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
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
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
Anchor, 1998. Paper Back. News correspondent 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..... 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
