Charles alexande (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 336 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. Occasional pencil markings. Slightly cocked spine. An Ex-Barnard College-Library-Book with all the usual and standard signs (stamps, stickers, envelope, etc.) present. Dj (if any) missing.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Copyright 2002. 337 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. 1st Edition. 337 pp. Flawless copy. Bob Feller, Cleveland Indians Pticher (Cover Photo) (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. ** ARTICLES AND STORIES (1) Telepathy - Your Questions Answered by Dr S. G. Soal (2) Six Famous People on Flying Saucers by Prof. A. M. Low, Neville, Duke, Haigh, Sir Harold, Spencer Jones and Shaw Desmond (3) Death of the Golden Inca by Mary S. Fuller (4) Your Moods Can Shape Your Health by Desmond Dunne (5) Has Atlantis Been Found? by L. Sprague de Camp (6) How Destiny Can Be Changed by Walter Sorell (7) Murder - By a Ghost by James Crenshaw (8) D. D. Home - Man of Mystery by Paul M. Vest, Ph. D. (9) The Lighthouse Crew Who Vanished by Michael Hervey (10) Invisible Death by Eric Frank Russell (11) The Collie that Walked 3,000 Miles by Charles Alexander (12) Seances at Buckingham Palace by Maurice Barbanell > Cover scuffing; wear to spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Copyright 2002. 337 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Synopsis: Breaking the Slump is the engrossing story of baseball during the 1930s, when the National Pastime came of age as a business, an entertainment, and a passion, and when the teams of the American and National Leagues fielded perhaps the greatest rosters in the history of the game. Whether as rookies, stars in their prime, or legends on the wane, Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Dizzy Dean, Ted Williams, and Joe DiMaggio all left their mark on the game and on the American imagination in the decade before America's entry into the World War II. In one remarkable year, 1934, the entire starting lineup of the American League All-Stars consisted of future Hall of Famers. This surfeit of talent provided much needed entertainment to a nation struggling through economic hardship on an enormous scale. In the face of the Great Depression, noted baseball historian Charles C. Alexander shows, Organized Baseball underwent an array of changes that defined the structure and operation of the game well into the postwar decades.The 1930s witnessed the advent of night baseball, the flowering of an extensive and, in some cases, controversial minor-league system of farm clubs, and the exploitation of the relatively new broadcast medium of radio. Power brokers such as Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis and owners Branch Rickey and Colonel Jacob Ruppert oversaw these and other developments even as they retained other traditional aspects of the game. As it had since the 1880s, the reserve clause continued to limit the salaries and mobility of ballplayers, subjecting them to the will of ownership to a degree unfathomable today. And Organized Baseball remained racially segregated throughout the 1930s, as the Negro leagues operated largely beyond the notice of white baseball fans. While tracing these and other organizational developments, Alexander keeps his focus on the daily experience of the ballplayers. What was it like for young men trying to make their way as professional ballplayers in an economy that offered few prospects for them otherwise? What kind of conditions did they have to deal with in terms of playing facilities, transportation, lodging, and relations with their employers?And what about the play itself? Alexander offers an expert appraisal of how the ballplayers and the quality of the game they played differed from today's.Americans have periodically been reminded of baseball's extraordinary capacity to enrich and enliven the national spirit during hard times. Breaking the Slump is a vivid portrait of the great game and its cultural significance during America's hardest times.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G. And His TimesBenjamin Disraeli (1804a?1881) was a British Conservative statesman, writer, and twice Prime Minister who was created the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876. A titan of Victorian politics, he shaped modern conservatism (Tory democracy) and was known for imperialistic policies, such as making Queen Victoria Empress of India.Key Aspects of Benjamin Disraeli (1st Earl of Beaconsfield):Prime Minister: Served twice, first in 1868 and later from 1874a?1880.Legacy: He transformed the Conservative Party, expanding its appeal to the working class and strengthening the British Empi.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. New York: The Liberator Publishing Company, 1919. First Edition of the February, 1919 issue. Quarto, 49 numbered pages. Covers and first adjacent pages loose; age-toned throughout. Good plus. Boardman Robinson cover, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln (an a propos Lincoln quote lies within as well); contributions by Stuart Davis, Max Eastman, Howard Brubaker, William Bross Lloyd, Upton Sinclair, Jean Sterling, Louis Untermeyer, Charles W. Wood, Lydia Gibson, Art Young, Inez Haynes Irwin, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Alexander Trachtenberg, and others. The Liberator was a famed - to a degree, even at the time - and seminal creation of Max Eastman and his sister Crystal Eastman intended to pick up the flag from The Masses, which had been shut down by the U.S. Government on the basis of postal regulations. A socialist publication like The Masses, The Liberator had, in addition to ideological commentary, a variety of art, poetry and short fiction, including many covers and other interior artwork by Robinson, Hugo Gellert and others of note. Inexpensively made at the time and fragile now, but trenchant and already enshrined in American political publishing history. l-lng2.…