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1960211p. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. Coldwar/Economics 4
large 8vo, br. ed. 418pp. Roman Brackman was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1931. In 1935 his father, an engineer, was imprisoned in Gulag camp near Dmitrov. As a boy Roman stayed for weeks with his father in the camps barracks and saw the barb wire, watch towers and columns of prisoners going to and from work. He grew up during the Great Purges when many of his relatives were arrested and perished. He graduated from high school in 1948 and enrolled in the Moscow Oriental Institute, Arabic division. In 1949 Roman and two of his school friends tried to escape from the Soviet Union by swimming from the Black Sea port Batumi to Turkey. They were arrested and sentenced to 10 years in Special Political prison camps. Roman was sent to Norylsk Gulag where he took an active part in prisoners uprising in the summer of 1953 only to be released in 1955 in the first post-Stalin amnesty. In 1959 Roman managed to leave the Soviet Union legally - his wife was a Polish citizen. In 1962 he, his wife and their two sons immigrated to the United States. In 1965 Roman graduated from City College of New York with bachelor degree in science and in 1980 he received the doctorate degree in history from New York University. During Carter-Reagan election campaign in 1979-1980 Roman published his first book "Jimmy Carter Provocateur-in-Chief." The first edition of his book "The Secret File of Joseph Stalin - A Hidden Life" was published in 2001 in London and translated to several languages, including Russian.
1961Features: Are Children's Books Trash?; He Rescues the Desperate - Rev. Kenneth B. Murphy of Boston is president of Rescue Incorporated, which is dedicated to preventing people from committing suicide; People on the Way Up - Judy Neiman, Zubel Kachadoorian, Donald Madden, Debbie Drake. PT 109 - the adventure that made a President (Part 2); The Show of Tomorrow - Seattle's 1962 World's Fair is coming soon - photos of the Space Needle under construction and more; Who Says Pros Can't Play 60 Minutes - Chuck Bednarik, the Philadelphia Eagles indestructible lineman; Chile - Restless Republic - Communism threatens to dominate Latin America's most democratic nation, a report from the scene; Backstage with Anna Maria Alberghetti, star of the musical Carnival. Nice colour Pepsi ad inside back cover. Color ad for the 1962 Ford Fairlane. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: Don't blame your parents - Dr. Vincent T. Lathbury; Conflict of Interest - Can Congress crack down on its own members?; Geraldine Page - Diamond who likes it Rough; Why I Quit the Ministry - a frank, disturbing story by an anomynous clergyman; The Hidden Weaknesses of Communism - the world's new nations see that Moscow won't provide progress and freedom; Breezy Designs for the Office - businessmen spend millions a year on lavish office decor - mostly to please the female help; Eichmann and his Trial (conclusion); Gridiron Phantom - Washington State's Hugh Campbell; "We Ditched at Sea - the ordeal of Flying Tiger 923". Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1957116 pages. Fiction: Dynamic Woman; Never Trust a Blonde; Too Young to Marry; The Peaceful Rebellion; The Golden Shadow (part 2 of 4); Murder on Order. Articles: Inside Defiant Poland - the astounding change in the ways of Communism under Wladyslaw Gomulka; The Happy Fugitives from Flatbush - American Safety Razor moves from Brooklyn to Staunton, Virginia - article with photos; Living Mysteries of the Deep - color fish photos; I'm No Quitter - Dodger Pitcher Don Newcombe on how it feels to have your courage questioned when you fail in the World Series; Children Are Smarter Than You Think - innovative science teaching at Beauvoir, the elementary school of the National Protestant Episcopal Cathedral in Washington; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge (part 2 of 4) - with photo of Borge and his wife Sanna walking their poodle in Hutchinson, Kansas; Watery Wilderness Photo; Old Tanker Rides Again - how Major General Ernest Harmon put Vermont's Norwich University back on the academic map. Ads: Nice one-page Kentucky Club tobacco ad features Ted Atkinson; Great color photo two-page ad for De Soto cars; Salem cigarettes; Canadian Pacific Rail - 'The Canadian' dome cars - two-pages in color; Gleem toothpaste (wish a smooch); Campbell's Soup - features color photo of Mrs. Selma Urbonas of Chicago; Great Pontiac ad features purple Star Chief convertible and young beach crowd; Tareyton; National Cash Register - with Kroger theme; Detroit Diesel - foundation-building scene; Admiral fridges - two-pages in color; 1957 Dogde color-photoad features the Custom Royal Lancer 4-door; Heinz new Campside Beans; 7-Up (Seven-Up) ad features couple eating pizza; Two-page GM ad features Donn and Barbara Sigerson who built Allwork Manufacturing in Oakland manufacturing parts for GM; Nice one-page color-photo ad for Studebaker-Packard features a white Studebaker; Dictaphone Time Master; Imperial cars; Dinty Moore Beef Stew; Oldsmobile Golden Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe - nice sailing scene; Cutler-Hammer; Back cover ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features color photo of the world's biggest pizza! Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1963Features: A vote against motherhood - Gael Greene; Danger from Within - Dwight D. Eisenhower writes that Indolence and lack of moral principle present a greater threat to America than the armed might of Communism; Perils of Pauline - America's highest-paid femail TV commentator, Pauline Frederick, fights skeptical bosses, prettier rivals and video's glamour code; "We Sailed the Columbus Ship" - Robert Marx relates how nine men in a forty-two foot boat braved wind and wave to recreate the first conquest of the Atlantic - many colour photos; Golf-Ball Goof - retrieving lost golf balls; Last Stop Alcatraz - Mickey Cohen and the inside story of how Federal agents put him behind iron bars at long last; Ice Hockey's Geriatric Marvel - 38 year of age, going on 45, goalie Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs seems to have found the secret of perennial youth; Nuclear-age School - New Mexico students pursue knowledge under a 21 inch concrete slab in Artesia, New Mexico - Abo Public Elementary School is the only one in the nation underground - it doubles as a fully equipped fallout shelter; Black Merchants of Hate - fanatic and well-disciplined, Negro 'Muslims' threaten to turn resentment against racial discrimination into open rebellion - photo of Malcolm X. Nice colour Pepsi ad on back cover. Great two-page colour ad for Chevrolet trucks. Nice full-page ad for a blue 1963 Dodge Wagon; Colour Ford Auto centerfold features the Fairlane. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1963Features: Waste in the world of diplomacy - Ellis O. Briggs says the game of musical chairs impairs our ambassadors' effectiveness; Cuban Prisoner Exchange - James Donovan explains the inside story of how freedom was won for the Bay of Pigs captives; Americans - at least 21 languish in Castro prisons - 2 photos of JFK addressing the Cuban issue; Hawaii - where progress is the big problem; The Beverly Hillbillies TV Show - proving that corn is evergreen; It Hurts to Run - Runner Jim Beatty - his greatest foes are fear, fatigue, agony; "Ask Americans to Pray for Us" - Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski tells of his newest conflicts with Poland's Communist rulers, his efforts to avert bloodshed, his struggle to uphold religious freedom; Innocent's Grim Ordeal - Airman Gerald Martin Anderson is accused of murder in Mountain Home, Idaho - a year later, it became obvious that Air Force investigators simply picked a victim. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1954116 pages. Features: Great Rockwell cover illustration of excavator attempting to dig up kid's baseball field in a vacant lot; Our daughter had polio - Kay Reiten had to be treated in an iron lung; Don't sneer at the catfish - great article on the popular catfish with photo of Leon Bishop and Carl Yarbrough holding huge catfish they hauled out of the Tallahatchie River, near Abbeville, MS, with their bare hands; They Hit Red China Where it Hurt - over 4,000 Chinese Communists surrendered in Korea, allowing them a chance to explain why they swallowed Communism, and how Mao's tyranny can be defeated; The Republicans Muffed the Ball in Dixie - where are the Eisenhower voters now?; TV's Shoestring Surprise - The Johns Hopkins Science Review has rung up one of TV's longest hit runs; Colony of the Outcast Kings - color-photo feature of Estoril, Portugal, now a swanky resort; Never Marry an Actress - they may be delightful on stage, but around the house they're vain, insincere, and obsessed with themselves. Fiction: Shackles for the Groom; The Sitting Duck; The Seeds of Hate; The Hard-Luck Type; The Mask of Alexander (part 2 of 6); Invitation to Murder (part 6 of 8). Ads: Elegant one-page color-photo ad for Packard cars; Nice color-photo ad for a cream-colored Cadillac convertible; Two-page ad for Du Pont's nylon for truck tires features photos of Leonard Bisgrove of Red Star Express in Auburn, NY, and Edward Benkert of Fairmount Foundry in Philadelphia; Gorgeous color-photo ad for the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker De Luxe Newport (blue); Champion Spark Plug ad features photo and endorsement by racer Jim Kimberly; Nice two-page color ad for the Scenicruiser by Greyhound bus lines; Nice color Chevrolet ad features an off-white Bel Air Convertible plus an inset color photo of a Corvette convertible, "First of the Dream Cars to Come True!"; Fascinating one-page photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau of a trucker enjoying a 'Coffee-break', suggesting this campaign may have introduced this term now used throughout North America; Prest-O-Lite battery ad features photo of footballer Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions; Sweet half-page vintage color ad for Dairy Queen Malts and Shakes; Color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway's Vista Dome/North Coast Limited service; Back page Camel cigarette ad features photos of John W. Fincher of Cairo, GA, A.R. Schneidewind of Upper Montclair, NJ, Mrs. B. Collins Edgar of Lookout Mountain, TN, W.C. Fowler of Dallas, TX, J. Russell Fraser of Detroit, Mrs. Katharine B. Coelsch of The Dalles, OR, and Evelyn Terjesen of New York City. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
1958pp. xiv, 301 + Plus photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Coldwar/Economics 1
1959BUONE CONDIZIONI
1959réf. 3343068Notre Dame, University Press, 1959. XX, 289 S. OLwd.
1952ix, [vii], 511 + ix, [iii], 556 pages. Bibliography, chronology and index. Black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. First printed in 1935, this second edition copy includes a new introduction. "I hope the republication of this detailed account of the greatest social revolution of the modern age will be of service to students who are interested in the origin, background and early vicissitudes of the Soviet state which rose on the ruins of the former Russian Empire." - Introduction. Moderate wear to publisher's grey cloth adorned with yellow and black lettering and illustrations. Bindings sound. Moderate external wear and soiling. Light pencil marginalia to both volumes. A sound set. Book
1930272 p. 20 cm. Hardcover Good condition, corners bumped
1984IN HEBREW. 21X14 cm. 149 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly chafed. Else in good condition.
1957pp. x, 498 + Plus photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. First edition. Coldwar/Economics 4
1967pp. xix, 331. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Hardbound. First Edition. Very Good copy. ORIENT BOX 1
1999réf. 84402New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1999. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth spine over black paper covered boards titled and ruled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xxvii; 635pp. Very light wear to spine ends; internally clean illustrated throughout; in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. An academic analysis of the depradations of Stalin's ruling party during the pogroms and cleansings in the few years immediately prior to WW2 compiled from previously secret of inaccessible documents and testimonies. Yale University Press unknown books
1944pp. vi, 279. 8vo. Original full cloth backed binding. Original dust jacket, worn with slight loss. First edition. Coldwar/Economics 2
1999réf. 84402New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1999. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red cloth spine over black paper covered boards titled and ruled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xxvii; 635pp. Very light wear to spine ends; internally clean illustrated throughout; in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. An academic analysis of the depradations of Stalin's ruling party during the pogroms and cleansings in the few years immediately prior to WW2 compiled from previously secret of inaccessible documents and testimonies. Yale University Press unknown
198620 cm, brossura edit; pp. 42, cifre e piccola abrasione all'ultima di cop
1995Broché. 224 pages.
1934First Printing. 352 pages. Index. Seven facsimile reproductions of incriminating documents. "May 'professional patriots' increase and multiply; may they cease to be lone voices crying in the wilderness; may their number and activities grow strong enough to avert now threatening Socialism or Fascism, and to preserve for America, Christianity, the American Constitution, and American liberty." - Dedication. Part I: Miscellaneous Articles. Part II: Descriptive data concerning more than 460 Communist, Radical Pacifist, Anarchist, Socialist, I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World) controlled organizations. Part III: Listing about 1,300 persons who are leading members of the organizations listed in Part II. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating reference. (Seidman D200) Book
1955226 pages including index. Rare surviving first edition copy of this classic conspiracy work. "Because knowledge is necessary to inspire action we make facts known which we hope will activate citizens, and cause them to take strong, determined, measures in accordance with our Constitution and Laws, which will put an end to all phases of the international conspiracy, and bring all conspirators before the bar of justice." - from inside front cover. "Published because we are convinced that an international conspiracy is in operation for the purpose of destroying our national and religious institutions in America. Presents evidence obtained by Commander Carr, as the result of thirty five years of investigations" - from Foreward. Average wear. Binding intact. Few markings to contents. Two ink stamps to title page. Singerman 922, Weems p.59. Book
1957280 pages. Detailed index. Recommended reading list. This author recommended by USAF Brigadier General Ben Partin (Ret.) who rose to fame with his conclusive proof that the official version of events in Oklahoma City could not possibly have resulted in the destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The publishers were "...Convinced that an international conspiracy is in operation for the purpose of destroying our national and religious institutions in America." - from Foreward. Average wear to red card covers. Partial lean to spine. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Singerman 922, Weems p.59. Book
