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Washington DC: NASA Office of Communications, Public Outreach Division, NASA History Program Office, 2016. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. viii, 164 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Chronology. Index. Some cover wear noted. Includes Foreword, Introduction, The Chronology, Acronyms and Abbreviations, NASA History Series, and Index. Following the first volume of Walking to Olympus: An EVA Chronology, which recounted the period from the first spacewalks in 1965 to the end of the Shuttle-Mir program in 1997, this second volume of Walking to Olympus spans the period from 1997 to the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. It includes not only spacewalks performed by American and European astronauts and the Russian/Soviet cosmonauts, but also those of the newest members of the EVA community, the taikonauts of the People's Republic of China. Several key events and themes from this period include the building… Leer más

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. very good, very good. oversized, 416, illus., index. Inscribed by the editor (Taaffe) to Charlie Brotman, stadium announcer for the Washington Senators. A collection of articles from the archives of The New York Times, selected to represent the most important event of each calendar day from any sport--horse racing to boxing, soccer to the Olympics.

Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company, 1969. Eleventh Edition. fair. illus., thumb-indexed pages, front board weakened and reglued Covers medicine, surgery, nursing, dietetics, physical therapy, treatments,drugs, and more.

Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2012. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xv, [1], 363, [5] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Preface, and About the Author. Book of the year sticker on DJ front. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Inscription reads: To Fireside Forum, for the Library. Sara Mansfield Taber. From literary journalist Sara Mansfield Taber comes a deep and wondrous memoir of her exotic childhood as the daughter of a covert CIA operative. Born under an Assumed Name portrays the thrilling and confusing life of a girl growing up abroad in a world of secrecy and diplomacy-and the heavy toll it takes on her and her father. As Taber leads us on a tour through the alluring countries to which her father is assigned, we track two parallel stories-those of young Sara and her Cold War spy father. Sara struggles for normalcy as the family is relocated to cities in North America, Europe, and Asia, and the constant upheaval eventually exacts its price. Only after a… Leer más

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961. First? Edition. First? Printing. very good, good. 25 cm, 628, footnotes, index, some soiling to DJ and top edge of book, DJ worn and frayed at edges.

Place_Pub: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. First Printing. good, ex-lib.. 436, frontis illus., index, usual library marks, bds somewhat worn & soiled, some edge soil, parts of DJ cut off & pasted ins flylf.

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1966. Reprint. Third printing [state]. Trade paperback. Good. Stamp of Congressman William D. Ford on half-title. Cover has some wear and soiling.. xv, [1], 446, [2] p.; 22 cm. Bibliography. Index. Includes material first presented at orientation seminars for freshman Congressmen held in 1959 and 1963. From Wikipedia: "Morris King "Mo" Udall (June 15, 1922 December 12, 1998) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona from May 2, 1961 to May 4, 1991. A former professional basketball player with the Denver Nuggets during their National Basketball League period, noted for his liberal views, Udall was a tall (6'5"), Lincolnesque figure with a self-deprecating wit and easy manner. Because of his wit, columnist James J. Kilpatrick deemed him "too funny to be president", which also ended up being the title of his autobiography in the 1980s. Udall earned a law degree from the University of… Leer más

Fort Leavenworth, KS: United States, Army, Command and General Staff College, 1983. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling.. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. Various paginations (approximately 220 pages). Occasional footnotes. This presents a snapshot of the state of information/knowledge shortly after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1971. good. 24 cm, 1046, illus., references, large volume, somewhat shaken. Inscribed by the author (Irene Taeuber). Lengthy inscription from the author may refer to Helen Zitter, mentioned on p. vi. A 1960 census monograph. The statistical reports resulting from a decennial census can supply only a fraction of the information and insights that are available from this important source.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1985. First Dover Edition [stated], presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. Good. The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11 inches. iv, [2], 228, [4] pages. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations (all black and white--some in original 1979 McGraw-Hill publication were in color). Selected Frank Lloyd Wright buildings open to the public. Index. Some cover wear. Edgar A. Tafel (March 12, 1912 - January 18, 2011) was an American architect, best known as a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. Tafel was born in New York City and moved to New Jersey with his dressmaking parents. He was educated at the Ferrer Center and Colony, the Walden School in Manhattan, and New York University. Tafel began his career as an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin along with Wesley Peters, John "Jack" Howe and Abram Dombar, among others. Tafel was considered the "unofficial guardian of the Frank Lloyd Wright School", despite the rift that had developed between Tafel and his… Leer más

New York: Simon & Schuster, c1999. First Printing. very good, good. 253, index, some wear to DJ edges, some soiling to rear DJ. Inscribed by the author. Richard Tafel, head of the Log Cabin Republicans, analyzes the past, present, and future of gay politics in the United States.

New York: Simon & Schuster, c1999. First Printing. very good, good. 256, index, minor edge soiling, pencil erasure on front endpaper, tear at top of DJ spine. Richard Tafel, head of the Log Cabin Republicans, analyzes the past, present, and future of gay politics in the United States.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. Sixth edition (first in this form). Hardcover. Good. Cover has some wear and soiling.. 346, [2] p. Includes index. Occasional footnotes. This is an account of the work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-Leaders, Torpedo-Boats and Patrol Boats in the Great War.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1885. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Usual library markings. Cover has wear and soiling. Somewhat shaken. Corner of fep clipped.. xvi, 654 p. Table of Cases. Index. Scarce item. Two previous compilations had been made. The first was by Clarke and Hall covered some cases from 1789 to 1834. The second was by Bartlerr, which covered some cases from 1834 to 1865. This volume contains the Senate cases from 1789 to December 1885, containing not only contested cases, but all cases in which the right to a seat of any persone who had presented credentials had been questioned and for which the Senate had deemed proper to investigate or to discuss the question.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. very good, ex-lib., good. 321, illus., maps, bibliographical note, notes, index, library stamp on fore-edge (only library marking), some soiling to rear DJ. The author tracks America's rise to become a global power through a series of biographical portraits of key players who engineered America's foreign policy from the start of the twentieth century. Among these key players were Sumner Welles, George Kennan, Averell Harriman, Chester Bowles, John Foster Dulles, and Henry Cabot Lodge. The influence of the Spanish-American War on Henry Cabot Lodge is discussed on pp. 211-213.

Los Angeles, CA: Nash Pub. Company, 1973. First Printing. very good, very good. 23 cm, 293, sticker residue on DJ spine. Foreword by Robert D. Murphy.

New York: Harper, [1959]. First Edition. fair to good. 24 cm, 499, v.2 only of a 2-vol. set, references, index, boards somewhat worn and soiled. The second and concluding volume of the author's study covers the National Industrial Recovery Act, World War II, the Korean War, the steel and automobile industries, and the search for a united labor movement.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8 inches. 127, [1] pages. Footnotes. DJ worn and chipped, DJ in plastic sleeve, bottom of front endpaper torn off & pencil erasure. Signed by the author on the fep. Major work by a leading conservative Republican and Presidential aspirant. Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who prevented expansion of the New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he co-sponsored the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops, created the concept of right-to-work states, and regulated other labor practices. He was the elder son of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United… Leer más

New York: Association Press, 1922. fair. 25 cm, 636 & 664, 2-vol. set, maps & charts (some fold-out, some color), appendices, index, foxing to text, bds stained, binding shaken. Some damp stains at bottom edge, board corners bumped.

Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1935. fair to good. 297, photostats, ftnotes, apps, index, pencil underlining erased, text sl wrinkled (no pgs stuck), sp letters faded & some edge wr. Based on unpublished materials in the Russian archives, this book traces militant anti-Semitism as a Czarist governmental policy, especially in the 1913 trial of a Jew accused of murdering a Christian boy to use his blood in Jewish ritual.