Verso, September 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of Mark Twain, H.L. Menchken and Tom Paine. Colossal Wreck, his final work, finished shortly before his death in July 2012, exemplifies the..... More
Penguin, January 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. A well worn mass market copy of a scarce title in any condition or format. Tanned/darkened, heavily foxed. Spine leaning. Yes one might even say cocked, but for truth's sake the last name of Claud Cockburn (1904-1981) is pronounced 'coburn', like the great Hollywood..... More
Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, January 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (UK) edition in price clipped dustjacket. Navy blue faux-leather with gold lettering on spine. Clean interiors. No markings. More
Simon and Schuster, January 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in dustjacket darkened at spine & margins. Mildly edgeworn. Quarter bound: black textured, faux-cloth paper covered spine with gold lettering. Grey spots along spine that is worn at bottom & top edges. Salmon colored paper covered boards worn at edges..... More
Verso, October 2016. First Edition. Cloth. From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration The Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of today's Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the..... More
Verso, 1998. First Edition. Cloth. In the late summer of 1996, a young reporter on a California newspaper electrified the United States with the charge that the CIA had conspired in the smuggling of cocaine into the US, subsequently disseminated in the form of crack into black urban neighbourhoods. In..... More
Verso Books, December 1987. Hardcover. More
Verso Books, December 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Not price clipped. Black paper covered boards with silver lettering spine. Slightly bruised base of spine. Some slight sunning textblock edges. Tght binding. Oppossing dark stains (about 1/16th inch diameter) rear free end page & pastedown at bottom..... More
Verso, October 2000. First Edition. Paper Back. "In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest, white paper activism and the timid bleats of the professional leadership of big labor establishment greens. This truly was an insurgency..... More
Anchor, 1998. Paper Back. Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge, hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan, pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle, shared pomegranate sauce with the ayatollahs, and stopped a small Kurdish war, but she has never told these..... More
Verso, January 2015. Paper Back. The essential "on the ground" report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East, from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award Born of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by..... More
Penguin Books / New Left Review, 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Sun bleached spine; slight soiling and some mild discoloration; darkened textblock edges; heavy ink underlining scattered through many of first 40 or so pages. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. (378 pages). More
Atlantic Monthly Press, February 1988. Hardcover. In a compelling account that tracks the behind-the-scenes dealings of this wide-ranging cast of characters, Cockburn details how mercenaries were recruited and trained by the CIA; how money was obtained; and weapons were procured and sent to the contras. More
