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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Tight, bright and apparently unread. DJ is bright and clean. Quarterbound, brown cloth spine, mustard cloth boards, mustard endpages, black ink lettering, frontispiece. 4to. 251pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Mylar cover.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine in Near Fine DJ. 1st Edition. Tight, bright and apparently unread. Quarterbound, brown cloth spine, mustard cloth boards, mustard endpages, black ink lettering, frontispiece. 4to. 251pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st. dust jacket with light crinkle along top edges. Dust jacket in clear protector. Illustrated with vintage photographs. 251pp 2.60lb 11.3x8.8x0.8in.
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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Jacket has Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Second printing, published by The University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1990. 1989
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very good with very good dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are bumped at bottom of spine. Dust jacket is lightly bumped and rubbed along top edges and at bottom edge of back panel. Some small spots on inside front of dust jacket. 251 pages. Illustrated.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, USA 1989
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First U.S. Edition. x, 251pp w appendices, endnotes and index. Illustrated w historical bw photographs. This copy contains highlighting and inked scoring in first five chapters. Tan endpapers. Tan boards, brown cloth quarterwrap spine w gold lettering. No wea…r to covers, light bumping to tail. Binding square and sound. Photo illustrated DJ is clean and without edgewear, showing very light bumping to head and tail. Quarto.
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Hardcover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG. Minor cover wear, with corners bumped. Pages tight, clean, unmarked. A very attractive, crisp copy. Not a former library copy. ..
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. large hardback in near fine condition with near fine dust jacket.
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hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. HC DJ Slight wear on DJ Owner4s gift inscription.
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Good to Very Good. 1st Printing. 251 pages. Wear on corners of the dust jacket Illustrated. This is an illustrated history of The Jekyll Island Club of Jekyll Island, Georgia, but it does contain some background information about the millionaires from the north who frequented the club. Other resea…rch reveals that this was the place where secret plans were laid by a cabal of super-rich conspirators to foist the Marxist Federal Reserve System on the American people. (There are only three references to the "Federal Reserve System" in the index of the book.) Names like Rockefeller, Morgan, Warburg, Aldrich and others were implicated in the disastrous money and power grab. This conspiracy was fully exposed in the book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin. The creation of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly, i.e., a Federal Reserve System, is one of the ten planks of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto--on how to impose communist tyranny and slavery on the entire world, step by step, piece by piece. Size: 8.75 x 11.25. Jekyll Island Conspiracy.
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Hardcover. First Edition; Sixth Printing. Book condition is Very Good+; with a Very Good+ dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, photographic illustrations throughout. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 264 pages.
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Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. From its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation's wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, and Morgans. Far from the hectic northern cities where the members tended their fortunes, this private island refuge off Ge…orgia's coast offered the wealthy a tranquil change of pace.Bringing together more than 240 fascinating photographs, Barton and June McCash trace the sixty-two-year history of this exclusive retreat whose members at one time were reputed to represent one-seventh of the nation's wealth. From the time of the club's opening, members came to Jekyll Island each winter to seek elegant leisure, arriving on yachts or in private train cars from New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Capturing the lives and amusements of the very wealthy, this evocative photographic history presents descriptions of elaborate costume balls and playful outdoor parties; the Rockefeller clan gathering at water's edge and J. P. Morgan lounging by the pool; Victor Astor's "patented beach boat" and the Goulds' private indoor tennis court; the Vanderbilts' yacht anchored offshore and the imposing "cottages" built by individual members.During their stays, members amused themselves in a variety of pursuits. In the 1890s they organized bicycling clubs and held races on the beach. Hunting was also for a time a favorite activity and the island was regularly stocked with imported wildlifepheasant, quail, turkey, and bucks. By 1919, however, the game committee had dwindled to one member, and prime hunting grounds had been cleared for golf courses and tennis courts. The hub of the island's social life, however, was the clubhouse, where members gathered in formal attire to converse, while drinking fine wine and dining on freshly caught game and local delicacies.The seclusion that Jekyll Island offered was not impenetrable. On the day after Christmas in 1900, the country's fascination with technology could no longer be resisted, and the sound of a gasoline automobile disturbed the island's quiet glades for the first time. Despite the immense wealth of the club, it was not immune to the stock market crash of 1893 and the Panic of 1907. The club managed to survive World War I intact and enjoyed a "golden age" from 1919 to 1927, during which time it held its own against the increasingly popular Florida resorts. The stock market crash of 1929, however, initiated a death spiral. Membership declined steadily throughout the 1930s, and when the United States entered World War II, the club closed its doors forever. Based on surviving club records, newspaper accounts, and letters and diaries of members and guests, The Jekyll Island Club chronicles an era when leisure was the preserve of the wealthy. For more than six decades the island, now a state park, served as a haven for millionaires. As one visitor described the Jekyll Island Club, it was "the only place of its kind in the worldand will never be again." Bringing together more than 240 fascinating photographs, Barton and June McCash trace the sixty-two-year history of this exclusive retreat whose members at one time were reputed to represent one-seventh of the nation's wealth. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Hardback. Zustand: New. From its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation's wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, and Morgans. Far from the hectic northern cities where the members tended their fortunes, this private island refuge off Georgia's coas…t offered the wealthy a tranquil change of pace.Bringing together more than 240 fascinating photographs, Barton and June McCash trace the sixty-two-year history of this exclusive retreat whose members at one time were reputed to represent one-seventh of the nation's wealth. From the time of the club's opening, members came to Jekyll Island each winter to seek elegant leisure, arriving on yachts or in private train cars from New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Capturing the lives and amusements of the very wealthy, this evocative photographic history presents descriptions of elaborate costume balls and playful outdoor parties; the Rockefeller clan gathering at water's edge and J. P. Morgan lounging by the pool; Victor Astor's "patented beach boat" and the Goulds' private indoor tennis court; the Vanderbilts' yacht anchored offshore and the imposing "cottages" built by individual members.During their stays, members amused themselves in a variety of pursuits. In the 1890s they organized bicycling clubs and held races on the beach. Hunting was also for a time a favorite activity and the island was regularly stocked with imported wildlife-pheasant, quail, turkey, and bucks. By 1919, however, the game committee had dwindled to one member, and prime hunting grounds had been cleared for golf courses and tennis courts. The hub of the island's social life, however, was the clubhouse, where members gathered in formal attire to converse, while drinking fine wine and dining on freshly caught game and local delicacies.The seclusion that Jekyll Island offered was not impenetrable. On the day after Christmas in 1900, the country's fascination with technology could no longer be resisted, and the sound of a gasoline automobile disturbed the island's quiet glades for the first time. Despite the immense wealth of the club, it was not immune to the stock market crash of 1893 and the Panic of 1907. The club managed to survive World War I intact and enjoyed a "golden age" from 1919 to 1927, during which time it held its own against the increasingly popular Florida resorts. The stock market crash of 1929, however, initiated a death spiral. Membership declined steadily throughout the 1930s, and when the United States entered World War II, the club closed its doors forever. Based on surviving club records, newspaper accounts, and letters and diaries of members and guests, The Jekyll Island Club chronicles an era when leisure was the preserve of the wealthy. For more than six decades the island, now a state park, served as a haven for millionaires. As one visitor described the Jekyll Island Club, it was "the only place of its kind in the world-and will never be ag.
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Light wear, edges lightly bumped, else clean and tidy Size: 4to.
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Hardback. Zustand: New. From its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation's wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, and Morgans. Far from the hectic northern cities where the members tended their fortunes, this private island refuge off Georgia's coas…t offered the wealthy a tranquil change of pace.Bringing together more than 240 fascinating photographs, Barton and June McCash trace the sixty-two-year history of this exclusive retreat whose members at one time were reputed to represent one-seventh of the nation's wealth. From the time of the club's opening, members came to Jekyll Island each winter to seek elegant leisure, arriving on yachts or in private train cars from New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Capturing the lives and amusements of the very wealthy, this evocative photographic history presents descriptions of elaborate costume balls and playful outdoor parties; the Rockefeller clan gathering at water's edge and J. P. Morgan lounging by the pool; Victor Astor's "patented beach boat" and the Goulds' private indoor tennis court; the Vanderbilts' yacht anchored offshore and the imposing "cottages" built by individual members.During their stays, members amused themselves in a variety of pursuits. In the 1890s they organized bicycling clubs and held races on the beach. Hunting was also for a time a favorite activity and the island was regularly stocked with imported wildlife-pheasant, quail, turkey, and bucks. By 1919, however, the game committee had dwindled to one member, and prime hunting grounds had been cleared for golf courses and tennis courts. The hub of the island's social life, however, was the clubhouse, where members gathered in formal attire to converse, while drinking fine wine and dining on freshly caught game and local delicacies.The seclusion that Jekyll Island offered was not impenetrable. On the day after Christmas in 1900, the country's fascination with technology could no longer be resisted, and the sound of a gasoline automobile disturbed the island's quiet glades for the first time. Despite the immense wealth of the club, it was not immune to the stock market crash of 1893 and the Panic of 1907. The club managed to survive World War I intact and enjoyed a "golden age" from 1919 to 1927, during which time it held its own against the increasingly popular Florida resorts. The stock market crash of 1929, however, initiated a death spiral. Membership declined steadily throughout the 1930s, and when the United States entered World War II, the club closed its doors forever. Based on surviving club records, newspaper accounts, and letters and diaries of members and guests, The Jekyll Island Club chronicles an era when leisure was the preserve of the wealthy. For more than six decades the island, now a state park, served as a haven for millionaires. As one visitor described the Jekyll Island Club, it was "the only place of its kind in the world-and will never be ag.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG/1st printing/Inscribed. Other than a little rubbing at the bottom edge of the dust jacket, and a small wrinkle in the front flap and some notes on the last 2 blank pages Tight and clean, sharp cornered and unmarked inside.There's a little l…oss of color to the material covering the spine Dust jacket now covered in a mylar sleeve. The inscription is to the previous owners, signed by both authors and is located on the front free end paper. The front paste down has the date June 1989 printed in the middle of the page(I'm thinking the date of the book signing). Included with the book is a map of the Jekyll Island Historic District, and a pamphlet featuring a tour of homes in the historic district. Comes to you in an acid free document bag, mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC. Signed by Author(s).
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Hardback. Zustand: New. From its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation's wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, and Morgans. Far from the hectic northern cities where the members tended their fortunes, this private island refuge off Georgia's coas…t offered the wealthy a tranquil change of pace.Bringing together more than 240 fascinating photographs, Barton and June McCash trace the sixty-two-year history of this exclusive retreat whose members at one time were reputed to represent one-seventh of the nation's wealth. From the time of the club's opening, members came to Jekyll Island each winter to seek elegant leisure, arriving on yachts or in private train cars from New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Capturing the lives and amusements of the very wealthy, this evocative photographic history presents descriptions of elaborate costume balls and playful outdoor parties; the Rockefeller clan gathering at water's edge and J. P. Morgan lounging by the pool; Victor Astor's "patented beach boat" and the Goulds' private indoor tennis court; the Vanderbilts' yacht anchored offshore and the imposing "cottages" built by individual members.During their stays, members amused themselves in a variety of pursuits. In the 1890s they organized bicycling clubs and held races on the beach. Hunting was also for a time a favorite activity and the island was regularly stocked with imported wildlife-pheasant, quail, turkey, and bucks. By 1919, however, the game committee had dwindled to one member, and prime hunting grounds had been cleared for golf courses and tennis courts. The hub of the island's social life, however, was the clubhouse, where members gathered in formal attire to converse, while drinking fine wine and dining on freshly caught game and local delicacies.The seclusion that Jekyll Island offered was not impenetrable. On the day after Christmas in 1900, the country's fascination with technology could no longer be resisted, and the sound of a gasoline automobile disturbed the island's quiet glades for the first time. Despite the immense wealth of the club, it was not immune to the stock market crash of 1893 and the Panic of 1907. The club managed to survive World War I intact and enjoyed a "golden age" from 1919 to 1927, during which time it held its own against the increasingly popular Florida resorts. The stock market crash of 1929, however, initiated a death spiral. Membership declined steadily throughout the 1930s, and when the United States entered World War II, the club closed its doors forever. Based on surviving club records, newspaper accounts, and letters and diaries of members and guests, The Jekyll Island Club chronicles an era when leisure was the preserve of the wealthy. For more than six decades the island, now a state park, served as a haven for millionaires. As one visitor described the Jekyll Island Club, it was "the only place of its kind in the world-and will never be ag.
