Peril in Panama: China as the Gatekeeper of the Panama Canal Threatens New Missile Crisis
Washington, DC: National Security Center, 1998. First? Edition. First? Printing. 111, wraps, illus., map. More
Washington, DC: National Security Center, 1998. First? Edition. First? Printing. 111, wraps, illus., map. More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1955. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. ix, [1], 277, [1] pages. American Publisher's Foreword. German Publisher's Foreword. Index. DJ has some wear, tears, and soiling. Jacob Otto Dietrich (31 August 1897 – 22 November 1952) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era, who served as the Press Chief of Nazi regime and was a confidant of Adolf Hitler. In 1929 he became a member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) as a Personal Press Referent. Here he was able to introduce Hitler to numerous important officials within different sects of the mining industry to help secure funding for the Nazi Party. On 1 August 1931 he was appointed Press Chief of the NSDAP, and the following year joined the SS. On February 28, 1934, Hitler raised Dietrich to the position of Reich Press Chief of the Nazi party. In November 1937, Dietrich became the Reich Press Chief of the Government. On April 20, 1941 he had risen to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 264, illus., index, somewhat shaken, boards soiled, pencil erasure on front and rear endpapers. More
Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1961. First? Edition. First? Printing. 213, index, usual library markings, paper clip mark pp. 122-125, part of DJ cut off and pasted to front endpaper. More
Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1961. First? Edition. First? Printing. 213, usual library markings and stamps, some wear and soiling to boards, some soiling to edges. More
New York: Pageant Press, [1967]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 454, color endpaper maps, index, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears, edges soiled. Introduction by Rep. Edward J. Derwinski. More
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 310, [2] pages. Bibliography. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. The author served as an intelligence officer in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Theater during World War II. After the war he became a correspondent for the National Broadcasting Company and also handled special assignments for Time-Life. He later became a Marshal Plan reporter for the ECA and then worked at the Mutual Security Agency in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. He returned to New York and worked in financial journalism and public relations in addition to writing for magazines, newspapers, and publishing major works. More
Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 431, [3] pages. Foreword by Serge Guilbaut. Illustrations (some in color). Notes. Plates. Appendix. Chronology, Sources and Bibliographic Overview. Index. Originally published in France as L'art de la defaite, 1940-1944, Editions du Seuil, 1993. Decorative cover. Laurence Bertrand Dorléac (born January 14, 1957) is a French art historian specializing in contemporary art, a professor and an author. She was elected president of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques in May 2021. Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac has a doctorate in art history and archeology from University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and a doctorate in history from the Instituts d'études politiques in Paris, and has been advising doctoral students since 1995. She taught at the University of Lille from 1993 to 1995. That year, she obtained tenure as professor at the University of Picardy, where she founded the art history department. She now leads the Art et Sociétés and La Lettre Seminaire. She is a researcher at the Centres d'Études de Sciences Po, and was appointed to the Institut Universitaire de France in 1990. Bertrand-Dorléac also founded the art history department and directed the Faculty of Arts at Amiens from 1995–2000. She co-founded with Xavier Douroux, the book series Œuvres en sociétés with the publishing house du réel, 2007. Currently she is co-director with Thomas Kirchner, of the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, specifically the program of art in the world, and art in Paris after 1945, 2014. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. 22 cm, 597, illus., boards somewhat worn and corners bumped, few of the usual library markings. More
New York: MJF Books, 2010. First Printing this edition [Stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.5. inches by 9.5 inches. xii, 270 pages. Bibliography. Notes. Inventory. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor weakness observed at page 269, restrengthened with some glue. James P. Duffy's books cover a number of nonfiction subjects, ranging from earning a college degree in a nontraditional setting to military history. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xi, [3], 364 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Notes. Sources and Bibliography. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1950. First Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 115, index, fr DJ flap price clipped (sm loss of text), DJ soiled, worn, & chipped, ink notation & erasure residue on fr endpaper. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1950. First Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 115, index, spine worn and discolored: small tears, some soiling/foxing inside boards and flyleaves. More
New York: Doubleday, c1987. First Edition. Second Printing. 24 cm, 298, illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, [1967]. First Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 192, illus., DJ worn and torn. More
Chapel Hill, NC: New American Movement, 1975. 1 p. Approximately 8.5 by 14 inches. Printed on both sides. Small illustrations on each side. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 398, top edge soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York, N.Y. The Review of Reviews Company, 1918. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [8], [32 color maps and plates] 352 pages. Ex-Library copy with some of the usual markings. Ink notation on fep (not from author). Some cover wear and soiling. Illustrated frontis. Includes Introduction by George Creel. Includes 50 chapters, as well as 4 illustrations, 17 maps in color, and a two page United States Army Map. Contains chapters on the Mainsprings of the War, The Balkan Powder Magazine; Austria and the Slave; American Army in France; Man in the Air; Our Navy; Our Army; Identification of Fighting Men; The Prisoner of War; Casualties of War; Battles of the Great War; Sea Fights of the Great War; Cost of War; The Selective Draft; Ship Destruction; World Trade; Spies, Traitors and Alien Enemies; Record of Events in the Great War; and Index. Mr. Creel states that this war will not be won until it becomes part and parcel of every individual life, until it dominates every thought and activity. This burning consciousness can be gained only through an exact knowledge of the facts in the case, for it is in the simplicities of the truth that America and the great liberal nations find fullest justification. More
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1979. First Edition. 1st Eng Lang Printing. 21 cm, 313, footnotes, embossed stamp on front endpaper, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears/chips, importation sticker at rear DJ. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First American Edition [Stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxi, [2], 258, x, [2] p. 25 cm. Occasional footnotes. Index. More
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, c1987. First Printing. 26 cm, 155, wraps, illus., maps, small crease on front cover. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, 1976. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 365, map, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper. More
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First Edition. 318, discoloration inside boards, DJ soiled and small tears along edges. More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. 1st Eng. Lang? Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 88, wraps, ink underlining & marginalia pp. iii-26, some wear and soiling to covers, sticker residue on rear cover. More