‎Biography‎

‎Cass, Joan‎

‎another beginning: throughthe Israeli looking glass‎

‎Tel Aviv: Dvir Katzman Publishers. P. 1979. Softcover. 287 pages. Clean text cover has edge chipping is present but separated from the book. Inscription on the blank title page. The story of an American family in Israel written over aperiod of several yers. Started out in Carmeil in 1970 . Dvir Katzman Publishers paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 28838

‎Moffat, Wendy‎

‎A Great Unrecorded History: a New Life of E. M. Forster‎

‎Farrar Straus & Giroux. As New in As New dust jacket. 2010. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover unworn unread and as NEW in AS NEW DJ. A fresh copy. Traces the effects of the author's sexuality on his writing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 28164

‎Barry R. Muir‎

‎Jack Howe : The Man and the Legend‎

‎Self Published 1989. Small crease to rear cover. 52 page booklet with b/w illustrations. The life of the legendary blade shearer. . SECOND EDITION. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Self Published Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 024724 ISBN : 073166518x 9780731665181

‎Meijer, Hendrik‎

‎Arthur Vandenberg: the Man in the Middle of the American Century‎

‎University of Chicago Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2017. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover unworn unread and as NEW in AS NEW DJ. A crisp copy. A politician pre-WWII changed from isolationist to post-war internationalist. An effective politician who pursued bipartisanship. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . University of Chicago Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 27817

‎Rod Laver‎

‎Rod Laver: A Memoir‎

‎Pan Macmillan Australia 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Hardcover. 398 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Macmillan Australia 2013. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. . Pages are lightly tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The 1960s and '70s was an era of Australian tennis giants - Roy Emerson Fred Stolle Neale Fraser Lew Hoad John Newcombe Ken Rosewall - but Rod Laver stood head and shoulders above them all. A diminutive left-handed red-headed country boy from Rockhampton Rod Laver is one of Australia's greatest ever sporting champions and arguably the best tennis player the world has ever seen. He is the only male player to have won the Grand Slam - all four major titles in the same calendar year - in the Open era and he is the only player to have won two Grand Slams. He was the dominant force in world tennis for almost two decades playing and defeating some of the greatest players of the 20th century. Rod Laver writes vividly of his life from the early days growing up in a Queensland country town playing on makeshift backyard courts to breaking into the amateur circuit and eventually the professional realm. He also writes movingly about the stroke he suffered in 1998 and of his beloved wife of more than 40 years Mary who died last year after a long illness. Rod Laver's memoir is a wonderfully nostalgic journey into Australia's sporting past filled with anecdotes about the great players and great matches set against the backdrop of a tennis world changing from rigid amateurism to the professional game we recognise today. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781742612973. Inventory No: 20080136. 9781742612973 Pan Macmillan hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20080136 ISBN : 1742612970 9781742612973

‎Maclaine, Shirley‎

‎Dancing in the Light‎

‎New York New York U.S.A.: Bantam Books 1986. Book. Good. Mass Market Paperback. Reprint. Edgewear to cover age toning to pages. 405pp. Bantam Books Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 017955 ISBN : 0553256971 9780553256970

‎Stuart, Nancy Rubin‎

‎The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox‎

‎Orlando Florida U.S.A.: Harcourt 2005. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Excellent copy in mylar-protected dust jacket 393pp. Harcourt Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 016993 ISBN : 0151010137 9780151010134

‎Sitchin, Zecharia‎

‎The Earth Chronicles Expeditions: Journeys to the Mythical Past‎

‎Rochester Vermont U.S.A.: Bear & Co 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 243pp. Clean tight copy in pictorial jacket. Bear & Co Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015348 ISBN : 1591430364 9781591430360

‎Malan, Rian‎

‎My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country His Tribe and His Conscience‎

‎NY: Atlantic Monthly Pr 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 349pp. Nice clean copy in jacket. Atlantic Monthly Pr Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 014253 ISBN : 087113229x 9780871132291

‎Taylor, Paul Beekman‎

‎Shadows of Heaven: Gurdjieff and Toomer‎

‎York Beach Maine U.S.A.: Red Wheel/Weiser 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Printing. 245pp. Clean tight copy. Red Wheel/Weiser Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 013692 ISBN : 1578630347 9781578630349

‎Taylor, Paul Beekman‎

‎Shadows of Heaven: Gurdjieff and Toomer‎

‎York Beach Maine U.S.A.: Red Wheel/Weiser 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Printing. Clean tight copy. 245pp. Red Wheel/Weiser Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 013713 ISBN : 1578630347 9781578630349

‎Redfield, Dana‎

‎Summoned: Encounters With Alien Intelligence‎

‎Charlottesville Virginia U.S.A.: Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc 1999. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Printing. Tape repair to scratch inside cover else clean bright copy. 264pp. Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 013183 ISBN : 1571741267 9781571741264

‎Boldrewood Rolf‎

‎Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia‎

‎London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press 1955. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press 1955. 660 pages. Navy blue boards with what appears to be a crest engraved onto the front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Blue silk book marker attached. Corners bumped from shelf wear. All pages present and binding is intact. Vintage. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 000024

‎Rubin‎

‎THROUGH MY OWN EYES - An Awakened Unconscious‎

‎Old Tappan NJ U.S.A.: Macmillan Publishing Company Incorporated 1982. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 250pp. Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 004088 ISBN : 002605700x 9780026057004

‎Shapiro, Michael‎

‎The Jewish 100 : A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time‎

‎Secaucus NJ U.S.A.: Carol Publishing Group 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Revised. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Remainder mark bottom edge else Fine copy in like jacket. 387pp. Carol Publishing Group Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 006858 ISBN : 0806518146 9780806518145

‎Zeller, Bob; Richter, John J‎

‎Lincoln in 3-D: Amazing and Rare Stereoscopic Photographs of His Life and Times‎

‎Chronicle Books 2010. Hardcover. Like New. 9x1x11. Like new hardback! No jacket as issued. Unbroken seal on 3-D glasses. Appears unread. No owners' names/labels. Text is clean unmarked. Shelf: G6 Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit. Chronicle Books hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 086180 ISBN : 0811872319 9780811872317

‎Pater, Walter‎

‎The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Large Print Edition‎

‎Privately Published 2024. New and unread. PERFECT condition but for mild and tiny bump to bottom corner of the cover -- NOT affecting any pages i.e. NO page creases. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. Bound in the original full color laminated boards. 7.25" wide by 10.25" tall. From a 2019 GoodReads review by Bill Kerwin: "The Philosophy of Aesthetic Beauty and the Evolution of Creative Expression in History. If you put only one 150 year old book of art essays on your reading list this is the one I would recommend. It revolutionized British art criticism inspired—and provided a philosophical basis for--the l'art pour l'art movement and most important for me at least it expressed a new sensibility in innovative and beautiful prose--lambent melodious sinuous languid and yet capable of intellectual subtlety and moral force—prose which would influence English letters for decades to come. The mid-Victorians had moved art criticism into the realms of the moral Ruskin and the objective Arnold. Then in 1867 Pater asked: how can we determine the morality of a style or the value of an aesthetic object unless we first become aware of our own impressions and the sensations they evoke in us “In aesthetic criticism the first step towards seeing one's object as it really is is to know one's own impression as it really is to discriminate it to realise it distinctly.” For Pater the critic is someone who educates his sensibilities by bathing them in the subtleties of beauty and then by analyzing his own reactions transforms himself into a sentient instrument for the appreciation of art. “What is important then is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect but a certain kind of temperament the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. A generation after Pater wrote these words his views had come to dominate the fin de siecle. Throughout the '70's young intellectuals particularly those of “Uranian” sensibility gravitated to Pater's Oxford afternoon teas. His visitors and correspondents included many who would help form the taste of the coming age: Arthur Symons Lionel Johnson Violet Paget “Vernon Lee” and Gerard Manley Hopkins to mention a few. Oscar Wilde in particular revered The Renaissance and in his last year at college often took walks with Pater to discuss his aesthetics which later became the basis of Wilde's own. He and the other young men of his generation took Pater's message as their guide to life as well as art: “to burn always with this hard gemlike flame to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.” The two men admired but did not like each other. Pater found Wilde clever but disagreeable; Oscar thought Pater too easily frightened. When Pater later condemned Dorian Gray as an immoral distortion of Epicureanism their amicable relationship came to an end. In addition to the sensibilities of The Yellow Nineties Pater's exaltation of beauty over utility also helped shape Modernist attitudes in the early 20th Century. Proust Joyce Woolf Yeats and Stevens—all are touched by the influence of The Renaissance. If you don't have the time for the whole book you should at least read the introduction and the conclusion “Pico della Mirandola” for an illuminating glimpse of early Christian Humanism “Leonardo da Vinci” for the “Mona Lisa” “The School of Giorgione” for some of Pater's mature observations on painting and “Winckelmann” for the tragic history of this early German Hellenist and his "romantic fervent friendships with young men"." GoodReads rating 3.92 stars. Large Print Edition. Hardcover. New condition/No dust jacket as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 188pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Privately Published Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 031766 ISBN : 9798305155219 9798305155

‎Samuelson, Arnold‎

‎With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba‎

‎New York: Random House Inc 1984. NOT a library discard. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped $16.95. NO chips tears or creases. Sharp corners. Square and reasonably tight. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked - apparently seldom if ever read. First printing with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row on the copyright page 24689753 centered on the copyright page Random House did not use the "1" in 1984 -- see McBride's GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF FIRST EDITIONS. Bound in the original biege boards with a maroon cloth spine. Complete with gray pictorial dust jacket with 5 Hemingway photos. From GoodReads: "This recently discovered narrative recounts the author's year 1934-1935 with Ernest Hemingway in Key West and of the life he the Hemingways and their visitors led during that year." GoodReads rating 3.93 stars. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xiv 185pp. 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Random House Inc Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 031755 ISBN : 0394539834 9780394539836

‎Meryman, Richard‎

‎Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life‎

‎New York NY: HarperCollins 1996. First Edition. hardcover. Like New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st print full # line text looks new and unread absolutely NO age toning anywhere tight clean unmarked boards likewise clean & undamaged dust jacket NOT price-clipped dj shows ordinary mild shelf and edge wear Fine/Very Good. HarperCollins hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 38805 ISBN : 0060171138 9780060171131

‎Chapman Abel‎

‎Memories of Four Score Years Less Two 1851- 1929 With a Memoir by George Bolam‎

‎London: Gurney & Jackson. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. 1930. First Edition. Dark green hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 170mm 9" x 7". 257pp ads. 24 coloured plates. Author of 'Bird Life on the Border' 'Art of Wildfowling' 'Savage Sudan' 'Wild Spain' 'Wild Norway'. . Gurney & Jackson hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : abe04aa

‎Columbus, Ferdinand‎

‎The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by his Son Ferdinand. 1960‎

‎London: The Folio Society. VG : in very good condition with black slipcase. Spine faded. 1960. First F S Edition. Cream leather spine with brown boards. 250mm x 160mm 10" x 6". 271pp. . The Folio Society hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : fol170

‎Hyde, Mary‎

‎The Thrales of Streatham Park new in PERFECT condition‎

‎Cambridge Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press 1978. A gorgeous pristine copy. Brand New condition in a Brand New dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO sun fading. NO tanning of the jacket spine of jacket is still bright white!!. Bright clean square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 7.25" wide by 10.5" tall. Note that the LARGER FORMAT and TYPE SIZE of this 1978 third printing makes for easier reading when compared to the 1977 first printing. With 56 illustrations. Index. Bound in the original black cloth stamped in shiny gold on the spine. From the pristine dust jacket: "Samuel Johnson encouraged his friends to keep journals and with the exception of James Boswell none of them made better use of his advice than Hester Thrale the talented witty courageous woman who following the death of Johnson's wife became his closest female friend. Much of the story of the friendship between Johnson and the Thrales is told in a journal begun in 1766 by Hester Thrale to which she gave the name the 'Family Book.' The 'Family Book' was intended as a chronological record of the growth accomplishments education illnesses travels and diversions of the twelve children born of Hester Thrale's marriage to Henry Thale a prosperous cultivated London brewer and member of Parliament. It is soon transformed into an intimate account of her own daily life though the children continue to provide much of the drama mostly tragic since only four of the twelve survived childhood. Despite her personal sorrows Mrs. Thrale became one of the eighteenth century's most hospitable hostesses. Streatham Park the Thrales' country house where Johnson lived for much of each year as a well-loved member of the family drew many of the other cultural luminaries of the day Sir Joshua Reynolds Oliver Goldsmith Charles Burney and his talented daughter Fanny among others. Mary Hyde has used a wonderful narrative skill. drawing on a wide range of contemporary letters journals and biographies as well as much fresh original research.". Third printing of the 1977 original. Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by Kelly Felix jacket art. xvii 373pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Harvard University Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 015791 ISBN : 0674887468 9780674887466

‎Nadel, Ira‎

‎Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art‎

‎Toronto Ontario Canada: E C W Press. Fair. 1994. First Edition. Paperback. 1550222104 . 160 pages. References. Discography. Chronology. "An engrossing introduction to the man his writing and his music." - from back cover. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; COMPOSERS BIOGRAPHY CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY MUSICIANS References. Discography. Chronology. "An engrossing introduction to the man his writing and his Music . E C W Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 815a1874 ISBN : 1550222104 9781550222104

‎Saunders Gary L. Signed‎

‎Doctor Olds of Twillingate: Portrait of an American Surgeon in Newfoundland‎

‎Canada: Breakwater Books Ltd. Very Good. 1997. First Edition. Paperback. 1550810928 . 363 pages. The story of John McKee Olds 1906-1985. Clean bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; SURGEONS BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY MEDICAL John McKee Olds Surgeons Newfoundland Twinllingate; Signed by Authors . Breakwater Books Ltd paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 815a1650 ISBN : 1550810928 9781550810929

‎Thomas, Dave (Signed) ; Carney, Susan; Crane, Robert David‎

‎SCTV: Behind the Scenes‎

‎Canada: McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771085664 . 272 pages. Signed and inscribed upon front free endpaper by Dave Thomas. A wonderful throwback to the hilarious SCTV television program. Abundantly illustrated in colour. "The ultimate SCTV book. It will be enjoyed and treasured not only by the show's many fans but also by lovers of comedy everywhere." - from dust jacket. Clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; COMEDIANS TELEVISION PROGRAMS BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY SCTV SEcond City Telelvsion Network Canada Television Program John Candy Andrea Martin Catherine O'Hara Martin Short Eugene Levy Joe Flaherty Rick Moranis Bill Needle; Signed by Authors . McClelland & Stewart Ltd hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 815a1696 ISBN : 0771085664 9780771085666