Language: English
Published by Vintage Books, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0307386562 ISBN 13: 9780307386564
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Paperback. Condition: Very good. First edition of The Iraq Study Group Report, signed by Co-Chairman, James A. Baker III. (illustrator). First Edition. Twelvemo, xviii, 142pp. Illustrated paperback. Stated "first edition" with full number line on copyright page. Faint fold through bottom corner of front cover. This work was only released in paperback form. Book has never been read. Signed by former Secretary of State James Baker. The Iraq Study Group was formed in March of 2006 by the United States Congress to evaluate the situation in Iraq and make policy recommendations on the way forward. The group was led by former Secretary of State James Baker and Democratic congressman, Lee H. Hamilton. It was also known as the Baker-Hamilton Commission. Signed.
Language: English
Published by Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2002
ISBN 10: 0815706316 ISBN 13: 9780815706311
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Illustrated Paperback. Condition: Near fine. Report of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, signed by President Jimmy Carter. This report was produced by Brookings Institution, with co-chairs being: Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, Lloyd N. Cutler, and Robert H. Michel. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, vii, 358pp. Illustrated paperback, title on cover and spine. This copy appears unread. Signed by President Jimmy Carter on the half title, with a full signature. In the wake of the 2000 presidential election, a commission was established to look at the integrity of voting systems around the United States. The commission proposed improvements to federal, state and local voting systems. The recommendations resulted in landmark legislation called the Help America Vote Act, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002. Signed.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1951
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. The signed first edition of War In Korea: The Report Of A Woman Combat Correspondent by Marguerite Higgins. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 223, [1]. Gray cloth, title printed in red on the spine. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Complete with 29 photographic plates. Rubbing to tips of the spine, white ink blemish at head of the spine. In the publisher's dust jacket, price clipped, closed tears at head and heel of the spine, shelf wear, wrinkled edge along front cover, a scarce jacket. Signed on the title page: "With regards / "Maggie" Higgins." Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune in 1942. Higgins covered World War II in Europe, reported from the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, and later covered the Korean War, where she was one of the first reporters to enter Seoul after its liberation in 1950. She won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1951 for her Korean War coverage. Higgins also reported from Vietnam and the Soviet Union. She joined Newsday in 1963 and died in 1966 from leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease often transmitted by sand flies, which Higgins contracted while on assignment in Vietnam. Signed.
Published by Government Printing Office, Washington, 1870, 1870
Seller: Antiquariaat Berger & De Vries, Groningen, Netherlands
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Add to basketFull cloth, Rare first edition, orig. signed by the later preseident of the USA, James A. Garfield. 487 pp. Index -good.-(The cover is somewhat smudged and discoloured, ex-libris Ernesti de Halle (This is Ernst von Halle (1868-1909) / Hamburg ? Berlin-Grunewald, economist) on the inside of the front board, small bits torn out of the two front fly-laves, name in ink on the front fly-leaf, stamp form the Amerika-Institut in Berlin on 2 pages, some foxing. Spine damaged at top and bottom (small parts of cloth missing.). Still, in a good condition.