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Legacy of Tom Dooley, The
by Elliott, Lawrence
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company Times Mirror, 1970. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Endpapers (Free and Fixed) Pulled From Removal of Pocket, Jacket Cover; Rear Fixed Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The story of the splendid young Americans who have kept alive the work of the great Tom Dooley. With a foreword by Malcolm W. Dooley. BOOK NUMBER: A3309. JACKET PHOTO COURTESY OF: The Thomas A. Dooley Foundation, Inc. CONTENTS: Foreword by Malcolm W. Dooley; I. Chaney; II. On the Other Side of Greenwich Village; III. Quang Ngai; IV. Ban Houei Sai; V. Khong Island; VI. What Can One Person Do?; VII. The Purdys; VIII. The Splendid Americans; IX. To Sail a Dark River; Illustrations following page 112. SYNOPSIS: With Tom Dooley's tragic death in 1961, his relief operations in Asia seemed doomed. But a handful of his associates determined that his vision and compassion would live on. Under Dr. Verne Chaney, they founded the Thomas A. Dooley Foundation to provide the personal devotion to the poor and sick that Dr. Dooley had given so lovingly during his lifetime. This is the story of the men and women who breathed life into TADF: Al Harris, who found his own identity helping the helpless in Asian hospitals and became administrative field director in Laos; Dr. Carl Wiedermann, a German refugee, who sought tragically to give more of himself than there was to give to the Ban Houei Sai hospital; Margaret Alberding, who founded a mid-wifery school in Laos so that babies and mothers might live; Marleane Thompson, the first of many stewardesses to give their vacations to help Tibetan refugees in India; and the other dedicated men and women who have kept Tom Dooley's dream alive in Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, and India. Author Lawrence Elliott spent months tracing the footsteps of Tom Dooley in Asia, talking to dozens of volunteers whose stories fill this book. He tells of their successes and failures, their valor, their dedication to the credo that the strong are obliged to help the weak, and their part in the fulfillment of the enduring Legacy of Tom Dooley. Lawrence Elliott was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of the City College of New York. He began writing professionally twenty years ago. Although he has contributed to a wide range of magazines, he has been most closely associated with the Reader's Digest and, since 1959, has written some forty articles for them. From 1960 until last year, he covered Alaska and western Canada for the Digest and is currently assigned to their European Editorial Office in Paris. Mr. Elliott has three young daughters and is an avid collection of modern American first editions. His other books are A Little Girls' Gift (1963); George Washington Carver: The Man Who Overcame (1966); On the Edge of Nowhere (with James Huntington, 1966); and Journey to Washington (with Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 1967).. First Edition 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Fully Booked
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 003337
- Title
- Legacy of Tom Dooley, The
- Author
- Elliott, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition 3rd Printing
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company Times Mirror
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Biography,Medical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography - Medical;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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cardboard boxes or cardboard shipping wraps
cardboard wrap in a Poly Mailer
bubble wrap
foam wrap
air bags
paper fill
While we often re-use shipping materials, we only do so with clean materials that are worthy of the job. We believe in the second "R" in "Reduce, Re-use, Recycle" when it comes to shipping, but only if it does not compromise your purchase.
Choosing the most appropriate materials suited to your purchase, we package up your parcel, taking the time to do everything we can to ensure its safe and secure delivery to you. Attention is paid to protecting corners and boards of hardcover books and ensuring that paperback books cannot be curled or folded while in transit. To ensure that no moisture damage occurs while in transit, we make sure that a plastic, protective barrier is a part of your package, either by using a Poly Mailer or by plastic bagging/wrapping your book(s) if a cardboard box is to be used for shipping. No loose edges or flaps are left on the outside of packages to ensure smooth flow and safe journey through postal system sorting and scanning equipment. An Invoice and Packing Slip are always safely enclosed with your book(s), so that should an unfortunate incident occur to exterior labelling and/or packaging, postal employees can identify the rightful owner of the contents and complete delivery. We try to think of everything!
We then choose one of the various shipping services offered by Canada Post to meet your chosen shipping timeframe. While not all services include a Tracking Number, if the one that we choose to use does, we enter this number into the Order Details and/or email our customers this information, so that its delivery progress can be monitored, if customers choose to do so. Packages that are shipped including a Tracking Number also include Insurance. If we choose to ship a package using a service that does not include a Tracking Number and Insurance, it is only when it is not economically feasible to do otherwise.
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For a good portion of the 1990's, our family was interested in the idea of entering the used book business. We are all avid readers, book lovers, and book collectors who cannot pass a bookstore without popping in. Family trips to the library and our local used bookstore were a regularity while growing up. With each of us having interests in different genres (with a little overlapping here and there), we cover a lot of bases. The thought of having a store of our own was appealing, and the hunt was on - both for stock and a location.
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
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