Papers War by Ellsberg Daniel, Signed (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First paperback edition. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Daniel Ellsberg. Shelfworn, foxing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing stated. Book appears unread with a hint of dust smudging to top edge of text block; unclipped ($7.95) dust jacket shows a touch of overall shelfwear. Inscribed by Ellsberg on front endpaper: 'To Paul, For peace!' and dated 29 August 1972, about five weeks after the book's publication. A genuinely important work, the author's 'second public contribution to ending the American intervention in Vietnam.' Surprisingly uncommon signed. 311 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

First edition of the signal work that further established Ellsberg "as one of our most refined analysts of that awful war." Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "9 April 1973 To Julie, For peace! Dan Ellsberg." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara Shapokas. Ellsberg, a one-time analyst for the Rand Corporation who spent 2 years in Vietnam, "set in motion a chain of events that led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that government efforts to halt publication of the Pentagon Papers represented a prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment freedom of the press" (First Amendment Encyclopedia). When, on leaving Rand, Ellsberg photocopied his 1967 Report for Rand, known as the Pentagon Papers, he tried to persuade the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold hearings. Failing that, he gave it to New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan, and on June 13, 1971 it published the first installment of a projected series. The writings collected here secured "Ellsberg's reputation as one of our most refined analysts of that awful war, just as his deus ex machina role in making the Pentagon Papers available established him as a passionate dissenter. The principal essay, 'The Quagmire Myth and the Stalemate Machine,' published originally in Public Policy (Spring 1971) but now considerably revised and updated, is a trenchant dissection of the executive policy-making process through the Truman-Nixon administrations⦠Other equally exacting piecesâ"all written prior to publication of the Pentagon Papers, some also revisedâ"include on-the-scene reports from Vietnam when Ellsberg was a State Department adviser, Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony while a Rand think-tanker, a Washington Post review of Shaplen's Road From War, a 1971 New York Review of Books article on Nixon in Laos, and a thoughtful lecture on 'The Responsibility of Officials in a Criminal War,' delivered at the Boston Community Church less than a month before the Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers" (Kirkus).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition Thus. (Quadrangle Books- July 1971). Attached to half-title page is a bookplate SIGNED by DANIEL ELLSBERG (signature only) . Affixed to second page is a bookplate SIGNED by NEIL SHEEHAN (NYT reporter who received the papers from Ellsberg); and a card SIGNED by HENRY CABOTT LODGE JR. (Sec. of Defence who commissioned the Pentagon Papers report in 1967); and a small note SIGNED by MORTON HALPRIN (worked on production of the papers). Also comes with several signed items from associated people connected to the Vietnam Pentagon papers: Laid-in (not attached) is a handrwritten note SIGNED by HEDRICK SMITH; a B&W photo SIGNED by ROBERT McNAMARA (Sec. of Defence who commissioned the Pentagon Papers report in 1967); and a card SIGNED by LESLIE GELB (appointed by McNamara as director of the project that produced the controversial Pentagon Papers): a card SIGNED by Sen. CLARK CLIFFORD (Sec. of Defence during the study's final stages); and a Postal First Day Cover SIGNED by PAUL WARNKE (Dept. of Defense official involved inthe sudy). $15.00 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Bonus: Comes with a unsigned 1st Edition/1st Printing hardcover copy of Ellsberg's "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentaagon Papers"). Unique item concerning the Pentagon Papers. NOTE: No International orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED Associated Items.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Book has light shelf wear, light bumping to top edge of pages. Interior clean and otherwise appears unread. 309 pages. Print on demand copy. Signed by Author(s).