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THE GOOD TIMES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second memoir - in this book he chronicles the growth of his journalistic career, from newsboy, to police reporter and White House correspondent, to columnist, during the 1950s and early 1960s - including recounting the mischances and lucky breaks that influenced his decision to write satiric or thoughtful commentary rather than go for the scoop. Photographs. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-688061702.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74708More details Price: $16.50 -
OUTLINES: A Collection of Brief Imaginative Studies Related to Many Phases of Thought and Feeling, and Representing an Effort to Give an Interpretation to Familiar Human Experiences
Edition: First edition.
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co., (1913). Hardcover first edition - A collection of brief allegories originally published in the San Francisco Bulletin, where Barry was a columnist. Preface by Barry commenting on the reason he wrote these and the responses - both critical and praise - which he received. x, 179 pp.
Condition: Very good in brown boards with lighter brown cloth spine, gilt and dark brown lettering and decoration (faint gift inscription on front endpaper dated Christmas, 1914)
Book ID: 77053More details Price: $21.50 -
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY.
Edition: First thus- first Bonibooks edition.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, (1935). Hardcover - A relatively early and uncommon reprint of this work which was overlooked on its initial publication but is now considerred a classic. The preface notes that these were originally written by Bierce, a newspaperman, between 1881 and 1906,as part of his column "The Cynic's Word Book." However, literary critic H. L, Mencken praised it highly - "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language. É some of the most devastating epigrams ever written.Ó 376 pp.
Condition: Near fine in mauve cloth with darker mauve lettering, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 90602More details Price: $35.00 -
SHOELEATHER AND PRINTERS' INK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Quadrangle Books, 1974. Hardcover first edition - A half century of the stories behind the stories by NY newspapermen - experiences and afterthoughts selected from issues of the Silurain News, 1924-1974.
Condition: F/F.
Book ID: 2403More details Price: $15.00 -
PEGGY COVERS THE NEWS.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in ivory colored cloth with black and red lettering, no dust jacket (some light soiling to covers)
Book ID: 86751More details Price: $75.00 -
REPORTING: An Inside View.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Sacramento: California Journal Press, (1977). First edition - A look at how the press worked in the post-Watergate era - among other things, it describes the relationship between reporters and politicians both in California and in Washington D.C. Bibliography, index. ix, 308 pp. ISBN: 0-930302133.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77945More details Price: $13.50 -
13 FOR CORWIN.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: USC School of Journalism / Perpetua Press, (1985). Hardcover first edition - "13 essays on the art of communication written by friends" on Norman Corwin's 75th birthday. Includes contributions by Studs Terkel, Charles Kuralt, Norman Lear, Norman Cousins, Erik Barnouw, Philip Dunne, Peter Davis, Richard J. Goggin, Jerome Lawrence, James A. Brown, Robert E. Lee, Leonard Leader, Earl Robinson and Robert Nathan. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. The "Grand Old Man" of radio, Corwin came to fame with a series of broadcasts and programs for CBS in the 1940s and remained influential for the next 40 years. 112 pp.
Condition: Fine in violet-red cloth with silver lettering.
Book ID: 66631More details Price: $25.00 -
TOO OLD, TOO UGLY AND NOT DEFERENTIAL TO MEN.
Edition: First hardcover printing.
Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An anchorwoman's courageous battle against sex discrimination." An account of Craft's sucessful 1983 lawsuit after being fired for being "too old, too ugly and not deferential." Foreword by Larry King. INSCRIBED on the title page. Perhaps even more relevant now than it was when first published. Photographs. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-914629-654.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 49098More details Price: $25.00 -
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: A Study of the Legal Doctrine of "Qualified Privilege."
Edition: First printing.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1924. Hardcover first edition - Includes a foreword by Henry Woodward Sackett in which he notes that "the heart of this doctrine is the right of the people of a free nation to have published for their information what their rulers - their public officials - are doing" and this was only achieved after a long struggle in England and in the United States. Related to this are chapters discussing libel laws. Bibliography. 120 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan boards with a brown cloth spine, paper labels on spine (dustiness to covers, corners slightly worn)
Book ID: 89676More details Price: $25.00 -
POTENTIAL: The Way to Emotional Maturity.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Informal excursions down the road to a better world" by this radio and television journalist and host. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Index. x, 227 pp. ISBN: 0-385-037422.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 61248More details Price: $30.00 -
THE TIMES OF MY LIFE and My Life with The Times.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Random House, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - Memoir of the noted journalist told in tandem with the "big news stories" of the time, starting with his boyhood in Nazi Germany and his wartime escape with his mother to New York. During the next half century he worked at the NY Times, he held just about every important position on the paper-- foreign correspondent (winner of Pulitzer Prize), Washington Bureau chief, executive editior, etc. Photographs. Index. 546 pp. ISBN: 0-679448241.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34748More details Price: $12.50 -
THE EXPERTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Macmillan, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by two award winning journalists described on the front cover as a 'scathing indictment of the opinion makers who flood the press, the networdk and ...our government with their special brand of instanteous wisdom.' A look at affairs the world over - NATO, Germany, Africa, Asia, Latin America, etc. Index. 498 pages.
Condition: Very good+ in like dust jacket.
Book ID: 20709More details Price: $20.00 -
NAKED IN BAGHDAD: The Iraq War as Seen By NPR's Correspondent.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED by the author on a bookplate on the front endpaper. "Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reporting, and for her independent take on what she sees. . . at its heart is her evolving relationship with her Iraqui driver/minder, Amer, who becomes her friend and confidant." 222 pp. ISBN: 0-374-529035.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57057More details Price: $18.00 -
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation, (1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of thirty-one articles, by contributors including Francis Brown, Frank Stanton, Robert W. Sarnoff, Rick Friedman, and others, which cover a wide range of ethical and moral issues relating to the press' struggle to reach and sustain higher standards of responsibility. Among the specific topics covered are the Warren Commission Report, television journalism, the film industry, public television, and much more. Appendix, Indexed, 416 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in a good dust jacket (some rubbing to the dj, tape repairs to interior of dj.)
Book ID: 45134More details Price: $25.00 -
ALL I DID WAS ASK: Conversations with Writers, Actors Musicians, and Artists.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of thirty-nine interviews by by the award-winning host of NPR's interview program 'Fresh Air.' Each selection is preceded by an explanation from Gross of why each guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. Included are interviews with John Updike, Isabella Rossellini, Conan OÕBrien, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Nicolas Cage, Ann Bannon, Walter Mosley, Sonny Rollins, Mario Puzo, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, Eric Clapton, Joyce Johnson and others. Introduction by Gross. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-4013-00103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75186More details Price: $18.50 -
ALL I DID WAS ASK: Conversations with Writers, Actors Musicians, and Artists.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirty-nine interviews by by the award-winning host of NPR's interview program 'Fresh Air.' Each selection is preceded by an explanation from Gross of why each guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. SIGNED by TWO authors: Ann Bannon at "You Will Not Find the Word 'Lesbian" and Andre Dubus III at his interview. Also included are interviews with John Updike, Isabella Rossellini, Conan OÕBrien, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Nicolas Cage, Walter Mosley, Sonny Rollins, Mario Puzo, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, Eric Clapton, Joyce Johnson, Andre Dubus and others. Introduction by Gross. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-4013-00103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58378More details Price: $35.00 -
ALL I DID WAS ASK: Conversations with Writers, Actors Musicians, and Artists.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirty-nine interviews by by the award-winning host of NPR's interview program 'Fresh Air.' Each selection is preceded by an explanation from Gross of why each guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. SIGNED by THREE of the guests: Ann Bannon at "You Will Not Find the Word 'Lesbian"; Walter Mosley at "We All Die" and Andre Dubus III at his interview. Also included are interviews with John Updike, Isabella Rossellini, Conan OÕBrien, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Nicolas Cage, Sonny Rollins, Mario Puzo, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, Eric Clapton, Joyce Johnson, Andre Dubus and others. Introduction by Gross. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-4013-00103.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43420More details Price: $45.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on wildfire (including what went wrong at the Storm King Fire) and wars around the world (Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kashmir) ; the second book by the author of "The Perfect Storm." SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010465.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47361More details Price: $28.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on wildfire (including what went wrong at the Storm King Fire) and wars around the world (Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kashmir) ; the second book by the author of "The Perfect Storm." 224 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010465.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 54108More details Price: $17.50 -
FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on wildfire (including what went wrong at the Storm King Fire) and wars around the world (Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kashmir) ; the second book by the author of "The Perfect Storm." SIGNED on title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010465.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35085More details Price: $30.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A collection of essays on wildfire and wars around the world; the second book by the author of "The Perfect Storm." SIGNED on title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010465.
Condition: Good only in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 34224More details Price: $16.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: HarperCollins, 2002. SIGNED - A collection of essays on wildfire and wars around the world. INSCRIBED on the title page. Includes a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword on the significance of the attack on 9/11. ISBN: 0-06-0088613.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 23771More details Price: $16.00 -
FIRE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: HarperCollins, 2002. SIGNED - A collection of essays on wildfire and wars around the world. Includes a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword on the significance of the attack on 9/11. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0088613.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 23770More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MIDDLE BEAT: A Correspondent's View of Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Teachers College Press -Columbia University, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of this collection of Kennedy's reports from 1954 to 1965 when he was the New York Times chief correspondent in Mexico and Central America. Glossy photographs throughout, introduction by the editor, Stanley R. Ross, and a preface by Kennedy, The fourth title in a series sponsored by the Center for Education in Latin America. Index, xix, 235 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61373More details Price: $20.00 -
OFF CAMERA: Private Thoughts Made Public.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the events of the year 1999 by this respected television newsmen, and also a look back at his own life. As the long time anchor of "Nightline" he won 32 Emmy's and numerous other awards. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410775.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34629More details Price: $12.50 -
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in gray illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63224More details Price: $20.00 -
LIVING YOUR LIFE: Based on the CBS Radio Network Series "Getting Along."
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 184 radio commentaries on topics ranging from divorce, death, parenting, weight and self-esteem, to humorous and everyday subjects. Index, xv, 249 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0149582.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (underlining on a few pages at the front of the book).
Book ID: 61331More details Price: $15.00 -
THE COMPANY THAT BOUGHT THE BOARDWALK: A Reporter's Story of Resorts International Came to Atlantic City.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A detailed examination of Resorts International's financial dealings and of the company's connections with Watergate and such figures as Bebe Rebozo and Robert Vesco draws on FBI Justice Department records." Review copy with author's photo laid in.Index. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-394509781.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71618More details Price: $20.00 -
LAST STAND: Logging, Journalism, and the Case for Humility.
Edition: Uncorrected proof.
Layton, UT Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1991. Journalist Richard Manning tells the story of loss and destruction brought about by big business in collusion with the government. Defying norms imposed by the journalism industry, Manning quits his job as a journalist for the MISSOULIAN and becomes committed to understanding and preserving forest ecology. 179 pgs.
Condition: Near fine. Some rubbing to back wrapper.
Book ID: 19874More details Price: $18.00 -
COMMITTING JOURNALISM:The Prison Writings of Red Hog.
Edition: First printing.
NY & London: Norton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of writings of Red Hog, a man 'put away' for bank robbery - sent to Lompoc Federal penitentiary for 31 years - and then 'put in the hole' for writing the truth about what happens in the prison system. Interwoven with Martin's essays and columns is San Francisco journalist Peter Sussman's account of their unusual and award-winning collaboration. The author's first book. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-393-035743.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 27353More details Price: $25.00