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| G R O S S , G E R A L D , E D I T O R. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESS. New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation, (1966.) First printing. A c o l l e c t i o n o f t h i r t y - o n e a r t i c l e s, by contributors including Francis Brown, Frank Stanton, Robert W. Sarnoff, Rick Friedman, and others, t h a t c o v e r a w i d e r a n g e o f e t h i c a l a n d m o r a l i s s u e s r e l a t i n g t o t h e p r e s s ' s t r u g g l e t o r e a c h a n d s u s t a i n h i g h e r s t a n d a r d s o f r e s p o n s i b i l i t y . Among the specific topics covered are the Warren Commission Report, television journalism, the film industry, public television, and much more. Appendix, iI n d e x e d , 4 1 6 pp. Very good+ in a good dust jacket (some rubbing to the dj, tape repairs to interior of dj.) USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 45134 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| BARTIMUS, TAD AND DENBY FAWCETT, SIGNED; LAURA PALMER, JURATE KAZICKAS, EDITH LEDERER, ANN MARIANO, ANNE MERICK, KATE WEBB & TRACY WOOD WAR TORN: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam. New York: Random House, (2002.) First printing. Nine women journalists each contribute a chapter on their experiences in Indochina during the Vietnam War, covering the period from 1966 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Illustrated with photographs.Introduction by Gloria Emerson. Vietnam War Timeline. Map. INSCRIBED by two of the authors - Denby Fawcett and Tad Bartimus - on the top margin of the pages with their photographs. Fawcett's comments refer to hoping for peace as we move towards war [in Iraq]- xxvii 291 pages, index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name.) ISBN: 0-375-506284 USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 45300 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| BRITT, GEORGE, EDITIOR. SHOELEATHER AND PRINTERS' INK. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1974. First printing. A half century of the stories behind the stories by NY newspapermen - experiences and afterthoughts selected from issues of the Silurain News, 1924-1974. F/F. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 2403 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| COOPER, ANDERSON. DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival. New York: Harper Collins, (2006,) First printing. Both a personal memoir, of growing up as the son of a famous mother (Gloria Vanderbilt), the early deaths of his father and brother, and of the disasters which he covered for CNN- including the tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, war in Iraq, famine in Niger and hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Photographs, some in color. 207 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-061132381 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 38108 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| FRANKEL, MAX. THE TIMES OF MY LIFE and My Life with The Times. New York: Random House, (1999.) 3rd printing. Memoir of the noted journalist told in tandem with the big news stories of the time, starting with his boyhood in Nazi Germany and his wartime escape with his mother to New York. During the next half century he worked at the NY Times, he held just about every important position on the paper-- foreign correspondent (winner of Pulitzer Prize), Washington Bureau chief, executive editior, etc. Photographs. Index. 546 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-679448241 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 34748 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| FREIDIN, SEYMOUR AND BAILEY, GEORGE. THE EXPERTS. New York & London: Macmillan, 1968. First printing. A book by two award winning journalists described on the front cover as a 'scathing indictment of the opinion makers who flood the press, the networdk and ...our government with their special brand of instanteous wisdom.' A look at affairs the world over - NATO, Germany, Africa, Asia, Latin America, etc. Index. 498 pages. Very good+ in like dust jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 20709 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| FROST, DAVID. I GAVE THEM A SWORD: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews. New York: Morrow, 1978. First printing. The story behind the most watched television news show of 1977 - Frost gives us unique close-ups of Richard Nixon himself as the two wary adversaries relive the former President's years of power through eleven grueling sessions. He reveals for the first time what Nixon had to say about many of the key events in his presidency. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs by John Bryson. 320 pp. Good in a good dust jacket (piece cut out of front endpaper, but contents otherwise clean, price-clipped, edgewear to dj.). ISBN: 0-688-032796 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 44039 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| [BANNON, ANN AND WALTER MOSLEY, SIGNED] GROSS, TERRY, ALL I DID WAS ASK: Conversations with Writers, Actors Musicians, and Artists. New York: Hyperion, (2004) First printing. A collection of thirty-nine interviews by by the award-winning host of NPR's interview program 'Fresh Air.' Each selection is preceded by an explanation from Gross of why each guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. SIGNED by two of the guests: Ann Bannon at You Will Not Find the Word 'Lesbian' and Walter Mosley at We All Die. Also included are interviews with John Updike, Isabella Rossellini, Conan OÕBrien, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Nicolas Cage, Sonny Rollins, Mario Puzo, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, Eric Clapton, Joyce Johnson and others. Introduction by Gross. 353 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 1-4013-00103 USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 | £UK 24.25 | JP¥ 3530] Book number: 43420 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| [BANNON, ANN, SIGNED] GROSS, TERRY, ALL I DID WAS ASK: Conversations with Writers, Actors Musicians, and Artists. New York: Hyperion, (2004) First printing. A collection of thirty-nine interviews by by the award-winning host of NPR's interview program 'Fresh Air.' Each selection is preceded by an explanation from Gross of why each guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. SIGNED by Ann Bannon at You Will Not Find the Word 'Lesbian' Also included are interviews with John Updike, Isabella Rossellini, Conan OÕBrien, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Nicolas Cage, Walter Mosley, Sonny Rollins, Mario Puzo, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, Eric Clapton, Joyce Johnson and others. Introduction by Gross. 353 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket (price clipped.) ISBN: 1-4013-00103 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 43991 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| IVINS, MOLLY. MOLLY IVINS CAN'T SAY THAT, CAN SHE? New York: Random House, (1991.) First printing. Prize-winning columnist and journalist's first book: From deep in the heart of Texas comes Ivins, one of the toughest, savviest, and funniest columnists in America today. She writes about national politics; she writes about the 'bubbas' of the Great State of Texas; she writes about human folly and whatever else she darn well pleases. Blurb from from Texas governor Ann Richards who calls this 'more fun than riding a mechanical bull and almost as dangerous.' 284 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (previous owner's name, price-clipped.) ISBN: 0-679-404457 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 38022 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| JUNGER, SEBASTIAN. FIRE. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First thus- a trade paperback. A collection of essays on wildfire and wars around the world. Includes a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword on the significance of the attack on 9/11. SIGNED on the title page. Fine (as new.) ISBN: 0-06-0088613 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 23770 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| JUNGER, SEBASTIAN. FIRE. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First thus- a trade paperback. A collection of essays on wildfire and wars around the world. Includes a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword on the significance of the attack on 9/11. INSCRIBED on the title page.Fine (as new.) ISBN: 0-06-0088613 USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1412] Book number: 23771 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| JUNGER, SEBASTIAN. FIRE. New York: Norton, (2001.) First printing. A collection of essays on wildfire (including what went wrong at the Storm King Fire) and wars around the world (Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kashmir) ; the second book by the author of The Perfect Storm. 224 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-393-010465 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 35085 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| KOPPEL, TED. OFF CAMERA: Private Thoughts Made Public. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First printing. A look at the events of the year 1999 by this respected television newsmen, and also a look back at his own life. As the long time anchor of Nightline he won 32 Emmy's and numerous other awards. 320 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-375-410775 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 34629 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| [THOMPSON, DOROTHY, 1983-1961] KURTH,PETER. AMERICAN CASSANDRA: The Life of Dorothy Thompson. Boston: Little Brown, (1990.) First thus- a thick trade paperback. Comprehensive, well-researched and very readable biography of this extremely influential and controversial journalist, whose career mirrored the politics and events of the first half of the 20th century. Her personal life included a very tempestous marriage to Nobel prize winning author, Sinclair Lewis. Photographs. Notes and sources, index. 587 pp. Very good+ (a tight copy, crease to back cover, remainder mark.) ISBN: 0-316507245 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 37442 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| MANNING, RICHARD. LAST STAND: Logging, Journalism, and the Case for Humility. Layton, UT Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1991. Uncorrected proof. Journalist Richard Manning tells the story of loss and destruction brought about by big business in collusion with the government. Defying norms imposed by the journalism industry, Manning quits his job as a journalist for the MISSOULIAN and becomes committed to understanding and preserving forest ecology. 179 pgs. Near fine. Some rubbing to back wrapper. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 19874 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| MARTIN, DANNIE M. AND SUSSMAN, PETER Y. COMMITTING JOURNALISM:The Prison Writings of Red Hog. NY & London: Norton, (1993.) First printing. Collection of writings of Red Hog, a man 'put away' for bank robbery - sent to Lompoc Federal penitentiary for 31 years - and then 'put in the hole' for writing the truth about what happens in the prison system. Interwoven with Martin's essays and columns is San Francisco journalist Peter Sussman's account of their unusual and award-winning collaboration. The author's first book. 341 pp Very near fine in a like dustjacket. ISBN: 0-393-035743 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 27353 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| PHILLIPS, JOHN; (EDITED BY WALTER KELLER) FREE SPIRIT IN A TROUBLED WORLD. Zurich, Berlin and NY: Scalo, (1996.) First printing. Phillips worked as a photojournalist - or a photo-reporter - for Life Magazine from 1936, the very beginnings of photojournalism, to 1959. This autobiographical book includes 200 photographs of his work, reproduced in duotone from the original full-size negatives (not the cropped versions sometimes used in the magazine, in a handsomely produced volume, printed throughout on heavy stock. Arranged chronologically it begins with London in 1937, with young Etonians, disabled veterans of the great war, World War I and with the abdication of Edward VII and the coronation of George VI and ends with a return to Algeria - the country Phillips was born in - in 1959 during the Algerian war. In between are many moving and interesting photographs - the Warsaw ghetto in 1936, post World War II Europe, the Palestinian conflict and more. Published shortly after Phillip's death at 80 in 1996. Includes a note by the editor. 572 pp. (a very heavy and thick book.) Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 3-931141-209 USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 32202 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| SOREL, NANCY CALDWELL. THE WOMEN WHO WROTE THE WAR. New York: Arcade Publishing, (1999.) First printing. A well-researched and fascinating account of the women war correspondents during War II, who brought a fresh vision to the battlefields of the war and reported home with a new sensibility. Included are photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, the only Western journalist to cover the Nazi invasion of the U.S.S.R. and the first to photograph Buchenwald; Martha Gelhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway; photographer Lee Miller; the New Yorker's Janet Flanner and more. In the years leading up to the war, in France during the invasion, in London during the Blitz, in China and Manila and Madrid, these women were there. Illustrated with photographs. Includes 39 pages of bibliographical notes, bibliography and index. xviii, 458 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 1-559704934 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 32626 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| IAN STEWART. AMBUSHED: A war reporter's life on the line. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2002. First US printing. When armed rebels entered Freetown, the besieged capital of Sierra Leone, in 1999, journalist Ian Stewart and two of his colleagues were ambushed while driving down the street. One of them was killed and Stewart was shot in this head. Incredibly he survived and this book is his frank account of the extraordinary risks he and other journalists take when reporting the news from remote, war-ravaged countries. This book is both an inspiring personal story and an in-depth look at the day-to-day life of a war correspondent. Originally published in Canada under the title 'Freetown Ambush'. 310 pp. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy) ISBN: 1-56512-3808 USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 30030 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| THOMPSON, HUNTER S. GENERATION OF SWINE: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's. New York: Summit Books, 1988. Fourth printing. Gonzo Papers, Volume 2. 304 pp. Fine in a very near fine dustjacket. ISBN: 0-671-661477 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 40607 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| THOMPSON, HUNTER S. GENERATION OF SWINE: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's. New York: Summit Books, 1988. First printing. Gonzo Papers, Volume 2. 304 pp. Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (price-clipped.) ISBN: 0-671-661477 USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 45274 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). |
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