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Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dippolito, Paul - Design (illustrator). First Printing. 487 Pages Indexed. As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates, unofficial backchannels, distrust and determination within the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. With unparalleled intimacy and detail, this gripping account of a president at war describes a period of distress and uncertainty within the U.S. government from 2006 through mid-2008. The White House launches a secret strategy review that excludes the military. General George Casey, the commander in Iraq, believes that President Bush does not understand the war and eventually concludes he has lost the president's confidence. The Joint Chiefs of Staff also conduct a secret strategy review that goes nowhere. On the verge of revolt, they worry that the military will be blamed for a failure in Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice strongly opposes a surge of additional U.S. forces and confronts the president, who replies that her suggestions would lead to failure. The president keeps his decision to fire Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from Vice President Dick Cheney until two days before he announces it. A retired Army general uses his high-level contacts to shape decisions about the war, as Bush and Cheney use him to deliver sensitive messages outside the chain of command. For months, the administration's strategy reviews continue in secret, with no deadline and no hurry, in part because public disclosure would harm Republicans in the November 2006 elections. National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley tells Rice, "We've got to do it under the radar screen because the electoral season is so hot." The War Within provides an exhaustive account of the struggles of General David Petraeus, who takes over in Iraq during one of the bleakest and most violent periods of the war. It reveals how breakthroughs in military operations and surveillance account for much of the progress as violence in Iraq plummets in the middle of 2007. Woodward interviewed key players, obtained dozens of never-before-published documents, and had nearly three hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush. The result is a stunning, firsthand history of the years from mid-2006, when the White House realizes the Iraq strategy is not working, through the decision to surge another 30,000 U.S. troops in 2007, and into mid-2008, when the war becomes a fault line in the presidential election. The War Within addresses head-on questions of leadership, not just in war but in how we are governed and the dangers of unwarranted secrecy.

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grey & black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 2nd printing (#2 in # line). ix+368p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. source notes. bibliography. index. american history. biography. true crime. terrorism. assassination. ~ American Gunfight is the fast~paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event~the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot~out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life. Written by Pulitzer Prize~winner Stephen Hunter, the widely admired and bestselling novelist and author of such books as Havana, Hot Springs, and Dirty White Boys, and John Bainbridge, Jr., an experienced journalist and lawyer, American Gunfight is at once a groundbreaking work of meticulous historical research and the vivid and dramatically told story of an act of terrorism that almost succeeded. They have pieced together, at last, the story of the conspiracy that nearly doomed the president and how a few good men~ordinary guys who were willing to risk their lives in the line of duty~stopped it. It is a book about courage~on both sides~and about what politics and devotion to a cause can lead men to do, and about what actually happens, second by second, when a gunfight explodes. It begins on November 1, 1950, an unseasonably hot afternoon in the sleepy capital. At 2:00 P.M. in his temporary residence at Blair House, the president of the United States takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two men approach Blair House from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent cannot guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm German automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin's glory. At point~blank range, Collazo and then Torresola draw and fire and move toward the president of the United States. Hunter and Bainbridge tell the story of that November day with narrative power and careful attention to detail. They are the first to report on the inner workings of this conspiracy; they examine the forces that led the perpetrators to conceive the plot. The authors also tell the story of the men themselves, from their youth and the worlds in which they grew up to the women they loved and who loved them to the moment the gunfire erupted. Their telling commemorates heroism~the quiet commitment to duty that in some moments of crisis sees some people through an ordeal, even at the expense of their lives.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Blue boards with black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 352 pages. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Takeover and The Insider comes a riveting new novel pitting brother against brother and putting personal honor to the ultimate test--in the world of high finance and boundless ambition among power brokers from Wall Street to Washington. A scion of wealth and privilege, Bo Hancock is the youngest son of Connecticut's most influential clan--and the financial genius at Warfield Capital, the multibillion dollar investment firm at the heart of the family dynasty. He is also stranded in the shadow of his charismatic brothers, Teddy and Paul, and starved for the approval of their domineering father. While his brothers enjoy the spotlight, Bo can be counted on to "clean up" when anything threatens to tarnish the sterling Hancock name. Sixteen years ago, Bo covered up a monstrous crime involving Paul and a call girl. Now Paul is on the fast track to the White House--and Bo has become a liability, thanks to his weakness for alcohol and for women other than his wife. Stripped of his position and exiled to the backwoods of Montana--away from temptation and the public eye--Bo thinks his life has hit rock bottom. But a deathbed reconciliation with his father brings him home and reinstalls him at Warfield Capital, sparking a rapid-fire chain of events that could destroy the family and its vast fortune. First Warfield is left vulnerable to every Wall Street shark out to make a killing. Then a sudden rash of real killings forces Bo to confront the specter of a sinister conspiracy--and brings him face to face with one shocking truth after another, shattering the world and the family he thought he knew . . . leaving him utterly alone and running for his life. Trust Fund moves at hyperspeed from the canyons of Wall Street to the corridors of Congress to private sanctums of inherited wealth and power. It is the tale of a great American political and financial dynasty wrenched apart by its own fierce ambition--and by one son's determination to forge his own destiny on his own terms.

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near fine dust-jacket, cover price $35.00, fresh attractive black half-cloth with blue boards, appears unused. attractive colorful illustrated bookplate on front endpaper with printed information: donated to the library by the publisher, but no other markings of any kind. BURT, STEPHANIE / MIKICS, DAVID. The art of the sonnet. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, 1st edition, xi, 451pp., . "Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it, "a moment's monument." From the Renaissance to the present, the sonnet has given poets a superb vehicle for private contemplation, introspection, and the expression of passionate feelings and thoughts." "The Art of the Sonnet collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on each of the poems. The commentaries by Stephen Burt and David Mikics offer new perspectives and insights, and, taken together, demonstrate the enduring as well as changing nature of the sonnet. The authors serve as guides to some of the most-celebrated sonnets in English as well as less-well-known gems by nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets. Also included is a general introductory essay, in which the authors examine the sonnet form and its long and fascinating history, from its origin in medieval Sicily to its English appropriation in the sixteenth century to sonnet writing today in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking parts of the world."-- CONTENTS: How to use these sonnets -- "Whoso list to hunt" / Thomas Wyatt (1557) -- "Norfolk sprang thee" / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1557) -- "That self same tongue" / George Gascoigne (1573) -- Astrophel and Stella 45 / Sir Philip Sidney (written 1582) -- Ruines of Rome 3 / Edmund Spencer, original Joachim Du Bellay (1591) -- Delia / Samuel Daniel (1592) -- Amoretti 78 / Edmund Spencer (1595) -- Caelica 7 / Fulke Greville, Lord Broke (probably written 1590s) -- Sonnet 2 / William Shakespeare (1609) -- Sonnet 68 / William Shakespeare (1609) -- Sonnet 116 (1609) / William Shakespeare -- Phamphilia to Amphilanthus 46 / Lady Mary Wroth (1621) -- "At the round earth's imagined corners" / John Donne (probably written 1615-1633) -- "Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one" / John Donne (probably written 1615-1633) -- "Redemption" / George Herbert (1633) -- "Prayer (I)" / George Herbert (1633) -- "On the late massacre in Piedmont" / John Milton (1673) -- Methought I saw my late espousèd saint" / John Milton (1673) -- Sappho and Phaon 24 / Mary Robinson (1796) -- "Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore / Charlotte Smith (1798) -- "London, 1802 / William Wordsworth (1802) -- "Surprise by Joy" / William Wordsworth (1815) -- "On seeing the Elgin marbles" / John Keats (1817) -- "Four seasons fill the measure of the year" / John Keats (1818) -- "Ozymandias" / Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818) -- "England in 1819" / Percy Bysshe Shelley (written 1819-1820) -- "Work without hope" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (written) 1825 -- "Swordy well" / John Clare (probably written 1820s) "Mysterious night" / Joseph Blanco White (written 1827) -- "To-morrow" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, original by Lope De Vega (1833) -- "The fish, the man, and the spirit" / Leigh Hunt (1836) -- "The Columbine" / Jones Very (1839) -- "Written in Emerson's essays" / Matthew Arnold (written 1844) -- Sonnets from the Portuguese 28 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850) -- Sonnets, third series 6 / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (written before 1873) -- "Retreat" / Charles Baudelaire (translated by Rachel Hadas) -- Modern love 50 / George Meredith (1862) -- "A dream" Charles / Tennyson Turner (1864) -- "I know not why, but all this weary day / Henry Timrod (1867) -- "Renouncement" / Alice Meynell (written 1869) -- Brother and Sister 7 and 8 / George Eliot (written before 1870) -- "For a Venetian pastoral" / Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870) -- "A superscription" / Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870) -- "The cross of snow" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (written 1879) -- Later life 17 / Christina Rossetti (1881) -- "The new Colossus" / Emma Lazarus (1883) -- "As kingfishers catch fire" / Gerard Manley Hopkins (written 1883) -- "Thou art indeed just" / Gerard Manley Hopkins (written 1889) -- "Mt. Lykaion" / Trumbull Stickney (1905) -- "Nests in Elms" / Michael Field (1908) -- "Archaic Torso of Apollo" / Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Edward Snow) (1908) -- "A church romance" / Thomas Hardy (1909) -- "Mowing" / Robert Frost -- "Bluebeard" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917) -- "Firelight" / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1921) -- "America" / Claude McKay (1921) -- "Self-portrait" / Elinor Wylie (1922) -- "On Somme" -- "Nomad exquisite" / Wallace Stevens (1923) -- "Leda and the swan" / William Butler Yeats (1924) -- "To Emily Dickinson" / Hart Crane (written 1926) -- "At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem" / Countee Cullen (1927) -- "The castle of thorns" / Yvor Winters (1930) -- "No swan so fine" / Marianne Moore (1932) -- "Single Sonnet" / Louise Bogan (1937) -- In time of war 27 / W. H. Auden (1938) -- "Never again would birds' song be the same" / Robert Frost (1948) -- "Epic" / Patrick Kavanagh (1951) -- "The illiterate" / William Meredith (1958) -- "Marsyas" / James Merrill (1959) -- The sonnets 44 / Ted Berrigan (1964) -- "To a winter squirrel" / Gwendolyn Brooks (1965) -- "Paradise saved" / A.D. Hope (1967) -- Autumn Testament 27 / James K. Baxter (1971) -- "Staring at the sea on the day of the death of another" / May Swenson (1972) -- "Searching" / Robert Lowell (1968; revised 1973) -- "The morning moon" / Derek Walcott (1976) -- "National trust" / Tony Harrison (1978) -- "Sonnet" / Elizabeth Bishop.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical eventthe attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, DC, that saved the president's life.Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times bestselling novelist Stephen Hunter, and John Bainbridge, Jr., an experienced journalist and lawyer, American Gunfight is at once a groundbreaking work of meticulous historical research and the vivid and dramatically told story of an act of terrorism that almost succeeded. They have pieced together, at last, the story of the conspiracy that nearly doomed the president and how a few good menordinary guys who were willing to risk their lives in the line of dutystopped it. It begins on November 1, 1950, an unseasonably hot afternoon in the sleepy capital. At 2:00 P.M. in his temporary residence at Blair House, the president of the United States takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two men approach Blair House from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, dont look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent cannot guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin's glory. At point-blank range, Collazo and then Torresola draw and fire and move toward the president of the United States. Hunter and Bainbridge tell the story of that November day with narrative power and careful attention to detail. They are the first to report on the inner workings of this conspiracy; they examine the forces that led the perpetrators to conceive the plot. The authors also tell the story of the men themselves, from their youth and the worlds in which they grew up to the women they loved and who loved them to the moment the gunfire erupted. Their telling commemorates heroismthe quiet commitment to duty that in some moments of crisis sees some people through an ordeal, even at the expense of their lives. Synopsis coming soon. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. "The Verse by the Side of the Road" by Frank Rowsome, is a wonderfully engaging story of the history behind the Burma Shave signs that we all (we of a certain age) saw along side the road. this is the 13th printing, published in 1975 by Stephen Greene Press in Burlington Vermont. The Burma Shave signs were one of the most successful - and also best - loved advertising campaigns on the American landscape, lasting for 36 years. Most everyone just loved reading the signs as they passed by. Many even slowed down to read them, as many of the signs suggested! The book actually presents the texts of all the Burma - Shave signs from the year 1927 to the year 1963 . and that's a whole lot more than a jingle a year! ************************************* IF YOU THINK / SHE LIKES / YOUR BRISTLES / WALK BARE-FOOTED / THROUGH SOME THISTLES / BURMA - SHAVE //// GRANDPA'S BEARD / WAS STIFF AND COURSE / AND THAT'S WHAT / CAUSED HIS / FIFTH DIVORCE / BURMA - SHAVE //// WHEN YOU DRIVE / IF CAUTION CEASES /YOU ARE APT / TO REST / IN PIECES / BURMA - SHAVE //// DINAH DOESN'T / TREAT HIM RIGHT / BUT IF HE'D / SHAVE / DYNA-MITE! / BURMA - SHAVE //// DRINKING DRIVERS - NOTHING WORSE / THEY PUT/ THE QUART / BEFORE THE HEARSE / BURMA - SHAVE //// FOREST FIRES / START FROM SCRATCH / SO THINK BEFORE / YOU TOSS / THAT MATCH / BURMA - SHAVE //// HENRY THE EIGHT / SURE HAD / TROUBLE / SHORT TERM WIVES / LONG TERM STUBBLE / BURMA - SHAVE //// DON'T LOSE / YOUR HEAD / TO GAIN A MINUTE / YOU NEED YOUR HEAD/ YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT / BURMA - SHAVE //// SLOW DOWN , PA / SAKES ALIVE! / MA MISSED SIGNS / FOUR / AND FIVE / BURMA - SHAVE FREE - FREE / A TRIP / TO MARS / FOR 900 / EMPTY JARS / BURMA - SHAVE //// FAREWELL O VERSE / ALONG THE ROAD / HOW SAD TO / KNOW YOU'RE / OUT OF MODE / BURMA - SHAVE ********************************************** TITLE : The Sign beside the Road : the Story of Burma - Shave Signs and Jingles / AUTHOR : Frank Rowsome, Jr. / ILLUSTRATIONS : Carl Rose / IMPRINT : Stephen Greene Press / PLACE : Brattleboro, Vermont / DATE ; (1975) / EDITION : Thirteenth Printing / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Contains line drawings; has a fairly complete collection of Burma Shave jingles; 121 pages; 5" X 8", yellow paper-covered boards with red lettering on spine; orange end-papers; pictorial dust-jacket printed in yellow, red , green and white. **************************************** CONDITION BOOK : VERY GOOD - JACKET : VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR -- A small spot on the top text-block edges, else clean and free of wear. / BINDING -- Solid - tight. / INTERIOR -- Clean and free of marking. / DUST - JACKET -- Spine panel slightly faded; toning along top edge of front panel, a small closed tear displays on the top edge of the front panel else clean and presentable.

light brown cloth hardbound 4to (quarto). large book. dustwrapper in protective plastic. very fine cond. looks new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. tiny nick on the rear, not worn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ third printing ( # 3 in # line). ~ endpaper maps. b&w photo frontis. x+189p. glossy pages throughout. illustrated throughout "more than 120 black~and~white and full~color images." bibliography. index. world history. american history. history of texas . mexican history. biography. ~ The walls of the Alamo had come alive with cannon and rifle fire. Every Texian had four or five rifles at his side and Captain Dickinson's cannoneers were proving to be fast and skillfull. Santa Anna, standing behind the earthworks to the north, saw the whole fortress lit up by gunfire. ~In The Alamo: An Illustrated History, master historian Edwin Hoyt depicts with gripping and graphic detail revolutionary Texas in conflict with a Mexican government determined to eliminate all resistance to its rule. Hoyt imbues with new life the well~known historical facts of the revolution, the pivotal siege of the Alamo, and the decisive aftermath. Excavating a multitude of authoritative accounts of the turbulent period and the bloody clashes that shaped it, he paints a dynamic portrait of Texas rebels and Mexican authorities locked in a struggle over the fate of an untamed land. Fully illustrated with more than 120 black~and~ white and full~color images, The Alamo reveals the full spectrum of Texas's determined bid for independence. From the origins of the Texas settlements as founded by empresarios like Stephen F. Austin to the growing discontent of settlers ruled by an unjust and tyrannical authority, this riveting book outlines the key conflicts of Texian unrest. It describes the minor revolts, the political intrigues, and the emerging voice of the War Party. From the standoff over the cannon at Gonzales to the Texians' siege of Bexar, the narrative dramatizes the escalating course of events leading to the desperate defense of the Alamo. Inside the garrison, William Barret Travis and James Bowie race against time to fortify their defenses, drill their men, and ready their cannons against the oncoming Mexican army. Davy Crockett, fresh from a term in Congress and hungry for adventure, lends the support of his twelve Tennessee Volunteers as Travis sends couriers with repeated pleas for reinforcements. Yet only 183 men oppose the more than 2,500 troops of Santa Anna. The proud, defiant Travis answers the demand for an unconditional surrender with a cannon shot and the Mexican army lays siege to the Alamo, raining a steady hail of bullets and shells on the garrison and marshalling their forces for a final assault on the rebels behind the walls. Before dawn on March 6, 1836, the Mexican troops rush the Alamo and begin scaling the walls. Despite overwhelming odds and certain defeat, the Texians repel the attackers first with gunfire and cannon shot, then with knives, clubs, and fists. The brutal slaughter continues as Santa Anna's troops breach the walls, invade the compound, and hunt down the Texians in the Alamo chapel until every last defender lies dead. As news of the Alamo's fall spreads across the land, the final acts of the stirring drama unfold. Santa Anna makes martyrs of the captured troops at Goliad, Sam Houston leads the ragtag Texas Army to victory at San Jacinto, and a new nation rises out of the ashes of the Mexican colony: the Republic of Texas. "It was but a small affair," commented General Santa Anna after his defeat of the 183 defenders of the Alamo garrison. But that small affair reverberated across Texas, galvanizing the rebels against Mexico and propelling them toward victory and independence. The army that routed the Mexican troops.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. THE COMPLETE MARJORY FLEMING Her Journals, Letters & Verses. Frank Sidgwick. Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1935 Reprint 208pp Hardback. This copy is bound in brown linen covered boards with gilt titling to the spine. There is a small neat signature to the front paste down. The text block is bright, tight and white. The price clipped dustwrapper is in very good condition and has now been covered in removable clear mylar protective film. Marjorie Fleming (also spelt Marjory; 15 January 1803 ? 19 December 1811) was a Scottish child writer and poet. Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland on 15 January 1803, Marjorie was the third child of the Kirkaldy accountant James Fleming (died c. 1840) and his wife Isabella (née Rae), also the name of her elder sister and of her cousin and friend Miss Crauford (variously spelled). Her uncle Thomas Fleming was minister of Kirkaldy parish church. Her mother's relations were acquainted in Edinburgh with the young Walter Scott. Marjorie spent most of her sixth, seventh and eighth years in Edinburgh under the tutelage of a cousin, Isabella Keith, who was about 17. Journal 1 begins with a somewhat startling, laconic tribute to Isabella Keith: "Many people are hanged for Highway robbery Housebreking Murder &c. &c. Isabella teaches me everything I know and I am much indebted to her she is learnen witty & sensible." Marjorie returned to Kirkcaldy in July 1811, but wrote on 1 September in a letter to Isabella Keith, "We are surrounded with measles at present on every side." She herself contracted measles in November and apparently recovered, but then died, of what was described as "water on the head" and is now considered to have been meningitis, on 19 December 1811. She was a month short of her ninth birthday. Marjorie is best remembered for a diary that she kept for the last 18 months of her life. Diary keeping by children was encouraged throughout the 19th century. (A published example from a generation later is that of Emily Pepys.) The manuscripts of Marjorie Fleming's writings are now kept in the National Library of Scotland. However, for fifty years after her death they remained unpublished. The first account of her, with long extracts from the journals, was given by a London journalist, H. B. Farnie, in the Fife Herald, and then reprinted as a booklet entitled Pet Marjorie: a Story of Child Life Fifty Years Ago. The rumour that Marjorie's poems were admired by Walter Scott derives from an 1863 article in the North British Review by Dr. John Brown M. D. of Edinburgh. He acknowledged a debt to Marjorie's younger sister Elizabeth Fleming (1809?1881) for the loan of the letters and journals. He included twice as much as Farnie from the latter, as well as 100 lines of her verse. The direct, albeit sole evidence of Scott's interest appears in a long letter from Elizabeth to Brown. The life and writings of Marjorie Fleming became hugely popular in the Victorian period, although the editions published were severely truncated and re-worked, as some of her language was thought inappropriate for an eight-year-old to use. Even Lachlan Macbean's editions of 1904 and 1928 relied on earlier bowdlerized texts. The Sidgwick edition of 1934, which followed a facsimile edition of the same year, quotes two other famous literary admirers. On the dust jacket, Robert Louis Stevenson is quoted as saying, "Marjory Fleming was possibly ? no, I take back possibly ? she was one of the noblest works of God." Leslie Stephen, in the entry he gave her in The Dictionary of National Biography in 1898, claimed that "no more fascinating infantile author has ever appeared." Mark Twain's account of her is something of a reaction to the "queasy sensations" caused by Brown's sentimentality: "She was made out of thunder-storms and sunshine, and not even her little perfunctory pieties and shop-made holinesses could squelch her spirits or put out her fires for long. and this tainted butter soon gets to be as delicious to th.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition maroon boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John S.D. Eisenhower; Author Dedication; List of Maps; Author's Note; Epilogue; Appendix: Mobilization; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates plus additional map drawings. "How did they do it? is Eisenhower's question. How did they go in one year from almost no army at all to one taking its palce on the Western Front? How did they train these millions of men, equip them, transport them, deploy them, supply them? When John Eisenhower describes General Pershing and his staff on the ship taking his first contingent of Americans to France, he makes you feel you were there -- most of all wondering, as Pershing did, how all this was going to work. Finding out is what makes this such an enjoyable read." - Stephen E. Ambrose. "John Eisenhower has done for the doughboy of World War I what Stephen Ambrose did for the G.I. of World War II: brought his to life with pathos and cool common sense. nobody knows it or tells it with more zest and authority than Eisenhower." - Walter A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "The advent of General Pershing's 'doughboys' in France in time for the crucial battles of 1918, though late in the day, tipped the balance between victory and defeat for the Western Alliance. More than that, experience gained there provided an essential foundation for the successes of General Dwight D. Eisenhower's forces in World War II. So it does seem outstandingly appropriate that an Eisenhower should now write that story. A lively and worthwhile contribution to the history of World War I." - Alistair Horne, author. "Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable, and they turned the tide of the conflict. So says John S.D. Eisenhower, one of today's most acclaimed military historians, in his sweeping history of the Great War and the men who won it: the Yanks of the American Expeditionary Force. Their men dying in droves on the stalemated Western Front, British and French generals complained that America was giving too little, too late. John Eisenhower shows why they were wrong. The European Allies wished to plug the much-needed U.S. troops into their armies in order to fill the gaps in the line. But General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, the indomitable commander of the AEF, determined that its troops would fight together, as a whole, in a truly American army. Only this force, he arggued -- not bolstered French or British units -- could convince Germany that it was hopeless to fight on. Pershing's often-criticized decision led to the beginning of the end of World War I -- and the beginning of the U.S. Army as it is known today. The United States started the war with 200,000 troops, including the National Guard as well as regulars. They were men principally trained to fight Indians and Mexicans. Just nineteen months later the Army had mobilized, trained, and equipped four million men and shipped two million of them to France. It was the greatest mobilization of military forces the New World had yet seen. For the men it was a bapttism of fire. Throughout Yanks Eisenhower focuses on the small but expert cadre of officers who directed our effort: not only Pershing, but also the men who would win their lasting fame in a later war -- MacArthur, Patton, and Marshall. But the author has mined diaries, memoirs, and after-action reports to resurrect as well the doughboys in the trenches, the unknown soldiers who made every advance possible and suffered most for every defeat. He brings vividly to life those men who achieved prominence as the AEF and its allies drove the Germans back into their homeland. - from the jacket flaps.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED : `The Story of Norman Luxton'. Norman Kenny Luxton was born into a newspapering family in Winnipeg in 1876. He had 4 siblings. In 1901 he and Captain John Voss attempted to circle the globe in the Tilikum.1902 found him in Banff, Alberta seeking the curative powers of the recently discoverd hot-springs. He made his major life-mark in that region. Read more about : Morley Trading Post., Ollie Ormond, Banff Indian Days, Winter Carnival, Byron Harmon, Guy Weadick, Trail Riders, Simeon Bigwoman, and Whyte Museum. TEXT assisted by a handful of personal photographs. Cond : Paper wrapperis white with brown decoration. Front cover graphic is a photo composite of Norman and Banff's Main Street. One mild cover crease. Flies open slightly. P/O name on half-title. Author's signature on title. No tears. Clean, bright, and square. No marks in text. Almost giftable !! Quote (p. 115) : " ._._. to settle in well. Pat would often walk with her grandmother in the garden and they would talk about old times. One night Sarah and Ada sat in front of the fire and talked about the days in Winnipeg when the children were young. Sarah's mind was sharp but her ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (orange boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾" x 5¾" (0.7 kg); 152pp; Index; Bibliography; In the Tank Battles in Mniature series; Preface by Major-General E. V. Strickland; Number 4 in the series. Includes: Plans of battle; Black & white photographs (plates); Maps; Appendix; ISBN: 0-8505-9275-5 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195956|| Condition: Very Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper much sunned at the spine with the price clipped. The contents complete, clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine +. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First (English). SUBTITLED ; `On the St. John 1816 - 1946 '. As early as 1762 there was commercial movement of goods, both coastal and upriver, in the newly settled land of New Brunswick. Simonds Hazen & White was one of the early firms. Before roads the 225 mile journey from the City of Saint John to Grand Falls had to be made by boat. Boats were used to move freight (lumber, farm vegetables, etc) and passengers both and they later ( see Woodman's Point picnickers - p.121) saw service on excursion trips. Read about Captains Taylor, Mabee, Brennen, Crabbe, Mowry and others. Read about the boats : May Queen, Ben Beveridge,Madawaska, Oconee, and Reindeer. The points they serviced included : Tobique, Sheffield, Woodstock, Brown's Flat, Rothesay, Boars Head, Indiantown, Palmer's Landing, Wickham, and Jemseg. SEE the fold-out map at the back. 176 pages assisted by B/W photographs. EXTENSIVE appendices, notes and INDEX. Read about D.D. Glasier, Harold Gault, Gilbert Tibbets, Hugh Irvine and Alward N. Harned. Very rich reference for maritime shipping which includes re-fitted ships and boats that were sold and moved to other jurisdictions. Cond : Boards are navy BLUE with gilt lettering - spine only. D.J. is light blue with black lettering. Front cover graphic (wraps-around) is an artist's representation of the David Weston by E.J.Rrussell - 1893. D.J. is damaged on back but now protected in mylar. Volume is tight, bright and CLEAN in all aspects. No flaws, no marks, no creases, no tears. Both authors have signed the half-title. VERY collectible reference !! Quote (p. 109) : " .the most trouble. On these occasions a captain would head his boat for the bar and. just before striking, he would cause the engine to be reversed. This caused the sternwheel to pile up the water around the boat, allowing her to pass over the bar safely. " Size: Octavo. Signed by Authors.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The fifth gripping novel in the highly acclaimed Dave Robicheaux series.A bullet shot through the window of Weldon Sonnier's house propels Dave Robicheaux back into the lives of a family he's not sure he wants to be reacquainted with . Weldon Sonnier's CIA-influenced past has led to dangerous connections and commitments, including debts to local mob boss Joey 'Meatballs' Gouza. As Weldon puts himself in the line of fire, Lyle Sonnier, television evangelist and faith healer, reveals to Dave a violent family history that intersects menacingly with Dave's own. But overshadowing the manoeuvres of Gouza's gang is the spectre of racial politics, and it is former Klansman Bobby Earl who will prove to be Dave Robicheaux's most elusive enemy.Praise for one of the great American crime writers, James Lee Burke:'James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed.' Michael Connelly'A gorgeous prose stylist.' Stephen King'Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced.' Daily MailFans of Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and Don Winslow will love James Lee Burke: Dave Robicheaux Series1. The Neon Rain 2. Heaven's Prisoners 3. Black Cherry Blues 4. A Morning for Flamingos 5. A Stained White Radiance 6. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead 7. Dixie City Jam 8. Burning Angel 9. Cadillac Jukebox 10. Sunset Limited 11. Purple Cane Road 12. Jolie Blon's Bounce 13. Last Car to Elysian Fields 14. Crusader's Cross 15. Pegasus Descending 16. The Tin Roof Blowdown 17. Swan Peak 18. The Glass Rainbow 19. Creole Belle 20. Light of the World 21. Robicheaux Hackberry Holland Series1. Lay Down My Sword and Shield 2. Rain Gods 3. Feast Day of Fools 4. House of the Rising SunBilly Bob Holland Series1. Cimarron Rose 2. Heartwood 3. Bitterroot 4. In The Moon of Red Ponies \* Each James Lee Burke novel can be read as a standalone or in series order \* 400 pp. Deutsch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. x p., 1 l., 322 p. incl. plates. front., plates, ports. 23 cm. ; LC: PS1523; Dewey: 928.1 ; LCCN: 33-28905 ; OCLC: 656711 ; 8° ; red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Birth notice -- Sports section -- Gentleman of the press -- Park Row -- Van Bibber's town -- The luck of R H D -- The passing of Princes Aline -- Fortune of soldiers -- Spanish war scareheads -- Gallegher, English edition -- The Boer angle -- Dramatic page -- Art supplement, Japanese screens -- News and features -- Vera Cruz date-line -- March into Brussells -- Spy story -- Crusader in khaki -- Tale of a deserter -- Obit -- Acknowledgements -- Rebecca Harding Davis ; ownership marks on endpapers ; illustrated endpapers fron Charles Dana Gibson's Gibson Girl series ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Foreword by Stephen V. Grancsay. Black and white photographs and line drawings throughout. First edition. Very good or better in green cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 711 pages.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This meticulously edited short story collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Table of Contents: - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - George's Mother - The Third Violet - The Monster - The Little Regiment and Other Episodes from the American Civil War: - The Little Regiment - Three Miraculous Soldiers - A Mystery of Heroism - An Indiana Campaign - A Grey Sleeve - The Veteran - The Open Boat and Other Stories: - The Open Boat - A Man and Some Others - The Bride comes to Yellow Sky - The Wise Men - The Five White Mice - Flanagan and His Short - Filibustering Adventure - Horses - Death and the Child - An Experiment in Misery - The Men in the Storm - The Dual that was not Fought - An Ominous Baby - A Great Mistake - An Eloquence of Grief - The Auction - The Pace of Youth - A Detail - Blue Hotel - His New Mittens - Whilomville Stories: - The Angel Child - Lynx-Hunting - The Lover and the Telltale - 'Showin' Off' - Making an Orator - Shame - The Carriage-Lamps - The Knife - The Stove - The Trial, Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps - The Fight - The City Urchin and the Chaste Villagers - A Little Pilgrimage - Wounds in the Rain - War Stories: - The Price of the Harness - The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins - The Clan of No-Name - God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen - The Revenge of the Adolphus - The Sergeant's Private Madhouse - Virtue in War - Marines Signalling under Fire at Guantanamo - This Majestic Lie - War Memories - The Second Generation - Great Battles of the World: - Vittoria - The Siege of Plevna - The Storming of Burkersdorf Heights - A Swede's Campaign in Germany - The Storming of Badajoz - The Brief Campaign Against New Orleans - The Battle of Solferino - The Battle of Bunker Hill - Last Words: - The Reluctant Voyagers - Spitzbergen Tales - Wyoming Valley Tales - London Impressions - New York Sketches - The Assassins in Modern Battles - Irish Notes - Sullivan County Sketches - Miscellaneous - Other Short Stories: - The Black Dog - A Tent in Agony - An Experiment in Luxury - The Judgement of the Sage - The Scotch Express - Marines Signaling Under Fire at Guantanamo - Twelve O'Clock - The Great Boer Trek - A Dark-Brown Dog - Manacled - The Woof of Thin Red Threads 664 pp. Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Greg Heinimann (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'Best wishes and happy reading! Stephen Kelman'. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly creased, not price clipped (£12.99), no other inacriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks unread. 305pp. I was beating the life out of Bibhuti with a baseball bat when my first monsoon broke. John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny, a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England, decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife. He has come to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer pain, a world record breaker who specialises in feats of extreme endurance and ill advised masochism. Bibhuti Nayak's next record attempt, to have fifty baseball bats broken over his body, will set the seal on a career that has seen him rise from poverty to become a minor celebrity in a nation where standing out from the crowd requires tenacity, courage and perhaps a touch of madness. In answering Bibhuti's call for assistance, John hopes to rewrite a brave end to a life poorly lived. ut as they take their leap of faith together, and John is welcomed into Bibhuti's family, and into the colour and chaos of Mumbai, where he encounters ping pong playing monks, a fearless seven year old martial arts warrior and an old man longing for the monsoon to wash him away he learns more about life, and death, and everything in between than he could ever have bargained for. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

Octavo, paperback,328 pp.,line drawings, black and white photographs. What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment? In this follow up to the highly successful book Ten commitments: reshaping the lucky country's environment [28002], now out of print], Australia's leading environmental thinkers have written provocative chapters on what must be done to tackle Australia's environmental problems â " in terms of policies, onground actions and research. Chapters are grouped into ecosystems, sectors and cross-cutting themes. Topics include: deserts, rangelands, temperate eucalypt woodlands, tropical savanna landscapes, urban settlements, forestry management, tropical and temperate marine ecosystems, tropical rainforests, alpine ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems, coasts, islands, soils, fisheries, agriculture, mining, grazing, tourism, industry and manufacturing, protected areas, Indigenous land and sea management, climate change, water, biodiversity, population, human health, fire, energy and more. This is a must read for politicians, policy makers, decision makers, practitioners and others with an interest in Australia's environment.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Massachusetts-a New England state with a proud history and a vibrant culture. But there is more to this place than white church steeples and town greens. In the forests, meadows, and beaches surrounding quaint, colonial towns lurk screeching ghosts, cursed treasures, sea serpents and other strange creatures, and even the Devil himself, all awaiting the next hiker to stumble down the trail?For years, tales of these mysterious beings and places existed only in whispers and campfire tales, but now for the first time these legends have been collected and retold in one volume: Spooky Trails and Tall Tales Massachusetts. Alongside each of these captivating tales is the necessary route and trailhead information brave readers will need to go beyond their town lines and test their nerve.With dozens of stories and hikes throughout, readers will discover and explore the legends and forgotten histories from the Berkshires to the Bay.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - According to the typical pro-North history book, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson was a humorless slave-owner, a mediocre Confederate general, and a traitor to the United States, who fought to preserve slavery and take over the U.S. government. Here in the South we know that nothing could be further from the truth. Actually Jackson was a fun-loving father and husband, a superb military officer, and a non-slave owning Unionist who detested slavery and joined the Confederate army to preserve the original Constitution. But you needn't take our word for it.Popular award-winning Southern author Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook, a cousin of Jackson, has compiled over 500 footnoted quotes by the General, culminating in a one-of-a-kind work that refutes even his harshest critics. The Quotable Stonewall Jackson: Selections From the Writings and Speeches of the South's Most Famous General, profusely illustrated with rare photos and illustrations, covers all of the salient points of Jackson's short but amazing life. It includes examples of his private letters, his military dispatches, and his personal views on everything from government, the military, the Union, and slavery, to secession, marriage, child rearing, and education.Discover the real 'Old Jack,' as his soldiers lovingly called Stonewall, in his own words in this biographical tour de force encompassing the years 1824 to 1863. Here Colonel Seabrook takes the reader from Jackson's Huckleberry Finn-like days as a runaway orphan on the Mississippi River, to his youthful struggles at West Point; from his danger-filled exploits in the Mexican-American War, to his well earned professorship at the Virginia Military Institute; from his two dramatic marriages and three children, to his mortal wounding by friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Also included is a time line of Jackson's life, a list of his Civil War engagements, a Jackson family tree, unusual facts about the General, a bibliography, and several letters written by his second wife, Mary Anna Morrison.The author's copious and detailed notes provide excellent context to the abundance of Jacksonian material. The fifth book in Seabrook's 'Quotable' series, The Quotable Stonewall Jackson is the only book of its kind, and is already on its way to becoming a Southern classic and a standard in the field of American history. An attractive, unique, affordable, and tourist-friendly work that will appeal to both Civil War buffs and historical educators alike, The Quotable Stonewall Jackson is the perfect addition to any retail outlet, including not only bookstores, but Civil War sites, historic houses, and museum gift stores as well. Available in paperback and hardcover.Acclaimed historian Lochlainn Seabrook, a descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens and John S. Mosby, is the most prolific and popular pro-South writer in the world today. Known as the 'new Shelby Foote,' he is a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal and the author and editor of nearly 100 books, highly educational titles that have introduced hundreds of thousands to the truth about the War for Southern Independence. Colonel Seabrook has a forty-five year background in American and Southern history, and is the author of the international blockbuster Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!His other titles include: Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative: The Missing Key to Understanding the American Civil War; The Great Yankee Coverup; Everything You Were Taught About American Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!; The Bittersweet Bond: Race Relations in the Old South as Described by White and Black Southerners; All We Ask is to be Let Alone; Lincoln's War: The Real Cause, the Real Winner, the Real Loser.