Between Two Worlds: The Life of a Young Pole in Russia, 1939-46
New York: Holt, 1987. First American Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 309, WWII as it was lived on the other side of what later became the Iron Curtain. More
New York: Holt, 1987. First American Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 309, WWII as it was lived on the other side of what later became the Iron Curtain. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 618, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Claims to be a novel from life. More
Washington, DC: Brassey's (US), Inc., 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. xi, [1], 305, [3] pages. Illustrations. Index. Signed by the author. Lowell Bruce Laingen (born August 6, 1922) is an American retired diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Malta from 1977 to 1979. Laingen was the most senior American official held hostage during the Iran hostage crisis, serving as the Chargé d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. In 1949 he joined the U.S. Foreign Service. On November 4, 1979, the U.S. embassy was overrun by student protesters. 63 hostages were taken at the embassy, while Laingen and two others were seized at the Iranian Foreign Ministry Office. Laingen and 51 hostages were released on January 20, 1981, following 444 days of captivity. Laingen's next position was that of Vice President of the National Defense University. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1987 after 38 years of service. More
Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, [1972]. 24 cm, 250, DJ worn at edges, paper clip impression on a few pages, publisher's letter laid in. More
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 259, map, DJ slightly soiled. More
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 259, map, pencil erasure on front endpaper, publisher's ephemera and black and white photograph of author laid in. More
New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 219, [7] pages. Inscribed and dated by the author to Steve Roberts (husband of Cokie Roberts) on the title page. Inscription reads: To Steve with all best wishes. Thank you so much for making me feel comfortable. Deborah Larsen, September 5, 2002. Ms. Larsen is the winner of the 1987 Wallace Stegner Fellowship to Stanford University. Perviously she lived in Oxford, England where she was a prizewinner in the National Poetry Competition and read her poetry for BBC Radio 3. She also taught creative writing at Gettysburg College, PA. This novel is based on the true story of a woman named Mary Emission (or, as some think, Mary Samisen) who, in 1758, was actually taken by a Shawnee raiding party in south-central Pennsylvania, and forced from her home. In this reimagining of her life story, Mary gradually becomes integrated into her new Indian family and by her own choice does not return to white society. More
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Bks of Chapel Hill, 1984. Fourth Printing. 295, illus., maps, appendices, index, library stamp & soiling on fore-edge, usual library stamps markings, DJ pasted inside bds. More
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 377, [7] p. Illustrations. A Note on Usage. More
London: The Folio Society, 2001. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is 7 inches by 9 inches. In slipcase. 235 pages. Frontis. Illustrations. Introduction by Frederic Raphael. Afterword by the author. This edition follows the translation first published by The Orion Press in 1960, with minor emendations. Primo Michele Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written. Levi (number 174517) spent eleven months at Auschwitz before the camp was liberated on 18 January 1945. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, Levi was one of twenty who survived. More
Washington DC: Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, 2015. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. [1], [ix], 148, [2] pages. Cover has a slight wear and soiling. The Untold Story of the Real Me is a collection of poems written by young people who were charged and incarcerated as adults at the age of 16 or 17. All poets are members of the Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop; many are currently incarcerated in the DC Jail or federal prison. Their work explores themes of parenthood, love, pain, identity, race, and freedom in voices both raw and powerful. This collection also features individual profiles of Free Minds members who are home from prison and serving as Poet Ambassadors in the violence prevention initiative, “On the Same Page.” Already being used in classrooms across the country to start conversations around youth violence and the justice system, The Untold Story of the Real Me provides a new take on the power of one voice to speak truth to pain, to seek redemption and healing. More
Concord, NH: Privately Printed, c1838. 16 cm, 228, illus., worn, boards weak and nearly separated, rear flyleaf torn, foxing to text. More
New York: Richard Marsh, 1852. Later printing (copyright date is 1846). Hardcover. vi, 7-384 pages. Bookseller's stamp inside front cover. Cover worn, soiled and frayed. Some page foxing and soiling noted. Somewhat shaken. Frontis illustration and title page illustration. Includes 38 chapters, as well as an introduction and a conclusion. The Author was personally connected with many of the scenes that are described in this book, and therefore can answer for their veracity. The American Cruiser's Own Book. An early and rare bit of Americana. It was written by American naval captain George Little based on his own experiences aboard a privateer during the War of 1812. Captain Little also includes details of his eventual capture by the British and his time spent in Dartmoor Prison. A fascinating read. Much history here, with engravings by Billings embellishing an already colorful text. Chapter headings include: "Excitement in New-York in 1812," "The Two Seamen enter on Board the Privateer, for the Cruise," "Morning Duty, Preparations for Sea, Stations, etc.," "Descriptions of the Officers, the Force of the Cruiser, the Chase," "Chase Engagement, Capture of a British Brig," "Portuguese Brig, and Prisoners Released," "Disaffection of the Crew," "Capture of a British Brig in a Fog, with the Boats," "The Doom of the Cruiser," "Descriptions of Dartmoor Prison," "The Massacre, Boatswain's Leg Shot Off," et al. Little is know about this author/officer who may to have been born in 1791 and thus went to sea at a relatively early age. More
New York: Holt, [1959]. First Edition. Second Printing. 22 cm, 341, illus., DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears. Preface by Cleveland Amory. More
New York: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2008. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 266, [8] pages. Map. Illustrations (some with color). Signed by the author, Eric B. Maddox, on the front free endpaper. Includes Prologue, as well as chapters on Night Ride; Outside the Wire; Interrogation 101; Dogs of War; The Routine; Roundup; Fear Up Harsh; Changing the Guard; Ninety Percent; Baby Radman; The Driver; The Spigot; Amir; 1.9; Out of Time; Back to Baghdad; The Zone; Banging on the Door; Ace in the Hole; Epilogue; and Acknowledgments. This book offers the complete, behind-the-scenes account of the search for Saddam Hussein, as related by the Army interrogator whose individual courage and sheer determination made the capture possible. This book offers the complete, behind-the-scenes account of the search for Saddam Hussein. After months of chasing down leads, following hunches, and interrogating literally hundreds of detainees, Sergeant Maddox uncovered crucial details about the insurgency. In his final days in Iraq, he closed in on the dictator's inner circle and, within hours of his departure from the country, pinpointed the precise location of Saddam's Tikrit spider hole. Maddox's candid and compelling narrative reveals the logic behind the unique interrogation process he developed and provides an insider's look at his psychologically subtle, nonviolent methods. The result is a gripping, moment-by-moment account of the historic mission that brought down Black List #1. More
Al-Mansoria, Kuwait: Center for Research and Studies on Kuwait, 1995. Wraps. 278 p. : maps; 24 cm. Includes Maps. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 23 cm. [6], 281, [1] pages. Illustrations. The author was a young Mennonite who went to Vietnam to help people in need. Caught up in the war, he was accused of being a North Vietnam spy and a CIA agent. The journal overflows with the stories of people who have sojourned in hell: soldiers and farmers, heroes and victims, teachers and torturers, the doers and the done-to. What emerges is a collective portrait of a modest, inventive, tenacious people who braved three decades of fire-storm. The author spent a total of five years in Vietnam. More
Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mache Press, 1990. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 160 p. Illustrations. More
Novato, CA: Presidio, 1997. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm. xiii, [1], 340 pages. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor soiling at bottom edge. Foreword by Stephen Ambrose. Inscribed by the author on title page to the grandson of one who landed at Utah Beach on D-Day. Derived from a Kirkus review: Masters, an Austrian-born Jew originally named Peter Arany, has an unusual war story to tell. Masters was one of 87 Jewish refugees from Hitler who volunteered for military service in Troop 3, No. 10 Commando, an elite unit of the British army. Troop 3 was unusual in that almost all of its members were Austrian and German Jews, men who spoke German fluently and who would be trained in the ways and means of the German army. For these men, some of them concentration camp survivors, this assignment represented a unique opportunity to fight back against the Nazis. Nearly all of them had previously been interned by the British as ""friendly enemy aliens"" when the war broke out. When they were recruited for ""special and hazardous duty,"" they were required to assume new identities, with elaborate cover stories to explain their oddly accented English. Thus, Masters recounts their grueling training with wit and gusto, leaving readers with little doubt that these men were ready for combat. Masters and other members of Troop 3 fought in Normandy for three long months; he would return to action in the Netherlands and participate in the final invasion of Germany. He presents the reality of the violence he witnessed. More
Novato, CA: Presidio, 1997. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm. xiii, [1], 340 pages. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index. Foreword by Stephen Ambrose. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Derived from a Kirkus review: Masters, an Austrian-born Jew originally named Peter Arany, has an unusual war story to tell. Masters was one of 87 Jewish refugees from Hitler who volunteered for military service in Troop 3, No. 10 Commando, an elite unit of the British army. Troop 3 was unusual in that almost all of its members were Austrian and German Jews, men who spoke German fluently and who would be trained in the ways and means of the German army. For these men, some of them concentration camp survivors, this assignment represented a unique opportunity to fight back against the Nazis. Nearly all of them had previously been interned by the British as ""friendly enemy aliens"" when the war broke out. When they were recruited for ""special and hazardous duty,"" they were required to assume new identities, with elaborate cover stories to explain their oddly accented English. Thus, Masters recounts their grueling training with wit and gusto, leaving readers with little doubt that these men were ready for combat. Masters and other members of Troop 3 fought in Normandy for three long months; he would return to action in the Netherlands and participate in the final invasion of Germany. He presents the reality of the violence he witnessed. More
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1966]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 399, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, edges soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper, boards soiled. More
Beverly Hills, CA: Dove Books, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xii, [3], 263, [1] pages. Illustrations. Black mark on bottom edge. Foreword by Mike Walker. DJ has some wear and soiling. Preface by Judith Spreckels. List of Individuals. List of Locations. Chapters on: The Crime and the Circumstances, Lyle Menendez Up Close, Listening to Lyle, Life after Lyle, including Conclusion: Reflections on the Con Artist as a Young Man by Pierce O'Donnell. Transcripts of telephone conversations and letters provide an unauthorized account of the trial of Lyle Menendez for the murder of his parents. Joseph Lyle Menéndez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menéndez (born November 27, 1970) are American brothers who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary ("Kitty") Menéndez. During the trial, the brothers alleged that they committed the murders in fear that their father would kill them after they threatened to expose him for years of sexual and emotional abuse. They were first tried separately, with one jury for each brother. Both juries deadlocked, which resulted in a mistrial. For the second trial, they were tried together by a single jury, which found them guilty; as a result, they were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. More
Anacortes, WA: World Happiness/Cooperation, 1992. First Edition. Second Printing. Wraps. 22 cm, 212 pages. Wraps, references, publisher's ephemera laid in. Foreword by Norman Cousins. Signed by the author. More
Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1993. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Trade paperback. ix, [1], 65, [1] pages. Footnotes., Publisher's press release laid in. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The situation for human rights in Syria is considered exceptionally poor among international observers. A state of emergency was in effect from 1963 until April 2011, giving security forces sweeping powers of arrest and detention. From 1973–2012, Syria was a single-party state. The authorities have been accused of harassing and imprisoning human rights activists and other critics of the government. Freedom of expression, association, and assembly are strictly controlled. Women and ethnic minorities face discrimination. According to Human Rights Watch, President Bashar al-Assad failed to improve Syria’s human rights record in the first 10 years of his rule, and Syria's human rights situation remained among the worst in the world. According to Amnesty International, the government may be guilty of crimes against humanity based on "witness accounts of deaths in custody,rape,[= and arbitrary detention," during the crackdown against the 2011 uprising and during the Syrian Civil War. More