A Time of Change: A Reporter's Tale of Our Time
New York: Harper & Row, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 352, index, some scuffing to boards. This very distinguished reporter summarizes his thirty years as a journalist. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 352, index, some scuffing to boards. This very distinguished reporter summarizes his thirty years as a journalist. More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1985. Second Printing. 367, illus., chronology, glossary, biographies. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1986. 1st Ballantine Edition. Pocket paperbk, 363, wraps, illus., chronology, glossary, biographies, pages somewhat darkened, binding cracked at p. 149, spine creased. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1988. First? Edition. First? Printing. 424, illus., maps, charts (some fold-out), tables, notes, glossary, bibliographic note, index, highlighting/ink notes on several pgs. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1988. First? Edition. First? Printing. 410, illus., maps, charts (some fold-out), tables, notes, glossary, bibliographic note, index, bookplate. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1999. Reprint Edition. 410, wraps, illus., maps, charts (including 1 fold-out), tables, notes, appendices, glossary, bibliographic note, index. More
Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1988. First? Edition. First? Printing. 410, illus., maps, charts (some fold-out), tables, notes, glossary, bibliographic note, index. More
New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press, 2011. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. [2], 491, [3] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Cover has some wear and soiling. Inscribed by both the author (Casey Scieszka) and the artist (Steven Weinberg) on the title page. The inscription is labeled "For Kelly!" and contains an ink drawing of a horse (presumably by Weinberg). Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg met in Morocco, moved to China, and then went all the way to Timbuktu. After graduating from college, the authors embark on a two-year adventure, teaching English in China, then traveling through Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and Mali. Their travelogue is fresh and humorous; the story of the people they meet and of their own relationship is told in both prose and witty cartoon sketches. Her words and his illustrations tell the story of the years spent teaching English, making friends across language barriers, researching, painting, and learning to be themselves wherever they are. Casey Scieszka is a Brooklyn born innkeeper and writer who currently lives in the Catskills of upstate New York with her husband, children's book writer and illustrator Steven Weinberg, where she opened the Spruceton Inn. Steven Weinberg loves to draw and write. He is the author and illustrator of Fred and the Lumberjack, Rex Finds an Egg! Egg! Egg!, You Must Be This Tall, and the illustrator of Beard Boy. He lives in the Catskills, where this book takes place. More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. x, [4], 465, [1] pages. Map. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Robert Shaplen was a correspondent and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine whose authoritative articles and books on Asia over many years made him one of the deans of American journalism. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1937 and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1938. In a journalistic career that spanned five decades, Mr. Shaplen was a reporter for The New York Herald Tribune and an Asia correspondent for Newsweek, Fortune and Collier's magazines. For the last 36 years, he had been on the staff of The New Yorker, and was the magazine's Far East correspondent from 1962 to 1978. He was the author of 10 books. From the battlefields of World War II, Korea and Vietnam to the jungles of Cambodia and Laos and the teeming byways of Hong Kong and Singapore, Mr. Shaplen covered a troubled and turbulent region of the world. He plunged ashore with the Marines on Leyte in the Philippines in 1944. He flew over Nagasaki hours after it was devastated by the atomic bomb in August 1945.' He was with Mao Zedong in the mountains of Yanan in 1946; reported on the rise and fall of Indonesia's President Sukarno in the 1960's; wrote strategic and battlefield pieces from Korea and Vietnam and, in 1973, provided a gripping firsthand account of the fall of Saigon. His last book, ''Bitter Victory,'' published by Harper & Row in 1986, was an account of his 1984 journey to Vietnam and Cambodia, and the last trip of his life was to Vietnam only a month before his death. More
New York: Vantage Press, c1994. First Edition. First Printing. 21 cm, 180, maps. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 494, flexible fabric covers, illus., maps. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1967. First? Printing. 24 cm, 510, wraps, maps. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1968. Second Rev. Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 558, maps. More
New York, N.Y. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 22 cm. 448 pages. Index. DJ somewhat soiled and worn: small edge tears/chips. Fep has some discoloration. Ink notation on half-title page. The author was a Harvard graduate who served as a Japanese language specialist during World War II and during the Korean War as an operations officer in covert action with the CIA. His 20-year career in covert operations included tours of duty in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico. The author was a high-ranking officer in the CIA, serving for 25 years from 1950 through the collapse of the Vietnam War. He wrote two books, Portrait of a Cold Warrior, about his life and work in the CIA, and The Plot to Steal Florida, portraying history and intrigue during the James Madison era. This is alleged to be the only CIA memoir which was not submitted for vetting and changes by the CIA prior to publication; the rules were changed after (and because of) its publication. There are rumors that many copies of the original hardback edition were bought up and destroyed. More
New York: Random House, 1977. Eighth Printing. 590, illus., maps, index, foxing to fore-edge, some wear and small tears to DJ edges. More
New York: Random House, 1977. Second Printing. 590, illus., maps, index, some soiling to fore-edge, some wear & sm tears DJ edges, larger tears front DJ, small DJ pieces missing. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1978. First Vintage Books Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xii, 590, [4] pages. Wraps. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Some discoloration inside covers and flyleaves. Some darkening to text, top corner of covers and several pages bent, some wear to cover edges. Frank Warren Snepp, III (born May 3, 1943) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Saigon during the Vietnam War. For five out of his eight years as a CIA officer, he worked as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief strategy analyst in the United States Embassy, Saigon; he was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his work. Snepp became a producer for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, California. He was one of the first whistle blowers who revealed the inner workings, secrets and failures of the national security services in the 1970s. As a result of a loss in a 1980 court case brought by the CIA, all of Snepp's publications require prior approval by the CIA. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1978. First Vintage Books Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xii, 590, [4] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Some darkening to text, some discoloration inside covers and flyleaves. Hole punched in front cover Cover edges worn. Ink name on front flyleaf. Frank Warren Snepp, III (born May 3, 1943) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Saigon during the Vietnam War. For five out of his eight years as a CIA officer, he worked as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief strategy analyst in the United States Embassy, Saigon; he was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his work. He was one of the first whistle blowers who revealed the inner workings, secrets and failures of the national security services in the 1970s. Snepp wrote a memoir of the event, Decent Interval without prior approval from the CIA Publications Review Board. After the book was published, CIA Director Stansfield Turner pushed for Snepp to be sued for breach of contract. Snepp was accused of violating the non-disclosure agreement he had signed that forbade publication of any material about CIA operations without the prior consent. The US Supreme Court ruling that Snepp's book had caused "irreparable harm" to national security due to creating an appearance of a breakdown of discipline in the CIA. The royalties from Decent Interval (amounting to $300,000 by the time Snepp lost in front of the Supreme Court) were surrendered to the CIA. All of Snepp's publications require prior approval by the CIA. In 2001 Snepp published a second book, Irreparable Harm, about his court battle with the CIA. More
Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub House, 1966. Second Edition. 5.25" x 7.5", 47, wraps, pages have darkened slightly, covers somewhat soiled, some wear to cover and spine edges, corners of document bent. More
Berkeley, CA: Southeast Asia Resource Center, 1977. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 28 cm. 24 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. More
Berkeley, CA: Southeast Asia Resource Center, 1977. Presumed first edition/first printing. The Human Rights Issue. Wraps. 28 cm. 44 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. More
Berkeley, CA: Southeast Asia Resource Center, 1978. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 28 cm. 28 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. First? Edition. First? Printing. 352, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper. More
New York: Hill and Wang, 1986. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 245, [3] pages. Maps. Historical Note. In 1975, Molyda Szymusiak (her adoptive name) was twelve years old and leading a relatively peaceful life in Phnom Penh. Suddenly, on April 17, Khmer Rouge radicals seized the capital and drove all its inhabitants into the countryside. The chaos that followed has been widely publicized, most notably in the movie The Killing Fields. Murderous brutality coupled with raging famine caused the death of more than two million people, nearly a third of the population. This powerful memoir documents the horror Cambodians experienced in daily life. Molyda Szymusiak, (born Buth Keo; October 19, 1962) is a Khmer author and photographer born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Following the Khmer Rouge takeover in April 1975, she and her family were driven out of the capital city into the Cambodian countryside. Nearly all of her immediate family was massacred or starved in the famine that accompanied the ensuing genocide. She and three other members of the family survived, arriving at the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai border in 1980. In 1981, she and two of her cousins were adopted in Paris by Jan Szymusiak, a French professor and theologian of Polish extraction, and Carmen Affholder. In 1984, she published a memoir on the Khmer Rouge years, originally written in French (Les Pierres Crieront), then translated into English and published under the title The Stones Cry Out. The book is important as one of the few first hand survival narratives of the obscure Pol Pot years of 1975-1979 in Cambodia. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1974. 23 cm, 109, wraps, illus., covers creased, some soiling and wear to covers. More