Chip Shoulder, First Edition (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 1940. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name stamp on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good: NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); light chipping to head, tail, and tips; missing small piece at head; light suntoning to spine. Orange cloth boards with black painted on overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 559 pp 8vo. The author was a long-time Southern newspaper man who transitioned to covering the scene of politics in Washington, IN this book he turns social historian as he covers the presidencies of the easygoing Harding, Coolidge, the small-town politician, Hoover, a man of economic destiny engulfed in a flood of economic ruin, and finally, the ideas of FDR and the alphabet soup of programs and ideas he is trying to save the nation. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Laid-in is a newspaper clipping from 1940 of a book review on this book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book has faded cover. A Southern newspaper man covers America in transition from Harding to FDR.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn and torn jacket with clear tape 'repairs'. Darkened at folds and margins. Flap is not clipped. Orange cloth covered front and rear board with silver and black cloth spine. Foxing/tanning to end pages. [561 pages].

Fair condition. Ex-library with typical library markings. Withdrawn stamp on library bookplate on front endpaper. Spine tips are well worn. Cover corners and bottom edges are well rubbed. One inch slit in spine cloth. 255 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Great angsty punk poetry collection by a former classmate of mine. Great stuff. Cool pics too and the poetry is ageless early 90s riffing. Stapled wrapper. Think Kurt Cobain meets a street preacher. Old price stickers front and back covers.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. 1st US edition. Owner's name on address label affixed to front free endpage. In protective mylar cover. (mystery fiction).

*Stevens, Walter James, 1877-. Chip on My Shoulder: Autobiography of Walter J. Stevens. Boston: Meador, (c. 1946). 1st ed. frontis (portrait), 315p. Dark cloth. Worn dj (waterspotting & large chips). 20cm. Pages slightly browned. Boston-born Stevens was Steward of the Signet Club at Harvard and later lived successively in Harlem and Syracuse.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 315pp., frontispiece photograph. Modest stains on the front board, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Autobiography of a black man raised in an affluent section of Boston. Includes his business and civic activities in Boston and Harlem, his association with Lincoln Steffens, and his experiences in the Spanish-American War. The author was also a professional photographer. Dedicated to the author's friend William Monroe Trotter. *Brignano 249*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket with chipping to spine ends of jacket and discoloration.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 561 pages, index, DJ soiled and worn, DJ edges worn and chipped, former owners's name inside front endpaper. Signed by the author. Thomas Lunsford Stokes, Jr. (November 1, 1898 - May 14, 1958) was a Pulitizer-prize winning American journalist. Thomas Stokes was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 1, 1898, to Thomas Stokes and Emma Layton, both descendants of colonial families. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1920 afters 3 years. He began his journalism career working as a reporter for Georgia newspapers and then moved to Washington in 1921, where he took dictation from reporters atUnited Press. He later worked as a copy editor and then as a reporter covering all aspects of Washington politics. He greeted the New Deal with enthusiasm and his coverage of the early days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's's administration brought him to the attention of theScripps-Howard newspaper chain, which hired him as its Washington correspondent in 1933. In 1937, the Amalgamated Clothing Woekers of America reprinted a series of his articles under the title Carpetbaggers of Industry to indict businesses that relocated to the South in search of lower-earning workers.His coverage of FDR's administration grew more critical over time. He won the Pulitizer Prize in 1939 for investigating how Kentucky politicians had corrupted the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to advance their own careers. He concluded the Kentucky WPA was "a grand political racket in which the taxpayer is the victim." Stokes and WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins traded charges for several days. The affair led indirectly to the passage of the Hatch Act. He authored an autobiography, Chip Off My Shoulder, in 1940.] A reviewer described him: "He is irreverent but not flip, ironic but not bitter, a hater of pretense and arrogance but not of people. Some of his 1941 reporting on the awarding of construction contracts provoked a contentious debate in the U.S. Senate. Stokes became a columnist for United Features Syndicate in December 1944. More than 100 newspapers ran his column. In 1947 he won the Raymond Clapper Award for general excellence in Washington reporting and crusading. He was honored again by the Raymond Clapper Memorial Association just before his death.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Ed. 315 pages, backstrip is missing pieces, small dent on backstrip.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A very clean, bright and attractive copy . Inscribed by the author on the ffep. A few minor chips at the corners. Near Fine / Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition, from British sheets. Fine in an attractive, price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with several small internally repaired nicks and tears. First book by this Australian author of hardboiled detective fiction, a pseudonym of Bernard Charles Cronin. Crime reporter attempts to gain revenge for the murder of a detective killed trying to crack Australia's biggest narcotics ring.