gerald stiles (27 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1981 PUBLICATION; softcover; ex-geology department library; in very good condition. Book.

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. First Paperback Edition. [reading/reference copy only, with considerable edgewear to covers; internally clean, binding fully intact]. Mass Market PB A sort of nonfiction novelization of the Warren Commission Report, by two of the Commission's members, focusing specifically on "the mind and motives" of Lee Harvey Oswald and intended to be an account that "lives and breathes with the emotions of those who suffered through the events.".

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. (Assassinations, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

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

Magazine. Zustand: Very Good +. 32pp. Newsprint [43cm x 27.5cm / 17" x 11"]. Eight bifolia (sheets folded vertically once to form thirty-two pages). Horizontal crease throughout, as issued (folded for distribution). Paper is lightly age-toned, especially around edges and folds. Occasional soft creasing or short tearing along edges in the margins, else, a nice and clean copy. With an article by Edward Abbey titled "Forward! To Ecodefense." Also with an advertisement for "Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching" (Edited by Dave Foreman. Forward by Ed Abbey." Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980, founded by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar, among others. Earth First! quickly came to national attention with their "cracking" of Glen Canyon Dam activist stunt, which was performed and filmed in the spring of 1981. Edward Abbey is considered to be the "literary father" of the group. "Earth First! is the beginning of the new, bold environmental movement. And 'Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal' is its voice. No compromise in the defense of Mother Earth!" (Dave Foreman, Editor). Rear cover half-page illustration by Brush Wolf, dated '83, is entitled "It's Not Just Defense, It's Revenge" and depicts a grizzly bear with one of its paws stuck in a metal trap. Cover story is entitled "Forest Service Logs Texas Wilderness." Lengthy "Earth First! Directory!" printed on page 12. The centerfold spread (pages 16-17) feature is entitled "Professionalism: A Discussion" which features written perspectives on the matter of professionalism amongst environmentalists from Dave Foreman, Kirk Cunningham, Randal O'Toole, Reed Noss, Ed Clark, Gerald Meral, Ron Huber, and Jim Dale Vickery. Edward Abbey's contribution on page 26 is "Forward! To Ecodefense" which is the foreword of the (then) forthcoming book "Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching" - this, therefore, may be the first appearance of that Abbey text. A full-page ad for said "Ecodefense" volume follows on page 27. Full-page ads for "The 1985 Earth First! Calendar" (page 29), "Earth First! Trinkets & Snake Oil" (page 30), and "T-shirts." (page 31). Other credited Earth First! staff for this issue include: Wildcat Annie (Subscription Manager), Nancy Morton (Merchandise & Mailing Manager), Marcy Willow (Associate Editor), Mike Roselle (Associate Editor), Leon Czolgosz (Associate Editor), Bill Devall (Contributing Editor), Art Goodtimes (Poetry Editor), John Seed (Australian Correspondent), Rick Davis (Japan Correspondent), Jim Stiles (Art), Helen Wilson (Art), John Zaelit (Art), Mad Jack (Art), Mike Roselle (Art), Marcy Willow (Art), and Tucson Earth First! Group (Mailing).

Kl.-8°, broschiert. Zustand: Gut. 560 Seiten Leichte Gebrauchsspuren am Einband, Seiten etwas nachgedunkelt, aber durchgehend sauber. Wirkt ungelesen. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 257.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 480pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 508,[4] pages. Index. Some wear and small creases to DJ edges. Gerald Ford was a member of the Warren Commission; John Stiles was then-Congressman Ford's special assistant throughout the Congressman's ten-month service on the Warren Commission. Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.) was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the fortieth Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. Ford was the fifth U.S. President never to have been elected to that position, and the only one never to have won a national election at all. Before ascending to the vice-presidency, Ford served nearly 25 years as Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district, eight of them as the Republican Minority Leader. At time of publication this was the only book by a member of the Warren Commission, describing not so much the well-known facts of that tragic event as the motives, the emotions, the human problems and the personal failures that ended in the death of the President. The book is his own account of the hearings themselves and of the reactions of the Commission's members to the dramatic and revealing statements of the witnesses. The spotlight focuses on such famous figures as the two Mrs. Oswalds but also on many other people who briefly emerged onto the stage of history - and who found themselves obliged to recount, in their own words, the progression of minor incidents that brought Lee Harvey Oswald to his final protest against a world that had rejected him. This book is an attempt to reveal the upbringing, the background and the career of the assassin himself, and the fascinating chain of small events, small tragedies, small revolts against authority, that characterized his life. Oswald, the rebel in search of a cause, emerges in these pages, perhaps for the first time, as a recognizable human being whose compulsive act became a national disaster. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 241 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. pp. 264 52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam.

Zustand: New. In.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 271 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 433 pages. 6.14x0.94x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 241 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 274 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 7 x 4", pict wraps, 560pp. A beat up copy of the FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION of Ford's book on Lee Harvey Oswald, BOLDLY SIGNED BY FORD (then House Minority Leader) ON TITLE PAGE. SWAF.

57 pp.; 27 x 26.6 cm.; staple bound; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue edited by Philip Leider. Essays "Rodin's Modernity," by Albert Elsen; "Gaston Lachaise," by Gerald Nordland; "An Open Letter to An Art Critic," by Clyfford Still; "The Duchamp Retrospective at Pasadena," by Paul Wescher; "Erik Gronborg - The City of Paris Award," by Alice A. Boulle; "Masterworks of Mexican Art: Pre-Columbian," by Ralph C. Altman "Masterworks of Mexican Art: Modern," by Clair Wolfe. Reviews by Charlene Steen, Palmer D. French, Philip Leider, Joanna C. Magloff, James Monte, Knute Stiles, and E.M. Polley. Cover: Marcel Duchamp, "Network of Stoppages," 1914. Very Good. Light rubbing of covers and wear at spine. Contents clean and unmarked.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed on the front end paper "Warmest personal regards, Gerald R. Ford John R. Stiles 6/7/65" Black residue front an old mylar cover on the board feet and front end paper foot. Minor dust jacket wear. R3. Signed by Author(s).

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated by Crockwell, Douglass (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Our Next Two Years - What total war will demand of every American; The Terrible-Tempered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes - how to buy an Old Master at bargain-counter rates, with color photos (third of four articles); Booster No. 1 - Donald Kirk Thomas is managing director of the All-Year Club of Southern California; Plush-Covered Cactus - Texas' Tom Connolly, first member of Congress to shed his blood in WWII, fights to keep this 'America's War'. Stories: Home is the Sailor; Captain Tutt, Ahoy!; Joseph's Coat; The Ranger Meets the Family; Ride the Man Down; Tall in the Saddle. Pepsodent Powder ad features photos of Jack and Alan, the Sampson Twins of Norwood Park, Illinois. Nice one-page color-illustrated ad for Diamond T Trucks features scene of tandem truck in military service painted by Frederic Tellander. Nice back cover color Coke ad features lovely dame in lavender dress. Complete, clean and unmarked with light wear. A very well-preserved copy of this nostalgic issue.; Cover Art; Folio.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 508, [2], pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In red cloth binding with black decoration and gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is dark red with white lettering, wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket shows mild shelf wear with some visible scuffing and mild rubbing along the edges. Price unclipped: "$6.95". Boards show similar mild shelf wear, with a light bump along the top edge of the front board. Gilt lettering to spine is moderately tarnished. Text block is lightly age toned throughout, with some faint scuffing visible on the top and bottom edges. Dated "12/21/65" and inscribed in blue ink by Gerald R. Ford on the front flyleaf: "To Dick Schweiker in appreciation of your fine friendship and to express my gratitude for your cooperation and assistance in the rugged days of 1965. / I am indebted to you for your many kindnesses and I look forward to working with you for the success of the Republican cause in the months ahead. / Betty joins me in wishing you and your family the very best. / Gerald R. Ford". Shelved in Case 1/2. . Book is inscribed to Dick Schweiker. Richard Schweiker was a U.S. Representative (19611969) and a U.S. Senator (19691981) from Pennsylvania, as well as being Reagan's Vice Presidential pick during his unsuccessful Presidential campaign in 1976. . 1404691. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First edition of Portrait of the Assassin, signed by the authors, Gerald R. Ford and John R. Stiles. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 508pp. Red cloth, gilt title on spine. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. Top edge blue, clean pages. Offsetting to half title from laid-in newspaper clipping. In the publisher's dust jacket, $6.95 price on front flap, small separation of glassine film from paper along front hinge, bright illustrations, a near fine example. Signed by Congressman Gerald R. Ford and co-author John Stiles on front free endpaper, dated "6/7/65." An excellent example. On June 7, 1965, Congressman Gerald R. Ford and his co-author, John R. Stiles, greeted his constituents in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. They were signing copies of this book, three days before it's public release date of June 10, 1965. There were four separate signing events around Grand Rapids on June 7th, including a book shop, the Pantlind Ballroom, Wurzburg's Department Store and Steketee's Book Department. The Governor of Michigan, George Romney, also received a signed copy of the book at a Kent County Republican Fundraiser the same afternoon. Signed.

First edition of the first book about the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald to be authored by a member of the Warren Commission, boldly signed by Ford. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bob O'Connor with warmest personal regards and very best wishes. Gerald R. Ford." The recipient, Bob O'Connor was the mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a close personal friend of Ford. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Smith. Photograph on the front of jacket by James Murray. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. An exceptional association. Just one week after the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, President Johnson appointed a commission, chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the tragic events. Then Representative Fordâs seat on the panel put the Michigan Congressman in the national spotlight. In this volume, the first such book written by a member of the Commission, Ford and co-author John Stiles (Fordâs personal assistant during the Commissionâs work) reconstruct, in a novel-like format, the path that led Oswald to the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963, from his sojourn in the Soviet Union to his frustrated defection to Cuba. Strikingly sympathetic to the closure sought by innumerable conspiracy theorists, the authors nevertheless discern in these events âno meaning beyond the will of the killer to pull the triggerââ"save the philosophical conclusion âthat meaningful personal relationships are still the most important elements in any society⦠We do not live alone, and neither a Lee Oswald nor anyone else can succeed in so doing.â.