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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1947. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. VG-/No DJ. Well-researched & thoroughly documented portrait of Adolf Hitler's downfall, capturing his inner & outer turmoil in the days leading up to his suicide in his Berlin bunker in April 1945. In 254 pages with Index, Notes, Appendix, map endpapers, illustrations of bunker… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Details the "network of secret police installations, camps, prisons, transit centers, communications facilities, transportation systems & espionage organizations" across the former Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the USSR after writing this book & remained in exile until 1994, after the… Read more about this item

Rutland, Vermont/Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc./Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1965. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Sonobe, Kiyoshi. Massive, profusely illustrated guide to folk toys from across Japan's history, arranged by region of origin. In 516 pages with decorative endpapers, maps, & black-and-white & full-color photographs throughout. Orig. published in Japanese in 6 parts… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Criterion Books, 1957. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Written by an insider in the political department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "the one man with access to all witnesses & secret documents related to the infamous Dreyfus case,'' this is a perspective on the case that you've never… Read more about this item

London, England: Harper & Row, 1962. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. In this companion volume to "The White Nile,' Moorehead traces the course of the Nile & its exploration from the 18th century through 1869, focusing on the roles of four men: James Bruce from Scotland, Napoleon from France, Muhammad Ali from Turkey, &… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1928. Reprint . Hardcover. VG/No Jacket. True story of the magical monk who was the favorite of the royal family (Nicholas & Alexandra) in Tzarist Russia. His assassination in 1916 helped ignite the Russian Revolution.Translated from the original German (1927) by F. S. Flint & D. F. Tait.… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1960. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Gorey, Edward; Rombola, John. A Scotsman traces the history of American politics from the days of Jefferson through the contemporary (Eisenhower) administration. Orig. published in 1954, this is the First Mass Market Paperback edition from 1960, and another Anchor paperback… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983. Revised Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. G+/VG-/Good. Comprehensive overview of Black history in the United States, in a book that has become the standard bearer of this history for both young readers & adults. A groundbreaking book when it was first published in 1956 under the title, "A Pictorial… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First Edition (stated) . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. The definitive account of the days leading up to, during, & following the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, November 20th-25th, 1963. Front endpapers are a chronology of events, while rear ones show a map of the motorcade route in… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Signet/New American Library, 1963. First Paperback 5th or later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. VG-. A college professor & news writer, the author explored the "Negro Revolt" that began with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on Dec. 1, 1955. He examines the burgeoning civil rights movement… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Riveting true story of Etta Shiber, the widow of an American newspaperman who was living quietly in Paris when the Nazis invaded, & who organized & operated the "underground railway" by which British soldiers were able to escape. Together with her friend,… Read more about this item

Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Draws on newly discovered manuscript documents to determine exactly why & how Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln's son--Robert--caused his mother to be committed to an insane asylum against her will. In 203 pages with 25 vintage photographs. Orig. published in hardcover in… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Biltmore Publishing Co. Inc. , 1943. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Offers a physical & psychoanalytical examination of Adolf Hitler, with revealing insights, based on his treatment of Adolf Hitler beginning in 1919. Written from his new home in New York City following his escape from Germany as he watched with… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Berkley/Pacer, 1988. First English Language Edition . Mass Market Paperback. VG-/G+. Williams, Brian. One of a series of "real-life gamebooks,'' role-playing adventures in which readers/players are thrown back into the past. Here, you must escape from a German concentration camp during WWII. In 157 pages, with pen-and-ink illustrations throughout, + 2 pages of… Read more about this item

Berlin, Germany: Verlag Haus am Checkpoint Charlie Berlin, 1981. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Multilingual book offers a history of the Berlin Wall, specifically, "a documentation in pictures of the military ring around West Berlin, its development from "August 13th", 1961 up to today with the most important events." In 113 pages, with 168… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Book of the Month Club, Inc., 1989. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Slipcased. Fine/Fine. Now a classic, & still as compelling as ever, this book contains the complete on-the-scene record of WWII as it unfolded in Europe, from the pen of CBS' leading journalist at that time, who first broadcast it live over the… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Orgone Institute Press, 1946. First English Language Edition . Hardcover. VG-/Very Good. Even more frighteningly relevant today than when the author originally wrote it to explain the Nazi's rise to power in Germany leading up to WWII. The famed psychoanalyst, who originated "orgone theory," here explores how the economic & ideological structure of… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Cameron & Kahn, 1955. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. In what the publishers believed would come to be "the classic, definitive work" on the alleged crimes, trials, & execution of husband-and-wife Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, this book weighs the voluminous evidence & comes to the conclusion that they were victims of anticommunist… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1957. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Gorey, Edward. Collection of 17 essays originally published in hardcover as part of a larger work ("Language as Gesture") by this renowned 20th-century poet, critic, & academic. This is the First Mass Market Paperback edition from 1957, and another Anchor paperback… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Written shortly after his departure from the White House as the 31st President of the US, Hoover here took to address the problem of human liberty, which he saw as increasingly challenged since the Great War (WWI), focusing on the American… Read more about this item