Search Results: Authors starting with G from Grampy's Bookcase

239 pp. Underlining in the first chapter. Remainder of the book is unmarked. Covers are bright, tight, with very minor wear. Small bookstore price label on the front cover. Quoted from the back cover, " A classic in its field, 'Why nations Go to War' engages students in a dialogue about the human truth behind the mechanistic forces of war."

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square binding. Glossy DJ is intact with very minimal wear around the edges. Slight DJ smudging. Volume appears unused. From the front DJ flap, "This book is concerned with the economics of socialism as the first phase of the communist mode of production and provides a systematic course in the political economy of socialism covering the pattern of the rise and establishment of socialism, common social ownership of the means of production, the character of labor under socialism, planned, balanced development of the economy and the economic role of the state...".

Text is clean and unmarked din a square and tight binding. Spine cloth is faded on the spine. Very good solid copy. From the introduction, "Marxist-Leninist political economy studies the various modes of production in the sequence in which they follow one another, forming a single process of economic evolution of human society. Frederick Engels wrote in 'Anti-Duhring' that political economy in its broadest sense was the science of the laws governing the production and exchange of material values in human society."

59 pp. In "As New Condition". Full page color plates included. Catalogue from the exhibit, Naum Gabo Pioneer of Abstract Sculpture November 4 - December 11, 1999. Essay by Graham Williams.

Text has some smudges and a small chip out of the bottom corner of one of the pages. Covers are smudged and worn with reinforcing tape covering the spine. "Gift of Children's Literature Class" is written on the top of the title page. On the title page is the word 'Withdrawn" on the bottom corner of the tite page. Illustrations throughout.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding top edges are faded. Spine is darkened in places. DJ is age-toned with minimal wear around the edges. Small, closed tear at the top of the back DJ. From the front DJ flap, "Drawing upon material gathered in months of research at the Truman Library and upon interviews with friends, family, and colleagues of the late President, Samuel Gallu has created an irresistible earful of Truman's own thoughts and comments on just about everything."

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Ony defect is light age toning in the text. Binding is bright with clear lettering on the spine. Price unclipped DJ is worn but intact with several small chips and closed tears around the outer edges.

Volume and DJ are in unused condition. Photo section included. From the front DJ flap, "The Australian defenders - Lark Force, composed of fourteen hundred men, the bulk of which was the 2/22nd Infantry Battalion, and six nurses - were overrun in a matter of hours. They withdrew deep into the jungles of New Britain, where the unforgiving environment, the cruel Japanese soldiers, and even fate were against them...less than a fourth of the Australian garrison escaped from New Britain after enduring months of deprivation; the rest were taken prisoner. Of that number, approximately two hundred were executed, the majority in one horrific massacre."

200 pp. Clean and unmarked text in square, tight, and unblemished covers. Black and white photos included. "Perhaps three things have made Joseph Keenan a legend both in the wartime and beyond: a commitment to the national interest over any parochial or limited concerns; an open and friendly manner which immediately set others at ease; and, a belief in the fundamental decency and good will of other human beings." p. ix.

84 pp. Poems are written in Spanish and English. Previous owner's name is on the inside top outside corner of the front cover. Otherwise in "as new condition".

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight binding. Binding is smudged and age toned. A solid copy. Inscribed on the front free end paper, "May 1949 Indianapolis Rev. Richard Rettig, You've aided in making this birth possible in the renaissance of an ancient people in their old-new home. Your understanding & appreciation for human personality is the truly creative gift of a rich human personality. May it always find renewal of spirit & vigor through the many years ahead! Louis B. Greenley."

549 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. card holder attached to the back free end paper. Library stamps on the outside edges of the text block. Previous owner's name is on the outside top corner of the front free end paper. DJ is protected with a plastic cover and is bright and intact. Plastic cover is taped to the binding and DJ edges. Tape has left marks on the front and back free papers. A very solid copy. From the front DJ flap, "In 'Theories of History' Professor Gardiner has brought together many of the outstanding writings on the philosophy of history throughout the ages."

Text is clean and unmarked. Covers are worn with scuffs. Back cover is mostly detached with part of the spine cover missing. Mel Fiske, the previous owner's name is on the front inside cover. Mel Fiske was a well known journalist, labor organizer, and a member of the American Communist Party. " From "About the Author", " 'The Rosenberg Story' ...just one year after the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, underscores the continuing fight to vindicate the heroic couple whose martyrdom outraged the conscience of all decent mankind, a fight linked today to the rising demand for the freedom of their co-defendant, Morton Sobell."

935 pp. As new condition.

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding has some smudging and is slighly cocked. Some foxing on the title page. Inscription on the inside binding reads, "Presented to Eleanor Bennett for excellent work in the Sixth Grade, Miss Neder"

Text is clean and unmarked. Both covers are detached but included. The pamphlet is age toned and with multuple chips and small closed tears around the margins. It is basically a reading copy. Riickenbacker and his sponsors have seized upon some of the pressing problems confronting the Administration, not to offer constructive win-the-war solutions, but for the purpose of creating disunity and obdtructing the war effort. Their solution liesin the unity of labor and the peole behind the government, not wth profesinal labor- haters and their spiritual leaders like Hoover, Vanderbereg and the rest of the appeaser crowd. p.23.

Text is clean and unmarked. Covers are without tears, chips, or creases. Back cover is age toned with some smudging. From the Introduction, "Many are the avenues along which the fascists seek the destruction of democratic rights and multicolored is the clothing in which fascism attires itself. The McCarren Act, with its threat against freedom of thought and organization, is in the Hitlerite style. Its essence is the outlawing of progressive organizations; a familiar Nazi feature of the law is the provision for concentration camps. The outlawing of people's organizations we have seen before in our country."

Text is clean and unmarked in intact covers displaying very light shelf wear. A printed list of other publications "Related to the History of the United States Labor Movement" is inserted in this occasional paper. "In June 1898 Howells helped sponsor a national conference on social reform in Buffalo, New York. The gathering adopted a declaration which asserted 'militarism...expressed in our war of conquest in the Philippines...is but the offspring and incident of the greater menace of plutocracy which has established monopoly government in place of government by the people.' " p. 27.

248 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Lettering is faded on the spine. Inscribed, "To Prof. Ronald Farrell with kind regards Jozef Garlinski Albany, 28.10.74". Illustrations and maps included. Foreword by Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins.

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square binding. Some of the lettering on the spine is faded. Text is age-toned. A solid, well-maintained copy.