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NIGERIA: Breaking the Stranglehold of the Neocolonial Elites: An Appeal to the People
Edition: First printing, a slim trade paperback.
Leeds, UK: Iroko Press, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - A study of the politics and government , armed forces and economic conditions since 1960. Foreword by Kunle Olajide of the Nigerian Patriotic Front (NPF). Egbezor begins by quoting Chinua Achebe "The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the first page and dated in the year of publication. Bilbiography. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-952911604.
Condition: Very good+ in glossy red and black wrappers (crease to upper corner of front cover.) Very uncommon.
Book ID: 40090More details Price: $40.00 -
THE FLOATING ISLAND: A Tale of Washington.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1985. First edition - A satirical novel about government bureaucracy, involving a "treacherous journalist, a bumptiously brilliant grant seeker, representatives from the mysterious Temple of Ray, and the hapless organizers of a presidential campaign who interfere with the back stabbing and status-seeking antics at Washington's Division of Evaluation, Training, and Morale." Annie Dillard called this "wonderfully, howlingly funny.. . a tour de force that sends up not only Washington politics but all contemporary culture." 286 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86353More details Price: $16.50 -
THE FLOATING ISLAND: A Tale of Washington.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A satirical novel about government bureaucracy, involving a "treacherous journalist, a bumptiously brilliant grant seeker, representatives from the mysterious Temple of Ray, and the hapless organizers of a presidential campaign who interfere with the back stabbing and status-seeking antics at Washington's Division of Evaluation, Training, and Morale." Annie Dillard called this "wonderfully, howlingly funny.. . a tour de force that sends up not only Washington politics but all contemporary culture." 286 pp. ISBN: 0-395-377021.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 21680More details Price: $21.50 -
THE FLOATING ISLAND: A Tale of Washington.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A satirical novel about government bureaucracy, involving a "treacherous journalist, a bumptiously brilliant grant seeker, representatives from the mysterious Temple of Ray, and the hapless organizers of a presidential campaign who interfere with the back stabbing and status-seeking antics at Washington's Division of Evaluation, Training, and Morale." Annie Dillard called this "wonderfully, howlingly funny.. . a tour de force that sends up not only Washington politics but all contemporary culture." 286 pp. ISBN: 0-395-377021.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86352More details Price: $21.50 -
THE LIMITS OF PRIVACY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Basic Books (Perseus), (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A different look at one of the most important - and threatened - American rights: one in which the right to privacy is balanced against concern for public safety and health. Extensive notes, index. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-465040896.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 41773More details Price: $15.00 -
WAY OUT THERE IN THE BLUE:Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another book by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Fire in the Lake." Author uses Star Wars to show a new perspective on Ronald Reagan both as a president and as a man. 592 pp. with glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN: 0-684-844168.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 26565More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SCANDAL PLAN: Or: How to Win the Presidency by Cheating on Your Wife.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a wild satire on political campaigns: A candidate will go to outrageous lengths to land the American presidency, but things get out of hand. SIGNED on the title page. . 448 p. ISBN: 0-06-144765X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45611More details Price: $28.00 -
10 LB PENALTY.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Putnam, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in the world of horse racing, but also, in this case a coming of age story of a young man whose main ambition is to be an amateur steeplechase jockey, while his father's ambition is to become prime minister. ISBN: 0-399-143025.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22707More details Price: $15.00 -
JESSIE BENTON FREMONT: A Biography.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88288More details Price: $25.00 -
OFF THE SIDELINES: Raise Your Voice, Change the World.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Both a personal account of Gillibrand's life and those who influenced her as she progressed from attorney to Congress to the US Senate and a call for women to become more involved. Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by Gillibrand "Your voice matters! Thank you for being a role model." Illustrated with color photographs. List of resources. 194 pp. ISBN: 978-0804179072.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (short tear to bottom of dj at fold of flap).
Book ID: 74791More details Price: $30.00 -
GOLDWATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the distinguished conservative presidential candidate and senator from Arizona. Photographs, index. 414 pp. ISBN: 0-385-239475.
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket (spine slant, prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 31391More details Price: $12.50 -
TEAM OF RIVALS: The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A massive, but well-researched, well-written and innovative look at Lincoln's political abilities by this Pulitzer Prize winning author - an account of how Lincoln brought his former rivals into his cabinet and used their political gifts to preserve the Union during the Civil War. Photographs. Extensive notes, index. 916 pp. ISBN: 0-684824906.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88418More details Price: $25.00 -
LIFT EVERY VOICE: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An insider's account of what really happened behind the closed doors of the Oval Office, the Justice Department, and the U.S. Senate, when Lani Guinier's nomination by Clinton for the post of Assistant Attorney General raised a storm of controvery on the Right. As well as being in part a memoir, this offers insightful look at the past, present, and future of civil rights in America. Sources, index. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-684-811456.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 54337More details Price: $18.50 -
ON TRANSFORMING AFRICA: Discourse with Africa's Leaders
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, (1987.). First edition - A critique of the African condition and those responsible for the present state of affairs by a press aide to Kwame Nkrumah. Includes working definitions of key words, index. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-86543-0454.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 24961More details Price: $10.00 -
SOUTHERN AFRICA AND THE UNITED STATES.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains four long studies on the factors affecting relations between the US and the nations of the subcontinent in the light of changing attitudes in both continents - contents include Southern Africa and its implications for American policy by Vernon McKay; New white politics in South Africa by Munger; The political situation of non-whites in South Africa by Kuper and The case for and against US disengagement from South Africa by Hance. Editor's postscript, bibliography. 171 pp
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall very good - tight and clean in dark burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket as issued .
Book ID: 31664More details Price: $12.50 -
STREET WARS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York W. W. Norton & Company. (2004). Author Tom Hayden's indictment of the " neoconsevatoive politics of law and order that dominate current policy and suffocate inner-city youth." Presented with a new preface on the globalization of gangs, includes index, and notes. 432 pp. ISBN: 1595580301.
Condition: Very good (remainder line)
Book ID: 60699More details Price: $12.00 -
STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger and Mourning on the American Right.
Edition: 4th printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72485More details Price: $35.00 -
FORTY-SEVENTH STAR: New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (2012). First edition - A definitive and readable look at why it took more than 60 years (from 1848 to 1912) for New Mexico to finally become a state. Photographs, map, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xix, 362 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59273More details Price: $21.50 -
TEN MINUTES FROM NORMAL
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this women who was one of a small group of insiders, counselors to President George W. Bush, but who left the White House to put her family life in Texas first. Photographs, index. 346 pp. ISBN: 0-670-033057.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46304More details Price: $12.50 -
NOTHIN' BUT GOOD TIMES AHEAD
Edition: Trade paperback. QPBC edition.
New York: Random House, 1993. A scathing - and humorous - look at current political affairs.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 15154More details Price: $10.00 -
VACLAV HAVEL: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Basic Books (Perseus), (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Havel is one of the 20th century's great playwrights, dissidents, and champion of democracy - along with Nelson Mandela he navigated the gulf between political prisoner and President of his country. This authorized biography, based on unrestricted access to Havel, his friends and even his enemies, is the first definitive account of this Czech leader. Photographs, guide to pronunciation, index. 535 pp. ISBN: 0-465-037194.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34867More details Price: $18.00 -
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 -
THE TRIAL OF JOMO KENYATTA.
Edition: First edition.
London: Secker & Warburg, (1955.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive account of the trial of Jomo Kenyatta, a trial which took 5 months in the winter of 1952-53, on charges of being the leader of Kenya's Mau-Mau. Index of incidents. 255 pp.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (the usual rather severe browning to the pages, front endpaper clipped at top) in a dust jacket for the US market with the price in dollars of $4.50.
Book ID: 48648More details Price: $30.00 -
SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM: Selected Passages 1956 -1963.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1963. First edition - Excerpts from speeches, reports and public statements. Photograph of Khrushchev on front cover. 176 pages.
Condition: Very good- (some rubbing to covers, a rather fragile publication). Uncommon.
Book ID: 22743More details Price: $25.00 -
PRIMARY COLORS: A Novel of Politics.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Best selling novel, an account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state, the subject of much controversy and the basis of the movie of the same name starring John Travolta. Went quickly into many later printings, but despite a lot of speculation, the anonymity of the author was preserved for many months. SIGNED by the author on the title page as "Anonymous JK" 366 pp. ISBN: 0-679-448594.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 26135More details Price: $100.00 -
PRIMARY COLORS: A Novel of Politics.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Best selling novel, an account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state, the subject of much controversy and the basis of the movie of the same name starring John Travolta. Went quickly into many later printings, but despite a lot of speculation, the anonymity of the author was preserved for many months. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-679-448594.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50330More details Price: $24.50 -
PRIMARY COLORS: A Novel of Politics.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Best selling novel, an account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state, the subject of much controversy and the basis of the movie of the same name starring John Travolta. Went quickly into many later printings, but despite a lot of speculation, the anonymity of the author was preserved for many months. Notation on title page "Joe Klein, Newsweek, 7-17-96 . 366 pp. ISBN: 0-679-448594.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46951More details Price: $17.50 -
PRIMARY COLORS: A Novel of Politics.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Best selling novel, an account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state, the subject of much controversy and the basis of the movie of the same name starring John Travolta. Went quickly into many later printings, but despite a lot of speculation, the anonymity of the author was preserved for many months. Notation on title page "Joe Klein, Newsweek, 7-17-96 . 366 pp. ISBN: 0-679-448594.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (previous owner's name.)
Book ID: 42959More details Price: $15.00 -
PRIMARY COLORS: A Novel of Politics.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Best selling novel, an account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state, the subject of much controversy and the basis of the movie of the same name starring John Travolta. Went quickly into many later printings, but despite a lot of speculation, the anonymity of the author was preserved for many months. SIGNED by the author on the title page as "Anonymous JK" and uncommon thus. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-679-448594.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (spine slant, previous owner's name)
Book ID: 33983More details Price: $30.00 -
PRIMARY COLORS: A Novel of Politics.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Best selling novel, an account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state, the subject of much controversy and the basis of the movie of the same name starring John Travolta. Went quickly into many later printings, but despite a lot of speculation, the anonymity of the author was preserved for many months. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-679-448594.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 34071More details Price: $14.50