John Davis Signed (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by Author(s).

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 1992. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the Editor on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight bumping to tail. DJ: Near Fine; slight bumping to tail. Red cloth boards and spine with black lettering on the spine. 373 pp 8vo. Davis was a prominent black poet and journalist in the 1930s and 40s mostly in Chicago and Atlanta until he moved to Hawaii in 1948 and turned his back on his literary career causing him to disappear from literary history until the black history movement began in the 1960s. Davis devoted his life to self-empowerment through the written and spoken word and vigorous promotion of black expression through art and activism. A clean very presentable copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 123pp; b/w illustrations. Contents clean and unmarked; no ownership or library markings. Second Printing. Signed by author on title page. Signed by Author.

HC. 255pp ISBN 087935027X A catalog of English silver which juxtaposes the exceedingly rare with the thoroughly typical. CONDITION NOTE - LIGHT COVER EDGEWEAR and DUSTJACKET HAS SMALL CHIPS and DAMPSTAINS, BUT NOTHING THAT BLEED THROUGH TO BOARDS. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) - SEE CONDITION NOTE. B&W illustrations (illustrator).…

HC. 255pp ISBN 9780979401312 First published in 1986. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Autograph; 8vo; 216 pages; Clean and secure in original card wrappers in very good printed dustjacket. On ffep " Given to Polly and Kim [Roosevelt] / December 30, 1989 / by the Author" Also laid-in is a manuscript note Signed by the author -- "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt - / Many thanks for / including me in your / party yesterday after- / noon and for the chance / to see so many old / St. Albans friends. / The book is one I wrote / several years ago -- / disparate essays of a / heterogenous sort, but / Chapters 13-21 deal / with the St. Albans you / and your husband knew / and which, alas, no / longer exists. / With my best / wishes and renewed / thanks. / John C. Davis / 20 Dec. 89" Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies.; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL. 2002. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the editor on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Black cloth boards and spine with bright blue lettering on the spine. 275 pp 8vo. This book collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis's extant published poems as well as his known previously unpublished work. This volume recovers the rich variety of Davis's poetic expression, much of it informed by his political convictions and by his multifaceted work as a journalist. The editor examines both Davis's poetry and his politics, presenting a subtle portrait of a complex writer devoted to exposing discriminatory practices and reaffirming the humanity of the common people. A clean very presentable copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

STAPLED BLUE. Near mint condition besides faded spine, contains BW figures DATE PUBLISHED: 1976 EDITION: 51.

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