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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. ark my words, that little lady is going to own this town someday." And thirty years later, Anna almost does: as widow of amiable but foredoomed Senator Gordon Hastings of Texas- as columnist- as television personality- as major political figure- and abov Ilustrador. Book Club Edition. Damage to front cover bottom right side of book.Anna Kowalczek arrived on Capitol Hill at the start of World War II, old Senator Seab Cooley of South Carolina predicted, "Mark my words, that little lady is going to own this town someday." And thirty years later, Anna almost does: as widow of amiable but foredoomed Senator Gordon Hastings of Texas-as columnist-as television personality-as major political figure-and above all as founder and publisher of the Washington Inquirer and head of a media empire that stretches from coast to coast. How Anna clawed her way to the top of the Washington heap from a modest Polish home in Punxsutawney, PA., is related in this engrossing novel of the Washington scene Allen Drury knows so well and has described so powerfully in his previous political novels. His tale of Anna, her rise and those who either successfully accompanied her or fell by the wayside is, as Seab Cooley also remarked, "some skeerazzle." Here you will meet the people who had to live with Anna and the four horsemen (or, as Anna would put it now, "horsepersons") who came as eager youngsters to the wild and wacky Washington of World War II and stayed to become some of the town's top journalists: Ed Macomb, the narrator, who serves loyally as managing editor of the Inquirer until Anna with the greatest love and reluctance slits his throat professionally and kicks him out- Fat and faithful Bessie Revere, who receives the same treatment yet also remains loyal- Talbot Farson, who survives Presidential enmity, a Congressional investigation and a dubious political past to retain his triumphant grip on the news as editor of the Inquirer- Unhappy Gordon Hastings, married to one of Washington's most ambitious women and eventually destroyed- Young Gordie and Lisa, Anna's children, the only two people their mother couldn't dominate. And, always, Anna herself, brilliant, ruthless, all-conquering-and yet somehow pathetic and vulnerable, likable and touching in spite of the whim-of-iron qualities that make her at the same time one of Washington's most successful women and one of its more formidable monsters.

[1979], 1st edition. (Small 4to) Very good in very good dust jacket. 256pp. Frontispiece, photographs, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. There is a previous owner's inscription on the half-title page, the dust jacket is price-clipped and faded on the spine. Contributors include Sophie Andreae (Railway Towns), David Atwell (Major City Stations), Peter Burman (Small Town Stations), Chris Hawkins (Engine Sheds), Richard Hughes (Bridges and Viaducts), David Lloyd (Large Town Stations), Christopher Monkhouse (Railway Hotels), Alan Young (Country and Suburban Stations). Locale:. (Architecture, Railways, Train Stations).

No Binding. Condición: Good. Black and red printed map with text to verso 36 x 27cm. The map was reproduced and printed by the Survey of Palestine, September 1944, for the Town Major, Middle East Forces. The text is credited to the Town Major's Office in the German Colony. Good, quite neatly folded, tanned, with small hole at intersection, a couple of short closed tears, and small black crosses at a couple of locations including the King David Hotel. The map shows Jerusalem bounded by the Old City (NE), Syrian Orphanage (NW), and Allenby Barracks (S). Main features include hotels, cafes, military establishments, clubs, hospitals, Medical Inspection (M.I.) Room, etc. The perimeter of the Old City is shaded in red, with the note "Old City out of bounds dusk till dawn", and all other establishments are "in bounds except when displaying out of bounds notice". The verso gives the Town Major's contact details, and lists "Do's and Don'ts while on leave", covering reporting in; arms and ammunition; accommodation; valuables; Jerusalem Services Club; EFI facilities; M.I. Room; bounds, prices, photographs; parcels etc; with a warning about contracting venereal disease.

1p., 8vo. A mimeographed document duplicating fifty lines of handwriting (that of Ferrar himself?). Embossed government crest at top left. A scarce survival, on aged and heavily-worn paper, with closed tears and slight loss to extremities, repaired with archival tape. Text in eleven sections: 'Duties' ('Field Officer of the day', 'Captain of the day', 'Orderly of the day'), 'Remission of sentence', 'Punishments', 'Strength', 'Furloughs', 'Institutes', 'Correspondence etc', 'Deaths', 'C M Prisoners', 'Courts Martial', 'Divine Service' (parade times for Roman Catholics, Presbyterians and Wesleyans'). The longest section, on 'Courts Martial', gives an impression of the tone: 'No 3222 Pte H Parsons 8 Dorsets was tried by D C M 14th August & sentenced to be imprisoned with Hard Labour for 56 days for Receiving stolen goods knowing them to be stolen No 4058 Pte F Armstrong 2 Dorestes was tried by D C M 14th inst & sentenced to be imprisoned with Hard Labour for 6 Calendar Months for "Committing a civil offence that is to say stealing." Captain Pinwell Liverpools is appointed a member of a D C M ordered to assemble at Wynburg at 10-0 AM on Monday 18th. inst.' The two British prisoner of war camps on the Green Point Common the Green Point Track Camp and the Sky View Camp were established during the war to relieve severe overcrowding at the Simon's Town camp. With the end of the war the role of the camp changed to accommodate POWs being sent to the various districts in the former republics rather than overseas. Gradually the number of POWs were being sent from overseas camps to South Africa fell, and the Green Point camp was closed.

Publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼''. Contains 33 printed pages of text. Light soiling to the covers and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Separately enclosed are two 1956 10'' x 8'' typed pamphlets by the Borough Librarian, H. Cross. The first is an 18 page document titled 'Kingston-upon-Thames', the second consisting of 9 pages is titled 'The Kingston Coronation Stone' and is SIGNED by H. Cross. Member of the P.B.F.A. SURREY (Suthrige).