Spain james w (17 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 190pp hardback, grey boards blue-lettered in wrapper, retailer's stamp to front end-paper and ownership signature, illustrated with map and bw plates.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 252 pages. Ex-library from the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C. Includes 32 black and white illustrations, Preface, Acknowledgments, and Index. Topics covered include Enduring Icons; Getting an Education; Wearing a Uniform; Family Values; A Working Apprenticeship; Falling in with the CIA; Back in the Department; Practicing Diplomacy; First Anointings; Camelot, Catastrophe, & a Coda; Foreign Face Cards; More Foreign Face Cards; American Jokers; More American Jokers; Advice & Consent; This & That; and Index. James William Spain (July 22, 1926 - January 2, 2008) was in the US Foreign Service with postings in Karachi, Islamabad, Istanbul, Ankara, Dar Es Salaam, and Colombo and four ambassadorships in Tanzania, Turkey, the United Nations (as deputy permanent representative), and Sri Lanka. He was the author of numerous books, including In Those Days, American Diplomacy in Turkey, The Way of the Pathans, and Pathans of the Latter Day. He contributed articles on foreign affairs to a variety of publications. Ambassador Spain lived a distinguished life of service to his country. He was a remarkably able diplomat who met adversity with strength, rudeness with grace, and challenges with enthusiasm. He played pivotal roles in maintaining and strengthening the United States alliance with Turkey, in bringing about a peaceful transition to majority rule in Zimbabwe, and strengthening the United States' relations with all the countries of the subcontinent. He was most proud of the headlines that never had to be written, thanks to his work defusing tensions between nations. The author was a twentieth-century American diplomat who spent most of his life in high-level diplomacy in Asia and Africa. His memoir offers readers a firsthand account of U.S. diplomacy and of a family that tied its experiences to the events of contemporary history. He writes of personal triumphs and family tragedies and speculates on the meaning of it all, including the joys and tribulations of retirement in Sri Lanka. In Those Days is the candid, often funny, autobiography of a twentieth-century American diplomat who spent most of his life in high-level diplomacy in Asia and Africa. The story takes James Spain form an Irish Catholic childhood in gangster-era Chicago through military service as Douglas MacArthur's photographer in occupied Japan and university life at Chicago and a Ph.D. from Columbia. His Foreign Service career brought postings in Islamabad, Istanbul, and Ankara and four ambassadorships in Tanzania, Turkey, the United Nations (as deputy permanent representative), and Sri Lanka. Spain's memoir offers readers a firsthand account of U.S. diplomacy and of a family that tied its experiences to the events of contemporary history. He writes of personal triumphs and family tragedies and speculates on the meaning of it all, including the joys and tribulations of retirement in Sri Lanka. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 252 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket. 190pp, b/w plates. Book.

gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. 293 Seiten; Kartenbeilage im Anhang; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); leichte altersbedingte Anbräunung des Papiers; der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. Originalschutzumschlag vorhanden, jedoch beschädigt (kleinere Einrisse im Randbereich). In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Daniel Boorstin's Copy of American Diplomacy in Turkey: Memoirs of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary by James W. Spain. The 6 by 9 inch hardcover book is 252 pages and in good condition. The black cloth boards are decorated with gold and clean. The inside text pages without writing. However, it is from the Smithsonian library with call number tag to the spine and barcode to the back cover with associated stamping on the front free end page, dated 1976. This is Daniel Boorstin's copy with both a bookplate on the inside cover an a dedicated inscription from the author. Daniel J. Boorstin was the twelfth librarian of congress from 1975 until 1987, appointed under President Ford. He was also an accomplished author of more than 20 books, contributing much to the fields of sociology and history. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1973, for his book, "The Americans: The Democratic Experience.". Signed by Author(s).…

Second Impression. Map, illustrations, 190pp, index. A prior owner's details front pastedown, front pastedown a little browned and cockled, a little light browning, a good hardback copy. Draws on personal experience and scholarly research of the tribal society which lives along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.…

dj. First U.K. Edition. First impression. Octavo. Deep grey buckram over boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 190pp; illus. Slightly dustiness to text block edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 18/- net at base of front flap), slightly toned and soiled on lighter portions with a few nicks to extremities; Very Good. Social study of the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan, well-illustrated with photographic plates. The author, a Near East specialist in the U.S. State Department, retired from the diplomatic service in order to concentrate on his field studies for this book, which were conducted between 1954 and 1959. This work was published in the U.S. as "The People of the Khyber. the Pathans of Pakistan" (Praeger: 1962).…

Frederick A. Praeger, New York 1962. 190 pages. Original cloth. No jacket, but parts of it pasted in on boards inside. Inscribed by the author: "To Betty - whose interest, knowledge, and love encompass all things . Admiringly James Spain."[#190006].

1st Ed. 293pp. + [ii]. Folding map. From the library of Professor Malcolm Yapp with his notes and review slip loosely inserted, top edge of leaves sl. spotted, good in very sl. chipped and lightly browned and sl. soiled d/w. Publications in Near and Middle East Studies, Columbia University, Series A, IV. US$37.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Scarce. 190 pages in very good, clean condition. Fourteen illustrations. Small stains on the fore-edge. Previous owner's name and a small stamp on the ffep. Blue cloth with black titles on the spine. Light wear on corners, head/tail of spine. Illustrated DJ with white titles. Light wear on edges and corners. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. Book. …

Zustand: name on flyleaf,rubbed, Good. 3rd Impression. orig.cloth name on flyleaf,rubbed, Good 4pp photoplates 22x14cm, 190,(4) pp.

293 S. Gr.-8°, Orig.-Leinen (am Rücken unten kleines Signatur-Schild). - Titelblatt mit gelöschten Stempel, sonst sehr guter Zustand. * Afghanistan * Paschtunen, Pathanen, Pashtuns, Pathans, Pukhtuns. * (Ein Titel aus unserem Online-Katalog "Geographie - Asien: China"). * Reihe: (Publications in Near and Middle East Studies. Columbia University, Series A, 4).…

Zustand: leido. Estado de conservación: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Wear & tear to DJ. Price Clipped. A detailed condition report available on email request. Foxing & Browning to Page Edges. Ed. Karachi, 1979.