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  • TAKING ON THE TRUST: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller. by Weinberg, Steve.
    Weinberg, Steve.
    TAKING ON THE TRUST: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "How an investigative journalist brought down Standard Oil." Both a fascinating picture of the beginning of investigative journalism in the US - or muckracking - and the early history of the oil industry, and a biography of two strong-willed and determined people. Photographs, bibliography, index. xv, 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0393-049350.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 50893
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  • FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Postatomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. by Weller, George ( Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited by Anthony Weller.)
    Weller, George ( Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited by Anthony Weller.)
    FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Postatomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe and then set out to explore the devastation inflicted on Nagasaki. Censored by General MacArthur in 1945, lost for 60 years, these never-before-published reports provide a moving, unparalleled look at the bomb that killed more than 70,000 people and ended WWII. Also includes other published reports on the horrors of Japan's Pow Camps. Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Edited with an essay by Anthony Weller, the son of George Weller. Photographs. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-307-342018.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 45137
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  • THE YOUNG EDITOR. by White, Matthew Jr.
    White, Matthew Jr.
    THE YOUNG EDITOR.

    Edition: Early reprint.

    Philadelphia: David McKay, (1900, c 1889). Hardcover - Story for older boys set in the world of journalism -includes a mystery about a missing father. Glossy frontispiece by C. M. Relyea. 321 pp.

    Condition: Very good in cream cloth with black and red illustrations and lettering (Christmas gift inscription in pencil)

    Book ID: 68281
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  • Wilentz, Amy.
    THE RAINY SEASON: Haiti Since Duvalier.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Jonathan Cape, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fascinating first-hand account of events in Haiti beginning 4 days before the ouster of President-for-Life, Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, and the following weeks and months - A story of change and how liberation did not lead to reform but to chaos and stagnation. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. Bibliography, index. 427 pp. ISBN: 0-224025635.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 37547
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  • THE RAINY SEASON: Haiti Since Duvalier. by Wilentz, Amy.
    Wilentz, Amy.
    THE RAINY SEASON: Haiti Since Duvalier.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fascinating first-hand account of events in Haiti beginning 4 days before the ouster of President-for-Life, Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, and the following weeks and months - A story of change and how liberation did not lead to reform but to chaos and stagnation. SIGNED on the title page. Maps. Bibliography, index. 427 pp. ISBN: 0-671-641867.

    Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some sunning to the spine of the dj.).

    Book ID: 61088
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  • THE FRACTURE ZONE: A Return to the Balkans. by Winchester, Simon.
    Winchester, Simon.
    THE FRACTURE ZONE: A Return to the Balkans.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: HarperCollins, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The title comes from the following comment by Winchester: 'if the underlying crust of the earth in the Balkans is cracked and shifing along great fault lines, so the people of the Balkans are affectd by the faulty lines made by man.' Although written while the war in Kosovo was actually happening, this is not so much a book about the war as it is an intimate portrait of the area and the people painted during a time of war and conflict. It is also an attempt to understand what has led the region to violence - and the causes that will inevitably result in more violence in the…

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    New York: HarperCollins, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The title comes from the following comment by Winchester: 'if the underlying crust of the earth in the Balkans is cracked and shifing along great fault lines, so the people of the Balkans are affectd by the faulty lines made by man.' Although written while the war in Kosovo was actually happening, this is not so much a book about the war as it is an intimate portrait of the area and the people painted during a time of war and conflict. It is also an attempt to understand what has led the region to violence - and the causes that will inevitably result in more violence in the future. Includes some suggestions for further reading. 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0195746.

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    Condition: SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy but with lower corners bumped)

    Book ID: 51758
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  • WHITE KIDS. by Wolff, Michael.
    Wolff, Michael.
    WHITE KIDS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Summit Books, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A revolution, a crime, a remarkable boy, a honeymoon, a war - A generation revealed 1970-1979." Wolff's first book, a series of essays which show what happened to some white kids after the 60s ended - including the story of Angela Atwood, a neighbor of his family who helped kidnap Patricia Hearst as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army - although he uses a quote from James Baldwin as an epigraph: ". . .the troubles of what people failed to impress me as being real troubles." Wolff is best known now for his trilogy of unflattering books about Trump's presidency. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671400010.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, slight spine slant)

    Book ID: 85429
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  • THE BRETHREN: Inside the Supreme Court. by Woodward, Bob and Scott Armstrong.
    Woodward, Bob and Scott Armstrong.
    THE BRETHREN: Inside the Supreme Court.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - These reporters now classic study of the US Supreme Court, of the men and women who are justices, and of its landmark decisions during the 1960s and 1970s. Reprinted many times, this is relatively uncommon in first printing. Photographs. Index. 467 pp. ISBN: 0-671-241109.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 56982
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  • DONALD KIRK: The Morning Record Copy-Boy, #1 in series. by Woolley, Edward Mott (1867-1947)
    Woolley, Edward Mott (1867-1947)
    DONALD KIRK: The Morning Record Copy-Boy, #1 in series.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, 1912. Hardcover first edition - The first of two books in this series by an author who spent most of his life in the newspaper business (his memoir is called " Free-Lancing for Forty Magazines." Although Donald Kirk has been denied the education he desired, he is determined to learn and progress in his career. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece with a tissue guard and three internal glossy plates by George Varian. 273 pp. plus 4 pp publisher's ads. Cover by the Decorative Designers with their DD monogram.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated cream cloth (a bit of foxing to the spine but overall a tight, clean and very attractive copy).

    Book ID: 76022
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  • Young, John V.
    HOT TYPE & PONY WIRE: My Life as a California Reporter from Prohibition to Pearl Harbor.

    Edition: First printing.

    Santa Cruz, CA: Western Tanager Press, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A picture both of the changes in journalism over the years, but also of the changes in California - among the stories which he wrote about were the 1933 double lynching in San Jose's St. James Park, the Salinas lettuce strike of 1936, the first automobile down the Big Sur highway, the ghost towns of the Santa Cruz mountains, and more. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in 1980.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 13286
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