The Secret War in Mexico

Thomas, Edwin: Treason's River, Gardner Books 2006
0593050665 New

Hardcover book is in new condition, unread, dust jacket in like new condition. Dust jacket shows no signs of wear on top and bottom of spine edges. Inside of book pages are crisp and clean. Price stamp from bookstore on front of dust jacket. Publisher: Gardners Books. ISBN 0593050665. 360 pages long. Approx. Size 9.5 by 6 x 1. 2006 edition. Additional pictures of condition are always available. BOOK DESCRIPTION: In the employ of Britain's Secret Office, Jerrold is sent to America on a simple mission. With serious rumors of a threatening conspiracy brewing, the government is in desperate need of help and Jerrold is their man. His task is simple: infiltrate the conspirators and stop them at all costs. Leaving the shores of England, his journey will take him across pirate-infested seas, through the American wilderness, and down the mighty Mississippi River. Enemies are ranged against him---agents of Spain and America are trying to kill him, and the plotters are growing suspicious of his intentions. Then there is the lovely Miss Lyell, who seems to have her own plans for Lieutenant Jerrold. His instructions ring in his ears: find out what the conspirators intend and stop it. But as each bumbling step takes Jerrold further into danger, he slowly realizes that his very presence within the conspiracy could be the spark that ignites a disastrous war between England and America. The stakes are high---the entire future of Britain's war against Napoleon rests in his not-so-capable hands. One wrong move and the consequences would be catastrophic, even by Jerrold's own lamentable standards. British naval officer Martin Jerrold missed the Battle of Trafalgar (drunk in his ship's hold in The Blighted Cliffs) and let a prisoner escape during his command of a prison ship (in Chains of Albion). For his third outing, Jerrold, who narrates with speed and humor, is pressed into service by British spies. From a courier, the spies have stolen a letter they suspect concerns conspiracy-one that could draw Britain and the newly birthed U.S. into war. Jerrold agrees to deliver the letter, infiltrate the conspiracy and find a way to frustrate the scheme. Joined by an enigmatic and beautiful young woman he meets on the transatlantic crossing, Jerrold plunges "headlong into the American wilderness" in September of 1806. The purloined letter leads Jerrold to an island in the Ohio River and former American vice president Aaron Burr, who hopes to revive his fortunes by invading Mexico and forging "a new empire on America's border" with the help of English benefactors. As Burr's expedition floats down the Mississippi toward New Orleans, Jerrold races to stop Burr's delusional scheme and prevent a devastating conflict between England and the U.S. First Edition As New Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Breuer, William B. Undercover Tales of World War II. Edison, N.J.: Castle Books, 2006. ISBN: 0785819533

First edition REPRINT OF BOOK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1999. The book and dust jacket are in FINE condition. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. 242 pages with index. Black & white photo illustrated. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and other treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Back wrapper notes: "You already know the basics: The Allies won in Europe because of the blows inflicted on the Germans by the Russians, the endurance of the British, and the air and armaments superiority supplied by America's manufacturing might. And countless books offer blow-by-blow accounts of Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and the Battle of the Bulge. Now, William Breuer goes beyond (and underneath) the well-known history, delivering World War II buffs and history fans something altogether different. Just beneath the surface of the traditional perspectives and legendary events of World War II lurks a vast and shadowy world of virtually untraceable maneuvers, deceptive appearances, and confidences betrayed. Here is the dangerous, high-stakes realm of espionage and intelligence, where the most successful operations are the ones we've never heard aboutÖuntil now. This fascinating book mines in unprecedented depth an incredible range of labyrinthine plots and dramatic power plays, showing how a seemingly unconnected string of underground incidents came to shape the outcome of our century's climactic struggle. Over a period of years, Breuer collected materials from interviews with former spies and operatives, military reports, government archives, newspapers, and correspondence. His painstaking research uncovered a wealth of stranger-than-fiction tales of bribery, sabotage, and other clandestine maneuvers-all as vita an influence on the war's course as its great campaigns and high-level decisions. With his trademark blend of dynamic storytelling and meticulous detail, Breuer deftly uncovers seventy covert operations and insidious plots, including: The bloc of hard-core American Nazis who carried out elaborate plans to sabotage war efforts and keep the US neutral; The wily Japanese 'tailor' who single-handedly stole the secrets to the US Gray Code; The brave member of Norway's resistance movement who deeply infiltrated the German hierarchy, posing as a zealous Nazi; The French boy and his 'blind' music teacher who penetrated, in broad daylight, the German forbidden zone at Port-en-Bessein. Table of Contents: PART ONE-A GATHERING TEMPEST Black-Bag Jobs and Madam X; Hitler's Crony a US Secret Agent; 'Me No Her, No Movies!'; Hitler's 'Mystery Spy' in London [King Edward VIII, Mrs. Ernest Simpson, Duchess of Windsor Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr]; Stealing a Supersecret Bombsight; Espionage Target: The Panama Canal; The Gestapo Comes to New York; Practicing 'Nazi Psychology' in the US; A Gentleman Farmer Flies to London; An 'Unsportsmanlike' Murder Scheme; PART TWO-OUTBREAK OF WAR "Take Possession of the [British Captives]; Agent X Conspires with the Pope; The Spy was a Clip Artist; Denmark's Patriotic Burglar; Deceit in the Desert; The Jewish Pal of the Nazis; The FBI Undercover in South America; 'War of Nerves' against England; The Fuhrer's Concrete Crocodiles; Tuned in to the Luftwaffe; Hosting a Boy Scout Official; 'We Came to Blow Up America!'; The Bogus Traitor of Flekkefjord; A One-Man Cloack-and-Dagger Agency; PART THREE-CONFLICT SPREADS TO THE PACIFIC One Briton's Revenge; Spies inside a US Embassy; The 'Evangelists' of New York Harbor; Confrontation at a Montana Airport; Clandestine Payoffs in Mexico; Urgent: Hide the Suez Canal; Four Frogmen against Two Battleships; The Superspy at Pearl Harbor; An American Turncoat in Washington; PART FOUR-THE TURNING TIDE The World's Richest Spymaster; The Plot to Blow Up the Pan Am Clipper; Lady Luck Flies with the Fuhrer; Rommel's Secret Informant; The Scientist Who Knew Too Much; The Dogs of Torgini; Conspiracy in Casablanca; Outfoxing the Desert Fox; Smuggling Two Men Out of Morocco; The Creeps and the Atomic Scientists; PART FIVE-BEGININNING OF THE END The Spy Who Refused to Die; Blowing Up a Locomotive Works; The Mystery Man of Algiers; Top Secret: Parachuting Mules; America's Fifteen Thousand Secret Snoopers; Coercing Surrender of the Italian Fleet; Deception Role for the Panjandrum; Bedeviling the Gastapo in Toulouse; An X-Craft Calls on the Tripitz; A French Boy and His Music Teacher; An Atomic Alert on New Year's Eve; 'Ghost Voices' Over Europe; Close Call in a Secret Room; Masking the 'Chicago Skyline'; PART SIX-THE LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN A US Colonel's Private Airline; Kidnapping A German General; Blasting a Japanese Headquarters; Mad Dash in an Explosive-Laden Car; A Special Job for 'Scarface Otto'; Sneaking onto Utah Beach; X2 Agents in Cherbourg; Covert Targets: Germany's Atomic Scientists; Alias Gregor and Igor; Dodging the Gestapo on the Ruhr; A Murder Job for Two 'Specialists'; T Force Hunts for Chemical Weapons; NOTES AND SOURCES; INDEX." 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Frank, Robert: Robert Frank. The Complete Film Works. Vol 3: Keep Busy, About Me: A Musical. ; 1. Ed.
Steidl, Göttingen. 2008. First edition. New, mint, unseen. Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. Three DVDs in a film-roll box, slipcased. 130 x 210 mm. Photographs by Robert Frank. The films are: Keep Busy - 38 minutes - 1975. About Me: A Musical - 35 minutes - 1971. S-8 Stones Footage from Exile on Main St. - 5 minutes - 1972. Robert Frank's significant contribution to photography in the mid-twentieth century is unquestionable. His book, The Americans, is arguably the most important American photography publication of the post-World War II period, and his photography has spawned numerous disciples, as well as a rich critical literature. However, at the very moment Frank achieved the status of a 'star' at the end of the 1950s, he abandoned traditional still photography to become a filmmaker. He eventually returned to photography in the 1970s, but Frank, as a filmmaker, has remained a well-kept secret for almost four decades. Robert Frank The Complete Film Works fills a long overdue gap by presenting every one of Frank's more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Robert Frank's significant contribution to photography in the mid-twentieth century is unquestionable. His book, The Americans, is arguably the most important American photography publication of the post-World War II period, and his photography has spawned numerous disciples, as well as a rich critical literature. However, at the very moment Frank achieved the status of a "star" at the end of the 1950s, he abandoned traditional still photography to become a filmmaker. He eventually returned to photography in the 1970s, but Frank, as a filmmaker, has remained a well-kept secret for almost four decades. Robert Frank The Complete Film Works fills a long overdue gap by presenting every one of Frank's more than 25 films and videos, some of them classics of the New American Cinema of the 1950s and 60s. Keep Busy "I am filming the outside in order to look inside," Robert Frank once said about his aesthetics. In Keep Busy his chosen home of Nova Scotia serves for the first time as the "outside" in an examination of the "inside." The protagonists' astounding verbal gymnastics and often incomprehensible interactions tend to descend into nonsense, and with the syncopated rhythm of its action and dialogue, this film is reminiscent of the playful and parodying elements of the Beat fantasy Pull My Daisy. The interweaving of documentary and fiction with the syncopated rhythm of its action and dialogue presents an absurd buzz of activity reminiscent of Beckett's abstract comic grotesque. About Me: A Musical "My project was to make a film about music in America . Well, fuck the music. I just decided to make a film about myself." Robert Frank's self-portrait is a film about music that repeatedly poses questions concerning artistic expression and the function of memory. Frank himself introduces an actress as "the young lady that is playing me." She throws a stack of photographs onto the bed and says with disgust, "That's my past." Despite the apparently autobiographical nature of the film, Frank, the immigrant, regards his story as a collective one. The film teaches temple musicians in Benares, India, "hope freaks" in New Mexico and inmates in a Texas prison. "That's me," Frank says when an old-fashioned film projector shows him as a small child. An interview of passers-by completes the circle: "If you had a camera and some film, what would you shoot?" A street musician answers, "About myself," and starts playing a classic number. "Those were the days, my friend." S-8 Stones Footage from Exile on Main St. Filmed during the making of the Exile on Main St., Rolling Stones album cover. Robert Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1924 and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book The Americans, first published in 1959, which gave rise to a distinct new form in the photo-book, and his experimental film Pull My Daisy, made in 1959. Frank's other important projects include the books Black White and Things, 1954, and Lines of My Hand, 1972, and the film Cocksucker Blues for the Rolling Stones, 1972. He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.***************Steidl, Göttingen. 2008. Erstauflage. Originalauflage. Neu, ungesehen, verlagsfrisch. Noch original-verschweißt in der Plastikfolie des Verlags. Drei DvDs in einer Filmrollen-Box mit Schuber. Bei den Filmen handelt es sich um: Keep Busy - 38 Minuten - 1975. About Me: A Musical - 35 Minuten - 1971. S-8 Stones Footage from Exile on Main St. - 5 Minuten - 1972.

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PALAFOX Y MENDOCA, Juan de Don.. HISTORIA DE LA CONQVISTA DE LA CHINA POR EL TARTARO ESCRITA POR EL ILLUFTRIFFIMO.
AN EARLY BOOK ON CHINA & CONFUCIANISM 1670 Juan de Palafox Y Mendoca [1600-1659]. Per the Catholic Encyclopedia: Juan de Palafox Y Mendoca [1600-1659] "...[was the Spanish]...Bishop of La Puebla de Los Angeles, b. at Fitero in Navarre, 24 June, 1600; d, at Osma in Spain, 1 October, 1659. He was a son of Jamie Palafox y Mendoza, Marquess of Ariza. After studying at the University of Salamanca, he was appointed to the Council of War and of the Indies at the Court of Madrid. In 1629 he renounced this dignity and was ordained priest. He accompanied Princess Mary as almoner to Germany and upon his return was consecrated Bishop of Puebla de Los Angeles, 27 December, 1839, and appointed "visitador general" of Mexico. He arrived there, June, 1640. He soon came in conflict with the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians, whose many exemptions and privileges he looked upon as encroachments on his episcopal jurisdiction. In may, 1642, he received secret advice from Madrid to take temporary charge of the Government, in place of the viceroy, Villena, who had been accused of financial mismanagement and secret sympathies with the Portuguese rebels in New Spain. At the same time he was appointed Archbishop of Mexico. From 10 June to 23 November, 1642, he was acting viceroy, but would not accept the dignity of archbishop. During his viceroyalty of five months, he corrected many financial abuses, framed new statutes for the University of Mexico, and to root out idolatry among the aborigines, destroyed many Aztec idols and other pagan antiquities collected by preceding viceroys. * In 1647 began his conflict with the Jesuits. The reason for the strife was the numerous exemptions and privileges which the Jesuit missionaries had enjoyed in Mexico since the beginning of the seventeenth century, and which, in the opinion of Palafox, undermined his episcopal authority. In a letter to Innocent X, dated 25 May, 1647, he denounced the use which the Jesuits were making of their privileges and asked the pope for redress. The pope answered with a brief, dated 18 May, 1648, in which he sustains the bishop in all disputed points of jurisdiction, but exhorts him to be more kind and lenient towards the Jesuits. A second letter to Pope Innocent X, dated 8 January, 1849, more acrimonious than the first, is often attributed to Palafox, but was probably forged by enemies of the Jesuits, as it is disavowed by Palafox in a defense of his actions which he addressed to Philip IV of Spain in 1652. In May, 1649, Palafox left for Spain. On 27 May, 1653, Innocent X issued a new brief, in which he confirmed his previous decision in favour of Palafox. The bishop was transferred to the Diocese of Osma in Spain in 24 November, 1852. He spent the remainder of his life labouring with his usual zeal for the spiritual welfare of his flock, which honoured and reverenced him as a saint. * The process of his canonization was introduced in 1726 under Benedict XIII, and was continued during the pontificates of Benedict XIV, Clement XIII, Clement XIV, and Pius VI. At the last session which was held on 28 February, 1777, twenty-six out of forty-one votes favoured his beatification, but Pius VI suspended the final decision. His literary products, consisting chiefly of ascetic, pastoral, and historical treatises in Spanish, were published in fifteen volumes (Madrid, 1762). " End of citation from Catholic Encyclopedia. * CONTENTS: Per Lust, p.111, no. 449: "Account of the Manchu conquest, together with an analysis of the final Ming years, based on Montanus. P. worked from reports seont to him [Palafox] from the Philippines to Mexico. His manuscript was not available at the time when the English version was made, hence it was done from the French translation of Colle [Collet]." * EDITION: Based on the bibliographical citations and COPAC, we fail to find any edition in any language published prior to 1670, so for now we assume this to be the First Edition. Being Spanish, this work was written in his native language, * CONDITION: The book appears to be in its original vellum binding with the title written on the front cover in red from a later period. The binding is in excellent condition, clean, solid, with the typical yellow-tinge; two of the corners have a trifle bit of wear, the other two not; the edges are very solid with no wear at all; the spine and hinge are solid with a very tiny bit of rubbing, but we are overly critical & extremely meticulous. By and large a lovely solid copy of a RARE very book ! * BIBLIOGRAPHY: + H. Cordier: BIBLIOTHECA SINICA, 627 see first entry top ~~ left of page which is this exact edition. + Oriental Library:CATALOGUE OF THE ASIATIC LIBRARY OF DR. ~~ G.E. MORRISION, part II, p.190, for two similar editions. + John Lust: WESTERN BOOKS ON CHINA PUBLISHED UP TO 1850 ~~ numbers 447~451 for five similar entries. + Wing p.200 for similar edition. + NUC + COPAC: Cites this edition in Spanish. * Color scans can be sent by email. 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Paris MDCLXX [1670], Antonio Bertier. Original old vellum, red penned title on front cover & faintly on spine, 388p.,ca 10 x 17.5 cm., very good, clean solid copy, Spanish text. FIRST EDITION

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