Search Results: Terrorism from Berthoff Books

Random House, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. 340 pages, with index, appendix listing associates of Abu Nidal. "The secret life of the world's most notorious Arab terrorist." 8vo, black boards with black cloth quarter, red gilt lettering on front board and spine, corners sharp, remnants and marks from pieces of tape on boards, library stamps and rust-colored damp stains to edges (extending up to 1/16" onto some page margins), binding solid, in un-price-clipped, soiled DJ with stains and some damaged places clipped away. Ex-library, with library stamps on end papers. Exterior unsightly, but text pages unmarked.

Sun Books, 1986. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 150 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with b&w photos on 4 double-sided plates. A journalist looks at terrorist threat to Australia as of 1986. Trade paperback,light wear to wraps, with reading crease, front bottom right corner bent. Bookstore print pencilled on half-title, text pages unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. 254 pages. "The full inside story of the bizarre activities of French agents in New Zealand and the Pacific." Small trade paperback (5" x 7-3/4"), light foxing and soil to wraps, slight wear to crown and heel, edges and page margins age-toned, pages unmarked.

André Deutsch Ltd, 2004. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 360 pages, with index and bibliography. Illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. A critical look at MI5, British domestic intelligence, after 9/11. Trade paperback, former library book with relevant stickers and stamps, wraps worn and creased, peeling to inside front cover, edges and page margins age-toned. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately 30 pages.

Ballantine Books, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 603 pages, with index, selected bibliography, notes and sources list, b&w photos on seven double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), light gray paper over boards with dark gray quarter, scant shelf wear, soil to edges, in unclipped dust jacket with scant wear and outer plastic jacket. Former library book, with stamps and stickers.

Bonus Books, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 267 pages, with index, maps, foreword by former CIA director James Woolsey. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/4"), black cloth, unclipped dust jacket, scant wear, outer clear plastic jacket. Former library book with relevant stickers, card pocket, stamps. Pages bright and unmarked.

St. Martin's Press, 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 242 pages, with index, appendices on Sunni Islamic prophecies. The author is a former State Department official and director of the Brookings Institution's Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. Medium 8vo, black paper over boards with red gilt lettering on spine, practically no visible wear, in unclipped dust jacket with slight shelf wear. Pages bright and unmarked.

Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages. English translation by George Miller of book published in French the year before. The journalist author was born in Algeria. High-quality mass-market paperback, scant wear to edges, diagonal creases to a few pages, edges/page margins age-tanned. Yellow highlighting observed on five pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 470 pages, with index, bibliography, list of characters, author interviews. 16th printing (2007). Area map of the Middle East. B&w photo illustrations on eight double-sided plates. Pre-history of 9/11 attacks incorporates social and institutional history of Saudi Arabia and other countries, biographies of Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, Saudi and FBI officials. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), gray paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge rough cut, slight wear to crown/heel/corners, one dog-eared page observed. Unclipped dust jacket has slight wear along top and at heel. Pages bright and unmarked.

Arrow Books, 1986. Soft cover. Good. 302 pages, with index, illustrated with b&w photos on 6 double-sided plates. Background investigation of the July 1985 sinking of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor, New Zealand. Mass market paperback, creases to corners and spine, wear along spine and to heel, a few pages dog-eared at bottom, half-title page loose; edges, end papers and page margins age-tanned. Text unmarked.

Collier Books, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 349 pages, with index, select bibliography. Pre-history of the Russian Revolutions, from Radishchev's social criticism and the Decembrists, through utopian socialism, populism, late-nineteenth century terrorist movements. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear, stain on spine, 1/2" chip at heel, crease to top corner of back cover, small ink marks on fore-edge, a few pages dog-eared, binding tight. Underscoring and/or marginalia (mostly vertical lines in margin, notes on only a few pages) on approximately 60 pages.

Anchor Books (Doubleday-Random House), 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. 395 pages, with index. First paperback edition of book published the previous year. Addresses domestic surveillance excesses in the George W. Bush years. Trade paperback, very light wear along edges, pages bright and unmarked.