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Virginia Landmarks Register: A Profile of the Life and Times of VirginiansPublisher: Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, Second Edition copyright 1976Foreword: Frederick Herman, Ch… More...

Virginia Landmarks Register: A Profile of the Life and Times of VirginiansPublisher: Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, Second Edition copyright 1976Foreword: Frederick Herman, Chairmandesigned by Douglas W. PriceHardcover7.8 x 11.35 inches, 216 pagesDr. Herman's contributions to the cultural and civic life of his adopted city and state were extensive. As a long-term member and chairman of the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission through the 1970s, he was in the vanguard of those who sought to preserve the state's architectural heritage.-------------------Frederick Herman died May 3, 2002. Born a native of Vienna, Austria, in 1924, he lived in Norfolk for almost 50 years and contributed broadly to community affairs.Following service in the United States Army during World War II, Dr. Herman attended the College of William and Mary where he completed his undergraduate studies in two years and received Phi Beta Kappa. As a student at William and Mary, he met Lucy Spigel, whom he would marry in 1947. He then enrolled in the Fletcher School of International Law at Tufts University where he earned his doctorate in International Law and Diplomacy. Subsequently, he returned to military service and then moved into the architectural practice of Bernard B. Spigel before becoming a partner in the firm of Spigel, Carter, Zinkel and Herman. His designs comprehend a variety of public and private commissions including numerous Norfolk branch libraries such as those at Little Creek and Larchmont. In addition to his architectural practice, Dr. Herman taught courses at Old Dominion University and the College of William and Mary. As a first lieutenant in Military Intelligence attached to the Seventh Armored Division deployed in the European Theater in World War II, Dr. Herman fought at the Battle of the Bulge and later worked in military intelligence. His valor in combat earned him the Bronze Star. Following the Allied victory, he was charged with establishing and supervising military governments in multiple German counties and municipalities.Dr. Herman's contributions to the cultural and civic life of his adopted city and state were extensive. As a long-term member and chairman of the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission through the 1970s, he was in the vanguard of those who sought to preserve the state's architectural heritage. Undaunted by controversy, he held true to the principle that the history of the past is reflected in the objects of the everyday landscapes we share. He was also a member of the Norfolk Design Review Committee, Norfolk Historical Society Preservation Committee, and the American Institute of Architects.Together with his wife, Lucy Spigel Herman, Dr. Herman actively supported the arts throughout his life. Their legacy includes support for student scholarships and gifts to the permanent collections of the Muscarelle Museum at the College of William and Mary, the University Gallery at the University of Delaware, the Bailey Art Museum at the University of Virginia and the Chrysler Museum of Art. Equally important was his longtime association with and support for artists in the greater Norfolk community.Frederick Herman lived according to his beliefs that we are all obligated to make the world a better place for having lived in it, that selfishness is the greatest sin, and that art and beauty are inseparable from life. Those values continue to shape the lifeworks of his family and benefit his community in innumerable ways., Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, 1976, 3, Dutton Adult, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Slight rubbing to jacket; else a near fine copy internally. [8], 324, [1] pages. Manhattan Deputy District Attorney for Special Projects Butch Karp takes on the murder case of an apparent hate-crime victim. Boldly signed and inscribed by Tanenbaum in black ink on title page, December 21, 1998., Dutton Adult, 1998, 4, NYC: Norton. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393027961 . Slit in Spine; Slit and Tear in Dj ., Norton, 1990, 0, NY: The Century Company, 1887. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 5pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume XXXIII, No. 6, April, 1887. A collection of responses from American musicians to the query by Century Magazine on the question of the Hawley Bill, and an International Copyright Law on music. Respondents include Dudley Buck, Brooklyn, New York, G. W. Chadwick, Boston, Massachusetts, H. A. Clarke, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Julius Eichbert, Boston, Otto Floersheim, New York, Arthur Foote, Boston, F. Korbay, New York, B. J. Lang, Boston, Louis Maas, Boston, William Mason, Orange, New Jersey, Harrison Millard, New York, J. Mosenthal, New York, John K. Paine, Cambridge, Massachusetts, H. W. Parker, Garden City, Long Island, Waldo S. Pratt, Hartford, Connecticut, George F. Root, Chicago, Sebastian B. Schlesinger, New York, Albert A. Stanley, Providence, Rhode Island, Eugene Thayer, New York, Theodore Thomas, New York, Carl Zerrahn, and summary comments by John R. G. Hassard. Housed in protective mylar report cover.., The Century Company, 1887, 3, New York, NY, USA.: Berkley Medallion Book., 1977. 172 pages. >>>"Tracking down the source of an ultra-high powered snort takes Baretta into the upper echelons of the international art scene. Beaautiful, sensuous 'Butter' is fir first major acquistion. When it comes to the art of love, she's a real follector's item. Butter holds the gun while Baretta presses the accelerator in a deadly race to corner the cultured kings of the drug market and pinpoint a missing multi-million dollar stash. It's a masterpiece of hot and heavy action all the way!" Based on the Universal Television Series "Baretta" created by Stephen J. Cannell. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed.. Soft Cover. Very Good to Fine. Illus. by PHOTO Front & Back Covers From the TV Series.. Mass Market Paperback.., Berkley Medallion Book., 1977, 3, Garden City, NY: International Collectors Library, 1951 International Collectors Library, Garden City, NY. c1951. Hardcover. Reprint edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Blue leatherette boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and gilt decorations on the spine and front board. 0Maps as endpapers. 498 pp 8vo. This is a sea yarn that could almost be reality. There has never been a mutiny in the US Navy but this one plays out like reality and is in fact studied in SJA/JAG training in the military. The book offers romance, military discipline/lack of it too, tension of a typhoon, and a contrast between the old Navy before WWII and the civilian filled Navy during the WWII. A clean very presentable copy., International Collectors Library, 1951, 3, Mc Elderry Books, 2010. Taschenbuch. Seiten nachgedunkelt, etwas schief gelesen! Love is a mortal sin, and the secrets of the past are deadly. Plunge into the third installment in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and ?prepare to be hooked? (Entertainment Weekly). To save her mother?s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters?never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight. As Clary uncovers more about her family?s past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadowhunter Sebastian. With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadowhunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he?s willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her newfound powers to help save the Glass City?whatever the cost?, Mc Elderry Books, 2010, 0, Boston, New York, London: Houghton Mifflin Company; A Peter Davison Book, 1992 xv, 622 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with toned flaps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Some of the greatest poets--Victor Hugo, Paul Claudel, George Seferis, Pablo Neruda, St.-John Perse--have also been public figures, but in the history of twentieth-century American poetry, Archibald MacLeish stands alone. Born on May 7, 1892, in Glencoe, Illinois, to the craggy but prosperous president of Carson Pirie Scott and an idealistic mother who had been a college president, Archibald MacLeish grew up to become not only a highly regarded poet, even eventually the unofficial poet laureate of his time, but one of our most dedicated and effective public servants. Educated at Hotchkiss (which he hated), Yale (football, Skull and Bones), and Harvard Law School, he abandoned a promising law practice in Boston on the very day he was to be offered a partnership, to take his wife, a gifted singer, and their young children to Paris and write poetry full-time. Much of MacLeish's finest work ('Ars poetica,' 'The End of the World,' 'You, Andrew Marvell') was written in France, where he lived out the 1920s in the company of Hemingway, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Picasso, and Gerald and Sara Murphy. But as the Great Depression loomed, MacLeish came home, bought a farm in Conway, Massachusetts, and looked for gainful employment. He became one of the early and foremost editors of Fortune, for which he wrote copiously and brilliantly for a decade, often contributing as much as a quarter of each issue. During this time his poetry became more public ('Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City') and his political opinions more liberal, controversial, and beleaguered. For a year he served as the first curator of Harvard's Nieman fellowships, but in 1939 Franklin Roosevelt summoned him to be librarian of Congress. In that position he entirely reorganized the Library of Congress, continuing this work even while serving in the wartime Office of Facts and Figures and later as assistant secretary of state. In 1945, with his friend Adlai Stevenson, he worked to establish the United Nations and drafted the preamble to its charter. After war's end MacLeish became Boylston Professor at Harvard, where he spent nearly fifteen years teaching the university's most distinguished writing students every autumn. Wintering in Antigua and summering at his country retreat, he also turned to the creation of verse plays such as the tremendously successful J.B., which won him his third Pulitzer Prize. Surviving nearly into his nineties, he wrote some of his finest lyrics as the darkness drew in. This generous and eloquent biography, richly illustrated, is published on the centenary of his birth." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., Houghton Mifflin Company; A Peter Davison Book, 1992, 3, New York: Pocket Books, 1997. BU4 - An advance uncorrected proof paperback book SIGNED by author in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinnkling, chipping and crease, some stains on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Also inscribed by author to previous owner on the opposite side of the front. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. 8.25"x5.5", 301 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Thomas Adcock is a Detroit-born journalist and novelist. He is a winner of an Edgar Allan Poe Award. As U.S. correspondent for CulturMag, a Berlin-based international magazine of art and commentary, he writes on American behavior and politics. His novels and short stories been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Bulgarian and Czech. He began his newspaper career at the Detroit Free Press and has written for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Chicago Today, the Toronto Telegram, the New York Law Journal and The New York Times. Adcock has also worked at a Manhattan advertising agency and taught journalism and creative writing - at Temple University (Philadelphia), New York University, and the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been active in P.E.N. International, the Mystery Writers of America, the Czech Writers Union, and was co-founder of the North American chapter of the International Association of Crime Writers. He and his wife, the actress and writer Kim Sykes, live in New York City and upstate North Chatham, N.Y. They are activists in progressive causes and political organizations. . Signed by Author. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC)., Pocket Books, 1997, 3, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996. (NO CD) AC5 - An uncorrected proof paperback book SIGNED and dated by the author on the title page in very good condition that has some bumped corners, a few light stains and light shelf wear. CD missing. Dramatic color illustrations by Miguelanxo Prado, Spain's premier graphic novel artist. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. A romantic and humorous love story. Compared to a Mexican 'Midsummer Night's Dream'. 9"x6", 271 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and a politician who serves in the Chamber of Deputies (2012-2018) for the Morena Party. Her first novel Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) became a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film. In her novel Like Water for Chocolate released in 1989, Esquivel uses magical realism to combine the ordinary and the supernatural, with narrative devices similar to those used by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier as "el real maravilloso" and by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and Chilean author Isabel Allende. Como agua para chocolate is set during the Mexican Revolution of the early twentieth Century and features the importance of the kitchen and food in the life of its female protagonist, Tita. The novel is structured as a year of monthly issues of an old-style women's magazine containing recipes, home remedies, and love stories, and each chapter ("January," "February," "March," etc.) opens with the redaction of a traditional Mexican recipe followed by instructions for preparation. Each recipe recalls to the narrator a significant event in the protagonist's life. Esquivel has stated that she believes that the kitchen is the most important part of the house and characterizes it as a source of knowledge and understanding that brings pleasure. The title Como agua para chocolate is a phrase used in Mexico to refer to someone whose emotions are about to "boil," because water for chocolate must be just at the boil when the chocolate is added and beaten. The idea for the novel came to Esquivel "while she was cooking the recipes of her mother and grandmother." Reportedly, "Esquivel used an episode from her own family to write her book. She had a great-aunt named Tita who was forbidden to wed and spent her life caring for her mother. Soon after her mother died, so did Tita." According to Esquivel critic Elizabeth M. Willingham, despite the fact that the novel was poorly received critically in Mexico, Como agua para chocolate "created a single-author economic boom, unprecedented in Mexican literature or film of any period by any author" and "went into second and third printings in the first year of its release and reached the second place in sales in 1989" and "became Mexico's 'bestseller' in 1990". The novel has been translated into more than 20 languages." Like Water for Chocolate was developed into a film, which was released in 1994 concurrently with the book's English translation by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen. In the United States, Like Water for Chocolate became one of the largest grossing foreign films ever released. The film "dominated" Mexico's film awards and received ten Arieles and, according to Susan Karlin in Variety (1993), the fine-tuned final version of the film garnered "'nearly two dozen' international awards". Esquivel's second novel, La ley del amor (Grijalbo 1995 Mexico), translated as The Law of Love (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden, Crown-Random, 1996), is described by literary critic Lydia H. Rodríguez as a "narrative [that] deconstructs the present to create a twenty-third century where remarkable invention and familiar elements populate a gymnastically-paced text" whose "conflicts . . . set the Law of Love (as a cosmic philosophy) in motion" Literary critic Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez cautions, "Although Esquivel merges science fiction trappings with a love story in the novel, . . . [the author] attempts a blueprint for a harmonious future that remains beyond the experience of present societies, a future anchored by a central philosophy that individual wholeness can be achieved only by participation in and on behalf of the community". Esquivel's non-fiction compilation Between Two Fires (NY: Crown, 2000) featured essays on life, love, and food. Esquivel's third novel, Tan veloz como el deseo (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 2001), translated into English as Swift as Desire (Trans. Stephen A. Lytle. NY: Crown-Random, 2001), is set in Mexico City the apartment of Lluvia, a middle-aged divorcée caring for her debilitated father, Júbilo, a former telegraph operator born with a gift for understanding what people want to say rather than what they actually say. For the first time in this novel, according to critic Willingham, "Esquivel asks the reader to consider Mexico's historical dialogue and [its] enduring truths" in a contemporary setting in which the characters seek a meaningful and lasting reconciliation that rises above historical errors and misunderstandings. Esquivel's fourth novel Malinche: novela (NY: Atria, 2006), translated as Malinche: A Novel (Trans. Ernesto Mestre-Reed. NY: Atria, 2006), adopts "Malinalli" as the name of the title character, also known as "Doña Marina," whose pejorative title "La Malinche" means "the woman of Malinche," the Aztecs' (Nahuatl) name for Spaniard Hernán Cortez. According to critic Ryan Long, Esquivel's naming of her title character and her novel "reflects upon the diverse and unpredictable revisions that [Malinalli/La Malinche's] mythical identity has undergone continuously since the period of the Conquest. . . . seek[ing] a middle ground between Malinalli's autonomy and Malinche's predetermination." The novel's book jacket features an Aztec-style codex designed and executed by Jordi Castells) printed on its interior surface that is meant to represent Malinalli's diary. Esquivel's most recent novels are A Lupita le gusta planchar (2014 SUMA, Madrid) and El diario de Tita (May 2016 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Barcelona). The former has been translated into English as Pierced by the Sun (Trans. Jordi Castells. Amazon Crossing, Seattle 2016). . Signed by Author. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC)., Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996, 3, Crown Publishers / Random House, 2011. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design©. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 26.00], clean, crisp, colors bright, minimal edge wear. Pages [325 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Illustrated throughout with B&W art reproductions. Author's account of the headless-torso murder that led to an all-out newspaper war and the trial. A baffling mystery, compelling history and page-turning entertainment [Howard Blum]. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Stated First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Various Artists., Crown Publishers / Random House, 2011, 4.5, U.S.S. Chaumont: U. S. Navy, May 1946. Plate Planche. In exceptionally good condition. Pinted slip of paper measuring 2.5 by 3.5 inches. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... USS Chaumont, one of twelve 13,400-ton (displacement) Hog Island Type B (Design 1024) transports built for the U. S. Shipping Board at Hog Island, Pennsylvania, was laid down in November 1918 as the Shipping Board's Shope, launched in March 1920 as the U.S. Army's Chaumont, and completed a few months later. Excess to Army needs, she was transferred to the Navy and commissioned in November 1921. From her home port at San Francisco, Chaumont commenced a career of trans-Pacific troop service that initially consisted of voyages between California and Manila via Honolulu. In early 1924 Wallace Simpson, future mistress of the Prince of Wales, sailed to China aboard the Chaumont. Her husband happened to be stationed there as commander of the USS Pampanga. She entered into the society of Europeans in China and had an affair with Count Galeazzo Ciano, who later became Benito Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister. She spent over a year in China. Both she and her husband were back in the U.S. by September 1925, although living apart, and their divorce was finalized in December 1927. Two or three voyages in 1925-26 took her to Shanghai instead of Manila, and she continued to stop at Shanghai at least once during most subsequent years. In August 1926 she sailed from San Francisco through the Panama Canal to Annapolis. The return trip took her to Norfolk, where she was drydocked for routine maintenance, and then to Guantanamo. Such voyages between the East and West Coasts also became near-annual events. Chaumont's voyages to Shanghai provided important assistance to U.S. Far Eastern diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s by supporting the Marine Corps units deployed to the International Settlement in that city to protect U.S. nationals there. At the end of January 1932 Japanese forces in the Settlement attacked nearby Chinese forces, leading to intensive fighting in the city. Chaumont was in Manila at the time, and on 31 January the Navy Department ordered her to embark the 1,000 men of the Army's 31st Infantry Regiment and sail for Shanghai. Responding rapidly, Chaumont cleared Manila with the troops on board on 2 February and arrived at Shanghai on the 5th. Five years later, in mid-September 1937, Chaumont rushed the 6th Marine Regiment to Shanghai to reinforce the 4th Regiment that was protecting the Settlement during the all-out Japanese effort to seize the city from tenacious Chinese defenders. Chaumont suffered two mishaps during her China service in 1936-37, a week-long period aground at Chingwangtao and a collision at Shanghai with the Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli. , U. S. Navy, 2.5, New York. 1996. July 1996. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684811359. McGee Shared A Pulitzer Prize In 1987 For His Reporting On The Iran-Contra Affair. 399 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Accordino. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jim McGee and Brian Duffy take us behind the walls of Main Justice, as the department’s headquarters is known to insiders, to show how its awesome powers to investigate and punish wrongdoing are used - and sometimes abused - in the war on crime. Setting their sights on the department’s Criminal Division, and on the anonymous career lawyers whose decisions often become the stuff of front-page headlines and congressional hearings, McGee and Duffy show how the Justice Department has marshaled its legal firepower against Colombia’s murderous Cali cocaine cartel, violent gangs in Shreveport and Chicago, CIA-agent-turned-traitor Aldrich Ames, and international terrorists. They also expose cases in which U.S. attorneys - whether to further a political agenda or because of excessive zeal - have abused their powers, often with devastating results for ordinary Americans. The story of Main Justice is told from several vantage points: from the streets of America, where FBI and DEA agents employ sophisticated investigative tools to make arrests; from the executive suites in Washington, where career lawyers decide which cases will be prosecuted; and from the federal courtrooms, where U.S. attorneys spar with defense lawyers and judges to obtain guilty verdicts. MAIN JUSTICE also shows how the Clinton administration has altered the focus of federal law enforcement by targeting the violent street gangs that terrorize our cities and towns, and has established new procedures to safeguard the public against prosecutorial misconduct. In addition, McGee and Duffy explore the intersection of federal law enforcement and the nation’s intelligence operations, a netherworld in which the constitutional limits on domestic law enforcement are increasingly challenged. inventory #22477 ISBN: 0684811359., 0<

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Simon & Schuster, 1996-07-19. Hardcover. Good. 1.2000 in x 9.3000 in x 6.2000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Simon & Schuster, 1996-… More...

Simon & Schuster, 1996-07-19. Hardcover. Good. 1.2000 in x 9.3000 in x 6.2000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Simon & Schuster, 1996-07-19, 2.5<