The Prevailing Wind: Witness in Indo-China
London: Methuen & Company, 1965. First? Edition. First? Printing. 392, illus., endpaper maps, footnotes, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, tape residue on spine. More
London: Methuen & Company, 1965. First? Edition. First? Printing. 392, illus., endpaper maps, footnotes, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, tape residue on spine. More
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1991. First Printing. 177, illus., references, index. Foreword by Li Ullmann An examination of how children adapt to life in a war zone. Among the areas studied are Cambodia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and inner-city America. More
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1991. Second Printing. 177, illus., references, index. Foreword by Liv Ullmann. More
Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First Edition. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. x,[2], 523, [9] pages. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Index. James William Gibson is the author of Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America and The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. A frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and winner of multiple awards, including a Guggenheim. He attended graduate school at Yale University, and wrote his thesis on how the U.S. military conceptualized and fought the Vietnam War, and why, despite overwhelming technological superiority, it was defeated by the Vietnamese. The Atlantic Monthly Press subsequently published a revised version of the thesis in 1986 as The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. In February 2000, Grove/Atlantic re-issued The Perfect War with a new introduction. While writing The Perfect War in the early and mid-1980s Gibson began to study the cultural and political traumas caused by America’s defeat in Vietnam. He began to research the emerging paramilitary culture. More
Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1912. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. [8 pages of advertisements], pages 209-312, [and 16 pages of advertisements] plus covers. Illustrations. Maps. Cover soiled, worn, torn with bottom part of spine missing and part of top front cover corner. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. More
Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1912. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. [8 pages of advertisements], pages 209-312, [and 16 pages of advertisements] plus covers. Illustrations. Maps. Cover is missing. Pencil notes on first page. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. More
Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1928. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 20 pages of advertisements, 247-370 pages, 32 pages of advertisements. Illustrations. Twenty-seven Illustrations in Full Color. Special Color Supplement, "Fate Directs the Faltering Footsteps of Columbus"--present. Maps. Cover has slight wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. More
Washington DC: The National Geographic Society, 1928. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 20 pages of advertisements, 247-370 pages, 32 pages of advertisements. Illustrations. Twenty-seven Illustrations in Full Color. Maps. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine tears noted. Special Supplement is NOT PRESENT. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. More
Maplewood, NJ: C. S. Hammond & Co., c. 1967. 21" x 29", 1 map, 1 color map (folded to 10.5" x 7.25"), illus., chronology, some soiling/stains & small rough spots, small tears at fold lines. More
Maplewood,NJ: Hammond, Inc., c. 1968. 19" x 25", 1 map, color map measuring 19" x 25" (folded size 9.5" x 6.25"). More
New Haven, CT: Ticknor & Fields, 1980. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 22 cm, xix, [1], 247, [5] pages. Former owner's stamp has left an impression on the flyleaf. Introduction by Robert A. Dahl. In 1950 John Hersey had privileged access to Harry S Truman's activities at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue over a period of three months. In 1975 he spent six full days at the White House noting what Gerald Ford did that week and how he did it. A thoughtful and critical analysis of how two U.S. Presidents (Harry S. Truman and Gerald Ford) handled a myriad of political crises during their terms of office. The author has won the Pulitzer Prize for other work. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1971]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 328, DJ somewhat soiled and faded. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1971]. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, xii, [2], 328 pages. Occasional footnotes. DJ somewhat soiled and faded, some soiling to fore-edge, sticker residue on DJ flap. Signed by the author. Walter Joseph "Wally" Hickel (August 18, 1919 – May 7, 2010) was an American businessman and politician. Starting out in Alaska during territorial days as a construction worker and subsequently a construction company owner/operator, he later became heavily involved with real estate development during Alaska's post-World War II boom period, building residential subdivisions at first, then branching out to building and operating shopping centers and hotels. Thrust into politics during the early 1950s by a power struggle within the territorial Republican Party and the battle to achieve statehood for Alaska, Hickel remained a formidable power in Alaskan politics for nearly a half century. Hickel served as the second and eighth Governor of Alaska. Defeating incumbent and first governor William A. Egan in 1966, he served as governor until 1969, ending with his resignation upon his confirmation in the position of United States Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Richard Nixon. He later served a full term as governor from 1990 to 1994 under the banner of the Alaskan Independence Party, thus far the party's most significant electoral achievement. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2000. Second Printing. 330. More
New York: Praeger, [1965]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 306, glossary, pencil erasure residue inside front board and endpaper. More
New York, N.Y. Human Rights Watch, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 166, [2] pages. Includes Preface; Table of Political Parties and Acronyms; Summary; Background; Human Rights Abuses by the Khmer Rouge; Abuses by Government Forces; Means of Imposing Accountability for Gross Abuses; The Law Against the Khmer Rouge; Mining and Demeaning; Foreign Support for the Khmer Rouge; Foreign Support for the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces; and Conclusions and Recommendations. Also includes Appendix 1: International Human Rights Law and the Laws of War Applicable to the Warring Parties; Appendix II: The Law Against the Khmer Rouge; Appendix III: Statements by Human Rights Watch/Asia on Draft Laws. Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and the group often works on behalf of refugees, children, migrants, and political prisoners. Human Rights Watch in 1997 shared in the Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and it played a leading role in the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions. Asia Watch (1985), Africa Watch (1988), and Middle East Watch (1989) were added to what was known as "The Watch Committees". In 1988, all of these committees were united under one umbrella to form Human Rights Watch. More
Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA: Indochina Resource Center and NARMIC, 1974. Reprint. Second printing. Wraps. [4], 51 p. Three-hole punched and staple bound. Footnotes. Two copies of a Fact Sheet on U.S. Expenditures on Indochina laid in. More
Singapore: Inst/Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. First Paperbk? Printing. 402, wraps, maps, endpaper maps, tables, minor damp signs (slight page rippling) at bottom, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, c1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 559, illus. More
Washington, DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 1944. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 28, wraps, illus., fold-out map, usual library markings, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Random House, c1994. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 276, acid-free paper, illus., small tear to DJ, rear DJ somewhat wrinkled, publisher's ephemera laid in, including author's photo. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. Fourth Printing. 477, wraps, illus., maps, footnotes, select bibliography, index, covers worn, soiled, & creased, damp stains on some pages. More
New York: Viking, 1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 469, black mark on bottom edge, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Boston, MA: Boston Publishing Company, 1983. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 29 cm. 192 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Names, Acronyms, Terms. Corners bumped, sheet on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial pasted onto flyleaf. More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, [1972]. Revised Edition. 29 cm, 289, wraps, illus., covers soiled. Preface by Neil Sheehan. More