Benjamin Kelsey (11 results)

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.

Condition: Good. illustrated edition. 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. Condition: Very Good. 148 pages. library sticker on spine - no other markings, private collector Explains how the U.S. was able to dramatically increase aircraft production o ver a short period of time to meet the military needs of World War II.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 1975 reprint. Hardback in jacket. 20.5x14cm. 191 pages. Clean & tight book. Front paste-down paper has a written name. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is not price-clipped: £3.50. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. private library liquidation new unread.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition. Traces the rapid technical development of American air power under Roosevelt. A very good copy, in dust jacket. (148p., 68 illus., index.).

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Essays "Books: Craig Clunas on Gao Minglu's 'Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art,'" by Craig Clunas; "Film: James Quandt on Raúl Ruiz's 'Mysteries of Lisbon,'" by James Quandt; "Slant: David Joselit on Nicolás Guagnini's 'The Panel Discussion, the Tennis Match, and a Bodegón,'" by David Joselit; "Slant: J. Hoberman on Jack Smith's Posthumous Career," by J. Hoberman; "On Site: Gary Indiana on the Steilneset Memorial," by Gary Indiana; "Film: Rachel Haidu on Sven Augustijnen's 'Spectres,'" by Rachel Haidu; "Top Ten," by Chandler Burr; "Fall 2011 Exhibitions: 45 Shows Worldwide"; "Julia Bryan-Wilson on 'Pacific Standard Time,'" by Julia Bryan-Wilson; "Venice 2011," by Claire Bishop, Daniel Birnbaum, Francesco Bonami, Benjamin Paul, Tim Griffin, John Kelsey, and Nicholas Cullinan; "Tabula Rasa: The Art of R.H. Quaytman," by Paul Galvez; "Truth or Dare: The Art of Witnessing," by David Joselit; "Close-Up: Leap Year," Yve-Alain Bois on Martin Barré's "Greenwich" and "60-T-44"; "Forest for the Trees: The Art of Goshka Macuga," by Dieter Roelstraete; "Openings: Adrián Villar Rojas," by Jessica Morgan; "Openings: Olivia Plender," by Brian Dillon. Reviews by Christine Mehring, Jeffrey Weiss, Sam Pulitzer, Dennis Lim, Frances Richard, Robert Pincus-Witten, David Frankel, Suzanne Hudson, Lisa Turvey, Ida Panicelli, Donald Kuspit, Emily Hall, Jeffrey Kastner, Michael Wilson, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Eva Díaz, Daniel Quiles, Martha Buskirk, David M. Lubin, Nuit Banai, Franklin Melendez, Jan Tumlir, Catherine Taft, Michael Ned Holte, John-Paul Stonard, Barry Schwabsky, Zehra Jumabhoy, Maeve Connolly, Jian-Xing Too, Anthony Byrt, John Beeson, Michèle Faguet, Astride Wege, Noemi Smolik, Hans Rudolf Reust, Quinn Latimer, Giorgio Verzotti, Brigitte Huck, Markéta Stará, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Lauren Dyer Amazeen, Jon Bywater, Angie Baecker, and Shinyoung Chung. Cover: R.H. Quaytman.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xxxviii, 361 pp. ; purple cloth with green lettering on paper paste-down labels ; OCLC reports no copies held by any library ; top edge colored blue ; foxing ; name on front ep ; extremely rare John Dos Passos item features writings from disabled veterans of World War II who studied English composition while attending American University in Washington, DC under Professor Don M. Wolfe, who asked them to write about home, friends and family, the war or whatever came into their minds. THe results were so moving and impressive that Wolfe had 2,000 copies printed at his own expense, while all the profits from Doubleday's edition went directly to the men ; "We cannot state too emphatically that this books is presented not as a literary effort but as a series of social documents."--foreword ; "If a foreigner should ask me what Americans were like in 1946, I would hand him this book. Naturally it is not the whole story. It is only the story of a fairly small group of young men among those most hurt in body and mind by the accidents of war. But somehow, putting down the war experiences that affected them most, these young men have uncovered a much larger segment of the reality of our time than they themselves seem to have been aware of."--John Dos Passos ; details of each serviceman and his unit included ; authors include: Joe V. Adair, Rosario Joseph Aloisio, Herbert Newton Bair, Edgar Benjamin Benson, Paul Getter Bruce, Frank Louis Calderala, Howard Price Carter, Robert Irwin Clark, Anthony Paul Coulis, Robert Francis Dove, Richard Houston Frazee, Morris Aaron Garber, John Otto Goelz, William George Gontcharuk, Thodore Karl Hammill, Ellerton Vinnie Harmer, Bruno Joseph Hassen, Gerald Sterling Kelsey, Orlie Alden Kennerly, James Bernard King, Melvin Bernard Linton, John T. Marshall, Floyd Roann Mauk, Lowell Marshall McGowan, Daniel Archie McDonald, Kenneth Ray McMurry, Frank S. Mercurio, Arthur Wallace Miller, William E. Murphy, Charles LeRoy Neely, John N. Nemeth, Verne Maurice Nygaard, Joseph Michael O'Connell, Irving Peltz, Frank Jerome Phillips, Edward Otto Podell, John James Regan, Wallice Irvin Redi, Nicholas Rezar, Philip Irvington Robrecht, Robert Shore, Pat Martin Smith, Walter Burton Spencer, Glee H. Stevens, Robert Lee Stevens, George J. Veach, Ralph Theodore Warren, Carl Thomas Welch, Alma Mary Wilhelm, John Edgar Williams, Jr, Milton Kimball Williams, and Norman Myer Witkin ; truly horrific remembrances recounted here underscore the frailness of humanity and transcendent bravery ; rare ; VG. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Features: The Forests of Arizona - long article with many wonderful photos; An Archaeological Wedding Journey; Mutability (poem); An Episode From the Reservation (story); The Moonlight; The Instinct of Humanity (story); Life (poem); Spelling Reform; Fullerton, Orange County - nice photo-illustrated article. [16 ads], 471-556, [58 ads] pp. Covers loose but present. Contents unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Fascinating content with many photos and beautifully illustrated vintage ads, including many for California municipalities.; Illustrator; Sm 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [Prelude to the Civil War: Slavery its the Expansion to New Territories] Rebound in fine modern cloth. Fine binding and cover. Scattered foxing. Contents: 1. Slavery in the territories : speech of Hon. Hiram Warner, of Georgia, 1856; 2. Speech of Hon. W.H. Kelsey, of New York, on the slavery question; delivered in the House of Representatives, July 29, 1856; 3. Power of Congress over slavery in the territories : speech delivered in the House of Representatives, December 18, 1856; 4. Remarks of Senator Mason, of Virginia and Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, on the extension of slavery into free territory; in the senate of the United States, December 2, 1856; 5. Speech of Hon. Benjamin Stanton of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, April 23, 1856 on the power of Congress to exclude slavery from the territories; 6. Powers of the government of the United States : federal, state, and territorial : speech of Hon. James A. Stewart, of Maryland, on African slavery : its status -- natural, moral, social, legal, and, constitutional : and, the origin, progress, present condition, and future destiny of the United States considered in connection with African slavery as a part of its social system : with the bearings of that institution upon the interests of all sections of the Union and upon the African race. A collection of individually published speeches by Congressmen on the expansion of slavery.