Against All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Third Printing. 25 cm, 380, illus., front DJ scratched and some sticker residue, some wear to DJ edges. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Third Printing. 25 cm, 380, illus., front DJ scratched and some sticker residue, some wear to DJ edges. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 25 cm, xiv, 380, [4] pages. Illustrations. Footnote. Some creasing to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. The author's personal experiences as a political prisoner in Cuba. Armando Valladares Perez (born May 30, 1937) is a Cuban poet, diplomat, and human rights activist. In 1960, he was arrested by the Cuban government for conflicting reasons; the Cuban government alleged that he had been complicit in anti-Castro terrorism, while foreign sources regarded his arrest as being due to his protesting communism, leading Amnesty International to name him a prisoner of conscience. Following his release in 1982, he wrote a book detailing his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Cuban government, and was appointed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. More
New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. xxv, [1], 225, [5] pages. Illustrations. Signed by the author on the half-title page [signature confirmed by comparison with multiple signatures found on the Internet]. Most of the essays in this book have been previously published but this is a unique collection. Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she published the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels Meridian (1976) and The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970). An avowed feminist, Walker coined the term womanist to mean "A black feminist or feminist of color" in 1983. Walker wrote the poems that would culminate in her first book of poetry, entitled Once, while she was a student in East Africa and during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College.[9] Walker would slip her poetry under the office door of her professor and mentor, Muriel Rukeyser, when she was a student at Sarah Lawrence. Rukeyser then showed the poems to her agent. Once was published four years later by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was a student at Spelman College in the early 1960s. She credits King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. She took part in the 1963 March on Washington. More
New York: Crown Publishers, c1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 308, illus., some wear to DJ edges, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 287 pages. Table, small stain inside front flyleaf. Inscribed by the author on half-title page; signed by the author on title page. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 286, [6] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. RARE signed and inscribed book. Signed by the author on the title page. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Paul and Lynn--To the day baseball brings our countries closer together! Tim Wendel 3/13/99. Tim Wendel (born 1956) is an American writer whose books include narrative nonfiction and novels. Those works include Summer of '68, Cancer Crossings, High Heat, and the popular sports novel Castro's Curveball. His stories and columns have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, National Geographic, Esquire, USA Today, Psychology Today and Washington Post. He has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins. Wendel is the author of more than a dozen books, including Summer of '68: The Season When Baseball, and America, Changed Forever, which was a Top 10 choice by Publishers Weekly. Wendel is an award-winning novelist. Escape from Castro's Cuba was a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist. Wendel has been awarded the Professional Achievement Award and the Award for Teaching Excellence from Johns Hopkins University, both three times. He is a recipient of the Walter E. Dakin Fellow and Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He has narrated and produced several audiobooks and appeared on PBS, NPR, CNN and ESPN. Wendel was one of the founding members of USA Today Baseball Weekly, which he edited and wrote for. Wendel has also garnered the Latino History Award and won the USA Today Luminary Award. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 526, maps, index, review slip laid in, DJ worn, soiled, and some tears, edges soiled. More
New York: Bartholomew House, Inc.[Hillman Books, MacFadden Publications Inc.], 1961. Revised and Updated Edition. First printing thus. Mass market paperback. 224 pages. Footnotes. Cover has wear and soiling. Small edge tears. Some page browning. Nathaniel Weyl (1910 – 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues. A member of the Communist Party of the United States from 1933 until 1939 but, after leaving the party, he became a conservative and avowed anti-communist. In 1952 he played a minor role in the Alger Hiss case. Weyl accepted a post as head of the Latin American research unit at the Federal Reserve Board and later moved to the Board of Economic Warfare. He served overseas in the Army for two years during World War II. After the war, he became a journalist and author and earned an income from investments. Two of Weyl's books, Treason (1950) and Red Star Over Cuba (1961), received some critical interest and discussion in their times. Red Star Over Cuba postulates that Fidel Castro was a covert Communist before the Cuban Revolution and had been recruited by the Soviets while he was a teenager. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xviii, [2], 314, [2] pages. Endpaper map. Cover has some wear and soiling. Signed by the author on the fep. Randy Wayne White (born 1950) is an American writer of crime fiction and non-fiction adventure tales. He has written New York Times best-selling novels and has received awards for his fiction and a television documentary. He is best known for his series of crime novels featuring the retired NSA agent Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of southern Florida. White has contributed material on a variety of topics to numerous magazines and has lectured across the United States. A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he lives on Sanibel Island, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and owns the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill. Marion "Doc" Ford, a marine biologist and ex-NSA agent, makes his home on the scenic west coast of Florida--but leaving his former dangerous life behind, where he protected his country by all means necessary, isn't that easy. Old friends asking for favors, dead bodies washing up on Dinkins Bay, diving lessons going horribly wrong ... the shadowy world of Southwest Florida keeps putting Doc Ford in its crosshairs. This thrilling ongoing series by beloved Floridian author Randy Wayne White, which began with Sanibel Flats, has become something of a literary institution, with its perennial bestsellers. More
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, [1967]. 24 cm, 265, DJ worn, soiled, and chipped, ink name on front endpaper. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. First Printing. 352, illus., endpaper maps, bibliographical notes, chapter notes, index, stains on fore-edge, some wear to DJ, rear DJ scuffed. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Book Club Edition. 352, illus., endpaper maps, bibliographical notes, chapter notes, index, some soiling fore-edge, DJ soiled & small tears & chips. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Second Printing. 352, wraps, illus., maps, bibliographical notes, chapter notes, index, stains on fore-edge, spine somewhat faded. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Reprint. 2nd edition, second printing. Trade paperback. xvii, 318 p. Maps. Tables. Index. More
Place_Pub: New York: Pantheon Books, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 307, maps, color endpaper maps. More