forrestal james (13 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. 8vo. Decorative two-tone cloth binding. Clean, square book, boards a bit scuffed. 581 pp. including useful index. Black and white photographs. Very good condition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Photographs, Maps (illustrator). 1st Edition. 104 Pp. + Covers. Restricted, Now Made Public. Near Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing, hardback, large 4to, 96pp, numerous colour illustrations, half-title page creased, slight browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth, corners rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Approx 10 x 8, paper printed and manuscript document with large vignette of eagle at sea at top, embossed Navy Dept seal at bottom, framed to 11 x 8.5, some toning and light staining at left margin, not examined out of frame but appears nice, with bold SIGNATURE OF JAMES FORRESTAL above line for Secretary of the Navy, with purple ink stamp "Acting" near name. Presidential signature area blank. Appointment of an Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserves.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Alajalov, Constantin (cover); Whitcomb, Jon; Burns, George;Grohe, Glenn; Griffin, Arthur; Sewell, Amos; Nonnast, Paul; Fleischmann,Glen; Briggs, Austin; Prins, Kimberly; Williamson James; Meisel, Ulric;Girard, Andre (illustrator). First Edition. 156 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Duraglas inside front cover; Nice color-photo 1-page ad for Elgin watches features opera star Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett; Sexy 1-page color-illustrated ad for Palmolive soap features amorous couple; Can the Army and Navy Get Together? - photo illustrated article - Secretary of Defense James Forrestal replies to criticism of the way unification of our armed services has - or has not - worked out; Fabulous Iron Ore Strike in Labrador - photo-illustrated article describes what may be the mining find of the century; The Haunted Meadow (fiction); What You Don't Know About Thanksgiving; The Unwelcome Neighbor (fiction); How We Caught Spies in World War II - part 1 of a photo-illustrated article by Stephen J. Spingarn, former commanding officer of the American 5th Army's Counter Intelligence Corps tells the real story of what spy catching was like; The Gay Deceiver of Georgia Tech - Bobby Dodd has made a name for himself as a teacher of football make-believe - article with photos; He Is My Friend - Southern White Boy Hodding Carter describes his friendship with Negro boy Son McKnight - article with photo; Man Trap (fiction); Allah's Oil - World's Richest Prize - conclusion of fascinating photo-illustrated article on Middle Eastern Oil over 60 years ago; First Quarrel (fiction); Everybody Gets In the Act - color-photo illustrated article on the John B. Rogers Company, of Fostoria, Ohio, the country's most prolific producer of amateur shows; Murder for Millions (fiction); 1-page color ad for 1949 Ford cars; Dishonored (fiction); 1-page color-photo Goodyear ad features Norma Halverson of Salt Lake City and Emile Schurmacher of N. Salem, NY; I Might Have Married Him (fiction); Nice 1-page color ad for RCA Victor radios; Nice 2-page Buick ad; Nice 1-page color ad for Mobiloil Arctic; 1-page ad for Martin Aircraft features the 202 Airliner; 1-page Plymoth ad; 1-page ad for the Underwood All Electric Typewriter; Vitalis half-page ad features illustration of Nat Holman; Nice photo-illustrated 1-page ad for radio stations of the ABC network features photos of Milton Berle, Gordon MacRae, Meredith Willson, Arlene Francis, John K.M. McCaffrey, Kay Kyser, Ted Mack, Jo Stafford, Johnny Olsen and Dr. Frank Black; 1-page illustrated ad for General Electric washing machines; 1-page Brunswick bowling ball ad features illustrations of Joe Norris, Ned Day, Catherine Fellmeth and Andy Varipapa; Nice 1-page color ad for 1949 Kaiser cars features a red convertible; 1-page 2-color ad for the new 1949 Remington De Luxe Portable Typewriter; Super 2-page Bord-Warner presents their company accomplishments in Ripley's Believe It or Not format; Very colorful and handsome 2-page Cadillac ad features a large illustration of their new engine and the front end of a red car; Photo portrait of Harry A. Bullis of General Mills in Northwestern Mutual ad; Nice color-photo 1-page Christmas ad for Zenith radios; 1-page ad for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE); Nice 1-page ad for Cory appliances; 1-page color ad for Cutler-Hammer motor controls; Very attractive 1-page color-photo recruiting ad for the U.S. Air Force features young man in flying gear with illustration of jets overhead; Nice 1-page color ad for Corning Glass features woman holding multi-coloured Pyrex cookware; 1-page color ad for the Great Lakes Steel Corporation promotes their Quonset Huts; Nice 1-page color ad for De Beers diamonds features reprint of "Honeymoon at Sea Island, GA" by Andre Girard; Very nice one-page color-illustrated ad for Bell & Howell movie cameras; Nice 1-page color ad for Gibson electric refrigerators features two young ladies scantily clad in Eskimo clothing; 1-page color ad for Sheaffer's pens; Nostalgic half-page color ad for Dow Plastics Styron with illustrations of many vintage toys; Nice half-page color ad for Hi Ho Crackers; Nice 1-page 2-color Kleenex ad featuring Little Lulu; Nice 1-page color ad for Coolerator fridges and freezers; Photo; M.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Très bon. Broché en bon état ; couverture un peu salie et défraîchie ; intérieur en très bon état ; pages non coupées et non rognées ; Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage vingt exemplaires sur vélin chiffon d'Annonay numérotés de I à XX (Exemplaire n° III) 10A4 736g.

unbound. Zustand: fine. The last cabinet-level appointee to serve as Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Important authentically signed partly printed document, a Certificate of Satisfactory Service "James Forrestal", as Secretary of the Navy. 8" X 10", with the addition of a hand-embossed blind-stamp Seal of the United States Navy, Washington, June 9th, 1945, presented to World War II spy and close confidante of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Captain Vincent Astor, ascertaining that the later was on active duty as a member of the United States Naval Reserve during World War II. In the quiet before the war, in 1938 Astor sailed in his private yacht to Japan on a secret civilian mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt to gather intelligence on the Japanese naval operations around the Marshall Islands. On December 13th 1940, Astor was able to secretly access the USSR account balances in Chase Bank and began reporting to the U.S. Treasury on a weekly basis up through at least 1945. In June 1943 he was promoted to the rank of Captain in the regular Navy (effective from June 18th 1942). Excellent condition.