The Ten Thousand Day War

Golden, Harry (foreword by Justice William O. Douglas): THE BEST OF HARRY GOLDEN, Cleveland World Publishing 1967
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(xx) 479 pp. Beige cloth lettered in dark brown on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. This collection contains: PART ONE: MEMO FOR AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: The First Decade on the Lower East Side of New York. PART TWO: THE CALL GIRL AND THE DEATH OF A KING: Why I Never Bawl Out a Waitress; A Lesson in Bread; The Show Must Go On; Our Delegate to the Fair; Getting Old; He Misjudged Me; To Parents and Grandparents; The Beautiful Women; War's Terrible Secret; Birth Control; This Does Not Look Familiar; Common Ground; The Little Girl; Courtroom Scene; The Retired; So What Else Is New; The Universal Foreign Policy; Do Not Get Excited; Phenomenon at the Fair; Be Not Daunted; Getting Paid for Her Favors; Causerie on Death; A Yiddishe Mama; Commercials Will Endure; The Best Dressed Woman; On Factory Hill; Fathers and Sons; A True Short Short Story; Wink at Some Homely Girl; We Are Not Alone; First Day of School; May It Be a Boy; We're On a Single Ball of Twine; They Left the Women with the 4-Fs; Don't Look; America - Sexual Sahara; A Nice Place to Live; Visitors; The Ulitmate Reality; No More Flirting; Rats Would Take Over; My Duet with Meredith Willson; A Secret of Long Life; In a Plain Wrapper; You Had to Have Baggage; Where Are the Nymphomaniacs; Notes in Passing; Women Never Tell All; Prayer Love and Food; The Pin Ups; Future of the Jews; Self Esteem; Sex; The Short Cool Summers; Machismo; The Doors We Open; For Anonymous Callers; A True Short Story; Etiquette for Teen-agers; Charcoal Steaks; Winner by a Mule; John F. Kennedy. PART THREE: FOR 2 CENTS PLAIN: Buying a Suit on the East Side; For 2 Cents Plain; My Uncle Koppel and Free Enterprise; The Passion of Morris Kaplan; The Fifth Avenue Bus - and America; The Greenhorns Slept on the Lunch; The Suckers Escaped; Little Girls on the East Side; The Triangle Fire; Ess Ess Mein Kindt; You Paid Fifty Cents and Kissed the Bride; The Rent; Raising Pigeons; Post No Bills; Rivington Street; Red Kerosene; The Triple Threat Actor; Eyeglasses for a Quarter; How's That Again; A Glass of Warmth; Unforgettable Quartet; No. 8721; Scrubbed Floors; Bronco Billy; Mouthful of Kosher Sapolio; Christmas at P.S. 20; My Mother's World; Mr Unterman Mr Zweilling and Mr Schimier; The Hotels in Ambush; Early Memories; Broadway Rose; Beer and Clams; The First English Words; Music Everywhere; Election Fires; America is Still America; The East Side Revisited; The Miracle of Goerick Street; Enjoy Enjoy; No Opium in the Elevator; Poison Ivy Terrified Tammany; A Klug Zu Columbus'n; Enoch Arden and the Clothing Industry; I Was a300 Angel; The Verein Doctor; Soup Greens and Caruso; The Pencil Was a Prop; From Door to Door; When Skirts Covered Ankles; To Drive a Hack -20,000; The Evil Eye and Baseball; Chicken Soup Was the Cure-all; The Poets Were Paid. PART FOUR: IN BEHALF OF ICE CREAM BELLS: The Ice Cream Vendors; Ticker Tape on Broadway; You Mean a Challe; I Thought of Xanadu; Cleopatra and the Moderns; Warren Harding: Double Disaster; Parents and Communications; Tip to the Lovelorn; Knishes for the Chinese; No Hiding Place; The War on Poverty; What's Life with no Post Office; The Pacific Union Club; Why Women Live Longer Than Men; Are Things Too Good; I Miss the Holy Men of the 1930s; Wishing You Long Years; Li'l Ole Tin Pan Alley; Boiled Beef Flanken Comes to Charlotte; Does It Sell Flour; The Organization Men; TV Antennas on Tobacco Road; The Tyranny of the Telephone; Education of an Immigrant's Son; Men and Morning; The Schnorrers; Son of Dixie and Some Daughters; Ginger Rogers and Napoleon; Life in the American Middle Class; A Nice Old Lady; Company's Coming; The March to the Sea; We're Completely Homogenized; There's Nothing to Do; Swimming in the Suburbs; My Son-in-law the Doctor; The Tears of Mobility; The Chosen People; Singing with the Salvation Army; To Baseball Long Life; Will Success Spoil; A New York Myth; Prohibition at Sunset; Sales Manager's Tempo; The One Legged Treasurer; Los Angeles Los Angeles; Quitting the Job; The Trouble with Radar; The Red Kleenex; The Field Trip; Ah America; Background Everywhere; Un-co-operative Dixie; Jack and Yonkele; Madison Avenue; The Car Salesman; The Bookstore Raid; Why Tom Waring Is Mad at Me. PART FIVE: THE VERTICAL NEGRO: The Vertical Negro Plan; Timothy Mulcahy Hitler and Skelley's; A Short Story of America; Everybody Is Running Away from Everybody Else; I Felt Very Close to This Man; A Plan for White Citizens; The Negro Question is a Matter of Social Status; My Positive Cure for Anti-Semitism; The Downtown Luncheon Club is More Exclusive Than Heaven; How to Get a Note Re-newed at the Bank; Massas in de Cold Cold Ground; The Turban is a Very Big Thing; Movies for Adults Only; Countess Mara and I; We'll Soon Run Out of Non-Jews; From the Shpitzinitzer to the Rotary; I Paid My Dime; In Quest of a Linotype Machine; Point of Order; My Plan to Save the Quiz Show; The Complexity of Protocol; Montgomery Sells Its Zoon; Token Integration; Oil Strike at the Country Club; A Book on the Schwartzes; Negro Voting; Atlanta's Standish; Flowers for Wilberforce; A Golden Plan; Injustice at Lunch; John Marshall John Marshall; The Black Rabbit and the White Queen; Anti-Semitism; The Secret of Interfaith Work; The Absence of Logic; Only in California; Negro Anti-Semites; To Be Where the People Are; Interracial Gesture; Perpetual Drowning; Jefferson and Cousin Wayland; Wanting to Be President; Mr Nixon and Crisis; Concert on Elizabeth Avenue; Negro Morality; The Golden Insurance Plan; Things We Didn't Know About the Negro Till Now; Sex and the Stranger; The D.A.R. and the U.N.; Let Jews Forgive Christians Too. PART SIX: MR KENNEDY AND THE NEGROES: Segregation and the Renunciation of Logic. PART SEVEN: CARL SANDBURG: Carl Sandburg; The Death of Carl Sandburg. PART EIGHT: A LITTLE GIRL IS DEAD. PART NINE: MERRY CHRISTMAS BILLY GRAHAM: My Baseball Days and Ty Cobb; President Herbert Hoover; To Mae West and the Truck Drivers; Long Life to Harry Truman; David Dubinsky and His Accent; Of Popes and Presidents; Indecisive Adlai Stevenson; Mayor William J. Gaynor; A Day with Carl Sandburg; Williams Travers Jerome; Merry Christmas Billy Graham; When Iriving Berlin Wrote His First Song; Isreali Short Story; W. C. Handy; The Status Wanderer - The Story of My Father; Mr Daniel's Decision; Bishop Sweet Sweet Daddy Grace; Biography of an Upstart; Caruso at the Met; Hemingway the Hunter; Wolfie Gilbert and the Chairlady; Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen; Doc Rockwell's Son; The Boxing Announcer; Brendan Behan; Eighteen Mistresses; Jack Johnson; Pope John xxiii; Adlai E. Stevenson. PART TEN: TAMMANY TAMMANY: No More Clam Chowder; A Visit of State; Unequal Spheres of Influence; Eisenhower and Truman; Ben Nit Mitch Hell Hill Quitt: Hyl in; The Republicans and the Post Office; Wither the Pamphleteer; How Tammany Hall Did It; The Death of Senator McCarthy; When Adultery Was Proof of Loyalty; When It's Raining Have No Regrets; History Pro and Con; Politics of Old New York; Protest in the Streets; The Southern Liberals; On Medicare; No more Hong Shew Gai; The Turban Plan; A Liberal's Creed; Excommunication and Integration; On Mark Twain; No Room at the Landings; Across the River and Into the Trees; Judith and Ruth; The Triumph of Shame; R.F.K. Aftermath. PART ELEVEN: GALLI CURCI KING KONG AND BUBBLE GUM: Let's Take Bubble Gum Out of the Schools; Galli Curci Lingers; Need We Defend Books; You Licked the Honey; Caesar the Humanist; Alexander Hamilton and Mrs Reynolds; The Journalism of Joseph Pulitzer; The Indians Called Him Egg Eater; Belshazzar's Feast - with Real Cannon; The Workshop is a Bore; They Never Met a Payroll; The Newspaper Game and the Big Story; Memorable Events; Ethel's Finest Hour; Gentlemen of the West; Shakespeare's Anniversary; The Low State of High School; The Revolution's Last Battle; Miscengenation; They Don't Make Ambassadors Like That Anymore; The Miracle of Africa; The Negro Golfers; The Importance of Plutarch; Israel's Press. PART TWELVE: GOD BLESS THE IRISH AND THE YEMENITES IN DISNEYLAND: The Ten Lost Tribes - They Are the Presbyterians; God Bless the Irish; The Yemenites in Disneyland; A True Short Short Story; The Delights of Denmark; Library Week in Korea; The Jews of London; The Eichmann Trial; Causerie of Germany; America is Not What's Wrong with the World; It Didn't Last a Thousand Years; The Jews at Christmas; The Jewish City. PART THIRTEEN: COMPLAINTS AND FREE ADVICE: How to Buy Cigars; Monto and Keyserling on the Stock Exchange; Cato's Cure for a Hangover; I'll Take Care of the Tip; Instead of Leadership; The Village Atheist; What Happened to Debating; The Church Kitchen; The Reverend Mr Cahill; The Superhighway; A Kind Word for Drinking Alone; Stanley Isn't Happy; I Miss the Family Fight; How to Win the Pennant; The Integrity of the Post Office; The Road to Safety; and The Individual. First Edition Very Good Hard Cover 8vo

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THOMAS J. WELLS: MASSIVE 1898 - 1907 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TEN YEAR DIARY OF IMPORTANT ATTORNEY AND CITIZEN OF SCRANTON PA, SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA PA 1898
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On offer an incredibly comprehensive handwritten and significant 10-year manuscript diary of former Yale University student Attorney Thomas J. Wells of Scranton, Pennsylvania chock full and spanning ten full years of his life beginning January 1st 1898. Importantly, beginning in 1898, the diary contains significant legal and Spanish American War entries. [BIO NOTES: The Wells (or Welles as it was sometimes spelled) family was quite prominent during the 1800s and early 1900's research suggests there is a connection with Henry Wells, co-founder of Wells-Fargo.] There are three thousand six hundred plus of entries. The title page of the diary reads, in his own hand, "Ten Years of My Life, Thos. J. Wells, Scranton PA" and "Compliments of E.B. Sturges". The journal is beautifully appointed with gilt edges and gilt stamped day/date headings on each page through to 1907. Of notable interest are many, many passages relative to the Spanish-American War. On 2/16/1898 Atty. Wells tells us of the, Battleship Maine being blown up. On 5/20/1898 he speaks of the President calling for 75,000 volunteers and the bombing of Santiago Cuba on 6/6. On 7/3 he goes on to tell us there has been bad news from the war that 8,000 were wounded and killed, and on 7/4 he speaks of "our fleet had totally destroyed Admiral Cerveras Spanish Fleet." and then on the 17th of July tells us, "Our army formally enters Santiago and our Flag floats over the city" and again reports, "Our soldiers under General Miles laid and raised our Flag in 'Porto' Rico". The wartime references are stunning in their own right, however, there are many legal battles that Thomas J. Wells, Esquire, tells us about in this journal as well. A sharp barrister for certain, Wells, speaks of receiving awards and working on cases such as Thomson-Houston Electric Company, which in Wells' day merged with Edison Company to become the giant known as General Electric Company. One will find many a handwritten testament to life, politics, law and war within the many pages of this very thick and well preserved account. G. Leather 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Manuscript

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Collier, Richard: Ten Thousand Eyes, London Collins 1958 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed.
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500 g; 320pp., foreword by author, list of illustrations, appendix. Illustrated endpapers, both different, front endpapers: showing map of the French Coast Cherbough to Havre, rear endpapers: Chain of Command, Century Network. Within the text there are contemporary black and white photographs. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Dust wrapper illustrated by Kenneth Farnhill, with white, blue and red writing on the front panel and white and red on the spine. Gift inscription tucked underneath the front fold over flap at the top of the front pastedown, otherwise the book shows no signs of damage. The dust jacket has the original bookseller's foil sticker on front fold over flap, and a quarter of an inch tear at the top left of the front panel. This is the story of the French men and women who were involved in the spy networks which passed on the secrets of Hitler's Atlantic Wall, pinpointing where the Allies were to land on the Normandy coast on D-Day. First Edition Very Good Hardcover 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Military History; First Edition

[SW: World War II -- History, French Resistance -- Normandy-- D Day, Hitler's Atlantic Wall, Military HistoryMilitary History -- World War II Espionage History -- France]

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Collier, Richard: Ten Thousand Eyes, London Collins 1958 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed.
Reasonable

320pp., foreword by author, list of illustrations, appendix. Illustrated endpapers, both different, front endpapers: showing the French Coast Cherbough to Havre, rear endpapers: Chain of Command, Century Network. Within the text there are contemporary black and white photographs. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. The corners of the book are slightly bumped as are the head and the heel of the spine. Browning to the paper edges and previous owners name on the half title page. Erasure mark to the ffep. Dust wrapper illustrated by Kenneth Farnhill, with white, blue and red writing on the front panel and white and red on the spine. Corners of the dustwrapper are chipped and rubbed and there is chipping along the bottom and top edges of the dustwrapper. There has been loss of dustwrapper at the top of the spine. Grubby marks to the back panel and the bottom right front fold over has been priced clipped. Tape marks remain on the front corners of the dust wrapper. This is the story of the French men and women who were involved in the spy networks which passed on the secrets of Hitler's Atlantic Wall, pinpointing where the Allies were to land on the Normandy coast on D-Day. First Edition Poor Red Cloth 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Military History; First Edition

[SW: World War II -- History, French Resistance -- Normandy-- D Day, Hitler's Atlantic Wall, Military HistoryMilitary History -- World War II Espionage History -- France]

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