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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of one short novel, two novelets and six short stories. Featured are short novel -The Fat Man by Brett Halliday. The two novelets are: Majorcan Assignment by Bill Pronzini, The Cinder Man by Jeffrey M. Wallmann. The short stories are: My Brother by Trevor Black, Medea by William T. Silent, The Sisters by Miriam Allen De Ford, Listen to the Dial Tone by James Holding, In The Bag by Herbert Harris, Fall Guy by Charles B. Victor. Light edgewear. Slight reading creases to the front cover near spine. In very good condition.

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. ""Henry Adams and the Need to Know"" presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' ongoing preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. Adams' work appeals to a wide spectrum of historical and literary inquiry and claims a place in multiple scholarly contexts. The topics covered in this volume range from international politics (of Adams' age and ours) to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Here, leading scholars explore often-overlooked details of Adams' relationships with people and ideas. They reopen settled topics and reframe truisms. Each essay affirms, in one way or another, that to study Adams is to discover his continuing and astonishing relevance. Presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. The topics covered range from international politics to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 383 pages. 9.40x6.40x1.30 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Published by the American Geophysical Union, 1997. Hardbound. Limited mild waving of edges at lower right corner, else modest wear. Pages unmarked.

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Condizione: New. Presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. The topics covered range from international politics to portraiture, from orien.

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Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 108.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1870 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 107 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 107.

The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) was formed in 1855 by a consolidation of several other western railroad companies. The company and its subsidiaries, known for their sleek diesel Zephyr trains, operated extensively throughout the midwest, west, and Texas throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today, its former passenger operation has been assumed by Amtrak, and its freight operation continues as the BNSF Railway. The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway (BCR&N) operated between 1876 and 1903 and was succeeded by the Rock Island Line. Offered here is a small collection of letters and documents pertaining to the relatively early days of the CB&Q and BCR&N, alongside later correspondence from an Iowan who was writing a history of Iowa railroads. Earlier letters include discussions of plans for the extension of the CB&Q lines; for instance, railroad official O.W. Palmer writes: "The other day at the meeting I gave Mr. McClure some changes to Leavenworth Since that time I have gone into the question a little more thoroughly and find that to be consistent we would have to reduce a great many points in Western Iowa where there is no competition whatever + no need of a reduction I have therefore concluded not to make any changes except where we have to meet some other fellows rate." (August 7, 1894) On the reverse of this letter and one other is an attractive map of the many CB&Q lines between Chicago and Denver/Cheyenne. Also from around this time are several letters from William W. Baldwin discussing railroad business in both an official and unofficial capacity with BCR&N President Charles J. Ives. In 1895, Baldwin tells Ives about a scalping scheme on the BCR&N for which several conductors are fired (April 20), and in 1896 about a silver-backing newspaperman: "A fellow named Hyskel has persuade[d] certain silver idiots here to loan him $200 or $300 with which he has started a morning daily calle[d] the "Burlington Democrat". It is a violent vindictive anarchistic silver sheet, and Hyskel himself a thorough crook of the bigoted sort, although personally decent and mild enough. Has your company given them transportation? They will be after it hot foot. Our folks here have refused him, saying he will have to get it under a regular advertising contract. These are to be made January 1st. If you can put him off until then, I think the paper will die before January. They own no press, nor any property are simply trying to bull it through past the election. It is easy enough to put them off + there are plenty of good reasons why it ought to be done. There is not a meaner silver organ in the state. It was started as a silver venture purely. I suppose Tracy will get them B.CR. + N. transportation if he can. He is the same variety. It is such examples that make the situation so full of menace + danger to all business." (October 19) "Tracy" is Samuel K. Tracy, then Solicitor general for the BCR&N, the son of Judge Joshua Tracy, who was president of the line until his death in 1884. Later correspondence is mainly between Baldwin and Albert N. Harbert of Iowa; Harbert was writing a history of Iowa railroads and Baldwin had apparently written a number of pieces on the topic (the collection includes a mimeographed bibliography of his works). Harbert had a particular interest in the china dinnerware used on the lines. Of interest to historians of western railroads around the turn of the century. Conditions vary with some items worn and quite fragile; most excellent. Forty-two letters with several miscellaneous documents (circulars, stock offerings, etc.).