Frank The Reservation

Graham, Sheilah and Frank, Gerold: Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman, New York Bantam Books 1959
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Spine slightly curved, cover creased, some edgewear. Text starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked. <p> "Sheilah Graham is a famous writer, but she needed help to set down without reservation the poignant, true story of her love affair with Scott Fitzgerald Alone, she could not bring herself to reveal frankly and completely the actual details of their tempestuous life together, her sacrifice of marriage to an English lord, her devotion to the great though shattered genius. These were a woman's most intimate secrets, too close to her heart to utter. But with the sympathetic aid of Gerold Frank, the amazingly sensitive and understanding writer who painstakingly drew out the famous and moving stories of Lillian Roth (I'll Cry Tomorrow) and Diana Barrymore (Too Much, Too Soon), Sheilah found she could tell the whole ,probing story about the two wonderful people she knew best, herself and F. Scott Fitzgerald - truly one of the world's immortal love stories." First Bantam Paperback Edition Mass Market Paperback 6¾" - 7¾" Tall

[SW: Biography, Vintage, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham]

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Bergon. Frank: SHOSHONE MIKE, New York Penguin Books 1989
ISBN: 0140098763 Near Fine

FIRST NOVEL: 290 pages plus one page ad for other Penguin publications. Miniscule wear to spine ends. Pages trifle yellowing at edges. "The Most Memorable Western in Recent Times". Historical novel of Shoshone Native Americans, and of Shoshone Mike, the leader of the Indians, "a man trying to preserve the ways of his ancestors against the forces of history." First Paperback Printing Trade Paperback 5 x 7 3/4 Inches

[SW: FICTION, First Novel, Shoshone Mike, Frank Bergon, Shoshone Indians, Historical Novel, Reservation, Western. Vigilantes.]

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Brackenbury (H), Capt. [later General Sir]: The Ashanti War. A Narrative prepared from the Official Documents by Permission of Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley. With Maps and Plans...by Harry Cooper. THE BRACKENBURY FAMILY COPY, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1874

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with a folding facsimile on blue stock and a double-page map as frontispieces, a folding map and a double-page map, and two large folding maps (one coloured in outline) in pocket at rear of second volume, some very mild occasional foxing, fore-edges dusty; original decorative cloth blocked in blind, gilt backs, uncut, covers moderately soiled (boards to volume two stained with black ink), volume one neatly rebacked with original backstrip (faded) laid down else a good, firm, sound copy of a work scarce in any condition. This volume bears the neat contemporary signature of 'Frank Cooper' and the following holograph inscription: 'Maps drawn by my brother Harry, who was with Colonel Colley as Adjutant of Transport. Col. Colley, afterwards Sir G[eorge]. Pomeroy Colley, was killed in the fatal action of Majuba Hill in Natal fighting against the Boers'.Henry Brackenbury was Assistant Military Secretary to Wolseley; Cooper (as stated correctly above) was sometime Adjutant of Transport during the campaign. The official records were placed by Wolseley at Brackenbury's disposal 'without reservation' and augmented by the latter's private journal which he kept whilst serving at headquarters. The account of Captain Glover's expedition is taken entirely from letters between Wolseley and himself. The missions of Captains Butler and Dalrymple are described from their own letters. Frank Cooper's signature is dated 1874; the Battle of Majuba Hill took place on 27th February 1881 during the First South African War (this action was, incidentally, the last occasion on which British regimental colours were carried into battle). It would seem, therefore, that this was originally Frank Cooper's copy (until at least 1881) which then passed into the Brackenbury family. It was then in the library of Major-General Charles Booth Brackenbury (1831-1890) and bears his signature on the half-title of the second volume. The author's elder brother, he spent his career in the Royal Artillery culminating in his appointment as Director of Artillery Studies at Woolwich, from which position no-one did more to spread sound ideas throughout the service on tactical changes demanded by the advancement in weapons technology. On Charles's death this copy passed to his youngest son, Hereward Irenius Brackenbury and bears his engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down of first volume. Hereward Brackenbury was a talented engineer and director of the prominent defence contractor Hawthorn Leslie & Co.The Brackenbury family was well represented in nearly all the British wars of the nineteenth century. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT AND DESIRABLE FAMILY COPY SHOWING MULTIPLE ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE AUTHOR OF A CLASSIC VICTORIAN CAMPIGN MEMOIR.

[SW: military, british army, ashanti war, ashanti campaign, nineteenth century campaigns, victorian campaigns]

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Holman, Frank E. Problem of the World Court and the Connally Reservation, Seattle, Wash. Frank E. Holman 1960
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32 pages. Booklet

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