2018, ISBN: 9780679444008

Hardcover

Bantam, 1974. Paperback. Good. 1974. 1974 reprint. 873 pages. Purple and white pictorial paper cover. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has r… More...

Bantam, 1974. Paperback. Good. 1974. 1974 reprint. 873 pages. Purple and white pictorial paper cover. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Corners are dogeared in places. Paper cover is lightly rub worn and thumbed with light shelf wear to edges and corners. Light creases to corners and spine. Tanning to spine and edges., Bantam, 1974, 2.5, Duckworth Overlook. Good in Good dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. Hardback; corners of boards dented, pages yellowed (low quality paper) otherwise good in faded and lightly creased dustjacket. ; Illustrations & maps. ; 226 pages ., Duckworth Overlook, 2009, 2.5, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2018 The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK. 2018. Hardcover. Stated First published 2018. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; bumped tail; lightly bumped tips. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped (25.00 GBP); light bumping to head, tail, and tips; small closed tear to lower rear tip. Black paper over boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 464 pp 8vo. World War II was not just a hot war, but it was also a war of espionage and spies. Britain tried to keep their spy HQ -the MI5- a secret, but Winston Churchill caught on to it and had to be included on its clandestine activities. Thankfully, the original documents have survived and the author unravels the previously unknown missions, revealing a fresh view of worldwide intelligence operations in WWII. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket., The History Press, 2018, 4, New York: Time Inc., 1961. Paperback. Very Good +. Front cover features the first 3 astronauts picked by the U.S. to go into space - John Glenn, Gus Grissom, and Allan Shepard. Includes Part 5 of a series on the Civil War and articles about homework; computers; the three chosen astronauts; the Congo; William Churchill; Charles De Gaulle; Paris fashion; maiden voyage of S.S. Oriana; Ingrid Bergman. Some surface paper loss from removal of address label on front., Time Inc., 1961, 3, Cassell & Company-Distributed By Heron Books, 1111. Hardcover. Very Good. No Edition Remarks. 360 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound brown leather with brown paper covered boards. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Book IV. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates remain bright and clear. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping., Cassell & Company-Distributed By Heron Books, 3, London England: Michael Joseph. Very Good/Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0718114620 Harback Hardback. Price clipped to D/J. This book chronicles not only the achievements, but also the difficulties that have dogged the paper throughout its history, from the Parnell libel case to Churchill's efforts to stop publication during the 1926 General Strike, and thence to the eventful post-war years - the quiet achievements of Sir William Haley's editorship, the exuberant first years of Lord Thomson's ownership, the closure for nearly a year, followed by the acquistion by Rubper Murdoch and the abrupt change of editorship in 1982. This book is a fascinating account of how this troubled paper has achieved the pre-emininet position of a British instirution whose editorial freedoms and responsibilities are defined and defended by the House of Commons itself, and whose name is known the world over. 392 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) ., Michael Joseph, 1983, 3, New York: Random House, 1999. x, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in 1897, Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow and join the anti-Communist establishment after the Second World War. He became one of the leading strategists of the Cold War, and was once described as 'one of the five most important men in the hidden power structure of America.' Lovestone was obsessively secretive, and it is only with the opening of his papers at the Hoover Institution, the freeing of access to Comintern files in Moscow, and the release of his 5,700-page FBI file that biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ted Morgan has been able to construct a full account of the remarkable events of Jay Lovestone's life. The life Morgan describes is full of drama and intrigue. He recounts Lovestone's career in the faction-riven world of American Communism until he was spirited out of Moscow in 1929 after Stalin publicly attacked him for doctrinal unorthodoxy. As Lovestone veered away from Moscow, he came to work for the American Federation of Labor, managing a separate union foreign policy as well as maintaining his own intelligence operations for the CIA, many under the command of the legendary counterintelligence chief James Angleton. Lovestone also associated with Louise Page Morris, a spy known as 'the American Mata Hari,' who helped him undermine Communist advances in the developing world and whose own significant espionage career is detailed here. Lovestone's influence, always exercised from behind the scenes, survived to the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union. A Covert Life has all the elements of a classic spy thriller: surveillance operations and stings, love affairs and bungled acts of sabotage, many thoroughly illegal. It is written with the easy hand of a fine biographer (The Washington Post Book World called Ted Morgan 'a master storyteller') and provides a history of the Cold War and a glimpse into the machinery of the CIA while also revealing many hitherto hidden details of the superpower confrontation that dominated postwar global politics. / Ted Morgan is the author of biographies of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, and William S. Burroughs, and of the histories A Shovel of Stars and Wilderness at Dawn. He lives in New York City." - Publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Collectible., Random House, 1999, 5<

1999, ISBN: 9780679444008

New York: Random House, 1999 x, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine cop… More...

New York: Random House, 1999 x, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in 1897, Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow and join the anti-Communist establishment after the Second World War. He became one of the leading strategists of the Cold War, and was once described as 'one of the five most important men in the hidden power structure of America.' Lovestone was obsessively secretive, and it is only with the opening of his papers at the Hoover Institution, the freeing of access to Comintern files in Moscow, and the release of his 5,700-page FBI file that biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ted Morgan has been able to construct a full account of the remarkable events of Jay Lovestone's life. The life Morgan describes is full of drama and intrigue. He recounts Lovestone's career in the faction-riven world of American Communism until he was spirited out of Moscow in 1929 after Stalin publicly attacked him for doctrinal unorthodoxy. As Lovestone veered away from Moscow, he came to work for the American Federation of Labor, managing a separate union foreign policy as well as maintaining his own intelligence operations for the CIA, many under the command of the legendary counterintelligence chief James Angleton. Lovestone also associated with Louise Page Morris, a spy known as 'the American Mata Hari,' who helped him undermine Communist advances in the developing world and whose own significant espionage career is detailed here. Lovestone's influence, always exercised from behind the scenes, survived to the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union. A Covert Life has all the elements of a classic spy thriller: surveillance operations and stings, love affairs and bungled acts of sabotage, many thoroughly illegal. It is written with the easy hand of a fine biographer (The Washington Post Book World called Ted Morgan 'a master storyteller') and provides a history of the Cold War and a glimpse into the machinery of the CIA while also revealing many hitherto hidden details of the superpower confrontation that dominated postwar global politics. / Ted Morgan is the author of biographies of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, and William S. Burroughs, and of the histories A Shovel of Stars and Wilderness at Dawn. He lives in New York City." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., Random House, 1999, 5<

ISBN: 9780679444008

Random House. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library cop… More...

Random House. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s)., Random House, 3<