Secrets by Daniel Ellsberg, First Edition (12 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 498 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. 498 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. Hardcover. Memoir of one of the most critical and controversial events of late 20th century American history, the leaking to the New York Times and 1971 publication of the top secret "Penatgon Papers". Ellsberg, a former U.S. Marine company commander and later Pentagon official, set out in October, 1969 , to turn around American foreign policy by smuggling out of his offive and making public a seven-thousand-page top secret study of decision making in Vietnam. He was first exposed to the government's lying as early as August, 1964 and the more he learned over time the more skeptical he became about propects for military victory in Vietnam. He had a two-year in-country assignment with the State Department after which he became convinced thet the Johnson Administrations' policies were hopeless. The subsequent furor over publication eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition with complete number line. Flat-signed nicely on title page. Previous owner name on endpaper. Both book and dust jacket are in great shape, very clean and sharp, essentially as new. Jacket now protected in an archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Vg/VG Condition. Ellsberg's account of his own role in the Pentagon Papers release. Signed by Ellsberg on bookplate. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. INSCRIBED to previous owner by author Daniel Ellsberg. FIRST ED. Very Good in Very Good, unclipped dust jacket. Little wear to jacket edges and corners, small liquid stain to spine (back of jacket). Liquid stain to bottom text block edge, no warping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition, First Printing of this memoir by Daniel Ellsberg about his association with a secret government history of the Vietnam War and his consequential decision to leak the classified project to the New York Times and Washington Post. The release of what were dubbed "The Pentagon Papers" amplified public protest of the war in Vietnam, heightened mistrust in government, and launched a milestone freedom of the press case. In the aftermath, President Richard Nixon's "Plumbers" went to work on Ellsberg, resulting later in infamous revelations during the Watergate hearings. Signed by Daniel Ellsberg on the title page. 498 pages, illustrated. The book has light bumps on the bottom corners, a bit of rubbing on the back cover, and a small ink dot on the bottom page edge. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First. Three decades after making history by releasing the Pentagon Papers, the former U.S. Marine and Pentagon insider reveals why he did it and discusses the consequences to his life. Daniel Ellsberg (1931 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. This copy is fine with dark gray cloth spine on light gray paper-covered boards and silver titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ is also pristine. Inscribed by Ellsberg in the year of publication on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication to environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill, including a clause from the book "Carting your whole vote.your whole influence" (see pg 263). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photos, 9.5 x 6.25", two-tone boards, 498pp with index, extremities bumped, top edge of covers sunned else a nice, clean copy in an edge-bumped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, DANIEL ELLSBERG, ON THE TITLE PAGE. SCARCE signed copy.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. First edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Signed.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Feb 2, 2003. To Tom Hughes - With the greatest respect for your wisdom and foresight in this tragedy - if only your views had prevailed! Dan Ellsberg". Ellsberg's memoir recounts his role in the 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers, which revealed that the United States had secretly expanded the Vietnam War. The recipient, Thomas Hughes, served as Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 1963 to 1969, where he was a powerful voice warning against escalation in Vietnam. In 1968, Hughes commissioned his own internal intelligence study into the war, which Time Magazine dubbed "the State Department's version of the Pentagon Papers" (Smith, p. 4). The report, which found similar conclusions to the Pentagon Papers, remained classified until 2004. Upon its final publication, Hughes wrote that its authors "have the ironic satisfaction of knowing that most of our forecasts have been vindicated by history. We can only lament that, while we were heeded, we were unable to persuade, sway, or prevail when it came to the ultimate decisions" (ibid.). Hughes's ownership signature is on the front free endpaper, and he has profusely underlined and annotated the text in red and black ink. Bruce L. R. Smith, The Last Gentleman: Thomas Hughes and the End of the American Century, 2021. Octavo. Original grey boards, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Very light rubbing at extremities; a few nicks to unclipped jacket. A very good copy in very good jacket.