Force Fuller

David, Jay (editor): THE FLYING SAUCER READER, New York Signet Books 1967
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(viii) 252 pp. Signet Book T3278. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside; no other interior markings. This collection contains: PART ONE: THE EVIDENCE: SIGHTINGS: In Biblical Times by Brinsley Le Poer Trench; Miracle at Fatima by Paul Thomas; The Washington National Sightings by Edward J. Ruppelt; The New Guinea Episode by Jacques Vallee; The Chase in Rapid City South Dakota by Edward J. Ruppelt; UFOs in the Deep Freeze by Brad Steiger; Terror at the Moreno Ranch by Brad Steiger; UFOs and the Sonic Boom by W. Gordon Allen. CONTACT: Visitor from Venus by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski; Contact by Automatic Writing by George Hunt Williamson; By Mental Telepathy by Albert K. Bender. PART TWO: THE THEORIES: WHERE DO THEY COME FROM AND WHY DO THEY COME: Concern Over Atomic Explosions by Donald Keyhoe; Was There a Tenth Planet by Gavin Gibbons; Are the Ancient Lost Cities Still Inhabited by George Hunt Williamson; Is There a World Inside Our Planet by Raymond Bernard. METHODS OF PROPULSION: Tektites and Silicon by Brinsley Le Poer Trench; Gravity and the UFO by Raymond Bernard. OTHER EXPLANATIONS: UFOs as a Psychological Projection by Carl Jung; Flying Saucers Do Not Exist by Donald H. Menzel and Lyle G. Boyd; Can We Visit Other Solar Systems by Walter Sullivan; Ball Lightning by Evert Clark; The Radiation Story by Edward J. Ruppelt; The Blackout and the UFOs by John G. Fuller; UFOs Plotted on a Map of France by Aime Michel. PART THREE: THE CONTROVERSY: Air Force Regulation #200-2 by John G. Fuller; The Air Force Point of View by Bill Wise; The Maury Island Episode by Edward J. Ruppelt; Challenged by Harold Wilkins; Marsh Gas in Michigan - Newsweek Report; Questioned - America Magazine; The Air Force and the Scientific Community by J. Allen Hynek; The Killian Case by Donald Keyhoe; The Killian Case by Lawrence Tracker; and The Florida Scoutmaster by Edward J. Ruppelt. Scans are available for all books. First Paperback Printing Soft Cover

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Gingrich, Newt. LESSONS LEARNED THE HARD WAY: A Personal Report. [SIGNED/AUTOGRAPHED]. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998
Tall 8vo - over 9" - 9 3/4" 0-06-019106-6 Signed by Author First edition, so stated (with the printing number line on the copyright page beginning with "1"). Tall 8vo (6 3/8" x 9 5/8"). viii, 229 pages. Two-tone boards. Blue paper-covered spine, gilt lettering, tan paper-covered boards (hardcover binding). Illustrated with sixteen pages of black & white photographs. Index. Signed in blue ink by Newt Gingrich on the half-title page (simple signature). "The nation's most prominent Republican and author of the bestseller, To Renew America, shares the principles that have governed his life - both personal and political - and the lessons he has learned along the way. Includes a candid appraisal of some of the most challenging moments in the Speaker's career. Says Gingrich: "To be useful, this kind of report must be candid. And, indeed, in it I recount some of the most challenging, even painful, moments of my career, including the controversial effort that led to the resignation of Speaker Jim Wright, my difficult encounter with the House Ethics Committee, public blunders such as my comments about Air Force One, and my personal reaction to the so-called coup efforts within the House Republican majority." As leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, he speaks of the media scrutiny, the run-ins with the Clintons, events of his private life that have shaped his political ideas, and more. Some of the chapters include "Learn to Listen," "Pick Your Fights Wisely," "Don't Underestimate the Liberals," "Learn to Communicate," and "Goals for a Generation." "My Fellow Americans, The past 30 months have been very eventful for our country and for me. I'm proud of the strides we have made to accomplish the vision that I described in To Renew America. As the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, I have been privileged to play a role in many legislative and political struggles. My tenure as Speaker has been marked by both unprecedented accomplishment and unprecedented conflict. We have endured unrelenting media scrutiny, and I have learned some difficult lessons that will shape my outlook forever. This new book is a summation of these lessons, many learned in public, some -- perhaps the most difficult -- learned behind closed doors. It is my personal report to all of you: the millions of voters, volunteers and activists who have helped us survive during the past few years, and the millions of interested citizens who may not always have agreed with or supported us but who are curious about what has happened to their Congress and their country during these years. To be useful, this kind of report must be candid. And, indeed, in it I recount some of the most challenging, even painful, moments of my career, including the controversial effort that led to the resignation of Speaker Jim Wright, my difficult encounter with the House Ethics Committee, public blunders such as my comments about Air Force One and my personal reaction to the so-called coup efforts within the House Republican majority. In writing about these and other topics, it is my intention to clear the air, to update Americans on the truth behind the headlines and to give readers a much fuller understanding of who I am as a person and what I stand for. Most important, I cherish this opportunity to convey to millions of you the potential we have to develop a better world for our children and grandchildren and to share with you the excitement I feel about America in the 21st century."- From dust jacket. About the Author: "Newt Gingrich is the representative from Georgia's Sixth District; he has served in the U.S. Congress for 19 years and has been the Speaker of the House of Representatives since 1994. He is the author of several novels as well as the nonfiction book Window of Opportunity. He has two daughters, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman, and currently resides in Washington, DC, and Marietta, Georgia, with his wife, Marianne." C.2..

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Davenport, Guy: Every Force Evolves a Form - Twenty Essays, San Francisco, CA North Point Press 1987
ISBN: 0-86547-247-5 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By David Bullen; Dust Jacket Art By Guy Davenport; Typography By Wilsted & Taylor

First Edition. xii, 180pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, tan endpapers. Dust jacket price 16.95. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. One of 5340 copies. [Crane A30]. Book and dust jacket appear in fine, unread condition. " Guy [Mattison] Davenport was an American writer, translator, painter, illustrator, intellectual, and teacher. He enrolled at Duke University at age seventeen where he studied classics, English literature, and art; a Rhodes scholar at Merton College Oxford from 1948 to 1950; from 1950-52 he was in the U.S. Army; taught until 1955 at Washington University in St. Louis, then began his Ph.D. at Harvard University; taught at Haverford College from 1961 to 1963; took a position at the University of Kentucky, "the remotest offer with the most pay" where he taught until his retirement at the end of 1990. Davenport's fiction uses three general modes of exposition: The fictionalizing of historical events and figures; the foregrounding of formal narrative experiments, especially in the use of collage; and the depicting of a Fourierist utopia, where small groups of men, women, & children have eliminated the separation between mind and body. His essays ranged from literary to social topics, from small book reviews to lectures such as the title essay for his first collection, 'The Geography of the Imagination'. Davenport was especially passionate about the destruction of the American metropolis by the automobile. Davenport wrote a handful of poems and also translated ancient Greek texts, particularly from the archaic period, the occasional other piece (a few poems of Rilke's, some ancient Egyptian texts [with Boris de Rachewiltz) and, with Benjamin Urrutia, the sayings of Jesus, published as 'The Logia of Yeshua'. He was also a visual artist, and drew or painted every day of his life. His notebooks are filled with drawings, cheek by jowl with his own observations and quotes from others.Davenport was remarkable for the range of his literary and artistic friendships. In addition to Pound, Williams, and Kenner, Davenport knew Louis Zukofsky, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Middleton, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, Buckminster Fuller, Eudora Welty, Samuel Delany, Robert Kelly, James Laughlin, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Stan Brakhage, and Ronald Johnson.Two sentences he wrote about his friend and neighbour, Meatyard, apply as well to himself: "He was rare among American artists in that he was not obsessed with his own image in the world. He could therefore live in perfect privacy in a rotting Kentucky town." - wikipedia. " One of or our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - The New York Times. Second essay collection. "Davenport boldly speculates that W. H. Auden chose to live in New York "to insure that he was among humanity at its worst in this century." He compares the essayist Montaigne to a modern tourist; he praises E. E. Cummings as a transcendental satyr and the purest American poet since Emily Dickinson. This collection of 20 essays by the author of The Geography of the Imagination is a pleasure to read. Whether he is teaching us how to enter Henri Rousseau's imaginary worlds or grappling with Noah Webster ("patriot, cultural hero . . . crank"), Davenport approaches each subject from many different angles, peering in, around and through it. His concerns range from the impact of Shaker handicrafts on modern design to how the automobile and real estate interests have obliterated the city as community. He is original even when he is scanning familiar texts by Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov and Pound." - Publishers Weekly. "The title is of Shaker origin. Its sense in these 20 essays is that social and cultural force takes its most expressive form in works of art. And because works of art have become too dense and complex, the critic must collaborate with scholar and artist, become in effect a "subcreator" who helps us to interpret, understand, and appreciate. Davenport doesn't write for lazy readers. But those willing to share his bold, imaginative forays into literature and art, history, anthropology, architecture, and popular culture will find him engaging and enlightening. Whether salvaging work too often neglected (poetry by Charles Olson and Louis Zukofsky), spearing reputations (Noah Webster and the New York Review of Books ), or risking extraordinary comparisons (O. Henry and Conrad), Davenport is always an ideal "subcreator." - Arthur Waldhorn, Library Journal. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Force, Debra: Images De La France: American Artists in Paris 1880 to 1925, New York Debra Force Fine Art 2002
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Illustrated softcover catalogue in Fine condition. Catalog for an exhibition held Nov 1-Dec 21, 2002 featuring the works of Walter Gay, George Benjamin Luks, Alice Schille, William Glackens, Alson Skinner Clark, Charles Courtney Curran, Dennis Miller Bunker, Abbott Fuller Graves, Robert Henri, Charles Sheeler. 31 pages.

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