Michael Evlanoff (31 results)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Some dust jacket wear. ; 336 pages.
Language: English
Published by Ward Ritchie Press, NY 1969
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; maps on end papers; 336 clern, unmarked pages/index. B/w (illustrator).
Published by Ward Ritchie Press 1969
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is chipped and foxed. Black cloth boards have tiny corner bumps. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by The Blakiston Company / Fleming H. Revell Company, Philadelphia and New York 1943
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Seller: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, U.S.A.Pages Past--Used & Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition First Printing. 8vo. 190 pages. Hardcover with a blue and grey dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed and worn; spine of jacket is foxed. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf. There is a bookplate of authorSilvio Bedini on the front pastedown. Signed…by Author(s).
Published by The Ward Ritchie Press, USA 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Good Only. First Edition. Biography of Alfred Nobel - his personal life, and his genius and professional life. Dust jacket has moderate edgechips. Book.
Published by (Los Angeles, CA): The Ward Ritchie Press, (1969). (1969). 1969
- Hardcover
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Add to basketCondition: Good. - Octavo, black cloth with a portrait in blind on he front cover, in a dust wrapper. The top & bottom edges of the binding are slightly faded. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with the head of its spine torn & the remnants of a small sticker on its front panel. Black-and-white illustrations. Very good in a go…od dust wrapper. Foreword by Simon Ramo. Commentaries by Arnold O. Beckman and Henry T. Mudd.
Published by The Ward Ritchie Press 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Near Fine. Clean and intact throughout. Penciled price to front endpaper. Dust Jacket price clipped with edge wear and small edge creases. 336 pages.
Published by Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, CA 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: JB's Book Vault, Buffalo, U.S.A.JB's Book Vault
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good dust. First Edition. Book is in VG condition with light foxing to edges, boards bowed slightly else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with creasing to rear fly, rubbing to edges & spine, small chip to foot of spine else bright and intact.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall….
Published by The Ward Ritchie Press 1969
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good + condition with very good + dust jacket. Name plate inside. Dust jacket is price clipped.
- Softcover
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- Softcover
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Language: English
Published by The Ward Ritchie Press 1969
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- Signed
Seller: Jay's Basement Books, Sonora, U.S.A.Jay's Basement Books
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Add to basketCloth Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair/poor. 336pp. inc. index, several nicks & cuts, stained, edge wear to non price clipped DJ. Book and text, clean, tight binding, no marks or tears. Illustrated . SIGNED and inscribed by AUTHOR. MARJORIE FLUOR.on half title page. Illustrated. frontispiece of Alfred… Nobel. about 1890. biography. Size 8vo. Signed by Author(s).
Language: English
Published by The Ward Ritchie Press 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 336 Pp.Black Cloth. First Printing. As New In As New Dj, Price Clipped. Photographs (illustrator).
Published by Blakiston Co. Philadelphia 1943 1943
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- First Edition
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Add to basketFirst edition 190pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) fair (corners bruised, minor bumps to board edges, internal separation at front hinge).
Alfred Nobel the Loneliest Millionaire
Michael Evlanoff & Marjorie Fluor, foreword Simon Ramo, commentaries by Arnold O. Beckman & Henry T. Mudd
Published by Ward Ritchie Press, 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, U.S.A.Bluff Park Rare Books
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- Hardcover
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- Hardcover
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- Softcover
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- Softcover
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Published by Ward Ritchie Press 1969 1969
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Add to basketFirst edition 336pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (gum stains to free endpapers) d/w excellent in plastic, illust.
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Seller: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, U.S.A.Southampton Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($10.00 price intact). Published by Ward Ritchie Press, 1969. Octavo. Book is signed and inscribed by author, Marjorie Fluor, on the half title page. Book is very good with very light toning to the page… ends. Dust jacket is very good with light creasing to the spine, and very light toning to the flaps. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
- Hardcover
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Published by The Ward Ritchie Press 1969
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, U.S.A.Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The Ward Ritchie Press, 1969. Signed and inscribed by Marjorie Fluor on half-Title page; dustjacket very lightly rubbed/bumped/sunned, faintly soiled, top corners/spine end barely chipped, bottom edge rear flap lightly bumped with small tear, spine sunned, dustja…cket otherwise intact; cover very barely rubbed, spine ever-so-slightly sunned; edges lightly sunned, top edge faintly soiled; binding tight; cover, edges and interior intact and very clean, except where noted. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia 1943
- Hardcover
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, U.S.A.Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Pages a bit browned; INSCRIBED in Russian by the author on the first blank page; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages.
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- Hardcover
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Published by The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, CA 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xv, [1]. 336 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Tables. Appendix. Index. Foreword by Simon Ramo. Commentaries by Arnold O. Beckman and Henry T. Mudd. Some front board weakness noted. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and is soiled and worn…. Some edge soiling. Michael Evlanoff wrote Alfred Nobel: Prize Donor in 1944. This current work, written in collaboration with Marjorie Fluor, completes his revelations of his intimate knowledge of this extraordinary Alfred Nobel and of the Nobel family. Marjorie Fluor was the wife of J. Simon Fluor of the famed Fluor Corporation. She was active in many philanthropic organizations which led in part to her interest in Alfred Nobel "who combined an industrial empire with scientific invention and a compassionate love for his fellow man." Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. His name also survives in modern-day companies such as Dynamit Nobel and AkzoNobel, which are descendants of mergers with companies Nobel himself established. As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work. There he met Ascanio Sobrero, who had invented nitroglycerin three years before. Sobrero strongly opposed the use of nitroglycerin, as it was unpredictable, exploding when subjected to heat or pressure. But Nobel became interested in finding a way to control and use nitroglycerin as a commercially usable explosive, as it had much more power than gunpowder. At age 18, he went to the United States for one year to study chemistry, working for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Nobel filed his first patent, an English patent for a gas meter, in 1857, while his first Swedish patent, which he received in 1863, was on 'ways to prepare gunpowder'. The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War (18531856), but had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy. In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel (18311888), who greatly improved the business. Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerin. Nobel invented a detonator in 1863, and in 1865 designed the blasting cap. On 3 September 1864, a shed used for preparation of nitroglycerin exploded at the factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm, killing five people, including Nobel's younger brother Emil. Dogged and unfazed by more minor accidents, Nobel went on to build further factories, focusing on improving the stability of the explosives he was developing. Nobel invented dynamite in 1867, a substance easier and safer to handle than the more unstable nitroglycerin. Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally. In 1875 Nobel invented gelignite, more stable and powerful than dynamite, and in 1887 patented ballistite, a predecessor of cordite. Daniel R. DeChaine (endpaper maps) (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by The Ward Ritchie Press 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, U.S.A.Antic Hay Books
Contact seller5-star sellerEVLANOFFn, Michael. [With Marjorie Fluor]. ALFRED NOBEL: THE LONELIEST MILLIONAIRE. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, [1969]. Small 4to., black cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Fluor on the front endpaper: "To my good friend Mary, With best wishes and love, Marjorie Fluor." Very Good (contents cle…an & tight); some edgewear & few tears (small chip) d/j. $45.00.
Published by The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, CA 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xv, [1]. 336 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Tables. Appendix. Index. Foreword by Simon Ramo. Commentaries by Arnold O. Beckman and Henry T. Mudd. DJ soiled & worn: small tear. Pencil # on front of DJ. Signed by one author…(Fluor). Michael Evlanoff wrote Alfred Nobel: Prize Donor in 1944. This work, written in collaboration with Marjorie Fluor, completes his revelations of his intimate knowledge of this extraordinary Alfred Nobel and of the Nobel family. Marjorie Fluor was the wife of J. Simon Fluor of the famed Fluor Corporation. She was active in many philanthropic organizations which led in part to her interest in Alfred Nobel "who combined an industrial empire with scientific invention and a compassionate love for his fellow man." Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. His name also survives in modern-day companies such as Dynamit Nobel and AkzoNobel, which are descendants of mergers with companies Nobel himself established. As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work. There he met Ascanio Sobrero, who had invented nitroglycerin three years before. Sobrero strongly opposed the use of nitroglycerin, as it was unpredictable, exploding when subjected to heat or pressure. But Nobel became interested in finding a way to control and use nitroglycerin as a commercially usable explosive, as it had much more power than gunpowder. At age 18, he went to the United States for one year to study chemistry, working for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Nobel filed his first patent, an English patent for a gas meter, in 1857, while his first Swedish patent, which he received in 1863, was on 'ways to prepare gunpowder'. The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War (18531856), but had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy. In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel (18311888), who greatly improved the business. Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerin. Nobel invented a detonator in 1863, and in 1865 designed the blasting cap. On 3 September 1864, a shed used for preparation of nitroglycerin exploded at the factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm, killing five people, including Nobel's younger brother Emil. Dogged and unfazed by more minor accidents, Nobel went on to build further factories, focusing on improving the stability of the explosives he was developing. Nobel invented dynamite in 1867, a substance easier and safer to handle than the more unstable nitroglycerin. Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally. In 1875 Nobel invented gelignite, more stable and powerful than dynamite, and in 1887 patented ballistite, a predecessor of cordite. Daniel R. DeChaine (endpaper maps) (illustrator).
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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, U.S.A.Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerA large and in-depth collection of approximately 3,500 original photos from a post-revolutionary Russian exile "prince" of aristocratic bearing and aspirations but not pedigree, Michael Evlanoff. He gained notoriety for his marriage to cosmetics pioneer Elizabeth Arden in 1942. It would end two years later after he had connived…tremendous sums from her and her private detective discovered his Russian title and much-ballyhooed stipend from Swedish dynamite magnate-turned-humanitarian Alfred Nobel were utter fictions. Evlanoff certainly did not lack moxy, though. According to one account, the Russian con man was bisexual and had gone so far to invite his boyfriend along with him and Arden on their honeymoon! This archive covers the would-be prince's global jaunts and debauches from around 1920 to 1960, consisting of ten quarto volumes (7.5" x 9" each) rebacked with leather spines over marbled boards. All the albums are dated with captions initially in Russian, then French, then, in the final 20 years or so, English. Mostly b/w photos, with onionskin protective sheets.The leaves were mounted to stubs; a few have come loose. Very Good overall. No photos appear to be missing, some darkening along boards, a few chips and flaking original leather. The subject matter of these photos varies widely. While many photos are of the uber-wealthy soirees at nightclubs, yachts, posh hotels, and restaurants, there are also landscape photos, some city shots with people in diverse locales like Rio de Janeiro and Berlin under the Nazis, skiing-related photos, and a number of photos of oil exploration equipment and processes in Texas in the 1920s. Evlanoff's apparently documented his dalliances with different beautiful young women, especially in his later years, and their photos (occasionally topless) are a running theme throughout the archive. He was also the quintessential hob-nobber who clearly made a point of getting his photo taken with celebrities whenever possible. Likely one of the most extensive photographic archives of a White Russian exile available in recent memory. It documents the upper crust and their get-togethers around the world in the early to mid 20th century, as well as one life maybe not so much well-lived, per say, as one vigorously lived nonetheless.
