Category: War

Atlantic Monthly Volume VI, 1860

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields : 1860

Seller ID: 1296

1860 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY JULY-DECEMBER 1860--CONTAINS 3 REVIEWS OF DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES AND AN EDITORIAL PROMOTING LINCOLN'S CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT (BOTH MEN WERE BORN FEBRUARY 12, 1809). 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 black leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, and gilt title and initials of previous owner (Fr. A. Bryan). Edges marbled, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Fr. A. Bryan to front paste-down, iv, 764 pp; joints starting, binding tight, light foxing to endpapers, pages crisp and unmarked, very good. Darwin first wrote to Asa Gray in ...
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Democracy Marches

By: Huxley, Julian

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus : 1941

Seller ID: 1278

SIR JULIAN HUXLEY'S THOUGHTS ON THE RESPONSE OF DEMOCRACIES TO THE THREATS OF WAR IN THIS CASE, BRITAIN AND WWII--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Slim hardcover 7 1/2 inches tall, blue cloth binding, inscribed front free endpaper, Mary Welsh/ from Julian Huxley/ Aug 1941, 126 pp. Light browning to cover edges, very good in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS: I. THE UNIFYING EFFECT OF WAR; II. THE .BRITISH BRAND OF DEMOCRACY; III. THE BRITISH SOCIAL SERVICES; IV., SOCIAL SERVICE AND DEMOCRACY; V. SOCIAL STANDARDS; VI. HEALTH IN A DEMOCRATIC BRITAIN; VII. THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF EDUCATION; VIII. PLANNIN...
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Essays on Human Evolution

By: Keith, Arthur

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Watts & Co. : 1946

Seller ID: 443

1946 ESSAYS ON EVOLUTION AND SOCIETY, INCLUDING AN EVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue cloth boards, edges lightly rubbed, in custom archival mylar cover, very good. SIR ARTHUR KEITH (1866 - 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, and the Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. A leading figure in the study of human fossils, he became President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The latter role stimulated his interest in the subject of human evolutio...
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The Governing of Men. General Principles and Recommendations Based on Experience at a Japanese Relocation Camp

By: Leighton AH;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1945

Seller ID: 132

1945 ILLUSTRATED PROSPECTIVE SOCIOLOGIC STUDY OF AN INTERNMENT CAMP FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WW II. 8 3/4 inches hardcover, xvi, 404 pages, tan cloth binding, previous owner signature front free endpaper, photographic illustrations, maps and graphs. LIght soiling to covers and edges, text unmarked, very good. PREFACE: 'In the spring of 1942 the United States Government had its first experience with large-scale evacuation when it removed from the Pacific coastal regions all of the approximately 110,000 Japanese who had formerly lived there. These people were sent to ten Relocation Centers ...
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Was Justice Done? The Rosenberg-Sobell Case, with an introduction by Harold C. Urey

By: Sharp MP;

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Monthly Review Press : 1956

Seller ID: 148

SIGNED 1956 COLD WAR ACCOUNT OF THE FAMOUS ROSENBERG SPY CASE BY MEMBER OF DEFENSE COUNSEL. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxxvi, 216 pages, original gray and blue binding, gilt title to spine, ink inscription and signature of author on front free endpaper. FROM THE DUST JACKET: 'since Professor Sharp was associated with defense counsel in the closing stages of the case, he has an intimate first-hand knowledge of the facts and many of the personalities involved. Professor Sharp describes the issues, weighs the evidence, pinpoints the weaknesses in the prosecution's case, and gives his own reason...
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The Vietnamese People on the Road to Victory TOGETHER WITH South Viet Nam: A Month of Unprecedented Offensive and Uprising

By: Vinh, Nguyen Van

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hanoi, Foreign Language Publishing House and Giai Phong Publishing House : 1966, 1968

Seller ID: 968

1966 and 1968 TWO SMALL BOOKS PUBLISHED BY NORTH VIETNAMESE AT PEAK OF THE WAR, PROPAGANDA SHOWING THEIR RESOLVE TO DEFEAT AMERICAN FORCES. Two stapled pamphlets, 7+ inches tall, color printed covers: Nguyen Van Vinh, The Vietnamese People on the Road to Victory, 31 pages, concluding, Glory belongs to our people. Final victory will be ours. From North to South, shoulder to shoulder, our entire people and army are determined to do their utmost to defeat the U.S. aggressors. TOGETHER WITH South Viet Nam: A Month of Unprecedented Offensive and Uprising, 87 pages, illustrated with photographs and ...
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A Generation in Search of a Future. A Speech Delivered as Part of the 'March 4th Movement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Dr. George Wald of Harvard

By: Wald, George

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Stoughton, Massachusetts, Dwight E. Agner, The Press of the Nightowl : 1969

Seller ID: 1273

1969 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION ANTI-WAR SPEECH BY NOBELIST GEORGE WALD together with 1973 SOCIAL ACTIVIST BOOK INSCRIBED TO WALD, WITH HIS ANNOTATIONS REGARDING AMERICAN SOCIETY. 8 inches tall slim hardcover, salmon paper-covered boards, ivory cloth spine with blindstamped title, [vi], 20 pp, Colophon with inscription on facing page, With all good wishes, George Wald. Fine in custom archival mylar cover. TOGETHER WITH The New Socialist Revolution. An Introduction to Its Theory and Strategy by Michael P. Lerner, New York, Dell Publishing Co., 1973. Color printed paper covers, xvi, [2], 332 pp, ins...
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Category: War

Atlantic Monthly Volume VI, 1860

Democracy Marches

Essays on Human Evolution

The Governing of Men. General Principles and Recommendations Based on Experience at a Japanese Relocation Camp

Was Justice Done? The Rosenberg-Sobell Case, with an introduction by Harold C. Urey

The Vietnamese People on the Road to Victory TOGETHER WITH South Viet Nam: A Month of Unprecedented Offensive and Uprising

A Generation in Search of a Future. A Speech Delivered as Part of the 'March 4th Movement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Dr. George Wald of Harvard