Search Results: Authors starting with I from Bloomsbury Books

Grand Rapids, MI: Bengal Press, Inc., 1982. Book. VG+. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Offered is a first edition, first (and only) printing of "Night Slayer" by John Ilich (who is best known for his business management, finance and negotiation books). Issued in pocketbook only, and containing 160 pages, two detectives are confronted with a serial killer. From the rear cover: "Brutal murders were occurring and the city was in a panic. The victims were mutilated almost beyond recognition as the killer easily scaled up the sides of buildings or smashed through car windows as if they were paper to get to them. Had a beast from outer space descended to spread terror and violence or did such a creature exist from time past? Those were just two of the questions that Ramos and Thomson were confronted with in this exciting new thriller." Wear to upper and lower outer spine edges, light wear along left narrow edge of front cover where book was… Read More

Washington, D.C: National Impact. Offered is "ACTION - NATIONAL IMPACT" (No. 99-E10 dated May 2, 1986) published by National Impact out of Washington, D.C. A single-paged legislative update measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and printed on both sides. As stated, National IMPACT is "a legislative information network sponsored by the national agencies of twenty-three Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish groups. National IMPACT monitors legislation before the U.S. Congress under these priorities: Halt the Arms Race; Secure Economic Justice and Protect Human Rights." Headlined, "Congress to Decide Fate of Salvadoran Refugees," the topics are: ISSUE ("The DeConcini/Moakley bill to suspend all deportations of Salvadorans has been approved by immigration subcommittees of both the House and Senate. S 377/HR 822 would temporarily stop the United States from sending Salvadorans back to civil war in El Salvador"); RECOMMENDED ACTION (to support bill); WRITE OR PHONE;… Read More

Hollywood, California: Movie Tech Studios, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Offered is the probable first, and possibly only, draft of the film screenplay entitled "Matt Hammerhand: 'The Iron Fist'" - the screenwriter's name is not provided in this script. An undated draft script (the scenes are not numbered) circa 1970s, the film, to my knowledge, was never made. The screenplay contains 78 machine-copied loose leaf pages (including title page which indicates the title and author on Movie Tech Incorporated letterhead) measuring 8-1/2" by 11" bound in thin black covers with three small clasps. Formerly pasted to the upper area of the front cover (and now laid in) is a label from Movie Tech Studios (showing its name and address on 832 Seward Street in Hollywood, California, typed title, typed "A Movie Tech Prod." and typed "Reg. W.G.A.W."). Outer covers are edge-worn with a few tiny short closed edge tears.. Read More

No Publisher, 1980. Book. Fine. No Binding. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Offered is the screenplay for the proposed film "Tomboy" lacking the screenwriter's name (please note that based on my review of this script, it is not the screenplay for the 1985 film of the same name). No date, although circa 1980s. A shooting script (each scene is numbered), the film, to my knowledge, was never made (at least not with this title). The screenplay contains 102 three-hole punched machine-copied loose leaf pages, which measure 8-1/2" by 11" and are printed on one side. The screenplay is bound in deep sea-green covers with the gold-embossed title, with covers and internal pages held together with three brass brads. Narrow scratch and light wear to front cover..

Philadelphia, PA: Indochina Program, American Friends Service Committee. Offered is an original brochure entitled "Statement on Continued U.S. Support For South Vietnam's Police & Prison System And Proposals For Ending Such Support" dated July 20, 1973 and published by the Indochina Program of the American Friends Service Committee out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A left-folded brochure measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing four pages including front and rear covers. Submitted by several organizations (as stated), including the American Ethical Union, American Humanist Association, American Friends Service Committee, United Methodist Church, American Baptist Convention, Union of Hebrew Congregations, the Statement contains the following headings: Background (beginning with "As part of our long and costly involvement in the Southeast Asia conflict, the United States has been providing aid - in the form of weapons, supplies, training and advisory support - to the… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Bach Mai Hospital Emergency Relief Fund (Medical Aid for Indochina), 1973. Book. Fine. No Binding. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Offered is an original brochure from the Bach Mai Hospital Emergency Relief Fund, a branch of Medical Aid for Indochina, published in November 1973 out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. A left-folded brochure measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing four pages including front and rear covers. With two front cover photographs of Bach Mai Hospital before the bombing (November 1972) by U.S. B-52 bombers and after the bombing (December 1972). With four additional photographs (Damage at Bach Mai Hospital, 12/22/72; Reconstruction at Bach Mai Hospital, March 1973; Fetal Monitoring at Bach Mai Hospital; First shipment for the ENT in Hanoi), the topics are: Bach Mai: Viet Nam's Largest Hospital; The 1972 Christmas Bombing; Destruction at Bach Mai; The 1973 Peace Agreement; Reconstruction: The E.N.T. Institute at Bach Mai; U.S. Aid.… Read More

New York: Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI), 1950. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover containing 132 internal pages with articles, photographs, list of U.S. Paper Coating Machine Patents, index. Dime-sized chip to lower right corner of front cover and first six pages (to corner blank margins only, and not affecting the text); light outer corner and light outer spine wear..

No Place: Impeachment Information Center. Offered is an original matchbook published by the Impeachment Information Center containing no date, although 1973 or 1974. Printed by "Vogue Business Gifts - Gardena [California]," when closed it measures 1-1/2" by 2-1/8" and contains 20 matches with a flint strip (it has never been used). It reads, "IMPEACH NIXON - CALL IMPEACHMENT INFORMATION CENTER [with telephone number]" with a quotation from Thomas Jefferson on the verso: "'An Elective Despotism Was Not What We Fought For' - Thomas Jefferson - Notes on Virginia (1784), Query 13, Par. 14." . Very Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1973.

Longview, TX: LeTourneau Technical Institute, 1960. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A newsletter measuring 8" by 10-1/2" and containing four pages including front and rear covers. A Christian-faith newsletter, contents include: R. G. [Robert Gilmour] LeTourneau talks about Tug-Dozer (with photo "Shown above is the Tug-Dozer with three-wheel drive"); The [Royce E. - Barney] Barnwell Story: R.G.'s Veteran Pilot (reprinted from The Longview, Texas, News and Journal); half-page photograph of Royce Barnwell ("R.G.'s Veteran Pilot"); It Is Legal To Acknowledge God!; Most Girls Would Rather Talk Than Listen (which begins, "The Women's Residence Association, of the Iowa State University, distributed questionnaires to 410 co-eds to discover whether they would rather talk than listen"). Previously folded once (for mailing purposes); name and address of subscriber stamped to front cover; small light brown stain to… Read More

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. A news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: Cover Story California's Family Affair: Pat Brown's Indonesian Oil Business Could Dash Son Jerry Brown's Presidential Hopes by Tim Brick (with front cover photo of Jerry Brown); Kampuchea, Three Years Old: For the First Time, a Glimpse of How Life Has Been Transformed by the Communist-led Revolutionaries of What Was Formerly Cambodia (a glowing report, albeit with five grim photos); Cape Verde, Three Years Old by Frits Eisenloeffel; Seven Days Interview: Bruce Wright; lengthy review of NBC's 9-1/2 hour mini-series "Holocaust" (with three photos); Game Show Madness by Howard A. Rodman. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; staples lightly age-rusted. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1978.

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. Offered is the February 23, 1979 issue of Seven Days Magazine (Volume 3 #1) published by the Institute for New Communications out of New York City, a left-progressive (and long defunct) news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: cover photo of and exclusive interview with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini interviewed by Jim Cockcroft; text The Resolution Unanimously Approved by the People of Tehran, at Shahyad Square, On December 10 (since named Khomeini Square); Bella [Abzug] Speaks Freely: An Interview with the Former Co-Chair of the National Advisory on Women (interviewed by Gloria Jacobs and Jane Melnick); Perilous Victories: Second Thoughts in the Anti-War Movement by Dave Dellinger ("But there can be no doubt as to the ferocity of the Pol Pot regime and the contrast between the… Read More

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. A news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: 10, 9, 8, 7 - Ooops! - Into each life a little radioactivity has fallen by Bob Becker with Gloria Jacobs (on Three Mile Island); "Beyond International Boundaries" - Notes on Iran, the women's movement, and getting expelled by Kate Millett ("This document was composed under armed guard and when I was held incommunicado in the Tehran airport"); one-page Seven Days Interview: Kate Millett ("I think the American government would be very satisfied with the Ayatollah because he's so anti-Communist and reactionary, in ways that American racism can enjoy. He's going back to the Islamic version of what would be canonical law for us, where you burn witches and torture people and all that"); Seven Days… Read More

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. A news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: On Parties and Politics: An Interview with California's Left Wing Congressperson (Ron Dellums interviewed by Tim Reagan); [Daniel] Berrigan on Life, Death and Abortion: Veteran Activist Agonizes Over New Issues (interviewed by Deirdre English; with his photo on front cover); Apartheid: You Can Bank on It: New Research Reveals that South Africa Has a Friend at U.S. Banks by Helen Hopps. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; staples very lightly age-rusted. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1978.

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. A news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: Political Parties, Cultural Politics: To Say the American Delegation to the World Youth Festival in Havana Found it Overwhelming Would Be an Understatement by Zita Allen; Undercover Operation: Who's Covering Up? - The Police Murder of Two Young Puerto Ricans [Arnaldo Dario Rosado and Carlos Enrique Soto] Has Created a Political Furor on the Island by Tomas Stella; cover story Political Prisoners U.S.A.: Is the U.S. a Major Violator of Human Rights? by Peter Biskind; one-page One Small Victory a Day: Lesbian Union Militant Leads Connecticut Local (Mary Poleio interviewed). Condition: mailing label to rear cover; staples lightly age-rusted. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1978.

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. Offered is the March 24, 1978 issue of "Seven Days Magazine" (Volume 2 No. 4) published by the Institute for New Communications, Inc. out of New York City. A news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: On Saving the Brontosaurus: Carter Talks of Solar Power but His Policy is Oriented Toward Nukes by Alfredo Lopez; A Hard-Won Land: After 30 Years of Struggle the Vietnamese are Determined to Develop What They Have Won by Marilyn Clement; Who Killed Malcolm X? - Thirteen Years Later Questions Linger and the Case Is About to be Reopened by Alan Berger (with five photos, First of Two Parts); review of "The Autobiography of an American Communist" by Peggy Dennis (with three photos); one-page review of A Lonely Rage by Bobby Seale; Seven Days Interview: Bobby Seale.… Read More

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. A news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: The Women's Movement (with two articles: From Grassroots to Grey Flannel Suits by Leslie Cagan; Combat in the Media Zone by Barbara Ehrenreich); Whose Cloak, Whose Dagger? - Facts in the Vietnam Espionage Case Raise Questions About the U.S. Government's Motives by Jon Steinberg (on Ronald Louis Humphrey and Troung Dinh Hung); one-page "The Greatest's" Last Night by Alan Berger (on Muhammed Ali); Seven Days Interview: Sembene Ousmane (subtitled "Sembene's New Film Attacks Islam"); two-page The Sex Pistols Hang Up The Gun by Howard A. Rodman (with three photos). Condition: mailing label to front cover; staples age-rusted; light cover wear. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1978.

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. A news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: Looking for David's Harp: The Middle East Peace Agreement Rests on as Many Hopes as Misunderstandings by Jon Steinberg (on the Camp David peace proposals involving Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin, and Anwar el-Sadat); Cover Story: Last Stand for 'El Hombre' by Michael Mercer ("Nicaraguan President [Anastasio] Somoza [Dle] has too many enemies and two few allies to survive"); Legionnaire's Disease: Autopsy of the Investigation by Barbara Ehrenreich and Peter Biskind; Is There Birth Without Hospitals? - Midwife Marianne Doshi On Trial for Murder by Susan Stern; Professor Busted for Book Possession by Lee Penn (on Frank S. Giese. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; staples lightly age-rusted. . Near Fine. Magazine.… Read More

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. A news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: The Truth Behind the Trial: The [David] Truong - [Ronald] Humphrey Conviction Raises Questions that Linger Long After the Verdict by Duane Schank; Regulating the Undocumented by David Helvarg and Larry Remer; The Battle for Zaire: When Guerrillas Moved into Shaba, They Moved into International Power Politics - Again by Jon Steinberg; Gene-Splicing for Profit and Prestige: Recombinant DNA Research - Who's Watching the Researchers? by Michael Singer. Condition: mailing label to rear cover; staples lightly age-rusted; tiny chip to upper edge of rear cover. . Near Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1978.

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. A news and investigative magazine containing 44 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: Power Failure: An Interview with Eqbal Ahmad; Bolstering Pakistan's Militarism: A Shah Without Oil, Or Even A Peacock Throne (with photo of General Zia ul-Haq); The Middle East Dilemma: Palestinian Rights remain the central issue by Edward Said; Teheran Diary by Elaine Baly; excerpted interview of Hassan Sana, one of the highest SAVAK officials presently awaiting trial in Iran; Big Power Rivalry: The Fallout In Africa by Lorenzo D'Amato; The "Me" Generation Says "Not Me!" by Dave Dellinger; What George Bush Didn't Say to Seven Days by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes (a "simulated" interview of George H.W. Bush - "So here it is, the first published interview to probe behind the… Read More

New York, NY: Institute for New Communications, Inc.. Offered is the February 24, 1978 issue of "Seven Days Magazine" (Volume 2 No. 2) published by the Institute for New Communications, Inc. out of New York City. A news and investigative magazine containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Well-illustrated with photographs, and containing national and international news, features, and reviews, highlights include: "New Panthers" Face Old Problems (on the Black Panther Party, with articles: Panthers Under Fire by Anita Frankel; With Their School in the Middle by Pat Roberto; Huey Newton on Panther Tactics - Interview); New Regulations for Sterilization by Maritza Arrastia; Why the Talks Broke Down by Peretz Kidron (on Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat); Larry Flynt Rises Up Angry: This Article is Rated X - Please Turn the Page is You Are Offended by Obscenity by Peter Biskind (with two photos of Larry Flynt). Condition: mailing label to front cover; staples age-rusted. . Near… Read More