davis john claiborne (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HB, no dj, Near Fine, signed and inscribed by author, dated 23 September, 1987. At Streamside Books, each book is individually selected and accurately described. Email with any question or to request a picture of a book. Please include our book number in your inquiry. If paying by check or money order, please make it out to Steve Katz. Thank You. Inscribed by Author(s).

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 216 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only faintly age-toned; binding firm; slightly rubbed photographic d.j. encloses and protects soft cover without discernible wear.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Autograph; 8vo; 216 pages; Clean and secure in original card wrappers in very good printed dustjacket. On ffep " Given to Polly and Kim [Roosevelt] / December 30, 1989 / by the Author" Also laid-in is a manuscript note Signed by the author -- "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt - / Many thanks for / including me in your / party yesterday after- / noon and for the chance / to see so many old / St. Albans friends. / The book is one I wrote / several years ago -- / disparate essays of a / heterogenous sort, but / Chapters 13-21 deal / with the St. Albans you / and your husband knew / and which, alas, no / longer exists. / With my best / wishes and renewed / thanks. / John C. Davis / 20 Dec. 89" Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies.; Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. Fine in plain wrappers and a fine dust jacket with the crown very gently bumped. Briefly Inscribed to bibliographer Mel Edelstein and his wife on the half-title. With a 1½pp. Autograph Letter Signed to Edelstein and his wife, sent along with the book, laid in.

Condizione: Fair. Signed Copy . Book Good. No dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front endpage. Slightly foxed.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. Dauman, Henri (cover); Larsen, Peter; Anthony, Eugene; Samuels, Gertrude; Huehnergarth, John; Maggio, Gene; Tierney, Tom; Larsen, Peter; Peterson, Gosta; Lewis, P.F.; Peterson, Gosta (illustratore). First Edition. 144 pages. Features: Cover Photo of General Charles de Gaulle; An All Volunteer Army - the cash for abolishing the draft; Two Kinds of Tankers - clean and dirty - life aboard these ever-growing sea vessels; France's Struggle of Apres de Gaulle has Begun; Haight Ashbury - the 'Hashbury' is the Capital of the Hippies - great photo-illustrated article by Hunter S. Thompson; The Price of Hogs is way down; There are 300 Negroes at the University of Alabama - 4 years after Governor Wallace stood in the door - photo-illustrated article; Classy photo-ad for Hunter Haig men's fashions features gent in cream-colored suit beneath caption 'How Completely Have You Conformed?'; Fantastic Magee Carpet ad features "Schultz The Carpet Ripper"; Amazing color centerfold cross-section illustration of Montreal's Place Bonaventure and its 3.1 million square feet of commercial space; Photo of Vivian Malone, the first Negro to graduate from U.A., in 1965; Fashion photos of summer separates; Many gorgeous color fashion ads; "; How to Talk Childrenese; Photos of home designed for Mr. & Mrs. Charles Prussack by George Nemeny; and more. Above-average external wear. Covers loose but present. Faint library stamp and handwritten date upon front cover. A worthy vintage copy.