single sheet, printed on one side. Single sheet of hotel stationary. Format approximately 6 inches by 9.5 inches. FRAGILE. Scarce surviving ephemera from a historic building lost to fire in 1898. This has been folded in half and in half again Wear and tears at the creases. Some soiling on each side. The front side has ornately printed in the upper left corner The Clifton House Niagara Falls G. M. Colburn. Information from an 1882 document lists G. M. Colburn, presumably as owner or manager of the hotel from at least that time. On the top of the right side is a line for the date and 189 printed with space for the year to be added. On the other side, there are notes in pencil in one quadrant, which could be elements of a genealogy. Niagara Falls, the "Honeymoon Capital of the World" has had a long history as a tourist center. In 1801, Theodosia Burr (daughter of Aaron Burr) and Joseph Alston traveled here to marry and three years later Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother Jerome married his fiance Elizabeth Patterson here. The War of 1812 paralyzed growth in the area while the U. S. and Canada battled at their borders, but soon after, resumed its resort image. Several hotels were established to accommodate travelers who came by buggies, boats and trains to enjoy the falls' beauty. Visitors were allowed for a time to walk out onto the river below the falls over a natural ice bridge which was formed from the spray mixed with the cold. More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Press, Inc., 1951. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. [8], 327, [1] pages. Footnotes. Some pages in two-column format. Addison-Wesley Press promotional material laid in. Cover has some wear and soiling. Name date and city of previous owner in ink on fep. Pervious owner was David Gene Reese, believed to the a former World Bank official and author of several books related to Africa and economics. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, On the Concept of Social Value; The Explanation of the Business Cycle; Mitchell's Business Cycles; The Present World Depression: A Tentative Diagnosis; The Common Sense of Econometrics; Depressions: Can We Learn from Past Experience?; The Nature and Necessity of a Price System; Review of Robinson's Economics of Imperfect Competition; The Analysis of Economic Change; Professor Taussig on Wages and Capital; Review of Keynes's General Theory; The Influence of Protective Tariffs on the Industrial Development of the United States, Capitalism in the Postwar World; Capitalism; The Decade of the Twenties; The Creative Response in Economic History; Theoretical Problems of Economic Growth; There is Still Time to Stop Inflation; Economic Theory and Entrepreneurial History; Science and Ideology; The Communist Manifesto in Sociology and Economics; English economists and the State-Managed Economy; the Historical Approach to the Analysis of Business cycles; and Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph A. Schumpeter. More

New York: Hamburg-American Line, 1936. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 34, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Common Nautical Terms. Cover states S. S. New York from New York March 14, 1936. Cover has some wear and soiling. None of the notes pages have comments. J Wagner was the Ship's Captain. E. T. Braun was the Cruise Director. The itinerary was New York, LaGuayra, Curacao, Cartagena, Colon, Kingston, Havana, and back to New York. The total distance was 5222 miles. More

Chicago Heights, Illinois: The Journal of Irreproducible Results, 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this issue. Wraps. 32 pages. The Journal of Irreproducible Results is a satire, of interest to professional and scientific workers. It was published quarterly, and stated it was established in 1955. Illustrations. Formula. Diagrams. References. Mailing label on back cover. Includes articles on Education, Writing, Research, Physics, Chemistry, Biophysics, Quotes, Molecular Biology, Research, Po-Sci-Etry, Studies in Elemental Chemistry and the Relevance of Zilch, and Chemically Chaste Campus. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Revised Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. vi, [2], 294, [2] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Stamp of previous owner's/private library on fep. From the collection of Dr. J. E. Gross!!! Hinges have some weakness. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is one of the Illustrated Library of Travel. This may be the preferred edition. Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. In 1848, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, hired Taylor and sent him to California to report on the gold rush. He returned by way of Mexico and published a two-volume collection of travel essays, El Dorado; or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (1850). Within two weeks of release, the books sold 10,000 copies in the U.S. and 30,000 in Great Britain. In 1849, Taylor won a popular competition sponsored by P. T. Barnum to write an ode for the "Swedish Nightingale", singer Jenny Lind. His poem "Greetings to America" was set to music by Julius Benedict and performed by the singer at numerous concerts on her tour of the United States. In 1862, he was appointed to the U.S. diplomatic service as secretary of legation at St. Petersburg,[10] and acting minister to Russia for a time during 1862-3 after the resignation of Ambassador Simon Cameron. On July 4, 1876, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Bayard recited his National Ode to an enthusiastic crowd of more than four thousand, the largest audience for a poetry reading in the United States to that date and a record which stood until 1961. Taylor's travel writings were widely quoted by congressmen. More

New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 252, [4] pages. Occasional footnotes. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Inscribed on the half title by Julian Marias, Ortega's most devoted and articulate disciple, and his wife Solita. Inscription reads To Richard Juhnke [sp?], with every good wish. Solita & Julian Marias Madrid, Christmas,1966. Includes Translator's Preface, as well as chapters on Philosophy Today; Philosophy Contracts and Expands; The "Theme of Our Times." Science as Mere Symbolism; Knowledge of the Universe or the Multi-Verse; Technical Problems and Practical Problems; The Need for Philosophy; Theory and Belief. Joviality, Intuitive Evidence, Data for the Problem of Philosophy; Facts of the Universe. The Cartesian Doubt. Theoretic primacy of the Conscious. The Self as Gerfalcon; The Discovery of Subjectivity, Ancient "Ecstasy" and "Spiritualism.'; The Theme of Our Times. A Fundamental Reform of Philosophy. The Basic Fact of the Universe, Myself for the World, and the World for Me; A New Reality and a New Idea of Reality. The Indigent Self, To live is to find ourselves in the world. To live is to decide what we are going to be; The Basic Reality is our Life. The Categories of Life. Theoretic Live. Destiny and Freedom. Though this book deals with a subject more fundamental than that of his previously translated books, Ortega's style here, as always, is richly allusive, witty, and free from technical jargon. Mildred Adams was the translator (into English) of the main body of Ortega's work, including Man and Crisis, What is Philosophy?, Some Lessons in Metaphysics, and An Interpretation of Universal History. More

New York, N.Y. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947. Second Edition (Revised edition), Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. xiv, 411, [5] pages. Includes Preface to the Second Edition; Preface; Prologue, and Index. Chapters include The Marxian Doctrine; Can Capitalism Survive?; Can Socialism Work? Socialism and Democracy; and A Historical Sketch of Socialist Parties. This revised/second edition contains new material appraising the social changes wrought by the war. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950)[3] was an Austrian political economist. He was born in Moravia, and briefly served as Finance Minister of German-Austria in 1919. In 1932, he emigrated to the United States to become a professor at Harvard University, where he remained until the end of his career, and in 1939 obtained American citizenship. Schumpeter was one of the most influential economists of the early 20th century, and popularized the term "creative destruction", that was coined by Werner Sombart. The source of Schumpeter's dynamic, change-oriented, and innovation-based economics was the Historical school of economics. Schumpeter's work on the role of innovation and entrepreneurship can be seen as a continuation of ideas originated by the Historical School. Schumpeter's most popular book is probably Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. While Marx predicted that capitalism would be overthrown by a violent proletarian revolution, which actually occurred in the least capitalist countries, Schumpeter believed that capitalism would weaken by itself and collapse. Specifically, the success of capitalism would lead to corporatism and to values hostile to capitalism, especially among intellectuals. More

San Francisco, CA: Proletarian Publishers, c1970. Unknown edition, unknown printing [copyright is 1934]. Trade paperback. 96 pages. Occasional footnotes. Reference Notes. Proletarian Publishers was started in 1972 as a rebuttal to the Communist Party, USA. The San Francisco based organization sought to build a multinational Marxist-Leninist Communist Party. They viewed CPUSA as revision of Bolshevik communism and a major deterrent from a true multinational communist party. They published throughout the 1970s on topics related to communism and Marxism. Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky (1878–1945) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet historian, Marxist Philosopher and political theorist. Born in Kazan in to a poor merchant family, he graduated in law from Kazan University, and joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904. Arrested in 1905, he was deported to Astrakhan province. After his release he emigrated to Geneva. Later, he lived in Paris, London - where he met Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Berlin and Munchen, returning to Russia in 1918. In 1920-28, he was assistant manager of the Central Archives Board, in 1928-31, deputy director of the Lenin Institute, and in 1932 a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In the 1920s, he edited volumes of philosophical writings by Marx and Engels, and Lenin, and wrote a number of works on the Marxist theory of the state and law, and on the philosophy and history of Marxism. Early in 1931, Adoratsky became head of the merged Marx-Engels and Lenin Institutes. He also led the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy in 1936-39. He retired due to ill health in 1939, he died in Moscow in 1945. More

New York, N.Y. Atheneum, 1968. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 226, [12] pages. Embossed stamp on fep. Ink notation on second fep. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Foreword by Sir Lawrence Bragg, and Preface, as well as 20 black and white photographs, and 11 black and white diagrams. Portions of this book were first published in The Atlantic Monthly. In 1962, the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology was awarded to Francis H. C. Crick, James D. Watson, and Maurice H. F. Wilkins, the three men who almost a decade earlier had worked together, merging data from chemistry, physics, and biology, to solve the structure of DNA--Crick and Watson on the building of a hypothetical model that would conform in all its parts to what Wilkins' X-ray pictures had already shown of the molecule. The interplay of ideas, temperaments, and circumstances was an especially fortuitous one, since the result that something that, in Watson's words, was too pretty not to be true: the double helix. Watson shows us how this particular piece of science was worked out, but along the way he manages to tell a great deal more, something of the general creative process itself. James Dewey Watson KBE (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material" More