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New York: Atheneum, 1983. Stated First Edition. Very Good +/near fine. 74 B&W Illustrations. The whirlwind of Paris in the 1920s with Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, James Joyce, Picasso, Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Hart Crane, the Faulkners, Isadora, and many more. "...the story of that madcap period when writers and painters, musicians and dancers, the new and the old rich, the exiles from Communist Russia and Prohibition America all converged at a unique moment in history upon an exciting and irreverent city." Book is in very good condition. Minor shelf wear and upper front corner rubbed to show tiny bit of board. Page edges are lightly tanned and several places in the book not tight but splay out when book is opened. Very good dust jacket, unclipped, minor wear and lightly bumped, mylar-covered.

New York: Grove Press, 2002. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949-1950 American undercover expedition led by America's first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan -- a covert attempt to arm the Tibetans and to recognize Tibet's independence in the months before China invaded. It recounts a harrowing and unprecedented two-thousand-mile trek on foot and camel across China and the deserts of inner Asia. For the first time, Thomas Laird reveals how Mackiernan helped establish a covert intelligence pipeline from China to India; how he gathered atomic intelligence for the United States; how his partner Frank Bessac urged the Tibetan government to request covert U.S. military aid and then carried the signed request out of Lhasa; and, finally, how Dean Rusk and the CIA responded. Laird reveals how the clash between the State Department and the CIA, as well us unguided actions by field agents, hastened the Chinese invasion of Tibet.… Read More