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Wilson, Rosalind Baker
NEAR THE MAGICIAN: A Memoir of My Father Edmund Wilson.
New York New York U.S.A.: Grove Weidenfeld 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A daughter's thoughtful and loving homage to her brilliant eccentric and demanding father Edmund Wilson one of the towering literary figures of our time whose critical writings shaped the American intellectual landscape. As new unread copy in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A70 <br/> <br/> Grove Weidenfeld hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2371 ISBN : 1555843425 9781555843427
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Burns, George
GRACIE: A Love Story
New York NY U.S.A.: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A68/A71 <br/> <br/> G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3257 ISBN : 0399133844 9780399133848
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Brinkley, David.
DAVID BRINKLEY A Memoir: 11 Presidents 4 Wars 22 Political Conventions 1 Moon Landing 3 Assassinations 2000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina
New York NY U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Inc 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new in fine light rubbing to back mylar-protected dust jacket. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf, Inc hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2502 ISBN : 067940693X 9780679406938
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Johnston, Johanna
The Life Manners and Travels of FANNY TROLLOPE: A Biography
New York NY U.S.A.: Hawthorn Books Inc. Publishers 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A68 <br/> <br/> Hawthorn Books, Inc., Publishers hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6653 ISBN : 0801525578 9780801525575
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Shepherd, Cybill; Ball, Aimee Lee
CYBILL DISOBEDIENCE: How I Survived Beauty Pageants Elvis Sex Bruce Willis Lies Marriage Motherhood Hollywood and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think
New York NY U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers 2000. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. U <br/> <br/> HarperCollins, Publishers hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6230 ISBN : 0060193506 9780060193508
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Fairey, Wendy W.
ONE OF THE FAMILY
New York NY U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. 1992. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This memoir begins with the emergence of a secret. Wendy Fairey was 46 and it was five weeks after the death of her mother Sheila Graham the well-known Hollywood columnist and writer that Fairey learned who her true father was--the British empiricist philosopher A.J. Ayer. ONE OF THE FAMILY tells of her Fairey's quest to reclaim her father--still alive at the time she learned his identity--and even more importantly to come to terms in her mind with her mother who had been such a mythic presence in her daughter's life and whose enormous lie coming posthumously to light threatened their relationship in its now revised perspective. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. U <br/> <br/> W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3980 ISBN : 0393030938 9780393030938
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Phathanothai, Sirin, with James Peck
THE DRAGON'S PEARL
New York NY U.S.A.: Crown Publishers Inc 1994. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In this astonishing memoir by the only foreigner raised by Zhou Enlai and the reclusive founders of Communist China Sirin Phathanothai provides a one-of-a-kind eyewitness account of daily life inside the remote world of China's powerful and reclusive leadership. In 1956 eight-year-old Sirin was tossed into the very center of Mao's revolutionary China as the ward of Premier Zhou Enlai secretly sent with her twelve-year-old brother Warnwai as an offering of goodwill from Thailand's political elite to China's a 'living bridge' between the two countries at a time when they were publicly determined enemies. Two years into her stay the Thai government was overthrown her father was jailed and it would be years before she had any contact with her family again. In 1966 during the Cultural Revolution her Japanese fiance was forced to leave the country Sirin was forced to denounce her father and brother and under attack himself Zhou could save her only by sending her into hiding deep into the heart of rural China--into a life far harsher and more dangerous that she had ever imagined. In 1970 fourteen years after she first arrived in China Zhou signed papers to get her secretly into England. Today Sirin maintains her close ties to China's leadership having made childhood friends of the leaders' progeny many of whom are prominent in China today; and she has played a significant role in political matters between China and other countries. Fine first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket.Not remainder-marked or price-clipped NFS2 <br/> <br/> Crown Publishers, Inc hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3977 ISBN : 0671795465 9780671795467
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Whitney, David C.
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS: Biographies of the Chief Executives from Washington through Clinton Eighth Edition
Pleasantville NY: The Reader's Digest Association 1993. Book Club BCE/BOMC . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very readable compact and concise history of THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS this is the best single volume of presidential biographies we know. The book includes the important data on the lives and political careers of each chief executive through William Jefferson Clinton as well as the major issues policies and events that marked each presidential term. This is a very fine reading copy and the book includes several sections of of black-and-white presidential portraits. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A38/II/A69 <br/> <br/> The Reader's Digest Association hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6990 ISBN : 1568650310 9781568650319
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Parrish, Michael E.
FELIX FRANKFURTER AND HIS TIMES: The Reform Years.
New York NY U.S.A.: Free Press The 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Explores the years before Frankfurter's Supreme Court appointment and details such subjects as his tenure as a Harvard Law professor and his advisory relationship with Wilson and Roosevelt. 330PP. WITH iNDEX. Fine unread. first edition first printing w/ three tiny spots on top edge in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 330 pp.Not remainder-marked or price-clipped NFbs2 <br/> <br/> Free Press, The hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2730 ISBN : 0029237408 9780029237403
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Goldberg, Whoopi
BOOK
New York NY U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hey. Hey you. Yeah you. The one with the keyboard. Im so glad you clicked on my book. I wrote it so youd read it.Now heres where Im supposed to say all kinds of hip Whoopi-esque stuff to get you to buy it. Clicking on it is just the first step. Buying itthats a whole other contract. So this is when we seal the deal when I tell you in my own inimitable way how uproarious and provocative this book is how out there and cutting edge and whatever else I can think to throw into the mix. Or I could say things like Not since War and Peace. or Move over Alice Walker. or This book does for the written word what Pat Boone did for heavy metal.Well come on now. Lets face it if this book were all those things itd be a novel and I wouldnt resort to such low tactics. Youd just buy it and move on or wait for someone to turn it into a movie. So Ill give it to you straight. This book doesnt suck. Itll make you laughmaybe not out loud but in that place deep down where you know a good joke when you hear one. Itll make you thinkalso not out loud because you know thatd be a little strange. Hell it might even get you to reconsider a few things and consider a few others for the first time. You can take this book to bed or to the beach and it wont ask you to swallow or rub lotion on its back. It doesnt cost a whole lot of money. And best of all! its collectible. Buy a fewone to read and a couple more to set aside for your retirement cause these suckers are gonna go up in value like nobodys business. Trust me on this. One to read and a couple more to set aside. You wont be sorry. nd neither will I." As new first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket.Not remainder-marked or price-clipped NF34 <br/> <br/> Morrow/Avon hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6137 ISBN : 068815252X 9780688152529
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Haldeman, H. R.
THE HALDEMAN DIARIES: Inside the Nixon White House
New York NY U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam Inc. 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 698 pp. A70 <br/> <br/> Penguin Putnam, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6810 ISBN : 0399139621 9780399139628
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Boyd, Bill.
BOLIVAR: Liberator of a Continent.
New York NY U.S.A.: S.P.I. Books 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seldom has the world seen such a bold and charismatic figure. Born one of the richest men in South America Simon Bolivar reliquished his wealth and titles in order to fight for the freedom of South A merica. An interesting and complex man far ahead of his time Bolivar freed the slaves forty years before the U.S. Civil War proposed free education for the poor and enacted laws protecting the en vironment wildlife and native populations. He liberated an area five times larger than Europe leading his army across the impassable Andes and fought in over 200 battles. In 1828 he proposed build ing a canal through the isthmus of Panama. Later he tried to establish an Organization of the American States to settle regional disputes and for mutual protection. It is said that Bolivar slept with a different woman every night. And from the heights he fell into disfavor and exile only to be worshiped idolized and deified after his death.As new first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Not remainder-marked or price-clipped A78 <br/> <br/> S.P.I. Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3759
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Cornwell, John
HITLER'S POPE: The Secret History of Pius XII
New York NY U.S.A.: Viking Penguin 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This devastating account of the ecclesiastical career of Eugenio Pacelli 1876-1958 who became Pope Pius XII in 1939 is all the more powerful because British historian John Cornwell maintains throughout a measured though strongly critical tone. After World War II murmurs of Pacelli's callous indifference to the plight of Europe's Jews began to be heard. A noted commentator on Catholic issues Cornwell began research for this book believing that "if his full story were told Pius XII's pontificate would be exonerated." Instead he emerged from the Vatican archives in a state of "moral shock" concluding that Pacelli displayed anti-Semitic tendencies early on and that his drive to promote papal absolutism inexorably led him to collaboration with fascist leaders. Cornwell convincingly depicts Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli pursuing Vatican diplomatic goals that crippled Germany's large Catholic political party which might otherwise have stymied Hitler's worst excesses. The author's condemnation has special force because he portrays the admittedly eccentric Pacelli not as a monster but as a symptom of a historic wrong turn in the Catholic Church. He meticulously builds his case for the painful conclusion that "Pacelli's failure to respond to the enormity of the Holocaust was more than a personal failure it was a failure of the papal office itself and the prevailing culture of Catholicism." --Wendy Smith As new unread first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket.Not remainder-marked or price-clipped NFBS2 <br/> <br/> Viking Penguin hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4384 ISBN : 0670886939 9780670886937
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Ferris, Paul
RICHARD BURTON
New York NY U.S.A.: Coward McCann & Geogheman Publishers 1981. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in near-fine back flap creased but okay in mylar-protected dust jacket A68 <br/> <br/> Coward, McCann & Geogheman, Publishers hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2118 ISBN : 0698111060 9780698111066
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Cheetham, Nicolas
KEEPERS OF THE KEYS: A History of the Popes from St. Peter to John Paul II
New York NY U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons 1982. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine unread copy in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A69 <br/> <br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6914 ISBN : 068417863X 9780684178639
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Schoenbaum, Thomas J.
WAGING PEACE AND WAR: Dean Rusk in the Truman Kennedy and Johnson Years.
New York NY U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of the most influential Secretaries of State in our history Dean Rusk wielded the kind of power normally reserved only for Presidents. Urbane loyal courtly and reserved he was also one of the most enigmatic and controversial figures in public life. Yet he left an indelible stamp on the major events that marked America's postwar ascendancy as a superpower including cold war confrontations in Cuba and Berlin. He served as Secretary of State in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. As the principal architect of American foreign policy from 1961 to 1969 he defined our country's stance toward Soviet aggression--and became the chief spokesman for our involvement in Vietnam. WAGING PEACE AND WAR is the definitive account of the career of one of America's most remarkable statesmen and a revealing new look at our country's most significant foreign-policy decisions from the Korean War to the conflict in Vietnam. 592 pp. Fine first edition first printing in near-fine some rubbing small scrapes mylar-protected dust jacket. Not remainder-marked or price-clipped NFBS1 <br/> <br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4028 ISBN : 0671603515 9780671603519
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Sack, John
THE DRAGONHEAD: The Godfather of Chinese Crime - His Rise and Fall
New York NY U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group Inc. 2001. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Chinese Mafia has always been a mystery to both law enforcement and the media--part of an unapproachable and unfathomable conglomeration of secret societies operating worldwide. To this day though police and prosecutors insist that Johnny Kon's own secret organization--the Big Circle--is public enemy number one. Distinguished journalist John Sack spent twelve years fearlessly shadowing and befriending the most powerful crime lord in the Chinese Mafia and introduces us to this secret world and its top criminal mastermind reporting from the homes hotel rooms crime scenes and jail cells of Johnny and his gang all reported with their full cooperation. From Kon's escape from poverty in China and his golden years as a smuggler during the Vietnam war THE DRAGONHEAD traces Johnny's rapid rise to power and chronicles the growth of his heroin cartel as it smuggles a billion dollars worth of drugs into the United States. Sack also shows the humanity behind the previously impenetrable wall of the Chinese and American underworlds rife with shocking crimes bound by unforgiving codes of honor. At once a loyal husband and father and a ruthless crime boss Johnny Kon is by turns fascinating and repellent but ultimately unforgettable. As new in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A71 <br/> <br/> Crown Publishing Group, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4884 ISBN : 0609603531 9780609603536
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Millett, Kate
THE LOONY BIN TRIP
New York NY U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kate Millett's SEXUAL POLITICS was a landmark work; it galvanized the women's movement and catapulted the author to the forefront of national consciousness. For years Millett made nationwide headlines with her books and political activities. But then she stepped out of the limelight privately battling the stigma of mental illness and the betrayal by family and friends that culminated in forced hospitalization and attempts at suicide. THE LOONY BIN TRIP is the gripping personal story of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after being diagnosed as a manic-depressive. Writing with almost cinematic immediacy Millett chronicles a searing circle of events beginning with the summer at her farm in Poughkeepsie when she decides to try to prove her sanity by going off the medication prescribed for her. She takes us with her from her elation at the beginning of that summer "the happiest summer of my life" through a season of increasingly ominous doubts about her own sanity and the loyalty of the people around her. Haunted by recollections of two previous involuntary commitments to mental hospitals Millett becomes increasingly terrified that she will be "captured" again. And indeed at the end of the summer she narrowly escapes an attempt to have her committed only to be forcibly confined to a hellish mental hospital during a trip to Ireland. Shockingly honest and compulsively readable The Loony-bin Trip may revolutionize the way we think about mental illness. Millett has the courage to show us from the inside what devastation the specter of madness can cause. The Loony-bin Trip is a damning indictment of our system of mental institutions from the patient's perspective. But it is also the larger story of a fiercely independent mind struggling with the issues of its own reason and sanity: a struggle which becomes for Kate Millett a fight for her very self. As new first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket.Not remainder=marked or price-clipped BIOS1/W <br/> <br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2114 ISBN : 0671679309 9780671679309
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Costello, John, Tsarev, Oleg.
DEADLY ILLUSIONS: The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master Spy.
New York NY U.S.A.: Crown Publishers Inc. 1994. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is the first published book to be based on the archives of the KGB. Drawing on the actual operational case files Soviet crytographic traffic and debriefings of agents such as Kim Philby DEADLY ILLUSIONS offers direct insight into the reality behind some of the most famous Soviet intelligence operations of the century. The product of an unprecedented collaboration between a KGB officer and a veteran historian this remarkable book reaches deep into the still-secret former First Chief Directorate archives inherited by the Russian Intelligence Service. From contemporary Soviet intelligence files the book lays bare the astonishing secrets of the career of Alexander Orlov. He stands revealed as the true 'eminence grise' of the Cambridge and Oxford spy rings. Orlov--until now--had been regarded in the West as the highest-ranking Soviet intelligence defector. In testimony before the U.S. Senate and in secret debriefings with the CIA Orlov sustained the illusion of his defection for twenty-one years. He was eulogized in the Congressional Record on his death in 1973. But DEADLY ILLUSIONS documents using both KGB and FBI investigatory records how Alexander Orlov remained a dedicated communist and a master of deception to the very end of his days. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 538 pp. NF13/ NF20 <br/> <br/> Crown Publishers, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3976 ISBN : 0517588501 9780517588505
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Douglas, Ellen
TRUTH: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell
New York NY U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. L40 <br/> <br/> Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3408 ISBN : 1565122143 9781565122147
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Min, Anchee
RED AZALEA
New York NY U.S.A.: Pantheon Books 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page with an artistic boldly distinctive flair. A revelatory and disturbing account of a Chinese upbringing offering an intimate and compelling portrait of China's Cultural Revolution and its toll on the young men and women caught up in its fatal coils. The story Anchee Min recounts here is exceptional for its candor its poignancy its courage and for "the most stunningly beautiful prose you could hope to read" London Times. RED AZALEA was named a New York Times Notable Book of 1994. Fine first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Not remainder-marked or price-clipped BIOS1 <br/> <br/> Pantheon Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2382 ISBN : 067942332X 9780679423324
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Powell, Colin with Joseph E, Persico.
MY AMERICAN JOURNEY.
New York NY U.S.A.: Random House Inc. 1995. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 643 pp. A75 <br/> <br/> Random House, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0642 ISBN : 0679432965 9780679432968
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Nash, Robert Jay
PEOPLE TO SEE: An Anecdotal History of Chicago's Makers and Breakers
Piscataway NJ: New Century Publishers Inc. 1981. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in orange-red cloth fine mylar-protected dust jacket. NF25 <br/> <br/> New Century Publishers, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6453 ISBN : 0832901083 9780832901089
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Franken, Al.
WHY NOT ME: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency.
New York NY U.S.A.: Delacorte Press 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As groundbreaking as Theodore White's "The Making of the President" as riveting as any account by Woodward and Bernstein this work chronicles the legendary rise to power--and fall from grace--of America's 43rd president. Al Franken author of the bestseller "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations" has written a political classic. Fine first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Not remainder-marked or price-clipped NFBS2 <br/> <br/> Delacorte Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3639 ISBN : 038531809X 9780385318099
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Watterson, Kathryn
NOT BY THE SWORD: How the Love of a Cantor and His Family Transformed a Klansman
New York NY U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 1995. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. CC <br/> <br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6749 ISBN : 0671868934 9780671868932
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Shoumatoff, Alex
THE WORLD IS BURNING: Murder in the Rain Forest: The Tragedy of Chico Mendes
New York NY U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company 1990. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. When union leader Francisco "Chico" Mendes was gunned down in the remote Amazonian state of Acre late in 1988 it seemed like just another murder in the backlands of Brazil a vast region dominated by the world's last great primeval wilderness. But Mendes' death provoked international outrage in a Western world just beginning to come to terms with the effects of slash-and-burn policies in Amazonia on global warming the so-called greenhouse effect. Mendes became a symbol of the struggle to save a fragile ecosystem whose teeming plant and animal life are threatened by ever-encroaching development. In this richly textured evocative account Alex Shoumatoff weaves a story of violence and raw brutal politics against a backdrop of natural grandeur and a forest people's vanishing way of life. He begins with a history of the Amazon rubber trade and of the tappers' struggle to free themselves from debt peonage. Shoumatoff then details the life of Mendes: how he was taught to read and indoctrinated by a fugitive revolutionary in the forest and how he organized human blockades against the chain-saw crews of ranchers and land speculators. The folly corruption and greed behind development schemes in Amazonia are fully chronicled as is the sudden acceleration of concern about the world's rain forests. Informative beguiling and suspenseful Shoumatoff's THE WORLD IS BURNING combines a profound knowledge of Brazilian culture and society with a portrait of the making of a modern martyr. As new in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. N33 <br/> <br/> Little, Brown & Company hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1407 ISBN : 0316787396 9780316787390
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Maychick, Diana
AUDREY HEPBURN: An Intimate Portrait
Secaucus NJ U.S.A.: Birch Lane Press/Carol Publishing Group 1993. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. When she began writing her biography of Audrey Hepburn author Diana Maychick never dreamed she would have such unprecedented access to the reclusive and legendary star. Audrey Hepburn insisted that a proper biography could never be completed unless she was willing to share some intensely personal and painful memories. For the next year Hepburn and Maychick spent countless hours together in conversation as Audrey opened up about her childhood her careers and the loves of her life. What emerges from the pages of AUDREY HEPBURN is a wonderfully personal look at one of the most elegant women of the century. It celebrates her fabled rise from show girl to film star and how with her beguiling eyes and sophisticated manners she seduced Hollywood away from its fixation on blond bombshells. She discusses her innermost feelings about the men in her life--William Holden Mel Ferrer Givenchy Andrea Dotti Albert Finney Ben Gazzara and Robbie Wolders--as well as how she felt about working with some of the screen's leading men inlcuding Gregory Peck Cary Grant Humphrey Bogart Fred Astaire and Gary Cooper in some of the most enduringly charming films of all time 'Roman Holiday' 'Sabrina' 'Love in the Afternoon' 'Funny Face' ' 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' 'Charade' and 'My Fair Lady.' We also get an intimate view of Hepburn's evolution from film legend to ambassador for UNICEF and an appreciation of her tireless efforts on behalf of starving children. Her valiant trips to Somalia even as she was dying in 1992 provided a poignant message to an often indifferent world that something had to be done to avert the death of millions in that war-torn nation. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. BIOS1 <br/> <br/> Birch Lane Press/Carol Publishing Group hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4745 ISBN : 1559721952 9781559721950
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Spoto, Donald
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR: From Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II The Secret History of the Royal Family
New York NY U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 1995. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A portrait of the royal Windsor family follows Queen Victoria through the reign of Queen Elizabeth II and covers the relationship of Charles and Camilla Diana's emotional roller coasters and the Duke of Kent's lovers. Fine first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Not remainder-marked or price-clipped NF73 <br/> <br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3030 ISBN : 0684815443 9780684815442
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McCourt, Malachy.
A MONK SWIMMING: A Memoir
New York NY U.S.A.: Hyperion 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. U <br/> <br/> Hyperion hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4797 ISBN : 0786863986 9780786863983
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Norgay, Jamling Tenzing; Coburn, Broughton
TOUCHING MY FATHER'S SOUL: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest
San Francisco CA U.S.A.: HarperSanFrancisco 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Foreward by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Introduction by Jon Krakauer. The Great Untold Story of EverestSherpas are part of our everyday parlance yet we know so little of their world beyond their depiction as climbing wonders. In Touching My Father's Soul Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world as he tells a story of Everest unlike any told before. His tale is one of profound adventure that entwines the lives of a family a mountain and a people. New unread first edition first printing in new mylar-protected dust jacket.Not remainder-marked or price-clipped A81/ II/ EE <br/> <br/> HarperSanFrancisco hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6981 ISBN : 0062516876 9780062516879
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Boyles, Denis
AFRICAN LIVES: White Lies Tropical Truth Darkest Gossip and Rumblings of Rumor
New York NY U.S.A.: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AFRICAN LIVES offers a series of ebullient and evocative portraits of the "white tribe" in Africa: Westerners from General Gordon to Emin Pasha to Karen Blixen to the present crop of adventurers who have fallen under the spell of that inexhaustible continent. It presents an irreverent and original collection of characters crises and stories amply demonstrating that the spirit of the great European adventurers of the past is still present among the fly-boys missionaries and knockabouts of today. Moving back and forth through a hundred years Denis Boyles journalist writer and himself one of the African enthusiasts of whom he treats sketches portraits not only of some of the great personalities of the past--Rhodes Lugard Markham--but of such colorful more contemporary figures as Patrick Shaw a police official in Nairobi; George Pappas a self-made millionaire pilot in Kinshasa; and Ian Smith the ex-prime minister of Rhodesia. Provocative informed humorous and invariably entertaining AFRICAN LIVES is what the author calls a "pre-ideological" examination of a vivid and fascinating part of African history. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. N33 <br/> <br/> Weidenfeld & Nicholson. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4892 ISBN : 1555840345 9781555840341
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Toobin, Jeffrey
OPENING ARGUMENTS: A Young Lawyer's First Case: United States v. Oliver L. North
New York NY U.S.A.: Viking Penguin 1991. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. As new in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A34 <br/> <br/> Viking Penguin hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6824 ISBN : 0670837032 9780670837038
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Gorman, Jacqueline
THE SEEING GLASS: A Memoir
New York NY U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group The 1997. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new unread copy in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. F <br/> <br/> Putnam Publishing Group, The hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6589 ISBN : 1573220612 9781573220613
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Cook, Blanche Wiesen
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Vol. 2 : 1933-1938
New York NY U.S.A.: Viking 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The second volume in the best-selling biography of America's visionary First Lady examines Eleanor Roosevelt's growing influence on the history and policy of America during the White House years and the Depression as she championed racial justice women's rights and more. 75000 first printing. 686 pp. As new unread first edition first printing in VG shows some wrinkling but edges are good with no chipping or tears mylar-protected dust jacket. A54/A72 <br/> <br/> Viking hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6199 ISBN : 0670844985 9780670844982
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Sandburg, Helga
A GREAT AND GLORIOUS ROMANCE: The Story of Carl Sandburg and Lilian Steichen
New York NY U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. 1978. First Edition Second Printing 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A27/A58 <br/> <br/> Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6716 ISBN : 0151368945 9780151368945
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Ryan, Nolan, with Jerry Jenkins.
MIRACLE MAN: NOLAN RYAN The Autobiography.
Dallas TX: Word Publishing 1992. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Whether you're a sports enthusiast or not you've heard his name you've seen is face.Nolan Ryan.the miracle man of baseball with an incredible forty-eight major league pitching records. Now for the first time meet the man behind that 95-mile-per-hour fastball that has propelled him to legend status. Fine first edition first printing. in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Not remainder-marked or price-clipped BIOS1 <br/> <br/> Word Publishing hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4523 ISBN : 0849909457 9780849909450
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Daniloff, Nicholas
TWO LIVES ONE RUSSIA
New York NY U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This dual narrative examines past and recent Russian history including the arrest and imprisonment of the author a noted American journalist by the KGB. Fine in near-fine price-clipped else fine mylar-protected dust jacket. NF28 <br/> <br/> Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6422 ISBN : 0395446015 9780395446010
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Manning, Robert
THE SWAMP ROOT CHRONICLE: Adventures in the Word Trade
New York NY U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A68 <br/> <br/> W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1590 ISBN : 0393030903 9780393030907
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Tarrant, John J.
DRUCKER: The Man Who Invented Corporate America
New York NY U.S.A.: Cahner Books Inc. 1976. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Introduction by C. Northcote Parkinson. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 6 5/8" X 9 5/8". NF25 <br/> <br/> Cahner Books, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2594 ISBN : 0843607440 9780843607444
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Shoumatoff, Alex.
THE RIVERS AMAZON.
San Francisco CA U.S.A.: Sierra Club Books 1978. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Writer and naturalist Alex Shoumatoff went to Brazil in 1976 to explore the natural history and cultural ecology of Amazonia for this book. Following in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century explorer-naturalists Richard Spruce Henry Bates and Allfred Wallace Shoumatoff traveled from the seaport in Belem at the mouth of the Amazon to the river's source in the Apurimac Valley of Peru. Whether he is describing the intricate life cycles of the rain forest a chase through the riverine wilderness after turtle poachers the medicinal properties of a rare plant the anatomy of an exotic butterfly or the haunting music of an isolated people Shoumatoff is an intrepid exciting guide to the Amazon. Fine in green cloth in VG tape-reinforced inside jacket at spine and fold tops mylar-protected dust jacket. <br/> <br/> Sierra Club Books hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3697 ISBN : 0871562103 9780871562104
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Cohen, David Elliot, with photographs by Devyani Kamdar.
ONE YEAR OFF: Leaving it All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children.
New York NY U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 1999. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New unread copy in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Z <br/> <br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4430 ISBN : 0684836017 9780684836010
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Nickson, Chris.
EMMA: The Many Facets of Emma Thompson.
Dallas TX: Taylor Publishing Company 1997. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 64mo - up to 3" tall. IIncludes a section of black-and-white photographs from the life and films of this fine actress and writer the star of such films as 'Sense and Sensibility' for which she won an Academy Award for screenwriting 'Howard's End' and 'The Remains of the Day'. New unread first edition first printing in blue cloth in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Not remainder-marked or price-clipped BIOS1 <br/> <br/> Taylor Publishing Company hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2950 ISBN : 0878339655 9780878339655
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Haizlip, Shirlee T.
THE SWEETER THE JUICE: A Family Memoir in Black and White
New York NY U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 1994. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Z <br/> <br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6606 ISBN : 0671792350 9780671792350
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Perera, Victor
RITES: A Guatemalan Boyhood
San Diego CA U.S.A.: Harcourt Trade Publishers 1986. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in near-fine 1" vertical tear at upper back edge repaired inside jacket mylar-protected dust jacket. NF29 <br/> <br/> Harcourt Trade Publishers hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6091 ISBN : 0151776784 9780151776788
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Epstein, Lawrence J.
THE HAUNTED SMILE: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America
New York NY U.S.A.: PublicAffairs 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From vaudeville to the movies to television this is the complete story of how Jewish comedians transformed American entertainment. of photos. As new unread first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket.Not remainder-marked or price-clipped NF72 <br/> <br/> PublicAffairs hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7045 ISBN : 1891620711 9781891620713
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Grinager, Patricia
UNCOMMON LIVES: My Lifelong Friendship with Margaret Mead
Lanham MD U.S.A.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc. 1999. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Few women of this century have been more ahead of their time than Margaret Mead. She awakened in people an awareness of global patterns of behavior on topics as diverse as sexual mores food and culture health and education. She spoke authoritatively on political and scientific issues as far-ranging as war and space travel. As one of Mead's few life-long confidants Grinager breaks through Mead' s indomitable professional demeanor to reveal the woman behind this unique thinker who not only commanded the attention of her fellow scientists but also influenced generations of women around the world. New unread copy in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A77 <br/> <br/> Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2405 ISBN : 0847693783 9780847693788
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Weinberg, Steve
ARMAND HAMMER: The Untold Story An Unauthorized Biography
New York NY U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company 1989. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine unread copy in near-fine rear flap has edge crease else fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Z <br/> <br/> Little, Brown & Company hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6695 ISBN : 0316928399 9780316928397
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Toohey, John
CAPTAIN BLIGH'S PORTABLE NIGHTMARE : From the Bounty to Safety. 4162 Miles Across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat
New York NY U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers 2001. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A38/T <br/> <br/> HarperCollins Publishers hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6471 ISBN : 0060195320 9780060195328
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Harrison, Kathryn
THE KISS: A Memoir
New York NY U.S.A.: Random House Inc. 1997. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In this extraordinary memoir one of the best writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when Kathryn Harrison was twenty years old. Exquisitely and hypnotically written like a terrifying dream The Kiss will literally take your breath away for the power and beauty of its creation and for the shocking truth it reveals a story both of taboo and of family complicity in breaking taboo. Kathryn Harrison was six months old when her father left the family yet in his absence this lost father haunted her youth. When Kathryn is in college her father comes back for a bizarre family reunion - and an affair begins with a kiss a descent into a maelstrom during which Kathryn Harrison nearly loses her sanity and her life. Fine first edition first printing in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Not remainder-marked or price-clipped BIOS1 <br/> <br/> Random House, Inc. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6109 ISBN : 067944999x 9780679449997
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Kotsilibas-Davis, James
THE BARRYMORES: The Royal Family in Hollywood
New York NY U.S.A.: Crown Publishers Inc 1982. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in fine mylar-protected dust jacket. A69 <br/> <br/> Crown Publishers, Inc hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7054 ISBN : 0517528967 9780517528969
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