‎Biography‎

‎Hamilton Ian R.‎

‎A Touch of Treason‎

‎Lochar Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped. 1991. Later Printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Nigel Tranter. The author is a Scottish barrister who is most well known for his role in stealing the Stone of destiny from Westminster Abbey and returning it to Scotland and for refusing to swear an oath to Queen Elizabeth II during his admission to the bar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 207 pages . Lochar Publishing hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 28101

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‎1997–2000 Manuscript Diaries of a Lesbian Mother Confronting Sobriety Shame and the Search for Self in Late-Twentieth-Century Florida‎

‎Sarasota Arcadia Florida. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. On offer is a pair of diaries belonging to a middle-aged mother who began keeping a journal in order to write her way through her feelings surrounding her identity as a lesbian. Through her writing she also explores her struggles with multiple addictions and the impact her challenges have on her school-aged child who would sadly die only six months after her final entry. Anonymized but complete biographical information on our author is available in the BIO NOTES at the end of the listing. The author of this diary is identified by name within both volumes; however her name and all information that identifies her family are being withheld from public listing out of respect for her many immediate living family members. A de-anonymized biography will be provided privately to serious buyers for research and provenance purposes. Our author is 41-years-old when she begins writing in 1997 and going on 43 when she makes her last entry in March of 2000. She titles her first diary “Volume One” and begins it on February 21 1997. She keeps it until Friday June 6 1997 writing near-daily and only on the right side of every page. In her first entry she lays out her purpose for journaling: “This book is…about who I am in this moment…. Mostly it is about sexuality mine once lost and now found. It is about being a lesbian feeling wonderful about it and feel so relieved I can’t believe it” Feb 21 1997. Our author is educated intelligent and hopeful. She struggles with self-acceptance loneliness her sexual identity parenting a child who exhibited extremely challenging behaviours multiple addictions and mysteries from her past. While she is never explicit about her past we know she has a history of substance use and financial issues as well as challenges with her father and older brother. It is also implied that she had previously taken advantage of family members and possibly even stolen from them. Throughout the diaries one thing is clear: this author is a person who wants to live up to her potential be a good mother stay sober and be in control of her own life. She attends Alcoholics Anonymous AA meetings. She also attends the First Steps of Sarasota in their Choices program she goes to therapy and reflects that which she learns in her diary as she tries to understand her pain. Some excerpts from “Volume One” illustrate the tone of her entries: “…I went to a gay dance in Venice with Sharon tonight and I cried all the way home. Am I grieving over old loss or making change or being afraid…I think that I’m afraid of being alone…unloved…insignificant. I guess I’ve always felt that way. Why so much more now I feel so much more peaceful so why do I still feel this incredible emptiness inside…I have always sought attention through my behaviours…it’s been physical – hurting myself getting sick and now it’s through food deprivation and through spending money…maybe I’m sad because I’m afraid that even if I change all the behaviours the emptiness will never go away…” April 25 1997. “…I went to a gay AA meeting after group tonight which would have been good but I cried all the way through it. I’m not sure why I’m doing that these days…I need to be thankful more often…I could start with my son.and the family…” April 14 1997. “…I did have a huge fight with Dad. He wants $400 a month he told me he should be paid first that I was ruining his credit and that I had lied to him. I was really angry…I felt good that I did stand up for myself I went running after argument and that helped…I went to my Choices meeting…First Step. I love that meeting. I always come away feeling so good. 2 women asked me to sponsor them…I feel good about my sobriety” April 17 1997. Despite her constant writing about wanting to overcome her demons and feel comfortable in her own skin our author’s optimism of that first entry is repeatedly challenged. Some excerpts: “…I spent more time alone this weekend and I was okay with that - really enjoyed going to Barnes & Noble and looking @ the Lesbian books. Went to church alone Church of Religious Science…. Told multiple friends I'm a lesbian. The women were very accepting John didn’t say anything…” March 3 1997. “Right now I feel extremely anxious because of our living situation - I do not feel safe because our landlord has asked us to leave and we have not left. Tomorrow is my interview about a healthcare institution job - I really want this job. I feel as though things are beginning to turn…around…Thank you Lord for one more day and thank you for helping me to let go of my anger about the family” March 11 1997. “Thank you for this day God…my son and I had one of our more and more frequent fights. I did not handle myself well at all…I got very angry and.slapped him…have to learn…to step. Back and not be afraid of making and keeping rules. I felt so horrible” April 10 1997. “.I had a terrible day I got reprimanded at work for 3 medication errors… I feel as though I’m not climbing out of this hole fast enough. I was furious with my son when I got home and found that he had not come home…” April 15 1997 “…I…applied for a new job…It’s ‘lingerie modeling’ which I think now is sort of ‘clean prostitution’. I want to make a lot of money and that’s all! .I want this job so I can pay off all my bills…send my son to camp get the Volvo fixed…” April 21 1997“…today I was ‘terminated’ from healthcare institution for not correcting medication errors…. I wasn’t careful enough…I don’t feel scared just sad and pretty worthless as though everything I’ve thought about myself…is true” April 23 1997The first diary ends on a relatively hopeful note. “…I’ve been afraid to write because I’m clearly at the end of the book and…I’ve been incredibly depressed. I feel a little better – I think the Prozac is working…With the exception of the loneliness and the bulimia I’m doing better…I want to start going back to meetings…I think going to that gay dance scared me…I think it’s connected to my not going to meetings – that fear of intimacy thing…” June 6 1997. When we meet our author again in her second diary begun September 1 1999 her struggles are the same but her child is older and in trouble with the law financial strain becomes a more prominent and frequent concern she’s unable to hold down a job housing is insecure and while she discusses her sexuality less frequently in Diary #2 it remains an undercurrent. Initially she is staying sober with the help of her sponsor about whom she writes almost obsessively until October 5th when she begins drinking again. Some excerpts give the sense of her lived experience as the millennium looms: “We have just returned from the police station where my son was arrested on 3 felony counts and 3 misdemeanors and there are at least $6000 worth of charges. It was absolutely horrible. My sponsor and her husband came with us Thank God! .I’m thrilled that at least the arrest part is over…” Sept 1 1999. “…I went to healthcare facility for my orientation and now I’m ready to work. I’m grateful to God for opportunities” Sept 9. “…I cancelled two orientations today and my shame feels really big…” Sept 13“…I went to see a therapist this morning. I liked her. I was pretty honest with her except about my sexuality…I told her that I was recovering for my anorexia and bulimia – I’m not really…my son and I will go together next week…” Sept 18. “…Tomorrow we have an appointment at the Department of Juvenile Justice – it scares me to death…My son is a criminal…some of my goals: Plant a garden make my house pretty…go back to school get my master’s write a book find a lover” Sept 30. “…I went back out as they say in the program. I started at now closed down mental health hospital today. I’m quite excited about it…the benefits are by far the best I’ve ever had. I feel okay. My alcoholism has reared its ugly head” Oct 5. “I think much of my self hatred and feeling of worthlessness is tied up with my older brother…Why doesn’t it just heal After all I’m 42 now Why does it hurt so much ” Oct 16. “.The landlord is threatening to evict us if I don’t pay by tomorrow. The water has been shut off for a week now and I’m supposed to pay my son’s lawyer $1000 tomorrow. I have 3 cigarettes and not enough gas to get to work tomorrow…Thank you God! I got gas and my son gave me half a pack of cigarettes. While that itself makes me feel awful desperation is desperation! ” Nov 4. The next day her landlord has begun the eviction process and on November 19 she moves in to her parents’ house with her son and states she is “grateful to be sober”. After a long and disappointing house hunt and – judging by the nature of her writing - intermittent sobriety she and her son move to Arcadia Florida on December 31 1999 and she writes: “…The millennium did not end well with the family as Dad was drunk and very belligerent with my son. I did not say a word while Dad was yelling at my son…at some point I want to talk to my father about his drinking…I am thrilled to be sober! .”. “…I’m so disgusted with myself. A week ago today I got $1000 now it’s all gone! When will I ever change. I feel stupid worthless useless” Jan 17 2000. “.we went to Sarasota. I went to Rose Group which was about the First Step – for the second night in a row. I picked up my blue chip for 90 days. It was a great meeting…” Jan 25. “…We talked about the topic at the Rose Group being sex and Valentine’s Day and how I couldn’t change it because I didn’t want that woman’s feelings – her feelings mattered while mine didn’t…I need to matter! ” Feb 19. “…For me money is a lot like alcohol – I am obsessed with it. I think about it constantly. When I have it I am happy when I don’t I am miserable…” March 26. Her final entry is on March 30 2000. An excerpt: “Lord please help me to feel better about myself. Please help me to remember that I am loved. Please help me to pay the bills” March 30. While we do know through historical records that our author was eventually married to a woman who was a proud member of the sober living community and lived into her early 60s we also know things likely didn't get much easier. Her son would sadly die less than six months after she made her final diary entry and her financial issues remained for many years. Taken together these diaries offer an unvarnished view of midlife lesbian identity formation at the edge of the twentieth century—where spirituality motherhood and addiction recovery intersect. They are especially valuable for their articulation of lesbian self-definition outside urban or academic milieus documenting the therapeutic and communal spaces AA meetings religious-based groups women’s recovery programs through which one woman sought meaning dignity and love. Together the volumes stand as a rare primary-source record of working-class lesbian experience sobriety culture and maternal resilience in the years preceding the new millennium. BIO NOTES ANONYMIZED : The female author of these diaries was born in the mid-1950s. The daughter of a New Jersey businessman and a mother who was on her second marriage she grew up in an upper-middle-class household with two older half-siblings from her mother’s first marriage and one older brother. She was raised in New Jersey before her parents’ relocation to Florida in the mid-1970s which occurred while she was away at college. She graduated from a respected northeastern university in the late 19070s. She was clearly a highly respected and busy member of the student body being President of the Student Alumni Association and a member of a society known as AMW —the university’s highest non-academic honorary society offering invitations to female students of “exemplary character excellence in service to the University and community…honor dignity willingness to accept responsibility responsible leadership and potential for continued contributions to the University. ”She gave birth to a son in the late 1980s while still living in Maine. He died tragically at age 13 shortly after her second diary concludes in a loss that shadows her later writings. Professionally she appears to have worked in nursing and lived most of her adult life in Florida later settling in the northeastern United States. She identified herself as lesbian in early 1997 and ultimately married a woman active in the sober-living community who served as a sponsor to others in recovery. The author died in the late 2010s.; Manuscripts; 9 X 7 in.; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF EATING DISORDERS WOMEN'S STUDIES LESBIAN STUDIES COMING OUT BULIMIA AA ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS FLORIDA UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ALUMNI GENDER STUDIES LGBT AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORYantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel.; Signed by Author . hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 0001574

‎Bishop, Louis Faugeres‎

‎Louis Faugeres Bishop III‎

‎Privately Printed. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards scuffed. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth binding with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Introduction by Edward D. Brown. Many photos. Inscribed by the subject's mother and Christmas card from her laid in. The cardiologist author provides a biography of his career soldier son's life before he was felled by stomach cancer. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 95 pages . Privately Printed hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 27061

‎Gae Whitney Canfield‎

‎Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes‎

‎University of Oklahoma Press 1983-12. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. excellent condition University of Oklahoma Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 110605035 ISBN : 0806118148 9780806118147

‎[Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd]‎

‎The Recreations of a Country Parson Vols. I and II‎

‎Boston: Fields Osgood & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner signature and bookplate on front . endpapers boards lightly worn owner writing on front flyleaf and title . page of Vol. I spine cracked in Vol. I. 1870. First American Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Reddish brown cloth bindings with dulled gilt lettering on spines. 874 pages in total. Engraved wild turkey bookplate of M. R. Audubon and M. R.' s signature is also present in both volumes. M. R. Audubon is Maria R. Audubon John James Audubon's descendant who edited Audubon's journals which were published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1892. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Fields, Osgood, & Co. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 27005

‎Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer; Ronda, Bruce A. (editor)‎

‎Letters of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: An American Renaissance Woman‎

‎Middletown CT: Wesleyan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0819550930 . Index. Peabody opened a girls' school in 19th century New England ran a bookstore was a historian and introduced the German kindergarten movement to the US. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 477 pages . Wesleyan hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26812 ISBN : 0819550930 9780819550934

‎Barea, Arturo; Barea, Ilsa (translator)‎

‎The Forge‎

‎London: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed jacket price-clipped soiled . and missing several small pieces at margins. 1946. Second Printing. Hardcover. Navy cloth binding. Translated from the Spanish by Ilsa Barea. The author's memoir of his childhood and adolescence in Madrid before he left Spain for political exile in England in 1938. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages . Faber and Faber hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26221

‎Marshall, Rosalind Kay‎

‎The Days of Duchess Anne: Life in the Household of the Duchess of Hamilton 1656-1716‎

‎NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed jacket price-clipped . and lightly worn. 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. Index notes illustrations. The interesting life of this aristocratic lady of 17th century Scotland. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages . St. Martin's Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 25900

‎Grimble, Ian‎

‎Regency People‎

‎London: British Broadcasting Corporation. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards worn. 1972. Hardcover. A look at some of the fascinating folk that peopled Regency England: Beau Brummell Maria Fitzherbert Lord Byron the fifth Earl of Selkirk Samuel Bamford William Wilberforce the Duke of Wellington Samuel Whitbread Sir Walter Scott and Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages . British Broadcasting Corporation hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 25958

‎Sassoon, Siegfried; Fussell, Paul (editor)‎

‎Siegfried Sassoon's Long Journey: Selections from the Sherston Memoirs‎

‎NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name on front free endpaper. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0195033094 . A selection from the English poet and WWI soldier's three-volume memoirs illustrated with many contemporary photos. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 180 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26002 ISBN : 0195033094 9780195033090

‎Black, Clementina; Saintsbury, George (intro.)‎

‎The Linleys of Bath‎

‎NY: Minton Balch & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket; Blank owner bookplate on front free . endpaper boards lightly rubbed. 1926. Second Edition. Hardcover. Magenta cloth binding. Several illustrations of the illustrious Linley family. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 300 pages . Minton, Balch & Co. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26087

‎Melville Lewis‎

‎Regency Ladies‎

‎NY: George H. Doran Co. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn at corners and spine . extremities bookseller ticket on rear pastedown endpaper fore-edges . foxed. 1926. Hardcover. Plaid patterned boards with purple cloth backstrip with gilt-stamped lettering. Color frontispiece illustration of two fashionable ladies by Aubrey Hammond. Sumptuously patterned black and gold endpapers. Top edges gilt. Many black and white portraits of the Regency-era aristocratic ladies who are the subject of this collection of short biographies including Queen Charlotte Lady Sarah Lennox Frances Burney Mrs. Fitzherbert two Carolines Princesses of Wales Mary and Agness Berry Lady Hertford Princess Charlotte of Wales Maria Fagniani the Margravine of Anspach Harriette Wilson The Duchess of York Mrs. Jordan May Anne Clarke Lady Conyngham and Lady Holland. Index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 300 pages . George H. Doran Co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 25161

‎Bob Boze Bell‎

‎The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp 4th Ed.‎

‎Gem Guides Book Company 2000-08. Fourth Edition. Paperback. New. Gem Guides Book Company paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 100426011 ISBN : 1887576045 9781887576048

‎Palmer, Alan‎

‎Napoleon and Marie Louise: The Emperor's Second Wife‎

‎NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Spine of jacket sunned. 2001. Hardcover. 0312280084 . Index illustrations notes. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages . St. Martin's Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 24180 ISBN : 0312280084 9780312280086

‎Krantz, John C. Jr.‎

‎A Portrait of Medical History and Current Medical Problems‎

‎University of Maryland. VG. 1962. Hardcover. Very clean no name inside. Bright silver writing on dark cloth boards. Essays and lectures by the author relating to the history of medicine and other problems. Foreword by Charles H. Best University of Toronto. Photos and histories of Robert E. Lee Pelletier and Caventou William Withering Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle Harry Anslinger and others. Medical problems discussed include Alcohol Man and Alcoholism Doctors Dollars Drugs and Drug Houses etc. Light scuffing to the boards . University of Maryland hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 16079

‎Farrington Benjamin‎

‎Francis Bacon: Philosopher of Industrial Science‎

‎London: Lawrence and Wishart. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket soiled and creased "150" inked on . front free endpaper page tops and fore-edges foxed. 1951. Hardcover. Index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pages . Lawrence and Wishart hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 23488

‎Stetson, Della Ludington‎

‎Afterward: Memories of Margaret and Paul‎

‎NY: Shakespeare Press. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn at corners and spine lower . third of backstrip missing two owner names stamped on front free . endpaper several pages foxed. 1912. Private Printing. Hardcover. Two photographs of the Gloversville New York author's children grace this memorial volume in which she outlines her son and daughter's brief lives her religious convictions and provides Scripture and verse in a celebration of their short time on Earth. Decorative paper-covered boards with purple label on front boards. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 94 pages . Shakespeare Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 23216

‎Singh Anup‎

‎Nehru: The Rising Star of India‎

‎NY: John Day. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed pages tops and fore-edges . lightly foxed jacket creased and lightly tattered. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on front boards and spine. ; 168 pages . John Day hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 22504

‎Edmund S. Morgan‎

‎The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop Library of American Biography‎

‎Good Year Books 1962-06. Paperback. Very Good. minor shelfwear Good Year Books paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 081029002 ISBN : 067339347X 9780673393470

‎Montgomery, Brian‎

‎Monty's Grandfather: Sir Robert Montgomery GCSI KCB LLD 1809-1887 a Life's Service for the Raj‎

‎Poole Dorset UK: Blandford Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; 1/2 inch tear at top margin of jacket . else a clean tight copy. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0713714018 . Index appendix many black and white photographs. Foreword by Ronald Lewin. A biography of Sir Robert Montgomery born an Irish rector's son and who went on to become "a distinguished member of the British government in India during the Victorian era and played a crucial role in quelling the Indian Mutiny of 1857 one of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century" from front jacket flap . The author is Montgomery's grandson. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 140 pages . Blandford Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 021039 ISBN : 0713714018 9780713714012

‎Gronowicz, Antoni; McEwen, Jessie (translator)‎

‎Paderewski: Pianist and Patriot‎

‎NY: Thomas Nelson and Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn at corners and spine . extremities. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding with gilt bust of Paderewski embossed on front boards. Index appendices many illustrations and photos. A biography of the Polish pianist and composer published just after his death. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 216 pages . Thomas Nelson and Sons hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 017833

‎Dempster, Nigel‎

‎Princess Margaret: A Life Unfulfilled‎

‎NY: MacMillan Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner name on front free endpaper . jacket wrinkled else a clean tight copy. Many photographs. 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. 0025308009 . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 242 pages . MacMillan Publishing hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018021 ISBN : 0025308009 9780025308008

‎Banks, Kate‎

‎Lenny's Space‎

‎NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered at top edge. 2007. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0374345759 . A poignant novel for young adults about a young boy named Lenny and his friendship with Van who has leukemia. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages . Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 62455 ISBN : 0374345759 9780374345754

‎Spada, James‎

‎Streisand : The Intimate Biography‎

‎London: Little Brown and Company. 1995. Large octavo size 16x24cm approx. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 552 pages. . Near Fine. 1st UK Edition. Hardback. Little, Brown and Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIB330731 ISBN : 0316874876 9780316874878

‎Broadwater, Jeff‎

‎James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation‎

‎The University of North Carolina Press 2016. Soft cover. Like New. 8x5x0. Like new paperback! Appears unread. No spine crease. Binding is tight and square. No owners' names/labels. Text is clean unmarked. Shelf: E3 Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit. The University of North Carolina Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 086054 ISBN : 1469628317 9781469628318