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Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1991
Seller: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Turlock, CA, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Very Good condition softcover academic journal. Spotless inside and out. Spine is not creased. A little wear to the back cover including one light crease, one bent corner tip (also affecting the last 20 or so pages), slight roughness to edges and a tiny chip out of the lower right corner. The rest of the volume is just about like new. Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe delivery. This issue includes: "President Kennedy's National Security Policy: A Reconsideration" by Anna Kasten Nelson; "Laboring in Colonial America" by Farley Grubb, a review of Work and Labor in Early America by Stephen Innes, ed."; "Scottish Communions, American Revivals" by Susan Curtis, a review of Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period by Leigh Eric Schmidt; "A Desperate Attempt to Fabricate Order" by Robert M. Calhoon, a review of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People by Jon Butler; "Talking and Reading in Early America" by John L. Brooke, a review of Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 by Richard D. Brown; "The World the Slave Traders Made: Is There a Postrevisionism in Slavery Historiography?" by David W. Blight, a review of Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South by Michael Tadman; "Everything for Your Urban 'Imaging Needs'" by Patricia Nelson Limerick, a review of New Towns in the New World: Images and Perceptions of the Nineteenth-Century Urban Frontier by David Hamer; "Containing the Gilded Age Mob" by Gregory Bush, a review of America's Armories: Architecture, Society, and Public Order by Robert Fogelson; "Old Wine in New Bottles: Photography and the American Myth" by Lary May, a review of Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans by Alan Trachtenberg; "As Pennsylvania Goes, So Goes the American Working Class?" by David A. Zonderman, a review of Trade Union Gospel: Christianity and Labor in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865-1915 by Ken Fones-Wolf, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68 by Grace Palladino and 'The Lower Sort': Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800 by Billy G. Smith; "Professional Progressives" by Lois Scharf, a review of Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform by Ellen Fitzpatrick; "Knowledge for What? The Place of Private Philanthropy in American History" by Donald T. Critchlow, a review of The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann; "Oliver Wendell Holmes and American Liberalism" by Richard M. Abrams, a review of Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon M. Novick; "Corporate Hubris" by Stanley Coben, a review of The Corporate State and the Broker State: The Du Ponts and American National Politics, 1925-1940 by Robert F. Burk; "Baseball for Everybody" by Charles C. Alexander, a review of Baseball: The People's Game by Harold Seymour; "A Very Peculiar Business" by Jules Tygiel, a review of The Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore by James Edward Miller and The Business of Major League Baseball by Gerald W. Scully; "Sino-American Historians and Sino-American Realities" by Robert L. Beisner, a review of Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Decade by Harry Harding and Yuan Ming, eds.; "Playing for the Split" by Waldo Heinrichs, a review of Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 by Gordon H. Chang; and "Understanding the CIA" by Charles E. Neu, a review of The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA by John Ranelagh plus The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs by Trumbull Higgins plus The CIA and American Democracy by Rhodri Jeffrey-Jones and America's Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society by Loch K. Johnson.
Published by Jval Publishing, Glen Waverley, 1982
ISBN 10: 0959460012ISBN 13: 9780959460018
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
Book
soft cover. No Jacket. First published as : My four thousand ghosts. London: Regency Press, 1968. 21.5 cm. 240 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers.
Published by Jval Publishing, Glen Waverley, Victoria, Australia, 1982
ISBN 10: 0959460012ISBN 13: 9780959460018
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Book
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean, unmarked copy, a bit of bumping to the corners and edges, otherwise quite nice. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Texas A&M University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1603442901ISBN 13: 9781603442909
Seller: Swan Trading Company, GEORGETOWN, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover shows only light edge wear. Text appears unmarked and binding is tight. Ships FAST!.
Published by Jval Publishing, Melbourne, 1982
ISBN 10: 0959460012ISBN 13: 9780959460018
Seller: Grandmahawk's Eyrie, Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A.
Book
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Thus. PB, pictorial card covers, 240pp. Moderate rubbing, creasing to corners of covers, sunning to edges of front cover, inside has tanning to page edges, else square, clean & tight. Scarce. Trance medium messages from beyond. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Regency Press, London, 1968
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
hard cover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated with black and white frontispiece. 23 cm. 614 pages VG/VG. Very good book in very good price-clipped dust jacket with shelf wear, rubbed corners, slight foxing.
Published by Regency Press, London, 1968
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 950 g; 616 pages, includes photographic frontispiece, and original photographic illustrated price clipped dust jacket. There are seven foxing spots on the top edge of the text block, and a trace of fading to the top edge and front edge of both the front and rear free end pages. Shadow from a price sticker on the front fold over flap. "This book was written from tape-recorded talks had and 4010 dead people. It took almost 50 years to compile what the help of many of the world's greatest deep trance mediums. Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said it was planned before I was born and I was chosen to do this task; they wrote the prefaces." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult; Inventory No: 0219885.
Published by Regency Press, London, 1968
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. VG+/VG. 8vo. original burgundy boards gilt (a little rubbed, a few corners slightly creased) in dustwrapper (rubbed & frayed); pp. xxiv, 240 (last blank), [4 (notes, last blank)], with ilustrations. Heavy item (1.1kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. Personal inscription to a friend by the author, E. Stanley Brookes, to FFE. Signed by Author.
Published by REGENCY PRESS, LONDON, ENGLAND, 1968
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. P/C DJ, OWNER'S INS TO FFEP.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1925
Book First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Hiley, F.E. Vedder, S.H.; Brock, R.H.; Eyles, D.C.; De Walton, John; Brock, H.M.; Holmes, Fred; Brightwell, L.R.; Nicholson, W.C.; Goss, G.W.; Crozier, Frank (illustrator). First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wilderness, only to become leader of a tribe of Indians which he then led in battle against the cream of the Brazilian army; Our Seaplane Fishing Trip - Summary of a novel seaplane trip recently carried out by a party of Pacific Coast anglers with the assistance of Ellard A. Bacon, manager of the Pacific Marine Airways, a passenger seaplane line operating between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island - article with excellent photos; Crops of Gold - An amusing story from the vicinity of Ten Mile House, British Columbia; The Mystery of the Pool; - Sequel to a story published here about three years ago about a South African prospector's account of a monstrous snake which is supposed to live in a pool in the Orange River; Three Incidents - J.R. Henderson led an uneventful life, aside from a three-month span; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part II - C.W. Domville-Fife and a couple of Indians ventured far into the interior of Amazonia, meeting with many strange and exciting adventures - with photos; "Number Twenty-Three" - A bobcat adventure of Harry E. Webb, a federal hunter employed by the U.S. Government Bureau of Biological Survey to trap and destroy predatory animals that infest the state of Nevada - with photos; The Ivory Raiders - Part IV - Continued adventures from Turkanaland, Africa, where unscrupulous Swahili elephant poachers and bloodthirsty Turkana warriors make things interesting for the white officers responsible for maintaining order - with photos; The Knock-Out - Judkins and Bunney, the bullies of the battalion, were manipulated into boxing each other; A South African Bushranger - A policeman named Mahon turns highwayman in Filabusi, Rhodesia; A Sailor Out Back - The amusing first day experiences of a sailor who tries farming in Willanga Township, Australia; When the Fire Came - A bush fire swept the Matawai district of New Zealand last year - with two photos; From the Great Craters to the Congo Game-Lands - Part II - Elephant hunting in the teeming game country of the Congo - with great photos; Diamond Cut Diamond - R. Granville Barrow and friends need to outwit rapacious South American officials to successfully salvage the passenger steamer Whitney in the Orinoco River; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Covers detached as one but present, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1924
Book First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. de Walton, John; Hiley, F.E.; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Cameron, John; Wood, Stanley L.; Brightwell, L.R.; Soper, G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton (illustrator). First Edition. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy.