Unafraid: A Novel of the Possible
Ashland, OR: Hellgate Press, 2009. First edition stated. First printing stated. Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. [8], 324, [4] p. More
Ashland, OR: Hellgate Press, 2009. First edition stated. First printing stated. Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. [8], 324, [4] p. More
New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xxii, 357, [5] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by author on fep. Inscribed to Nina Graybill, the author's partner and friend. DJ has minor crease in bottom front corner, with minor crease to board. Ronald Goldfarb is a Washington, D.C. attorney, author, and literary agent. In 1961, Goldfarb was recruited to join the New Frontier. He was a member of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Department of Justice for almost four years, and conducted grand jury investigations and successful multi-defendant criminal trials in federal courts in Florida, Kentucky, and Ohio. For several months in 1964, the Justice Department delegated Goldfarb to the Presidential Task Force which created the Office of Economic Opportunity under the guidance of Sargent Shriver. When Robert F. Kennedy ran for the U.S. Senate in New York, he recruited Goldfarb to work on that campaign as a speech writer. He resigned from the Justice Department to do so. Goldfarb's book, Perfect Villains, Imperfect Heroes, about those Justice Department experiences was published in 1995. More
New York: Random House, c1995. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 357, illus., stamp on front endpaper, minor edge wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. xii, 357, [5] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by author on fep. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has minor crease in bottom front corner, with minor crease to board. Ronald Goldfarb is a Washington, D.C. attorney, author, and literary agent. In 1961, Goldfarb was recruited to join the New Frontier. He was a member of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Department of Justice for almost four years, and conducted grand jury investigations and successful multi-defendant criminal trials in federal courts in Florida, Kentucky, and Ohio. For several months in 1964, the Justice Department delegated Goldfarb to the Presidential Task Force which created the Office of Economic Opportunity under the guidance of Sargent Shriver. When Robert F. Kennedy ran for the U.S. Senate in New York, he recruited Goldfarb to work on that campaign as a speech writer. He resigned from the Justice Department to do so. Goldfarb's book, Perfect Villains, Imperfect Heroes, about those Justice Department experiences was published in 1995. More
Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007. Advance Reading Copy. Trade paperback. xiv, 302 p. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. More
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003. First Printing [Stated]. hardcover. v, [1], 282 pages. The Gallery (Illustrations). Notes. Index. Inscribed by Leonard F. Guttridge, January 2004, on the front free endpaper: "To my good friend Professor Terry Alford, with all best wishes." Leonard Francis "Len" Guttridge (27 August 1918 – 7 June 2009) was an English historian and author. His first book was Jack Teagarden: the Story of a Jazz Maverick, which he co-authored with Jay Smith. His subsequent books included The Commodores, also co-authored with Smith; The Great Coalfield War, co-authored with George McGovern, Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole, and Dark Union: the Secret Web of the Profiteers, Politicians, and Booth Conspirators That Led to Lincoln's Death, co-authored with Ray Neff. Terry Alford is an author, historian, and Professor Emeritus at Northern Virginia Community College. He received a Ph.D. in history from Mississippi State University and did post-doctoral work at the University of California, Davis. More
New York, NY: Forge, 2001. First Mass Market Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. [10], 422 p. Kirk McGarvey Novels. More
New York, NY: Warner Vision Books, 2006. First edition. First paperback printing [stated]. Mass-market paperback. Mass market paperback. Glued binding. [12], 449, [3] p. More
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 303, [7] pages. Contains 11 black and white photographs, 31 pages of notes, bibliography, and index. William Hanchett is a professor of history at San Diego State University, and is the author of numerous articles on Lincoln and the Civil War era. This work was a Main Selection of the History Book Club. DJ has several small chips to dust jacket spine. DJ is price clipped. The author received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from UC Berkeley. He taught U.S. History for thirty years at San Diego State University. His specialties were Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era. He authored numerous scholarly articles and three books, including a well-received study of Lincoln's assassination, The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies. The book was one of the first historiographies of the Lincoln assassination. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the book was deemed one of the ten best books on conspiracy theories. It was made into a documentary, Black Easter, for which Bill received a Telly Award for Best Screenplay. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. First United States Edition [stated[. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 385, [7] pages. Includes two black and white maps (one of the Roman Empire in 44 BC, and one of Cicero's Italy). Author's Note. Dramatis Personae. Glossary. Signed first edition sticker on front of DJ. DJ has slight wear to edges. Signed by the author on the second free end paper. Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957) is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter. Although he began his career in non-fiction, his fame rests upon his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the bestseller Fatherland, Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His most recent works centre on contemporary history. Harris was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union and editor of the student newspaper Varsity. Harris's first book appeared in 1982. A Higher Form of Killing, a study of chemical and biological warfare, was written with fellow BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman. Other non-fiction works followed: Gotcha! The Government, the Media and the Falklands Crisis (1983), The Making of Neil Kinnock (1984), Selling Hitler (1986), an investigation of the Hitler Diaries scandal, and Good and Faithful Servant (1990), a study of Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary. Harris was a columnist for the Sunday Times, but gave it up in 1997. He returned to journalism in 2001, writing for the Daily Telegraph.[24] He was named "Columnist of the Year" at the 2003 British Press Awards. More
New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First United States Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 385, [7] pages. Includes two black and white maps (one of the Roman Empire in 44 BC, and one of Cicero's Italy). Author's Note. Dramatis Personae. Glossary. Signed first edition sticker (with some wear) on front of DJ. DJ has slight wear to edges. Signed by the author on the second free end paper. Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957) is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter. Although he began his career in non-fiction, his fame rests upon his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the bestseller Fatherland, Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His most recent works centre on contemporary history. Harris was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union and editor of the student newspaper Varsity. Harris's first book appeared in 1982. A Higher Form of Killing, a study of chemical and biological warfare, was written with fellow BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman. Other non-fiction works followed: Gotcha! The Government, the Media and the Falklands Crisis (1983), The Making of Neil Kinnock (1984), Selling Hitler (1986), an investigation of the Hitler Diaries scandal, and Good and Faithful Servant (1990), a study of Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary. Harris was a columnist for the Sunday Times, but gave it up in 1997. He returned to journalism in 2001, writing for the Daily Telegraph.[24] He was named "Columnist of the Year" at the 2003 British Press Awards. More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000. First MIT paperback edition [stated]. Trade paperback. xxxii, 179, [2] p. Notes. Index. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1976. Mass-market paperback. [1], 361, [1] p. More
New York: Berkley Books, 2003. First Printing. pocket paperbk, 289, wraps British agent Sean Dillon returns in a sequel to 2001's Edge of Danger, in which author Jack Higgins, a consistently solid thriller writer, introduced the intriguing and powerful Arab/English Rashid family. Kate, the only Rashid left after an assassination attempt on the American president foiled by Dillon, has sworn to avenge her family and will do anything to humiliate the United States, including sabotaging her own oil fields to cripple America's--and the world's--oil supplies. More
Grand Rapids, MI: Chosen Books, 1985. Second Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 375 pages. Appendix, cover slightly worn and soiled. Inscribed and signed by both authors (Jack & Jo Ann Hinckley). More
Grand Rapids, MI: Chosen Books, 1985. First Printing. 24 cm, 375, appendix, slight wear to cover edges. More
New York: Dorset Press, 1990. Reprint Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 313, Notes. Bibliography. Index. Slight wear to top and bottom DJ edges. Dr. Ronald Francis Hingley (26 April 1920, Edinburgh – 23 January 2010) was an English scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature. Hingley was the translator and editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980 (known as the Oxford Chekhov). He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak. He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov. He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward. He was a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1961 to 1987 and an Emeritus Fellow from 1987 onwards. The history of the Russian secret police from 1565 (when Ivan the Terrible established the Oprichnina) to 1970. This book is a reprint of the edition originally published in 1970. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. First U. S. Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 313, [5] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Some wear to top and bottom DJ edges. Some DJ soiling. Some edge soiling. Dr. Ronald Francis Hingley (26 April 1920, Edinburgh – 23 January 2010) was an English scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature. Hingley was the translator and editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980 (known as the Oxford Chekhov). He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak. He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov. He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward. He was a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1961 to 1987 and an Emeritus Fellow from 1987 onwards. The history of the Russian secret police from 1565 (when Ivan the Terrible established the Oprichnina) to 1970. This book is a reprint of the edition originally published in 1970. More
Cleveland, OH: Hiram College, 1881. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Ephemera. 4 pages on a single sheet folded in half. Sheet size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. When folded, approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. Small edge tear at front page. Small pin hole at top left of page 3 going through to top right of page 4. Some wear and soiling noted. A remarkable eulogy and personal remembrance. Burke Aaron Hinsdale (1837 – 1900) rose to become one of America’s most notable pioneers in education. He entered the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (to become Hiram College in 1867) at age 16. While in Hiram, Hinsdale met James A. Garfield, later President of the United States. Garfield was a student and then a member of the faculty at the Institute. In 1869, Hinsdale received an appointment at Hiram College (the Eclectic Institute achieved collegiate status in 1867) as professor of philosophy, English literature and political science. A year later, he became president of the institution. Until the end of his presidency in 1882, Hinsdale served as a lecturer and administrator. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Later printing. Trade paperback. 296 pages. Illustrations. Author's signed inscription, dated, on title page. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Bruce Hoffman (born 1954) is a political analyst known for his views on terrorism and insurgency. He is the Director of the Center for Security Studies and Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is a specialist in the study of terrorism and counterterrorism and insurgency and counter-insurgency. In 1981, Hoffman joined the RAND Corporation. He left RAND in 1994 when he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews. In 1994, he co-founded (with Professor Paul Wilkinson) and was the first director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at St. Andrews where he was also Chairman of the Department of International Relations (1994–1998). Hoffman returned to RAND as Director of RAND's Washington Office (1998–2006). Hoffman served as a commissioner on the 9/11 Review Commission, which examined the FBI's ability to counter terrorism, radicalization and cyber crime. He was Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006; an adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq in 2004, and an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. Hoffman was also an adviser to the Iraq Study Group (2006). More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1979. First MIT Press Edition. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. xii, [2], 321, [1] pages. Some wear and small chips to dust jacket edges. Includes List of Illustrations (Source notes on 38 black and white illustrations); Illustrations. Maps. Foreword; Abbreviations, Conclusions, Assassination Attempts and Plots, Comparative Table of Ranks, Notes, and Index. Topics covered include Reasons and Objectives of the Investigation; Before 1933; Head of Government; Reich Security Service; Hitler's SS Escort; Hitler's Escort Detachment and other Security Groups; Transport--Cars, Trains, Aeroplanes; Public Appearances; Travel; Residences; and Military Headquarters. Also contains several black and white maps. Peter C.W. Hoffmann, FRSC (born 13 August 1930) is a German-Canadian professor of history at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His principal area of research deals with the German Resistance against National Socialism, and in particular, the resistance efforts of Claus von Stauffenberg. Hoffmann lives in Canada and in Germany. Hoffmann was born in Dresden and grew up in Stuttgart, Germany. After studying at the universities of Stuttgart, Tübingen, Zurich, Northwestern University and Munich he received his Ph.D. in 1961 from Franz Schnabel following his thesis defense on The diplomatic relations between Wurtemberg and Bavaria from the Crimean War and the beginning of the Italian Crisis. In 1970 he took up a teaching position on German History at McGill University in Montreal. Hoffmann is the William Kingsford Professor of History and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. More
Santa Monica, CA: Random House, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xxvi, 151, [3] pages. Footnotes. Table. Bibliography. This book examines a number of leadership attacks from World War II to the present to offer insights into the comparative efficacy of various forms of leadership attacks, their potential coercive and deterrent value, and the possible unintended consequences of their ill-considered use. More
New York, NY: Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1980. Wraps. 287-520 pages 26 cm. Unpaginaged advertisements at back. More
New York: D. McKay Company, [1967]. Second Printing. 21 cm, 304, index, DJ somewhat worn and scuffed. More
New York, N.Y. Onyx [New American Library, a Division of Penguin Putnam Inc.], 2002. First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. [6], 394 pages. Sticker residue on back cover. Includes chapters 1-28, Afterword, and Author's Note. Christopher Hyde is a Canadian author of thriller novels. He has worked for CBC as a writer and producer. His series characters include Finn Ryan and John Holliday. He commonly writes under the pen name Paul Christopher. Christopher Hyde made his debut as a published author in 1979 with The Wave. He was a freelance broadcaster for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1966-68, CBC Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1969, 1973-75, CJOH-TV Ottawa, 1970-71, and CBC, Canadian Television (CTV), and Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA), 1971-72; full-time writer, 1977. The Second Assassin is steeped in historical detail. The year is 1939, and the United States is on the verge of entering World War II. There are those who would do anything to prevent this from happening, including assassinating Britain's King George on U.S. soil to divide the two countries, thus severing America's obligation to protect and defend England. Thomas Barry is the London detective and Jane Todd the gritty freelance photographer who together pursue professional assassin John Bone. More