Hoffa, Signed (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Signed and inscribed by author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed by author on Title page in black pen, "To Richard, Congratulations on having a great sister. Best wishes, Steven J Harper" Complete number line. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 Book; slight soiling to top text edge else fine, as new, unread. Dust jacket ($24.95) has mild bumping to top front and rear covers with three small subtle impressions to spine. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Few photographs. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Expedited or International shipping may cost more. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. facsimile signature tiny section of the d.j. on the top of spine. Signed by Author(s).

Pinback Button. 2.25 inch diameter pin, very good, on a card signed by the designer, Don Howell, Jr., certifying that "This button is from the original run of 250 buttons printed in the city of Philadelphia" for the 1996 campaign for Teamster international officers.

black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. top edge has tiny spot (coffee/cola type), other edges clean. Signed By author Dan E. Modlea on the front flyleaf. contents clean & free of all markings. dustwrapper in good cond. missing large piece top of front panel & spine top, spine bottom has tiny tear, not price clipped. first edition. first printing (NAP.) xiii+450p. reference notes. index. b&w photo. illustrations. american history. politics. labor history. labor leaders. teamsters union. organized crime. working class hero. richard nixon. robert kennedy. murder. assassination. frank fitzsimmons. santo perrone. raffaelle quasarano. mccllean committee. don vestal. anthony provenzano. caporegime. charles crimaldi. russell bufalino. cia. santos trafficante. meyer lansky. carlos marcello. frank coppola. barney baker. ed partin. rolland mcmaster. anthony giacalone. peter licavoli. william tocco. joseph zerrilli. afl~cio. albert anastasia. fulgencio batista. bombings and arson. joseph bonano. salvatore briguglio. fidel castro. charles colson.morris dalitz. allen dorfman. fbi. vito genovese. sam giancana. william hill.robert holmes. j edgar hoover. david johnson. jfk. banana wars. thomas lucchese. charles luciano. lee harvey oswald.william presser. john roselli. jack ruby. us senate select committees. strikes. sun valley inc. teamster dissidents. unity committee. joseph valachi. warren commission. otto wendell. david yaras.~ Corruption, charisma and an insatiable craving for power ~ these are the keynote themes behind the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa, one of America's most controversial and sinister personalities. Hoffa, long~time undisputed leader of the Teamsters, the nation's largest and most important union, battled his way to power in a rough and bloody ascent that brought him into alliance and into combat with America's most influential and notorious elements ~ politicians, labor leaders, business tycoons and the underworld. The Teamsters revered him. Labor leaders cowered before him. The mob relied on him and considered him one of their own. Richard Nixon viewed him as an essential supporter. Robert Kennedy saw him as the enemy of America. Hoffa's disappearance on July 30, 1975 left behind a vast and brutal legacy: more than four decades of bloodshed among rival mobs struggling for control of legitimate businesses and the narcotics trade; countless battered heads and ruined lives among the Teamster rebels who dared to challenge him; and an unsavory record of huge sums of money used to buy and selll men in high political office. THE HOFFA WARS is the story of Hoffa and his domination of the Teamsters Union. It is a history of power ~ how Hoffa got it, kept it, lost it, and was prevented from regaining it. It is the story of wars fought by and among the Teamster leadership, and how these wars led to the murder of Jimmy Hoffa. It shows not only who killed Hoffa, but why he had to be killed. Here are chilling revelations and disclosures ~ names, places and details many of them told in the words of the participants themselves, the result of unique first~hand interviews with Hoffa's friends and enemies and government investigators all over America. A violent, bizarre and riveting story, THE HOFFA WARS is an explosive and dramatically executed masterpiece of investigative journalism that strips bare the startling reality of the personal and organizational manipulation of power in modern America.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "the only authorized Book of Hoffa's Life" .finished right before Hoffa's disappearance. 242pp. Illustrated. with Facsimile Hoffa signature. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Dust jacket is in good to very good condition with minor wear, with light chips present.?Pictures available upon request.? nd. appears to be signed by author.

Photos, 7 x 4, glossy pict wraps, 244 pp, covers a little edge worn, pp nice. FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 450 pages. Illus., reference notes, index, marginal pencil underlining on several pages. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Signed and inscribed by Joe Franco on half title page. First edition, first printing. Hard cover published by Prentice Hall Press in 1987. Dark gray covers with red binding and silver lettering on spine. Book is in very good plus condition. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover and is in very good condition. Large 8vo, 332 pages, 1.6 lb. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 332 pages; Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Gray boards quarterbound in red cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Quarto. Gray endpapers. [xv] + 332pps., plus 8 pages of photos. There is faint dustspotting to the page-edges, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is mildly rubbed and has touches of crinkling at the extremities; no chips or tears. The original price is intact. Wrapped around the jacket is a band stating 'Personally Autographed Copy.' Generically SIGNED by Joe Franco with 'Thanks' on the half-title page. ".Joe Franco was Jimmy Hoffa's man: loyal, dependable, and willing to bend rules or break heads if it meant advancing the Teamsters union in the name of James R. Hoffa. Franco never questioned an order, he just carried it out. And Jimmy Hoffa never questioned how an order was carried out. In this blistering story of power abused, Richard Hammer documents the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa as witnessed by Joe Franco, one of his most trusted lieutenants. There is violence in 'Hoffa's Man'. There is corruption, bribery, extortion, and betrayal. There are names: Bobby Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, and dozens of other political and show business bigwigs enmeshed in this story of greed, immorality, and total defiance of the law. Franco's chilling revelations are at once an appalling comment on the labor movement and a searing indictment of those who found the taste of power even sweeter when laced with blood." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request. SIGNED by the Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition/1st Printing (complete number line). SIGNED by Frank Ragano on half-title page (signature only). Also SIGNED and inscribed by Selwyn Raab on a bookplate decal affixed to half-tilte. Forward by Nicholas Pileggi. slight spine lean. DJ rubbed; $22.00 price present on DJ flap; 'Autographed Copy' sticker on front; mylar protected. Scarce signed book by mob lawyer Ragano. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Saturday Review Press, 1972. Hard cover, first edition; signed and inscribed by author Walter Sheridan on flyleaf. VG condition in VG dust jacket; a nice clean copy. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xvii, [1], 554, [4] pages. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling and small tears/chips. Minor soiling on verso. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Steve--Fellow author who knows how much of oneself goes into one of these. With warm personal regards Walt. Introduction by Budd Schulberg. Walter James Sheridan (20 November 1925 - 13 January 1995) was an investigator who is best known for his role in the prosecution of Jimmy Hoffa. During World War II, he served in the US Navy's Submarine Service. After the war he graduated from Fordham University in 1950. Sheridan joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, resigning after four years over J. Edgar Hoover's focus on anti-Communism. He was then a National Security Agency investigator for three years. Sheridan was an investigator for the United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management, recruited by Robert F. Kennedy in 1957. He was a regional coordinator for John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, and a coordinator for the Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign, 1968. After Robert Kennedy was appointed Attorney General in 1961, Sheridan became a special assistant to Kennedy working as the effective chief of a team investigating Hoffa and the Teamsters. From 1965 to 1970, he was a NBC News special correspondent, producing documentaries on crime and gun control among other issues; his unit received a Peabody Award for work on the 1967 Detroit riot. In the 1970s and 80s, he was a principal aide to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. In addition to his novels and films, Schulberg has produced nonfiction books on subjects ranging from the life of Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa to the careers of several famous authors. James Riddle Hoffa (born February 14, 1913 - disappeared July 30, 1975, declared dead July 30, 1982) was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971. From an early age, Hoffa was a union activist, and he became an important regional figure with the IBT by his mid-twenties. By 1952, he was the national vice-president of the IBT and between 1957 and 1971 he was its general president. He secured the first national agreement for teamsters' rates in 1964 with the National Master Freight Agreement. He played a major role in the growth and the development of the union, which eventually became the largest by membership in the United States, with over 2.3 million members at its peak, during his terms as its leader. Hoffa became involved with organized crime from the early years of his Teamsters work, a connection that continued until his disappearance in 1975. He was convicted of jury tampering, attempted bribery, conspiracy, and mail and wire fraud in 1964 in two separate trials. He was imprisoned in 1967 and sentenced to 13 years. In mid-1971, he resigned as president of the union as part of a commutation agreement with US President Richard Nixon and was released later that year, but Hoffa was barred from union activities until 1980. Hoping to regain support and to return to IBT leadership, he unsuccessfully tried to overturn the order. Hoffa disappeared on July 30, 1975. He is believed to have been murdered by the Mafia and was declared legally dead in 1982. Hoffa's legacy continues to stir debate. Hoffa had first faced major criminal investigations in 1957, as a result of the McClellan Committee. On March 14, 1957, Hoffa was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe an aide to the Select Committee. Hoffa denied the charges (and was later acquitted), but the arrest triggered additional investigations and more arrests and indictments over the following weeks. When John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, he appointed his younger brother Robert as Attorney General. Robert Kennedy had been frustrated in earlier attempts to convict Hoffa, while working as counsel to the McClellan subcommittee. As Attorney General from 1961, Kennedy pursued a strong attack on organized crime and he carried on with a so-called "Get Hoffa" squad of prosecutors and investigators. In May 1963, Hoffa was indicted for jury tampering in Tennessee, charged with the attempted bribery of a grand juror during his 1962 conspiracy trial in Nashville. Hoffa was convicted on March 4, 1964, and subsequently sentenced to eight years in prison and a $10,000 fine. While on bail during his appeal, Hoffa was convicted in a second trial held in Chicago, on July 26, 1964, on one count of conspiracy and three counts of mail and wire fraud for improper use of the Teamsters' pension fund, and sentenced to five years in prison. Hoffa spent the next three years unsuccessfully appealing his 1964 convictions. Appeals filed by his chief counsel, St. Louis defense attorney Morris Shenker, reached the U.S. Supreme Court. He began serving his aggregate prison sentence of 13 years (eight years for bribery, five years for fraud) on March 7, 1967, at the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. First edition, stated on the copyright page. A copy that's been read but with minimal wear. Pages are clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. Inscribed by author to fellow author and noted crime writer Steve Hodel.; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Extremely rare signed copy. The book is signed by the author"Charles Brandt Sun Valley 2004" on the title page. Not inscribed. The book and jacket are in as new condition. The jacket has an Autographed Copy sticker affixed to the cover. First Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Tremendous historical collectible. Comes with full letter of Authenticity from JSA submission #216150, certification #BB36776 1.25 x 5.7 x8.5 signed and inscribed in blue ball pen ink on first free end page by Hoffa's son, "to my good friend and partner Murray Chodak 6/9/71 and below that it's signed by union leader James R. Hoffa in black ball pen ink.Light even toning to page with the signatures themselves remaining bold. Also included is a very interesting 11 x 13.25 matted letter and "United States Marshall Oklahoma Terr" six pointed star badge. Letter is on Department Of Justice United States Marshall" stationery with text reading "Presented To Murray Chodak on January 16, 1985. Badge has moderate wear, Fine. Letter is mounted to board with edge wear and minor damp stain at lower left but overall Fine. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ("Dave Beck, Sr.") an archive of two typed letters, Seattle July 7 and September 18, 1967 to author Richard Lamparski. One letter on Union Health & Welfare Agency letterhead. The pair . Very good. Beck states that he is retired and agrees to cooperate with Lamparski in "any way I can." He adds, however, "I have no comment to make as pertains to James Hoffa." Beck (1894-1993) was an American labor leader, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1952-1957. He was succeeded in 1957 by Jimmy Hoffa. He later served prison time for income tax-evasion. Signed by Author(s).