Jabotinsky, Vladimir [Ze'ev]; van Paassen, Pierre (Foreword); Patterson, Col John Henry (Conclusion)Biblio.com
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1942425j2234New York: The Dial Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Jabotinsky "outlines his vision for Jewish involvement in World War II particularly advocating for a formal Jewish Army to fight alongside the Allies. Discusses the desperate situation of Polish Jews under Nzai occupation warns of the impending genocide and urges the Allied powers to include the fight against this extermination in their war aims. Also addresses broader themes of the post-war status of Palestine and potential settlement projects for Jews reflecting Jabotinsky's militant Zionist stance." - AI. Reflecting upon the birth and death of civilizations Jabotinsky states "It is the tragedy of the men of my generation to have lived in a dying era. To me personally this knowledge has the last few years deepened my ever-present sense of exile." - page 9. Published posthumously. "Ze'ev Jabotinsky 1880-1940 was a Russian-born author poet orator soldier and founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. He co-founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army in WWI. Later he established several Jewish organizations including the paramilitary group Betar in Latvia the youth movement Hatzohar and the militant organization Irgun in Mandatory Palestine." - Wikipedia. 252 p. No indication of any earlier printings or editions. Moderate wear to navy cloth brightly lettered in white upon backstrip. Binding sound. No dust jacket. Minor bits of peeling from front fixed endpaper. Evidence of two staples removed from top of back free endpaper. Acid-free tape repair to first blank leaf at back. A sound and rare example. ; 8vo . The Dial Press hardcover
1885745Butterworth & Nodal Manchester 1885. 1885 Rare anti-Mormon pamphlet one OCLC holding: Princeton. "The detestable and immoral system of Polygamy exposed and the horrible Mormon doctrine of 'Blood Atonement' explained." 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches 31 pp. Near fine. Bound in with other scarce to rare English pamphlets listed below blue cloth covered boards. The other pamphlets: 1 By a Special Commission. Squalid Liverpool. Reprinted from the Liverpool Daily Post. Daily Post and Echo Offices Liverpool 1883. 91 pp.; 2 The Political Summary Containing the Chief Interesting Events and a List of The Principal Bills Passed in Each Year of The Present Reign with Tables Shewing Income & Expenditure in Each Year &c. List of Administrations From 1837 to 1882 and Index. Second edition. E.W. Allen London. 56 pp.; 3 Fielding Thomas. Radical Hypocrisy or War Waste and Corruption! Being an Eye-Opener for Working Men and a Plea for Political Honesty. Fourth edition. John Heywood London 1885. 31 pp.; 4 Revelations of the Pension List. Hackney & Wright Printers Birmingham no date. 32 pp.; 5 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Remarkable Views on Religion. Modern Science and Ancient Faiths Assimilated. No publisher no place no date. 13 pp.; 6 Bullock George. The Eastern Question: Its Only True Solution; or The Redemption of Israel According to the Word of the Lord. Sixth edition. Tubbs Brook and Chrystal; Manchester 1882. 18 pp.; 7 Bottomley J.H. Leaves From My Political Note Book Respecting "The Grand Old Man" and His Apology for a Government. E. Wrigley Rochdale 1882. 16 pp. 8 Byland J. Letters. W.H. Allen Pall Mall no date. 14 pp. 9 Proceedings of The Constitutional Union. Policy of the Government. Speeches of Lord George Hamilton M.P. and Mr. Edward Clarke Q.C. M.P. Delivered at The Meeting of the Society On November 8th 1882. Partridge & Cooper London. 25 pp.; 10 Boucicault Dion. A Fireside Story of Ireland. Bradbury Agnew & Co.; Whitefriars no date. 24 pp. 11 Mearns Andrew; London Congregational Union. The Bitter Cry of Outcast London. An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor. James Clarke London 1883. 12 "A Man of the World". An Abandoned Woman: An Ungarnished Story. Robert Batho Liverpool 1885. 102 pp. 3214029A. Hardcover. Very Good. Butterworth & Nodal, Manchester, 1885. hardcover
187914061NY: Henry Holt. Fair. 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding copies. The covers are rubbed at the edges & spine ends and the signatures are coming loose. The cloth spine on volume two is coming loose all along the rear hinge. Contents are otherwise very good. Inscription on the second end paper bookplate inside the front cover. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Henry Holt hardcover
1964442j1789New York: Bloch Publishing Company. Fair. 1964. First Edition. Paperback. A full-throated rant against Ben Hecht and his controversial 1961 book "Perfidy". "Rarely has a name so apt and so fitting been chosen for a book as 'Perfidy' for Ben Hecht's opus which is from first to last his own treachery and perfidy towards what is most precious and holy to the Jewish people." - p. 3. "Chaim Lieberman 1890-1963 was a Yiddish essayist and literary critic. Born in Kolki Volhynia he immigrated to the U.S. in 1905." - Encyclopedia website. 103 stapled pages. Markings to 3 pages. External foxing. Tight and intact with average wear. A sound example. ; 8vo . Bloch Publishing Company paperback
1939214h1677USA: The Reader's Digest Association Inc. Fair. 1939. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Lindbergh strongly opposed American entry into WWII. In this controversial article which appeared on pages 64-67 in the early months of the war he argued that "We the heirs of European culture are on the verge of a disastrous war a war within our own family of nations a war which will reduce the strength and destroy the treasures of the White race.Our civilization depends on peace among Western nations and therefore on united strength. We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession our inheritance of European blood only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races. With all the world around our borders let us not commit racial suicide by internal conflict. We must learn from Athens and Sparta before all of Greece is lost." Unmarked with above-average wear. Binding intact. Luckett p.99; Sm 8vo . The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. unknown
1938734G4576London: Robert Hale Limited 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 123 pages. Black and white photographic frontisplate of author. First published in German in the same year. Noteworthy for its call for a resurrection of the same two-front military alliance which was marshalled against Germany in the Great War. The following year 'Foreign Affairs Quarterly' published a review of this book endorsing this policy. - Mike King. "In July 1914 Dr. Ludwig expounded the causes and misunderstandings which led up to the Great War. The purpose of the present work is to provide a remedy for the present perilous impasse before it is too late to avert disaster." - from dust jacket. In preparing this work Ludwig confidentially sent the first 83 pages of his manuscript to Edward VIII for his corrections which were later provided by letter. Source available upon request. Bold dust jacket art depicts British/French/US spear piercing a Nazi swastika. Unmarked. Binding tight. Moderate wear to book. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in mylar. Moderate age-toning near endpapers. Moderate foxing to edges and back half of dust jacket. A sound copy of this significant work. Robert Hale Limited Hardcover
2007545j2418USA: Occidental Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 2007. First Edition. Paperback. 0977988236 . "Taking the Jews as his example MacDonald carefully traces their history in relation to the explicit theory that they have always followed certain practices that amounted to a definite eugenic policy as far as intelligence mainly verbal intelligence is concerned. MacDonald's work is a creative effort to write history along biological lines. Psychology could do with more such serious attempts to look at the development of psychological differences between groups in an original and creative manner." - Hans Eysenck. "MacDonald's study of the Jewish people in sociobiological perspective will not likely help his career for reasons having nothing to do with the author's scholarship or his accumulation of pertinent evidence. There is a shocking and brutal honestly shown by him in approaching this subject." - Paul Gottfried. Unread - still in original shrinkwrap. Presumably a first edition. Moderate corner wear. A quality example. ; 8vo . Occidental Press paperback
1562046899Antwerp: Bellerum 1562. Second Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Old colored vellum worn lacking front endpaper title browned and stained mild browning and a few light stains scattered marginalia in an early hand; generally clean. The second edition of the abridgment of Magnus's important history of the Northern people. 8 192 leaves with in text illustration throughout.<br/><br/>Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046899. Bellerum hardcover books
1955442j1514Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. "A Jewish journalist recounts his impressions of ten Germans whom he came to know while masquerading as a gentile in a German village immediately following World War II. Concludes that these 'typical' Germans thought of themselves as good and decent people even though they had cooperated with the Nazi regime and felt they had done nothing wrong." - Paul Madden on page 415 of 'Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Epoch'. "The ten former Nazis were each of them a most marvelous mixture of good and bad impulses their lives a marvelous mixture of good and bad acts. I liked them. I couldn't help it. Again and again as I sat or walked with one or another of my ten friends I was overcome by the same sensation that had got in the way of my newspaper reporting in Chicago years before. I liked Al Capone. I liked the way he treated his mother. He treated her better than I treated mine." - pages viii-ix. xii 346 p. Former library copy with relatively few associated markings. Somewhat above-average wear to original black cloth lettered in orange upon backstrip. Binding sound. No dust jacket. Laska 282 Snyder 406; 8vo . The University of Chicago Press hardcover
1922745h1739New York: E.P. Dutton and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1922. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. "I attempt in the following pages to give some account of my experiences among the Bolsheviks from January to April of the year 1920. My story is neither Propaganda for Bolshevism nor Propaganda against it. The result may possibly be that this book will displease not only the Bolsheviks but also those equally fanatical anti-Bolsheviks who believe that Lenin and Trotsky lead lives of phenomenal debauchery and that cannibalism is common in Moscow." - Preface. "The memoirs of a British Intelligence Officer captured at Krasnoiarsk in January 1920. Of interest for its account of conditions of life in Siberia and Moscow in early 1920." - Jonathan D. Smele on page 493 of The Russian Revolution and Civil War: 1917-1921. "Francis McCullagh 1874-1956 was an Irish journalist war correspondent and author." - Wikipedia. First published in England in 1921. p. xviii 21-346. Index. Complete with nine black and white photographic plates. Gilt lettering to original red cloth. No dust jacket. Binding intact. Small vintage bookseller's tag at foot of front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this important account.; 8vo . E.P. Dutton and Company hardcover
1948843h5703New York: The Philatelic Foundation. Good. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. xii 2-412 pp. Index. Bibliography. Synopsis of the Postal History and Postage Rates of Hawaii. Black and white illustrations. "A handbook on Hawaii worthy of the name containing everything necessary to the understanding and study of the stamps postal markings and postal history of this fascinating country." - Preface. Printed upon glossy stock. Map endpapers. Few small ink drops to top edge otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's blue cloth. Binding tight. No dust jacket. A quality copy of this essentiall reference.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; Philately - Hawaii Hawaii - stamps Hawaii - postal history . The Philatelic Foundation hardcover
1999863j0728Israel: Gefen Publishing House Ltd. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1999. First English Edition. Hardcover. 965229196X . "For more than 50 years Yitzhak Rabin Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Israel had a direct impact on the political social and economic fabric of the Jewish State. Unfortunately from the time he joined the Palmach until his assassination in 1995 he was responsible for one security mishap after another. This book delves into Rabin's military performance from his early involvement in the militia in 1941 to his death and reveals for the first time Rabin's real security biography. Explains how little children were able to chase the mighty IDF from the Gaza strip; how Hizbullah defeated the IDF in Southern Lebanon; and how Israel deteriorated from a strategic ally of the United States to an American economic burden." - back board. "My book about Rabin was banned in Israel bookstores refused to carry it historians and intellectuals refused to relate to it and to discuss it in the newspapers on the radio or on TV my employ at Bar Ilan University and the College of Judaea and Samaria was terminated and I could not secure any position in any Israeli university." - author. 472 pages. Black and white diagrams and reproductions of photos. Footnotes. Index of people. Index of places. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. No dust jacket as issued. A sound copy of this highly-controversial study.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Yitzhak Rabin 1922-1995 Israel History Military Generals Leadership Biography IDF Security Gaza Hizbullah Hezbullah Lebanon . Gefen Publishing House Ltd. hardcover
19274222Southern U.S. 1927. Small ledger bound in pebbled leather over card measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches. With events taking place across Tennessee Virginia Washington DC North Carolina and other Southern states this journal is comprised of 118 handwritten pages unfolding across a decade. The ledger was clearly a plaything of Ethel and her siblings in earlier years as they have left childish handwriting and notes dated 1911 to the pastedowns and endpapers. However the main content unfolds from 1916-1927 as Ethel claims the book for her diary and leaves us an account of how a girl moved from her teenage years and into womanhood while the world radically changed around her.<br/><br/>Ethel's tone in her opening entry is a reminder that teenage angst and ennui are not new inventions. "April 25 1916. I write this on a Wednesday. Nothing happened. Same old thing school school school." Despite feeling the sameness of her days it doesn't take long for Ethel to open up about the variety of experiences and feelings that really do shape her time. Revivals and Red Cross meetings take up multiple evenings after school; and she loves to read as an escape novels include escapist and sensational romances like George Barr's Nedra 1905 though she describes it as "same old life reading." By 1918 she also starts attending Patriotic Meetings as she reports "Germany's advancing" a concise announcement that is surrounded by news of boys she knows joining their companies and a string of weddings in advance. Global realities hit on the same week she begins school again in September for her observation "first week of school Don't think the lessons will be very hard" is immediately followed by reports of larger hardships a month later: "All the schools are closed on account of the flu. Several people have died with it. Duey Hines was buried yesterday she died in Richmond.in a hospital.Marton Sneed was buried yesterday.he died in Charlotte of Flu." Ultimately the flu grips her in a way the war cannot. "Friday 22 November 1918 Celebrated Armistice.School was opened after five weeks. We went to school for three weeks then it was closed again. December 3 1918. Tuesday all five of us down with the flu." Her December 5 entry is a string of named of friends who died of flu or are badly ailing and she does not write again until the new year.<br/><br/>The entries of 1919 reflect a new level of maturity in Ethel's hand and her voice; as a young woman she now has more freedom and more mobility and she seems rejuvenated by drives and visits with friends new dresses and fashions picnics and shows. Several nearby locations have moving picture shows which seem to replace the Revivals in her heart and her schedule. As she and her friends prepare for commencement in June she reports getting class rings and regalia and a spate of friends' weddings. And then. "January 6 1920. School turned out for the flu Tuesday. A good many cases in town. Uncle Tom sick for two weeks. The flu is awfully bad the people are opening an emergency hospital in our Sunday school." Amidst the tragedy and seeking scapegoats the town erupts in racial violence. "March 8 1920. Arnold's store burned down.negro boy killed last night." In the years the follow Ethel reports courtships getting a job and becoming a modern working woman. She reflects very little on how she was able to gain this freedom but clearly enjoys building a life of her own. <br/><br/>A research rich diary with opportunities for studying the transmission of the 1918 flu and its various spikes the role of troops moving through communities in spreading disease the historical relationship between pandemic and education the role of suffrage in expanding women's education employment travel opportunities and genealogy. unknown books
1559046914Venice: Paul Manutium Aldus 1559. Hardcover Half Vellum. Very Good Condition. 18th century vellum backed boards worn at corners and a bit soiled title page stained an torn with loss in a few spots and a paper repair in the gutter; scattered staining and foxing elsewhere but generally clean small wormtrail in the lower margin at the end of the index touching a few letters. Still about very good overall - two volumes bound as one separate title for part two the index. 28 1-976 numbered columns i.e. 488 pages 36 132 pp. Index volume dated 1558; Ahmanson-Murphy 575<br/><br/>Pliny both compiled current knowledge of the world citing over 400 authorities and added to it himself . Not just the model for all encyclopedias to follow it is the ur-book of reference the model for an eclectic boundlessly useful assortment of human knowledge. "Over and over again it will be found that the source of some ancient piece of knowledge is Pliny Printing and the Mind of Man 5 Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046914. Paul Manutium (Aldus) hardcover
1559046914Venice: Paul Manutium Aldus 1559. Hardcover Half Vellum. Very Good Condition. 18th century vellum backed boards worn at corners and a bit soiled title page stained an torn with loss in a few spots and a paper repair in the gutter; scattered staining and foxing elsewhere but generally clean small wormtrail in the lower margin at the end of the index touching a few letters. Still about very good overall - two volumes bound as one separate title for part two the index. 28 1-976 numbered columns i.e. 488 pages 36 132 pp. Index volume dated 1558; Ahmanson-Murphy 575<br/><br/>Pliny both compiled current knowledge of the world citing over 400 authorities and added to it himself . Not just the model for all encyclopedias to follow it is the ur-book of reference the model for an eclectic boundlessly useful assortment of human knowledge. "Over and over again it will be found that the source of some ancient piece of knowledge is Pliny Printing and the Mind of Man 5 Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046914. Paul Manutium (Aldus) hardcover books
1961126j1595New York: The Macmillan Company. Good in Poor dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. "Professor Quigley has shaken the historical kaleidoscope into new patterns and provided us with fresh reasoning as to how and why whole civilizations rise and fall. His conclusions are so clearly formulated so reasonable and inevitable that we can only wonder that no one has ever discovered these truths before." - dust jacket. "Carroll Quigley 1910-1977 was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is remembered for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University and his seminal works The Evolution of Civilizations and Tragedy And Hope in which he states that an Anglo-American banking elite have worked together for centuries to spread certain values globally." - Wikipedia. At Georgetown Quigley served as mentor to Bill Clinton. x 4 281 pages. Index and maps. Book unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Heavy wear to clipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival protection. A sound first printing example.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Evolution of Civilizations - An Introduction to Historical Analysis Tragedy and Hope . The Macmillan Company hardcover
1918163j1631London: Stanley Paul & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. "Notable as a piece of contemporary commentary for its sections on 'Paris and Petrograd' pp.1-51 which attempts to draw parallels between the French and the Russian Revolutions and 'The Jews as Pioneers of the Russian Revolution' pp. 228-252." - Smele 845. xxvii 281 3 pp. Index. Bibliography. List of illustrations. Black and white plates. Unmarked with average wear to original red cloth. Binding intact. Clearly legible black lettering upon backstrip. Tiny vintage bookseller's tag to bottom of front free endpaper. Soiling to lower portion of front board. No dust jacket if one was issued. A sound vintage example of this important history. ; Illustrations; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Pioneers of the Russian Revolution Bolsheviks History Soviet Union Jews Petrograd Terrorism Vassiliy Prince of Moscow Tsar Michael Romanov Tsar Peter the Great Tsar Paul 1 Michael Speranski Alexander I Tsar Nicholas I Vera Figner Tsar Alexander II H. Lo . Stanley Paul & Co. hardcover
1982046529Mexico: Fomento Cultural Banamex 1982. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Near Fine Condition. Quarter calf over red silk marbled endpapers. One of 500 sets slight sunning to cloth slipcases split to cloth on one edge of one slipcase spines faintly sunned. A lovely set. Incorporating text and images from the original manuscript of the Historia known as the Florentine Codex. xviii4 355; 6359-745 1pp and 80 color plates outside of the pagination. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046529. Fomento Cultural Banamex hardcover books
1949429H3368London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited. Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. First English Edition. Hardcover. 327 pages. Index. Photographic frontispiece portrait of author. Translated from the 1948 German first edition. "The only full-length statement published since the war by a major figure in Hitler's government. Provides the detailed story of prewar German economic policy in the words of the man primarily responsible for it." - dust jacket. Moderate wear to unmarked book which remains tight and square. Foxing to edges. Average wear and soiling to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. KEHR & LANGMAID 817 ALDCROFT & RODGER p.83 PETERSON p.367.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; WWI Reparations Germany Treaty of Versailles Weimar Republic Adolf Hitler Nazi Germany German mark Hyperinflation Reichsbank Reicksmark Economic Policy History . George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited hardcover
192395410Chicago: July 20 1923. 1923. Good. - A one-and-a-quarter page letter with over 325 words typed on 2 sides of her 11 inch high by 8-3/8 inch wide light blue "4740 Dorchester Ave. Chicago" stationery. In her letter to the American lecture agent James B. Pond the noted feminist & pacifist Rosika Schwimmer outlines her intention to offer a lecture on Henry Ford's role in the Peace Ship expedition she led in the early years of the First World War a timely subject as Henry Ford was then campaigning for the Presidency. "Though numbers of Ford biographies and articles have been poured out none of them contains more than a hint about his peace efforts in 1915 Peace Ship and Neutral Conference." She goes on to explain that she is not proposing to "make a propaganda speech for or against him but merely to give the facts about a highly picturesque venture. It certainly would help the public to make up its mind what attitude to take in Ford's coming presidential campaign." Schwimmer also tells Pond about the subjects of other lectures she can offer listing 6 of them. Boldly signed in full on the verso with a couple of corrections in her hand. Folded for mailing with a few short tears to the bottom and to the edges of the folds reinforced with clear archival document tape from the verso. There is a horizontal crease along the top with a perforation to the top left. <p>The Hungarian-born leader in the international pacifist and feminist movements Rosika Schwimmer 1877-1948 was a leading advocate of women's rights in Hungary. Schwimmer campaigned against child labor and for marriage reform and birth control. Her Hungarian Feminist Association succeeded in passing woman suffrage laws in 1920 Hungary. Living in London when the First World War was declared she traveled to the United States to convince President Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan to sponsor a neutral mediation conference. Unsuccessful she traveled the US speaking to a wide range of constituencies including feminist and Jewish groups. Creating the Women's Peace Party she convinced Henry Ford to sponsor a Neutral Mediation Conference in Stockholm. Setting off on the Oscar II which became known as the Peace Ship the American delegation was ridiculed by the press and suffered several setbacks. Several delegates resented Schwimmer's overbearing authoritative approach and supposed financial mismanagement and Henry Ford withdrew his support. She served as Hungary's minister to Switzerland during its brief existence as a democracy but fled after Bela Kun's communist party took over. Returning to the United States in 1921 she was shunned by those who had once supported her and had difficulty obtaining speaking engagements. A Chicago federal district court denied her application for American citizenship as she would not "bear arms in defense of the country" due to her pacifist convictions and because she was an advocate for a form of World government. The district court decision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court but with a dissent from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The first reason for denying her citizenship is laughable considering her advancing age and that women were not then expected to serve in combat. She remained in the US as a resident alien until her death and was awarded a privately sponsored World Peace Prize and subsequently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948. Chicago: July 20, 1923. unknown
1980235j2140New York: Truman Talley Books / Times Books. Good in Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0812909232 . "A fascinating exploration of four great monetary inflationary eras of tumult - why they arose - who caused them - how family fortunes survived or were destroyed. What happens when hyperinflation sweeps across an entire society Whom does it threaten most and whom does it benefit And when finally the authorities act - why do the politicians and the bureaucrats invariably delay until after the value of an entire currency has been totally destroyed" - dust jacket. Recounts the destruction of Roman currency the French Assignat the Greenback and the Weimar hyperinflation. "Shapiro's fascinating description of four great periods of massive inflation in history should rightly cause us all to treat the present runaway inflation with a much greater sense of urgency than economists and officialdom have exhibited up until now. Timely narrative scholarship at its best." - Senator William Proxmire. 8 2-308 p. Tables and index. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to complete dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this vitally important monetary history. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Inflation Finance History Hyperinflation Investing Economics . Truman Talley Books / Times Books hardcover
1983256j1546Hong Kong: Unicorn Books Limited. Good in Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 9622320023 . "In the 14 decades since its inception in newly colonised Hong Kong the police force has been faced with formidable challenges: plague and typhoons triad societies civil warfare between rival political factions race riots political murders espionage the influx of millions of refugees seeking a new life as well as the maintenance of law and order among more than five million people in the world's most crowded city. Today the RHKP with its 23500 regulars 5000 auxiliaries and a civilian back-up of 5000 is one of the biggest city police forces in the world. This book follows the history of the RHKP from its birth as a makeshift group of reluctant military consripts to an organisation considered by many to be one of the premier police forces in the world." - dust jacket. 243 pages. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos plus many recent color photos. Endpapers illustrated with reproductions of fascinating historical documents. Book tight clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Average wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A sound example of this proud and informative history. Oblong 33.5 x 26.2 cm. Heavy book. Shipping weight will be over 2kg/4lb.; Photography; 4to . Unicorn Books Limited hardcover
1942643H4248London: John Murray Publishers Limited. Good in Good dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 260 pages. Index. List of main sources. Black and white photographic plates. Organizational chart of the German Broadcasting Company RRG in 1942 and its links to the Ministry of Propaganda. Organizational chart of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in 1942. "The first complete account of the gigantic propaganda organization of the Third Reich. Reveals and describes: The inner workings of the Nazi propaganda organization; The network of Party speakers; The German radio's war effort; The Nazi press system; The German stage and screen in 1942; Propaganda for the armed forces; The men in control. Access to unique German documentary material and an intimate knowledge of German wartime broadcasting and of the Nazi press have enabled the authors to paint a full-length picture of Hitler's political warfare machine." - dust jacket. Printed to wartime standard apparently without a front free endpaper. Unmarked with average wear and soiling to publisher's canary yellow cloth. Average wear and half-inch of loss to decorated orange dust jacket at top of spine. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy of this vital and incisive wartime study. KEHR & LANGMAID 2950.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Goebbels Propaganda Third Reich Nazi Party Germany World War 1939-1945 German Broadcasting Company RRG Ministry of Propaganda Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment radio Theatre News Media Wartime Propaganda . John Murray Publishers, Limited hardcover
185813886New Haven: Yale College. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Now this is an interesting book. Very ornate binding. Gilt decorations with heavily embossed front cover with the owner's Thomas name at the bottom. The front hinge has started to crack which has been reninforced with a clear substance. No page count but the think is 3" thick. A beautiful engraving of every graduate followed by a handwritten inscription To Thomas. Inside the covers & on the first pages are engravings of the college & surroundings. The only xlib mark I can find anywhere is a small stamp at the bottom of the first page. There is no title page; the cover evidently fulfills that function. Most of the inscriptions give the signers birthdate; must have been a tradition. At least one was written later 1864 in a hospital and refers to a battlefield. This is just way cool. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Yale College hardcover
20043361Shimon Tzabar Rami Heilbronn 2004 Extremely rare especially signed. Inscribed by the author Shimon Tzabar to my late friend Leolo Lozone. I acquired it from Leolo's archivist the Worm Word Tamer. "The Grand Tour of the Palestinian Holocaust. The Israeli efforts to get rid of the Palestinians and settle Jews in their place in the whole of the Holy Land. And the world looks on and does nothing just as it did during the Jewish Holocaust." Glossy green printed/illustrated wraps 8 3/8 X 5 7/8 inches 88 pp. numerous color illustrations including numerous maps of course. As new. The first and only printing was 500 copies. Michelin took Tzabar to court in London and stopped him from printing or distributing any more copies. 1722RO068. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New. Shimon Tzabar, Rami Heilbronn paperback
