‎Biographie‎

‎Greenberger, Robert‎

‎BASKETBALL HALL OF FAMERS : Wilt Chamberlain‎

‎Rosen Central 2002. 112pp. hardback with glossy boards VG illustrations index glossary Biography of Basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain from birth to his death his accomplishments in the NBA his other activities and hobbies. Hard Cover. Very Good. Rosen Central Hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : wb6052448 ISBN : 0823934861 9780823934867

‎Rofes, Eric E‎

‎Socrates Plato & Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher‎

‎Boston: Alyson Publications 1985. 163pp. Spine slightly creased. Biography of an openly gay schoolteacher in suburban Massachusetts. An opportunity to examine a controversial issue from the other side of the desk. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Alyson Publications Paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 001543 ISBN : 0932870678 9780932870674

‎Griggs, Matt‎

‎Surfer : A LineUp of Surfing's Most Inspirational Characters‎

‎Sydney: HarperSports 2002. x 269pp bw portraits col photos. Minor edge wear to cover. An insider's view of a line-up of surfing's most interesting and unique characters. Includes Mick Fanning; Joel Parkinson; Dean Morrison; Kieran Perrow; CJ Hobgood and 7 other world champions; Koby Abberton; Neco Padaratz; Maz Quinn; Mark Occhilupo; Oscar Wright; Jon Frank; Peter Troy; Luke Munro; Kelly Slater; Taj Burrows and more. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. HarperSports Paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 007214 ISBN : 0732274850 9780732274856

‎Karade, Baba Ifa‎

‎Ojise. Messenger of the Yoruba Tradition‎

‎York Beach ME: Samuel Weiser Inc 1996. xiv 143pp bw ills glossary few bw ills. Or card covers. As new. A journal of the day-to-day activities and rituals that Baba Ifa Karade encountered in his quest for priesthood in the Yoruba religion. He includes information about how followers of Yoruba should include tradition in their daily lives. Although it speaks directly to African Americans searching for their heritage he encourages anyone interested in the Yoruba tradition to make this fascinating journey with him. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Samuel Weiser Inc Paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 003712 ISBN : 087728881x 9780877288817

‎MacDonald, Ramsay & MacDonald, Margaret.; edited by Jane Cox‎

‎A Singular Marriage. A Labour Love Story in Letters and Diaries‎

‎London: Harrap. 1988. Large octavo size 16x24cm approx. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Afterword by Sheila Lochhead. 386pages. The family story of British politician Ramsay MacDonald and his wife Margaret. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Harrap hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : BIB949 ISBN : 0245546766 9780245546761

‎Pargeter, Edith (Ellis Peters)‎

‎THE GREEN BRANCH‎

‎London: UK: Heineman 1962. 1st ed. Publishers brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bottom of page edges lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket with some soiling to rear panel else near fine. Not price clipped 18s still intact. Dust wrapper by Pino Dell'orco. 2nd book of The Heaven Tree trilogy. 225 pages. "Young Harry Talvace the son of Ralf Isambard's master-builder who raised the great church of Parfois and was put to death by his jealous patron has grown up at the court of Llewelyn Prince of North Wales. Deep in his heart he nurses a desire for vengence and when Harry become innocently involved in the tragedy which strikes Llewelyn's marriage he sets out to avenge his father's death. Alone he makes his way to Parfois to challenge Isambard. But enmity can prove as complex as love Harry discovers as in his turn he falls under the spell of the old warrior." -- publisher. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Dell'orco Pino. Book. Heineman Hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021401

‎Craighead, Charles & Kreps, Bonnie‎

‎Arctic Dance; the Mardy Murie Story‎

‎<p>Portland Oregon: Graphic Arts Center Publishing. Very Good. 2002. Softcover. 155868686X . 119 p. 25 cm. Sound and square binding in cardstock covers with French flaps. Shelf rubbed with light wear to the edges and corner tips. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. A photo-biography of the life of Mardy Murie a pioneer in the environmental movement in early 20th century Alaska. Illustrated with black and white photographs. .</p> Graphic Arts Center Publishing paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 7542 ISBN : 155868686X 9781558686861

‎RICKEY, Carrie‎

‎A Complicataed Passion - The Life and Work of Agnes Varda‎

‎NY: Norton 2024. Bound in purple boards stampejd in gold in puple and yellow dust jacket. The first edition of this 272 pp. biography on the French Filmmaker. Photo Illustrated. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Norton Hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 8001647

‎Atkins, Russell‎

‎From Gippsland to El Alamein‎

‎Narre Warren Victoria: Published by Author. 1994. Large octavo size 16x27cm approx. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Pages 135-174 are "Poems and Short Stories" and printed on yellow paper. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 174 pages. The author served with the 2/23rd AIF in North Africa . Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover. Published by Author paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : BIB330879 ISBN : 0646211188 9780646211183

‎Belcourt Biographies, Belmont and‎

‎Drake: An Unauthorized Biography‎

‎Belmont & Belcourt Books 2012. Paperback. New. Belmont & Belcourt Books paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : Atlantic-9781619840836 ISBN : 1619840839 9781619840836

‎Anastaplo author of Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography, George‎

‎Reflections on War and Peace and the Constitution‎

‎Lexington Books 21-10-2014. hardcover. New. 6.29x1.20x9.41. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lexington Books hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : DADAX0739193279 ISBN : 0739193279 9780739193273

‎Peregrine Churchill & Julian Mitchell‎

‎Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill‎

‎New York: St Martins 1974. Green Cloth. Very Good/Good. Nice copy clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edge wear. The story of Sir Winston's Mother illus with numerous B&W photos. <br/> <br/> St Martins hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 009539

‎Freeman, Douglas Southall‎

‎R. E. Lee. 4 Volumes Complete‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Four volumes in original red cloth with gilt titles. Moderately sunned spines with light fraying to top edges. All four volumes are clean and bright. Volume 1 has loosening front hinge; Volume 2 front hinge starting with 1.5" tear from top of spine; Volume 3 tight with name to front endpaper; Volume 4 tight and unmarked. Volume 1 is inscribed and signed in full by Freeman to the front blank endpaper. ; Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee: A Biography 1934–35 is widely regarded as the definitive 20th-century biography of Robert E. Lee. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1935 and remained the standard "gold standard" life of Lee for decades. Freeman a Virginia newspaper editor and lifelong Richmond resident spent nearly 20 years researching and writing it. He had unparalleled access to the Lee family papers Washington-Lee University archives and Confederate veterans who had known Lee personally the last interviews were conducted in the 1920s–early 1930s. ; Signed by Author . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 67109

‎Irish, William (Pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich)‎

‎WALTZ INTO DARKNESS‎

‎N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Co 1947. First Edition so stated. Publisher's blue boards with burgandy lettering at spine and fronr. Boards show some very light wear along spine head and foot and light soiling. A fine bright crisp dust jacket unclipped $2.75 price. Beautiful copy. 1880's New Orleans. From "the supreme master of suspense"comes the chilling chronicle of one man’s descent into madness. New York Times When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail he’s shocked that she doesn’t match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs concealing from her the details of his wealth and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry however he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life is not the same woman with whom he exchanged letters a fact that becomes unavoidable when she suddenly disappears with his fortune. Alone desperate and inexplicably love-sick Louis quickly descends into madness obsessed with finding Julia and bringing her to justice - and simply with seeing her again. He engages the services of a private detective to do so embarking on a search that spans the southeast of the country. When he finally tracks her down the nightmare truly begins. . . A dark tale of the destructive power of love Waltz into Darkness is a classic "femme fatale" narrative that shows "the father of the modern suspense story" LA Times at the top of his unsettling craft. It has been adapted for film twice most notably serving as the basis for Francois Truffaut’s 1969 film " Mississippi Mermaid.". The screenplay was written by Cornell Woolrich and Francois Truffaut and starred Catherine Deneuve and Jean Paul Belmondo. Also filmed as "Original Sin"; a 2001 American erotic romantic thriller film written and directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. This copy although not marked as such comes from the collection. of noted crime collector Gary Groton. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. J. B. Lippincott Co‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021375

‎Perry, Anne‎

‎FARRIERS' LANE SIGNED COPY‎

‎NY: Fawcett 1993. 1st edition April 1993 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Perry at title page. In this the 13th outing for Victorian-era Police Inspector Thomas Pitt and his well-born wife Charlotte it's Gracie the Pitt maid of all work who uncovers the most telling and dramatic clue. The story starts with the poisoning murder of Court of Appeals Judge Samuel Stafford in his box at the theater. Pitt's job is to determine whether the motive is connected to the hanging execution five years before of Aaron Godman convicted of a particularly gruesome killing that roused anti-Semitic hysteria at the time. On the day of his death Stafford had visited several of the lawyers involved in the Godman trial and subsequent appeal. Had he found something that might clear Godman's name--the goal of a persistent campaign by Godman's actress sister Tamar Could the discreet affair between Stafford's wife Juniper and lawyer Adolphus Pryce have a bearing on the crime When Constable Paterson a major witness in Godman's trial is found hanged in his bachelor lodgings the case assumes an urgency that pushes Gracie to the impulsive act that marks the beginning of the end." Kirkus Review. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Fawcett Hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021385 ISBN : 0449905691 9780449905692

‎Paul, Elliot‎

‎MAYHEM IN B-FLAT‎

‎N.Y.: Dover Publications Inc. 1988. First Printing. A fine unread copy. Vacationing in Normandy suave sleuth Homer Evans and his stylish pistol-packing friend Miriam Leonard catch sight of a familiar member of the notorious gang the St. Julian Rollers. As Homer and Miriam depart for Paris that gang member called the Singe is also at the Rouen train station and covertly signals to their compartment as the train pulls from the station. The investigation of the theft of a rare Guarnerius violin during a public concert is unexpectedly complicated by multiple murders gang warfare mysterious poisons and a possible escape from Devil's Island. What follows lives up spectacularly to the title of Elliot Paul's mystery classic. Against a richly evoked background of Paris in the 1930s Homer and Miriam deftly manage to mix serious detection with madcap adventure. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Illus. by Kennedy Paul E. Book. Dover Publications, Inc. Paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021322 ISBN : 0486256219 9780486256214

‎Stout, Rex Edited By‎

‎THE ILLUSTRIOUS DUNDERHEADS‎

‎N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc 1942. Second printing published in the same month as the first edition. Orange cloth with blue lettering along the spine and design at front. Introduction by Frank Sullivan. Illustrations by William Gropper. Very scarce. According to Sullivan and the editor this book "is a collection of some of the silliest stupidest and most dangerous statements that have ever ben made by men laying claim to being leaders of the American people. . .The quotations in this book are only a sampling of the speeches delivered in the halls of Congress and elsewhere by U.S. Senators and Congressmen who have given currency to Nazi propaganda which is designed to bring about the defeat of the United States the creation of a fascist America subservient to Hitler's Germany". 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book. Alfred A Knopf Inc‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021340

‎Thompson, Victoria‎

‎MURDER ON ST. MARK'S PLACE Gaslight Mysteries Ser. EDGAR AWARD FINALST‎

‎New York NY U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group 2000. 1st. Edition March 2000 with complete number line beginning with 1. 2nd in series. Paperback Original reading creases slight slant else near fine. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City Sarah Brandt has seen suffering and joy birth and death -- and even murder. And the crime-ridden streets of the teeming city offer little relief from either. Thinking she has been summoned by German immigrant Agnes Otto to usher a new life into the world Sarah Brandt is greeted by the news of an untimely death instead. It seems that Agnes's beautiful younger sister Gerda had fallen into the life of a "Charity Girl". Caught up in the false glamour of the city's nightlife she would trade her company -- and her favors -- not for money but for lavish gifts and an evening's entertainment. And now she was dead victim no doubt of one of her "gentlemen friends". First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original. Berkley Publishing Group Paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021262 ISBN : 0425173615 9780425173619

‎Cerf, Bennett A. Selected, and with an Introduction By‎

‎THREE FAMOUS MURDER NOVELS: Before the Fact Trent's Last Case; The House of the Arrow‎

‎N.Y.: Random House Inc / Modern Library 1945. First Modern Library Giant Edition so stated. Selected and with an introduction by Bennett A. Cerf Editor of the Modern Library. Spine foot has 2 small cuts boards are slightly warped previous owner's name at front endpaper else good. The murder novels include: Before the Fact by Francis Iles Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley and The House of the Arrow by A. E. W. Mason. . First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Book. Random House, Inc / Modern Library‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021194

‎Gruber, Frank‎

‎PEACE MARSHALL Gruber's First Western‎

‎Chicago IL U.S.A.: Century Publications 1945. First printing. Century Western #60 Digest size .25 cover price. Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by Malcolm Smith. Frank Gruber's first western novel. Lightly rubbed at edges covers lightly soiled else a near fine copy of a fragile and scarce item. Basis for the 1943 film "The Kansan" Directed by George Archainbaud Starring Richard Dix Jane Wyatt Albert Dekker and Eugene Pallette. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Smith Malcolm. Vintage Paperback. Century Publications Paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021182

‎Gill Anton‎

‎CITY OF DREAMS: The Second Egyptian Mystery‎

‎London: UK: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. 1993. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Reading crease pages uniformaly age toned else about fine. Someone in ancient Thebes is killing young girls quickly efficiently and silently. But these are not just any girls they are high-born. So much so that without Huy the Scribe's natural forensic talent no one would even realise that they had been murdered. Together with the policeman Merymose Huy begins the search for the killer. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book. Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. Paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021167 ISBN : 0747511764 9780747511762

‎Barnard, Robert (as Bernard Bastable)‎

‎A MANSION AND ITS MURDER‎

‎New York NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers Incorporated 1998. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "From the perspective of half a century later Sarah Jane Fearing the unwilling heiress of Fearing's Bank tells the slender tale of how her beloved Uncle Frank eager to pay off his many debts at the same time he accommodated the family frantic for a male heir entered a bargain in 1893 to marry Mary Coverdale impeccably pedigreed coldly attractive and professionally focused on reigning as chatelaine over Blakemere. The bargain turns into a disaster for everyone concerned when Frank and Mary's firstborn son turns out to be retarded; Frank and his family clash over whether Frank has fulfilled his promise to provide them with a male heir; and a ceremonious family conference erupts in what Sarah is convinced is a murder--followed by the disappearance of Frank to Australia so they say and Mary back to her older and now wiser family and by the suspicious enrichment of potential witnesses. Robert Barnard writing in his Bastable guise Too Many Notes Mr. Mozart 1996 etc. adroitly uses his story to point a familiar moral about the poisoned alliance between self-regarding old British families and the money they demand to support themselves though the moral turns out to have an extra point at the end.: -- Kirkus Review . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Carroll & Graf Publishers, Incorporated Hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021136 ISBN : 0786705159 9780786705153

‎Traver, Robert‎

‎LAUGHING WHITEFISH‎

‎N.Y.: McGraw Hill Book Company 1965. First edition so stated. Christmas gift inscription at front end paper else Near fine in near fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Michigan; 1871 "Willy Poe is a newcomer to Michigan's Upper Peninsula a shy lonely young lawyer yearning to meet the girl who will call him William. On a day in 1873 he met her. Her eyes were dark her hair long and black; she was beautiful and her name was Laughing Whitefish. And miracle of miracles she called the young attorney "William Poe" and presented him with as exciting challenging and hopeless a case as ever set a precedent or formed the plot of a novel. At issue is an elemental question of raw justice: can Laughing Whitefish a Chippewa Indian collect a debt owed her father the late Marji Kawbawgam She has unimpeachable proof - a tattered document giving Marji a share in the fabulous Jackson iron ore mine to which years before he led the white man. And no one denies the validity or authenticity of the document. Yet-as Traver passionately and brilliantly illustrates-Law and justice do not always coincide; Marji was a poor heathen savage who followed the ways of his people; the mine owners are powerful educated Christian gentlemen. Laughing Whitefish of Willy's days in and out of court; his often hilarious sometimes frustrating search for evidence; his surprises and setbacks - all of which lead to an absorbing suspenseful conclusion. He visits Indians and miners; he finds powerful legal arguments that will win his case - and equally powerful arguments that could lose it -and endlessly he matches wits with the "Silver Fox" one of New York's shrewdest lawyers brought out to Michigan by the rich Jackson Ore Company. Based on an actual case fought bitterly in the Michigan courts nearly a hundred years ago it is a vibrant Victorian courtroom drama a tender romance and a wonderful re-creation of the times the people and the mores." -- jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. McGraw Hill Book Company‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021087

‎Pears Iain‎

‎AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST‎

‎N.Y.: Riverhead Books 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Historical novel set in Oxford during the Restoration 1660s- a time and place of great intellectual religious scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman Sarah Blundy who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove a fellow of New College. Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II a mathematician theologian and master spy; and Anthony Wood the famous Oxford antiquary. Some of the great characters of the period have important speaking roles. Robert Boyle John Locke Robert Grove and John Thurloe Cromwell's spymaster all make appearances and all are convincingly portrayed. Thurloe Boyle and Grove in particular play pivotal parts in the development of the plot. Each one tells their version of what happened but only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Brilliantly written utterly convincing gripping from the first page to the last. 698 pages book will need extra postage. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Riverhead Books Hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021103 ISBN : 1573220825 9781573220828

‎Herron, Don‎

‎WILLEFORD‎

‎Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan 1997. First Edition November 1997. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. The definative work on Willeford Small print run of about 2000 copies. The gold foil-stamp on the endpapers of the book were made from Charles Willeford's bookplate. From Dennis McMillan the Publisher --" WILLEFORD" is the first extensive critical appreciation of the life and writing of Charles Willeford 1919-1988 author of MIAMI BLUES THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY and COCKFIGHTER. From his early Depression-era experiences as a teen-age hobo through his twenty-year enlistment in the Army and Air Force including his role as a tank commander with Patton s Third Army fighting in the Battle of the Bulge his years of struggle in the paperback original jungle to a final triumph with his series of crime novels about Miami homicide inspector Hoke Moseley this book tells his story. Don Herron provides the fascinating background to all of Willeford s books from PROLETARIAN LAUGHTER 1948 through the fifth Hoke Moseley novel left unfinished at the time of his death. The stories behind HIGH PRIEST OF CALIFORNIA PICK-UP WILD WIVES LUST IS A WOMAN THE HOMBRE FROM SONORA and OFF THE WALL are detailed here for the first time. Herron includes much previously unknown information on lost books such as THE WHIP HAND and on the unpublished novels which Willeford turned to for the substance of the Hoke Moseley series. Lesser-known literary facts of Willeford s forty-year career are also chronicled; from his assistant-editorship of ALFRED HITCHCOCK S MYSTERY MAGAZINE to a twenty-year stint as mystery reviewer for the Miami Herald. Willeford s other artistic endeavors are treated in depth including his acting career starting with stage plays in the 1940s and culminating with a major part in his movie COCKFIGHTER directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton. Herron also relates Willeford s long-term avocation as a prankster recording many of his hilarious routines to which he himself fell victim more than once! WILLEFORD also features the most complete bibliography of Willeford s ever assembled both primary and secondary as well as his longest interview - over one hundred pages of never-before-published conversations with the author of MIAMI BLUES. 480pgs. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Dennis McMillan Hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 021119 ISBN : 0939767260 9780939767267