Hammer Armand: Signed (24 results)

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition (thus). First Printing of the First Paperback Edition (stated). The autobiography of the globetrotting man who has exerted so much behind the scenes influence throughout the 20th century - as financier, businessman, statesman, envoy, industrialist, entrepeneur, philanthropist, physician. from Lenin to Gorbachev, FDR to Reagan, knowing and influencing presidents, prime ministers, shahs, sheiks, and monarchs. Filled with a wealth of information on personalities and events; contains numerous glossy illustrations, index. Wraps, 544pp., shows light general wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Former Owner Bookplate. Book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Inscribed "To Bob Grant, with best wishes, Armand Hammer Dec. 18, 1987". Statesman, envoy, industrialist, entrepreneur, physician, philanthropist, collector extraordinaire--this is the remarkable autobiography of a truly remarkable man: Armand Hammer. 32 pages of photographs. Inscribed and Signed By Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. One of a limited first edition. SIGNED, inscribed and dated by the author, Poet Laureate of Texas. Fine condition. Introduction by Armand Hammer. A lavishly produced volume with velvet-covered boards, original glassine protective wrap present, marbled endpapers, and fine Fabric weave paper, color plates throughout. The author addresses the three great artists, whose work is reproduced here, in three dramatic monologues. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 113 pages; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn at Edges. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on an affixed sticker with Rembrandt painting which is part of Armand Hammer collection. Dust jacket is quite worn with some tears top and bottom. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Quarto, 240 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is blue green and red with white print. Boards in black cloth. Text block has spotting to top edge. Illustrated: color. Inscribed in ink by the artist on the title page. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates] NOTE: Shelved in the Back Area, Oversized Folios. 1376931. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 240 pages, oversize, 12" x 12", coffee table book, full color, SIGNED BY MORT KUNSTLER, IN SLIP CASE . Index, Page edges gilded gold. Beautiful book. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1985) 144 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding very bright and clean. Faint sunning to bottom edges. Light foxing to half-title page. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PROCTOR JONES ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. DJ has what appears to be text "faded" onto front panel. Illust. w/ many beautiful color photos. Contents nice. Signed by Editor/Photographer.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1987 SIGNED dedication by Armand Hammer near fine hardback, page edges browned, in a near fine dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed. Protected by clear removable archival covering. 544 pages with index. Illustrations. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed on the title page by Proctor Jones. Illustrated with 60 color photos throughout. Oblong, red cloth with gold lettering and decorations. 142 pages. Fine in Near Fine, un-clipped jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. First UK edition, flat signed by author on title page. 5 cm tear to jacket at front lower leading corner and wear to jacket corners. Boards are bumped at upper leading corners, faint marks to page block face. No other notable flaws, very good condition. AD. Signed by Author. Used.…

Hardcover. Quarto, 255 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is white with black print. Dust jacket has light edge wear, smudging/shelf wear. Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Slight wear to spine caps, toning. Illustrated: color. Inscribed in ink by Armand Hammer on the half-title page. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Quarto and Folio Case. 1396668. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. An excellent copy of Hammer's fascinating memoirs. A presentation copy, signed by Hammer, to Washington TV journalist, Renee Montagne. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First Printing. Signed and inscribed & dated (same date) by author Armand Hammer on half-title page. Yellow and blue quarter-cloth boards with gold foil-stamped spine. VG++ cond. Flaws: minor fading to top edges of boards and spine - top corners are bumped not chipped, rubbed or torn - top spine edge is very slightly pulled - pages are slightly toned at extremities (NO foxing, soiling, creases or tears). NO markings of any kind throughout. Includes many B&W pictures and an insert from the publisher that has comments from many & varied notable persons laid in. DJ is VG-. Price intact: $22.95. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by Author. Some corners folded down and some marginal notes but not many. The book is SIGNED by the author without inscription on the title page. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 75243. For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. LATER PRINTING STATED hardback book FINE/dustjacket NEAR FINE in brodart cover, SIGNED on th eFULL title page by author DR ARMAND HAMMER. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. History, Russia. Inscription on the first free endpaper signed by Armand Hammer and his son Victor Hammer. Cloth covers foxed and stained, spine tanned with fraying on the ends. Bookplate inside the front cover, front hinge cracked behind the frontis, rear hinge also cracked. Scarce signatures. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Ed. Not Stated. Inscribed "To Haig Tasjian / with thanks and / best wishes. / (signed) Armand Hammer / Oct 22, 1985" on title page in black ink. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Signed "Armand Hammer" in black ink. Letter measures is on Occidental Petroleum Corporation letterhead. It is addressed to Mr. Haig Tasjian of the Sterling Regal Co and is dated October 16, 1985. Armand Hammer, (born May 21, 1898, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 10, 1990, Los Angeles, Calif.), American petroleum executive, entrepreneur, and art collector. The son of a doctor, Hammer had made his first $1,000,000 through his enterprising ventures in his father's pharmaceutical company before receiving a medical degree from Columbia University in 1921. Journeying to Soviet Russia in 1921 to give medical aid to that country's famine victims, he was personally persuaded by Vladimir Lenin to turn his business talents to account there instead. In 1925 he obtained a concession from the Bolsheviks to manufacture pencils for the Soviet Union, and his firm soon became the largest supplier of cheap, reliable pencils in the country. His business ventures were bought out by the Soviets in the late 1920s, and Hammer returned to the United States in 1930 laden with innumerable paintings, jewelry pieces, and other art objects formerly owned by the Romanov imperial family and sold to him by the cash-hungry Soviets. In the 1930s Hammer sold the majority of these valuables and embarked on such profitable post-Prohibition business ventures as whiskey making and the manufacture of whiskey barrels, as well as cattle raising. Tiring of his hectic business life-style, Hammer retired in 1956 but was approached that year by a friend who suggested that he finance two wildcat oil wells being drilled in Bakersfield, Calif., by the near-bankrupt Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Hammer financed the wells, which unexpectedly struck oil, and he quickly increased his holdings in Occidental, becoming the firm's chief executive officer and chairman of the board in 1957. By the mid-1960s, under Hammer's management, Occidental's gross annual income was more than $650,000,000, and profitable oil ventures in Libya (which were later nationalized) and diversifications into chemical manufacturing had boosted Occidental's gross income to more than $2,000,000,000 by 1970. Because of his longtime trade and personal contacts with the Soviets, Hammer and his firm were among the principal participants in the broadening of U.S.-Soviet trade ties that accompanied the era of detente in the 1970s. He was also a prominent art collector, and he founded the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center in Los Angeles in 1990 to house the bulk of his collection. Signed by Author(s). …

HAMMER, Armand. THE ARMAND HAMMER COLLECTION: FIVE CENTURIES OF MASTERPIECES. Edited by John Walker. Photography by Seth Joel. NY: Harry N. Abrams, [1980]. Large quarto, red cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. The first fully-documented book on the outstanding Armand Hammrer collection of classic art. Signed presentation from Hammer on the half-title page: "To Cherry [he has corrected an incorrect "S" in the name to "C"] and Dick, with all godd wishes- Armand and Francis. April 30, 1981." Fine; moderate fading d/j. $125.00.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 544 pages. Illustrations. Index. Inscribed bookplate signed by Armand Hammer on half-title page. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration. Pencil erasure residue on half-title page. Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 - December 10, 1990) was an American business manager and owner, most closely associated with Occidental Petroleum, a company he ran from 1957 until his death, though he was known as well for his art collection, his philanthropy, and for his close ties to the Soviet Union. Hammer's business interests around the world and his "citizen diplomacy" helped him cultivate a wide network of friends and associates. He appeared frequently on television, commenting on international relations or agitating for research into a cure for cancer. As of 2016, he has been the subject of six biographies-in 1975 (Considine, authorized biography), 1985 (Bryson, coffee table book), Weinberg 1989, Blumay 1992, Epstein 1996, and Alef 2009; and two autobiographies (1932 and a best seller in 1987). His art collection and his philanthropic projects were the subject of numerous publications. Derived from a Kirkus review: His odyssey runs from a comfortable childhood in the pre-WW I Bronx to the chairmanship of Occidental Petroleum, an energy concern with global revenues exceeding $15 billion annually. After graduating in 1921, he went to the Soviet Union. Once there, Hammer learned that food, not doctors or medical aid, was the real need. In return for local goods that could be sold in the US, he contracted for grain shipments--and stayed to do well. After nine years in the USSR, he returned home. Hammer's entrepreneurial instincts led him into commercial alcohol, distilling, and allied industries. In 1956 Hammer became involved with Los Angeles-based Occidental and turned a dubious local venture into a major multinational enterprise via high-stakes drilling gambles in Libya, the North Sea, Latin America, and other remote venues. In the meantime, Hammer has done much to advance the cause of world peace. By any measure, Hammer's balance sheet boasts far more credits than debits, and he can be pardoned for focusing on the high points of a remarkable life's work. An engrossing testament.…

HARD COVER LIGHT BEIGE. Condition: GOOD. sun faded spine, sticker residue on inside of front board, author inscription and signed "To Lee Wood with the compliments of Dr. Armand Hammer February 25th 1933, stain/foxing to inside of front and back boards and free endpaper DATE PUBLISHED: 1932 EDITION: 241. …

HARD COVER LIGHT BEIGE. Condition: VERY GOOD. JACKET: TORN DJ. 3RD. DJ covered in mylar, gold gilt lettering on spine, not price clipped ($3.00), signed by author, presentation copy, "To Freida In memory of the battle of the confirmation by the US Senate of the First Woman Federal Communications commisioner with best wished for your continued sucess Armand Hammer New York June 24th 1948" small sticker residue on inside of front board, states "third edition, of which 1200 copies on special paper are reserved for the author and his friends and clients" DATE PUBLISHED: 1936 EDITION: 3RD 241.…

HARD COVER LIGHT BEIGE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. 3RD. inscription of the author that says " To Clarence in memory of happy days at California phi sigma delta Armand. New York September 20, 1944." presentation copy, small tear to DJ on top corner about 1 inch, slight chipping on DJ edges. states "third edition, of which 1200 copies on special paper are reserved for the author and his friends and clients" DATE PUBLISHED: 1936 EDITION: 3RD 241. …

Stated Third Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's heavy grain pale grey cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [xi]; 241pp. Some wear and discoloration to extremities, very light, it's a very solidly produced book, so wear and tear is represented by darkening of the cloth at the edges and some softening of the spine ends rather than anything more drastic; internally clean, ownership to front pastedown, author's signature to front flyleaf; in a handsome example of the gold and black dustjacket with some chipping and shallow loss to the spine ends, scuffing and rubbing to the gilt paper coating, and some marginal creasing and soiling. A very good, solid copy. Illustrated throughout with full page plates. For a man named by his father after the logo of the American Socialist Labor Party, after slipping out of Odessa in the 1870's, Armand Hammer's journey to become one of the world's most influential businessmen and "Lenin's Favorite Capitalist" must have been a dramatic one. His father Julius, had spent much of the early 20th century consolidating his role at Allied Drug and Chemical, which was essentially at times a smuggling front, shipping embargoed goods to Russia during the US trade sanctions. After Julius was sentenced to 3 years in Sing Sing, allegedly for a botched abortion that resulted in the death of a Russian woman from subsequent pneumonia (although modern research suggests that Armand, a medical student, might have been the one who performed the abortion, and Julius took responsibility as the qualified senior medical professional present), Armand took over Allied Drug and Chemical and raised it to new heights of corporate success. During Prohibition, Allied's largest seller was a essentially alcoholic ginger ale, sold as a medicinal tonic to great profit. Acting under the instructions of his imprisoned father, Armand began taking numerous business trips to the Soviet Union. A young J. Edgar Hoover, at that point basically an analyst at the Justice Department, very strongly believed that the equally youthful Hammer was a COMINTERN courier, and essentially placed him under surveillance for the rest of his life. Hammer's trips to Russia were ostensibly to recoup bad debts, but this quickly developed into a number of lucrative business deals, not least of which was selling cheap wheat to starving, famine hit areas of Russia. Hammer developed a close co-operative (no pun intended) relationship with Lenin, which resulted in a number of very high status business contracts and deals ranging from medical import contracts, to 25 year's worth of asbestos mining in the Urals; one of Hammer's greatest coups was arranging payment for various services in furs, caviar, jewellery and antiquities seized by the Party from its long tail of enemies, making him essentially a conduit for looted and otherwise dubious art, jewels, and antiques. At the height of Lenin's New Economic Policy, Armand Hammer was the sole trade liason between the enormity of Soviet Russia, and 38 major US corporations seeking to build trade deals through him. His grasp of the downrange necessities of dealing with the Soviets; graft, bribery, corruption, and palm greasing, was legendary, and by the 1970's when his methods were starting to be inspected more closely there was no doubt that Hammer's understanding of legitimate business was secondary to his instinctive abilities in the fields of corporate and beaurocratic bribery and manipulation. This book is one, personal perspective on the empire of treasure that Hammer accumulated; there are others, and the entangled ephemeral traces of looted artworks, forged and unfinished Fabergé eggs, specially manufactured jeweller's tools designed to copy Fabergé's style exactly, and a wealth of other foggy rumors and suspicions ranging from Armand the KGB stooge, to Armand the James Bond Villain bent on Soviet domination through capitalism, will continue to follow in his wake, whether he be considered a legitimate businessman or a highly successful 20th century robber baron of legendary proportions. Signed.…