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. Book and Magazine Collector. No. 1. March 1984. London: Book and Magazine Collector, 1984.
Price: US$19.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wrappers. Spine faded. The first issue of this popular magazine; with the (Will Carter, red) book-label of the bookseller and crime writer George Sims. Leads with John Upton, "Ian Fleming and the James Bond Books"; other contributions include Kevin Jackson, "Collecting Penguins", and Peter Doggett, "Don't Throw Those Old Fan Mags Away!" Upton values Casino Royale in dustwrapper at £200-£400, Live and Let Die and Moonraker each at £120, and Diamonds Are For Ever at £80. George Sims included in his book The Rare Book Game (1985) a considerable essay on Ian Fleming, giving credit to him not so much as a bibliophile ("Ian Fleming could not be described as a bibliophile. Robert Harling wrote in a letter to me: 'I always think of a bibliophile as someone who simply cannot pass a bookshop. Ian could pass one as readily as he could pass a fish & chip shop'"), but as a writer of compelling spy stories drawing on a heroic wartime career.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: [6] 132, [2] p. 10 page Information Sheet on the Report laid in. This copy was provided by Paul Sigmund to George Ball The Commission was established by Executive Order 12433 which staid in part that "The Commission shall study the nature of United States interests in the Central American region and the threats now posed to those interests. Based on its findings, the Commission shall provide advice to the President, the Secretary of State and the Congress on elements of a long-term United States policy that will best respond to the challenges of social, economic, and democratic development in the region, and to internal and external threats to its security and stability. The Commission also shall provide advice on means of building a national consensus on a comprehensive United States policy for the region." From Wikipedia: "George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909 May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat.Ball was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He lived in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. and a J.D. During 1944 45 he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London. He was the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs in the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He is well known for his opposition to escalation in the Vietnam War. After Kennedy decided to send 16, 000 "trainers" to Vietnam, "Ball, the one dissenter in Kennedy s entourage, pleaded with JFK to recall France s devastating defeat in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu and throughout Indochina. 'Within five years we ll have 300, 000 men in the paddies and jungles and never find them again. '" In response to this prediction, "JFK laughed and replied, 'Well, George, you're supposed to be one of the smartest guys in town, but you're crazier than hell. That will never happen. '" Ball was one of the architects of Cable 243, and a supporter of the 1963 overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Ball also served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. In August 1968 in UN Security Council he passionately defended the right of Czechoslovakia for freedom against the Soviet invasion and the right to live without dictatorships. During the Nixon Administration, George Ball helped draft American policy proposals in the Persian Gulf. Ball was long a critic of Israeli policies toward its Arab neighbors. He "called for the recalibration of America s Israel policy in a much noted Foreign Affairs essay in 1977, " and in 1992 co-authored The Passionate Attachment with his son, Douglas Ball. The book argued that American support for Israel has been morally, politically and financially costly. He often used the aphorism (perhaps originally coined by Ian Fleming in Diamonds are Forever) "Nothing propinks like propinquity, " later dubbed the Ball Rule of Power. It means that the more direct access you have to the president, the greater your power, no matter what your title actually is. Ball was an avowed socioeconomic elitist and an advocate of free trade, multinational corporations and the latters' theoretical ability to neutralize what he considered to be "obsolete" nation states. Prior to and following his ambassadorship, Ball was employed by Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. He was a senior managing director at Lehman Brothers until his retirement in 1982. Ball was among the first North American members of the Bilderberg Group, attending every meeting except for one before his death. Ball died in New York City on May 26, 1994. He was buried in Princeton Cemetery." Good. Cover has some wear and soiling.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Ian Fleming. Diamonds are Forever. First Edition Library, 1984.
Price: US$265.65 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New, sealed under original Publisher's shrinkwrap. A facsimile of the first edition with d/w. In slipcase as issued. First Edition Library is noted for it's precise replication of expensive 'Original First Editions'. Every published work is identical to the original edition even down to the minor printing errors. Meticulously reproduced, their facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dustjacket, finish and texture as the originals. Printed on acid free paper.
Seller: North American Rarities, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.