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London: Allan Wingate. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1955. First English Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. 552 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "One of the most important autobiographies of the post-war period, for there can be few personalities still alive who have been so intimately connected with the march of world events for so many years... His first great triumph was to rescue the German Mark from the inflation of 1921... As the Nazi avalanche swelled, Hitler persuaded him to occupy the Presidential chair at the Reichsbank... but (Schacht) soon saw that the Fuhrer was driving relentlessly towards war. A quarrel resulted and he left the Government, remaining under a cloud until he was arrested towards the close of the regime." - from dust jacket. Schact was aquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg. Moderate wear to book. Binding intact. Several patches and touch-ups to dust jacket which is now preserved in… Read More

USA: Lea Brothers & Co., 1907. Book. Illus. by Dupuy, G.. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A full-spectrum presentation of medical science as it was in the early 1900s. Edited by Sir William Osler, often considered the father of modern medicine. Each volume contains approximately 900 pages and an index. Volumes I through III printed in 1907, volumes IV and V in 1908, volume VI in 1909 and volume VII in 1910. Numerous colour and black and white plates. Black and white diagrams. Full leather bindings. Two maroon labels with gilt lettering upon each backstrip. Each volume approximately 10" high by 7" wide by 2.75" thick. Of particular note are eight graphic full-page time-lapse photos illustrating the progressive ravages of smallpox upon a middle-aged man, and his appearance after recovery. All bindings stout and strong. Hairline opening along front hinge of volume I. Underlining on relatively few pages in light ink and pencil.… Read More

Paris: Edition 7L (Edition7L), 2002. Book. Illus. by Bruce Weber, Steven Klein, Irving Penn, Alex Chatelain, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, Peter Knapp, Annie Leibowitz - a Total of 30 Contributing Photographers. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 408 pages. Signed and inscribed by fashion icon Grace Coddington upon title page, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light external wear. Reviews the life and prolific fashion accomplishments of Ms. Coddington during her thirty year tenure with Vogue magazine. Sumptously photo-illustrated in colour and black and white. Binding tight and square. Decorated black boards protected by attractive clear glossy acetate protector. Slipcase not included. A high-quality copy of this magnificent work..

Austria: Konig. Fine. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 3883755079 . Did foreign art students covertly install a balcony on the 91st floor of World Trade Center Tower 1 in the months preceding the 911 attacks? This enigmatic work claims to document the evolution and execution of such a stunt in both sketches and color photos. Examine for yourself the photos taken from a helicopter of a person apparently standing on the balcony. 55 pages. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Photographic pages tend to stick together so must be opened with care. Provokes disquieting questions about WTC security and the demise of the twin towers in the same year the small print run of this work was issued.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Gelatin B-Thing WTC 9/11 Foreign Art Students Balcony 911 Security Gelitin Conspiracy Architectural Intervention WTC 7 Infowars Larry Silverstein Dancing Israelis Odigo Paging .

Canada: Douglas & McIntyre / Vancouver Art Gallery, 2002. Book. Illus. by Hughes, E.J.. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by E.J. Hughes upon title page. 226 pages. Index of works. Chronology. Selected bibliography. Oblong 11" x 12". "Lavishly illustrated with 100 full colour and 25 black-and-white reproductions of prints, drawings and paintings, this is the first full-scale volume to honour the artistic life and work of E.J. Hughes from the start of his long career in the 1930s to the present... His unique talent for depicting the landscape in a way that both he and viewers believe it should be, rather than the way it actually is, enables us to experience and understand place and nature in new and deeper ways." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A marvelous gift for any devotee of E.J. Hughes and his… Read More

U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by Spiro Agnew upon half-title page. 288 pages. Index. "A powerful book in which Mr. Agnew challenges the widely held beliefs about his alleged involvement in bribery and extortion while in office. His testimony provides a detailed, well-documented, week-by-week account of the whirlwind of events leading to his resignation and unsnarls the tangle of distorted and wilfully contrived evidence that has burdened his life for the past six years." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A handsome copy..

New York: The Philosophical Library. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 498 pages. Index. Forty-nine black and white photos and illustrations. Map of India. Frontis portrait of author. "The subtle but definite laws by which yogis perform miracles and attain complete self-mastery are explained with a scientific clarity." - Dust jacket. "His unusual life document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart, and of the spiritual wealth of India, ever to be published in the West." - Preface. Selected as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century" by a committee led by Philip Zaleski on behalf of HarperSanFrancisco. Included in the book "50 Spiritual Classics" by Tom Butler-Bowdon. Unmarked with moderate wear to beige publisher's cloth. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Steve Jobs thought so… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1975. First English Printing. Hardcover. 0684142406 . 311 pages. First English printing of the 1973 French first edition. "A chilling novel about the end of the white world." - dust jacket. "The 'Brave New World' of the 70's. I am still haunted by the drama and suspense and horror of that armada!" - Germaine Bree. "Takes on a whole cluster of polemical issues - over-population, race, the Third World, and the character of liberal thought and sentiment." - Max Lerner. Somewhat above-average wear. Spine leaning. Usual library markings. Clear plastic laminate over dust jacket.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Race mixing, migration, Racism, Over-Population, White Nationalism .

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Good. 1924. Third Printing. Hardcover. A modern Jew, perhaps for the first time, analyzes western civilization as an expression of the Gentile way of life and shows where this clashes with the nature and spiritual impulses of the Jew. - paraphrased from front flap of replica dust jacket included with this copy. "We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands - The wretched fate which scattered us through your midst has thrust this unwelcome role upon us." - p. 155. "I console myself with the thought that if this book offends by its assertiveness, God knows that the infinite tactfulness of thousands of other Jews seems to have offended no less. Whatever we do we are damned - and I would rather be damned standing up than lying down." - p. 221. "Born in Romania, Maurice Samuel [1895-1972] moved to the United States in 1914. A Jewish intellectual and… Read More

Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart / CBC Television. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771008139 . "Set in the near future in a locale resembling Cambridge Massachusetts, this work describes life in what was once the United States - A Clockwork Orange, as seen by women." - dust jacket. Second printing of the first Canadian edition. [12], 13-324 pp. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Light wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality early copy of this treasured work. SPADONI & DONNELLY 3587; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Handmaid's Tall, Margaret Atwood, Canadian Literature .

Singapore: Prentice Hall. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0130208035 . Signed and inscribed upon title page by Lee Kuan Yew to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, dated October 1998. "The first volume of the memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew [1923-2015], the man who planted this island state firmly on the map of the world. In Intimate detail, Lee recounts the battles against colonialists, communists and communalists that led to Singapore's independence. Lee brings the reader into his personal life, with unusual candour and the occasional touch of humour. He also shares insights into the men who shaped the times." - dust jacket. "For a country to rise from the threshold of subsistence to one of the highest living standards in the world in 30 years is no common achievement. At the root of this success lies the genius of one man, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew." - Jacques Chirac. "Lee Kuan Yew is one of the seminal figures of Asia, and this book does justice… Read More

Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771008139 . Signed, without inscription, by Margaret Atwood upon half-title page. True first printing. "Set in the near future in a locale resembling Cambridge Massachusetts, this work describes life in what was once the United States - A Clockwork Orange, as seen by women." - dust jacket. "Winner of the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. Nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. In 2022, 'The Handmaid's Tale' was included on the 'Big Jubilee Read' list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Adapted into a 1990 film, a 2000 opera, a 2017 television series, and other media." - Wikipedia. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Light soiling to fore-edge. Unclipped dust jacket bears… Read More

Durham, NC, U.S.A.: Duke University Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. "The notion of identifiable 'lost tribes' involves certain presuppositions concerning Hebrew history, and masses of supposed local evidence in many parts of the world. These presuppositions and the assumed evidence require a candid and searching anthropological historical examination. This book has no other purpose or method. But the examination brings to light a great body of the real facts of Hebrew history." - Preface. "The main thrust of Godbey's work is to disprove the assumption that the northern tribes, taken into captivity by Sargon II in 722/1 B. C., were lost in the welter of international movements following that event." - J. M. Myers. "Godbey is fascinating. He is well worth reading - for his consummate passion for detail, for his marvelously intricate tapestry of scholarship in an area where so much is tricky territory. He tells us a… Read More

USA: NESARA Institute. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0965112403 . "Offers a new theory of money with specific proposals for replacing the nation's outdated monetary and tax policies. Calls for general prosperity without sacrifice, and is written in plain language. A mosaic of ideas - images from the realms of philosophy, economics, finance, history, sociology, morality, law and politics - arranged in unusual patterns. Just when you think you have the picture, a new image changes the scene. Be prepared to face the dark side - and possibly to see the light." - dust jacket. "Barnard (1941-2005) created the NESARA proposal in the 1980s and early 1990s, based on a theory that debt is the number one economic factor inhibiting the growth of the economy, and compound interest is the number one 'moral evil' and reason for debt." - Wikipedia. pp. xxviii, 352. Index. Footnotes. This is a 2005 second edition copy of this work,… Read More

Dallas, Texas: Ragnarok Press. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1967. Second Edition. Hardcover. "George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967), Commander of the American Nazi Party, graphically describes the present status of the White Race in a crumbling and degenerate world. Leaves no doubt in the reader's mind that the White Race is doomed if it does not soon recognize, and destroy, the source of the Black Power which is threatening its very existence. Commander Rockwell establishes the case for ACTION." - dust jacket. This second edition copy was printed in September 1967, a month after the first edition. In that brief interval Rockwell was assassinated by a former party member. 482 pp. Grainy black and white reproductions of photos and documentation. Truth Seeker rubber ink stamp to copyright page otherwise unmarked. White illustrated boards are moderately warped. Narrow openings run the full length of each side of the backstrip. Binding tender but intact. Heavy wear and… Read More