Search Results: Journalism/Documentary from 100 POCKETS

Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Archival Illustrations. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated cover/NF; leading edges library tape reinforced. 262 pge historical review & record of the New York Times' best sellers (first published Sunday, August 9th, 1942) during the First 50 years. Criteria changed from time to time, and ratings were challenged more than once. Of of books receiving top rating & exhibited the #1 phenomenon, the outstanding work for 1942 was: "The Robe" by Lloyd Douglas, which held #1 position for 46 weeks; it still holds the fiction record of for the longest time on the list, and returned to the list after the 1953, 20th Century Fox wide-screen film adaptation starring Richard Burton & Jean Simmons --- it being the story of Roman military tribune's role in the Crucifixion of Christ.

New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1977. 2nd Edition, First Thus . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW, showing marked discoloration. Soft cover/Good, sound w/nips, chips, small losses to edges w/faint creasings to lower back corner. PO name on front cover verso. First published in 1976; this edition supplemented with an Afterword with added material. The enigmatic story of Alger Hiss (1904 - 1996) in particular, and of the American political scene of the late 1950s. Journalist John Chabot Smith (-2002) covered the trails of Alger Hiss (1949-1950) for the New York Herald Tribune. Lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer, Hiss was imprisoned when ex-Communist agent and spy Whittaker Chambers (1901 - 1961) named Hiss as a co-conspirator, essentially on evidence produced from a hollowed out pumkin ... known as the "pumpkin papers". Strong copy despite flaws.

München: Goethe-Institut, 1992. Printed Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 11 13/16" Tall. The majority of the clippings, most dating from October 2 to November 13 1992 were taken from Die Welt, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Die Zeit, Publik Forum, and Presse und Sprache: they fairly represent the debates over immigration and asylum of that period, as reported by the national dailies. 212 pages, of which 209 are numbered. Covers show slight shelf use and coloring; text is strong and clean.

Mills Valley, CA: Squarebooks, 1979. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Burnt orange boards/NF w/light push to lower front corner. DJ/VG w/nips, rubs, & small closed tears to edges. Photographic documentary of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a singular engineering feat conceived during the First World War and completed in 1937... requiring the largest underwater foundation piers ever built, the tallest towers, and the longest, thickest cables, it is a much admired, much loved, reigning symbol of America. Fine copy.

Toronto, Canada: PaperJacks, 1986. First Paperback Ed, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & showing margin discoloration. Illustrated soft cover/VG; strong & sound w/light wear, lifting laminate to corner tips, and, also showing discoloration; faint bend to front parallel to leading text edge echoed in first few pages. Journalist Andrew H. Malcolm enjoys dual American-Canadian citizenship. For four years he served as Toronto Bureau Chief of the New York Times during which he "wandered the vast expanse of Canada's real estate from top to bottom and side to side..." This book "is the story of those adventures and that journey." Text in 5 chapters: I, Geography; II, The People; III, The United States & Canada; IV, The Economy; and, V, My Canada.

Washington, D. C.: The World Bank, 2001. Illustrated Coated Cardstock. Near Fine/No Jacket. 10 3/4" Tall. Alan Piazza. The chapter headings of this working report, one of the publisher's series A World Bank Country Study, are: Tends in Rural Poverty in the 1990s; The Macroeconomic Context; Poverty Reduction Programs in China; and Measures to Increase Mountain Area Productivity. 154 pages, with tables, figures, map, Annexes, and Index; plus xxviii pages prefatory matter; three fold-out color maps are attached between the last page, and the rear cover. Covers show minimal use; text is clean and strong.

Colorado Springs, CO: Century One Press, 1976. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Paul Busch (Artist). BRAND NEW Copy w/faint sticker shadow to left front of soft cover. Pictorial history of Colorado State. Collection of drawings featured in the weekly series "Colorado Sketchbook" of the Denver Post from 1963 to 1965, supplemented with some new additions by author. 87 illustrations w/hand-written captions, commencing with "The Age of Dinosaurs" through "Teddy Roosevelt" and concluding with the week-long "Mountain & Plain Festival" first celebrated 1895.

New York, NY: Bard/Avon Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/rubs to corner tips & trace surface wear. Memoir of a year's life as a cowboy. In his forty-fourth year, awarding winning journalist and founding editor and publisher of Big Sky Journal, David McCumber quits techology stricken city life for that of a ranchhand on Bill Galt's Birch Creek spread in Montana. McCumber reports the cowboy is alive and well the West, not "of the Hollywood variety", but in terms of his ethics of hard work and respect for weather and land. Changes have, however, taken place ... for one, horses have been mostly replaced by "Japanese quarter horses," otherwise known as four-wheel all-terrain vehicles, and secondly, many cowboys hold advanced degrees in higher learning.

New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Non-fiction narrative. A story of life and death. 4 men aboard a 13 foot long, 4 foot wide and 20 inch deep afloat in the seas off South Africa surviving crew of the yacht Migonette that had set sal from Southampton, England with Australia in mind.

New York, NY: People Books/Time Inc Home Entertainment, 1997. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. People Weekly Archival Photos. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Commemorative Edition. A photographic essay of the 17 years Diana, Princess of Wales (1961 -1997) captivated the world and Tony Blair so aptly annointed "The People's Princess. 160-page special album of photographs from the archives of People Magazine depict Princess Diana's marriage, the development of her fashion sense, her relations with her sons William and Harry, her travels, her charitable work, other aspects of her life, and her funeral.

London, UK: John Murray, 1947. First Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Freya Stark (Author-Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Green linen boards w/gilt authr's signature & spine lettering/Fine. DJ/None. Frontispiece: Young Arabia. Bookshop label to front cover verso. Travel narrative by British travel writer Freya Madeleine Stark (1893 - 1993) famous for her experiences in the Middle East. First published 1945; this is the 4th Printing of 1947. During World War II, she joined the British Ministry of Information. She wrote over two dozen books based on her travels, almost all were published by John Murray in London. This volume, illustrated by author's photos, covers the War years in: I, Aden; II, Egypt; III, Syria; and, IV, Iraq.

[Barcelona]: Editorial Barna, 1954. 1st Edition . Red Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8 3/8" Tall. Fotografías de Català-Roca, Mas, Gudiol y Serra. Text/NEW & Bright w/trace smudges to first title page. Spanish language text. 1954 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed maroon leather boards/Fine. DJ/None (published without?). This is the prize Commemorative publication to "La Exposicion Homenaje al Grupo QUATRE GATS presentada por "REVISTA", inaugriation la SALA PARES de Barcelona, 5 de mayo de 1954. Opened in 1897, modeled after Chat Noir of Paris, the cafe, named 'The Four Cats" (Catalan phrase for people who are odd & outsiders) --- a hostel, bar & cabaret --- became a central gathering place for Barcelona's Bohemian artists including Pablo Picasso & Ramon Casas i Carbó. Closed 1903 from faulty financial management, it was fully restored i1989 to it's 1899 state the same year Picasso ( ), at age 17, first… Read More

Rio De Janeiro: Livraria Jose Olympio Editora, 1962. Printed Coated Cardstock. Good/No Jacket. 8 1/2" Tall. This is the author's third volume of memoirs, counting A Sala da Capeia (Sao Paulo: Livraria Jose Olympio Editora, 1933) as the first, but is a direct successor to his prize-winning Todos Contam sua Vida of 1959. "Aquele livro [was] consagrado as recordacoes da infancia e da adolescencia .... " This one begins in 1905 with his move to Porto Alegre and the start of his journalism career, and concludes with a charming A Hora do Crepusculo, written at and about his beloved Paqueta. Effectively, however, the book concludes with "a historia do breve interregno de regime constitucional que o pais viveu entre julho de 1934 e novembro de 1937." 328 pages; plus ix page prefatory matter, including Frontispiece. Covers are discolored and have a mended tear; front endpaper has been clipped; text is clean and strong, but coloring at edges.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Press, 1988. Reprint . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace sitcker shadow to rear. Smthsonian "Exploring the Great West Series" dedicated to reprints of rare and out-of-print reports by America's first gov't and military explorers. First published 1852, this volume, from Major Howard Stansbury (1806 - 1863) of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, is an account of a 2-year expedition (1849-1851) he led to survey the Great Salt Lake and its environs. The narrative represents the first serious scientific exploration of the flora and fauna of the Great Salt Lake Valley, and, provides a favorable impression of the members of the Mormon Church who had settled the area circa 1847. This reprint is issued less Appendix G (Meteorological Obersations) included in the original report.

New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1945. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Stated First Printing, April 1945. Text/folded corner to pg 99, else As New. Soft cover/VG; strong & sound w/rubs to leading edges, light wear to corner tips, and trace soiling/discoloration. All leading text edges dyed red; trace bleeding. Frontispiece: photo of Jo Davidson's bust of FDR. Gift dedication to fEP, dated "April, 1945". Book's royalties donated to charity. LAID-IN, newspaper clippings: 1, Roosevelt - One Year After by columnist Uncle Dudley (Editor of the Boston Globe Thomas Winship, 1920 - 2002); 2, Salute to Valor (Poet John F. Tirrell, Jr., Memorial Day 1945); 3, On His Anniversary (Poet Agnes Carr, from the Boston Traveler, 1946); and, 4, a headline only clipping: Truman Tribute to Roosevelt: "We Shall Not Soon See His Like Again." Anthology. Contents are: 1, The News Came by Air ... Radio comment & public reaction (John Daly broadcast 6:15… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Summit Books, 1988. First Edition, 8th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/VG w/rubs, nips, chips to edges, and light surface rubs. The novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) by journalist and author Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937 - 2005) first popularized the phrase "Gonzo journalism" --- a reporting style where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their narrative. That story chronicled journalist Raoul Duke's trip to Las Vegas with Dr. Gonzo, his "300-pound Samoan attorney to cover a narcotics officers' convention, and described the historic decade of the 1960s when freedom was a given, dysfunction the norm, society permissive, and, fully sedated with drugs of course, as one pursued the American Dream. This anthology is a collection of some 100 of Thompson's columns from the San Francisco Examiner. This being "Gonzo Papers. Vol.… Read More

Denver, CO: Sage Books, 1964. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Off-white linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light nips, chips to edges; under mylar. Autobiography/memoir of journalist, social activist and US Representive from Colorado, Edward Keating (1875 - 1965). 1900 census showed 2 million children working in mills, mines, fields, factories, stores, and on city streets across the U.S. In 1916, with Robert Owen, he co-authored the Keating-Owen Act, a milestone in child labor laws. It's passage (vigorously opposed by Southern textile mills) enventually sheltered some a quarter of a million children; protection of children farm labor came later. Memoir in 4 parts: I, Early Life; II, Some Newspaper & Political Stories; III, Interesting People; and IV, Congressional Experience.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Archival Photographs. Text/New & Bright. Blue bicolor boards w/silver spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace shelfwear. The Untouchables come to life. Inside story of how the FBI brought down the Mafia boss of bosses, Paul Catellano. Collaborative, historical account by former FBI Special Agent Jules Bonavolonta who takes us to seedy Mafia social clubs, cramped vans jammed w/wire-tapping apparatus, austere court rooms, and, Brian Duffy, Investigations Editor for U.S. News & World Report. 383 pgs with b/w photos.

New York, NY: Villard Books, 1997. First Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/Near Fine. Randy Rackliff (Illustrator). BRAND NEW COPY w/trace creasing to lower front of dustjacket w/photo of Rob Hall's 1996 team at Mt. Everest Base Camp to rear. Maps to endpapers. 1996, a deadly year in Everest history; 15 mountaineers meet their death. Journalist & accomplished climber Jon Krakauer (1954 -), representing Outside Magazine, was with the South Ridge party led by Rob Hall & Scott Fischer, neither of whom survived. Portions of text first published in the Outside. Volume sparked considerable controversy; guide Anatoli Boukreev co-authored a rebuttal to this account under the title: The Climb. Tragedies to climbers on the mountain's North Ridge, where several climbers also died, is detailed in a first hand account by British filmmaker and writer Matt Dickinson in The Other Side of Everest.

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2003. First American Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace water "splash" evidence to lower corner of pg 361 to rear endpaper. First Edition, First Printing. Higloss illustrated boards wrapped w/three-quarter size dust jacket, reproducing the banner headline of Harper's Weekly issue of September 29, 1883, along w/discolored newspaper edges, and the word "Indonesia" handwritten. Story of the volcanic eruption of the Krakatoa islands, Indonesia --- literally an explosion of an island, taking with it a loss of some 40,000 lives, and resounding with such violence, the noise carried over 3,000 miles to Australia and India, and barometers worldwide shuddered. Physical aftermaths of vivid sunsets, plummeting temperatures aside, cultural aftermath was considerable --- the disaster helped trigger the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings as Java was swept up in a tsunami-wave of murderous anti-Western sentiments.… Read More