Kermit Roosevelt Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Green cloth covers with gold lettering on spine and front cover which is clean and unmarked. Covers exhibit moderate wear, fraying and bumping on corners and spine ends. Light wear and bumping to edges. Slight curl to the front cover. Light wear on front cover hinge. Light soiling and shelf wear to covers and spine. Light yellowing to page ends. Light yellowing and soiling to inside front and back covers, ffep's an bfep's. Text is yellowed due to age. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Hinges are cracked but still firmly attached. B&W frontispiece of Quentin Roosevelt is in fine condition as are the other full page photos. Published three years after Quentin was shot down in aerial combat in France over the German lines. He was buried by the enemy with military honors. Includes letters he sent home before the war, during training and while in France. All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-lib unless stated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. Pagination continuous with previous numbers of this volume; grey stiff paper wraps, black titles, stapled binding; black & white illustration; light wear to extremities, light soiling; early writings of Auchincloss during his time at preparatory school.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good plus. Minimal wear, no writing, except for a light pencil name on the inside cover. Ships within 24 hours.

Silk. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). Reprint. Reprint. 8vo. BOOKPLATE OF WILLIAM STURGIS BIGELOW, Boston Brahmin and bon vivant. Antique ex-library (the Sturgis Library). Silk binding, xii, 282 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt was the youngest son of Theodore Roosevelt, and was killed in combat in 1918 and buried by the Germans in France with full military honors. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "Published October, 1921" stated.Date on title page. Near fine hardback. No dust jacket. Age-toniong to leaves and fading to lettering on spine. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use, primarily to head and heel of spine and corners.

Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. #270 of a limited edition of 1000 copies SIGNED BY EDITOR JIM RIKHOFF. Issued as the twenty-seventh volume in Amwell Press' African Hunting Heritage Collection. No slipcase, i.e. lacking. No dust jacket as issued. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. [2], i-xxiv, 1-637 pages plus unpaged plates. Bright red textured leather (imitating a game animal skin); vibrant gilt stamping to spine and both boards; slight rubbing/soiling to front board; stronger soiling and flaked gilt marks to rear board caused by previous light adhesion to an adjacent book on a shelf (henceforth called Easton Press adhesionitis as that was its unfortunate shelfmate). All edges gilt; red silk moire endpapers; sewn-in red silk ribbon page marker. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. Limitation statement, copy#, and ink signature of editor-compiler-publisher Jim Rikhoff on special unpaged leaf preceding frontispiece. Published by Amwell Press for The National Sporting Fraternity Limited as the twenty-seventh volume in its African Hunting Heritage Collection. Features contributions by Errol Trzebinski, Col. Richard Meinertzhagen, J.H. Patterson, Theodore Roosevelt, A. Blayney Percival [Arthur Blayney Percival], Arthur H. Neumann, Martin Johnson, J.A. Hunter, Elspeth Huxley, Beryl Markham, Kermit Roosevelt, Joy Adamson, Jack O'Connor, Craig Boddington, Gene Hill, et al. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {Amwell_Shelf#2}.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 275, (36) ads pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding of three-quarter maroon leather over boards; endpapers toned. Editor in Chief - John deK. Alsop; literary editors -- Munro L. Lyeth and Owen Biddle; Cornelius V.S. Roosevelt was a business manager. This volume belonged to Kermit Roosevelt Jr., who made fourteen literary contributions to these issues of the publication. Other literary contributors include Benjamin Welles II, Louis Auchincloss, Francis Keppel, Samuel Hinckley, John M. Graham, John deK. Alsop, etc. Groton School is one of the most selective private college-preparatory boarding schools in the United States. Ranked as one of the top five boarding schools in the United States, Groton is affiliated with the Episcopalian tradition. George Biddle, a 1902 graduate, wrote, "Ninety-five percent of the boys came from what they considered the aristocracy of America. Their fathers belonged to the Somerset, the Knickerbocker, the Philadelphia or the Baltimore Clubs. Among them was a goodly slice of the wealth of the nation." There are many famous Groton alumni including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and 12 other Roosevelt family members, Dean Acheson, Joseph Wright Alsop V, Louis Auchincloss, Henry Francis du Pont, W. Averell Harriman, Cyrus Vance, Jr., etc. From the collection of Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000), 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 255, () ads pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding of three-quarter maroon leather over boards; endpapers toned. Editor in Chief - John M. Graham; literary editors -- Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., Benjamin Welles II and James D. Danielson. This volume belonged to Kermit Roosevelt Jr., who in addition to being a literary editor for these issues made six literary contributions to the publication. Other literary contributors include Benjamin Welles II, Louis Auchincloss, Gordon Auchincloss, Peyton Biddle, Samuel Hinckley, John M. Graham, Richard Greenleaf, etc. Groton School is one of the most selective private college-preparatory boarding schools in the United States. Ranked as one of the top five boarding schools in the United States, Groton is affiliated with the Episcopalian tradition. George Biddle, a 1902 graduate, wrote, "Ninety-five percent of the boys came from what they considered the aristocracy of America. Their fathers belonged to the Somerset, the Knickerbocker, the Philadelphia or the Baltimore Clubs. Among them was a goodly slice of the wealth of the nation." There are many famous Groton alumni including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and 12 other Roosevelt family members, Dean Acheson, Joseph Wright Alsop V, Louis Auchincloss, Henry Francis du Pont, W. Averell Harriman, Cyrus Vance, Jr., etc. From the collection of Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000), 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.